Probably not. However, if they cured aids and declared that it was free to anyone!/small print "one cure bundled with each retail purchase of Vista Ultimate Cure Edition". Then there'd likely be some eye rolling and mumbling.
Don't wonder why the US has a shortage of SKILLED workers such as pipe welders (starting wage often is $20/hr plus per diem!) when physical labor is scorned.
I come from a blue collar family and so grew up in that environment. There are two kinds. The ones living pay check to pay check and the ones who recognized a financial opportunity and are making every bit as much as 8 year graduates and had as much in savings as their college peers had in debt by 25.
Or GED + Community College + College. . . just a few years later. The thing is, most go for the vocational college because you start earning what seems at the time like a lot of money quickly. Opposed to having to wait 4 years like those silly college folks.
So they didn't just make a bad choice when they were in junior high/high school. They made it when they were 18, and when they were 20, 25, and by the time their 30 have too much debt to comfortably go back.
If they're bound and determined, you can't stop people from making stupid mistakes. And that applies if their 13 or 30.
I'm also curious why you had to "clean" a known compromised client. In most real world cases, "cleaning" would involve wiping the client clean and re-imaging. If the system had critically important data on it. The drive would be put as a secondary drive in a server with the system partition mounted read only or maybe boot to a recovery dvd and clean only the data with a fine grained comb over a period of time.
Seems they imposed some "bad practices" on the defense team .
I would not object to the use of or hold Taser responsible if the tazing *contributed* to the death. As long as it did not cause death in a healthy individual and the force was legitimate.
For example, say a man has a pace maker and has gone ape shit wielding a knife in a public mall. An officer tases the individual and his pace maker shorts, causing death. There's no way an officer could be held responsible for an unknown health condition. The force was justified.
We see the same logic applied to other situations. Say the same man had an unknown medical condition such as a blood clot in his leg. The officer takes him down with a baton blow to the back of the knee, bursting the clot which then leads to a heart attach.
What I do object to is Taser white washing the situation. If tasers can cause death when used on certain individuals (very old, very young, ill, or drugged) then officers should be aware of these limitations and risks.
Is the job dangerous? Of course. Would I work that job? Not for the pay they give. Do I respect the men and women that have dedicated their lives to getting criminals off the street at extreme risk? Without a doubt.
However, none of these facts contradict the truth statement that the educational barrier to entry is only slightly more than a burger flipper. High School or equivalent in most cases and GED exams are so dirt simple that a retarded chimp could come close to passing with a little training. And this is definitely a problem.
I have family members in law enforcement. They're of the rare breed of educated and very experienced. They'll tell you the same thing.
Well, it's kind of hard to organize like this with the printed page. Too many combinations of "searches" for specific trade marked names. However, with dynamically generated content backed by a database it's a breeze.
I don't even have a SL account. As far as making the money back, NASA rarely makes the money back. Instead of this wacky model they have going, they could just pay developers the 3m.
Three million might not be enough to develop a whole new game, but why not build on existing games. Second Life for example. Now, wouldn't a new space colony and exploration "module" for Second Life be pretty damned cool? Complete with shuttle trips, "space shuttle" rentals for zooming around the galaxy, and martian souvenirs stores be pretty kick ass? And probably doable for 3m.
Fundamentalism: strict maintenance of ancient or fundamental doctrines of any religion or ideology.
It would seem that in this context the author is implying that for some open source is a religion for which no deviation from its principles is allowed under any circumstances. I hardly see how this is not an appropriate analogy whether you agree with it or not. The point is clear.
This couldn't have been said any better. To toss in a bit of the anecdotal spice. I never had a massive music collection in the 80's and 90's, though I loved going to shows. There are certain genre's of music I regularly bought as they are the ones I listen to most when at home.
Now that we're in the full blown digital age, I'd say that I buy about at the same rate. However, I like many others have a much larger music collection. Friends share music that they enjoy that I never would have bought and sometimes, on a lark, I'll download genre's of music I'd never have purchased just to "check it out".
One example would be classical music. I've never been one to sit around the house and listen to classical all day. However, over the years I've decided to check out various classical artists. . . and discovered I do enjoy it quite a bit on some level. Music always sounds better live, so I began purchasing tickets to the symphony and found that although it's not my cup of tea when sitting around the house I truly enjoy it live.
