Science requires definition. You go and define what quality is before you try to measure it.
Until you can define for me what quality is and how to measure it, don't try to tell me that Quality systems measure quality.
I think the conclusion he reaches is that you can't reach conclusions about such things. Either that, or I need to read it again. I was sorta side-tracked by the whole what-the-heck-happened-to-this-guy's-brain-anyway thing.
Waitress: (cont) or lobster thermador ecrovets with a bournaise sause, served in the purple salm Mr. Bunor with chalots and overshies, garnished with truffle pate, brandy, a fried egg on top and spam.
Mrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam?
Waitress: Well, there's spam, egg, sausage and spam. That's not got much spam in it.
Mrs. Bun: I don't want any spam!
Mr. Bun: Why can't she have egg, bacon, spam and sausage?
Mrs. Bun: That's got spam in it.
Mr. Bun: It hasn't got as much spam in it as spam, egg, sausage and spam has it?
Mrs. Bun: (over Vikings starting again) Could you do me egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam then?
Waitress: Ech!
Mrs. Bun: What do you mean ech! I don't like spam!
Vikings: Lovely spam, wonderful spam....etc
Waitress: Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Bloody vikings. You can't have egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam.
Mrs. Bun: I don't like spam!
Mr. Bun: Shh dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam. (starts Vikings off again)
Vikings: Lovely spam, wonderful spam...etc
Waitress: Shut up! Baked beans are off.
Mr. Bun: Well, can I have her spam instead of the baked beans?
Waitress: You mean spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, and spam?
Vikings: Lovely spam, wonderful spam...etc...spam, spam, spam! (in harmony)
Some hard reasoning for you, since you're not convinced (not that you ever will be, necessarily):
1. Expert systems are only as good as the people developing them. Expert systems have been around to analyze weather for much longer than they've been around to analyze human emotions and motivations, and they're not terribly accurate. What makes you think this one will be any better?
2. Who decides when and why the student must be evaluated by Mosaic? Are you naive enough to believe they'll only use it after someone threatens to kill someone?
3. There's a possibility that this profiling software doesn't involve having the student take a test. If so, will the student or the student's parents be notified if the student is profiled using this software? Who will be responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the information fed to the machine? Will the student or the student's parents be given a chance to contest the validity of the information given to the system?
3. What happens if you get a false positive? Who decides if the positive result was true or false? Will the student or the student's parents be given a chance to contest the results?
4. What will be done to the kid if the software DOES determine he or she has violent tendencies? What privileges or rights will he or she have stripped or curtailed based on a prediction of what he or she MIGHT do?
The problem isn't with the software itself. It very well might be extremely useful under the right set of circumstances.
Who will make sure it's only used under the right circumstances?
Katz, as is his wont, has flown into a paranoid frenzy, his mind full of hysterical visions of every kid with a Marilyn Manson t-shirt being subjected to Orwell's Room 101 treatment.
The problem will not be that every kid with a Marilyn Manson t-shirt is subjected to this. The problem will be that any kid with a Marilyn Manson t-shirt could be subjected to it.
Paranoia is a conditioned response. Too bad we've been conditioned so much.
>Why not get to the really dangerous people loose >in schools, maybe programming Mosaic to hunt down >and identify religious fanatics such as those who >believe in the literal truth of the Bible and >reject Darwin and evolution? Aren't they a threat >to school science programs?
First off, just because you have a religious faith (of any sort) and may not believe in Darwinism, does not instantly make you a fanatic OR dangerous. And doesn't mean do you necessarily object to the teaching of the theory of evolution.
If you pay attention to the contextual clues, I think you'll find that he was being faecetious.
While channel surfing one afternoon, I ran across an amusing little movie that was running on the Disney Channel, Just Like Dad. It was targeted as a family movie, and was a little thin on plot, but, amazingly enough, it had a hacking scene rang true.
It had Wallace Shawn (Vizzini in The Princess Bride) as a wimpy father whose son is embarrassed by him--the son gets a ringer to pretend to be his dad for the father-son picnic. It turns out the ringer is ex-Mafia, and they think the kid really is his son and they kidnap him.
The climax (if you can call it that) is where the wimpy father and the ringer team up to rescue the boy, and the father breaks into the Mafia-dudes' Novell NetWare system, loads some NLMs, and then uses ProComm (I think) to download a data file to his home computer (as security so they'll leave them alone or something).
It was quite refreshing to see something quite realistic, executed in a reasonably dramatic fashion.
