That's an interesting statistic. In my Cisco Networking class, there are no female students at all, though our teacher is a woman. The situation is similar in the other computer classes at my school. Does anybody know why this distribution happens?
...And I feel the compulsive need to point out TFA's incorrect use of "comprise."
I find it a bit sickening that the military is producing games to attract people to join. Aren't games supposed to be fun? Are they hoping for gamers to think "hmm- this game is fun, I think I'll join the army so I can HAVE FUN KILLING PEOPLE IN REAL LIFE." ?
I predict that Google will soon come out with a TV show or a novel or something crazy like that.
And you know what the saddest thing is? I would use it! happily! Gotta have respect for a company that sets a goal at e-billion dollars: http://battellemedia.com/archives/000630.php/
Perhaps you are confused on the definition of "extinction." They mean that the planet would be altered in such a way that species would die out completely. It's not about matter and energy. Maybe you're thinking of "anihilate?"
We should consider passing environmental legislation over every volcano currently active because of the amount of smoke, gas, and ash they release into the environment. Seriously people, do these things think only of themselves?
A monopoly produces and prices according to it's production possiblities curve (I think that's what it's called) whereby it produces the most for the least cost and charges to maximize profits. But because there is little competition, they are able to charge less and make more money. Thus, any company trying to compete with the monopoly would have to lower its own prices, reducing its profits, just to keep up. Correct me if I'm wrong; it's been a while since I took economics.
You're right. I don't know the first thing about Windows NT, nor do I know the first thing about Windows CE, Windows ME, Windows 95, Gentoo Linux, Mandrake Linux, Yellow Dog Linux, Debian Linux, the Hurd kernel, Opera web browser, FVWM, hedge-trimming, gardening, calligraphy, clock building, or flying airplanes... just to name a few.
But I'm sure that Windows XP and 98 don't support multiple desktops out of the box (unless there's just a complicated way most people don't know), and KDE, Gnome, Windowmaker, etc. do.
The idea of an uberpretty 3d enhanced desktop is completely unnecessary. Unless it allows for tilting windows and using screenspace more effectively (since they never figured out the multiple desktop idea =), this is a complete waste of system resources and....
the sad thing is how many people will buy it, run it at a choppy frame-rate, and flaunt their new purchase (it's gotta be at least a few hundred bucks right? this is MS) as though it were the latest in gaming technology. No karma bonus for this rant...
This reminds me of Peter Zenger's famous lawsuit, in which he was sued by a government official for printing an unfavorable article about him. However, since the unfavorable things were completely true, Zenger won.
Zenger's case established Freedom of the Press. Nowadays it's freedom of the e-mail.
Has anybody read the Space Odyssey series? I don't remember which book it's in, but Arthur Clarke once talks about the history of the creators of the black boxes. They were a normal civilization that became extremely advanced and eventually built large ships that could take them all over the universe. But they could also incorporate the mechanics and electronics into themselves, and incorporate (from the latin "corpus, corporis, n." meaning body: particularly effective in this sense!) themselves into their machines until eventually, they were their own machines, constantly improving upon themselves. It goes on to explain that they were able to transcend matter entirely and exist in a way we cannot quite comprehend.
Also, in the book 3001, Clarke predicts braincap machines that add the abilities of a computer to whoever wears them.
I for one welcome the new experience of becoming the overlords of the universe. How long until we can transcend matter and build conscienceness-inspiring black boxes?
The way I understand this, people won't pirate nearly as much if the prices of CD's go down.
From what I've learned in economics, the price level should be determined by where supply and demand meet. Therefore, any price should yield similar profits, just from more or fewer people paying it. But the recording industry is attempting to operate as a monopoly (price fixing, etc.), which changes the model. Since it has no competition, it probably bases it's pricing not on where demand and supply meet, but at the most efficient point of the production possibilities curve, which guarantees the most money for the cheapest product. However, the price it fixes at is higher than what most people want to pay, so many people would rather pirate the stuff. The correct decision in a free market economy would just be to lower the price, but the industry is instead trying to take out piracy (using very shady tactics) so it can keep pricing music without regard to supply and demand.
The way I see it, the only way to lower the prices on CD's and reduce piracy and make everybody happy is to keep the music industry from operating as a single entity.
So the only logical answer I can think of to end all this suing and gestapo-like behavior is to get something truly done about the RIAA's monopolistic actions (attacking them for price fixing is good).
1. A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested or is widely accepted and can be used to make predictions about natural phenomena.
hypothesis
1. A tentative explanation for an observation, phenomenon, or scientific problem that can be tested by further investigation.
First, a theory has been prove; a hypothesis has not. So technically, he hypothesized.
Second, it need only be proven that the quake moved mass closer to the Earth's axis (not that difficult). If there were any change at all, it would be a violation of the laws of physics if the Earth did not change its spin. Just because the Earth is big doesn't mean it won't follow basic high school physics. All you can complain about is the degree to which this has been predicted, which nobody can be sure of yet.
