I am not opposed to looking into diferent sources for energy. However i really dislike the tone of the article. I find it very disturbing how little value people give to life. It is sad that people make fun of things like this. I am not an animal rights advocate but still animals are not simply on earth so we can use them up. and when we do use them for our benefit we should be mindful of the sacrifice they made. the second we are cruel to animals needlesly we begin to lose our humanity and we begin being cruel to other human beings. most serial killer ans psychopaths abused animals in their youth. anyway i was ust upset about the general tone of it being a joke that they killed a bunch of cows because WE were assholes and gave them their own shit to eat while we raised them to kill them to eat them ourselves and now we rea trying to look for ways to turn their innnards into energy.
I said this already above but since this parent post is moderated higher than the other one i'll write it again.
Electronic Blue book closes up all the applications in the computer so you cannot access them (to cheat). If you run it on Virtual PC it will close all the application on the Virtual PC version of windows but it obviously will not shut off the applications within OS X since that is outside of the emulator. Thus VPC on the Mac is not an alternative to using a pc.
You cant use virtual PC because the way the Electronic Bluebook works is that it locks the computer up and you cant access any other part of the computer. so you dont cheat;) We were warned like ten times by the Information Technology Department that Virtual PC would not work, otherwise i would have done that.
I HAD to buy an XP pro laptop. Otherwise I could not take my law school exams on the computer. I dont know about having to write six 4 hour exams by hand if you dont have to.
It made me almost vomit to have to buy one intead of a Mac. I drew the line at not buying a dell. That would have just been too much. But how I do in law school is more important than which computer I prefer.
If I had been able to use the Electronic Bluebook software in any other platform I would have, even if that meant hauling a desktop running solaris over to the exam rooms.
So if I who am an absolute windows hater could be forced into buying a windos computer do you think the average person loses any sleep about getting a Wintel pc?
actually i think 1100 G5s consuming the electricity of 3000 homes means that each G5 would be consuming the energy of about 3 houses. that is simply bizzare.
IF Apple Computers breached a contract with Apple Corps. it is still not true that they will have to pay that much to Apple Corps. Apple Corps. has to show that there was a substancial a) expectation, b) reliance, and/or c) restitution damage. Honestly I don't see what particular harm Apple Corps can allege to have suffered from either the ipod or from itunes. this case will most likely settle but if it went to trial I actually think Apple computers will come on top (even if they lose) because damages are negligible.
The Yoruba in Africa (where Santeria, Cantomble and Vodoo come from) have a very complex divination system based on 1 and 0. It has two lines and four yes or no per line. one sign looks something like this:
...and then in the middle of his alergic reation to apple liquor william climbed to the roof of his estate and proclaimed: "Behold me, I am a porcelain god!"
Hell if you can sue someone who producess something because that iteam COULD be used for something illegal then the gun manufacturers could be getting it soon. Maybe they will have to give their entire life savings too:)
Didn't you guys see his name? It is obvious why he is against geocaching. As a child he left the city to escape the constant taunts and comparisons to the other Brian Adams. However someone found out his dark secret and left a copy of the Robin Hood movie soundtrack in the geocache inside of his park ranger office. Needless to say he was traumatized by the event.
Im sure a much higher percent of books in libraries goes unread. It is not a bad thing. We hoard information because it is never certain when it will be usefull. There are tons of books from ancient grece that we can't find now because no one kept copies. we only knoe they existed because they are referenced in other books we did keep. tons of scholars would kill to get their hands on those books that are now lost.
When you buy art, music, literature, etc... you are not buying extra ram for your computer. Fuck if it were like that I would go grab fifty yards of canvas and make a few million since Picasso's go for that much and they are only a few feet big.
one would have to be very status oriented (and somewhat stupid) to consider for even one second going to cornell over swarthmore (unless you want to study hotel management or architecture). the quality of the education will be superior in swarthmore compared to cornell 90% of the time.
I don't know about Harvey Mudd and Reed but i do know that MIT, CalTech, Swarthmore, and Haverford are extremely selective schools.
I think that the story behind the percentage of graduate students might be a little bit more complicated than the one you present.
It is true that small class environments are better. One has to think about the kind of student that decides to go to one of these "lesser known"1 schools over a more famous one. Most of the time these students will be people who are more interested in the work they will be doing in school than in the self-promotion value of the degree. Thus they see their college education as worthwhile in and of itself instead as just another requirement to fullfil on the way to success.
