My guess would be that the Concord wasn't allowed to be supersonic over land because it would piss off the people down below who could sue the fuck out of the airline that owns the planes.
Those same people cannot sue the air force for flying its jets over populated areas.
Air force bases are more remote. I would guess the number of flights, schedules etc are less obtrusive then business class supersonic flights would be as well.
I have read 3 redcurring themes in the comments to this article:
1. People who are happy with dialup are ignorant
of what broadband has to offer
2. People who are happy with dialup are not IT
people, are not technically savy, or have
anonomalous natures for these groups.
3. People who are happy with dialup have never
used broadband.
Okay.
1. I have been a programmer for 5 years
2. I do a lot of coding at home, but use dialup
3. During the workweek I have daily access to a
T-1 line and I do not have any strong cravings
for anything other then dialup at home.
I challenge anyone to tell me what I am missing out on by having dialup at home.
- email and web browsing is fast enough for me on
my line. Pictures load just fine. I have to
wait for flash animations, but I might want to
see one about once a month
- I only want very large items of software about
3 times a year. I take a friend with a
highspeed connection out to lunch at nice
restaurant in exchange for mooching. We both
have a good time, we both get a good meal, and
I end up saving over $200 - $300 a year.
- If I want cheap music I can go to one of the
many used CD places in my area. Its cheaper
then legal downloads at $1 a song. I still
save that $200 - $300 a year....which can buy
many used CDs.
Is there anything I haven't covered that I would need a highspeed connection for?
Dial-up works great for reading email and web surfing which is the majority of what I do with the internet on my box at home.
Every few months when I want a lot of software I take a friend out to a nice lunch in exchange for mooching of their high speed connection. We both have fun, get a good expensive meal and I still save a ton of money.
Same for music. I live in an urban area with a good selection of used CD stores. For what I save off a high speed connection I can buy a hefty amount of CDs at these places.
Some plans have nice rates.......for a year at a time....then they jack it up.
Duh, I have a sense of the future.
I probably will not get a high speed connection until it gets under $40 a month.
I was trying to make the point "wow, even the stuff you could find about how the positive side of offshoring works STILL sucks for non independently wealthy Americans".
Exactly, people tend to love capitalism and the market system, right up until it start working against them,
What exactly is wrong with that? Its an economics system, not a moral system. If its not working for you why champion it?
Rich people, corporate american, and the republicans do the same thing. They make a big noise about capitalism, free markets, and rugged individualism. Yet at that same time they push for pork barrel poitics, and engage in corporate welfare.
I've read several posts across several threads on slashdot on this topic defending outsourcing.
Many of the posters are self assured to the point of smuggness, arrogance, and condescension.
I haven't seen any facts from them or other people who support offshoring.
Anyone who has had a decent education knows that what academia knows is not always as solid as academia would like everyone to think.
Add to that Economics is not a hard science and that there is disagreement among economists as to the value of outsourcing.
Where are the jobs?
How will outsourcing create jobs for Americans?
Will enough jobs be created for Americans?
Will the assumed forthcoming jobs come before a large number of people experience economic ruin?
Will the assumed forthcoming jobs be quality jobs that people can support famlies on and enjoy doing?
Will the assumed forthcoming jobs stimulate students to study subjects that will keep America competitive?
How....will outsourcing generate these jobs?
So far I haven't even seen attempts at these answers from anyone. At the most you some smugness with a statement that pretty much boils down to
"Don't, worry it will work out".
Most people would not accept that answer from a mechanic when they hear loud clanking noises from their car without a detailed explanation.
Yet, many people are willing to accept that answer for their careers and the future of their country.
I don't get a sense that these people are stupid.
Maybe the whole thing stresses people out so much they just assume what rich people tell us and what other people parrot is the truth to free themselves from having to worry about it.
Maybe it is just the high school football rivalarly mentality of party loyalty in American politics that leads to people parroting all of this stuff without finding answers to those questions.
Where's the beef?
If you are not working through no fault of your own you should consider whether or not the president should be working after this January.
Very good point.
If my only exposure to English ( insert any other native language ) was limited to grammar classes studying prepositions and sentence structure I would not be able to speak.
Steve
A big part of getting people into math is ditching symbol phobia.
Math became meaningful to me, and symbol phobia-indifference-nonrelevance vanished when I got to college and studied philosophy.
I learned to think, analyze, and argue rationally.
After a while all of the writing of arguments out became a chore for professor and student alike.
Enter "P" and "Q" and "X" as abbreviations for larger blobs of words. Math-like symbols became less alien, less unfriendly.
A cool course in symbolic logic with software to do proofs with acclerated this.
It always seemed to me this is how math and science grew naturally out of philosophy anyway.
A bunch of people sat around debating and asking questions to satisfy their curiosity.
After a while all the "bla bla bla" gets to be too much so "bla" becomes "x", "bla bla" becomes Y.
You have the beginings of Math.
