They didn't actually drill far enough down to enter the water. They went to within three meters of the bottom of the ice. They found what they did in this ice, and are preparing to go back and actually drill through the ice, when they have equipment that can prevent contamination. The Nature article is much better than this Science Daily.
You're making the unwarranted assumption that people are either passionate or have a degree. Wrong! Some people have strong passion for coding and they pursue that passion in school for a while. You might be right on average that a self-taught programmer is more passionate about what they do than a degreed programmer, but there are so many exceptions that it's a pointless observation.
There's nothing wrong with teaching somebody how to think; it is teaching him what to think that is the problem. Teaching somebody how to think amounts to little more than introducing him to the principles and patterns that good thinkers intuitively use.
Teach a man what to think, feed him for a day; teach him how to think, feed him forever. Or something like that;-)
Yes, but using 4 words implies to me that the concept isn't a primitive in our conceptual schema, in the same way that it would be if there were 1 word that designated the concept. It is an 'assembled' concept made up of primitives. The Sanskrit is a primitive itself (unless you break the word down etymologically).
It's not Malayalam (the world's only palindrome-name language). It's Sanskrit. And it means something like "own will" or, loosely, self-determination or the ability to subsist independently. Gandhi used it in the struggle for independence from the British Empire (swaraj (same prefix meaning self)), but I think others had used it with regard to political independence before (e.g., Tilak).
Entry svAtantrya Meaning n. (fr. %{sva-tantra}) the following one's own will , freedom of the will , independence (%{At} and %{ena} , `" by one's own will , of one's own free choice , voluntarily , freely "') La1t2y. MaitrUp. MBh. &c.
Some of the words don't print properly because I don't have a diacritics font installed on this computer, but you get the gist of it. Whoever said that taking Sanskrit in college was impractical?
Yes, I've wondered that, too. I've never heard the explanation, but I have only observed it in very well-educated writers, usually older people with good classical educations. That's where I picked up the habit.
It's actually a Sanskrit word, from which the Hindi is taken. 'Sva' means 'self,' and 'tantrya' means 'rule' or 'being ruled by.' Altogether it means something like self-determination, or basically choosing your own destiny. Gandhi popularized the concept in his quest for Indian self-rule (another translation).
Swatantrya (nominative case of same word) means something like 'self-means of survival.' Quite a beautiful word, really. I wish we had an exact equivalent.
XML is a meta-language -- that is, a language for creating markup languages (such as XHTML). XSD is a schema language, which defines the structure of a class of XML documents (the class that conforms to the structural rules of the schema). XSLT is a Turing-complete programming language -- yes, you could write an operating system in XSLT, in theory if not in practice -- so it is definitely a language, under any definition.
Sure, your simple Ascii version looks simpler, but when you have to write code to grab the title or author, your code will be much longer. XML is not about saving space on the original encoding, it's about saving time each time you have to reuse that information in a different context. Stylesheets are simple to make. Parsing your simple example for the Publisher is an extremely difficult problem, when you consider that there are lots of different citation formats. With XML, I don't care which format you use, because a simple XPath expression (//author) gives me the author elements wherever they are.
RMS does not say it is immoral or illegal to make money off of software. That you think this is his position just shows that you know nothing about him or the FSF. 5 minutes on google or at the FSF would show you that you are wrong, but I'm sure you'll keep on repeating these gross lies.
Yes, I agree, if I didn't have rejected at least 10 story submissions that I spent a lot of time on and I know people would be interested in, then I wouldn't be so bothered about some of the lame Ask Slashdots. I did finally get one submission accepted though, so don't give up on submitting interesting stories.
I'm wondering if any slashdotters have any opinions about wiping my ass. I'm thinking that I could use either hand, I could wipe upwards, downwards, or sideways, or even in a spiral motion. As for the medium, the obvious solution is toilet paper, but I'm sure some innovative slashdotter has a better solution.
Please. These 'ask slashdot' articles are getting really out of hand. Ummm, slashdot, I'm wondering if you all have any thoughts on which utensils to eat spaghetti with.
Thanks for the information. I don't use Word much and don't recall ever using the Properties feature. I just checked a few Word docs of mine, and it seems that they all have my bogus information in them (Tyler Durden, etc.). Yet again my paranoia pays off.
Okay, just to make sure, I did a search. It's kind of hard to find anything that talks about browsers that old, but this link seems to be from 1995 -- way before netscape 4 -- and it says that netscape does have a history feature. Search for this text: "Browsers also track the recent history of documents viewed."
Shit, shit, shit. I had the English meaning in mind -- slang for 'toilet' -- and thought it was just a nice Anglo-Saxon sounding word that means toilet, and also sounds like god. God damn, i hate thinking of new sigs. Thanks for the info.
