I wish someone could write up some intelligible documentation for XKB and/or some good tools for manipulating the config files. I struggled for hours with www.xfree86.org/current/XKBproto.pdf and the various xkbXXXX tools before giving up. I still don't understand how it all works.
I've also been involved on both sides of the process, and I am quite aware of the standard arguments in favor of blind reviews, and I don't believe in them.
Basically what you are saying is that the whole Scientific Process will collapse because people are too spineless to say what they think in public.
That is a very sad commentary on the state of academia.
I agree, especially in this day and age when people can blog and self-publish with ease.
Though, imagine the Slashdot community trying to review a technical paper. Do you think that's a good idea?
Actually, I do, sort of. If people used their real names, and if you assigned extra weight to the comments of people in the academic community whom you respect, then it shouldn't be too hard to assess the worth of the submitted article.
Not that everyone would assign it the same value. You might respect the opinion of Joe Blowhard II of Harvard, while someone else might prefer the opinion of Minnie Mouser of CUNY.
If the subject is really of interest you would presumably RTFA.
Certain groups would probably try to maintain control by setting themselves up as self-proclaimed review boards. Ultimately, if everything is out in the open then you are free to
form an opinion based on whatever criteria you choose, and that is a Good Thing.
I look forward to the day when we relinquish all control
of our cars once we enter the freeway. Scientific papers
have found that traffic throughput could be increased
up to 918.49% while reducing fatalities by a factor
of 17.5!
I believe that the scientific Journal has outlived its
usefulness, and will be replaced by... Slashdot!
But seriously, reviewers are biased and sloppy, as are
the editors. The fact that reviews are blind means that
they are also unaccountable, which fosters even more bias.
Journals take months or years to respond to a submision,
and often as not they respond with a rejection so the
submitter has to give up or start the whole process over
with another journal.
There are so many scandals that one could quote.
The whole process seems more designed
to support the status quo than to promote knowledge.
I have discussed this with many people in academia and
they react not with logic, but with horror that I would
dare to question a system that they view almost mystical reverence.
Every now and then I will get an email from a friend, CC'ed to everyone else on his/her address book. Inevitably, one of the other recipients has a hacked PC, and soon after that my daily Spam level increases.
People need to learn to use BCC instead. Web clients like gmail should make this the default for emails with more than say 4 recipients.
There's a wonderfully careful analysis of various CC issues at burningbird. Thank you. One point to clarify, however. CC licenses are, at this moment, at least, permanent, in the sense that the term is as long as copyright runs (and we'll see whether that's permanent or not soon enough). That issue was a tough one for us (I, of course, favor "limited terms"), and we're eager for feedback on that issue.
But just because you can't revoke a particular license doesn't mean you can't revoke the offer. If, for example, you offer content under a CC license for a month, and then change your mind, you can stop offering the content under that license. Anyone who accepted your offer while it was valid, of course, has a deal. But no one after you withdraw the offer can accept anymore.
Your manager is trying to teach you, but you are not
being recepetive. What he is trying to tell you is,
"If you play your cards right, you can get paid
for doing nothing."
On the other hand, it's possible that you go to more movies enjoyed by teenagers
I think you hit the nail on the head. I went to see
Ladies in Lavender a while back and there were no teens and no cell phones. The only slight disturbance was caused by some old guy's dentures falling out and clattering on the floor.
O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
Micheal Crichton is a spoon-bender. That's right, he believes that he can bend spoons with his mind. Those who don't believe are not being "open minded". Read his autobiography, it's a hoot!
I agree completely.
We already know that the copy protection won't be much of an obstacle to determined pirates.
Unfortunately, it will lead to consumer electronics products that
are a) more expensive and b) less user friendly, with the
result that consumers will stay away in droves.
It is sad to see a company like Sony Electronics hobble itself
in this manner just to please Sony Studios.
All-in-all, it seems that Mike Fidler (recently Sony exec in charge
of Blu-Ray, now CEO of digeo) chose a very opportune
moment to abandon ship.
If you use Emacs or vi or etc. you can navigate the source code by creating "tag" files which are cross-references between variable names and the source code lines where they are defined. VS has a similar, but more powerful, feature called Browse Info. Systems that use hueristics instead of using a compiler to generate the tags (or Browse Info) are not as accurate. nm does not give source (line) info, but your idea of post-processing (perhaps with gdb or addr2line or something) is similar to what I was hinting at above.
By browse information I mean the ability to navigate the source code. I don't know about KDevelop. Does it use the compiler to generate tags or does it use something (like ctags) that uses hueristics and doesn't completely parse the code? There are lots of IDEs with integrated source navigation, but do any besides VS actually uses the compiler to parse the code and generate the tags?
VS has some very esoteric features, but I love the
integrated browse info. It's better than ctags/etags because
it uses the compiler to generate the info.
Has anyone here thought about doing
something similar with g++/gdb?
There are a couple of ways it could be done.
have g++ generate tags
have an application to build tags from
gdb-enabled binaries.
