As with putting the closing quotation mark outside all other punctuation, the correct convention seems illogical when you're used to math or source code.
Completely uninformed guess based on absolutely no fact: that epicenter of smugness known as The WELL is too cybercool to block some moldy "netizen"'s Information Wants To Be Free open SMTP server.
(Speaking of smugness, could one of you irritating grammar dorks tell me whether the possesive apostrophe in ""netizen"'s" goes inside or outside the closing scare quote?)
I've only ever programmed with a GUI on Windows -- and I have to admit that I find Dev Studio to be one of the few programs that Microsoft seems to have gotten (nearly) right.
Absolutely -- that and Excel.
Anyway, as with a lot of things in Linux, you might want to take your preferred toolkit into account. (Since you seem to be asking about a RAD...) I personally love KDevelop, which is integrated with Qt Designer. If you want to use GNOME as a platform, there are tools that I haven't looked in on in a while but should be easy to find. Although back when the weekly KDE developer interviews asked about preferred tools, they mostly used Emacs, so take that for what it's worth.
(PS: to fend off flames -- I know you can write GNOME code in KDevelop and vice versa, but when last I tried, the cross-toolkit RAD wasn't there.)
One thing that contributes to that is Lotus Freaking Notes' brilliant feature of checking email, putting up an alert when you get new mail BUT NOT ACTUALLY DISPLAYING IT IN YOUR INBOX, thus forcing you to break your activity to make sure it's not something that can't be ignored.
As with much of Lotus Freaking Notes, this is a) an interface issue that was ironed out by the rest of the developer world 20 years ago and b) would have taken maybe 15 seconds longer to code properly than it did to do it wretchedly.
Yeah, I'm certainly open to the possibility that access to information is being sacrificed for excessive security, but how about linking to a real news report, not to rabid statements from activist groups?
Better yet, if the government is really claiming this is a fiscal problem, not a security issue, how about George Soros pitches in a few million to keep this invaluable resource available?
I tend to be a lazy lab notebook updater, so can certainly see the benefit of something like this. But a system that continuously monitors proximity tags to track your activity sounds like it might make grad school or postdocs even more excruciating than they already are. Nowadays, as long as you get in before or stay later than the PI, you're mostly OK...
The company's name originally was to have been Hyperica, but one of the founders "mysteriously left out the 'a' in the company incorporation documents and Hyperic was born," says Javier Soltero, Hyperic's CEO.
It's lost on everyone, including the ZD columnist, but -- yes, the original FT piece is supposed to be tongue in cheek. (At a minimum, it explains to what use the borrowed money would be put, for the benefit of everyone throwing up their hands and asking "Why would they need to borrow money? If only there were some sort of linked article that explained it!")
There was a case that was linked here (the guy worked for a telecom, IIRC) where 1) he hadn't declared his prior work 2) the level of completion was way past "whilst the hamster wheel spins new ideas", and 3) his claims seemed to be mostly false anyway . I meant "theoretically possible" for the intersection of someone so productive that he just doesn't have the time to write down every one of his valuable inventions (as the Ask Slashdot guy apparently is) and an employer that would try to exploit it.
That said, I don't doubt that anything can happen, and if you're concerned about it, get a lawyer. But both this and a previous Ask Slashdot on the same subject are asking what people worry about in the normal course of things -- in the normal course of things, you have some open-source project you contribute to, you write it down on the form and that's the end of it.
Odds are they are using boilerplate language and have even less desire to hear about your velcro detachable sideburns than you have to tell them.
Exactly. These clauses are there so employees don't develop projects in the course of their job, leave and take the IP with them. It's theoretically possible that there is a company that lives by grabbing its employees' prior inventions and an employee who is such a whirlwind of invention that he doesn't have time to document everything. But in the real world, anyone working for a large company will tell you that it's hard enough to interest them in a good idea that you developed on their time that *they'll* own. They're not going to start scanning your brain for wild ideas to take from you.
