fanny means ass in the US too. that is indeed its only meaning according to my dictionary. Americans are just less formal and reserved? what do brits call those small packs that go around your waist and ride above your ass, then?
I concede that starting from scratch/source is probably a very effective way to learn the details of my system. I also understand that a big advantage of open-source sw is that all the details are available for my learning should I ever need to do so. but is learning almost everything there is to know about GNU/Linux really a wise investment of my time/attention? a better investment than learning a little more about the concept of entropy, for example? or learning to waltz? a better use of my time than learn about the concept of the 'network externality' (one of the most imporant concepts in economics and helpful for understanding Microsoft. is it not better to know the basics of dentistry, psychology, consumer law, mental health (stress and the immune system, depression), and computers than to know a lot about computers and almost nothing about the other things? (I tried to pick things that most people will find useful at some time or another.)
I listed all of the top 2 greatest minds. tell me who you think #3 is and I'll find out if he had kids, too.
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(oops. here is the full post.) it is very difficult to perform even one major life project with excellence. if I thought I had a chance to make as big a contribution to society and to the world of the intellect as Stallman already has, I would forgo having kids, too, to avoid diluting my creative energies. the fact the the 2 most creative intellectuals ever, Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin, did not have kids --Newton said on his deathbed that he never had sex even-- is evidence that a wife and kids can reduce your chances of making a major intellectual contribution.
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it is very difficult to perform even one major life project with excellence. if I thought I had a chance to make as big a contribution to society and to the world of the intellect as Stallman already has, I would forgo having kids, too, to avoid diluting my creative energies. the fact the the 2 most creative intellectuals ever, Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin, did not have kids --Newton said on his deathbed that he never had sex even-- is evidence
negative feedback strikes me as a necessary component of any process as complex as software development. of course, simply refraining from using a package or from upgrading it constitutes negative feedback. but actually telling the community what aspects of the package you did not like strikes me as more useful negative feedback. of course, this particular negative-feedback generator should have refrained from using inflammatory words like 'lame' and 'joke' which tend to inhibit constructive dialog by polarizing people's views. do not worry about negative feedback's effect on free-software development: there is more than enough free-software development going on. we need code quality, not code quantity.
the American revolutionaries published succint statements (eg, Declaration of Indep) of their grievences. may I see a succint stmt of the IRA's grievences with current British practices?
samf: please tell me which keys you have on the 4 big thumb keys: I'm thinking of putting spc, ret, del, and control on them and then using Emacs's keyboard-translate-table to translate ret to esc. (I dont need esc on a thumb key when I'm not in Emacs and I can use Control-m instead of a thumb key for ret when in Emacs)
Duh Oh! I meant, "never available for commercial use". more specifically, you can get it for $275 but the license does not allow commercial use, e.g., using it to run a commercial web site. to use it for commerce requires striking a deal with Lucent's (was AT&T's) lawyers, which does not sound like a lot of fun unless you are a big company. hard for techies to justify learning a new OS (Plan 9 encompasses 43 megs of source code and was not designed for compatibility with Unix) if they cannot leverage that investment into paid work. with the current Plan 9 license, only professional researchers and educators can leverage the investment into paid work. in the current environment, computerists working in commercial settings seem to be essential to the success of a new OS.
I think the first graphical Web browser ran only on Nextstep. this makes Nextstep look good because some pretty good computerists (the early implementors of the Web) decided to use it. but where do you get the idea that if Nextstep had not been available the implementors of the Web would have just given up? do you have quotes from the early implementors?
there are millions of programmers. it only takes a few thousands programmers to write all of Gnu/Linux. some people find programming easy --and fun. I think the proprietary software vendors have sold the public the notion that only a large company has the resources to develop truly useful software. not necessarily true.
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fanny means ass in the US too. that is indeed its only meaning according to my dictionary. Americans are just less formal and reserved? what do brits call those small packs that go around your waist and ride above your ass, then?
I dont think Slashdot editorial content is very accurate. I learn more from the user comments.
