"You can read it on the internet because..." thankfully some people (engineers, scientists, others) decided to ignore magic and create
real things (computers, internet, etc) based on science.
Having had, recently, the painful experience of watching Fox and MSNBC in a vain attempt to learn something meaningful
about something which was actually news at the time, I came to the conclusion that MSNBC is even worse than Fox. "Lean Forward" indeed.
I'm less than 15 miles from the San Franciso border in an 'affluent' suburb. A DSL line to my house peaks at perhaps 30 Kbits/sec (18000 feet to telco building).
So, uh, no, sonic.net is not an option unless you live really close to a telco building.
IQ tests measure modernity. The degree to which your thinking aligns with modern thought.
Google " IQ modernity " to see articles on the topic. A New Yorker article some time
ago gave a remarkable example of how things associate to us (knife goes with fork)
whereas to a more primitive people knife goes with potato (something one cuts).
Given the limited choices in a multiple choice test.
Hmm. AC is arguing that once you take over the territory of what was a sovereign nation then the treaties you signed and broke earlier with those folks don't count as broken treaties? I guess they were more like negotiating positions.
A once-VP of a company I once worked for said, paraphrasing here: "Company 3 would negotiate with MS and MS would revise
a contract between MS and Company 3 per the meeting.
Then Company 3 workers would hold the new version and the old against the light (page by page) so they could find the changes MS
made that were not part of the things agreed at the latest meeting." Hmm. Maybe that is considered ethical in some universe?
Sorry I was unclear. The Fedora Skype problem was that skype would not generate sound output, making the otherwise-working skype useless.
Or if sound output worked, microphone capture would stop working.
Sometimes a Fedora mid-release small sound update would break general-sound or skype-sound too. Ugh.
The first task with microphone was always to look thru multiple sound-preferences screens and the alsa-sound-configure apps looking
for muted microphone. Because my settings got botched by a minor update. Rather ridiculous, and sometimes
that was not enough and I would have to write a configure file of some sort, which configure file I would
later have to delete after the next sound update (to get sound working yet again). Good grief.
RH drove me off. First they dropped end user support.
Then Fedora was a gigantic pain:
Upgrades did not work (had to reinstall) and every single time,
I struggled for weeks getting sound and skype to work after getting latest Fedora,
Even getting simple modern monitors to work took effort.
The February 2011 "Communications of the ACM" describes recent research showing that Computing and
Computer Science education is not succeeding at teaching the basics. The good news is that
the problem is now beginning to get useful attention in the form of actually figuring out how
to teach programming (etc). Essentially they are beginning to use the scientific method to
determine what works for teaching CS. Instead of guessing.
It is unlikely that any big oil company will produce a good alternative fuel. So using patents like this
will likely have exactly the effect of suppressing change. In all likelihood.
Aside from the rather meager investments by big oil, the real problem is exposed in the famous
book "The Innovator's Dilemma":
workers for big oil necessarily are neither hungry enough nor focused enough to overcome all the obstacles
in a reasonable timeframe.
Only an independent small focused company whose people desperately
need to succeed will get the job done. And big oil will necessarily try to protect
big oil's efforts and suppress independents. No need to attribute actions to the NIMH effect here, it is just normal corporate CYA behavior.
Unfortunately the results of CYA (such as patent suits) hurt all of us.
Arguably the company finding a good solution is probably going to need the help
of big oil or someone really big to get to the necessary scale. So the oil companies should arrange
to get out of the way for now and then help grow the resulting business.
"turn it off the option to browse media when a removable storage device is inserted. Nautilus > Edit > Preferences > Media tab" Color me ignorant or an idiot, but there seems to be no 'Nautilus' mentioned in my 10.10 Ubuntu menus.
What he did was akin to journalism. Somebody handed him stuff, he (and various newspapers) redacted stuff and published the remaining text.
Whoever got or copied or stole the data initially has separate responsibilities, but Assange did not steal any data, Assange just published, like any journalist might.
You might not like the data becoming public, but that does not alter Assange's role. He acted as a journalist, and in fact no one has offered any information suggesting Assange spied at all. The emotions and reactions of public figures are not evidence of spying.
New Mexico should shut off all those dangerous scientific devices before they contaminate the children. No more cell phones, computers, or TV there, please.
With Ubuntu 9.10 , Intel Core Duo, ASUS board and an ATI card (new in late 2009) the screen had ugly little dots appearing and disappearing. And red thin streaks appearing and disappearing. The proprietary driver did not work at all (I forget exactly what it did).
Switched to an nVidia card and no more weird artifacts. I sure hope ATI/AMD has fixed all that with the new open source drivers, but it makes no sense to me to switch back just in case ATI works now!
Slashdot Mirror
Assuming they ever check to make sure the backups work.
"You can read it on the internet because..." thankfully some people (engineers, scientists, others) decided to ignore magic and create real things (computers, internet, etc) based on science.
The literal interpretation is of a document *as translated to English* and indeed a selected one among different translations. How weird is that?
Having had, recently, the painful experience of watching Fox and MSNBC in a vain attempt to learn something meaningful about something which was actually news at the time, I came to the conclusion that MSNBC is even worse than Fox. "Lean Forward" indeed.
I'm less than 15 miles from the San Franciso border in an 'affluent' suburb. A DSL line to my house peaks at perhaps 30 Kbits/sec (18000 feet to telco building). So, uh, no, sonic.net is not an option unless you live really close to a telco building.
