Here's a simpler explanation: the only thing that's changing is a chip buried inside new Macs, and some changes in OS-level code that almost no users will ever see. To the degree that users are or aren't changing from Linux to OS X, what possible difference does it make whether there's a PPC or x86 CPU inside?!?
Curiously, Dvorak really did come up with a scoop this time -- if anything he _ought_ to be gloating, instead of using the news as a new opportunity to be stupid.
I don't understand why this is so complicated -- neither the GPL nor the LGPL has any requirement to "give back" anything. If you use codebase A to develop product B, your only obligation is to provide source code to B to its users. There is *no* obligation to "give back" to A.
Of course, that's the "letter of the license". The next time you guys are ranting and raving about Steve Ballmer or Darl McBride spreading FUD about what the GPL and LGPL require, be sure to remember this "spirit of the GPL" business that can be invoked to support any accusation or demand.
My point is that there's not a significant base of Linux software out there that's been kept off OS X by the CPU. (There's some, I'm sure.) The issue with Open Office wasn't that it couldn't run on OS X, but that it didn't run natively. That doesn't change (i.e. OS X doesn't magically turn into Linux) with a processor switch. GIMP is precisely as useful (or useless) to Mac users as it was before.
No time for that now! I have to work up my new explanation of why CISC is better than RISC, MMX is better than AltiVec and only an idiot would ever think otherwise!
The study may have been correctly done (other than concentrations of fungicide).
I'm not saying there's anything wrong with the concentration they used -- this was a study of mechanism, not epidemiology, and they did it a completely appropriate way. It's just the hype and the hype of the hype that are drawing unwarranted conclusions.
This is a study on rats, using what (according to the accompanying commentary; IANAF) is a fairly obscure pesticide used in vineyards, and performed at doses far above EPA limits.
The development of persistent epigenetic modification is interesting, but turning this into "Man-Made Pesticides Blamed for Fall in Male Fertility Over Past 50 Years" is a good example of the idiocy rampant at both the Independent and Common Dreams.
Are we talking about tracking items with RFID tags, and are talking about being able to track them once they've left the store?
Unless you have a scanner in your home and connect it to their network, I don't see why it would.
Basically, this is a new level of inventory and shipment tracking. The company is overhyping it with their analogy to the internet, and it seems to be impressing people in the opposite direction from the intended.
I'm not qualified to have a legal opinion about this, but here's what seems like common sense to me: if you make a file available for upload on a service designed for sharing files and obscuring the details of transfers -- I'd call that "distributing". I agree with you about confirming the identity of the file, though.
That was 2001? I remember that like it was yesterday. Where the hell has my life gone?
I'll say the same thing now that I (IIRC) said in the comments then: Your results gave me a far more favorable impression of Apple hardware than any of those contrived Photoshop tests ever did. Basically, you compared Linux on a platform where it's supported by, oh, three main developers to Linux running in its own back yard, and essentially got a draw!
I think it spoke very highly of the Apple hardware of the time, as well as (obviously) of the LinuxPPC developers.
We'll try Sybase later, but frankly, we are very sceptical. The whole...sounds like a bad fusion recipe for performance.
Excuse me, but maybe that issue should be decided by benchmarks rather than by guessing? If I want completely uninformed assertions based on prejudice and out-of-ass pulling, I can get plenty of that without having to leave the friendly confines of Slashdot.
Hard numbers. Well, you can decide how meaningful those Nicholas Petreley surveys are -- I have my doubts but the esteemed editors of this site certainly found them trustworthy when it came to Microsoft bashing.
But beyond that, I'll throw in purely anecdotal agreement with the others. I can't recall commercial distributions ever having such a low profile in the overall distro picture.
Note that his advice is for college students, though. A high school student will have a harder time getting a real internship, and as you note, has time to have fun and make some money.
For college students, though -- I'd strongly recommend his advice, at least in your last couple of summers. I would have benefitted from having followed it.
See e.g. this paper [nih.gov] by George Church et al on using microfluidics for DNA synthesis.
I think that's precisely what they're doing. (Church is on their board; I don't know what the patent situation for that method is.)
BTW, it's not currently impossible to synthesize DNA, just obscenely expensive at $1.45 per nucleotide.
There's the cost, but also there's a limit to the length you can make with existing methods, especially if you need a semi-decent yield.
