This is simply bogus and if I were grading it I would give it a F for plagarism - some student would have some serious explaining to do -
Lets begin with the first statement "Any theory that does not provide a method to falsify and validate its claims is a useless theory." because it tells us much about what follows.
A quick Google proved that this line along with most of this post comes from a video on YouTube by the creationist VenomFangX. For transcripts, link to video and extensive rebuttal see: http://talkingtotheists.blogspot.com/2008/05/story-thus-far-noted-youtube.html
However, I'll leave this alone since I'm not interested in tracing down the ownership of these concepts and sentences rather my concern is with their basic validity.
I could tear into the post but won't bother - the link above does that just fine.
What has been done here or or more properly by VenomFangX is to set up a false dichotomy between a contorted reading of Darwin and Creationist nonsense. He/she complains that you can't test Darwin's theories (note he/she does not say "evolutionary theory" because you can easily test parts of that) and then goes on say that the only alternative is the "God zapped it into existence" theory which, by the way, must automagically be correct. He/she then conveniently forgets to tell us how to test that theory!
This is the same game that Creationist have been playing for years - its bate and switch - applied to Science. There are of course other options - how about Darwin's basic concepts augmented and clarified by over a hundred years of biological discovery, i.e modern evolutionary theory? As any plant or animal breeder or freshman in a college biology course can tell you that "selection" is real and that organisms can pass on these selected characteristics to their progeny. So, parts of evolutionary theory can be easily tested and shown valid - where's the DIRECT EVIDENCE for the "God did it" theory?
Sadly, the folks doing/teaching IT in our schools are usually clueless. My nephew had a course on web site creation from a teacher who knew ZERO html - all she could do is M$ Front Page.
Its all very sad but I guess most real IT people can't afford the pay cut that would be involved in teaching or working at a school.
You said: Paying enough that teaching appeals to people in it for the money is risky.
I'm sorry but at best this is silly. Its the logic that has been used for years to underpay teachers. I live with a 4th grade teacher, my mother was a special ed teacher, my sister was a music teacher and their salaries were/are all horrible. They all had/have Master's degree and I make 2x what they make/made. I personally would teach but the household can't afford the salary cut.
If we are going to apply the principle that you espouse - that people need to suffer to teach to the teaching profession we should do the same thing to others such as doctors, lawyers, and engineers of all kinds. Surely we want them to be passionate about their jobs just like teachers!
Surely this has security implications - know that you can always become root but with this someone could craft a driver that does evil things and spread it around.
Dell financials for the previous quarter stink, don't look good for the next quarter and they needed to focus folks attention elsewhere.
They did the same thing last quarter, just servers that time, and where are the AMD systems?
They may eventually drag out something with AMD chips in it but don't kid youself they aren't excited about this. Dell is an Intel shop and wants to stay that way.
Since Red Hat in their ultimate wisdom has chosen ext3 and decided not to fully support XFS their Enterprise OS can't format this whole drive - you will have to chop it into a couple of pieces.
Tyan currently lists 6 2 processor opteron boards that hold 16 GB and 1 4p board that holds 32 GB - actaully got one of those the other day. Very nice!
Iwill has one 8p system that holds 64GB.
See: http://www.tyan.com/products/html/opteron. html
From my perspective Red Hat's market position is slipping slowly. Look for increases in Suse's market share.
Let Sun & Red Hat duke it out - the only people hurt will be them. I'm building Suse boxes right and left so Red Hat's fate ain't that important to me -
In the ever flowing stream of nonesense - first we get the foghorn, Balmer, saying Linux infringes on eleventy-11 zillion patents and you will lose your left nut for using it, then we get that shot down now we hear that the universe belongs to Sun.
Please, please get real! Solaris dies - Linux lives and that's the end of that!
I want spammers tortured. I propose they be tied to a low voltage electric chair which is connected to a button on a website. The populace will be invited to come by and issue a non-terminal zap to the offender whenever the mood stikes them.
Lovely, so now they added support for USB 2. The only problem is that nothing besides their keyboard and mouse will work on it!
Try getting a common pen drives or external USB hard drive to work on a Sun box with USB - it ain't gonna happen. All this stuff has been working for years on Windows and Linux boxes. I don't know about the rest of/.'ers but I'm sick of Sun's vapor ports.
One of the reasons Joe and people like him get away with this is that eBay doesn't care. They make it practically impossible to turn someone like him in to the "authorities". They know this is going on and turn a blind eye to the problem.
If you get ripped off after an eBay auction there is a "system" called "Safe Harbour" you can go through to handle the situation. The dirty little reality is that its fairly difficult to deal with and is really designed to protect eBay from any liability while not adding to their workload in any way. There are time limits that get imposed on you in all sorts of ways and there is no human being to help you through the process. In short, it is more "apparent" than "real".