The author of the article talks as though
evaluating software objectively were a problem unique to adopters
of Open Source:
Free software, despite the price, can be confusing and costly for corporations to use. A few freely distributed programs, like the Linux operating system and the Apache Web server, have become well known, but most are still unproved.
A more simple and accurate statement would be, "Software can be confusing and costly".
My biggest problem with KDE is the lack of usable documentation. There are tons of great apps. The desktop is very configurable, but documentation is, shall we say, sparse? I have way less patience than I used to.
Has anyone succeeded in installing everything on Mandrake/Mandriva? I have never succeeded. The install menus are deceptive, and if I really dive in and select everything manually I get lots of conflicts.
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I wish someone could write up some intelligible documentation for XKB and/or some good tools for manipulating the config files. I struggled for hours with www.xfree86.org/current/XKBproto.pdf and the various xkbXXXX tools before giving up. I still don't understand how it all works.
Such is the method of science.
Uh huh.
I agree, especially in this day and age when people can blog and self-publish with ease.
Though, imagine the Slashdot community trying to review a technical paper. Do you think that's a good idea?
Actually, I do, sort of. If people used their real names, and if you assigned extra weight to the comments of people in the academic community whom you respect, then it shouldn't be too hard to assess the worth of the submitted article.
Not that everyone would assign it the same value. You might respect the opinion of Joe Blowhard II of Harvard, while someone else might prefer the opinion of Minnie Mouser of CUNY. If the subject is really of interest you would presumably RTFA.
Certain groups would probably try to maintain control by setting themselves up as self-proclaimed review boards. Ultimately, if everything is out in the open then you are free to form an opinion based on whatever criteria you choose, and that is a Good Thing.
I look forward to the day when we relinquish all control of our cars once we enter the freeway. Scientific papers have found that traffic throughput could be increased up to 918.49% while reducing fatalities by a factor of 17.5!
But seriously, reviewers are biased and sloppy, as are the editors. The fact that reviews are blind means that they are also unaccountable, which fosters even more bias.
Journals take months or years to respond to a submision, and often as not they respond with a rejection so the submitter has to give up or start the whole process over with another journal. There are so many scandals that one could quote. The whole process seems more designed to support the status quo than to promote knowledge.
I have discussed this with many people in academia and they react not with logic, but with horror that I would dare to question a system that they view almost mystical reverence.
People need to learn to use BCC instead. Web clients like gmail should make this the default for emails with more than say 4 recipients.
Your manager is trying to teach you, but you are not being recepetive. What he is trying to tell you is, "If you play your cards right, you can get paid for doing nothing."
I think you hit the nail on the head. I went to see Ladies in Lavender a while back and there were no teens and no cell phones. The only slight disturbance was caused by some old guy's dentures falling out and clattering on the floor.
It's not a big deal. If the laser misses its target, then ground control will simply issue a recall order.
O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
Micheal Crichton is a spoon-bender. That's right, he believes that he can bend spoons with his mind. Those who don't believe are not being "open minded". Read his autobiography, it's a hoot!
It is sad to see a company like Sony Electronics hobble itself in this manner just to please Sony Studios.
All-in-all, it seems that Mike Fidler (recently Sony exec in charge of Blu-Ray, now CEO of digeo) chose a very opportune moment to abandon ship.
What? you don't understand? Dustbin lid, rhymes with kid.
Eclipse is very nice. It looks like the C++ plug-in (CDT) uses a C/C++ parser written in Java. The parser is mostly, but not completely, compatible with gcc. See http://download.eclipse.org/tools/cdt/docs/specs/D esign_Specs/Parser/Parser-2.0-Design.pdf.
If you use Emacs or vi or etc. you can navigate the source code by creating "tag" files which are cross-references between variable names and the source code lines where they are defined. VS has a similar, but more powerful, feature called Browse Info. Systems that use hueristics instead of using a compiler to generate the tags (or Browse Info) are not as accurate. nm does not give source (line) info, but your idea of post-processing (perhaps with gdb or addr2line or something) is similar to what I was hinting at above.
By browse information I mean the ability to navigate the source code. I don't know about KDevelop. Does it use the compiler to generate tags or does it use something (like ctags) that uses hueristics and doesn't completely parse the code? There are lots of IDEs with integrated source navigation, but do any besides VS actually uses the compiler to parse the code and generate the tags?
I bought it and donated it to the library.
Actually, the main white paper is in PDF: http://www.openbrr.org/docs/BRR_whitepaper_2005RFC 1.pdf.
I took them to my local distribution node, also known as "the library".
My biggest problem with KDE is the lack of usable documentation. There are tons of great apps. The desktop is very configurable, but documentation is, shall we say, sparse? I have way less patience than I used to.
Has anyone succeeded in installing everything on Mandrake/Mandriva? I have never succeeded. The install menus are deceptive, and if I really dive in and select everything manually I get lots of conflicts.
Java gives you a polished floor on which you can slip and break your neck.
C++ gives you a thermo-nuclear device.