Actually, pushing nuclear energy could have a great deal with our dependence on gasoline. If electric plug-in cars start to become more popular, nukes and wind power could in fact power our cars.
"Another part is that Java already has reasonable solutions in the standard libraries for any fundamental structure. This makes all work purely academic. This isn't necessarily a big deal, but can affect motivation."
"There aren't enough jobs which require advanced degrees in engineering to make it worth the time to give up 2-3 years of engineering paychecks, pay for college, pay for books, pay for living expenses, and earn those advanced degrees."
My dad works at Ford in the science and research department, and every single engineer there has a phd or ms. There are lots of positions to fill for people that continue higher eduction.
"More than likely, you'd graduate with a master's or a PhD and work at the same job you could get with a bachelor's degree."
"As for India or the rest of the third world, they've never put enough resource into trying."
Dude you're clueless - some many years ago the India gov went on a forced, military-backed campaign to effectively neuter their young men... shit man - it was so terrible no body wants to remember, and no body in India wants to take any sort of government backed measure to reduce population growth.. my dad still remembers that time, it was damn scary.
You've got good points here, but you're missing something.
Linux development HAS to look at Windows. Sure, it should have a spirit of its own, but in this competitive world that we live in the best products compete and win. I'm sorry, but Windows is the biggest os competitor out there, and Linux development, in order to take advantage of all the momentum and motivation that goes behind competition, must face Windows. That's how the Linux movement can truly succeed - it's pretty clear that having a goal and a competitor can make people work harder and faster.
No, it's a bit more than that. Sure, you can have 500gb easy at home for much cheaper, but is it hosted online so you can share it to the world / siphon it through your own website?
"The FCC should NEVER have the power to define what is and is not decent. That is fucking unbelievable. The fact that they've had this power for so long, and now it is tightening... is disturbing to say the least."
See, I used to have that argument for a long time, but now I believe that it's actually a little justified. There not banning everything outright, they're just trying to monitor the public spectrum. It's like a tier system - the first tier is allowed for everyone, even the little children. The second tier could be pay-per-view tv, movies, etc. whose broadcast can be controlled a little more than the viewer.
It's a bit different from text like newspapers because of the very specified audience. Words in a newspaper cannot be read or understood unless you actually look at it. A TV on the other hand, can broadcast it's sound quite a distance, and someone can unwillingly be subject to "curses".
The big problem here is that possiblity that Congress takes this as some sort of precedence in restricting words the public doesn't want to hear publicly broadcasted, and bans stuff like liberal, democrats, "i hate bush" or something of the like. But I'd like to think there's a little more thought and boundaries on this...
The whole reason they want to censor these words is to protect children. Keyword: protect. And I think that's what you've gotta prove, that whatever you're censoring is somehow protecting people. This is vastly different from making people mad or being contrary to opinion - it's something PROTECTIVE. For the same reason we don't allow old guys to have sex with young teenagers is why we censor these broadcasts. There are some instances where a child could be... damaged by having curse words on tv, at least in a parent's point of view. Remember, adults, on their own, are usually perfectly fine with hearing curse words. They may not like it or look down upon it, but they understand it's someone's way of expressing themselves, albeit in a vulgar manner. It's a bit stretched I know.. but I think it may make a little sense.
As the algae gets more dense, photosynthesis goes down... not enough oxygen is produced during the day, and too much oxygen is consumed during the night. This kills fish populations.
That's the funny thing about plants that most people don't realize that they are oxygen consumers. In fact, the oldest rainforests in South America actually produce more CO2 than O2.
"Memorising the values of sin, cos and tan for 0, 30, 45, 60 and 90 degrees is a de-facto requirement to solve trig. problems in high school. Does Microsoft expect students to relearn all these convenient derievd units in radians, and go mad?"
If you've taken pre-calc, you should know these units in radians already.
"With voice-dial and bluetooth, an "iPhone shuffle" would actually be pretty nice. I doubt they could get good battery life for a phone in such a small device though. I'd give up a screen for a cell phone that would fit on my keychain."
