You are extraordinarily naive if you don't think that this is a weapons test for the Americans
They're being opportunist, of course. But that sattelite needs to be dealt with either way. But you're right to some extent... but for the other part...
and the debris is a non-issue trumped up as anti-China propaganda by the US Defense Department and the American media
The debris are a NON-ISSUE?! Learn what you're talking about please.
Well, there's a difference between shooting a missile at a sattelite to test the missile, and shooting a missile at a sattelite thats going to fall in someone's backyard if they don't... Also a big difference in that they're actually trying to find a solution as to not have 127041702140 debris in space...
So yeah...err..totally different (and i'm not American, so I'm not defending my own nation or anything).
I'll sure as hell have an easier time explaining how to do that to my mom than "adding the driver to the kernel" if its not there already.
That said, as I mentionned to other people, my point wasn't to say Windows was easy: it was just to say that you would never have to do a reinstall for something like that. Nothing more, nothing less.
This is how trademarks are and work, and the examples you gave are the reason why some companies want copyright extended... it WOULD be messed up if you saw a non-Disney production of Mickey Mouse that was legitimate, IMO.
But at the same times, the rule that dictate that I cannot make new work using Mickey Mouse, should not be the same as the rules who say for how long Britney Spears can benifit from her work (or lack of). So certain icons get trademarked to go around that...but at the same time, thats not really what trademarks are for... maybe a new category?
I can see how depending on your needs, an Apple lap-top can be cheaper...but 500-1000 more on the HP side? There must have been one hell of a significant difference in the model you picked or something. Thats like a FEW times more than the Alienware markup vs "build from spare parts" price on desktops...
Only thing I can think of is you picked a "business" machine, which doesn't differ so much in hardware as it does in support options, those tend to fetch a decent bit more for no hardware reasons...but man... even 500$ more sounds insane to me.
THERE WE GO! My boss (we're a.NET development firm, yet he's anti-microsoft and super pro-Apple... not into Linux either btw) keeps raving about how Apple does everything first (which it sometimes does, but the things he rave about are never anywhere close to new), and this was one I couldn't find a comeback for, even though I KNEW i had seen something like this before...
If you go with a new motherboard, all you have to do is find one registery key (I obviously don't know which one by heart), delete it, shut down the computer, switch the mobo, and when you boot it up it will redetect it.
Yeah, we all get caught by the blue screen thing until we figure that one out, happened to me too the first time I had to switch to a totally incompatible board...but thats all there is to it. One tiny key.
Well, I guess if you are IN the US too. If I go in a state where age of concent is higher than where I live, and bang an underage girl (who's be of age here), I'll still get in trouble.
You have to realise how recruiting goes... Aside for the college "Job fairs", jobs that can be offered directly to students won't be posted. The jobs that get posted are the ones that cannot be offered directly to a student. Simple as that.
So there probably were a lot of companies "willing to invest in students". They just contacted the students directly looking at their resumes, hired them up, and you never heard about it... Happens all the time.
Thats actually fairly common. I mean, let say I want to hire someone for Ruby on Rails or ASP.NET... they SERIOUSLY don't teach that in any college in the mainstream...so if you want someone with experience with it, what are your options?
Only ones i can think of is:
A) The person was an XYZ programmer, and got hired as a RoR or ASP.NET dev because of extensive general development experience, or experience in the field...so they got experience in those technologies from scratch in the workplace.... AND then lost that job, or quit, or something.... not really common.
B) the person learnt RoR or ASP.NET in their spare time as a hobby.
Thats really it... so same deal with your case. The skillset you described isn't exactly the kind of things people do everyday at work or in school...
Thats what I'm thinking. If you train people too much in niche fields, they're more likely to be attracted to these niche fields... And then you have a market saturation. There's a reason why everytime there's an article about IT jobs, you have a billion CS majors from Slashdot posting about how they can't find one (even though the market is currently starved and needing developers like never before): too many people trained in things that simply don't have a market for. Its nice (and even a must) to know the basics of that stuff...but god damn....