...They're basing this "Hobbit" on a single small human skull they found in Indonesia?
no, they're basing it on "skeletons of a hobbit-like species of human that grew no larger than a three-year-old modern child." Do plurals mean nothing to you?
I don't think it's the school's responsibility to improve your email habits. I don't write essays the way I write emails, nor do I compose haiku or slashdot responses the way I write essays or emails.
If anybody ever tried to use email (or AIM) grammar in an essay, what do you suppose would be the effect?
The civil war was caused mainly for some reasons... the South LOLed @ the North and said "g2g" and blew them off... then so the North was like "I kik ur @$$, South" and it went down from there...
With all bias aside, doesn't it make more sense to run important government systems with open software? Open software can be changed as much as they want; it's not like they're buying the latest Mandrake pack from CompUSA and popping it into the super-mega-warhead-doomsday-computer's cd drive.
The very last thing I'd like to know about would be the government placing a tech support call to a company that only sells them proprietary software. I find that somewhat unsettling.
But I'm not an expert; are there advantages to using code you can't see or modify to run government computers?
I hate it when they try to make personal computing into a SERVICE rather than a PRODUCT. Internet access is a service, but word processing is not. I, for one, would like to keep it that way.
While this does offer a more universal way of running programs, isn't it also a more proprietary and inconvenient way? It's hard enough writing papers for school when Bellsouth accidentally cuts my intenet access, but at least I can still get into my word processor to type a bunch of BS to hand in.
In the 80's, it was believed (by large record companies mainly) that home taping of radio broadcasts was killing music. This is the exact same thing as home taping, and home taping is perfectly legal (is that time shifting or space shifting or something)! So really, there is no legal or moral reason not to do it, and the RIAA can't very well (unless I have too much faith in human reason- I hope not) sue people for taping the same broadcasts they get from the radio if they get it from the internet. That just seems far too arbritrary a lawsuit to happen... but the thought still scares me for some reason.
Wow! That's a wonderful idea! Finally, we have some high-tech, expensive thing to do with all that extra money we have lying around that we vowed never to give to the homeless that they might feed and/or clothe themselves.
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That's an interesting statistic. In my Cisco Networking class, there are no female students at all, though our teacher is a woman. The situation is similar in the other computer classes at my school. Does anybody know why this distribution happens?
...And I feel the compulsive need to point out TFA's incorrect use of "comprise."
I find it a bit sickening that the military is producing games to attract people to join. Aren't games supposed to be fun? Are they hoping for gamers to think "hmm- this game is fun, I think I'll join the army so I can HAVE FUN KILLING PEOPLE IN REAL LIFE." ?
Does anybody else find that unsettling?
I predict that Google will soon come out with a TV show or a novel or something crazy like that.
And you know what the saddest thing is? I would use it! happily! Gotta have respect for a company that sets a goal at e-billion dollars: http://battellemedia.com/archives/000630.php/
Ok I get it now... they mean "mass" as in "total" or "complete," not mass as a noun. Sorry for the double-post.
Perhaps you are confused on the definition of "extinction." They mean that the planet would be altered in such a way that species would die out completely. It's not about matter and energy. Maybe you're thinking of "anihilate?"
Does Microsoft sell many products in China? Mightn't it hurt the business there to be using the term communism as a label of evil?
We should consider passing environmental legislation over every volcano currently active because of the amount of smoke, gas, and ash they release into the environment. Seriously people, do these things think only of themselves?
A monopoly produces and prices according to it's production possiblities curve (I think that's what it's called) whereby it produces the most for the least cost and charges to maximize profits. But because there is little competition, they are able to charge less and make more money. Thus, any company trying to compete with the monopoly would have to lower its own prices, reducing its profits, just to keep up. Correct me if I'm wrong; it's been a while since I took economics.
...says the anonymous coward.
You're right. I don't know the first thing about Windows NT, nor do I know the first thing about Windows CE, Windows ME, Windows 95, Gentoo Linux, Mandrake Linux, Yellow Dog Linux, Debian Linux, the Hurd kernel, Opera web browser, FVWM, hedge-trimming, gardening, calligraphy, clock building, or flying airplanes... just to name a few.
But I'm sure that Windows XP and 98 don't support multiple desktops out of the box (unless there's just a complicated way most people don't know), and KDE, Gnome, Windowmaker, etc. do.
The idea of an uberpretty 3d enhanced desktop is completely unnecessary. Unless it allows for tilting windows and using screenspace more effectively (since they never figured out the multiple desktop idea =), this is a complete waste of system resources and....
the sad thing is how many people will buy it, run it at a choppy frame-rate, and flaunt their new purchase (it's gotta be at least a few hundred bucks right? this is MS) as though it were the latest in gaming technology. No karma bonus for this rant...
This reminds me of Peter Zenger's famous lawsuit, in which he was sued by a government official for printing an unfavorable article about him. However, since the unfavorable things were completely true, Zenger won.
