There is also a subjective element to a lot of courses. A parent might think they know the answer to a question, but if you weren't in that teacher's class, know their take, their biases, even how they like things formatted, you could do more harm than good. The correct answer on a test is what the marker thinks the correct answer is, not what you think, not some absolute (except in hard sciences and math perhaps, but even there tread carefully).
It varies by therapist. Many keep as few records as possible because they don't trust the state to respect client confidentiality. You can't surrender what you don't have.
Exactly, don't expose yourself to licensing grief. Once the computers are out of your hands the recipients can do what they like with them, including pirating Windows 7 or XP if that's what they want. But that will be Not Your Problem.
Free Geek in Vancouver, BC does this. I don't know if they've ever done a survey where they follow up 6 months later and see what OS the computer is running now. Would be interesting.
They've failed from a marketing perspective in the North American market. Partnering with a large US corporation which seems to know a thing or two about marketing could work out for them. Though it would be more reassuring if they partnered with someone who didn't define 'partner' as 'someone you work with until you eat them'.
This is truly sad, and it means American laws have been totally taken over by corporate interests.
Totally? I don't think so. Maybe 80%. You'll know it has reached 'totally' when the creeping corporatism that's been going on for a long time finally morphs into its even more evil sister, fascism. That's not an inevitability, just the current trajectory.
Or a legacy support group (if a 3 month old browser is going to be considered 'legacy'). There's a lot I like about firefox, but 3 months then EOL suggests that they're either unable or unwilling to do something which needs doing. It wouldn't be as glamorous as a fork with new name, new vision, new blah, but I'll bet it would be appreciated by a shitload of people.
My understanding is that the US does indeed have $1 coins, but no one ever uses them. I guess it will take the government ditching the bill altogether to get people to switch.
That's it exactly. We might still be using ones (not twos, they're considered bad luck for some reason) if we had been given a choice. We weren't. Now we're used to the coins, though I like one dollar bills when visiting the states. More of my money is in my wallet, rather than in pockets and on dressers and various other surfaces where they accumulate.
Maybe they should have a policy of easy to remember pass phrases -- lots of characters but no need to write them down. I was at a bank today where there was what appeared to be a new hire. She was having trouble with something, consulted her notes right there in front of me, points to a word and asks another worker, "is it this password?". I averted my eyes politely, but I should probably have stared pointedly at it and spoken it out loud a character at a time, just to make the point.
Unless the average citizen of Western states wants to either drastically reduce their power consumption or accept foreign energy hegemony over their economies, nuclear power is essential at least in the interim.
You said it. Compared to the magnitude of the rip off that is copyright term extension, piracy is trivial. Copyright in its original form was a good deal for everyone, but that deal is now very much broken. Act according to your own conscience, keeping in mind that artists have to eat, and few are raking in what the top names get.
Thanks for the link. Drawbacks would appear to be display size, and copyright. His source document is public domain, and for those you could have deep linkage back to source. But in a copyright crazy world the sourcing aspect would have some annoying limits. Still, I can imagine it being useful for all manner of other things. I would like to see a demo of what he described with regard to multimedia editing.
What if a parent had named their kid Myspace some years ago. I wonder if the kid will be perpetually explaining internet history when she's older. "When I was born, social networking was controlled by private companies. One in particular was very influential."
Nokia is facing heat at both ends of the price spectrum.
Although it continues to rank number one among handheld producers, it holds on primarily because of its dominance at the low end, where it faces significant challenges from Chinese competitors who make smaller, lighter, quicker, more capable phones at competitive prices.
No horses! It moves, but there are no horses! I don't think I'll ever get used to that (note, if you think there might be small horses under the hood, open it up and prepare to be amazed.)
I don't think it would have been different in any other Canadian city. Say Calgary, for example. They sent their cops to the G20 in Toronto to help out:
The officers, who are from the Calgary police public safety unit, said the Toronto event was a chance for them to practise their crowd-control training.
