Please don't fall for the self-loathing. Many of the early differences in English were because British English continued to evolve while American English (and Noah Webster's dictionary) stayed closer to the British English at the time of the establishment of the American Colonies, so perhaps it was the British who were "dumbing down" many words. In reality, both American English and British English have continued to evolve.
"The general tendency within the open source community is to a whole new wheel to push your own cart."
"(the distro which leads the development of Gnome shell and its also the breeding ground of many latest technologies which are used by the rest of the GNU/Linux world)."
"Interestingly developers users openSUSE's build service to create this port."
I think that the goal is that one of the many monkeys types an entire work of Shakespeare, not that many monkeys each type a very small segment of Shakespeare mixed in with gibberish, and then the many very small segments of Shakespeare are cut from the surrounding gibberish and combined by a person of intelligence into a work of Shakespeare.
The notice is very emotionally charged and very confrontational. To me, the tone communicates that the author, Russ Herrold, is not interested in reconciliation.
He uses phrases such as "You seem to have crawled into a hole... and this is not acceptable." and "Please contact me, or any other signer of this letter at once, to arrange for the required information to keep the project alive at the 'centos.org' domain." These sound insulting and threatening.
He also throws around words such as "fear" and "kill." These are very emotionally charged words.
I don't know any of the details or background other than the notice, but the attacking wording sounds more like a blackmail, extortion, or coup attempt than a legitimate plea to find the project leader.
I think the biggest unfortunate change will be the loss of developers who are inclined to develop software for free.
Many participants in the Give One Get One program were developers at some level, linux developers. Eventually many of those developers would have contributed code. A switch to Windows will alienate those developers.
I agree that movement has been slow. It is hard to believe that Update 1 is still not released; this creates a large disconnect between development and released software, which also pushes away developers. These delays are not a result of the base OS; they are a result of choices made at OLPC. These same choices could have been made with Windows as the underlying OS.
This was my thought. I have been looking for a look-alike Wii controller for my two year old so she won't feel slighted and jealous when the older sibling is playing the Wii. A good cheap look-alike is a great product. I don't even need batteries, just movable buttons. Thank you Wal-Mart.
PS. If I showed a small photo of a toy cell-phone to a Wal-Mart employee, then the employee would likely direct me to the real cell-phone aisle; this isn't bad, it's just the employee using common sense to answer the question. Also, who asks any big box store employee anything, and expects a good answer.
The first one is nice, but what if the alternative is NO cure? Then which is better, no cure, or greedy bastard's cure? I don't even think this contrived scenario is that simple. G.B. did not come up with his or her cure alone. G. B. used public funds and public research. G.B. then happened to discover something that worked, before the other researchers. Since G.B. was first, the other researchers will be subject to G.B.'s patent tax. There is no reason to believe that the other researchers wouldn't have come up with the same solution; they just might come up with it second. With patents, second doesn't matter.
So, no, I would rather not have others waste their time with G.B.. Patents don't make G.B. good at sharing, which is good for discovering the cure; patents merely make G.B. good at leeching and good at sprinting to the patent office. If the cure is possible for G.B. to discover, then Unselfish Humanitarian can discover it too.
I don't want this person researching an AIDS cure, and he or she better not be getting my public dollars to support his or her research.
He or she is obviously more interested in personal wealth than the invention and than those in need of the invention. In the first scenario, if the invention did eventually get out, everyone could benefit from it, regardless of their wealth. The world would be a better place. In the second scenario, the inventor makes a killing, and the cure is held hostage, and only those willing to pay up will get the cure. The world is a better place for the inventor and the rich.
This neither fits the American nor the scientific ideal. Though perhaps, both realms have distanced themselves so far from their ideal that legislating dissent away, seems like a logical and productive measure. I think anyone seeking to decertify others based on disagreement with their own view on a theory shows themselves too partisan to be certified themselves.
Does anyone really want science that is based on popular opinion and that removes the credentials of qualified dissenters? This sounds a bit like how the followers of Aristotle sought to preserve their view in Renaissance Europe by taking care of those who disagreed.
Yea, the original poster needs to get over it. Standard ear plugs should work great for canceling the noise of the thousands of small fans he or she is hearing. Using noise cancellation headphones will only introduce something new to carry around and something new that can break. Often the best solution is the simplest one.
The original poster said, "I've no desire to wear those silly little yellow earplugs." Well luckily for him or her, the "silly little earplugs" come in more colors than just yellow, they also come in reusable and washable rubber, rather than just disposable foam.
