But practically speaking, he's spent very little time working in science, and almost all of that before 1970.
I don't know much about the guy, but at least he knows enough about the scientific process to be able to teach it. Even if he hadn't worked in industry in decades, he still understands the methodologies and why you would want to use them. That's a huge improvement over what we usually get.
Probably for the same reason that the FDA allows people to advertise homeopathic crap like HeadOn as a cure for headaches, then stick a 3-point type dislaimer stating "this product is not intended to treat anything" at the end. The stakes are sufficiently small that they move on to ignoring something bigger.
The first independent version of Microsoft Windows, version 1.0, released on 20 November 1985, lacked a degree of functionality and achieved little popularity.
That would make it Mac, then Amiga, then Windows.
I've only pointed to the fact that Open Office began as a deliberate clone of Office.
You keep saying that without offering any evidence whatsoever.
Students are there to learn and not to use alternative operating systems or anything that is not in the districts circulumn is not allowed to be taught.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. God forbid the kids are allowed, you know, to learn stuff on their own.
it's 2008 and my sister in law makes $44,500 as a teacher.
According to Wikipedia, your sis-in-law makes about 90% of the median household income in the US by herself. If your brother{,-in-law} made the same, they'd bring home about 80% more than the median. No offense, but that's hardly poverty.
AXFR and IXFR are unnecessary (and can be solved completely with rsync)
Hah! rsync can't instantly realize that one record in 100,000 has changed - as can IXFR's logfile - or use that knowledge to publish the same set of changes to multiple servers. Furthermore, do you really want to call rsync every single time you get a dynamic dns update?
I think the intended market is guilty parents trying to pretend that their kids will get some educational benefit from the $200 Pokemon game system they bought for their kids last Christmas.
My kids are hooked on "My (French|Spanish|Japanese) Coach". I think that counts.
I'm guessing that despite the recent drop to 89% marketshare MS is feeling just fine.
Think so? A recent story about their market share compared to the previous month since January changed by:
2008-02: +.08%
2008-03: -.01%
2008-04: +.07%
2008-05: -.51%
2008-06: -.24%
2008-07: +.13%
2008-08: -.36%
2008-09: -.37%
2008-10: +.17%
2008-11: -.84%
Notice that it keeps ratcheting downward - gain a little, lose a lot. Gain a little, lose a lot. Also note that (as of this writing), their stock is down 44% from its 52-week peak.
If MS is feeling just fine, then they are idiots. As I do not believe they are idiots, I do not think they're happy with current trends.
What GUI's were you using pre-Windows, i.e, the early 1980's?
I owned an Amiga, but played around with Macintoshes. My mom's office sprung for a Xerox Star system even earlier.
The fact is that OpenOffice and other projects are cloning Microsoft products, which represents an acknowledgment that Microsoft, not FOSS, is determining user expectations.
In what way is that a fact? I know this might sound strange to kids today, but Microsoft didn't invent GUI word processors. Let me put it this way: StarOffice dates to 1984, and Word came out in 1983. That's not exactly an overwhelming lead time.
No reason why they should. But if the only things that make Linux attractive are free clones of MS software, then that's damning Linux with faint praise.
Well, you could say that Microsoft does little more than make paid clones of FOSS and Mac software. Considering that I was using word processors, GUI desktops, and GUI word processors for years before MS got into the game, I'm not willing to cede originality to them.
Hell with No Child Left BEhind we are forced to test learning disabled students (which could total to 30-40 students depending on the district) as if they where NOT learning disabled, and have their scores count as proof the school is failing because they drop the schools average!
Note: this is a good thing, as long as it's accounted for. Otherwise schools could classify all of their sub-standard students as "learning disabled" and only include the scores of their brightest in the average.
It's interesting to see you are dreaming of the day when you can talk people into abandoning Word and adopting a clone of Word. What's the point, besides the differing development and distribution models? Why should someone who is happy with Word and doesn't care about free software use Open Office?
