Google is a decent engine, which I use a lot. But I really liked Altavista's advanced search... it really gave you a lot of control over what came back.
Now a RegExp search engine... that would be sweet!
To some extent I agree... It would be prudent, and perhaps even considerate and polite, to not wear a trenchcoat for a week or two.
But I definitly draw that line at not expressing sympathy. You should say what you think... just be aware of the consequences, even when they are unjust.
Katz wrote a lot about how boring schools are, and that schools need to be made into a place that people wouldn't want to destroy.
I certainly agree that the sort of peer abuse that goes on should be stopped. But what about the educational side?
Sometimes education can be made fun, and it should be. But sometimes you do have to forcefeed people the things they need to know. And is it so bad if schools gear themselves for the non-geeks? A) They outnumber us, and B) Geeks are, by definition, willing to learn on thier own.
Schools (well, US schools... I have no right to mention any others) have a number of problems, many of which have already been mentioned here. But lets not forget that schools are not primarly social institutes... they are primarily educational institutes. Some classes will always be boring. I didn't care to learn a lot of the history I was forced to... it was boring. That doesn't mean that I shouldn't have been forced to take that class. I'm willing to admit it had redeeming value.
You can't make everyone happy, and there will always be kids that don't like school. There will always be a couple that downright hate it.
Does anybody know why it is high school so much? I actually tended to get beat up more in Junior high, but even in High school I was certainly the outcast (which was fine by me, really). The minute I went to college (the next year), everything was different.
Of course everything about college is drastically different than High School, but maybe High Schools need to take a middle step. To acknowledge that people in that age group need a different structure than did people in Junior High. More freedom, more rights, and yes, more responsibility.
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... with the apparent exception of RealVideo again.
While it is true that Redhat did distribute non-free stuff (BRU and RealServer come to mind), they've been backing down on that. I think the only thing not strictly free that they distribute now is Netscape.
Actually, the reason I said it like that is because Linux has always had a fairly big following from college students. I was trying to differentiate between that group, which has long used Linux, and the earlier schools, where it is not so prevalent.
It looks like Corel will be taking a page from Apple's book. Get into the schools and you can work your way up. If nothing else, if people see students (grammer school students) using Linux then they will begin to realize that anybody can use it. By the time it's deployed and people start to notice, that will probably be true.
LOL... I already sent Rob a message asking for a spell checker. In an informal environment as such I think we can work around minor misspellings, and focus on the big ones. Like the word millennium. Two L's, two N's.
Certainly details like GPA don't matter much after the first job. But as I get older and work my way up the line, at a number of companies you can't cross thresholds without the degree. I'm not saying those are the best companies to work for... but they certainly exist. I don't want to be told that I can't become the Senior Software Engineer because I don't have a piece of paper, and that is corporate policy.
Eventually a number of my brain cells will die, and I may have to be put into management. They like paper there;)
College did two things for me. First, it gave me a piece of paper. That's probably not very important in the short term, but when I am 45+ I will probably find it more critical.
Secondly, it gave me free (well, very expensive free) and unlimited internet access, which put me in the way of things like Linux. *That's* where I learned the most.
Oh yeah, college also helped me build up a tolerance to stupidiy and beuracracy. That will be critical as I enter the real world.
The real problem I can see is figuring out where to put the money. Not from a risk/profibility prospective, but from a availability prospective. There are a lot more OSS projects, *good* OSS projects out there than there are companies.
SuSE, Debian, Redhat, VA Research, Cygnus, Loki, Applix, Sendmail... I can't think of any other companies off the top of my head that are heavily Linux.
There there are the companies that are just joining in. I made (am making, actually) a killing at Corel because I invested before the Linux release. In fact, my "virtual" linux portfolio has been doing very nicely, and it's composed of companies that are mainly non-linux, but linux friendly. Sun, SGI, Intel, Compaq, HP... you know, all the other Unix vendors:)
It seems to me that these guys never heard of them. They talk about how OSS isn't really consumer driven, but totally miss the idea that just because you don't pay to purchase something that doesn't mean you can't pay to get it improved. Companies like Cygnus get paid to make improvements to Opensource software.
That is an...err.. interesting approach to functions. I tend to agree that it would have been better to use an existing language, if only as the basis. Strip down Perl a bit (regexp is probaly not a requirement, for example)...
As someone currently at University, I would object to this statement. Yes, smart people go to universities, but so do stupid people. A lot of them. More than the smart people.
