The record companies and entertainment lawyers make their money off album sales, the bands make their money for touring. It is also enlightening to note that the RIAA does NOT represent bands. It represents labels. Except for maybe Metallica, but they're corporate rock fucks so who cares?
One point...Most bands really do make their money from touring, not from their records. In fact, if you pay attention at all, you hear horror stories from everybody who isn't a corporate rock fuck about how if they had to rely on album sales they would starve to death.
If they would let American workers telecommute more, and were more willing to pay decent salaries they would probably find more available, willing, and qualified Americans to do the work. But I know that I, for one, am not willing to take a pay cut of 25% or more to be asked to work twice as many hours with a big commute.
Or people with children?? I am male, with no children, but I would love to have a telecommuting job. With flexible hours.
It's almost enough to make me consider taking up farming.
The human animal gets around its genetic imperfection by exploiting its advanced reasoning, mathematical, and tool making abilities. Many of these skills are less advanced in Chimpanzees, so they are more reliant on selective mutation to improve.
Now that they have switched to Intel hardware, Macs shouldn't cost $1000 more than the equivlent windows machine, but they still do. Apple has always overpriced their hardware and they continue to do so because they can get away with it, as their core user base is used to paying that much for their hardware. In truth, if companies would make more Linux version of software, I would only buy a Mac if I needed to do certain kinds of video editing (because it is still several thousand dollars cheaper than an Avid system). But, there are actually applications that I want that they don't have good Linux versions for (and I want to use the apps, not spend months getting WINE working correctly), that they do make Mac versions of.
I, among others, have yet to see a convincing arguement to buy a DX-10 capable video card. I'm not upgrading to Vista, until they remove their DRM supportive crap and their awful driver signing nonsense. I'll switch to an over-priced Mac first.
I don't play FPS, which is most likely to be the biggest genre that actually thinks it needs DX-10.
My next logical upgrade will be to dual SLIs, unless I can't use dual monitors with them (I know some people who said they've had trouble with SLI and dual monitors, but I haven't researched it much because I'm not upgrading right now).
While I will agree there is sexual discrimination in the cs fields, that's NOT what the article is about. The article is about changing the way computer science is taught. Which I don't have a problem with.
What I do have a problem with is eliminating a central component of what being in computer science is about: knowing how to program. Computer Science is all about programming on one level or another. Hardware isn't comp sci, it's engineering. Comp Sci is the software that make use of all this hardware we have and that's programming. And even if you don't program yourself (most admins don't do a hell of a lot of programming, for instance,) you still need to understand how programming works so that you can understand how software as a whole works. Otherwise, you are just an operator and a CS degree that creates operators degrades the whole field.
Exactly. If the ISP doesn't want to be in that business, they need to quit offering service to people who are not technically qualified to handle all of the config issues themselves. Now, since they aren't doing that, they have taken it upon themselves to desktop trouble shooting when a user can't access the internet.
How many people will claim their internet service is down, when they actually screwed up their PCs?
Sorry, but I have to call this one. Unless we are only going to allow computer professionals with the skills to AND common sense to diagnose their own computer issues before calling the ISP to have internet access, ISPs are always going to get calls like this. That's what happens when you let some techonophobe grandparent who wants to get emailed pictures of their grandkids buy a computer and get an internet connection. They know nothing and they have been told, "Plug it in and it will work."
If the ISP doesn't like it, they should quit selling their product to people who are obviously too untechnical to diagnose their own problems. Then they can lower their damned prices, too. Because if I call then, then it is their problem, as I have already verified everything inside the house.
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I see the Infoworld shill who wrote the article thinks this is a wonderful thing. Slaves to advertising, Infoworld can always be trusted to approve of whatever nasty and horrible thing the conglomerates think up.
Linux will probably gain from this. Savvier users who have simply stayed with Windows out of laziness will probably now be more inclined to invest the effort in one of the easier to use *nix compilations. (Or they might run out and buy a seperate copy of XP while it's still available.)
But sending people to jail may be a little on the heavy side
Why? Effective punishment must be determined and fines aren't working. Prison seems like the last best choice.
who'll decide quantitatively about the severity of the malicious code? And will there be a difference of punishment between individuals and corporations who make spyware?
How about any malicious code is worthy of imprisonment? Seems reasonable to me. If the definitions seem unclear to you, maybe you should urge your political representatives to add clarity to such definitions when they start crafting the legislation to criminalize the behavior.
If a corp makes it, they'll be dragged to court resulting in a lengthy legal battle ultimately only resulting in financial loss of the corp, not necessarily prison.
Not if the law specifically holds corporate officers accountable for any such code. It's time we reeastablish corporate responsibility in our legal code, since Bush & Co. have done their absolute best to take the teeth out of it over the last 2 years. Corporations are artificial entities used to shield share holders and corporate officers from liability. We need to strip that shield, and return the responsiblity for forcing adherence to the law upon both groups, who under Milton Friedman's guidance have long sought to abandon any responsibility for such things.
' Should universities (or groups within universities) be allowed to hold patents and intellectual property while at the same time gaining donations and grants as an educational institution -- or for that matter government funds?"
