Bush has already announced his intent to drill the fuck out of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska.
No kidding. Personally, I think they should set up an offshore rig and hire Burns Slant Drilling Co. to get at the oil. Then the pretty animals can run around freely, and we get our oil! It's win-win!
Okay, but that doesn't solve everything. Granted, I grew up with BBS's instead of the big bad internet, but file swapping was not unheard of.
The computer was (wisely) kept in the family dining room, and not my bedroom or other "private" place. But I'm sure that... eh... had I wanted to swap some pr0n, I probably could've waited until after my parents went to bed and done all the bad stuff I wanted. Hypothetically, I mean.
Life begins at 1600x1200.
Amen. And the dot pitch is.99 mm as well. Which means this thing is really just a glorified projector, useful only for presentations in meetings and such.
LOL! Oh yeah, just occurred to me, that's all you'd want it for. Like someone was gonna use a 5-foot plasma screen at their desk or something. Nevermind.
However, for every one true RSI sufferer, there're probably a dozen fakers who smell a big lawsuit/government check, and claim mysterious pains here and there.
I think I agree about the "faking," but not for the causes you site. Not to dismiss the suffering of people who are genuinely afflicted, but I've noticed a strange pattern of RSI among friends of mine.
It seems that many of them are conveniently stricken when they want to get out of the computing industry anyway, but can't seem to admit it to themselves. One guy I knew took an early retirement when he was diagnosed with RSI, and another friend was starting to question what he really wanted to do with his life when he "came down" with it. It's like they're subconciously looking for a way out without having a concrete plan of what they'd rather do, and this malaise gives them cause to quit. They do, and bam, symptoms go away. But of course they can't return to work because it would lead to a flare up of symptoms.
I don't know. Again, I don't mean to dis anyone's particular situation. It's just kind of shady sometimes, from what I've seen.
From the article: the three sites -- Plastic, Suck and Feed -- draw "just shy of a million users a month" and cost about $50,000 a month to run.
That divides out to about a nickel a person. First of all, to me, it seems like a pretty decent deal to provide entertainment (however intermittent) to a million people for 50 grand. I for one definitely would have paid the, oh, let's see, 60 cents per year to read suck (and then I would've gotten feed for free! whoo hoo!). Maybe even double or triple since not everyone would sign up.
But to an advertiser, that's way over the going rate per impression, isn't it? Even if some of the stories make you click through 4 or 5 times. However, if they'd put more ads thoughout the page, they could dilute the cost to each advertiser. Their ads were always kind of apologetic, in that little frame underneath that we could just squish down if we weren't interested in a new Visa card. Oh well. This really doesn't make me confident for "free" content on the web.
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Yeah, I guess he was the son of (one of the many) owners. He just HAD to have a job in new media, so daddy squeezed him in, totally nonqualified. Still, I liked a lot of the stuff on suck that WASN'T by him.
I'll probably only be there for 4 to 6 hours a week for about 8 weeks.
First of all, that may be all the student contact time you have, and that may even be all you get paid for, but you're probably in for a hell of a lot more than 6 hours a week to get this program off the ground.
I've had to "teach" inner city youth in a summer camp, and I helped teach a high school AP computer science class. The 2 experiences were totally seperate, however.
The reason I put teaching in quotes for the summer camp is that the program I participated in was VERY poorly organized. I signed on to teach creative arts to the kids, but in the end, all they really wanted was a playground supervisor. So, step one, make sure you get a realistic idea of what you're expected to do. In the end, it turned out that it was okay I didn't have to do any teaching, because the times I did, it was a disaster.
I think it depends a lot on age, but many kids, particularly inner city ones, have become disillusioned (or worse) towards school by the time they're in 5th or 6th grade. You have an uphill battle ahead of you getting these kids to even respect your program. You must make it pertainent to their lives. You can't, for one thing, dive into coding, assuming everyone will think it's interesting. Depending on the general experience level, you might very well end up showing the kids how to browse the web and not much else.
