While we're talking about slashdot improvements, I think it would be a good idea to make a flat-mode hierarchical display that would tell you who replied to what. Kind of like a threaded display, but it would show the actual comment, not just the title.
The 13th Floor preview reminded me at first of this game called Floor 13, where you sit behind a desk, and you're the secret coordinator of a campaign, and you have to have people interrogated for information, killed, discredited, etc etc. Ever played it?
Isn't it a proven fact that without mental development
It's not so much the mental development -- it's touch. Children who are not touched often by their parents exhibit antisocial behavior. Harry Harlowe did some experiments with little monkeys on the subject to prove the case. Apparently the touching doesn't even have to be with a live parent -- it could be a simple plush doll. A baby monkey is quite happy to be protected by a non-living furball, therein free to play and develop mentally, socially, etc.
whatisthematrix.com is pretty lame, by the way, but it's the movie's website.
I guess you're right, because if the majority of the computer-using population intends to be stupid, (take a look at the Students suing their college article) MS is exactly what they need. For whoever knows better, there'll always be alternatives. I think people just need to calm down about 'impending disaster' coming from every direction (free software license wars, internic/nsi crap, etc). Nothing is going to disappear anytime soon.
Most people aren't computer-literate enough to be able to search through the 10000000 lines of code in Photoshop, or whatever, to make it not crash when doing an obscure mask operation.
Maybe if the source were freely included with the purchase of the product, and a license to use it under the same conditions as the purchased software, then both the programming guru and the corporate exec would be happy. Also, if the user could upload patches to the vendor for $$, people would be even happier.
I refuse to believe that the great unwashed is really as stupid as they're pretending to be. I am tempted to think that with a decent upbringing, pretty much anybody can be taught to be a good student. However, having misguided parents makes you unaccustomed to semantic learning. To deal with that, schools have to provide 'worksheets' where you fill in the blank form the book. It's no wonder that the media says school sucks -- for Joe User Jr., filling out worksheets 7 periods a day really does blow goats! The escape is therefore watching stupid TV and playing football, and later on being stupid about raising children.
I'm in a required Practical Arts class called Electronics Technology. We spent the first half of the semester learning how to calculate resistance in circuits. It was all done in such a worksheet-stupid way that I find my brain shuts down in there. If that's what it's like all the time, then it's no suprise so many people are stupid.
The point is that it's useless to propose forced sterilization of stupid people, or pouring money into schools that can't deal with poorly conditioned kids.
Fundamentally, all solutions need to start with good parenting, which also seems to be in deficit. I don't know about you, but my parents made me feel bad when I didn't get good grades. And my dad taught me BASIC on a C64. I don't see how, given the proper influence, anybody could be unable to do a simple algebra problem.
There needs to be a stigma attached to sucking at academics, otherwise it turns out to be ok to sit on welfare and do nothing but have barbecues in your driveway during the day, and lots of sex at night.
If you don't want to read the movie review, don't. I think you can actually have slashdot exclude them from your list of articles. So I don't exactly know what you're bitching about.
I think that a good way to deal with the most recent Gates public warbling is to simply ignore it. If he does it for attention, then he should get as little as possible.
A couple of days ago, I ripped some WAV from a CD, then compressed it to mp3, and then decompressed it to WAV again. To see between the encoded and non-encoded sounds, I subtracted one from the other (naturally, after making sure they were perfectly aligned). Most of the low and mid-range frequencies dropped out completely. The sound left was very analogous to what happens when you listen to a record player needle going across a record without it being electrically amplified. When I listened to the encoded and non-encoded versions of the music, I couldn't tell them apart, so I guess it doesn't really matter.
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Maybe this cute pokemon could be the new logo. :)
Oh, hey, it already exists :) n/m :)
While we're talking about slashdot improvements, I think it would be a good idea to make a flat-mode hierarchical display that would tell you who replied to what. Kind of like a threaded display, but it would show the actual comment, not just the title.
