I can't tell if this post is serious or parody. Is this an attempt to skewer the prevailing wisdom on Slashdot, or is it an attempt to further the agenda of the radical minority?
Sounds great, like getting a book on storage media and having 50 pages about punch cards.
Previous cases affect judicial rulings as much as the law, therefore having a large portion of it devoted to the history makes sense, whereas storage mediums don't rely on anything in the past except what they want to remain interoperable.
What if both candidates leave you running for the bathroom like they do this year? Obama and Biden are two of the furthest-left politicians in the senate and he is, in essence, an empty suit. He's great at speaking, but there's nothing behind it.
McCain is central and seems to actually do what he thinks is right. However, he's also an asshole with a horrible temper and he's not all that smart. Given a reasonable choice, I'd vote against him.
I believe I'm just going to vote third party this year. I may be throwing my vote away, but so be it. Both choices are awful, and I'd rather support a one-in-a-million chance than either of the two major candidates.
If they're not using it, then there's something that could be done to improve it for them. You may be happy with Linux being hard as hell to use and hard to migrate to, but the point of the matter is that getting more people to adopt it will make it so that more people develop for it. Microsoft has a lot of zealots because they grew up using Windows, it works for them and they've always felt like they can do what they want. When you migrate to Linux, you have more power and flexibility, but if you can't use it then it's worse than windows. Even more, it makes the end user feel powerless, which means that they'll likely adopt other platforms when given the choice.
If you keep linux as a niche OS, then it'll always stay in the niche it's currently in. If you let it expand out of that niche, it'll get more users and more development resources as a result.
No. Apparently sarcasm is difficult to catch over the internet, even when someone would preposterously suggest that IC didn't have any effect on technology over the past 5 decades. Oh well.
How about an analysis of those variables that have to be taken into account? That's a good way to back up a correlation that isn't in and of itself another correlation. There's experimentation. That's useful. Logic works too. In the case of IC, we can directly trace the history of electronics and determine that IC played a very large part in it.
Correlations can be used as supporting evidence, but they're weak to the point of ridicule by themselves. I can't believe this is even an argument on a forum of educated people. The scientific method, at its core, is a method used to remove the uncertainty from correlations in the data so that you can say with confidence that either the correlation in the data is a cause and effect relationship or that the experiment was set up improperly. Perhaps, instead of bitching about correlation not being accepted as evidence of causation, you should praise people for having the skepticism that's driven the scientific revolution of the past few centuries.
Ah yes, that reminds me of the theories that we got the integrated circuit off of the alien ship at roswell. So, here's to 50 years of exploiting alien technologies!
Secondly, correlation is pretty bad evidence of causation without something else backing it up. Correlations happen all the time for many reasons. There are many orders of magnitude more good correlations than there are causal relationships.
Yeah, but they fail to account for the fact that correlation != causation. Technology's been moving along at a fairly rapid pace since the 1800s; perhaps it's just a coincidence that integrated circuits came along around the same time electronics started taking off.
Why not give OpenSolaris a whirl instead? Or FreeBSD? Or a Mac?
Because linux is the most popular open source operating system out there, and if Sun really wanted to play nice with the community they'd make it available to as much of the community as they could.
What are you saying? That open sourcing the two projects under different licenses makes them looked two faced? That this is an obvious stunt to help their failing virtualization software gain a user base so that it doesn't fail completely? That Sun is an opportunistic supporter of open source and takes advantage of the community instead of actually trying to help it?
It is flamebait if the accuracy is entirely of your own opinion and debatable, thus "bait"ing those of an opposite opinion to "flame" you with their own.
I disagree enormously. I think what they have in gnome is so perfect for Ubuntu it's almost scary. They're trying to make it so that the end user isn't overwhelmed with options and customizations, and that it just works. They've succeeded phenomenally. My only beef with it right now is that upgrading to the next release is awful, breaks my desktop about half the time, and that flash doesn't work very well. If those two things were fixed, I would never use anything else for a desktop ever again.
