I suspect it's to suggest a trademark. See, for example, Hormel's insistance on writing `SPAM' (the food) in uppercase and `spam' (unsolicited commercial e-mail) in lowercase, so as to preserve Hormel's trademark. OEone doesn't use a `TM' symbol by `DESKTOP', but they may be hinting at a trademark anyway.
FWIW, Corel uses something similar in its product names (CorelDRAW!, CorelPHOTOPAINT, etc.)
So, because two of your classes discussed Noam Chomsky, that makes people who major in philosophy qualified to program?
No, you're missing the point. Majoring in philosophy and being qualified to program are not mutually exclusive.
More importantly, the idea that people in the liberal arts shouldn't use Linux is bollocks. I am a doctoral student in history, and I am MS-free. I would also like to get my department over to Free software. That attitude -- that only geeks can use Linux -- is bad enough coming from MS salesgoons, but coming from geeks it's reprehensible.
Given the well-established evilness of KaZaA, is there any free (speech, not beer) client for the network? (I don't do Windows, so the `lite' version won't cut it, ideological issues aside.) In my experience, the Gnutella network is much poorer in content than the Fasttrack one, but I'm not willing to run Windows to access it.
This is very prevelent in large corporations. Mid level managers get a certain appropriation for that years projects. If they don't use it all, they risk not getting the same amount in next years budget.
Nah, that's only in government, right? I mean, privatizing government services eliminates all the waste, doesn't it?
The "real term" is hacker, not cracker. Why? Because that's what the majority of the english speaking population says it is. Get used to it, because unless you can convince Joe Sixpack and his favorite news anchor otherwise, that's the way it's going to stay.
I hear what you're saying (erm, read what you're writing?), but I can't agree.
If the mass media made no distinction between the terms `paedophile' and `homosexual', would that be reason to give up and say ``the `real term' is `homosexual', not `paedophile'''? This isn't a totally far-fetched concept; there are people who really believe that all gay men prey on adolescent boys. So, if the media simply referred to paedophiles as `homosexuals', making no effort to distinguish criminal behaviour from the private acts of consenting adults, that would be OK, in the interest of not confusing Joe Sixpack who thinks there's no difference?
In fact, if it means that they might catch one in a million people up to no good, more power to them.
Absolutely! While we're at it, why not change this silly ``innocent 'til proven guilty'' nonsense. It lets too many criminals walk free. If they're innocent, they should be able to prove it easily. You've nothing to fear if you don't commit crimes.
If it gets one more criminal behind bars, it's worth it, right?
That's been going on for a long time. Remember the "Great Folk Music Scare"? All those clean-cut college types singing about miners and migrant farmers and their working conditions.
I really don't think you can make a valid comparison between, on the one hand, privileged white kids becoming aware of oppression and exploitation and then protesting it, and on the other, privileged white kids deciding to emulate felons because it's `cool'. I really hope that you're not suggesting that empathizing with the plight of impoverished agricultural workers is the same as idolizing criminals.
As far as command line syntax - it's so similar you could go from linux to NetBSD for a look around the OS without blinking much - certainly less of a change than jumping from linux to say, a windows command prompt:).
I hate to state the obvious, but what matters is your shell, not the OS. I managed to get bash (and the standard GNU console tools) on my Solaris, AIX, and IRIX accounts, and it's not easy to tell which one I'm on a lot of the time. That's why the hostname's in the prompt;) But if I have to use ksh or csh I notice the difference pretty quickly, regardless of OS.
no arab nation has or is likely to have in the near future nuclear capabilities
Read "The Making of the Atomic Bomb" by Rhodes. The hard part is getting ahold of weapons grade uranium or plutonium. I wouldn't be at all surprised if Iran or Libya had atomic bombs.
Let history never judge us as the cowards who hid in fear, but as patriots and defenders of liberty who continued the proud tradition of staring death in the face and refusing to back down from our ideals. Sept 11 shocked us out of our complacency; don't let anyone use it as an excuse to destroy the very thing we puport to hold so dear.
Damn, Loki_1929, someone needs to mod you up. Unfortunately, I'm not the one to help today.
Whatever happened to "Live free or die"? Shame on the cowards who call themselves patriots.