'As for today's CS programs, it seems that long gone are the computer architecture classes, writing code in assembly language (or even C at this point) and engineering software economics
And IMO, they still teach these TOO MUCH. From my personal survey (probably meaningless, but I need a point of reference), they still teach that quite a heck of a lot in schools. The demand for people in these fields is significant, but still quite low. It is a LOT easier to find someone who knows how to code a minimalistic kernel, or do assembly, than it is to find someone who was trained in software architecture, design pattern, and development techniques, which are all required in the vast majority of jobs that CS majors are hired from (even if CS is probably not the right program for these jobs, its the reality of the world we live in).
Its important that there is SOME background taught for the more niche jobs (lets face it: not that many people end up working in these fields, proportionaly speaking, even if you just consider the top tiers of jobs to filter out people without degrees and/or the poorly self taught ones), a lot even, but it sure is a heck of a lot easier to find someone who understands the code of an embedded device's kernel, than it is to find someone who knows the difference between Bridge and Strategy and State patterns.).
More Niche fields should be in optional classes, and more mainstream (yet still theoric. Don't go teaching technology specifics...and Java is good to teach high level theory in a language agnostic manner, if done well) in the main classes... As it is now, you have people who are forced to take classes that teach things they'll never even hear about again, yet many colleges don't even have (not even optional!!) a class that touch relational model theory. Thats sad.
is what about GOOD advertisements. Slashdot sometimes have interesting ads that are decently targeted (especially if you consider that the people who are NOT targeted by these ads are using AdBlock or something). The better gaming web sites often have decent game adverts. Google ads (on the actual search pages), depending on the search, often comes up with decent links (especially the big sponsored ones at the top. Not the cheapo ones on the right).
If you take out the "2174071401 free smilies!!" and the "MEET HOT SINGLES WHO WANT TO HAVE SEX NOW!" ads, and redo the statistics, I'm curious about the results (which we'll never have, that would be too hard to test im guessing).
I often click meaningful, well targeted ads, and I know many who do, and we're all around the 6 digit salary mark with a lot of money to spare... So it can't be all that bad...
I'm not a main PC gamer personally, but to go with what you said, I feel Steam saved PC gaming for me. PCs were better at it in theory, but in practice, consoles had better games (in general, with notable exceptions, like many Blizzard games), just because of the marketshare and marketing... But with Steam comes a new factor: Impulse buy. I can go from wanting a game, to getting it, before I have time to doubt myself:)
Not sure if thats actually good or bad, but my childish self likes it.
Thats the question I have too. If you can make anything retroactive, then you have absolutely zero protection against any kind of government corruption.... they can always screw you over after the fact... that doesn't make any sense.
Can someone explain to me if this is a weird special case, or if its normal??
Indeed. One of the games I played the most on my Wii is Geometry Wars: Galaxies. It has "worse" graphics than virtually anything that has been done since the SNES era (well, thats debatable I guess...i think the special effects look cool as hell), but man its fun.
Well no, technically they want to stop everyone EXCEPT their customers... which, with all the crap they publish, is more and more people. Can't blame em...it would be cruel to waste such pretty blank medias on such crap... please think of the blank medias!
Agreed. I'm (one of the few) a full supporter of IP. However, the existing system is such a freagin mess... I want people and companies to be able to make a living from their ideas. NOT from the ideas of others. And making a LIVING means while you're ALIVE...
You used Word 2000. 2000, XP, 2003 are from before MS wisened up (slightly). If you use the latest version of Office, it will use your default browser. In 2000, I was passing time during school rooting Linux boxes. So its not quite fair to compare such old software.
It would be even worse for users of Microsoft's products than for non-MS-users, too. Microsoft isn't in the powerhouse position that it used to be...this is simply too much money to play around for the current MS, and, with MS's expertise in the internet business (lol....lack of...), all the billions they'll throw on Yahoo will go straight in the toilet, something MS cannot afford... they'll then have to reroute ressources to save the sinking ship, and if they end up the way of Novell, it will be a miracle compared to the worse case scenario...
Microsoft buying Yahoo basically means Microsoft goes goodbye.
Libertarianism gives more power to people. To quote, as silly as the most common source may sound in this contest: "With great power, comes great responsability". The LAST thing humans one, but their nature, is responsability. So they push the power to others.
Humans are simply, as a general rule, not smart enough to be given power. Thats also why a republic works better than a democracy. Because down to our DNAs, we're little more than a bunch of monkeys who know how to light up a fire.
