Of course e-mail is great, but at first it was used to comunicate with a few people across the same network. What about the development of the DNS structure? The ability to have domain names and usernames for e-mail is a lot different from the original design of it.
This all happened after Al Gore invented the Internet.
and make science students waste time on humanities courses
i dont know that i would call it a "waste of time". if the humanities courses are mundane and merely there to prop up the Arts schools then probably they are a waste.
however, one of the more abstract courses I took in my undergraduate degree spent some time on critical discourse analysis which has changed the way I take in information supplied through newspapers and television.
if there is one skill that I think more people need, it is the ability to think critically. if more people thought critically we wouldn't sit back and let corporations bury the average person. we would take statements from politicians that are professionally prepared with a grain of salt and instead look for the deeper issues. it surprises me that you say
US universities, on the other hand, seem to be driven by the humanities and the concept of the "liberal arts degree"
god knows that the average US student is starved of the ability to critically think.
Nik is stupid for posting a URL to an FTP server. I thought slashdot had learnt their lesson on this one.
Can a karma whore please post the changelog so that the ftp server does not get overwhelmed from all the slashbots.
DO NOT DO THIS AGAIN
I've had some personal experience with newbies either considering Linux, or trying to use a Linux GUI (GNOME, in my case). Specifically, my extremely non-geek girlfriend who still uses MS Bob at home to write letters, who was blown away by the extra speed that came from adding some RAM to her old, crufty machine.
It seems the latest fad on slashdot is for a geek to claim they have a girlfriend, in this case this guy is asking us to beleive that he has a girlfriend that visits him.
Slashdot needs more moderation options:
Score:-1 Not Likely to Have a Girlfriend
MozillaQuest is a series of articles written by Mike Angelo who has no connection to mozilla.org or any 'inside information' about the goings on of the Mozilla project. mozilla.org has in the past made attempts to correct the misinformation that is published at this site but the requests went pretty much unanswered and so we've turned to simply ignoring the site.
Michael Angelo has a serious credibility issue, being a teenage mutant ninga turtle and all
we should try and take down slashdot, and then go and stand over taco when he has to repair it.
i dont know about you, but computer illiterate people standing over me while i fix something - expecting to learn something - stresses me out big time.
Mr Brin pointed to additional respect, more cash and stock liquidity as reasons to float, though he added that the company has enough money
What are they actually going to do with the money?
Granted the image searching beta is damn impressive, but if they have enough cash in the bank then why bother? They have all the respect in the world and given the state of IPOs in the past few years this is not a way to get respect.
who gave this +1 insightful
ask yourself how many web servers serve up lots and lots of images.
if you had a webfarm, you could move your images to another server (images.slashdot.org) and serve images using that and keep your perl code in an apache server (www.slashdot.org).
or simply serve the images from the kernel and pass up the dynamic requests to the userland daemon.
and the worst thing is all the wasted bandwidth with people downloading iso images, despite the fact that freebsd comes with a cvsup config file for updating your system in/usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile
and the handbook says how to upgrade from sources
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books/ handbook/cutting-edge.html
i ask myself why people download 650mb iso images when it takes 5mb or so to upgrade your sources and about 3 hours to compile a new system on a fairly modern machine.
I like the BSD core team concept. You say that one of the coolest things about the linux kernel is that anyone can write code for some hardware and whatnot.
The same is true in BSD, except as other respondents have pointed out Linus' opinion is the only opinion that matters, which is (IMHO) bad.
With FreeBSD the control is spread amongst a bunch of hackers, any one of them can review and commit the patch to the CVS tree, and if you are good enough they will give you CVS commit privaledges.
In fact, if your patch is useful or fixes broken code its more likely to make it in freebsd than it is in linux, given Linus often will refuse large patches.
This is not to say that poor quality patches are accepted, its just that your work is more likely to be recognised and accepted in the BSD world than it is in the Linus world.
It appears that major revisions (point releases) to the Linux kernel are made periodically. in FreeBSD the system is routinely enhanced and modified, and everyone can get access to the committed patches with a simple cvsup.
Which is all good, except for the fact that nuclear free countries such as New Zealand have to put up with loser countries such as france sending their waste close to New Zealand
For more information go
here. Basically, New Zealand makes a point of being nuclear free, but other countries don't respect that.