Certainly. If that IP was developed under research funded by the university. There are a good many research universities that use their endowments to fund various sorts of patentable research. However, I would still deem that the patent has to be reasonable...things like software should not be patentable (that's what copyright is for...).
D. B. Gilles' The Portable Film School is both more accessible and more insightful. Michael Dean's $30 Film School has a better look at pre-production. Richard Pepperman's The Eye iS Quicker is better for post.
Return to the olden days: Forbid the use of the internet in researching papers (most kids don't know what a book is any more anyway...it'll do em good!). Require an established standard for citation. Teach writing in schools again. The biggest failures of our education system (aside from the Religious Right demanding my tax dollars finance their Christian mudrassas) are that we require too much nonsense in elementary school, when all we shoudl be teaching the basics of reading, arithmetic, and mathematics, and that we don't hold students accountable at all any more (teachers too afraid of being shot, I guess...but parenting failures are a different issue).
Minor in CS. Major in math or English or industrial psychology or something. Most CS degrees are crap - either devoted to theory as prep for graduate work (and you are expected to learn programming on your own in these programs) or dedicated to developing programmers for a specific local corporation, in which case they teach primarily what the local companies are looking for and not something useful industry wide.
Learn C/C++, learn database administration (the whole, not just hacking SQL), learn Unix administration (at least 2 of Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and Red Hat Linux) and pick up some networking know how. Other useful things: COBOL (yes, it's still used a lot), Java, mainframe knowledge. BTW part of learning programming is a good datastructure class...many of which are taught in Pascal. And if the training is available, learn SAN.
Not only should he get the degree because of the wide aspects of the tech industry that he should be exposed to then, but also because it gives him something to fall back on if he determines that 22 hour days with no exercise, no sunlight, and no social don't really appeal to him.
I got mine for free...I wouldn't have paid for it. But I wouldn't buy a DS either. My 15 year old Gameboy works just fine for solitare and tetris in the car, which is all I used a handheld for anyway.
You're counter arguement is unconvincing because most signed bands are shit too. Hell, they're making tv shows to create these crap bands now.
Labels don't sign bands because they make good music. They sign bands because the bands are marketable to appeal to the 18-34 demographic (which, according to market research, is the demographic that buys the most music).
Except that if you buy it directly from the band, they get the profit...Well, okay, I listen to mostly indie acts with no label so they sell their own CDs...Yeah, I know. I'm a deviant.
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The record companies and entertainment lawyers make their money off album sales, the bands make their money for touring. It is also enlightening to note that the RIAA does NOT represent bands. It represents labels. Except for maybe Metallica, but they're corporate rock fucks so who cares?
One point...Most bands really do make their money from touring, not from their records. In fact, if you pay attention at all, you hear horror stories from everybody who isn't a corporate rock fuck about how if they had to rely on album sales they would starve to death.
If they would let American workers telecommute more, and were more willing to pay decent salaries they would probably find more available, willing, and qualified Americans to do the work. But I know that I, for one, am not willing to take a pay cut of 25% or more to be asked to work twice as many hours with a big commute.
that you need to roll back to XP. Vista demonstrates yet another way that it is evil.
Or people with children?? I am male, with no children, but I would love to have a telecommuting job. With flexible hours. It's almost enough to make me consider taking up farming.
The human animal gets around its genetic imperfection by exploiting its advanced reasoning, mathematical, and tool making abilities. Many of these skills are less advanced in Chimpanzees, so they are more reliant on selective mutation to improve.
Now that they have switched to Intel hardware, Macs shouldn't cost $1000 more than the equivlent windows machine, but they still do. Apple has always overpriced their hardware and they continue to do so because they can get away with it, as their core user base is used to paying that much for their hardware. In truth, if companies would make more Linux version of software, I would only buy a Mac if I needed to do certain kinds of video editing (because it is still several thousand dollars cheaper than an Avid system). But, there are actually applications that I want that they don't have good Linux versions for (and I want to use the apps, not spend months getting WINE working correctly), that they do make Mac versions of.
I, among others, have yet to see a convincing arguement to buy a DX-10 capable video card. I'm not upgrading to Vista, until they remove their DRM supportive crap and their awful driver signing nonsense. I'll switch to an over-priced Mac first.
I don't play FPS, which is most likely to be the biggest genre that actually thinks it needs DX-10.
My next logical upgrade will be to dual SLIs, unless I can't use dual monitors with them (I know some people who said they've had trouble with SLI and dual monitors, but I haven't researched it much because I'm not upgrading right now).
While I will agree there is sexual discrimination in the cs fields, that's NOT what the article is about. The article is about changing the way computer science is taught. Which I don't have a problem with.
What I do have a problem with is eliminating a central component of what being in computer science is about: knowing how to program. Computer Science is all about programming on one level or another. Hardware isn't comp sci, it's engineering. Comp Sci is the software that make use of all this hardware we have and that's programming. And even if you don't program yourself (most admins don't do a hell of a lot of programming, for instance,) you still need to understand how programming works so that you can understand how software as a whole works. Otherwise, you are just an operator and a CS degree that creates operators degrades the whole field.
