One of the reasons I'm using SuSE at home (and on the Linux lab that I run at a local community college) is that SuSE comes with a huge number of packages. If there's something I need, it's probably on the DVD, and I don't have to go through the "infinite regress of dependencies."
I like Kubuntu, but its treatment of root is a bit different than what most books describe. That's minor; I'm certainly willing to write some extra material for my students.
In any event, I'd like to know what people are switching to, and why.
I've found that giving people a copy of The Open CD works nicely. They can use open source software without leaving their Windows comfort zone. When they're ready to take the next step, they can boot from the CD and have Ubuntu (LiveCD) to play with.
Last semester I made 100 copies to hand out at the Computer & Information Technology department's booth at our college's "Find out about the college" day. It was quite popular; we're doing it again for the same event next week.
Yes, please! An article describing how these videos were constructed (I presume it was done using Linux tools) would be very greatly appreciated, and, undoubtedly generally useful. Oh pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease. [not too proud to beg]
Finding a fossil of a human and a dinosaur right next to one another would do nicely.
Second, in real science theories must be supported by a repeatable experiment with consistent result. How can you prove a theory where not only the process cannot be reproduced but we do not even have a comprehensive record of the only occurance that we observed.
And who was present when the intelligent designer(s) were at work? Where are their notebooks and documentation? In some cases, you simply have to gather existing evidence to support or refute hypotheses. (That's what crime scene investigators do - they weren't there when the crime happened, and they can't repeat it, but they can gather evidence to figure out what occurred and how it occurred.)
So: if Intelligent Design really *is* science, then here's a hypothesis, which, in terms of your theory, is quite meaningful: "The universe was designed by more than one designer." Please explain how you would set up an experiment, or gather evidence, to support or refute that hypothesis.
Why, oh why, does this matter? It's just one wrong letter.
As another post points out, this is a matter of word confusion, not a simple typo. In either event: if someone posted sample code to slashdot with a one-letter difference that created a syntax or logic error, would you be equally unconcerned?
"Kerry was my senator for 16 years. I cannot remember a single thing he did for the residents of Massachusetts."
My [highly partisan] $0.02: Kerry is definitely not known for his legislative record; he is much better known for his work with the "oversight" functions of the Senate. IIRC correctly, he was a principal investigator who helped bring down the BCCI (Bank of Credit & Commerice International), which was essentially a front for international crime. His investigation also brought down some prominent Democrats who were associated with BCCI, even though other Democrats urged Kerry to back off.
He also worked with John McCain to normalize relations with Vietnam.
So no, he may not have done anything for Massachusetts specifically, but I'd say he has done well for the country, and that's what I would expect from the President as well.
How did Janet Reno, powerful predecessor of Attorney General John Ashcroft, let those votes disappear without obtaining justice for the voters?
Well, if I read the article correctly, the voting took place in 2002, well after Mr. Ashcroft had become Attorney General. She was running in a primary for governor, but she wasn't in charge of the Justice Department at the time.
Moore himself is not calling it a documentary. He has repeatedly said that it is an "op-ed" piece (for/. readers who are not native speakers of English, that stands for "opinion-editorial").
Yes, the movie is absolutely one-sided. So? It's not as if Pres. Bush's administration has not had any opportunity to present its point of view over the past few years. Is there any possibility that the administration's presentation has been equally one-sided?
A paper receipt from a teller machine isn't worth the paper it's printed on, if it says they gave you $20 and the machine spit out $0.
That is the whole point: if you vote for Joe Bleaux, and a voter verifiable paper ballot (not a receipt) says "You voted for Fred Bloggs", you can tell the voting personnel, "No - that is NOT who I voted for. Cancel that and let's do this again until the paper ballot gets it right."
Forget the terms "audit trails" and "receipts" - the first has no legal meaning with respect to voting, and a receipt is something you take with you. You want a paper BALLOT (which has legal meaning) that the voter can use to verify that her vote was as she cast it. That ballot, once verified, goes into a locked ballot box with all the others to be used in case of a recuont.
