Most developed countries in Europe and Asia had a single, state owned and state run telco monopoly before the advent of cheap cell phones. Landlines were expensive and metered in these places. When I was traveling in England in the nineteen eighties I was cautioned about this. I was told I could net expect a phone in my hotel room, for example. This was the case. I think most landlines in the UK were metered back then. Telephony was cheaper and access too it was easier in the US. Again, this was long before the cell phone became cheap.
Some of us yanks know how far behind we are in the cell phone realm. The FCC is a corrupt, inept agency. Perhaps this will start to change with Obama in the White House. I'm not holding my breath.
I agree. Something similar can happen to me when I'm studying written material. I find myself serially reading individual words rather than absorbing the ideas the sentences are supposed to convey. The lecture format sucks unless there is enough time for lots of Q & A.
It's a rare professor who can make a lecture engaging, especially when it comes to technical subjects.
I doubt many ppl have been convicted of stealing WiFi. I agree that "borrowing" WiFi should not be a crime.
I keep hearing people say "they have to make it (computing) simpler" and "I just want to use my computer for email and all this other stuff just gets in the way." This attitude never lasts. People always want to do "other things" after a while. Most features are there because somebody uses them. The idiot consumer will always be with us and he doesn't want to put any effort into learning how to use his system.
I neglected to say that in my "area" the landscaping crews are all short, dark-skinned people from Central America. As As far as I know, they work their asses off and stay out of trouble.
Most European countries have such programs and by most accounts they work fine. There is nothing wrong with wanting to control the flow of people (and goods) across your borders. It is necessary.
We don't need and shouldn't allow an unlimited/unknown number of people to enter our country. Some will be criminals. Most will be economic refugees. Our economy needs some unskilled laborers but we ought to be able to devise a way to give our own citizens the incentive to take work they deem is beneath them while giving businesses incentives to hire citizens. The penalties for hiring illegal migrants are already in place. They need to be enforced.
Personally I'd be glad to see the prices for a weekly lawn mowing go up. I see lawns in my neighborhood being mowed after weeks of drought when there has been zero growth. Cheap labor leads to waste! Yes it does!
Anything that allows the app developers/vendors to avoid dealing with the quagmire that is (almost always) Windows is a boon, right? And then there's never having to port your app to another OS.
I guess speed is not such a priority when you put it that way. I do often agonize over potentially ambiguous wording. It's way too easy to be misunderstood in written communication. In a corporate setting you can't assume anyone has a vocabulary above a jr. high level.
HA! Go figure. Whenever the mainstream media reports on a worm/virus/trojan they NEVER mention that it affects only Windows machines. To CNN et al, computer == Windows so why be redundant by mentioning the OS? (J. R. Enduser can't tell MS Office from WinXP anyway.) And prolly MSFT buys lots of ad space at all the major news outlets so there would be pressure not to "emphasize" the affected platform.
My inability to touch type has hurt me in my *nix sysadmin career. People are agast at my lack of speed. (I'm often agast at their lack of grammar and spelling skills.) They wonder how I can get any work done. I think I would make fewer mistakes if I were able to touch type. In most of my gigs I have been required to respond to upwards of 20 email messages per day, and be on IRC or AIM all day as well. I should be able to type 80 wpm by now but I'm guesing it's more like 40 wpm.
Make sure you email everyone (repeated over the course of weeks) who could possibly be involved or implicated.
The owner of ccandreva's company is exceptionally enlightened. Most bosses would have a new server installed AND fire the guy caught reading the book. Or just fire the guy reading the book.
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Piracy works for the good of most! Thanks, Bram Cohen! Not that I condone or would ever steal anyone's IP.
I nominate Neil Gaiman.
And The Pope appears using his iPad to plot a gnarly road trip for Bilbo.
Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'sm in a stew.
Real men drink goat milk.
