So you go to a college with a library. How often do you use it? I'm not sure that I ever checked out a single book from my school's library, though I did check out some movies (for a class). The only significant time I spent in the building was for classes. I did 99% of my research on the internet, the other 1% on the library's digital journal archives. It's far, far more efficient to present printed works in electronic format, especially for searching. Libraries aren't going to disappear, they're simply going to become less of a haven for printed materials and more an outlet for all manner of media and the tools to access them.
"It's deceptive," says Gary Ruskin, executive director of Commercial Alert, a nonprofit organization founded by consumer activist Ralph Nader, when told about the campaign. "People will be fooled into thinking this is honest buzz."
Bullshit. Television ads are deceptive. Radio ads are deceptive. Print ads are deceptive. Internet ads are deceptive. They only provide a flashy glimpse of the product in question.
These "ads" are live demonstrations of a working product. Whether or not the person doing the demonstration is honest is largely irrelevant. The consumer should focus on the product and it's merits.
I would certainly call it "using a computer". Think about what the average user really does: checks e-mail, surfs web, instant messaging, listens to music, etc. These are all things that a user can now do as easily in linux as in windows.
As I have said before, my wife and I have moved to using SuSE 8.0 exclusively in the house, we have NO windows products.
Well aren't you special?
My wife is visually impaired so this is not a move we would make lightly. We use KDE 3.01, Mozilla and KMail amongst others. For us it is great. My wife particularly likes the zooming function with Mozilla.
Nobody cares.
Linux may not be fully alive on the desktop, to get there it requires people to stop talking about it, drop Windows and get on with it.
Most windows users aren't talking about Linux on the desktop. Most of them don't know it exists. Alternatives are too confusing.
As far as games go, I have a copy of dungeonkeeper that I would love to get running, I will just have to be patient!
Or run windows.
As far as "Windows clone" distros go, we are not interested. This would be a move back to the propriatory software that we are deliberately moving away from.
Ignoring your spelling, how is this proprietary? It's a linux distro with KDE.
I can't see this stuff appealing to corporates either. Will linux run my windows apps? The answer should remain "No", far better than "Maybe". In terms of support "Maybe" is a real non-starter.
Who needs to run windows apps if there are good unix clones? Have you used support for any commercial software lately? It's abysmal and it's not cheap. You'll have an easier time searching google groups and finding answers there.
Okay I'm sure this guy is a huge expert and all but this sounds rather elitest, lots of people create lots of wonderful things, to say that most people don't use their consciousness simply ignores all the massive achievements of the last 100 years.
Is getting a haircut a massive achievement? Hardly. You're overvaluing the people that actually contribute and undervaluing the VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE who merely drift through life: school, job, kids, middle-age, retirement, death.
He goes on to talk about that people say only about 45000 things to his robots...
45000 patterns, not exact phrases.
well it seems to me
How does it seem to the robot?
the obvious answer is that most people perceive robots a certain way... as machines. In fact I'm impressed he got that many responses, most people don't ask their electric can-opener what the meaning of life is, and I venture to guess that most people don't see a robot much differently.
This statement is only valid if the people knew they were talking to a computer.
Also he talks about how the brain is such a horrible computer but completely ignores human interaction, something that our computers can't do and I don't see them doing very well anytime in the near future (ever talked to that crappy robot voice on Sprint PCS customer service?).
That's a problem of NLP and voice recognition. Answering simple questions is not a difficult task given the proper knowledge base.
He talks about how the brain is horrible at math but ignores that fact that everytime we move the brain makes complex calcuations to put our legs in the right place and keep us balanced. Just because we aren't conscious of it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
Bullshit. You never make any calculations. You've got years upon years of experience with your musclular system. You've developed reflexes and coordination that all happen subconsciously. The reason walking robots, image recognition, voice recogntion, etc. all suck is because they're all computationally expensive. Your brain knows patterns: patters of motion, sound and vision. It works in a very different way then doing hard math. Your argument is equivalent to saying that an apple calculates it's own trajectory as it falls from a tree.
So really I think hes comparing humans from the perspective of his robots... I don't think its a very good comparison. In fact switch good visual recognition with good math skills in what he's saying and you would have a better description of a robot than a person...
His entire point is that people are very much like robots. They take input and react on it. How they do so is guided by almost entirely by experience, with "free will" being a tiny fraction of randomness that promotes "independent" action and thought. I think most people are unable to come to terms with the notion that humans aren't as free-spirited as we'd like to make ourselves out to be.
will anybody ever figure it out???
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they put a headphone jack, usb ports, and firewire up front, but the KEYBOARD AND MOUSE PORTS ARE STILL IN BACK. Are designers just dense? Many people actually use ps/2 mice and keyboards. If you're going to put ports up front, why not these too?
HP: Hi, Dell? Dell: Yes? HP: This is HP. We're tired of receiving revenue from the printers you sell for us. Dell: I see. HP: We're going to stop selling printers through you. Dell: Well have fun.
