You forget to mention that actually opera is very nice; the UI is generally a little more responsive than that of firefox--of course the design paradigm is not quite the same... I use both firefox and opera--and yet I seem to use opera more often, naturally.
no you wouldn't, actually; the ball is doesn't hang midfield, it's being founght for--and usually there are differences in strength and tactics that make that part fun.
A game can be tense or relaxed, one-sided or evenly played--and when a goal happens, it can be a direct consequence of 30 minutes of pressure, or a complete surprise.
Some games, of course, can be incredibly boring--but that is part of it too. The Italian team for example is/was famous for its oft-criticised safe defensive "boring" game, with occasional sharp attacks...that's how Greece won the eurocup in a way.
Never mind, never mind.
I agree, there is a problem here.
I think it is quite scary that people consider "good news" is supposed to come from reuters or google news in blurt form "without witty banter".
That is not good news, that is insipid, and usually uninteresting information! Whatever happened to investigative journalism, well argued opinion pieces and editorials!
Contrast articles on the guardian for example and stuff found on google from AP or reuters, or even the online edition of BBC news (which is becoming more boring by the day following the iraq "sexed up dossier" controversy, in fear of ever offending anyone...).
Sports of course is quite another matter, although I would actually argue that just seeing the highlights is not as interesting as seeing how a whole game progressed, say, in football (soccer). Cricket of course is an exception here, as the game can last a few days:-)
No, really, reducing news to "raw information" has something inherently thought-killing to it; beyond the most basic factual info you would have lost a whole universe of interpretation and debate.
yeah, nice physics equations are quite useful too. I mean, you can use the LaTeX code for your favourite quantum mechanics equation, and you're pretty much sorted--especially if you add a dumb characters. I used to use e=mc2!! but it's easy to see that even a simple equation could be written in many different ways: e=mc^2, $e=mc^{2}$, etc etc with caps and all, or rot(13) or whatever. Of course, long variants of astrophysical fluid dynamics are advised for length...
It is common practice for Muslims who convert to other religions to be murdered for doing so. If you honestly think otherwise, you need to educate yourself. Notice that the gp himself made similar comments, and didn't contradict mine.
False, false and false. This may have happened, as horrible things tend to happen in our world, but it is definitely not "common practice". There are many different islamic countries, with different customs, laws and levels of institutional idiocy. Check your facts somewhere other than in republican propaganda newsletters--your generalising comments betray frightening ignorance.
Your comment about european growth rates is also wrong, and is typical, I re-iterate, of rethoric employed by far-right groups in europe such as the british national party, the french front national and german neo-nazi bending factions.
True, muslim families may have more children than european ones on average--although not by much as the social repartition changes (birth rate is more of a function of family income/social strata than of religion, at least within europe). France is a maximal case, with 5% muslims, and it is far from close to becoming a "muslim country"; you quote 20 years--look at the numbers, you'll see it doesn't add up. And don't make any prediction for longer than 25 years, as we don't know what the geopolitical changes might be--of course, if you extrapolate current natality rates over 300 years...
disclaimer: I am not muslim--and am european, but I know the middle east and other muslim countries very well.
I'm just appalled at the kinds of arguments that you are using, and that seem to have become commonplace in some countries--you may be trying to be a "realist" but you'll notice that all your points are far-fetched generalisations or extrapolations.
Well, see, here's the thing: if you're no longer a Muslim, once you leave here you'll find yourself in danger from other Muslims, especially if you go to Europe (Europe is about 20 years away from being yet another Islamic state, thanks to all the immigration recently).
WTF? Does how the hell does this sort of fascist nonsense get modded up?
Hello, moronic 15-year-old moderators, only extreme-right groups could ever pronounce a sentence like this in europe!
You do not understand islam, you do not understand european or middle-eastern politics, you haven't looked at the immigration numbers.
That said, I agree in that I don't think there's a case for moving from the US--not any more than there is one for a black person who perceives racism. Eventually the tide will swing back, and after all you do still arguably have legal safeguards in the USA...