I'd categorize this as interesting and possibly related to the topic at hand. But since when did being off-topic ever stop me from making a/. post? [Yeah, I know my karma will go all negative.]
I also saw the movie release; I was on vacation in Toronto, and Battlestar Galactica was showing in theaters about a week before premiering on TV in the States.
I nearly walked out of the theater in disgust when I heard the word "micron" used as a unit of time. Scientific illiterates such as those writers should not be permitted to breed.
Let's hope the new series avoids that particular mistake.
Delaware's laws make it easy and inexpensive to form a corporation. The state also has no sales tax or personal property tax. A summary (from a group which probably has a favorable bias on the subject) is at http://www.delawareintercorp.com/why.htm
P.S. Bold move on Red Hat's part!
Re:al-Jazeera in this month's National Geographic
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This is what I have also heard. al-Jazeera is "demonized by all the right people," and their reporters have been kicked out of Arab countries as well.
Their analysis is far from objective, but (again, as I understand it) they will take a news feed from anyone and put it on the air for all to see.
"Why doesn't he just leave it on and use a screen blanker like everyone I know."
I turn my computer off when I leave in the evening (say 6 PM), and then back on again when I come back in the morning (8 AM). Why should my computer sit there, eagerly awaiting a keypress that won't come for 14 fscking hours, drawing power all the while? Why should the monitor (even an Energy Star [tm]) draw power all that time? Multiply it by several hundred computers at my workplace, times some 300 days per year, and it can make a difference. Especially in California, where we have had problems with prices set by unregulated utilities. Note also that a power failure during the middle of the night won't affect a machine that's turned off already.
" How would you feel if, after some established time period (let's say 50 years), ownership of your property passed into the public domain? Programs you wrote, houses and land you own, cars you drive."
Physical property and intellectual property are hardly the same thing. However, if, in 2043, you want my 1993 Ford Escort, I guess I won't object too strenuously, given that I will be in the market for something more recent.
" If you want to create something, create something original. Don't depend on the work somebody else did decades ago to be your only creative outlet. It's still legal to get inspiration from other works. And until they take that right away from us, use it. There are still original ideas being created every day."
You mean, for example, that Disney shouldn't have depended on works like "Beauty and the Beast" and "Snow White" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"; work somebody else did decades ago.
For me, the most interesting slide was the bottom half of img_0224r.jpg, (Areas of Concern) where it says: "Primary research results placed under the GPL are precluded from commercial use: TCP/IP example".
I'm wondering if this translates to "We are concerned, because we can't charge people royalties for every packet they send." I would have loved to have heard the commentary that went with that slide.
How very odd. Although you claim that vaccination is "unsafe and ineffective," I haven't heard of large numbers of children dying of measles, scarlet fever, or polio lately. If I recall correctly, those used to be *huge* problems. Can you give me some citations for the "heaps of science"?
[Truth in advertising - I have written a book about SVG, so I am hardly an impartial observer.]
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is open, works well with other XML applications, and has animation capabilities. See http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG for articles, references, and links.
...I will tell you that he is, personally, a very likable fellow. He is, however, a difficult person to do business with.
Our business relationship was short-lived but reasonably amicable. It ended because, with respect to the product, things just weren't going anywhere, and, as far as I could see, the prospects didn't look good.
Slashdot Mirror
One of the reasons I'm using SuSE at home (and on the Linux lab that I run at a local community college) is that SuSE comes with a huge number of packages. If there's something I need, it's probably on the DVD, and I don't have to go through the "infinite regress of dependencies."
I like Kubuntu, but its treatment of root is a bit different than what most books describe. That's minor; I'm certainly willing to write some extra material for my students.
In any event, I'd like to know what people are switching to, and why.