The irony isn't that the ubuntu article doesn't work in konqueror (ubuntu uses firefox by default), the irony is that there's still someone in the world using konqueror.
I imagine you use it while wearing a blouse with harpsichord music playing in the background while your servants tend your grounds in the English countryside. Perhaps tonight you shall go to a local party where you'll waltz with a middle class young lady looking to marry up in society!
If Windows didn't allow such extensive use of making every bit of software installing useless drivers and daemons, Windows wouldn't be quite as VULNERABLE to misbehaving software as it is now.
It sounds like you're blaming Windows for encouraging this behavior, which would be a valid point if the developers who made this program didn't come from a company dedicated to another operating system with a different modus operandi.
I have never had a blue screen of death in Vista ever. Period. This is after a year of using it with many different programs and many different hardware configurations. It's much more stable than it's predecessors.
I have never had an Apple program be stable on the Windows platform. iTunes is bloated at best, absolutely unusable if you catch it at the wrong time of the moon cycle, and just generally not that good. Safari crashes constantly for me whenever I've tried to use it. I've had iPods not work at all when trying to use them with windows.
My money is on Apple being the fucked up one this time. Someone should verify that it requires administrator rights to install, and that will settle the deal. I'm guessing that they have DRM measures implemented in v8 that weren't in v7 and that's what's causing the problem.
Employees'(or prospective employees') personal lives should be strictly off limits unless the employee voluntarily discloses the information as per professional interview guidelines(such as listing interests on a resume' or answering an interviewer's questions).
Bullshit. Personal life and professional life are impossible to untangle. If you're likely to get arrested in the next year because you've started dealing drugs on the side and have a website promoting your new business, then the company has a lot of reason to know that.
Basically, your post sounds like someone trying to avoid consequences for having lots of pictures of themselves drunk posted on the internet;) As the new generation comes into the workplace, new privacy controls and norms will come into place to cope with this and more employers will be understanding of what's online. Honestly, if you took everyone who's smoked marijuana out of the employee pool, then we'd have a serious labor shortage in every sector.
I know what you mean. I, Devin Lott, of 1056 Arbor Way, 89120, am worried that if people find out that I save cats in my spare time, they'll hold it against me because they're dog people. Or they'll find out that one night a week I save children from burning buildings instead. Or even that I volunteer at the wrong soup kitchen.
Oh well, at least Doctors without Borders will be taking me out of the country for a year, so I won't have to worry about it until then.
They add all the value that they add to a windows machine. They give you hardware that is compatible with the OS, install it for you, make sure that it runs well, gives you a warranty, and just basically give you something that you don't have to mess with to make it work. My parents could do this, whereas I doubt they could get linux running well if they had to install it themselves.
Ironically, it's also close to the ideals of a free market. There's no friction, no real barrier to entry, and competition is very pure and open. Supply is limitless, thus cost goes to $0, which isn't happening elsewhere in the software industry. In a way, free market economics says that the ease of reproducing software would drive the cost to zero, which has happened in a lot of ways.
Morally speaking, while most people would argue that there's nothing wrong with charging money for software, almost everyone will agree that the community that's sprung up around open source is very right. It's heart warming, really.
we need to realize that it's not all about being altruistic to these guys. It's about money, and if it's doesn't make money then why would they do it?
I wish more companies would remember that altruism can make them money in the long run. If Dell, for example, can make it so that Linux makes serious in roads, then the next generation of computer shoppers will always remember Dell as the maverick that spearheaded the Linux desktop movement that the consumer's reaping the benefits of. Idealism can and does lead to profit.
Exactly - if it's increasing the bottom line only a few percentage points, it probably wouldn't be worth the risk of offending the biggest player in the PC market.
Especially since, judging from what I've seen, their linux program isn't generating nearly the same level of good will in the open source community that Dell and others are generating.
I got the impression that they were referring to the other phone manufacturers having captured the market well before apple even entered it. Just my $.02
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I can't tell if this post is serious or parody. Is this an attempt to skewer the prevailing wisdom on Slashdot, or is it an attempt to further the agenda of the radical minority?
The world may never know...
