When are we going to get a nice little "cached" (ala Google) link under a story that takes us to a version cached locally on slashdot's servers. Items in the cache could easily expire after only a day(or even a couple hours). Salshdot's readers would appreciate this as would the poor IT people in charge of the oft-slashdotted servers...
....better slime them!! Or, the other way around...The slime aint working, better gas them! While a mob being gassed or slimed is in itself pretty funny, being slimed and gassed at the same time is down-right hilarious! Humm... first you slime-em, then you gas-em, then you put on your special shoes, get in there and night-stickem!
Someone above suggested that he didn't understand why successful people only have 1.? number of children, while poor people have 3.? number children - and this seemed like the "less-fit" genes were being replaced while the "more-fit" genes weren't even high enough to replace the parents (statistically speaking). One thing we must realize is that this view is not showing an apparent flaw in naturall selection, but in our thinking of "fitness". Mother nature doesn't care how good a job you have or how big your house is - all she cares about is survival, and to her its always been a numbers game. Success, as defined by natural selection, is how many children reach maturity and reproduce - end of story(not how many end up driving a Lexus). I was raised in a poor area and those people are totally unselfish - they know they'll never have many "material" posessions, and their family becomes everything to them - and their family will always be larger - and this is exactly the way mother nature wants it. Put another way - all your causes (global over population, protecting the world's resources, etc) combined with your desire for material "things" runs perfectly contradictory to natural selection. Put yet another way, beating someone in promotions or becoming a CEO doesn't make you any more "fit" for survival then the poor person down the street. It may make your life more comfortable, but natural selection coundn't care less about comfort.
If you've ever read "Only the Paranoid Survive" by Mr. Groves you'll remember he talks about much the same problem at the launch of their "Intel Inside" campaign. Ordinary consumers who were buying PCs began calling Intel for support. They were *not* ready to handle support to everyday non-technical people. Intel thought for sure the people would call compaq or dell or whoever, but some cusomters like going all the way to the top. So much so that Intel had to totally re-vamp its customer support structure. It looks like the same thing is happening to MS. Sure MS has been selling computers and software to people for a long time, but I would suggest that the cross-section of people who buy consoles is slightly different from those who buy OFFICE or even use a PC for that matter...
I have been an observer of open source projects for sometime. I'd love to become a contributor someday, but I am still looking for a project whose goals I can agree with (I am one of those people that if I am not careful could start one of those projects that starts the ol' "but we already have ten things that do this" flame war). Unfortunately, I believe the devil is in the details and I just don't agree with most of the details of open source projects(but truely this is another topic altogether).
My question is how can the open source community produce anything truly innovative that might catch on? Now we all (myself included) love to bash ms, but they are the ones that have the market share that allows them to "think outside the box" and the force it on damn near the entire computing world. I am not saying that they *are* innovative (not trying to start that flame war either), just that they can be. Meanwhile the open source world is busy coming up with their own version of.NET (yawn). I do believe that paradigm shifts in computing are still out there, but I think think that 1) we are all too busy playing catch-up to be able to step back and come up with that next great idea (just look at the resources being expended on gnome and kde - and they are still working on "innovative" stuff like ole) or 2) we may have a great idea that truly differentiates an open source product from a commercial product, but we don't have the markey share so very few people ever actually see the innovation - and ms makes it apart of the os upon their next release. I ask this because I (and many others) have a bunch of great ideas that are just waiting for a platform that we can implement them on. These ideas do not include window managers, office suits, journalled filing systems, vm subsystems, or even menus with a "fade-in" effect. I am talking about doing things that have *never* been done before. It seems the slashdot community is split between those satisfied with the "innovation" of the command line and those who can't even understand the difference between X (the hacky pile of C code) and X (the protocol).
Anyway, enough ranting...back to work in the commercial software world (where using the keyword "class" allows you market a project as object oriented).
In highschool I was apart of the math and science team. One of the competitions with which we competed against other schools was a calculator competition. The whole idea was to be able to answer as many questions as possible correctly on a hundred or so question exam without the use of any paper (time limit of course). *Everyone* used an HP32SII. You wouldn't get cought dead with anything else (at least not expect to win). Why? Because with RPN you *never* have to waste keystrokes on a parenthesis. Not to mention the most high quality keypad available. I love my HP32SII - in fact, I have it right here.