I would like to offer a constructive criticism of your posit there's alot of people out there that don't have a degree and are alot more intelligent than those who do.
There is a common confusion to both sides of the academic/non-academic struggle: education does not equal intelligence. Further, neither is an acceptable substitute for the other.
I would encourage you to view Linus' honorary doctoral degree as a validation by academia of his efforts and philosophy, instead of a slap in the face to the self-educated.
Whoever rated this as funny should have his moderator rights revoked for a month.
This is _NOT_ funny. We have destroyed so many computers by either eating them or by declaring them as evil that even the top 10 list can make anyone sick.
Even if the australians do not succed it will still be great if they try. And hopefully be followed by someone else to reincarnate: 1. The Compaq 2. CP/M 3. The Apple II And many many more
And what I hope is that some anti-cloning maniacs following/seeking divine guidance will not try to throw a couple of molotov cocktails in the lab that do this work.
Katz has seen the free market in action. This month, the free market rewards companies that can both sell tickets to naughty movies and pander to Columbine-obsessed parents. If he doesn't like the results, then his experience seems more like an argument against libertarianism than an argument for it.
Katz has seen the free market intimidated by oppressive government.
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Science requires definition. You go and define what quality is before you try to measure it.
Until you can define for me what quality is and how to measure it, don't try to tell me that Quality systems measure quality.
Robert Pirsig has explored this concept extensively in his works Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and Lila.
I think the conclusion he reaches is that you can't reach conclusions about such things. Either that, or I need to read it again. I was sorta side-tracked by the whole what-the-heck-happened-to-this-guy's-brain-anyway thing.
The Frogs could fuck up a wet dream.
Geez.
Impala: a large brownish African antelope. Compare to gnu--a different species of large brownish African antelope.
My Impala is a large greenish Chevrolet muscle car.
> Alpha = nitrous burning funny car engine! :)
That should be nitro burning. Nitro is short for nitromethane. (That's the anal-retentive ex-chemist in me.)
Funny cars don't burn nitromethane.
They burn alcohol, and many also use nitrous oxide (that's the anal-retentive drag-racer in me).
Mr. Bun: Morning.
Waitress: Morning.
Mr. Bun: Well, what you got?
Waitress: Well, there's egg and bacon; egg, sausage and bacon; egg and spam; egg, bacon and spam; egg, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, bacon, sausage and spam; spam, egg, spam, spam, bacon and spam; spam, sausage, spam, spam, spam, bacon, spam, tomato and spam; spam, spam, spam, egg and spam; (Vikings start singing in background) spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam.
Vikings: Spam, spam, spam, spam, lovely spam, lovely spam.
Waitress: (cont) or lobster thermador ecrovets with a bournaise sause, served in the purple salm Mr. Bunor with chalots and overshies, garnished with truffle pate, brandy, a fried egg on top and spam.
Mrs. Bun: Have you got anything without spam?
Waitress: Well, there's spam, egg, sausage and spam. That's not got much spam in it.
Mrs. Bun: I don't want any spam!
Mr. Bun: Why can't she have egg, bacon, spam and sausage?
Mrs. Bun: That's got spam in it.
Mr. Bun: It hasn't got as much spam in it as spam, egg, sausage and spam has it?
Mrs. Bun: (over Vikings starting again) Could you do me egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam then?
Waitress: Ech!
Mrs. Bun: What do you mean ech! I don't like spam!
Vikings: Lovely spam, wonderful spam....etc
Waitress: Shut up! Shut up! Shut up! Bloody vikings. You can't have egg, bacon, spam and sausage without the spam.
Mrs. Bun: I don't like spam!
Mr. Bun: Shh dear, don't cause a fuss. I'll have your spam. I love it. I'm having spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, baked beans, spam, spam, spam and spam. (starts Vikings off again)
Vikings: Lovely spam, wonderful spam...etc
Waitress: Shut up! Baked beans are off.
Mr. Bun: Well, can I have her spam instead of the baked beans?
Waitress: You mean spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, spam, and spam?
Vikings: Lovely spam, wonderful spam...etc...spam, spam, spam! (in harmony)
CNet is right: Slackware is bad.
You don't want it.
It's too hard.
Go away.
Duh
We talk alot about "free" as in "free speech" instead of "free" as in "free beer".
The thing is... I downloaded Slackware 7.0 for "free", as in "free beer".
Part of Linux's attraction is indeed the low, or non-existent price.