Sounds great, like getting a book on storage media and having 50 pages about punch cards.
Previous cases affect judicial rulings as much as the law, therefore having a large portion of it devoted to the history makes sense, whereas storage mediums don't rely on anything in the past except what they want to remain interoperable.
do a gut-check on the person
What if both candidates leave you running for the bathroom like they do this year? Obama and Biden are two of the furthest-left politicians in the senate and he is, in essence, an empty suit. He's great at speaking, but there's nothing behind it.
McCain is central and seems to actually do what he thinks is right. However, he's also an asshole with a horrible temper and he's not all that smart. Given a reasonable choice, I'd vote against him.
I believe I'm just going to vote third party this year. I may be throwing my vote away, but so be it. Both choices are awful, and I'd rather support a one-in-a-million chance than either of the two major candidates.
If they're not using it, then there's something that could be done to improve it for them. You may be happy with Linux being hard as hell to use and hard to migrate to, but the point of the matter is that getting more people to adopt it will make it so that more people develop for it. Microsoft has a lot of zealots because they grew up using Windows, it works for them and they've always felt like they can do what they want. When you migrate to Linux, you have more power and flexibility, but if you can't use it then it's worse than windows. Even more, it makes the end user feel powerless, which means that they'll likely adopt other platforms when given the choice.
If you keep linux as a niche OS, then it'll always stay in the niche it's currently in. If you let it expand out of that niche, it'll get more users and more development resources as a result.
No. Apparently sarcasm is difficult to catch over the internet, even when someone would preposterously suggest that IC didn't have any effect on technology over the past 5 decades. Oh well.
How about an analysis of those variables that have to be taken into account? That's a good way to back up a correlation that isn't in and of itself another correlation. There's experimentation. That's useful. Logic works too. In the case of IC, we can directly trace the history of electronics and determine that IC played a very large part in it.
Correlations can be used as supporting evidence, but they're weak to the point of ridicule by themselves. I can't believe this is even an argument on a forum of educated people. The scientific method, at its core, is a method used to remove the uncertainty from correlations in the data so that you can say with confidence that either the correlation in the data is a cause and effect relationship or that the experiment was set up improperly. Perhaps, instead of bitching about correlation not being accepted as evidence of causation, you should praise people for having the skepticism that's driven the scientific revolution of the past few centuries.
Ah yes, that reminds me of the theories that we got the integrated circuit off of the alien ship at roswell. So, here's to 50 years of exploiting alien technologies!
First of all, it was a joke, come on people.
Secondly, correlation is pretty bad evidence of causation without something else backing it up. Correlations happen all the time for many reasons. There are many orders of magnitude more good correlations than there are causal relationships.
Yeah, but they fail to account for the fact that correlation != causation. Technology's been moving along at a fairly rapid pace since the 1800s; perhaps it's just a coincidence that integrated circuits came along around the same time electronics started taking off.
That's /exactly/ my experience with Linux evangelizers, and the primary reason I don't use Linux.
Yeah, and also, they're paid to do it.
Why not give OpenSolaris a whirl instead? Or FreeBSD? Or a Mac?
Because linux is the most popular open source operating system out there, and if Sun really wanted to play nice with the community they'd make it available to as much of the community as they could.
What are you saying? That open sourcing the two projects under different licenses makes them looked two faced? That this is an obvious stunt to help their failing virtualization software gain a user base so that it doesn't fail completely? That Sun is an opportunistic supporter of open source and takes advantage of the community instead of actually trying to help it?
It is flamebait if the accuracy is entirely of your own opinion and debatable, thus "bait"ing those of an opposite opinion to "flame" you with their own.
I disagree enormously. I think what they have in gnome is so perfect for Ubuntu it's almost scary. They're trying to make it so that the end user isn't overwhelmed with options and customizations, and that it just works. They've succeeded phenomenally. My only beef with it right now is that upgrading to the next release is awful, breaks my desktop about half the time, and that flash doesn't work very well. If those two things were fixed, I would never use anything else for a desktop ever again.
