right i fully agree, i suggest the computer geek community give up on the term 'hackers' and start seeking a new term that pops when you think of enthusiastic and clever geeks. I nominate 'the mighty ducks'.
Most recent sci-fi films, animated or otherwise, including the Mother Movie (Star Wars) construct their films around the premise that in the future there is a technologically advanced, demonic alien culture out there which has ravaged our planet; loathes humanity and is determined to wipe us out for murky reasons in the most vicious possible way at all costs.
alright i don't think you've ever watched star wars in your life! please tell me what "a long time ago in a galaxy far far away" means to you. shit even a 7 year old would understand it's not in the future. @#$%ing humans aren't even in the movie!!!!
and the whole friggin review is based on how the storyline sucked... shit that wouldn't matter if it's done right! how many video games are based on the same storyline? millions, yet we still love games like starcraft. why? cause it's a damn good game.
How the hell do you know Grandma's not a hacker? This is stereotyping all Grandmothers out there. As i type this there is probably hundreds of Grandma hackers out there coding C and hacking perl. Do you think you're better than they are? You think all Grandma does is neat sweaters? How would you like it when you're 85 and your grandson is out there claiming Grandpa's useless?
An IDE is just a tool like the graphing calculator. Does it matter which mathematican uses which texas instrument calculator? no. Of course it's nice to be able to find the definite intergral in a press of a button but it's not really making much of a difference to anyone who knows what they're doing. And anyone who learns math through a calculator will have problems showing their work on the blackboard, but anyone that learned math the old way wouldn't have problems learning a calculator. Do calculators replace the blackboard? no. Do blackboards make calculators unnecessary? no.
dude i think you're way off! Because this is Microsoft they probably would just release the source to it's API. And all they're doing is allowing people to see the source not copy or modify it. So it isn't true open source in the first place.
Plus releasing Windows source code could give open source a bad name. Because Microsoft wouldn't have the benefit of public feedback and bug fixes, releasing the source would only encourage scriptkiddies to start exploiting the bugs and security problems in windows. Then Joe Schmoe will think shit since opening windows source create more viruses and security exploites then everything else that released it's source code is a security hazard.
hey what comes around, goes around. someone should publish the same kind of flamebait attacking zdnet and the writter. showing the same courtesy they showed to the open source community. with the same lack of research and lack of reference (a perfect job for someone like Jon Katz). at some point making personal attacks to the author of the article and multiple references to his mom.
like any good system admin we should plan well before making any configuration to the system. Trail and error is not an option for experimenting with humans (stole that one from another post). what if we modify our genome and somehow end up like some zombie race like the borg? and try to completely assimulate others because we think that the modify version of humans are better than the old version.
and how do you define what is human? would future generations see themselves as superior to humans? will we see the extinction of humans and from the ashes a new breed of intelligent creatures?
there will of course be non stop religious debate over the use of this technology. stuff like "if we modify ourselves we will be messing with the devine image of god" or something like that. but soon enough people will start accepting the use of this technolgy.
will any of the "super humans" have psychological effects from being severed from their race? would they wonder about what they would of been if they were not breed to be good at a particular task? will geniuses still be admired for their talents or will they be used for experimentation to impove the techniques for increasing intelliect?
it's interesting that a slashdot reader asking to be enlightened about the facts of genetic-engineering ended up getting nothing but philosophical ideas about the future. i guess not much people on slashdot knows about biology. if anybody knows the techniques used for genetic research and ideas about HOW modifying genes is done i'd like to hear it.
yeah and the academic solution to everything is to work hard and study hard. how has that worked out? how many geniuses is produced as opposed to trained monkeys we call experts? in the recent john carmack interview posted on slashdot he summed things up pretty well. if you're going to a university just because you want to get a degree and find a job then that's probably the wrong reasond to be there.
according to the jargon files i suffer from prolonged BASIC exposure! Curse that blasted high school and their required courses! please! somebody, anybody. recommend treatment to reverse the effects. I don't want to live like this!
it seems to me that Bob Metcalfe is thinking in terms of some king of open source red scare. He thinks that all open source advocates are mindless followers of a cult whose idea is that everything should be open source and free.