Really; I find it almost impossible to find enough information to vote intelligently about everything presented to me on any ballot. I don't believe the correct option is to vote unintelligently, instead, the correct option is to vote on what you know about and leave the rest blank.
Those trying to get everyone to vote on everything, merely hope that the uninformed vote will go their way.
I agree with the ras_b's sentiment, I don't want to later discover that I voted opposite of my own beliefs (which I did once when I was younger). Also, if I don't have a strong opinion either way, then I should leave the issue to be decided by those who do have an opinion.
The summary is a bit misleading. Yes, the voting machines are flawed. Yes, the idea of closed box voting machines is flawed. Yes, the concept that a computer user interface is more conceptually clear than a pen and paper user interface is flawed. But, no, this is not a story about a Republican conspiracy, it is a story about touch screens needing calibration. It happens that both of the anecdotes relayed in the story are of Democrats needing assistance because of the miscalibration. If anything, this shows the bias of the author.
I wish the government would just do away with the electronic voting machines, the strong partisans don't need any extra excuse to complain when their candidate looses.
Also, Slashdot doesn't have to report this as a Republican versus Democrat issue, but it did. Slashdot is News for Nerds, not News for Democrats.
This service is not for my benefit or anyone else but Google. Everyone can see it is a thinly disguised way for Google to get "the Internet" to do image tagging for free.
That doesn't mean that people won't find the service fun, it does seem to parallel a few board games I am familiar with.
I think it is important to realize that the email states that one of the primary reasons for switching away from the foundation and back to a project is that the foundation would eventually limit how many resources (money, bandwidth, etc.) Redhat could contribute to Fedora. This is a problem, because Redhat does not want to cut back on Fedora, but rather increase contributions.
> Here's another funny thing: if you choose to incorporate as a non-profit entity in the United States, then you subject yourself to a number of rigorous IRS tax tests. One of these tests is the "public support test." If you say you're a public charity, well by golly, you have to prove it. If, within four years, you aren't collecting fully one third of your money from public sources, then you're not actually a public charity. [snip] > As an intellectual exercise, let's ignore all of those numbers for now except for bandwidth. [snip] > So let's take a conservative guess and say that the bandwidth cost for distributing Fedora comes to $1.5 million a year. Yes, even though we have BitTorrent trackers and Fedora mirror sites worldwide. > > That means that a public Fedora Foundation would have to raise $750k in public funds -- remember the one-third public support test -- every single year, just to pay for *bandwidth*, assuming no growth and no other expenses. > > So what would happen, under such a scenario, if Red Hat were to decide to spend more money on Fedora? Because that's exactly what Red Hat wants to do.
"All signs so far point to giving him the job, but I can't shake the feeling I'm getting robbed."
Sounds like you don't trust each other. Trust is needed for any relationship, but even more so for the "50/50" variety. Don't doom this before it starts, instead work out your trust and roles before you take the plunge.
I have MythTV running in the background of my primary system. Using the hardware accelerated encode/decode/tvout of the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 350 I can watch, pause, ff, and rw live and recorded television with little impact upon my system (doesn't even register in system monitor or top). I use a separate instance of the Xserver only displays on of the tvout of the 350 and only receives input from the remote of 350.
Before I took the plunge and set up MythTV the process confused me. There is so much talk of a MythTV frontend system and a backend system, that I was unsure if it was possible to run both parts of MythTV on the same system. I found that with a hardware accelerated card, both the frontend and the backend can be run in the background with little impact upon anything else. I do wish it didn't require MySql to save on ram usage.
Now I do write, email, program, and browse on my system on the primary head, while my wife skips commercials on the television using the remote! Don't be afraid to try it, my system isn't a speed daemon and isn't even in the same room as my television. I just connect the system and television with some long high quality coax.
I would love a few of these. A notebook for each kid, and one for mommy and daddy too. They are cheap. They don't have power cords to worry about. We can take them anywhere. They are cheap. They claim they are durable. I can write software for my kids. They are cheap. There is a large quantity of open source apps just waiting to be ported.
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Will people be buying an H Printer, or a P Printer?
Please don't fall for the self-loathing. Many of the early differences in English were because British English continued to evolve while American English (and Noah Webster's dictionary) stayed closer to the British English at the time of the establishment of the American Colonies, so perhaps it was the British who were "dumbing down" many words. In reality, both American English and British English have continued to evolve.
For a modern take on whether Americans misspell/mispronounce, check linguistic experts Patricia T. O'Conner and Stewart Kellerman.
