This seems like an ok idea for helping children develop longer attention spans. It will probably be effective in those kids who are diagnosed ADHD for simply being normal children.
A lot of children are now being diagnosed ADHD simply for doing what children do. Namely running around, being active, jumping from one interest to another, etc. Children (under 10) do not have the same brain activity as an adult, and it is unreasonable to expect them to behave as adults do. Parents seem to not want their children to act like children, and are turning to chemicals to make them be what they want them to be. Children who are diagnosed ADHD, when if fact they are just normal kids, will eventually settle down as the brain develops.
For children who actually are ADD, the attention span problem does not go away with time. They will struggle their entire lives with tasks most adults have no problems with. For them, these excercizes will do nothing but frustrate, as their brains do not have the capacity for developing longer attention spans.
There are children who are put into classes now that are supposed to extend attention spans, and this is another example of that theory. It is useful, however, only in children who have the ability to develop normally, not in the true cases of ADD.
I think it says more about the science education of the high ranking military officers. Of course they have assistants, but who needs to listen to them? It's much more fun to say we're developing a warp drive than to ask someone who knows whether the theory behind it is crap.
I do think the way technology has followed the sci-fi writing is cool and all, but that doesn't mean that every idea in a sci-fi novel is worth spending tax money on.
The difference, as I see it is removing the basic trust given to students by the school. As it stands, if you show up late for a class, and say you got held late in the previous one, the teacher can say trust you and not mark you as late.
It's a basic human system. Students in high school are becoming adults. As such, they need to be given some freedom, and shown that they can go outside the lines a bit as long as it isn't excessive, and still be ok. The world is not out to get them, but if they completely disregard the rules, then they will be in trouble.
This system changes that. Now anytime you step outside the lines, it can be tracked, every story checked. You, from day 1 entering the school, are treated as if you are guilty. Now we are saying to students who enter the schoool: "we know you're gonna screw up, and we want to be able to prove it when you do."
Right...but you use windows explorer for file management, Internet explorer for ftp stuff. In Konq, I just opened up the ftp window on the right, and the local directory tree on the left, and he could just drag'n'drop files, directories, whatever.
I am not real familiar with windows. Maybe IE can do the same thing. He had always used two programs, (explorer and IE) though.
I recently had this problem. My roommate was using my computer to burn some CD's. He had mp3's that he wanted in cd audio format. I tried to show him how to do what he needed...starting with command line ftp, to command line file management, to command line cd recording.
He looked at me like I was from mars.
Then he said, "Don't you have explorer like in windows?"
I was stunned. Of course I did. I was running KDE for Crissakes. I never use it, so it just didn't occur to me. Then I showed him again, using konqueror for ftp, and file management. (He was impressed that you could use the same program to get files from other computers, and file management.) He did have to do command line cd recording, since I didn't have a gui, but he was ok with moving files to the right directory, and hitting up-arrow, enter.
When he was done, using almost all GUI tools, he came in and said something about Linux not being as tough as everyone said. If he hadn't hit me over the head with the obvious, though, he would have given up in frustration at the command line.
True, the us is involved in conflicts much more often. However, I was speaking of large scale warfare. I define this as either wars involving a draft, or wars that lasted long enough for a person to join the military, and have them still going when the person had received basic training.
~1860 Civil War
~1900 Spanish American War
~1920 WWI
~1940 WWII
Late 50's through 70's Korea and Vietnam. These are different, both in timing, as well as motive. There was not a large public support for either.
These are generalizations, aproximations, etc. It does seem to me at least to be a repeating pattern however.
This has been said many times. It has been said many ways. One of the most repeted is " The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. "
Unfortunately, every generation it seems must learn this for themselves. I do not believe that it is a coincidence that the US has a major war every 20 - 30 years.
I believe that as more people reflect on this tragedy, and consider our options going forward, more people will come to understand the true meaning of the above statement. I also fear that too many will, as Ben Franklin said, be willing to give up essential freedoms for perceived safety.
