If their software is no longer free, they'll have to change their name to a more accurate one, like "Crappy Software Foundation" or "The organization formerly known as the organization which wants credit and naming rights for what Linus did"
What's so awesome about geocoding is, if you get a geocoded spam, you can fwd the gps location to a tomahawk cruise missile, which navigates via gps, and it can fly into the spammer's face at Mach 3.
to slashdot. the story selection's taken a hit. This is the 4th story about screen/speaker hybrids I've seen on this site. Meanwhile, they're refusing to post a new cool story, about the Japanese professor with the quasi-invisibility cloak. And every other day, there's some scam crap on here like faster-than-light stuff. Where will we go after slashdot becomes completely crappy?
If, when I finish my physics degree, I enter the private sector doing a job which is ordinarily done by engineers, and which is always recognised as a type of engineering, would I then be an engineer or not? And if not, aren't you creating a ridiculous usage situation, whereby I am a non-engineer whose vocation is engineering?
If you're going to highlight as a link a magazine title, make the link one which goes to the magazine. If you want to link to an article, arrange the link so that the article is clearly specified. Make sure the link highlights the noun to which the target refers, please.
Worried that Linux is gaining market share, this is just phase I in making XP seem more like Linux. In phase II, Microsoft will break the ability to effortlessly cut and paste across programs. In phase III, they make the process of installing programs opaque, introducing 'package managers'. Then, in the diabolical phase IV, they ditch plug-and-play, and move to a system whereby recompilation of the kernel is often necessary when changing harware. Everyone will think that's the worst until they reach phase V--in which you can't just use a disk after putting it in the drive, you have to perform actions to 'mount' the disk.
They've built Solaris over many years into a stable, high-quality OS. And SCO can never take it away from them, like they might someday be able to take away Linux.
Steve Story hereby announces a Corporate Patronage Program. Interested corporations can fund Steve Story's physics education and/or beer habit. Interested CFO's should contact Steve Story immediately to learn how to give him money.
Yeah, light passing through a flat lens will disperse, not diverge. God, I am so tired of reading science pseudojournalism. This discovery obliterates the most fundamental understandings of the universe...
I've noticed in the last few months that Slashdot's science coverage is going downhill. Good things go unmentioned, while crap like 'metaphysical' materials gets posted. Better refresh. Probably got a new story up about free energy or time travel. Or maybe one about creationism being correct, while we're at it.
New technology does not equal 'metaphysical' devices. That's a stupid and confusing use of the word. And do you really mean to tell me that anything which isn't completely understood 'violates the known laws of physics'? Take a valium.
In my experience process is almost entirely absent from education at present. Perhaps you are in a better place than I. If they emphasise process where you are, rather than the rote memorization/regurgitation I've seen in so many venues, consider yourself lucky.
The explanation of the data is theory. Newton did not create facts. What the Giants Newton referred to had discovered are not facts. They're theory. It matches the facts--the data--and that validates it. But it's theory. The reading on an oscilloscope is a fact. Why they are what they are is theory. Newton's gravity is theory. Newton's Laws are theory. All explanations are technically theory, the only facts are the data points. This is a source of much confusion, for instance when creationists complain that evolution is just a theory. Well duh. Any scientific explanation is a theory. For a further explanation of theory/fact, check out Asimov at the following very good links:
It's really not supposed to be FACTS. Science education is not primarily concerned with transmitting facts. Science is both a structure and a method. The great structures in science are the theories. Gravity. Atoms. Thermo. Maxwell's eqns. Relativity. etc. Facts are merely pieces of data used to test theory. The method, the process of beginning with a blank slate, collecting evidence, forming theory, testing extensions of the theory against evidence, is the embodiment of rationalism itself. It's the unique tool for generating knowledge. That, is what science education is about.
That's a good comprehensive list of the problems with Linux. Fortunately, one problem has abated slightly--for a long time, users new to linux were treated horribly by adolescent-minded people. More mentally adult people seem to have gotten involved. Generally, though, there's still something of a problem that the Linux community does not understand, which is that most of us non-computer-specialists don't value spending lots of time to learn an abstruse system. The value of Microsoft is the amount of use you can get out of the system while not putting much time into learning it, or, god forbid, troubleshooting it. For example, I have a foreboding amount of physics to do. Win2k sets up effortlessly, and if I need to install, say, Matlab and start solving numerical diffyq's, I'm quickly using Matlab to get my work done. I do not have time to figure out glibc things and how to mount the cdrom and all that stuff. I don't have time to figure out why the machine doesn't recognise the LAN. I have things to do. If I put in a disk and it's not obvious how to get it to work, I'm not using that computer. It's not because I'm all that familiar with Windows, it's because you don't have to be familiar to use it. Linux requires a bulk of knowledge to use effectively. My experiences with RedHat 8 and Mandrake 9 tell me that the bulk of knowledge is getting smaller, but it's still too big.
I'm so tired of the GNU people wanting credit for Linux. They tried to develop a complete system for years, and made relatively little progress. Torvalds saved the day. And now they want naming rights? Aren't these the people who oppose intellectual property? Didn't RMS say in an interview that developers should have no control to create proprietary licenses? Then they should stop telling me to credit them for Linus's contribution.
