I have on the article Supply and demand. It is more complete and more accurate than Columbia Encyclopedia and World Book. It was roughly equivelent to Encyclopedia Britannica. Columbia Encyclopedia especially seem to be less accurate for economics articles than Wikipedia. I would recommend this experiment to anyone in an area that you are personally very knowledgeable.
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Just once I would like to see a reference for Easter Island that is not the Jared Diamond Discovery article or a descendent of that article. Last time I did a search for such an article, I found one article that said that the real cause was that the little ice age occured and caused the trees to start dieing off. Yes, if the humans had not been on Easter Island, the trees probably would have been able to survive, but it wasn't just human caused.
The market always finds a solution. You may just not like it's solution to using less of the resource.
Heres the link to the section in free culture
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It's a Free book (link to html version)
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The book is distributed under a license that allows you to convert it and redistribute it. For example, here is a version of the book Free Culture that is html (some foobared characters and missing footnotes). It's not perfect, but feel free to fix the problems and reply to this thread. So get off your lazy bum and convert the darn thing to your favorite format.
Wikipedia has several features to make it easy to figure out if something is broken. The first is that every article keeps a change log. So you can
go and see exactly which words and paragraphs have been changed.
The second feature is watchlists. Basically, every editor can choose to watch any article they
want. Then, when you go to wikipedia, you can check and see when the last time any of the articles on
your watchlist were changed. If I see something that is wrong, I can revert the change, or I can modify their change so that the correct information is there.
In combination these abilities are powerful. I have seen at least two occasions where someone broke something and then another editor reverted it in less than 5 minutes. Things that are subtly wrong take more time to fix since someone has to figure out what really should go there but this usually only takes a week or so.
The article has some contradictory ideas about copyright.
First notice that it says not to buy from auctions because I strongly doubt they come with legally licensed software. Of course, the possibility of putting
linux on the computer is totally ignored. Then, to increase the insanity level he spends a paragraph at the end talking about filesharing software without ever mentioning the legality or
possibility that some of the files could be illegal.
The thing is KDE-Look needs far fewer graphics. FreeCraft needs about 60 different views of each
unit. There are maybe 40 units so a complete set of
graphics probably requires 2400 or so drawings. This can be somewhat simplified by creating 3d models of the units, but still each animation requires lots
of work to make it look smooth and realistic.
Compared to two years ago the graphics have improved greatly. Most of them were non-existant or poor quality. The current push is for trying to get any graphics for all the units and buildings. At somepoint this will be done and then quality will take first priority.
Feel free to email me. My email address is easy enough to find (enough spammers can find it). I will gladdly forward anything you want to Elizabeth. Elizabeth's email is also possible to find, but it is not as easy.
It explains the basics of secure programming and common problems with a variety of programming languages including buffer overflow and many more tricky problems.
In Netbsd there is a perl script to reconfigure a kernel to just compile in the hardware that you have. It is really handy to be able to just type perl adjustkernel GENERIC > MYKERNEL and have the correct hardware selected. I sat at my desk and `configured' the hardware for a kernel recompile in Netbsd in less than five seconds. Try that with Linux. I can code, I've looked at the Linux source code, but I have better things to do than try and remember whether the 5 year webserver that is sitting at work has a pci bus or not. Netbsd has this, why doesn't Linux?
Sorry, the Aladdin line is correct. I have listened
to it myself. If you don't believe me find a old version of Aladdin (Disney has probably edited it out in newer versions), go to the scene where Aladdin is sneaking on the balcony of the princess and listen closely.
Kylix is one of the most dangerous pieces of software to come to Linux. One of the big differences between Windows and Linux has been that Linux has one compiler (gcc) and open libraries so that everyone can compile everything. Kylix breaks that since now Kylix owners can compile software that I cannot. This will cause a split in the devoloper community that will make QT/GTK seem like a friendly gathering. Kylix forces developers to either ignore software or develop with non-free software.
Kylix creates software that can only be compiled with non-free software.
Freshman I was interested in programming. However the only programming class they offered was for BASIC and did not allow freshman in it. So I went to the computer labs. After I got a basic competency in using Microsoft Works (basically the only application available) I realized that I could get to a DOS prompt (with a little effort) and found that QBasic was on these computers. So I asked the head of the computer lab if I could program. The response I got was a half-hour lecture about people messing around on the computers and wrecking them. So I didn't bother trying to program on the school computers. Instead I would borrow books from the town library about DOS, read them at home and test my knowledge on the school computers the next day (all the while keeping a watchful ear out for the lab instructor). I learned how to use dos well enough on my own that I was able to use that knowledge for years. Meanwhile at home I learned BASIC on a C64.
Sophmore Programming class at High School had evaporated so now that I could actually take it I couldn't take it. Instead took the mandatory Word Processing class. I managed to finish all the assignments first dispite being only a mediocore typist. They had removed all the filemanagers, etc from easy access for use so I learned Word Basic well enough to simulate a Run line in VB. Used it to play minesweeper once since the teacher had said all the games had been removed from the computer. Got bored.
Junior year Got regularly asked for advice by science and math teachers about computers. Mandatory word processing class out of the way so was only involved with computers in math, science and english classes.
Senior Since I had finished just about every requirement for graduating and had about 4 electives to consume I decided to try some more computer classes. Took Autocad and Pagemake/PowerPoint/Photoshop/misc. Learned alot about applications. Became a fairly good at a few networked multiplayer games in execess time. Learned way too much about MS Registry (and the lack of security on MSWIN 95).
My point:
My school had a very good computer program from a monetary standpoint. I did learn a lot about applications. However, in order to learn more about things I was interested in I had to learn on my own about programming, operating systems, and more. I did learn on my own, I learned C/C++, Linux, HTML... However spending more on software is useless if you don't have teachers competent enough to teach it.
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I have on the article Supply and demand. It is more complete and more accurate than Columbia Encyclopedia and World Book. It was roughly equivelent to Encyclopedia Britannica. Columbia Encyclopedia especially seem to be less accurate for economics articles than Wikipedia. I would recommend this experiment to anyone in an area that you are personally very knowledgeable.
Just once I would like to see a reference for Easter Island that is not the Jared Diamond Discovery article or a descendent of that article. Last time I did a search for such an article, I found one article that said that the real cause was that the little ice age occured and caused the trees to start dieing off. Yes, if the humans had not been on Easter Island, the trees probably would have been able to survive, but it wasn't just human caused.
The market always finds a solution. You may just not like it's solution to using less of the resource.
The story is repeated in Free Culture (page 107).
The book is distributed under a license that allows you to convert it and redistribute it. For example, here is a version of the book Free Culture that is html (some foobared characters and missing footnotes). It's not perfect, but feel free to fix the problems and reply to this thread. So get off your lazy bum and convert the darn thing to your favorite format.
I seem to recall that at one point freeciv could be played with the
civilization graphics.
Wikipedia has several features to make it easy to figure out if something is broken. The first is that every article keeps a change log. So you can go and see exactly which words and paragraphs have been changed.
The second feature is watchlists. Basically, every editor can choose to watch any article they want. Then, when you go to wikipedia, you can check and see when the last time any of the articles on your watchlist were changed. If I see something that is wrong, I can revert the change, or I can modify their change so that the correct information is there.
In combination these abilities are powerful. I have seen at least two occasions where someone broke something and then another editor reverted it in less than 5 minutes. Things that are subtly wrong take more time to fix since someone has to figure out what really should go there but this usually only takes a week or so.
The article has some contradictory ideas about copyright. First notice that it says not to buy from auctions because I strongly doubt they come with legally licensed software. Of course, the possibility of putting linux on the computer is totally ignored. Then, to increase the insanity level he spends a paragraph at the end talking about filesharing software without ever mentioning the legality or possibility that some of the files could be illegal.
The thing is KDE-Look needs far fewer graphics. FreeCraft needs about 60 different views of each unit. There are maybe 40 units so a complete set of graphics probably requires 2400 or so drawings. This can be somewhat simplified by creating 3d models of the units, but still each animation requires lots of work to make it look smooth and realistic.
Compared to two years ago the graphics have improved greatly. Most of them were non-existant or poor quality. The current push is for trying to get any graphics for all the units and buildings. At somepoint this will be done and then quality will take first priority.
Feel free to email me. My email address is easy enough to find (enough spammers can find it). I will gladdly forward anything you want to Elizabeth. Elizabeth's email is also possible to find, but it is not as easy.
Difficult to say if you knew, without knowing who you are.
I sense dark hair, a desire to manipulate people, and a short stature, and a closeness to ivy.
Who are you?
Josh Cogliati
Try the Secure Programming for Linux and Unix HOWTO
It explains the basics of secure programming and common problems with a variety of programming languages including buffer overflow and many more tricky problems.
In Netbsd there is a perl script to reconfigure a kernel to just compile in the hardware that you have. It is really handy to be able to just type perl adjustkernel GENERIC > MYKERNEL and have the correct hardware selected. I sat at my desk and `configured' the hardware for a kernel recompile in Netbsd in less than five seconds. Try that with Linux. I can code, I've looked at the Linux source code, but I have better things to do than try and remember whether the 5 year webserver that is sitting at work has a pci bus or not. Netbsd has this, why doesn't Linux?
Sorry, the Aladdin line is correct. I have listened
to it myself. If you don't believe me find a old version of Aladdin (Disney has probably edited it out in newer versions), go to the scene where Aladdin is sneaking on the balcony of the princess and listen closely.
Kylix is one of the most dangerous pieces of software to come to Linux. One of the big differences between Windows and Linux has been that Linux has one compiler (gcc) and open libraries so that everyone can compile everything. Kylix breaks that since now Kylix owners can compile software that I cannot. This will cause a split in the devoloper community that will make QT/GTK seem like a friendly gathering. Kylix forces developers to either ignore software or develop with non-free software.
Kylix creates software that can only be compiled with non-free software.
My point:
My school had a very good computer program from a monetary standpoint. I did learn a lot about applications. However, in order to learn more about things I was interested in I had to learn on my own about programming, operating systems, and more. I did learn on my own, I learned C/C++, Linux, HTML ... However spending more on software is useless if you don't have teachers competent enough to teach it.