"the positives of actual Marxist ideals"? What, like jailing anyone who doesn't agree with Marxist thought?
If you view that as a Marxist ideal then you don't understand Marxism. Unfortunately most movements that were associated - generally by name only - with Marxism didn't understand actual Marxist ideals, either; which left many others with a total lack of understanding of the concept as well.
In reality most "Marxist" movements were even further from actual Marxist ideals than the bloodiest parts of the crusades were from Christian ideals.
Journalists who visit Belarus (and there are very few that are allowed) often come back saying that Belarus is the last Soviet republic. One party system, state controls everything, massive corruption, deteriorating everything, you name it. All the negatives of soviet style communism with none of the positives of actual Marxist ideals. People are often rated as being more free to criticize their government in China, Cuba, or Iran than they are in Belarus.
I've been yearning for another chance for a cunning stunt bonus for some time now. Is it wrong of me to be hoping to see the new Carmageddon released on Wii?
As much as people love to hate on the Wii, it has graphics that are easily significantly improved over the graphics of the last Carmageddon release for the PC...
Better yet, you can run WordPerfect 5.1 and Lotus 1-2-3!!
But that is productivity software; why would we want to load that on an industrial controller? It would be far more interesting to use it to play Doom instead...
I thank you for that explanation of code rot. Some people just sling the term around as a generic blanket justification for upgrading software at every opportunity. Obviously someone like Torvalds would be upgrading other parts of his system over time, and running into a situation where his main GUI no longer cooperates with vital system libraries would be a significant problem.
Of course he is certainly aware that plenty of other software needs GNOME libraries and hence even if he isn't using it as a GUI, he'll still end up having to patch the base and its libraries just to keep other stuff going.
I don't see the point in counting a job that exists only thanks to the tax-payer's taxes as a "job" in the normal means. It's not a benefit to the country - it's a liability. An expense. A budget item.
So are you suggesting then that infrastructure work such as roads and highways should be done by volunteers out of the goodness of their own hearts? Feel free to try suggesting that in your own district and let me know how that goes.
You can find the actual paper online if you'd like. Being as it is through Nature, and he is not writing it as part of an NIH-sponsored project, the paper is behind a paywall.
Fortunately it is in the main Nature journal, which is possibly the most subscribed-to journal in science; hence if you don't work for a place that subscribes, you can probably get it at your local library.
And no that is not an endorsement of putting academic research papers behind paywalls.
Just so you know, this is a story about a series of comments on a social networking site. I hate to say it, but
In a way, that is progress here. In case you haven't been paying attention, it is rare to go this long between subsequent stories just about facebook or facebook-boy's finances/legal-situation/latest-acquisition/wardrobe
The notion that
Slashdot == stagnated
Is such old news around here you might find yourself down-modded "redundant" for saying it today.
I think both the GNOME group, and Torvalds as well, are guilty of change for the sake of change. Sure, he calls GNOME 3 an "unholy mess", but if
Xfce is a step down from GNOME 2 â" but a huge step up from GNOME 3.
Then why didn't he just stay with GNOME 2?
Of course as a KDE user myself I want to ask why he didn't switch to KDE instead, but I know better than to open that can of worms. It is almost like asking an emacs user why they don't just switch to vi...
Ever notice how when a politician does something that big business likes, it is received as "job creating", while something they don't like is automatically "job killing"? Yet when cuts to the federal budget can only be addressed with layoffs, that is somehow not "job killing" and infrastructure projects are somehow never "job creating"?
... it probably is. The study sounded reminiscent of the study of IQ vs 2000 presidential voting, which requires some states to have average IQs almost in the drool-cup range.
Apparently I was not being specific enough, as three people responded with that link.
What I intended to ask for was the full list of games that they are giving to early adopters of the 3DS. They said 10 games from NES and 10 from GBA, but ars doesn't list all 10 of either.
Most insurance companies these days, are far more concerned with getting bonuses to the executives.
