For the same reason your parents lifted you by the arms and dragged you while your legs found out the wonders of walking. Teaching you by moving each foot in front of the other would leave you learning to walk but completely incapable to maintain your balance, because those skills are usually learned at the same time. And for good reason. I might think about which direction I choose to walk, I depend on a simple routine to move my body in that direction, but I must react in a split second when I slip on a wet floor or trip over a step in a stairwell.
Now I also noticed that when children learn to speak articulately in detail about something before they have a more intuitive understanding of the topic they are incapable of insight, epiphanies, imagination, nor the ability to see themselves in the mirror, to step out of a problem and see the mountain of spilt milk for the molehill it really is.
My 8 year old knows so much detail about things that annoy him that he forgets how much time wastes on them and cannot conceive of being in error when he has such a mass of details for his supporting evidence.
That is I'm supposing that to learn to move your feet forward in absence of the need to keep your balance will put you at a disadvantage. And I would bet with mathematics as well.
That's um rather silly. The previous poster was simply saying that algebra is taught much like spelling is taught rather than say the way grammar is taught.
By integrating the math with the science, you introduce not only the miscellaneous mechanics of symbols, but also the mechanics of problem solving for which algebra was invented, and probably the only way for the average student, who can spell neither Descartes nor Poincare, to understand and appreciate algebra. Introductory and theoretical aspects can however be left as courses in their own right.
What if I'm trying to battle my fear of flight? What if those devils^H^Hces cause my brain to go into some funky state where I do turn homicidal? What if all I wanted was to see my mother whom I've been angry with for 40 years but she or I am dying or I've been studying to be a monk and am almost ready to take my vow of silence, for that matter, what if Holy Ghost in me sends out funky signals and causes the machines to explode?
Scenario One: I create my software on my own spare time as a hobby. Why should I now charge for it?
Why not? I don't care about paying. I care about having to kiss your ass to get your software fixed.
Scenario Two: Company A pays me $10,000 to write their database. I have been paid for my labor. Should I now charge them for the finished software? If not, then why should I charge anyone else for it?
Money is about getting what you need for what you provide. It's not about putting a worth or value on a product, because you would starve before you got anywhere. Life comes before products so guess what money comes fairness.
The right to use modify fiddle with what you paid for cannot be taken away however.
What about the fact that all those college degree = bigger salary studies are now invalidated?
What about the bright minds who are now in fucking debt?
What about people who can code a complete app in a day not being able to get a job, but some morons who argue over fonts and refuse to even try to web-enable their services get technical writing positions?
Sell the music that the listener promotes. I'd rather see competing artists who have to convince the listener not the label to promote their songs. Beats the indentured artist model they use at the moment.
Capitalism is about selling. Political will is about forcing people.
We have yet to invent a philosophy of buying. We could but that would involve forcing people unnaturally, and capitalism is about the only rational and fair way to "force" people.
Maybe if more people bought the less presentable stuff there would be less cost to the environment, less cost to the manufacturer, and less cost to the people.
You people treat human beings like plants and amoebas which have no other activity than some meager existence.
People have a right to the pursuit of happiness (personal fulfillment) which can include gratification (extraneous fulfillment), both of which should not be confused with satisfaction (psychoneurosomatheocratic fulfillment), the need to scratch every itch, however dangerous to you or others around you.
Jamie K. is lucky. Television is so easy. Push a button and shut off your brain.
I wonder how many newspapers would dare make the same comment?
A newspaper must first be opened. Then it must be opened to the correct page to continue reading front page stories.
Nobody would buy a paper that tried to pull that crap.
But there is good news!
AOL/TW stocks have dropped because the rules say that you can't claim the same value of your stock for a very long time. Now it does discourage long term planning for some. Boohoo. It curbs long term market strangling. Me happy.
In other words, the short term becomes more important, kinda like it is for us poor 9-5 schmucks though still nowhere near to that scale. Oh well.
Somebody figured out how to punish companies that try to squeeze the market with long term bets. Hallelujah!
I no longer blame Microsoft. I design hardware and software and I am begining to think that consumers are 100% responsible for the state of the computing market today.