1 I use quotation marks because while most people don't know about schools like swarthmore or haverford people who make decisions in graduate schools do.
Im not a physics major so excuse me if this is a stupid question but exactly how dangerous is this? is anyone taking this into account before we collapse the fabric of the universe or something like that. the article says that a lot of energy ca be released whe an anti whaever comes in contact with its positive counterpart. Usually things that release a lot of energy can be very dangerous and the more energy the more so they are. Gasoline is dangerous when it releases energy but uranium is more dangerous when it releases energy.
I said MOST scifi not ALL. My logic is not flawed. There are books worth reading and books not worth reading. Deciding what makes a good book good, well that is complicated and i never said otherwise. Each person will device their own method.
Surely kids should get the chance to develop their own taste in books. Yeah instead of having stupid awards telling them that Harry Potter is the book to read this year or Amazon saying it is good because it sold the most copies last week.
Why would it be bad to read any book?
This is very much debatable just like there are movies that pretty much seem to make you dumber just to watch them there are books that make you stupider just to read them. However even if that were not the case the simple fact that time is not infinite for human beings and that we must choose what we do shows you that devoting time to reading garbage will take time away from reading good things. This being said i think i will stop reading slashdot for good:P
And anything that can get kids to read (or for that matter, get me to read a dead-tree version of anything) is good by me.
Im so tired of listening to people say stupid shit like this. If what you read is not better than what is on tv then there is no point in reading. If what you are reading however happens to be something good then cool yeah reading is good. but you get more out of watching and thinking about a movie by John Cassavetes than by reading a stupid book. Don't pick up a book just because it is a book. Read it because it is a good book.
And now on a completely different rant... Contrary to what people at slashdot seem to think most scifi is not literature and it is not good. in fact very little scifi has any real aesthetic redeeming value or involves any real thinking. most of it is stupid shallow "philosophy" that couldn't stad next to plato, aristotle, descartes, spinoza, liebniz, locke, berkeley, hume, kant, schopenhauer, hegel, frege, russell, wittgenstein, Kripke, McDowell, etc... and on a literary side lets not even think that it can come close to Don Quijote, Hamlet, Ulysses, Divina Comedia, Ficciones, El Aleph, The Castle, The Trial, etc... So sure pick up a book there are tons of good ones that are better than spending a day watching a Star Trek marathon (Oh the heresy!).
Review the 3 out of 10 books! Hey, consider it a challenge. Find a book in a subject area that should be reviewed on Slashdot, but that richly deserves a 0 on a scale from 1 to 10. There has to be at least one. Warn us all before we waste our money!
if the scale is from 1 to 10 you cant give a 0 to a book. The least you can give is a 1.
Then, the new KDE 2 is sweet. Gnome looks also great, but I'm more of a KDE fan myself (please don't flame me on this, is a matter of personal preference). Maybe they don't have the ease of use of Macs yet, but they're close.
I think this is part of the problem with GUIs and the attempts to implement them. People think a GUI is all that is needed for ease of use. More thought needs to go into it though. For example Mac OS places CDs and Disks, that are inserted into a drive, on the desktop automatically. I think this is superior, in terms of ease of use, to the way that Windows makes you go to the particular drive and click on it to acces the CD or Disk. There are hundreds of decisions like this one that affect the ease-of-use of the OS which are beyond having a good looking GUI. It is also important that the GUI be very powerful and allow you to do pretty much anything that you can do with a CLI. If the GUI doesn't do this then it is simply a pretty picture to look at.
the only thing that's holding it back is the lack of powerfull, easy to use applications.
I was actually going to get into this on my first post but decided not to. I guess I'll get into it now. Yeah this is a big problem for Linux and it is a very hard one to reconcile because of the philosophy behind linux and open source. Easy to use software is usually made for consumer platforms which right now linux is not. It is usually made by companies trying to make a profit too. While it is yet unknown if real sustenable profit can be made from open source software most for-profit companies seem to have made their mind about it. They think it is not a viable option. Since the crowd that uses linux is for the most part willing to use vi or emacs instead of M$ word, the for-profit companies think that no matter if their product has a different approach on a task or targets a different use the Linux crowd will use a free solution for another problem if the solution is close enough to the one needed. Since there are geek tools available in Linux for almost all problems companies dont think they can make inroads into the GNU/Linux market. Adobe probably thinks "Why port Photoshop to Linux since they will just use GIMP instead?" Photoshop could be a better product (I don't know if it is or not I use neither program) but Linux users will probably stick to GIMP. After all Photoshop costs $600 and GIMP comes with many distributions. So for-profit companies are afraid of open source, and they do have reasons to be afraid. They feel more comfortable with close source OSs because they are part of the old boys network and play by the old boys network rules. If you look around the few big companies "embracing" open source are harware companies which have been resenting the profit margins that software companies get and the leverage this gives them in the stock markets.