I admit that sometimes the open source public goes too far like the flame wars against whether the BSD license should be considered open source.
The truth is (and even some people who embrace the open source ideals sometimes needs to be reminded of this) that proprietary software (windows) is not hated just for the sake of being proprietary. we hate it because we're paying money for something that the developer sees not need to improve. why pay for a new version of something if all the developer the did was inflate the version number and shove the same piece of crap into a new box? futhermore proprietors attempts to change the standards (ie: IE) so that their competition can't keep up. while sometimes imposing proprietary standards on software improves it's quality, it is unfair to their competition.
the idea of linux being easier to use than windows is not laughable. linux and unix in general was designed to be efficent. like the article says aol was designed to be easy to learn not easy to use and linux is just the opposite. an interface like dselect is quite intimidating to a newbie but after reading the 4 page doc on it, you'll find that its quite efficent and ingenius in design. the design allows for people to get their job done fast (all they have to know is how to use the design).
linux has lots of "superior" application to windows. ofcourse this depends on what you consider to be superior. because most applications for linux are open source projects, the developers think in terms of how they can get the job done best rather than how they can make the apps look pretty. someone who knows how to use vi well can develop much faster than someone who's using an ide.
1. Issac Newton (creator of physics) 2. Albert Einstein (the man to revolutionize physics) 3. George Bernhard Riemann (you try to think beyond 3 dimentions and prove it) 4. Alan Turing
i have a problem just waiting for a post with 200 comments attached to it to load! Who has time to read every comment? Roblimo is watching us all! Beware!!!
I do agree with Slashdot's policy of anti-censorship. But i don't think Rob has the time to read every comment that's spelled with caps and digits.
i say that teachers should be rotated every term. like crop rotation, high school teachers should have an intense teaching schedule for one term and then have a single class schedule. In the lad back term other teachers will take over the tough schedule. The teacher with the laid back schedule will be paid to take classes into required subject matters as well as some electives that might interest the teacher.
you sound like some kind of Renaissance nerd. But, you're right most of the people here on slashdot seems to be science/tech nerds and a hand full of people with other interests.
We(humans) can not second guess ourselves at every turn. What if Sir Newton had kept himself busy farming? What if Einstein had gone into the manufacturing business with his father? On the other hand what if the next Hiter waste all his time playing quake and surfing the net?
If a person is wasting his talents all his life so be it... it's his life. It's alway been that a person must find his own path and it will continue to be this way, that's life.
The only way to prevent great minds from going to waste is to educate them, encourage them, inspire them. Enlighten kids on the significance of science, better yet use a computer to aid your lessons.
i wouldn't say that season 6 and 7 were different from the rest of the series. the episode 'Tapestry' was the first episode of trek i watched and to this day is still my favorite. The series final was also one of the best TNG episodes.
define 'general use' please. the point about how seti@home should open the source of the client program is to make it run faster and make the program more efficient. Who cares what the hell license is either way they're still gonna allow people to use the client cause thats the whole friggin' point of the program. unless you want to start you're gonna start using satilites to search for signals in your own home and distribute data units the purpose of the program would only be to process the data units
sure we can then divert all this tax money to beefing up the military (during peace times) and spend some more on weapon reasearch. im quite sure these activities would be much more valuable to the tax payers and give them their "benefit of reward". if anything the science and space programs don't get enough funding.
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right i fully agree, i suggest the computer geek community give up on the term 'hackers' and start seeking a new term that pops when you think of enthusiastic and clever geeks. I nominate 'the mighty ducks'.
shit they trademarked the cube? the borg are gonna be pissed!