Whats funny is how by the time they're teens, most people start bitching and whining that they don't need any kind of supervision, their parents are too much, they're smart enough to take care of themselves...yet most people really don't. They need machines to be their parents.
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Well, there's a difference between shooting a missile at a sattelite to test the missile, and shooting a missile at a sattelite thats going to fall in someone's backyard if they don't... Also a big difference in that they're actually trying to find a solution as to not have 127041702140 debris in space...
So yeah...err..totally different (and i'm not American, so I'm not defending my own nation or anything).
I'll sure as hell have an easier time explaining how to do that to my mom than "adding the driver to the kernel" if its not there already.
That said, as I mentionned to other people, my point wasn't to say Windows was easy: it was just to say that you would never have to do a reinstall for something like that. Nothing more, nothing less.
This is how trademarks are and work, and the examples you gave are the reason why some companies want copyright extended... it WOULD be messed up if you saw a non-Disney production of Mickey Mouse that was legitimate, IMO.
But at the same times, the rule that dictate that I cannot make new work using Mickey Mouse, should not be the same as the rules who say for how long Britney Spears can benifit from her work (or lack of). So certain icons get trademarked to go around that...but at the same time, thats not really what trademarks are for... maybe a new category?
I can see how depending on your needs, an Apple lap-top can be cheaper...but 500-1000 more on the HP side? There must have been one hell of a significant difference in the model you picked or something. Thats like a FEW times more than the Alienware markup vs "build from spare parts" price on desktops...
Only thing I can think of is you picked a "business" machine, which doesn't differ so much in hardware as it does in support options, those tend to fetch a decent bit more for no hardware reasons...but man... even 500$ more sounds insane to me.
Indeed. Except that by that point, Windows itself hasn't been read either...so I think you have a different problem then :)
(I've switched motherboards with the most incompatible setups you can imagine, and never had this issue).
Oh, no no. My point was simply that you didn't have to reinstall the entire thing.
THERE WE GO! My boss (we're a .NET development firm, yet he's anti-microsoft and super pro-Apple... not into Linux either btw) keeps raving about how Apple does everything first (which it sometimes does, but the things he rave about are never anywhere close to new), and this was one I couldn't find a comeback for, even though I KNEW i had seen something like this before...
Well, now I do.
If you go with a new motherboard, all you have to do is find one registery key (I obviously don't know which one by heart), delete it, shut down the computer, switch the mobo, and when you boot it up it will redetect it.
Yeah, we all get caught by the blue screen thing until we figure that one out, happened to me too the first time I had to switch to a totally incompatible board...but thats all there is to it. One tiny key.
Well, I guess if you are IN the US too. If I go in a state where age of concent is higher than where I live, and bang an underage girl (who's be of age here), I'll still get in trouble.
You have to realise how recruiting goes... Aside for the college "Job fairs", jobs that can be offered directly to students won't be posted. The jobs that get posted are the ones that cannot be offered directly to a student. Simple as that.
So there probably were a lot of companies "willing to invest in students". They just contacted the students directly looking at their resumes, hired them up, and you never heard about it... Happens all the time.
Thats actually fairly common. I mean, let say I want to hire someone for Ruby on Rails or ASP.NET... they SERIOUSLY don't teach that in any college in the mainstream...so if you want someone with experience with it, what are your options?
Only ones i can think of is:
A) The person was an XYZ programmer, and got hired as a RoR or ASP.NET dev because of extensive general development experience, or experience in the field...so they got experience in those technologies from scratch in the workplace.... AND then lost that job, or quit, or something.... not really common.
B) the person learnt RoR or ASP.NET in their spare time as a hobby.
Thats really it... so same deal with your case. The skillset you described isn't exactly the kind of things people do everyday at work or in school...
Thats what I'm thinking. If you train people too much in niche fields, they're more likely to be attracted to these niche fields... And then you have a market saturation. There's a reason why everytime there's an article about IT jobs, you have a billion CS majors from Slashdot posting about how they can't find one (even though the market is currently starved and needing developers like never before): too many people trained in things that simply don't have a market for. Its nice (and even a must) to know the basics of that stuff...but god damn....