Your last sentence nearly saves you but not quite.
Your simplifying is not the problem in what you say, it's the interpretation you give of that history that is a problem. Come on, applying Thomas Kuhn's paradigm view to philosophy...that's a little childish. Everyone knows philosphy moves and has currents, and that each of these currents is affected by what came before it. That said I find it a rather unsubtle statement to say that postmodernism has been in the making since the greeks--there have always been people arguing completely against philosophical discourse and metaphysics with the argument of doubt.
Full circle? I know not. If anything we are only moving forward through references to the past, and rejections of it; tradition and change. Postmodernism is really nothing that special, it is only symptomatic of the modernist quest of the being of man as an individual separate from the world. It is also symptomatic of our modern lack of interest in listening attentively to the past: we only seem to seek to build, and talk, but without reflection.
In addition to the references you gave, let me add Paul Ricoeur as someone with sound hermeneutics, and a good reading of Heidegger (especially the essays) and Plato too.
Philosphy proceeds through dialog, the dialog of cultures, traditions,individuals etc. I guess you might be agreeing with me in some of your points, but I definitely don't buy into the simple idea of advancement and circles. In that view, postmodernism is really nothing special--yes it provided some interesting ideas but I would releague it to the world of literature and sociology, not to philosophy.
It is also true to say that the 20th century has no consensus on method (or agreement on a single theory as you say), but currents can definitely be distinguished there just as much as before--philosphy's task is not to come up with a theory of the world that people choose as true, it has an ongoing dimension of dialog that you cannot ignore.
Oh nooo! It's useless, don't buy that! Apart from the very cool form factor, there is really nothing good about that: I ended up exchanging it for a larger model after seeing the dire results...yuck: very few colours, pixelated to death, just not good enough. OK, my standards might be high as I have done a lot of photography (I normally use a leica M6), but I know you can get better for the price, if you give up on the credit card size. Try thisCasio EX-S2 for $249 or Konica Revio C2 for $ 79...
WiFi is certainly a welcome addition to the GNER--that is, when it comes to 2nd class AND when you can find a space to sit.
You don't see a problem with UK trains because you're american. Try european trains: the extent of the networks, the cleanness of the carriages and the consistency of investment are usually much better than in the UK. I'm talking germany, switzerland, even france (think of the new 2-floor TGVs...very comfy, very smooth.) Here in france trains usually leave and arrive within the minute of their avertised time. It's not approximate, when it works.
Having travelled extensively in europe and lived in britain for 8 years, I can definitely say british trains and the network suffer from 25 years of underinvestment. That said, I also think they are getting better, as showed by this WiFi thing.
Well you are quite right: kde does it extremely well but not with gnome or other WMs, and this is not achieved within gnome either.
But wouldn't something like that imply some sort of middleware that does the dirty work? Something of an API between X and the window manager (uck! too many layers!)
I guess that's part of the reason behind freedesktop.org though, and I'm not sure it would be that simple to implement in the short run.
That is not a bad idea really: cultural heritage is obviously not only of architetural nature.
As to the reply that says that this cannot happen because of business interests, and that buildings don't get destroyed because of business interests, I would argue that quite a few do! There is often a business reason to detroy old buildings and replace them with newer stuff, shopping malls etc.
I really think that in this case *someone* should be able to recuperate the music and launch a new site.
The point is not so much that these artists have nowhere else to go, but that because of its history and name this site was an excellent way for independents to gain exposure, and for the public to discover them. A one-stop location in a sense.
That said the artists will probably re-locate somewhere in mass, and another good site may see light of day without much loss.
...Its significance changes in the light of newer 64-bit platforms (athlon64, Itanium (sic), PPC G5). Of course, in its time, it was quite something, but that time may have passed--64-bit almost certainly will be mainstream, and will be commoditised in a few years.
I have yet to see an Dreamweaver page that doesn't pass the w3c validation engine.
It's really not that bad--I don't speak for frontpage, which is microsoft junk anyways...
The truth is that making a document accessible is hard, and expensive. It's extra work...and you know how that goes. It's very hard, if not impossible for a piece of software to add metadata for you (think of alt image tags.)
