First of all, all students have to inform themselves before they pay for their education. Trina Thompson from the Bronx should have asked herself before studying: "Is this the best school I can afford". America's private universities are high standard, but also hardly affordable for most people. This is very different in some other countries, where public universities are internationally known for their almost as high standard and also being much more affordable: Germany, The Netherlands, and a lot of other European Countries. If she had done some research in beforehand where to study, she would find herself more likely in a different situation. But then again she probably is better off sueing her parents because nature and nurture probably made her so stupid
Secondly, there is no guarantee. It's not the spoon that bends, it's the mind. It's what students make of their education and the rest of their lifes, or to be more precisely what they make of their selves. If students are only interested in stuff from the curriculum, they will create their own guarantee they will not find work and end up working for MacDonalds. Ivy universities are no guarantee for work, however such universities makes sure that they don't have stupid students who only follow the curriculum. Graduates who don't mind their own attitude and passion are too stupid to be selected in job interviews. And even if someone is that stupid, even they should be just smart enough to know that. I wonder if she even knows what the American Dream actually means. I do and I am not even American.
Finally, I think she sues for a too tiny sum. $72,000 is hardly enough to live on for the rest of her life, since now she got the publicity. She will be lucky to have anyone (even MacDonalds) to hire her. I pitty her, and for most the New York's Monroe College and every student that graduated there because of all the bad publicity.
Nicholas Negroponte has proved a visionary and a thoughtleader in his field "Being Digital", he has to be credited for that. The OLPC was a nice idea. However clearly he doesn't have any talent for leadership and management. For leaders it would be better not to wine about what went wrong, or how people messed up. He should be clever enough to have learned his lessons, do what he's good at and looking to the future instead of the past. That past has become increasingly boring. It is hard to believe anyone is interested in Nicholas bitter stories.
Linus makes a point by stating open source serves selfish reasons, people scratching their own itches. However a lot of people scratch itches which Microsoft couldn't, Open Office and Firefox are one of those results. In some way open source was a movement against the usage of propriety software and their propriety issues. In fact, lots of OSS people consider Microsoft to be a monument of corporations with propriety software issues. When some OSS alternative to Microsofts' software is developed, the appearance has been often a lookalike of Microsoft software equivalent. So in many ways people still measure their success by developing an alternative to existing Microsoft software. Even if some notebook with linux preinstalled is offered to consumers, they compare it to what they are used to (mostly microsoft stuff).
The OSS community doesn't need to look so much to what Microsoft is doing, besides some operatibility issues related to Microsoft technologies. OSS products stand in their own right. My company server and client software runs on open source software if I didn't read so much about "microsoft hatred" I almost forgot about Microsoft completely. Microsoft has a reputation, it is their responsible how it's users feel about their products and company. For some people Microsofts reputation is enough to give people the itches, which they tend to scratch with developing or implementing open source software. It would surprise me if not most developers find them selves in that situation when Linux was still very young
Hardware support for GNU/Linux has been a big issue in the past and some of it still remains. Any attempt to have full hardware support for Linux can only be something to embrace and to be enthousiastic about. Isn't this we always hoped for? Allthough Microsofts' reputation not being the most trustworthy company may be true, it doesn't mean the OSS world has to fear them. They will simply not succeed to do any harm to linux, even when it was all they were after. OSS has become a modern and mature platform which will grow slowly but steadily into mainstream in many markets. It will gain momentum as more and more businesses try to use it for their goals, like Google, Apple. Small starting companies will get a foothold in the software industry since they don't have to develop a complete operating system and are able to modify the OSS operating system how they see fit. TomTom is also a company which has gained considerable marketshare in short time also thanks to Linux. For those it may seem right to compare the linux "business model" to that of microsoft. As OSS users we have not so much to be hatred about, do we?
To make your own life easier buck a 19"rack and use some extenders to put in your existing non-19-inch-stuff (DIY or buy). Actually I started buying non 19" stuff years ago. I have my patchpanel, 1000Mbit Switch, 1000Mbit Synology RS407 and all the other stuff in a nice rack from Kell systems very cool, quiet and sleek!! And cable management is very well organisable for these racks.
