Professorship positions, especially in prestigious universities are filled in on the basis of the research publications and professional contacts, while the educational aspects of an academic career rarely do make any difference. This, perhaps, might be unfortunate in some cases, but that's how it works.
>I find it to be the usual government style of action: act first, apologize later.
There is something wrong with this picture - it's not a government entity, so normally everyone should be able to tell them to f*uck off, but nevertheless even mistreated universities state a kind desire to cooperate after accepting an apology, instead of following this up with a lawsuit to ISP that released private information in a first place.
From the article: The incredibly powerful petawatt would be the only one of its kind in the United States and one of only a small handful in existence.
This is going to be the most powerful laser in the United States, not in the whole World as the posting's title claims. But that's just a detail - we know there's nothing beyond our faithful shores:)
I remember reading notes of some poor fellow who was involved in trying to get MS to fix some hotmail backdoor a while ago. Even though he wasn't in any way responsible for finding the hack, years on end he received e-mails like this:
Dear Xxxx, It's terribly important for me to hack into an account of Yyyy ! Please understand, she's my girlfriend, and I think she might be cheating on me. Please tell me how to do this... please, please...
Now every time I read about another hotmail hack, I can't help but think how many ticklish revelations will happen today:)
US Army has released an updated version of tax-money-sponsored first-person shooter to increase general public opinion of warfare among the young generation.
Don't ask me what's worse - government actively working on popularizing war, or taking computer games off the shelves for political reasons.
Personally I just want to see apple apply their design skills to faster processors. I'll run linux on it anyway, so they can do whatever they want for os. Of course it's a lot more convenient to run linux on x86 hardware. It's still beyond me why no x86 laptop manufacturer has managed to come up with a design on a par with PowerBooks.
I think if this guy were to compare cars, he would've done it commenting mostly on how easy one could open doors and the luggage compartment. How can you rate "usability" of desktops with such vastly different capabilities, available on imcompatible operating systems ? For example I go absolutely nuts when I can't make at least 6 virtual workspaces, or when I am forced to use the mouse to do anything remotely important. Unless you're absolutely new to computers and have no restrictions on the OS you can use, relative merits of these desktops wouldn't make any difference. And in any case you're better off picking an OS that would give you a choice of WMs to work with.
> What file manager do you use? hmm.. I use bash, that whole clicking-the-mouse-and-dragging-it-around thing takes too long and is akin to spanking the monkey.
I am still using that SB16 that I used to play doom beta on 486, although I've changed computers many times. That's the oldest piece of hardware I still use. It's got to be tough to compete in that market place - that's why they have to advertizing in/. articles:)
Is there a good C++ (or even C) statistics library around ? I've looked for a day or so, and the closest thing I could find was GNU's Goose, wich failed to impress me after I spent an hour getting it to compile on rh8.
I was also hoping to use R library, but they dont' really provide much aside from the interpreter call.
In unrelated news... Kinko's now instituting a policy that requires a blood sample to be given by a customer before they are allowed to access a networked computer. Kinko's company spokesman John Snitch has assured that such basic measures are required to keep the Internet a "healthy network".
Why dont' people count how many space stations one could build at a cost of, for example, the most recent tax cut ? 10 ? 20 ?.. hell, I'd send back my $300 refund to have a few bigger space stations and an outpost on Mars. Would you ?
From the article on the GM's site: "With its robust 42-volt electrical system, the car is configured to run any number of devices in the passenger compartment, from homes to entire farms." Gee, finally I can drive my farm to work.
So if it's an article for the company web site it doesn't have to make any sense ? Why ? Because no one important will read it ? Because you can take it off when some one points out how lame it is ?
Companies routinely infringe on each-other's patents, and then sort things out with law-suits if they think it's worth it. That's how many industries work - take biotech for example. In that sense, open source projects are at a huge disadvantage, since they will never make profit from law-suits, and are very unlikely to have the money to even initiate a law suite. So I say, unless something like FSF or EFF makes it their duty to pursue such cases, get used to companies using GPL code in their closed-source products.
space programs were initiated almost exclusively for the military purposes, hence there was enough money for "extras" like Voyager probes. Nowadays military doesn't need much space development, so the modern probes fly on a shoe string budgets.
The point that such argument hides is that the software in question is not just some end-user application, it's a key component that can either facilitate or retard development of other sofware products. While it is true that having a dominance of free OS takes away from the economy, restrictions imposed by a proprietary OS on other software vendors take away a lot more. And that's besides the point that linux isn't really free when one considers maintenance costs.
Back in USSR, for a given quantity of alchohol, you could get pretty neat titanium ware. We had titanium hiking gear such as ovens, climbing hooks, portable shovels, etc. They were considerably better in most ways. Later, in the mid-90s, some "businessmen" were selling bike frames made out of pure titanum. A friend of mine still rides one of those - doesn't rust and very light.
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That's why we need to cast them into attractive fembots:)
I just want to have a threaded view of the messages, sorted by time of the LAST message in the thread (for some reason all e-mail clients I've tested sort by the first message in the tread, which makes it almost entirely useles)
as far as the C|NET proposal: software integration is good and all, but I don't want my mail client to feed my cat and throw out my garbage. A design like this will force people to use that particular calendar, that particular instant messanger, etc. These guys are such a well-trained M$ users, they can't imagine software being more flexible.
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Professorship positions, especially in prestigious universities are filled in on the basis of the research publications and professional contacts, while the educational aspects of an academic career rarely do make any difference. This, perhaps, might be unfortunate in some cases, but that's how it works.
>I find it to be the usual government style of action: act first, apologize later.