...or even
Why can’t the Americans learn to speak?
Did the Bard speak American?
Would someone translate that to English please?
The slashdot title should have been, "Man completely misunderstands the Monkey Shakespeare Theorem."
I noticed that the linked website has comments off, so no one can help the author understand what the theorem really means.
I think that the goal is that one of the many monkeys types an entire work of Shakespeare, not that many monkeys each type a very small segment of Shakespeare mixed in with gibberish, and then the many very small segments of Shakespeare are cut from the surrounding gibberish and combined by a person of intelligence into a work of Shakespeare.
The notice is very emotionally charged and very confrontational. To me, the tone communicates that the author, Russ Herrold, is not interested in reconciliation.
He uses phrases such as "You seem to have crawled into a hole ... and this is not acceptable." and "Please contact me, or any other signer of this letter at once, to arrange for the required information to keep the project alive at the 'centos.org' domain." These sound insulting and threatening.
He also throws around words such as "fear" and "kill." These are very emotionally charged words.
I don't know any of the details or background other than the notice, but the attacking wording sounds more like a blackmail, extortion, or coup attempt than a legitimate plea to find the project leader.
I think the biggest unfortunate change will be the loss of developers who are inclined to develop software for free.
Many participants in the Give One Get One program were developers at some level, linux developers. Eventually many of those developers would have contributed code. A switch to Windows will alienate those developers.
I agree that movement has been slow. It is hard to believe that Update 1 is still not released; this creates a large disconnect between development and released software, which also pushes away developers. These delays are not a result of the base OS; they are a result of choices made at OLPC. These same choices could have been made with Windows as the underlying OS.
This was my thought. I have been looking for a look-alike Wii controller for my two year old so she won't feel slighted and jealous when the older sibling is playing the Wii. A good cheap look-alike is a great product. I don't even need batteries, just movable buttons. Thank you Wal-Mart.
PS.
If I showed a small photo of a toy cell-phone to a Wal-Mart employee, then the employee would likely direct me to the real cell-phone aisle; this isn't bad, it's just the employee using common sense to answer the question. Also, who asks any big box store employee anything, and expects a good answer.
I might be wrong, but this sounds like trying to sell ads. I would expect Google to solicit ads from Moore also.
I would rather Google always allow and solicit ads on multiple sides, of every issue. For me, to do otherwise would be the feared *evil*.
So, no, I would rather not have others waste their time with G.B.. Patents don't make G.B. good at sharing, which is good for discovering the cure; patents merely make G.B. good at leeching and good at sprinting to the patent office. If the cure is possible for G.B. to discover, then Unselfish Humanitarian can discover it too.
I don't want this person researching an AIDS cure, and he or she better not be getting my public dollars to support his or her research.
He or she is obviously more interested in personal wealth than the invention and than those in need of the invention. In the first scenario, if the invention did eventually get out, everyone could benefit from it, regardless of their wealth. The world would be a better place. In the second scenario, the inventor makes a killing, and the cure is held hostage, and only those willing to pay up will get the cure. The world is a better place for the inventor and the rich.
I sure hope coren2000 was being sarcastic.
This neither fits the American nor the scientific ideal. Though perhaps, both realms have distanced themselves so far from their ideal that legislating dissent away, seems like a logical and productive measure. I think anyone seeking to decertify others based on disagreement with their own view on a theory shows themselves too partisan to be certified themselves.
Does anyone really want science that is based on popular opinion and that removes the credentials of qualified dissenters? This sounds a bit like how the followers of Aristotle sought to preserve their view in Renaissance Europe by taking care of those who disagreed.
The withdrawal is very well thought out and no summary will do it justice. Please read it if you are at all interested in licensing and Linux
This is the same link from the summary.
No
I can't see the United States electing Bill Gates to president, but if he does run, and wins, where will tux hide.
On a more serious note, I never imagined US intellectual property laws could get worse until I considered Bill Gates as president.
Yea, the original poster needs to get over it. Standard ear plugs should work great for canceling the noise of the thousands of small fans he or she is hearing. Using noise cancellation headphones will only introduce something new to carry around and something new that can break. Often the best solution is the simplest one.
The original poster said, "I've no desire to wear those silly little yellow earplugs." Well luckily for him or her, the "silly little earplugs" come in more colors than just yellow, they also come in reusable and washable rubber, rather than just disposable foam.
Really; I find it almost impossible to find enough information to vote intelligently about everything presented to me on any ballot. I don't believe the correct option is to vote unintelligently, instead, the correct option is to vote on what you know about and leave the rest blank.