I ordered SUSE 7.0 for PPC and am supposed to get it today. We will see if it is easier to install than Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X. I have installed Windows 95 on a few computers and i never had any trouble doing it. it took a lot of time but i had no trouble. maybe i was lucky. Mac OS was way easier to install though.
The funniest thing just happened to me. As i was reading the title of this article thenews on the tv started to talk about the Firestone recall and that some of the tires that were not reacallec should have been and that the reason they didn't recalll them was because of simple economics. Most companies are penny wise and pund foolish. This i think comes from the simple problem that they need to think of the future in terms of quarters. They want to save as much as they can in the present so that the sheets look good at the end of the quarter. Another thing with computer equipment becoming crappier is that the cycle of computers is beoming longer so an older computer will stay in use longer and the owner will not need to upgrade as soon. This is happening because the needs of computer users are being met by what was available before and not too many programs keep pushing the need for bigger faster computers. Sure Quake and what not do but not everyone is a video game player. For example I know a 71 year old man who bought his first computer recently. all he uses it for is for email, some web browsing and for word processing. Im prety sure that his laptop can do those tasks well enough that unless he begins to want to do something else besides these tasks he will never have to upgrade. So if people don't have to upgrade whatr do you do? you make them crappy so they have to replace them. The crappy materials will inflate your quarterly earnings and the crappy materials will shorten the upgrade-replace cycle.
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I am not opposed to looking into diferent sources for energy. However i really dislike the tone of the article. I find it very disturbing how little value people give to life. It is sad that people make fun of things like this. I am not an animal rights advocate but still animals are not simply on earth so we can use them up. and when we do use them for our benefit we should be mindful of the sacrifice they made. the second we are cruel to animals needlesly we begin to lose our humanity and we begin being cruel to other human beings. most serial killer ans psychopaths abused animals in their youth. anyway i was ust upset about the general tone of it being a joke that they killed a bunch of cows because WE were assholes and gave them their own shit to eat while we raised them to kill them to eat them ourselves and now we rea trying to look for ways to turn their innnards into energy.
I said this already above but since this parent post is moderated higher than the other one i'll write it again.
Electronic Blue book closes up all the applications in the computer so you cannot access them (to cheat). If you run it on Virtual PC it will close all the application on the Virtual PC version of windows but it obviously will not shut off the applications within OS X since that is outside of the emulator. Thus VPC on the Mac is not an alternative to using a pc.
You cant use virtual PC because the way the Electronic Bluebook works is that it locks the computer up and you cant access any other part of the computer. so you dont cheat ;) We were warned like ten times by the Information Technology Department that Virtual PC would not work, otherwise i would have done that.
I HAD to buy an XP pro laptop. Otherwise I could not take my law school exams on the computer. I dont know about having to write six 4 hour exams by hand if you dont have to.
It made me almost vomit to have to buy one intead of a Mac. I drew the line at not buying a dell. That would have just been too much. But how I do in law school is more important than which computer I prefer.
If I had been able to use the Electronic Bluebook software in any other platform I would have, even if that meant hauling a desktop running solaris over to the exam rooms.
So if I who am an absolute windows hater could be forced into buying a windos computer do you think the average person loses any sleep about getting a Wintel pc?
GOOD
actually i think 1100 G5s consuming the electricity of 3000 homes means that each G5 would be consuming the energy of about 3 houses. that is simply bizzare.
IF Apple Computers breached a contract with Apple Corps. it is still not true that they will have to pay that much to Apple Corps. Apple Corps. has to show that there was a substancial a) expectation, b) reliance, and/or c) restitution damage. Honestly I don't see what particular harm Apple Corps can allege to have suffered from either the ipod or from itunes. this case will most likely settle but if it went to trial I actually think Apple computers will come on top (even if they lose) because damages are negligible.
