This is quite possibly one of the most asinine posts that I have ever read on slashdot (And man have I read some asinine posts on slashdot..)
I hate to break it to you but us american engineers are just as competent as our foreign counter parts. And to be totally honest I think that the American culture is much better at producing creative engineers as opposed to number crunchers. How many people do you think actually take a derivative by hand or an integral by hand any more...sure if it is something quick during a discussion we do it, but if it is serious math we use a software package to make sure we are right...so do your foreign guy's. This whole belief that americans are somehow stupid because of standard exam scores and such is plain ludicrous. Many kids just don't care until they get older...maybe school is not there thing..maybe we the have a need for math they will go learn it....the world does not revolve around a society of people that can do high level math....if that was the case then some other country (China) would be the world leader..and not America. Funny how our country seems to produce quite a bit of the truely inovative things in the world...electricity any one....hey what about T.V...internet...computers...automobiles...assembl y lines....come on thi slist can go on forever. I am not saying that other countries don't make great contirbutions to the world, but I am saying that in the last 100 years the majority of world changing technologies have come from americans and our supposedly feable math skills....it is plailn bullshit.
Because the Dell I bought with red hat linux shipped without the ethernet card even configured properly...Dell made a very half assed attempt at linux..Oh it it was only on the workstations not the desktop variety.
"When the laser scanners were coming out, everybody was saying, retailers are going to collect information about what you buy."
Actually if you use your little discount card this is exactly what they do...granted it is not for conspiracy purposes, but it is to gather shopping habits about you and other customers in general.
As anti-microsoft as I am I couldn't agree with you more. I mean were do you draw the line....It seems everyone is all hippy and giddy about governemt interference when It benifits them, but as soon as they don't like the interfence they are up in arms. You can't have it both ways peoeple.
Like the parent post I think they should be regulated for strong arm tactics....unfortunatly including media player is not strong arm tactics....they can easily prove why it is usful to the enduse....
Hey here is an idea for quicktime and other media players....try the AOL approach...it is fairly cheap to burn a bunch of CD's and then mass disribute them....why should microsoft have to include them with the OS. the OS they wrote....I mean what if the governemtn all of a sudden said every dell competer that ships wioth linux must include windows media player.
Just my worthless two cents.
Go hard Hurd. Please crawl under a rock and die micrsoft.
For a minute I thought that I was over at cnn's money section. After readig through several comment s I forgot that I was on a geek web page....we sound like a bunch of business men here. Nice to know that geeks do actually understand ( or make and attempt to understand ) issues of finance instead of only bitching about how much money one single man has accumulated.
Maybe soon that slashdot community will all become fools over at the fool.com....that would be an intersting slashdot effect.
I love OO 1.1 However I can tell you that for the work I do I do find it incompatible with windows....and I don't really do to much...I use a lot of equations and stuff, and they never seem to make it over exactly right. Often times the page formatting is skewed a little as well. I used to hate Microsft Office but I have to say that it has come a long way in the last few years....windows has not, but office has.
Just my two cents....oh and I hope open office eventually catches up and passes them.
"Hordes of Commodore 64 users are expected to download the system."
Wow I didn't know their were hordes of people still using the C64. It was my fist comp, but jeez man I have probably upgraded at least 10 times since then.
I don't think that compatability will be an issue if it is as fast as predicted. I would say computational scientists would use it first as we have the money and need to blow on such chips. Probalby take 10-15 years to get to mass market tho...kinda like 64 bit technology.
I think the author was simply trying to say that most people are very narrow minded when it comes to fully analyzing a situation. Especially when it comes to the source of income. But you are right maybe aconomists should realize that they only see part of the picture as well. After all their jobs aren't being offshored.
"And then you have the nerve to repeat this supply-side bullshit--look how much the stock market soared when Clinton raised taxes on capital gains! The taxes on capital gains have to be incredibly huge before they start to matter--people will invest if an investment makes money, they won't invest if it doesn't make money--taxes on the profit made will have little effect on this."
Ah....can I just point out BULLSHIT. What are you talking about. Taxes are hugely important to investors. You see taxes directly affect gains. DUH?
I don't think that we are watching the downfall of america. Not yet. I suspect that she has another 500 years or so beofre you see a real downfall. Oh and then the fact that all americans can try and solve the problem together and then vote in someone to make those changes so. Unless the rest of the world embraces free thought I doubt the US will ever fall from number one. With that said I do hope all nations and all people embrace free thought. Even if it means that america has to becum 2, 3, 4,5 or where ever on the list. We are humans first, nations, second, and morons third.
Interesting Last tim I checked I was running our entire department on a single P4 linux Box. The only thing your old sun box has is a 64 bit bus...but running at 1/8 the speed who cares. I recommend my friend that you go grow a clue...try miracle grow. I hear it works well.
Oh and which will last longer? I say the pentium machine as all the parts are easily replaceable. Now go along and find a replacement motherboard for your sun. or video card, or ethernet card, or you get the point.
Finally a parent post that makes sence. Go for it kid...er man...er woman. what ever follow your dreams. If this turns out good you can always use the information you gained to start another business. everything you do in life can't revolove around making a profit. That day is coming soon enough.
Actually on aproject this size a desktop PC running a server OS would be much more than adequate. For gods sake don't buy a $100,000 dollar sun when a 1500 dollar linux PC will do the job. And who are you to tell him what the best way to spend his money is....a plaque on a wall. WTF good is that? At least this way he gets a really good learning experience out of it. Has some fun.
I say go for it if you want. who knows this may grow into a cool business idea...or it may not.
Wow! I can say that I am nothing like you. But if I ever start a company I would love to bring you on board. I can tell you that fo me personally I have solved problems in sleep...actually it is usually at the border of sleep. However I usually don't sleep once I have solved the problem. Also I am a morning person. I do my best work before lunch. After lunch I am thinking about going home.
I disagree. Competition is always good. No reason our competition has to always center around microsoft. Perhaps two competing open source apps start competing will generate more innovation from open source as opposed to open source trying to keep up with closed source.
People haven't combined projects becuase they are not coding them for "your" purpouses, but for their own pleasure. Sorry about that. Just the way it is.
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Sounds like a distro problem to me
This is quite possibly one of the most asinine posts that I have ever read on slashdot (And man have I read some asinine posts on slashdot..)
l y lines....come on thi slist can go on forever. I am not saying that other countries don't make great contirbutions to the world, but I am saying that in the last 100 years the majority of world changing technologies have come from americans and our supposedly feable math skills....it is plailn bullshit.
I hate to break it to you but us american engineers are just as competent as our foreign counter parts. And to be totally honest I think that the American culture is much better at producing creative engineers as opposed to number crunchers. How many people do you think actually take a derivative by hand or an integral by hand any more...sure if it is something quick during a discussion we do it, but if it is serious math we use a software package to make sure we are right...so do your foreign guy's. This whole belief that americans are somehow stupid because of standard exam scores and such is plain ludicrous. Many kids just don't care until they get older...maybe school is not there thing..maybe we the have a need for math they will go learn it....the world does not revolve around a society of people that can do high level math....if that was the case then some other country (China) would be the world leader..and not America. Funny how our country seems to produce quite a bit of the truely inovative things in the world...electricity any one....hey what about T.V...internet...computers...automobiles...assemb
Because the Dell I bought with red hat linux shipped without the ethernet card even configured properly...Dell made a very half assed attempt at linux..Oh it it was only on the workstations not the desktop variety.
"When the laser scanners were coming out, everybody was saying, retailers are going to collect information about what you buy."
Actually if you use your little discount card this is exactly what they do...granted it is not for conspiracy purposes, but it is to gather shopping habits about you and other customers in general.
Does any one else find it funny as hell that this guy knows so much...but has no clue as to what a Von Neumann architecture is. LOL
Yeah, but it is gonna hurt your outsourced pals in India even more...they won't be able to afford the new computers during the beggining.
Sorry to hear that you are still on dial up. Do you really think that in 10 years there will be anyone on dial up....any gamers on dial up?
Once you taste broad band there really is no going back.
Well keep posting to slashdot and you too my friend will get your chance to moderate.
Someone gets a story on slashdot in another language with pictures you can barely see...an I can't get any story on here ever! HA!
As anti-microsoft as I am I couldn't agree with you more. I mean were do you draw the line....It seems everyone is all hippy and giddy about governemt interference when It benifits them, but as soon as they don't like the interfence they are up in arms. You can't have it both ways peoeple.
Like the parent post I think they should be regulated for strong arm tactics....unfortunatly including media player is not strong arm tactics....they can easily prove why it is usful to the enduse....
Hey here is an idea for quicktime and other media players....try the AOL approach...it is fairly cheap to burn a bunch of CD's and then mass disribute them....why should microsoft have to include them with the OS. the OS they wrote....I mean what if the governemtn all of a sudden said every dell competer that ships wioth linux must include windows media player.
