Of course, given your email address, one could say that you might be slightly biased in the opposite direction:-p but yes, thanks for the info there afterwords. quite educational.
I think you may very well be the only person I have ever seen state that Microsoft Windows "just works," or that Mac is unfriendly.
Windows 9x was a piece of crap. 2000/XP are quite nice, though I am glad I don't administer them professionally.
MacOS confused the shit out of me because it lacked a CLI of any note prior to OSX, but I wouldn't say that it was "unfriendly."
But all the time I spent as a kid trying to get games to work on Windows 95, when they were made for Windows 95, "Just Works" is not something that I would use to label it then.
Mussolini never said nor wrote that, nor did Giovani Gentile, so I'm not sure where this quote comes from.
Likewise, in Italian Fascism, "corporation" means a vertical trade union, like a syndicate, and is akin to guild socialism. The people at the top of the corporation are the "masters" and the people at the bottom are the "apprentices" with varying levels of competancy in between.
Votes for the Chamber of Deputies are then done by occupation -- so the transportation syndicate is comprised of airline and rail workers, for instance. They then vote for members to represent them in the parliament.
Only people who are experts in their field craft laws and regulations, which are then given to approval. The "dictator" then has ultimate responsibility to carry it out.
Frankly, it sounds a hell of a lot better than our current popularity contest that leads to lawyers from dairy country trying to pass laws regarded IT policy, for instance.
Not that I'm a fascist, I just read everything about them I could get out of my university library 'cause i didn't have tv.
If you can design the logic circuits, you should be able to code. Had "computer science" even been developed as an independent discipline when they were building the Apollo guidance systems? I don't know the answer to that.
I agree with the rest of the statement though. I think that the real problem is that too many departments are teaching using Java and the like, which are "industry standards" because too many students are looking at computer science as a gateway to a career coding JBoss apps for a bank, or working in IT -- basically a 4 year trade school.
Computer Science has about as much to do with IT as mechanical engineering has to do with working in a lube shop. Sure, you could do it -- but you should have been taught to do a whole hell of a lot more. If all you want to do, or can do, is the trade aspect then I'm not sure that an extended education in what is essentially applied mathematics is really the route to go, and those who want that advanced theoretical knowledge shouldn't have to have their class time watered down by the kid who is still in.com mode.
Then again, what the hell do it know. *goes back to working in Quark*
I didn't say convincing people not to buy iPhones would be easy -- just that it would be easier than explaining to them why this law would be bad. I'm also not going to try and convince people not to buy an iPhone. personally, I don't want one no matter what. I tried a friend's one time, and it bothered the hell out of me. Same with the Blackberry.
No, everything wrong with the world is caused by irrational people. There tend to be a lot of irrational people on both sides. Irrational lefties are more concerned with how you "feel," for instance. They are more concerned with intentions than outcome.
Irrational Conservatives think that everyone night like them is going to go to hell and think GOP stands for God's Own Party.
I think that about 80% of people on either side are irrational, and frankly I would rather talk to/be represented by someone I disagree with who at least can map out the thought process that lead to their conclusions rather than some knee-jerk liberal/conservative who thinks that being pro-environment means you also have to want to tax the rich and ban guns, or vice versa.
Anyway, we're getting dangerously OT now, so I'll shut up.
Those are all recent "issues." Historically, if you want to rile people up its tax, life and guns. the gays are in there, too. At least those are what the republicans use.
the democrats use the reciprocals of those, then throw in stuff like random black panther prisoners and cop killers, but only if they're trying to play to the "youth vote" that week.
Don't you think that it might send a bigger message if, for example, Obama could come to the floor with a list and/or recordings of say, 15-20000 phone calls saying that they're switching parties to vote for him because of bullshit legislation like this?
Playing to your own base is one thing. Playing to the enemy by showing you're up in their base, stealing all their votes is quite another -- and that's the sort of show stopper.
Who says you even have to actually be a Republican. Just call and say you're switching parities because of it. Then call your legislator and say the same.
ATT is one of the companies at the center of this whole thing. The iPhone is pretty much the only compelling reason to switch to ATT, and convincing people that its actually a piece of crap and that can do better is probably easier than trying to explain to them why this legislation is bad.
The rest of his comment implies that he tends to the right of center -- an area of the political spectrum where NPR is not exactly loved and any information which backs up their preconceived notions, no matter what the topic is, is viewed as being "out of place."
