hmmm... I know several musicians that would easily (accept for that its quite long) write down Mozart's requiem and understand it fully. I think you should try to come up with a better example.
My example is fine considering the point of the example. Could the musicians you know write the score for Mozarts Requiem without having ever heard it or seen it before? The point is, nobody can write Mozart's Requiem but Mozart himself. Anyone can COPY it, just like anyone can make copies of a book or a Porche, but only Mozart can orginally create the idea. Back to my original statement then. If Mozart NEVER WRITES DOWN his requiem, but keeps it in his head, is he still holding you slave by not releasing his intellectual property? Are you staying your musician friends could write down the score to a piece they have never heard?
I believe my example holds firm. *sighs* I'm so sick of people claiming an idea is 'obvious and easy' AFTER its been created. If its so obvious and easy, then create the idea and release it, but quit bitching about other people not releasing their 'obvious and easy' ideas to the "i don't wanna pay for it" community.
I know this isn't a list of games. Every game I would want to see has already been mentioned. Instead, I say let us push for more OpenGL games, and boycott DirectX games. DirectX is Microsoft and games written for DirectX will be much harder to port than games writtin for OpenGL which has increasing support in the Linux market every day.
If a good enough OpenGL subsystem is created that works on multiple platforms (linux, sun, windows, mac, etc) then it should be much easier for companies who develop OpenGL games to port their games to whatever platform they want.
Locke clearly states that anyone can take what they like from the global commons so long as "as much and as good" is left for others.
This is a nice statment. "You may own the sky if others can still see the blue." Is a nice statement too. Can you back your statement up?Lets see.
Your Support: Since ideas are not "rival" goods (my consumption of them does not preclude your consumption), this clearly suggests that ideas cannot be made property in this way.
I cringe to actually call this support. You are merely restating what Locke said, and poorly. You state, "an idea can be consumed by multiple people and still exist". You also state, "An idea cannot be property." I leave it to you to please explain how the first suggests the second? Again, nice statements, but thats all I see, nice statements with no connection.
It is them who are trying to make me their slave, by demanding that I not say or write certain things so that they can create an artificial scarcity of an abundant good.
I have to start in the middle here. First of all, if the creator of an idea does not share that idea (or sell it) then can you claim you would have had the idea anyway? A demonstration. Please write down the entire score to Mozart's Requiem. Oh, and do it without looking at a copy of the score. Can you? I didn't think so. You claim that if Mozart tells you that you can't copy his score (his intellectual property) that he is making you his slave. What if he never releases it to start with. If Mozart never writes the score to his Requiem, are you still his slave because he has the idea for the score in his mind? Does that not also make him slave to all the ideas and thoughts you have that you do not share with the world? Perhaps he is slave to your thoughts about dying your underwear blue. As I have demonstrated, claiming that someone is making you their slave by NOT sharing their information with you is absurd. If ideas are truly free, then we would need to spend our time walking around proclaiming every thought we have to the world in order to make the ideas of the world TRULY free. Either that, or we are ALL slaves to everyone else, all the time. Oh, unless of course you only mean popular ideas that you want to use. Unpopular ideas are not free, only popular ones? Under your own idea, are you contributing your ideas to the world?
I am not trying to make anyone my slave -- I am not trying to stop them from doing anything
I have to use another example here. Orson Scott Card writes a book. Before that book goes to print, you get a copy. Since "intellectual property" doesn't exist, you print your own 1 million copies and sell them for $1.00 less each than Mr Card's publishing company. You can do this because you are not paying Mr Card royalties for his work. You don't have to because "ideas are free" and the book is an idea. Since your books are cheaper, everyone buys your books and not his. Mr. Card spent a year writing this book. During that time, he did not have another job because he needed to focus his energies to writing this book. The revenue from this book would pay his bills from the past year. Now, all his work for the past year earns him nothing and he starves. That doesn't sound like a slave to you? Your right.. slaves are usually given bread and water to keep them producing, you are beyond that. You want to give the people who reap your cotten NOTHING in return for their hard labor. Are the people who want to protect their intellectual property the greedy ones, or are you? Take a look in the mirror.
Do you really want to be out of a job because the computer can just write that new app by itself?
First, the majority of apps that people are actually making money on don't require high speed. 99% of the apps I write could probably be made 20-50 percent faster, but the end users wouldn't be able to tell the difference and wouldn't care.
