still technically applicable, just not computationally convenient. Just one trillion millihertz to the gigahertz I can respond in kind to your pedanticness about SI prefix symbols.:)
Yeah, you ought to keep respect for their work and personal celebrity involvement separate. The celebrity BS is especially galling for the talentless hacks, but does it makes any more sense if the person's contributing well to their field? This doesn't seem to be the case with Linus, but with entertainment celebrities, it seems that people who like the product tend to like Thus, in those cases, as someone who likes the product, you're looking at a mass of other fans that are also celebrity-worshippers.
* This applies whether it's a Serious Product (TM) or entertainment
I meant it as shorthand that i thought people would understand. "Ground Zero mosque" versus "Islamic community center two blocks from the World Trade Center site".
To bring up Orwell outside of the usual 1984 references, I'll admit that he does talk a lot about the manipulative power of language
Coincidentally, highly educated and highly skilled people from Finland aren't causing the USA's illegal immigration problem.
Indeed, though people occasionally move from one first world country to another (as is the case here), there's no en mass movement; that comes from people wanting to move into the first world from outside of it.
People already in the first world are sometimes annoyed because they're afraid that third-worlders bring us down in addition to or instead of bringing themselves up. Also, they don't want to deal with another country's problem. Not saying I agree, just trying to figure out some of what's going through their heads.
in addition to legal/illegal, perhaps part of the argument is "okay, now we have enough"
Also, the only 14th Amendment repealing I've heard about is repealing the one specific auto-citizenship clause.
interesting, I'm a native American, born and raised here even though I don't have Indian ancestry.
Here's another terminological fuzzy area: a white guy from South Africa is an African-American, whereas a black guy from Jamaica is not, technically speaking, but the common usage does not consider it as such.
Though society needs both manual laborers and computer programming geniuses, but it seems logical that any one such programmer has work that's more valuable than any one such laborer
I'm not discounting freedom of religion as a key value in America (and many other places of course).
However, in a touch of irony, those who don't believe in American values will likely still be ruthless enough to exploit it against us. They ask us to tolerate their intolerance. (Okay, it's also ironic that Christian fundies do some of this too, but that doesn't excuse other groups.)
I'm not sure if the guys behind the Ground Zero mosque actually fall into that category, I'm just saying that I see a potential values conflict/tradeoff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Williams_(theologian) I assume. Colonial minister who had had enough of various official religious abuses, and did something about it. His story focuses on wrangling between Christian denominations; I suppose that carries over to different contexts.
BTW, congrats on the improved version of the standard "spinning in his grave" comment.:)
Either Linux and other FOSS is an example of socialism done better or capitalism done better (by the latter, I mean closer to Adam Smith's idealistic vision of market economics)
One of my favorite former professors (midlevel economics, which has basic calculus and a lot of messy algebra) had a policy he colorfully termed the "$10 calculator rule".
He had a standard "set up equation right and crunch numbers wrong gets you most of the points" policy, and a lot of the work on his exams was regular writing anyways.
BTW, the basic-function calculator thing was the only part of the summary that really didn't make sense to me.
Yeah, pricey small corner stores drive me nuts even if the guys are honest overworked entrepreneurs. The convenience store chains like CVS are a bit cheaper and stuff.
In the CD market, I figure it's Amazon as much as anybody else.
(Ke$ha's album Animal is holding steady on Amazon at $11.88 BTW, right in your $10-$15 range)
Amazon, especially with Prime [free shipping], is one heckuva cheap CD store. Indies who also sell stuff off their own sites are the only notable price comparison/competition I'm aware of, and on those I'd bother looking off-Amazon. For example, MC Lars' This Gigantic Robot Kills at $12 instead of $14.98
(BTW, I would definitely recommend Lars, especially amongst the/. crowd; his geeky lyrics [which he's not limited to] probably would go over well here I would think.)
Played a few browser-based MMOs obsessively for years and had finally had enough of that, so I walked out after the end of the round of one of them. I disengaged gradually from that one, but at least I knew not to start with new rounds and/or new games.
And then I almost immediately find a new habit. aargh!
That reminds me, some copiers are better than others, because of the amount of originality they mix in, and combining multiple influences. Zynga fails in that department, it seems.
you beat me to it. Anyway, the second mover can often come in with variations that happen to be seen as an improvement, and the first mover has to follow up. Think business Darwinism here?
I did actually watch The Hidden Fortress, and I did see the clear similarities to Star Wars, but also clear differences that went beyond the medieval Japan/space difference in setting.
It's clear that the Star Wars script was rewritten several times. Perhaps one reason Lucas did that was to dial down the Kurosawa copying a bit.
Civilization II has its core rules as a clearly-formatted plaintext file. Might be able to monkey with that to achieve similar results. (So far, about all I've done is 'skin' it with different names and tweak AI leader personalities, but I'm going to try more-extensive changes eventually.)
Their savegame files require a hex editor; I've never tried that.
Different from applying cheatcodes in-game I suppose.
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still technically applicable, just not computationally convenient. :)
Just one trillion millihertz to the gigahertz
I can respond in kind to your pedanticness about SI prefix symbols.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116283&cm_re=Pentium-_-19-116-283-_-Product
In base 10, only 3.6 billionths of a cent per millihertz. :P
Yeah, you ought to keep respect for their work and personal celebrity involvement separate. The celebrity BS is especially galling for the talentless hacks, but does it makes any more sense if the person's contributing well to their field?
