Yeah!
Like that travesty that is NASA...if there was value to space exploration at all, then the free market would have stepped up in the 1960's and put a man on the moon!
Oh, wait a minute. There was no short-term profit and the R&D cost was so amazing only a government could pull it off.
Well, it isn't like there's long list of tangential advances that benefit all the rest of us now and which allow corporations to profit directly from.
Oh, wait.
Sure the government's main job is common defense, but seriously, if everything was left up to the free market we'd be no where near what we have now. I'm not even going to get into what NIH has done for the common good.
So Professor Gail Dines is an "expert on pornography?"
I'm sure there are quite a few other "experts" out there who will take a counter position. Or two.
Like my phone....crap, the battery is dead every morning because I never consider I should plug it in at night!!!!
What crappy phone!!!!
My gas-powered phone was so much better.
Seriously, once you own one, plugging in your car will be as routine as plugging in your phone...only a lot less often unless you commute 125 miles each way to work.
Ah...thanks for the clarification.
PG County's proposal is still BS. At least for the student's work.
Teachers, as employees, may well need to sign off on such things as terms of employment. I don't know. But it's an employer/employee relationship.
That does not exist with the student, who is compelled to attend...see other posts for other reasons
If it was a private school doing this I could see they might have a chance of an argument.
As a public school system, tax payer funded, doing this it is complete crap. Isn't there something in the u
US about government agencies not holding copyrights anyway? Or is that just on the federal level? Or am I completely mistaken on this point?
I have just started a policy that says if I link to a news site's article, they will need to pay *me* 300 euros with the fee going up for each click thru.
I got a chance to play with it there. It was pretty bad ass.
Do you remember seeing the bamboo stalk that was about 6' tall and video screen/mirror behind it?
Touching at different heights would create a different musical note and there was visual feed back from the screen/mirror that let off a trippy color swirl where you touched it.
Pretty cool.
Those plants to touch on and off a lamp from the 80's have come a long way...surprised it took this long though.
no matter how large the city, everybody knows everybody.
I've never been an asshole leaving a company (as much as I might have wanted to) but I would have had a (probable) easier time doing so without the concern you mentioned because I have been willing to travel great distances rather than limiting myself to "my" city.
I've spent time working in D.C., London, L.A., Las Vegas, Sao Paulo, Macau, San Diego and back to Las Vegas...
However, even if you are willing to open yourself up to anywhere in the world, keep in mind that you may return to a city (as I have) and by then, you don't know who you used to know, knows.
You never know when a burned bridge will still have smoldering embers...
From the article, regarding his 2009 "keytweeter" project.
I learned that I was more honest, with myself and with others, when I knew everyone could see what I was saying.
No, that's not being more honest.
That's being more paranoid and closing off what you really want to say.
Artists like to put a positive, deep-thought spin on their works. At least he didn't throw in 50 cent words in describing his projects.
I found myself in a similar situation at a previous job where I was bored out of my skull due to a lack of work at the company during the down economy.
So I decided to teach myself some more programming skills.
Unfortunately, I was in the same position where I couldn't install anything.
Find csc.exe on your machine. All Windows machines have this. Buried down in here: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET
Put it in your path.
Now you can write all the C# applications you want in Notepad. If you can get Notepad++ then it would make it a lot easier as it has code-coloring/indentation. I was able to install it by bringing the installer in on a flash drive. Being just an advanced notepad, I didn't worry about what would happen if someone noticed the install.
You can compile it via the command line with >csc.exe
You'll then have a nice little executable of whatever you made. And you may be surprised how complex of an application you can make this way...maybe you wouldn't.
This approach sure helped fill my days for a while there.
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Yeah!
Like that travesty that is NASA...if there was value to space exploration at all, then the free market would have stepped up in the 1960's and put a man on the moon!
Oh, wait a minute. There was no short-term profit and the R&D cost was so amazing only a government could pull it off.
Well, it isn't like there's long list of tangential advances that benefit all the rest of us now and which allow corporations to profit directly from.
Oh, wait.
Sure the government's main job is common defense, but seriously, if everything was left up to the free market we'd be no where near what we have now. I'm not even going to get into what NIH has done for the common good.