Second, not only would the computer have to write the program, but it would have to gather the requirements from the users and translate that into something understandable by the programmer, either human or machine. It has been a long time since I wrote a seriously difficult algorythm. More of my time is spend gathering requirements and figuring out how different end user requirements merge together. This is something that compilers and computers in general are a LONG way from being able to do efficiently and effectively.
We created C++ and Java for the reasons of creating better code and creating maintainable programs. We must really look objectively and say is creating stuff for lazy people really worth the effort.
The answer to your question is yes. The people who use C++ and Java and VB and PowerBuilder (like myself) are not always lazy. The code I generate brings my company in about $100,000 revenue (after my salary) each year. The more coding I get done, the more revenue I generate, and, as I said before, the end users cannot tell the difference in speed. The applications wait on the users MUCH more than the users wait on the application. I spend more time optimizing critical areas, and often times, areas that are not critical get no optimization, and most of the time the user will neither care nor notice. C++ and Java are not designed for "lazy" people. They are designed for people who need to accomplish a task quickly.
I'm not going to be out of a job ANY time soon because someone writes an AI C coder/compiler.
So here's my case: intellectual property is infinitely replicable
Just because intellectual property is infinitely replicable, does not make the replication morally correct. Yes, it is possible to take a copy of Steven King's next novel, make 1,000,000 copies, sell them and never give Mr King a single dime. (his novel is intellectual property and infinitely replicable) That does not, however, make the action I take morally correct. Mr King spent long hours working on a product. If I take that product, make millions of copies, and sell it at a lower price than his publisher will (since I'm not going to pay Mr. King any royalties). I am effectively taking away his means of living.
Also, just because reproducing an mp3 is cheaper (approximately $0.00) than reproducing a novel, or a Porche 911, (the design schemas and ideas for both the novel and the Porche are intellectual property), the reproduction of an mp3 is no more correct than the reproduction of the other two.
I do not know much about the constitutions of the 50 states, but if you look at Amendment V of the US Constitution, it takes the right to own property as a pre-ordained right without even questioning it.
The Constitution says: nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
If no person was allowed to own property, then this statement would be unnessessary.
Of course, as I said previously, I am not making a law based statement. My statement is one of beliefs, not of US law.
Again, if you feel there is a difference between physical and intellectual property, I would like to see your reasoning.
Red Hat Linux doesn't offer much in the way of client administration features. You must control local users through Unix permission configuration mechanisms.
I may be wrong, simply because I've never used the tools myself.. but isn't this what the YP package is for? eg, yppasswd?
Yes, I believe that property is a right you are born with. It is an inalienable right. I don't care what country you live in and what form of government you have.
I would like to know why you believe there is a difference between physcal and intellectual property? Why should there be a difference between something I create with my hands, and something I create with my mind? If I create a statue, which is a product of both my creative mind, and my hands, do I retain ownership of the statue or will you claim that, being an intellectual product, it also belongs to 'the community'?
Maybe you'd like to explain why record companies and musicians should earn money for something that I can copy at no expense. This isn't meant to be facetious - until one understands what your philosophy of ownership it it's hard to "justify ripping off musicians this way".
If you create something, then the product you create is your property. This includes both mental and physical creations. If you sign a contract stating that, in return for monetary compensation, you will release ownership to a second party, then that second party takes ownership of the product.
The big problem with mental products is that they are usually easily reproducable (eg, a program is easier to reproduce than a pair of Gap blue jeans). Because the intellectual property is cheaply or freely reproducable does not mean that it isn't still the property of the creator, unless you entered into a contract with them to reproduce their work. Copying an illegal MP3 is no less illegal than taking a pair of jeans from a rack in the Gap and walking out of the store without paying.
This does not mean that MP3's should be banned. The MP3 format in and of itself is not the problem. The problem exists in the fact that many people are abusing the format and using it for illegal purposes. Obviously you are one of them.
Also, please note that people who actively participate in the Open Source movement have entered into a contract to release their intellectual property for free by agreeing to the GPL or another such licensing agreement.
Its too bad that he is going to get cut to pieces here on/. by the hundreds of people who seem to believe that Corel should spend $500K to develop their Office 2000 package, and then give it away for free because they don't want to pay for it.
I really like Corel and their software. I think their focus makes sense. Between Sun, MS, Redhat the BSD siblings, and other Linux distro's, the big open niche here is the new desktop user. Makes sense to me.