Over all, I'd say be ready for anything, and don't get discouraged when your first effort goes down in flames. Make honest assessments every single day, and be flexible and willing to do whatever the kids seem interested in.
3. The default smart tags look for any reference to any company in MoneyCentral, and a few US universities. You click on them, and you get info.
I know Microsoft is evil and is just doing this to bolster traffic to their networks and wouldn't THINK of doing anything that benefitted people, but apparently just by coincidence I think they've hit on the best feature the web can ever offer.
The example above is really corporate child's play. They basically have a list of keywords in a DLL (or maybe they're smart and get a new one from MSN every day), and when they find those keywords, they tell you more about the subject in question. Now, the reason I say it's CORPORATE child's play is because I'm sure companies can buy this access, or will be able to in the future. Which does nothing at all to gaurantee that it'll be useful.
But consider if you could simply highlight arbitrary text on a page, and ask for more information about it. Now consider that maybe this feature is written into your favorite open source browser, and instead of the MS site, it hits a user-chosen search site instead. Myself, I might hook it up so that it goes to Google's "I'm feeling lucky" link for any section of arbitrary text. Or at least I would if search engines produced decent results more often:)
But seriously. This is the neatest thing ever. Wasn't there something like this in Ender's Game? Some book I was reading when I read that, anyway. The library was all electronic and arbitrary text could be cross-referenced in the entire rest of the library.
We are born with total freedom. We relinquish some of those freedoms for the right to live in a society. You want all your freedoms back, leave society.
I'd say we're all born with total ability maybe, which is to say, we are born with the capability to do anything... well, that we can do. Which is a tautology, granted, but bear with me.
To say that we have "freedom" or "the right" to excersize these abilities implies a moral context - eg, society. So, no, you don't leave society if you want all your freedoms back. It is only by entering society that you come to know anything as a freedom, and then only by comparison to the things which you are NOT allowed to do.
Leave society if you wish to excersize all your abilities willy nilly without restriction, but realize that your ability to call this "freedom" comes from your previous experience within a society.
My point was only that the original post (parent to mine above) was wrong in stating that the constitution "does not grant freedoms." It does, as any document does which founds a society. Outside of any culture whatsoever (which may very well be a purely conceptual way of life for humans), there are no "freedoms" to "protect."
Well, I can't find an appropriate case description online, but I remember hearing of a ruling that the content of phonebooks can't be copyrighted - or lists of addresses, or other similar compilations of public information. A particular presentation might be copyrighted, but the information within, is not.
Seems like the GPS coordinates would definitely be covered under the "list of addresses" type of precedent.
The Constitution grants nothing to us. It acknowledges that we have the rights, and those rights can't be taken away by the government.
Sorry, nope. The constitution effectively grants the rights (set forth in the Bill of Rights) to citizens of the United States. The only thing about "inalienable rights" is actually found in the Declaration of Independence. The Constitution is essentially a pact between the government and general citizenry of the US, you're right, promising that certain rights shall be honored. What is the difference between "agreeing to honor" a right and "granting" that right? To argue that the constitution grants us nothing, one would have to argue that everyone everywhere has the same rights and is somehow able to petition for them. The huge majority of people in the world not living under the jurisdiction of the US Constitution casts this into doubt.
It's a nice way to look at the world, with people just "having" rights no matter what. But in fact the very concept of a "human right" is a social contract. Fortunately, it's one that's increasingly broadly accepted around the world.
But like companies who still maintain their legacy software written in Cobol and who knows what else, countries and cultures hold onto their legacy alphabets, despite all their disadvantages
Interesting my ass. This is a troll if ever there was one. Yes, what a good point, let's conflate entire cultural traditions into a banal comparison to US corporate "progress." I'm sure you'd appreciate it if your cultural treasures were abandoned as "legacy" just because there was a more efficient alternative.
It's a bit disingenuous to call that program "light." Notice from the webpage that "Fresh Air" is more generally oriented towards new trends in arts and literature. This is about as un-technical an audience as NPR ever targets. One might expect them to mention the political implications of open source and nothing else.