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What the company seems to do is this:
Currently, it's easy to 1) amplify large chunks of DNA verbatim and 2) change individual nucleotides. What is difficult is making large blocks of novel or heavily modified sequence, as it's expensive or impossible to synthesize them from nucleotides. Codon Devices seems to have a way to generate large chunks of customized sequence.
How important that turns out to be, we'll see, but the company does have some really smart people behind it. Anyway, that's how I understand it to work -- feel free to contribute a better analogy.
Sure, if there's one thing that's incompatible with a career in science or medicine, it's learning Hebrew. I hear it also eliminates any possibility of the student becoming a lawyer or an accountant.
A point that's made in the article (this happened about a month ago, BTW) but is obscured by the piece the submitter chose to quote is this: she was retelling extremely sensitive stories about easily identifiable students and teachers, including things that students were telling her in private face-to-face meetings.
Sorry, zero sympathy from me. Beyond the fact that she blatantly despises half her students and sucks up to the other half by badmouthing the "rich girls" (which is unprofessional enough), violating confidentiality the way she did is way over the line. A tenure-track professor should have been bounced for doing what she did, never mind an adjunct.
They understand your notion of ethics -- they're simply saying that they don't want students who hold that notion.
I've been somewhat sympathetic to the students, who didn't do anything that was that blatantly inappropriate. But seeing the reasoning people deploy in their defense is making it clear why the universities decided that they offenders were facing a test and failed it.
For example, let's say (and this happens constantly) a vendor mistakenly faxes sensitive information to us instead of to the correct client, one of our competitors. According to your logic, this is even more legitimately obtained information than the acceptance information, right? We didn't do anything -- it just appeared in the machine. We don't want people with that attitude working here because 1) they put the company at legal risk and 2) if they can rationalize crewing other people, they'll rationalize screwing us.
I quite deliberately confront people with, and defend, astonishingly bad ideas...Sadly, the vast majority of people either disagree without justification, or (even more worryingly) agree without justification -- which just demonstrates how unwilling most sheep^Wpeople are to engage in thought and/or debate.
I think you may be confusing agreement with people who decide that you're a complete idiot (rather than a condescending nuisance), nod politely and look for an escape route. Certainly, whenever someone starts yammering to me about "sheep" (or worse, "sheeple"!), I "agree without justification" and flee as soon as an opportunity permits...
These seem to be 24 Xbox Live "regions" (i.e. countries), not time zones. I believe there are people in all 24 time zones, but you'd be hard pressed to get up a decent tournament in some of them.
I'd recommend auditioning for a reality show. Just try to stay out of situations where people have to choose between voting for you or for the hot chick. And learn how to filet a fish _before_ you go, not while you're starving.
Actually, after watching that commercial for The Real Gilligan's Island where Mary Ann and Ginger smear coconut cream pie over each other and then wrestle in the shower -- maybe that's the way to go! Can you make an MP3 player out of bamboo, coconuts and a bicycle?
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They're paying women to dress up as anime characters and serve them tea. How amazed am I supposed to be?
Curiously, Dvorak really did come up with a scoop this time -- if anything he _ought_ to be gloating, instead of using the news as a new opportunity to be stupid.
Of course, that's the "letter of the license". The next time you guys are ranting and raving about Steve Ballmer or Darl McBride spreading FUD about what the GPL and LGPL require, be sure to remember this "spirit of the GPL" business that can be invoked to support any accusation or demand.
My point is that there's not a significant base of Linux software out there that's been kept off OS X by the CPU. (There's some, I'm sure.) The issue with Open Office wasn't that it couldn't run on OS X, but that it didn't run natively. That doesn't change (i.e. OS X doesn't magically turn into Linux) with a processor switch. GIMP is precisely as useful (or useless) to Mac users as it was before.
This means OpenOffice.org 2.0 will work *now*.
This means no more second-class Mac versions of popular OS apps.
Huh? This is a switch in CPU architecture, not in display method. X11 isn't suddenly going to become the native Mac GUI.
You may be right about WINE, though...
No time for that now! I have to work up my new explanation of why CISC is better than RISC, MMX is better than AltiVec and only an idiot would ever think otherwise!
I'm not saying there's anything wrong with the concentration they used -- this was a study of mechanism, not epidemiology, and they did it a completely appropriate way. It's just the hype and the hype of the hype that are drawing unwarranted conclusions.
