Judge Jackson, I imagine, won't keep pushing this deadline back weekly. I think the first threat of a deadline was to light a fire under both sides to push them toward resolution, but pretty soon, he'll have to just stick firm to his deadline and rule, one way or the other.
The article points out that "Microsoft is estimating that 28,000 of these are likely to be "real" problems." The headline makes it seem much larger than that, while in fact some of the "bugs" are just reports of confusing controls or feature requests. This is not to say that 28,000 real bugs is a small number, however.
How can he claim to get mail from (insert the list here)? You're comment is incoherent, and does not address the quote you extracted from the interview. It is clear that you have invested far too much emotion toward disliking Jon Katz.
Is JK repressing you with his position as a slashdot columnist? I guess it's now the cool thing to do to jump on the "I hate Jon Katz bandwagon" with your flamethrower lit.
If you could write a pearl script that could take his place, why don't you and submit the generated articles to slashdot yourself?
It was an assignment. He wrote it because his teacher requested him to do so. Not only was he sent to jail for not commiting a crime, this is a case of entrapment, where his oppinions were solicited in the guise of schoolwork and then used against him.
Pioneer makes a Scsi DVD drive. I have one in my pc right now, which is 6x DVD and something like 24x cdrom. It is model number S303, I think (but am not certain). It's notable feature is the slot load mechanism, like a car stereo cd player. There is also an ide version of this drive.
To me, this is an prime example of how open-source tends to work. Somebody with the hacking ability says to him/herself, "I wonder if I can get this to work on an iBook" and then does it, posting his work so that others can help out if they want to.
Should moderators really be encouraging posts like this by moderating them up? Let's try to be polite people. This sort of story is important to me and to many other slashdot readers. You have the ability to not push the "Read More" link. If you are tired of reading Katz's articlas, exercise that ability.
Saying that the numlock key is redundant is NOT the same thing as saying that the numeric keypad is redundant. The latter lets you quickly enter numeric data and is regularly considered good. The former toggles the use of the keypad between arrows and numbers.
Software has the ability to distinguish between keys on the numeric keypad and the other number keys and the arrow keys if it wants to. In software the difference is between reading the key pressed and reading the character generated by the keypress.
All faith systems must ultimately change and adapt to the world around them to survive. If they don't they will eventually go the way of the dodo. The world shapes the faith systems that exist within it, and conversely faith systems shape the world. Change, however necessary, is usually resisted.
It took a few centuries, for instance, for the early Christian church to accept metaphoric or non-literal interpretations of the Bible. It seems to me that the religious anti-evolution argument is based upon an unwillingness to do just that.
I believe in evolution to the extent that it is the best explanation I have found to explain the evidence I have been presented with regarding the processes and mechanisms of life. I do not believe in it to the extent, however, that I would hold on to it in the face of something more compelling, that explains the evidence we have better.
I do not consider myself a Christian, but I hold a high degree of respect for the Bible. To me it does speak truth, but only in that it can tell us a great deal about humanity and human nature. What could be called the Christian virtue of Charity, for instance, is something of high value to me, which is probably because our culture is built on fundamentally Christian foundations. We have much to learn from Christianity (and from other faiths), but we should not blind ourselves from posibility because of those faith systems.
I'd like to leave you all with an example of evolution in history. It doesn't match biological evolution exactly, but it works. The early Christian Church that I mentioned earlier, was, in its first 5 centuries, struggling to define its doctrine and the nature of the Christian universe. This discussion and eventually heated debate escallated into a controversy about the nature of the Holy Trinity. The two sides were split essentially east and west in the roman empire. After a series of meetings among the various leaders of the church at places like Nicea, everybody got so upset that they all excommunicated each other and thus split the church in two, one side eventually becomming the Catholic church and the other becomming Eastern Orthodox. Only recently, nearly 1500 years later, are the two on speaking terms again.
This story is an example of evolution and speciation in principle. Evolution, as a concept, cannot be denied, and Kansas doesn't propose to do deny it. It is ultimately unfortunate that they refused to be open minded about ideas both without and within their own belief.
(I appologise for any factual inaccuracies in the above accounts of the early Christian church, I am working from memory when I type this. My sources for this information are as follows:
History and Literature of Early Christianity, by Helmut Koester
The Early Church, by Henry Chadwick
The Rise of Christianity, by Rodney Stark (highly recommended)
All of this and more can be found in these books.)
