You have a choice whether or not to have jobs/devote time to your family. They don't. You may claim that you are forced to take a job because of your financial circumstances, and hence you don't have a choice, but what about them? Those who are cash strapped can't even go to university because they can't pick up jobs to pay their way through. You seem to be suffering from a case of selection bias, foreign students appear to be favoured because those who *aren't* don't go to college and aren't covered by your survey.
This strikes me as a blatant abuse of the wiki system. Wikis are primarily for pages where only one definitive version is required, eg. encyclopedia articles or documentation pages. If you're looking to solicit various opinions on what the law should be like, then why would they use a wiki? If I think X should be on the law and someone else thinks it doesn't then whose edit is correct? There will be a lot of edit wars that cannot be resolved simply because there is no "correct answer".
If I wanted to find out what fruit people liked would I start a wiki with the title "What is your favourite fruit"? The first person would come along and write "banana", and then the next person would erase that and write "apple", then "orange", etc. and anyone who saw the page would not know what fruit most people really liked, all they would know is the favourite fruit of the last person who happened to edit the wiki.
If you think getting into MIT as an American is hard think how much harder it is for foreign students. I have a friend who went to MIT and she was the only person in the whole country in her year who managed to get in.
They should write a virus that uses exploits to install stuff like Folding@Home etc. If people pose a nuisance/danger to others in real life they get fined/jailed, if they pose a nuisance/danger online by letting their computers be compromised then they should face "punishment" by "fining" them part of their CPU power.
It's a real pity you have to be at least 18 to enter the Championship round. I have a friend who finished in the top 10 in Qualifying last year, but he was only 16 so he wasn't allowed to take part in the Championship round.
My mom told me if I didn't save money that I would be the man who had to walk to work because he blew it on a game system instead of preparing for an accident from his car or saving for my retirement.
Your game system costs as much as a car plus your whole nest egg?
I didn't know the PS3 was out already.
They seem to be expanding into new product areas all the time. Search, blogs, maps, email, Picasa, now this. They're trying to take over the world!!! I haven't used this program before so I dunno how good it is, but the Google Earth functionality sounds really cool.
The difference between digital media and other goods is that, for the latter, the price is determined by the cost of production and distribution plus extra which is kept as a profit. Digital media however, has zero production and distribution cost (for each individual download i mean), hence the price is entirely determined by what the record companies think is the optimum price, cheap enough for people to buy, expensive as possible to earn as much money. This means that in a third world country, the optimum price might be 10 times lower than the optimum price in a first world country. In order to make as much money as possible they have to price their downloads differently in different countries - selling it at first world prices everywhere would mean they lose out on profits in less well-off countries, selling it as third world prices mean they don't earn enough in first world countries. That's why they are so intent on limiting downloads accross digital borders. And hence, measures such as region encoding.
Does this mean that if I read out copies of Harry Potter over the radio (someone was sued for doing that some years ago), it's within my rights, since I have a right to free speech?
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You have a choice whether or not to have jobs/devote time to your family. They don't. You may claim that you are forced to take a job because of your financial circumstances, and hence you don't have a choice, but what about them? Those who are cash strapped can't even go to university because they can't pick up jobs to pay their way through. You seem to be suffering from a case of selection bias, foreign students appear to be favoured because those who *aren't* don't go to college and aren't covered by your survey.
This strikes me as a blatant abuse of the wiki system. Wikis are primarily for pages where only one definitive version is required, eg. encyclopedia articles or documentation pages. If you're looking to solicit various opinions on what the law should be like, then why would they use a wiki? If I think X should be on the law and someone else thinks it doesn't then whose edit is correct? There will be a lot of edit wars that cannot be resolved simply because there is no "correct answer". If I wanted to find out what fruit people liked would I start a wiki with the title "What is your favourite fruit"? The first person would come along and write "banana", and then the next person would erase that and write "apple", then "orange", etc. and anyone who saw the page would not know what fruit most people really liked, all they would know is the favourite fruit of the last person who happened to edit the wiki.
In the same vein no company really makes anything. They contract that out to factory workers to do it for them.
If you think getting into MIT as an American is hard think how much harder it is for foreign students. I have a friend who went to MIT and she was the only person in the whole country in her year who managed to get in.
Shouldn't they warn customers before turning off the servers? So they have time to salvage all their stuff?
They should write a virus that uses exploits to install stuff like Folding@Home etc. If people pose a nuisance/danger to others in real life they get fined/jailed, if they pose a nuisance/danger online by letting their computers be compromised then they should face "punishment" by "fining" them part of their CPU power.
I doubt extracting DNA and comparing it against a central database will become as fast as examining an identity card anytime in the near future.
If it's cured it won't be common anymore, will it?
Why not just uninstall Norton AV? You fixed the problem of being lagged out of games by installing an OS which wouldn't even let you play them?
It's a real pity you have to be at least 18 to enter the Championship round. I have a friend who finished in the top 10 in Qualifying last year, but he was only 16 so he wasn't allowed to take part in the Championship round.
Scientific experiments, etc. etc.
My mom told me if I didn't save money that I would be the man who had to walk to work because he blew it on a game system instead of preparing for an accident from his car or saving for my retirement.
Your game system costs as much as a car plus your whole nest egg? I didn't know the PS3 was out already.
Obviously they would claim the HTML produced is "not bad". What do you expect them to say? "Our program is terrible, don't bother using it."
They seem to be expanding into new product areas all the time. Search, blogs, maps, email, Picasa, now this. They're trying to take over the world!!! I haven't used this program before so I dunno how good it is, but the Google Earth functionality sounds really cool.
The difference between digital media and other goods is that, for the latter, the price is determined by the cost of production and distribution plus extra which is kept as a profit. Digital media however, has zero production and distribution cost (for each individual download i mean), hence the price is entirely determined by what the record companies think is the optimum price, cheap enough for people to buy, expensive as possible to earn as much money. This means that in a third world country, the optimum price might be 10 times lower than the optimum price in a first world country. In order to make as much money as possible they have to price their downloads differently in different countries - selling it at first world prices everywhere would mean they lose out on profits in less well-off countries, selling it as third world prices mean they don't earn enough in first world countries. That's why they are so intent on limiting downloads accross digital borders. And hence, measures such as region encoding.
Does this mean that if I read out copies of Harry Potter over the radio (someone was sued for doing that some years ago), it's within my rights, since I have a right to free speech?