The development of persistent epigenetic modification is interesting, but turning this into "Man-Made Pesticides Blamed for Fall in Male Fertility Over Past 50 Years" is a good example of the idiocy rampant at both the Independent and Common Dreams.
Unless you have a scanner in your home and connect it to their network, I don't see why it would.
Basically, this is a new level of inventory and shipment tracking. The company is overhyping it with their analogy to the internet, and it seems to be impressing people in the opposite direction from the intended.
But, that's just my notion of common sense...
I'll say the same thing now that I (IIRC) said in the comments then: Your results gave me a far more favorable impression of Apple hardware than any of those contrived Photoshop tests ever did. Basically, you compared Linux on a platform where it's supported by, oh, three main developers to Linux running in its own back yard, and essentially got a draw!
I think it spoke very highly of the Apple hardware of the time, as well as (obviously) of the LinuxPPC developers.
Excuse me, but maybe that issue should be decided by benchmarks rather than by guessing? If I want completely uninformed assertions based on prejudice and out-of-ass pulling, I can get plenty of that without having to leave the friendly confines of Slashdot.
Me, I'm thinking this dilemma just cries out for a reality show...
But beyond that, I'll throw in purely anecdotal agreement with the others. I can't recall commercial distributions ever having such a low profile in the overall distro picture.
Note that his advice is for college students, though. A high school student will have a harder time getting a real internship, and as you note, has time to have fun and make some money.
For college students, though -- I'd strongly recommend his advice, at least in your last couple of summers. I would have benefitted from having followed it.
Unless I'm missing some other reference to PlayStation pricing -- it talks about the PSP being sold at a loss, not the PS2.
I think that's precisely what they're doing. (Church is on their board; I don't know what the patent situation for that method is.)
BTW, it's not currently impossible to synthesize DNA, just obscenely expensive at $1.45 per nucleotide.
There's the cost, but also there's a limit to the length you can make with existing methods, especially if you need a semi-decent yield.
Currently, it's easy to 1) amplify large chunks of DNA verbatim and 2) change individual nucleotides. What is difficult is making large blocks of novel or heavily modified sequence, as it's expensive or impossible to synthesize them from nucleotides. Codon Devices seems to have a way to generate large chunks of customized sequence.
How important that turns out to be, we'll see, but the company does have some really smart people behind it. Anyway, that's how I understand it to work -- feel free to contribute a better analogy.
Sure, if there's one thing that's incompatible with a career in science or medicine, it's learning Hebrew. I hear it also eliminates any possibility of the student becoming a lawyer or an accountant.
HOLY CRAP THAT'S HUGE!
Sorry, zero sympathy from me. Beyond the fact that she blatantly despises half her students and sucks up to the other half by badmouthing the "rich girls" (which is unprofessional enough), violating confidentiality the way she did is way over the line. A tenure-track professor should have been bounced for doing what she did, never mind an adjunct.
Points off to SMU for weaseling about it, though.
I've been somewhat sympathetic to the students, who didn't do anything that was that blatantly inappropriate. But seeing the reasoning people deploy in their defense is making it clear why the universities decided that they offenders were facing a test and failed it.
For example, let's say (and this happens constantly) a vendor mistakenly faxes sensitive information to us instead of to the correct client, one of our competitors. According to your logic, this is even more legitimately obtained information than the acceptance information, right? We didn't do anything -- it just appeared in the machine. We don't want people with that attitude working here because 1) they put the company at legal risk and 2) if they can rationalize crewing other people, they'll rationalize screwing us.
I think you may be confusing agreement with people who decide that you're a complete idiot (rather than a condescending nuisance), nod politely and look for an escape route. Certainly, whenever someone starts yammering to me about "sheep" (or worse, "sheeple"!), I "agree without justification" and flee as soon as an opportunity permits...
These seem to be 24 Xbox Live "regions" (i.e. countries), not time zones. I believe there are people in all 24 time zones, but you'd be hard pressed to get up a decent tournament in some of them.
Actually, after watching that commercial for The Real Gilligan's Island where Mary Ann and Ginger smear coconut cream pie over each other and then wrestle in the shower -- maybe that's the way to go! Can you make an MP3 player out of bamboo, coconuts and a bicycle?