Who distributes a 60 page PDF when the whole rest of the operation is a web site? If they all needed internet access to use the app, why didn't the web application just give each volunteer their customized list?
As always, the group of technomorons at the top tell you it's all digital, then give out a PDF of a scan of a fax.
The vast majority of copies of Photoshop are pirated. This has not prevented "photoshopping" from becoming a verb, and in fact it has likely helped immensely. Try again.
What this also means is that if I want to develop an image editor for home users and sell it for a reasonable fee, then I will have problems doing that because everyone gets Photoshop for free.
Exactly! And if I wanted to develop an office suite, I wouldn't be able to sell it because OpenOffice is available for free. And what's more, nobody is paying to watch videos of me scratching my ass! I assume unfair competition by legions of people posting cat videos on Youtube.
So, if you don't give the poor the tools to succeed, but leave them illiterate and starving on the streets, they will see how right you are, and pull themselves up by their own bootstraps? Brilliant! I hear that's exactly how the French Revolution went!
We maintain a semblance of equality (equality of opportunity, not necessarily of wealth) because to fail to do so invites social unrest.
Have a broken arm? Go to the emergency room and sit there for 4 to 6 hours for someone to attend to you...
You have a broken arm. Do you really have something better to be doing?
The last few times I went into Emerg at my local Canadian hospital, I received excellent care. People with life threatening or deteriorating conditions were seen immediately. Those who were either stable, or who should have just gone to a walk-in clinic had to wait longer.
Actually, I'd prefer energy policy changes that help mitigate GW over the medium to long term. Wealth redistribution may or may not be a useful social goal, but that's not really relevant here.
My personal view is that we should expend more effort into advanced nuclear technologies. LFTR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor looks particularly promising. This can be augmented with wind/solar/hydro etc where it makes sense to build them.
If we need 100% proof that GW will destroy us before acting, we have to wait to be destroyed first. This is a stupid position, hence models and predictions, as imperfect as they are.
I must have missed the part of the story where the whole movie was ruined and they had to throw out the footage and start again from scratch. Or are you claiming that the unauthorized upload ruined the movie, causing it to be really bad? That actually makes more sense. X-Men: Origins was terrible.
If just 5% of the American public wanted to overthrow the government, an drawn out, bloody civil war would be possible. You do not need overwhelming support, you need enough angry people with guns.
No, you own the government. And it's not one of those limited liability deals either. You have part ownership of all the public lands and assets, and part ownership of the debt too. That's not to say that selling off everyone's houses is a wise plan for debt reduction, but at some point the hyperbole has to stop.
Tree planters (in Canada, at least) use Silvicool tarps too keep caches of seedings from cooking in the sun. They're a white tarp with aluminized Mylar on one side. I can attest that they're really quite effective.
People love bashing Microsoft, but they forget that MS must provide binary compatibility for their clients who unconditionally have to run really old apps, because their businesses depend on it.
This is not actually true. Business will upgrade if there's a business case for it. If the vendor will continue to support a twenty year old app? Great. Otherwise, they'll solve the problem some other way.
I even have an anecdote. I worked at a sawmill that kept a DOS machine around to download data from the hand held timber moisture meter. It was probably a really expensive instrument when it was purchased, but was old, and the manufacturer had never made Windows drivers. So the DOS machine was considered a business necessity. However, new moisture meters are only $500, which is substantially less than the cost of maintaining an old computer and software.
And then realize that the majority of the code that runs important systems was written by engineers, analysts, scientists and various technicians. It's the depth of knowledge in a particular problem domain that makes the programmer valuable. Expert programmers have their place, but that place is usually just cleaning up after the people who write design the software that solves the problem in the first place.
In a sense, this also suggests a solution for the OP. Pick an industry and get familiar with it. You won't be very useful to a potential employer if you can't even comprehend the problem they're trying to solve. If you have time before graduation, look into getting a minor. Something like a GIS, physic, or chemistry minor can pay real dividends.
Not my country. Canada was literally partied into existence. The founding fathers showed up in Charlottetown with a ship load of champagne to talk about confederation. You know, just in case they could find something to celebrate.
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Who distributes a 60 page PDF when the whole rest of the operation is a web site? If they all needed internet access to use the app, why didn't the web application just give each volunteer their customized list?
As always, the group of technomorons at the top tell you it's all digital, then give out a PDF of a scan of a fax.
They like to preach in Africa because nobody listens to them in their home countries (well, maybe in the USA).
I have missionaries in my family. After 20 years in Africa, they report that nobody listens to the there, either.
The vast majority of copies of Photoshop are pirated. This has not prevented "photoshopping" from becoming a verb, and in fact it has likely helped immensely. Try again.