And the Taliban, for fucks sake ?!? They instituted the death penalty for Opium cultivation , or don't you remember that either.
You can criticize the Taliban for many things, but I personally admire their stand on opium. They just didn't put up with it, unlike the current (U.S.-installed) Afghan government, under which the poppy fields once more flourish.
The U.S.A. Patriot Act let the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI...) monitor e-mail traffic of people suspected of contacts with a foreign power,...
Foreign power? What's that supposed to mean? If in the course of my research in European history, I e-mail someone at the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris (certainly an agent of a foreign power -- the French Republic!), I am a criminal? When will people wake up and realize that human civilization doesn't end at the U.S. borders . ..
God forbid that I studied mediaeval Islam and wanted to correspond with experts on the Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad!
Their per capita GDP is $3000 per person, about 1/11 of the US, and the distribution of wealth/income is not unreasonable.
I'm not sure what you mean by ``not unreasonable'', but I'm not going to get into what I consider a reasonable way to distribute wealth;)
I assume you meant that it's comparable to the U.S., since you used the ratio to extrapolate. Having lived in Egypt for nearly three years in the late 1990s, I can categorically say that the distribution of wealth is far more uneven than even the U.S.'s. As some reference points, a friend of mine earned circa US$70 (seventy dollars) per month from his job as an instructor at University of Alexandria -- and that's with a master's degree in English. Pita bread cost less than two cents U.S. per piece at the bakery, and you could feed a family (on bread and beans) for less than a dollar a day.
Put in that context, a quarter-dollar an hour is a lot of money.
Maybe I've installed Debian so many times now that it's just second nature for me... with three computers running it, it's not that hard to do it a lot.:-)
Um, how come you've had to install more than three times? (I'm assuming `a lot' isn't just three times.) I thought the whole point of apt-get dist-upgrade was that you don't have to reinstall
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A professor in my dept (I'm a grad student) still writes C and PostScript to make plots, and nobody can or will convince him otherwise.
Exactly what is wrong with using C and PostScript to make plots? If he's got a good library to read his data format, and good PS-writing routines to do the plotting, why go through the trouble of converting data to import into some graphing software, then setting up plots one by one with a tedious WYSIWYG tool?
A great many websites do not function without it. In particular, forms no longer work.
A great many poorly-designed sites do not function. No Web developer worth his wages will create a site that relies on JavaScript. There is absolutely no reason a form needs JavaScript to work; I've created a multitude that don't. (That's not to say that all developers are worth their wages.)
And constant re-enabling/disabling makes it a pain in the ass to do.
Use Galeon: Gecko rendering, top-level menu items to enable/disable popups, Java, and JavaScript (independently). You get all the benefits of Mozilla's rendering with a far superior interface.
Of course, if you're still using Windows, you're out of luck.
Bad analogy - we're not talking about props, but people
Now, if you take your analogy, and say "There'll ALWAYS be a need for soldiers in a modern army", your argument falls down.
No one's debating (or if they are, I sure missed it) whether Hollywood will employ any human beings in a hypothetical all-CGI industry. The initial point was that CGI could replace actors and some of the variety of manual-labor workers who populate sets. To stick with the analogy, the tank fans never suggested abolishing human crews -- but they did suggest that there would be less need for veterinarians and ostlers. Of course we now have gas-turbine technicians and motorpool clerks, but they aren't veterinarians and ostlers. If your trade was shoeing horses, you were out of work.
I'm sorry, but you're arguing against a straw man.
Why does this sound a bit like a cavalry officer of the 1930s? "Sure tanks can do great things, but their range is limited, and they just can't go into certain terrain. There'll ALWAYS be a need for horses in a modern army."
We don't just make stuff up out of thin air, we need REFERENCE to know how to make a character do something.
That's more a reflection of the state of the art than inherent limitations of CGI. Given the tools and techniques in use today, it's easy to see that you'd need a "reference". But it's not so difficult to imagine a time when you would have available a repertoire of stock characters which you could customize without reference to live actors. Sure, all the movies made with stock characters, stock lighting effects, and stock sets would look pretty, well, stock and undifferentiated. But there seems to be a huge market for undifferentiated, cookie-cutter TV shows and movies.
