MS and Apple both do that...although its more of music/documents/photos kind of stuff than applications since those need to be "installed" proper (dependencies, registry, libraries etc depending on the OS). A lot of linux users have a separate partition mounted at/home so they don't have to worry about this when upgrading.
Another poster already covered a lot of the good points against what you said, but even APPLE of all companies is copying Linux now. Spaces is a multidesktop feature in Leopard, and while it does have some improvements over linux multidesktops, it is a prime example of how things are changing now.
The only thing worse than not having mod points to give someone is having them but not being able to use them since you already posted in this thread. And murder. That too...
I get tired of hearing about the x64 flash thing...there are so many ways around it. Doesn't automatix (which she uses) have a firefox32 option? If she is new to linux altogether she should probably have stuck with the i386 version, although many new to linux tend to select x64 becuase they want to utilize their 64 bit cpus, and I can't blame them. I run Dapper Drake x64 great and the only time x64 has bit me in the ass at all is in regards to WINE, which I can live without since I dual boot XP.
Another point of frustration with the ubuntu installer is that it ALWAYS puts grub on the first PATA HD it sees, when I want it on the same SATA disk as the ubuntu install. Needless to say this will be a pain when I start toying with FreeBSD on my PATA drive.
From your initial post it sounded as if you go apeshit at em. As for the "we'll sue over anything" mentality, I will agree. But as for the "D is passing" approach? I'm inclined to disagree. Schools today give far more homework than in past years, and children today are experiencing stress disorders that were only seen in adults until this generation.
There are far more effective ways to get your children's attention than teaching aggression as an appropriate response to frustration. Having said this there are times when kids need to be put in their place, and I hope that you only yell when they really screw up. Also, the difference between a kid being disciplined and what happened here is that the kids here didn't do anything to deserve what happened.
....Once when I was a kid I remember we were going for a fire drill and we turn to our usual route out of the school and the principal is standing there with her walkie talkie in front of some cardboard flames and we had to use our backup way out. It was so cheesey. Then I remember one kid was missing because he was on the crapper, and was asked by the headmistress "well wouldn't you have felt silly burning on the toliet?" or something like that and I can't get the stupid image of this terrified little kid sitting on the crapper in the middle of a massive inferno.
Still a bad, bad, idea. Even if the kids know it is a drill, the idea of carrying out a fire exercise in a high school is almost as retarded as the initial article.
We cannot read minds, period. We see a correlation between brain activity in certain areas based on behavior or what the subject is seeing, etc, but it is purely a correlation. This Neuroscientist should have his PhD revoked for not understanding that correlation doesn't imply causation!!!
I think what is more likely to happen is buying a "main PC" for a consumers home (which would also act as a server) and you can add terminals elsewhere in the house (one in kids rooms, kitchen, etc) since the typical PC doesn't reach its full power in the hands of the typical consumer. The problem with this whole "web apps" approach is that people still have to have a computer with an OS on it somewhere. Microsoft recently developed technology that would allow two users to share a screen, which was discussed on/. last week, so perhaps this sort of thing will be the next step and not this web app bullshit.
As a psychology student/researcher, I must say our worst enemy is the media. The way these stories are reported sometimes distorts the research or the conclusions drawn from it. If you were to read the actual journal article when it is published, it will likely be far less B.S. like "activating inner creativity" and more like "participants in the higher ceiling room demonstrated more creativity as measured by (variable)." Although the article may have used BS terms since its a marketing journal and not a proper psych journal. The publication standards in education, communication, and marketing journals are generally less demanding and so sometimes crap gets through and makes all scientific research outside of bio/chem/physics look bad.
Also, since correlation does not imply causation it is possible that as previously mentioned certain jobs will intentionally create different environments for whatever reason...ie graphic designers may care more about an open aesthetically pleasing office than engineers who sit in cubicles and just want to do their work. In addition this article fails to give any actual statistics, which limits how much we can critique it...so if it has a correlation of.9 there is probably a good connection between ceiling height and creativity, but if its only.3 it could just be coincidental or due to many outside factors.
Probably not, the difference between a tall person and a short person could be about a foot or perhaps 18", and the difference between a low and high ceiling in this study is likely several feet at least.
The first rule of science is that it can only disprove, and can never prove for sure. Nothing is ever proven. I think too many are missing the point that this is a correlational study and not a proper experiment, ergo you cannot truly imply directional causality.
While there may be some "junk" in the conclusions the study is drawing, it is hard to argue with a correlation. Which as many other posters have correctly pointed out does NOT imply causation.
Thing is, if the price is raised above 99 cents, then you get into the $1+ range, at which point you might as well go out and buy the CD, defeating the point of iTunes if you want to buy entire albums/singles instead of just individual songs. Personally I'd rather pay 99 cents for a DRMed song and do the old burn/re-rip switcheroo and waste a 10 cent CD than pay extra for no DRM.
When I submitted the article, my concern was not at all to do with the guy being convicted, but was concerned about the second part of the article where it does discuss the implications of using an open WAP. That is what the article suggests.
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I left Fedora for Ubuntu because I felt like I was using a crappy beta for a once-great distro...
MS and Apple both do that...although its more of music/documents/photos kind of stuff than applications since those need to be "installed" proper (dependencies, registry, libraries etc depending on the OS). A lot of linux users have a separate partition mounted at /home so they don't have to worry about this when upgrading.