Ummm, i remember netscape having a 'history' or whatever it was called before nn4 -- netscape 'gold' (3.0) had a history, though it may have been just a session history.
Slashdot Mirror
They didn't actually drill far enough down to enter the water. They went to within three meters of the bottom of the ice. They found what they did in this ice, and are preparing to go back and actually drill through the ice, when they have equipment that can prevent contamination. The Nature article is much better than this Science Daily.
You're making the unwarranted assumption that people are either passionate or have a degree. Wrong! Some people have strong passion for coding and they pursue that passion in school for a while. You might be right on average that a self-taught programmer is more passionate about what they do than a degreed programmer, but there are so many exceptions that it's a pointless observation.
My question is: what is Google doing that requires a top security clearance: http://www.google.com/jobs/openings.html#deploy
Teach a man what to think, feed him for a day; teach him how to think, feed him forever. Or something like that ;-)
I apologize for not including a smiley. Perhaps then you would have recognized the joke, but I thought the (tm) gave it away.
The flaw in your reasoning is that you're using human logic, instead of the Transcendental Logic (tm) of God.
Yes, but using 4 words implies to me that the concept isn't a primitive in our conceptual schema, in the same way that it would be if there were 1 word that designated the concept. It is an 'assembled' concept made up of primitives. The Sanskrit is a primitive itself (unless you break the word down etymologically).
I am the captain of my soul.
Exactly. Thanks for the cool poem.
Okay, I looked it up in an online Sanskrit dictionary:
Some of the words don't print properly because I don't have a diacritics font installed on this computer, but you get the gist of it. Whoever said that taking Sanskrit in college was impractical?
Yes, I've wondered that, too. I've never heard the explanation, but I have only observed it in very well-educated writers, usually older people with good classical educations. That's where I picked up the habit.
It's actually a Sanskrit word, from which the Hindi is taken. 'Sva' means 'self,' and 'tantrya' means 'rule' or 'being ruled by.' Altogether it means something like self-determination, or basically choosing your own destiny. Gandhi popularized the concept in his quest for Indian self-rule (another translation).
Swatantrya (nominative case of same word) means something like 'self-means of survival.' Quite a beautiful word, really. I wish we had an exact equivalent.
Really interesting, thanks.
XML is a meta-language -- that is, a language for creating markup languages (such as XHTML). XSD is a schema language, which defines the structure of a class of XML documents (the class that conforms to the structural rules of the schema). XSLT is a Turing-complete programming language -- yes, you could write an operating system in XSLT, in theory if not in practice -- so it is definitely a language, under any definition.
Sure, your simple Ascii version looks simpler, but when you have to write code to grab the title or author, your code will be much longer. XML is not about saving space on the original encoding, it's about saving time each time you have to reuse that information in a different context. Stylesheets are simple to make. Parsing your simple example for the Publisher is an extremely difficult problem, when you consider that there are lots of different citation formats. With XML, I don't care which format you use, because a simple XPath expression (//author) gives me the author elements wherever they are.
Yes, I agree. Thermonuclear weapons should be available for purchase at Costco, 'cause nukes don't kill people, people with nukes kill people.
RMS does not say it is immoral or illegal to make money off of software. That you think this is his position just shows that you know nothing about him or the FSF. 5 minutes on google or at the FSF would show you that you are wrong, but I'm sure you'll keep on repeating these gross lies.
Yes, I agree, if I didn't have rejected at least 10 story submissions that I spent a lot of time on and I know people would be interested in, then I wouldn't be so bothered about some of the lame Ask Slashdots. I did finally get one submission accepted though, so don't give up on submitting interesting stories.
Please. These 'ask slashdot' articles are getting really out of hand. Ummm, slashdot, I'm wondering if you all have any thoughts on which utensils to eat spaghetti with.
As opposed to our many selfless, genius congress members?
Thanks for the information. I don't use Word much and don't recall ever using the Properties feature. I just checked a few Word docs of mine, and it seems that they all have my bogus information in them (Tyler Durden, etc.). Yet again my paranoia pays off.
Okay, just to make sure, I did a search. It's kind of hard to find anything that talks about browsers that old, but this link seems to be from 1995 -- way before netscape 4 -- and it says that netscape does have a history feature. Search for this text: "Browsers also track the recent history of documents viewed."
Shit, shit, shit. I had the English meaning in mind -- slang for 'toilet' -- and thought it was just a nice Anglo-Saxon sounding word that means toilet, and also sounds like god. God damn, i hate thinking of new sigs. Thanks for the info.
Ummm, i remember netscape having a 'history' or whatever it was called before nn4 -- netscape 'gold' (3.0) had a history, though it may have been just a session history.
commodity hardware like Gigabit Ethernet? Oh, yeah, I forgot, that comes standard on every PC.