Actually, he may be able to fly a 747. Sounds like a comparable analogy. He can try to fly it, and you can try to find the graviton. From your link:
This result suggests that if a massless spin-2 particle is discovered, it must be the graviton, so that the only experimental verification needed for the graviton may simply be the discovery of a massless spin-2 particle.
Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. How would the law of gravity work, to create anything, when there is nothing originally for gravity to pull toward? You cannot, as "nothing" would have no mass. It takes two to tango. Creating something from nothing takes a lot of faith.
I think poor Marky (insert underlying vocal connotations of tribalism) is just upset that people think they don't contribute anything. Here is a quote from an article Mark linked to:
Likewise, I don't think it is fair to undermine Canonical's contributions just because many of them exist outside of GNOME.
I personally think that this IS fair. If they are going off on their own implementing features outside the mainline GNOME project and those associated development routes then that is there prerogative but we absolutely can undermine their work. Any extra work they do just for the whims of their project is going to be by reality less useful to others. The argument can be made that GNOME could be more accepting of the work and interest of others - which in the end they do try to move their additions upstream... Also the definition and application of the word "contribution" is made vague since these contributions are to their community and not to GNOME. As a related side note: this issue of upstream changes and doing what they want to on their own is the VERY reason why I like using Fedora.
I once advocated this kind of self-implosion tactic back in the Sun days. The reason was to re-organize the OpenSolaris leadership to be more engaged and industry focused. That was a good idea back in the days when I had faith that Sun would "do the right thing". However, those times have past. Oracle has made it clear that it either controls things or it doesn't... there is no give and take. I don't think we can demolish the structure and believe that Oracle will re-organize in such a way as to give the community more power. It was a long shot with Sun anyway.
However, the most important tidbit he reveals lower in his post:
We're in no worse a position right now than we were during the Sun days. They didn't communicate, we had no visibility or impact on the OpenSolaris distribution, etc. Don't fall into the lie that things are now "worse" than they were... they aren't. Its status quo. The difference is that the OGB is no longer composed of Sun insiders who can get a sense of control from hallway conversations and are now as blind and weak as those of us in the community always have been.
My apologies to Ben Rockwood for raping his blog post of content, but this is/. and no one reads anything linked to apparently.
When a 6'2" tackle who benches 620 and weighs 310lbs of solid muscle tells you he plays football, you don't question it.
Sure you can, you then let him chase you around for, say, 25 seconds and then he tires. Either that or he continues chasing you all the while wondering why no one blew a whistle yet...
Are our universities bad? Obviously not, as foreigners do everything they can to get into them. Are our primary schools bad? Doesn't look like it; foreign students make cheating a science just to keep up at the university level.
This is the problem. Cheating to keep up is the problem. Fail them. Work harder to realize real learning. Don't admit everyone. Admit those who should be there. Educate those well and keep the reputation of the institution strong. A reputation that is not based on rising student numbers, but on learning. Cheating at undergrad levels and graduate levels shouldn't be permitted - or "needed".
For that matter - another axe: if all students were learning, and not cheating then grades of C's and B's and A's would all be acceptable. Cheating to get A's (that are not deserved or hence really honored) is a personal perception issue that should be confronted as a society.
As of June 1, 2010, the Total Public Debt Outstanding was approximately 88.9% of GDP, and for the first time exceeded $13 trillion.
Learn something new. The GDP of the US is $14.256 Trillion, our debt currently is approaching that. That is not a per year deficit, but the total debt.
One of the requirements of a "great man" is to be notable in some manner that affected society. If a pristine personal life was also a requirement, then most people I've heard referred to as "great men" would be disqualified. Because of that, I assert that your definition is not the standard definition, and thus irrelevant.
Yes, I probably would object to this "Great Man" definition - and at the least find it silly. Though, pedantically, I definitely believe there is a difference between a "Great Man" and a "great man." Without the proper capitalization I think it can absolutely be incorrect. But as you say, it is only my personal opinion.
There are other posts such as this that talk about how he became famous, when there is a good chance he may not have become so. Also, other posts have discussed the subtle differences between lunacy and genius, and the chance or luck involved in going from the one to the latter. Not sure where I'm going with that, but it is interesting stuff. Not to go too sideways, but from what I understand about the Great Man Theory he may not be that either, but that's a different discussion that I am not as intrigued about.
"Just a great writer" does not really do justice to how good he was.
Yes it does. That is exactly what it means, he was a great writer. If he was a bad husband and father then that is what it is also.
And for what it is worth, he publicly stated on at least one occation that he supported extended copyright terms because it would allow his work to financially support his family after his death.
So he wants to try to play games with copyright law and you're ok with that too? Next you're going to tell me he created the modern text book scheme with new editions so often that students cannot reuse old text books...