Most developed countries in Europe and Asia had a single, state owned and state run telco monopoly before the advent of cheap cell phones. Landlines were expensive and metered in these places. When I was traveling in England in the nineteen eighties I was cautioned about this. I was told I could net expect a phone in my hotel room, for example. This was the case. I think most landlines in the UK were metered back then. Telephony was cheaper and access too it was easier in the US. Again, this was long before the cell phone became cheap.
Some of us yanks know how far behind we are in the cell phone realm. The FCC is a corrupt, inept agency. Perhaps this will start to change with Obama in the White House. I'm not holding my breath.
I was bitten by a radioactive awesome.
I can taste fat chicks in party hats from a mile away.
The profs should hire spokesmodels to read the lectures? I think that's what you mean. Or did you mean they should use Penn and Teller?
HEH
I agree. Something similar can happen to me when I'm studying written material. I find myself serially reading individual words rather than absorbing the ideas the sentences are supposed to convey. The lecture format sucks unless there is enough time for lots of Q & A. It's a rare professor who can make a lecture engaging, especially when it comes to technical subjects.
I doubt many ppl have been convicted of stealing WiFi. I agree that "borrowing" WiFi should not be a crime.
I keep hearing people say "they have to make it (computing) simpler" and "I just want to use my computer for email and all this other stuff just gets in the way." This attitude never lasts. People always want to do "other things" after a while. Most features are there because somebody uses them. The idiot consumer will always be with us and he doesn't want to put any effort into learning how to use his system.
What a moronic waste of skin.
Your Windows box is a fun playground for criminals of all stripes, from script kiddies to mafiosos. Always will be.
I neglected to say that in my "area" the landscaping crews are all short, dark-skinned people from Central America. As As far as I know, they work their asses off and stay out of trouble.
Most European countries have such programs and by most accounts they work fine. There is nothing wrong with wanting to control the flow of people (and goods) across your borders. It is necessary. We don't need and shouldn't allow an unlimited/unknown number of people to enter our country. Some will be criminals. Most will be economic refugees. Our economy needs some unskilled laborers but we ought to be able to devise a way to give our own citizens the incentive to take work they deem is beneath them while giving businesses incentives to hire citizens. The penalties for hiring illegal migrants are already in place. They need to be enforced. Personally I'd be glad to see the prices for a weekly lawn mowing go up. I see lawns in my neighborhood being mowed after weeks of drought when there has been zero growth. Cheap labor leads to waste! Yes it does!
Anything that allows the app developers/vendors to avoid dealing with the quagmire that is (almost always) Windows is a boon, right? And then there's never having to port your app to another OS.
I guess speed is not such a priority when you put it that way. I do often agonize over potentially ambiguous wording. It's way too easy to be misunderstood in written communication. In a corporate setting you can't assume anyone has a vocabulary above a jr. high level.
Yeah, a tshirt like that is tantamount to tererism these says. http://www.syswear.com/sysadmin/shirt/16/in-the-time-it-took-to-read-this-
HA! Go figure. Whenever the mainstream media reports on a worm/virus/trojan they NEVER mention that it affects only Windows machines. To CNN et al, computer == Windows so why be redundant by mentioning the OS? (J. R. Enduser can't tell MS Office from WinXP anyway.) And prolly MSFT buys lots of ad space at all the major news outlets so there would be pressure not to "emphasize" the affected platform.
My inability to touch type has hurt me in my *nix sysadmin career. People are agast at my lack of speed. (I'm often agast at their lack of grammar and spelling skills.) They wonder how I can get any work done. I think I would make fewer mistakes if I were able to touch type. In most of my gigs I have been required to respond to upwards of 20 email messages per day, and be on IRC or AIM all day as well. I should be able to type 80 wpm by now but I'm guesing it's more like 40 wpm.
Why would you want to believe the marketing droids? Their job is to create demand, and they always have an agenda.
Your comment is doubleplus good!
Except that it would be East Asia.
Make sure you email everyone (repeated over the course of weeks) who could possibly be involved or implicated.
The owner of ccandreva's company is exceptionally enlightened. Most bosses would have a new server installed AND fire the guy caught reading the book. Or just fire the guy reading the book.
I want to strangle every Windows user I meet.