Re: the feedback system. Again, its set up for eBay's benefit. There are limitations on the number of letters you can use in your feedback and you won't know if or when a seller responds to your complains. It requires that you constantly check back and counter any statements such as "it has been shipped - let me know if you have problems". Unless the buyer cares to continue to fight a war over the theft forever sooner or later whatever they say will be countered. And, remember that no person at eBay will ever bother to monitor a seller's feedback so even if you get lots of negative feedback there isn't any cost save a few buyers that might stay away. This of course is easily handled by "selling" great stuff cheap. Since you won't ever ship it anyway this isn't a problem.
Finally, even if a seller builds up a bad "feedback record" this isn't much of a problem. He/she can just change their name and start all over again. eBay doesn't care.
Frankly, my guess is that you can steal lots of money from people on eBay as long as you do it in small increments. The story only talks about the most blatant form of theft at eBay. What about those who knowingly ship defective merchandise and say its good? This happens a lot on eBay. Most people just can't spend the time to jump through the "hoops" eBay has set up to get money after it is stolen. And, the nasty fact is - even is you spend time on the "process" you may never see a cent of it!
Remember, it is the seller who pays eBay so their customer isn't the buyer - its the seller! eBay gets its cut each time so as long as it doesn't hit the press and hurt sales it ain't their problem. eBay survives because most sellers are honest. If/when that changes it will be interesting to see what they do!
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Please god let them have a coffee shop with wireless!
The next time your favorite release comes out it will be a great place to gather and do installs -
This is simply bogus and if I were grading it I would give it a F for plagarism - some student would have some serious explaining to do -
Lets begin with the first statement "Any theory that does not provide a method to falsify and validate its claims is a useless theory." because it tells us much about what follows.
A quick Google proved that this line along with most of this post comes from a video on YouTube by the creationist VenomFangX. For transcripts, link to video and extensive rebuttal see: http://talkingtotheists.blogspot.com/2008/05/story-thus-far-noted-youtube.html
However, I'll leave this alone since I'm not interested in tracing down the ownership of these concepts and sentences rather my concern is with their basic validity.
I could tear into the post but won't bother - the link above does that just fine.
What has been done here or or more properly by VenomFangX is to set up a false dichotomy between a contorted reading of Darwin and Creationist nonsense. He/she complains that you can't test Darwin's theories (note he/she does not say "evolutionary theory" because you can easily test parts of that) and then goes on say that the only alternative is the "God zapped it into existence" theory which, by the way, must automagically be correct. He/she then conveniently forgets to tell us how to test that theory!
This is the same game that Creationist have been playing for years - its bate and switch - applied to Science. There are of course other options - how about Darwin's basic concepts augmented and clarified by over a hundred years of biological discovery, i.e modern evolutionary theory? As any plant or animal breeder or freshman in a college biology course can tell you that "selection" is real and that organisms can pass on these selected characteristics to their progeny. So, parts of evolutionary theory can be easily tested and shown valid - where's the DIRECT EVIDENCE for the "God did it" theory?
From what I have seen this is the norm in the US.
Sadly, the folks doing/teaching IT in our schools are usually clueless. My nephew had a course on web site creation from a teacher who knew ZERO html - all she could do is M$ Front Page.
Its all very sad but I guess most real IT people can't afford the pay cut that would be involved in teaching or working at a school.
You said:
Paying enough that teaching appeals to people in it for the money is risky.
I'm sorry but at best this is silly. Its the logic that has been used for years to underpay teachers. I live with a 4th grade teacher, my mother was a special ed teacher, my sister was a music teacher and their salaries were/are all horrible. They all had/have Master's degree and I make 2x what they make/made. I personally would teach but the household can't afford the salary cut.
If we are going to apply the principle that you espouse - that people need to suffer to teach to the teaching profession we should do the same thing to others such as doctors, lawyers, and engineers of all kinds. Surely we want them to be passionate about their jobs just like teachers!
so it will "see" 256 cores but will it actually use them in an efficient manner?
Must be a slow news day -
Exactly how many dozens of times has an aids vaccine neared clinical trials?
When one of them makes it through the trials and proves to be worthwhile well then that will be news. Till then its just noise.
Surely this has security implications - know that you can always become root but with this someone could craft a driver that does evil things and spread it around.
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This is just silly -
Dell financials for the previous quarter stink, don't look good for the next quarter and they needed to focus folks attention elsewhere.
They did the same thing last quarter, just servers that time, and where are the AMD systems?
They may eventually drag out something with AMD chips in it but don't kid youself they aren't excited about this. Dell is an Intel shop and wants to stay that way.
Folks:
Anybody that partners with Microsoft is nuts -
Who has ever done it and lived to tell the tale?