Seriously... that is retarded. Horrible way to treat customers, even if they are only past customers. The new slogan sucks too. Sorta like: "We want to be like IBM, we are not sure how yet, but we are going to try this out."
The tax burden falls on us anyway. What do you think a corporation does when it has to pay taxes? Print money or pass the costs along to it's consumers?
Ahh, but in this case the increase in prices will get paid by only those buying the (imported) product. Not by those buying a product that was not imported - and not by those who don't buy it at all. Therefore, a great place to have placed that particular tax increase. It is essentially protectionism of local goods - but those of course could also be taxed, just at lower rates. This tariff therefore taxes only those who want the product - which seems entirely fair. (Of course if they believe they can do better locally then they have a little more incentive to innovate locally, and a lowered barrier to entry. Typical market forces of competitive high quality products should still remain but give a slight edge to local products which also seems entirely fair. Thus caring about your own people, instead of the profits of non-national corporations which only care about profit.)
How can you be implying that I was comparing to the great depression? I merely made a smug comment in retort. You mentioned the great depression, but protectionism had existed long before that - as well as this great taxation device called tariffs. Dropping tariffs (and by extension allowing free trade) removes a great source of taxation. Corporations will, obviously, find any way possible to avoid taxation. We the people do not need to let that happen. If we do then the tax burden (or lack thereof via burgeoning deficits) falls on us. The country will of course then fail, the corporation has of course left since it's non-national, and the people will have their future ruined.
Free trade is a race for all down to the bottom and shouldn't be tolerated. We should instead help others up - by taxing imports and encouraging innovation and growth in _each_ country. With the belief that people everywhere are capable and smart enough to run all facets of their economy.
This of course is all my opinion and viewpoint on things... Feel free to share your opinion. I will read it and think about it. But I am quickly losing faith in free trade. This global new world order stuff irritates me, countries should stand up for themselves and their identity.
I'll take protectionism, and local people making things for others (relatively) nearby any day. This disconnect allowing kids to be working 15 hour shifts to make junk is unacceptable. The auditing practices have an impossible time playing catchup, and may never. I say we reintroduce tariffs and end the madness. Protectionism! The last several decades called, and want you and your loony free market back.
Ben Rockwood also blogged about this. The open source nature of Open Solaris shall henceforth be called to action...
The end of the month is here and OpenSolaris 2010.03 is no where in site and those I've asked on the inside are unable to say. This might be a good time to catch up on non-Sun/Oracle distros such as Nexenta, Schillix, and Belenix.
What we should do is fine importers who damage the environment, in order to cover the costs. That will help out local industries that do the right thing and do not try to externalize their costs.
But, but... free trade bro! No one believes in tariffs anymore. It is ridiculous. Hopefully the price of fuel goes way up, so "free" trade will come to grips with reality. Our leaders have led us astray.
It is my personal belief that low fuel prices fuel the misguided free trade of the last half century or so. I am not even your typical hippy that hates pollution and cries when watching Al Gore. I just think that free trade is a failed experiment that makes the rich richer at an alarming rate. I might be wrong - of course - but that's what it seems like to me. Taxes via tariffs seems like the appropriate place, and protectionism is a good idea until you ask a multinational corporation. (Or the bought and paid for "libertarian" think takes that pander on and on about market choice and efficiency... blah blah blah.)
And individuals don't need privacy, for the same reason: "national security".
We the people do need privacy, some refer to it as "personal security." Which is pretty much also the reason why we need to know what the idiots in our governments are up to. So your message is irrelevant.
On April 2, 2004, Barack Obama formally established his position about the Ryans' soon-to-be-released divorce records, and called on Democrats not to inject them into the campaign.
Yep, I'm sure that is all there is to this story... We apologize for being so confused.
'If you want to do something that disobeys Chinese law and regulations, you are unfriendly, you are irresponsible and you will have to pay the consequences,' Li Yizhong
Actually, it means you disobeyed a law. Pretty sure that's it.
I maintain that bang per buck of processors alone isn't what matters.
That's absolutely true... a site with user submissions for machine cost, or at least particular part cost, and performance given would be awesome. You would think that with just CPU/Motherboard/Ram/Video given you could find some amazing sweet spots.
...you can always add a cheap nvidia card to it later and have a remarkably better setup.
...and go back to having to compile closed source kernel modules just to get it to work after kernel updates? No thanks. Had to do that previously - it sucked. Also hate to wonder if it will work on the latest version of X. That is not my definition of better.
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Actually, he may be able to fly a 747. Sounds like a comparable analogy. He can try to fly it, and you can try to find the graviton. From your link:
This result suggests that if a massless spin-2 particle is discovered, it must be the graviton, so that the only experimental verification needed for the graviton may simply be the discovery of a massless spin-2 particle.
Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing. How would the law of gravity work, to create anything, when there is nothing originally for gravity to pull toward? You cannot, as "nothing" would have no mass. It takes two to tango. Creating something from nothing takes a lot of faith.
I think poor Marky (insert underlying vocal connotations of tribalism) is just upset that people think they don't contribute anything. Here is a quote from an article Mark linked to:
Likewise, I don't think it is fair to undermine Canonical's contributions just because many of them exist outside of GNOME.
I personally think that this IS fair. If they are going off on their own implementing features outside the mainline GNOME project and those associated development routes then that is there prerogative but we absolutely can undermine their work. Any extra work they do just for the whims of their project is going to be by reality less useful to others. The argument can be made that GNOME could be more accepting of the work and interest of others - which in the end they do try to move their additions upstream... Also the definition and application of the word "contribution" is made vague since these contributions are to their community and not to GNOME. As a related side note: this issue of upstream changes and doing what they want to on their own is the VERY reason why I like using Fedora.
...so we may as well all just cut to the chase and declare OpenSolaris dead.
This is absolutely what is happening. From that post I linked to:
I once advocated this kind of self-implosion tactic back in the Sun days. The reason was to re-organize the OpenSolaris leadership to be more engaged and industry focused. That was a good idea back in the days when I had faith that Sun would "do the right thing". However, those times have past. Oracle has made it clear that it either controls things or it doesn't... there is no give and take. I don't think we can demolish the structure and believe that Oracle will re-organize in such a way as to give the community more power. It was a long shot with Sun anyway.
However, the most important tidbit he reveals lower in his post:
We're in no worse a position right now than we were during the Sun days. They didn't communicate, we had no visibility or impact on the OpenSolaris distribution, etc. Don't fall into the lie that things are now "worse" than they were... they aren't. Its status quo. The difference is that the OGB is no longer composed of Sun insiders who can get a sense of control from hallway conversations and are now as blind and weak as those of us in the community always have been.
My apologies to Ben Rockwood for raping his blog post of content, but this is /. and no one reads anything linked to apparently.
When a 6'2" tackle who benches 620 and weighs 310lbs of solid muscle tells you he plays football, you don't question it.
Sure you can, you then let him chase you around for, say, 25 seconds and then he tires. Either that or he continues chasing you all the while wondering why no one blew a whistle yet...
Are our universities bad? Obviously not, as foreigners do everything they can to get into them. Are our primary schools bad? Doesn't look like it; foreign students make cheating a science just to keep up at the university level.
This is the problem. Cheating to keep up is the problem. Fail them. Work harder to realize real learning. Don't admit everyone. Admit those who should be there. Educate those well and keep the reputation of the institution strong. A reputation that is not based on rising student numbers, but on learning. Cheating at undergrad levels and graduate levels shouldn't be permitted - or "needed".
For that matter - another axe: if all students were learning, and not cheating then grades of C's and B's and A's would all be acceptable. Cheating to get A's (that are not deserved or hence really honored) is a personal perception issue that should be confronted as a society.
This is slightly off topic so accept my apology.
As of June 1, 2010, the Total Public Debt Outstanding was approximately 88.9% of GDP, and for the first time exceeded $13 trillion.
Learn something new. The GDP of the US is $14.256 Trillion, our debt currently is approaching that. That is not a per year deficit, but the total debt.
One of the requirements of a "great man" is to be notable in some manner that affected society. If a pristine personal life was also a requirement, then most people I've heard referred to as "great men" would be disqualified. Because of that, I assert that your definition is not the standard definition, and thus irrelevant.
Yes, I probably would object to this "Great Man" definition - and at the least find it silly. Though, pedantically, I definitely believe there is a difference between a "Great Man" and a "great man." Without the proper capitalization I think it can absolutely be incorrect. But as you say, it is only my personal opinion.
There are other posts such as this that talk about how he became famous, when there is a good chance he may not have become so. Also, other posts have discussed the subtle differences between lunacy and genius, and the chance or luck involved in going from the one to the latter. Not sure where I'm going with that, but it is interesting stuff. Not to go too sideways, but from what I understand about the Great Man Theory he may not be that either, but that's a different discussion that I am not as intrigued about.
"Just a great writer" does not really do justice to how good he was.
Yes it does. That is exactly what it means, he was a great writer. If he was a bad husband and father then that is what it is also.
And for what it is worth, he publicly stated on at least one occation that he supported extended copyright terms because it would allow his work to financially support his family after his death.
So he wants to try to play games with copyright law and you're ok with that too? Next you're going to tell me he created the modern text book scheme with new editions so often that students cannot reuse old text books...
If Superfetch is going to need to hit the page file... then it is obviously... Innovation!
...and it's gone!