I was wondering if you have any special tools/ideas/techs that you will be using you your new film "Blue Crush". I know it is about surfing and women, two of my favorite things in the world.
I would also like to know what you are doing for this film. Can you digitally remove swimsuits?
My main complaint is the lack of server documentation. There are explanations of how to set up remote access and a few other things, but there are also administrative files that either aren't explained at all, or aren't explained enough.
How about the ability to rename a file or directory without having to piss about with cvs remove, then a cvs add, which not only kills your version history, but is also a royal pain in the ass?
Yes. That irks me to no end. I've had more than a few projects in the past with files named SomeObject.cxxx or a directory called incldue.
1. Documentation is piss-poor. There's an easy solution to that one, but nobody likes writing documentation.
2. Updates don't always work as expected. They won't grab new directories and a few other quirky things.
3. Empty directories should be pruned by default in a checkout or update.
4. I'm tired of seeing a CVS directory everywhere I look. How about.CVS instead?
5. Access control is poorly handled. It's good that you can map virtual user names, but it would also be useful to control access by groups.
6. Local CVS tree file ownership is by user, not the CVS owner. This opens up all manner of problems for users with a local CVS repository. Repository data should be in a non-user account, checkout should force authentication, and the server should handle who has access to what. This would not be tremendously hard to manage, since in the general case a user has access to a project or not. Fine-grained access control of the repository isn't a common necessity.
7. Plays badly with (most) IDEs. When I want to work on a project in an IDE, it floods my checked out directories with all manner of crap I don't want in the repository. You can set up refuse files to clean these out, but it might break your IDE project. This is more a fault of IDEs than CVS, really.
8. Needs smarter add functionality. I don't like writing stuff like 'find./src/ -name "*.java" | xargs -n 100 | cvs add' just to hunt bring in my new source code.
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it's too slow and too insecure. what we really need is pervasive ethernet ports in public places.
So you go to a college with a library. How often do you use it? I'm not sure that I ever checked out a single book from my school's library, though I did check out some movies (for a class). The only significant time I spent in the building was for classes. I did 99% of my research on the internet, the other 1% on the library's digital journal archives. It's far, far more efficient to present printed works in electronic format, especially for searching. Libraries aren't going to disappear, they're simply going to become less of a haven for printed materials and more an outlet for all manner of media and the tools to access them.
"It's deceptive," says Gary Ruskin, executive director of Commercial Alert, a nonprofit organization founded by consumer activist Ralph Nader, when told about the campaign. "People will be fooled into thinking this is honest buzz."
Bullshit. Television ads are deceptive. Radio ads are deceptive. Print ads are deceptive. Internet ads are deceptive. They only provide a flashy glimpse of the product in question.
These "ads" are live demonstrations of a working product. Whether or not the person doing the demonstration is honest is largely irrelevant. The consumer should focus on the product and it's merits.
... your story is likely to end up an unreadable, uninteresting mess.
You ain't seen nuthin' yet!
This was probably due to a poor understanding by the authors of XUL.
Fucking idiot. A technology is not an excuse for a shitty GUI.
my warezed copy of win98 doesn't like to boot properly from cd, so i use boot disks.
I would certainly call it "using a computer". Think about what the average user really does: checks e-mail, surfs web, instant messaging, listens to music, etc. These are all things that a user can now do as easily in linux as in windows.
As I have said before, my wife and I have moved to using SuSE 8.0 exclusively in the house, we have NO windows products.
Well aren't you special?
My wife is visually impaired so this is not a move we would make lightly. We use KDE 3.01, Mozilla and KMail amongst others. For us it is great. My wife particularly likes the zooming function with Mozilla.
Nobody cares.
Linux may not be fully alive on the desktop, to get there it requires people to stop talking about it, drop Windows and get on with it.
Most windows users aren't talking about Linux on the desktop. Most of them don't know it exists. Alternatives are too confusing.
As far as games go, I have a copy of dungeonkeeper that I would love to get running, I will just have to be patient!
Or run windows.
As far as "Windows clone" distros go, we are not interested. This would be a move back to the propriatory software that we are deliberately moving away from.
Ignoring your spelling, how is this proprietary? It's a linux distro with KDE.
I can't see this stuff appealing to corporates either. Will linux run my windows apps? The answer should remain "No", far better than "Maybe". In terms of support "Maybe" is a real non-starter.
Who needs to run windows apps if there are good unix clones? Have you used support for any commercial software lately? It's abysmal and it's not cheap. You'll have an easier time searching google groups and finding answers there.
Thanks for clarifying ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.
i've been using valgrind for a couple months now. it's great!
Okay I'm sure this guy is a huge expert and all but this sounds rather elitest, lots of people create lots of wonderful things, to say that most people don't use their consciousness simply ignores all the massive achievements of the last 100 years.