As a result, I still don't buy classical (nothing changed here) but I do buy tickets to concerts. Due to the easy availability of downloaded music, the market has experienced net gain in sales....though not directly in the form of media purchased.
Other's stories may be quite different. But the math is not a guaranteed one-to-one of "every song downloaded is a sale lost".
Pretty simple eh? I mean overwhelmingly simple. Sometimes brilliance isn't in the complexity of the pudding, but the fact that no one had thought or even begun to think of the recipe before.
Even beyond the very real problems listed above, I'm not aware of any actual empirical standard of beauty.
Actually, symmetry has been shown to the be common denominator in high ranks of beauty in animals and even objects, sculpture, art, etc. Asymmetry is consistently ranked lower in visual appeal then symmetrical patterns, faces, bodies, and so on. Wikipedia speaks a little of this and sites one or two studies, but the phenomenon is well documented and researched.
I witnessed this in liberal arts classes, I also witnessed it in some CS classes, where incompetent coders could pass the class based solely on the curve and their ability to parrot theory on the exams. Literally. I was in a class where a programming assignment's average grade was 7 out of 100.
Yeah, some of the hand holding I saw in CS was pretty outrageous. The worst was one assignment where I was the only student that turned in a working assignment by the deadline. After 6 weeks (yes! 6 WEEKS) of extensions only about 3 to 6 of the 30 had finished with most of those only being able to claim that it was a partially working copy that compiled. Oy Vey. And no, no one received a failing grade for that assignment. Nor did I receive any sort of bonus. The ones who could not complete it did not have that assignment included in their grade average. Those of us that did had the misfortune of inclusion in our average.
Punch line? I made an A somewhere in the 90's....(which I probably deserved, just the other yahoos deserved to fail)
I have about 8 years of college education with an equal spread in liberal arts and engineering. I did well in both disciplines scoring in top percentiles of my class. The difference being I was stoned, drunk, hung over, habitually absentee, and pretty much only 1/2 conscious through the liberal arts areas as were all of my top percentile liberal arts class mates. I'm not speaking from arrogance, but cold, hard experience when I say:
Liberal Arts is a joke.
That's not, in the least, meant to belittle the staggering genius seen in talented authors, poets, film makers, and philosophers. It's meant to belittle, demean, and generally chastise the collegiate intellectual welfare system that doles out liberal arts degrees to millions of future hamburger flippers every year.
True, but the rest of us can use them. Once we give up on the proles and look to ourselves, we can exploit some of these policies. The masses crave religion, so let them wallow and rescue their betters.
But do "the reset of us" *need* them. I went to about the most red neck, small town (population 1500), joke of a school that could be imagined. The opportunities for learning were laughable. You'd think this would be a prime example of why school vouchers would be a boon. However, did I need that opportunity as much as the students who, if the opportunity were there, would have been completely insulated and never read a book other then the bible?
I don't think so. What I got was a bit of boredom, a focus on sports, and a lot of self motivated reading on topics of interest. For the other students, the contrast could have been night and day. They were able to interact with the few people in the community that were more open minded. Even though the education was lacking, they *did* get introduced to ideas, methodologies, and knowledge that would have remained a complete mystery.
Some even began to question the ideas of their parents....most not in any radical way, but question they did. . . And their children will probably question them and so on.
If we wish to see what effect allowing the religious to pass on their ignorance like a poison undiluted to their children will eventually have on our society all we need to do is look to the many theocracies around the world.
While not at all a proponent of creationism or its ilk, I must say that I'm not sure whose zealotry I should fear more - the Christian or secular extremist. In these threads, it seems to me that evolution is defended as if it were every bit the sacred doctrine that the fundamentalists champion. Rational theories should be defended in rational ways, not with derision towards peoples of faith.
Evolution is defended ad nauseam. In the OSS world, there's a saying "RTFM". It usually annoys newcomers, but anyone whose ever taken the time to write good documentation has a deep appreciation for this. And anyone whose learned to read the documentation appreciates the quickness and brevity with which the solution is often provided. It basically boils down to: "I have spent hours and days and weeks of my life laying out every miniscule detail on this subject. Please take the few hours it would require to utilize that resource."
Science has spent decades proving evolution to such a high degree of certainty that it has attained the status of Scientific Theory.
