I bet she doesn`t even know her server`s running RedHat. Someone somewhere will have the job of sorting it out silently, and as long as it works (or even if it doesn`t), she won`t know or care what the webserver is being run on.
Hollywood has mainly taken an approach of the bad side of what would happen simply because you get more exciting stories with spectacular special effects that way. What sort of a film would you get with the storyline `Aliens land on Earth, are friendly and make peace, everyone lives happily ever after`?
People have been saying this sort of thing for years. Specifically, Arthur Clarke has been saying this sort of thing for years. I think we`ve still a long way to go before we reach the point Clarke is talking about - almost as long a way as we had forty years ago when Clarke first started going on about it..
Fair enough, if all you`re interested in is Linux. If you`re concerned about UNIX as a whole, however, it is somewhat disturbing. And to see everything solely in terms of how it affects the status of Linux is to suffer from excessive tunnel-vision. I know it`s a dangerous thing to say in a place like this, but Linux isn`t the only thing that`s important!
Besides, one point the article made that isn`t addressed in your comment is the idea of the culture of UNIX, which is, after all, what gave rise to Linux, and which still does tend to live in academia. It is introduction to this culture (often as an undergraduate at a university) that gets people into ideas like open-source in the first place, and it is this culture that is beig threatened by the Microsoft moves.
Yes. In the UK, there are two types of lawyer: barristers and solicitors. Solicitors do paperwork, draft letters, wills, and so on, and give legal advice. Barristers represent you in court.
I must admit it was quite amusing in the film `The Rainmaker`, seeing the young lawyer knocking on a door with a sign saying `No Solicitors`..
No; I reckon intelligence is to some extent required for good co-ordination. Certainly the best musicians (who tend to need good co-ordination and dexterity) tend to be bright people. I think this is because if you`re a slow thinker then your brain can`t work fast enough to control your body quickly and neatly either.
Note I`m not saying that all clumsy people are thick - you can be clumsy for other reasons than lack of intelligence - just that dextrous people will tend to be quite bright.
Imagine there is a well-known, international company based in Finland, or the UK, or Australia. And there`s also a minor little grocery store with the same name in a small town somewhere in America. Which one do you think gets.com? I know quite a few examples where it`s the small grocery store.
I agree that the moderation points should last longer. The previous two times I got moderation it was just in time for the weekend. I didn`t have time to spend them all on Friday, and by Monday they`d expired..
Wonderful pictures. But `coloured by IP address` isn`t enough. What colour represents what address? It would be cool to know, cause that way you`ve got a better idea of which part of the map you`re actually in..
Is anyone else having problems downloading staroffice from Sun`s website? Every time I click `download`, it takes me through a series of pages offering to send me a CD. I can`t see anything wrong with the HTML, so what`s going on? (And yes, I am clicking `download` and not `buy CD`, before anyone asks.)
I think a lot of this questionnaire is less to do with the Internet being addictive per se than to do with using the Internet to feed your (possibly pre-existing) addictions. And, that being the case, I think it`s missing the point. An addict is going to use whatever means are available to further their addiction; if not the Internet, then something else. The trouble is that when you mix up the two sets of people (those addicted to the net, and those using the net to further their addictions), you end up with skewed statistics.
"Do you find the Internet to be sexually arousing?" What sort of a question is that? If I could be bothered to look, I could probably use the Internet to find stuff that is sexually arousing. But the Internet itself?
Interesting that the adults come out way ahead of the children (especially with regard to the story not so long ago about the idea of limiting TV access to children). Do you think that bored unemployed people are skewing the statistics, or do people really watch that much tele?
I have no tele. When I want to watch a film, I go to the cinema, where it`s bigger and better.
It`s not a matter of the women being willing to make the same sacrifices than the men. Think about it. Why did these women have to leave to look after the kids? Why weren`t their husbands doing it? Why was it the women who were expected to do all the childcare work?
The men aren`t having to sacrifice anything, because they expect the women to run around after them picking up the pieces.
I have bought a few things from internet traders, and I`m very reluctant to do so again. Why? They expect me to sit in all day waiting for it to arrive! I`m sure it can`t be hard to say `It`ll arrive at about three-ish` and stick to it, thus enabling me to get to work in the morning. Better, I could specify when I want it to arrive, and they could arrange it so that it arrived within an hour of that time. Until they do this, then home delivery is an inconvenience rather than a convenience, and it`s far easier to buy things from the high street like everyone else.