There is something wrong with this picture - it's not a government entity, so normally everyone should be able to tell them to f*uck off, but nevertheless even mistreated universities state a kind desire to cooperate after accepting an apology, instead of following this up with a lawsuit to ISP that released private information in a first place.
From the article:
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The incredibly powerful petawatt would be the only one of its kind in the United States and one of only a small handful in existence.
This is going to be the most powerful laser in the United States, not in the whole World as the posting's title claims. But that's just a detail - we know there's nothing beyond our faithful shores
I remember reading notes of some poor fellow who was involved in trying to get MS to fix some hotmail backdoor a while ago. Even though he wasn't in any way responsible for finding the hack, years on end he received e-mails like this:
... please, please ...
:)
Dear Xxxx,
It's terribly important for me to hack into an account of Yyyy !
Please understand, she's my girlfriend, and I think she might be cheating on me.
Please tell me how to do this
Now every time I read about another hotmail hack, I can't help but think how many ticklish revelations will happen today
>That could have easily have gone very horribly wrong - imagine them coming down on the side of a steep mountain-face.
That's why they aim for Kazakh steppe - it's about as hard to miss as the Pacific ocean.
US Army has released an updated version of tax-money-sponsored first-person shooter to increase general public opinion of warfare among the young generation.
Don't ask me what's worse - government actively working on popularizing war, or taking computer games off the shelves for political reasons.
Personally I just want to see apple apply their design skills to faster processors. I'll run linux on it anyway, so they can do whatever they want for os. Of course it's a lot more convenient to run linux on x86 hardware.
It's still beyond me why no x86 laptop manufacturer has managed to come up with a design on a par with PowerBooks.
I think if this guy were to compare cars, he would've done it commenting mostly on how easy one could open doors and the luggage compartment.
How can you rate "usability" of desktops with such vastly different capabilities, available on imcompatible operating systems ? For example I go absolutely nuts when I can't make at least 6 virtual workspaces, or when I am forced to use the mouse to do anything remotely important. Unless you're absolutely new to computers and have no restrictions on the OS you can use, relative merits of these desktops wouldn't make any difference. And in any case you're better off picking an OS that would give you a choice of WMs to work with.
> What file manager do you use? .. I use bash, that whole clicking-the-mouse-and-dragging-it-around thing takes too long and is akin to spanking the monkey.
hmm
I am still using that SB16 that I used to play doom beta on 486, although I've changed computers many times. That's the oldest piece of hardware I still use. It's got to be tough to compete in that market place - that's why they have to advertizing in /. articles :)
Couldn't you use a simple barcode for that ?
Is there a good C++ (or even C) statistics library around ? I've looked for a day or so, and the closest thing I could find was GNU's Goose, wich failed to impress me after I spent an hour getting it to compile on rh8.
I was also hoping to use R library, but they dont' really provide much aside from the interpreter call.
In unrelated news ... Kinko's now instituting a policy that requires a blood sample to be given by a customer before they are allowed to access a networked computer. Kinko's company spokesman John Snitch has assured that such basic measures are required to keep the Internet a "healthy network".
Why dont' people count how many space stations one could build at a cost of, for example, the most recent tax cut ? 10 ? 20 ? .. hell, I'd send back my $300 refund to have a few bigger space stations and an outpost on Mars. Would you ?
Reading the title, I thought FBI was putting back doors into the open source libraries code :) That would really make consiracy freaks happy !
From the article on the GM's site:
"With its robust 42-volt electrical system, the car is configured to run any number of devices in the passenger compartment, from homes to entire farms."
Gee, finally I can drive my farm to work.
So if it's an article for the company web site it doesn't have to make any sense ? Why ? Because no one important will read it ? Because you can take it off when some one points out how lame it is ?
Companies routinely infringe on each-other's patents, and then sort things out with law-suits if they think it's worth it. That's how many industries work - take biotech for example.
In that sense, open source projects are at a huge disadvantage, since they will never make profit from law-suits, and are very unlikely to have the money to even initiate a law suite.
So I say, unless something like FSF or EFF makes it their duty to pursue such cases, get used to companies using GPL code in their closed-source products.
space programs were initiated almost exclusively for the military purposes, hence there was enough money for "extras" like Voyager probes. Nowadays military doesn't need much space development, so the modern probes fly on a shoe string budgets.
The point was to correlate activity of the police with that of their own people to establish UNKNOWN relationships between them.
The point that such argument hides is that the software in question is not just some end-user application, it's a key component that can either facilitate or retard development of other sofware products. While it is true that having a dominance of free OS takes away from the economy, restrictions imposed by a proprietary OS on other software vendors take away a lot more. And that's besides the point that linux isn't really free when one considers maintenance costs.
... is the answer "42" by any chance ?
Back in USSR, for a given quantity of alchohol, you could get pretty neat titanium ware. We had titanium hiking gear such as ovens, climbing hooks, portable shovels, etc. They were considerably better in most ways. Later, in the mid-90s, some "businessmen" were selling bike frames made out of pure titanum. A friend of mine still rides one of those - doesn't rust and very light.
That's why we need to cast them into attractive fembots :)
I just want to have a threaded view of the messages, sorted by time of the LAST message in the thread (for some reason all e-mail clients I've tested sort by the first message in the tread, which makes it almost entirely useles)
as far as the C|NET proposal: software integration is good and all, but I don't want my mail client to feed my cat and throw out my garbage. A design like this will force people to use that particular calendar, that particular instant messanger, etc. These guys are such a well-trained M$ users, they can't imagine software being more flexible.
Why ? Because some of us don't want FCC busting our asses for using "substitution codes" in our e-mails :)