This is/. As such, it has a generally young audience, who have never before seen first hand tragedy or tyranny on this scale. I hope that each person realizes, as you have, the choice is either to stand up for the freedoms we all say we cherish, or to bow and cower as our freedoms are stripped.
I believe you miss the point...It's not about making sure we get the people who did this. That is important, to be sure. The retaliation should be done in an over the top, large scale way. It should kill civilian targets.
The point is to partially to bring the current terrorists to justice. That is a small part. Doing that will not bring back our dead, but it will make us feel better. The main point, though, is to show other would be terrorists that if they attempt anything like this, not only will they be killled, but also their families, friends, etc.
The only way to stop terrorists is to have them terrified of reprocussions of their acts.
So yes, contact your government. But let them know that you understand...the enemy has chosen the terms of engagement. They have clearly said there is no distinction between military and civilian targets. We must locate the people responsible for this tragedy, and make them wish they had never done it.
I am going on the assumption that the above comment was not an attempt at humor. If it was...well, I must be too tired..however, if it wasn't...
Why should we bother wasting time exploring space when the world we live on is not perfect? You're right, it costs money, and there is not immediate gain to discoveries like this. However, there are several good reasons.
Firstly, I suggest you watch the show connections sometime. It's a wonderful show for history if nothing else. In it, the narrator shows how each invention or discovery led to others, building the very foundation of knowledge without which the current world you live in would not be possible. Many of the inventions in that chain were considered, at the time, to be useless. Impractical. A novelty at best. However, when applied with some other idea (or 2) from other people it blossomed into a very useful invention.
So how does this discovery help us? Directly, not at all. But indirectly, it may be very important. Remember the story within the last few days here on/. about those astronamers who were trying to prove that constants changed over time, and thus help string theory? If the advances made by others needing to look farther into space, for things exactly like this discovery, were not made, that may have never been possible.
Another reason we should do this is that it helps explore, discover, and explain our universe.
Societies are judged, from a historical standpoint, by the advancements they make for humanity. Think of what Rome is remembered for. The roads they made which allowed trade across great distances. The aquaducts, etc. These were made possible by taxes, just like NASA is today.
We have the ability to explore more of the universe than anyone in history. Does this mean we should do it to the exclusion of helping suffering in the world? No. But it does mean that if we have the ability, and resources, and do nothing with it, we will be holding back progress which could ultimately help humanity expand it's knowledge of the universe we live in. And personally, I am willing to give a few tax dollars to that.
Well, I really doubt this will be fud, since that stands for fear, uncertanty, and doubt.
This acticle seems to be more of a hype piece.
FUD is tearing down a competitor's product with vague statements and generalizations. FUD is not describing your own new product in glowing terms. That's just marketing BS.
I know, I know...shouldn't nitpick. But when the term FUD is so depricated on the main page at slashdot, I really must object.
Well, I can't say I am really surprised by this...
I have personally only bought 2 games from loki. I bought quake 3 and railroad tycoon2 (one of the very first they did). In that time, I have probably bought 10 times that number of windows games.
The catch 22 is that until all games come out for linux, and at the same time as windows, most people will keep dual booting. But until enough people run linux, (and buy games), but don't run windows, game companies won't have incentive to develop for linux, except as an afterthought.
Since I have a windows partition, I usually get games I see on the shelves that look cool, or ones I have heard about from a friend. When I see a/. story about loki, I go to their site, and usually see a new game they have done, but I already own it for windows.
I wish Loki the best. And I wish I could say something like " From now on, I am going to buy games from loki, if only to support gaming on Linux. " But in truth, I know that I will continue to buy the cool new games as soon as they come out, and unfortunately, that usually means I won't be buying from Loki.
Ahem....firstly...
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It's called punctuation. Look into it.
