Big != capacious. Big = large. Capacious = plenty of room inside. Capacious, capacity. the clue's in the word itself. This is where you reductionists come unstuck. You make the mistake of assuming that words are wastefully duplicated, when usually each has a quite specific meaning, which conveys more than the simple generic term. Why struggle to make a generic term fit a situation by using adverbs and adjectives when an alternative, highly specific word already exists ? Just because you can't be bothered ?
An elephant is big, but it's not capacious, unless you hollow it out, and then it's not really an elephant anymore.
It really took Apple to put everything together in one package so that wireless carriers saw "oh yeah, mobile internet", but now it's time for commoditization.
So the fact I was using WM on my HTC trinity, at up to 7.2Mbps on HSDPA several years before the iphone was released means it's all thanks to apple ? My tethering contract with T-mobile is older than the iphone.
I'm still using that trinity now. Running WM5 with the Spb mobile shell it works fine. No reboots needed, runs tomtom fine, runs google maps fine, decent touch screen, bluetooth2, etc etc. The only thing it's missing is a g-sensor but that's not WM5s fault. I can program for it, the tools are free including simulators. Sure IE is a pain, and opera is not much better, but the device only has 60 MB storage and 50 MB RAM. But it has 25 MB free RAM at the moment and I rarely stretch that much further, even running several apps at once. I install all my apps on a 2GB SD card, so the device memory doesn't get blocked up, as I found running with the device storage full definitely slows things up. I bought this phone sim free, so maybe it's not locked down as much as others, and there are free tools available to unlock and edit the registry. I've never had the need to reflash with a hacked firmware, never saw the point.
Why don't they use *BSD code then ? And it's not YOUR principle, it's the principle written in the licence. So again, why don't they use *BSD code ? Surely the only sensible answer is that they don't even read the licence. they don't care. Yet if it's their code that gets reused there is usually hell to pay.
The issue as I see it is, RMS wanted people to be able to hack their own hardware. The source should be open and allow you to modify and update it as and when you required. Shuttleworth on the other hand believes that the user shouldn't have to hack anything. It should just work, "out of the box". That seems to me to be perilously close to "we have given you the best option, so like it". I would not trust Shuttleworth to defend open source indefinitely. He is going for lock down, by first removing the need to hack, then in the future by removing the ability to hack. After all, what is the point in having a supremely hackable system, if the users are never exposed or inclined to hack it. They may as well run windows. The whole point of linux as I see it, is that it is never finished. Forcing developers to watch users complain about their work is pointless. The users should be learning how to make it do what they want themselves. Otherwise they may as well run windows. How long until Shuttleworth has a restricted "app store" for Ubuntu, where they decide what gets admitted and what is allowed to run on the system. After all, it's all about user experience...
The FSF are in it for "free as in speech, free as in beer". Where is the developers free speech in Shuttleworths vision ? He thinks the users trump the developers, on a system specifically set up and designed to give developers freedom. He needs to encourage the users to hack more, not hide all that nasty stuff away. I had a bad feeling about Ubuntu when it was first released, and so far it has only been confirmed. It's the "look at me" distro, designed for clueless users. The whole point of linux is that you need a clue. If you haven't got one, you learn and develop one. Where is the need to learn and develop yourself in Ubuntu ? Do we want more clueless windows users, or is it ok just because the kernel is linux ? Seems a bit two-faced to me.
I don't believe there's some super-secret cabal out to restrict our freedoms and turn us all into mindless meme-spouting "Citizens" living in a modern-day panopticon. What this is, is the result of an ill-informed populace, fearful of terrorists, criminals, and anything/everything that could possibly disrupt their lives demanding that their leadership Do Something . So the government is placed in the impossible position of trying to predict potential future attacks/assaults/cataclysms, because a clear majority of its constituents has told it that this is necessary. And when they fail, the survivors/aggrieved parties file lawsuits because clearly the government has failed in its duties to predict and prevent bad things from happening to its people.