That day happened in 2005 in my company. Let's turn that around: why should a company that's not in the business of word processing pay good money for a program with lots of features they don't need? Maybe your corporation doesn't mind shelling out for unneeded software, but at my small company, a cut in software expenditures turns into a bigger Christmas bonus for the whole office.
The sticking point with free software is that people think it's too good to be true. After all, software is hard to make, why would somebody do it without being compensated?
Corollary: "Google doesn't charge you, do they? No! They sell advertising, and that's how they make their money! Well OpenOffice (or whatever) is like that. They want you to have it for free so you'll want to buy other stuff from them later or pay them to make it work better for you."
It's not strictly true because it doesn't account for people who give away their stuff for reputation purposes or simply because they want to. However, it satisfies the need a lot of people have to find the "catch".
Well if Linux is illegal, then why is my college using it?
Forget about colleges - everyone knows they're packed with law-disrespecting hippies anyway. Explain to them that IBM uses it. There's no good comeback to that one.
Well, we do have the ACM. Unfortunately, I had to drop my membership when I found out that their code of ethics would require me to support software patents and EULAs.
I'm not going to refuse to hire a junior programmer just because he hasn't had Windows experience, but when a new hire can't debug, or even build a program using Visual Studio, or in some cases doesn't even know how to copy/paste a file, they've been dreadfully underprepared for the real world.
Send 'em my way, would you? I'm not going to refuse to hire a junior programmer because he hasn't had Unix experience, but when a new hire can't debug, or even build a program using make, or in some cases doesn't even know how to cp/mv a file, they've been dreadfully underprepared for the real world.
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But practically speaking, he's spent very little time working in science, and almost all of that before 1970.
I don't know much about the guy, but at least he knows enough about the scientific process to be able to teach it. Even if he hadn't worked in industry in decades, he still understands the methodologies and why you would want to use them. That's a huge improvement over what we usually get.
we can get 10x the amount of energy out of uranium, and thorium, and produce 1/10th the waste that lasts 2 centuries rather than 10,000 years.
By the way, that's another way of phrasing "waste that is 50 times as radioactive".
I can't understand why it has taken this long.
Probably for the same reason that the FDA allows people to advertise homeopathic crap like HeadOn as a cure for headaches, then stick a 3-point type dislaimer stating "this product is not intended to treat anything" at the end. The stakes are sufficiently small that they move on to ignoring something bigger.
Don't drop the files into the 'document area', drop them onto the 'menu bar' area and they'll open.
At this rate, Windows will never be ready for the desktop.
The first Windows release was in 1983.
You better update Wikipedia:
That would make it Mac, then Amiga, then Windows.
I've only pointed to the fact that Open Office began as a deliberate clone of Office.
You keep saying that without offering any evidence whatsoever.
Students are there to learn and not to use alternative operating systems or anything that is not in the districts circulumn is not allowed to be taught.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry. God forbid the kids are allowed, you know, to learn stuff on their own.
it's 2008 and my sister in law makes $44,500 as a teacher.
According to Wikipedia, your sis-in-law makes about 90% of the median household income in the US by herself. If your brother{,-in-law} made the same, they'd bring home about 80% more than the median. No offense, but that's hardly poverty.
If I was a mean and vindictive person (I am), I would have the following conversation with the teacher/superintendent:
[snip verbose geek revenge fantasy]
You know, it's OK to be direct: "do that again and you'll hear from my lawyer."
Wikipedia also has an entry on the planet, dubbed HD 189733b.
Notice that astronomers are not typically confused with the lives of the party.
Lots of people have WMT (-13%) in their 401k.
AXFR and IXFR are unnecessary (and can be solved completely with rsync)
Hah! rsync can't instantly realize that one record in 100,000 has changed - as can IXFR's logfile - or use that knowledge to publish the same set of changes to multiple servers. Furthermore, do you really want to call rsync every single time you get a dynamic dns update?
I think the intended market is guilty parents trying to pretend that their kids will get some educational benefit from the $200 Pokemon game system they bought for their kids last Christmas.
My kids are hooked on "My (French|Spanish|Japanese) Coach". I think that counts.