FORTRAN's tragic fate has been its wide acceptance, mentally chaining thousands and thousands of programmers to our past mistakes.
When FORTRAN has been called an infantile disorder, full PL/1, with its growth characteristics of a dangerous tumor, could turn out to be a fatal disease.
FORTRAN, 'the infantile disorder', by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use.
In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included.
We should beware of popular reports of scientific discoveries: almost all the popular reports of FOXP2 claimed that it was the gene for language or even more ludicrously the gene for grammar - the truth is more complicated and far more interesting than that.
No-one should imagine that the development of language relied exclusively on a single mutation in FOXP2. They are many other changes that enable speech. Not least of these are profound anatomical changes that make the human supralarygeal pathway entirely different from any other mammal. The larynx has descended so that it provides a resonant column for speech (but, as an unfortunate side-effect, predisposes humans to choking on food). Also, the nasal cavity can be closed thus preventing vowels from being nasalised and thus increasing their comprehensibility. These changes cannot have happened over such a short period as 100,000 years. Furthermore the genetic basis for language will be found to involve many more genes that influence both cognitive and motor skills
Human mind needs human cognition and human cognition relies on human speech. Ultimately, we will find great insight from further unravelling the evolutionary roots of human speech.
The open source community will be annoyed by not having a cool garbage collector for their open source Java. This probably means that some talented slashdotter will see the challenge of building an open, coole and better garbage collector.
The CEO of Sony is clearly not an entrepreneur (from the next generation). There are many opportunities commercially and culturally because of the freedom the internet provides. I think he is very theoretic, he would be wise to adapt to this reality.
Blue screen of death revisited. Better maintain those firewall, antivirus and windows updates again; a botnet of those 12000 bots does give a new meaning to 'software glitch'.
the company doesn't need the bond proceeds "unless they have something big in mind,"
Microsoft likes to play monopoly. Balmer threw the dice and got the following chance card:"Make general repairs on all your property - for each house pay $25 [25] - for each hotel $100 [100]".
I think the article has a dogmatic approach and lacks the bigger picture.
If consumers feel they have to less choice / have to settle with too less bang for their buck then there is an itch to scratch. If the itch is nasty enough to be relevant either the market provides a cost beneficial way to scratch that itch or people get mad as hell and do it themselves. If you want to scratch your own itch with code you write yourself, you know how to scratch it best. If GPL does it, fine. If my propriety license does it, fine too. If some Developer religion suits you, who gives. There is choice how to scratch an itch, and that's what counts.
It's not just only that - as other slashdotters pointed out - many games do monetize war and games are an artistic form of expression and it only speaks for them to have researched both sides of the war. It's also a statement surprising to come from a game company. I'll guess we'll never see any wargame again from Konami, unless Konami is naive about wars (and games) in general.
It was in 1999 I first installed linux (i believe it was redhat). After several failed attempts to immediately get all the hardware running during install, I chose to do a bare install. So when the distro was on my box I tried to compile the kernel, drawing my install useless. After many attempts (and many weeks later) I got it right and used it to do fun stuff with bash. I browsed with lynx (I sometimes still like to do). The first useful thing I did was learn programming C on linux. And I still think linux is the greates power user / developer OS.
The feeling of being secure or comfortable is an illusion and also a state of mind. As an entrepreneur I always ask myself the question. The question was my enemy while working for a boss, but now "what next?" is my best friend. I have all the freedom to decide "what next?". It has become my job to think "what next?".
Your question: "Should I do my masters at the same school or another" can be simplified to "what next?". When you ask any question that can be simplified to "what's next" this means you are looking outside the comfortzone to something new, otherwise you wouldn't ask yourself the question. My advice: if you as yourself "what next?" get out the comfortzone and find out. Just do it.
Two things are always attached to this question: "what purpose?" and "what people?". I don't refer only to business goals of my clients or their clients, who inspires me and who can I inspire to join me on my exploration. Being a part of a network, a community. Having mentors and people with fresh ideas around me.
