Rob Del Vecchio
Recent Activity
Rob Del Vecchio commented on the Humanities on February 15, 2008, 12:59 PM
If all everyone did was do their job, would life not be boring without some sort of hobby or ulterior interest? Also, they key word is 'lofty'; is not our society 'lofty?' I would say that life in the United States is certainly lofty in terms of food (we're not starving), culture (television, radio, internet), politics, and a number of other topics. It should be our duty as the younger generation to keep this loftyness alive.Ignorance also plays a role in this. How does one know about, for example, art history, if one has never been exposed to it? Furthermore, how does that same person know that they enjoy art history or not? The key here is education, and without education, we become ignorant.You're paying thousands of dollars for this education, the least you can do is appreciate the full-bodied education that you are getting along with your career oriented education.
The protocol for The Internet is currently HTTP, or Hyper Text Transfer Protocol. It is just shy of 20 years old. Its age has lent it to be modified and layered over with capabilities, as per the Internet changed, that make it very difficult to implement. This is a problem. The fact that it is human readable is also a problem. Though it helps in debugging, it wastes bandwidth. This protocol, as the acronym states, transfers a language called HTML. By definition, it is meant to be a loosely interpreted language, meaning it is not an exact language. I think this is a problem. Is a redesign of both the HTTP protocol and the HTML language in store? Or is this a case of 'don't fix what isn't broken'? Does the fact that it is working well outweigh the possibility of it working better? … Read More
January 16, 2008 |
I am a college student majoring in Computer Science.
Music is my other passion, which I happen to have a natural talent for.
Rob Del Vecchio commented on What is moral authority? on February 15, 2008, 5:29 PM
@I AM; The counter point to that argument is, what if someone wants someone else to tell them what is right and wrong? What happens when someone CANNOT make a decision between right and wrong, due to a mental disorder, or even more interestingly, the deficiency of a frontal lobe.Extending this idea, I believe it is not possible to compare what the world ought to be, and what the world is. One can have a goal or an idea to move towards in order to have some sort of hope to mold the world in how they see the world ought to be, but the truth lies in what the world is.There is no exact definition of a moral authority, because there is no exact definition of what a moral is. One can assume that a moral is "something good". However, what is good in one culture may be outrageous in another.Hence, I say there are two moral authorities: one which comes from self-discovery, trial and error, ones own experiences, etc., and one which comes from another.We switch from one moral authority to another, the first of course, being our parents.