So you thing the "eat my balls page" should be preserved for future generations using tax payers money, right?
There's a whole lot of research that doesnt make it to readily available printed versions and are put online for it to be available for anyone interested (and connected).
Making sure peoples hard (intelectual, creative etc) work doesnt vanish creates indeed an interesting snaphot of a culture in a given age.
In fact one of the more interesting uses of internet itself is the publication of academic research. Those annoying gold rush and vanity sites will be always be there and I cannot immagine much unique thought that remains interesting for a society at large to be archived.
I would like to ad that that the internet is just the latest in a line of technologies that enable mankind to communicate accross the world such as radio, tv, telefone etc.
With the advent of a new technology there are always persons that: a) embrace, advocate and expect to much from it, perhaps a way of defining themselves and what group they belong to b) are afraid if the changes it might bring, hate it, try to stop, exagerate it etc c) just use it where it is usefull.
It is not so strange that teenagers are the quickest to adopt a new technology when it becomes readily available as you have plenty of time and hopefully an open mind but it is important to remember that you can learn Perl of C in a couple of years in a basement or loft but learning to live as an individual in society takes a lot longer and respect is due to the wisdom accumulated over the years. And conventional wisdom and ethics are neccessary in the digital age as well!
Hourly is way to go right now in The Netherlands, expecially on consultantcy/freelance basis. Depending on a lot of factors (age, interests, future etc) of course one has to look at their own circumstances, but I just went from wage to hourly rate with a (roughly) 40%increase after tax. In Holland above a certain rate you pay 54% tax, BUT car, hardware, courses, literature telefone lines etc are all part of production and therefore tax deductable, so you end up paying for what you need and for the rest adminster your secundary emplyment conditions. Off course once the economy goed down again you might be in trouble - but that goes also for waged people - except for a fuckoff bonus. Main thing, the cost to my employer has remained the same. OK I pay my own holidays and health insurance - but again I pay for what I want instead of a standard package for a thousand people.
In Holland the issue has been dealt with quickly. Most of us live at least a few meters under the sea level and therefore it's reassuring to know the "ministery of water etc" has declared the polder system y2kok! For the rest only 2% of critical utilities (corporate/government) have declared uncertainty. I think modern small countries are most likely to be really OK as the infrastructure is overseable and up to date. Besides we are used fighting the elements so nothing can be left to chance here. And money and skills are not an issue here. There's a millenium platform (www.mp2000.nl) coordinating the critical efforts and informing the population trhu a quarterly (free) magazine.
Personally I just hope the social security and pension payment systems (always low priority) in big countries such as US,UK etc, dont screw up because social unrest is a lot harder to control and spin off would affect the rest of the western world too.
Excuse me for perhaps coming across a little old fashioned but: * the school is saving money. That can be spend in quality of education (books teachers ect). * Maybe the kids need to learn something besides unix too. Judging by the cnn pics we're talking 10-15 year olds here. * A solid network that stays up is in the benefit of most pupils. There are dedicated Unix sysadmin courses available so there is no need to compromise the network/equipment/software/TIME/money in the interest of a few diligent whizzers.
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Exactly my thoughts.... have not booted my 2 year old MacBook since I have it.
Oh, and it takes a second, by the way.
Doesn't everything, eventually?
Very true, the AOL mail page sucks on the original Eeepc. My grandad has to scroll left to log-in.
much of that cheapness comes due to laxer environmental concerns
Surely lax labour rules and low wages have something to with low prices as well.
most be ironic!
Yes, but we were talking about CRT. Well, I was.
Also black is energy and brightness saving as all pixels are off. Makes for more relaxing, uhm, darkness around the active windows.
<p>Is this a joke? I didnt get the cheek in tongue... if there is.
<p><i>What do you want to hear tomorrow?</i>
..."To most people at Microsoft, HAL stands for hardware application layer."
what a joke - one of the core technologies of NT misquoted....
So you thing the "eat my balls page" should be preserved for future generations using tax payers money, right?
There's a whole lot of research that doesnt make it to readily available printed versions and are put online for it to be available for anyone interested (and connected).
Making sure peoples hard (intelectual, creative etc) work doesnt vanish creates indeed an interesting snaphot of a culture in a given age.
In fact one of the more interesting uses of internet itself is the publication of academic research. Those annoying gold rush and vanity sites will be always be there and I cannot immagine much unique thought that remains interesting for a society at large to be archived.
Sure you can type command.com there or in th |start|run| and a another couple dozen places but that wont let you boot in beos in fact.
I have tried winme with beos pe and pro but it doesnt like the beos bootloader either way. So now I dualboot with win95 - good enough.
I could not have said it better.
I would like to ad that that the internet is just the latest in a line of technologies that enable mankind to communicate accross the world such as radio, tv, telefone etc.
With the advent of a new technology there are always persons that:
a) embrace, advocate and expect to much from it, perhaps a way of defining themselves and what group they belong to
b) are afraid if the changes it might bring, hate it, try to stop, exagerate it etc
c) just use it where it is usefull.
It is not so strange that teenagers are the quickest to adopt a new technology when it becomes readily available as you have plenty of time and hopefully an open mind but it is important to remember that you can learn Perl of C in a couple of years in a basement or loft but learning to live as an individual in society takes a lot longer and respect is due to the wisdom accumulated over the years. And conventional wisdom and ethics are neccessary in the digital age as well!
Don (28yrs)
With a few more apps anything you do on an apple you will do better on the BEos "on standard hardware", and with 3 mouse bottons!
if you can get copper to the bush and put an NT1 on it you have an isdn line.....
Hourly is way to go right now in The Netherlands, expecially on consultantcy/freelance basis.
Depending on a lot of factors (age, interests, future etc) of course one has to look at their own circumstances, but I just went from wage to hourly rate with a (roughly) 40%increase after tax.
In Holland above a certain rate you pay 54% tax, BUT car, hardware, courses, literature telefone lines etc are all part of production and therefore tax deductable, so you end up paying for what you need and for the rest adminster your secundary emplyment conditions. Off course once the economy goed down again you might be in trouble - but that goes also for waged people - except for a fuckoff bonus.
Main thing, the cost to my employer has remained the same. OK I pay my own holidays and health insurance - but again I pay for what I want instead of a standard package for a thousand people.
In Holland the issue has been dealt with quickly. Most of us live at least a few meters under the sea level and therefore it's reassuring to know the "ministery of water etc" has declared the polder system y2kok!
For the rest only 2% of critical utilities (corporate/government) have declared uncertainty.
I think modern small countries are most likely to be really OK as the infrastructure is overseable and up to date. Besides we are used fighting the elements so nothing can be left to chance here. And money and skills are not an issue here. There's a millenium platform (www.mp2000.nl) coordinating the critical efforts and informing the population trhu a quarterly (free) magazine.
Personally I just hope the social security and pension payment systems (always low priority) in big countries such as US,UK etc, dont screw up because social unrest is a lot harder to control and spin off would affect the rest of the western world too.
It's "free". That about says it all.
Whats wrong with the provider of a service/good/program knowing what you do with it. Expecially something trivial like music. Who cares.
Excuse me for perhaps coming across a little old fashioned but:
* the school is saving money. That can be spend in quality of education (books teachers ect).
* Maybe the kids need to learn something besides unix too. Judging by the cnn pics we're talking 10-15 year olds here.
* A solid network that stays up is in the benefit of most pupils. There are dedicated Unix sysadmin courses available so there is no need to compromise the network/equipment/software/TIME/money in the interest of a few diligent whizzers.
Sun is definately getting cooler!