I think the frustration your seeing is when folks who have actually taken the time to RTFM have to listen to the same old, tired, ignorant retorts from people who refuse to even try. Anyone who doesn't recognize evolution as not only the best model for divergence of species, but as close to certain as we are capable of getting and that there is no significantly opposing proposition that counters it. They are either ignorant or stupid. Most are just ignorant and there is one simple act that can help them move past that ignorance: RTFM
Uhhh, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't laws the highest truths in science? Theories only explain why laws exist. Such as the theory of evolutiony by natural selection explains the observed evolutions of species over time.
Ok, your wrong.:) Here's a nice run down on the difference. It even has a car analogy in there for you: http://wilstar.com/theories.htm
Short version: Laws are simple, observable facts. Theories are reached through rigorous proof and testing, are very complex and dynamic.
But both are considered on par as far as their depth of truth.
Doesn't really look like they had completely secular principles in mind when deciding to defect and form their own country to me.
You should read the whole text. Then read up a bit on the Humanist movement. While your at it read some of Jefferson's personal comments and diary entries. They were men of great vision, but they were still politicians and had a slew of ignorant and religious folks to appeal to. Humanism allowed them to talk the talk for the masses while meaning something completely different then anything you'd associate with "religion" or "religiosity".
This issue is also a good argument for school vouchers.
Until you dig into the voucher system a bit and discover that the number one user of school vouchers or religious zealots that are sending their kids to religious schools or "home schooling" in order to indoctrinate them with a bunch of un-scientific mythology and BS. If you want to know who a policy really benefits, look at whose pushing for it the most. There are some silly libertarians who view it as a jab at "big government", but the main push comes from..... the far right. Bush, for example, is a HUGE proponent of school vouchers.
Vouchers are considered a back door by the far right for shuttling public funds toward a religious objective.
Why doesn't it have fast, easy keyboard shortcuts for most tasks?
Actually, windows has a far better keyboard shortcut system then Mac. This is coming from someone whose been using macs almost exclusively for years. On of my biggest complaints about OSX is its lack of a consistent, concise set of keyboard shortcuts for mouse-less navigation. Sure, every menu item can have its own of key binding but this does nothing for cross applications usability.
Take windows, CTRL+F always goes to the File menu item. CTRL+E to the Edit. Each of the menu items has one letter underlined so a quick glance will tell you what it is. But it's almost invariably the first letter. Once you are in the menu, selecting an item is similar. O would bring you to Open and S to save (course if you know the direct key binding you can CTRL+S).
Leopard is the first of the OSX series to attempt to address this huge gap in navigability. Its new Help search feature is quite snazzy. It's still not quite there though. Say I'm wondering "Hmm, what kind of edit functions does this application have?" or "Damnit, I know what I need to do is in the Edit menu, but I can't remember what it's called.", Well, unless you can make a god guess there's still no way to hop directly to the Edit menu.
Requiring a mouse for operation is a *huge* usability gap and also requires that I carry one more thing around in my toolkit just to get the job done on our servers when the need arises.
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Probably not. However, if they cured aids and declared that it was free to anyone! /small print "one cure bundled with each retail purchase of Vista Ultimate Cure Edition". Then there'd likely be some eye rolling and mumbling.
Or GED + Community College + College. . . just a few years later. The thing is, most go for the vocational college because you start earning what seems at the time like a lot of money quickly. Opposed to having to wait 4 years like those silly college folks.
So they didn't just make a bad choice when they were in junior high/high school. They made it when they were 18, and when they were 20, 25, and by the time their 30 have too much debt to comfortably go back.
If they're bound and determined, you can't stop people from making stupid mistakes. And that applies if their 13 or 30.
I'm also curious why you had to "clean" a known compromised client. In most real world cases, "cleaning" would involve wiping the client clean and re-imaging. If the system had critically important data on it. The drive would be put as a secondary drive in a server with the system partition mounted read only or maybe boot to a recovery dvd and clean only the data with a fine grained comb over a period of time.
Seems they imposed some "bad practices" on the defense team .
In my experience, it's often akin to one of the two following situations:
I would not object to the use of or hold Taser responsible if the tazing *contributed* to the death. As long as it did not cause death in a healthy individual and the force was legitimate.
For example, say a man has a pace maker and has gone ape shit wielding a knife in a public mall. An officer tases the individual and his pace maker shorts, causing death. There's no way an officer could be held responsible for an unknown health condition. The force was justified.
