As a side note: what paranoid fantasy prompts the statement Universities will lose control of knowle4dge, as they should ? What knowledge do they control: calculus? thermodynamics? Kant?
He probably meant something like Universities will lose control of the dispensing of knowledge.
Like every other change, it's got good points and bad. The benefits of personal interaction will clearly be missing, but the benefits of better accessibility will make online education unstoppable.
Instead of complaining about imagined shortcomings, let's focus on maximizing the benefits and minimizing the negative aspects.
Excellent point. There's a lot of subjects that I'd love to know more about but never got the chance to take the classes in college. Lately, I've been buying audio tapes from the Teaching Company on all kinds of subjects including Philosophy, Psychology, Economics, etc. It's somewhat expensive but I love the material. If this kind of stuff were available online, I'd be a total addict.
"Should" this and "shouldn't" that. Who gets to define what anybody "should" do. The answer is the GPL. As long as they don't break copyright law, they "should" do whatever they feel like. Of course it would be nice of them to submit any generally useful code to be included in the next kernel. Hot swappable processors? Wow!
My father-in-law loves Bill Gates. He knows almost nothing about Microsoft, the case, or computers in general. But he'll tell you to your face that Bill Gates is a great man because of all of the money he's made. My wife and I tell him that drug dealers make lots of money too, but it doesn't change his way of thinking. It's sad but there's lots of other people who think just like him. Bias or not, the survey results don't surprise me. I just hope that the government will enforce the law.
Once the The Microsoft OS Company and The Microsoft Applications Company realize that they are now competitors, two things will happen:
(1) The Microsoft OS Company will claim that the browser is part of the OS, that the word processor is part of the OS, that the spreadsheet is part of the OS, etc.
(2) The Microsoft Applications Company really will ship MS Linux.
I work for Scientific Atlanta and we're quite proud of those boxes. Nine months ago, we had to virtually give the first boxes away. Now we can't ship them fast enough. We've already shipped over a million. And you should know that there are going to be a lot of great things that you can do with those boxes in the future. Wish I could tell you more.
Well this "stoopid Merikun" took three years of German and never heard of anything about using a trailing e instead. And two of those three years, my German teacher was a German himself.
Next time, how about giving us the facts without the attitude.
Isaac Newton was in college when the black plague hit. He returned home for a few years until it was over. While he was home he tried to figure out planetary motion. Mathematics of the day was inadequate for the job, so he invented calculus. He figured out that planets travelled in ellipses but his calculations were off slightly because he had left all of his text books back at school and couldn't remember the exact diameter of the Earth. So he put away his work and forgot about. Eventually he went back to college. When the head of mathematics saw some of his work, he immediately resigned and gave the title to Newton. Twenty years later some other scientists were still trying to solve the problem of planetary motion and came to Newton for help with the math. Newton told them that he had already worked that out twenty years earlier but his numbers were slightly off. When others fixed the number for the radius of the Earth everything fell into place and FORCE = MASS * ACCELERATION was born. Newton's law of physics explained so much of the physical world that the various churches could no longer suppress science. For the first time, even the tides could be explained. And the world moved from an age of superstitions to an age of science and reason. The profound change in mindset still rules today.
I'll grant you that the percentage of religous people is a few points higher in the South than elsewhere in the nation. However, how do explain a phrase like "an increase in breeding"? Has a bad ring about it to me, and therefore, unnecessary.
Question: Why does a dog lick his balls? Answer: Because he can.
As much as all of this genetic engineering stuff scares the shit out of me, it's inevitable. The Genie's (Jini's?) out of the bottle and there's no putting him back.
It's admirable that these scientists are trying to be thoughtful about the implications of their research, but if they don't do it, sooner or later somebody else will. Better that this is done by people with good intentions than by some rogue government project.
Everybody just calm down. Sure it's a matter of fairness for Sun to give credit where it's due. But the Blackdown folks should still take pride in the fact that they made a significant contribution to the success of Linux. Without their hard work, there would be no up-to-date Java implementation for Linux. (Jikes and Kaffe are still 1.1.x.) Even if Sun threw lots of programmers at doing a Linux port, without Blackdown it would probably have taken another twelve to eighteen months. That's huge at this critical time when Linux is on the verge of mass acceptance.
Thanks Blackdown. You made a big difference. And those of us who care, know the truth.
I once worked with a guy who couldn't stop talking about how wonderful OS/2 was. He even talked me into going to the Warp rollout put on by IBM. While we were there, they gave out door prizes. My buddy was one of the winners and he went home with a brand new copy of OS/2 Warp. A couple of weeks later I asked him what he thought of the new version. He said he hadn't installed it because he couldn't really think of what he could use it for.
the upcoming KDE 2.0 will come spoiled due the unnecessary graphics/skins/crap. The "beta" preview of 2.0 really made me sick. Do you call that pretty? It stinks, imho.
Wow. I couldn't disagree more. I use KDE all day long at work (and GNOME at home) and I loved what I saw in the KDE 2.0 screenshots. To each his own.
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He probably meant something like Universities will lose control of the dispensing of knowledge.
Like it or not, it's coming.
Like every other change, it's got good points and bad. The benefits of personal interaction will clearly be missing, but the benefits of better accessibility will make online education unstoppable.
Instead of complaining about imagined shortcomings, let's focus on maximizing the benefits and minimizing the negative aspects.