I believe I will be purchasing Corel's Office 2000 when it comes out. Maybe I can even convert my wife to an avid Linux user. *grins*
Thank you Ars Technica for stating exactly what has been biting at me since I read the original story on slashdot ( and the following 600+ posts).
Crusoe IS NOT FOR GAMING MACHINES.
Crusoe IS NOT FOR SERVERS.
Crusoe WILL NOT REPLACE THE PIII and Xeon and Athalon et al
Crusoe is for machines where high end performance is secondary to EFFICIENT PERFORMANCE. (laptops etc..)
Will you see an SMP capable Crusoe? Probably not. Why? Because you don't need SMP to run Word and Netscape well.
Will you see desktop computers running Crusoe processors? Probably very few, and most of those will be built by people like the slashdot crowd who believe its the best processor for all jobs,and those who just like to tinker.
Crusoe isn't designed to be the best in all areas. It is designed for the mobile market. If you want to put together a server or a blazing fast Quake machine.. DON"T GET A CRUSOE. Thats not what it is designed for.
Thanks Ars Technica for not falling for the hype and telling it like it is. And thank you for a wonderful technical briefing. As always, the technical writing prowess of the Ars Technica staff impresses me. Most people have a VERY difficult time explaining technical issues half as well.
For some reason the FIC PA-2013 the system had before was unhappy about having the Buslogic controller and IDE drives on the primary controller.
What OS were you running? I had similar problems with Windows on my FIC 503 and my wife's FIC 2013 until I realized that you HAD to install the PCI bus patches that were included on the CD (and the website). I've never had any troubles whatsoever under Linux with any FIC MB i've installed.
Also, I'm now dual booting W2K and Linux. W2K is having similar problems, and I can't install the patch. If I turn DMA on in my bios W2K locks up tight during boot.
At the University of Missouri - Rolla, they ran fiber optics to all the dorms about 4-5 years ago. Retention of people who lived on campus skyrocketed. They ran 10bT to every room. People started setting up floor based and building based domains. It turned out to be VERY cool.
Back in college my sleek black Amiga 4000 sat next to my roommates black 486/66 DX2. His was a tower so he covered it in cool radio station sticker and what not. We did them ourselves in the dorm art room but many people believed we had bought them that way and shelled out a fortune.
The front of the Amiga case even had indented letters "AMIGA" that I used a silver paint marker to fill in. They looked Very Cool.:)
He is looking into this route. He's having problems finding a decent community college though. Plus, I'm pushing him to go somewhere AWAY from home. I'm a firm believer that at 18, you SHOULD HAVE to live on your own for a while. Even a college dorm is more on your own than living under the rule of parents.
I also wonder why it isn't mandatory for teachers to take updater courses on educating. I'm thinking a semester-long night course every few years. This is also something that should be paid by the school. Any supplemental training that the teacher might want should be on the teacher.
Actually, somethingl like this does exists. Unfortunately, it is not usually paid for by anybody but the teacher him/herself. Only wealthy districts subsidize the costs for their teachers.
I'm not sure of the specifics, but it basically runs something like "15 hours of classes in 2 years, masters in 5 years", and "x hours of college classes every x years". At least this is the case here in MO. By doing the "x hours every x years" the plan allows for the fact that some teachers may have a very busy year, but then they have to work harder on taking classes the next couple years. Teachers who don't meet the guidelines lose their teaching certificate.
Of course, this doesn't work in states like NM that don't require a teaching certificate at all because they are seriously low on teachers and will take anyone with a college education.
The fact that few college students choose a computer career is very likely NOT to to difficulty paying for it.
That is true. However, don't forget to consider those students who otherwise might not go to college at all.
I have a brother-in-law who is 16 yrs old. He loves computers, is starting to learn programming, and has a very bright mind. But on his fathers income, they can't even afford a good public university. If he makes it to college at all, it will be a local community college or through grants and scholarships. And scholarships are harder to get if you are single white male unless you score phenomenally high on your ACT/SAT. This could be an excellent chance for him to break out of the sub-standard existance his family currently lives in.
Yes, he would have to work for the government, but for only 4-5 years probably (4 years is the current ROTC time period) and at 26, with 4 years of experience, he could get one hell of a nice private sector job.
My wife is a 3rd grade teacher and this very subject frustrates her every day. She had 3 years of schooling as a Mechanical Engineer at a very good engineering school before changing her major to teaching. She also has me (a computer scientist) as a husband. She goes to work each day and is an instant technical Guru.