I beg to disagree--a few posts below also re-iterate your point.
In PHP, URL-rewrite slows things down and bloats your script. It also makes your URLs look ugly: sometimes you may want them to stick in the user's mind. While for a forum this may be OK, for a fairly big user-centric website it is simply ridiculous to have to do away with cookies--they are a convenient way to deal with things "behind the curtain"; they also have the added security of not being immediatly visible to the user (he has to want to see them, by looking at his filesystem or other.)
Privacy -wise, all decent modern browsers have some form of modern cookie filtering--the user can choose to block, etc.
The only solution I see is, as suggested below, have a front page which tells the user and gives him the choice to leave.
All in all, I find this law a little silly, although of course I understand the privacy concern.
Do you think MA has better laws regarding these problems? After all it is one of the states that is most against the microsoft settlement (but that is unrelated, as it is the state attorney and not directly the state laws)
As some of the posts have said: --if this goes far enough, they may get to a high court ruling --some of the local law schools may be of help:-) (lessig is in stanford though he could be good too...surely there are other people like him in the East Coast)
I looked at the pics and was deceived by the lack of cables: my very standard PC has more if you open it, and if I consider some of the network cable racks we have down in the computer basement, then the robot definitely doesn't shine in the cable dept...
That said, it's weird, it's quirky, it's useless and that nearly makes it funny;-p
you should really try the mail client that comes with opera 7 (it's called M2--but use the very latest opera as it's evolving quite fast.) It basically puts all your emails in a database, and you can then have vritual folders based on filters(from any header), or to which you manually add messages. Automatically sorts by attachment type, mailing list etc.
Only problem is that the whole thing is not quite mature enough IMHO, but a few days with that and it's hard to come back to a normal mail client--very very well designed.
thanks, thanks, thanks.
I was actually wondering, and couldn't be bothered to do the calculation myself.
It's nice to see something that's not a wild uninformed guess every now and then on/.
Keep it up, and, guys, *mod parent up.*;-p
from a thankful astrophysicist.
It can definitely be said that some mathematicians produced work at an early age. As the article said, many died early, some continued to produce work throughout their lives. And the body of maths has increased so much that it's much more work getting an good overview of a field.
Note also that before the 19th century, scientific research didn't have the same place in society: it has grown quite a lot.
But regardless of the mathematician's age, what has to be taken into account is the relationship between groundbreaking work, and sturdy, low-profile, everyday work that is achieved by the mathematics community as a whole.
Without that, the breakthrough cannot happen: it loses its value, as it has no ground to stand on.
This is of course relevant physics and astrophysics as well: if you didn't have people studying and cataloguing stellar spectra, you couldn't develop theories about distances, and, more crucially, n-dimensional cosmological models. Now remember, stellar spectra themselves are boring as hell, so are atomic spectra (the spectra that prompted quantum mechanics, etc.)
There are a lot of romantic ideas in the non-scientific public about science: I meet them every day. Sometimes they are just funny, but other times you wonder about the image that society has of your work. Of course I am by no means degrading the value of scientific breakthroughs and original thinking: any deep thought is a process that I consider to be mysterious in essence.
Just some precisions from the resident astrophysicist:-)
1.) Yes, true, UV damages dies.
2.) The solar spectrum is a blackbody curve that peaks in the green, visible; incandesceng light will typically peak in the red, visible--so yes the sun will send more UV.
3.) Most hard UV is absorbed by the atmosphere, we only get UV-A, UV-B, UV-C on earth, which are closest to visible light;this is why UV telescopes are in space.
4.) Some windows are specifically designed to stop UV, but most windows will let UV through (most of it anyways).
Slashdot Mirror
You forget to mention that actually opera is very nice; the UI is generally a little more responsive than that of firefox--of course the design paradigm is not quite the same...
I use both firefox and opera--and yet I seem to use opera more often, naturally.
no you wouldn't, actually; the ball is doesn't hang midfield, it's being founght for--and usually there are differences in strength and tactics that make that part fun.
