This is modded as insightful? You're a fool. TV is shit because people like yourself expect it to be shit. There is no reason whatsoever a TV show can't be passionate and wonderous and entertaining and cool AND scientifically correct all at once. You and others like you have been BRAINWASHED into thinking that the trash on tv that we see these days is the normal natural state of things. That's a social construction. The thing that makes this TV show so insidious is that people believe that this is how science is done, when that most certainly is not the case today. A whole generation of kids is making their fucking career choices based on bullshit like this then end up dropping out and in a mess careerwise when it turns out their jobs are going to be nothing like this.
Shame on slashdot for agreeing that TV should be shit. You should fucking know better.
Hey, they're teaching kids to go out and prove things for themselves rather than believe them off the bat, and that's never a bad thing.
Yes it fucking well is a bad thing when they don't teach you how to do it. They're teaching skepticism but then they're teaching hillbilly scientific practice instead of logic and the scientific method. The result is you get a bunch of kids who are rude, and think they know everything just because they can provide a counter-argument backed up with nothing but the shoddiest proof. That is very much a bad thing.
The Mythbusters basically piss on the scientific method in every show, drawing wild conclusions from a single lll thought out experiment, often with no controls (or weak ones), and often testing a single instance or brand and then generalising for all of that type of product.
Another poster put it correctly. People watch because they blow shit up, which is fine as far as entertainment goes. However no other show presents bad pseudo-science as science and fucks up the minds of kids who then think they understand science, when at best they understand skepticism.
Every time I've said this here I've been modded down but fuck it, it needs to be said.
So you're telling me that apart from basic things like suspend and using dual screens it now works IF you have the odd couple of hours to do research in order to get something done that should take 5 minutes. That's not mainstream. I don't think you understand what mainstream is. "Grandma" doesn't want to do 2 hours research, or be stuck unable to use basic features. I don't think you know what a picky user is, and the lack of ability to comprehend this is why Linux advocates telling their relatives to install Linux will always be looked on as a bunch of propeller heads.
By the way if you're constantly running sudo and using the root password you might as well be running as root.
Your post just talked me out of making any attempt at going mainstream with Ubuntu, not vice versa.
My how slashdot has fallen. If these are "star trek shields" I'm an Aardvaark. How the fuck did this one get past the editors? Were they asleep at the time?
The correct solution is to elliminate the discrimination not add equal amounts of positive and negative. If a woman wants to do a degree she should be allowed to without being harassed or intimidated by those around her or by the system. Her sex shouldn't figure into the equation. Trying to change engineering into something it's not so that it attracts women is asinine, as is adding equal amounts of discrimination in each direction - what a waste of effort.
The public school system is the love child of 1984 and Lord of the Flies. I would have thought that people would have learned by now that it is unfixable.
So what's your brilliant solution? To abolish public education or to give up and let it descend even further into hell?
Defeatism shouldn't be modded up as insightful. Shame on slashdotters.
You badly misunderstand evolution my friend. Evolution is not independent of the environment. If there were lions roaming our streets and offices, Hawking would still be lion lunch. Wether we've manipulated the environment or not, we continue to evolve to our current environment.
Furthermore, his trial was before the 2005 law introducing the EUCD which added anti-circumvention to the law.
So fucking what. America has decided it can convict people for breaking anti-terrorism laws passed retrospectively. The law gets bended and twisted by those in power all they want and lately America just shuts up and takes it or tries to justify it.
Not to rain on the submitters parade but Jimmy Valvano was fighting for his life from cancer these guys are only fighting suspected copyright infringement....which now carries a 5 year prison term for a first offence.
t forms of civil disobedience, the people who violate the law in order to show how the law is wrong also accept the legal penalties for breaking the law until the law is changed.
Well that's all well and good when the law is reasonable and rational and hasn't been bought. When you start getting penalties like 5 years in prison for a first offence for copyright infringement - more than many violent crimes - it becomes difficult to find people willing to accept the legal penalties.
I mean what's next in this war? The death penalty for violating copyright? Download and die?
No we're not all equally capable. We may all be capable of the physical act, but some of us are going to be much more prone to snapping. "We're all equal" is a flawed bunch of hippy BS. We all have inherent qualities and we all choose what to do with them but there are people who are fundamentally more prone to becoming psychotic just as there are people who are fundamentally more suited to becoming concert pianists. Same goes for shooting a gun unfortunately...
Bitlocker is a reason to spend hundreds of dollars? That's got to be the most dumb ass thing I've heard on slashdot in a while. You do realise there are cheaper 3rd party solutions right?
One problem is for software developers, even hobbyest software developers. Without Vista, it's difficult to make sure an application works properly on Vista
You usually just need a test PC or two. Investigating what's going on if your software doesn't work will only be painful if the development tools you're using aren't compatible.