I've found that giving people a copy of The Open CD works nicely. They can use open source software without leaving their Windows comfort zone. When they're ready to take the next step, they can boot from the CD and have Ubuntu (LiveCD) to play with.
Last semester I made 100 copies to hand out at the Computer & Information Technology department's booth at our college's "Find out about the college" day. It was quite popular; we're doing it again for the same event next week.
The link for the name Andy Updegrove should link to
http://www.consortiuminfo.org/newsblog.
Yes, please! An article describing how these videos were constructed (I presume it was done using Linux tools) would be very greatly appreciated, and, undoubtedly generally useful. Oh pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease. [not too proud to beg]
I'm guessing that the .il domain would also vanish within two milliseconds of the UN controlling the name servers.
OpenOffice.org is not a "giant Java app." Some of the features require Java, but the main app is written in C++. See the build instructions.
First, how can the evolution theory be falsified?
Finding a fossil of a human and a dinosaur right next to one another would do nicely.
Second, in real science theories must be supported by a repeatable experiment with consistent result. How can you prove a theory where not only the process cannot be reproduced but we do not even have a comprehensive record of the only occurance that we observed.
And who was present when the intelligent designer(s) were at work? Where are their notebooks and documentation? In some cases, you simply have to gather existing evidence to support or refute hypotheses. (That's what crime scene investigators do - they weren't there when the crime happened, and they can't repeat it, but they can gather evidence to figure out what occurred and how it occurred.)
So: if Intelligent Design really *is* science, then here's a hypothesis, which, in terms of your theory, is quite meaningful: "The universe was designed by more than one designer." Please explain how you would set up an experiment, or gather evidence, to support or refute that hypothesis.
Why, oh why, does this matter? It's just one wrong letter.
As another post points out, this is a matter of word confusion, not a simple typo. In either event: if someone posted sample code to slashdot with a one-letter difference that created a syntax or logic error, would you be equally unconcerned?
Yes, it was on his site. In direct contrast to a blog that was paid by the Thune campaign (see article) without any disclosure whatsoever.
<sarcasm>But then, Sen. Thune is a Republican, and IOKIYAR (It's OK If You're A Republican)</sarcasm>
"Kerry was my senator for 16 years. I cannot remember a single thing he did for the residents of Massachusetts."
My [highly partisan] $0.02:
Kerry is definitely not known for his legislative record; he is much better known for his work with the "oversight" functions of the Senate. IIRC correctly, he was a principal investigator who helped bring down the BCCI (Bank of Credit & Commerice International), which was essentially a front for international crime. His investigation also brought down some prominent Democrats who were associated with BCCI, even though other Democrats urged Kerry to back off.
He also worked with John McCain to normalize relations with Vietnam.
So no, he may not have done anything for Massachusetts specifically, but I'd say he has done well for the country, and that's what I would expect from the President as well.
How did Janet Reno, powerful predecessor of Attorney General John Ashcroft, let those votes disappear without obtaining justice for the voters?
Well, if I read the article correctly, the voting took place in 2002, well after Mr. Ashcroft had become Attorney General. She was running in a primary for governor, but she wasn't in charge of the Justice Department at the time.
Moore himself is not calling it a documentary. He has repeatedly said that it is an "op-ed" piece (for /. readers who are not native speakers of English, that stands for "opinion-editorial").
Yes, the movie is absolutely one-sided. So? It's not as if Pres. Bush's administration has not had any opportunity to present its point of view over the past few years. Is there any possibility that the administration's presentation has been equally one-sided?
A paper receipt from a teller machine isn't worth the paper it's printed on, if it says they gave you $20 and the machine spit out $0.
That is the whole point: if you vote for Joe Bleaux, and a voter verifiable paper ballot (not a receipt) says "You voted for Fred Bloggs", you can tell the voting personnel, "No - that is NOT who I voted for. Cancel that and let's do this again until the paper ballot gets it right."
