... that/. really is a hive mind, so it is perfectly fair and reasonable to accuse/. for hypocrisy when one poster in one thread displays an opinion that conflicts with another poster in another thread.
I'd imagine a degree could be revoked if it later turned out that you didn't wrote the thesis yourself, or that you bribed the evaluation committee, that is, that the degree was given on a false foundation. But not because of anything you do or say later in life.
I have been working in the scientific community my whole professional life, and I have never heard of a "certified scientist" before. There are various academic degrees and awards you can have (like Ph.D or Nobel prize), and there are positions you can hold (like associate professor). You don't lose the first, and losing the second means you get fired. No "certification". And you don't need either to be considered a scientist by the community.
If you want to establish a pecking order among scientists, you look at how many publications he has, the rating of the journals the publications appear in, and how many other scientist quote your results.
And you don't have to agree with the consensus to be considered a scientist, take Fred Hoyle for example. He never accepted Big Bang, and had various controversial opinions on other areas as well, he won his last major scientific award in 1997, four years before his death.
The two-axis world view of the political compass is Libetarian. If the Libertarians are considered left-wing these days, the situations in the US is worse than I imagined.
The two-axes of the political compass is way better than the single axis, but you can of course choose many different axes. The axes of the political were better suited to the cold war era. These day I'd say a tribal/local vs. humanist/global axis would better match many of todays political conflicts.
The GPL extends the rights you have by copyright law.
An EULA restricts the rights you have by copyright law.
You have no obligation whatsoever to accept the GPL, and if you don't you are still free to use the software as you seem fit. An EULA will try to tell you that you can't use the software unless you agree with it.
What the GPL does is to allow you to redistribute the software under certain conditions, something you have otherwise no right to do under copyright law.
What an EULA is to disallow some uses of the software, something you are otherwise free to do under copyright law.
The problem is that we relies on indirect funding of the research through the patent system, which screws the entire systems into focusing patentable treatments, starving out other treatments such as new uses of existing drugs, life style changes, or physical therapy.
The solution is to cut out the middle man, and let health insurance companies finance the research directly rather than through inflated medicine prices (which also cause some to choose an inferior product or no treatment, even if they could easily afford to pay the production cost (plus profit) of the medicine). It would be easier than you think, as most of the world have public (tax-funded) health care. Even US has a large tax-funded health care program.
The medicine industry would then just be concerned for manufacture, not research. Research would be public, and more efficient as preliminary results could be shared with other researchers, unlike now where you can't share anything until the final patent application is done.
Then some people noted that free software were easily confused with gratis software (freeware) that preserved none of the freedoms we care about, and they invented the Open Source tag.
Microsoft started to note that some potential customers would choose solution from none of their known competitors, and started to investigate what this was all about in the "Halloween" papers. They invented the OSS acronym to describe this new alternative.
Finally EU got involved, and combined it all with libre (for the Latin-speaking part of EU) to get FLOSS.
US has a problem with sex, one of the, if not the, major human drives, to the point of charging people for showing pictures of the human body.
Many European countries have a problem with harboring or being occupied by an ideology that is probably the most widely recognized symbol of evil, that caused the major war of the last century, and millions to be killed in either battle or by outright murder. Older Europeans lived through it. As a result of these still open wounds, depicting few arcane symbol have been outlawed, as well as denying a specific (albeit important) historic event.
Both are limitations to the personal freedom, but I don't see how the second in any way is comparable or justify the first.
Any country where you can get prosecuted for showing an issue of Playboy to your friends have serious problems, be it North Korea, Saudi-Arabia or USA.
The real stuff is the equations, which all the interpretations agree on. And all the predictions spring from the equations.
The interpretations aren't right or wrong, they are just how we translate the math into our daily language. If the Copenhagen Interpretation works for you, use it, otherwise choose one of the others. It does not matter.
I might like to mention something else about all this bitching about "users having to learn a new interface" for Office 2007: Can I not use that same argument for not switching to Linux?
This is in fact the major argument against upgrading to GNU/Linux. Retraining put the TCO above the already known Microsoft software.
The fun thing is that same the argument doesn't apply when switching to a different version of the Microsoft software, even if the UI change is larger.
Anyone whose job depend on smooth communication with partners who use MS Office 2007 does.
We have *never* upgraded our MS Office software in order to get new or better features, it is each and every time in order to be able to cooperate with our partners.
If you don't use that latest offering from Microsoft, any communication glitches will be your fault for using outdated (older MS Office versions) or non-standard (OO.o) software.
In US you are right. In Denmark, you retain ownership of the end product, but your employer get a license to use the product for the purpose it was developed (including resale, if that was the purpose).
The 8 seconds the balls in this experiment lasted is 8 seconds more than they have lasted in previous experiments (where the lifetime has been measured in milliseconds).
This is just silly, you can write C programs in C++, and since the back end is usually shared you will end up with identical code. At most you can say that some of the C99 performance features have not yet found their way into C++, but that would go the opposite way of what you suggest. They used to be equally fast, but it has now (temporarily) become possible to write faster code in C.
