The problem is, I like to watch the videos I like at a stretch. It's very tempting to finish a whole series of Arrested Development or Curb your enthusiasm. It is very difficult to stop after watching a single episode. And people tend to develop a certain taste and will only watch movies/tv that cater to that niche, everything else would pass by without getting noticed much (May be software based suggestions like, "you might like these titles" helps here). So it makes perfect sense that everything you enjoy finishes in a couple of months, or even sooner.
H1b scheme as it is and the lottery system is a huge scam. The best way out of it is to auction the available H1b visas and let those who truly need the talent get it.
Even if this is seen as a competition, it benifits the students. There is an added benifit that it puts extra pressure on the Professor/Lecturer to actually make the class more interesting and worthwhile because it is open to wider scrutiny. Sort of like Open Source forces you to code properly.
Shuttleworth has a done a great job with Ubuntu. I think his latest idea about synchronizing releases is a good one myself. But as always, I might not be right. The best thing this has done is we have come up with a discussion on how to make release proccesses better for the improvement of the whole Free Software Community.
As you said, we should learn to disagree without personal attacks and offer viable alternatives. Now that Aaron Seigo has provided an alternative view, we can discuss that as well and try to improve the overall process. If we can do that properly I see this only benifitting the FOSS Community.
Here is Mark Shuttleworth's insightful response when I asked him, "Why would Red Hat cooperate with Ubuntu, especially now that Ubuntu also has its sights set on the server market. Don't they consider Ubuntu a threat?"
A human being who is lazy and incurious is absolutely worthless. And a human being who is not lazy and curious is also worthless at the end of the universe. So is everything.
What I would love to see is, Sugar made very robust and cross platform, just as Mozilla made Firefox such a successful cross platform browser.
If people don't bother about the underlying OS that Sugar runs on, then it shouldn't make a difference what OS they are using and make it easy to just replace Windows with Linux on whatever OLPC machines Windows is installed(if it ever is).
I would say that having Sugar run cross platform should give the opportunity for normal windows users to try it as well. And if they like it, they could very well use Sugar on Linux without noticing too much change.
(Physics degree speaking here). Physics professor speaking here:-). God speaking here *condescending look* God is dead. So, black holes is where you hang out?
What is with the US obsession with "founding fathers"?
I agree that they were bright thinkers of their time, but surely they can't have got EVERYTHING right. For starters, they didn't even let women and black people vote.
So instead of saying founding father this and founding father that, why not think for yourselves what is right for THIS age and time.
I'd rather live free and have a 1:1million chance of dying as the result of a terrorist-attack, rather than live in a cage, checked every step of my travels, and have a 1:2million chance of dying as the result of a terrorist-attack, both risks are negligible anyway.
Meanwhile, on the FOX news channel, additional new airport checkin security procedures have the potential to reduce TERRORIST ATTACKS by HALF, but some terrorist lovers oppose those saying that the improvements are quite negligible.
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As The Phantom has sworn to fight piracy, it would be interesting to see how The Phantom tackles "Digital Piracy".
The problem is, I like to watch the videos I like at a stretch. It's very tempting to finish a whole series of Arrested Development or Curb your enthusiasm. It is very difficult to stop after watching a single episode. And people tend to develop a certain taste and will only watch movies/tv that cater to that niche, everything else would pass by without getting noticed much (May be software based suggestions like, "you might like these titles" helps here). So it makes perfect sense that everything you enjoy finishes in a couple of months, or even sooner.
GPL fanboys wet dream...
H1b scheme as it is and the lottery system is a huge scam. The best way out of it is to auction the available H1b visas and let those who truly need the talent get it.
Lets wait for the test data to confirm if it is ice. For all we know it "could" be oil ;-)
Even if this is seen as a competition, it benifits the students. There is an added benifit that it puts extra pressure on the Professor/Lecturer to actually make the class more interesting and worthwhile because it is open to wider scrutiny. Sort of like Open Source forces you to code properly.
Shuttleworth has a done a great job with Ubuntu. I think his latest idea about synchronizing releases is a good one myself. But as always, I might not be right. The best thing this has done is we have come up with a discussion on how to make release proccesses better for the improvement of the whole Free Software Community.
As you said, we should learn to disagree without personal attacks and offer viable alternatives. Now that Aaron Seigo has provided an alternative view, we can discuss that as well and try to improve the overall process. If we can do that properly I see this only benifitting the FOSS Community.
Here is Mark Shuttleworth's insightful response when I asked him, "Why would Red Hat cooperate with Ubuntu, especially now that Ubuntu also has its sights set on the server market. Don't they consider Ubuntu a threat?"
First they came for the communists,
Then they..
Damn, they got me with this. I didn't expect them to come after me First.
http://www.mondorescue.org/
Putty.
What I would love to see is, Sugar made very robust and cross platform, just as Mozilla made Firefox such a successful cross platform browser. If people don't bother about the underlying OS that Sugar runs on, then it shouldn't make a difference what OS they are using and make it easy to just replace Windows with Linux on whatever OLPC machines Windows is installed(if it ever is).
I would say that having Sugar run cross platform should give the opportunity for normal windows users to try it as well. And if they like it, they could very well use Sugar on Linux without noticing too much change.
I need an analogy to understand what's happening. :-)
Physics professor speaking here
God speaking here *condescending look*
God is dead. So, black holes is where you hang out?
But what if I have photographic proof that Santa Claus exists? Will you change your(and other hate spewing bigoted atheists) opinion then?
...if the torrent was posted on it. Would the fanatics listen to the argument that it is only holding the torrent and has nothing to do with the film?
Laziness is the driving force for humans. We do things now so we can be lazier in future. :-)
Very true. And here's something from E.W. Dijkstra about Formal Verification. http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD02xx/EWD288.html
... And this time, its Personal.
:-).
That tagline would have been cute too
Allow me to use Putty and don't use a whitelist firewall. Thats all I need :-)
What is with the US obsession with "founding fathers"?
I agree that they were bright thinkers of their time, but surely they can't have got EVERYTHING right. For starters, they didn't even let women and black people vote.
So instead of saying founding father this and founding father that, why not think for yourselves what is right for THIS age and time.
http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html still holds true.
Meanwhile, on the FOX news channel, additional new airport checkin security procedures have the potential to reduce TERRORIST ATTACKS by HALF, but some terrorist lovers oppose those saying that the improvements are quite negligible.