Universities have never been more than a bottom-line for-profit business that uses cult-like recruiting tactics and has absolutely no shame or loyalty to anything or anyone but themselves.
I hope this is becoming a bit clearer to everyone now, as in the past I've been ridiculed for blasting universities as money-driven cults.
They provide very little value in the modern world and should be used sparingly.
Mod parent anon coward down.
Dude, I am a professional engineer. It is a requirement to have an engineering degree. I believe doctors, accountants, business men like Trump Inc, even lawyers, are useful. And I am biased to thinking engineers are useful.
"Oligarchy... term as a synonym for rule by the rich..."
Both parties are not so secretly controlled by the super rich interests. Maybe Bernie Sanders might actually have a chance to change the system. Make the 1% start to actually trickle back down prosperity to the average voter.
I have moderator points, and was going to add +funny to your comment. But really to use the description oligarchy in a negative connotation. Then actually support the richest guy. This (execthis) is clearly the/. username for Karl Rove!
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, After a heated discussion in Foxnews with the Donald, the ambassador informs President Linus that the Soviet Union has created a windows device, which consists of many buried bombs jacketed with "Linus-System-G"
Do a search someday on " Information Wars 2025, Air Force". The information is not always for machines. Our soldiers will have protection from nervous system interference. While the 'terrorists' will hear, feel, and see, etc what ever we project onto them. Ever notice how the Slashdot war helmet resembles the tin-foil hat?
You are correct, Americans are intentionally kept ignorant. Tea bags bring us back to the halcyon days of tarring and feathering. Most Americans barely understand a Watt. So a lumen, etc are beyond the goal of conformist society.
FLOPS / Watt is the future. No doubt. Tesla (NVIDIA) has the edge on the low end now. Low power per cycle will win in the long term. Multi core x64 bit for now. But to the powers that be, 32 / 64/128 bits per watt per cycle will rule someday.
They skipped IP V5, so why not skip V6? IP V7, although alpha is more likely to be adapted than IP V3, or V5. Skipping generations seems the historical precedence. Probably the military had an IP V5, and V3 for internal use that was very secure, and DARPA funds less secure information for us.
The post about OS-X, is both a "flame-bait", and a noteworthy, free speech comment. Often when moderating and I read such a post, I will use "interesting" which does not penalize the remarkable comment. It would be nice to have the option to mark the post as "flame-bait" but not subtract rating points. "Off-topic" has the same problem.
Pumping air is also much worse than pushing water around. Air is a compressible fluid, while water is practically incompressible. Extra energy is wasted at the pressure source (AC), and at the exit, as the air changes volume.
A similar effect from the "canned air" that turns cold when uncompressed. Unless you are pushing that air over your skin while sweating in hot weather, the energy is pure extra waste. You cannot make a can of "compressed water", because it is not compressible.
The article is great. Can we mod ZOOLS karma up for posting this? These are the kinds of things for newbies that old crusty sites like/. are often lacking.
We the freedom/software community should promote how great opensource is compared to the expensive programs. Anyone with a new computer he/she is setting up would immediatly benefit from the short list of programs the article reviewed.
And the post even makes the GIMP sound so easy to use! I.E. dont scare the willing.
DeBeers will never give diamonds away for free. General Electric, however can sell them for significantly less at any time. Check the patents on industrial charcoal allotrophs. The only reason diamonds are still expensive is the marketing distinction between 'natural' and 'man-made' created to keep people from buying artificial diamonds. The ironic thing is that is that the flaws in the natural diamonds is what distingiush them, but of course more 'perfect' and 'flawless' natural diamonds are more expensive. It is likely a crash in prices for the scintillating jewels will eventually happen.
Slashdot Mirror
Universities have never been more than a bottom-line for-profit business that uses cult-like recruiting tactics and has absolutely no shame or loyalty to anything or anyone but themselves.
I hope this is becoming a bit clearer to everyone now, as in the past I've been ridiculed for blasting universities as money-driven cults.
They provide very little value in the modern world and should be used sparingly.
Mod parent anon coward down.
Dude, I am a professional engineer. It is a requirement to have an engineering degree. I believe doctors, accountants, business men like Trump Inc, even lawyers, are useful. And I am biased to thinking engineers are useful.
...plan of the oligarchy for quite a while - ... Donald Trump 2016...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Oligarchy ... term as a synonym for rule by the rich..."
Both parties are not so secretly controlled by the super rich interests. Maybe Bernie Sanders might actually have a chance to change the system. Make the 1% start to actually trickle back down prosperity to the average voter.
I have moderator points, and was going to add +funny to your comment. But really to use the description oligarchy in a negative connotation. Then actually support the richest guy. This (execthis) is clearly the /. username for Karl Rove!
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,
After a heated discussion in Foxnews with the Donald, the ambassador informs President Linus that the Soviet Union has created a windows device, which consists of many buried bombs jacketed with "Linus-System-G"
First Post!
Do a search someday on " Information Wars 2025, Air Force". The information is not always for machines. Our soldiers will have protection from nervous system interference. While the 'terrorists' will hear, feel, and see, etc what ever we project onto them. Ever notice how the Slashdot war helmet resembles the tin-foil hat?
