From what I've seen, "Skilled tech workers" is code for "glorified jsp/vb database frontend builder". No wonder their jobs are going away so quickly. Truthfully, that's one of the main reasons why I stayed in school for my MS, just to differentiate myself from the knuckle dragging, PDC-attending, corporate drone. Hopefully, when I'm done I'll be able to go into a job that requires a little more specialization (like managing the local McDonalds).
A multi-task OS is so basic nowadays, ther is no way Microsoft or any one else will ever be able to make money off of it.
Put down the crackpipe bro. Microsoft is still making shitpiles of $$$ on it's "multi-task" OS. Go ahead and assault Ballmer for his ideas, but don't become Ballmer in the process by trying to pass this hogwash.
When it comes to power costs I don't really care currently as I don't pay my electricity, it's included with my rent and believe you me I make good use of that.
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But what about the extra tons of CO2 you are causing to be dumped into the atmosphere? The rest of us are going to die, the icecaps will melt, and the dolphins will cry just because you want to talk to E.T. or find a cure for cancer!
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True, but welcome to the slashdot reality distortion zone. I bet that even if Bush french-kissed RMS while endorsing the GPL, he still wouldn't get the reaction from slashgeeks that Dean does when he uses an open-source CMS.
Human beings and other creatures are insanely easy to kill. Most technologies have dual uses. Therefore, just because you work for the "Ministry of Peace" instead of the DoD doesn't make your work any less likely to help some enterprising individual who wants to kill one or more people. Such is progress. If you want out of the rat-race, join the Amish.
This really is a non-issue. It's like sitting around and debating whether or not we should have invented the wheel because of all the poor people, rabbits, dogs, etc. that have been squished by 'em.
Except for microkernel based operating systems, most of them, including Linux, run kernel drivers as fully trusted (on Intel ring 0) code. That's why a kernel oops (spawned by a module or a "driver") in Linux can so thoroughly ruin your day.
NT 3.51 used to have less stuff running at kernel level (the drivers ran in the kernel, but some of the subsystems like user32 did not if I remember correctly), but that turned out to be such a performance drag that it was ditched in NT 4.0.
Nice try, but the author of the above comment clearly does not know what he is talking about.
We've got a good little school here... You can tell it's an engineering school when the solar car team is more popular and well-known than the football team:)
Anyways, check the domain on my email address. Good job guys!
Nope, wrong! The lefties who think that "once a few CXO's start getting knocked off.. mabey then we'll finally get real enviromental, financial, global, politcal, healthcare resbonsibility," are not generally the "gun nuts" of the country. The gun owners are the right-wingers:)
But it's only a game. Really. You may think that your online presence is merely an extension of yourself, but it's only a game. A way to pass the time, much like dominos or backgammon. I can "make someone's day" in any of these other games as well. However, I cannot be a loving husband, friend, or father _purely_ through them, and the richness of my interaction with that person is limited when I screen it through a computer.
Basically, what I'm saying is that if you think helping people out and being social is fun online, try doing it for real. It's a thousand times more rich... It's true immersive VR:)
The above comment was written on a computer designed, marketed, and invented by a collection of corporations....
Seriously, this anti-corporate sludge is starting to become repetitive. Just as there are shyster and malevolent people, there are "evil" corporations. You really can't tar them all with the same brush.
Even though I tend to vote republican I'm against Senator Hatch and all the rest of the assholes (Republican and Democrat) who are this clueless about technology.
You know why this happens (along with prescription drugs w/o means-testing that the young workers will have to pay for)? 18-30 year old people typically _don't vote_ in the US. The old technofogies running the place will stand up and listen if you vote some of them out of office for this shit. Get informed and please vote in the next election.
I shouldn't have to incur the financial penalty of having to host the "other side's" argument. Let them get _their own_ site and publish _their own_ material. That sounds a little more fair to me. With the barrier to entry as low as it is on the internet, there's no reason why others should be allowed to legally vandalize my site with their dissenting opinions.
First the mandatory collection of VAT and now this. I guess it is time to set up an US to setup an EU IP ban on our web servers.
You see, this is where we parted ways and is the centerpoint of my argument... I argue that I am not destroying their culture, and yet you argue that I am. By my first statement, I could have meant that the king was "destroying a backwards feudal society" by making the transition to a constitutional monarchy. Think about it.
I also appreciated the "scum" label. The ad hominem attack means that you quit arguing on a purely logical level and moved to a base emotional level. Game over.
