Second, if more people posted.txt,.rtf and.html, we wouldn't have this.doc problem.
You're forgetting that most people don't really even know what a file format IS.
Why do you think Microsoft no longer displays file extensions on files? Such things thoroughly confuse a large number of users. When you write something on paper it's not in a different "format", so formats don't fit into their paradigm of how documents should be. This is why you often find users trying to open documents in the wrong program.
Nobody really chooses.doc for its technical merits. Doc files are prevalent because it's "a word file". And even that level of understanding can be pushing it in some cases.
Talking about the virtues of formats like rtf and html won't make them prevalent. Only if they are the default format will they become prevalent.
Actually, Imperial measurements make sense because they use well-divisible numbers...
What's 10 divisible by? Hmm.. 2 and 5. Hardly a useful format for multi-bisection or trisection measurements eh?
Clearly the real problem here is that we have the wrong number of fingers.
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Good thinking, we'll wait until life is perfect, and THEN we'll plan for the future.
*twiddles thumbs waiting*
Seriously, if you want the human race to prosper, you should support scientific advancement and exploration. In the end it will put food on the tables of your children and grandchildren.
And windows is expensive like a child who becomes an infant again every two years.
It costs you a fortune, craps all over, you spend all two years struggling to train it to feed itself and properly dispose of its waste, then it reaches the terrible twos, and becomes an infant all over again. There's no way to win in that game.
That's not a definition, that's a mission statement. And like all mission statements I've ever seen, it's generalized (in the specific rhetorical sense) to the point of meaninglessness, and therefore, uselessness.
Precisely. And that, above anything else, is why I have been completely unconcerned with.NET. Computer people like determinism and explicitly described meaning, anything else is useless and a waste of time.
And don't leave the thing logged in as root!! If they're going to make a physical compromise, at least make them work for it to increase the chance they get caught.
Package ejection seat is a virtual package provided by:
ejection-seat-gnome
ejection-seat-gnome2
kseat
gtk-seat++
qteject-o-matic
ncurses-eject
ejection-svga
At least Debian would note that package ejection-seat should depend on a package that provides parachute. With Redhat packages you're just as likely to accidently install ejection-seat without parachute.
This Italian fellow should go to prison for blasphemy, and the Italian police officers that hacked his site should be extradited to the US to face their terrorism/hacking charges. Blasphemy was committed in Italy, and hacking was committed in the US.
The Italian police never entered the U.S. If I access a web page in country X, and the accessing of that web page happens to be illegal because of an obscure law, should my country extradite me for breaking the law of a country I wasn't in?
You tread on more dangerous ground than you are aware of.
And I'm sure that there are marketing students in undergraduate and graduate programs nationwide that might find it a useful tool in doing research.
I'm sure they might, except that it costs $70 for them to even look at the ads to see if they want to use them. That's prohibitively expensive for any student to pay for an assignment.
At that annual fee, AdCritic has positioned itself to only be useful to people who are getting paid to look at ads. It's a niche, but a small one.
I hope eventually ad archives are more accessible to others, since they are often entertaining, and sometimes educational (as cultural indicators).
and told our government the names of all of the hijackers, their targets and weapons, and the approximate date of the attacks. This was printed in German newspapers.
Can we have a link to any of these German news articles? It would be much appreciated.
A shell command line may feel more elite and productive because it doesn't have any pretty picutres, but it's certainly not proof of intellect...
Shells are not about proving ones intellect, they're about having a powerful interface. It's a simple entropy argument that more information can be transmitted from user to computer, and thus more complicated structures can be communicated far more rapidly, using a command line rather than a gui.
I have a rather typical Debian install, and it has 2511 commands in the path. Not all, but a huge number of these commands are designed to interact in a variety of ways by piping, substitution, etc... There is simply no way to transmit that much information complexity to the computer at any reasonable rate using a mouse.
I can sit at a shell and in 30 seconds write a command to change every file in 4 different directories from file.txt to prefix_file.txt. There is absolutely no way to design a gui with enough power to perform arbitrary complex actions like that. Any gui that powerful would be too unwieldy to use.
Don't get me wrong, gui's are great for simple actions. My primary interface is a gui, but my most powerful command in that gui is ctrl-alt-t to bring up a terminal window.
Fortunately, science already has systems in place to handle conditions like this. The same mechanism, science's dependency on reputation, which sometimes temporary mislabels new research as a crackpot idea, does an excellent job of protecting the integrity of science as a whole. Since he has been shown guilty by his peers, if Victor Ninov can't find a way to clear his name, he will have a hard time ever publishing work again. And no work he does publish will ever be taken for granted.
Science requires trust to operate, he broke it, and science kicked him out of the game.
As for the title "Elements 116 and 118 are bogus", the elements aren't bogus, this just means they weren't seen that time. It would be extremely surprising if 116 and 118 didn't exist, since very well supported theories show they are there and predict some of their properties.
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Second, if more people posted .txt, .rtf and .html, we wouldn't have this .doc problem.
.doc for its technical merits. Doc files are prevalent because it's "a word file". And even that level of understanding can be pushing it in some cases.
You're forgetting that most people don't really even know what a file format IS.
Why do you think Microsoft no longer displays file extensions on files? Such things thoroughly confuse a large number of users. When you write something on paper it's not in a different "format", so formats don't fit into their paradigm of how documents should be. This is why you often find users trying to open documents in the wrong program.
Nobody really chooses
Talking about the virtues of formats like rtf and html won't make them prevalent. Only if they are the default format will they become prevalent.
Actually, Imperial measurements make sense because they use well-divisible numbers...
.. 2 and 5. Hardly a useful format for multi-bisection or trisection measurements eh?
What's 10 divisible by? Hmm
Clearly the real problem here is that we have the wrong number of fingers.