I'm guessing that despite the recent drop to 89% marketshare MS is feeling just fine.
Think so? A recent story about their market share compared to the previous month since January changed by:
Notice that it keeps ratcheting downward - gain a little, lose a lot. Gain a little, lose a lot. Also note that (as of this writing), their stock is down 44% from its 52-week peak.
If MS is feeling just fine, then they are idiots. As I do not believe they are idiots, I do not think they're happy with current trends.
It's rather childish to drop your membership over patents and EULAs.
So it's OK to lie and say I accept their ethical code? Doesn't that miss the entire freakin' point of having a code of ethics in the first place?
What GUI's were you using pre-Windows, i.e, the early 1980's?
I owned an Amiga, but played around with Macintoshes. My mom's office sprung for a Xerox Star system even earlier.
The fact is that OpenOffice and other projects are cloning Microsoft products, which represents an acknowledgment that Microsoft, not FOSS, is determining user expectations.
In what way is that a fact? I know this might sound strange to kids today, but Microsoft didn't invent GUI word processors. Let me put it this way: StarOffice dates to 1984, and Word came out in 1983. That's not exactly an overwhelming lead time.
No, I think they should keep it as is, or maybe even lock it up even tighter.
Umm, what were you expecting Slashdotters to say?
No reason why they should. But if the only things that make Linux attractive are free clones of MS software, then that's damning Linux with faint praise.
Well, you could say that Microsoft does little more than make paid clones of FOSS and Mac software. Considering that I was using word processors, GUI desktops, and GUI word processors for years before MS got into the game, I'm not willing to cede originality to them.
The point being that you can't use 8-year-old data to demonstrate one point any more than you can use 8-year-old data to demonstrate its opposite.
Hell with No Child Left BEhind we are forced to test learning disabled students (which could total to 30-40 students depending on the district) as if they where NOT learning disabled, and have their scores count as proof the school is failing because they drop the schools average!
Note: this is a good thing, as long as it's accounted for. Otherwise schools could classify all of their sub-standard students as "learning disabled" and only include the scores of their brightest in the average.
It's interesting to see you are dreaming of the day when you can talk people into abandoning Word and adopting a clone of Word. What's the point, besides the differing development and distribution models? Why should someone who is happy with Word and doesn't care about free software use Open Office?
That day happened in 2005 in my company. Let's turn that around: why should a company that's not in the business of word processing pay good money for a program with lots of features they don't need? Maybe your corporation doesn't mind shelling out for unneeded software, but at my small company, a cut in software expenditures turns into a bigger Christmas bonus for the whole office.
The sticking point with free software is that people think it's too good to be true. After all, software is hard to make, why would somebody do it without being compensated?
Corollary: "Google doesn't charge you, do they? No! They sell advertising, and that's how they make their money! Well OpenOffice (or whatever) is like that. They want you to have it for free so you'll want to buy other stuff from them later or pay them to make it work better for you."
It's not strictly true because it doesn't account for people who give away their stuff for reputation purposes or simply because they want to. However, it satisfies the need a lot of people have to find the "catch".
Well if Linux is illegal, then why is my college using it?
Forget about colleges - everyone knows they're packed with law-disrespecting hippies anyway. Explain to them that IBM uses it. There's no good comeback to that one.
one monitor for CSI
Programmers are genetically incapable of sitting through CSI, let alone watching it voluntarily.
No professional organization.
Well, we do have the ACM. Unfortunately, I had to drop my membership when I found out that their code of ethics would require me to support software patents and EULAs.
I'm not going to refuse to hire a junior programmer just because he hasn't had Windows experience, but when a new hire can't debug, or even build a program using Visual Studio, or in some cases doesn't even know how to copy/paste a file, they've been dreadfully underprepared for the real world.
Send 'em my way, would you? I'm not going to refuse to hire a junior programmer because he hasn't had Unix experience, but when a new hire can't debug, or even build a program using make, or in some cases doesn't even know how to cp/mv a file, they've been dreadfully underprepared for the real world.