Forget the terms "audit trails" and "receipts" - the first has no legal meaning with respect to voting, and a receipt is something you take with you. You want a paper BALLOT (which has legal meaning) that the voter can use to verify that her vote was as she cast it. That ballot, once verified, goes into a locked ballot box with all the others to be used in case of a recuont.
I'd categorize this as interesting and possibly related to the topic at hand. But since when did being off-topic ever stop me from making a /. post? [Yeah, I know my karma will go all negative.]
I also saw the movie release; I was on vacation in Toronto, and Battlestar Galactica was showing in theaters about a week before premiering on TV in the States.
I nearly walked out of the theater in disgust when I heard the word "micron" used as a unit of time. Scientific illiterates such as those writers should not be permitted to breed.
Let's hope the new series avoids that particular mistake.
1) He's married.
2) As for his site sponsorship, see: this link
Delaware's laws make it easy and inexpensive to form a corporation. The state also has no sales tax or personal property tax. A summary (from a group which probably has a favorable bias on the subject) is at http://www.delawareintercorp.com/why.htm P.S. Bold move on Red Hat's part!
This is what I have also heard. al-Jazeera is "demonized by all the right people," and their reporters have been kicked out of Arab countries as well.
Their analysis is far from objective, but (again, as I understand it) they will take a news feed from anyone and put it on the air for all to see.
"Why doesn't he just leave it on and use a screen blanker like everyone I know."
I turn my computer off when I leave in the evening (say 6 PM), and then back on again when I come back in the morning (8 AM). Why should my computer sit there, eagerly awaiting a keypress that won't come for 14 fscking hours, drawing power all the while? Why should the monitor (even an Energy Star [tm]) draw power all that time? Multiply it by several hundred computers at my workplace, times some 300 days per year, and it can make a difference. Especially in California, where we have had problems with prices set by unregulated utilities. Note also that a power failure during the middle of the night won't affect a machine that's turned off already.
" How would you feel if, after some established time period (let's say 50 years), ownership of your property passed into the public domain? Programs you wrote, houses and land you own, cars you drive."
Physical property and intellectual property are hardly the same thing. However, if, in 2043, you want my 1993 Ford Escort, I guess I won't object too strenuously, given that I will be in the market for something more recent.
" If you want to create something, create something original. Don't depend on the work somebody else did decades ago to be your only creative outlet. It's still legal to get inspiration from other works. And until they take that right away from us, use it. There are still original ideas being created every day."
You mean, for example, that Disney shouldn't have depended on works like "Beauty and the Beast" and "Snow White" and "The Hunchback of Notre Dame"; work somebody else did decades ago.
For me, the most interesting slide was the bottom half of img_0224r.jpg, (Areas of Concern) where it says: "Primary research results placed under the GPL are precluded from commercial use: TCP/IP example".
I'm wondering if this translates to "We are concerned, because we can't charge people royalties for every packet they send." I would have loved to have heard the commentary that went with that slide.
How very odd. Although you claim that vaccination is "unsafe and ineffective," I haven't heard of large numbers of children dying of measles, scarlet fever, or polio lately. If I recall correctly, those used to be *huge* problems. Can you give me some citations for the "heaps of science"?
A quick look at the poster's home page indicates that he is from Denmark, and not a native speaker of English.
Perhaps if you were to make a post in Danish on a Danish website, the grammar and spelling would be perfect, but I know mine wouldn't be.
Personally, I'd be inclined to cut the guy some slack and focus on the information he presents.
[Truth in advertising - I have written a book about SVG, so I am hardly an impartial observer.]
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is open, works well with other XML applications, and has animation capabilities. See http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG for articles, references, and links.
...I will tell you that he is, personally, a very likable fellow. He is, however, a difficult person to do business with.
Our business relationship was short-lived but reasonably amicable. It ended because, with respect to the product, things just weren't going anywhere, and, as far as I could see, the prospects didn't look good.