Private institutions of higher education are not by nature of being private exempt from the constitution. There are a number of avenues that the law has to require things of them including the fact that most of them enjoy non-profit status and many of them recieve funds from the government (even private institutions).
More importantly, you are right, we don't have to like it, and the law isn't the only thing that should determine if something is right or wrong. This institutin has a moral obligation to respect freedom of speech not to mention their obligation to it's campus community, society as a whole, the notions of academic freedom, etc.
In fact, academic freedom is perhaps the most powerful force that holds a private institution to the ideology of free speech. When you enroll in education you are enrolling to pursue knowledge, the institution has no right to recind that agreement because they happen to disagree with the knowledge you have found.
Regardless, my point is, this is not "just like any contract between individuals". It is an agreement between a private institution of higher education and a student enrolling there. Despite what some might have you think, students are not merely customers to the corporations of education.
You are basing your idea on the premise that we are "paying" for the artistic expression in the form of watching advertisements. Just because the model that has (and is) driven broadcast media is ad-based doesn't mean that is the only way for artists to pay to produce quality serial dramas/comedies. There are a million other models for recouping costs (and even profiting) off a work. Simply because the industry tries to use ALL of them to maximize profits doesn't mean they SHOULD use all of them.
I want my television comercial free and I don't want to buy it. There are ways the industry could accomdate that and still make money (hell, it doesn't even have to be made off of me). But it's not my job as audience to figure out their profit model for them, it's my job to demand what I want.
In today's era of corporitization of universities and the changing role of higher education from serving only the intellectual elite to preparing people to the workforce has diluted the role of the university. In addition, the curricula haven't been able to keep up. Courses like you list would be great for an education in Computer Science. However, you have to remember that your degree program is not training you to program, it is giving you an education in programing. Training can come down the line in the form of books, seminars, and experience. By taking the courses you are they are training you thinking skills that will allow you to bring more innovative solutions to the industry and the profession.
Course, ours still don't have kids playing hockey on it. It has powerful symbols like old dead white guys and the monuments that are built for them and crazy pyramid eye things!
The more significant thing is that the Doom3 engine (if history is any indication) will be the engine of choice for other games for the next few years. Half Life was after all based on a modified Quake2 Engine. iD makes games that are meant to show off their engines, not meant (necessarily) to be fun (though they've always pleased me with the exception of Quake2).
The article says that 7 plantiffs filed a class-action against DirecTV and it was ruled that DirecTV was in the right and the 7 people were also stuck with DirecTV's $100k legal bill from that case.
Listen. I've been seeing a lot of posts to the tone of "Why is the government spending $5 billion when we have a shitty economy" or "$5 billion could have been used to end poverty". These are just not thought out comments listen.
A $5 billion aircraft carrier probably took nearly 5 years to build. During that 5 years, 18,000 jobs were created (from the/. article) and those 18,000 families had food on the table and contributed large portions of that $5 billion back into our economy, thus helping it greatly. Do you really think that even half of the $5 billion was on materials as opposed to labor? Labor is nearly _ALWAYS_ the most expensive cost in any production.
The software is usually compatible based on the architecture (iPAQ and zaurus use the same binaries often). But the package managers are different. It's the same old linux story as before.
From the article, re: reasons linux on PDA's hasn't caught on.
"And probably the biggest drawback is the Lack of Software compared to Palm and Pocket PC"
What?!? What?!! How can they say this. My zaurus has so much software I don't know what to do with it. Since it's linux, stuff gets ports very quickly and there is a world of software at your fingertips. Just cause it's all free doesn't make it not there.
Have you tried just telling the higher-ups how you all feel? Don't let them brush you off with "well we're tight on money". Tell them that you understand the financial troubles and that the current situation is unreasonable. Go in with a compromising solution that you can both agree on.
People are usually reasonable if you treat them as equals.
I use two different online banking services (www.chevychasebank.com and www.citibankonline.com). Chevy Chase works with any browser I've tried it with, but I had to set Konqueror to pretend to be IE to get past their check.
Citibank, which is on the sinners list, I've had absolutely no problem with. And I've been through two formats of the site.
The whole idea of requiring certain browsers is shitty though.
Now they will just claim that they have to raise costs of CD's to recoup the fine they had to pay.