You know, I`m not sure about the agreeableness part, as I tend to think of myself as someone who is often almost too agreeable, yet I came out with Boba Fett. Is it just me, or does anyone else think the questions dealing with agreeableness are such that people are more likely to answer in a way indicating less agreeableness? (And before you say that doesn`t happen, how do you think opinion polls work?)
Not really. If you`re too extraverted, you can end up being overbearing and bullysome. The best place to be is somewhere in the middle, like me. (I sit somewhere around the middle on the I/E axis. Otherwise I`m NTP, thus further proving the point about geeks.)
This is true, especially if you take this sort of test more than once. `Oh, I know I`m an INTP, so I ought to answer the questions this way.` But the point about these tests is that you may genuinely not know how you are most comfortable doing things (as opposed to the way you habitually do things, perhaps because you`ve been taught to do it that way), and you may genuinely not know why you react the way you do in certain situations. For these people, a full personality test (which should include not just a basic description of the various types, but a full explanation of the system and how people of different personality types interact, as well as what to do with your new knowledge of yourself) is very useful and helpful.
My main problem with this sort of personality test is the difference between self-image and reality. If I`m having a bad day and I start thinking I`m grumpy and unreliable and generally not a very nice person, that`ll come over in the results, even if I`m a nicer person than I`m giving myself credit for.
People who do psychology: how do you correct for this sort of thing in a test, short of having someone take the test several times?
Is this really fair on this poor person`s research project? You may be having fun messing around with the settings, and admittedly "Being 509 years old and from a family of 0 kids" is easy to spot and discard, but multiple submissions with less detectable lies are really going to skew the results. If, as I suspect, the project`s aim is to determine how your family history affects your personality, then you`re really not helping matters by giving multiple family histories for the same results.
If you think about it, of course playing around with the family questions aren`t going to affect your results. The whole point of the project is to find out whether there is a relationship between them. You can`t give different results based on different family histories if you don`t yet know what the results are!
`Outofservice` has done a very good job of making a psychology experiment look interesting and attractive, and much kudos is due. Don`t now go and screw things up for them by making the results invalid.
I`d never even heard of this Blair Witch Project thing before I read the article. So I went along to the webpage. There I was told that I needed to download a plugin before I could enter the site. Netscape kindly offered to find it for me, so I went to the Netscape plugin pages. Netscape told me it couldn`t find any plugins matching that mime-type. So I gave up. I`m still none the wiser as to what this thing is all about; as far as I can gather, it`s some kind of home-made movie that`s turned out to be quite popular. But if my experience is anything to go by, that popularity can`t have much to do with web tie-ins.
Books screw up your eyesight. The habitual focussing on a surface at about three feet from your face at a young age when your eyes are still growing makes it very likely that your eyes will adjust so that that is the optimal viewing distance for you. In other words, you will become short sighted.
I doubt it. The US is exceedingly poweful in trade. Witness the recent banana wars[1], and the hormone-treated beef affair[2]. In both these cases, the EU attempted to choose what to buy and where to buy it from, and got its wrists slapped by the World Trade Organisation, which habitually favours the US, because that`s where many of its members and much of its funding comes from. So, I`m afraid, as far as trade goes, the EU and its regulations don`t really count for very much.
[1] American banana conglomerates got all upset because they were still 20% short of a monopoly in European markets, because EU buyers were favouring small family firms in ex-colonial countries over the large US-owned corporations. So they paid a lot of money to Bill Clinton, and Bill Clinton threatened sanctions on European goods, and the WTO decided that supporting a struggling market in a poor country was no excuse for refusing a lower-priced offer, and upheld the US corporations. Now the small banana farmers in the ex-colonial countries are going to go bust, and many of them will turn to growing cocaine just to survive.
[2] The EU refused to import hormone-treated beef, on the grounds that we don`t feed our cows hormones on safety grounds, so why should US hormones be any safer? (and after the BSE scare Europe is pretty paranoid about beef anyway). The US imposed sanctions (is this sounding familiar?) and the WTO decided in favour of the US.
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I bet she doesn`t even know her server`s running RedHat. Someone somewhere will have the job of sorting it out silently, and as long as it works (or even if it doesn`t), she won`t know or care what the webserver is being run on.