The populace are not scared of terrorists, criminals etc. They are constantly told by the media that they should be afraid. The state of fear is nurtured and developed by the media, and it is through the media that politicians get the impression that "the people" are asking for something to be done. Take the various misinformation and outright hate campaigns run by the Daily Mail. Apparently there is a paedophile living on every street, near every school, working in every sweet shop. Any non-indigenous person is likely to be plotting to take away your freedoms, your job, your wife !
Just because a few unscrupulous reporters and editors like to drum up panic to sell more papers/ad space, does not mean that the general population feel anything similar. Remember, it's the squeaky wheel that gets the oil. Don't make the case that we are all snivelling cowards, when that impression is not any of our doing. Similar to the stupid terror level alerts. Who fucking cares ? The intelligence services have always had some kind of threat level system. But the government, in response to shrill bigoted cries from the media for information, have decided to publish a simplified alert level. Unfortunately, that means that we will always be at yellow alert until hell freezes over. There is always something going on in the world which might cause trouble but as to whether your average citizen should be worried, I disagree. I fly to Scotland occasionally. It's basically a puddle jumper and the flight is less than an hour and a half. Around 100 people on board the plane, and yet we have to take our shoes off going through security. This is not a result of any defined threat, other than the threat of the airline company disobeying rules that have been passed down from the uber-paranoid security services. You want 1984, this is it. By imposing all these security restrictions, they are gradually putting the screws on freedom of movement. I won't fly any more because of it. To the statisticians, it looks like I'm not flying because of the threat, when actually it's because I'm sick of the useless pantomime that flying entails. Being the kind of person that says what's on his mind, I am more likely to be detained because I look and act pissed off when I'm going through the process. I don't think I should have to smile as they fuck me up the ass. But the powers that be see what they want to see.
Since the cold war ended (during which we really didn't live in such a heightened state of awareness) the media have had to find new "threats" to sensationalise. So have the goverments, (after all they have to justify the funds they are spending on defence). The combination of these two actors means that a climate of fear is the only place those 2 entities can retain control. Do yourself a favour and watch The Power of Nightmares. We are not afraid, but the powers that be want us to be, just to justify their existences.
In summary, I think you have the situation completely ass backward. Sure there is no "secret cabal", they don't have to be secret. They are already out there in the open. Just read a paper, watch tv news, and follow the governments agenda. It's not the people doing this, the government are not reacting to any demands from the public. The government are "reacting" to things in ways that coincide with their own ambitions, but luckily for them they have the media to provide the "need".
Nobody knew what the Nazis were doing to the jews, gypsies, and mentally defective. By the time they started doing that stuff we were already at war. Should we have started another war, to be fought concurrently ?
And which part of that text applies to Iran, a sovereign nation ? Oh, none. Especially given the fuss the US is making over Irans nuclear ambitions. Apparently they don't have the right to do what they want in their own country. We saw in Iraq the result of applying your constitutional ideals to a foreign country.
The US govt. could codify anything they like but it still only applies in the USA. Like it or not, they are not the de facto rulers of the fucking world !
Yeah right, I'll take 3 Stinger installations please. Oh, I can't have them ? Might as well have a peashooter then. And where were those inalienable rights in Guantanamo ? Oh, it's not in America ? That's handy, neither is Iran. As usual it's do as I say, not as I do.
Which prick tagged this !kobol ? Does it SAY kobol anywhere in the title, summary or article ? Or is so that you can easily search for kobol later and not find this story (in which case you could have saved your typing) ? FFS. Next time there is a story about google I'm going to tag it !poodle.
Karate DOES NOT rely on strength. Ideally you never hold someone at all, you keep your distance - unless they have a long weapon in which case you step inside the effective range of the weapon. Either way, you let them do the work.
They did not have access to NEW emails, only the old stuff imported from existing exchange mailboxes. So you could click that "forgot password" link and not have access to the reply. If the user had kept old passwords in their mailbox that would be different, but still, most people change the passwords immediately anyway, don't they ?
So instead of insightful you should be labelled flamebait.
And so speaks the voice of the point and click generation. I'm a PC and I'm 5 1/2 years old. This is the only thing I can do though. I don't know how it works, but I know which buttons to push. Yay for education. Will there come a time when a person being mugged will yell "F1, for fucks sake F1 !"