You are correct, Americans are intentionally kept ignorant. Tea bags bring us back to the halcyon days of tarring and feathering. Most Americans barely understand a Watt. So a lumen, etc are beyond the goal of conformist society.
I, for one welcome our new fluorescent and LED masters.
I, for one welcome our new quantum overlords.
FLOPS / Watt is the future. No doubt. Tesla (NVIDIA) has the edge on the low end now. Low power per cycle will win in the long term. Multi core x64 bit for now. But to the powers that be, 32 / 64 /128 bits per watt per cycle will rule someday.
They skipped IP V5, so why not skip V6? IP V7, although alpha is more likely to be adapted than IP V3, or V5. Skipping generations seems the historical precedence. Probably the military had an IP V5, and V3 for internal use that was very secure, and DARPA funds less secure information for us.
Supreme Commander (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Commander) is a great game for MMO. Already large scale, and scalable.
Most of these games are good, and run on linux:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_open_source_games
I have played "The Battle for Wesnoth", that is very good for turn based strategy.
Orange book:
A-
You are are a single communication construct. No one outside the circle of trust has any idea what is communicated.
B-
You are in a network (circle) of trust. moving data to each other is logged, and allowed/censored.
C-
A typical LAN with verifiable security.
D-
The internet, a net work of networks. Data can 'vanish', as a function of time/money spent on keeping the data stored.
Read the data security handbook summarized:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Computer_System_Evaluation_Criteria
Ignorance is strength,
War is peace,
Freedom is slavery.
All your base are belong to us.
The post about OS-X, is both a "flame-bait", and a noteworthy, free speech comment. Often when moderating and I read such a post, I will use "interesting" which does not penalize the remarkable comment. It would be nice to have the option to mark the post as "flame-bait" but not subtract rating points. "Off-topic" has the same problem.
FYI
The reason the Babylonians, and the Egyptians, and we use 360 degrees is this:
355/113 = 3.14159292035
pi `= 3.14159265359
A difference of 8.5x10-6%
Which makes 355/113 close enough to pi. 360 is close to 355 which is why we use 360 degrees for angles and time.
Pumping air is also much worse than pushing water around. Air is a compressible fluid, while water is practically incompressible. Extra energy is wasted at the pressure source (AC), and at the exit, as the air changes volume.
A similar effect from the "canned air" that turns cold when uncompressed. Unless you are pushing that air over your skin while sweating in hot weather, the energy is pure extra waste. You cannot make a can of "compressed water", because it is not compressible.
All IBM is saying is that water is a better heat conductor, and air is an insulator.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific_heat_capacity
Water ; 4 J /cm^3 K /cm^3 K
Air ; 0.001 J
Water/Air = 4000 times more heat transfer.
So, given the choice, you would use water to transfer heat.
The article is great. Can we mod ZOOLS karma up for posting this? /. are often lacking.
These are the kinds of things for newbies that old crusty sites like
We the freedom/software community should promote how great opensource is compared to the expensive programs. Anyone with a new computer he/she is setting up would immediatly benefit from the short list of programs the article reviewed.
And the post even makes the GIMP sound so easy to use! I.E. dont scare the willing.
Just ask Linus and GIT will become the bitkeeper of your dreams.
Actually, I remember Linus writing that Linux/GNU really needs a network file system with LDAP like features.
Just incase no one else has mentioned this American patriot's opinion.
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
http://www.ushistory.org/franklin/quotable/quote0
You have an extranious space (%20) in the URL caused by slashdot formatting.a tes/US/P/00/epolls.0.html/
The URL:
http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2004/pages/results/st
VOTE BY EDUCATION BUSH KERRY NADER
TOTAL 2004 BUSH2000 2004 2004
No High School (4%) 49% +10 50% 0%
H.S. Graduate (22%) 52% +3 47% 0%
Some College (32%) 54% +3 46% 0%
College Graduate (26%) 52% +1 46% 1%
Postgrad Study (16%) 44% +0 55% 1%
AND the more generic:
VOTE BY EDUCATION BUSH BUSH2000 KERRY NADER
No College Degree (58%) 53% n/a 47% 0%
College Graduate (42%) 49% n/a 49% 1%
Libertarians should read Reason magazine!
http://reason.com/
DeBeers will never give diamonds away for free. General Electric, however can sell them for significantly less at any time. Check the patents on industrial charcoal allotrophs. The only reason diamonds are still expensive is the marketing distinction between 'natural' and 'man-made' created to keep people from buying artificial diamonds. The ironic thing is that is that the flaws in the natural diamonds is what distingiush them, but of course more 'perfect' and 'flawless' natural diamonds are more expensive. It is likely a crash in prices for the scintillating jewels will eventually happen.
You are so correct. WP for DOS vs the Windows versions is a great example of GUI bloat with loss of features and no functionality gain.
The WYSIWYG print preview from WP DOS program is only now (10+ years later) being matched with Word. The same goes for equation editing and printing.
Most missed feature - REVEAL CODES!!!
Have ypou looked at the latest AOL coasters? The CD 's are FRIGGIN LASER BEAMS with out sharks attached.
And the DVD's are not just evil CD-ROMS!
These optical CPUS just need to get all the slow electronic transducers out of the way.