Of course, I used to be one of those people, too. I started out listening to NPR because I liked classical and jazz music... eventually the news wore on me and I realized that I had been sort of a dick prior. Now I really like NPR news.
Because each generation of "software guy" becomes n+1 generations removed from being a hardware guy himself. That is to say, the tools become "better" to make programming "easier" for people who aren't also electrical engineers.
I have spent my whole life living in the shadow of first-strike targets for nuclear wars. I grew up near the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, where they keep the nukes for the Atlantic fleet. I now live 5 miles from the Pentagon. My apartment complex has a fallout shelter in the basement. I'm not even military, I just end up near these places.
When I was 18, I had to be radiation-worker certified for an internship.
If there is one thing I do not fear, its nuclear power stations. I say build more of them as well, and I wouldn't mind living near one. There are more dangerous places to be.
As anyone who has seen "Scarface" can tell you, you don't get high off your own supply. If Iran had nuclear power stations, they wouldn't need to burn petrol for electricity. That would mean that they would have more to sell abroad. Increased supply would lead to decreased prices.
I am therefor in support of Iranian nuclear technology.
I was +5 insightful for a while, which I thought was funny because I said it as a joke - although I'm affraid that it's all too true.
Sad thing is, they don't even have to try as hard anymore as they used to. TV makes it too easy. Goebbels had some skills; Hannity et all are just a sworm of lowest-common-denominator shills. "Propagandist" is too good of a word for those hacks.
I assume that his decision to stop watching movies is based on not having had good experiences with them in the past, and therefor more or less giving up.
I don't see a lot of films these days either, unless its something that sounds really, really awesome -- and that is rare. I am looking forward to the next Bond though.
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Of course, given your email address, one could say that you might be slightly biased in the opposite direction :-p but yes, thanks for the info there afterwords. quite educational.
because they felt like it? because the gpl 3 is even more of a political statement than v2 and they didn't want to be a part of it?
I think you may very well be the only person I have ever seen state that Microsoft Windows "just works," or that Mac is unfriendly.
Windows 9x was a piece of crap. 2000/XP are quite nice, though I am glad I don't administer them professionally.
MacOS confused the shit out of me because it lacked a CLI of any note prior to OSX, but I wouldn't say that it was "unfriendly."
But all the time I spent as a kid trying to get games to work on Windows 95, when they were made for Windows 95, "Just Works" is not something that I would use to label it then.
Mussolini never said nor wrote that, nor did Giovani Gentile, so I'm not sure where this quote comes from.
Likewise, in Italian Fascism, "corporation" means a vertical trade union, like a syndicate, and is akin to guild socialism. The people at the top of the corporation are the "masters" and the people at the bottom are the "apprentices" with varying levels of competancy in between.
Votes for the Chamber of Deputies are then done by occupation -- so the transportation syndicate is comprised of airline and rail workers, for instance. They then vote for members to represent them in the parliament.
Only people who are experts in their field craft laws and regulations, which are then given to approval. The "dictator" then has ultimate responsibility to carry it out.
Frankly, it sounds a hell of a lot better than our current popularity contest that leads to lawyers from dairy country trying to pass laws regarded IT policy, for instance.
Not that I'm a fascist, I just read everything about them I could get out of my university library 'cause i didn't have tv.
Yeah, but the Newton wasn't just a handheld, it was fruit and cake!
wait...
I was trying to play off of "up in ur base, killin all ur d00dz" or whatever when I said it, so its ok. Go and make your joke, too.
If you can design the logic circuits, you should be able to code. Had "computer science" even been developed as an independent discipline when they were building the Apollo guidance systems? I don't know the answer to that.
.com mode.
I agree with the rest of the statement though. I think that the real problem is that too many departments are teaching using Java and the like, which are "industry standards" because too many students are looking at computer science as a gateway to a career coding JBoss apps for a bank, or working in IT -- basically a 4 year trade school.
Computer Science has about as much to do with IT as mechanical engineering has to do with working in a lube shop. Sure, you could do it -- but you should have been taught to do a whole hell of a lot more. If all you want to do, or can do, is the trade aspect then I'm not sure that an extended education in what is essentially applied mathematics is really the route to go, and those who want that advanced theoretical knowledge shouldn't have to have their class time watered down by the kid who is still in
Then again, what the hell do it know. *goes back to working in Quark*
I didn't say convincing people not to buy iPhones would be easy -- just that it would be easier than explaining to them why this law would be bad. I'm also not going to try and convince people not to buy an iPhone. personally, I don't want one no matter what. I tried a friend's one time, and it bothered the hell out of me. Same with the Blackberry.