Somebody actually writing with pen and paper is using at least 2 skills, thinking about the subject, and the writing itself. Somebody typing something is supposedly thinking about the subject, but the writing is merely a case of picking out a familiar shape from the keyboard. I see no evidence that the time saved by typing is used to extend the time thinking, in fact quite the opposite. Education is supposed to be about developing as many skills as possible, not concentrating on one thing and automating everything else. I use a spell checker myself, but I make the edits, I don't leave it to the computer. Computers don't understand English, they just pattern match. I can do a turd that looks like a cake, but would you eat it based on appearance ?
People on here bitch about managers not knowing their jobs, but it seems the notion of knowing the job from the ground up is also frowned upon. Who would you rather deal with ? A person who knows the fundamentals inside out or someone who has gone straight in at high level ? But as long as it's legible...
Block writing is what children do. It makes you look ill-educated. Spend your whole life hiding behind typewritten text if you must, but you are still missing a fundamental skill. And having more skills is never a bad thing, even if you rarely use them. Do you have excess brain power, or are you stretched to your limit in the one thing you specialise in ? Because if it's the latter, you are going to be a bad bet in unusual situations, where you have to step outside your comfort zone. I see many job adverts that request hand written applications only. What do you think they would make of an application written in block letters ? Sorry, we don't take applications from persons under the age of 7.
Lastly, in my experience, I find that I remember things much more strongly if I write them down by hand. Almost as if the act of writing makes the knowledge permanent. Typing does not have the same effect. Similar to the ebook debate. I can remember facts from a book based on whereabouts in the book I read it, but ebooks don't have real pages, they don't convey the sense of completing something. They always seem to just go on and on then stop. But with a real book, you can see the number of unread pages dwindling as you progress. I can quote lines from books by imagining how much of the book was left unread and mentally navigating to the correct page, left or right, near the top or nearer the bottom. You can't do that with ebooks, or computer screens, as there is no physical difference. You may think that's useless, but how many times has a smell evoked old memories, or the sight of something reminded you of something else you thought you had forgotten. You don't get happen-stance like that in the electronic world, and it is all the more sterile because of it.
Yeah, I bet Chris Columbus was pissed when he found out he could have just turned on his TV set or gone to the movies instead of sailing all that way to discover America. I mean, what WAS he thinking ?
Aah consensus. That's where like minded people agree to agree, regardless of the facts and anybody elses opinion. The consensus among Wall St. types is that it's ok to rip people off for billions, as long as they get their bonuses. Does that mean it's right ? Advancing loans to people who can't afford to repay them, then hiding those loans by splitting them in to smaller and smaller pieces, and selling them on as derivatives without mentioning what they are composed of, in fact deliberately hiding that fact. Sounds like fraud to me. But as long as we all agree...
I am in it for both personal and professional reasons. I left school in 1982. I have no tertiary education at all (barring 3 months of A levels). And yet I have travelled the world, learned computing - both hardware and software, met thousands of interesting people, and had a pretty fulfilling social life. And I have earned a living while doing those things. Now I am bored, and frustrated by the lack of challenges I have signed up for a BSc (Hons) Degree in Computing and Systems Practice. I want to learn as much about the area I work and play in as I can. But this time, I will have something at the end that will prove that I did the work. I already know lots more than your average student in lots of areas, but other than being spot tested, I have no means of proving it.
I can't afford to take 3 years off work to attend a physical university. I am 43 years old, the "student life" is part of my past. So I have enrolled with the OU and start next month. Maybe I'll find it hard, or maybe I'll love it and do well. I don't care at this point. It's for my own education, and as I will be nearly 50 when I finish this course, I seriously doubt it will help me find employment. But combined with my existing knowledge, my existing contacts, and my desire to progress in my chosen field, I think it will be worthwhile. You "real" students can scoff all you like, it isn't really relevant. And I will also have the means of discovering whether educational standards have really dropped over the last 27 years. Considering a course I have just taken was rated as equivalent to A level, and I already knew most of the content before I started, I'm not too optimistic on that count. No wonder 95% of students are passing Advanced level subjects. Or maybe I should have listened to my father when I was 18 and stuck with college then gone to university. Guess I'll never know. I have no regrets though. Computing is a completely different subject now than it was in 1982. The horizons have expanded greatly. The greatest exposure to it at school was the fat geeks playing with their ZX Spectrums instead of sports, girls and alcohol. I knew then I wasn't ever going to willingly be part of their world.