* Interpreted compared to Compiled
True yesterday, true today, true tomorrow. Anyway it is not a language but an implementation issue.
* Java compared to C++
Does Java support value semantics for user defined types now? If not, it is still as true as ever. Eliminating unnecessary pointers is a huge win in many (most?) applications, and Java made it impossible by making everything (except build-in types) pointers.
"The customer is always right..." is restricted to the front of the shop.
I studied with a guy who worked in a electronics (radio / tv) shop, and he went on about how stupid the customers were. I believe he was wrong, he was explaining the same basic thing 20 times a day, but forgetting that it was to 20 different customers, none of whom had this as their particular expertise. Nonetheless, explaining the same thing over and over while being forced to smile politely means that you build up some stem, which needs to be released.
I very much suspect it is the same for every profession that has direct contact with the users. The IT people just happened to be better connected, so you see their stories more on the net. And it is not all IT people, it is mostly system administrators and other support personnel, the negative attitude towards lusers are less rampant among programmers, who are often shielded from direct contact with the users.
Basically it is quite healthy as long as people are professional during the actual confrontation with the clients, and the submitter should get over himself .
Move specifically, the "dictatorship of the proletariat". It is in the official Marxist road to Communism, a temporary state of dictatorship that should lead to the promised land.
Just about all self-declared Marxist regimes claimed to be the "dictatorship of the proletariat" state, being bright enough not to claim to the people that the current state of affairs was he best they could hope for. The one exception I know of was Albania, which at some point claimed to have reached "true Communism".
It has been rough to get there, but those intellectuals that still dream of Communism have mostly reached the conclusion that any kind of dictatorship of temporarily suspension civil rights are *not* acceptable steps on the way. It just took a few (well, rather more than a few) million lives to get to that insight.
Hopefully it will take less than that for the neo-Conservative to see that torture and other suspension of civil rights are not acceptable means to reach their goals, neither abroad or at home. Unless, of course, that is their goals.
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And that emacs client is way older than any of the ones you mentioned, and significantly older than the web. See the description of labels in the manuel.
I agree with your conclusion, gmail is just using standard decades old email terminology.
... that /. really is a hive mind, so it is perfectly fair and reasonable to accuse /. for hypocrisy when one poster in one thread displays an opinion that conflicts with another poster in another thread.
I'd imagine a degree could be revoked if it later turned out that you didn't wrote the thesis yourself, or that you bribed the evaluation committee, that is, that the degree was given on a false foundation. But not because of anything you do or say later in life.
Excuse my language, but what the fuck is that?
I have been working in the scientific community my whole professional life, and I have never heard of a "certified scientist" before. There are various academic degrees and awards you can have (like Ph.D or Nobel prize), and there are positions you can hold (like associate professor). You don't lose the first, and losing the second means you get fired. No "certification". And you don't need either to be considered a scientist by the community.
If you want to establish a pecking order among scientists, you look at how many publications he has, the rating of the journals the publications appear in, and how many other scientist quote your results.
And you don't have to agree with the consensus to be considered a scientist, take Fred Hoyle for example. He never accepted Big Bang, and had various controversial opinions on other areas as well, he won his last major scientific award in 1997, four years before his death.
The two-axis world view of the political compass is Libetarian. If the Libertarians are considered left-wing these days, the situations in the US is worse than I imagined.
The two-axes of the political compass is way better than the single axis, but you can of course choose many different axes. The axes of the political were better suited to the cold war era. These day I'd say a tribal/local vs. humanist/global axis would better match many of todays political conflicts.
The GPL extends the rights you have by copyright law.
An EULA restricts the rights you have by copyright law.
You have no obligation whatsoever to accept the GPL, and if you don't you are still free to use the software as you seem fit. An EULA will try to tell you that you can't use the software unless you agree with it.
What the GPL does is to allow you to redistribute the software under certain conditions, something you have otherwise no right to do under copyright law.
What an EULA is to disallow some uses of the software, something you are otherwise free to do under copyright law.
The problem is that we relies on indirect funding of the research through the patent system, which screws the entire systems into focusing patentable treatments, starving out other treatments such as new uses of existing drugs, life style changes, or physical therapy.
The solution is to cut out the middle man, and let health insurance companies finance the research directly rather than through inflated medicine prices (which also cause some to choose an inferior product or no treatment, even if they could easily afford to pay the production cost (plus profit) of the medicine). It would be easier than you think, as most of the world have public (tax-funded) health care. Even US has a large tax-funded health care program.
The medicine industry would then just be concerned for manufacture, not research. Research would be public, and more efficient as preliminary results could be shared with other researchers, unlike now where you can't share anything until the final patent application is done.
First there was free software, and all was well.
Then some people noted that free software were easily confused with gratis software (freeware) that preserved none of the freedoms we care about, and they invented the Open Source tag.
