African American or Latino children do better on comparable tests written from their cultural perspective. Give those same tests to suburban white kids and you get lower scores.
I'd be interested in reading more about such studies -- do you (or anyone else) have a link?
Even if true, though, it seems a bit shaky to take a test consciously designed to show bias and thereby conclude that other tests have similar skew purely from unconscious bias.
Yeah, the kids with a future in game development (of any race) are the ones reading ahead for fun in their math textbook or drawing sketches, not the ones playing an extra two hours of Madden.
I know what you're talking about -- now it's driving me crazy too! It was hyped here a few times, years ago. As you say, its name was an English word...
Was it NachOS? I think that's the right name, although I'm not sure if this is the same project.
I dunno -- certainly by the standards of wild speculation customarily appended to science stories here it's not that far-fetched. You modify the bacteria to follow some stimulus that can be applied with higher resolution than can currently be achieved with traces (light, maybe?) and let them lay down wiring.
It's no more improbable than most of the "Possible Cure For Cancer!" stuff we see here, probably on the order of modifying "Yuo have teh source code so fix it yuorself!!!" Lunix fanboys to code kernel patches.
Not that they're having me interview the information security personnel anyway*, but not in a million years would I ever hire someone who talked that way...
* To their detriment -- at least I'd find someone who knows there's more to security than making users change longer and longer passwords more and more often.
I took a marketing class last fall where the case study book had (along with several other can't-miss late '90s schemes, including Alloy.com and Onsale.com) a case on Swatch Internet Time. It's aged about as well as the rest of the Swatch brand has...
[O]bserve the core confusion in the piece: The inability to separate "Linux," the kernel, from the distributions that package all the software.
Obviously, they're using "Linux" to refer to the Linux-based operating system platform, not to the Linux kernel. You know, like virtually everyone does, including virtually everyone here.
That's a rather profound contradiction! Have you considered submitting it as an Ask Slashdot? ("For example, smarmy nerds constantly sneer at viewers of reality programs. And yet they watch anime, which is for complete morons!")
Gee, Mr. Ohreally -- your relentless drive for accuracy makes it clear how you've achieved your journalistic prominence! To answer your questions:
1) While I could easily be mistaken about people's titles, the young women taking hundreds of pictures of lab space were minions, not production designers or art directors. They may not properly be called PAs (although I think they were) but in my admittedly limited Industry understanding, they're not D-girls or personal assistants, so they're PAs.
2) "Constant stream" is roughly once a month. No, there was not literally a contiguous stream of Hollywood bodies surging through the hallway. Add them to the constant (literally, this time) filming going on on-campus, though, and the scientists had quite a few opportunities to pester with their spec scripts.
Only 15 scientists? When I was in grad school at UCLA, we'd have a constant stream of production assistants coming to look at our labs to get ideas for set design. They'd be besieged by grad students, postdocs and the occasional professor, all shoving screenplays at them. (Because, you know, a PA has anything to do with what screenplay gets picked up...) Meanwhile, the PAs would be moaning "I hate my job. I wish I did something important and fulfilling like you!"
I took a screenwriting class myself, there. (Hey it was free for us, and the instructor was some big shot whose name I forget.) There was also my brief moonlighting stint as a paparazzo, which foundered due to my inability to recognize celebrities...
Technically, things may be going fantastically. It doesn't matter. The whole mission is about "Don't screw up! Don't screw up!" and every future mission will be "Don't screw up! Don't screw up!" until inevitably something does get screwed up. Every flight will consist of going into space to do the equivalent of refinishing a bathroom floor.
If NASA starts something new and ambitious with a clear, exciting goal -- the media and public will be able to accept risk the way they did with Mercury, Apollo and the early shuttle program. But sending people into space purely for the goal of not killing them? It's a dead end.
This mission is it for the shuttles. There's no way they're going to go through this process again and again. The program has passed the point of rehabilitation, from a political and PR point of view, if not necessarily from a technical one.
