I believe that the number of particles physicists currently use is not enough. Therefore I am now creating the foo-on, bar-on, and baz-on. Use 'em however ya like. You can send the Nobel stuff anytime.
If you have an ounce of respect for other peoples' opinions, you can be legally branded as "liberal fair game" by the Freedomland Bureau of Investig...i'm stretching here...
While I don't disagree with you on the knee-jerk-ocity of the story, your side example isn't really the same as what happened in this case. If there's a bug in my software, I can't be held liable as long as I write out in the license "I am not responsible for blah blah". If there is some rather nasty bug though, and I choose to release the fix for a million dollars, there is definitely room for debate as to whether I should be able to charge money for my own mistake.
Strangely (and scarily), Miers has never been a judge. She's been a landshark for years though, chairing the Dallas Bar and Texas State Bar. She was also appointed a job in Texas by Bush (W) during his stint as Texas Gov, so she's obviously not been swayed by any political party ever.
Yeah, just like nobody used any of those other security projects from OpenBSD, like OpenSSH...jeez, what do we expect, people to start taking advantage of security measures? (oh yeah, read all the AC replies, they're far more eloquent than I.)
An experienced aid organization will be able to provide proper information to prepare volunteers to function and not be a hinderance to the relief effort. If the organization you're with can't provide proper guidance, they don't know what they're doing and will cause more problems then they solve.
Wow, you're not only colorblind, but you can only see in black and white as well.
Your intentins are good, but if you don't have training you will be a hinderance and a liability.
Have you considered the possibility that they have contacted an organization that's accepting gofers to help with the work? According to the tone of your post, they're obviously just loading up some carfuls of people and driving down there with no planning whatsoever, but I don't think this is what's going on.
-Any growth rate within a finite system cannot continue indefinitely. Think bacteria in a petri dish. -Firefox has not released any major updates to its browser since 1.0 (which was released on 2004-11-09, a little over 11 months ago). -Internet Explorer is still "good enough" for Joe Average, even if his PC is slowing to a crawl because of all the spyware.
I realize Slashdot isn't really a "news organization" with "real" journalists and such, but seriously. If the guy submitting the article is from the site that is linked, at least put a blurb like Someguy (of pcwhatever.com) writes "(summary)". It looks more like a real news entry rather than a shameless plug.
I'm a CS (wannabe) major. My friend, a physics/math major is doing his Discrete homework. He's all like, "you know what this means?". I'm geeking out over his homework, and he's all like "I HATE this class". It was...kinda surreal.
Well, as the shift of commercial software seems to be shifting more towards "services" and things you connect to via browser or app, MS may be a bit touchy over losing something like Exchange. I realize that their current strategy is still a complete Windows lock-in (Client, apps, server) but if and when they change (my bet is that it'll happen eventually), their money will be made more on things like Exchange.
You can always check out the mega-gaming sites that also host WoW patches...I pointed this out to a friend of mine that plays (I don't) and he downloaded the patch in 5 minutes instead of an hour (or something ridiculous like that).
I think there's a large difference between what we hear in MPAA press releases and what's being said in confidential memos from the media cartels' executive officers. Although I've never heard or read about someone who is the tech guy trying to leverage the internet to help the content industry make money off of it (I know, I know, NDAs), I'm pretty sure there are a number of skilled people whose job it is to find new ways of distribution. They just don't want you to know about it.
Um, if the Mozilla crew can put together a mail + calendar app that has the usability of Firefox, I'd switch to it. I've never used Outlook, but I do want to ditch my crappy Palm Desktop software.
Yeah and then in 100 years we'll have a bunch of people screaming the sky is falling because our new space probes are discovering these new places and OH MY GOODNESS we won't have enough space for them all.
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I believe that the number of particles physicists currently use is not enough. Therefore I am now creating the foo-on, bar-on, and baz-on. Use 'em however ya like. You can send the Nobel stuff anytime.
Dude, WTF? Why are you replying with that to my comment?
Except they shouldn't have called it "speak n spell"...they should've called it "Speak Like the Devil". I would wake up at 3 AM "PlaaY WuuTH meE"...
(dane cook)
If you have an ounce of respect for other peoples' opinions, you can be legally branded as "liberal fair game" by the Freedomland Bureau of Investig...i'm stretching here...