To walk on new ground takes selfconfidence, selfknowledge and even more lots of courage. But feel safe with the idea that your passion is always your compass that point to the direction where you go in life. You can ignore or hack that compass, but it's quite hard to cheat your own passion, most people end up with regrets later.
Wouldn't it be great to have new people and new ideas around you? If that answer is only just half a yes. No ifs, buts and maybe's about it. Explore! Just do it!
I worked at a company where there were much more people leaving than coming in. This wasn't intended. Most valuable people walked out, young people walked out (average retention 1,5) , no trainees stayed. People didn't really care stayed. Everyone complained about the bureaucracy (and this for a firm with the size of 300 employees).
A lot of those employees sended messages. There were a lot of messages boiled down to people saying they had problems identifying with the company.
In the beginning people mocked about the unprofessionalism, but as the number of messages became larger, people started talking about it.
I wasn't very happy with the bureaucracy either and also didn't like the chaos and negative atmosphere.
At some point I got yet another email of someone leaving and complaining. I just resigned after 1,5 years working there. Leaving the same kind of message. Just after I left I got an invitation for an interview from someone who had just left the company a couple of months ago for a competitor.
In the end the company merged ith another. It wouldn't surprise me if the virus would spread out there too. I am so happy I am an entrepreneur now.
There are many different user goals, even so different devices and software which runs on those. The mobility market is very much in the news, and so do smaller/shrunken OS'es. There are many different distro's so it's nonsence to do such claim. Windows 7 is only just runnable on netbooks. Windows 7 doesn't run on smaller mobile devices (comparable with let us say an Iphone). I would rather say flexibility is getting more attention of those who design OS'es. This helps customers to make better use of their devices. This a great thing, a lot of people buy gadgets they do not use because they're not practical or not usable.
I use names based on the comic "Asterix and Obelix" for Unix servers, names of famous crooks and designers (repectively for windows and apple computers). All characters in Asterix end with ix, and the other naming schemes are evident.
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First of all, all students have to inform themselves before they pay for their education. Trina Thompson from the Bronx should have asked herself before studying: "Is this the best school I can afford". America's private universities are high standard, but also hardly affordable for most people. This is very different in some other countries, where public universities are internationally known for their almost as high standard and also being much more affordable: Germany, The Netherlands, and a lot of other European Countries. If she had done some research in beforehand where to study, she would find herself more likely in a different situation. But then again she probably is better off sueing her parents because nature and nurture probably made her so stupid
Secondly, there is no guarantee. It's not the spoon that bends, it's the mind. It's what students make of their education and the rest of their lifes, or to be more precisely what they make of their selves. If students are only interested in stuff from the curriculum, they will create their own guarantee they will not find work and end up working for MacDonalds. Ivy universities are no guarantee for work, however such universities makes sure that they don't have stupid students who only follow the curriculum. Graduates who don't mind their own attitude and passion are too stupid to be selected in job interviews. And even if someone is that stupid, even they should be just smart enough to know that. I wonder if she even knows what the American Dream actually means. I do and I am not even American.
Finally, I think she sues for a too tiny sum. $72,000 is hardly enough to live on for the rest of her life, since now she got the publicity. She will be lucky to have anyone (even MacDonalds) to hire her. I pitty her, and for most the New York's Monroe College and every student that graduated there because of all the bad publicity.
Nicholas Negroponte has proved a visionary and a thoughtleader in his field "Being Digital", he has to be credited for that. The OLPC was a nice idea. However clearly he doesn't have any talent for leadership and management. For leaders it would be better not to wine about what went wrong, or how people messed up. He should be clever enough to have learned his lessons, do what he's good at and looking to the future instead of the past. That past has become increasingly boring. It is hard to believe anyone is interested in Nicholas bitter stories.
Linus makes a point by stating open source serves selfish reasons, people scratching their own itches. However a lot of people scratch itches which Microsoft couldn't, Open Office and Firefox are one of those results. In some way open source was a movement against the usage of propriety software and their propriety issues. In fact, lots of OSS people consider Microsoft to be a monument of corporations with propriety software issues. When some OSS alternative to Microsofts' software is developed, the appearance has been often a lookalike of Microsoft software equivalent. So in many ways people still measure their success by developing an alternative to existing Microsoft software. Even if some notebook with linux preinstalled is offered to consumers, they compare it to what they are used to (mostly microsoft stuff).