Those trying to get everyone to vote on everything, merely hope that the uninformed vote will go their way.
I agree with the ras_b's sentiment, I don't want to later discover that I voted opposite of my own beliefs (which I did once when I was younger). Also, if I don't have a strong opinion either way, then I should leave the issue to be decided by those who do have an opinion.
The summary is a bit misleading. Yes, the voting machines are flawed. Yes, the idea of closed box voting machines is flawed. Yes, the concept that a computer user interface is more conceptually clear than a pen and paper user interface is flawed. But, no, this is not a story about a Republican conspiracy, it is a story about touch screens needing calibration. It happens that both of the anecdotes relayed in the story are of Democrats needing assistance because of the miscalibration. If anything, this shows the bias of the author.
I wish the government would just do away with the electronic voting machines, the strong partisans don't need any extra excuse to complain when their candidate looses.
Also, Slashdot doesn't have to report this as a Republican versus Democrat issue, but it did. Slashdot is News for Nerds, not News for Democrats.
"new beta service called Google Image Labeler"
This service is not for my benefit or anyone else but Google. Everyone can see it is a thinly disguised way for Google to get "the Internet" to do image tagging for free.
That doesn't mean that people won't find the service fun, it does seem to parallel a few board games I am familiar with.
There are two reasons to rejoice.
Keith Packard seems to be the driving force behind graphics on Linux (x.org) and related innovation.
Thank you Keith Packard. Thank you Intel for hiring him. Thank you Intel for opening your driver.
Now I know my next system will have a vendor support open source driver. Finally!
I think it is important to realize that the email states that one of the primary reasons for switching away from the foundation and back to a project is that the foundation would eventually limit how many resources (money, bandwidth, etc.) Redhat could contribute to Fedora. This is a problem, because Redhat does not want to cut back on Fedora, but rather increase contributions.
> Here's another funny thing: if you choose to incorporate as a non-profit entity in the United States, then you subject yourself to a number of rigorous IRS tax tests. One of these tests is the "public support test." If you say you're a public charity, well by golly, you have to prove it. If, within four years, you aren't collecting fully one third of your money from public sources, then you're not actually a public charity.
[snip]
> As an intellectual exercise, let's ignore all of those numbers for now except for bandwidth.
[snip]
> So let's take a conservative guess and say that the bandwidth cost for distributing Fedora comes to $1.5 million a year. Yes, even though we have BitTorrent trackers and Fedora mirror sites worldwide.
>
> That means that a public Fedora Foundation would have to raise $750k in public funds -- remember the one-third public support test -- every single year, just to pay for *bandwidth*, assuming no growth and no other expenses.
>
> So what would happen, under such a scenario, if Red Hat were to decide to spend more money on Fedora? Because that's exactly what Red Hat wants to do.
"All signs so far point to giving him the job, but I can't shake the feeling I'm getting robbed."
Sounds like you don't trust each other. Trust is needed for any relationship, but even more so for the "50/50" variety. Don't doom this before it starts, instead work out your trust and roles before you take the plunge.
PS. Now I sound like a marriage councilor.
I have MythTV running in the background of my primary system. Using the hardware accelerated encode/decode/tvout of the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 350 I can watch, pause, ff, and rw live and recorded television with little impact upon my system (doesn't even register in system monitor or top). I use a separate instance of the Xserver only displays on of the tvout of the 350 and only receives input from the remote of 350.
Before I took the plunge and set up MythTV the process confused me. There is so much talk of a MythTV frontend system and a backend system, that I was unsure if it was possible to run both parts of MythTV on the same system. I found that with a hardware accelerated card, both the frontend and the backend can be run in the background with little impact upon anything else. I do wish it didn't require MySql to save on ram usage.
Now I do write, email, program, and browse on my system on the primary head, while my wife skips commercials on the television using the remote! Don't be afraid to try it, my system isn't a speed daemon and isn't even in the same room as my television. I just connect the system and television with some long high quality coax.
Thank you MythTV developers!
I would love a few of these. A notebook for each kid, and one for mommy and daddy too. They are cheap. They don't have power cords to worry about. We can take them anywhere. They are cheap. They claim they are durable. I can write software for my kids. They are cheap. There is a large quantity of open source apps just waiting to be ported.
Did I mention you can put me on the waiting list?
I was thinking the same thing, "man, Hemo knows one old rabbi."
In the past I thought that Rabbinical Judaism didn't start until after 70 AD.