This is exactly why I think if you know what you are doing Linux is even easier to use than windows.
Another poster already covered a lot of the good points against what you said, but even APPLE of all companies is copying Linux now. Spaces is a multidesktop feature in Leopard, and while it does have some improvements over linux multidesktops, it is a prime example of how things are changing now.
The only thing worse than not having mod points to give someone is having them but not being able to use them since you already posted in this thread. And murder. That too...
I get tired of hearing about the x64 flash thing...there are so many ways around it. Doesn't automatix (which she uses) have a firefox32 option? If she is new to linux altogether she should probably have stuck with the i386 version, although many new to linux tend to select x64 becuase they want to utilize their 64 bit cpus, and I can't blame them. I run Dapper Drake x64 great and the only time x64 has bit me in the ass at all is in regards to WINE, which I can live without since I dual boot XP.
Another point of frustration with the ubuntu installer is that it ALWAYS puts grub on the first PATA HD it sees, when I want it on the same SATA disk as the ubuntu install. Needless to say this will be a pain when I start toying with FreeBSD on my PATA drive.
From your initial post it sounded as if you go apeshit at em. As for the "we'll sue over anything" mentality, I will agree. But as for the "D is passing" approach? I'm inclined to disagree. Schools today give far more homework than in past years, and children today are experiencing stress disorders that were only seen in adults until this generation.
...they would be able to take idiots like this out of the gene pool.
There are far more effective ways to get your children's attention than teaching aggression as an appropriate response to frustration. Having said this there are times when kids need to be put in their place, and I hope that you only yell when they really screw up. Also, the difference between a kid being disciplined and what happened here is that the kids here didn't do anything to deserve what happened.
I was about to suggest that they played too much "Oregon Trail"
I think Johnnie is dead?
....Once when I was a kid I remember we were going for a fire drill and we turn to our usual route out of the school and the principal is standing there with her walkie talkie in front of some cardboard flames and we had to use our backup way out. It was so cheesey. Then I remember one kid was missing because he was on the crapper, and was asked by the headmistress "well wouldn't you have felt silly burning on the toliet?" or something like that and I can't get the stupid image of this terrified little kid sitting on the crapper in the middle of a massive inferno.
Still a bad, bad, idea. Even if the kids know it is a drill, the idea of carrying out a fire exercise in a high school is almost as retarded as the initial article.
We cannot read minds, period. We see a correlation between brain activity in certain areas based on behavior or what the subject is seeing, etc, but it is purely a correlation. This Neuroscientist should have his PhD revoked for not understanding that correlation doesn't imply causation!!!
I think what is more likely to happen is buying a "main PC" for a consumers home (which would also act as a server) and you can add terminals elsewhere in the house (one in kids rooms, kitchen, etc) since the typical PC doesn't reach its full power in the hands of the typical consumer. The problem with this whole "web apps" approach is that people still have to have a computer with an OS on it somewhere. Microsoft recently developed technology that would allow two users to share a screen, which was discussed on /. last week, so perhaps this sort of thing will be the next step and not this web app bullshit.
What I'm saying is there is no point in arguing with whether or not a correlation exists, because apparently it does.
As a psychology student/researcher, I must say our worst enemy is the media. The way these stories are reported sometimes distorts the research or the conclusions drawn from it. If you were to read the actual journal article when it is published, it will likely be far less B.S. like "activating inner creativity" and more like "participants in the higher ceiling room demonstrated more creativity as measured by (variable)." Although the article may have used BS terms since its a marketing journal and not a proper psych journal. The publication standards in education, communication, and marketing journals are generally less demanding and so sometimes crap gets through and makes all scientific research outside of bio/chem/physics look bad. Also, since correlation does not imply causation it is possible that as previously mentioned certain jobs will intentionally create different environments for whatever reason...ie graphic designers may care more about an open aesthetically pleasing office than engineers who sit in cubicles and just want to do their work. In addition this article fails to give any actual statistics, which limits how much we can critique it...so if it has a correlation of .9 there is probably a good connection between ceiling height and creativity, but if its only .3 it could just be coincidental or due to many outside factors.
Probably not, the difference between a tall person and a short person could be about a foot or perhaps 18", and the difference between a low and high ceiling in this study is likely several feet at least.
The first rule of science is that it can only disprove, and can never prove for sure. Nothing is ever proven. I think too many are missing the point that this is a correlational study and not a proper experiment, ergo you cannot truly imply directional causality.
While there may be some "junk" in the conclusions the study is drawing, it is hard to argue with a correlation. Which as many other posters have correctly pointed out does NOT imply causation.
Thing is, if the price is raised above 99 cents, then you get into the $1+ range, at which point you might as well go out and buy the CD, defeating the point of iTunes if you want to buy entire albums/singles instead of just individual songs. Personally I'd rather pay 99 cents for a DRMed song and do the old burn/re-rip switcheroo and waste a 10 cent CD than pay extra for no DRM.
BSD uses a different license than the GPL or GNU
If this kid is such a "hacker" why the hell is he using AOL?
When I submitted the article, my concern was not at all to do with the guy being convicted, but was concerned about the second part of the article where it does discuss the implications of using an open WAP. That is what the article suggests.