What we have to remember is that Clarke doesn't write about things where the emotional lives of the (human) characters are very important. So it's a damn good thing that he doesn't clutter the book with it. Herman Hesse writes about almost nothing _but_ the characters' emotions which is good too, for the same reason.
Our schools are engaged in an intensive effort to weed out geeks and outcasts.
Conspiracy bullshit.
Geeks get a hard time sinc they are different and kids are cruel. I have never been picked on by an for being nerdy. And now that I am older, my peers don't do it either (because they are also older too.)
The whole point of Cathedral and The Bazaar was that it was advocating not just _free_ s/w devel, but _bazaar_mode_. This is NOT a GNU Idea. Linux-kernel is bazaar mode, HURD is (was?) not. EGCS bazzar is GCC was not.
Every so often I here one of those can-only-happen-in-america stories about Unis. A course in: Surfing Computer games Something I forget and now Sci Fi and they keep happening in BRITAIN? Something specific in the system there? I mean all around the western world we are getting soft-option degrees, but I thought that was what arts departments are for. Sci-Fi is much cooler.
"what are those guys independent of?" Mainstream politicians aren't looking to force censorship down our throats, i t's the independent. On the other hand the leaders of the government and opposition are both family-values type conservatives so they don't see it as a great tragedy.
This is true, (it's probably more like going into single-user mode and then comming straigt back up). But I think the point was that it was a trick for restarting windows quickly. So, depending on how you use linux, this trick is _functionally_equivilent_ to restarting X, because it takes about the same time.
Linux _has_ an advantage for people who do a lot of their work from the console though. (Like me).
When I started programming, it was with IDE's. I couldn't imagine vanila text editors being much fun. Then one day I decided I had to use DOS instead of Windows for this Project. My IDE was windows only.
So I found me a nice programmer's editor, wrote and a makefile. And I found it no less efficient. Now under linux I don't even need a powerful editor.
I have been told that modern GUI's give better milage than my old one (Borland 4.0). But at the end of the day productivity improments come from good code, good languages, and most improtantly good APIs.
I think the problem is that even though v2.0->2.2 might have been a big enough increment to warrant a new major number, that would have seemed evil, so it only got the minor. In effect we have the opposite problem: Linux version numbers are misleading because they are too timid.
Well I suppose what you want to do is reflect the radiation. But the fraction of radiation getting out would be approx. proportional to the %area of the mesh which is sold.
Brin doesn't like Supermen because they have no place (in that form) in a civilized society (as we know it) and that SW indirectly glorifies fascist Ideals. From the point of view sci-fi he is right, sci-fi when it deals with human issues at all, tends to be political and should not glorify Nietzscherism. (Unless you are a Nietzscherist, more on that later).
But Lucas is more a purveyor of fantasy, aka sword & sourcery. (Hence the swords and sourcery in SW). This is all about primitive, romantic tales. They are based loosely on myth, Authur, Siegfried, Rama etc. These tales don't espouse good social policy, but the social policy aspect of fantasy is much weaker than in hard SF, so it should be forgiven.
So SW is great as a (rather childish) fantasy set in high-tech world. Where it falls down is when it tries a on bit of the hard-SF. Brin is right about the Midichloreans, that are pretty lame. Worse, the film won't stick by its fascism. Instead it pushes a democracy which it doesn't really have the temprament for. Most telling is that Amadahla hand to be elected, but she ALSO had to be a Queen.
I suspect this blind attchment to democracy (in word if not in deed) is a sign or American jingoism. (No offence to America here, Democracy is a damn good thing to be jingoistic about).
I don't walk into starwars movies thinking too hard. About 3/4 of the way through the movie, this occurred to me and I actually hand to reason it out.
It's not as if it wasn't obvious, but I'd got myself into such a "dummed down" mood that I didn't bother with such analasyes. So I puroposly missed a lot of stupid things about the film.
No joke. When I started with linux I couldn't AFFORD anything nonfree. It was either windows or any free unix I had heard of. That unix was linux.
Better, each time I need (or want) just about any piece of software, I can just grab it no fuss, and no shareware bullshit. BeOS might be nice, but it doesn't give people this kind of thing in such quantity.
BTW: Everyone who has package made by a third party like RedHat has benifited from open source.
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What we have to remember is that Clarke doesn't
write about things where the emotional lives of
the (human) characters are very important. So
it's a damn good thing that he doesn't clutter
the book with it. Herman Hesse writes about
almost nothing _but_ the characters' emotions
which is good too, for the same reason.
Our schools are engaged in an intensive effort to weed out geeks and outcasts.
Conspiracy bullshit.