We see the same logic applied to other situations. Say the same man had an unknown medical condition such as a blood clot in his leg. The officer takes him down with a baton blow to the back of the knee, bursting the clot which then leads to a heart attach.
What I do object to is Taser white washing the situation. If tasers can cause death when used on certain individuals (very old, very young, ill, or drugged) then officers should be aware of these limitations and risks.
Is the job dangerous? Of course. Would I work that job? Not for the pay they give. Do I respect the men and women that have dedicated their lives to getting criminals off the street at extreme risk? Without a doubt.
However, none of these facts contradict the truth statement that the educational barrier to entry is only slightly more than a burger flipper. High School or equivalent in most cases and GED exams are so dirt simple that a retarded chimp could come close to passing with a little training. And this is definitely a problem.
I have family members in law enforcement. They're of the rare breed of educated and very experienced. They'll tell you the same thing.
Well, it's kind of hard to organize like this with the printed page. Too many combinations of "searches" for specific trade marked names. However, with dynamically generated content backed by a database it's a breeze.
I bet if the yellowpages had an online site, they'd do the exact same thing.....oh wait, they do: http://www.yellowpages.com/nationwide/name_search/wal-mart?search_mode=all&search_terms=wal+mart
Look at the right side of the page, a long list of "Related Businesses".
I don't even have a SL account. As far as making the money back, NASA rarely makes the money back. Instead of this wacky model they have going, they could just pay developers the 3m.
Three million might not be enough to develop a whole new game, but why not build on existing games. Second Life for example. Now, wouldn't a new space colony and exploration "module" for Second Life be pretty damned cool? Complete with shuttle trips, "space shuttle" rentals for zooming around the galaxy, and martian souvenirs stores be pretty kick ass? And probably doable for 3m.
It would seem that in this context the author is implying that for some open source is a religion for which no deviation from its principles is allowed under any circumstances. I hardly see how this is not an appropriate analogy whether you agree with it or not. The point is clear.
Not everything has to be literal.
Now that we're in the full blown digital age, I'd say that I buy about at the same rate. However, I like many others have a much larger music collection. Friends share music that they enjoy that I never would have bought and sometimes, on a lark, I'll download genre's of music I'd never have purchased just to "check it out".
One example would be classical music. I've never been one to sit around the house and listen to classical all day. However, over the years I've decided to check out various classical artists. . . and discovered I do enjoy it quite a bit on some level. Music always sounds better live, so I began purchasing tickets to the symphony and found that although it's not my cup of tea when sitting around the house I truly enjoy it live.
As a result, I still don't buy classical (nothing changed here) but I do buy tickets to concerts. Due to the easy availability of downloaded music, the market has experienced net gain in sales....though not directly in the form of media purchased.
Other's stories may be quite different. But the math is not a guaranteed one-to-one of "every song downloaded is a sale lost".
Pretty simple eh? I mean overwhelmingly simple. Sometimes brilliance isn't in the complexity of the pudding, but the fact that no one had thought or even begun to think of the recipe before.
Yeah, some of the hand holding I saw in CS was pretty outrageous. The worst was one assignment where I was the only student that turned in a working assignment by the deadline. After 6 weeks (yes! 6 WEEKS) of extensions only about 3 to 6 of the 30 had finished with most of those only being able to claim that it was a partially working copy that compiled. Oy Vey. And no, no one received a failing grade for that assignment. Nor did I receive any sort of bonus. The ones who could not complete it did not have that assignment included in their grade average. Those of us that did had the misfortune of inclusion in our average.
Punch line? I made an A somewhere in the 90's....(which I probably deserved, just the other yahoos deserved to fail)
I have about 8 years of college education with an equal spread in liberal arts and engineering. I did well in both disciplines scoring in top percentiles of my class. The difference being I was stoned, drunk, hung over, habitually absentee, and pretty much only 1/2 conscious through the liberal arts areas as were all of my top percentile liberal arts class mates. I'm not speaking from arrogance, but cold, hard experience when I say:
Liberal Arts is a joke.
That's not, in the least, meant to belittle the staggering genius seen in talented authors, poets, film makers, and philosophers. It's meant to belittle, demean, and generally chastise the collegiate intellectual welfare system that doles out liberal arts degrees to millions of future hamburger flippers every year.
I'm searching youtube, but it's just full of sound bytes and clips. Got the links to the full sermons?