A game can be tense or relaxed, one-sided or evenly played--and when a goal happens, it can be a direct consequence of 30 minutes of pressure, or a complete surprise.
Some games, of course, can be incredibly boring--but that is part of it too. The Italian team for example is/was famous for its oft-criticised safe defensive "boring" game, with occasional sharp attacks...that's how Greece won the eurocup in a way.
Never mind, never mind.
I agree, there is a problem here. :-)
I think it is quite scary that people consider "good news" is supposed to come from reuters or google news in blurt form "without witty banter".
That is not good news, that is insipid, and usually uninteresting information! Whatever happened to investigative journalism, well argued opinion pieces and editorials!
Contrast articles on the guardian for example and stuff found on google from AP or reuters, or even the online edition of BBC news (which is becoming more boring by the day following the iraq "sexed up dossier" controversy, in fear of ever offending anyone...).
Sports of course is quite another matter, although I would actually argue that just seeing the highlights is not as interesting as seeing how a whole game progressed, say, in football (soccer). Cricket of course is an exception here, as the game can last a few days
No, really, reducing news to "raw information" has something inherently thought-killing to it; beyond the most basic factual info you would have lost a whole universe of interpretation and debate.
Hey,
you can get the qute theme from its designer's website here.
yeah, nice physics equations are quite useful too. I mean, you can use the LaTeX code for your favourite quantum mechanics equation, and you're pretty much sorted--especially if you add a dumb characters.
I used to use e=mc2!! but it's easy to see that even a simple equation could be written in many different ways: e=mc^2, $e=mc^{2}$, etc etc with caps and all, or rot(13) or whatever.
Of course, long variants of astrophysical fluid dynamics are advised for length...
It is common practice for Muslims who convert to other religions to be murdered for doing so. If you honestly think otherwise, you need to educate yourself. Notice that the gp himself made similar comments, and didn't contradict mine.
False, false and false. This may have happened, as horrible things tend to happen in our world, but it is definitely not "common practice". There are many different islamic countries, with different customs, laws and levels of institutional idiocy. Check your facts somewhere other than in republican propaganda newsletters--your generalising comments betray frightening ignorance.
Your comment about european growth rates is also wrong, and is typical, I re-iterate, of rethoric employed by far-right groups in europe such as the british national party, the french front national and german neo-nazi bending factions.
True, muslim families may have more children than european ones on average--although not by much as the social repartition changes (birth rate is more of a function of family income/social strata than of religion, at least within europe). France is a maximal case, with 5% muslims, and it is far from close to becoming a "muslim country"; you quote 20 years--look at the numbers, you'll see it doesn't add up. And don't make any prediction for longer than 25 years, as we don't know what the geopolitical changes might be--of course, if you extrapolate current natality rates over 300 years...
disclaimer: I am not muslim--and am european, but I know the middle east and other muslim countries very well.
I'm just appalled at the kinds of arguments that you are using, and that seem to have become commonplace in some countries--you may be trying to be a "realist" but you'll notice that all your points are far-fetched generalisations or extrapolations.
Well, see, here's the thing: if you're no longer a Muslim, once you leave here you'll find yourself in danger from other Muslims, especially if you go to Europe (Europe is about 20 years away from being yet another Islamic state, thanks to all the immigration recently).
WTF? Does how the hell does this sort of fascist nonsense get modded up?
Hello, moronic 15-year-old moderators, only extreme-right groups could ever pronounce a sentence like this in europe!
You do not understand islam, you do not understand european or middle-eastern politics, you haven't looked at the immigration numbers.
That said, I agree in that I don't think there's a case for moving from the US--not any more than there is one for a black person who perceives racism. Eventually the tide will swing back, and after all you do still arguably have legal safeguards in the USA...
Your last sentence nearly saves you but not quite.
