At least I can say America is a mess without worrying about a knock on my door from the thought police.
This might be true at the moment but if you say it too loudly you'll end up in gitmo with no right to a trial. You assume the GP is chinese, you don't have to be chinese to abhor the way the land of the free is slipping into rampant McCarthyism all wrapped up in newspeak as the fight against terrorism.
As the parent of a 17 year old I'm really glad you feel that way. IMHO too many geeks are too interested in finding out 'how this bit works' to fully consider the humanity beneath.
Good luck with parenting, the greatest thing you'll ever do.
Which is a very good reason for not implementing it. I would strongly advise any business not to install IT which they don't understand how to implement and secure it properly because they would be, unwittingly, leaving the door open.
Here in the rarified atmosphere of/. we may laugh at the lamers and their pathetic inability to utilise IT. Out there in the real world people are simply getting on with it. Maybe they have better things to spend their time and money on than installing all the latest geek toys.
As a frinstance, my brother is a very successful salesman. He doesn't even own a laptop and can see no reason to do so. He's too busy earning a great deal more money than I do to bother about it.
And to whomever moderated me offtopic - strictly true I grant you - but modding me down for being polite? Manners are the grease in the wheels of society.
In a way that is my point. TFA presents the data as
nine out of ten - a pretty general figure that could range from 85% - 95%
12% - suddenly we've gained an extra level of accuracy
The remainder which could be anything.
At the most generous end of the spectrum the remainder comes to 3%. This seems very small. The 'undecided' figure is usually bigger than this. My conclusion is that the data is, at best, sloppily presented, and at worst, simply wrong. If this was presented to me as a paper it would be handed back for a rewrite.
Still doesn't leave much for the The remainder. Even if the remainder is as low as 3% were down to 85% and describing 85% as nine out of ten is pushing it a bit.
Additionally, researchers presented the male subjects with a picture of a baby and a picture of an adult, and were asked which picture they preferred: About nine out of 10 men chose the baby picture, roughly 12 percent expressed no interest in the baby picture, and the remaining subjects had a range of interest.
When I last did maths nine out of ten = 90%, so
90% - choose baby picture
12% - no interest in baby picture
The remaining subjects - -2% range of interests
It makes you wonder how good the research is when the can't get the basic maths right!
is that we all work in such an ageist occupation. 30+ years at the coalface means nothing nowadays. Oh, yes, and I can't make love quite as often as I used to!
New shiftwork/on call work patterns - is that all I hear you say.
What I'm saying is that sometimes you find you have to put up with things you don't want in order to stay employed. Would I accept microchipping? I'd so like to think I'd rebel but a 53yr old Sys Admin hasn't got too may career options in NW UK and I'd have to balance my obligations to my family against the obligation to fight oppression.
Well that's how they did it at my place of work. Ok, so it wasn't microchips but I'm sure they'll use the same principle when the time comes. Usual 'security reasons and if you've nothing to hide...' bollocks.
Sure, you can do the small things but if you try to live without credit cards, let alone a bank account you'll find it tough. Does your ISP accept cash?
Because most straightforward codebashing is being outsourced to where the jobs are cheap (and it's the same here in the UK) there are fewer jobs in IT. We've lost nearly all our coders to India leaving only the sysadmin staff.
With this smaller field you get fewer high performers. Why is it we in the UK are useless at sports when compared to the US - we have fewer athletes so the chances of people being off the top end of the bell curve are slimmer.
So the net result is that we have both a shortage of IT posts as they're being outsourced to India and a shortage of high performing IT specialists because the supply pool is smaller.
Where you're spot on is that we won't change anythign by wingeing.
anyone trying to pass a contraversial bill uses the spectre of terror to stifle dissent. The relevant quote is
During a speech in November, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales endorsed the idea and said at the time that he would send Congress draft legislation. Such changes are necessary because new technology is "encouraging large-scale criminal enterprises to get involved in intellectual-property theft," Gonzales said, adding that proceeds from the illicit businesses are used, "quite frankly, to fund terrorism activities."
What's being suggested is that MP3 downloaders are directly responsible for suicide bombings! We know how rediculous this is but...