While I don't disagree with you on the knee-jerk-ocity of the story, your side example isn't really the same as what happened in this case. If there's a bug in my software, I can't be held liable as long as I write out in the license "I am not responsible for blah blah". If there is some rather nasty bug though, and I choose to release the fix for a million dollars, there is definitely room for debate as to whether I should be able to charge money for my own mistake.
Strangely (and scarily), Miers has never been a judge. She's been a landshark for years though, chairing the Dallas Bar and Texas State Bar. She was also appointed a job in Texas by Bush (W) during his stint as Texas Gov, so she's obviously not been swayed by any political party ever.
I can see it now...
Haha, I'm totally gonna piss all over the heap. This box is goin' DOWN!
BZZZZZT! Heap protection initiated
WTF??
HAHA PWNED
Yeah, just like nobody used any of those other security projects from OpenBSD, like OpenSSH...jeez, what do we expect, people to start taking advantage of security measures? (oh yeah, read all the AC replies, they're far more eloquent than I.)
Maybe they saw humans (or some other 'higher' ape) using tools? I dunno, it's a possibility, right?
This was a- good article, but -I keep thinking- some-thing's wrong with it. I just can-'t put my finger on it,- though...
An experienced aid organization will be able to provide proper information to prepare volunteers to function and not be a hinderance to the relief effort.
If the organization you're with can't provide proper guidance, they don't know what they're doing and will cause more problems then they solve.
Wow, you're not only colorblind, but you can only see in black and white as well.
Your intentins are good, but if you don't have training you will be a hinderance and a liability.
Have you considered the possibility that they have contacted an organization that's accepting gofers to help with the work? According to the tone of your post, they're obviously just loading up some carfuls of people and driving down there with no planning whatsoever, but I don't think this is what's going on.
My thoughts:
-Any growth rate within a finite system cannot continue indefinitely. Think bacteria in a petri dish.
-Firefox has not released any major updates to its browser since 1.0 (which was released on 2004-11-09, a little over 11 months ago).
-Internet Explorer is still "good enough" for Joe Average, even if his PC is slowing to a crawl because of all the spyware.
I realize Slashdot isn't really a "news organization" with "real" journalists and such, but seriously. If the guy submitting the article is from the site that is linked, at least put a blurb like Someguy (of pcwhatever.com) writes "(summary)". It looks more like a real news entry rather than a shameless plug.
Fun anecdote:
I'm a CS (wannabe) major. My friend, a physics/math major is doing his Discrete homework. He's all like, "you know what this means?". I'm geeking out over his homework, and he's all like "I HATE this class". It was...kinda surreal.
Well, as the shift of commercial software seems to be shifting more towards "services" and things you connect to via browser or app, MS may be a bit touchy over losing something like Exchange. I realize that their current strategy is still a complete Windows lock-in (Client, apps, server) but if and when they change (my bet is that it'll happen eventually), their money will be made more on things like Exchange.
You can always check out the mega-gaming sites that also host WoW patches...I pointed this out to a friend of mine that plays (I don't) and he downloaded the patch in 5 minutes instead of an hour (or something ridiculous like that).
I think there's a large difference between what we hear in MPAA press releases and what's being said in confidential memos from the media cartels' executive officers. Although I've never heard or read about someone who is the tech guy trying to leverage the internet to help the content industry make money off of it (I know, I know, NDAs), I'm pretty sure there are a number of skilled people whose job it is to find new ways of distribution. They just don't want you to know about it.
Yeah, where else can your blazingly slow Bittorrent files drip down the line 24/7? (anyone else noticing this recently?)
With four choices, the "winner" only needs 25.000...01% of the vote to win. This hardly seems like a majority, and more like a plurality.
Um, if the Mozilla crew can put together a mail + calendar app that has the usability of Firefox, I'd switch to it. I've never used Outlook, but I do want to ditch my crappy Palm Desktop software.
Yeah and then in 100 years we'll have a bunch of people screaming the sky is falling because our new space probes are discovering these new places and OH MY GOODNESS we won't have enough space for them all.
When deep space exploration ramps up,it will be corporations that name everything. The IBM Stellar Sphere. The Philip Morris Galaxy. Planet Starbucks.
(fight club)
Of course, we can just go back to importing Scanadinavian porn, just like our fathers did back in the 60's.
Hell at least it might be good then.
This is why Muslims consider only Arabic versions of the Qur'an to be correct. Sometimes I wish Christians did the same.
I didn't think Christians preferred non-Arabic versions of the Qur'an, but...whatever you say, dude... (kidding, etc)