Your simplifying is not the problem in what you say, it's the interpretation you give of that history that is a problem. Come on, applying Thomas Kuhn's paradigm view to philosophy...that's a little childish. Everyone knows philosphy moves and has currents, and that each of these currents is affected by what came before it. That said I find it a rather unsubtle statement to say that postmodernism has been in the making since the greeks--there have always been people arguing completely against philosophical discourse and metaphysics with the argument of doubt.
Full circle? I know not. If anything we are only moving forward through references to the past, and rejections of it; tradition and change. Postmodernism is really nothing that special, it is only symptomatic of the modernist quest of the being of man as an individual separate from the world. It is also symptomatic of our modern lack of interest in listening attentively to the past: we only seem to seek to build, and talk, but without reflection.
In addition to the references you gave, let me add Paul Ricoeur as someone with sound hermeneutics, and a good reading of Heidegger (especially the essays) and Plato too.
Philosphy proceeds through dialog, the dialog of cultures, traditions,individuals etc. I guess you might be agreeing with me in some of your points, but I definitely don't buy into the simple idea of advancement and circles. In that view, postmodernism is really nothing special--yes it provided some interesting ideas but I would releague it to the world of literature and sociology, not to philosophy.
It is also true to say that the 20th century has no consensus on method (or agreement on a single theory as you say), but currents can definitely be distinguished there just as much as before--philosphy's task is not to come up with a theory of the world that people choose as true, it has an ongoing dimension of dialog that you cannot ignore.
Oh nooo!
It's useless, don't buy that! Apart from the very cool form factor, there is really nothing good about that: I ended up exchanging it for a larger model after seeing the dire results...yuck: very few colours, pixelated to death, just not good enough.
OK, my standards might be high as I have done a lot of photography (I normally use a leica M6), but I know you can get better for the price, if you give up on the credit card size.
Try thisCasio EX-S2 for $249 or Konica Revio C2 for $ 79...
WiFi is certainly a welcome addition to the GNER--that is, when it comes to 2nd class AND when you can find a space to sit.
You don't see a problem with UK trains because you're american. Try european trains: the extent of the networks, the cleanness of the carriages and the consistency of investment are usually much better than in the UK. I'm talking germany, switzerland, even france (think of the new 2-floor TGVs...very comfy, very smooth.) Here in france trains usually leave and arrive within the minute of their avertised time. It's not approximate, when it works.
Having travelled extensively in europe and lived in britain for 8 years, I can definitely say british trains and the network suffer from 25 years of underinvestment. That said, I also think they are getting better, as showed by this WiFi thing.
Well you are quite right: kde does it extremely well but not with gnome or other WMs, and this is not achieved within gnome either.
But wouldn't something like that imply some sort of middleware that does the dirty work? Something of an API between X and the window manager (uck! too many layers!)
I guess that's part of the reason behind freedesktop.org though, and I'm not sure it would be that simple to implement in the short run.
Well that's kind of the point of slashdot logos dude.
Have you seen how old the sgi one is?
That is not a bad idea really: cultural heritage is obviously not only of architetural nature.
As to the reply that says that this cannot happen because of business interests, and that buildings don't get destroyed because of business interests, I would argue that quite a few do! There is often a business reason to detroy old buildings and replace them with newer stuff, shopping malls etc.
I really think that in this case *someone* should be able to recuperate the music and launch a new site.
The point is not so much that these artists have nowhere else to go, but that because of its history and name this site was an excellent way for independents to gain exposure, and for the public to discover them. A one-stop location in a sense.
That said the artists will probably re-locate somewhere in mass, and another good site may see light of day without much loss.
Hey,
slashdot managed an MIT web server! (the media lab's) That's not too bad for a saturday.
( the qt movi was embedded in the page, all 5MB of it...)
f
...Its significance changes in the light of newer 64-bit platforms (athlon64, Itanium (sic), PPC G5). Of course, in its time, it was quite something, but that time may have passed--64-bit almost certainly will be mainstream, and will be commoditised in a few years.
I have yet to see an Dreamweaver page that doesn't pass the w3c validation engine.
It's really not that bad--I don't speak for frontpage, which is microsoft junk anyways...