Keys + nice pretty phone = disaster
I think all of you are missing the point here by going after people with high number of friends, and justifying those with a low number of friends (let's say 300 vs. 30). I keep reading posts about people who say they want to keep a low number of close friends on facebook, and that anybody who goes about facebook "friendship" differently is somehow insecure and inferior.
Facebook is a social networking app. That's it. That's all folks. Who says it's gotta be for best friends only? What if it is a social gathering place altogether by itself? Meaning... why does it have to reflect what you do in "real" life? That's why half of you guys play WOW or Second Life or something of that sort... Why can't facebook be separate? What's so wrong about keeping track of the people you've met? Doing this might give more meaning to meetings, and for godsakes, what's wrong with meeting more people? In the real world, you might brush by someone once or twice before they disappear from your memory. There's nothing wrong with making a little note that says - hey, i met you once!
In the end, facebook is what you make of it. Whether you have many friends on it, or just your close buddies, it doesn't matter. You are all justified.
our government cares about people illegally recording movies than the FBI illegally recording our phone calls? It just kills me to see the priorities of our country.
CSS brings an amazing number of options to the table, and it most certainly does not limit your ability to make a site that is very accessible. Sure, the ability to change so many options does incur a greater possibility of someone making a mistake - but that's not the problem with CSS, that's a problem with the person writing CSS.
You are right about CSS making web-dev much easier for those writing the code. For the same reason that OO is nice, the separation of the old HTML into a few distinct parts is much cleaner and easier to write. As well as that, it makes updating amazingly easy. By having so many parts, it's also easier to find errors - since it's so much easier to now narrow down things.
Haha, and a browser detection script? If you're using that, then you know your website is a little outdated (especially if you're using it to choose stylesheets - with ajax, I can understand). But even if you were going to do one, a good web-developer will have fallbacks that the website can safely ease into if there is no js.
And about the many files thing, welcome to the new world. People have faster internet connections, more reliable connections, and can refresh very easily. I know that's a dangerous mindset to have, but forget it, sometimes you have to take a step forward. And the increase in probability that the site won't go through is negligible sir.
You make him sound like he's a bad guy, and I don't think that's fair. Put yourself in his situation. If you know you're gonna die soon from a disease, and that it CAN be cured if you go ONE hospital on the other side of the world, wouldn't you do anything you could to get there? I don't know how many of us would lock ourselves up in a room or sit and rot in an Italian hospital - resigning ourselves to death.
That would be a very heroic thing to do, and I doubt that most of us would even venture into doing that.
This isn't about terrorists sonny, this is about espionage as a whole. It's a very, very general action they're taking to counter ALL foreign forces. And that's what one of the parents mentioned... what foreign forces? We're going through all this trouble and fear for... what exactly?
It's this atmosphere that our government is creating that is so infuriating... giving unlimited powers to the executive, putting missiles in front of Russia, pointing guns at Iran... shit man, are we protecting ourselves or are we trying to start a war here?
There have always been threats in front of us, but the important thing is to not let it ruin our lives. As another parent said, when did universities become a division of the FBI? The FBI can do their jobs, and they don't have to turn our society into a surveillance tool to accomplish their jobs. The FBI is there to protect us from threats so we don't have to worry about them... injecting fear into America is the antithesis of this mission.
"And after ten minutes of posturing and spouting non-sequiturs, he still will not have said yes or no. But for some reason, most people do not seem to notice the fact."
Actually, quite a lot of people do. We've just all given up on trying to get anything better.
Well, like that assistant DA said, "case law is in flux as to whether police can expect not to be recorded while performing their duties." It's a big issue, because police need that leniency to break the law when no one is looking. Well, let's forget about the public, let's go after their bosses. Police officers shouldn't be allowed to get remanded by their superiors. If they do their job with that fear in their hearts, how can they fight the bad guys without restraint?