Who the fuck is Azimov? I grew up reading Asimov, and reading books that used his robot laws as an effective cornerstone for his award winning science fiction. Do you have any idea how insulting mis-spelling a man's name like that can be to his memory and his body of work?
Sorry but that's a load of apologist tripe. Being a girl doesn't have to mean you let your heart rule over your head. Your boss got greedy and you got out which is the right thing for you and your family. Doing good one day doesn't give you a free pass to do evil the next. No one makes excuses for a serial killer because at one time they were a nice quiet boy.
I've worked for a similar company. The founders (One middle age man and his younger partner were absolutely fantastic during the boom when I was hired. I was employee number 7. Bonuses were something like 15-20%. There were dinners at very expensive restuarants as prizes. There was a free softdrink policy if you stayed back late. The fact that we were working on niche technology didn't matter so much - it was after all a tech boom and work wasn't scarce.
I spent 5 years at the company.
When I left there were more than 50 employees and a low cost (low wage) Asian office training up for support. Forget the free softdrink. Forget any kind of bonus (literally none). Work was one crunch after the other (but I basically worked normal hours. I refuse to work continuous crunches).
What happened? Partly competition and partly the bosses becoming less willing to share what did come their way. The sad thing is a token is all that was needed. I think that yes a company founder may get worn down and that it's a tough job - people abuse your trust, you risk a lot, and the buck stops with you. However that doesn't excuse becoming an asshole. If as a company founder the only way you can make your business survive is to turn it into something you're not proud of yous hould get the fuck out.
Do you often get contracts by telling people who disagree with you to "go to hell" and calling them stupid? If this is how you behave in real life I pity you no matter what you earn. You may be ambitious, and you may be skilled, but you have the people skills of a grizzly bear and no amount of money will fix that.
Eventually it'll affect your ability to get a contract too. I got my current job over someone much more experienced and otherwise suited to the role, because it was clear he was going to be an arrogant ass and fuck up the team dynamic. So I guess I owe a lot to twits like you.
Oh and by the way good luck with all that insurance. Insurance companies love to insure you, but I wouldn't call their coverage security. For anything major or long term they'll pay out if they have to...eventually.
Management typically sees engineers as a means to an end, and an interchangable means at that. You pay market rate for engineering and they get the job done. Engineers do NOT make companies money - products do. If you want to make money as an engineer, you do NOT do it as an employee. You do it the way lawyers do - the retainer and contract model. Engineers are STUPID for agreeing to be employees. You sold your soul (and market power) for an easy paycheque.
There's a lot to be said for stability if you can find it. When you're young and times are good, contracts and retainers serve you well. When times get leaner, or there are other priorities in life, having a secure job is a much better proposition. I think it's obvious you're young and probably don't have family commitments. I think you'll change your mind if you're ever ill for a substantial period, or have a sick child, or there's a large downturn. Summarily calling engineers who take full time paid jobs stupid is at best arrogant.
Lovely that this is what NASA's been reduced to! A bunch of kids holding meetings on Second Life. Wouldn't have anything to do with desperation as the budget is cut would it now? Come on, admit it, you've never heard of a worldwide physics or aerodynamics symposium being held in second life. Compared to real life it's still a cumbersome toy, not the virtual reality that people wish it to be. It has it's place, but serious science isn't it.
I don't think so. If you get sued you argue it, otherwise you're admitting to being owned. There have been enough products with the words paint, draw, colour, photo etc. that you could argue it's in common use. Giving up like that is pathetic. See my comments to other people's nonsense.
In any case while I'll grant you the name GIMP is unique and non-obvious, it hasn't been used for another reason. It's not desirable.
I'm sure a Gaming company could contest the use of the name Gaim, and some company will have used the word Pidgin somewhere.
Oh please! It was an immature joke on the part of the developers, not some requirement for a unique name that drove them to the name "GIMP". Get a clue. What are you going to suggest next?: That regretably the next text editor will need to be called AnalEdit to avoid litigation?
Hell you could have named it IMPG to avoid calling it GIMP. If that's taken single person can come up with thousands of names, and if you get a cease and desist you rename your product just as others have before. If you truely have so little imagination that you can't come up with a name, or are so gullible as to think it's impossible to come up with a new name that isn't owned by a megacorp, I suggest you go back to your teachers and request a refund for your education. By defending this kind of stupidity and insanity you're contributing to it.
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This is modded as insightful? You're a fool. TV is shit because people like yourself expect it to be shit. There is no reason whatsoever a TV show can't be passionate and wonderous and entertaining and cool AND scientifically correct all at once. You and others like you have been BRAINWASHED into thinking that the trash on tv that we see these days is the normal natural state of things. That's a social construction. The thing that makes this TV show so insidious is that people believe that this is how science is done, when that most certainly is not the case today. A whole generation of kids is making their fucking career choices based on bullshit like this then end up dropping out and in a mess careerwise when it turns out their jobs are going to be nothing like this.