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however, one of the more abstract courses I took in my undergraduate degree spent some time on critical discourse analysis which has changed the way I take in information supplied through newspapers and television.
if there is one skill that I think more people need, it is the ability to think critically. if more people thought critically we wouldn't sit back and let corporations bury the average person. we would take statements from politicians that are professionally prepared with a grain of salt and instead look for the deeper issues. it surprises me that you say
god knows that the average US student is starved of the ability to critically think.using this line of reasoning, the government and the church will then persecute us after we have become surplus.
Nik is stupid for posting a URL to an FTP server.
I thought slashdot had learnt their lesson on this one.
Can a karma whore please post the changelog so that the ftp server does not get overwhelmed from all the slashbots.
DO NOT DO THIS AGAIN
Slashdot needs more moderation options:
Score:-1 Not Likely to Have a Girlfriend
i spelt ninja wrong, it is me with the credibility issue
cowabunga dude
keep up the good work
i dont know about you, but computer illiterate people standing over me while i fix something - expecting to learn something - stresses me out big time.
if you have your KDE clock set to blink and show seconds etc, that kind of bandwidth will chew up your LAN in no time.
and as soon as you start web browsing you can kiss your LAN good bye if you have lots of clients on the same LAN.
there is a much larger cluster of linux machines going to be created care of the NSF. press release here. good day for linux!
"You can download the source here" ...
<joke>
Is this what Microsoft terms "shared source"?
if it is, we were wrong all along, they do like sharing the source.
</joke>
Granted the image searching beta is damn impressive, but if they have enough cash in the bank then why bother? They have all the respect in the world and given the state of IPOs in the past few years this is not a way to get respect.
who gave this +1 insightful
ask yourself how many web servers serve up lots and lots of images.
if you had a webfarm, you could move your images to another server (images.slashdot.org) and serve images using that and keep your perl code in an apache server (www.slashdot.org).
or simply serve the images from the kernel and pass up the dynamic requests to the userland daemon.
yeah but imagine a beowolf cluster of them
three possible explanations:
- they have a spam filter in place
- they have a microsoft exchange server somewhere
- they were too busy going through everyone else's embarassing usenet postings than to read their own email
my guess is the third oneand the worst thing is all the wasted bandwidth with people downloading iso images, despite the fact that freebsd comes with a cvsup config file for updating your system in /usr/share/examples/cvsup/stable-supfile
/ handbook/cutting-edge.html
and the handbook says how to upgrade from sources http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO_8859-1/books
i ask myself why people download 650mb iso images when it takes 5mb or so to upgrade your sources and about 3 hours to compile a new system on a fairly modern machine.
perhaps you could try using the app in wine. but most of slashdot's readers run windows anyway
I hope they're not trying to impress us with osx server - it looks like they're slashdotted...
here's a funny cartoon about the standoff
imagine how high the noise to signal ratio would be if any random person could go.
65 is a nice number, those that are there are focused on the linux kernel.
The same is true in BSD, except as other respondents have pointed out Linus' opinion is the only opinion that matters, which is (IMHO) bad.
With FreeBSD the control is spread amongst a bunch of hackers, any one of them can review and commit the patch to the CVS tree, and if you are good enough they will give you CVS commit privaledges.
In fact, if your patch is useful or fixes broken code its more likely to make it in freebsd than it is in linux, given Linus often will refuse large patches.
This is not to say that poor quality patches are accepted, its just that your work is more likely to be recognised and accepted in the BSD world than it is in the Linus world.
It appears that major revisions (point releases) to the Linux kernel are made periodically. in FreeBSD the system is routinely enhanced and modified, and everyone can get access to the committed patches with a simple cvsup.
you think mandrake is bad, they learn from the masters.
Windows 3.11 to Windows 95 a jump of 91 versions
For more information go here. Basically, New Zealand makes a point of being nuclear free, but other countries don't respect that.
i admit it
i was just trying to get moderated up for being funny
didnt work obviously, instead i showed my ignorance
its not because its old, its because it has bad attitude!
they dont make them like they used to!
Note: i think they meant to say altitude not attitude in the story...