Honestly, if this alien is from a race that has mastered intergalactic space travel, I doubt that he will care very much about our immigration laws... people will be panicking too much to really care anyway...
"Can't you see how this makes you all look like freaks to the rest of the world?!?
Go ahead, mod me down. I don't care. But this is one of the reasons the rest of the first worls looks upon America with bafflement and disbelief. "
If the rest of the world thinks America is so screwed up, then they can (1) take care of their own goddamn wars, (2) stop asking us for money, and (3) stay the fuck out of our business.
Would this tie in with mathworld? The site had to be shut down because a clause in the contract somehow gave CRC press rights to the website and not just a current snapshot of the site. More information is available on the site, especially in the faq.
I am really impressed too. Rep Boucher needs more press. He's the kind of statesman that helps me feel better about the direction of my country.
Note the use of "statesman" in the place of "politician".
I was also impressed that he said "I'll have to look into this. I don't know." instead of pretending.
Too bad he's not in my state, otherwise he'd have my vote.
I won't be satisfied until I get a permanent, wireless nic implanted into the front of my skull. Just imagine tests with that... "Damnit, google is down and I can't remember the algorithm....
I see absolutely nothing wrong with this. It's not like they're still not providing the source code, and the ability to modify it... they are also not preventing you in anyway from distributing it. They're charging for the acti of downloading a distribution they've put together. Notice too, that unlike a certain OTHER company, they actually have competitors for what is generally the same product. Now, I like free things, and I am a RH user, but it's not like you can expect RH to survive on charity. Notice, that this is completely within the spirit of opensource software. Charging for a service.
/. is a great site, and open source is wonderful, but sometimes the opensource community can be a bit whiney.... esp when no crime has been committed.
On the other hand, I do hope RH understands when I start using another distribution.:-p
my gf hates this fact because it means she doesn't get me to go window shopping and buy things impulsively
Oddly, thats a quality she likes in me. It means that we get more time in the sack.
I'll have to suggest this line of reasoning to her...:-D
I buy most of my stuff online now. It's cheaper, less crowded, and I don't have to deal with sales clerks. Some people may like the human interactionaspect of going to a store and looking at stuff, feeling it... I don't. When I buy something, I almost always know *exactly* what I'm going to buy at the store before I even head out the door (my gf hates this fact because it means she doesn't get me to go window shopping and buy things impulsively); this said, I find online shopping to be a wonderful development.
Admittedly, I still buy clothes in person... but that's just because they can't scan my body and fedex me a fitted pair of bluejeans. And my groceries too... but computer stuff, books, music, flowers... I love amazon.com and microwarehouse. Perhaps I'm an exception, but almost all my friends are the same way. I find it incredibly useful to shop around and compare items online...
yes, there are two sides to every coin. I did say that I wasn't condoning violations of huma rights, correct? The fact that people didn't speak up says to me that there is a leadership problem there.
Yes. It would be nice if you civilians and politicians decided to learn from history. Everytime there's a scuffle in the world and people call on the military to go exert their muscle it seems that the consequences are never thought through. Witness Somalia, Yugoslavia, Iraq, etc. Ofcourse, when people DO start dying, then the military gets slapped for being rough. Witness the case in Yugoslavia where 82nd Airborne soldiers were told not to act so soldierly after minorly roughing a person they were interrogating regarding KLA actions. I'm not going to say that the military should be allowed to commit war crimes; however, realize that the military should be the absolute last resort...and only when the consequences of people, possibly innocents, dying or getting hurt, are accepted. This weapon was developed in part because it was felt that tear-gas and rubber bullets were "too harsh"... I'm sorry, but I hope the American people wake the fuck up soon. The military is meant for waging war; not domestic disputes or minor scuffles. People die when the military is used. Perhaps video games do desensitize people to violence. It seems that Americans are all too willing to use the military for everything but then throw a fit when people actually start getting hurt.
I am a geek and have a social life... why, for valentine's day, I bought my gf some new ram and we went to the local computer shack here to browse the hardware selection. On normal days, we walk hand-in-hand looking at eachother's palm(pilots)... We go out quite a bit... to the local cybercafe so we can surf the net in a different atmosphere.
I noticed it too when I graduated... my class was always considered to be the best to have ever gone through the school system. It showed in the numbers too... a couple of people at my school got 1600 on the SATI. But the classes that came up after us were horrible... one of them set the building on fire and others picked fights with a number of seniors.