Hollywood has mainly taken an approach of the bad side of what would happen simply because you get more exciting stories with spectacular special effects that way. What sort of a film would you get with the storyline `Aliens land on Earth, are friendly and make peace, everyone lives happily ever after`?
Well, if it`s not that, what do you think human consciousness is?
People have been saying this sort of thing for years. Specifically, Arthur Clarke has been saying this sort of thing for years. I think we`ve still a long way to go before we reach the point Clarke is talking about - almost as long a way as we had forty years ago when Clarke first started going on about it..
Fair enough, if all you`re interested in is Linux. If you`re concerned about UNIX as a whole, however, it is somewhat disturbing. And to see everything solely in terms of how it affects the status of Linux is to suffer from excessive tunnel-vision. I know it`s a dangerous thing to say in a place like this, but Linux isn`t the only thing that`s important!
Besides, one point the article made that isn`t addressed in your comment is the idea of the culture of UNIX, which is, after all, what gave rise to Linux, and which still does tend to live in academia. It is introduction to this culture (often as an undergraduate at a university) that gets people into ideas like open-source in the first place, and it is this culture that is beig threatened by the Microsoft moves.
All the geek girls I know played with dolls, had tea parties and did all that other "girl stuff".
Yeah, but that doesn`t mean we`re not ashamed of it now. I was into Flower Fairy dolls when I was eight, and I`m dreadfully embarrassed about it now..
Yes. In the UK, there are two types of lawyer: barristers and solicitors. Solicitors do paperwork, draft letters, wills, and so on, and give legal advice. Barristers represent you in court.
I must admit it was quite amusing in the film `The Rainmaker`, seeing the young lawyer knocking on a door with a sign saying `No Solicitors`..
No; I reckon intelligence is to some extent required for good co-ordination. Certainly the best musicians (who tend to need good co-ordination and dexterity) tend to be bright people. I think this is because if you`re a slow thinker then your brain can`t work fast enough to control your body quickly and neatly either.
Note I`m not saying that all clumsy people are thick - you can be clumsy for other reasons than lack of intelligence - just that dextrous people will tend to be quite bright.
I quite agree.
.com? I know quite a few examples where it`s the small grocery store.
Imagine there is a well-known, international company based in Finland, or the UK, or Australia. And there`s also a minor little grocery store with the same name in a small town somewhere in America. Which one do you think gets
But then, the USA is the world, isn`t it?
I agree that the moderation points should last longer. The previous two times I got moderation it was just in time for the weekend. I didn`t have time to spend them all on Friday, and by Monday they`d expired..
Wonderful pictures. But `coloured by IP address` isn`t enough. What colour represents what address? It would be cool to know, cause that way you`ve got a better idea of which part of the map you`re actually in..
Is anyone else having problems downloading staroffice from Sun`s website? Every time I click `download`, it takes me through a series of pages offering to send me a CD. I can`t see anything wrong with the HTML, so what`s going on? (And yes, I am clicking `download` and not `buy CD`, before anyone asks.)
I think a lot of this questionnaire is less to do with the Internet being addictive per se than to do with using the Internet to feed your (possibly pre-existing) addictions. And, that being the case, I think it`s missing the point. An addict is going to use whatever means are available to further their addiction; if not the Internet, then something else. The trouble is that when you mix up the two sets of people (those addicted to the net, and those using the net to further their addictions), you end up with skewed statistics.
"Do you find the Internet to be sexually arousing?" What sort of a question is that?
If I could be bothered to look, I could probably use the Internet to find stuff that is sexually arousing. But the Internet itself?
Interesting that the adults come out way ahead of the children (especially with regard to the story not so long ago about the idea of limiting TV access to children). Do you think that bored unemployed people are skewing the statistics, or do people really watch that much tele?
I have no tele. When I want to watch a film, I go to the cinema, where it`s bigger and better.
It`s not a matter of the women being willing to make the same sacrifices than the men. Think about it. Why did these women have to leave to look after the kids? Why weren`t their husbands doing it? Why was it the women who were expected to do all the childcare work?
The men aren`t having to sacrifice anything, because they expect the women to run around after them picking up the pieces.