Most recent sci-fi films, animated or otherwise, including the Mother Movie (Star Wars) construct their films around the premise that in the future there is a technologically advanced, demonic alien culture out there which has ravaged our planet; loathes humanity and is determined to wipe us out for murky reasons in the most vicious possible way at all costs.
alright i don't think you've ever watched star wars in your life! please tell me what "a long time ago in a galaxy far far away" means to you. shit even a 7 year old would understand it's not in the future. @#$%ing humans aren't even in the movie!!!!
and the whole friggin review is based on how the storyline sucked... shit that wouldn't matter if it's done right! how many video games are based on the same storyline? millions, yet we still love games like starcraft. why? cause it's a damn good game.
ah the original post never asked for it to be open sourced. he just wanted to know why the program isn't being used by schools.
How the hell do you know Grandma's not a hacker? This is stereotyping all Grandmothers out there. As i type this there is probably hundreds of Grandma hackers out there coding C and hacking perl. Do you think you're better than they are? You think all Grandma does is neat sweaters? How would you like it when you're 85 and your grandson is out there claiming Grandpa's useless?
An IDE is just a tool like the graphing calculator. Does it matter which mathematican uses which texas instrument calculator? no. Of course it's nice to be able to find the definite intergral in a press of a button but it's not really making much of a difference to anyone who knows what they're doing. And anyone who learns math through a calculator will have problems showing their work on the blackboard, but anyone that learned math the old way wouldn't have problems learning a calculator. Do calculators replace the blackboard? no. Do blackboards make calculators unnecessary? no.
hehe... the use of 'void main()' is the best part!
dude i think you're way off! Because this is Microsoft they probably would just release the source to it's API. And all they're doing is allowing people to see the source not copy or modify it. So it isn't true open source in the first place.
Plus releasing Windows source code could give open source a bad name. Because Microsoft wouldn't have the benefit of public feedback and bug fixes, releasing the source would only encourage scriptkiddies to start exploiting the bugs and security problems in windows. Then Joe Schmoe will think shit since opening windows source create more viruses and security exploites then everything else that released it's source code is a security hazard.
hey what comes around, goes around.
someone should publish the same kind of flamebait attacking zdnet and the writter. showing the same courtesy they showed to the open source community. with the same lack of research and lack of reference (a perfect job for someone like Jon Katz). at some point making personal attacks to the author of the article and multiple references to his mom.
like any good system admin we should plan well before making any configuration to the system. Trail and error is not an option for experimenting with humans (stole that one from another post). what if we modify our genome and somehow end up like some zombie race like the borg? and try to completely assimulate others because we think that the modify version of humans are better than the old version.
and how do you define what is human? would future generations see themselves as superior to humans? will we see the extinction of humans and from the ashes a new breed of intelligent creatures?
there will of course be non stop religious debate over the use of this technology. stuff like "if we modify ourselves we will be messing with the devine image of god" or something like that. but soon enough people will start accepting the use of this technolgy.
will any of the "super humans" have psychological effects from being severed from their race? would they wonder about what they would of been if they were not breed to be good at a particular task? will geniuses still be admired for their talents or will they be used for experimentation to impove the techniques for increasing intelliect?
it's interesting that a slashdot reader asking to be enlightened about the facts of genetic-engineering ended up getting nothing but philosophical ideas about the future. i guess not much people on slashdot knows about biology. if anybody knows the techniques used for genetic research and ideas about HOW modifying genes is done i'd like to hear it.
are there gonna be any improvements other than additional hardware support? more speed, full screen game play or something?
yeah and the academic solution to everything is to work hard and study hard. how has that worked out? how many geniuses is produced as opposed to trained monkeys we call experts? in the recent john carmack interview posted on slashdot he summed things up pretty well. if you're going to a university just because you want to get a degree and find a job then that's probably the wrong reasond to be there.
according to the jargon files i suffer from prolonged BASIC exposure! Curse that blasted high school and their required courses!
please! somebody, anybody. recommend treatment to reverse the effects. I don't want to live like this!
it seems to me that Bob Metcalfe is thinking in terms of some king of open source red scare. He thinks that all open source advocates are mindless followers of a cult whose idea is that everything should be open source and free.
