However, making a complete ass out of yourself by doing something as obnoxious and futile as physically impeding the running of the Olympic torch isn't the best way to express your sympathy. That doesn't bother me so much. It's the fact that people are choosing to protest over something petty like hosting a sporting event. Where's all the protesting over the China-made clothes and how many of the protesters are wearing China-made apparel? I understand that there is media attention over the Olympics so the protesting will likely get nice attention. I guess I'm just too cynical in thinking most of the protesters are protesting for media whoring and because it's the in thing right now.
None of my teachers (grad level comp sci) have ever taken attendance. That is, barring the first couple days to make sure the class list is accurate. They've always reacted the way you mentioned, ignoring people who aren't disrupting the class.*
I could see how surfing the internet could be considered disruptive. Have you ever been in a movie theater and someone was using the brightly lit cell phone for something stupid (like a game or texting)? Highly annoying! I could see how surfing the internet/etc would be distracting to the rest of the students in the class.
* Except for one professor who quizes students in class to make sure they're understanding the material.
I don't know, I have a 40 gig laptop that is split 20 gigs windows (which is stupid because I hardly ever boot into it) and 20 gigs linux. That is my computer, I have no other one. I have never had a space issue. It really depends on what you use your commputer for. I only use it for work, my 'games' are stuff other than the computer so the space that I need is minimal.
And even if a distribution gives easy-to-use tools, that doesn't mean you have to use them. If you want it to be difficult, Linux will let you go the difficult route;)
Musicians, artists, graphic designers, hardcore gamers... they want something that just works You can also add some programmers in there as well. I do a lot of coding and use Fedora 8 on my system. It's actually quite nice not having to put a lot of effort to make the system usable. I understand that some people enjoy it but I'd rather be focusing on a project. So having something 'just work' (at least most of the time) can be helpful to techy people as well.
One of the biggest issues at my school is the fact that IT is totally understaffed. This causes them to look in incompetent. In fact, they had consultant come who said the exact thing. Not saying this is the case for what you're talking about, but I just wanted to throw that out there because there are always two sides.
Totally disagree. I 'love' playing tennis. However, I wouldn't want to play it every second of the day. I would get burnt out. The same thing is true with my job. In my opinion, what you're describing is a workaholic. One doesn't have to be a workaholic to enjoy (or love) what they're doing.
If you absolutely need 80 lines on the screen when editing sources, that's usually your clue that there's something wrong with your programming style (and I suspect for some people the short term memory too.) Clearly you have never programmed in java;)
I wish more websites or at least firefox offered a 'inverse view' or reverse white/black in all objects. Maybe they should also offer a colour blind option too so that it can mod the hue. Firefox does have that page style tab (you can do a 'text-only' type thing). I bet if you looked hard enough you'd be able to find ways to add to that.
Good idea. I've always thought that if a message is important, the caller will leave a message. If they're too lazy to leave a message, then I'm too lazy to call back. This is especially true if my phone is turned off, because it won't register that someone called. It's also a good way to screen phone calls that you don't know.:)
Yeah. I mean I definitely do have anti-social tendencies. Loud crowded places tend to put me on edge. Even so though, I do get satisfaction from interacting with others... at least in a more intimate setting. Also, unlike most slashdotters (I'd imagine), I don't play videogames, I'd rather be outside biking or playing tennis. So I'm in the odd position of not fitting very well into a stereotype.
What if we want to live like a hermit and focus on nothing but our work, the beautiful code that we produce might be more interesting to us than the words which come out of coworkers mouths. That's fine. I wasn't trying to pass judgment. Neither is better or worse, it's just a preference.
That makes sense, I can see how it would be harder to get 'into the zone' otherwise.
Telecommuting (at least for me) got tedious, doing it on a regular basis. Two summers ago I telecommuted from home for my undergraduate job. It was nice the first couple weeks but it gets old really fast not having coworkers to chitchat, go for coffee runs, etc. It's nice in short spurts, especially if you have to hunker down to get a project done. I wouldn't like doing so as my regular job.
Depends on your perspective. The coding I do is much easier to do on a *nix system then windows. After the initial pain of setup it (fedora) is more responsive then windows and its updates rarely require a reboot. So you'd have to be more specific because those generalities can be applied to windows as well, in my opinion.
Very succinctly said. Anything that is hackable* or complex has a learning curve, but it's worth it. I have another example to throw out. If you get past the initial steep curve of emacs**, it is quite a wonderful tool. I'm sure the same can be said for vi[m] and have no interest in hijacking this into a flamewar. In the past, I used anjuta and other IDEs. Being able to quickly split the screen to see code side-by-side in emacs is wonderful.
I'm sure you could do the same in IDEs but I have yet to find one that doesn't require a mouse. And I typically do run emacs in x-windows. It's just that a lot of things are faster with the keyboard instead of the mouse. CLI versus point-and-click is yet another example.
* I use hack in the traditional sense above being able to, what I call, tinker.