The point is that with current Mom and Pop technology they are de-facto forced to watch the ads. OK, strictly speaking they could get up and leave the room, or channel surf for a few minutes but if you're trying to follow the plot then you have to stay with the channel.
On the other hand new technology, which hasn't percolated down to Mom and Pop level yet but soon will will allow all the viewers to skip the ads, not just the tech savy ones. The advertisers will say, with good reason, why waste money on TV advertising when no-one watches the ads. The TV stations will lose advertising revenue and have less money for programming and we'll all end up with some sort of pay per view or endless reruns of the I Love Lucy show.
I'm no friend of the advertisers, I'd love to watch ad free telly, in fact I mostly do which is why I don't begrudge the UK TV license fee. But you really can't expect advertisers tro pay for your television if no-one is watching their ads because of new technology.
for all the content you want to watch. Leaving to one side all the DRM arguments it actually costs quite a bit of cash to make a decent TV program. Either you pay through public subscription - like the TV license fee here in the UK, or you pay via advertising. And if you pay via advertisong then it's down to the advertisers to say what ads they want to show.
And the annoying ones - they're the ones that work. Ask any Brit about the most annoying add ever and you'll hear 'shake'n'vac' mentioned. Ask any Brit if they know of any other carpet cleaner...
Obviously I was too subtle - my point was that if the parent poster had read TFAs then he would have seen that the hundreds of miles was not vertical. You shouldn't believe everything you read because you might be misinterpreting it
And was the get a brain cell realy neccessary. At least you had the manners to give your ID unlike the AC.
Yes, you're just being paranoid. Governments are run by civil servants who just love standards and if they come on board then it forces everyone else to. If you can only submit somethign to your local govenment in ODF then you're not going to use M$ Word, are you? Unless, of course, M$ Word has embraced the ODF. See how it works.
And, at the end of the day, if governments use ODF to write the plans for the Doomsday Machine it's not a misuse of the ODF anymore than it's a misuse of paper when it's printed.
I wish I had the mod points - the image in my head of test beagles trying to fill in the forms down at Phones-4-U made me laugh out loud. Thanks for making my Friday!
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At least I can say America is a mess without worrying about a knock on my door from the thought police.
This might be true at the moment but if you say it too loudly you'll end up in gitmo with no right to a trial. You assume the GP is chinese, you don't have to be chinese to abhor the way the land of the free is slipping into rampant McCarthyism all wrapped up in newspeak as the fight against terrorism.
As the parent of a 17 year old I'm really glad you feel that way. IMHO too many geeks are too interested in finding out 'how this bit works' to fully consider the humanity beneath.
Good luck with parenting, the greatest thing you'll ever do.
Which is a very good reason for not implementing it. I would strongly advise any business not to install IT which they don't understand how to implement and secure it properly because they would be, unwittingly, leaving the door open.
Here in the rarified atmosphere of /. we may laugh at the lamers and their pathetic inability to utilise IT. Out there in the real world people are simply getting on with it. Maybe they have better things to spend their time and money on than installing all the latest geek toys.
As a frinstance, my brother is a very successful salesman. He doesn't even own a laptop and can see no reason to do so. He's too busy earning a great deal more money than I do to bother about it.
And to whomever moderated me offtopic - strictly true I grant you - but modding me down for being polite? Manners are the grease in the wheels of society.
Thanks for that, I'd mod you informative if I had the points - and thanks for not calling me a dumbass like the AC.
And any student who passed me a paper with an A/B choice and then talked about the remainder would find his degree prospects diminishing rapidly.
Good point. It doesn't matter where you get your hydrogen from all realistic methods cost more energy than they produce.
In a way that is my point. TFA presents the data as
At the most generous end of the spectrum the remainder comes to 3%. This seems very small. The 'undecided' figure is usually bigger than this. My conclusion is that the data is, at best, sloppily presented, and at worst, simply wrong. If this was presented to me as a paper it would be handed back for a rewrite.
Still doesn't leave much for the The remainder. Even if the remainder is as low as 3% were down to 85% and describing 85% as nine out of ten is pushing it a bit.