MANY teachers are afraid to use computers. Even the ones who realize that children really need to learn about computers, and that computers won't replace teachers are afraid. They are afraid of the technology and of looking 'dumb' in front of their students. Several times now my wife has had to demonstrate to teachers how much easier a word processor is to a typewriter. She has saved several teachers dozens of hours by showing them that they don't really have to re-type their 15 page report on an old typewriter for every revision and proof reading.
It is very sad to say, but too many (I'm not saying all) but too many teachers are not intelligent or ambitious people. They are afriad of learning new ideas. They are the people who get C's in high school math and science.
Just "loving to work with children" like many teachers do, is not enough in my book. I want teachers who want to learn, expand their minds, and share that knowledge with their students. Unfortunately our current system does not provide the funds to attract these types of people and they are instead snatched up by big companies and universities.
Just as a disclaimer, I do realize that there are some VERY EXCELLENT teachers out there. I know several of them personally. I just wish there were more.
IIRC, the 0.4 tarball is out there. So whats the problem?? If you don't need them to hold your hand, why do you need their latest release? Take what you have and run with it. Put up your own CVS server and start your own fork. Maybe you'll produce something that blows the current Slash away. I'm sure if you do Rob and Co will be happy to use it. If you do need the latest release, I have to ask, Why??? If you are afraid that nobody else will be able to re-create the additions they have made, then perhaps they are right not to release it at all. They know everyone wants the latest release, they are working on it. The first 2 dozen posts were probably helpful in letting them know it was an issue. At this point, bitching about it just blowing around more hot air.
On a technical knowledge level: When it comes down to the dirt of the 'law', I would say lawyers probably understand technology better than geeks understand the law. Lawyers in most trials have been told the technical aspects of the case involved insofar as the technical aspects involve the case. Geeks usually have little knowledge of actual laws and how they are interpreted by the court system. On a social level: I would say that geeks understand the social concepts of justice and fair play (right vs wrong) better than lawyers understand geek culture and how the social aspects of geek culture applies to the technologies involved in particular cases.
Holy shit. There are more people out there like me. I grew up in a farming community of 150 people. Life was quiet and peaceful. I had to get a job in a metro area in order to find one that truly challenged my mind. I still want to move back there. Or to some place like that. My plan is to start my own consulting company in a city that is small enough ( pop 100k ) that I can actually live 30-40 miles outside of the city and still have a 1 hr drive to work.
I have a cabin now, and spend every free weekend escaping the city.
>>$750 / month for a split-level second floor 2 bedroom apartment in a really nice complex
I'm in St Louis. I'm paying $700/month in MORTGAGE on my 1800 ft^2, 3 bdrm, all brick, ranch house with hardwood floors and fully finished basement. I've got it really good.
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My example is fine considering the point of the example. Could the musicians you know write the score for Mozarts Requiem without having ever heard it or seen it before? The point is, nobody can write Mozart's Requiem but Mozart himself. Anyone can COPY it, just like anyone can make copies of a book or a Porche, but only Mozart can orginally create the idea. Back to my original statement then. If Mozart NEVER WRITES DOWN his requiem, but keeps it in his head, is he still holding you slave by not releasing his intellectual property? Are you staying your musician friends could write down the score to a piece they have never heard?
I believe my example holds firm. *sighs* I'm so sick of people claiming an idea is 'obvious and easy' AFTER its been created. If its so obvious and easy, then create the idea and release it, but quit bitching about other people not releasing their 'obvious and easy' ideas to the "i don't wanna pay for it" community.
I know this isn't a list of games. Every game I would want to see has already been mentioned. Instead, I say let us push for more OpenGL games, and boycott DirectX games. DirectX is Microsoft and games written for DirectX will be much harder to port than games writtin for OpenGL which has increasing support in the Linux market every day.
If a good enough OpenGL subsystem is created that works on multiple platforms (linux, sun, windows, mac, etc) then it should be much easier for companies who develop OpenGL games to port their games to whatever platform they want.
*chuckles*
nice way to back out when you don't have an argument.
I look forward to reading your ideas in the future.
This is a nice statment. "You may own the sky if others can still see the blue." Is a nice statement too. Can you back your statement up?Lets see.
Your Support: Since ideas are not "rival" goods (my consumption of them does not preclude your consumption), this clearly suggests that ideas cannot be made property in this way.