The Yoruba in Africa (where Santeria, Cantomble and Vodoo come from) have a very complex divination system based on 1 and 0. It has two lines and four yes or no per line. one sign looks something like this:
+
- 0
- 0
- 0
0 -
actually the mayas are more of a guatemala group. the aztecs and toltecs are the ones in mejico.
...and then in the middle of his alergic reation to apple liquor william climbed to the roof of his estate and proclaimed: "Behold me, I am a porcelain god!"
Hell if you can sue someone who producess something because that iteam COULD be used for something illegal then the gun manufacturers could be getting it soon. Maybe they will have to give their entire life savings too :)
Didn't you guys see his name? It is obvious why he is against geocaching. As a child he left the city to escape the constant taunts and comparisons to the other Brian Adams. However someone found out his dark secret and left a copy of the Robin Hood movie soundtrack in the geocache inside of his park ranger office. Needless to say he was traumatized by the event.
Im sure a much higher percent of books in libraries goes unread. It is not a bad thing. We hoard information because it is never certain when it will be usefull. There are tons of books from ancient grece that we can't find now because no one kept copies. we only knoe they existed because they are referenced in other books we did keep. tons of scholars would kill to get their hands on those books that are now lost.
When you buy art, music, literature, etc... you are not buying extra ram for your computer. Fuck if it were like that I would go grab fifty yards of canvas and make a few million since Picasso's go for that much and they are only a few feet big.
one would have to be very status oriented (and somewhat stupid) to consider for even one second going to cornell over swarthmore (unless you want to study hotel management or architecture). the quality of the education will be superior in swarthmore compared to cornell 90% of the time.
I don't know about Harvey Mudd and Reed but i do know that MIT, CalTech, Swarthmore, and Haverford are extremely selective schools.
I think that the story behind the percentage of graduate students might be a little bit more complicated than the one you present.
It is true that small class environments are better. One has to think about the kind of student that decides to go to one of these "lesser known"1 schools over a more famous one. Most of the time these students will be people who are more interested in the work they will be doing in school than in the self-promotion value of the degree. Thus they see their college education as worthwhile in and of itself instead as just another requirement to fullfil on the way to success.
1 I use quotation marks because while most people don't know about schools like swarthmore or haverford people who make decisions in graduate schools do.
the guy who owns the satelite company, i think itis called red star, in the movie charlies angels is totaly modeled after elison.
Im not a physics major so excuse me if this is a stupid question but exactly how dangerous is this? is anyone taking this into account before we collapse the fabric of the universe or something like that. the article says that a lot of energy ca be released whe an anti whaever comes in contact with its positive counterpart. Usually things that release a lot of energy can be very dangerous and the more energy the more so they are. Gasoline is dangerous when it releases energy but uranium is more dangerous when it releases energy.
I said MOST scifi not ALL. My logic is not flawed. There are books worth reading and books not worth reading. Deciding what makes a good book good, well that is complicated and i never said otherwise. Each person will device their own method.
:P
Surely kids should get the chance to develop their own taste in books. Yeah instead of having stupid awards telling them that Harry Potter is the book to read this year or Amazon saying it is good because it sold the most copies last week.
Why would it be bad to read any book?
This is very much debatable just like there are movies that pretty much seem to make you dumber just to watch them there are books that make you stupider just to read them. However even if that were not the case the simple fact that time is not infinite for human beings and that we must choose what we do shows you that devoting time to reading garbage will take time away from reading good things. This being said i think i will stop reading slashdot for good
And anything that can get kids to read (or for that matter, get me to read a dead-tree version of anything) is good by me.
Im so tired of listening to people say stupid shit like this. If what you read is not better than what is on tv then there is no point in reading. If what you are reading however happens to be something good then cool yeah reading is good. but you get more out of watching and thinking about a movie by John Cassavetes than by reading a stupid book. Don't pick up a book just because it is a book. Read it because it is a good book.
And now on a completely different rant...
