Just in case you didn't get the joke (I also often use any excuse to rant about sports teams that piss me off) the line was a reference to The Hockey Sweater.
I'm not sure I understand what you are saying, but my complaint is this: sometimes I'll see an old slashdot article where how relavent it is depends on the year it came out. Sometimes I look at the old ones in the 'hall of fame' just for fun, and would like to know what year I'm going back to for context.
Ha! and now, looking for examples of what I mean I've finally noticed that the date is in the actual URL for all the stories! That's embarrasing.
Sam the Record Man was bought out years ago before this downloading hysteria. If I remember correctly, it almost went out of business then, but changed hands instead. The form it existed in for the past several years was a watered down version with much less selection. The initial downfall was not because of downloading, legal or otherwise.
But even if they were really distributing it, so what? Well, obviously that would be a huge fricking deal, but it wouldn't have any legal ramifications. MS could distribute Ubuntu if they wanted to just like I could.
Numerous studies have shown that driving while talking on the phone isn't just worse than speeding, it's worse than drunk driving. We've already accepted that a person does not have the freedom to put others in danger by drunk driving, so..
I think the guy was making the analogy that switching to Linux may save money, but costs a lot of time and effort, similar to how getting the teachers to maintain the boilers and wash the windows would also save money but with obvious drawbacks.
If so, it's a bad analogy simply because Windows boxes in K12 school systems are known to be fuxored with all kinds of malware and even if they're kept clean they take just as much, if not more, effort to administer than a Linux box would.
I certainly wouldn't mind seeing a retraction on the number of teams in the NHL. Canada and northern US cities would be fine with me. I guess the probelem is the owners would mind. They just want more and more and bigger and bigger, and that means the American market.
Everything's got to be huge, on huge primetime TVs and in huge stadiums in huge cities for them. And for some stupid reason they think that a city with a population of 500,000 where 1% care about hockey is a better market than a city with 100,000 where everyone cares about hockey.
Maybe it does depend on which part of the world you are in, but I haven't worked in the US for 9 years. So yes, I know research goes on outside the US, and no, I still haven't seen any physicists submitting papers as Word documents.
Well, my possible plan is to get one of the jobs where they want someone with a lot of mathematical training. Some of them don't require that you know anything, initially, about finance. Most of these jobs also want good programming skills, specifically in c++ (though they often just say object oriented). So a programmer would also have an advantage, but if you're not comfortable with calculus and differential equations then we aren't after the same kind of job.
If you do a search on monster.com for quantitative analyst, you'll probably get a good idea of what they're looking for. In my browsing of the job market I've also seen offerings for people who are more programmers and less mathematicians, but I didn't pay much attention to them.
But whatever skills you already have, I think a sure fire way to get into the kind of job I'm after is to enter into one of the university programs listed in that wiki page I linked to. They are usually short (<=1 year) but expensive (>=20k).
I second this. In fact, I'm a Ph.D. physicist who is seriously considering leaving physics and going into the financial field. It's good money.
But, one doesn't need to become a scientist to become a quant. Just get into a highly mathematical financial program now before wasting..I mean enriching, your youth on a Ph.D. There's a list of good educational programs in this wiki
You, the geek who doesn't understand why people won't switch to Software Freedom, are asking them to switch FROM Windows TO a Linux distro.
No, actually, we are not. We are just tired of people bitching about our preffered OS. So we defend it. If it weren't for articles like these every week going on and on about why Linux isn't there yet, you'd never hear us zealots going on about how it is. Or, at least, you'd hear less of it.
I remember when most stories about Linux would be about some new program or changes in the kernel. Those were happy days. Now all we hear about is how happy noobs are with it, or not, followed by a bunch of whining. Do yourselves a favour: stay away from Linux until it comes loaded on your computer, and stop bothering us. Please.
Punishing reporters for getting a story that completely wrong based on a faulty source they did nothing to verify would resurrect invetigative journalism, not kill it. The reason it is so close to dead is because people give this kind of shoddy work a free pass.
If by punish you mean no one reads their stories anymore so they don't make money and have to stop writing garbage. But there can't be laws against repeating what someone told you. Well, as long as they didn't tell you the HD-DVD key.
The next time you try it, you might want to add this repository. It has deb packages specifically for Ubuntu. I got skype, googleearth, and a couple of other things you won't find in Ubuntu's regular repositories.
Of course, the next time you try it, it will probably not be 'edgy' or 'feisty', but whatever the next code name is. Or hell, maybe the next time you try it skype will be opensource and software patents will be gone, and we won't need these alternative repositories anymore. One can always hope.
Why would we slam her? She gave it a thumbs up. At the end she states the only reason she's even keeping Windows on her hard drive at all is because Openoffice doesn't have a feature she needs that MS office does.
You may be onto something. Everytime some stupid internet or patent law is close to being passed, we can summarize the prevailing thought on/. and submit it to the media as coming from an official think tank. We just need some sophisticated sounding name that won't be immediately associated with/.
Slashdot Mirror
Now along with kirk vs piccard, wars vs trek, gnome vs kde, we have:
Tolkien vs Rowling
Will it go on forever like emacs vs vi or fade out quickly into obscurity like babylon 5 vs firefly?
Thanks!
Just in case you didn't get the joke (I also often use any excuse to rant about sports teams that piss me off) the line was a reference to The Hockey Sweater.
I'm not sure I understand what you are saying, but my complaint is this: sometimes I'll see an old slashdot article where how relavent it is depends on the year it came out. Sometimes I look at the old ones in the 'hall of fame' just for fun, and would like to know what year I'm going back to for context.