Good thinking, we'll wait until life is perfect, and THEN we'll plan for the future.
*twiddles thumbs waiting*
Seriously, if you want the human race to prosper, you should support scientific advancement and exploration. In the end it will put food on the tables of your children and grandchildren.
"Linux is free like a puppy."
And windows is expensive like a child who becomes an infant again every two years.
It costs you a fortune, craps all over, you spend all two years struggling to train it to feed itself and properly dispose of its waste, then it reaches the terrible twos, and becomes an infant all over again. There's no way to win in that game.
...tell the programmers in private that it really just means they have less work to do.
Alien Spaceship OS in 'Independence Day': F
Interoperability of Alien Spaceship OS in 'Independence Day' with Mac OS: A+
That's not a definition, that's a mission statement. And like all mission statements I've ever seen, it's generalized (in the specific rhetorical sense) to the point of meaninglessness, and therefore, uselessness.
.NET. Computer people like determinism and explicitly described meaning, anything else is useless and a waste of time.
Precisely. And that, above anything else, is why I have been completely unconcerned with
when all the while they are trying to develop a more distributed and more anonymous systems that is immune from lawsuits.
An unenforceable law is not a law.
I have NO free time because I'm always tweaking these damn boxes. Yep.
Don't forget to oil the cpu and rotate the keyboards at least once a week.
My office celebrates System Admin Appreciation Day.
This week, I got layed off!
You could think of it as an appreciative extended vacation.
Best of luck.
The next thing you know, they'll be telling us computers double in speed every 18 months!
That's all lies! I've been watching mine since I bought it, and the damn thing is still going the same speed...
Lock the door when you leave the computer room.
And don't leave the thing logged in as root!! If they're going to make a physical compromise, at least make them work for it to increase the chance they get caught.
well i was caught in a llama stampede when i was younger, so anyone within a 1000 mile radius of me might wanna consider moving...
Couldn't you do us all a favor and just move to someplace remote in 16 years? I'm sure we could all chip in and buy you a nice hard hat.
Package ejection seat is a virtual package provided by:
ejection-seat-gnome
ejection-seat-gnome2
kseat
gtk-seat++
qteject-o-matic
ncurses-eject
ejection-svga
At least Debian would note that package ejection-seat should depend on a package that provides parachute. With Redhat packages you're just as likely to accidently install ejection-seat without parachute.
Hello! It appears you are trying to fire a missile, would you like my assistance?
American's are, in general, Ameri-centric assholes.
Then why are there so many Americans on Slashdot who disapprove of such mentality?
This Italian fellow should go to prison for blasphemy, and the Italian police officers that hacked his site should be extradited to the US to face their terrorism/hacking charges. Blasphemy was committed in Italy, and hacking was committed in the US.
The Italian police never entered the U.S. If I access a web page in country X, and the accessing of that web page happens to be illegal because of an obscure law, should my country extradite me for breaking the law of a country I wasn't in?
You tread on more dangerous ground than you are aware of.
And I'm sure that there are marketing students in undergraduate and graduate programs nationwide that might find it a useful tool in doing research.
I'm sure they might, except that it costs $70 for them to even look at the ads to see if they want to use them. That's prohibitively expensive for any student to pay for an assignment.
At that annual fee, AdCritic has positioned itself to only be useful to people who are getting paid to look at ads. It's a niche, but a small one.
I hope eventually ad archives are more accessible to others, since they are often entertaining, and sometimes educational (as cultural indicators).
and told our government the names of all of the hijackers, their targets and weapons, and the approximate date of the attacks.
This was printed in German newspapers.
Can we have a link to any of these German news articles? It would be much appreciated.
in an age where information itself can be a powerful weapon
More importantly, information is the ONLY true source of freedom in a democratic society.
Restrict information like this, and you grab free society by the neck and strangle it to death.
Please note I'll be impersonating garbage cans all week. :-)
*Throws his old XT case into the garbage.*
Isn't it just like a Slashdotter to fret over possible future threats and actual present ones.
As opposed to foolishly ignoring them?!?
A shell command line may feel more elite and productive because it doesn't have any pretty picutres, but it's certainly not proof of intellect...
Shells are not about proving ones intellect, they're about having a powerful interface. It's a simple entropy argument that more information can be transmitted from user to computer, and thus more complicated structures can be communicated far more rapidly, using a command line rather than a gui.
I have a rather typical Debian install, and it has 2511 commands in the path. Not all, but a huge number of these commands are designed to interact in a variety of ways by piping, substitution, etc... There is simply no way to transmit that much information complexity to the computer at any reasonable rate using a mouse.
I can sit at a shell and in 30 seconds write a command to change every file in 4 different directories from file.txt to prefix_file.txt. There is absolutely no way to design a gui with enough power to perform arbitrary complex actions like that. Any gui that powerful would be too unwieldy to use.
Don't get me wrong, gui's are great for simple actions. My primary interface is a gui, but my most powerful command in that gui is ctrl-alt-t to bring up a terminal window.
or maybe just Walmart Linux?
Equate Linux (compare to active ingredients in Mandrake Linux).
Fortunately, science already has systems in place to handle conditions like this. The same mechanism, science's dependency on reputation, which sometimes temporary mislabels new research as a crackpot idea, does an excellent job of protecting the integrity of science as a whole. Since he has been shown guilty by his peers, if Victor Ninov can't find a way to clear his name, he will have a hard time ever publishing work again. And no work he does publish will ever be taken for granted.
Science requires trust to operate, he broke it, and science kicked him out of the game.
As for the title "Elements 116 and 118 are bogus", the elements aren't bogus, this just means they weren't seen that time. It would be extremely surprising if 116 and 118 didn't exist, since very well supported theories show they are there and predict some of their properties.