No, everything wrong with the world is caused by irrational people. There tend to be a lot of irrational people on both sides. Irrational lefties are more concerned with how you "feel," for instance. They are more concerned with intentions than outcome.
Irrational Conservatives think that everyone night like them is going to go to hell and think GOP stands for God's Own Party.
I think that about 80% of people on either side are irrational, and frankly I would rather talk to/be represented by someone I disagree with who at least can map out the thought process that lead to their conclusions rather than some knee-jerk liberal/conservative who thinks that being pro-environment means you also have to want to tax the rich and ban guns, or vice versa.
Anyway, we're getting dangerously OT now, so I'll shut up.
Those are all recent "issues." Historically, if you want to rile people up its tax, life and guns. the gays are in there, too. At least those are what the republicans use.
the democrats use the reciprocals of those, then throw in stuff like random black panther prisoners and cop killers, but only if they're trying to play to the "youth vote" that week.
Don't you think that it might send a bigger message if, for example, Obama could come to the floor with a list and/or recordings of say, 15-20000 phone calls saying that they're switching parties to vote for him because of bullshit legislation like this?
Playing to your own base is one thing. Playing to the enemy by showing you're up in their base, stealing all their votes is quite another -- and that's the sort of show stopper.
Who says you even have to actually be a Republican. Just call and say you're switching parities because of it. Then call your legislator and say the same.
ATT is one of the companies at the center of this whole thing. The iPhone is pretty much the only compelling reason to switch to ATT, and convincing people that its actually a piece of crap and that can do better is probably easier than trying to explain to them why this legislation is bad.
No -- they care when its their freedom to:
1) own guns
2) have abortions
3) ban guns
4) ban abortions
5) have a gay marraige
6) ban a gay marriage
nothing else is going to active a critical mass of loud people to form a permanent bloc in the legislature.
At least not in America. But hey, at least this time the politicos can say "but Sweeden is doing it, too!"
The rest of his comment implies that he tends to the right of center -- an area of the political spectrum where NPR is not exactly loved and any information which backs up their preconceived notions, no matter what the topic is, is viewed as being "out of place."
Of course, I used to be one of those people, too. I started out listening to NPR because I liked classical and jazz music... eventually the news wore on me and I realized that I had been sort of a dick prior. Now I really like NPR news.
Because each generation of "software guy" becomes n+1 generations removed from being a hardware guy himself. That is to say, the tools become "better" to make programming "easier" for people who aren't also electrical engineers.
At least, if I had to guess, that's what I'd say.
I have spent my whole life living in the shadow of first-strike targets for nuclear wars. I grew up near the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station, where they keep the nukes for the Atlantic fleet. I now live 5 miles from the Pentagon. My apartment complex has a fallout shelter in the basement. I'm not even military, I just end up near these places.
When I was 18, I had to be radiation-worker certified for an internship.
If there is one thing I do not fear, its nuclear power stations. I say build more of them as well, and I wouldn't mind living near one. There are more dangerous places to be.
As anyone who has seen "Scarface" can tell you, you don't get high off your own supply. If Iran had nuclear power stations, they wouldn't need to burn petrol for electricity. That would mean that they would have more to sell abroad. Increased supply would lead to decreased prices.
I am therefor in support of Iranian nuclear technology.
no, mostly just from the left.
I was +5 insightful for a while, which I thought was funny because I said it as a joke - although I'm affraid that it's all too true.
Sad thing is, they don't even have to try as hard anymore as they used to. TV makes it too easy. Goebbels had some skills; Hannity et all are just a sworm of lowest-common-denominator shills. "Propagandist" is too good of a word for those hacks.
I assume that his decision to stop watching movies is based on not having had good experiences with them in the past, and therefor more or less giving up.
I don't see a lot of films these days either, unless its something that sounds really, really awesome -- and that is rare. I am looking forward to the next Bond though.
Yeah, I know the numbers are BS. They aren't based on anything real, and I probably didn't even capitalize correctly.
Ben Stein?
No... wait.. the other guy!
But only pot dealers. Cocaine and heroin come in metric... or so i've heard.