I cringe to actually call this support. You are merely restating what Locke said, and poorly. You state, "an idea can be consumed by multiple people and still exist". You also state, "An idea cannot be property." I leave it to you to please explain how the first suggests the second? Again, nice statements, but thats all I see, nice statements with no connection.
It is them who are trying to make me their slave, by demanding that I not say or write certain things so that they can create an artificial scarcity of an abundant good.
I have to start in the middle here. First of all, if the creator of an idea does not share that idea (or sell it) then can you claim you would have had the idea anyway? A demonstration. Please write down the entire score to Mozart's Requiem. Oh, and do it without looking at a copy of the score. Can you? I didn't think so. You claim that if Mozart tells you that you can't copy his score (his intellectual property) that he is making you his slave. What if he never releases it to start with. If Mozart never writes the score to his Requiem, are you still his slave because he has the idea for the score in his mind? Does that not also make him slave to all the ideas and thoughts you have that you do not share with the world? Perhaps he is slave to your thoughts about dying your underwear blue. As I have demonstrated, claiming that someone is making you their slave by NOT sharing their information with you is absurd. If ideas are truly free, then we would need to spend our time walking around proclaiming every thought we have to the world in order to make the ideas of the world TRULY free. Either that, or we are ALL slaves to everyone else, all the time. Oh, unless of course you only mean popular ideas that you want to use. Unpopular ideas are not free, only popular ones? Under your own idea, are you contributing your ideas to the world?
I am not trying to make anyone my slave -- I am not trying to stop them from doing anything
I have to use another example here. Orson Scott Card writes a book. Before that book goes to print, you get a copy. Since "intellectual property" doesn't exist, you print your own 1 million copies and sell them for $1.00 less each than Mr Card's publishing company. You can do this because you are not paying Mr Card royalties for his work. You don't have to because "ideas are free" and the book is an idea. Since your books are cheaper, everyone buys your books and not his. Mr. Card spent a year writing this book. During that time, he did not have another job because he needed to focus his energies to writing this book. The revenue from this book would pay his bills from the past year. Now, all his work for the past year earns him nothing and he starves. That doesn't sound like a slave to you? Your right.. slaves are usually given bread and water to keep them producing, you are beyond that. You want to give the people who reap your cotten NOTHING in return for their hard labor. Are the people who want to protect their intellectual property the greedy ones, or are you? Take a look in the mirror.
I look forward to your reply.
First, the majority of apps that people are actually making money on don't require high speed. 99% of the apps I write could probably be made 20-50 percent faster, but the end users wouldn't be able to tell the difference and wouldn't care.
Second, not only would the computer have to write the program, but it would have to gather the requirements from the users and translate that into something understandable by the programmer, either human or machine. It has been a long time since I wrote a seriously difficult algorythm. More of my time is spend gathering requirements and figuring out how different end user requirements merge together. This is something that compilers and computers in general are a LONG way from being able to do efficiently and effectively.
We created C++ and Java for the reasons of creating better code and creating maintainable programs. We must really look objectively and say is creating stuff for lazy people really worth the effort.
The answer to your question is yes. The people who use C++ and Java and VB and PowerBuilder (like myself) are not always lazy. The code I generate brings my company in about $100,000 revenue (after my salary) each year. The more coding I get done, the more revenue I generate, and, as I said before, the end users cannot tell the difference in speed. The applications wait on the users MUCH more than the users wait on the application. I spend more time optimizing critical areas, and often times, areas that are not critical get no optimization, and most of the time the user will neither care nor notice. C++ and Java are not designed for "lazy" people. They are designed for people who need to accomplish a task quickly.
I'm not going to be out of a job ANY time soon because someone writes an AI C coder/compiler.
Just because intellectual property is infinitely replicable, does not make the replication morally correct. Yes, it is possible to take a copy of Steven King's next novel, make 1,000,000 copies, sell them and never give Mr King a single dime. (his novel is intellectual property and infinitely replicable) That does not, however, make the action I take morally correct. Mr King spent long hours working on a product. If I take that product, make millions of copies, and sell it at a lower price than his publisher will (since I'm not going to pay Mr. King any royalties). I am effectively taking away his means of living.
Also, just because reproducing an mp3 is cheaper (approximately $0.00) than reproducing a novel, or a Porche 911, (the design schemas and ideas for both the novel and the Porche are intellectual property), the reproduction of an mp3 is no more correct than the reproduction of the other two.