But do "the reset of us" *need* them. I went to about the most red neck, small town (population 1500), joke of a school that could be imagined. The opportunities for learning were laughable. You'd think this would be a prime example of why school vouchers would be a boon. However, did I need that opportunity as much as the students who, if the opportunity were there, would have been completely insulated and never read a book other then the bible?
I don't think so. What I got was a bit of boredom, a focus on sports, and a lot of self motivated reading on topics of interest. For the other students, the contrast could have been night and day. They were able to interact with the few people in the community that were more open minded. Even though the education was lacking, they *did* get introduced to ideas, methodologies, and knowledge that would have remained a complete mystery.
Some even began to question the ideas of their parents....most not in any radical way, but question they did. . . And their children will probably question them and so on.
If we wish to see what effect allowing the religious to pass on their ignorance like a poison undiluted to their children will eventually have on our society all we need to do is look to the many theocracies around the world.
Evolution is defended ad nauseam. In the OSS world, there's a saying "RTFM". It usually annoys newcomers, but anyone whose ever taken the time to write good documentation has a deep appreciation for this. And anyone whose learned to read the documentation appreciates the quickness and brevity with which the solution is often provided. It basically boils down to: "I have spent hours and days and weeks of my life laying out every miniscule detail on this subject. Please take the few hours it would require to utilize that resource."
Science has spent decades proving evolution to such a high degree of certainty that it has attained the status of Scientific Theory.
I think the frustration your seeing is when folks who have actually taken the time to RTFM have to listen to the same old, tired, ignorant retorts from people who refuse to even try. Anyone who doesn't recognize evolution as not only the best model for divergence of species, but as close to certain as we are capable of getting and that there is no significantly opposing proposition that counters it. They are either ignorant or stupid. Most are just ignorant and there is one simple act that can help them move past that ignorance: RTFM
Ok, your wrong. :) Here's a nice run down on the difference. It even has a car analogy in there for you: http://wilstar.com/theories.htm
Short version: Laws are simple, observable facts. Theories are reached through rigorous proof and testing, are very complex and dynamic.
But both are considered on par as far as their depth of truth.
You should read the whole text. Then read up a bit on the Humanist movement. While your at it read some of Jefferson's personal comments and diary entries. They were men of great vision, but they were still politicians and had a slew of ignorant and religious folks to appeal to. Humanism allowed them to talk the talk for the masses while meaning something completely different then anything you'd associate with "religion" or "religiosity".
Until you dig into the voucher system a bit and discover that the number one user of school vouchers or religious zealots that are sending their kids to religious schools or "home schooling" in order to indoctrinate them with a bunch of un-scientific mythology and BS. If you want to know who a policy really benefits, look at whose pushing for it the most. There are some silly libertarians who view it as a jab at "big government", but the main push comes from..... the far right. Bush, for example, is a HUGE proponent of school vouchers.
Vouchers are considered a back door by the far right for shuttling public funds toward a religious objective.
Actually, windows has a far better keyboard shortcut system then Mac. This is coming from someone whose been using macs almost exclusively for years. On of my biggest complaints about OSX is its lack of a consistent, concise set of keyboard shortcuts for mouse-less navigation. Sure, every menu item can have its own of key binding but this does nothing for cross applications usability.
Take windows, CTRL+F always goes to the File menu item. CTRL+E to the Edit. Each of the menu items has one letter underlined so a quick glance will tell you what it is. But it's almost invariably the first letter. Once you are in the menu, selecting an item is similar. O would bring you to Open and S to save (course if you know the direct key binding you can CTRL+S).
Leopard is the first of the OSX series to attempt to address this huge gap in navigability. Its new Help search feature is quite snazzy. It's still not quite there though. Say I'm wondering "Hmm, what kind of edit functions does this application have?" or "Damnit, I know what I need to do is in the Edit menu, but I can't remember what it's called.", Well, unless you can make a god guess there's still no way to hop directly to the Edit menu.
Requiring a mouse for operation is a *huge* usability gap and also requires that I carry one more thing around in my toolkit just to get the job done on our servers when the need arises.
Yeah, it's called an EEG, they've been around for quite a while.
Microsoft was handing out free licenses to their operating system and development tools/IDE when I went to college in the 90's.
All you had to do was drop by the local students computer center and fill out some forms for registration.