Exactly. If the ISP doesn't want to be in that business, they need to quit offering service to people who are not technically qualified to handle all of the config issues themselves. Now, since they aren't doing that, they have taken it upon themselves to desktop trouble shooting when a user can't access the internet.
How many people will claim their internet service is down, when they actually screwed up their PCs?
Sorry, but I have to call this one. Unless we are only going to allow computer professionals with the skills to AND common sense to diagnose their own computer issues before calling the ISP to have internet access, ISPs are always going to get calls like this. That's what happens when you let some techonophobe grandparent who wants to get emailed pictures of their grandkids buy a computer and get an internet connection. They know nothing and they have been told, "Plug it in and it will work."
If the ISP doesn't like it, they should quit selling their product to people who are obviously too untechnical to diagnose their own problems. Then they can lower their damned prices, too. Because if I call then, then it is their problem, as I have already verified everything inside the house.
I see the Infoworld shill who wrote the article thinks this is a wonderful thing. Slaves to advertising, Infoworld can always be trusted to approve of whatever nasty and horrible thing the conglomerates think up.
Linux will probably gain from this. Savvier users who have simply stayed with Windows out of laziness will probably now be more inclined to invest the effort in one of the easier to use *nix compilations. (Or they might run out and buy a seperate copy of XP while it's still available.)
But sending people to jail may be a little on the heavy side
Why? Effective punishment must be determined and fines aren't working. Prison seems like the last best choice.
who'll decide quantitatively about the severity of the malicious code? And will there be a difference of punishment between individuals and corporations who make spyware?
How about any malicious code is worthy of imprisonment? Seems reasonable to me. If the definitions seem unclear to you, maybe you should urge your political representatives to add clarity to such definitions when they start crafting the legislation to criminalize the behavior.
If a corp makes it, they'll be dragged to court resulting in a lengthy legal battle ultimately only resulting in financial loss of the corp, not necessarily prison.
Not if the law specifically holds corporate officers accountable for any such code. It's time we reeastablish corporate responsibility in our legal code, since Bush & Co. have done their absolute best to take the teeth out of it over the last 2 years. Corporations are artificial entities used to shield share holders and corporate officers from liability. We need to strip that shield, and return the responsiblity for forcing adherence to the law upon both groups, who under Milton Friedman's guidance have long sought to abandon any responsibility for such things.
' Should universities (or groups within universities) be allowed to hold patents and intellectual property while at the same time gaining donations and grants as an educational institution -- or for that matter government funds?" Certainly. If that IP was developed under research funded by the university. There are a good many research universities that use their endowments to fund various sorts of patentable research. However, I would still deem that the patent has to be reasonable...things like software should not be patentable (that's what copyright is for...).
D. B. Gilles' The Portable Film School is both more accessible and more insightful. Michael Dean's $30 Film School has a better look at pre-production. Richard Pepperman's The Eye iS Quicker is better for post.
Return to the olden days: Forbid the use of the internet in researching papers (most kids don't know what a book is any more anyway...it'll do em good!). Require an established standard for citation. Teach writing in schools again. The biggest failures of our education system (aside from the Religious Right demanding my tax dollars finance their Christian mudrassas) are that we require too much nonsense in elementary school, when all we shoudl be teaching the basics of reading, arithmetic, and mathematics, and that we don't hold students accountable at all any more (teachers too afraid of being shot, I guess...but parenting failures are a different issue).
Minor in CS. Major in math or English or industrial psychology or something. Most CS degrees are crap - either devoted to theory as prep for graduate work (and you are expected to learn programming on your own in these programs) or dedicated to developing programmers for a specific local corporation, in which case they teach primarily what the local companies are looking for and not something useful industry wide.
Learn C/C++, learn database administration (the whole, not just hacking SQL), learn Unix administration (at least 2 of Solaris, AIX, HP-UX and Red Hat Linux) and pick up some networking know how. Other useful things: COBOL (yes, it's still used a lot), Java, mainframe knowledge. BTW part of learning programming is a good datastructure class...many of which are taught in Pascal. And if the training is available, learn SAN.
Not only should he get the degree because of the wide aspects of the tech industry that he should be exposed to then, but also because it gives him something to fall back on if he determines that 22 hour days with no exercise, no sunlight, and no social don't really appeal to him.
I got mine for free...I wouldn't have paid for it. But I wouldn't buy a DS either. My 15 year old Gameboy works just fine for solitare and tetris in the car, which is all I used a handheld for anyway.
I"m not planning of fighting United Kingdom.
and just disagree with how I said it. Nah. Actually, I just replied to the wrong messge:P.
You're counter arguement is unconvincing because most signed bands are shit too. Hell, they're making tv shows to create these crap bands now. Labels don't sign bands because they make good music. They sign bands because the bands are marketable to appeal to the 18-34 demographic (which, according to market research, is the demographic that buys the most music).
Ummm...the RIAA has absolutely nothing to do with the creation and distribution. They merely sue people on behalf of those who do....
Except that if you buy it directly from the band, they get the profit...Well, okay, I listen to mostly indie acts with no label so they sell their own CDs...Yeah, I know. I'm a deviant.