Just lay out a realistic picture of your prior inventions, maybe limit the domain, as the parent says, and don't worry about it.
1) There's a difference between suppressing the discovery of new planets (BTW, Uranus and Neptune were also discovered in modern times) so as not to confuse people, and arbitratrily changing nomenclature.
2) The analogy to the metric system makes no sense to me. The metric system has practical advantages. NASA isn't losing spacecraft because somebody calculated Pluto's orbit with "My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets."
The CNET column is also (with questionable success) supposed to be funny, and that doesn't seem to have dissuaded anyone. I look forward to seeing your point discussed in the Math section tomorrow. (Will you decline the Fields Medal if they offer it to you?)
I know that, and in the normal course of things the rules of scientific priority (apatosaurus) and enforcing consistency (Pluto) are worthy goals. But in a handful of high-profile cases like these they should take a back seat to not confusing laymen.
As with the change of "brontosaurus" to "apatosaurus", this is completely foolish. Given the level of scientific illiteracy, what the hell is the point of taking something that everyone does know and declaring it to be wrong?
Create the new definition with a stipulation that for historical reasons, Earth's generally accepted planets will remain in the planet class. There's nothing wrong with that. It's not like any meaningful astronomy research is going to get confused.
Saying a reccommendation of a driver that actually supports linux over one that doesn't is 'political' is.... well - let's say I suspect you have a political agenda of your own.
Huh? Using "a very low-end" card over one with much more Linux functionality, even if not 100% of its Windows functionality, because of their licensing terms -- what is that if not "political"? Not that there's anything wrong with putting your money behind your politics.
I'm not (to put it mildly) a graphics card buff, and had never heard of "Unichrome" -- that has got to be the most uniniviting name for a GPU ever. It sounds like it should run the green-on-black monitor of an Apple ][ or vt100. Compare to "ATI Radeon X1950 XTX" (which itself could use another X or two).
Anyway, if you have political issues with Nvidia that's one thing, but otherwise they've run fine under Linux for years.
I haven't followed this story so correct me if I'm wrong but -- the "private data" here were just search terms with no user identification, right? Just like the data that Google so bravely refused to give the US government right before they announced their deal with China?
If that's the case, who the hell cares? Admittedly, I'm not a big tinfoil hat-ist anyway, but even if I were this would rate way low on my list of concerns, below the hundreds of ways personally identifiable data about me is being shared.
Tufte's reputation is usually boiled down here to "the world's foremost critic of PowerPoint" but that's hardly what he's about. He's a wizard at explaining how to present data more effectively, not just an unusually articulate "M$ teh sux!!!" nitwit.
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As with putting the closing quotation mark outside all other punctuation, the correct convention seems illogical when you're used to math or source code.
(Speaking of smugness, could one of you irritating grammar dorks tell me whether the possesive apostrophe in ""netizen"'s" goes inside or outside the closing scare quote?)
Absolutely -- that and Excel.
Anyway, as with a lot of things in Linux, you might want to take your preferred toolkit into account. (Since you seem to be asking about a RAD...) I personally love KDevelop, which is integrated with Qt Designer. If you want to use GNOME as a platform, there are tools that I haven't looked in on in a while but should be easy to find. Although back when the weekly KDE developer interviews asked about preferred tools, they mostly used Emacs, so take that for what it's worth.
(PS: to fend off flames -- I know you can write GNOME code in KDevelop and vice versa, but when last I tried, the cross-toolkit RAD wasn't there.)
One thing that contributes to that is Lotus Freaking Notes' brilliant feature of checking email, putting up an alert when you get new mail BUT NOT ACTUALLY DISPLAYING IT IN YOUR INBOX, thus forcing you to break your activity to make sure it's not something that can't be ignored.
As with much of Lotus Freaking Notes, this is a) an interface issue that was ironed out by the rest of the developer world 20 years ago and b) would have taken maybe 15 seconds longer to code properly than it did to do it wretchedly.