You mail a self addressed stamped envelope. In other words, and envelope with *your* name and address on it, and with a stamp on it. You put that envelope *inside* another one with thier address on it, and a stamp as well.
Linux 2.2 pretty much tops out at 8 way. Anything higher is a bit of a waste still. Solaris is much better for that many processors, at least on Sun hardware. Does anybody know if Solaris x86 is signigantly more scaleable?
2.0 was pretty good two way, but it didn't stack up to most other systems at anything above that.
People are working on even finer grain kernel locks, and enough people want more processors that I'm sure that Linux 2.3 will boost us to at least 16, and quite probably 64.
In two years I will regret having made that statement.:)
Considering the legal line he is walking (perhaps drunkedly), what do you think about perhaps getting an interview with him? It would be good to hear him address our concerns, as well as hereing if he actually wants to use Opensource in government or just as an electorial buzzword.
I have to agree here. It's easy to grep a text file, multiple HTML files is a real pain. I am seriously considering writing a script to convert it back.
I'm still waiting for the day I can buy a product off the shelf and the install procedure converts it from Java bytecode into my machine/OS code. The company benefits from having to develop only one product, while the consumer still gets all the speed benefits.
I can understand why you would want a MMU-less version of Linux, but when you are building the machine yourself I would think the MMU would be worth any extra cost.
Why would we *want* to/. their website? You could be hurting them, because no one else gets to see the site, or you could be helping them when they release the number of visits they had (and they will release the number of visits they had if it sounds good).
Do they meet the specifications of the Open Source Definition? Perhaps Bruce Perens, Richard Stallman, and Eric Raymond better check this out. We wouldn't want people claiming Open Source falsely!
Of course, one of them is probably a democrat, another a republican, and what do you wanna bet Stallman is an independent? Perhaps it would be better to ignore the whole thing and crawl under a rock, while listening to my Captial Steps CDs (I wouldn't want to be totally apolitical)
It makes a sort of sense to me... it just means that if you are a moderator you should read articles you *aren't* interested in. This would make you the most objective person possible.
Moderation is a service we are volunteering for on Slashdot. That may mean we have to do things we don't like... including reading articles we have no interest in.
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When they asked people for a new name they also gave a place to suggest a stock ticker symbol. A bit of a giveaway, that.
Google is a decent engine, which I use a lot. But I really liked Altavista's advanced search... it really gave you a lot of control over what came back.
Now a RegExp search engine... that would be sweet!
For a second there I thought somebody had invented one... I could use it. I think it's about time to get off this rock.
To some extent I agree... It would be prudent, and perhaps even considerate and polite, to not wear a trenchcoat for a week or two.
But I definitly draw that line at not expressing sympathy. You should say what you think... just be aware of the consequences, even when they are unjust.
Katz wrote a lot about how boring schools are, and that schools need to be made into a place that people wouldn't want to destroy.
I certainly agree that the sort of peer abuse that goes on should be stopped. But what about the educational side?
Sometimes education can be made fun, and it should be. But sometimes you do have to forcefeed people the things they need to know. And is it so bad if schools gear themselves for the non-geeks? A) They outnumber us, and B) Geeks are, by definition, willing to learn on thier own.
Schools (well, US schools... I have no right to mention any others) have a number of problems, many of which have already been mentioned here. But lets not forget that schools are not primarly social institutes... they are primarily educational institutes. Some classes will always be boring. I didn't care to learn a lot of the history I was forced to... it was boring. That doesn't mean that I shouldn't have been forced to take that class. I'm willing to admit it had redeeming value.
You can't make everyone happy, and there will always be kids that don't like school. There will always be a couple that downright hate it.
Does anybody know why it is high school so much? I actually tended to get beat up more in Junior high, but even in High school I was certainly the outcast (which was fine by me, really). The minute I went to college (the next year), everything was different.
Of course everything about college is drastically different than High School, but maybe High Schools need to take a middle step. To acknowledge that people in that age group need a different structure than did people in Junior High. More freedom, more rights, and yes, more responsibility.
... with the apparent exception of RealVideo again.
While it is true that Redhat did distribute non-free stuff (BRU and RealServer come to mind), they've been backing down on that. I think the only thing not strictly free that they distribute now is Netscape.
Actually, the reason I said it like that is because Linux has always had a fairly big following from college students. I was trying to differentiate between that group, which has long used Linux, and the earlier schools, where it is not so prevalent.
No slight to anybody's intelligence was meant.