I'll leave it to the space buffs to argue about whether that's a good or a bad thing -- I just pay my taxes and enjoy the pretty pictures.
1) Joel, IIRC, was the program manager for the development of VBA. I realize that that's mostly an opportunity for every twelve-year-old who has typed in and compiled hello.c to look down on him, but some might view it as "some insight into programming that everyone reading Slashdot does not".
2) I know this is a radical concept to the "You can't say that! RMS says you can't say that!!!" crowd, but -- it's not like you can only read things you're going to unquestioningly believe. His stuff gets linked because it's original, well-written and provocative. It's not like you're not allowed to disagree.
Like I said later, "you might be able to sell a decent number of games like this at $5". Yeah, there are high-profile games like Doom 3 that do sell for well over $20 (although even id does Linux ports more for fun than for profit) but I'll be surprised if a low-profile shareware game can sell enough $20 registrations to make the port worthwhile.
"I love linux (i am typing on free bsd right now)..."
"I think Mac OSX is closer to Linux than it is to Windows."
"It is, simply because Mac OSX is Unix and Unix came from Linux."
"I may be wrong...more like it's a variation of Linux or something...I don't have a Linux..."
And that's in a single, not very long, thread! (OK, the 2nd isn't exactly wrong, just irrelevant...)
Anyway, good luck to him but I think $20 for a game is above a reasonable Linux price point. For the most part, you can't sell Linux desktop users much of anything (except distros, and barely that) but you might be able to sell a decent number of games like this at $5, but not $20.
That'd be me (the submitter). I was 0 for 10 on submissions (actually worse than that -- my streak goes back longer than the user info page tracks) due to my stubborn refusal to append an OSIR. I finally give in, and -- bingo!
Could this be the development that makes Linux the dominant desktop OS?
The _reporter_ knows who the anonymous source is and, in theory at least, has evaluated his credibility. Journalists aren't looking for a way for some completely anonymous and untraceable person to get his assertions into their publications.
My experience with particle accelerators is limited to a single cyclotron, but I can assure you that its controlling system was based on neither Windows nor a customized Linux. In any case, I think one can legitimately claim "lower TCO" as a general case, even if that's not so in the hands of "engineers and scientists who operate things like particle accelerators".
The question I'd love to see answered, but which you probably can't: If you had to use a Linux desktop, which distribution would you use and why?
Failing that: How much attention do you pay to minor distributions (i.e. not Red Hat, Debian, SuSe and Mandrake)? How do they compare, in your hands? What works and doesn't work?
OK, but this offers what over existing thumbnailing functions (KDE, GNOME, ImageMagick) that have the advantage of being much more likely to already be installed on a normal user's system? I thought it might be the caching, but the example code seems to do all the caching itself.
Incidentally, as long as there is an Enlightenment topic, why not use it?
Incidentally, Apple has supported multi-button mice since as long as I can remember, and the interface has pretty much required a second button for efficient use since OS 8. It has nothing to do with Unix.
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I'd be interested in reading more about such studies -- do you (or anyone else) have a link?
Even if true, though, it seems a bit shaky to take a test consciously designed to show bias and thereby conclude that other tests have similar skew purely from unconscious bias.
Yeah, the kids with a future in game development (of any race) are the ones reading ahead for fun in their math textbook or drawing sketches, not the ones playing an extra two hours of Madden.
2) The story here is based on Microsoft's press release, describing their end of the settlement. Elliot Spitzer is busy right now, lessee, fining a radio station for a promotion in which participants, usually young women, took turns violently slapping each other.
Because they sued him and you didn't.
I know what you're talking about -- now it's driving me crazy too! It was hyped here a few times, years ago. As you say, its name was an English word...
Was it NachOS? I think that's the right name, although I'm not sure if this is the same project.
It's no more improbable than most of the "Possible Cure For Cancer!" stuff we see here, probably on the order of modifying "Yuo have teh source code so fix it yuorself!!!" Lunix fanboys to code kernel patches.
Not that they're having me interview the information security personnel anyway*, but not in a million years would I ever hire someone who talked that way...