While there was a lot of this, the host also gave Linus the chance to explain what an operating system was, and he even went on to differentiate between the Linux kernel and a more complete operating system. If one had been taking notes, one could have basically had an introductory class in OS design. So why don't we acknowledge the audience to whom this program is trying to speak, and applaud "Fresh Air" for even trying to tackle some of the technical jargon.
Well, if you don't like his gaurantee, you can always make your own ring at little or no cost. Which brings me to my question: Alex, you say that one should use rare earth magnets in constructing immortality rings:
Rare earth is a little more expensive, but they are much more powerful than ceramic.
What exactly is the benefit of this additional power? If they both keep you from dying, isn't it kind of a wash?
Hm. "Cancer" is really just the word for a syndrome in which a patch of mutant cells gets bigger and bigger and more bloated until it chokes off an otherwise healthy system.
Replace "cells" with "code" and this metaphor seems much more applicable to Windows than Linux. Especially considering that no one's quite sure HOW cancer works on the inside, just that it keeps getting bigger and badder.
In one instance, he said, parents suspected that their middle-school child wasn't eating a healthy lunch. Using the program, they found out that the child was buying fruit juice and ice cream every day.
Dude, fruit juice is not bad for you. Glad they're allowing parents to have such useful influences over their children at school. Guess it'd be better if they ate a burger and fries every single day, which was the "healthy" choice in our HS cafeteria.
Man, beats me. I don't do a huge amount of graphics processing (not for work anyway - UT, anyone?), but all my friends who do publishing said they'd never switch to TFT. Good ol' CRT just has better saturation. And given that this market has long been a mac stronghold, I really, seriously, honestly can't imagine what they're thinking.
Well, just so you know, it doesn't necessarily make sense for amazon to reduce their selection. Or at least, they've always had a good reason NOT to.
Amazon started as a cheap place to buy books online. Pretty much EVERYTHING was a loss leader. And contrary to what other posts say, they are planning to raise prices, little by little. The thing is, there comes a point where the amazon price plus shipping is just about the same as running down to barnes and noble and picking it up - except that barnes and noble is probably on your way home from work, and you can have the book NOW instead of waiting 2-3 days, and there's no chance of a shipping error if you go pick it out yourself.
Those things could combine to kill amazon. Unless they somehow maintain an advantage over b&n. Having a wide selection might just be that advantage. And that runs contrary to the advice given by Mr. MIT PhD. Of course they could still LIST a wide selection of books and actually order them after people request them, but that would increase the delay substantially... time will tell, I suppose, if people are willing to wait.
If they decrease their selection of books, what exactly is the advantage of amazon over any bookstore in town?
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What are you talking about? There's no way to pass objects around EXCEPT by reference.
So, in order to have a method change a value that you pass to it, you have to encapsulate it in a class.
Oh, well, yeah. That's what true OO is all about.
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No kidding. Personally, I think they should set up an offshore rig and hire Burns Slant Drilling Co. to get at the oil. Then the pretty animals can run around freely, and we get our oil! It's win-win!
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Okay, but that doesn't solve everything. Granted, I grew up with BBS's instead of the big bad internet, but file swapping was not unheard of.
The computer was (wisely) kept in the family dining room, and not my bedroom or other "private" place. But I'm sure that... eh... had I wanted to swap some pr0n, I probably could've waited until after my parents went to bed and done all the bad stuff I wanted. Hypothetically, I mean.
So, um, what was that thing about squid again?
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By which you mean, "two neighbors watching the same show will change channels to AVOID different commercials." Yup, truly an advertising in-no-vation.
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For those outside of the southwestern US: Jack in the Box has the funniest ad campaigns ever. I flip channels to CATCH those ads, not miss them.
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LOL! Oh yeah, just occurred to me, that's all you'd want it for. Like someone was gonna use a 5-foot plasma screen at their desk or something. Nevermind.
Still, seems like a souped-up 1024x768 LCD to me.