Its important that there is SOME background taught for the more niche jobs (lets face it: not that many people end up working in these fields, proportionaly speaking, even if you just consider the top tiers of jobs to filter out people without degrees and/or the poorly self taught ones), a lot even, but it sure is a heck of a lot easier to find someone who understands the code of an embedded device's kernel, than it is to find someone who knows the difference between Bridge and Strategy and State patterns.).
More Niche fields should be in optional classes, and more mainstream (yet still theoric. Don't go teaching technology specifics...and Java is good to teach high level theory in a language agnostic manner, if done well) in the main classes... As it is now, you have people who are forced to take classes that teach things they'll never even hear about again, yet many colleges don't even have (not even optional!!) a class that touch relational model theory. Thats sad.
is what about GOOD advertisements. Slashdot sometimes have interesting ads that are decently targeted (especially if you consider that the people who are NOT targeted by these ads are using AdBlock or something). The better gaming web sites often have decent game adverts. Google ads (on the actual search pages), depending on the search, often comes up with decent links (especially the big sponsored ones at the top. Not the cheapo ones on the right).
If you take out the "2174071401 free smilies!!" and the "MEET HOT SINGLES WHO WANT TO HAVE SEX NOW!" ads, and redo the statistics, I'm curious about the results (which we'll never have, that would be too hard to test im guessing).
I often click meaningful, well targeted ads, and I know many who do, and we're all around the 6 digit salary mark with a lot of money to spare... So it can't be all that bad...
I'm not a main PC gamer personally, but to go with what you said, I feel Steam saved PC gaming for me. PCs were better at it in theory, but in practice, consoles had better games (in general, with notable exceptions, like many Blizzard games), just because of the marketshare and marketing... But with Steam comes a new factor: Impulse buy. I can go from wanting a game, to getting it, before I have time to doubt myself :)
Not sure if thats actually good or bad, but my childish self likes it.
Thats the question I have too. If you can make anything retroactive, then you have absolutely zero protection against any kind of government corruption.... they can always screw you over after the fact... that doesn't make any sense.
Can someone explain to me if this is a weird special case, or if its normal??
Indeed. One of the games I played the most on my Wii is Geometry Wars: Galaxies. It has "worse" graphics than virtually anything that has been done since the SNES era (well, thats debatable I guess...i think the special effects look cool as hell), but man its fun.
Well no, technically they want to stop everyone EXCEPT their customers... which, with all the crap they publish, is more and more people. Can't blame em...it would be cruel to waste such pretty blank medias on such crap... please think of the blank medias!
Agreed. I'm (one of the few) a full supporter of IP. However, the existing system is such a freagin mess... I want people and companies to be able to make a living from their ideas. NOT from the ideas of others. And making a LIVING means while you're ALIVE...
One can dream...
You used Word 2000. 2000, XP, 2003 are from before MS wisened up (slightly). If you use the latest version of Office, it will use your default browser. In 2000, I was passing time during school rooting Linux boxes. So its not quite fair to compare such old software.
It would be even worse for users of Microsoft's products than for non-MS-users, too. Microsoft isn't in the powerhouse position that it used to be...this is simply too much money to play around for the current MS, and, with MS's expertise in the internet business (lol....lack of...), all the billions they'll throw on Yahoo will go straight in the toilet, something MS cannot afford... they'll then have to reroute ressources to save the sinking ship, and if they end up the way of Novell, it will be a miracle compared to the worse case scenario...
Microsoft buying Yahoo basically means Microsoft goes goodbye.
Libertarianism gives more power to people. To quote, as silly as the most common source may sound in this contest: "With great power, comes great responsability". The LAST thing humans one, but their nature, is responsability. So they push the power to others.
Humans are simply, as a general rule, not smart enough to be given power. Thats also why a republic works better than a democracy. Because down to our DNAs, we're little more than a bunch of monkeys who know how to light up a fire.
Whats funny is how by the time they're teens, most people start bitching and whining that they don't need any kind of supervision, their parents are too much, they're smart enough to take care of themselves...yet most people really don't. They need machines to be their parents.
Oh the irony.
Then you didn't read his entire comment. We both -quoted- from his comment (mine was a shorter quote, but its definately there. Read again.