Some hard reasoning for you, since you're not convinced (not that you ever will be, necessarily):
1. Expert systems are only as good as the people developing them. Expert systems have been around to analyze weather for much longer than they've been around to analyze human emotions and motivations, and they're not terribly accurate. What makes you think this one will be any better?
2. Who decides when and why the student must be evaluated by Mosaic? Are you naive enough to believe they'll only use it after someone threatens to kill someone?
3. There's a possibility that this profiling software doesn't involve having the student take a test. If so, will the student or the student's parents be notified if the student is profiled using this software? Who will be responsible for ensuring the accuracy of the information fed to the machine? Will the student or the student's parents be given a chance to contest the validity of the information given to the system?
3. What happens if you get a false positive? Who decides if the positive result was true or false? Will the student or the student's parents be given a chance to contest the results?
4. What will be done to the kid if the software DOES determine he or she has violent tendencies? What privileges or rights will he or she have stripped or curtailed based on a prediction of what he or she MIGHT do?
The problem isn't with the software itself. It very well might be extremely useful under the right set of circumstances.
Who will make sure it's only used under the right circumstances?
Katz, as is his wont, has flown into a paranoid frenzy, his mind full of hysterical visions of every kid with a Marilyn Manson t-shirt being subjected to Orwell's Room 101 treatment.
The problem will not be that every kid with a Marilyn Manson t-shirt is subjected to this.
The problem will be that any kid with a Marilyn Manson t-shirt could be subjected to it.
Paranoia is a conditioned response. Too bad we've been conditioned so much.
From the article...
>Why not get to the really dangerous people loose
>in schools, maybe programming Mosaic to hunt down
>and identify religious fanatics such as those who
>believe in the literal truth of the Bible and
>reject Darwin and evolution? Aren't they a threat
>to school science programs?
First off, just because you have a religious faith (of any sort) and may not believe in Darwinism, does not instantly make you a fanatic OR dangerous. And doesn't mean do you necessarily object to the teaching of the theory of evolution.
If you pay attention to the contextual clues, I think you'll find that he was being faecetious.
While channel surfing one afternoon, I ran across an amusing little movie that was running on the Disney Channel, Just Like Dad. It was targeted as a family movie, and was a little thin on plot, but, amazingly enough, it had a hacking scene rang true.
It had Wallace Shawn (Vizzini in The Princess Bride) as a wimpy father whose son is embarrassed by him--the son gets a ringer to pretend to be his dad for the father-son picnic. It turns out the ringer is ex-Mafia, and they think the kid really is his son and they kidnap him.
The climax (if you can call it that) is where the wimpy father and the ringer team up to rescue the boy, and the father breaks into the Mafia-dudes' Novell NetWare system, loads some NLMs, and then uses ProComm (I think) to download a data file to his home computer (as security so they'll leave them alone or something).
It was quite refreshing to see something quite realistic, executed in a reasonably dramatic fashion.
Again though, when was the last time you needed to know how many quarters or dimes in $20.00?
The last time I did laundry before buying my own washer and dryer.
Suddenly I feel compelled to change my vote in the Slashdot poll....
Alas, there is no "Dr. Linus Torvalds" option.
*sniff*
I would like to offer a constructive criticism of your posit there's alot of people out there that don't have a degree and are alot more intelligent than those who do.
There is a common confusion to both sides of the academic/non-academic struggle: education does not equal intelligence. Further, neither is an acceptable substitute for the other.
I would encourage you to view Linus' honorary doctoral degree as a validation by academia of his efforts and philosophy, instead of a slap in the face to the self-educated.
Whoever rated this as funny should have his moderator rights revoked for a month.
This is _NOT_ funny. We have destroyed so many computers by either eating them or by declaring them as evil that even the top 10 list can make anyone sick.
Even if the australians do not succed it will still be great if they try. And hopefully be followed by someone else to reincarnate:
1. The Compaq
2. CP/M
3. The Apple II
And many many more
And what I hope is that some anti-cloning maniacs following/seeking divine guidance will not try to throw a couple of molotov cocktails in the lab that do this work.
You must live in a cave.
I think Red Hat has sold out.
I'll stick with Slackware, thangyaverramush. Uh huh.
www.gadgetlabs.com
Katz has seen the free market intimidated by oppressive government.
Wow! And once more we leap into that breach which is too much information.
Then there's the Intersection From Hell:
FM 1325 as it crosses I-35. Pack a lunch.