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I think I agree about the "faking," but not for the causes you site. Not to dismiss the suffering of people who are genuinely afflicted, but I've noticed a strange pattern of RSI among friends of mine.
It seems that many of them are conveniently stricken when they want to get out of the computing industry anyway, but can't seem to admit it to themselves. One guy I knew took an early retirement when he was diagnosed with RSI, and another friend was starting to question what he really wanted to do with his life when he "came down" with it. It's like they're subconciously looking for a way out without having a concrete plan of what they'd rather do, and this malaise gives them cause to quit. They do, and bam, symptoms go away. But of course they can't return to work because it would lead to a flare up of symptoms.
I don't know. Again, I don't mean to dis anyone's particular situation. It's just kind of shady sometimes, from what I've seen.
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That divides out to about a nickel a person. First of all, to me, it seems like a pretty decent deal to provide entertainment (however intermittent) to a million people for 50 grand. I for one definitely would have paid the, oh, let's see, 60 cents per year to read suck (and then I would've gotten feed for free! whoo hoo!). Maybe even double or triple since not everyone would sign up.
But to an advertiser, that's way over the going rate per impression, isn't it? Even if some of the stories make you click through 4 or 5 times. However, if they'd put more ads thoughout the page, they could dilute the cost to each advertiser. Their ads were always kind of apologetic, in that little frame underneath that we could just squish down if we weren't interested in a new Visa card. Oh well. This really doesn't make me confident for "free" content on the web.
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First of all, that may be all the student contact time you have, and that may even be all you get paid for, but you're probably in for a hell of a lot more than 6 hours a week to get this program off the ground.
I've had to "teach" inner city youth in a summer camp, and I helped teach a high school AP computer science class. The 2 experiences were totally seperate, however.
The reason I put teaching in quotes for the summer camp is that the program I participated in was VERY poorly organized. I signed on to teach creative arts to the kids, but in the end, all they really wanted was a playground supervisor. So, step one, make sure you get a realistic idea of what you're expected to do. In the end, it turned out that it was okay I didn't have to do any teaching, because the times I did, it was a disaster.
I think it depends a lot on age, but many kids, particularly inner city ones, have become disillusioned (or worse) towards school by the time they're in 5th or 6th grade. You have an uphill battle ahead of you getting these kids to even respect your program. You must make it pertainent to their lives. You can't, for one thing, dive into coding, assuming everyone will think it's interesting. Depending on the general experience level, you might very well end up showing the kids how to browse the web and not much else.
Over all, I'd say be ready for anything, and don't get discouraged when your first effort goes down in flames. Make honest assessments every single day, and be flexible and willing to do whatever the kids seem interested in.
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I know Microsoft is evil and is just doing this to bolster traffic to their networks and wouldn't THINK of doing anything that benefitted people, but apparently just by coincidence I think they've hit on the best feature the web can ever offer.
The example above is really corporate child's play. They basically have a list of keywords in a DLL (or maybe they're smart and get a new one from MSN every day), and when they find those keywords, they tell you more about the subject in question. Now, the reason I say it's CORPORATE child's play is because I'm sure companies can buy this access, or will be able to in the future. Which does nothing at all to gaurantee that it'll be useful.
But consider if you could simply highlight arbitrary text on a page, and ask for more information about it. Now consider that maybe this feature is written into your favorite open source browser, and instead of the MS site, it hits a user-chosen search site instead. Myself, I might hook it up so that it goes to Google's "I'm feeling lucky" link for any section of arbitrary text. Or at least I would if search engines produced decent results more often :)
But seriously. This is the neatest thing ever. Wasn't there something like this in Ender's Game? Some book I was reading when I read that, anyway. The library was all electronic and arbitrary text could be cross-referenced in the entire rest of the library.
What's not to love?
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I'd say we're all born with total ability maybe, which is to say, we are born with the capability to do anything... well, that we can do. Which is a tautology, granted, but bear with me.