I don't know about the rest of you, but I have to be a bit closer to the monitor to see it properly. I'd be defeating the ergonomics all the time because I'd be sitting up to read stuff on the screen.
It also makes the user look like he/she is going to start driving it down the street at any moment.
My initial reaction to an attempt to estimate human memory capacity in terms used to describe computers is that the two are apples and oranges.
I think of our memory and the way we process information as a highly context aware compression system, which analyses what we experience and synthesises it based upon what we already know. Anything we recall, therefore, is merely a reconstruction of the original which is rebuilt from its context.
Any estimate of capacity would have to take the potential of this compression into account.
Aparently, you're not informed, because if you were you'd realize that he is referring to Aristotelian philosophy, not physical systems. The greek philosophers relied on philosophical methods to explain everything, even when it sometimes clearly contradicted demonstratable reality.
Aristotle had no physical evidence upon which to base his ideas on brain capacity, so he based his ideas upon what he could observe his own mind doing.
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NT, if you have enough ram (at least 64MB, 128 is better) is slightly faster than 9x on the same machine.
I've been swallowed by a quick-digesting gink, And now I'm dodging his teeth, And now I'm restin' in his intestine, And now I'm back out on the street.
(sorry if the line breaks are in the wrong place, I'm doing this from memory)
Yes indeed it is... Slashdot is majorly messed at the moment.
Linux and Solar Calculators
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Although a test configuration with smaller, less powerful servers would have greatly benefited NetWare 5.0, which effectively uses only a single processor, and Linux, which requires far less hardware than the other NOSes and could probably be ported to solar-powered calculators, we thought that scalability would not be taxed in a dual-processor server.
I have linux running on my solar calculator. Do you?
The article mentioned discovery of other, Jupiter sized planets around distant stars, but states that this is the first discoverd "system" which they define as having multiple planets.
Slashdot Mirror
Judge Jackson, I imagine, won't keep pushing this deadline back weekly. I think the first threat of a deadline was to light a fire under both sides to push them toward resolution, but pretty soon, he'll have to just stick firm to his deadline and rule, one way or the other.
Wake up on the wrong side of the Buick this morning?
The article points out that "Microsoft is estimating that 28,000 of these are likely to be "real" problems." The headline makes it seem much larger than that, while in fact some of the "bugs" are just reports of confusing controls or feature requests. This is not to say that 28,000 real bugs is a small number, however.
How can he claim to get mail from (insert the list here)? You're comment is incoherent, and does not address the quote you extracted from the interview. It is clear that you have invested far too much emotion toward disliking Jon Katz.
Is JK repressing you with his position as a slashdot columnist? I guess it's now the cool thing to do to jump on the "I hate Jon Katz bandwagon" with your flamethrower lit.
If you could write a pearl script that could take his place, why don't you and submit the generated articles to slashdot yourself?
It was an assignment. He wrote it because his teacher requested him to do so. Not only was he sent to jail for not commiting a crime, this is a case of entrapment, where his oppinions were solicited in the guise of schoolwork and then used against him.
This disgusts me.
Pioneer makes a Scsi DVD drive. I have one in my pc right now, which is 6x DVD and something like 24x cdrom. It is model number S303, I think (but am not certain). It's notable feature is the slot load mechanism, like a car stereo cd player. There is also an ide version of this drive.
To me, this is an prime example of how open-source tends to work. Somebody with the hacking ability says to him/herself, "I wonder if I can get this to work on an iBook" and then does it, posting his work so that others can help out if they want to.
Super, and keep up the good work.
They completely disrupted all of our D&D sessions :-)
Happy birthday to you, me and the internet.
Should moderators really be encouraging posts like this by moderating them up? Let's try to be polite people. This sort of story is important to me and to many other slashdot readers. You have the ability to not push the "Read More" link. If you are tired of reading Katz's articlas, exercise that ability.
Have a nice day.
Saying that the numlock key is redundant is NOT the same thing as saying that the numeric keypad is redundant. The latter lets you quickly enter numeric data and is regularly considered good. The former toggles the use of the keypad between arrows and numbers.