I have bought a few things from internet traders, and I`m very reluctant to do so again. Why? They expect me to sit in all day waiting for it to arrive! I`m sure it can`t be hard to say `It`ll arrive at about three-ish` and stick to it, thus enabling me to get to work in the morning. Better, I could specify when I want it to arrive, and they could arrange it so that it arrived within an hour of that time. Until they do this, then home delivery is an inconvenience rather than a convenience, and it`s far easier to buy things from the high street like everyone else.
No, just outside the US.
You know, I`m not sure about the agreeableness part, as I tend to think of myself as someone who is often almost too agreeable, yet I came out with Boba Fett. Is it just me, or does anyone else think the questions dealing with agreeableness are such that people are more likely to answer in a way indicating less agreeableness? (And before you say that doesn`t happen, how do you think opinion polls work?)
Not really. If you`re too extraverted, you can end up being overbearing and bullysome. The best place to be is somewhere in the middle, like me.
(I sit somewhere around the middle on the I/E axis. Otherwise I`m NTP, thus further proving the point about geeks.)
This is true, especially if you take this sort of test more than once. `Oh, I know I`m an INTP, so I ought to answer the questions this way.` But the point about these tests is that you may genuinely not know how you are most comfortable doing things (as opposed to the way you habitually do things, perhaps because you`ve been taught to do it that way), and you may genuinely not know why you react the way you do in certain situations. For these people, a full personality test (which should include not just a basic description of the various types, but a full explanation of the system and how people of different personality types interact, as well as what to do with your new knowledge of yourself) is very useful and helpful.
My main problem with this sort of personality test is the difference between self-image and reality. If I`m having a bad day and I start thinking I`m grumpy and unreliable and generally not a very nice person, that`ll come over in the results, even if I`m a nicer person than I`m giving myself credit for.
People who do psychology: how do you correct for this sort of thing in a test, short of having someone take the test several times?
Is this really fair on this poor person`s research project? You may be having fun messing around with the settings, and admittedly "Being 509 years old and from a family of 0 kids" is easy to spot and discard, but multiple submissions with less detectable lies are really going to skew the results. If, as I suspect, the project`s aim is to determine how your family history affects your personality, then you`re really not helping matters by giving multiple family histories for the same results.
If you think about it, of course playing around with the family questions aren`t going to affect your results. The whole point of the project is to find out whether there is a relationship between them. You can`t give different results based on different family histories if you don`t yet know what the results are!
`Outofservice` has done a very good job of making a psychology experiment look interesting and attractive, and much kudos is due. Don`t now go and screw things up for them by making the results invalid.
I`d never even heard of this Blair Witch Project thing before I read the article. So I went along to the webpage. There I was told that I needed to download a plugin before I could enter the site. Netscape kindly offered to find it for me, so I went to the Netscape plugin pages. Netscape told me it couldn`t find any plugins matching that mime-type. So I gave up. I`m still none the wiser as to what this thing is all about; as far as I can gather, it`s some kind of home-made movie that`s turned out to be quite popular. But if my experience is anything to go by, that popularity can`t have much to do with web tie-ins.
Books screw up your eyesight. The habitual focussing on a surface at about three feet from your face at a young age when your eyes are still growing makes it very likely that your eyes will adjust so that that is the optimal viewing distance for you. In other words, you will become short sighted.
I doubt it. The US is exceedingly poweful in trade. Witness the recent banana wars[1], and the hormone-treated beef affair[2]. In both these cases, the EU attempted to choose what to buy and where to buy it from, and got its wrists slapped by the World Trade Organisation, which habitually favours the US, because that`s where many of its members and much of its funding comes from. So, I`m afraid, as far as trade goes, the EU and its regulations don`t really count for very much.
[1] American banana conglomerates got all upset because they were still 20% short of a monopoly in European markets, because EU buyers were favouring small family firms in ex-colonial countries over the large US-owned corporations. So they paid a lot of money to Bill Clinton, and Bill Clinton threatened sanctions on European goods, and the WTO decided that supporting a struggling market in a poor country was no excuse for refusing a lower-priced offer, and upheld the US corporations. Now the small banana farmers in the ex-colonial countries are going to go bust, and many of them will turn to growing cocaine just to survive.
[2] The EU refused to import hormone-treated beef, on the grounds that we don`t feed our cows hormones on safety grounds, so why should US hormones be any safer? (and after the BSE scare Europe is pretty paranoid about beef anyway). The US imposed sanctions (is this sounding familiar?) and the WTO decided in favour of the US.