I don't know if it will work for kids, but maybe the key to bringing math to more people is ditching symbol phobia by making math classes about thoughts/arguments relative to them, showing them that "math" is nothing but thinking, just made less unweildy by using abbreviations/symbols.
Then again standard, repetitive sets of drills and exercises work too.
People learn how to do *something* in math, become comfortable with it, and become psychologically ready to learn more, play with it.
Sort of like programming. You read a little "blah blah" skip to bunch of examples that relevant to your interets, you get comfortable, you play with things, and then you go back to the "blah blah".
You know, I'm really getting irritated over the outrage I'm seeing against VOLUNTARY web services
Isn't this a hypocritical statement? Reading ( and spending time on making replies to ) slashdot is completely voluntary as well. So is reading any of the other free and "Voluntary" news services.
"Where is all the media hype about this privacy issue?"
Well, slashdot is a media and here I am to give my bit of hype.
I remember 3 years ago Amazon was busted for using its customer information to charge some customers more money for the same products depending on what region of the country they lived in.
I stopped using them right then and there except to read book reviews.
I will just cull the ISBN and then go to Best Book Buys: http://www.bestbookbuys.com
They sell videos and music too.
You will a list of comparison prices from about a dozen online sellers, ranked by price, including shipping, with the cheapest price up top.
Slashdot Mirror
The "Nice Editor" is a wonderful alternative for
people who want a __simple__, but powerful shell based text editor.
Its so friendly it makes nano look unfriendly
It has DOS style drop down menus, CUA key bindings, and can be customized to a great extent.
If you want a reasonable editor that doesn't require giving up your church or reading a fat book to learn how to use:
http://ne.dsi.unimi.it/
Isn't Gentoo all GPL and or OSS with compatible liscences?
My guess would be that the Concord wasn't allowed to be supersonic over land because it would piss off the people down below who could sue the fuck out of the airline that owns the planes.
Those same people cannot sue the air force for flying its jets over populated areas.
Air force bases are more remote. I would guess the number of flights, schedules etc are less obtrusive then business class supersonic flights would be as well.
This may not be correct as I heard it as a child when the Concords/SSTs first came out.
Do not supersonic vehicales help erode the OZONE?
Steve
1. reading Dilbert
2. bitching about my pointy haired boss with my coworkers
3. activities that help me relax and give me positive feedback after work
HTH
Steve
Just use the old fashioned machines and clean out the paper trays so they work?
There is also something you can do about it.
The link below is a web form that will send a letter protesting the bill. It is a very SHORT form.
http://www.saveovertimepay.org/index.cfm?ms=google
Steve
What kind of credibility can this salseman hope to have if he hocks windows after making such a high profile sale to Munich?
I have read 3 redcurring themes in the comments to this article:
1. People who are happy with dialup are ignorant
of what broadband has to offer
2. People who are happy with dialup are not IT
people, are not technically savy, or have
anonomalous natures for these groups.
3. People who are happy with dialup have never
used broadband.
Okay.
1. I have been a programmer for 5 years
2. I do a lot of coding at home, but use dialup
3. During the workweek I have daily access to a
T-1 line and I do not have any strong cravings
for anything other then dialup at home.
I challenge anyone to tell me what I am missing out on by having dialup at home.
- email and web browsing is fast enough for me on
my line. Pictures load just fine. I have to
wait for flash animations, but I might want to
see one about once a month
- I only want very large items of software about
3 times a year. I take a friend with a
highspeed connection out to lunch at nice
restaurant in exchange for mooching. We both
have a good time, we both get a good meal, and
I end up saving over $200 - $300 a year.
- If I want cheap music I can go to one of the
many used CD places in my area. Its cheaper
then legal downloads at $1 a song. I still
save that $200 - $300 a year....which can buy
many used CDs.
Is there anything I haven't covered that I would need a highspeed connection for?
Steve
Its not an extra $10 a month.
I can get dialup for between $10 - $15 a month.
My phone company doubles as a cable comapny and wants about $50 a month for a cable connection.
Just not worth it.
Dial-up works great for reading email and web surfing which is the majority of what I do with the internet on my box at home.
Every few months when I want a lot of software I take a friend out to a nice lunch in exchange for mooching of their high speed connection. We both have fun, get a good expensive meal and I still save a ton of money.
Same for music. I live in an urban area with a good selection of used CD stores. For what I save off a high speed connection I can buy a hefty amount of CDs at these places.
Some plans have nice rates.......for a year at a time....then they jack it up.
Duh, I have a sense of the future.
I probably will not get a high speed connection until it gets under $40 a month.
Steve
Yah, thats my fault for not being more clear.
I know you were agreeing with me.
I was trying to make the point "wow, even the stuff you could find about how the positive side of offshoring works STILL sucks for non independently wealthy Americans".
Steve
for the America.
Maybe we can upgrade bu$h into a president with these new chips.
I'm sure there is plenty of room in the case, whether or not the rest of the system will be able to handle the load remains to be seen.