You don't honestly think that the executives will end up with smaller bonuses as a result, do you? We all know that isn't how this game works.
The company will cover these costs by raising premiums and/or reducing payments. It is very likely that the executives will see larger bonuses after this, as a self-congratulatory measure for "proactively correcting the situation".
... even if it is far too late. And of course, the customers will pay for the cost of the failure, plus the cost of the fix. The company made a bad choice, and the consequences of that bad choice will be born by.. the customers. The executives will still get their usual multimillion dollar "performance" bonuses as if nothing was ever wrong.
I don't know that I can agree with the ethics of using children and adolescents as experimental subjects for this kind of research. They are certainly valuable for this type of work, but as a parent I would not volunteer my child to this.
A good point. Thankfully the journal Science is even common in public libraries; I just checked the public library system where I grew up and found they even have it there.
And most of the stuff that's likely to break off is also likely to burn up before it hits the ground.
I was wondering that, although some of the modules are quite heavy, aren't they? Granted, they aren't covered in heat shield - the absence of which I presume would aid in their breaking up in the atmosphere - although I'm still not convinced that we'd be able to bring the pieces down in a truly controlled manner.
I though the ISS has all kinds of odd-shaped bits sticking out of it, held together by various passageways and whatnot. Considering the forces that are exerted on objects falling through the atmosphere, wouldn't the various compartment end up sheared off on the way down, to end up falling on their own and independent of the main part of the ISS?
In other words, I don't see how you could precisely bring down something that size and shape into a specific area; even if the specific area is as non-specific as say "the pacific ocean".
I've tried to find an answer to this, but I haven't had much luck. Have we not launched an astronaut on a rocket since the start of the space shuttle program? I understand that the current NASA rockets carry only non-human payloads, but how long has it been since a NASA rocket last carried a human into space?
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"the positives of actual Marxist ideals"? What, like jailing anyone who doesn't agree with Marxist thought?
If you view that as a Marxist ideal then you don't understand Marxism. Unfortunately most movements that were associated - generally by name only - with Marxism didn't understand actual Marxist ideals, either; which left many others with a total lack of understanding of the concept as well.
In reality most "Marxist" movements were even further from actual Marxist ideals than the bloodiest parts of the crusades were from Christian ideals.
Journalists who visit Belarus (and there are very few that are allowed) often come back saying that Belarus is the last Soviet republic. One party system, state controls everything, massive corruption, deteriorating everything, you name it. All the negatives of soviet style communism with none of the positives of actual Marxist ideals. People are often rated as being more free to criticize their government in China, Cuba, or Iran than they are in Belarus.
Do they mean mounting your android device on your desktop system as a USB device? The syntax is rather vague...
I've been yearning for another chance for a cunning stunt bonus for some time now. Is it wrong of me to be hoping to see the new Carmageddon released on Wii?
As much as people love to hate on the Wii, it has graphics that are easily significantly improved over the graphics of the last Carmageddon release for the PC...
I haven't gotten around to playing (or even buying) Doom3 yet, and it's already about to go open source.
Better yet, you can run WordPerfect 5.1 and Lotus 1-2-3!!
But that is productivity software; why would we want to load that on an industrial controller? It would be far more interesting to use it to play Doom instead...
Here I was looking forward to hearing about someone playing Zork on an S7.
I thank you for that explanation of code rot. Some people just sling the term around as a generic blanket justification for upgrading software at every opportunity. Obviously someone like Torvalds would be upgrading other parts of his system over time, and running into a situation where his main GUI no longer cooperates with vital system libraries would be a significant problem.
Of course he is certainly aware that plenty of other software needs GNOME libraries and hence even if he isn't using it as a GUI, he'll still end up having to patch the base and its libraries just to keep other stuff going.
I don't see the point in counting a job that exists only thanks to the tax-payer's taxes as a "job" in the normal means. It's not a benefit to the country - it's a liability. An expense. A budget item.