But enough sarcasm. Ultimately, this issue has to do with recording what one sees around them in the public sphere. The right to free speech. It's fundamental.
Not trying to be a flamebait here, but I've never seen slashdot responses so off the mark before. Does anyone listen to NPR?
Anyways, the BBC was interviewing the bookseller, because book burning is quite... an odd thing to do for a bookseller. He explained how he has a truck trailer absolutely packed with used books (he's a used book seller for one thing) - imagine, that's a ton of books there. He's spent the past five years trying to get rid of the books - not in a bad way like throwing them away, but actually distributing them to the populace. The problem was, though, that no one wanted the books.
He's actually tried giving them away - he's spent countless hours and days going throughout his country trying to distribute them. He and his partner have realized it's a cultural, literacy problem we're having in the U.S... people just don't like reading books anymore. I can't remember the name off the top of my head, but he cited a government study showing how from 1992 to 2002, the percentage of the U.S. population that read at least 1 book a day for pleasure went down 10% (from 54% to 44%).
He hopes that this 'book burning' will start a dialogue in this country about reading... high hopes of course, but hey - you gotta try. So don't give this guy such a hard time - he's done as much as he could have done to get this books distributed - we're the problem, not him. Remember, the only thing worse than burning a book is not reading one.
European occupation of Middle East oil fields is akin to the ravaging of resources by the same nations in Africa. The countries in the Middle East are very justified in taking back control of the resources that were stolen from them.
This could also mean that Dell has recently opened up a site for customer input, and that the hatred for Windows has always existed at the same level. The hating of Vista isn't stronger that Microsoft's influence over Dell; Dell's new shift to listen to customer input is stronger that the influence that Microsoft has over it.
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Actually, pushing nuclear energy could have a great deal with our dependence on gasoline. If electric plug-in cars start to become more popular, nukes and wind power could in fact power our cars.
"Another part is that Java already has reasonable solutions in the standard libraries for any fundamental structure. This makes all work purely academic. This isn't necessarily a big deal, but can affect motivation."
C++ does too in their standard libraries.
"There aren't enough jobs which require advanced degrees in engineering to make it worth the time to give up 2-3 years of engineering paychecks, pay for college, pay for books, pay for living expenses, and earn those advanced degrees."
My dad works at Ford in the science and research department, and every single engineer there has a phd or ms. There are lots of positions to fill for people that continue higher eduction.
"More than likely, you'd graduate with a master's or a PhD and work at the same job you could get with a bachelor's degree."
Um.... no.
Easy answer to all this mysterious behavior... someone just got paid big time.
"As for India or the rest of the third world, they've never put enough resource into trying."
Dude you're clueless - some many years ago the India gov went on a forced, military-backed campaign to effectively neuter their young men... shit man - it was so terrible no body wants to remember, and no body in India wants to take any sort of government backed measure to reduce population growth.. my dad still remembers that time, it was damn scary.
You've got good points here, but you're missing something.
Linux development HAS to look at Windows. Sure, it should have a spirit of its own, but in this competitive world that we live in the best products compete and win. I'm sorry, but Windows is the biggest os competitor out there, and Linux development, in order to take advantage of all the momentum and motivation that goes behind competition, must face Windows. That's how the Linux movement can truly succeed - it's pretty clear that having a goal and a competitor can make people work harder and faster.
FTA: "Another key feature is the capability to use human blood or sweat to help power the battery."
Human blood to power batteries? Oh shit... beware the machines!
You had a blind home secretary?
That's nothing. We had Janet Reno.
Your turn hotshot.
No, it's a bit more than that. Sure, you can have 500gb easy at home for much cheaper, but is it hosted online so you can share it to the world / siphon it through your own website?
"The FCC should NEVER have the power to define what is and is not decent. That is fucking unbelievable. The fact that they've had this power for so long, and now it is tightening... is disturbing to say the least."
See, I used to have that argument for a long time, but now I believe that it's actually a little justified. There not banning everything outright, they're just trying to monitor the public spectrum. It's like a tier system - the first tier is allowed for everyone, even the little children. The second tier could be pay-per-view tv, movies, etc. whose broadcast can be controlled a little more than the viewer.