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Secondly, looking at your comment, I count the word they 3 times. (4 if you meant to say they in the first sentence, instead of the)
The truly sad part about this discussion is that the majority of people informed on technological issues view the government that way. As some entity, totally separate from
themselves, which they have no control over.
What you say has merit. The same excuses are used over and over to limit freedoms. It is not limited to technological matters, though. The phrase "Think of the children!" has been used throughout history as a way of reducing freedoms. The beauty of the US government system is that if enough people can be convinced that the argument is just BS, the people using it will have to stop. Or get tossed out of govt altogether.
All I am saying is that in the US the government still directly answers to the voters, at least once every two years. We need to not view these laws as things being made in a void, by people we have no control over. We need instead to actually put our money where are mouth is, so to speak, and actually vote.
I would guess that a large portion of/. readers did not vote in the last national election. (A large portion of those who were legally able to vote, I mean) The government continues to make laws targetted to please those who are middle income and above. More often than not, the laws are targetted at parents in that group. Why? Because that demographic has a very high voter turnout.
If we truly want anything to be done about this parade of misinformation spewing forth from Washinton, we need to vote every chance we get, for the most informed representative we can get.
Here is an example. A friend of mine uses a 3d modeling application. (AM for those who care). He grabs wireframes from other people, and to my knowledge has never created one of his own. He then spends hours arranging the various models, and renders the image.
Now what comes out, when he is done, is quite beatiful. He has done some truly wonderful images. But here in lies the question...is he an artist?
I would say no, mostly because the wireframes aren't his. But that is a pretty fine line. All of the arrangement is his, and the final image would not look the same, even using the same wireframes, if he had not arranged them just as he did.
I believe that this is a major factor in people dismissing anything coming out of a computer as art. In the above case, the 'artist', (and believe me I use the term loosly) doesn't have to worry about light/shadow. He just tries various models with various lighting sources and just keeps re-rendering until it looks right. I understand how more traditional artists view this as less than art. Additionally, the perception that most/all art that is created on a computer is done this way probably hinders many peoples acceptance of the computer as a tool for creating true art.
So what you say is true, if the computer is being used as a tool, like a brush. But if used to simply render out images, where the entire input of the 'artist' is to just keep moving the objects and pushing a render button....that debate is still open on that IMHO.
Well, not to invoke the name of the almighty, but...
I remember reading an interview with Linus a couple years back, which covered a broad range of topics. Not being that much into hero worship myself, I don't follow his carreer with particular interest. However, one line jumped out at me.
The interviewer asked him if he could speak at all about his present job, (I forget which company.) His reply? Something to the effect of no, but it's a lot of fun.
The reason this jumped at me was that I realised that whatever he was working on at his "day" job was not only closed source, but he couldn't even discuss it.
It seems to me that this is probably the case for the vast majority of "open source" developers. (Not nescassarily the no-talking bit, but the closed source bit) So if you have the ability and desire to help open source in this way, go for it.
If you have already lost these people as a client, let them go. Hanging around and nitpicking is a sure way to get them to think less of your company.
What you should do is wait for the site to be up a while, (6 months to a year), and approach them as a "security consultant." Get permission to poke around, before you do it. Get paid consulting fees to do it.
In the end, they may be impressed and switch over to you. Don't suggest yourself as the company to switch to, though. This will come off as sour grapes. Suggest that they either revamp the site, or choose a different server type altogether.
Bottom line, if you impress them with the small amount of work you do for them, they will think of you as a 'good' company, and speak of you that way. If you upset them, they will never do business with you, and you risk losing other business as well.
Ok, I agree with your point. However, this is not FUD.
FUD is fear, uncertanty, and doubt. It is trying to undermine a product by making people think less of it. FUD is not "lame marketing crap I don't agree with".
Sorry to nitpick, but since the term FUD is used so often here on/., I would hope it would be used correctly.
I am *almost* inclined to believe it, however, since it is so poorly directed. I mean sure,/. provides a large reader base for your marketing fluff, but mostly not with people making decisions on where to outsource web-development, especially in the $50,000 range.
