I think you are taking "Programming" to literally.
What I took from TFA was more a kin to scripting. Learning how to write a perl/python script to scan a bunch of documents for certain phrases, even learning regular expressions for use inside applications which support RegEx would be useful.
You don't need full on paid for development environments to teach that.
How many of the slashdot readership are American these days?
I can't say for sure since the profiles don't mention nationality but from the language I see I'd guess a significant percentage are now based outside of the US and so are ineligible to sign such a petition.
In fact the only ones I can be really sure are USians are threads about US politics, especially when you get right wing zealots posting.
Who buys a luxary goods when they don't have a good steady source of income?
The problem is that any one company can outsource everything to a cheaper location and instantly gain a huge competative advantage over their competition. Thats the essence of captialism after all.
However, if more and more companies do the same thing, you reach a point where a certain percentage of employees of the orginal country no longer have enough job security to be able to purchase freely and so cuts back, first on luxary items, then increasingly on essentials.
You are right, Apple, as an individual company is there to make profits and that all it's there to do, but it does look like industry (not just consumer goods, but all industries) as a whole are cutting off the supply of money to it's own customers.
This is not a problem business's solve, it requires a government solution.
The long game of course is to bring developed nations down to the level of the developing nations.
They can't exactly back up the URLs that all their links point to.
They could operate a url redirection service like bit.ly, only they run it themselves to prevent the same deadend issue happening if bit.ly goes away.
All links on the forum point to there own redirection server which then pass the correct link back to the Mega site, always make sure here is replication the files kept on Mega to some other file sharing site and if/when Mega goes down they just change the redirect to the new file server.
"What do you do with a 1,000-foot wreck that's full of fuel and half-submerged on a rocky ledge in the middle of an Italian marine sanctuary?"
I do like these hypothetical questions, but we never get to see if they actually work in real life, so I've stop thinking about them.
I think Anon have a quicker temporary interruption ability, but they can't take a site offline indefinately like the government can.
The governments problem is that an alternative site can be up and running before it's even managed to arrange a court date for those they've arrested but that is not a power which is attributed to Anon, it's just the environment in which everyone operates.
E85 is used to increase the Octane Rating of the fuel, preventing the fuel spontanously detonating as it's compressed. The means you can use a higher compression ratio in the engine which is more efficent.
If your engine is designed to run at a lower compression ratio then running a fuel which is more resistent to pinking is completely pointless because your engine is still running at the same compression ratio (unless you have an engine which can detect the Octane Rating and adjust as it runs).
E85 should have been about the manufactures realising that a higher octane rating fuel was widely available and producing engines which could use it. It's meaningless for existing engines which aren't turbocharged.
If the access point is only meant to be used by the Sunday school, and they only meet at certain times. why not just switch the AP off when the Sunday School meeting isn't running?
How the hell did a small 1 man website earn $230,000 over a 3 year period (2 years of which where slap bang in the middle of a global recession) in click-through ads?
Seriously? any other part time 1 man websites pulling in that sort of money from ads in 2007 without gaming the system and clicking the ads for the end user?
That figure is presented without any sources or evidence; just a claim by the "US Customs and Border Protection Agency". BS made up to satisfy the need to prove commercial gain and motive.
That might have worked, if we were selling insurance and financial services to other countries, but we suck at languages in this country and so all those call centers can only be used for selling to ourselves.
The entire system serves only to keep what money is already there circulating, allowing the businesses and government to take a bit of the transaction each time the money goes round.
Thing is, rail capacity has been a problem for decades, double decker trains are an obvious solution, but when they build a new bridge over a rail line, they still build it to fit a single decker train under it.
They should have simply mandated 20 years ago, all future infrastructure should be capable of taking a reasonable height double decker train and at least some of that infrastructure would by now be already in place.
navigators used to say the earth was flat till they realize they could get a shit load of funding if they found a shorter route to the far east by going west.
Whats keeping people on XP is that it's good enough for what they need an OS to do (both from a user and a developer point of view), nothing in the more recent OS's is a compelling reason to upgrade.
If it weren't for the looming end of life I don't think a lot of people would upgrade at all.
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I think you are taking "Programming" to literally.
What I took from TFA was more a kin to scripting. Learning how to write a perl/python script to scan a bunch of documents for certain phrases, even learning regular expressions for use inside applications which support RegEx would be useful.
You don't need full on paid for development environments to teach that.
How many of the slashdot readership are American these days?
I can't say for sure since the profiles don't mention nationality but from the language I see I'd guess a significant percentage are now based outside of the US and so are ineligible to sign such a petition.
In fact the only ones I can be really sure are USians are threads about US politics, especially when you get right wing zealots posting.
:)
Touche.
Because, you know, we don't want any of those foreign characters hanging around here.