"Real" filmmaking with actual actors will no doubt alway be around, just as black-and-white film is still around, and just as stage theatre is still around. It's not a stretch to think of it as being reduced to niches like those though, just because of reduced production costs and the mass market's tolerance for sameness.
There's a very real drawback to doing this: many important works are out of print (and will stay that way until they enter the public domain -- but that's a different rant) and cannot be had at any price unless you can locate a used copy. If I found a library that would lend me -- anonymously! -- a book which I'd spent a year trying to find for, say, a $50 deposit, the temptation simply to "buy" it that way would be tremendous. Unless the deposit were made so onerous that no one could consider its payment an acceptable price to acquire the work, the system would fail. And if the deposit were that onerous, books would not circulate.
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I suspect it's to suggest a trademark. See, for example, Hormel's insistance on writing `SPAM' (the food) in uppercase and `spam' (unsolicited commercial e-mail) in lowercase, so as to preserve Hormel's trademark. OEone doesn't use a `TM' symbol by `DESKTOP', but they may be hinting at a trademark anyway.
FWIW, Corel uses something similar in its product names (CorelDRAW!, CorelPHOTOPAINT, etc.)
It is pretty lame, though.
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I thought that was the Klingon translation?
scripsit wishus:
More importantly, the idea that people in the liberal arts shouldn't use Linux is bollocks. I am a doctoral student in history, and I am MS-free. I would also like to get my department over to Free software. That attitude -- that only geeks can use Linux -- is bad enough coming from MS salesgoons, but coming from geeks it's reprehensible.
Given the well-established evilness of KaZaA, is there any free (speech, not beer) client for the network? (I don't do Windows, so the `lite' version won't cut it, ideological issues aside.) In my experience, the Gnutella network is much poorer in content than the Fasttrack one, but I'm not willing to run Windows to access it.
l810c wrote:
Nah, that's only in government, right? I mean, privatizing government services eliminates all the waste, doesn't it?
MrResistor wrote:
Skidge wrote:
Forgiveness often comes more easily than permission, my friend. ;)
Skidge wrote:
Um, try Linux?
Galeon 1.2.5 renders it just fine.
Quoth Mustang Matt:
Absolutely! While we're at it, why not change this silly ``innocent 'til proven guilty'' nonsense. It lets too many criminals walk free. If they're innocent, they should be able to prove it easily. You've nothing to fear if you don't commit crimes.
If it gets one more criminal behind bars, it's worth it, right?
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I really don't think you can make a valid comparison between, on the one hand, privileged white kids becoming aware of oppression and exploitation and then protesting it, and on the other, privileged white kids deciding to emulate felons because it's `cool'. I really hope that you're not suggesting that empathizing with the plight of impoverished agricultural workers is the same as idolizing criminals.
I hate to state the obvious, but what matters is your shell, not the OS. I managed to get bash (and the standard GNU console tools) on my Solaris, AIX, and IRIX accounts, and it's not easy to tell which one I'm on a lot of the time. That's why the hostname's in the prompt ;) But if I have to use ksh or csh I notice the difference pretty quickly, regardless of OS.
Guys, repeat after me:
Iran == Persia; they speak Farsi (Persian).
Quoth Loki_1929:
Damn, Loki_1929, someone needs to mod you up. Unfortunately, I'm not the one to help today.
Whatever happened to "Live free or die"? Shame on the cowards who call themselves patriots.
You can criticize the Taliban for many things, but I personally admire their stand on opium. They just didn't put up with it, unlike the current (U.S.-installed) Afghan government, under which the poppy fields once more flourish.
From the article:
Foreign power? What's that supposed to mean? If in the course of my research in European history, I e-mail someone at the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris (certainly an agent of a foreign power -- the French Republic!), I am a criminal? When will people wake up and realize that human civilization doesn't end at the U.S. borders . . .
God forbid that I studied mediaeval Islam and wanted to correspond with experts on the Abbasid Caliphate in Baghdad!
That someone moderated this as `funny', I find rather chilling.
Their per capita GDP is $3000 per person, about 1/11 of the US, and the distribution of wealth/income is not unreasonable.