I look forward to your response.
I do not know much about the constitutions of the 50 states, but if you look at Amendment V of the US Constitution, it takes the right to own property as a pre-ordained right without even questioning it.
The Constitution says:
nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
If no person was allowed to own property, then this statement would be unnessessary.
Of course, as I said previously, I am not making a law based statement. My statement is one of beliefs, not of US law.
Again, if you feel there is a difference between physical and intellectual property, I would like to see your reasoning.
I may be wrong, simply because I've never used the tools myself.. but isn't this what the YP package is for? eg, yppasswd?
Yes, I believe that property is a right you are born with. It is an inalienable right. I don't care what country you live in and what form of government you have.
I would like to know why you believe there is a difference between physcal and intellectual property? Why should there be a difference between something I create with my hands, and something I create with my mind? If I create a statue, which is a product of both my creative mind, and my hands, do I retain ownership of the statue or will you claim that, being an intellectual product, it also belongs to 'the community'?
Why not really have some fun.
Step 1: Create free web based email account. i.e. hotmail
Step 2: Create free Personal Ads and Classified Ads on sites like Classified2000.com and information sites that include classifieds.
Step 3: Post the source code as your ad.
If you create something, then the product you create is your property. This includes both mental and physical creations. If you sign a contract stating that, in return for monetary compensation, you will release ownership to a second party, then that second party takes ownership of the product.
The big problem with mental products is that they are usually easily reproducable (eg, a program is easier to reproduce than a pair of Gap blue jeans). Because the intellectual property is cheaply or freely reproducable does not mean that it isn't still the property of the creator, unless you entered into a contract with them to reproduce their work. Copying an illegal MP3 is no less illegal than taking a pair of jeans from a rack in the Gap and walking out of the store without paying.
This does not mean that MP3's should be banned. The MP3 format in and of itself is not the problem. The problem exists in the fact that many people are abusing the format and using it for illegal purposes. Obviously you are one of them.
Also, please note that people who actively participate in the Open Source movement have entered into a contract to release their intellectual property for free by agreeing to the GPL or another such licensing agreement.
I really like Corel and their software. I think their focus makes sense. Between Sun, MS, Redhat the BSD siblings, and other Linux distro's, the big open niche here is the new desktop user. Makes sense to me.
I believe I will be purchasing Corel's Office 2000 when it comes out. Maybe I can even convert my wife to an avid Linux user. *grins*
Crusoe IS NOT FOR GAMING MACHINES.
Crusoe IS NOT FOR SERVERS.
Crusoe WILL NOT REPLACE THE PIII and Xeon and Athalon et al
Crusoe is for machines where high end performance is secondary to EFFICIENT PERFORMANCE. (laptops etc..)
Will you see an SMP capable Crusoe? Probably not. Why? Because you don't need SMP to run Word and Netscape well.
Will you see desktop computers running Crusoe processors? Probably very few, and most of those will be built by people like the slashdot crowd who believe its the best processor for all jobs,and those who just like to tinker.
Crusoe isn't designed to be the best in all areas. It is designed for the mobile market. If you want to put together a server or a blazing fast Quake machine.. DON"T GET A CRUSOE. Thats not what it is designed for.
Thanks Ars Technica for not falling for the hype and telling it like it is. And thank you for a wonderful technical briefing. As always, the technical writing prowess of the Ars Technica staff impresses me. Most people have a VERY difficult time explaining technical issues half as well.
What OS were you running? I had similar problems with Windows on my FIC 503 and my wife's FIC 2013 until I realized that you HAD to install the PCI bus patches that were included on the CD (and the website). I've never had any troubles whatsoever under Linux with any FIC MB i've installed.
Also, I'm now dual booting W2K and Linux. W2K is having similar problems, and I can't install the patch. If I turn DMA on in my bios W2K locks up tight during boot.
At the University of Missouri - Rolla, they ran fiber optics to all the dorms about 4-5 years ago. Retention of people who lived on campus skyrocketed. They ran 10bT to every room. People started setting up floor based and building based domains. It turned out to be VERY cool.
The front of the Amiga case even had indented letters "AMIGA" that I used a silver paint marker to fill in. They looked Very Cool. :)
He is looking into this route. He's having problems finding a decent community college though. Plus, I'm pushing him to go somewhere AWAY from home. I'm a firm believer that at 18, you SHOULD HAVE to live on your own for a while. Even a college dorm is more on your own than living under the rule of parents.