* To their detriment -- at least I'd find someone who knows there's more to security than making users change longer and longer passwords more and more often.
I took a marketing class last fall where the case study book had (along with several other can't-miss late '90s schemes, including Alloy.com and Onsale.com) a case on Swatch Internet Time. It's aged about as well as the rest of the Swatch brand has...
Obviously, they're using "Linux" to refer to the Linux-based operating system platform, not to the Linux kernel. You know, like virtually everyone does, including virtually everyone here.
Smack with the ole cluestick, indeed.
Their contribution is called "money". Red Hat and Novell actually prefer money to "You have the source! Fix it yourself!" fanboys...
That's a rather profound contradiction! Have you considered submitting it as an Ask Slashdot? ("For example, smarmy nerds constantly sneer at viewers of reality programs. And yet they watch anime, which is for complete morons!")
1) While I could easily be mistaken about people's titles, the young women taking hundreds of pictures of lab space were minions, not production designers or art directors. They may not properly be called PAs (although I think they were) but in my admittedly limited Industry understanding, they're not D-girls or personal assistants, so they're PAs.
2) "Constant stream" is roughly once a month. No, there was not literally a contiguous stream of Hollywood bodies surging through the hallway. Add them to the constant (literally, this time) filming going on on-campus, though, and the scientists had quite a few opportunities to pester with their spec scripts.
I took a screenwriting class myself, there. (Hey it was free for us, and the instructor was some big shot whose name I forget.) There was also my brief moonlighting stint as a paparazzo, which foundered due to my inability to recognize celebrities...
1) You don't know what "clique" means.
2) You don't know what "information wants to be free" means.
3) Opposing abortion and supporting the death penalty is not contradictory. Neither is the opposite position.
4) Slashbots simultaneously demand regulation and libertarianism because they're idiots.
Technically, things may be going fantastically. It doesn't matter. The whole mission is about "Don't screw up! Don't screw up!" and every future mission will be "Don't screw up! Don't screw up!" until inevitably something does get screwed up. Every flight will consist of going into space to do the equivalent of refinishing a bathroom floor.
If NASA starts something new and ambitious with a clear, exciting goal -- the media and public will be able to accept risk the way they did with Mercury, Apollo and the early shuttle program. But sending people into space purely for the goal of not killing them? It's a dead end.
I'll leave it to the space buffs to argue about whether that's a good or a bad thing -- I just pay my taxes and enjoy the pretty pictures.
2) I know this is a radical concept to the "You can't say that! RMS says you can't say that!!!" crowd, but -- it's not like you can only read things you're going to unquestioningly believe. His stuff gets linked because it's original, well-written and provocative. It's not like you're not allowed to disagree.
Again, I wish him luck, though.
Anyway, good luck to him but I think $20 for a game is above a reasonable Linux price point. For the most part, you can't sell Linux desktop users much of anything (except distros, and barely that) but you might be able to sell a decent number of games like this at $5, but not $20.
That'd be me (the submitter). I was 0 for 10 on submissions (actually worse than that -- my streak goes back longer than the user info page tracks) due to my stubborn refusal to append an OSIR. I finally give in, and -- bingo!
Could this be the development that makes Linux the dominant desktop OS?
That's what blogs are for.
My experience with particle accelerators is limited to a single cyclotron, but I can assure you that its controlling system was based on neither Windows nor a customized Linux. In any case, I think one can legitimately claim "lower TCO" as a general case, even if that's not so in the hands of "engineers and scientists who operate things like particle accelerators".
Failing that: How much attention do you pay to minor distributions (i.e. not Red Hat, Debian, SuSe and Mandrake)? How do they compare, in your hands? What works and doesn't work?
Incidentally, as long as there is an Enlightenment topic, why not use it?
I, for one, welcome our new supergenius 11 button mouse-using overlord...
Incidentally, Apple has supported multi-button mice since as long as I can remember, and the interface has pretty much required a second button for efficient use since OS 8. It has nothing to do with Unix.