Software has the ability to distinguish between keys on the numeric keypad and the other number keys and the arrow keys if it wants to. In software the difference is between reading the key pressed and reading the character generated by the keypress.
All faith systems must ultimately change and adapt to the world around them to survive. If they don't they will eventually go the way of the dodo. The world shapes the faith systems that exist within it, and conversely faith systems shape the world. Change, however necessary, is usually resisted.
It took a few centuries, for instance, for the early Christian church to accept metaphoric or non-literal interpretations of the Bible. It seems to me that the religious anti-evolution argument is based upon an unwillingness to do just that.
I believe in evolution to the extent that it is the best explanation I have found to explain the evidence I have been presented with regarding the processes and mechanisms of life. I do not believe in it to the extent, however, that I would hold on to it in the face of something more compelling, that explains the evidence we have better.
I do not consider myself a Christian, but I hold a high degree of respect for the Bible. To me it does speak truth, but only in that it can tell us a great deal about humanity and human nature. What could be called the Christian virtue of Charity, for instance, is something of high value to me, which is probably because our culture is built on fundamentally Christian foundations. We have much to learn from Christianity (and from other faiths), but we should not blind ourselves from posibility because of those faith systems.
I'd like to leave you all with an example of evolution in history. It doesn't match biological evolution exactly, but it works. The early Christian Church that I mentioned earlier, was, in its first 5 centuries, struggling to define its doctrine and the nature of the Christian universe. This discussion and eventually heated debate escallated into a controversy about the nature of the Holy Trinity. The two sides were split essentially east and west in the roman empire. After a series of meetings among the various leaders of the church at places like Nicea, everybody got so upset that they all excommunicated each other and thus split the church in two, one side eventually becomming the Catholic church and the other becomming Eastern Orthodox. Only recently, nearly 1500 years later, are the two on speaking terms again.
This story is an example of evolution and speciation in principle. Evolution, as a concept, cannot be denied, and Kansas doesn't propose to do deny it. It is ultimately unfortunate that they refused to be open minded about ideas both without and within their own belief.
(I appologise for any factual inaccuracies in the above accounts of the early Christian church, I am working from memory when I type this. My sources for this information are as follows:
History and Literature of Early Christianity, by Helmut Koester
The Early Church, by Henry Chadwick
The Rise of Christianity, by Rodney Stark (highly recommended)
All of this and more can be found in these books.)
Have a nice day.
I don't know about the rest of you, but I have to be a bit closer to the monitor to see it properly. I'd be defeating the ergonomics all the time because I'd be sitting up to read stuff on the screen.
It also makes the user look like he/she is going to start driving it down the street at any moment.
My initial reaction to an attempt to estimate human memory capacity in terms used to describe computers is that the two are apples and oranges.
I think of our memory and the way we process information as a highly context aware compression system, which analyses what we experience and synthesises it based upon what we already know. Anything we recall, therefore, is merely a reconstruction of the original which is rebuilt from its context.
Any estimate of capacity would have to take the potential of this compression into account.
Aparently, you're not informed, because if you were you'd realize that he is referring to Aristotelian philosophy, not physical systems. The greek philosophers relied on philosophical methods to explain everything, even when it sometimes clearly contradicted demonstratable reality.
Aristotle had no physical evidence upon which to base his ideas on brain capacity, so he based his ideas upon what he could observe his own mind doing.
NT, if you have enough ram (at least 64MB, 128 is better) is slightly faster than 9x on the same machine.
Quick Trip
I've been swallowed by a quick-digesting gink,
And now I'm dodging his teeth,
And now I'm restin' in his intestine,
And now I'm back out on the street.
(sorry if the line breaks are in the wrong place, I'm doing this from memory)
Yes indeed it is... Slashdot is majorly messed at the moment.
I have linux running on my solar calculator. Do you?
You don't even have to overclock now... Just put dual Celeron 466s in and its faster than the fastest p2...
What would you choose? Star Wars or Quake3?
The article mentioned discovery of other, Jupiter sized planets around distant stars, but states that this is the first discoverd "system" which they define as having multiple planets.
> Slot1 adapters with voltage and SMP jumpers
I went and tried to find this, but couldn't. Does anybody have a link?
~Nik
From the previews, that line alone will be worth it.