Better yet, if the government is really claiming this is a fiscal problem, not a security issue, how about George Soros pitches in a few million to keep this invaluable resource available?
I tend to be a lazy lab notebook updater, so can certainly see the benefit of something like this. But a system that continuously monitors proximity tags to track your activity sounds like it might make grad school or postdocs even more excruciating than they already are. Nowadays, as long as you get in before or stay later than the PI, you're mostly OK...
Not 79 episodes, dumbass, there were, uh...
Sorry, I'm not enough of either a Star Trek or a South Park dork to remember how that goes.
It's lost on everyone, including the ZD columnist, but -- yes, the original FT piece is supposed to be tongue in cheek. (At a minimum, it explains to what use the borrowed money would be put, for the benefit of everyone throwing up their hands and asking "Why would they need to borrow money? If only there were some sort of linked article that explained it!")
That said, I don't doubt that anything can happen, and if you're concerned about it, get a lawyer. But both this and a previous Ask Slashdot on the same subject are asking what people worry about in the normal course of things -- in the normal course of things, you have some open-source project you contribute to, you write it down on the form and that's the end of it.
Exactly. These clauses are there so employees don't develop projects in the course of their job, leave and take the IP with them. It's theoretically possible that there is a company that lives by grabbing its employees' prior inventions and an employee who is such a whirlwind of invention that he doesn't have time to document everything. But in the real world, anyone working for a large company will tell you that it's hard enough to interest them in a good idea that you developed on their time that *they'll* own. They're not going to start scanning your brain for wild ideas to take from you.
Just lay out a realistic picture of your prior inventions, maybe limit the domain, as the parent says, and don't worry about it.
Again, I couldn't care less what degree she has except that the blurb here is obesessed with "OMG Harvard PhD!!!!" when she is not, in fact, a PhD.
I'm sure it is, just amused at the submitter's obsession with a degree she doesn't actually have.
She's not even a PhD to begin with. I can tell you whose assertions I never believe...
1) There's a difference between suppressing the discovery of new planets (BTW, Uranus and Neptune were also discovered in modern times) so as not to confuse people, and arbitratrily changing nomenclature.
2) The analogy to the metric system makes no sense to me. The metric system has practical advantages. NASA isn't losing spacecraft because somebody calculated Pluto's orbit with "My Very Easy Method Just Speeds Up Naming Planets."
The CNET column is also (with questionable success) supposed to be funny, and that doesn't seem to have dissuaded anyone. I look forward to seeing your point discussed in the Math section tomorrow. (Will you decline the Fields Medal if they offer it to you?)
I know that, and in the normal course of things the rules of scientific priority (apatosaurus) and enforcing consistency (Pluto) are worthy goals. But in a handful of high-profile cases like these they should take a back seat to not confusing laymen.
Create the new definition with a stipulation that for historical reasons, Earth's generally accepted planets will remain in the planet class. There's nothing wrong with that. It's not like any meaningful astronomy research is going to get confused.
Huh? Using "a very low-end" card over one with much more Linux functionality, even if not 100% of its Windows functionality, because of their licensing terms -- what is that if not "political"? Not that there's anything wrong with putting your money behind your politics.
Anyway, if you have political issues with Nvidia that's one thing, but otherwise they've run fine under Linux for years.
Mod up, parent actually read link, submitter idiot, editor illiterate, etc.
I think his point is that while "website" may be a common word today, it was not when they filed on December 28, 1994.
If that's the case, who the hell cares? Admittedly, I'm not a big tinfoil hat-ist anyway, but even if I were this would rate way low on my list of concerns, below the hundreds of ways personally identifiable data about me is being shared.
Tufte's reputation is usually boiled down here to "the world's foremost critic of PowerPoint" but that's hardly what he's about. He's a wizard at explaining how to present data more effectively, not just an unusually articulate "M$ teh sux!!!" nitwit.
For the typical nerd, the outcomes in decreasing order of likelihood are: