The brits run their nukular submarines on windows for some years now. http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Submarines-Windows-Royal-Navy,6718.html I wonder which would be worse, greenpeace rooting a tanker or a nukesub taking a core dump? The end is nigh, but then I guess this world has bigger problems to ignore right now. Lets just push that big red button to get it over with:)
The difference between old and young scientists is experience and knowledge. Because of these, the old have a cognitive bias against new information, and the young have a bias against old information. So of course it is easier for the young to think of new ways of doing things. But let's not forget that the old ways are not just random, they have reason and meaning. So the conservative says 'we will not tolerate you fucking up this shit' and the liberal says 'we will not tolerate your fucked up shit'. Both have their point, but how it actually should work out is dependent on the exact matter at hand. If the modern corporation wants to replace people, it should have a clear idea what problem it is trying to solve. The current submission seems to be about using Kuhn to justify getting rid of experienced people for the short-term benefit on the bottom line. This is just plain doing it wrong. By the practical effect, I would call it in-house outsourcing.
Arduino makes electronics and programming simple. Cheap chinese toys provide you with part( set)s like motors, gears and radio links, with the additional engineering tricks to observe. Regular Lego parts provide you with fast no-brainer mechanics. Fear not the drilling and abusing of Lego blocks to mount that motor! The hard part now is for them to come up with ideas and interest.
No amount of rules will ever be enough. Rules are about modelling the world, but no model, being a simplification, will ever be able to represent the complexity of the world. No matter the quantity or quality of the rules, the robots will sooner or later arrive at a conflict, ambiguity or a plot device. This of course also happens just the same in ethics and philosophy. Thus it becomes that intelligence is as much about creating as it is about breaking the rules.
Now the interesting thing in (Asimov's) robots is the externalization of our rule-based actions. All the time we outsource our decisions to some rule system. Mostly it is just common sense to do so, because nobody can be expected to exhaust every single decision - otherwise we wouldn't get very far. But by doing so, we put our trust in the system, and whet it takes a core dump, someone is fscked. Who is now responsible, the rulemaker or the rulefollower? By taking a mechanism of our human being and giving it a life of it's own, Asimov uses the robots to show us the Gordian knot of all civilization - the need for a justified trust in the other.
Middle East and Africa did protest about same reasons as Russians - more democracy, more delivering on results, more caring about nation
Actually these three reasons are exactly behind the different western protests too. It is just that the lack of democracy, results and caring manifest themselves somewhat different in different places because of the local historical urandom. Without going too deep on the matter, I personally do not think that capitalism or any system is particularly flawed, other than the fact that any system is blind to some problems. What you end up with depends on the people who make decisions, and we are yet to discover a way to guarantee the decision-makers good will and caring. So this far it has always ended with revolutions and civil wars, with the possible end of a culture in the process. What makes me awe is the fact that connecting on the internet, the whole world seems to call bullshit on the government at the same time. What a platform we geeks have built. Makes me wonder where it all will end...
Russians are on the street protesting. Americans are on the street protesting. Europeans are on the street protesting. The middle east is on the street protesting. Africa is on the street protesting. Dose anyone know a place where people are actually happy with their government?
Sony says this is both for security reasons and to ensure a consistent experience for all users
Actually it even says right there - they want to secure a consistent revenue stream from all users. Imagine what would happen when an user only spent money once...
Well the scientific world usually neglects correlations without a plausible causation. The disbelief that science has had towards the stories stems from, I believe, the fact that not every story can be taken on face value. Our thinking tradition with it's platonic roots has much trouble accepting non-formalised discoure. But what _we_ have as formalised science, literature, psychology, history, 'old wives' have all as stories. What I would like to see is this frog story being a part of a movement to look into the correlations in all those old-wives stories, fairy tales and words of wisdom. For the thing is, these stories are what kept people alive and kicking for thousands of years, and this means they create a lot more profit than loss. If the japanese say that frogs or eels know earthquakes, I'd look into it. Who else should know better about earthquakes than the old japanese, who had to survive before quakeproof houses? The old wives tales are a product of evolution by trial-and-error. It has made progress by saving/taking, making/ruining lives. The fact that it was what spawned science already speaks of it's prowess. It should be time for science to listen to it's father again.
The UN is not some world government for some happy hippie peace dream. It is a machine to legitimize the ends and means of select superpowers. You certainly do not want any of them to have power over the internet.
Of course such thing can not exist, if you are to mean 100% certain by 'true'. But nothing for the human being is 100% certain, for we gather knowledge by observation and induction, both of which have their limits. Then it makes sense to rethink what is the purpose of the word 'true'. Something in the lines of 'beyond reasonable doubt, YMMV'.
Software should prevent people, including even the most experienced admins, from making such mistakes. The fact that it's possible to make such a mistake is a flaw in the software.
Thin ice here... The unix world seems to think, and usually it is the case, that by preventing the user from doing stupid things, you also prevent him from doing clever things. Yes there are exceptions, but it is important on which side you default.
I'll never understand why they killed their most visible, most recognised brand.