Contrary to what people at slashdot seem to think most scifi is not literature and it is not good. in fact very little scifi has any real aesthetic redeeming value or involves any real thinking. most of it is stupid shallow "philosophy" that couldn't stad next to plato, aristotle, descartes, spinoza, liebniz, locke, berkeley, hume, kant, schopenhauer, hegel, frege, russell, wittgenstein, Kripke, McDowell, etc... and on a literary side lets not even think that it can come close to Don Quijote, Hamlet, Ulysses, Divina Comedia, Ficciones, El Aleph, The Castle, The Trial, etc... So sure pick up a book there are tons of good ones that are better than spending a day watching a Star Trek marathon (Oh the heresy!).
uhm... i was just kidding.
Review the 3 out of 10 books! Hey, consider it a challenge. Find a book in a subject area that should be reviewed on Slashdot, but that richly deserves a 0 on a scale from 1 to 10. There has to be at least one. Warn us all before we waste our money!
if the scale is from 1 to 10 you cant give a 0 to a book. The least you can give is a 1.
Then, the new KDE 2 is sweet. Gnome looks also great, but I'm more of a KDE fan myself (please don't flame me on this, is a matter of personal preference). Maybe they don't have the ease of use of Macs yet, but they're close.
I think this is part of the problem with GUIs and the attempts to implement them. People think a GUI is all that is needed for ease of use. More thought needs to go into it though. For example Mac OS places CDs and Disks, that are inserted into a drive, on the desktop automatically. I think this is superior, in terms of ease of use, to the way that Windows makes you go to the particular drive and click on it to acces the CD or Disk. There are hundreds of decisions like this one that affect the ease-of-use of the OS which are beyond having a good looking GUI. It is also important that the GUI be very powerful and allow you to do pretty much anything that you can do with a CLI. If the GUI doesn't do this then it is simply a pretty picture to look at.
the only thing that's holding it back is the lack of powerfull, easy to use applications.
I was actually going to get into this on my first post but decided not to. I guess I'll get into it now. Yeah this is a big problem for Linux and it is a very hard one to reconcile because of the philosophy behind linux and open source. Easy to use software is usually made for consumer platforms which right now linux is not. It is usually made by companies trying to make a profit too. While it is yet unknown if real sustenable profit can be made from open source software most for-profit companies seem to have made their mind about it. They think it is not a viable option. Since the crowd that uses linux is for the most part willing to use vi or emacs instead of M$ word, the for-profit companies think that no matter if their product has a different approach on a task or targets a different use the Linux crowd will use a free solution for another problem if the solution is close enough to the one needed. Since there are geek tools available in Linux for almost all problems companies dont think they can make inroads into the GNU/Linux market. Adobe probably thinks "Why port Photoshop to Linux since they will just use GIMP instead?" Photoshop could be a better product (I don't know if it is or not I use neither program) but Linux users will probably stick to GIMP. After all Photoshop costs $600 and GIMP comes with many distributions. So for-profit companies are afraid of open source, and they do have reasons to be afraid. They feel more comfortable with close source OSs because they are part of the old boys network and play by the old boys network rules. If you look around the few big companies "embracing" open source are harware companies which have been resenting the profit margins that software companies get and the leverage this gives them in the stock markets.
I ordered SUSE 7.0 for PPC and am supposed to get it today. We will see if it is easier to install than Mac OS 9 or Mac OS X. I have installed Windows 95 on a few computers and i never had any trouble doing it. it took a lot of time but i had no trouble. maybe i was lucky. Mac OS was way easier to install though.
The funniest thing just happened to me. As i was reading the title of this article thenews on the tv started to talk about the Firestone recall and that some of the tires that were not reacallec should have been and that the reason they didn't recalll them was because of simple economics. Most companies are penny wise and pund foolish. This i think comes from the simple problem that they need to think of the future in terms of quarters. They want to save as much as they can in the present so that the sheets look good at the end of the quarter. Another thing with computer equipment becoming crappier is that the cycle of computers is beoming longer so an older computer will stay in use longer and the owner will not need to upgrade as soon. This is happening because the needs of computer users are being met by what was available before and not too many programs keep pushing the need for bigger faster computers. Sure Quake and what not do but not everyone is a video game player. For example I know a 71 year old man who bought his first computer recently. all he uses it for is for email, some web browsing and for word processing. Im prety sure that his laptop can do those tasks well enough that unless he begins to want to do something else besides these tasks he will never have to upgrade. So if people don't have to upgrade whatr do you do? you make them crappy so they have to replace them. The crappy materials will inflate your quarterly earnings and the crappy materials will shorten the upgrade-replace cycle.