FYI, very few real scientists have accepted some "ordinary view" or "consensus". You may go back as far as you like in history. Those individuals who discovered valuable and meaningful knowledge were generally frowned upon for challenging the "ordinary view".
Nonsense. Most scientists accept the consensus view of their peers about most things, not surprisingly, as it is often rather well-founded. Perhaps you mean, "most brilliantly iconoclastic scientists, with names I have heard of, rejected conventional wisdom." But that's part of the definition of a brilliant iconoclast. Of course the great famous scientists overturned conventional wisdom. That does not mean most of them do it all the time. 99% of science is slow, painstaking and incremental.
And most of those who disagree with conventional wisdom are crackpots, not geniuses. I think H J Eysenck put it nicely. "They laughed at Newton. They laughed at Einstein. But they also laughed at Koko the Clown".
I would rather get them for free and cope with the mildly annoying ads. Effectively, once you use adblock, you freeride on the other people who haven't installed it. That's fine, it's your freedom, but when too many people install it, the website will close or go to pay-only.
At the moment, adblock is there for the few who care to search it out, and they get free, adfree information. Nice deal. Don't break it.
He's on Slashdot... kissing girls is out of the question for him.
And for you.
And for me.
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Right. And that's why they have a 3% market share after one day. If only they had released it for Linux, then they could have had a 50% market share... of the 3% of desktops that run Linux.
You fail, Google! Put parent poster in charge of all your marketing at once.
Wow, that article on the French is an evidence-free zone. The only actual French OSS project they mention is some middleware doodah that I've never even heard of. Trying to think of some myself... um:
1. Mandrake 2....er... 3.... that's it.
I'm sure there are others but none springs to mind.
Why would a business pay for software that benefits everybody else? Why not just wait for someone else to do it?
There are answers to this question - e.g. IBM or Google is big enough and uses Linux enough that it needs to make the fixes just for its own benefit; pushing them upstream is not much extra work. Or, companies in long-term relationships - e.g. in the Silicon Valley ecosystem - can encourage each other to contribute to public goods like OSS via a "reputation mechanism" - contributors get respect and this translates into better relationships.
I am pretty sure the UK government has no such right. As others have pointed out, the Advertising Standards Authority is an independent industry body, not part of the government.
The many real Tibetan people who I met in India, who had fled over the border to India often at great personal risk, did indeed want the Chinese out.
I am not an expert on Tibet, but I have read Seven Years in Tibet and from the account Heinrich Harrer gives it does not appear that the Tibetan peasants were slaves. Pre-invasion Tibet had many faults but as others have pointed out, that does not justify invading them, nor does it mean that they should not now be independent.
They know the source. It's a known bug in the kernel: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/189185
Newer kernel versions fix it but the fix hasn't been backported to 8.04.1. They say they will fix it; if so I'll give Linux another try, assuming the Windows bug hasn't happened first.
Yes, the openness is helpful - I can't read the code, because I'm not a developer, but I can at least report a bug and see what's going on. As against that, when Windows crashes it blue screens and restarts, normally without blowing up my data. Linux tends to just hang and force a cold reboot; last time, I lost my (Wubi-based) partition.
Er, I think you need to go and read the Linuxhater blog. You may find your experience is not typical.
My current status is: I installed Ubuntu Hardy to try it after giving up on Debian 5 years ago. It's pretty nice, but whenever I take my Thinkpad out of its dock, it crashes. Windows is much better: whenever I plug the Thinkpad into the dock, it crashes.
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... so the correlationisnotcausation tag is misleading. I assume they ran an experiment and randomly assigned half the students to the "mention confidentiality" treatment, half to the control. So there's no way (except an extraordinary fluke) for anything but the treatment to explain the big difference in honesty.
Saddam Hussein was a secularist. He came out of the Baath (renaissance) party. The idea that the Muslim God demands human rights violations makes as much sense as the idea that the Christian God demands them (think of all the juicy bits in Leviticus).
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FYI, very few real scientists have accepted some "ordinary view" or "consensus". You may go back as far as you like in history. Those individuals who discovered valuable and meaningful knowledge were generally frowned upon for challenging the "ordinary view".
Nonsense. Most scientists accept the consensus view of their peers about most things, not surprisingly, as it is often rather well-founded. Perhaps you mean, "most brilliantly iconoclastic scientists, with names I have heard of, rejected conventional wisdom." But that's part of the definition of a brilliant iconoclast. Of course the great famous scientists overturned conventional wisdom. That does not mean most of them do it all the time. 99% of science is slow, painstaking and incremental.
And most of those who disagree with conventional wisdom are crackpots, not geniuses. I think H J Eysenck put it nicely. "They laughed at Newton. They laughed at Einstein. But they also laughed at Koko the Clown".
MI5 were recently in the news for alleged complicity in the torture of detainees in Pakistan.
Before you jump at this glamorous top secret job, think about who you will be working for.
but has he got any pubic hair?