Ha! and now, looking for examples of what I mean I've finally noticed that the date is in the actual URL for all the stories! That's embarrasing.
Sam the Record Man was bought out years ago before this downloading hysteria. If I remember correctly, it almost went out of business then, but changed hands instead. The form it existed in for the past several years was a watered down version with much less selection. The initial downfall was not because of downloading, legal or otherwise.
The fools. They should have had their slaves build something like this.
But even if they were really distributing it, so what? Well, obviously that would be a huge fricking deal, but it wouldn't have any legal ramifications. MS could distribute Ubuntu if they wanted to just like I could.
That was a cut and paste troll.
They're never on topic, they just show up in random Linux articles.
Numerous studies have shown that driving while talking on the phone isn't just worse than speeding, it's worse than drunk driving. We've already accepted that a person does not have the freedom to put others in danger by drunk driving, so..
I think the guy was making the analogy that switching to Linux may save money, but costs a lot of time and effort, similar to how getting the teachers to maintain the boilers and wash the windows would also save money but with obvious drawbacks.
If so, it's a bad analogy simply because Windows boxes in K12 school systems are known to be fuxored with all kinds of malware and even if they're kept clean they take just as much, if not more, effort to administer than a Linux box would.
I certainly wouldn't mind seeing a retraction on the number of teams in the NHL. Canada and northern US cities would be fine with me. I guess the probelem is the owners would mind. They just want more and more and bigger and bigger, and that means the American market.
Everything's got to be huge, on huge primetime TVs and in huge stadiums in huge cities for them. And for some stupid reason they think that a city with a population of 500,000 where 1% care about hockey is a better market than a city with 100,000 where everyone cares about hockey.
Oh, well
Maybe it does depend on which part of the world you are in, but I haven't worked in the US for 9 years. So yes, I know research goes on outside the US, and no, I still haven't seen any physicists submitting papers as Word documents.
I don't know about him, but I have a Ph.D. in physics, and I've never seen or heard of any physicist submitting a paper in Word.
Whenever I submit a paper to APS I'm surprised to see that they even accept submissions in Word, though they do state that they prefer Tex.
Well, my possible plan is to get one of the jobs where they want someone with a lot of mathematical training. Some of them don't require that you know anything, initially, about finance. Most of these jobs also want good programming skills, specifically in c++ (though they often just say object oriented). So a programmer would also have an advantage, but if you're not comfortable with calculus and differential equations then we aren't after the same kind of job.
If you do a search on monster.com for quantitative analyst, you'll probably get a good idea of what they're looking for. In my browsing of the job market I've also seen offerings for people who are more programmers and less mathematicians, but I didn't pay much attention to them.
But whatever skills you already have, I think a sure fire way to get into the kind of job I'm after is to enter into one of the university programs listed in that wiki page I linked to. They are usually short (<=1 year) but expensive (>=20k).
I second this. In fact, I'm a Ph.D. physicist who is seriously considering leaving physics and going into the financial field. It's good money.
But, one doesn't need to become a scientist to become a quant. Just get into a highly mathematical financial program now before wasting..I mean enriching, your youth on a Ph.D. There's a list of good educational programs in this wiki
You, the geek who doesn't understand why people won't switch to Software Freedom, are asking them to switch FROM Windows TO a Linux distro.
No, actually, we are not. We are just tired of people bitching about our preffered OS. So we defend it. If it weren't for articles like these every week going on and on about why Linux isn't there yet, you'd never hear us zealots going on about how it is. Or, at least, you'd hear less of it.
I remember when most stories about Linux would be about some new program or changes in the kernel. Those were happy days. Now all we hear about is how happy noobs are with it, or not, followed by a bunch of whining. Do yourselves a favour: stay away from Linux until it comes loaded on your computer, and stop bothering us. Please.
Don't forget Youporn
Punishing reporters for getting a story that completely wrong based on a faulty source they did nothing to verify would resurrect invetigative journalism, not kill it. The reason it is so close to dead is because people give this kind of shoddy work a free pass.
If by punish you mean no one reads their stories anymore so they don't make money and have to stop writing garbage. But there can't be laws against repeating what someone told you. Well, as long as they didn't tell you the HD-DVD key.
The next time you try it, you might want to add this repository. It has deb packages specifically for Ubuntu. I got skype, googleearth, and a couple of other things you won't find in Ubuntu's regular repositories.
deb http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/ edgy free non-free
deb-src http://medibuntu.sos-sts.com/repo/ edgy free non-free
Of course, the next time you try it, it will probably not be 'edgy' or 'feisty', but whatever the next code name is. Or hell, maybe the next time you try it skype will be opensource and software patents will be gone, and we won't need these alternative repositories anymore. One can always hope.
Why would we slam her? She gave it a thumbs up. At the end she states the only reason she's even keeping Windows on her hard drive at all is because Openoffice doesn't have a feature she needs that MS office does.
Go away you troll.
So I wonder if there's no tax on DVD-Rs. And if not, why not?
Last year I got 100 DVD-Rs for $25. At 25 for 4.7GB there's not much incentive to even buy CD-Rs if the tax alone is 21 for 700MB.
He said they will be for TV, similar to the Clone Wars series
Or the Christmas Special.
You may be onto something. Everytime some stupid internet or patent law is close to being passed, we can summarize the prevailing thought on /. and submit it to the media as coming from an official think tank. We just need some sophisticated sounding name that won't be immediately associated with /.
Nobody likes it when you correct their diciton.