I has done me well to realize that most/.-ers know nothing about serious psychological research and go with whatever seems intuitive or conforms to "common sense" etc. See this thread on Robots working with autistic children: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/ 09/195209
Second Life really scares me sometimes. It is not the answer to everything, and it seems as if people that play it are willingly marching into the matrix. Governments setting up embassies there? Political protests inside of Linden? It is getting really sad, to tell you the truth. I am a gamer, I am a Linux user, and there are times when I get frustrated that my social life is getting in the way of my time alone and geekery and even I of all people hate the implications of this game. I don't play WoW or any MMO, however I see that they serve a purpose in that they are fantasy worlds....one cannot go out and kill a troll in meatspace. Second Life differs in that it is like the real world. Can't afford that big house? Build one in SL! Can't get laid? Then make your character a dominatrix! Wake up people, stop buying into this crap.
Ahh, I thought you were just some dude giving their two cents...
When my Dad was flying predators, he seemed to think that the younger pilots adapted quicker since they grew up playing videogames. Having said this, it may be a valid point that simulation games may be useful for potential pilots but I fail to see the connection between FPS games and ground combat that many/. users seem to make.
According to friends who go there it can be VERY geeky at times. )The air force on the whole has gotten so much geekier than it was when I was a kid growing up in it) The USAFA is one of the best engineering schools in the world, only you have to be somewhat athletic to get in. They take 20+ credit hours a week for Gods sake....
And those who are flying these drones are pilots with prior experience, btw.
I hate to say it, but the vast majority of slashdot posters have no clue what they are talking about when it comes to this stuff.
Sad as well since so many important people in science and tech who they hold in high esteem likely experience some form of autism or aspergers. I once read that "Computers were designed by people with aspergers for people with aspergers."
Actually, the Solaris email server at my public high school was ran by a student. The students who are intelligent and worthwhile rise above the crap. We broke through the all sorts of things they put in our way, and on the whole we "clued" students knew more than our schools IT staff did.
So is there a screen there displaying what is being said, or do they just leave all the non latin speakers in the dust? Also, is latin required at Harvard?
Ah, but you didn't bring the freshmen to school, now did you? In this case, tell your district that they are just gonna have to fire all the bus drivers...
Anyone who says that the Gentoo manual is overrated is dead on. I've been in the process of a PPC install (so no GUI but CLI is cool) for days now, and often times the commands in the manual simply DO NOT WORK! And then the next day or time I try they miraculously do! Now its claiming that my 12G partition is only 955MB...sometimes. It is really starting to get ridiculous, but so far its the only distro I've found that supposedly works well as a firewire install.
What I would like to see is a Gentoo fork that is precompiled, but only to a certain extent. In otherwords, instead of compiling something yourself, you find a version of it that was compiled with the same/similar flags/optimizations, etc as you would like to have. However I don't know if this is feasible due to the sheer amount of hosting space and bandwidth it would take, and the seemingly infinite possible combinations of binaries there would need to be.
There is a lot more that goes into tenure than teaching. This includes work outside of the classroom, (sponsoring student organizations, etc) research time, grant money earned, number of articles/studies published, etc. And even then, most surveys (at least from my experience) ask how much work the class requires, whether it is reading or writing. Also, faculty share a lot of what they do in the classroom with each other, and are generally aware of who in their departments gives less/more easy/hard work.
I agree that it is completely ridiculous that in this country we pay people more to manage money than to actually earn it. I am an undergrad right now hoping to get a PhD in experimental psych and only recently have my parents accepted this and backed off telling me to get some inane corporate job or be a lawyer ("Well, Brian, you can argue any point to death!") or something like that. One of my good friends is an accounting major and he FUCKING HATES IT! But hes like "I want a lot of money." Personally I don't see what good money is when you are miserable and don't have any time to enjoy it whatsoever.
People in the military do not make as much in many cases as they could in civilian field with the same qualifications/degrees. I'm a military brat and I've observed that as soon as people get out/retire they are making loads more money than they were before in addition to their retirement checks (if they did 20+ years). My civilian relatives working corporate jobs were making more money growing up as well. IT Personnel and pilots are a prime example of this, as well as engineers, doctors, and lawyers.
Oh, and there are some enlisted families (particularly the young enlisted ranks) who are issued foodstamps. Not common by any stretch of the imagination, but it does happen. Military housing does tend to suck (esp on Army bases) as well.
Another thing to consider is that a software engineer may be making less than an officer in the military with the same degree when they are in their late 20s, but 10/15 years later the officer will be making less.
But the owner had it open so that people could actually use it. If it were a network in someone's home and they were just too lazy to put a WPA key on it or whatever and some dude was sitting outside in his car getting into it, that would be different.
That analogy is so overused and overrated! It is completely different from the situation at hand since a home is private property and it's common knowledge that one does not just enter the home of someone else. I see how if someone used an open Wifi connection to start hacking a network or doing something else illegal/wrong that they can't just say "but it was open!" like your house analogy.
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Funny....no one in the IT dept where I work (besides me) knows shit about Linux...much less its history. No wonder nothing here works properly...
That and they are a financial magazine and not a tech one....one article I read they said there were only 3 different kinds of BSD!
Will someone please explain why people play this game at all, and why so many tech sites give it loads of undeserved attention?
....I for one Welcome our new third-world hacker overlords!
