Actually some Ukrainian posts have fought back. There's not much more they can do since they largely disarmed themselves at the urging of the US (and a guarantee that we would defend them). The US has broken its side of the agreement, why would Ukraine keep it's side?
Also, was Poland disarmed like this before Germany invaded?
Sure there's video. Haven't you seen Star Wars: The Phantom Menace? The device is the same thing Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan used to get to the underwater city. So it must be real.
An interface. That's all they invented was a great interface, and then slapped it on a phone. That's why the phone in $500, not because it's also an iPod like Jobs was trying to sell it as. Yeah the price will go down eventually, or at least the price will stay the same long enough for the rest of the market to inflate until it seems like the price went down.
The problem is that Jobs isn't really crusading against DRM. He's just playing the finger pointing game. Look at his essay. It starts with essentially, "we're being sued" and ends with, "hey EU don't blame us, blame your own people." Nice way to pass the blame.
Did anyone else notice his twisting the truth? In one part he assumes that every song downloaded from his store is only played on one iPOD. So some songs downloaded are assumed to be on the first iPODS and thrown away with those iPODs. Nice way to make the number of DRM songs on an iPOD look smaller. Later he says that DRM was never made for CDs, which isn't true either. It just hasn't been as successful.
What great technology we have here. Lets just brainstorm some of the possibilities:
Just what we need is more stuff to go wrong and make a mistake and shut the engine off on a busy highway. Or even better, something to get hacked and really reck havock.
Let's work on a teenager-on-cell-phone detection device first, k? Hey the system doesn't like swervy motion, that means it'll take care of a ton of the cell phone drivers too, two birds with one stone.
When I get a cut or a scratch, I clean it with alcohol. (because short of amputating the hand, it's the ONLY way to be sure!) One would assume that at least some of this alcohol would stay on my hands when I drive. I use hand sanitizer a good deal, that could mean I wouldn't get to drive after a pit stop for lunch. Oh well.
Of course, you're not going to see issues in the first half-hour
Actually he did see the issues, jut not the kids. What did the kids see? A web browser that would be the same for Windows/Linux/Mac. What did Dad see?
I loaded Xandros Professional 4 onto an old Compaq Presario 2500 (I tried SLED 10, Ubuntu and an earlier version of Xandros, but Xandros Professional 4 did the best job of recognizing my wireless card and connecting to the Internet.)
After trying 3 flavors, finally the forth one worked.
And I know that this has been already answered for the comment of where to get training, but I'd say that is more important than getting the Linux Desktops. Take my father-in-law for example. He is a middle school teacher, and probably one of the most knowledgeable people at the school in terms of computers. He learned it all on his own, but it still isn't enough. A little while ago he asked me the simple question of how to put all the program folders in the start menu in alphabetical order. I've tried to convince him for a while now to tone down some of the fancy graphics in the Windows system to speed up the system, but he won't because he's afraid it will affect the quality of Photoshop for the worse. Can't say I blame him for not wanting to mess around to much. It's not like someone on a teachers salary can afford lots of computer gizmos like someone on a good IT salary
Not enough people are looking at the issues of what a new programmer needs to learn with their first language.
If it's someone who just wants to play around then they probly just want a cool webpage. Give them some scripting language.
If the person wants to do some serious programming (say make it a career) then they need to know some important things: How to design a program, and how the computer thinks. With those in mind I say go with a functional language like C (or a variant that lets you program funcually) If you're programming with functions then you can make flow digrams, block charts, etc and translate them to the computer. You're actually designing how it works first (and that alone makes it more maintainable and easier to debug)
A lot of you complain about case sensitivity. Well face it, that's how the computer works. You need to be exact. It really bugs me that VB will let you type in whatever case, then it'll change it to the proper case for you. Babysitting link that isn't going to train someone to fix their mistakes.
Now when it comes to the program, C offers another advantage. You aren't bogged down quickly. The wizard for starting a VB project will give you 20 files full of stuff that you have no idea what it is, and you have to remember where to add your code, and what to leave alone. On the otherhand, for C you type:
int main()
{
return;
}
and you have a program. You eaisly learn what's going on and you eailsy know where to add your code. You can add to it from there.
Now a lot of you complain about the low level aspects of C like pointers, new, delete, etc. Well guess what? You don't have to teach that to a newby. But it's still there when they need it. (Ah I rememeber when I finally understood how a pointer works, and the power available from it.)
I admit as an Electrical Engineering student, my experiance is simply C/C++, assembly, and a touch of VB. I don't know the scripting languages, (pearl, python, php and the like) but if they allow you to teach those good techniques then go for it. I'm sure the cool factor becomes apparent much faster, and that's a deffinant must for any teacher.
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Another scare report from the UN. How often do they put out a "We're all going do die" report like this?
Actually some Ukrainian posts have fought back. There's not much more they can do since they largely disarmed themselves at the urging of the US (and a guarantee that we would defend them). The US has broken its side of the agreement, why would Ukraine keep it's side?