The 13th Floor preview reminded me at first of this game called Floor 13, where you sit behind a desk, and you're the secret coordinator of a campaign, and you have to have people interrogated for information, killed, discredited, etc etc. Ever played it?
Isn't it a proven fact that without mental development
It's not so much the mental development -- it's touch. Children who are not touched often by their parents exhibit antisocial behavior. Harry Harlowe did some experiments with little monkeys on the subject to prove the case. Apparently the touching doesn't even have to be with a live parent -- it could be a simple plush doll. A baby monkey is quite happy to be protected by a non-living furball, therein free to play and develop mentally, socially, etc.
whatisthematrix.com is pretty lame, by the way, but it's the movie's website.
So anti-MS emotions aren't "needed" anymore.
I guess you're right, because if the majority of the computer-using population intends to be stupid, (take a look at the Students suing their college article) MS is exactly what they need. For whoever knows better, there'll always be alternatives. I think people just need to calm down about 'impending disaster' coming from every direction (free software license wars, internic/nsi crap, etc). Nothing is going to disappear anytime soon.
We all know what Scott Adams (aka the author of Dilbert) thinks about management, the target of this book.
'nuff said.
Most people aren't computer-literate enough to be able to search through the 10000000 lines of code in Photoshop, or whatever, to make it not crash when doing an obscure mask operation.
Maybe if the source were freely included with the purchase of the product, and a license to use it under the same conditions as the purchased software, then both the programming guru and the corporate exec would be happy. Also, if the user could upload patches to the vendor for $$, people would be even happier.
She put coffee...between her legs
Maybe she was just cold...
Just a note: Java is just as useful a
language as C (or C++, or Pascal) for
illustrating data structures.
Don't forget Python!
I refuse to believe that the great unwashed is really as stupid as they're pretending to be. I am tempted to think that with a decent upbringing, pretty much anybody can be taught to be a good student. However, having misguided parents makes you unaccustomed to semantic learning. To deal with that, schools have to provide 'worksheets' where you fill in the blank form the book. It's no wonder that the media says school sucks -- for Joe User Jr., filling out worksheets 7 periods a day really does blow goats! The escape is therefore watching stupid TV and playing football, and later on being stupid about raising children.
I'm in a required Practical Arts class called Electronics Technology. We spent the first half of the semester learning how to calculate resistance in circuits. It was all done in such a worksheet-stupid way that I find my brain shuts down in there. If that's what it's like all the time, then it's no suprise so many people are stupid.
The point is that it's useless to propose forced sterilization of stupid people, or pouring money into schools that can't deal with poorly conditioned kids.
Fundamentally, all solutions need to start with good parenting, which also seems to be in deficit. I don't know about you, but my parents made me feel bad when I didn't get good grades. And my dad taught me BASIC on a C64. I don't see how, given the proper influence, anybody could be unable to do a simple algebra problem.
There needs to be a stigma attached to sucking at academics, otherwise it turns out to be ok to sit on welfare and do nothing but have barbecues in your driveway during the day, and lots of sex at night.
If you don't want to read the movie review, don't. I think you can actually have slashdot exclude them from your list of articles. So I don't exactly know what you're bitching about.
I think that a good way to deal with the most recent Gates public warbling is to simply ignore it. If he does it for attention, then he should get as little as possible.
Debian already runs on amigas, so apparently getting a good OS wouldn't be a problem if Amigas came back.
A couple of days ago, I ripped some WAV from a CD, then compressed it to mp3, and then decompressed it to WAV again. To see between the encoded and non-encoded sounds, I subtracted one from the other (naturally, after making sure they were perfectly aligned). Most of the low and mid-range frequencies dropped out completely. The sound left was very analogous to what happens when you listen to a record player needle going across a record without it being electrically amplified. When I listened to the encoded and non-encoded versions of the music, I couldn't tell them apart, so I guess it doesn't really matter.