...Or they will just get addicted to the next big MMO
I has done me well to realize that most /.-ers know nothing about serious psychological research and go with whatever seems intuitive or conforms to "common sense" etc. See this thread on Robots working with autistic children: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/ 09/195209
Second Life really scares me sometimes. It is not the answer to everything, and it seems as if people that play it are willingly marching into the matrix. Governments setting up embassies there? Political protests inside of Linden? It is getting really sad, to tell you the truth. I am a gamer, I am a Linux user, and there are times when I get frustrated that my social life is getting in the way of my time alone and geekery and even I of all people hate the implications of this game. I don't play WoW or any MMO, however I see that they serve a purpose in that they are fantasy worlds....one cannot go out and kill a troll in meatspace. Second Life differs in that it is like the real world. Can't afford that big house? Build one in SL! Can't get laid? Then make your character a dominatrix! Wake up people, stop buying into this crap.
Ahh, I thought you were just some dude giving their two cents...
/. users seem to make.
When my Dad was flying predators, he seemed to think that the younger pilots adapted quicker since they grew up playing videogames. Having said this, it may be a valid point that simulation games may be useful for potential pilots but I fail to see the connection between FPS games and ground combat that many
According to friends who go there it can be VERY geeky at times. )The air force on the whole has gotten so much geekier than it was when I was a kid growing up in it) The USAFA is one of the best engineering schools in the world, only you have to be somewhat athletic to get in. They take 20+ credit hours a week for Gods sake....
And those who are flying these drones are pilots with prior experience, btw.
It is not "given orders"...The plane is flown by a pilot sitting in front of a computer with controls.
40k came before Starcraft. Having said this, most of 40k is taken from Dune, Star Wars, and Starship Troopers (the novel, not the awful movie)
I hate to say it, but the vast majority of slashdot posters have no clue what they are talking about when it comes to this stuff.
Sad as well since so many important people in science and tech who they hold in high esteem likely experience some form of autism or aspergers. I once read that "Computers were designed by people with aspergers for people with aspergers."
You'll be glad to know that most psychologists/researchers (including this one) use words like "cute" when that rag is mentioned
Back in the days of Win95 (before proper security) I was in 6th grade, and we had all sorts of fun with the Network Neighborhood, hahaha....
Actually, the Solaris email server at my public high school was ran by a student. The students who are intelligent and worthwhile rise above the crap. We broke through the all sorts of things they put in our way, and on the whole we "clued" students knew more than our schools IT staff did.
So is there a screen there displaying what is being said, or do they just leave all the non latin speakers in the dust? Also, is latin required at Harvard?
I think you mean you are going to rape his macbook with a vista install, my dear friend
Ah, but you didn't bring the freshmen to school, now did you? In this case, tell your district that they are just gonna have to fire all the bus drivers...
Anyone who says that the Gentoo manual is overrated is dead on. I've been in the process of a PPC install (so no GUI but CLI is cool) for days now, and often times the commands in the manual simply DO NOT WORK! And then the next day or time I try they miraculously do! Now its claiming that my 12G partition is only 955MB...sometimes. It is really starting to get ridiculous, but so far its the only distro I've found that supposedly works well as a firewire install.
What I would like to see is a Gentoo fork that is precompiled, but only to a certain extent. In otherwords, instead of compiling something yourself, you find a version of it that was compiled with the same/similar flags/optimizations, etc as you would like to have. However I don't know if this is feasible due to the sheer amount of hosting space and bandwidth it would take, and the seemingly infinite possible combinations of binaries there would need to be.
How are those TPS reports coming?
There is a lot more that goes into tenure than teaching. This includes work outside of the classroom, (sponsoring student organizations, etc) research time, grant money earned, number of articles/studies published, etc. And even then, most surveys (at least from my experience) ask how much work the class requires, whether it is reading or writing. Also, faculty share a lot of what they do in the classroom with each other, and are generally aware of who in their departments gives less/more easy/hard work.
I agree that it is completely ridiculous that in this country we pay people more to manage money than to actually earn it. I am an undergrad right now hoping to get a PhD in experimental psych and only recently have my parents accepted this and backed off telling me to get some inane corporate job or be a lawyer ("Well, Brian, you can argue any point to death!") or something like that. One of my good friends is an accounting major and he FUCKING HATES IT! But hes like "I want a lot of money." Personally I don't see what good money is when you are miserable and don't have any time to enjoy it whatsoever.
People in the military do not make as much in many cases as they could in civilian field with the same qualifications/degrees. I'm a military brat and I've observed that as soon as people get out/retire they are making loads more money than they were before in addition to their retirement checks (if they did 20+ years). My civilian relatives working corporate jobs were making more money growing up as well. IT Personnel and pilots are a prime example of this, as well as engineers, doctors, and lawyers.
Oh, and there are some enlisted families (particularly the young enlisted ranks) who are issued foodstamps. Not common by any stretch of the imagination, but it does happen. Military housing does tend to suck (esp on Army bases) as well.
Another thing to consider is that a software engineer may be making less than an officer in the military with the same degree when they are in their late 20s, but 10/15 years later the officer will be making less.
But the owner had it open so that people could actually use it. If it were a network in someone's home and they were just too lazy to put a WPA key on it or whatever and some dude was sitting outside in his car getting into it, that would be different.
That analogy is so overused and overrated! It is completely different from the situation at hand since a home is private property and it's common knowledge that one does not just enter the home of someone else. I see how if someone used an open Wifi connection to start hacking a network or doing something else illegal/wrong that they can't just say "but it was open!" like your house analogy.