These guys really do need help getting their story out, just not for the reasons they say. =)
I did not mean to say that Sun would make a commercial product out of KDE...obviously that would violate the GPL
What I meant was that they could now ship KDE with thier commercial product, (Solaris). This of course assumes that they follow the conditions of the GPL and provide source, etc.
Before ranting, maybe try to understand a comment before assuming it is just wrong.
Sun, HP et al joined with the gnome foundation prior to Qt being released fully GPL. To go with KDE would mean licensing issues, and fees paid to Trolltech for every copy of their OS shipped.
Since that time, I have heard MANY people saying that Qt is fully GPL. If this means that it can be used for free in a commercial product, Sun, HP, et al may have more decisions to make.
More importantly, though, is the fact that KDE, as well as Gnome, and many 'Linux' desktops are not exclusively Linux at all.
My Sun machines, other than pure servers, all run KDE. So do my Linux boxes. I know people who do the same with Gnome. And Windowmaker.
The point here is that it's all about choice. I have the choice to use KDE, you have the choice to use Gnome, and others have the choice to use whatever they want. Ideas, innovations, etc from one desktop quickly migrated to others, and in the end, we will hopefully have many mature, stable desktops, which can be quickly and easily exchanged, based on a persons tastes, needs, etc.
There are those who will use whatever comes installed on their machines, and never tinker. But I for one am glad that I can replace bits and pieces, until I get my machine to my liking.
So why use KDE? For the same reason that many people put Linux on in the first place. If you like what you have, stick with it. Many people didn't like the Windows that came with their computers, and installed something else. If you like Gnome, stick with it. If you find yourself not liking it, or wondering if something else just may be more to your liking, try KDE, or Windowmaker, or whatever.
As was mentioned elsewhere, high density areas have been around for a much longer time than the school shootings.
Maybe I'm stupid and Canadian, but in an urban population with a decent sized police force, there should be no good reason for people to have to carry around weapons.
Damn I wish I were you. To have that much faith in your govt. Wow.
The reason American's, when setting up their own government, decided to let every law-abiding citizen carry a gun was simple. And it had nothing to do with bears or hunting.
The question is often raised: " Who polices the police? " The answer is every citizen.
The founders of the United States realized that in a normal, everyday world, police will behave in a manner that to them seems just. Laws will be enough to keep everyone, including the police, in line. The problem comes in times of chaos. These times can be long, like the LA riots after the Rodney King beating, or short, like the beating itself.
It is times like this, when police are either the problem themselves, or cannot help each citizen, that the citizens must be able to help themselves.
Yes, I live in a country where a co-worker could go nuts, go home and get his gun(s), and come back and kill everyone. The chance is remote, but it could happen. This is a trade off, however, that I am willing to make. I understand the risk, and would rather live in a country where if the shit hits the fan, I can defend myself, instead of being dependent on the gov't for protection.
From the carbonated milk article:
e-Moo - a drink for children of an Internet age - initially will be sold in three flavors: Orange Creamsicle, Bubble Gum and Chocolate Raspberry, which will marketed as an alternative for adults. In waiting, are Cookies and Cream and Fudge Brownie if e-Moo is successful.
Mother of all that's holy...I am going to have to walk past Buble Gum flavored Milk in the supermarket, and not retch. As if life wasn't challenging enough.
Also, it looks as if the adult flavor is Chocolate Raspberry. Words cannot express my utter revulsion at the concept. Maybe I'm not adult enough (I'm 25), or maybe by adult they mean every 13 year old who thinks they're an adult (hence I'm too adult).
Either way, I think I'll stick to Coke. At least that way I know I'm being unhealthy, and am not trying to fool myself.
While I agree with most of what you said, I believe your choice of an example was poor...
The difference between Katz and napster users is napster users exchange other peoples IP for free, Katz wanted to do it for money.