Zenger's case established Freedom of the Press. Nowadays it's freedom of the e-mail.
Has anybody read the Space Odyssey series? I don't remember which book it's in, but Arthur Clarke once talks about the history of the creators of the black boxes. They were a normal civilization that became extremely advanced and eventually built large ships that could take them all over the universe. But they could also incorporate the mechanics and electronics into themselves, and incorporate (from the latin "corpus, corporis, n." meaning body: particularly effective in this sense!) themselves into their machines until eventually, they were their own machines, constantly improving upon themselves. It goes on to explain that they were able to transcend matter entirely and exist in a way we cannot quite comprehend.
Also, in the book 3001, Clarke predicts braincap machines that add the abilities of a computer to whoever wears them.
I for one welcome the new experience of becoming the overlords of the universe. How long until we can transcend matter and build conscienceness-inspiring black boxes?
The way I understand this, people won't pirate nearly as much if the prices of CD's go down.
From what I've learned in economics, the price level should be determined by where supply and demand meet. Therefore, any price should yield similar profits, just from more or fewer people paying it. But the recording industry is attempting to operate as a monopoly (price fixing, etc.), which changes the model. Since it has no competition, it probably bases it's pricing not on where demand and supply meet, but at the most efficient point of the production possibilities curve, which guarantees the most money for the cheapest product. However, the price it fixes at is higher than what most people want to pay, so many people would rather pirate the stuff. The correct decision in a free market economy would just be to lower the price, but the industry is instead trying to take out piracy (using very shady tactics) so it can keep pricing music without regard to supply and demand.
The way I see it, the only way to lower the prices on CD's and reduce piracy and make everybody happy is to keep the music industry from operating as a single entity.
So the only logical answer I can think of to end all this suing and gestapo-like behavior is to get something truly done about the RIAA's monopolistic actions (attacking them for price fixing is good).
...but that's why I use it.
theory
1. A set of statements or principles devised to explain a group of facts or phenomena, especially one that has been repeatedly tested or is widely accepted and can be used to make predictions about natural phenomena.
hypothesis
1. A tentative explanation for an observation, phenomenon, or scientific problem that can be tested by further investigation.
only the lower definitions begin to mix the two
because some dork theorizes
First, a theory has been prove; a hypothesis has not. So technically, he hypothesized.
Second, it need only be proven that the quake moved mass closer to the Earth's axis (not that difficult). If there were any change at all, it would be a violation of the laws of physics if the Earth did not change its spin. Just because the Earth is big doesn't mean it won't follow basic high school physics. All you can complain about is the degree to which this has been predicted, which nobody can be sure of yet.
no, they're basing it on "skeletons of a hobbit-like species of human that grew no larger than a three-year-old modern child." Do plurals mean nothing to you?
I don't think it's the school's responsibility to improve your email habits. I don't write essays the way I write emails, nor do I compose haiku or slashdot responses the way I write essays or emails.
If anybody ever tried to use email (or AIM) grammar in an essay, what do you suppose would be the effect?
The civil war was caused mainly for some reasons... the South LOLed @ the North and said "g2g" and blew them off... then so the North was like "I kik ur @$$, South" and it went down from there...
With all bias aside, doesn't it make more sense to run important government systems with open software? Open software can be changed as much as they want; it's not like they're buying the latest Mandrake pack from CompUSA and popping it into the super-mega-warhead-doomsday-computer's cd drive.
The very last thing I'd like to know about would be the government placing a tech support call to a company that only sells them proprietary software. I find that somewhat unsettling.
But I'm not an expert; are there advantages to using code you can't see or modify to run government computers?
I sometimes print articles from slashdot, staple them together, and put them in a special little box. Does that count or is it just sad?
Would you be planning to give me a raise? ::wink:: ::wink::
I hate it when they try to make personal computing into a SERVICE rather than a PRODUCT. Internet access is a service, but word processing is not. I, for one, would like to keep it that way.
While this does offer a more universal way of running programs, isn't it also a more proprietary and inconvenient way? It's hard enough writing papers for school when Bellsouth accidentally cuts my intenet access, but at least I can still get into my word processor to type a bunch of BS to hand in.
I would like to contest that it was I and I alone who invented the apple tree and as such I will be suing.
-God
In the 80's, it was believed (by large record companies mainly) that home taping of radio broadcasts was killing music. This is the exact same thing as home taping, and home taping is perfectly legal (is that time shifting or space shifting or something)! So really, there is no legal or moral reason not to do it, and the RIAA can't very well (unless I have too much faith in human reason- I hope not) sue people for taping the same broadcasts they get from the radio if they get it from the internet. That just seems far too arbritrary a lawsuit to happen... but the thought still scares me for some reason.
Wow! That's a wonderful idea! Finally, we have some high-tech, expensive thing to do with all that extra money we have lying around that we vowed never to give to the homeless that they might feed and/or clothe themselves.