The OSS community doesn't need to look so much to what Microsoft is doing, besides some operatibility issues related to Microsoft technologies. OSS products stand in their own right. My company server and client software runs on open source software if I didn't read so much about "microsoft hatred" I almost forgot about Microsoft completely. Microsoft has a reputation, it is their responsible how it's users feel about their products and company. For some people Microsofts reputation is enough to give people the itches, which they tend to scratch with developing or implementing open source software. It would surprise me if not most developers find them selves in that situation when Linux was still very young
Hardware support for GNU/Linux has been a big issue in the past and some of it still remains. Any attempt to have full hardware support for Linux can only be something to embrace and to be enthousiastic about. Isn't this we always hoped for? Allthough Microsofts' reputation not being the most trustworthy company may be true, it doesn't mean the OSS world has to fear them. They will simply not succeed to do any harm to linux, even when it was all they were after. OSS has become a modern and mature platform which will grow slowly but steadily into mainstream in many markets. It will gain momentum as more and more businesses try to use it for their goals, like Google, Apple. Small starting companies will get a foothold in the software industry since they don't have to develop a complete operating system and are able to modify the OSS operating system how they see fit. TomTom is also a company which has gained considerable marketshare in short time also thanks to Linux. For those it may seem right to compare the linux "business model" to that of microsoft. As OSS users we have not so much to be hatred about, do we?
To make your own life easier buck a 19"rack and use some extenders to put in your existing non-19-inch-stuff (DIY or buy). Actually I started buying non 19" stuff years ago. I have my patchpanel, 1000Mbit Switch, 1000Mbit Synology RS407 and all the other stuff in a nice rack from Kell systems very cool, quiet and sleek!! And cable management is very well organisable for these racks.
We should beware of popular reports of scientific discoveries: almost all the popular reports of FOXP2 claimed that it was the gene for language or even more ludicrously the gene for grammar - the truth is more complicated and far more interesting than that.
No-one should imagine that the development of language relied exclusively on a single mutation in FOXP2. They are many other changes that enable speech. Not least of these are profound anatomical changes that make the human supralarygeal pathway entirely different from any other mammal. The larynx has descended so that it provides a resonant column for speech (but, as an unfortunate side-effect, predisposes humans to choking on food). Also, the nasal cavity can be closed thus preventing vowels from being nasalised and thus increasing their comprehensibility. These changes cannot have happened over such a short period as 100,000 years. Furthermore the genetic basis for language will be found to involve many more genes that influence both cognitive and motor skills
Human mind needs human cognition and human cognition relies on human speech. Ultimately, we will find great insight from further unravelling the evolutionary roots of human speech.
The open source community will be annoyed by not having a cool garbage collector for their open source Java. This probably means that some talented slashdotter will see the challenge of building an open, coole and better garbage collector.
I hope that when this stuff becomes commercial, it's all backed by a guarantee of 1 billion year.
The CEO of Sony is clearly not an entrepreneur (from the next generation). There are many opportunities commercially and culturally because of the freedom the internet provides. I think he is very theoretic, he would be wise to adapt to this reality.
Earth to Major Tom: "we've trying to contact you whole day, to tell you the urine and sweat recycler has been broken whole day, please fix it'
Blue screen of death revisited. Better maintain those firewall, antivirus and windows updates again; a botnet of those 12000 bots does give a new meaning to 'software glitch'.
the company doesn't need the bond proceeds "unless they have something big in mind,"
Microsoft likes to play monopoly. Balmer threw the dice and got the following chance card:"Make general repairs on all your property - for each house pay $25 [25] - for each hotel $100 [100]".
Do I hear any bids?
The swedish chiefs did raise it, bork bork bork.
sorry, I did.
I think the article has a dogmatic approach and lacks the bigger picture.
