Exactly. This is a case of gratuitous use of excessive technology where pen and paper are capable of doing the job precisely as accurately, almost as efficiently, and much more cheaply.
The only motivation for this is surveillance for the sake of surveillance: to spy on students in forums where the school knows it would not normally have the right to spy on them. (I am reminded of how I, as a non-USAian, have to provide the FBI with my photo and fingerprints every time I enter the US. That isn't to catch crooks or terrorists: it's surveillance for the sake of surveillance.)
Oh, and by the way, we have always been at war with Eurasia.
I can't see what advantages a 3D desktop like SphereXP or 3D-Desktop might have over a 2D tool like
Exposé. Surely they're much more graphics-processor-intensive without much of a pay-off.
3. Now the point is this: Your skills, your hard work and your knowledge are NOT what constitutes your value. Often they are related but not always. This is not what makes free markets work. The fact is, to make a better wage, get into an industry where the supply for workers is lower than the demand.
In response to your comments: yeah, Troy was thought to have been maybe fictitious, until someone discovered that a city had existed at around about the right time in round about the right place, which is now for the sake of convenience called "Troy".
As for the story of Atlantis which Plato puts in Critias' mouth: (1) the story is actually about the people of Athens conquering Atlantis - thousands of years before Athens existed; (2) did you by any chance get that idea of multiplying the numbers by 10 from Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis? Sound historical research, that.
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Exactly. This is a case of gratuitous use of excessive technology where pen and paper are capable of doing the job precisely as accurately, almost as efficiently, and much more cheaply.
The only motivation for this is surveillance for the sake of surveillance: to spy on students in forums where the school knows it would not normally have the right to spy on them. (I am reminded of how I, as a non-USAian, have to provide the FBI with my photo and fingerprints every time I enter the US. That isn't to catch crooks or terrorists: it's surveillance for the sake of surveillance.)
Oh, and by the way, we have always been at war with Eurasia.
I can't see what advantages a 3D desktop like SphereXP or 3D-Desktop might have over a 2D tool like Exposé. Surely they're much more graphics-processor-intensive without much of a pay-off.
You mean like nursing?
For reference, here are some links to the bit where Plato actually tells the story of Atlantis:
http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/timaeus.html (search for the bit starting "Then listen, Socrates, to a tale which, though strange, is certainly true ...")= Plat.+Tim.+20d&vers=en P lat.+Tim.+20d&vers=en
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup
http://perseus.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=
In response to your comments: yeah, Troy was thought to have been maybe fictitious, until someone discovered that a city had existed at around about the right time in round about the right place, which is now for the sake of convenience called "Troy".
As for the story of Atlantis which Plato puts in Critias' mouth: (1) the story is actually about the people of Athens conquering Atlantis - thousands of years before Athens existed; (2) did you by any chance get that idea of multiplying the numbers by 10 from Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis? Sound historical research, that.
That's because you forgot to enter the location.