Microsoft, as I see, it is simply responding to the pressures consumers have been putting on manufacturers all along. It's a sad state that is deeply tied to the design of computers.
The Operating System is a crucial part of the computer. Mostly because the computer has nothing to offer but performance. It's up to the OS to apply algorithms and extract functionality.
As a result the operating system isn't a feature of the computer but an altogether separate product in its own right.
The automobile may need an engine but the functionality comes from the dashboard which rarely affects critical performance concerns.
Until consumers show interest in computers beyond email and web surfing, I believe we're always going to be fighting uphill.
How come not many neighborhoods have a public server locally hosted that the community can use to communicate, check the policies, vote from home, attend neighborhood meetings?
Consumers are way too passive for any industry's good. We will have to take that into consideration for a long time I'm afraid.
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I use $0 to develop software, and $200+ once to be able to burn the cds it goes on?
Maybe the companies selling Linux shouldn't be spending their money building but packaging it.
For the same reason your parents lifted you by the arms and dragged you while your legs found out the wonders of walking. Teaching you by moving each foot in front of the other would leave you learning to walk but completely incapable to maintain your balance, because those skills are usually learned at the same time. And for good reason. I might think about which direction I choose to walk, I depend on a simple routine to move my body in that direction, but I must react in a split second when I slip on a wet floor or trip over a step in a stairwell.
Now I also noticed that when children learn to speak articulately in detail about something before they have a more intuitive understanding of the topic they are incapable of insight, epiphanies, imagination, nor the ability to see themselves in the mirror, to step out of a problem and see the mountain of spilt milk for the molehill it really is.
My 8 year old knows so much detail about things that annoy him that he forgets how much time wastes on them and cannot conceive of being in error when he has such a mass of details for his supporting evidence.
That is I'm supposing that to learn to move your feet forward in absence of the need to keep your balance will put you at a disadvantage. And I would bet with mathematics as well.
That's um rather silly. The previous poster was simply saying that algebra is taught much like spelling is taught rather than say the way grammar is taught.
By integrating the math with the science, you introduce not only the miscellaneous mechanics of symbols, but also the mechanics of problem solving for which algebra was invented, and probably the only way for the average student, who can spell neither Descartes nor Poincare, to understand and appreciate algebra. Introductory and theoretical aspects can however be left as courses in their own right.
We have already given up our rights and then we go ahead and make Dubya president.
Isn't that like betting on the losing horse after it crossed the finish line?
People have given up enough rights already. It's time the government payed up with some safety and fairness.
Besides, with this brain scanning I won't be able to board a plane if I'm NDA'd to a company. I'll have too many trade secrets.
What if I'm trying to battle my fear of flight?
What if those devils^H^Hces cause my brain to go into some funky state where I do turn homicidal?
What if all I wanted was to see my mother whom I've been angry with for 40 years but she or I am dying or I've been studying to be a monk and am almost ready to take my vow of silence, for that matter, what if Holy Ghost in me sends out funky signals and causes the machines to explode?
Bet you didn't think of that one did ya?
Scenario One: I create my software on my own spare time as a hobby. Why should I now charge for it?
Why not? I don't care about paying. I care about having to kiss your ass to get your software fixed.
Scenario Two: Company A pays me $10,000 to write their database. I have been paid for my labor. Should I now charge them for the finished software? If not, then why should I charge anyone else for it?
Money is about getting what you need for what you provide. It's not about putting a worth or value on a product, because you would starve before you got anywhere. Life comes before products so guess what money comes fairness.
The right to use modify fiddle with what you paid for cannot be taken away however.
I don't care how WinXP boots. I care how my computer boot.
There's plenty of talented coders here in the US.
Why should I go into debt in college in the US, if the US doesn't want to pay me?
What about the fact that all those college degree = bigger salary studies are now invalidated?
What about the bright minds who are now in fucking debt?
What about people who can code a complete app in a day not being able to get a job, but some morons who argue over fonts and refuse to even try to web-enable their services get technical writing positions?
Intellectual property law, which does not exist except the DMCA perhaps, bans innovation.