Seriously... that is retarded. Horrible way to treat customers, even if they are only past customers. The new slogan sucks too. Sorta like: "We want to be like IBM, we are not sure how yet, but we are going to try this out."
The tax burden falls on us anyway. What do you think a corporation does when it has to pay taxes? Print money or pass the costs along to it's consumers?
Ahh, but in this case the increase in prices will get paid by only those buying the (imported) product. Not by those buying a product that was not imported - and not by those who don't buy it at all. Therefore, a great place to have placed that particular tax increase. It is essentially protectionism of local goods - but those of course could also be taxed, just at lower rates. This tariff therefore taxes only those who want the product - which seems entirely fair. (Of course if they believe they can do better locally then they have a little more incentive to innovate locally, and a lowered barrier to entry. Typical market forces of competitive high quality products should still remain but give a slight edge to local products which also seems entirely fair. Thus caring about your own people, instead of the profits of non-national corporations which only care about profit.)
How can you be implying that I was comparing to the great depression? I merely made a smug comment in retort. You mentioned the great depression, but protectionism had existed long before that - as well as this great taxation device called tariffs. Dropping tariffs (and by extension allowing free trade) removes a great source of taxation. Corporations will, obviously, find any way possible to avoid taxation. We the people do not need to let that happen. If we do then the tax burden (or lack thereof via burgeoning deficits) falls on us. The country will of course then fail, the corporation has of course left since it's non-national, and the people will have their future ruined.
Free trade is a race for all down to the bottom and shouldn't be tolerated. We should instead help others up - by taxing imports and encouraging innovation and growth in _each_ country. With the belief that people everywhere are capable and smart enough to run all facets of their economy.
This of course is all my opinion and viewpoint on things... Feel free to share your opinion. I will read it and think about it. But I am quickly losing faith in free trade. This global new world order stuff irritates me, countries should stand up for themselves and their identity.
I'll take protectionism, and local people making things for others (relatively) nearby any day. This disconnect allowing kids to be working 15 hour shifts to make junk is unacceptable. The auditing practices have an impossible time playing catchup, and may never. I say we reintroduce tariffs and end the madness. Protectionism! The last several decades called, and want you and your loony free market back.
Quite funny: A post on their developer forum describing how to effectively disable their features and then allow you to do whatever you want with the device. Does that shitcan it enough for you?
Ben Rockwood also blogged about this. The open source nature of Open Solaris shall henceforth be called to action...
The end of the month is here and OpenSolaris 2010.03 is no where in site and those I've asked on the inside are unable to say.
This might be a good time to catch up on non-Sun/Oracle distros such as Nexenta, Schillix, and Belenix.
From a page on that article... with a good hyper link. The 12 core Opteron on Linux absolutely flies! I didn't see another benchmark given there using Linux.
What we should do is fine importers who damage the environment, in order to cover the costs. That will help out local industries that do the right thing and do not try to externalize their costs.
But, but... free trade bro! No one believes in tariffs anymore. It is ridiculous. Hopefully the price of fuel goes way up, so "free" trade will come to grips with reality. Our leaders have led us astray.
It is my personal belief that low fuel prices fuel the misguided free trade of the last half century or so. I am not even your typical hippy that hates pollution and cries when watching Al Gore. I just think that free trade is a failed experiment that makes the rich richer at an alarming rate. I might be wrong - of course - but that's what it seems like to me. Taxes via tariffs seems like the appropriate place, and protectionism is a good idea until you ask a multinational corporation. (Or the bought and paid for "libertarian" think takes that pander on and on about market choice and efficiency... blah blah blah.)
And individuals don't need privacy, for the same reason: "national security".
We the people do need privacy, some refer to it as "personal security." Which is pretty much also the reason why we need to know what the idiots in our governments are up to. So your message is irrelevant.
On April 2, 2004, Barack Obama formally established his position about the Ryans' soon-to-be-released divorce records, and called on Democrats not to inject them into the campaign.
Yep, I'm sure that is all there is to this story... We apologize for being so confused.
'If you want to do something that disobeys Chinese law and regulations, you are unfriendly, you are irresponsible and you will have to pay the consequences,' Li Yizhong
Actually, it means you disobeyed a law. Pretty sure that's it.
I maintain that bang per buck of processors alone isn't what matters.
That's absolutely true... a site with user submissions for machine cost, or at least particular part cost, and performance given would be awesome. You would think that with just CPU/Motherboard/Ram/Video given you could find some amazing sweet spots.
I have no mod points to mod you up; great comment.
It is so obvious I can't believe there is even a discussion...
...you can always add a cheap nvidia card to it later and have a remarkably better setup.
...and go back to having to compile closed source kernel modules just to get it to work after kernel updates? No thanks. Had to do that previously - it sucked. Also hate to wonder if it will work on the latest version of X. That is not my definition of better.