As to seniors failing basic skills... that's a failure of the school system and the parents and I would say society at large... I mean, look at how little basic skills are emphasized in our culture! Now, it is more important that students feel good, enjoy school, and think differently... sure, that stuff is important, once you get the basics out of the way... reading, writing, and 'rithemtic still form the core of society's knowledge, however painful it was to learn it. I hated school but I accepted that it was something I needed to go through to succeed in life. It gave me a foundation from which I could do things that I actually enjoy... like program computers and write nice little essays like this.:-)
I can remember studying analogies in grade school for maybe 30 minutes a week... and only for a couple weeks at a time... in other words... it wasn't that intense... I rather enjoyed them because they were easy and a break from the rest of the crap that we had to learn.
I don't think the tests are worthless. Granted, they gauge a very limited area of knowledge and are not be all and end all evaluations of intelligence. I think eliminating the SATs entirely is a mistake. They should include other tests in other subjects as well as other types of testing rather than "multiple guess". This will allow universities and colleges to get rough assessments of a person quickly while giving students who may not perform very well in certain conditions the opportunity to demonstrate that they can excel in other situations.
emacs with vm, bbdb, w3, and mailvrypt all the way.:-)
My rationale? Yeah, the gui is nice, but I can make it work the way I want it to with a few lines of lisp. Plus, I needed a mail client that works for both windows and linux, since I dual boot. So I have vm running in both, and I create a symlink to my mail directory in windows so I use the same mailfiles and configuration files...works great! In addition, I set it up so that bbdb uses the same address file in both operating systems...
admittedly, this might be a little much for some people.... the interface to vm and bbdb takes some getting used to...
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Is he communist or capitalist? :-D
Honestly, if this alien is from a race that has mastered intergalactic space travel, I doubt that he will care very much about our immigration laws... people will be panicking too much to really care anyway...
Yes, one is next to zero... see:
012345
^^
1 is next to zero.
badumpsshhh... (rimshot)
I've been running 2.4.0 since it came out... I've had next to zero problems with it.
They do have a niche to exploit... "stupid people"
I used that site everday for research purposes... to double check theorems and stuff... I was rather pissed off myself.
"Can't you see how this makes you all look like freaks to the rest of the world?!?
Go ahead, mod me down. I don't care. But this is one of the reasons the rest of the first worls looks upon America with bafflement and disbelief. "
If the rest of the world thinks America is so screwed up, then they can (1) take care of their own goddamn wars, (2) stop asking us for money, and (3) stay the fuck out of our business.
Would this tie in with mathworld? The site had to be shut down because a clause in the contract somehow gave CRC press rights to the website and not just a current snapshot of the site. More information is available on the site, especially in the faq.
I am really impressed too. Rep Boucher needs more press. He's the kind of statesman that helps me feel better about the direction of my country. Note the use of "statesman" in the place of "politician". I was also impressed that he said "I'll have to look into this. I don't know." instead of pretending. Too bad he's not in my state, otherwise he'd have my vote.
I won't be satisfied until I get a permanent, wireless nic implanted into the front of my skull. Just imagine tests with that... "Damnit, google is down and I can't remember the algorithm....
Interesting that they call it a "major design win"...
I see absolutely nothing wrong with this. It's not like they're still not providing the source code, and the ability to modify it... they are also not preventing you in anyway from distributing it. They're charging for the acti of downloading a distribution they've put together. Notice too, that unlike a certain OTHER company, they actually have competitors for what is generally the same product. Now, I like free things, and I am a RH user, but it's not like you can expect RH to survive on charity. Notice, that this is completely within the spirit of opensource software. Charging for a service.
:-p
/. is a great site, and open source is wonderful, but sometimes the opensource community can be a bit whiney.... esp when no crime has been committed.
On the other hand, I do hope RH understands when I start using another distribution.
my gf hates this fact because it means she doesn't get me to go window shopping and buy things impulsively
:-D
Oddly, thats a quality she likes in me. It means that we get more time in the sack.
I'll have to suggest this line of reasoning to her...