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It sounds like a great idea to me! This way we can drill ANWAR and build some pipelines, which have been shown to help increase the population of the native caribou by creating warm spots for them to mate in. You might have to wear a mask to breathe, but up in the frozen tundra, it will be Barry Manilow and soft candlelight all the way!
What you forget is that in the US (tax year 2000), 90% of all taxes are paid by the top 50% of wage earners. So we do have "progressive taxation." What we really need is a constitutional amendment to limit government _spending_ to no more than 3% of the GNP.
About crime and unemployment, you play the statistics trick, but as a student of statistics myself, I must remind you that correlation does not imply causation.
BTW, if you don't believe my stats on tax paying in the US, check these figures for the information on who _really_ pays taxes in the United States.
I don't see what's so wrong about destroying a backwards feudal society that was keeping most of its members in the dark about the world around them. People aren't children, they're born with the freedom to make choices, even if they run contradictory to societal or governmental norms. In Bhutan, this is just an acceleration of the process which began when the king declared a transition to a consitutional democracy. Maybe TV has accelerated the process, maybe not.
Remember, the French revolution and plenty of other societal upheavals were violent all on their own, without the "corrupting influence" of the boob tube.
I think he's got it by Jove. The success of open-source is due to the freedom that it entails. Making it mandatory will only breed resentment and turn people off.
"One-handed" web surfers will no longer have to remember all those complicated alt-ascii codes and work with those page flippers. Plus, I hear that if you type with the other hand, it feels like someone else is doing it:)
They take X dollars earmarked by this Fee/Tax and apply it to Y, while giving the X dollars which used to fund the program back to the general fund to spend elsewhere. It's a bait and switch that leaves the "needy program" funded at the same or marginally higher levels than before the Fee/Tax.
For a great example of this, look at how the states "fund" education from their lotteries. It's a scam.
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Truthfully, PageRank is dead, even the Register says so. I'm actively looking for a better search engine to use. Any pointers?
Nope, democracy is all about the "tyranny of the majority." It's only liberal judges and other weenies who don't understand this.
From what I've seen, "Skilled tech workers" is code for "glorified jsp/vb database frontend builder". No wonder their jobs are going away so quickly. Truthfully, that's one of the main reasons why I stayed in school for my MS, just to differentiate myself from the knuckle dragging, PDC-attending, corporate drone. Hopefully, when I'm done I'll be able to go into a job that requires a little more specialization (like managing the local McDonalds).
All I can say is, BS. You must not do much research...
:)
Or maybe I'm just cynical because I am a grad student, in the CS building at 5:48 on a Friday working on my research
A multi-task OS is so basic nowadays, ther is no way Microsoft or any one else will ever be able to make money off of it.
Put down the crackpipe bro. Microsoft is still making shitpiles of $$$ on it's "multi-task" OS. Go ahead and assault Ballmer for his ideas, but don't become Ballmer in the process by trying to pass this hogwash.
When it comes to power costs I don't really care currently as I don't pay my electricity, it's included with my rent and believe you me I make good use of that.
<sarcasm>
But what about the extra tons of CO2 you are causing to be dumped into the atmosphere? The rest of us are going to die, the icecaps will melt, and the dolphins will cry just because you want to talk to E.T. or find a cure for cancer!
</sarcasm>
True, but welcome to the slashdot reality distortion zone. I bet that even if Bush french-kissed RMS while endorsing the GPL, he still wouldn't get the reaction from slashgeeks that Dean does when he uses an open-source CMS.
No, it will be the GNU/USSR... :)
Human beings and other creatures are insanely easy to kill. Most technologies have dual uses. Therefore, just because you work for the "Ministry of Peace" instead of the DoD doesn't make your work any less likely to help some enterprising individual who wants to kill one or more people. Such is progress. If you want out of the rat-race, join the Amish.
This really is a non-issue. It's like sitting around and debating whether or not we should have invented the wheel because of all the poor people, rabbits, dogs, etc. that have been squished by 'em.
In other news... St. Ignucius escaped from the fire at his church unscathed :)
*Rim Shot*
Comment above should be modded -1, ignorant.
Except for microkernel based operating systems, most of them, including Linux, run kernel drivers as fully trusted (on Intel ring 0) code. That's why a kernel oops (spawned by a module or a "driver") in Linux can so thoroughly ruin your day.
