Who modded me as flamebait?!?! Demonstrating a lack of surprise due to the parent poster's findings' congruence with well-known studies is not flamebait. I guess it's true what that sig said about never saying anything portrayable as anti-religion on slashdot. Even if it's not, you're headed to the karma cellar.
Moreover, exactly what relevance does that have to anything? Have you been arguing over religion so long that you've forgotten that any reasoning based on this is fallacy? This has no more logical connection than the statement "Many famous people believe in Scientology, so you should too!"
It's only a fallacy if used as support for an argument. The parent post made no claim based on the fact that Linux is an atheist. He or she only said that his or hunch based on Linus's choice of examples was borne out by evidence.
Education has the highest correlation coefficient to lack of belief in a personal god. By most surveys, more than 90% of professional scientists don't believe in a personal god. It doesn't surprise me one bit that Linus is an atheist -- I already knew he was smart and educated.
Christ, for $699/mo, I'd better be able to call anyone in the whole fucking Galaxy without having to deal with roaming charges:P
No problem -- I'll offer you that plan. You give me $699 a month, and I'll provide cell phone service to the whole galaxy with no roaming charges. Piece of cake.
Man, I love being able to charge for services you can never use!
That may be its title, but the book is all about temperature/pressure and rockets. That's like showing a sweater and saying "This is how knitting works."
No wonder people are so scientifically illiterate.
Sometimes it can be difficult to tell the difference between respecting someone's right to hold a stupid belief and not respecting the belief itself. See, I can respect people's right to believe whatever religious tripe they want. But the religion would have to be pretty damn, well, I don't know what word would describe it, but pretty damn not-stupid before I could respect the belief itself. Somewhere along the lines people started saying that the right to believe whatever stupid thing they wanted meant we had to respect it, too, and that's just not true. We have to respect the right, but not the belief.
Oh man, I wish your post would fit in a sig. Well said, sir.
I'm laughing my head off. They have a great sense of humor. They're what the BBS anarchy-files scene would be, if it had cheap digital video camera and bittorrent.
Put aside for a moment the actual message of his letter. Just for now, pay attention to his writing. The man is practically illiterate.
He is incapable of putting together a coherent paragraph. Forget about getting a cogent argument; you have to struggle to understand what he's trying to express!
OK, back to the content. In my experience, I've met many people like him. They have lots of shady companies. Often, they have had so many that they have lost track of them. Mr. Anderer brags of this trait, but it is a major red flag.
Such people also tend to never stick to one thing; they make "contributions" in countless fields. They can never stay too long in one place, or people will notice that they are bullshitters.
Bottom line, this confirms my guess about him. He's a sleazy, bottom-feeding, undereducated corporate whore, used by Microsoft and TSG only to distance themselves from an unsavory transaction.
What the heck does that mean? basically without a majority vote they can't buyback stock from anyone except employee's..
Hmm that would be people like the CEO and other senior executives??
To put it another way they just gave executives a 13 million dollar payday.
Except that if the executives are the sellers, they have to file with the SEC for the sale. They wouldn't be able to keep it a secret, so that theory is hard to support.
There' been plenty of progress. For example, kernel 2.6 runs on the Psions now. The biggest lack of progress is on certain Psion models, like the original Series 5 and series 7. The 5mx runs Linux *beautifully*, with ALL the hardware supported, from power mgmt to CF to sound to touchscreen. What more progress do you need?
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Who modded me as flamebait?!?! Demonstrating a lack of surprise due to the parent poster's findings' congruence with well-known studies is not flamebait. I guess it's true what that sig said about never saying anything portrayable as anti-religion on slashdot. Even if it's not, you're headed to the karma cellar.
Moreover, exactly what relevance does that have to anything? Have you been arguing over religion so long that you've forgotten that any reasoning based on this is fallacy? This has no more logical connection than the statement "Many famous people believe in Scientology, so you should too!"
It's only a fallacy if used as support for an argument. The parent post made no claim based on the fact that Linux is an atheist. He or she only said that his or hunch based on Linus's choice of examples was borne out by evidence.
OTOH, Don Knuth and Larry Wall are Christian.
There is no "on the other hand." I merely stated that I was not surprised because it fits reasonably well with statistics.
Wrong. Linus qualifies as an atheist by his own words.
From an interview in the November 1999 Linux Journal magazine:
Margie: How about religion?