If consumers feel they have to less choice / have to settle with too less bang for their buck then there is an itch to scratch. If the itch is nasty enough to be relevant either the market provides a cost beneficial way to scratch that itch or people get mad as hell and do it themselves. If you want to scratch your own itch with code you write yourself, you know how to scratch it best. If GPL does it, fine. If my propriety license does it, fine too. If some Developer religion suits you, who gives. There is choice how to scratch an itch, and that's what counts.
It's not just only that - as other slashdotters pointed out - many games do monetize war and games are an artistic form of expression and it only speaks for them to have researched both sides of the war. It's also a statement surprising to come from a game company. I'll guess we'll never see any wargame again from Konami, unless Konami is naive about wars (and games) in general.
It was in 1999 I first installed linux (i believe it was redhat). After several failed attempts to immediately get all the hardware running during install, I chose to do a bare install. So when the distro was on my box I tried to compile the kernel, drawing my install useless. After many attempts (and many weeks later) I got it right and used it to do fun stuff with bash. I browsed with lynx (I sometimes still like to do). The first useful thing I did was learn programming C on linux. And I still think linux is the greates power user / developer OS.
It's wishful thinking that may explain quantum theory.
The feeling of being secure or comfortable is an illusion and also a state of mind. As an entrepreneur I always ask myself the question. The question was my enemy while working for a boss, but now "what next?" is my best friend. I have all the freedom to decide "what next?". It has become my job to think "what next?". Your question: "Should I do my masters at the same school or another" can be simplified to "what next?". When you ask any question that can be simplified to "what's next" this means you are looking outside the comfortzone to something new, otherwise you wouldn't ask yourself the question. My advice: if you as yourself "what next?" get out the comfortzone and find out. Just do it. Two things are always attached to this question: "what purpose?" and "what people?". I don't refer only to business goals of my clients or their clients, who inspires me and who can I inspire to join me on my exploration. Being a part of a network, a community. Having mentors and people with fresh ideas around me. To walk on new ground takes selfconfidence, selfknowledge and even more lots of courage. But feel safe with the idea that your passion is always your compass that point to the direction where you go in life. You can ignore or hack that compass, but it's quite hard to cheat your own passion, most people end up with regrets later. Wouldn't it be great to have new people and new ideas around you? If that answer is only just half a yes. No ifs, buts and maybe's about it. Explore! Just do it!
Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything = 42
I worked at a company where there were much more people leaving than coming in. This wasn't intended. Most valuable people walked out, young people walked out (average retention 1,5) , no trainees stayed. People didn't really care stayed. Everyone complained about the bureaucracy (and this for a firm with the size of 300 employees).
A lot of those employees sended messages. There were a lot of messages boiled down to people saying they had problems identifying with the company. In the beginning people mocked about the unprofessionalism, but as the number of messages became larger, people started talking about it.
I wasn't very happy with the bureaucracy either and also didn't like the chaos and negative atmosphere.
At some point I got yet another email of someone leaving and complaining. I just resigned after 1,5 years working there. Leaving the same kind of message. Just after I left I got an invitation for an interview from someone who had just left the company a couple of months ago for a competitor.
In the end the company merged ith another. It wouldn't surprise me if the virus would spread out there too. I am so happy I am an entrepreneur now.
Ardbeg The Lord Of The Isles 25 Yrs old But Laphroig 15 Yrs is also a winner. To be honest, no other whisky beats the peat of a neat Islay whisky.
There are many different user goals, even so different devices and software which runs on those. The mobility market is very much in the news, and so do smaller/shrunken OS'es. There are many different distro's so it's nonsence to do such claim. Windows 7 is only just runnable on netbooks. Windows 7 doesn't run on smaller mobile devices (comparable with let us say an Iphone). I would rather say flexibility is getting more attention of those who design OS'es. This helps customers to make better use of their devices. This a great thing, a lot of people buy gadgets they do not use because they're not practical or not usable.
I use names based on the comic "Asterix and Obelix" for Unix servers, names of famous crooks and designers (repectively for windows and apple computers). All characters in Asterix end with ix, and the other naming schemes are evident.