The irony isn't that the ubuntu article doesn't work in konqueror (ubuntu uses firefox by default), the irony is that there's still someone in the world using konqueror.
I imagine you use it while wearing a blouse with harpsichord music playing in the background while your servants tend your grounds in the English countryside. Perhaps tonight you shall go to a local party where you'll waltz with a middle class young lady looking to marry up in society!
If Windows didn't allow such extensive use of making every bit of software installing useless drivers and daemons, Windows wouldn't be quite as VULNERABLE to misbehaving software as it is now.
It sounds like you're blaming Windows for encouraging this behavior, which would be a valid point if the developers who made this program didn't come from a company dedicated to another operating system with a different modus operandi.
I have never had a blue screen of death in Vista ever. Period. This is after a year of using it with many different programs and many different hardware configurations. It's much more stable than it's predecessors.
I have never had an Apple program be stable on the Windows platform. iTunes is bloated at best, absolutely unusable if you catch it at the wrong time of the moon cycle, and just generally not that good. Safari crashes constantly for me whenever I've tried to use it. I've had iPods not work at all when trying to use them with windows.
My money is on Apple being the fucked up one this time. Someone should verify that it requires administrator rights to install, and that will settle the deal. I'm guessing that they have DRM measures implemented in v8 that weren't in v7 and that's what's causing the problem.
Employees'(or prospective employees') personal lives should be strictly off limits unless the employee voluntarily discloses the information as per professional interview guidelines(such as listing interests on a resume' or answering an interviewer's questions).
Bullshit. Personal life and professional life are impossible to untangle. If you're likely to get arrested in the next year because you've started dealing drugs on the side and have a website promoting your new business, then the company has a lot of reason to know that.
;) As the new generation comes into the workplace, new privacy controls and norms will come into place to cope with this and more employers will be understanding of what's online. Honestly, if you took everyone who's smoked marijuana out of the employee pool, then we'd have a serious labor shortage in every sector.
Basically, your post sounds like someone trying to avoid consequences for having lots of pictures of themselves drunk posted on the internet
I know what you mean. I, Devin Lott, of 1056 Arbor Way, 89120, am worried that if people find out that I save cats in my spare time, they'll hold it against me because they're dog people. Or they'll find out that one night a week I save children from burning buildings instead. Or even that I volunteer at the wrong soup kitchen.
Oh well, at least Doctors without Borders will be taking me out of the country for a year, so I won't have to worry about it until then.
They add all the value that they add to a windows machine. They give you hardware that is compatible with the OS, install it for you, make sure that it runs well, gives you a warranty, and just basically give you something that you don't have to mess with to make it work. My parents could do this, whereas I doubt they could get linux running well if they had to install it themselves.
Ironically, it's also close to the ideals of a free market. There's no friction, no real barrier to entry, and competition is very pure and open. Supply is limitless, thus cost goes to $0, which isn't happening elsewhere in the software industry. In a way, free market economics says that the ease of reproducing software would drive the cost to zero, which has happened in a lot of ways.
Morally speaking, while most people would argue that there's nothing wrong with charging money for software, almost everyone will agree that the community that's sprung up around open source is very right. It's heart warming, really.
we need to realize that it's not all about being altruistic to these guys. It's about money, and if it's doesn't make money then why would they do it?
I wish more companies would remember that altruism can make them money in the long run. If Dell, for example, can make it so that Linux makes serious in roads, then the next generation of computer shoppers will always remember Dell as the maverick that spearheaded the Linux desktop movement that the consumer's reaping the benefits of. Idealism can and does lead to profit.
Exactly - if it's increasing the bottom line only a few percentage points, it probably wouldn't be worth the risk of offending the biggest player in the PC market.
Especially since, judging from what I've seen, their linux program isn't generating nearly the same level of good will in the open source community that Dell and others are generating.
I got the impression that they were referring to the other phone manufacturers having captured the market well before apple even entered it. Just my $.02
Well, as they say, an Ubuntu user is just a windows fan who's used Vista.
Disclaimer: I use and like Vista for my laptop and gaming, it's just a joke people.