It's not TV watching per se that can be detrimental. It's how you react to what you watch.
If you stick your average TV watcher up to an EEG and read their alpha wave state, the brainwave generally associated with imagination and mental imagry, you generally get a virtual flatline. Do the same with someone reading a book and you get lots of activity.
Now, that doesn't mean that you can't use your imagination while watching TV. It just means that you don't have to. Reading requires you to create your own mental image of the events depicted. TV does not. Thus, while watching TV you don't have to exercize your brain, and we all know that if you don't use it...you lose it...or never gain it in the first place.
On top of this, the Java/Linux VM from Sun (and most other Java/Linux VMs) is compiled using gcc. I don't know for sure, but I wouldn't be suprised if Sun erred on the side of correctness and standards compliance, so I'll bet they compiled the VM without inlining any trig function calls.
For complete packaging guidelines, see their policy.
I've never used Gentoo or java-config, but JPackage provides similar sounding scripts: build-classpath, build-classpath-directory, and build-jar-repository.
If you have to upgrade and you're running Java on a Linux system that also runs RPM, why not head over to JPackage and download the spec for the 1.4.2_03 SDK? It would be a great opportunity to run an LSB compliant Java installation and support a fantastic open source project.
They are outsourcing because they can get the same work done for less money.
No, they are outsourcing because they THINK they can get the same work done for less money. This is a crucial difference. Just because an action is taken, especially in the corporate world, this does not mean that the action was well founded, beneficial, or even has the desired effect. It means the action was "sold" to upper management.
The jury is still out as to whether offshoring will be a good thing, even for the long term bottom line of the corporations employing it. (Not even talking about the general economy, here.) It's become so widespread so quickly because a) it's a quick fix for strained budgets, and b) it's a popular fad in business management circles.
Absolutely wrong. The skeptic has a burden of proof, as much as any being who utters logical assertions. If you are going to propose an explanation for a phenomenon, any explanation, you must back that up. In my first post I simply made an observation. What were the replies? Immediate "debunking." What the skeptics didn't realize was that there was nothing to debunk except their own misinterpretation of the post.
THAT is the skeptic's burden, one which is regularly shirked due to intellectual arrogance and laziness.
Flaws in human perception is always the last ditch explanation of the kneejerk skeptic. It's kind of like the placebo effect. It can be used to explain away anything.
That's why we see things in clouds.
What do you see when a long, thin, straight cloud in an otherwise clear sky gets longer and longer?
See, when I see a roughly colinear collection of rocks, I see...a roughly colinear collection of rocks. Even given a perspective illusion, this collection would remain colinear. (Lines translate to lines in perspective...)
Why do you try to explain away a pattern as being due to a certain cause? I made no such assertions as to the cause of the patterns, just that I observed them.
Even though we see patterns it does not necessarily indicate intelligent design
And, if you would read beyond your assumptions, you would see that I did not assert intelligent design. You did. I only commented on my perception of a pattern and the interest that perception aroused.
Before you are skeptical of other people's perceptions, be skeptical of your own assumptions. Skeptic...heal thyself!:)
Some people could take that as an implication of your statements, though.
And therein lies your error. Make no assumptions. Only comment on concrete, observable phenomena, not on your own assumptions. True, your own perception system is a built in assumption, as this post seems to imply. But even he makes the error of assuming that a certain illusion exists. And, even if the illusion is present, what is it an illusion of? If it's an illusion that changes the perception of one pattern to another pattern, what is the underlying pattern? That is interesting. If it's an illusion that creates the perception of a patter where no pattern exists int he first place, that's even MORE interesting. (When's the last time you saw order springing spontaneously from chaos?)
I agree, it is interesting. So are the "patterns" on my ceiling.;-)
If there was a crack in your ceiling, and I told you it was an illusion, what would you say? If water started leaking through it during a storm, and I persisted in calling it an illusion, what would you think?
It is amazing how people find patterns in random things then project some sort of intelligent design behind it.