Actually, somethingl like this does exists. Unfortunately, it is not usually paid for by anybody but the teacher him/herself. Only wealthy districts subsidize the costs for their teachers.
I'm not sure of the specifics, but it basically runs something like "15 hours of classes in 2 years, masters in 5 years", and "x hours of college classes every x years". At least this is the case here in MO. By doing the "x hours every x years" the plan allows for the fact that some teachers may have a very busy year, but then they have to work harder on taking classes the next couple years. Teachers who don't meet the guidelines lose their teaching certificate.
Of course, this doesn't work in states like NM that don't require a teaching certificate at all because they are seriously low on teachers and will take anyone with a college education.
That is true. However, don't forget to consider those students who otherwise might not go to college at all.
I have a brother-in-law who is 16 yrs old. He loves computers, is starting to learn programming, and has a very bright mind. But on his fathers income, they can't even afford a good public university. If he makes it to college at all, it will be a local community college or through grants and scholarships. And scholarships are harder to get if you are single white male unless you score phenomenally high on your ACT/SAT. This could be an excellent chance for him to break out of the sub-standard existance his family currently lives in.
Yes, he would have to work for the government, but for only 4-5 years probably (4 years is the current ROTC time period) and at 26, with 4 years of experience, he could get one hell of a nice private sector job.
MANY teachers are afraid to use computers. Even the ones who realize that children really need to learn about computers, and that computers won't replace teachers are afraid. They are afraid of the technology and of looking 'dumb' in front of their students. Several times now my wife has had to demonstrate to teachers how much easier a word processor is to a typewriter. She has saved several teachers dozens of hours by showing them that they don't really have to re-type their 15 page report on an old typewriter for every revision and proof reading.
It is very sad to say, but too many (I'm not saying all) but too many teachers are not intelligent or ambitious people. They are afriad of learning new ideas. They are the people who get C's in high school math and science.
Just "loving to work with children" like many teachers do, is not enough in my book. I want teachers who want to learn, expand their minds, and share that knowledge with their students. Unfortunately our current system does not provide the funds to attract these types of people and they are instead snatched up by big companies and universities.
Just as a disclaimer, I do realize that there are some VERY EXCELLENT teachers out there. I know several of them personally. I just wish there were more.
IIRC, the 0.4 tarball is out there. So whats the problem?? If you don't need them to hold your hand, why do you need their latest release? Take what you have and run with it. Put up your own CVS server and start your own fork. Maybe you'll produce something that blows the current Slash away. I'm sure if you do Rob and Co will be happy to use it. If you do need the latest release, I have to ask, Why??? If you are afraid that nobody else will be able to re-create the additions they have made, then perhaps they are right not to release it at all. They know everyone wants the latest release, they are working on it. The first 2 dozen posts were probably helpful in letting them know it was an issue. At this point, bitching about it just blowing around more hot air.
On a technical knowledge level: When it comes down to the dirt of the 'law', I would say lawyers probably understand technology better than geeks understand the law. Lawyers in most trials have been told the technical aspects of the case involved insofar as the technical aspects involve the case. Geeks usually have little knowledge of actual laws and how they are interpreted by the court system. On a social level: I would say that geeks understand the social concepts of justice and fair play (right vs wrong) better than lawyers understand geek culture and how the social aspects of geek culture applies to the technologies involved in particular cases.
Holy shit. There are more people out there like me. I grew up in a farming community of 150 people. Life was quiet and peaceful. I had to get a job in a metro area in order to find one that truly challenged my mind. I still want to move back there. Or to some place like that. My plan is to start my own consulting company in a city that is small enough ( pop 100k ) that I can actually live 30-40 miles outside of the city and still have a 1 hr drive to work.
I have a cabin now, and spend every free weekend escaping the city.
>>$750 / month for a split-level second floor 2 bedroom apartment in a really nice complex
I'm in St Louis. I'm paying $700/month in MORTGAGE on my 1800 ft^2, 3 bdrm, all brick, ranch house with hardwood floors and fully finished basement. I've got it really good.
Here in St Louis, we also have
Forest Park (site of the 1904 worlds fair)
which includes The Science Center (which is free) and The Zoo (which is also free)
The Gateway Arch
Budweiser
Laclede's Landing which is arguably the coolest place to drink some of that Budweiser