Also, was Poland disarmed like this before Germany invaded?
Sure there's video. Haven't you seen Star Wars: The Phantom Menace? The device is the same thing Qui-Gon and Obi-Wan used to get to the underwater city. So it must be real.
Awesome yes, the only thing is I hope that some higher up decides to use this as a reason to block google for the next few days.
I know, I was just a shocked. I wonder what wonders the 115th element will hold
Aren't there TVs that will automatically adjust the volume for this very reason? That is, if you aren't skipping the commercials with a Tivo anyway.
Do we really want the government telling us what to do on that level?
An interface. That's all they invented was a great interface, and then slapped it on a phone. That's why the phone in $500, not because it's also an iPod like Jobs was trying to sell it as. Yeah the price will go down eventually, or at least the price will stay the same long enough for the rest of the market to inflate until it seems like the price went down.
The problem is that Jobs isn't really crusading against DRM. He's just playing the finger pointing game. Look at his essay. It starts with essentially, "we're being sued" and ends with, "hey EU don't blame us, blame your own people." Nice way to pass the blame.
Did anyone else notice his twisting the truth? In one part he assumes that every song downloaded from his store is only played on one iPOD. So some songs downloaded are assumed to be on the first iPODS and thrown away with those iPODs. Nice way to make the number of DRM songs on an iPOD look smaller. Later he says that DRM was never made for CDs, which isn't true either. It just hasn't been as successful.
Just what we need is more stuff to go wrong and make a mistake and shut the engine off on a busy highway. Or even better, something to get hacked and really reck havock.
Let's work on a teenager-on-cell-phone detection device first, k? Hey the system doesn't like swervy motion, that means it'll take care of a ton of the cell phone drivers too, two birds with one stone.
When I get a cut or a scratch, I clean it with alcohol. (because short of amputating the hand, it's the ONLY way to be sure!) One would assume that at least some of this alcohol would stay on my hands when I drive. I use hand sanitizer a good deal, that could mean I wouldn't get to drive after a pit stop for lunch. Oh well.
Maybe what we need is an open source MP3 player. Any takers?
Actually he did see the issues, jut not the kids. What did the kids see? A web browser that would be the same for Windows/Linux/Mac. What did Dad see?
I loaded Xandros Professional 4 onto an old Compaq Presario 2500 (I tried SLED 10, Ubuntu and an earlier version of Xandros, but Xandros Professional 4 did the best job of recognizing my wireless card and connecting to the Internet.)After trying 3 flavors, finally the forth one worked.
And I know that this has been already answered for the comment of where to get training, but I'd say that is more important than getting the Linux Desktops. Take my father-in-law for example. He is a middle school teacher, and probably one of the most knowledgeable people at the school in terms of computers. He learned it all on his own, but it still isn't enough. A little while ago he asked me the simple question of how to put all the program folders in the start menu in alphabetical order. I've tried to convince him for a while now to tone down some of the fancy graphics in the Windows system to speed up the system, but he won't because he's afraid it will affect the quality of Photoshop for the worse. Can't say I blame him for not wanting to mess around to much. It's not like someone on a teachers salary can afford lots of computer gizmos like someone on a good IT salary
No joke, if Open Source makes it eaiser for hackers, it makes it just as easy for McAfee, Symantec, etc to update their software.
Of course a pessimest would even go so far as to blame McAfee for malware as a way to get more buisness
Not enough people are looking at the issues of what a new programmer needs to learn with their first language. If it's someone who just wants to play around then they probly just want a cool webpage. Give them some scripting language. If the person wants to do some serious programming (say make it a career) then they need to know some important things: How to design a program, and how the computer thinks. With those in mind I say go with a functional language like C (or a variant that lets you program funcually) If you're programming with functions then you can make flow digrams, block charts, etc and translate them to the computer. You're actually designing how it works first (and that alone makes it more maintainable and easier to debug) A lot of you complain about case sensitivity. Well face it, that's how the computer works. You need to be exact. It really bugs me that VB will let you type in whatever case, then it'll change it to the proper case for you. Babysitting link that isn't going to train someone to fix their mistakes. Now when it comes to the program, C offers another advantage. You aren't bogged down quickly. The wizard for starting a VB project will give you 20 files full of stuff that you have no idea what it is, and you have to remember where to add your code, and what to leave alone. On the otherhand, for C you type: int main() { return; } and you have a program. You eaisly learn what's going on and you eailsy know where to add your code. You can add to it from there. Now a lot of you complain about the low level aspects of C like pointers, new, delete, etc. Well guess what? You don't have to teach that to a newby. But it's still there when they need it. (Ah I rememeber when I finally understood how a pointer works, and the power available from it.) I admit as an Electrical Engineering student, my experiance is simply C/C++, assembly, and a touch of VB. I don't know the scripting languages, (pearl, python, php and the like) but if they allow you to teach those good techniques then go for it. I'm sure the cool factor becomes apparent much faster, and that's a deffinant must for any teacher.