M-
Since Red Hat in their ultimate wisdom has chosen ext3 and decided not to fully support XFS their Enterprise OS can't format this whole drive - you will have to chop it into a couple of pieces.
Go Suse!
This is simply stupid - more spew from those that hate Open Source!
The reality is that Open Standards/Open Source will foster competition rater than stop it -
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What's the deal?
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Tyan currently lists 6 2 processor opteron boards that hold 16 GB and 1 4p board that holds 32 GB - actaully got one of those the other day. Very nice!
Iwill has one 8p system that holds 64GB.
See:
http://www.tyan.com/products/html/opteron
From my perspective Red Hat's market position is slipping slowly. Look for increases in Suse's market share.
Let Sun & Red Hat duke it out - the only people hurt will be them. I'm building Suse boxes right and left so Red Hat's fate ain't that important to me -
Is there no end to the cluelessness out there!?!
In the ever flowing stream of nonesense - first we get the foghorn, Balmer, saying Linux infringes on eleventy-11 zillion patents and you will lose your left nut for using it, then we get that shot down now we hear that the universe belongs to Sun.
Please, please get real! Solaris dies - Linux lives and that's the end of that!
Anybody have a clue how the performance of an Efficeon processor stacks up against Xenon's, Opterons, & etc-
Having a 12 p box is great but if its performance is a bit less or the same as a 4k$ 2p Opteron box what's the "real world" advantage?
This is by much too little.
I want spammers tortured. I propose they be tied to a low voltage electric chair which is connected to a button on a website. The populace will be invited to come by and issue a non-terminal zap to the offender whenever the mood stikes them.
With the announcement of this settlement and the death of its processor development Sun enters the DEC glidepath to oblivion.
If you stick a fork in it - today it will still scream but give it a year or so and its all over.
Linux and the AMD Opteron make them irrelevant.
Lovely, so now they added support for USB 2. The only problem is that nothing besides their keyboard and mouse will work on it!
/.'ers but I'm sick of Sun's vapor ports.
Try getting a common pen drives or external USB hard drive to work on a Sun box with USB - it ain't gonna happen. All this stuff has been working for years on Windows and Linux boxes. I don't know about the rest of
Has anybody checked out Lyons's track record to see how good his skills are at predicting the future?
Isn't it about time that these "pundits" have to be evaluated like the rest of us?
Hmmmmmmmmmmm!
Dell has been selling systems with Linux on 'em for a while now. HP seems late to the game.
Support is via RedHat.
Strikes me that it would be great if billgygoat was designed on top of a Linux kernel.
If it turned out to be a great product that would be a wonderful bit of irony. Linux working to say a messed up windows world.
One of the reasons Joe and people like him get away with this is that eBay doesn't care. They make it practically impossible to turn someone like him in to the "authorities". They know this is going on and turn a blind eye to the problem.
If you get ripped off after an eBay auction there is a "system" called "Safe Harbour" you can go through to handle the situation. The dirty little reality is that its fairly difficult to deal with and is really designed to protect eBay from any liability while not adding to their workload in any way. There are time limits that get imposed on you in all sorts of ways and there is no human being to help you through the process. In short, it is more "apparent" than "real".
Re: the feedback system. Again, its set up for eBay's benefit. There are limitations on the number of letters you can use in your feedback and you won't know if or when a seller responds to your complains. It requires that you constantly check back and counter any statements such as "it has been shipped - let me know if you have problems". Unless the buyer cares to continue to fight a war over the theft forever sooner or later whatever they say will be countered. And, remember that no person at eBay will ever bother to monitor a seller's feedback so even if you get lots of negative feedback there isn't any cost save a few buyers that might stay away. This of course is easily handled by "selling" great stuff cheap. Since you won't ever ship it anyway this isn't a problem.
Finally, even if a seller builds up a bad "feedback record" this isn't much of a problem. He/she can just change their name and start all over again. eBay doesn't care.
Frankly, my guess is that you can steal lots of money from people on eBay as long as you do it in small increments. The story only talks about the most blatant form of theft at eBay. What about those who knowingly ship defective merchandise and say its good? This happens a lot on eBay. Most people just can't spend the time to jump through the "hoops" eBay has set up to get money after it is stolen. And, the nasty fact is - even is you spend time on the "process" you may never see a cent of it!
Remember, it is the seller who pays eBay so their customer isn't the buyer - its the seller! eBay gets its cut each time so as long as it doesn't hit the press and hurt sales it ain't their problem. eBay survives because most sellers are honest. If/when that changes it will be interesting to see what they do!
How about doing the same for apache, perl, samba, X, and anything else we can think of -
Their number is 1-800-726-8649!
Let them know how you feel!