Geeks get a hard time sinc they are different and kids are cruel. I have never been picked on by an for being nerdy. And now that I am older, my peers don't do it either (because they are also older too.)
The whole point of Cathedral and The Bazaar was
that it was advocating not just _free_ s/w devel,
but _bazaar_mode_. This is NOT a GNU Idea.
Linux-kernel is bazaar mode, HURD is (was?) not.
EGCS bazzar is GCC was not.
Every so often I here one of those
can-only-happen-in-america stories about Unis.
A course in:
Surfing
Computer games
Something I forget
and now Sci Fi
and they keep happening in BRITAIN? Something
specific in the system there? I mean all around
the western world we are getting soft-option
degrees, but I thought that was what arts
departments are for. Sci-Fi is much cooler.
"what are those guys independent of?"
Mainstream politicians aren't looking
to force censorship down our throats, i
t's the independent. On the other hand
the leaders of the government and opposition
are both family-values type conservatives
so they don't see it as a great tragedy.
And besides, its only nerds like us who care.
This is true, (it's probably more like going
into single-user mode and then comming straigt
back up). But I think the point was that
it was a trick for restarting windows quickly.
So, depending on how you use linux, this
trick is _functionally_equivilent_ to restarting
X, because it takes about the same time.
Linux _has_ an advantage for people who do
a lot of their work from the console though.
(Like me).
Nuff said.
From what I can tell, the NT kernel sounds
pretty cool (I'm no expert). But if you
want a kernel that is modern and full of
bugs, go the HURD.
I use vim, but I still use multiple xterms
(or VTs). I just find it easier that way.
When I started programming, it was with IDE's.
I couldn't imagine vanila text editors being
much fun. Then one day I decided I had to
use DOS instead of Windows for this Project.
My IDE was windows only.
So I found me a nice programmer's editor,
wrote and a makefile. And I found it no
less efficient. Now under linux I don't
even need a powerful editor.
I have been told that modern GUI's give
better milage than my old one (Borland 4.0).
But at the end of the day productivity
improments come from good code, good languages,
and most improtantly good APIs.
I think the problem is that even though
v2.0->2.2 might have been a big enough
increment to warrant a new major number,
that would have seemed evil, so it only
got the minor. In effect we have the
opposite problem: Linux version numbers
are misleading because they are too timid.
Anyway a fast release cycle is the real fix.
Well I suppose what you want to do is reflect
the radiation. But the fraction of radiation
getting out would be approx. proportional
to the %area of the mesh which is sold.
Hmm, I wonder what the diffraction effects do?
Brin doesn't like Supermen because they have
no place (in that form) in a civilized society
(as we know it) and that SW indirectly glorifies
fascist Ideals. From the point of view
sci-fi he is right, sci-fi when it deals
with human issues at all, tends to be political
and should not glorify Nietzscherism. (Unless
you are a Nietzscherist, more on that later).
But Lucas is more a purveyor of fantasy,
aka sword & sourcery. (Hence the swords and
sourcery in SW). This is all about primitive,
romantic tales. They are based loosely on
myth, Authur, Siegfried, Rama etc. These tales
don't espouse good social policy, but the social
policy aspect of fantasy is much weaker than
in hard SF, so it should be forgiven.
So SW is great as a (rather childish) fantasy
set in high-tech world. Where it falls down
is when it tries a on bit of the hard-SF.
Brin is right about the Midichloreans, that
are pretty lame. Worse, the film won't stick
by its fascism. Instead it pushes a democracy
which it doesn't really have the temprament
for. Most telling is that Amadahla hand to
be elected, but she ALSO had to be a Queen.
I suspect this blind attchment to democracy
(in word if not in deed) is a sign or American
jingoism. (No offence to America here,
Democracy is a damn good thing to be jingoistic
about).
I don't walk into starwars movies thinking
too hard. About 3/4 of the way through
the movie, this occurred to me and I actually
hand to reason it out.
It's not as if it wasn't obvious, but I'd got
myself into such a "dummed down" mood that
I didn't bother with such analasyes. So I
puroposly missed a lot of stupid things about
the film.
ONE user.
But you are right. Old fashioned virii
piggypacked off executables, so it couldn't
breed if it only had access to user files.
Not anymore.
No joke. When I started with linux I
couldn't AFFORD anything nonfree. It
was either windows or any free unix I
had heard of. That unix was linux.
Better, each time I need (or want) just
about any piece of software, I can just
grab it no fuss, and no shareware bullshit.
BeOS might be nice, but it doesn't give people
this kind of thing in such quantity.
BTW: Everyone who has package made by a third
party like RedHat has benifited from open
source.
Here in Australia, it is already well past
midday. So on this side of the planet, foolsters
loose.