I live in a University city, and am surrounded by arrogant little fucks who a) think they are gods gift to the world, b) think they are superior to everybody who isn't a student and c) are basically clueless about life. These people have a shock coming to them. Their elitist attitude explains a lot about the so called "professional" world. Maybe they should have classes in basic humility alongside their other work. They all complain about student loans and how much debt they'll have when they graduate, but they spend more in the bars than I can afford to, and I work 60 or 70 hours a week. Cry me a river.
Much more than that. Since people buy cars on performance, these guys also engineer the exhaust noise to make the cars sound "sporty" or not as the case may be. These machines are the ultimate in consumer seduction. Why are people so hooked on making the few hours a day at most they spend in them, as close to the womb as possible ? Scared are we ?
There is a switch for that. It is not compulsory to use them, just be fitted with them. You use your head as to application. Sorry to disappoint the Libertarians.
IMHO, the American electric cars should play "America, Fuck yeah". Seems fitting. Especially as the Libertarians will block any move to have *efficient* electric cars. That inefficiency creates jobs don'cha know ! Why save money later when you can save money now ! (then I can save *your* money later and now)
... because being hit by a cyclist is so the same as being hit by 2 tonnes of steel. Maybe the sound should reflect the person drivings ego, kinda like " MeeeeeEEEEEEE, MeeeeeeeEEEEEEE" !
Aah the "I've got a bigger dick than you" argument. sorry, you lose. Pedestrians, that is to say, everybody on the planet, have more rights than assholes in cars. The slower, less manoeuvrable vehicle always has right of way. Or do you think you have the right to mow people down because you're late for a meeting ?
It IS your job to keep other people safe from your machine. If you bumped into them in person, no big deal - if you hit them with your car, it's YOUR CAR ! YOU are legally in control (supposedly). This is why I hate car drivers. They think they own the fucking planet.
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Big != capacious. Big = large. Capacious = plenty of room inside. Capacious, capacity. the clue's in the word itself. This is where you reductionists come unstuck. You make the mistake of assuming that words are wastefully duplicated, when usually each has a quite specific meaning, which conveys more than the simple generic term. Why struggle to make a generic term fit a situation by using adverbs and adjectives when an alternative, highly specific word already exists ? Just because you can't be bothered ?
An elephant is big, but it's not capacious, unless you hollow it out, and then it's not really an elephant anymore.
Yeah, if you want to wake up in a state of fear every day.
So the fact I was using WM on my HTC trinity, at up to 7.2Mbps on HSDPA several years before the iphone was released means it's all thanks to apple ? My tethering contract with T-mobile is older than the iphone.
I'm still using that trinity now. Running WM5 with the Spb mobile shell it works fine. No reboots needed, runs tomtom fine, runs google maps fine, decent touch screen, bluetooth2, etc etc. The only thing it's missing is a g-sensor but that's not WM5s fault. I can program for it, the tools are free including simulators. Sure IE is a pain, and opera is not much better, but the device only has 60 MB storage and 50 MB RAM. But it has 25 MB free RAM at the moment and I rarely stretch that much further, even running several apps at once. I install all my apps on a 2GB SD card, so the device memory doesn't get blocked up, as I found running with the device storage full definitely slows things up. I bought this phone sim free, so maybe it's not locked down as much as others, and there are free tools available to unlock and edit the registry. I've never had the need to reflash with a hacked firmware, never saw the point.
Cell phones don't need towers, they need cruise ships.
Neat.
Why don't they use *BSD code then ? And it's not YOUR principle, it's the principle written in the licence. So again, why don't they use *BSD code ? Surely the only sensible answer is that they don't even read the licence. they don't care. Yet if it's their code that gets reused there is usually hell to pay.