All in all, this changes little. Those who chose to exchange IP, in violation of the law, will continue to do so. (Granted some don't like these laws, but the fact remains that the laws *exist*). So maybe this will mean less napster stories on/. in the future, as more people move to the alternatives.
Computer Engineering, (at least at the college I attended), was a hardware degree with a software focus. Computer science was a software degree, with no hardware. I decided on CompE, so read the below with my bias in mind. =)
In my experience, both comp sci and comp E majors could program. The real difference came when you crossed software with hardware, like in embedded programming.
If your goal is to write object oriented software, on user level applications, or create the next set of tools to be used for development, go comp sci. If you want to get into embedded stuff, it sure is nice to understand the hardware you are working with a bit.
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This seems like an ok idea for helping children develop longer attention spans. It will probably be effective in those kids who are diagnosed ADHD for simply being normal children.
A lot of children are now being diagnosed ADHD simply for doing what children do. Namely running around, being active, jumping from one interest to another, etc. Children (under 10) do not have the same brain activity as an adult, and it is unreasonable to expect them to behave as adults do. Parents seem to not want their children to act like children, and are turning to chemicals to make them be what they want them to be. Children who are diagnosed ADHD, when if fact they are just normal kids, will eventually settle down as the brain develops.
For children who actually are ADD, the attention span problem does not go away with time. They will struggle their entire lives with tasks most adults have no problems with. For them, these excercizes will do nothing but frustrate, as their brains do not have the capacity for developing longer attention spans.
There are children who are put into classes now that are supposed to extend attention spans, and this is another example of that theory. It is useful, however, only in children who have the ability to develop normally, not in the true cases of ADD.
I think it says more about the science education of the high ranking military officers. Of course they have assistants, but who needs to listen to them? It's much more fun to say we're developing a warp drive than to ask someone who knows whether the theory behind it is crap.
I do think the way technology has followed the sci-fi writing is cool and all, but that doesn't mean that every idea in a sci-fi novel is worth spending tax money on.
I'm way too late for anyone to read this, but...
rsync is available for the mac. clicky
The difference, as I see it is removing the basic trust given to students by the school. As it stands, if you show up late for a class, and say you got held late in the previous one, the teacher can say trust you and not mark you as late.
It's a basic human system. Students in high school are becoming adults. As such, they need to be given some freedom, and shown that they can go outside the lines a bit as long as it isn't excessive, and still be ok. The world is not out to get them, but if they completely disregard the rules, then they will be in trouble.
This system changes that. Now anytime you step outside the lines, it can be tracked, every story checked. You, from day 1 entering the school, are treated as if you are guilty. Now we are saying to students who enter the schoool: "we know you're gonna screw up, and we want to be able to prove it when you do."
I am not real familiar with windows. Maybe IE can do the same thing. He had always used two programs, (explorer and IE) though.
He looked at me like I was from mars.
Then he said, "Don't you have explorer like in windows?"
I was stunned. Of course I did. I was running KDE for Crissakes. I never use it, so it just didn't occur to me. Then I showed him again, using konqueror for ftp, and file management. (He was impressed that you could use the same program to get files from other computers, and file management.) He did have to do command line cd recording, since I didn't have a gui, but he was ok with moving files to the right directory, and hitting up-arrow, enter.
When he was done, using almost all GUI tools, he came in and said something about Linux not being as tough as everyone said. If he hadn't hit me over the head with the obvious, though, he would have given up in frustration at the command line.
~1860 Civil War
~1900 Spanish American War
~1920 WWI
~1940 WWII
Late 50's through 70's Korea and Vietnam. These are different, both in timing, as well as motive. There was not a large public support for either.
These are generalizations, aproximations, etc. It does seem to me at least to be a repeating pattern however.
Unfortunately, every generation it seems must learn this for themselves. I do not believe that it is a coincidence that the US has a major war every 20 - 30 years.