It's a bit different from text like newspapers because of the very specified audience. Words in a newspaper cannot be read or understood unless you actually look at it. A TV on the other hand, can broadcast it's sound quite a distance, and someone can unwillingly be subject to "curses".
The big problem here is that possiblity that Congress takes this as some sort of precedence in restricting words the public doesn't want to hear publicly broadcasted, and bans stuff like liberal, democrats, "i hate bush" or something of the like. But I'd like to think there's a little more thought and boundaries on this...
The whole reason they want to censor these words is to protect children. Keyword: protect. And I think that's what you've gotta prove, that whatever you're censoring is somehow protecting people. This is vastly different from making people mad or being contrary to opinion - it's something PROTECTIVE. For the same reason we don't allow old guys to have sex with young teenagers is why we censor these broadcasts. There are some instances where a child could be... damaged by having curse words on tv, at least in a parent's point of view. Remember, adults, on their own, are usually perfectly fine with hearing curse words. They may not like it or look down upon it, but they understand it's someone's way of expressing themselves, albeit in a vulgar manner. It's a bit stretched I know.. but I think it may make a little sense.
No, an excess of algae will actually produce more CO2 than O2 in a pond. See here:
e ration.html
http://www.whatprice.co.uk/gardening/pond-algae-a
As the algae gets more dense, photosynthesis goes down... not enough oxygen is produced during the day, and too much oxygen is consumed during the night. This kills fish populations.
That's the funny thing about plants that most people don't realize that they are oxygen consumers. In fact, the oldest rainforests in South America actually produce more CO2 than O2.
"Memorising the values of sin, cos and tan for 0, 30, 45, 60 and 90 degrees is a de-facto requirement to solve trig. problems in high school. Does Microsoft expect students to relearn all these convenient derievd units in radians, and go mad?"
If you've taken pre-calc, you should know these units in radians already.
"With voice-dial and bluetooth, an "iPhone shuffle" would actually be pretty nice. I doubt they could get good battery life for a phone in such a small device though. I'd give up a screen for a cell phone that would fit on my keychain." Keys + nice pretty phone = disaster
I think all of you are missing the point here by going after people with high number of friends, and justifying those with a low number of friends (let's say 300 vs. 30). I keep reading posts about people who say they want to keep a low number of close friends on facebook, and that anybody who goes about facebook "friendship" differently is somehow insecure and inferior.
Facebook is a social networking app. That's it. That's all folks. Who says it's gotta be for best friends only? What if it is a social gathering place altogether by itself? Meaning... why does it have to reflect what you do in "real" life? That's why half of you guys play WOW or Second Life or something of that sort... Why can't facebook be separate? What's so wrong about keeping track of the people you've met? Doing this might give more meaning to meetings, and for godsakes, what's wrong with meeting more people? In the real world, you might brush by someone once or twice before they disappear from your memory. There's nothing wrong with making a little note that says - hey, i met you once!
In the end, facebook is what you make of it. Whether you have many friends on it, or just your close buddies, it doesn't matter. You are all justified.
our government cares about people illegally recording movies than the FBI illegally recording our phone calls? It just kills me to see the priorities of our country.
Wow... you've got it all wrong buddy.
CSS brings an amazing number of options to the table, and it most certainly does not limit your ability to make a site that is very accessible. Sure, the ability to change so many options does incur a greater possibility of someone making a mistake - but that's not the problem with CSS, that's a problem with the person writing CSS.
You are right about CSS making web-dev much easier for those writing the code. For the same reason that OO is nice, the separation of the old HTML into a few distinct parts is much cleaner and easier to write. As well as that, it makes updating amazingly easy. By having so many parts, it's also easier to find errors - since it's so much easier to now narrow down things.