The truth is that making a document accessible is hard, and expensive. It's extra work...and you know how that goes. It's very hard, if not impossible for a piece of software to add metadata for you (think of alt image tags.)
I beg to disagree--a few posts below also re-iterate your point.
In PHP, URL-rewrite slows things down and bloats your script. It also makes your URLs look ugly: sometimes you may want them to stick in the user's mind.
While for a forum this may be OK, for a fairly big user-centric website it is simply ridiculous to have to do away with cookies--they are a convenient way to deal with things "behind the curtain"; they also have the added security of not being immediatly visible to the user (he has to want to see them, by looking at his filesystem or other.)
Privacy -wise, all decent modern browsers have some form of modern cookie filtering--the user can choose to block, etc.
The only solution I see is, as suggested below, have a front page which tells the user and gives him the choice to leave.
All in all, I find this law a little silly, although of course I understand the privacy concern.
Yes. Thank you MIT, thank you BC.
:-) (lessig is in stanford though he could be good too...surely there are other people like him in the East Coast)
Do you think MA has better laws regarding these problems? After all it is one of the states that is most against the microsoft settlement (but that is unrelated, as it is the state attorney and not directly the state laws)
As some of the posts have said:
--if this goes far enough, they may get to a high court ruling
--some of the local law schools may be of help
ah,
so you write proofs straight in LaTeX? pfff yer right. Much easier to think on paper, try if you don't believe me.
Actually,
;-p
I looked at the pics and was deceived by the lack of cables: my very standard PC has more if you open it, and if I consider some of the network cable racks we have down in the computer basement, then the robot definitely doesn't shine in the cable dept...
That said, it's weird, it's quirky, it's useless and that nearly makes it funny
Ah,
you should really try the mail client that comes with opera 7 (it's called M2--but use the very latest opera as it's evolving quite fast.)
It basically puts all your emails in a database, and you can then have vritual folders based on filters(from any header), or to which you manually add messages. Automatically sorts by attachment type, mailing list etc.
Only problem is that the whole thing is not quite mature enough IMHO, but a few days with that and it's hard to come back to a normal mail client--very very well designed.
Well, slackware has dropline gnome, which is specially optimised for slack.
Hehe,
/.
;-p
thanks, thanks, thanks.
I was actually wondering, and couldn't be bothered to do the calculation myself.
It's nice to see something that's not a wild uninformed guess every now and then on
Keep it up, and, guys, *mod parent up.*
from a thankful astrophysicist.
It can definitely be said that some mathematicians produced work at an early age. As the article said, many died early, some continued to produce work throughout their lives. And the body of maths has increased so much that it's much more work getting an good overview of a field.
Note also that before the 19th century, scientific research didn't have the same place in society: it has grown quite a lot.
But regardless of the mathematician's age, what has to be taken into account is the relationship between groundbreaking work, and sturdy, low-profile, everyday work that is achieved by the mathematics community as a whole.
Without that, the breakthrough cannot happen: it loses its value, as it has no ground to stand on.
This is of course relevant physics and astrophysics as well: if you didn't have people studying and cataloguing stellar spectra, you couldn't develop theories about distances, and, more crucially, n-dimensional cosmological models. Now remember, stellar spectra themselves are boring as hell, so are atomic spectra (the spectra that prompted quantum mechanics, etc.)
There are a lot of romantic ideas in the non-scientific public about science: I meet them every day. Sometimes they are just funny, but other times you wonder about the image that society has of your work. Of course I am by no means degrading the value of scientific breakthroughs and original thinking: any deep thought is a process that I consider to be mysterious in essence.
Just some precisions from the resident astrophysicist :-)
1.) Yes, true, UV damages dies.
2.) The solar spectrum is a blackbody curve that peaks in the green, visible; incandesceng light will typically peak in the red, visible--so yes the sun will send more UV.
3.) Most hard UV is absorbed by the atmosphere, we only get UV-A, UV-B, UV-C on earth, which are closest to visible light;this is why UV telescopes are in space.
4.) Some windows are specifically designed to stop UV, but most windows will let UV through (most of it anyways).