I concede that starting from scratch/source is probably a very effective way to learn the details of my system. I also understand that a big advantage of open-source sw is that all the details are available for my learning should I ever need to do so. but is learning almost everything there is to know about GNU/Linux really a wise investment of my time/attention? a better investment than learning a little more about the concept of entropy, for example? or learning to waltz? a better use of my time than learn about the concept of the 'network externality' (one of the most imporant concepts in economics and helpful for understanding Microsoft. is it not better to know the basics of dentistry, psychology, consumer law, mental health (stress and the immune system, depression), and computers than to know a lot about computers and almost nothing about the other things? (I tried to pick things that most people will find useful at some time or another.)
I listed all of the top 2 greatest minds.
tell me who you think #3 is and I'll find out if he had kids, too.
(oops. here is the full post.) it is very difficult to perform even one major life project with excellence. if I thought I had a chance to make as big a contribution to society and to the world of the intellect as Stallman already has, I would forgo having kids, too, to avoid diluting my creative energies. the fact the the 2 most creative intellectuals ever, Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin, did not have kids --Newton said on his deathbed that he never had sex even-- is evidence that a wife and kids can reduce your chances of making a major intellectual contribution.
it is very difficult to perform even one major life project with excellence. if I thought I had a chance to make as big a contribution to society and to the world of the intellect as Stallman already has, I would forgo having kids, too, to avoid diluting my creative energies. the fact the the 2 most creative intellectuals ever, Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin, did not have kids --Newton said on his deathbed that he never had sex even-- is evidence
negative feedback strikes me as a necessary component of any process as complex as software development. of course, simply refraining from using a package or from upgrading it constitutes negative feedback. but actually telling the community what aspects of the package you did not like strikes me as more useful negative feedback. of course, this particular negative-feedback generator should have refrained from using inflammatory words like 'lame' and 'joke' which tend to inhibit constructive dialog by polarizing people's views.
do not worry about negative feedback's effect on free-software development: there is more than enough free-software development going on. we need code quality, not code quantity.
how do I know that what you say about more underage drinking in the US than Greece/Germany is true?
statistics? newspaper article? what?
the American revolutionaries published succint statements (eg, Declaration of Indep) of their grievences. may I see a succint stmt of the IRA's grievences with current British practices?
samf: please tell me which keys you have on the
4 big thumb keys: I'm thinking of putting spc, ret, del, and control on them and then using
Emacs's keyboard-translate-table to translate ret to esc.
(I dont need esc on a thumb key when I'm not in Emacs and I can use Control-m instead of a thumb key for ret when in Emacs)
Duh Oh! I meant, "never available for commercial use". more specifically, you can get it for $275 but the license does not allow commercial use, e.g., using it to run a commercial web site. to use it for commerce requires striking a deal with Lucent's (was AT&T's) lawyers, which does not sound like a lot of fun unless you are a big company. hard for techies to justify learning a new OS (Plan 9 encompasses 43 megs of source code and was not designed for compatibility with Unix) if they cannot leverage that investment into paid work. with the current Plan 9 license, only professional researchers and educators can leverage the investment into paid work. in the current environment, computerists working in commercial settings seem to be essential to the success of a new OS.
I think the first graphical Web browser ran only on Nextstep. this makes Nextstep look good because some pretty good computerists (the early implementors of the Web) decided to use it.
but where do you get the idea that if Nextstep had not been available the implementors of the Web would have just given up? do you have quotes from the early implementors?
uh, Plan 9 was never available for noncommercial use, so its lack of mindshare is not necessarily due to its not using a well-used language
You are angry that you don't know what a self-virtualizing instruction set is; huh, guy?
simply set your threshold to 1 and you wont see the anonymous posts. warning: untested advice.
there are millions of programmers. it only takes a few thousands programmers to write all of Gnu/Linux. some people find programming easy --and fun. I think the proprietary software vendors have sold the public the notion that only a large company has the resources to develop truly useful software. not necessarily true.