From TFA
Additionally, researchers presented the male subjects with a picture of a baby and a picture of an adult, and were asked which picture they preferred: About nine out of 10 men chose the baby picture, roughly 12 percent expressed no interest in the baby picture, and the remaining subjects had a range of interest.
When I last did maths nine out of ten = 90%, so
It makes you wonder how good the research is when the can't get the basic maths right!
is that we all work in such an ageist occupation. 30+ years at the coalface means nothing nowadays. Oh, yes, and I can't make love quite as often as I used to!
but I don't think TFA meant that sort of code!
Congrats - you made me smile - and waste even more of my working day on /.
New shiftwork/on call work patterns - is that all I hear you say.
What I'm saying is that sometimes you find you have to put up with things you don't want in order to stay employed. Would I accept microchipping? I'd so like to think I'd rebel but a 53yr old Sys Admin hasn't got too may career options in NW UK and I'd have to balance my obligations to my family against the obligation to fight oppression.
Well that's how they did it at my place of work. Ok, so it wasn't microchips but I'm sure they'll use the same principle when the time comes. Usual 'security reasons and if you've nothing to hide...' bollocks.
Sure, you can do the small things but if you try to live without credit cards, let alone a bank account you'll find it tough. Does your ISP accept cash?
You never know, it might just catch on!
With this smaller field you get fewer high performers. Why is it we in the UK are useless at sports when compared to the US - we have fewer athletes so the chances of people being off the top end of the bell curve are slimmer.
So the net result is that we have both a shortage of IT posts as they're being outsourced to India and a shortage of high performing IT specialists because the supply pool is smaller.
Where you're spot on is that we won't change anythign by wingeing.
Thanks for this - I've added it to my bookmarks. I'd give you mod points if I had any
During a speech in November, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales endorsed the idea and said at the time that he would send Congress draft legislation. Such changes are necessary because new technology is "encouraging large-scale criminal enterprises to get involved in intellectual-property theft," Gonzales said, adding that proceeds from the illicit businesses are used, "quite frankly, to fund terrorism activities."
What's being suggested is that MP3 downloaders are directly responsible for suicide bombings! We know how rediculous this is but...
On the other hand new technology, which hasn't percolated down to Mom and Pop level yet but soon will will allow all the viewers to skip the ads, not just the tech savy ones. The advertisers will say, with good reason, why waste money on TV advertising when no-one watches the ads. The TV stations will lose advertising revenue and have less money for programming and we'll all end up with some sort of pay per view or endless reruns of the I Love Lucy show.
I'm no friend of the advertisers, I'd love to watch ad free telly, in fact I mostly do which is why I don't begrudge the UK TV license fee. But you really can't expect advertisers tro pay for your television if no-one is watching their ads because of new technology.
for all the content you want to watch. Leaving to one side all the DRM arguments it actually costs quite a bit of cash to make a decent TV program. Either you pay through public subscription - like the TV license fee here in the UK, or you pay via advertising. And if you pay via advertisong then it's down to the advertisers to say what ads they want to show.
And the annoying ones - they're the ones that work. Ask any Brit about the most annoying add ever and you'll hear 'shake'n'vac' mentioned. Ask any Brit if they know of any other carpet cleaner...
And was the get a brain cell realy neccessary. At least you had the manners to give your ID unlike the AC.
The 4-kilometer-thick ice sheet goes afloat as it crosses the lake, just as ice sheets become floating ice shelves at the grounding line
From TFA (the second one)
In a Letter to Nature they report that rivers the size of the Thames have been discovered which are moving water hundreds of miles under the ice.
It goes to show you shouldn't believe everything you read in the press, even if it is on line - or should that be especially when it's on line
Maybe I'm just being paranoid, but...
Yes, you're just being paranoid. Governments are run by civil servants who just love standards and if they come on board then it forces everyone else to. If you can only submit somethign to your local govenment in ODF then you're not going to use M$ Word, are you? Unless, of course, M$ Word has embraced the ODF. See how it works.
And, at the end of the day, if governments use ODF to write the plans for the Doomsday Machine it's not a misuse of the ODF anymore than it's a misuse of paper when it's printed.
I wish I had the mod points - the image in my head of test beagles trying to fill in the forms down at Phones-4-U made me laugh out loud. Thanks for making my Friday!