I find it interesting how people sometimes see assertions in other people's statements that do not exist. For instance, I never said anything about intelligent design in my first post.
Check out this pic There's a line of rocks that starts at the middle left edge of the picture and goes up and to the right. In addition, there's a line of rocks that intersects the first in the upper/center. Finally, there's a "wind trail" in the sand that intersects both rock lines, forming a triangle.
In the center of the triangle are two triangular rocks.
(ps can you leave all us smokers alone now...?);-)
When caffeine addicts barf up the substance to which they're addicted into my personal space while we're chatting...then I'll treat the same as smokers...
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it works out for both sides and no one is any the less enriched because of it...
Ah, on the contrary. The side that has to fight harder to be heard benefits more in the long run. (If they continue to exist as a group in the long run...)
Ya know, the first thing I thought when I saw those pictures was, "Looks awfully familiar..." I thought that could have been in the office of my last job. But then I realized, "Oh, it's just a cube farm."
See, thing is, I haven't been in a cube farm for the past two years. I've either been unemployed or working for a small company that has a funky office in a warehouse. I've been out of the cubefarm for so long that I've forgotten how generic and anonymous one can be.
Christ, those places are depressing! I'll take a funky old warehouse (with lots of random telco equipment laying around in bins) over that any day.
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I thought so too, until I realised that the human brain has a tendency to wander.
Not the brain of a military pilot...at least not with all of the speed they're given these days...
I understand completely. I'm a computer programmer. :)
It's not TV watching per se that can be detrimental. It's how you react to what you watch.
If you stick your average TV watcher up to an EEG and read their alpha wave state, the brainwave generally associated with imagination and mental imagry, you generally get a virtual flatline. Do the same with someone reading a book and you get lots of activity.
Now, that doesn't mean that you can't use your imagination while watching TV. It just means that you don't have to. Reading requires you to create your own mental image of the events depicted. TV does not. Thus, while watching TV you don't have to exercize your brain, and we all know that if you don't use it...you lose it...or never gain it in the first place.
m'kay...I don't get it...why was my comment +5 Funny? :)
I am going to buy one of these, too. I'm in the market for a new laptop and I'll happily wait the 6+ months it may take for the OQO to hit the market.
...they're getting a donation from me.
Just say the word, guys.
On top of this, the Java/Linux VM from Sun (and most other Java/Linux VMs) is compiled using gcc. I don't know for sure, but I wouldn't be suprised if Sun erred on the side of correctness and standards compliance, so I'll bet they compiled the VM without inlining any trig function calls.
For the most part jars are put in /usr/share/java. Links to specifically versioned jars are put there too.
/usr/share/java/jdom* -lh /usr/share/java/jdom-1.0.jar /usr/share/java/jdom.jar -> jdom-1.0.jar
i.e.
$ ls
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 123K Mar 27 2003
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Oct 31 15:47
For complete packaging guidelines, see their policy.
I've never used Gentoo or java-config, but JPackage provides similar sounding scripts: build-classpath, build-classpath-directory, and build-jar-repository.
That's what the resolution to the Sun alert notificatioin says...
Buying sony instead?
Nah. Probably an ECS Desknote.
If you have to upgrade and you're running Java on a Linux system that also runs RPM, why not head over to JPackage and download the spec for the 1.4.2_03 SDK? It would be a great opportunity to run an LSB compliant Java installation and support a fantastic open source project.
...but now I won't.
They are outsourcing because they can get the same work done for less money.
No, they are outsourcing because they THINK they can get the same work done for less money. This is a crucial difference. Just because an action is taken, especially in the corporate world, this does not mean that the action was well founded, beneficial, or even has the desired effect. It means the action was "sold" to upper management.
The jury is still out as to whether offshoring will be a good thing, even for the long term bottom line of the corporations employing it. (Not even talking about the general economy, here.) It's become so widespread so quickly because a) it's a quick fix for strained budgets, and b) it's a popular fad in business management circles.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
And what extraordinary claims did I make?
I said, "Look. There's a line of rocks."