:)
Touché.
And the customers need easy physical access?
All it needs is a fat pipe into the building and it could be located pretty much anywhere.
Who buys a luxary goods when they don't have a good steady source of income?
The problem is that any one company can outsource everything to a cheaper location and instantly gain a huge competative advantage over their competition. Thats the essence of captialism after all.
However, if more and more companies do the same thing, you reach a point where a certain percentage of employees of the orginal country no longer have enough job security to be able to purchase freely and so cuts back, first on luxary items, then increasingly on essentials.
You are right, Apple, as an individual company is there to make profits and that all it's there to do, but it does look like industry (not just consumer goods, but all industries) as a whole are cutting off the supply of money to it's own customers.
This is not a problem business's solve, it requires a government solution.
The long game of course is to bring developed nations down to the level of the developing nations.
How many times have you been 60?
They could operate a url redirection service like bit.ly, only they run it themselves to prevent the same deadend issue happening if bit.ly goes away.
All links on the forum point to there own redirection server which then pass the correct link back to the Mega site, always make sure here is replication the files kept on Mega to some other file sharing site and if/when Mega goes down they just change the redirect to the new file server.
"What do you do with a 1,000-foot wreck that's full of fuel and half-submerged on a rocky ledge in the middle of an Italian marine sanctuary?" I do like these hypothetical questions, but we never get to see if they actually work in real life, so I've stop thinking about them.
I think Anon have a quicker temporary interruption ability, but they can't take a site offline indefinately like the government can.
The governments problem is that an alternative site can be up and running before it's even managed to arrange a court date for those they've arrested but that is not a power which is attributed to Anon, it's just the environment in which everyone operates.
Thats what I was thinking, sex is more than just physical, it's also about a connection with another living being.
Of course that connection can be good or bad, or even indifferent but it's still a connection.
E85 is used to increase the Octane Rating of the fuel, preventing the fuel spontanously detonating as it's compressed. The means you can use a higher compression ratio in the engine which is more efficent.
If your engine is designed to run at a lower compression ratio then running a fuel which is more resistent to pinking is completely pointless because your engine is still running at the same compression ratio (unless you have an engine which can detect the Octane Rating and adjust as it runs).
E85 should have been about the manufactures realising that a higher octane rating fuel was widely available and producing engines which could use it. It's meaningless for existing engines which aren't turbocharged.
If the access point is only meant to be used by the Sunday school, and they only meet at certain times. why not just switch the AP off when the Sunday School meeting isn't running?
It's not even like it's hard to see through so I can't see what MS thinks it gains by paying for stuff like that.
How the hell did a small 1 man website earn $230,000 over a 3 year period (2 years of which where slap bang in the middle of a global recession) in click-through ads?
Seriously? any other part time 1 man websites pulling in that sort of money from ads in 2007 without gaming the system and clicking the ads for the end user?
That figure is presented without any sources or evidence; just a claim by the "US Customs and Border Protection Agency". BS made up to satisfy the need to prove commercial gain and motive.
That might have worked, if we were selling insurance and financial services to other countries, but we suck at languages in this country and so all those call centers can only be used for selling to ourselves.
The entire system serves only to keep what money is already there circulating, allowing the businesses and government to take a bit of the transaction each time the money goes round.
Thing is, rail capacity has been a problem for decades, double decker trains are an obvious solution, but when they build a new bridge over a rail line, they still build it to fit a single decker train under it.
They should have simply mandated 20 years ago, all future infrastructure should be capable of taking a reasonable height double decker train and at least some of that infrastructure would by now be already in place.
navigators used to say the earth was flat till they realize they could get a shit load of funding if they found a shorter route to the far east by going west.
OK, the acting is a bit wooden, but I think Keanu Reeves looks reasonably life like.
Live action 3D is expensive as hell to do right.
3D CGI is marginally more expensive than 2D.
Or maybe their internet moralists are just not writing in English very much and so don't get picked up as readily in the US/Canada/UK
I did notice that one of the links at the bottom of the site was http://www.easterbunnyletter.com/
'most people who want something for free will never, ever think of paying you, no matter how valuable they find your service.'
Just how valuable is a gimmick letter template with some cheap clipart background images which you have to print out yourself?
The final product is something that could be done with any word processor in about 10 minutes.
How old was your system?
POP3 was defined in 1988 and IMAP4 rev 1 was defined in 2003 but is backwards compatible with IMAP2 defined in 1990.
TCP/IP defined in the 70s.
The under lying technology is decades old. What you've got there is a beautiful case of vendor lock in.
Whats keeping people on XP is that it's good enough for what they need an OS to do (both from a user and a developer point of view), nothing in the more recent OS's is a compelling reason to upgrade.
If it weren't for the looming end of life I don't think a lot of people would upgrade at all.