NT 3.51 used to have less stuff running at kernel level (the drivers ran in the kernel, but some of the subsystems like user32 did not if I remember correctly), but that turned out to be such a performance drag that it was ditched in NT 4.0.
Nice try, but the author of the above comment clearly does not know what he is talking about.
We've got a good little school here... You can tell it's an engineering school when the solar car team is more popular and well-known than the football team :)
Anyways, check the domain on my email address. Good job guys!
Nope, wrong! The lefties who think that "once a few CXO's start getting knocked off.. mabey then we'll finally get real enviromental, financial, global, politcal, healthcare resbonsibility," are not generally the "gun nuts" of the country. The gun owners are the right-wingers :)
But it's only a game. Really. You may think that your online presence is merely an extension of yourself, but it's only a game. A way to pass the time, much like dominos or backgammon. I can "make someone's day" in any of these other games as well. However, I cannot be a loving husband, friend, or father _purely_ through them, and the richness of my interaction with that person is limited when I screen it through a computer.
:)
Basically, what I'm saying is that if you think helping people out and being social is fun online, try doing it for real. It's a thousand times more rich... It's true immersive VR
Already overthrew one European government. Things like the TIA make me wonder about the one the US already has.
BTDT
The above comment was written on a computer designed, marketed, and invented by a collection of corporations....
Seriously, this anti-corporate sludge is starting to become repetitive. Just as there are shyster and malevolent people, there are "evil" corporations. You really can't tar them all with the same brush.
Even though I tend to vote republican I'm against Senator Hatch and all the rest of the assholes (Republican and Democrat) who are this clueless about technology.
You know why this happens (along with prescription drugs w/o means-testing that the young workers will have to pay for)? 18-30 year old people typically _don't vote_ in the US. The old technofogies running the place will stand up and listen if you vote some of them out of office for this shit. Get informed and please vote in the next election.
I shouldn't have to incur the financial penalty of having to host the "other side's" argument. Let them get _their own_ site and publish _their own_ material. That sounds a little more fair to me. With the barrier to entry as low as it is on the internet, there's no reason why others should be allowed to legally vandalize my site with their dissenting opinions.
First the mandatory collection of VAT and now this. I guess it is time to set up an US to setup an EU IP ban on our web servers.
You see, this is where we parted ways and is the centerpoint of my argument... I argue that I am not destroying their culture, and yet you argue that I am. By my first statement, I could have meant that the king was "destroying a backwards feudal society" by making the transition to a constitutional monarchy. Think about it.
I also appreciated the "scum" label. The ad hominem attack means that you quit arguing on a purely logical level and moved to a base emotional level. Game over.
It sounds like a great idea to me! This way we can drill ANWAR and build some pipelines, which have been shown to help increase the population of the native caribou by creating warm spots for them to mate in. You might have to wear a mask to breathe, but up in the frozen tundra, it will be Barry Manilow and soft candlelight all the way!
What you forget is that in the US (tax year 2000), 90% of all taxes are paid by the top 50% of wage earners. So we do have "progressive taxation." What we really need is a constitutional amendment to limit government _spending_ to no more than 3% of the GNP.
About crime and unemployment, you play the statistics trick, but as a student of statistics myself, I must remind you that correlation does not imply causation.
BTW, if you don't believe my stats on tax paying in the US, check these figures for the information on who _really_ pays taxes in the United States.
I don't see what's so wrong about destroying a backwards feudal society that was keeping most of its members in the dark about the world around them. People aren't children, they're born with the freedom to make choices, even if they run contradictory to societal or governmental norms. In Bhutan, this is just an acceleration of the process which began when the king declared a transition to a consitutional democracy. Maybe TV has accelerated the process, maybe not.
Remember, the French revolution and plenty of other societal upheavals were violent all on their own, without the "corrupting influence" of the boob tube.
I think he's got it by Jove. The success of open-source is due to the freedom that it entails. Making it mandatory will only breed resentment and turn people off.
"One-handed" web surfers will no longer have to remember all those complicated alt-ascii codes and work with those page flippers. Plus, I hear that if you type with the other hand, it feels like someone else is doing it :)
They take X dollars earmarked by this Fee/Tax and apply it to Y, while giving the X dollars which used to fund the program back to the general fund to spend elsewhere. It's a bait and switch that leaves the "needy program" funded at the same or marginally higher levels than before the Fee/Tax.
For a great example of this, look at how the states "fund" education from their lotteries. It's a scam.