To say that we have "freedom" or "the right" to excersize these abilities implies a moral context - eg, society. So, no, you don't leave society if you want all your freedoms back. It is only by entering society that you come to know anything as a freedom, and then only by comparison to the things which you are NOT allowed to do.
Leave society if you wish to excersize all your abilities willy nilly without restriction, but realize that your ability to call this "freedom" comes from your previous experience within a society.
My point was only that the original post (parent to mine above) was wrong in stating that the constitution "does not grant freedoms." It does, as any document does which founds a society. Outside of any culture whatsoever (which may very well be a purely conceptual way of life for humans), there are no "freedoms" to "protect."
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Seems like the GPS coordinates would definitely be covered under the "list of addresses" type of precedent.
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Sorry, nope. The constitution effectively grants the rights (set forth in the Bill of Rights) to citizens of the United States. The only thing about "inalienable rights" is actually found in the Declaration of Independence. The Constitution is essentially a pact between the government and general citizenry of the US, you're right, promising that certain rights shall be honored. What is the difference between "agreeing to honor" a right and "granting" that right? To argue that the constitution grants us nothing, one would have to argue that everyone everywhere has the same rights and is somehow able to petition for them. The huge majority of people in the world not living under the jurisdiction of the US Constitution casts this into doubt.
It's a nice way to look at the world, with people just "having" rights no matter what. But in fact the very concept of a "human right" is a social contract. Fortunately, it's one that's increasingly broadly accepted around the world.
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Interesting my ass. This is a troll if ever there was one. Yes, what a good point, let's conflate entire cultural traditions into a banal comparison to US corporate "progress." I'm sure you'd appreciate it if your cultural treasures were abandoned as "legacy" just because there was a more efficient alternative.
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"It's a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word!"
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It's a bit disingenuous to call that program "light." Notice from the webpage that "Fresh Air" is more generally oriented towards new trends in arts and literature. This is about as un-technical an audience as NPR ever targets. One might expect them to mention the political implications of open source and nothing else.
While there was a lot of this, the host also gave Linus the chance to explain what an operating system was, and he even went on to differentiate between the Linux kernel and a more complete operating system. If one had been taking notes, one could have basically had an introductory class in OS design. So why don't we acknowledge the audience to whom this program is trying to speak, and applaud "Fresh Air" for even trying to tackle some of the technical jargon.
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Rare earth is a little more expensive, but they are much more powerful than ceramic.
What exactly is the benefit of this additional power? If they both keep you from dying, isn't it kind of a wash?
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Replace "cells" with "code" and this metaphor seems much more applicable to Windows than Linux. Especially considering that no one's quite sure HOW cancer works on the inside, just that it keeps getting bigger and badder.
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Dude, fruit juice is not bad for you. Glad they're allowing parents to have such useful influences over their children at school. Guess it'd be better if they ate a burger and fries every single day, which was the "healthy" choice in our HS cafeteria.
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Man, beats me. I don't do a huge amount of graphics processing (not for work anyway - UT, anyone?), but all my friends who do publishing said they'd never switch to TFT. Good ol' CRT just has better saturation. And given that this market has long been a mac stronghold, I really, seriously, honestly can't imagine what they're thinking.
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Amazon started as a cheap place to buy books online. Pretty much EVERYTHING was a loss leader. And contrary to what other posts say, they are planning to raise prices, little by little. The thing is, there comes a point where the amazon price plus shipping is just about the same as running down to barnes and noble and picking it up - except that barnes and noble is probably on your way home from work, and you can have the book NOW instead of waiting 2-3 days, and there's no chance of a shipping error if you go pick it out yourself.
Those things could combine to kill amazon. Unless they somehow maintain an advantage over b&n. Having a wide selection might just be that advantage. And that runs contrary to the advice given by Mr. MIT PhD. Of course they could still LIST a wide selection of books and actually order them after people request them, but that would increase the delay substantially... time will tell, I suppose, if people are willing to wait.
If they decrease their selection of books, what exactly is the advantage of amazon over any bookstore in town?
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