I admit that sometimes the open source public goes too far like the flame wars against whether the BSD license should be considered open source.
The truth is (and even some people who embrace the open source ideals sometimes needs to be reminded of this) that proprietary software (windows) is not hated just for the sake of being proprietary. we hate it because we're paying money for something that the developer sees not need to improve. why pay for a new version of something if all the developer the did was inflate the version number and shove the same piece of crap into a new box? futhermore proprietors attempts to change the standards (ie: IE) so that their competition can't keep up. while sometimes imposing proprietary standards on software improves it's quality, it is unfair to their competition.
the idea of linux being easier to use than windows is not laughable. linux and unix in general was designed to be efficent. like the article says aol was designed to be easy to learn not easy to use and linux is just the opposite. an interface like dselect is quite intimidating to a newbie but after reading the 4 page doc on it, you'll find that its quite efficent and ingenius in design. the design allows for people to get their job done fast (all they have to know is how to use the design).
linux has lots of "superior" application to windows. ofcourse this depends on what you consider to be superior. because most applications for linux are open source projects, the developers think in terms of how they can get the job done best rather than how they can make the apps look pretty. someone who knows how to use vi well can develop much faster than someone who's using an ide.
i say it should be
1. Issac Newton (creator of physics)
2. Albert Einstein (the man to revolutionize physics)
3. George Bernhard Riemann (you try to think beyond 3 dimentions and prove it)
4. Alan Turing
i have a problem just waiting for a post with 200 comments attached to it to load! Who has time to read every comment? Roblimo is watching us all! Beware!!!
I do agree with Slashdot's policy of anti-censorship. But i don't think Rob has the time to read every comment that's spelled with caps and digits.
i say that teachers should be rotated every term. like crop rotation, high school teachers should have an intense teaching schedule for one term and then have a single class schedule. In the lad back term other teachers will take over the tough schedule. The teacher with the laid back schedule will be paid to take classes into required subject matters as well as some electives that might interest the teacher.
you sound like some kind of Renaissance nerd. But, you're right most of the people here on slashdot seems to be science/tech nerds and a hand full of people with other interests.
We(humans) can not second guess ourselves at every turn.
What if Sir Newton had kept himself busy farming? What if Einstein had gone into the manufacturing business with his father?
On the other hand what if the next Hiter waste all his time playing quake and surfing the net?
If a person is wasting his talents all his life so be it... it's his life. It's alway been that a person must find his own path and it will continue to be this way, that's life.
The only way to prevent great minds from going to waste is to educate them, encourage them, inspire them. Enlighten kids on the significance of science, better yet use a computer to aid your lessons.
i wouldn't say that season 6 and 7 were different from the rest of the series. the episode 'Tapestry' was the first episode of trek i watched and to this day is still my favorite. The series final was also one of the best TNG episodes.
define 'general use' please. the point about how seti@home should open the source of the client program is to make it run faster and make the program more efficient. Who cares what the hell license is either way they're still gonna allow people to use the client cause thats the whole friggin' point of the program. unless you want to start you're gonna start using satilites to search for signals in your own home and distribute data units the purpose of the program would only be to process the data units
sure we can then divert all this tax money to beefing up the military (during peace times) and spend some more on weapon reasearch. im quite sure these activities would be much more valuable to the tax payers and give them their "benefit of reward". if anything the science and space programs don't get enough funding.
"There's no reason to change," said Mike Borg
anyone with the last name BORG has already lost all credibility
I say screw it!!!
who cares about the name hackers???
a rose by any other name would be just as sweet
how bout people start calling real computer geeks "the mighty duck"?