I'm not sure what you mean by ``not unreasonable'', but I'm not going to get into what I consider a reasonable way to distribute wealth ;)
I assume you meant that it's comparable to the U.S., since you used the ratio to extrapolate. Having lived in Egypt for nearly three years in the late 1990s, I can categorically say that the distribution of wealth is far more uneven than even the U.S.'s. As some reference points, a friend of mine earned circa US$70 (seventy dollars) per month from his job as an instructor at University of Alexandria -- and that's with a master's degree in English. Pita bread cost less than two cents U.S. per piece at the bakery, and you could feed a family (on bread and beans) for less than a dollar a day.
Put in that context, a quarter-dollar an hour is a lot of money.
Maybe I've installed Debian so many times now that it's just second nature for me... with three computers running it, it's not that hard to do it a lot. :-)
Um, how come you've had to install more than three times? (I'm assuming `a lot' isn't just three times.) I thought the whole point of apt-get dist-upgrade was that you don't have to reinstall
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A professor in my dept (I'm a grad student) still writes C and PostScript to make plots, and nobody can or will convince him otherwise.
Exactly what is wrong with using C and PostScript to make plots? If he's got a good library to read his data format, and good PS-writing routines to do the plotting, why go through the trouble of converting data to import into some graphing software, then setting up plots one by one with a tedious WYSIWYG tool?
Newer != better
A great many websites do not function without it. In particular, forms no longer work.
A great many poorly-designed sites do not function. No Web developer worth his wages will create a site that relies on JavaScript. There is absolutely no reason a form needs JavaScript to work; I've created a multitude that don't. (That's not to say that all developers are worth their wages.)
And constant re-enabling/disabling makes it a pain in the ass to do.
Use Galeon: Gecko rendering, top-level menu items to enable/disable popups, Java, and JavaScript (independently). You get all the benefits of Mozilla's rendering with a far superior interface.
Of course, if you're still using Windows, you're out of luck.
Bad analogy - we're not talking about props, but people
Now, if you take your analogy, and say "There'll ALWAYS be a need for soldiers in a modern army", your argument falls down.
No one's debating (or if they are, I sure missed it) whether Hollywood will employ any human beings in a hypothetical all-CGI industry. The initial point was that CGI could replace actors and some of the variety of manual-labor workers who populate sets. To stick with the analogy, the tank fans never suggested abolishing human crews -- but they did suggest that there would be less need for veterinarians and ostlers. Of course we now have gas-turbine technicians and motorpool clerks, but they aren't veterinarians and ostlers. If your trade was shoeing horses, you were out of work.
I'm sorry, but you're arguing against a straw man.
There'll ALWAYS be a need for actors.
Why does this sound a bit like a cavalry officer of the 1930s? "Sure tanks can do great things, but their range is limited, and they just can't go into certain terrain. There'll ALWAYS be a need for horses in a modern army."
We don't just make stuff up out of thin air, we need REFERENCE to know how to make a character do something.
That's more a reflection of the state of the art than inherent limitations of CGI. Given the tools and techniques in use today, it's easy to see that you'd need a "reference". But it's not so difficult to imagine a time when you would have available a repertoire of stock characters which you could customize without reference to live actors. Sure, all the movies made with stock characters, stock lighting effects, and stock sets would look pretty, well, stock and undifferentiated. But there seems to be a huge market for undifferentiated, cookie-cutter TV shows and movies.
"Real" filmmaking with actual actors will no doubt alway be around, just as black-and-white film is still around, and just as stage theatre is still around. It's not a stretch to think of it as being reduced to niches like those though, just because of reduced production costs and the mass market's tolerance for sameness.
[ checking books out for a cash deposit ]
There's a very real drawback to doing this: many important works are out of print (and will stay that way until they enter the public domain -- but that's a different rant) and cannot be had at any price unless you can locate a used copy. If I found a library that would lend me -- anonymously! -- a book which I'd spent a year trying to find for, say, a $50 deposit, the temptation simply to "buy" it that way would be tremendous. Unless the deposit were made so onerous that no one could consider its payment an acceptable price to acquire the work, the system would fail. And if the deposit were that onerous, books would not circulate.
Seems to me the average USA Today reader doesn't have a clue what Linux is.
Seems to me the average USA Today writer assigned to write about Linux doesn't really have a clue what Linux is.