"We just never have had to use those tactics to that degree in Calgary. It was a fantastic opportunity for us to test them out and show that yeah they really do work," said Pecksen.
And this is Canada, we go for security through co-operation and support, rather than intimidation and manipulation.
I would have agreed with you prior to the G20 in Toronto in June. But Canada is becoming just as fascist as any other western state, maybe more so, complete with intimidation, beatings, and groundless mass arrest. You may be thinking of the old Canada, where if they wanted to abrogate rights, they had to do so legally through an act like the War Measures Act. Now they don't even bother with the legal niceties.
Sounds pretty causal to me. Some say ASCII is harmless, but it just leads to Unicode, and before you know it, an epidemic of unwanted crack babies. Very sad.
I have a file system that allows me to create directories that I can give meaningful names.
People email me about stuff, and I used to put those into meaningfully named folders, but now I rely more on search. I email myself about stuff I want to be able to recover through search.
Years ago I wrote a simple web based calendar program that runs on my local computer. That's my home page.
$1,068,928,721.46 ÷ 4,366,386 spam messages = $244.80 per message.
Yikes. According to the summary, it was $100 per message, plus punitive damages. Those are some punitive damages, esp. considering the per message value is punitive. Unless they believe emails are worth $100 each. In which case I should advise my correspondents to stop emailing me and just send the money instead.
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Still using an IBM Model M space saver keyboard.
There is also a subjective element to a lot of courses. A parent might think they know the answer to a question, but if you weren't in that teacher's class, know their take, their biases, even how they like things formatted, you could do more harm than good. The correct answer on a test is what the marker thinks the correct answer is, not what you think, not some absolute (except in hard sciences and math perhaps, but even there tread carefully).
It varies by therapist. Many keep as few records as possible because they don't trust the state to respect client confidentiality. You can't surrender what you don't have.
Exactly, don't expose yourself to licensing grief. Once the computers are out of your hands the recipients can do what they like with them, including pirating Windows 7 or XP if that's what they want. But that will be Not Your Problem.
Free Geek in Vancouver, BC does this. I don't know if they've ever done a survey where they follow up 6 months later and see what OS the computer is running now. Would be interesting.
They've failed from a marketing perspective in the North American market. Partnering with a large US corporation which seems to know a thing or two about marketing could work out for them. Though it would be more reassuring if they partnered with someone who didn't define 'partner' as 'someone you work with until you eat them'.
nothing stops them from inserted advertisements
That would be very annoying on a 911 call. Could be popular with insurance companies. "When disaster strikes, are you covered?"
This is truly sad, and it means American laws have been totally taken over by corporate interests.
Totally? I don't think so. Maybe 80%. You'll know it has reached 'totally' when the creeping corporatism that's been going on for a long time finally morphs into its even more evil sister, fascism. That's not an inevitability, just the current trajectory.
Remember, citizen, opposition to the opinions of the educated is anti-intellectualism.
Oh! That's why the intellectuals are always first against the wall when the revolution comes. I learned something today.
Or a legacy support group (if a 3 month old browser is going to be considered 'legacy'). There's a lot I like about firefox, but 3 months then EOL suggests that they're either unable or unwilling to do something which needs doing. It wouldn't be as glamorous as a fork with new name, new vision, new blah, but I'll bet it would be appreciated by a shitload of people.
My understanding is that the US does indeed have $1 coins, but no one ever uses them. I guess it will take the government ditching the bill altogether to get people to switch.
That's it exactly. We might still be using ones (not twos, they're considered bad luck for some reason) if we had been given a choice. We weren't. Now we're used to the coins, though I like one dollar bills when visiting the states. More of my money is in my wallet, rather than in pockets and on dressers and various other surfaces where they accumulate.