Excellent point. There's a lot of subjects that I'd love to know more about but never got the chance to take the classes in college. Lately, I've been buying audio tapes from the Teaching Company on all kinds of subjects including Philosophy, Psychology, Economics, etc. It's somewhat expensive but I love the material. If this kind of stuff were available online, I'd be a total addict.
Motivation gets to the heart of the matter.
What is it with all of this gay bashing stuff?
Here's a clue:
Men who gay bash are not confident about their own sexual orientation.
In other words, Methinks he doth protest too much.
Heh, I got it. You've got the hots for CmdrTaco. You're just are having a hard time admitting it to yourself.
I dunno. I'm an engineer and I'm pretty stupid.
"Should" this and "shouldn't" that. Who gets to define what anybody "should" do. The answer is the GPL. As long as they don't break copyright law, they "should" do whatever they feel like. Of course it would be nice of them to submit any generally useful code to be included in the next kernel. Hot swappable processors? Wow!
My father-in-law loves Bill Gates. He knows almost nothing about Microsoft, the case, or computers in general. But he'll tell you to your face that Bill Gates is a great man because of all of the money he's made. My wife and I tell him that drug dealers make lots of money too, but it doesn't change his way of thinking. It's sad but there's lots of other people who think just like him. Bias or not, the survey results don't surprise me. I just hope that the government will enforce the law.
Stating a fact about public opinion is not the same as saying something positive about Microsoft.
Usually education and knowledge result in opinions. Duh.
C.D.E. R.I.P.?
(I particularly liked the Xcam ad.)
Once the The Microsoft OS Company and The Microsoft Applications Company realize that they are now competitors, two things will happen:
(1) The Microsoft OS Company will claim that the browser is part of the OS, that the word processor is part of the OS, that the spreadsheet is part of the OS, etc.
(2) The Microsoft Applications Company really will ship MS Linux.
I work for Scientific Atlanta and we're quite proud of those boxes. Nine months ago, we had to virtually give the first boxes away. Now we can't ship them fast enough. We've already shipped over a million. And you should know that there are going to be a lot of great things that you can do with those boxes in the future. Wish I could tell you more.
And exactly what part of Atlanta did you see old people with shotguns?
It was marketing.
Speaking of the whole story, I completely forgot to mention anything about Newton's contributions to optics.
Well this "stoopid Merikun" took three years of German and never heard of anything about using a trailing e instead. And two of those three years, my German teacher was a German himself.
Next time, how about giving us the facts without the attitude.
For those of you who don't know the story...
Isaac Newton was in college when the black plague hit. He returned home for a few years until it was over. While he was home he tried to figure out planetary motion. Mathematics of the day was inadequate for the job, so he invented calculus. He figured out that planets travelled in ellipses but his calculations were off slightly because he had left all of his text books back at school and couldn't remember the exact diameter of the Earth. So he put away his work and forgot about. Eventually he went back to college. When the head of mathematics saw some of his work, he immediately resigned and gave the title to Newton. Twenty years later some other scientists were still trying to solve the problem of planetary motion and came to Newton for help with the math. Newton told them that he had already worked that out twenty years earlier but his numbers were slightly off. When others fixed the number for the radius of the Earth everything fell into place and FORCE = MASS * ACCELERATION was born. Newton's law of physics explained so much of the physical world that the various churches could no longer suppress science. For the first time, even the tides could be explained. And the world moved from an age of superstitions to an age of science and reason. The profound change in mindset still rules today.
Bring it on, bro. I'll be waitin for ya.
I'll grant you that the percentage of religous people is a few points higher in the South than elsewhere in the nation. However, how do explain a phrase like "an increase in breeding"? Has a bad ring about it to me, and therefore, unnecessary.
Question: Why does a dog lick his balls?
Answer: Because he can.
As much as all of this genetic engineering stuff scares the shit out of me, it's inevitable. The Genie's (Jini's?) out of the bottle and there's no putting him back.
It's admirable that these scientists are trying to be thoughtful about the implications of their research, but if they don't do it, sooner or later somebody else will. Better that this is done by people with good intentions than by some rogue government project.
A very thoughtless and uncivil remark. It discredits anything else you have to say.
Everybody just calm down. Sure it's a matter of fairness for Sun to give credit where it's due. But the Blackdown folks should still take pride in the fact that they made a significant contribution to the success of Linux. Without their hard work, there would be no up-to-date Java implementation for Linux. (Jikes and Kaffe are still 1.1.x.) Even if Sun threw lots of programmers at doing a Linux port, without Blackdown it would probably have taken another twelve to eighteen months. That's huge at this critical time when Linux is on the verge of mass acceptance.
Thanks Blackdown. You made a big difference. And those of us who care, know the truth.
[reaching for crucifix and wooden stake]
Nooooo DCOM!!! Back to Hades you evil Microsoft drone!
It's DLL hell all over again.
I once worked with a guy who couldn't stop talking about how wonderful OS/2 was. He even talked me into going to the Warp rollout put on by IBM. While we were there, they gave out door prizes. My buddy was one of the winners and he went home with a brand new copy of OS/2 Warp. A couple of weeks later I asked him what he thought of the new version. He said he hadn't installed it because he couldn't really think of what he could use it for.
Wow. I couldn't disagree more. I use KDE all day long at work (and GNOME at home) and I loved what I saw in the KDE 2.0 screenshots. To each his own.