This doesn't seem to be the case with Linus, but with entertainment celebrities, it seems that people who like the product tend to like
Thus, in those cases, as someone who likes the product, you're looking at a mass of other fans that are also celebrity-worshippers.
* This applies whether it's a Serious Product (TM) or entertainment
I did say "needs both".
And yes, I know Linus is more of a Linux project manager than a Linux coder at this point.
to borrow from a certain significant piece of world literature, we overemphasize the splinter in our own eye, and underemphasize the plank in theirs?
I meant it as shorthand that i thought people would understand. "Ground Zero mosque" versus "Islamic community center two blocks from the World Trade Center site".
To bring up Orwell outside of the usual 1984 references, I'll admit that he does talk a lot about the manipulative power of language
Coincidentally, highly educated and highly skilled people from Finland aren't causing the USA's illegal immigration problem.
Indeed, though people occasionally move from one first world country to another (as is the case here), there's no en mass movement; that comes from people wanting to move into the first world from outside of it.
People already in the first world are sometimes annoyed because they're afraid that third-worlders bring us down in addition to or instead of bringing themselves up. Also, they don't want to deal with another country's problem.
Not saying I agree, just trying to figure out some of what's going through their heads.
in addition to legal/illegal, perhaps part of the argument is "okay, now we have enough"
Also, the only 14th Amendment repealing I've heard about is repealing the one specific auto-citizenship clause.
interesting, I'm a native American, born and raised here even though I don't have Indian ancestry.
Here's another terminological fuzzy area: a white guy from South Africa is an African-American, whereas a black guy from Jamaica is not, technically speaking, but the common usage does not consider it as such.
Though society needs both manual laborers and computer programming geniuses, but it seems logical that any one such programmer has work that's more valuable than any one such laborer
okay, it's two blocks from the site, I know. lots of /.'ers love being pedantic...
Mary: Before we get married, I must confess that I once worked in the world's oldest profession :P
John: What, you mean you were a shepherd?
I'm not discounting freedom of religion as a key value in America (and many other places of course).
However, in a touch of irony, those who don't believe in American values will likely still be ruthless enough to exploit it against us. They ask us to tolerate their intolerance. (Okay, it's also ironic that Christian fundies do some of this too, but that doesn't excuse other groups.)
I'm not sure if the guys behind the Ground Zero mosque actually fall into that category, I'm just saying that I see a potential values conflict/tradeoff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Williams_(theologian) I assume.
Colonial minister who had had enough of various official religious abuses, and did something about it. His story focuses on wrangling between Christian denominations; I suppose that carries over to different contexts.
BTW, congrats on the improved version of the standard "spinning in his grave" comment. :)
Either Linux and other FOSS is an example of socialism done better or capitalism done better (by the latter, I mean closer to Adam Smith's idealistic vision of market economics)
One of my favorite former professors (midlevel economics, which has basic calculus and a lot of messy algebra) had a policy he colorfully termed the "$10 calculator rule".
He had a standard "set up equation right and crunch numbers wrong gets you most of the points" policy, and a lot of the work on his exams was regular writing anyways.
BTW, the basic-function calculator thing was the only part of the summary that really didn't make sense to me.
Yeah, pricey small corner stores drive me nuts even if the guys are honest overworked entrepreneurs.
The convenience store chains like CVS are a bit cheaper and stuff.
In the CD market, I figure it's Amazon as much as anybody else.
(Ke$ha's album Animal is holding steady on Amazon at $11.88 BTW, right in your $10-$15 range)
Amazon, especially with Prime [free shipping], is one heckuva cheap CD store.
Indies who also sell stuff off their own sites are the only notable price comparison/competition I'm aware of, and on those I'd bother looking off-Amazon. For example, MC Lars' This Gigantic Robot Kills at $12 instead of $14.98
(BTW, I would definitely recommend Lars, especially amongst the /. crowd; his geeky lyrics [which he's not limited to] probably would go over well here I would think.)
yeah, sometimes the sarcasm and other miscommunications around here are laid on thick.
Played a few browser-based MMOs obsessively for years and had finally had enough of that, so I walked out after the end of the round of one of them. I disengaged gradually from that one, but at least I knew not to start with new rounds and/or new games.
And then I almost immediately find a new habit. aargh!
That reminds me, some copiers are better than others, because of the amount of originality they mix in, and combining multiple influences. Zynga fails in that department, it seems.
Xerox PARC is another prime example of not converting the research into business success.
yeah, that was enough of a solution for me. other messages I'm not interested in at least stay in the metaphorical background.
you beat me to it.
Anyway, the second mover can often come in with variations that happen to be seen as an improvement, and the first mover has to follow up. Think business Darwinism here?
I did actually watch The Hidden Fortress, and I did see the clear similarities to Star Wars, but also clear differences that went beyond the medieval Japan/space difference in setting.
It's clear that the Star Wars script was rewritten several times. Perhaps one reason Lucas did that was to dial down the Kurosawa copying a bit.
Guess what? Both are highly enjoyable films.
Civilization II has its core rules as a clearly-formatted plaintext file. Might be able to monkey with that to achieve similar results. (So far, about all I've done is 'skin' it with different names and tweak AI leader personalities, but I'm going to try more-extensive changes eventually.)
Their savegame files require a hex editor; I've never tried that.
Different from applying cheatcodes in-game I suppose.
i figure he meant being honest about the fact that they're corrupt.
what about the scratch-offs sold out of vending machines rather than a manually-operating open plastic rack?