Maybe they should have a policy of easy to remember pass phrases -- lots of characters but no need to write them down. I was at a bank today where there was what appeared to be a new hire. She was having trouble with something, consulted her notes right there in front of me, points to a word and asks another worker, "is it this password?". I averted my eyes politely, but I should probably have stared pointedly at it and spoken it out loud a character at a time, just to make the point.
Unless the average citizen of Western states wants to either drastically reduce their power consumption or accept foreign energy hegemony over their economies, nuclear power is essential at least in the interim.
If Germany can pull it off, the interim could be very short -- nuclear replaced by sustainable energy by 2022.
You said it. Compared to the magnitude of the rip off that is copyright term extension, piracy is trivial. Copyright in its original form was a good deal for everyone, but that deal is now very much broken. Act according to your own conscience, keeping in mind that artists have to eat, and few are raking in what the top names get.
Thanks for the link. Drawbacks would appear to be display size, and copyright. His source document is public domain, and for those you could have deep linkage back to source. But in a copyright crazy world the sourcing aspect would have some annoying limits. Still, I can imagine it being useful for all manner of other things. I would like to see a demo of what he described with regard to multimedia editing.
What if a parent had named their kid Myspace some years ago. I wonder if the kid will be perpetually explaining internet history when she's older. "When I was born, social networking was controlled by private companies. One in particular was very influential."
Nokia is facing heat at both ends of the price spectrum.
Although it continues to rank number one among handheld producers, it holds on primarily because of its dominance at the low end, where it faces significant challenges from Chinese competitors who make smaller, lighter, quicker, more capable phones at competitive prices.
http://nowtnews.com/05805/nokia-and-hp-get-back-in-the-game/
Fortunately the new CEO seems to get it. Unfortunately, he seems to believe that the answer is to team up with Microsoft. The market isn't impressed.
No horses! It moves, but there are no horses! I don't think I'll ever get used to that (note, if you think there might be small horses under the hood, open it up and prepare to be amazed.)
I don't think it would have been different in any other Canadian city. Say Calgary, for example. They sent their cops to the G20 in Toronto to help out:
The officers, who are from the Calgary police public safety unit, said the Toronto event was a chance for them to practise their crowd-control training.
"We just never have had to use those tactics to that degree in Calgary. It was a fantastic opportunity for us to test them out and show that yeah they really do work," said Pecksen.
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2010/06/28/g20-calgary-g8-police-security-protest.html
I think it would have played out pretty much the same in any Canadian city. The times they are a-changin'.
And this is Canada, we go for security through co-operation and support, rather than intimidation and manipulation.
I would have agreed with you prior to the G20 in Toronto in June. But Canada is becoming just as fascist as any other western state, maybe more so, complete with intimidation, beatings, and groundless mass arrest. You may be thinking of the old Canada, where if they wanted to abrogate rights, they had to do so legally through an act like the War Measures Act. Now they don't even bother with the legal niceties.
How I Got Arrested and Abused at the G20 in Toronto, Canada
Sounds pretty causal to me. Some say ASCII is harmless, but it just leads to Unicode, and before you know it, an epidemic of unwanted crack babies. Very sad.
Just say no to text.
Nor loss of habitat, something the article you link to also mentions.
I have a file system that allows me to create directories that I can give meaningful names.
People email me about stuff, and I used to put those into meaningfully named folders, but now I rely more on search. I email myself about stuff I want to be able to recover through search.
Years ago I wrote a simple web based calendar program that runs on my local computer. That's my home page.
That's about it. Pretty simple.
Because as Rumsfeld so sagely noted, "democracy is messy". Lets hope Jobs never runs for office and tries to set up iGovernment.
$1,068,928,721.46 ÷ 4,366,386 spam messages = $244.80 per message.
Yikes. According to the summary, it was $100 per message, plus punitive damages. Those are some punitive damages, esp. considering the per message value is punitive. Unless they believe emails are worth $100 each. In which case I should advise my correspondents to stop emailing me and just send the money instead.
Hah, jokes on me. Repeated meme blindness.