Shame on slashdot for agreeing that TV should be shit. You should fucking know better.
Hey, they're teaching kids to go out and prove things for themselves rather than believe them off the bat, and that's never a bad thing.
Yes it fucking well is a bad thing when they don't teach you how to do it. They're teaching skepticism but then they're teaching hillbilly scientific practice instead of logic and the scientific method. The result is you get a bunch of kids who are rude, and think they know everything just because they can provide a counter-argument backed up with nothing but the shoddiest proof. That is very much a bad thing.
The Mythbusters basically piss on the scientific method in every show, drawing wild conclusions from a single lll thought out experiment, often with no controls (or weak ones), and often testing a single instance or brand and then generalising for all of that type of product.
Another poster put it correctly. People watch because they blow shit up, which is fine as far as entertainment goes. However no other show presents bad pseudo-science as science and fucks up the minds of kids who then think they understand science, when at best they understand skepticism.
Every time I've said this here I've been modded down but fuck it, it needs to be said.
Bit hard to have a spoiler when the article isn't available.
Well some claim IBM supplied the Nazis with machines to keep track of the Jews.
http://news.com.com/2009-1082-269157.html
So you're telling me that apart from basic things like suspend and using dual screens it now works IF you have the odd couple of hours to do research in order to get something done that should take 5 minutes. That's not mainstream. I don't think you understand what mainstream is. "Grandma" doesn't want to do 2 hours research, or be stuck unable to use basic features. I don't think you know what a picky user is, and the lack of ability to comprehend this is why Linux advocates telling their relatives to install Linux will always be looked on as a bunch of propeller heads.
By the way if you're constantly running sudo and using the root password you might as well be running as root.
Your post just talked me out of making any attempt at going mainstream with Ubuntu, not vice versa.
My how slashdot has fallen. If these are "star trek shields" I'm an Aardvaark. How the fuck did this one get past the editors? Were they asleep at the time?
The correct solution is to elliminate the discrimination not add equal amounts of positive and negative. If a woman wants to do a degree she should be allowed to without being harassed or intimidated by those around her or by the system. Her sex shouldn't figure into the equation. Trying to change engineering into something it's not so that it attracts women is asinine, as is adding equal amounts of discrimination in each direction - what a waste of effort.
The public school system is the love child of 1984 and Lord of the Flies. I would have thought that people would have learned by now that it is unfixable.
So what's your brilliant solution? To abolish public education or to give up and let it descend even further into hell?
Defeatism shouldn't be modded up as insightful. Shame on slashdotters.
I just wanted to say thank you. It's very heartening to see that there are still U.S. citizens (an ex-military one at that) who "get it".
You badly misunderstand evolution my friend. Evolution is not independent of the environment. If there were lions roaming our streets and offices, Hawking would still be lion lunch. Wether we've manipulated the environment or not, we continue to evolve to our current environment.
What are you missing? A capacity for denial, an inability to cope with change or with anything unfamiliar, and a stubborn streak.
Furthermore, his trial was before the 2005 law introducing the EUCD which added anti-circumvention to the law.
So fucking what. America has decided it can convict people for breaking anti-terrorism laws passed retrospectively. The law gets bended and twisted by those in power all they want and lately America just shuts up and takes it or tries to justify it.
Not to rain on the submitters parade but Jimmy Valvano was fighting for his life from cancer these guys are only fighting suspected copyright infringement. ...which now carries a 5 year prison term for a first offence.
t forms of civil disobedience, the people who violate the law in order to show how the law is wrong also accept the legal penalties for breaking the law until the law is changed.
Well that's all well and good when the law is reasonable and rational and hasn't been bought. When you start getting penalties like 5 years in prison for a first offence for copyright infringement - more than many violent crimes - it becomes difficult to find people willing to accept the legal penalties.
I mean what's next in this war? The death penalty for violating copyright? Download and die?
No we're not all equally capable. We may all be capable of the physical act, but some of us are going to be much more prone to snapping. "We're all equal" is a flawed bunch of hippy BS. We all have inherent qualities and we all choose what to do with them but there are people who are fundamentally more prone to becoming psychotic just as there are people who are fundamentally more suited to becoming concert pianists. Same goes for shooting a gun unfortunately...
Bitlocker is a reason to spend hundreds of dollars? That's got to be the most dumb ass thing I've heard on slashdot in a while. You do realise there are cheaper 3rd party solutions right?