Patent law, trademark law, and copyright law, which do exist, allow an individual to have a hold on the market long enough to produce the product.
PTaC law have been perverted and marketted as IP law in an attempt to create IP law. Just because they call it doesn't make it so.
If the individuals do not cooperate that weird society thing loses. Sometimes society will have to give up a little freedom to gain some security.
So how about it, Mr. Society, give us individuals back our freedom of speech, privacy, life, liberty, and happiness and we'll youse alone?
I knew you could be a team player.
Seriously, though:
A body w/o a soul is dead.
A community w/o individuals is dead, senile, and very dangerous.
Sell the music that the listener promotes. I'd rather see competing artists who have to convince the listener not the label to promote their songs. Beats the indentured artist model they use at the moment.
Google up DMCA cease and desist letters and see how many apply the precedents deceitfully even falsely.
You try capturing video from a window.
If it's Java it is crossplatform, therefere I should have no need to use Windows.
Capitalism is about selling.
Political will is about forcing people.
We have yet to invent a philosophy of buying.
We could but that would involve forcing people unnaturally, and capitalism is about the only rational and fair way to "force" people.
Maybe if more people bought the less presentable stuff there would be less cost to the environment, less cost to the manufacturer, and less cost to the people.
Wait... that would be cAPITALISM!
Would allow a single tv to be used for viewing movies at some hours. Other hours would go to playing video games on the plane.
Property != Amusement
You people treat human beings like plants and amoebas which have no other activity than some meager existence.
People have a right to the pursuit of happiness (personal fulfillment) which can include gratification (extraneous fulfillment), both of which should not be confused with satisfaction (psychoneurosomatheocratic fulfillment), the need to scratch every itch, however dangerous to you or others around you.
Well, then get out of the human farmlands, and open up the borders a little.
>I've heard 0.01 micron is about the limit of ;-)
>what semiconductors will work at until quantum
>effects step in and ruin the party
Near that point you no longer need wires for current to flow just separated metal plates that they can use as steeping stones.
I see that I may have spent more than I intended I tell the cashier to take it back.
Does Octopus let me do that?
and by the way what is up with your blasted Chinese efficiency fetish?
Does every little problem have to develop into an emotional instability?
I haven't been able to find anything anywhere.
I have some factorization ideas I'd like to test without reinventing the wheel.
Jamie K. is lucky. Television is so easy. Push a button and shut off your brain.
I wonder how many newspapers would dare make the same comment?
A newspaper must first be opened. Then it must be opened to the correct page to continue reading front page stories.
Nobody would buy a paper that tried to pull that crap.
But there is good news!
AOL/TW stocks have dropped because the rules say that you can't claim the same value of your stock for a very long time. Now it does discourage long term planning for some. Boohoo. It curbs long term market strangling. Me happy.
In other words, the short term becomes more important, kinda like it is for us poor 9-5 schmucks though still nowhere near to that scale. Oh well.
Somebody figured out how to punish companies that try to squeeze the market with long term bets. Hallelujah!
But it's becoming a necessity!
I no longer blame Microsoft. I design hardware and software and I am begining to think that consumers are 100% responsible for the state of the computing market today.
Microsoft, as I see, it is simply responding to the pressures consumers have been putting on manufacturers all along. It's a sad state that is deeply tied to the design of computers.
The Operating System is a crucial part of the computer. Mostly because the computer has nothing to offer but performance. It's up to the OS to apply algorithms and extract functionality.
As a result the operating system isn't a feature of the computer but an altogether separate product in its own right.
The automobile may need an engine but the functionality comes from the dashboard which rarely affects critical performance concerns.
Until consumers show interest in computers beyond email and web surfing, I believe we're always going to be fighting uphill.
How come not many neighborhoods have a public server locally hosted that the community can use to communicate, check the policies, vote from home, attend neighborhood meetings?
Consumers are way too passive for any industry's good. We will have to take that into consideration for a long time I'm afraid.
I like this guy.
Check the bottom of his Comparametric Equations page.
He calls PDF, Proprietary Document Format.
Weren't they complaining Perfect Copying is bad.