It looks like Corel will be taking a page from Apple's book. Get into the schools and you can work your way up. If nothing else, if people see students (grammer school students) using Linux then they will begin to realize that anybody can use it. By the time it's deployed and people start to notice, that will probably be true.
LOL... I already sent Rob a message asking for a spell checker. In an informal environment as such I think we can work around minor misspellings, and focus on the big ones. Like the word millennium. Two L's, two N's.
Certainly details like GPA don't matter much after the first job. But as I get older and work my way up the line, at a number of companies you can't cross thresholds without the degree. I'm not saying those are the best companies to work for... but they certainly exist. I don't want to be told that I can't become the Senior Software Engineer because I don't have a piece of paper, and that is corporate policy.
;)
Eventually a number of my brain cells will die, and I may have to be put into management. They like paper there
College did two things for me. First, it gave me a piece of paper. That's probably not very important in the short term, but when I am 45+ I will probably find it more critical.
Secondly, it gave me free (well, very expensive free) and unlimited internet access, which put me in the way of things like Linux. *That's* where I learned the most.
Oh yeah, college also helped me build up a tolerance to stupidiy and beuracracy. That will be critical as I enter the real world.
The real problem I can see is figuring out where to put the money. Not from a risk/profibility prospective, but from a availability prospective. There are a lot more OSS projects, *good* OSS projects out there than there are companies.
:)
SuSE, Debian, Redhat, VA Research, Cygnus, Loki, Applix, Sendmail... I can't think of any other companies off the top of my head that are heavily Linux.
There there are the companies that are just joining in. I made (am making, actually) a killing at Corel because I invested before the Linux release. In fact, my "virtual" linux portfolio has been doing very nicely, and it's composed of companies that are mainly non-linux, but linux friendly. Sun, SGI, Intel, Compaq, HP... you know, all the other Unix vendors
It seems to me that these guys never heard of them. They talk about how OSS isn't really consumer driven, but totally miss the idea that just because you don't pay to purchase something that doesn't mean you can't pay to get it improved. Companies like Cygnus get paid to make improvements to Opensource software.
That is an...err.. interesting approach to functions. I tend to agree that it would have been better to use an existing language, if only as the basis. Strip down Perl a bit (regexp is probaly not a requirement, for example)...
As someone currently at University, I would object to this statement. Yes, smart people go to universities, but so do stupid people. A lot of them. More than the smart people.
You mail a self addressed stamped envelope. In other words, and envelope with *your* name and address on it, and with a stamp on it. You put that envelope *inside* another one with thier address on it, and a stamp as well.
Linux 2.2 pretty much tops out at 8 way. Anything higher is a bit of a waste still. Solaris is much better for that many processors, at least on Sun hardware. Does anybody know if Solaris x86 is signigantly more scaleable?
:)
2.0 was pretty good two way, but it didn't stack up to most other systems at anything above that.
People are working on even finer grain kernel locks, and enough people want more processors that I'm sure that Linux 2.3 will boost us to at least 16, and quite probably 64.
In two years I will regret having made that statement.
Considering the legal line he is walking (perhaps drunkedly), what do you think about perhaps getting an interview with him? It would be good to hear him address our concerns, as well as hereing if he actually wants to use Opensource in government or just as an electorial buzzword.
I have to agree here. It's easy to grep a text file, multiple HTML files is a real pain. I am seriously considering writing a script to convert it back.
I'm still waiting for the day I can buy a product off the shelf and the install procedure converts it from Java bytecode into my machine/OS code. The company benefits from having to develop only one product, while the consumer still gets all the speed benefits.
Of course, OpenSource would be even better.
I can understand why you would want a MMU-less version of Linux, but when you are building the machine yourself I would think the MMU would be worth any extra cost.
Why would we *want* to /. their website? You could be hurting them, because no one else gets to see the site, or you could be helping them when they release the number of visits they had (and they will release the number of visits they had if it sounds good).
Do they meet the specifications of the Open Source Definition? Perhaps Bruce Perens, Richard Stallman, and Eric Raymond better check this out. We wouldn't want people claiming Open Source falsely!
Of course, one of them is probably a democrat, another a republican, and what do you wanna bet Stallman is an independent? Perhaps it would be better to ignore the whole thing and crawl under a rock, while listening to my Captial Steps CDs (I wouldn't want to be totally apolitical)
It makes a sort of sense to me... it just means that if you are a moderator you should read articles you *aren't* interested in. This would make you the most objective person possible.
Moderation is a service we are volunteering for on Slashdot. That may mean we have to do things we don't like... including reading articles we have no interest in.