... as machines. In fact I'm impressed he got that many responses, most people don't ask their electric can-opener what the meaning of life is, and I venture to guess that most people don't see a robot much differently.
... I don't think its a very good comparison. In fact switch good visual recognition with good math skills in what he's saying and you would have a better description of a robot than a person ...
Is getting a haircut a massive achievement? Hardly. You're overvaluing the people that actually contribute and undervaluing the VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE who merely drift through life: school, job, kids, middle-age, retirement, death.
He goes on to talk about that people say only about 45000 things to his robots...
45000 patterns, not exact phrases.
well it seems to me
How does it seem to the robot?
the obvious answer is that most people perceive robots a certain way
This statement is only valid if the people knew they were talking to a computer.
Also he talks about how the brain is such a horrible computer but completely ignores human interaction, something that our computers can't do and I don't see them doing very well anytime in the near future (ever talked to that crappy robot voice on Sprint PCS customer service?).
That's a problem of NLP and voice recognition. Answering simple questions is not a difficult task given the proper knowledge base.
He talks about how the brain is horrible at math but ignores that fact that everytime we move the brain makes complex calcuations to put our legs in the right place and keep us balanced. Just because we aren't conscious of it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
Bullshit. You never make any calculations. You've got years upon years of experience with your musclular system. You've developed reflexes and coordination that all happen subconsciously. The reason walking robots, image recognition, voice recogntion, etc. all suck is because they're all computationally expensive. Your brain knows patterns: patters of motion, sound and vision. It works in a very different way then doing hard math. Your argument is equivalent to saying that an apple calculates it's own trajectory as it falls from a tree.
So really I think hes comparing humans from the perspective of his robots
His entire point is that people are very much like robots. They take input and react on it. How they do so is guided by almost entirely by experience, with "free will" being a tiny fraction of randomness that promotes "independent" action and thought. I think most people are unable to come to terms with the notion that humans aren't as free-spirited as we'd like to make ourselves out to be.
they put a headphone jack, usb ports, and firewire up front, but the KEYBOARD AND MOUSE PORTS ARE STILL IN BACK. Are designers just dense? Many people actually use ps/2 mice and keyboards. If you're going to put ports up front, why not these too?
sysadmn: hi i'm fucking stupid
j1mmy: yes
HP: Hi, Dell?
Dell: Yes?
HP: This is HP. We're tired of receiving revenue from the printers you sell for us.
Dell: I see.
HP: We're going to stop selling printers through you.
Dell: Well have fun.
I was wondering if you have any special tools/ideas/techs that you will be using you your new film "Blue Crush". I know it is about surfing and women, two of my favorite things in the world.
I would also like to know what you are doing for this film. Can you digitally remove swimsuits?
There is always outrage about MS integrating applications with the OS.
Please differentiate between applications and crap.
My main complaint is the lack of server documentation. There are explanations of how to set up remote access and a few other things, but there are also administrative files that either aren't explained at all, or aren't explained enough.
How about the ability to rename a file or directory without having to piss about with cvs remove, then a cvs add, which not only kills your version history, but is also a royal pain in the ass?
Yes. That irks me to no end. I've had more than a few projects in the past with files named SomeObject.cxxx or a directory called incldue.
1. Documentation is piss-poor. There's an easy solution to that one, but nobody likes writing documentation.
.CVS instead?
./src/ -name "*.java" | xargs -n 100 | cvs add' just to hunt bring in my new source code.
2. Updates don't always work as expected. They won't grab new directories and a few other quirky things.
3. Empty directories should be pruned by default in a checkout or update.
4. I'm tired of seeing a CVS directory everywhere I look. How about
5. Access control is poorly handled. It's good that you can map virtual user names, but it would also be useful to control access by groups.
6. Local CVS tree file ownership is by user, not the CVS owner. This opens up all manner of problems for users with a local CVS repository. Repository data should be in a non-user account, checkout should force authentication, and the server should handle who has access to what. This would not be tremendously hard to manage, since in the general case a user has access to a project or not. Fine-grained access control of the repository isn't a common necessity.
7. Plays badly with (most) IDEs. When I want to work on a project in an IDE, it floods my checked out directories with all manner of crap I don't want in the repository. You can set up refuse files to clean these out, but it might break your IDE project. This is more a fault of IDEs than CVS, really.
8. Needs smarter add functionality. I don't like writing stuff like 'find
9. CVS is a boring acronym.
10. I can't think of a tenth thing.
can you imagine a beowulf cluster of these?
they should release biology under the GPL!
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"Well I don't know much about OpenGL licensing, or how much of this extension stuff is implemented in non-OpenGL implementations
WHERE IS THE FUCKING INSIGHT?
I have an intel 4044 controlling my urinary functions. My penis overheated last night and my bladder combusted.
WOOHA
you did, you rapist.
Theirs. They ran portscans of subnets of popular ISPs.