I believe that as more people reflect on this tragedy, and consider our options going forward, more people will come to understand the true meaning of the above statement. I also fear that too many will, as Ben Franklin said, be willing to give up essential freedoms for perceived safety.
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The point is to partially to bring the current terrorists to justice. That is a small part. Doing that will not bring back our dead, but it will make us feel better. The main point, though, is to show other would be terrorists that if they attempt anything like this, not only will they be killled, but also their families, friends, etc.
The only way to stop terrorists is to have them terrified of reprocussions of their acts.
So yes, contact your government. But let them know that you understand...the enemy has chosen the terms of engagement. They have clearly said there is no distinction between military and civilian targets. We must locate the people responsible for this tragedy, and make them wish they had never done it.
Why should we bother wasting time exploring space when the world we live on is not perfect? You're right, it costs money, and there is not immediate gain to discoveries like this. However, there are several good reasons.
Firstly, I suggest you watch the show connections sometime. It's a wonderful show for history if nothing else. In it, the narrator shows how each invention or discovery led to others, building the very foundation of knowledge without which the current world you live in would not be possible. Many of the inventions in that chain were considered, at the time, to be useless. Impractical. A novelty at best. However, when applied with some other idea (or 2) from other people it blossomed into a very useful invention.
So how does this discovery help us? Directly, not at all. But indirectly, it may be very important. Remember the story within the last few days here on /. about those astronamers who were trying to prove that constants changed over time, and thus help string theory? If the advances made by others needing to look farther into space, for things exactly like this discovery, were not made, that may have never been possible.
Another reason we should do this is that it helps explore, discover, and explain our universe.
Societies are judged, from a historical standpoint, by the advancements they make for humanity. Think of what Rome is remembered for. The roads they made which allowed trade across great distances. The aquaducts, etc. These were made possible by taxes, just like NASA is today.
We have the ability to explore more of the universe than anyone in history. Does this mean we should do it to the exclusion of helping suffering in the world? No. But it does mean that if we have the ability, and resources, and do nothing with it, we will be holding back progress which could ultimately help humanity expand it's knowledge of the universe we live in. And personally, I am willing to give a few tax dollars to that.
Well, I really doubt this will be fud, since that stands for fear, uncertanty, and doubt. This acticle seems to be more of a hype piece.
FUD is tearing down a competitor's product with vague statements and generalizations. FUD is not describing your own new product in glowing terms. That's just marketing BS.
I know, I know...shouldn't nitpick. But when the term FUD is so depricated on the main page at slashdot, I really must object.
I have personally only bought 2 games from loki. I bought quake 3 and railroad tycoon2 (one of the very first they did). In that time, I have probably bought 10 times that number of windows games.
The catch 22 is that until all games come out for linux, and at the same time as windows, most people will keep dual booting. But until enough people run linux, (and buy games), but don't run windows, game companies won't have incentive to develop for linux, except as an afterthought.
Since I have a windows partition, I usually get games I see on the shelves that look cool, or ones I have heard about from a friend. When I see a /. story about loki, I go to their site, and usually see a new game they have done, but I already own it for windows.
I wish Loki the best. And I wish I could say something like " From now on, I am going to buy games from loki, if only to support gaming on Linux. " But in truth, I know that I will continue to buy the cool new games as soon as they come out, and unfortunately, that usually means I won't be buying from Loki.
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It's called punctuation. Look into it.
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Secondly, looking at your comment, I count the word they 3 times. (4 if you meant to say they in the first sentence, instead of the)
The truly sad part about this discussion is that the majority of people informed on technological issues view the government that way. As some entity, totally separate from themselves, which they have no control over.
What you say has merit. The same excuses are used over and over to limit freedoms. It is not limited to technological matters, though. The phrase "Think of the children!" has been used throughout history as a way of reducing freedoms. The beauty of the US government system is that if enough people can be convinced that the argument is just BS, the people using it will have to stop. Or get tossed out of govt altogether.