For me that hasn't been much of a question. For what I gather, the Intel brand is way stronger than the Pentium brand. You don't buy Pentium or Core, you buy Intel. Their changing the processor name only signifies that they are moving forward (and leading) as usual.
We need to look into the future or it will bite us... What will happen after Firefox 95? Will it be Firefox 98 or Firefox NT? Will there be a Firefox XP? Okay, no one will bother with Firefox Vista, but when Firefox 7 comes out, I will give up on computing.
These strange days we witness too much change for change's sake. We geeks see many of our favourites ruined by the poisoned marketing idea that you have to put out something new every once in a while. A change is supposed to be about doing something better, not just different. Fixing what ain't broken is like the evolution: 1% for the better, 9% for no difference and 90% plain suffering.
What's up with that ajax crap? All the rage these days. Remember back in the beginning ajax made browsing FASTER. Now if your ajax takes longer to compute a change to the current page than it takes to fetch a whole new page, you are doing it wrong. If you want to update the looks/feel of the page, just replace the freakin css. No reason to go all 'lets rebuild from scratch using the latest tech fad'. Geeks are a conservative people, they don't like fads in things they depend on. Fads only belong to tech toys and expos and the like.
Slashdot already has everything about right. If something is broken, think, ask slashdot, fix it. Most important, be clear at what you aim for. If all is well and you still have some idle time or hands, get a hobby, treat your wife, plant a tree. Slashdot is not supposed to be the unstable branch of the internet. Let someone else piss of their users.
This is the classic labels versus icons debate, as witnessed in late gnome 2 for example. Some people prefer labels and some prefer icons, This depends on whether you're primarily a verbal or a visual guy/gal.
Also they work differently depending on whether you're accustomed to the menu at hand. Labels are better when you are in an unfamiliar menu, they communicate new meaning more precisely. Icons are better in an already familiar menu, they communicate known meaning faster.
As a car analogy, try to replace traffic signs with excerpts from the traffic law. Or try to replace the traffic law with diagrams. Both have their places, and only your user knows which is which. So you have to give him both.
Slashdot Mirror
I, for one, have great trouble believing there has ever been a war for morality.
So you mean clothes that would actively keep you warm? It's only a northern thong:)
The brits run their nukular submarines on windows for some years now. http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Submarines-Windows-Royal-Navy,6718.html
I wonder which would be worse, greenpeace rooting a tanker or a nukesub taking a core dump? The end is nigh, but then I guess this world has bigger problems to ignore right now. Lets just push that big red button to get it over with:)
The difference between old and young scientists is experience and knowledge. Because of these, the old have a cognitive bias against new information, and the young have a bias against old information. So of course it is easier for the young to think of new ways of doing things. But let's not forget that the old ways are not just random, they have reason and meaning.
So the conservative says 'we will not tolerate you fucking up this shit' and the liberal says 'we will not tolerate your fucked up shit'. Both have their point, but how it actually should work out is dependent on the exact matter at hand. If the modern corporation wants to replace people, it should have a clear idea what problem it is trying to solve. The current submission seems to be about using Kuhn to justify getting rid of experienced people for the short-term benefit on the bottom line. This is just plain doing it wrong. By the practical effect, I would call it in-house outsourcing.
Arduino makes electronics and programming simple.
Cheap chinese toys provide you with part( set)s like motors, gears and radio links, with the additional engineering tricks to observe.
Regular Lego parts provide you with fast no-brainer mechanics. Fear not the drilling and abusing of Lego blocks to mount that motor!
The hard part now is for them to come up with ideas and interest.
the 3 rules were not enough.
No amount of rules will ever be enough. Rules are about modelling the world, but no model, being a simplification, will ever be able to represent the complexity of the world. No matter the quantity or quality of the rules, the robots will sooner or later arrive at a conflict, ambiguity or a plot device. This of course also happens just the same in ethics and philosophy. Thus it becomes that intelligence is as much about creating as it is about breaking the rules.
Now the interesting thing in (Asimov's) robots is the externalization of our rule-based actions. All the time we outsource our decisions to some rule system. Mostly it is just common sense to do so, because nobody can be expected to exhaust every single decision - otherwise we wouldn't get very far. But by doing so, we put our trust in the system, and whet it takes a core dump, someone is fscked. Who is now responsible, the rulemaker or the rulefollower? By taking a mechanism of our human being and giving it a life of it's own, Asimov uses the robots to show us the Gordian knot of all civilization - the need for a justified trust in the other.
Middle East and Africa did protest about same reasons as Russians - more democracy, more delivering on results, more caring about nation
Actually these three reasons are exactly behind the different western protests too. It is just that the lack of democracy, results and caring manifest themselves somewhat different in different places because of the local historical urandom.
Without going too deep on the matter, I personally do not think that capitalism or any system is particularly flawed, other than the fact that any system is blind to some problems. What you end up with depends on the people who make decisions, and we are yet to discover a way to guarantee the decision-makers good will and caring. So this far it has always ended with revolutions and civil wars, with the possible end of a culture in the process.