"Do we want to continue to pay for governments sending us physical mail rather than using more efficient technology?"
There is nothing going on here that requires you to use this email address for your own personal communications.
Let it keep operating, but make it legal for UPS/Fedex/etc to use your physical mailbox. Lets see how that goes...
IQ tests measure modernity. The degree to which your thinking aligns with modern thought. Google " IQ modernity " to see articles on the topic. A New Yorker article some time ago gave a remarkable example of how things associate to us (knife goes with fork) whereas to a more primitive people knife goes with potato (something one cuts). Given the limited choices in a multiple choice test.
If the link says new york or wall street at all I just assume a paywall and never ever click on it. Who needs them?
Hmm. AC is arguing that once you take over the territory of what was a sovereign nation then the treaties you signed and broke earlier with those folks don't count as broken treaties? I guess they were more like negotiating positions.
"treaties the United States failed to honor". Start with every treaty signed with the Indian tribes on what is now the continental US.
A once-VP of a company I once worked for said, paraphrasing here: "Company 3 would negotiate with MS and MS would revise a contract between MS and Company 3 per the meeting. Then Company 3 workers would hold the new version and the old against the light (page by page) so they could find the changes MS made that were not part of the things agreed at the latest meeting." Hmm. Maybe that is considered ethical in some universe?
Would an ethical company pay another (SCO) so SCO could continue to try to derail Linux with lawsuits (based on, AFAICT, nothing)?
Say Nabisco (not to pick on them but I want a name you heard of) buys a tollway and charges tolls.
Is it fair to charge higher truck tolls on trucks full of items not made by Nabisco than the same truck with Nabisco goods?
Who would think that such a situation was fair? So, in my view, this analogy exposes the need for "net neutrality" is needed.
Sorry I was unclear. The Fedora Skype problem was that skype would not generate sound output, making the otherwise-working skype useless. Or if sound output worked, microphone capture would stop working. Sometimes a Fedora mid-release small sound update would break general-sound or skype-sound too. Ugh.
The first task with microphone was always to look thru multiple sound-preferences screens and the alsa-sound-configure apps looking for muted microphone. Because my settings got botched by a minor update. Rather ridiculous, and sometimes that was not enough and I would have to write a configure file of some sort, which configure file I would later have to delete after the next sound update (to get sound working yet again). Good grief.
RH drove me off. First they dropped end user support.
Then Fedora was a gigantic pain: Upgrades did not work (had to reinstall) and every single time, I struggled for weeks getting sound and skype to work after getting latest Fedora, Even getting simple modern monitors to work took effort.
Ubuntu fixed all the problems Fedora had...
Read every day? So when you go on holiday you get into legal or financial trouble? Cute!
Do I need a quantum-mechanical tinfoil hat, or will my regular one do?
The February 2011 "Communications of the ACM" describes recent research showing that Computing and Computer Science education is not succeeding at teaching the basics. The good news is that the problem is now beginning to get useful attention in the form of actually figuring out how to teach programming (etc). Essentially they are beginning to use the scientific method to determine what works for teaching CS. Instead of guessing.
It is unlikely that any big oil company will produce a good alternative fuel. So using patents like this will likely have exactly the effect of suppressing change. In all likelihood.
Aside from the rather meager investments by big oil, the real problem is exposed in the famous book "The Innovator's Dilemma": workers for big oil necessarily are neither hungry enough nor focused enough to overcome all the obstacles in a reasonable timeframe.
Only an independent small focused company whose people desperately need to succeed will get the job done. And big oil will necessarily try to protect big oil's efforts and suppress independents. No need to attribute actions to the NIMH effect here, it is just normal corporate CYA behavior. Unfortunately the results of CYA (such as patent suits) hurt all of us.
Arguably the company finding a good solution is probably going to need the help of big oil or someone really big to get to the necessary scale. So the oil companies should arrange to get out of the way for now and then help grow the resulting business.
"turn it off the option to browse media when a removable storage device is inserted. Nautilus > Edit > Preferences > Media tab"
Color me ignorant or an idiot, but there seems to be no 'Nautilus' mentioned in my 10.10 Ubuntu menus.
What he did was akin to journalism.
Somebody handed him stuff, he (and various newspapers)
redacted stuff and published the remaining text.
Whoever got or copied or stole the data initially has separate responsibilities, but
Assange did not steal any data, Assange just published, like any journalist might.
You might not like the data becoming public, but that does not alter
Assange's role. He acted as a journalist, and in fact no one has
offered any information suggesting Assange spied at all. The emotions and reactions
of public figures are not evidence of spying.
New Mexico should shut off all those dangerous scientific devices before they contaminate the
children. No more cell phones, computers, or TV there, please.
Now we'll really have rats planning to take over the world.
The X-windows naming example proves that it's unclear what client and server
really mean!
With Ubuntu 9.10 , Intel Core Duo, ASUS board and an ATI card (new in late 2009) the screen had ugly little dots appearing and disappearing.
And red thin streaks appearing and disappearing. The proprietary driver did not work at all (I forget exactly what it did).
Switched to an nVidia card and no more weird artifacts. I sure hope ATI/AMD has fixed all that with the new open source drivers,
but it makes no sense to me to switch back just in case ATI works now!