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If their software is no longer free, they'll have to change their name to a more accurate one, like "Crappy Software Foundation" or "The organization formerly known as the organization which wants credit and naming rights for what Linus did"
anyone know of a good review of RH9? I mean, after installing 8 so recently, why should I upgrade?
What's so awesome about geocoding is, if you get a geocoded spam, you can fwd the gps location to a tomahawk cruise missile, which navigates via gps, and it can fly into the spammer's face at Mach 3.
to slashdot. the story selection's taken a hit. This is the 4th story about screen/speaker hybrids I've seen on this site. Meanwhile, they're refusing to post a new cool story, about the Japanese professor with the quasi-invisibility cloak. And every other day, there's some scam crap on here like faster-than-light stuff. Where will we go after slashdot becomes completely crappy?
If, when I finish my physics degree, I enter the private sector doing a job which is ordinarily done by engineers, and which is always recognised as a type of engineering, would I then be an engineer or not? And if not, aren't you creating a ridiculous usage situation, whereby I am a non-engineer whose vocation is engineering?
How'd this story get here? What a waste of time to think about.
If you're going to highlight as a link a magazine title, make the link one which goes to the magazine. If you want to link to an article, arrange the link so that the article is clearly specified. Make sure the link highlights the noun to which the target refers, please.
I thought that was tired.
Worried that Linux is gaining market share, this is just phase I in making XP seem more like Linux. In phase II, Microsoft will break the ability to effortlessly cut and paste across programs. In phase III, they make the process of installing programs opaque, introducing 'package managers'. Then, in the diabolical phase IV, they ditch plug-and-play, and move to a system whereby recompilation of the kernel is often necessary when changing harware. Everyone will think that's the worst until they reach phase V--in which you can't just use a disk after putting it in the drive, you have to perform actions to 'mount' the disk.
They've built Solaris over many years into a stable, high-quality OS. And SCO can never take it away from them, like they might someday be able to take away Linux.
Steve Story hereby announces a Corporate Patronage Program. Interested corporations can fund Steve Story's physics education and/or beer habit. Interested CFO's should contact Steve Story immediately to learn how to give him money.
We need a global treaty to prohibit the activity of spam.
Yeah, light passing through a flat lens will disperse, not diverge.
God, I am so tired of reading science pseudojournalism.
This discovery obliterates the most fundamental understandings of the universe...
metashutup
I've noticed in the last few months that Slashdot's science coverage is going downhill. Good things go unmentioned, while crap like 'metaphysical' materials gets posted. Better refresh. Probably got a new story up about free energy or time travel. Or maybe one about creationism being correct, while we're at it.
New technology does not equal 'metaphysical' devices. That's a stupid and confusing use of the word. And do you really mean to tell me that anything which isn't completely understood 'violates the known laws of physics'? Take a valium.
We should take a lesson from Iraq and shoot 40 Tomahawk cruise missiles at spammers' headquarters.
In my experience process is almost entirely absent from education at present. Perhaps you are in a better place than I. If they emphasise process where you are, rather than the rote memorization/regurgitation I've seen in so many venues, consider yourself lucky.
http://www.answersinscience.org/RelativityofWrong. htm
http://freethought.freeservers.com/reason/iacreati onism.html
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/azimov_creatio nism.html
It's really not supposed to be FACTS. Science education is not primarily concerned with transmitting facts. Science is both a structure and a method. The great structures in science are the theories. Gravity. Atoms. Thermo. Maxwell's eqns. Relativity. etc. Facts are merely pieces of data used to test theory. The method, the process of beginning with a blank slate, collecting evidence, forming theory, testing extensions of the theory against evidence, is the embodiment of rationalism itself. It's the unique tool for generating knowledge. That, is what science education is about.
That's a good comprehensive list of the problems with Linux. Fortunately, one problem has abated slightly--for a long time, users new to linux were treated horribly by adolescent-minded people. More mentally adult people seem to have gotten involved.
Generally, though, there's still something of a problem that the Linux community does not understand, which is that most of us non-computer-specialists don't value spending lots of time to learn an abstruse system. The value of Microsoft is the amount of use you can get out of the system while not putting much time into learning it, or, god forbid, troubleshooting it. For example, I have a foreboding amount of physics to do. Win2k sets up effortlessly, and if I need to install, say, Matlab and start solving numerical diffyq's, I'm quickly using Matlab to get my work done. I do not have time to figure out glibc things and how to mount the cdrom and all that stuff. I don't have time to figure out why the machine doesn't recognise the LAN. I have things to do. If I put in a disk and it's not obvious how to get it to work, I'm not using that computer. It's not because I'm all that familiar with Windows, it's because you don't have to be familiar to use it. Linux requires a bulk of knowledge to use effectively. My experiences with RedHat 8 and Mandrake 9 tell me that the bulk of knowledge is getting smaller, but it's still too big.
None of my favorite distro is by him, because my favorite distro is W2k. Who wants some garbage OS that can't even cut and paste correctly?
Hahaha your post is the bomb.
I'm so tired of the GNU people wanting credit for Linux. They tried to develop a complete system for years, and made relatively little progress. Torvalds saved the day. And now they want naming rights? Aren't these the people who oppose intellectual property? Didn't RMS say in an interview that developers should have no control to create proprietary licenses? Then they should stop telling me to credit them for Linus's contribution.
Man, that's flat out evil. That's as evil as almost anything in the bible.