The issue as I see it is, RMS wanted people to be able to hack their own hardware. The source should be open and allow you to modify and update it as and when you required. Shuttleworth on the other hand believes that the user shouldn't have to hack anything. It should just work, "out of the box". That seems to me to be perilously close to "we have given you the best option, so like it". I would not trust Shuttleworth to defend open source indefinitely. He is going for lock down, by first removing the need to hack, then in the future by removing the ability to hack. After all, what is the point in having a supremely hackable system, if the users are never exposed or inclined to hack it. They may as well run windows. The whole point of linux as I see it, is that it is never finished. Forcing developers to watch users complain about their work is pointless. The users should be learning how to make it do what they want themselves. Otherwise they may as well run windows. How long until Shuttleworth has a restricted "app store" for Ubuntu, where they decide what gets admitted and what is allowed to run on the system. After all, it's all about user experience ...
The FSF are in it for "free as in speech, free as in beer". Where is the developers free speech in Shuttleworths vision ? He thinks the users trump the developers, on a system specifically set up and designed to give developers freedom. He needs to encourage the users to hack more, not hide all that nasty stuff away. I had a bad feeling about Ubuntu when it was first released, and so far it has only been confirmed. It's the "look at me" distro, designed for clueless users. The whole point of linux is that you need a clue. If you haven't got one, you learn and develop one. Where is the need to learn and develop yourself in Ubuntu ? Do we want more clueless windows users, or is it ok just because the kernel is linux ? Seems a bit two-faced to me.
You're full of shit.
The populace are not scared of terrorists, criminals etc. They are constantly told by the media that they should be afraid. The state of fear is nurtured and developed by the media, and it is through the media that politicians get the impression that "the people" are asking for something to be done. Take the various misinformation and outright hate campaigns run by the Daily Mail. Apparently there is a paedophile living on every street, near every school, working in every sweet shop. Any non-indigenous person is likely to be plotting to take away your freedoms, your job, your wife !
Just because a few unscrupulous reporters and editors like to drum up panic to sell more papers/ad space, does not mean that the general population feel anything similar. Remember, it's the squeaky wheel that gets the oil. Don't make the case that we are all snivelling cowards, when that impression is not any of our doing. Similar to the stupid terror level alerts. Who fucking cares ? The intelligence services have always had some kind of threat level system. But the government, in response to shrill bigoted cries from the media for information, have decided to publish a simplified alert level. Unfortunately, that means that we will always be at yellow alert until hell freezes over. There is always something going on in the world which might cause trouble but as to whether your average citizen should be worried, I disagree. I fly to Scotland occasionally. It's basically a puddle jumper and the flight is less than an hour and a half. Around 100 people on board the plane, and yet we have to take our shoes off going through security. This is not a result of any defined threat, other than the threat of the airline company disobeying rules that have been passed down from the uber-paranoid security services. You want 1984, this is it. By imposing all these security restrictions, they are gradually putting the screws on freedom of movement. I won't fly any more because of it. To the statisticians, it looks like I'm not flying because of the threat, when actually it's because I'm sick of the useless pantomime that flying entails. Being the kind of person that says what's on his mind, I am more likely to be detained because I look and act pissed off when I'm going through the process. I don't think I should have to smile as they fuck me up the ass. But the powers that be see what they want to see.
Since the cold war ended (during which we really didn't live in such a heightened state of awareness) the media have had to find new "threats" to sensationalise. So have the goverments, (after all they have to justify the funds they are spending on defence). The combination of these two actors means that a climate of fear is the only place those 2 entities can retain control. Do yourself a favour and watch The Power of Nightmares. We are not afraid, but the powers that be want us to be, just to justify their existences.
In summary, I think you have the situation completely ass backward. Sure there is no "secret cabal", they don't have to be secret. They are already out there in the open. Just read a paper, watch tv news, and follow the governments agenda. It's not the people doing this, the government are not reacting to any demands from the public. The government are "reacting" to things in ways that coincide with their own ambitions, but luckily for them they have the media to provide the "need".