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I've got a GeForce 4 Ti4200 and I definately get better performance on the livecd than in windows. In windows I run at 1280x960 and on the livecd I can run 1600x1200 no prob (but that may be due to the fact that the live cd is A) loading ONLY UT and B) loading most of it into my memory and then running it from there)
You can determine the essid by sending disassociate packets with forged mac addresses of the base station. It will reach a client and the client will think they've been dropped and will try to reconnect (and in turn send the essid plain text over the air for all to see).
Of course, you would have to write a program to implement this.
Yesterday (in fact) I realized that there was wireless coverage in my politics class at Rochester Institute of Technology. They have been rolling it out in common areas (library, study lounges, etc) for the past year and it's finally starting to spill over into classroom space. We were discussing a court decision in class and I went and pulled up the full opinion on my laptop in seconds. He mentioned something and I was reading things about it while listening.
Of course, it can be distracting when you aren't paying attention in CS class and you are talking on AIM and checking your e-mail.
Perhaps I'm just feeling cynical today, but how is voting going to help an issue like this. There aren't really any candidates who have a stance on any of these issues. And even if we vote for someone because we think they are the "type" of person who would oppose this stuff, our voice isn't getting heard. That candidate will simply think we voted for him because of his stance on abortion or something.
What we REALLY need is a two-fold attack. Not just voting, but having some sort of techno-geek-activist lobying group that will say (loudly and with money) to the candidates that if they support our issues, we will deliver these votes.
By simply voting, we don't get to tell them whats wrong.
The problem with this idea is that the average slashdot reader is not knowledgeable enough to express their own opinions on this. I've been guilty of it myself (though less and less). Sometimes I find myself telling about all the evils I read about on/. and then when someone challenges me, I realize that I don't really know anything about it.
What you propose is something simple. But being a responsible citizen is not simple because you have to be aware and savy. You said it only took you 5 min, but I don't think you would have been able to write that speech if you hadn't spent at least 30min researching and thinking about what the issues here are.
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Private institutions of higher education are not by nature of being private exempt from the constitution. There are a number of avenues that the law has to require things of them including the fact that most of them enjoy non-profit status and many of them recieve funds from the government (even private institutions).
More importantly, you are right, we don't have to like it, and the law isn't the only thing that should determine if something is right or wrong. This institutin has a moral obligation to respect freedom of speech not to mention their obligation to it's campus community, society as a whole, the notions of academic freedom, etc.
In fact, academic freedom is perhaps the most powerful force that holds a private institution to the ideology of free speech. When you enroll in education you are enrolling to pursue knowledge, the institution has no right to recind that agreement because they happen to disagree with the knowledge you have found.
Regardless, my point is, this is not "just like any contract between individuals". It is an agreement between a private institution of higher education and a student enrolling there. Despite what some might have you think, students are not merely customers to the corporations of education.
You are basing your idea on the premise that we are "paying" for the artistic expression in the form of watching advertisements. Just because the model that has (and is) driven broadcast media is ad-based doesn't mean that is the only way for artists to pay to produce quality serial dramas/comedies. There are a million other models for recouping costs (and even profiting) off a work. Simply because the industry tries to use ALL of them to maximize profits doesn't mean they SHOULD use all of them.
I want my television comercial free and I don't want to buy it. There are ways the industry could accomdate that and still make money (hell, it doesn't even have to be made off of me). But it's not my job as audience to figure out their profit model for them, it's my job to demand what I want.
-Shaun
In today's era of corporitization of universities and the changing role of higher education from serving only the intellectual elite to preparing people to the workforce has diluted the role of the university. In addition, the curricula haven't been able to keep up. Courses like you list would be great for an education in Computer Science. However, you have to remember that your degree program is not training you to program, it is giving you an education in programing. Training can come down the line in the form of books, seminars, and experience. By taking the courses you are they are training you thinking skills that will allow you to bring more innovative solutions to the industry and the profession.
Didn't Orwell write this long ago:
http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/patee.html
AT&T the phone company is NOT the same as their hosting company. They may both be affiliated, but they can do seperate business. Common people!
Course, ours still don't have kids playing hockey on it. It has powerful symbols like old dead white guys and the monuments that are built for them and crazy pyramid eye things!
The more significant thing is that the Doom3 engine (if history is any indication) will be the engine of choice for other games for the next few years. Half Life was after all based on a modified Quake2 Engine. iD makes games that are meant to show off their engines, not meant (necessarily) to be fun (though they've always pleased me with the exception of Quake2).