Er, why are you imposing first day beta software on your students? Because you can?
I would rather get them for free and cope with the mildly annoying ads. Effectively, once you use adblock, you freeride on the other people who haven't installed it. That's fine, it's your freedom, but when too many people install it, the website will close or go to pay-only.
At the moment, adblock is there for the few who care to search it out, and they get free, adfree information. Nice deal. Don't break it.
He's on Slashdot... kissing girls is out of the question for him.
And for you.
And for me.
Right. And that's why they have a 3% market share after one day. If only they had released it for Linux, then they could have had a 50% market share... of the 3% of desktops that run Linux.
You fail, Google! Put parent poster in charge of all your marketing at once.
Read the cartoon. You'll find a lot of interesting ideas there. It doesn't sound at all like Firefox with a few default extensions and a custom theme.
Oh! Oh! Steady on sir! I appeal. This is a blatant violation of the Shackleton Amendment.
I wonder what they thought of KDE 4.0 :-)
Wow, now I'm persuaded. You should have written the original article!
Oh my god Radioactive! Is that available anywhere, I haven't heard that since I was 11.
Amateurish, dear boy.
Clapham North.
Wow, that article on the French is an evidence-free zone. The only actual French OSS project they mention is some middleware doodah that I've never even heard of. Trying to think of some myself... um:
1. Mandrake ...er ... ... that's it.
2.
3.
I'm sure there are others but none springs to mind.
Why would a business pay for software that benefits everybody else? Why not just wait for someone else to do it?
There are answers to this question - e.g. IBM or Google is big enough and uses Linux enough that it needs to make the fixes just for its own benefit; pushing them upstream is not much extra work. Or, companies in long-term relationships - e.g. in the Silicon Valley ecosystem - can encourage each other to contribute to public goods like OSS via a "reputation mechanism" - contributors get respect and this translates into better relationships.
But the CAP is the fundamental issue.
Tcl and Ruby have a p in their name, but the p is silent... as in swimming.
I am pretty sure the UK government has no such right. As others have pointed out, the Advertising Standards Authority is an independent industry body, not part of the government.
Go to the websites GP referenced - in particular the case.edu one - and you'll find the answer you are looking for.
The many real Tibetan people who I met in India, who had fled over the border to India often at great personal risk, did indeed want the Chinese out.
I am not an expert on Tibet, but I have read Seven Years in Tibet and from the account Heinrich Harrer gives it does not appear that the Tibetan peasants were slaves. Pre-invasion Tibet had many faults but as others have pointed out, that does not justify invading them, nor does it mean that they should not now be independent.
They know the source. It's a known bug in the kernel: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/189185 Newer kernel versions fix it but the fix hasn't been backported to 8.04.1. They say they will fix it; if so I'll give Linux another try, assuming the Windows bug hasn't happened first. Yes, the openness is helpful - I can't read the code, because I'm not a developer, but I can at least report a bug and see what's going on. As against that, when Windows crashes it blue screens and restarts, normally without blowing up my data. Linux tends to just hang and force a cold reboot; last time, I lost my (Wubi-based) partition.
Er, I think you need to go and read the Linuxhater blog. You may find your experience is not typical.
My current status is: I installed Ubuntu Hardy to try it after giving up on Debian 5 years ago. It's pretty nice, but whenever I take my Thinkpad out of its dock, it crashes. Windows is much better: whenever I plug the Thinkpad into the dock, it crashes.
grandparent was sarcastic, I think
... so the correlationisnotcausation tag is misleading. I assume they ran an experiment and randomly assigned half the students to the "mention confidentiality" treatment, half to the control. So there's no way (except an extraordinary fluke) for anything but the treatment to explain the big difference in honesty.
What fraction would be enough to justify turning their back on principle?
"This is what the muslim god demands :a m_Hussein's_Iraq"
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Sadd
Saddam Hussein was a secularist. He came out of the Baath (renaissance) party. The idea that the Muslim God demands human rights violations makes as much sense as the idea that the Christian God demands them (think of all the juicy bits in Leviticus).
Saddam was a thoroughly evil man, and Iraq under his rule was a pretty horrible place. But the US has made it worse, by any reasonable standard. Here are some blog entries written by people who actually live there, people of many different political opinions and backgrounds:
http://iraqi-roses.blogspot.com/2007/02/un-duck-a
http://firstwordsfirstwalkfirstiniraq.blogspot.co
http://nabilsblog.blogspot.com/2006/12/happy-or-s
http://livesstrong.blogspot.com/2006/11/eids-spir
http://twentyfourstepstoliberty.blogspot.com/2006
http://riverbendblog.blogspot.com/2006_12_01_rive
http://glimpseofiraq.blogspot.com/2006/07/goodbye
http://glimpseofiraq.blogspot.com/2006/06/shalash
http://neurotic-iraqi-wife.blogspot.com/2007/02/i
Can you seriously read these and rejoice at what has been done?