What makes me awe is the fact that connecting on the internet, the whole world seems to call bullshit on the government at the same time. What a platform we geeks have built. Makes me wonder where it all will end...
Russians are on the street protesting.
Americans are on the street protesting.
Europeans are on the street protesting.
The middle east is on the street protesting.
Africa is on the street protesting.
Dose anyone know a place where people are actually happy with their government?
Sony says this is both for security reasons and to ensure a consistent experience for all users
Actually it even says right there - they want to secure a consistent revenue stream from all users. Imagine what would happen when an user only spent money once...
Well the scientific world usually neglects correlations without a plausible causation. The disbelief that science has had towards the stories stems from, I believe, the fact that not every story can be taken on face value. Our thinking tradition with it's platonic roots has much trouble accepting non-formalised discoure. But what _we_ have as formalised science, literature, psychology, history, 'old wives' have all as stories.
What I would like to see is this frog story being a part of a movement to look into the correlations in all those old-wives stories, fairy tales and words of wisdom. For the thing is, these stories are what kept people alive and kicking for thousands of years, and this means they create a lot more profit than loss. If the japanese say that frogs or eels know earthquakes, I'd look into it. Who else should know better about earthquakes than the old japanese, who had to survive before quakeproof houses?
The old wives tales are a product of evolution by trial-and-error. It has made progress by saving/taking, making/ruining lives. The fact that it was what spawned science already speaks of it's prowess. It should be time for science to listen to it's father again.
The UN is not some world government for some happy hippie peace dream. It is a machine to legitimize the ends and means of select superpowers. You certainly do not want any of them to have power over the internet.
Of course such thing can not exist, if you are to mean 100% certain by 'true'. But nothing for the human being is 100% certain, for we gather knowledge by observation and induction, both of which have their limits. Then it makes sense to rethink what is the purpose of the word 'true'. Something in the lines of 'beyond reasonable doubt, YMMV'.
Software should prevent people, including even the most experienced admins, from making such mistakes. The fact that it's possible to make such a mistake is a flaw in the software.
Thin ice here... The unix world seems to think, and usually it is the case, that by preventing the user from doing stupid things, you also prevent him from doing clever things. Yes there are exceptions, but it is important on which side you default.
bits have no colour!
I'll never understand why they killed their most visible, most recognised brand.
For me that hasn't been much of a question. For what I gather, the Intel brand is way stronger than the Pentium brand. You don't buy Pentium or Core, you buy Intel. Their changing the processor name only signifies that they are moving forward (and leading) as usual.
...what happens when this super slippery meets that super sticky gecko tape http://science.slashdot.org/story/11/11/07/1615221/gecko-inspired-tape-can-be-reused-thousands-of-times. Logic bomb?
We need to look into the future or it will bite us...
What will happen after Firefox 95? Will it be Firefox 98 or Firefox NT? Will there be a Firefox XP? Okay, no one will bother with Firefox Vista, but when Firefox 7 comes out, I will give up on computing.
Colbert 6000
Do you have any idea how many billions of lines of C code are running in the world
I also have no idea how many billions of lines of C code are running the world.
These strange days we witness too much change for change's sake. We geeks see many of our favourites ruined by the poisoned marketing idea that you have to put out something new every once in a while. A change is supposed to be about doing something better, not just different. Fixing what ain't broken is like the evolution: 1% for the better, 9% for no difference and 90% plain suffering.
What's up with that ajax crap? All the rage these days. Remember back in the beginning ajax made browsing FASTER. Now if your ajax takes longer to compute a change to the current page than it takes to fetch a whole new page, you are doing it wrong. If you want to update the looks/feel of the page, just replace the freakin css. No reason to go all 'lets rebuild from scratch using the latest tech fad'. Geeks are a conservative people, they don't like fads in things they depend on. Fads only belong to tech toys and expos and the like.
Slashdot already has everything about right. If something is broken, think, ask slashdot, fix it. Most important, be clear at what you aim for. If all is well and you still have some idle time or hands, get a hobby, treat your wife, plant a tree. Slashdot is not supposed to be the unstable branch of the internet. Let someone else piss of their users.
This is the classic labels versus icons debate, as witnessed in late gnome 2 for example. Some people prefer labels and some prefer icons, This depends on whether you're primarily a verbal or a visual guy/gal.
Also they work differently depending on whether you're accustomed to the menu at hand. Labels are better when you are in an unfamiliar menu, they communicate new meaning more precisely. Icons are better in an already familiar menu, they communicate known meaning faster.
As a car analogy, try to replace traffic signs with excerpts from the traffic law. Or try to replace the traffic law with diagrams. Both have their places, and only your user knows which is which. So you have to give him both.
On second thoughts, make that:
Dkleinsc the Stripling St:03 Dx:05 Co:10 In:12 Wi:14 Ch:01
Dlvl:1 $:2000 HP:10(10) PW:0(0) AC:10 SEx:0
The arabs have south facing upwards on the maps, had it that way long before we even dreamed of maps.
...they called it the Arab spring...
Speaking of which... what are people recommending for actually dealing with this sort of stuff...?
Isn't it obvious? The next version of Kaspersky of course!