The article says that 7 plantiffs filed a class-action against DirecTV and it was ruled that DirecTV was in the right and the 7 people were also stuck with DirecTV's $100k legal bill from that case.
I agree, it could have been spent on something better. It's just not as huge a mistake as some would make it out to be.
-Shaun
Listen. I've been seeing a lot of posts to the tone of "Why is the government spending $5 billion when we have a shitty economy" or "$5 billion could have been used to end poverty". These are just not thought out comments listen.
/. article) and those 18,000 families had food on the table and contributed large portions of that $5 billion back into our economy, thus helping it greatly. Do you really think that even half of the $5 billion was on materials as opposed to labor? Labor is nearly _ALWAYS_ the most expensive cost in any production.
A $5 billion aircraft carrier probably took nearly 5 years to build. During that 5 years, 18,000 jobs were created (from the
It also (as mentioned by the poster) created 18,000 jobs. Thats a lot of jobs.
The software is usually compatible based on the architecture (iPAQ and zaurus use the same binaries often). But the package managers are different. It's the same old linux story as before.
From the article, re: reasons linux on PDA's hasn't caught on.
"And probably the biggest drawback is the Lack of Software compared to Palm and Pocket PC"
What?!? What?!! How can they say this. My zaurus has so much software I don't know what to do with it. Since it's linux, stuff gets ports very quickly and there is a world of software at your fingertips. Just cause it's all free doesn't make it not there.
Have you tried just telling the higher-ups how you all feel? Don't let them brush you off with "well we're tight on money". Tell them that you understand the financial troubles and that the current situation is unreasonable. Go in with a compromising solution that you can both agree on.
People are usually reasonable if you treat them as equals.
-Shaun
What does the principal have to do with this? I think you mean the principle. :-)
I use two different online banking services (www.chevychasebank.com and www.citibankonline.com). Chevy Chase works with any browser I've tried it with, but I had to set Konqueror to pretend to be IE to get past their check.
Citibank, which is on the sinners list, I've had absolutely no problem with. And I've been through two formats of the site.
The whole idea of requiring certain browsers is shitty though.
Now they will just claim that they have to raise costs of CD's to recoup the fine they had to pay.
I've got a GeForce 4 Ti4200 and I definately get better performance on the livecd than in windows. In windows I run at 1280x960 and on the livecd I can run 1600x1200 no prob (but that may be due to the fact that the live cd is A) loading ONLY UT and B) loading most of it into my memory and then running it from there)
-Shaun
You can determine the essid by sending disassociate packets with forged mac addresses of the base station. It will reach a client and the client will think they've been dropped and will try to reconnect (and in turn send the essid plain text over the air for all to see).
Of course, you would have to write a program to implement this.
Yesterday (in fact) I realized that there was wireless coverage in my politics class at Rochester Institute of Technology. They have been rolling it out in common areas (library, study lounges, etc) for the past year and it's finally starting to spill over into classroom space. We were discussing a court decision in class and I went and pulled up the full opinion on my laptop in seconds. He mentioned something and I was reading things about it while listening.
Of course, it can be distracting when you aren't paying attention in CS class and you are talking on AIM and checking your e-mail.
-Shaun
Oops! You're right! :)
Actually you are #4141935 (it says so at the top of your post... DUH!)
console (~) and type:
+mlook
then use
sensitivity 17 (or whatever) to set the sensitivity
Perhaps I'm just feeling cynical today, but how is voting going to help an issue like this. There aren't really any candidates who have a stance on any of these issues. And even if we vote for someone because we think they are the "type" of person who would oppose this stuff, our voice isn't getting heard. That candidate will simply think we voted for him because of his stance on abortion or something.
What we REALLY need is a two-fold attack. Not just voting, but having some sort of techno-geek-activist lobying group that will say (loudly and with money) to the candidates that if they support our issues, we will deliver these votes.
By simply voting, we don't get to tell them whats wrong.
-Shaun
The problem with this idea is that the average slashdot reader is not knowledgeable enough to express their own opinions on this. I've been guilty of it myself (though less and less). Sometimes I find myself telling about all the evils I read about on /. and then when someone challenges me, I realize that I don't really know anything about it.
What you propose is something simple. But being a responsible citizen is not simple because you have to be aware and savy. You said it only took you 5 min, but I don't think you would have been able to write that speech if you hadn't spent at least 30min researching and thinking about what the issues here are.
-Shaun