So are you suggesting then that infrastructure work such as roads and highways should be done by volunteers out of the goodness of their own hearts? Feel free to try suggesting that in your own district and let me know how that goes.
You can find the actual paper online if you'd like. Being as it is through Nature, and he is not writing it as part of an NIH-sponsored project, the paper is behind a paywall.
Fortunately it is in the main Nature journal, which is possibly the most subscribed-to journal in science; hence if you don't work for a place that subscribes, you can probably get it at your local library.
And no that is not an endorsement of putting academic research papers behind paywalls.
Just so you know, this is a story about a series of comments on a social networking site. I hate to say it, but
In a way, that is progress here. In case you haven't been paying attention, it is rare to go this long between subsequent stories just about facebook or facebook-boy's finances/legal-situation/latest-acquisition/wardrobe
The notion that
Slashdot == stagnated
Is such old news around here you might find yourself down-modded "redundant" for saying it today.
Xfce is a step down from GNOME 2 â" but a huge step up from GNOME 3.
Then why didn't he just stay with GNOME 2?
Of course as a KDE user myself I want to ask why he didn't switch to KDE instead, but I know better than to open that can of worms. It is almost like asking an emacs user why they don't just switch to vi...
Ever notice how when a politician does something that big business likes, it is received as "job creating", while something they don't like is automatically "job killing"? Yet when cuts to the federal budget can only be addressed with layoffs, that is somehow not "job killing" and infrastructure projects are somehow never "job creating"?
... it probably is. The study sounded reminiscent of the study of IQ vs 2000 presidential voting, which requires some states to have average IQs almost in the drool-cup range.
... he received simultaneous job offers from Iran and North Korea ...
Apparently I was not being specific enough, as three people responded with that link.
What I intended to ask for was the full list of games that they are giving to early adopters of the 3DS. They said 10 games from NES and 10 from GBA, but ars doesn't list all 10 of either.
Even the ars tecnica article doesn't have the fulls list of games, it just lists a few from each list. Anyone know what they are?
Most insurance companies these days, are far more concerned with getting bonuses to the executives.
You don't honestly think that the executives will end up with smaller bonuses as a result, do you? We all know that isn't how this game works.
The company will cover these costs by raising premiums and/or reducing payments. It is very likely that the executives will see larger bonuses after this, as a self-congratulatory measure for "proactively correcting the situation".
... even if it is far too late. And of course, the customers will pay for the cost of the failure, plus the cost of the fix. The company made a bad choice, and the consequences of that bad choice will be born by .. the customers. The executives will still get their usual multimillion dollar "performance" bonuses as if nothing was ever wrong.
Surely, you jest. You should know better than to ever expect anything you post on facebook to be secure, ever.
I don't know that I can agree with the ethics of using children and adolescents as experimental subjects for this kind of research. They are certainly valuable for this type of work, but as a parent I would not volunteer my child to this.
A good point. Thankfully the journal Science is even common in public libraries; I just checked the public library system where I grew up and found they even have it there.
And most of the stuff that's likely to break off is also likely to burn up before it hits the ground.
I was wondering that, although some of the modules are quite heavy, aren't they? Granted, they aren't covered in heat shield - the absence of which I presume would aid in their breaking up in the atmosphere - although I'm still not convinced that we'd be able to bring the pieces down in a truly controlled manner.
After all, thinking back to Skylab, one may recall we weren't quite perfect bring it down...
I though the ISS has all kinds of odd-shaped bits sticking out of it, held together by various passageways and whatnot. Considering the forces that are exerted on objects falling through the atmosphere, wouldn't the various compartment end up sheared off on the way down, to end up falling on their own and independent of the main part of the ISS?
In other words, I don't see how you could precisely bring down something that size and shape into a specific area; even if the specific area is as non-specific as say "the pacific ocean".
I've tried to find an answer to this, but I haven't had much luck. Have we not launched an astronaut on a rocket since the start of the space shuttle program? I understand that the current NASA rockets carry only non-human payloads, but how long has it been since a NASA rocket last carried a human into space?