Linus: Hmmmm, completely a-religious -- atheist.
Education has the highest correlation coefficient to lack of belief in a personal god. By most surveys, more than 90% of professional scientists don't believe in a personal god. It doesn't surprise me one bit that Linus is an atheist -- I already knew he was smart and educated.
Christ, for $699/mo, I'd better be able to call anyone in the whole fucking Galaxy without having to deal with roaming charges :P
No problem -- I'll offer you that plan. You give me $699 a month, and I'll provide cell phone service to the whole galaxy with no roaming charges. Piece of cake.
Man, I love being able to charge for services you can never use!
It's even worse than that :-(. Have a look at this beautiful, glossy book for kids:
How Science Works
That may be its title, but the book is all about temperature/pressure and rockets. That's like showing a sweater and saying "This is how knitting works."
No wonder people are so scientifically illiterate.
Sometimes it can be difficult to tell the difference between respecting someone's right to hold a stupid belief and not respecting the belief itself. See, I can respect people's right to believe whatever religious tripe they want. But the religion would have to be pretty damn, well, I don't know what word would describe it, but pretty damn not-stupid before I could respect the belief itself. Somewhere along the lines people started saying that the right to believe whatever stupid thing they wanted meant we had to respect it, too, and that's just not true. We have to respect the right, but not the belief.
Oh man, I wish your post would fit in a sig. Well said, sir.
...the last round of Corel apps is incompatible with GLIBC 3.2 and later, and Corel has never released any updates
So just use it with the older glibc. You can have more than one glibc version on your system, and even make specific app use specific versions.
Interesting that he recognizes the commoditification of hardware, but not software, eh? A fine example of:
http://www.skepdic.com/selectiv.html
I'm laughing my head off. They have a great sense of humor. They're what the BBS anarchy-files scene would be, if it had cheap digital video camera and bittorrent.
There's more to hardware than an ISA.
That still doesn't negate the fact that value generally comes at a price.
And commodity infrastructure software is an exception to that.
Put aside for a moment the actual message of his letter. Just for now, pay attention to his writing. The man is practically illiterate.
He is incapable of putting together a coherent paragraph. Forget about getting a cogent argument; you have to struggle to understand what he's trying to express!
OK, back to the content. In my experience, I've met many people like him. They have lots of shady companies. Often, they have had so many that they have lost track of them. Mr. Anderer brags of this trait, but it is a major red flag.
Such people also tend to never stick to one thing; they make "contributions" in countless fields. They can never stay too long in one place, or people will notice that they are bullshitters.
Bottom line, this confirms my guess about him. He's a sleazy, bottom-feeding, undereducated corporate whore, used by Microsoft and TSG only to distance themselves from an unsavory transaction.
What the heck does that mean? basically without a majority vote they can't buyback stock from anyone except employee's..
Hmm that would be people like the CEO and other senior executives??
To put it another way they just gave executives a 13 million dollar payday.
Except that if the executives are the sellers, they have to file with the SEC for the sale. They wouldn't be able to keep it a secret, so that theory is hard to support.
SCO has $50 million from the BayStar deal, with a redemption condition if the stock goes below ~$8.50 for 25 consecutive trading days.
Mod parent up. That is exactly what is going on. That's why they initiated the buyback.
And now that Mandrake correctly detects my sound card on install, we can just continue right onto the next line:
/me is not ashamed of having accidentally memorized LL Cool J songs :-)
Listen to the bass go BOOM!
Like this is the first article to point out that porn is often used for testing beds!
Yes, the latest drivers. Take that for what it's worth.
Better Pic of his wife. ;-)
I bet you thought you were kidding. But, as with most things related to Linux, reality is stranger than fiction:
a ke /src/hot-babe-0.1.2-2plf.src.rpm
http://ftp.club-internet.fr/pub/linux/plf/mandr
Yes, a real package of hot babe pics for desktop backgrounds.
Actually, I thought you'd rather want him to miss you
There' been plenty of progress. For example, kernel 2.6 runs on the Psions now. The biggest lack of progress is on certain Psion models, like the original Series 5 and series 7. The 5mx runs Linux *beautifully*, with ALL the hardware supported, from power mgmt to CF to sound to touchscreen. What more progress do you need?
Someone please mod the parent up. Chris is completely correct.
What Window Manager or OS is being used in that picture?