Microsoft started to note that some potential customers would choose solution from none of their known competitors, and started to investigate what this was all about in the "Halloween" papers. They invented the OSS acronym to describe this new alternative.
Finally EU got involved, and combined it all with libre (for the Latin-speaking part of EU) to get FLOSS.
Laziness is one of three virtues of the good programmer, according to Larry Wall. And I believe he is on to something.
US has a problem with sex, one of the, if not the, major human drives, to the point of charging people for showing pictures of the human body.
Many European countries have a problem with harboring or being occupied by an ideology that is probably the most widely recognized symbol of evil, that caused the major war of the last century, and millions to be killed in either battle or by outright murder. Older Europeans lived through it. As a result of these still open wounds, depicting few arcane symbol have been outlawed, as well as denying a specific (albeit important) historic event.
Both are limitations to the personal freedom, but I don't see how the second in any way is comparable or justify the first.
Don't make it into a pissing contest.
Any country where you can get prosecuted for showing an issue of Playboy to your friends have serious problems, be it North Korea, Saudi-Arabia or USA.
I think you just canceled your geek card.
Some interest in the next generation of technology, rather than just what you can buy in the local store today, is required for membership.
At least when you decide to respond to the comment.
The real stuff is the equations, which all the interpretations agree on. And all the predictions spring from the equations.
The interpretations aren't right or wrong, they are just how we translate the math into our daily language. If the Copenhagen Interpretation works for you, use it, otherwise choose one of the others. It does not matter.
This is in fact the major argument against upgrading to GNU/Linux. Retraining put the TCO above the already known Microsoft software.
The fun thing is that same the argument doesn't apply when switching to a different version of the Microsoft software, even if the UI change is larger.
> Answer: Nobody needs to upgrade to Office 2007.
Anyone whose job depend on smooth communication with partners who use MS Office 2007 does.
We have *never* upgraded our MS Office software in order to get new or better features, it is each and every time in order to be able to cooperate with our partners.
If you don't use that latest offering from Microsoft, any communication glitches will be your fault for using outdated (older MS Office versions) or non-standard (OO.o) software.
In US you are right. In Denmark, you retain ownership of the end product, but your employer get a license to use the product for the purpose it was developed (including resale, if that was the purpose).
I have no idea about what the law says in Canada.
Your product is only covered by the patent if it fits all the claims of the patent.
> We aren't at war, we've invaded some random country for no good reason.
You know, invading some random country is one of the two main causes of getting "at war". The other is being invaded by some random country.
The 8 seconds the balls in this experiment lasted is 8 seconds more than they have lasted in previous experiments (where the lifetime has been measured in milliseconds).
* C++ compared to C
This is just silly, you can write C programs in C++, and since the back end is usually shared you will end up with identical code. At most you can say that some of the C99 performance features have not yet found their way into C++, but that would go the opposite way of what you suggest. They used to be equally fast, but it has now (temporarily) become possible to write faster code in C.
* Interpreted compared to Compiled
True yesterday, true today, true tomorrow. Anyway it is not a language but an implementation issue.
* Java compared to C++
Does Java support value semantics for user defined types now? If not, it is still as true as ever. Eliminating unnecessary pointers is a huge win in many (most?) applications, and Java made it impossible by making everything (except build-in types) pointers.
* Servlets compared to CGI
Have no idea.
"The customer is always right..." is restricted to the front of the shop.
I studied with a guy who worked in a electronics (radio / tv) shop, and he went on about how stupid the customers were. I believe he was wrong, he was explaining the same basic thing 20 times a day, but forgetting that it was to 20 different customers, none of whom had this as their particular expertise. Nonetheless, explaining the same thing over and over while being forced to smile politely means that you build up some stem, which needs to be released.
I very much suspect it is the same for every profession that has direct contact with the users. The IT people just happened to be better connected, so you see their stories more on the net. And it is not all IT people, it is mostly system administrators and other support personnel, the negative attitude towards lusers are less rampant among programmers, who are often shielded from direct contact with the users.
Basically it is quite healthy as long as people are professional during the actual confrontation with the clients, and the submitter should get over himself .
Sounds like hares to me, not rabbits.
Dictatorship is a precursor to communism.
Move specifically, the "dictatorship of the proletariat". It is in the official Marxist road to Communism, a temporary state of dictatorship that should lead to the promised land.
Just about all self-declared Marxist regimes claimed to be the "dictatorship of the proletariat" state, being bright enough not to claim to the people that the current state of affairs was he best they could hope for. The one exception I know of was Albania, which at some point claimed to have reached "true Communism".
It has been rough to get there, but those intellectuals that still dream of Communism have mostly reached the conclusion that any kind of dictatorship of temporarily suspension civil rights are *not* acceptable steps on the way. It just took a few (well, rather more than a few) million lives to get to that insight.
Hopefully it will take less than that for the neo-Conservative to see that torture and other suspension of civil rights are not acceptable means to reach their goals, neither abroad or at home. Unless, of course, that is their goals.
> move to countries like the US.
Should be: "move to countries like what the US used to be".