I have seen too many posters here paint anyone who questions offshoring as ignornant over paid communist peasants trying to vote themselves bread.
Steve
"Where do the jobs come into it?"
If American owned companies use offshore workers all the people in the world buying American products will not generate more American jobs.
Steve
Why assume everyone is an overpaid tech worker?
Many outsoured jobs are not in IT.
Many IT workers make fair wages.
As I stated in my original post........"How do you know this will happpen this way?"
If someone can't answer that question with a detailed description supported by facts then the future of this country is riding on groundless faith.
Steve
Rich people, corporate american, and the republicans do the same thing. They make a big noise about capitalism, free markets, and rugged individualism. Yet at that same time they push for pork barrel poitics, and engage in corporate welfare.
Steve
I've read several posts across several threads on slashdot on this topic defending outsourcing.
Many of the posters are self assured to the point of smuggness, arrogance, and condescension.
I haven't seen any facts from them or other people who support offshoring.
Anyone who has had a decent education knows that what academia knows is not always as solid as academia would like everyone to think.
Add to that Economics is not a hard science and that there is disagreement among economists as to the value of outsourcing.
Where are the jobs?
How will outsourcing create jobs for Americans?
Will enough jobs be created for Americans?
Will the assumed forthcoming jobs come before a large number of people experience economic ruin?
Will the assumed forthcoming jobs be quality jobs that people can support famlies on and enjoy doing?
Will the assumed forthcoming jobs stimulate students to study subjects that will keep America competitive?
How....will outsourcing generate these jobs?
So far I haven't even seen attempts at these answers from anyone. At the most you some smugness with a statement that pretty much boils down to
"Don't, worry it will work out".
Most people would not accept that answer from a mechanic when they hear loud clanking noises from their car without a detailed explanation.
Yet, many people are willing to accept that answer for their careers and the future of their country.
I don't get a sense that these people are stupid.
Maybe the whole thing stresses people out so much they just assume what rich people tell us and what other people parrot is the truth to free themselves from having to worry about it.
Maybe it is just the high school football rivalarly mentality of party loyalty in American politics that leads to people parroting all of this stuff without finding answers to those questions.
Where's the beef?
If you are not working through no fault of your own you should consider whether or not the president should be working after this January.
Steve
The answer is obvious, you used a C++ compiler to compile a C program.
Very good point. If my only exposure to English ( insert any other native language ) was limited to grammar classes studying prepositions and sentence structure I would not be able to speak. Steve
In grad school I had a job where I worked with a lot of education majors.
It seemed like there was no shortage of cool methods for improving education.
Whenver I would ask "well, why isn't it being used".
The answer I would get is the burreaucracy of the school system.
I don't know if any of this is true or not, but maybe the answer(s) to your problem are already written up in an educational journal somewhere.
Steve
A big part of getting people into math is ditching symbol phobia.
Math became meaningful to me, and symbol phobia-indifference-nonrelevance vanished when I got to college and studied philosophy.
I learned to think, analyze, and argue rationally.
After a while all of the writing of arguments out became a chore for professor and student alike.
Enter "P" and "Q" and "X" as abbreviations for larger blobs of words. Math-like symbols became less alien, less unfriendly.
A cool course in symbolic logic with software to do proofs with acclerated this.
It always seemed to me this is how math and science grew naturally out of philosophy anyway.
A bunch of people sat around debating and asking questions to satisfy their curiosity.
After a while all the "bla bla bla" gets to be too much so "bla" becomes "x", "bla bla" becomes Y.
You have the beginings of Math.
I don't know if it will work for kids, but maybe the key to bringing math to more people is ditching symbol phobia by making math classes about thoughts/arguments relative to them, showing them that "math" is nothing but thinking, just made less unweildy by using abbreviations/symbols.
Then again standard, repetitive sets of drills and exercises work too.
People learn how to do *something* in math, become comfortable with it, and become psychologically ready to learn more, play with it.
Sort of like programming. You read a little "blah blah" skip to bunch of examples that relevant to your interets, you get comfortable, you play with things, and then you go back to the "blah blah".
Just a thought.
blah blah blah
Steve
You know, I'm really getting irritated over the outrage I'm seeing against VOLUNTARY web services Isn't this a hypocritical statement? Reading ( and spending time on making replies to ) slashdot is completely voluntary as well. So is reading any of the other free and "Voluntary" news services.
I remember 3 years ago Amazon was busted for using its customer information to charge some customers more money for the same products depending on what region of the country they lived in.
I stopped using them right then and there except to read book reviews.
I will just cull the ISBN and then go to Best Book Buys: http://www.bestbookbuys.com
They sell videos and music too.
You will a list of comparison prices from about a dozen online sellers, ranked by price, including shipping, with the cheapest price up top.
Steve
Someone, not sure of the quality of the bank, asks to cash out in a high profile way.
Soon, everyone else follows killing the bank.
Maybe this will signal the begining of the end for SCO.
I couldn't understand how their stock prices went up to start with all of the experts purporting that they never had a case.
Steve