Nobody knew what the Nazis were doing to the jews, gypsies, and mentally defective. By the time they started doing that stuff we were already at war. Should we have started another war, to be fought concurrently ?
And which part of that text applies to Iran, a sovereign nation ? Oh, none. Especially given the fuss the US is making over Irans nuclear ambitions. Apparently they don't have the right to do what they want in their own country. We saw in Iraq the result of applying your constitutional ideals to a foreign country.
The US govt. could codify anything they like but it still only applies in the USA. Like it or not, they are not the de facto rulers of the fucking world !
Yeah right, I'll take 3 Stinger installations please. Oh, I can't have them ? Might as well have a peashooter then. And where were those inalienable rights in Guantanamo ? Oh, it's not in America ? That's handy, neither is Iran. As usual it's do as I say, not as I do.
Which prick tagged this !kobol ? Does it SAY kobol anywhere in the title, summary or article ? Or is so that you can easily search for kobol later and not find this story (in which case you could have saved your typing) ? FFS. Next time there is a story about google I'm going to tag it !poodle.
Karate DOES NOT rely on strength. Ideally you never hold someone at all, you keep your distance - unless they have a long weapon in which case you step inside the effective range of the weapon. Either way, you let them do the work.
They did not have access to NEW emails, only the old stuff imported from existing exchange mailboxes. So you could click that "forgot password" link and not have access to the reply. If the user had kept old passwords in their mailbox that would be different, but still, most people change the passwords immediately anyway, don't they ?
So instead of insightful you should be labelled flamebait.
And so speaks the voice of the point and click generation. I'm a PC and I'm 5 1/2 years old. This is the only thing I can do though. I don't know how it works, but I know which buttons to push. Yay for education. Will there come a time when a person being mugged will yell "F1, for fucks sake F1 !"
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Somebody actually writing with pen and paper is using at least 2 skills, thinking about the subject, and the writing itself. Somebody typing something is supposedly thinking about the subject, but the writing is merely a case of picking out a familiar shape from the keyboard. I see no evidence that the time saved by typing is used to extend the time thinking, in fact quite the opposite. Education is supposed to be about developing as many skills as possible, not concentrating on one thing and automating everything else. I use a spell checker myself, but I make the edits, I don't leave it to the computer. Computers don't understand English, they just pattern match. I can do a turd that looks like a cake, but would you eat it based on appearance ?
People on here bitch about managers not knowing their jobs, but it seems the notion of knowing the job from the ground up is also frowned upon. Who would you rather deal with ? A person who knows the fundamentals inside out or someone who has gone straight in at high level ? But as long as it's legible
Block writing is what children do. It makes you look ill-educated. Spend your whole life hiding behind typewritten text if you must, but you are still missing a fundamental skill. And having more skills is never a bad thing, even if you rarely use them. Do you have excess brain power, or are you stretched to your limit in the one thing you specialise in ? Because if it's the latter, you are going to be a bad bet in unusual situations, where you have to step outside your comfort zone. I see many job adverts that request hand written applications only. What do you think they would make of an application written in block letters ? Sorry, we don't take applications from persons under the age of 7.
Lastly, in my experience, I find that I remember things much more strongly if I write them down by hand. Almost as if the act of writing makes the knowledge permanent. Typing does not have the same effect. Similar to the ebook debate. I can remember facts from a book based on whereabouts in the book I read it, but ebooks don't have real pages, they don't convey the sense of completing something. They always seem to just go on and on then stop. But with a real book, you can see the number of unread pages dwindling as you progress. I can quote lines from books by imagining how much of the book was left unread and mentally navigating to the correct page, left or right, near the top or nearer the bottom. You can't do that with ebooks, or computer screens, as there is no physical difference. You may think that's useless, but how many times has a smell evoked old memories, or the sight of something reminded you of something else you thought you had forgotten. You don't get happen-stance like that in the electronic world, and it is all the more sterile because of it.
Yeah, I bet Chris Columbus was pissed when he found out he could have just turned on his TV set or gone to the movies instead of sailing all that way to discover America. I mean, what WAS he thinking ?