** this applies to microemacs as well which I actually use
You know, I thought this stuff has been hashed enough YEARS ago: you know, when the whole free software concept was fresh and new? Perhaps, but that's not true for the people not around at that time it was new. It's one of the annoying things about this field. A lot of people forget that everyone was once a 'newbie'. Regardless of that comment, thanks for the summary... I sometimes get tripped up by the rest of the rhetoric on the FSF and GNU websites.
None: It is known that the contributor is not affiliated with any company
Unknown: It is unknown if the contributor is affiliated with a company or not
It's not that they don't know who's contributing... they just don't know if the person contributing works for a company. Or... they know that the person works for a company but they don't know if company is supporting that particular contribution. Remember, the table was showing companies, not people.
Got yah. It's hard to think of it from that angle. I guess that's why even the FSF has modified the GPL throughout the years as they've encountered loopholes. I definitely agree with you about owning code. The idea that their code is somewhat special (and not ultimately derived from somewhere else) is ridiculous.
Well... you gave an aspect of using the BSD license for me to investigate. So thanks for clarify your point of view.
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None of my teachers (grad level comp sci) have ever taken attendance. That is, barring the first couple days to make sure the class list is accurate. They've always reacted the way you mentioned, ignoring people who aren't disrupting the class.*
I could see how surfing the internet could be considered disruptive. Have you ever been in a movie theater and someone was using the brightly lit cell phone for something stupid (like a game or texting)? Highly annoying! I could see how surfing the internet/etc would be distracting to the rest of the students in the class.
* Except for one professor who quizes students in class to make sure they're understanding the material.
I don't know, I have a 40 gig laptop that is split 20 gigs windows (which is stupid because I hardly ever boot into it) and 20 gigs linux. That is my computer, I have no other one. I have never had a space issue. It really depends on what you use your commputer for. I only use it for work, my 'games' are stuff other than the computer so the space that I need is minimal.
One of the biggest issues at my school is the fact that IT is totally understaffed. This causes them to look in incompetent. In fact, they had consultant come who said the exact thing. Not saying this is the case for what you're talking about, but I just wanted to throw that out there because there are always two sides.
I agree with you for the most part. However, my comment was a stab at Java's verboseness.
Is it a place that you could get to on a bicycle? It wouldn't take much longer then 45 minutes and you'd be able to get an exercise out of it.
Totally disagree. I 'love' playing tennis. However, I wouldn't want to play it every second of the day. I would get burnt out. The same thing is true with my job. In my opinion, what you're describing is a workaholic. One doesn't have to be a workaholic to enjoy (or love) what they're doing.
Fedora 9 is this month as well. I very looking forward to the faster X startup/shutdown. :) Full list is here.
I'm sure glad that joke isn't wearing thin!
Good idea. I've always thought that if a message is important, the caller will leave a message. If they're too lazy to leave a message, then I'm too lazy to call back. This is especially true if my phone is turned off, because it won't register that someone called. It's also a good way to screen phone calls that you don't know. :)
Can you get the word out on this miraculous device. The smell of the computer lab begs to differ.
That makes sense, I can see how it would be harder to get 'into the zone' otherwise.
Telecommuting (at least for me) got tedious, doing it on a regular basis. Two summers ago I telecommuted from home for my undergraduate job. It was nice the first couple weeks but it gets old really fast not having coworkers to chitchat, go for coffee runs, etc. It's nice in short spurts, especially if you have to hunker down to get a project done. I wouldn't like doing so as my regular job.
Just because they aren't advantages to you, doesn't mean they aren't advantages to others. The phrase you mileage may vary applies here ;)
Depends on your perspective. The coding I do is much easier to do on a *nix system then windows. After the initial pain of setup it (fedora) is more responsive then windows and its updates rarely require a reboot. So you'd have to be more specific because those generalities can be applied to windows as well, in my opinion.
Openoffice allows for headers and footers...
Very succinctly said. Anything that is hackable* or complex has a learning curve, but it's worth it. I have another example to throw out. If you get past the initial steep curve of emacs**, it is quite a wonderful tool. I'm sure the same can be said for vi[m] and have no interest in hijacking this into a flamewar. In the past, I used anjuta and other IDEs. Being able to quickly split the screen to see code side-by-side in emacs is wonderful.
I'm sure you could do the same in IDEs but I have yet to find one that doesn't require a mouse. And I typically do run emacs in x-windows. It's just that a lot of things are faster with the keyboard instead of the mouse. CLI versus point-and-click is yet another example.
* I use hack in the traditional sense above being able to, what I call, tinker.
** this applies to microemacs as well which I actually use
- None: It is known that the contributor is not affiliated with any company
- Unknown: It is unknown if the contributor is affiliated with a company or not
It's not that they don't know who's contributing... they just don't know if the person contributing works for a company. Or... they know that the person works for a company but they don't know if company is supporting that particular contribution. Remember, the table was showing companies, not people.Got yah. It's hard to think of it from that angle. I guess that's why even the FSF has modified the GPL throughout the years as they've encountered loopholes. I definitely agree with you about owning code. The idea that their code is somewhat special (and not ultimately derived from somewhere else) is ridiculous.
Well... you gave an aspect of using the BSD license for me to investigate. So thanks for clarify your point of view.
I like your thinking :)