All I am saying is that in the US the government still directly answers to the voters, at least once every two years. We need to not view these laws as things being made in a void, by people we have no control over. We need instead to actually put our money where are mouth is, so to speak, and actually vote.
I would guess that a large portion of /. readers did not vote in the last national election. (A large portion of those who were legally able to vote, I mean) The government continues to make laws targetted to please those who are middle income and above. More often than not, the laws are targetted at parents in that group. Why? Because that demographic has a very high voter turnout.
If we truly want anything to be done about this parade of misinformation spewing forth from Washinton, we need to vote every chance we get, for the most informed representative we can get.
Here is an example. A friend of mine uses a 3d modeling application. (AM for those who care). He grabs wireframes from other people, and to my knowledge has never created one of his own. He then spends hours arranging the various models, and renders the image.
Now what comes out, when he is done, is quite beatiful. He has done some truly wonderful images. But here in lies the question...is he an artist?
I would say no, mostly because the wireframes aren't his. But that is a pretty fine line. All of the arrangement is his, and the final image would not look the same, even using the same wireframes, if he had not arranged them just as he did.
I believe that this is a major factor in people dismissing anything coming out of a computer as art. In the above case, the 'artist', (and believe me I use the term loosly) doesn't have to worry about light/shadow. He just tries various models with various lighting sources and just keeps re-rendering until it looks right. I understand how more traditional artists view this as less than art. Additionally, the perception that most/all art that is created on a computer is done this way probably hinders many peoples acceptance of the computer as a tool for creating true art.
So what you say is true, if the computer is being used as a tool, like a brush. But if used to simply render out images, where the entire input of the 'artist' is to just keep moving the objects and pushing a render button....that debate is still open on that IMHO.
I remember reading an interview with Linus a couple years back, which covered a broad range of topics. Not being that much into hero worship myself, I don't follow his carreer with particular interest. However, one line jumped out at me.
The interviewer asked him if he could speak at all about his present job, (I forget which company.) His reply? Something to the effect of no, but it's a lot of fun.
The reason this jumped at me was that I realised that whatever he was working on at his "day" job was not only closed source, but he couldn't even discuss it.
It seems to me that this is probably the case for the vast majority of "open source" developers. (Not nescassarily the no-talking bit, but the closed source bit) So if you have the ability and desire to help open source in this way, go for it.
Then I got to the bottom of the page, and saw this quote:
Your love life will be... interesting.
Ya gotta love irony.
What you should do is wait for the site to be up a while, (6 months to a year), and approach them as a "security consultant." Get permission to poke around, before you do it. Get paid consulting fees to do it.
In the end, they may be impressed and switch over to you. Don't suggest yourself as the company to switch to, though. This will come off as sour grapes. Suggest that they either revamp the site, or choose a different server type altogether.
Bottom line, if you impress them with the small amount of work you do for them, they will think of you as a 'good' company, and speak of you that way. If you upset them, they will never do business with you, and you risk losing other business as well.
Ok, I agree with your point. However, this is not FUD.
FUD is fear, uncertanty, and doubt. It is trying to undermine a product by making people think less of it. FUD is not "lame marketing crap I don't agree with".
Sorry to nitpick, but since the term FUD is used so often here on /., I would hope it would be used correctly.
I am *almost* inclined to believe it, however, since it is so poorly directed. I mean sure, /. provides a large reader base for your marketing fluff, but mostly not with people making decisions on where to outsource web-development, especially in the $50,000 range.
These guys really do need help getting their story out, just not for the reasons they say. =)
I did not mean to say that Sun would make a commercial product out of KDE...obviously that would violate the GPL
What I meant was that they could now ship KDE with thier commercial product, (Solaris). This of course assumes that they follow the conditions of the GPL and provide source, etc.
Before ranting, maybe try to understand a comment before assuming it is just wrong.