Haha, and a browser detection script? If you're using that, then you know your website is a little outdated (especially if you're using it to choose stylesheets - with ajax, I can understand). But even if you were going to do one, a good web-developer will have fallbacks that the website can safely ease into if there is no js.
And about the many files thing, welcome to the new world. People have faster internet connections, more reliable connections, and can refresh very easily. I know that's a dangerous mindset to have, but forget it, sometimes you have to take a step forward. And the increase in probability that the site won't go through is negligible sir.
You make him sound like he's a bad guy, and I don't think that's fair. Put yourself in his situation. If you know you're gonna die soon from a disease, and that it CAN be cured if you go ONE hospital on the other side of the world, wouldn't you do anything you could to get there? I don't know how many of us would lock ourselves up in a room or sit and rot in an Italian hospital - resigning ourselves to death.
That would be a very heroic thing to do, and I doubt that most of us would even venture into doing that.
This isn't about terrorists sonny, this is about espionage as a whole. It's a very, very general action they're taking to counter ALL foreign forces. And that's what one of the parents mentioned... what foreign forces? We're going through all this trouble and fear for... what exactly?
It's this atmosphere that our government is creating that is so infuriating... giving unlimited powers to the executive, putting missiles in front of Russia, pointing guns at Iran... shit man, are we protecting ourselves or are we trying to start a war here?
There have always been threats in front of us, but the important thing is to not let it ruin our lives. As another parent said, when did universities become a division of the FBI? The FBI can do their jobs, and they don't have to turn our society into a surveillance tool to accomplish their jobs. The FBI is there to protect us from threats so we don't have to worry about them... injecting fear into America is the antithesis of this mission.
"And after ten minutes of posturing and spouting non-sequiturs, he still will not have said yes or no. But for some reason, most people do not seem to notice the fact."
Actually, quite a lot of people do. We've just all given up on trying to get anything better.
Ever heard of Warren Buffett? yea, that's right.
Well, like that assistant DA said, "case law is in flux as to whether police can expect not to be recorded while performing their duties." It's a big issue, because police need that leniency to break the law when no one is looking. Well, let's forget about the public, let's go after their bosses. Police officers shouldn't be allowed to get remanded by their superiors. If they do their job with that fear in their hearts, how can they fight the bad guys without restraint? But enough sarcasm. Ultimately, this issue has to do with recording what one sees around them in the public sphere. The right to free speech. It's fundamental.
Not trying to be a flamebait here, but I've never seen slashdot responses so off the mark before. Does anyone listen to NPR? Anyways, the BBC was interviewing the bookseller, because book burning is quite... an odd thing to do for a bookseller. He explained how he has a truck trailer absolutely packed with used books (he's a used book seller for one thing) - imagine, that's a ton of books there. He's spent the past five years trying to get rid of the books - not in a bad way like throwing them away, but actually distributing them to the populace. The problem was, though, that no one wanted the books. He's actually tried giving them away - he's spent countless hours and days going throughout his country trying to distribute them. He and his partner have realized it's a cultural, literacy problem we're having in the U.S... people just don't like reading books anymore. I can't remember the name off the top of my head, but he cited a government study showing how from 1992 to 2002, the percentage of the U.S. population that read at least 1 book a day for pleasure went down 10% (from 54% to 44%). He hopes that this 'book burning' will start a dialogue in this country about reading... high hopes of course, but hey - you gotta try. So don't give this guy such a hard time - he's done as much as he could have done to get this books distributed - we're the problem, not him. Remember, the only thing worse than burning a book is not reading one.
European occupation of Middle East oil fields is akin to the ravaging of resources by the same nations in Africa. The countries in the Middle East are very justified in taking back control of the resources that were stolen from them.
This could also mean that Dell has recently opened up a site for customer input, and that the hatred for Windows has always existed at the same level. The hating of Vista isn't stronger that Microsoft's influence over Dell; Dell's new shift to listen to customer input is stronger that the influence that Microsoft has over it.
Remember children, every Red Square is a Red Rectangle, but not every Red Rectangle is a Red Square.