One problem is for software developers, even hobbyest software developers. Without Vista, it's difficult to make sure an application works properly on Vista
You usually just need a test PC or two. Investigating what's going on if your software doesn't work will only be painful if the development tools you're using aren't compatible.
Who the fuck is Azimov? I grew up reading Asimov, and reading books that used his robot laws as an effective cornerstone for his award winning science fiction. Do you have any idea how insulting mis-spelling a man's name like that can be to his memory and his body of work?
Sorry but that's a load of apologist tripe. Being a girl doesn't have to mean you let your heart rule over your head. Your boss got greedy and you got out which is the right thing for you and your family. Doing good one day doesn't give you a free pass to do evil the next. No one makes excuses for a serial killer because at one time they were a nice quiet boy.
I've worked for a similar company. The founders (One middle age man and his younger partner were absolutely fantastic during the boom when I was hired. I was employee number 7. Bonuses were something like 15-20%. There were dinners at very expensive restuarants as prizes. There was a free softdrink policy if you stayed back late. The fact that we were working on niche technology didn't matter so much - it was after all a tech boom and work wasn't scarce.
I spent 5 years at the company.
When I left there were more than 50 employees and a low cost (low wage) Asian office training up for support. Forget the free softdrink. Forget any kind of bonus (literally none). Work was one crunch after the other (but I basically worked normal hours. I refuse to work continuous crunches).
What happened? Partly competition and partly the bosses becoming less willing to share what did come their way. The sad thing is a token is all that was needed. I think that yes a company founder may get worn down and that it's a tough job - people abuse your trust, you risk a lot, and the buck stops with you. However that doesn't excuse becoming an asshole. If as a company founder the only way you can make your business survive is to turn it into something you're not proud of yous hould get the fuck out.
Do you often get contracts by telling people who disagree with you to "go to hell" and calling them stupid? If this is how you behave in real life I pity you no matter what you earn. You may be ambitious, and you may be skilled, but you have the people skills of a grizzly bear and no amount of money will fix that.
Eventually it'll affect your ability to get a contract too. I got my current job over someone much more experienced and otherwise suited to the role, because it was clear he was going to be an arrogant ass and fuck up the team dynamic. So I guess I owe a lot to twits like you.
Oh and by the way good luck with all that insurance. Insurance companies love to insure you, but I wouldn't call their coverage security. For anything major or long term they'll pay out if they have to...eventually.
Management typically sees engineers as a means to an end, and an interchangable means at that. You pay market rate for engineering and they get the job done. Engineers do NOT make companies money - products do. If you want to make money as an engineer, you do NOT do it as an employee. You do it the way lawyers do - the retainer and contract model. Engineers are STUPID for agreeing to be employees. You sold your soul (and market power) for an easy paycheque.
There's a lot to be said for stability if you can find it. When you're young and times are good, contracts and retainers serve you well. When times get leaner, or there are other priorities in life, having a secure job is a much better proposition. I think it's obvious you're young and probably don't have family commitments. I think you'll change your mind if you're ever ill for a substantial period, or have a sick child, or there's a large downturn. Summarily calling engineers who take full time paid jobs stupid is at best arrogant.
Lovely that this is what NASA's been reduced to! A bunch of kids holding meetings on Second Life. Wouldn't have anything to do with desperation as the budget is cut would it now? Come on, admit it, you've never heard of a worldwide physics or aerodynamics symposium being held in second life. Compared to real life it's still a cumbersome toy, not the virtual reality that people wish it to be. It has it's place, but serious science isn't it.
Once I explain it's no problem, but it's embarassing having to explain that the best open source image editor is named GIMP as a childish prank.
I don't think so. If you get sued you argue it, otherwise you're admitting to being owned. There have been enough products with the words paint, draw, colour, photo etc. that you could argue it's in common use. Giving up like that is pathetic. See my comments to other people's nonsense.
In any case while I'll grant you the name GIMP is unique and non-obvious, it hasn't been used for another reason. It's not desirable.
I'm sure a Gaming company could contest the use of the name Gaim, and some company will have used the word Pidgin somewhere.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgin
The name GIMP is nothing more than an immature joke that's holding back a good OS product.
Oh please! It was an immature joke on the part of the developers, not some requirement for a unique name that drove them to the name "GIMP". Get a clue. What are you going to suggest next?: That regretably the next text editor will need to be called AnalEdit to avoid litigation?
Hell you could have named it IMPG to avoid calling it GIMP. If that's taken single person can come up with thousands of names, and if you get a cease and desist you rename your product just as others have before. If you truely have so little imagination that you can't come up with a name, or are so gullible as to think it's impossible to come up with a new name that isn't owned by a megacorp, I suggest you go back to your teachers and request a refund for your education. By defending this kind of stupidity and insanity you're contributing to it.