I hated it in college when they wouldn't let me use it on tests because it was "programmable". It takes me at least twice as long to do anything on an infix calculator.
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IE is an integral part of MS Windows. There is *no* way to seperate IE and Windows.
geez.
cuz we know you guys don't ever leave...
When are we going to get a nice little "cached" (ala Google) link under a story that takes us to a version cached locally on slashdot's servers. Items in the cache could easily expire after only a day(or even a couple hours). Salshdot's readers would appreciate this as would the poor IT people in charge of the oft-slashdotted servers...
....better slime them!! Or, the other way around...The slime aint working, better gas them! While a mob being gassed or slimed is in itself pretty funny, being slimed and gassed at the same time is down-right hilarious! Humm... first you slime-em, then you gas-em, then you put on your special shoes, get in there and night-stickem!
that the school which hosts Bush Sr.'s Presidential library would be making advances in cloning...
Someone above suggested that he didn't understand why successful people only have 1.? number of children, while poor people have 3.? number children - and this seemed like the "less-fit" genes were being replaced while the "more-fit" genes weren't even high enough to replace the parents (statistically speaking). One thing we must realize is that this view is not showing an apparent flaw in naturall selection, but in our thinking of "fitness". Mother nature doesn't care how good a job you have or how big your house is - all she cares about is survival, and to her its always been a numbers game. Success, as defined by natural selection, is how many children reach maturity and reproduce - end of story(not how many end up driving a Lexus). I was raised in a poor area and those people are totally unselfish - they know they'll never have many "material" posessions, and their family becomes everything to them - and their family will always be larger - and this is exactly the way mother nature wants it. Put another way - all your causes (global over population, protecting the world's resources, etc) combined with your desire for material "things" runs perfectly contradictory to natural selection. Put yet another way, beating someone in promotions or becoming a CEO doesn't make you any more "fit" for survival then the poor person down the street. It may make your life more comfortable, but natural selection coundn't care less about comfort.
If you've ever read "Only the Paranoid Survive" by Mr. Groves you'll remember he talks about much the same problem at the launch of their "Intel Inside" campaign. Ordinary consumers who were buying PCs began calling Intel for support. They were *not* ready to handle support to everyday non-technical people. Intel thought for sure the people would call compaq or dell or whoever, but some cusomters like going all the way to the top. So much so that Intel had to totally re-vamp its customer support structure. It looks like the same thing is happening to MS. Sure MS has been selling computers and software to people for a long time, but I would suggest that the cross-section of people who buy consoles is slightly different from those who buy OFFICE or even use a PC for that matter...
My question is how can the open source community produce anything truly innovative that might catch on? Now we all (myself included) love to bash ms, but they are the ones that have the market share that allows them to "think outside the box" and the force it on damn near the entire computing world. I am not saying that they *are* innovative (not trying to start that flame war either), just that they can be. Meanwhile the open source world is busy coming up with their own version of .NET (yawn). I do believe that paradigm shifts in computing are still out there, but I think think that 1) we are all too busy playing catch-up to be able to step back and come up with that next great idea (just look at the resources being expended on gnome and kde - and they are still working on "innovative" stuff like ole) or 2) we may have a great idea that truly differentiates an open source product from a commercial product, but we don't have the markey share so very few people ever actually see the innovation - and ms makes it apart of the os upon their next release. I ask this because I (and many others) have a bunch of great ideas that are just waiting for a platform that we can implement them on. These ideas do not include window managers, office suits, journalled filing systems, vm subsystems, or even menus with a "fade-in" effect. I am talking about doing things that have *never* been done before. It seems the slashdot community is split between those satisfied with the "innovation" of the command line and those who can't even understand the difference between X (the hacky pile of C code) and X (the protocol).
Anyway, enough ranting...back to work in the commercial software world (where using the keyword "class" allows you market a project as object oriented).
I hated it in college when they wouldn't let me use it on tests because it was "programmable". It takes me at least twice as long to do anything on an infix calculator.