What this also means is that if I want to develop an image editor for home users and sell it for a reasonable fee, then I will have problems doing that because everyone gets Photoshop for free.
Exactly! And if I wanted to develop an office suite, I wouldn't be able to sell it because OpenOffice is available for free. And what's more, nobody is paying to watch videos of me scratching my ass! I assume unfair competition by legions of people posting cat videos on Youtube.
Matthew 6:14-15 ...
What do you think you are doing? You don't bring evidence to a argument here!
Try for an ad-hominem. Those are totally acceptable.
So, if you don't give the poor the tools to succeed, but leave them illiterate and starving on the streets, they will see how right you are, and pull themselves up by their own bootstraps? Brilliant! I hear that's exactly how the French Revolution went!
We maintain a semblance of equality (equality of opportunity, not necessarily of wealth) because to fail to do so invites social unrest.
Have a broken arm? Go to the emergency room and sit there for 4 to 6 hours for someone to attend to you...
You have a broken arm. Do you really have something better to be doing?
The last few times I went into Emerg at my local Canadian hospital, I received excellent care. People with life threatening or deteriorating conditions were seen immediately. Those who were either stable, or who should have just gone to a walk-in clinic had to wait longer.
Good idea. Which state gets to be Chechnya?
They are. China has 14 nuclear reactors operating, are constructing another 25. More are planned. Here's hoping their safety systems are sufficient.
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My personal view is that we should expend more effort into advanced nuclear technologies. LFTR http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_fluoride_thorium_reactor looks particularly promising. This can be augmented with wind/solar/hydro etc where it makes sense to build them. If we need 100% proof that GW will destroy us before acting, we have to wait to be destroyed first. This is a stupid position, hence models and predictions, as imperfect as they are.
And we shouldn't disallow cats because some people are allergic either...
Yes we should! Stupid walking balls of allergens....
I must have missed the part of the story where the whole movie was ruined and they had to throw out the footage and start again from scratch. Or are you claiming that the unauthorized upload ruined the movie, causing it to be really bad? That actually makes more sense. X-Men: Origins was terrible.
Spoken like someone with the cranial structure of a Neanderthal.
If just 5% of the American public wanted to overthrow the government, an drawn out, bloody civil war would be possible. You do not need overwhelming support, you need enough angry people with guns.
FTFY
But how do you save it to a write only location? Easy, just use syslog and send it to a remote server.
And where do you keep the private key? Oh, easy, just dump it in /etc. That can't possibly be a problem.
No, you own the government. And it's not one of those limited liability deals either. You have part ownership of all the public lands and assets, and part ownership of the debt too. That's not to say that selling off everyone's houses is a wise plan for debt reduction, but at some point the hyperbole has to stop.
Tree planters (in Canada, at least) use Silvicool tarps too keep caches of seedings from cooking in the sun. They're a white tarp with aluminized Mylar on one side. I can attest that they're really quite effective.
But I *am* better. My Mac usage is probably coincidental.
People love bashing Microsoft, but they forget that MS must provide binary compatibility for their clients who unconditionally have to run really old apps, because their businesses depend on it.
This is not actually true. Business will upgrade if there's a business case for it. If the vendor will continue to support a twenty year old app? Great. Otherwise, they'll solve the problem some other way.
I even have an anecdote. I worked at a sawmill that kept a DOS machine around to download data from the hand held timber moisture meter. It was probably a really expensive instrument when it was purchased, but was old, and the manufacturer had never made Windows drivers. So the DOS machine was considered a business necessity. However, new moisture meters are only $500, which is substantially less than the cost of maintaining an old computer and software.
And then realize that the majority of the code that runs important systems was written by engineers, analysts, scientists and various technicians. It's the depth of knowledge in a particular problem domain that makes the programmer valuable. Expert programmers have their place, but that place is usually just cleaning up after the people who write design the software that solves the problem in the first place. In a sense, this also suggests a solution for the OP. Pick an industry and get familiar with it. You won't be very useful to a potential employer if you can't even comprehend the problem they're trying to solve. If you have time before graduation, look into getting a minor. Something like a GIS, physic, or chemistry minor can pay real dividends.
I suspect they talk that way as well, they're just morons.
Augh! Comma splice! Will the horror's never end?
Not my country. Canada was literally partied into existence. The founding fathers showed up in Charlottetown with a ship load of champagne to talk about confederation. You know, just in case they could find something to celebrate.
Just imagine if IIWW started now. The database would be the first thing Nazis would get.
Is that World War II run backwards? Starts with an atomic bomb and ends with a retreat from Poland?
Silly you. You've assumed the the parent was American. Clearly, he's a resident of some third-world dictatorship hellhole.
So....how is this different from DirectConnect?