Sun, HP et al joined with the gnome foundation prior to Qt being released fully GPL. To go with KDE would mean licensing issues, and fees paid to Trolltech for every copy of their OS shipped.
Since that time, I have heard MANY people saying that Qt is fully GPL. If this means that it can be used for free in a commercial product, Sun, HP, et al may have more decisions to make.
More importantly, though, is the fact that KDE, as well as Gnome, and many 'Linux' desktops are not exclusively Linux at all.
My Sun machines, other than pure servers, all run KDE. So do my Linux boxes. I know people who do the same with Gnome. And Windowmaker.
The point here is that it's all about choice. I have the choice to use KDE, you have the choice to use Gnome, and others have the choice to use whatever they want. Ideas, innovations, etc from one desktop quickly migrated to others, and in the end, we will hopefully have many mature, stable desktops, which can be quickly and easily exchanged, based on a persons tastes, needs, etc.
There are those who will use whatever comes installed on their machines, and never tinker. But I for one am glad that I can replace bits and pieces, until I get my machine to my liking.
So why use KDE? For the same reason that many people put Linux on in the first place. If you like what you have, stick with it. Many people didn't like the Windows that came with their computers, and installed something else. If you like Gnome, stick with it. If you find yourself not liking it, or wondering if something else just may be more to your liking, try KDE, or Windowmaker, or whatever.
Density?
Right...high density....like Littleton?
As was mentioned elsewhere, high density areas have been around for a much longer time than the school shootings.
Maybe I'm stupid and Canadian, but in an urban population with a decent sized police force, there should be no good reason for people to have to carry around weapons.
Damn I wish I were you. To have that much faith in your govt. Wow.
The reason American's, when setting up their own government, decided to let every law-abiding citizen carry a gun was simple. And it had nothing to do with bears or hunting.
The question is often raised: " Who polices the police? " The answer is every citizen.
The founders of the United States realized that in a normal, everyday world, police will behave in a manner that to them seems just. Laws will be enough to keep everyone, including the police, in line. The problem comes in times of chaos. These times can be long, like the LA riots after the Rodney King beating, or short, like the beating itself.
It is times like this, when police are either the problem themselves, or cannot help each citizen, that the citizens must be able to help themselves.
Yes, I live in a country where a co-worker could go nuts, go home and get his gun(s), and come back and kill everyone. The chance is remote, but it could happen. This is a trade off, however, that I am willing to make. I understand the risk, and would rather live in a country where if the shit hits the fan, I can defend myself, instead of being dependent on the gov't for protection.
e-Moo - a drink for children of an Internet age - initially will be sold in three flavors: Orange Creamsicle, Bubble Gum and Chocolate Raspberry, which will marketed as an alternative for adults. In waiting, are Cookies and Cream and Fudge Brownie if e-Moo is successful.
Mother of all that's holy...I am going to have to walk past Buble Gum flavored Milk in the supermarket, and not retch. As if life wasn't challenging enough.
Also, it looks as if the adult flavor is Chocolate Raspberry. Words cannot express my utter revulsion at the concept. Maybe I'm not adult enough (I'm 25), or maybe by adult they mean every 13 year old who thinks they're an adult (hence I'm too adult).
Either way, I think I'll stick to Coke. At least that way I know I'm being unhealthy, and am not trying to fool myself.
The difference between Katz and napster users is napster users exchange other peoples IP for free, Katz wanted to do it for money.
All in all, this changes little. Those who chose to exchange IP, in violation of the law, will continue to do so. (Granted some don't like these laws, but the fact remains that the laws *exist*). So maybe this will mean less napster stories on /. in the future, as more people move to the alternatives.
In my experience, both comp sci and comp E majors could program. The real difference came when you crossed software with hardware, like in embedded programming.
If your goal is to write object oriented software, on user level applications, or create the next set of tools to be used for development, go comp sci. If you want to get into embedded stuff, it sure is nice to understand the hardware you are working with a bit.