The skeptic never has the burden of proof.
Absolutely wrong. The skeptic has a burden of proof, as much as any being who utters logical assertions. If you are going to propose an explanation for a phenomenon, any explanation, you must back that up. In my first post I simply made an observation. What were the replies? Immediate "debunking." What the skeptics didn't realize was that there was nothing to debunk except their own misinterpretation of the post.
THAT is the skeptic's burden, one which is regularly shirked due to intellectual arrogance and laziness.
Can't be done.
Should be tried.
Flaws in human perception is always the last ditch explanation of the kneejerk skeptic. It's kind of like the placebo effect. It can be used to explain away anything.
:)
That's why we see things in clouds.
What do you see when a long, thin, straight cloud in an otherwise clear sky gets longer and longer?
See, when I see a roughly colinear collection of rocks, I see...a roughly colinear collection of rocks. Even given a perspective illusion, this collection would remain colinear. (Lines translate to lines in perspective...)
Why do you try to explain away a pattern as being due to a certain cause? I made no such assertions as to the cause of the patterns, just that I observed them.
Even though we see patterns it does not necessarily indicate intelligent design
And, if you would read beyond your assumptions, you would see that I did not assert intelligent design. You did. I only commented on my perception of a pattern and the interest that perception aroused.
Before you are skeptical of other people's perceptions, be skeptical of your own assumptions. Skeptic...heal thyself!
Some people could take that as an implication of your statements, though.
;-)
:)
And therein lies your error. Make no assumptions. Only comment on concrete, observable phenomena, not on your own assumptions. True, your own perception system is a built in assumption, as this post seems to imply. But even he makes the error of assuming that a certain illusion exists. And, even if the illusion is present, what is it an illusion of? If it's an illusion that changes the perception of one pattern to another pattern, what is the underlying pattern? That is interesting. If it's an illusion that creates the perception of a patter where no pattern exists int he first place, that's even MORE interesting. (When's the last time you saw order springing spontaneously from chaos?)
I agree, it is interesting. So are the "patterns" on my ceiling.
If there was a crack in your ceiling, and I told you it was an illusion, what would you say? If water started leaking through it during a storm, and I persisted in calling it an illusion, what would you think?
Oi! I need to get back to work.
It is amazing how people find patterns in random things then project some sort of intelligent design behind it.
I find it interesting how people sometimes see assertions in other people's statements that do not exist. For instance, I never said anything about intelligent design in my first post.
The "line of rocks that starts at the middle left edge of the picture and goes up and to the right" is an illusion created by shadows and perspective.
So, do you think that the "wind trails" behind the rocks are also a trick of shadows and perspective?
Check out this pic There's a line of rocks that starts at the middle left edge of the picture and goes up and to the right. In addition, there's a line of rocks that intersects the first in the upper/center. Finally, there's a "wind trail" in the sand that intersects both rock lines, forming a triangle.
In the center of the triangle are two triangular rocks.
Isn't that interesting?
(ps can you leave all us smokers alone now...?) ;-)
When caffeine addicts barf up the substance to which they're addicted into my personal space while we're chatting...then I'll treat the same as smokers...
it works out for both sides and no one is any the less enriched because of it...
Ah, on the contrary. The side that has to fight harder to be heard benefits more in the long run. (If they continue to exist as a group in the long run...)
Having looked at the files, it certainly seems like SCO has a point.
Methinks the title of your post implies you aren't very good at checking for errors.
Ya know, the first thing I thought when I saw those pictures was, "Looks awfully familiar..." I thought that could have been in the office of my last job. But then I realized, "Oh, it's just a cube farm."
:)
See, thing is, I haven't been in a cube farm for the past two years. I've either been unemployed or working for a small company that has a funky office in a warehouse. I've been out of the cubefarm for so long that I've forgotten how generic and anonymous one can be.
Christ, those places are depressing! I'll take a funky old warehouse (with lots of random telco equipment laying around in bins) over that any day.
Never again!
The civil engineer's motto: PAVE THE WORLD.