Aah consensus. That's where like minded people agree to agree, regardless of the facts and anybody elses opinion. The consensus among Wall St. types is that it's ok to rip people off for billions, as long as they get their bonuses. Does that mean it's right ? Advancing loans to people who can't afford to repay them, then hiding those loans by splitting them in to smaller and smaller pieces, and selling them on as derivatives without mentioning what they are composed of, in fact deliberately hiding that fact. Sounds like fraud to me. But as long as we all agree ...
Passenger Pigeons, not carrier pigeons. Carrier pigeons are called that by trade not by genus.
I am in it for both personal and professional reasons. I left school in 1982. I have no tertiary education at all (barring 3 months of A levels). And yet I have travelled the world, learned computing - both hardware and software, met thousands of interesting people, and had a pretty fulfilling social life. And I have earned a living while doing those things. Now I am bored, and frustrated by the lack of challenges I have signed up for a BSc (Hons) Degree in Computing and Systems Practice. I want to learn as much about the area I work and play in as I can. But this time, I will have something at the end that will prove that I did the work. I already know lots more than your average student in lots of areas, but other than being spot tested, I have no means of proving it.
I can't afford to take 3 years off work to attend a physical university. I am 43 years old, the "student life" is part of my past. So I have enrolled with the OU and start next month. Maybe I'll find it hard, or maybe I'll love it and do well. I don't care at this point. It's for my own education, and as I will be nearly 50 when I finish this course, I seriously doubt it will help me find employment. But combined with my existing knowledge, my existing contacts, and my desire to progress in my chosen field, I think it will be worthwhile. You "real" students can scoff all you like, it isn't really relevant. And I will also have the means of discovering whether educational standards have really dropped over the last 27 years. Considering a course I have just taken was rated as equivalent to A level, and I already knew most of the content before I started, I'm not too optimistic on that count. No wonder 95% of students are passing Advanced level subjects. Or maybe I should have listened to my father when I was 18 and stuck with college then gone to university. Guess I'll never know. I have no regrets though. Computing is a completely different subject now than it was in 1982. The horizons have expanded greatly. The greatest exposure to it at school was the fat geeks playing with their ZX Spectrums instead of sports, girls and alcohol. I knew then I wasn't ever going to willingly be part of their world.
I live in a University city, and am surrounded by arrogant little fucks who a) think they are gods gift to the world, b) think they are superior to everybody who isn't a student and c) are basically clueless about life. These people have a shock coming to them. Their elitist attitude explains a lot about the so called "professional" world. Maybe they should have classes in basic humility alongside their other work. They all complain about student loans and how much debt they'll have when they graduate, but they spend more in the bars than I can afford to, and I work 60 or 70 hours a week. Cry me a river.
Why do you think I'll be driving on the road ? I'm a car driver, I go where I fucking want !
Much more than that. Since people buy cars on performance, these guys also engineer the exhaust noise to make the cars sound "sporty" or not as the case may be. These machines are the ultimate in consumer seduction. Why are people so hooked on making the few hours a day at most they spend in them, as close to the womb as possible ? Scared are we ?
IMHO, the American electric cars should play "America, Fuck yeah". Seems fitting. Especially as the Libertarians will block any move to have *efficient* electric cars. That inefficiency creates jobs don'cha know ! Why save money later when you can save money now ! (then I can save *your* money later and now)
... because being hit by a cyclist is so the same as being hit by 2 tonnes of steel. Maybe the sound should reflect the person drivings ego, kinda like " MeeeeeEEEEEEE, MeeeeeeeEEEEEEE" !
Aah the "I've got a bigger dick than you" argument. sorry, you lose. Pedestrians, that is to say, everybody on the planet, have more rights than assholes in cars. The slower, less manoeuvrable vehicle always has right of way. Or do you think you have the right to mow people down because you're late for a meeting ?
It IS your job to keep other people safe from your machine. If you bumped into them in person, no big deal - if you hit them with your car, it's YOUR CAR ! YOU are legally in control (supposedly). This is why I hate car drivers. They think they own the fucking planet.