I buy most of my stuff online now. It's cheaper, less crowded, and I don't have to deal with sales clerks. Some people may like the human interactionaspect of going to a store and looking at stuff, feeling it... I don't. When I buy something, I almost always know *exactly* what I'm going to buy at the store before I even head out the door (my gf hates this fact because it means she doesn't get me to go window shopping and buy things impulsively); this said, I find online shopping to be a wonderful development.
Admittedly, I still buy clothes in person... but that's just because they can't scan my body and fedex me a fitted pair of bluejeans. And my groceries too... but computer stuff, books, music, flowers... I love amazon.com and microwarehouse. Perhaps I'm an exception, but almost all my friends are the same way. I find it incredibly useful to shop around and compare items online...
Oh yeah, and airline tickets.
You need it to be attached to an atomic radiation source.
If you had read the article, you would have seen the obvious connotations of Tycho and Gabes' sexual preferences.
yes, there are two sides to every coin. I did say that I wasn't condoning violations of huma rights, correct? The fact that people didn't speak up says to me that there is a leadership problem there.
Yes. It would be nice if you civilians and politicians decided to learn from history. Everytime there's a scuffle in the world and people call on the military to go exert their muscle it seems that the consequences are never thought through. Witness Somalia, Yugoslavia, Iraq, etc. Ofcourse, when people DO start dying, then the military gets slapped for being rough. Witness the case in Yugoslavia where 82nd Airborne soldiers were told not to act so soldierly after minorly roughing a person they were interrogating regarding KLA actions. I'm not going to say that the military should be allowed to commit war crimes; however, realize that the military should be the absolute last resort...and only when the consequences of people, possibly innocents, dying or getting hurt, are accepted. This weapon was developed in part because it was felt that tear-gas and rubber bullets were "too harsh"... I'm sorry, but I hope the American people wake the fuck up soon. The military is meant for waging war; not domestic disputes or minor scuffles. People die when the military is used. Perhaps video games do desensitize people to violence. It seems that Americans are all too willing to use the military for everything but then throw a fit when people actually start getting hurt.
Had to get that out.
what's the use of college when you've got /.? :-)
I am a geek and have a social life... why, for valentine's day, I bought my gf some new ram and we went to the local computer shack here to browse the hardware selection. On normal days, we walk hand-in-hand looking at eachother's palm(pilots)... We go out quite a bit... to the local cybercafe so we can surf the net in a different atmosphere.
ok. I'm getting ridiculous--nevermind.
I noticed it too when I graduated... my class was always considered to be the best to have ever gone through the school system. It showed in the numbers too... a couple of people at my school got 1600 on the SATI. But the classes that came up after us were horrible... one of them set the building on fire and others picked fights with a number of seniors.
:-)
As to seniors failing basic skills... that's a failure of the school system and the parents and I would say society at large... I mean, look at how little basic skills are emphasized in our culture! Now, it is more important that students feel good, enjoy school, and think differently... sure, that stuff is important, once you get the basics out of the way... reading, writing, and 'rithemtic still form the core of society's knowledge, however painful it was to learn it. I hated school but I accepted that it was something I needed to go through to succeed in life. It gave me a foundation from which I could do things that I actually enjoy... like program computers and write nice little essays like this.
I can remember studying analogies in grade school for maybe 30 minutes a week... and only for a couple weeks at a time... in other words... it wasn't that intense... I rather enjoyed them because they were easy and a break from the rest of the crap that we had to learn.
I don't think the tests are worthless. Granted, they gauge a very limited area of knowledge and are not be all and end all evaluations of intelligence. I think eliminating the SATs entirely is a mistake. They should include other tests in other subjects as well as other types of testing rather than "multiple guess". This will allow universities and colleges to get rough assessments of a person quickly while giving students who may not perform very well in certain conditions the opportunity to demonstrate that they can excel in other situations.
emacs with vm, bbdb, w3, and mailvrypt all the way. :-)
My rationale? Yeah, the gui is nice, but I can make it work the way I want it to with a few lines of lisp. Plus, I needed a mail client that works for both windows and linux, since I dual boot. So I have vm running in both, and I create a symlink to my mail directory in windows so I use the same mailfiles and configuration files...works great! In addition, I set it up so that bbdb uses the same address file in both operating systems...
admittedly, this might be a little much for some people.... the interface to vm and bbdb takes some getting used to...
The subject says it all... you'll never find a completely bias free source of news... slashdot is no exception.
CNN and NPR aren't much better. :-)