Just my worthless two cents.
Go hard Hurd.
Please crawl under a rock and die micrsoft.
For a minute I thought that I was over at cnn's money section. After readig through several comment s I forgot that I was on a geek web page....we sound like a bunch of business men here. Nice to know that geeks do actually understand ( or make and attempt to understand ) issues of finance instead of only bitching about how much money one single man has accumulated.
Maybe soon that slashdot community will all become fools over at the fool.com....that would be an intersting slashdot effect.
Moderate +1 insightful
I couldn't decide if I wanted to moderate you or hug you. What a wonderful woman you must be. Your husband is surely a lucky man.
I love OO 1.1 However I can tell you that for the work I do I do find it incompatible with windows....and I don't really do to much...I use a lot of equations and stuff, and they never seem to make it over exactly right. Often times the page formatting is skewed a little as well. I used to hate Microsft Office but I have to say that it has come a long way in the last few years....windows has not, but office has.
Just my two cents....oh and I hope open office eventually catches up and passes them.
"Hordes of Commodore 64 users are expected to download the system."
Wow I didn't know their were hordes of people still using the C64. It was my fist comp, but jeez man I have probably upgraded at least 10 times since then.
I don't think that compatability will be an issue if it is as fast as predicted. I would say computational scientists would use it first as we have the money and need to blow on such chips. Probalby take 10-15 years to get to mass market tho...kinda like 64 bit technology.
oh wait...I have no clue what I am talking about.
My friend you ROCK!
I have a name and ID of my own...but shit what a good idea...gives a whole new meaning to slashdot effect.
Finally a post on slashdot which an educated view of the way the world works.
I think the author was simply trying to say that most people are very narrow minded when it comes to fully analyzing a situation. Especially when it comes to the source of income. But you are right maybe aconomists should realize that they only see part of the picture as well. After all their jobs aren't being offshored.
"And then you have the nerve to repeat this supply-side bullshit--look how much the stock market soared when Clinton raised taxes on capital gains! The taxes on capital gains have to be incredibly huge before they start to matter--people will invest if an investment makes money, they won't invest if it doesn't make money--taxes on the profit made will have little effect on this."
Ah....can I just point out BULLSHIT. What are you talking about. Taxes are hugely important to investors. You see taxes directly affect gains. DUH?
I don't think that we are watching the downfall of america. Not yet. I suspect that she has another 500 years or so beofre you see a real downfall. Oh and then the fact that all americans can try and solve the problem together and then vote in someone to make those changes so. Unless the rest of the world embraces free thought I doubt the US will ever fall from number one. With that said I do hope all nations and all people embrace free thought. Even if it means that america has to becum 2, 3, 4,5 or where ever on the list. We are humans first, nations, second, and morons third.
Interesting Last tim I checked I was running our entire department on a single P4 linux Box. The only thing your old sun box has is a 64 bit bus...but running at 1/8 the speed who cares. I recommend my friend that you go grow a clue...try miracle grow. I hear it works well.
Oh and which will last longer? I say the pentium machine as all the parts are easily replaceable. Now go along and find a replacement motherboard for your sun. or video card, or ethernet card, or you get the point.
Finally a parent post that makes sence. Go for it kid...er man ...er woman. what ever follow your dreams. If this turns out good you can always use the information you gained to start another business. everything you do in life can't revolove around making a profit. That day is coming soon enough.
Have fun with it and learn
Actually on aproject this size a desktop PC running a server OS would be much more than adequate. For gods sake don't buy a $100,000 dollar sun when a 1500 dollar linux PC will do the job. And who are you to tell him what the best way to spend his money is....a plaque on a wall. WTF good is that? At least this way he gets a really good learning experience out of it. Has some fun.
I say go for it if you want. who knows this may grow into a cool business idea...or it may not.
Wow! I can say that I am nothing like you. But if I ever start a company I would love to bring you on board. I can tell you that fo me personally I have solved problems in sleep...actually it is usually at the border of sleep. However I usually don't sleep once I have solved the problem. Also I am a morning person. I do my best work before lunch. After lunch I am thinking about going home.
I disagree. Competition is always good. No reason our competition has to always center around microsoft. Perhaps two competing open source apps start competing will generate more innovation from open source as opposed to open source trying to keep up with closed source.
People haven't combined projects becuase they are not coding them for "your" purpouses, but for their own pleasure. Sorry about that. Just the way it is.