So Professor Gail Dines is an "expert on pornography?"
I'm sure there are quite a few other "experts" out there who will take a counter position. Or two.
The post right before yours might work for you
it should have no place in serious discourse from a reputable organization like the NYT.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Like my phone....crap, the battery is dead every morning because I never consider I should plug it in at night!!!!
What crappy phone!!!!
My gas-powered phone was so much better.
Seriously, once you own one, plugging in your car will be as routine as plugging in your phone...only a lot less often unless you commute 125 miles each way to work.
Ah...thanks for the clarification.
PG County's proposal is still BS. At least for the student's work.
Teachers, as employees, may well need to sign off on such things as terms of employment. I don't know. But it's an employer/employee relationship.
That does not exist with the student, who is compelled to attend...see other posts for other reasons
If it was a private school doing this I could see they might have a chance of an argument. As a public school system, tax payer funded, doing this it is complete crap. Isn't there something in the u US about government agencies not holding copyrights anyway? Or is that just on the federal level? Or am I completely mistaken on this point?
minus Fortune. Possibly minus glory, as well.
I had a friend years ago the used a diaper bag to carry is cameras and lenses around in.No one will touch that.
Also, Carl Sagan had a nice animation when Cosmos was re-released as a special edition in...1990? ish?
"One damn minute, Captain."
I'm rather surprised that Netflix isn't using the Azure cloud instead, considering their relationship with MS.
I have just started a policy that says if I link to a news site's article, they will need to pay *me* 300 euros with the fee going up for each click thru.
Judging by your post history, you're also a blatant Microsoft shill, so nothing you say should ever be taken seriously.
and with you posting as AC, nothing you say should be taken seriously.
...ah, never mind.
Jack Thompson was right!
/ducks
Interesting article, I suppose, but is this really /. stuff?
Check out: Scratch
My 9 y.o. daughter loves it. It gets through a LOT of programing basics in a fun way.
...has Rush Limbaugh really gotten that big?
I got a chance to play with it there. It was pretty bad ass.
Do you remember seeing the bamboo stalk that was about 6' tall and video screen/mirror behind it?
Touching at different heights would create a different musical note and there was visual feed back from the screen/mirror that let off a trippy color swirl where you touched it.
Pretty cool.
Those plants to touch on and off a lamp from the 80's have come a long way...surprised it took this long though.
no matter how large the city, everybody knows everybody.
I've never been an asshole leaving a company (as much as I might have wanted to) but I would have had a (probable) easier time doing so without the concern you mentioned because I have been willing to travel great distances rather than limiting myself to "my" city.
I've spent time working in D.C., London, L.A., Las Vegas, Sao Paulo, Macau, San Diego and back to Las Vegas...
However, even if you are willing to open yourself up to anywhere in the world, keep in mind that you may return to a city (as I have) and by then, you don't know who you used to know, knows.
You never know when a burned bridge will still have smoldering embers...
Yes, he did. He used 'ontology' twice (as noun then an adjective), both times incorrectly (or nonsensically).
I stand rectifyologyified.
I learned that I was more honest, with myself and with others, when I knew everyone could see what I was saying.
No, that's not being more honest.
That's being more paranoid and closing off what you really want to say.
Artists like to put a positive, deep-thought spin on their works. At least he didn't throw in 50 cent words in describing his projects.
...to Best Buy.
But not Radio Shack...somehow they always survive.
Radio Shack is the cockroach of the retail world.
I found myself in a similar situation at a previous job where I was bored out of my skull due to a lack of work at the company during the down economy.
So I decided to teach myself some more programming skills.
Unfortunately, I was in the same position where I couldn't install anything.
Find csc.exe on your machine. All Windows machines have this. Buried down in here: C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET
Put it in your path.
Now you can write all the C# applications you want in Notepad. If you can get Notepad++ then it would make it a lot easier as it has code-coloring/indentation. I was able to install it by bringing the installer in on a flash drive. Being just an advanced notepad, I didn't worry about what would happen if someone noticed the install.
You can compile it via the command line with >csc.exe
You'll then have a nice little executable of whatever you made. And you may be surprised how complex of an application you can make this way...maybe you wouldn't. This approach sure helped fill my days for a while there.