Though you are asking about Mars, I thought that you might be interested in the moon as well. You know, similar stuff...
There is a DVD available which is titled "To the Moon" which is nice DVD to watch with your kids. Its about the Moon Space program and its cool.
Its Amazon link gives the description as: This engaging two-hour documentary from NOVA detailing America's space program was produced for the 30th anniversary of the first moon shots. While no 120-minute film can tell all the stories of the space program, To the Moon is more comprehensive than other similar videos. The film details the method that Americans used to reach the moon: lunar orbit rendezvous (one ship circles the moon while another lands). This concept wasn't even on the drawing board at NASA, and the video chronicles the struggle of engineers and astronauts to work out a solution........
If you make a Microsoft Word Template, then you can get the same uniformity and simplicity that LateX offers when you write new Microsoft Word documents for all the papers. Also, there is a Formula Tool available in Microsoft Word, I think you need to go into some Menu and add the Tool. It isnt started by default. Using that tool, it is as easy to write formulae as is writing them on paper. Maybe even more easier.
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There is some sense in your thinking, and I think if you read some articles/papers in the area, you will be able to write a nice article yourself.
Nonetheless I would still rate that Ganesh Prasad article excellent (ofcourse it cannot be compared with the ESR paper, but then this is just a LinuxToday article, afterall) because it may have not given much insights to you, but it did to me, and I am sure it will give to most people doing the rounds in Slashdot.
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Do you think you know more Economics than the author? In that case, please go ahead and write an article about Open Source Economics and send the link to me. I will be obliged to read it. For me, I found that the article contained a lot of nice insights about Economics related to Open Source - in fact a lot of the questions he answered were troubling me for a long time. Anyway, using the term "excellent" I understand is a subjective term, and maybe true for me, and not true for others. So in questioning the term excellent, it will be more useful if you could tell us what exactly are the mistakes the author made?
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I had found this excellent article a few days ago:
Your reply was insightful, and reflected a great deal of reflection (sorry for the choice of words) on your part regarding the behavior of people. But I have something to add.
Your reasoning that "I wont allow myself to be cheated" is based on reasoning of past experiences and social logic is sound - and means that this emotion is actually reason-based. I agree.
But, then, "most" emotions can be explained by reason and logic. Love is nothing but an act with purpose correlating with survival/reproduction of the species (reproduction is obvious, survival is by way of mutual help for survival). Hatred is based on reasoning that "this guy can damage my survival chances", "this girl cannot fulfill my love(reproduction) wishes", "this behavior is not good for society's well being--sort of social darwinism", or other rational thoughts. Greed, Ego are other emotions which also have rational basis for survival.
So then what are we left with - Humor? Humor was the most difficult one for me to find a reason to, and I couldnt. So basically I looked up the internet, and found theories of Laughter and Humor, which can explain even that based on reason. I wont go into that here, you can find it yourself.
So then....what are emotions??? I would say emotions are only rational behavior but with rationality hidden a little deeper non-obvious way. But we still call them emotions after all....so this ultimatum experiment's claim of this as an emotion is not incorrect.
Actually SCO cannot reveal the lines in public. If they do, then in a moment's notice, somebody will write a patch that replaces the 80-line code and does the same thing in a different way. What will SCO do then?;-)
I noticed that the US performance is not as good as it has been in the past. In the past, US got atleast 2-3 teams into the top 10. But this year not even one was in the top 10, though there were 5 in 11-21 ranks.
Why are Russia and China and Poland (Warsaw univ i s Polish) always ahead in world competitions like this one and the Physics/Math Olympiads? Do you see what I see - is there a link with Communism?
I see this game in a different way. I am sure that I am not going to get a chance to go to a distant planet to live in my lifetime - I can do it in this game.
And when I make money in the game, I can spend it here in real life and get food, clothing and shelter here.
Considering the number of times I've been almost seriously injured by people using blades, scooters, mopeds, and bicycles on sidewalks, I'm quite happy to not have Segways allowed.
Funny. You know what, when vehicles running on wheels, (something like today's bicycles) were first made, there were some strong objections that it would endanger the people walking besides the person doing the ride...:) Looks kinda similar.
The Segway HT intuitively balances the way humans do--moving forward and backward, responding to changes in your body's position. There is no accelerator and no brakes. Lean forward and you move forward. Straighten up and you stop. Lean back, and you move back. To turn, rotate the steering grip under your wrist in either direction.
And that was it.
I am now just waiting for the money I can afford for it and its price tag to come closer, and soon I will find myself moving around my house on this!!!
I guess if the price goes down, it will be a cool thing for students who live near school campuses.
You don't actually believe that the combined economies of two of the most populous countries on Earth is somehow smaller than that of two countries (North America is the U.S.A and Canada). Do you? look, the board of Microsoft should be shitting their pants right about now.
I am an Indian.
Let me tell you, most of the software used in India is pirated and we like get almost every software produced on earth for 5 dollars for the pirated copies. Only the big companies use licensed software.
US Companies are hardly making any money out of India. And even after this Government initiative of Linux, the big companies will continue to use Windows. So this hardly affects anything to the US.
At one US university I attended, the overwhelming majority of the computer science faculty were Indian. At my current one, about a third of the students are Indian, and many of the most impressive students are Indian. India is beating the living crap out of the US in CS. Some damn fine intellectuals, and lots of software shops.
I am an Indian studying in a US CS Graduate course. You may be right in saying that there are more fine Indians in the US Computer Science departments today than from other countries including the US.
I have tried to analyse this and the reasons I have come up with are as follows -
1. In India, there are only two ways to a career - either Engineer or Doctor. Almost everyone of the 1 billion people in India who goes for a undergrad degree wants to get into either of these two fields, since other fields generally dont have better job prospects. So the BEST and SMARTEST Indian students are to be found in these two fields. Whereas in the US, you have too many options for a career, so the smart people in the US are distributed in hundreds of majors.
2. India has just TOO MANY people and LESS Resources. So students have to really compete very hard to get into colleges, to get decent grades, to get jobs. Indian students, all their lives, have to really EXCEL to get anywhere in life. So they end up studying more and learning more than Americans. Americans have a cool life - plenty of resources and less people. So they dont have a compulsion to excel, they study as much as their interest dictates, and they learn as must they want to. They dont have a burden to really excel. Still, actually, all of technology has been invented by mostly Americans, and there are still many fine Americans in the CS dept.
3. The brightest of the Indian students in India come to the US. Almost all of the top 5% students of a class in India, come to the US for higher studies because of very superior education standards of the US.
(Please mod me up - I want to convey this to everyone.:-) )
When I clicked on your link, (a valid link), the link directed me to a different page where there was just one line on the page and nothing else -
"Bugzilla bugs are not allowed to be linked from Slashdot."
WTF? Whats this?
Then I want to their bugzilla homepage, and typed the bug ID and then got to their page.
Why on earth is Mozilla's Bugzilla not allowing links from Slashdot???????
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Thank you for the info.
I saw the site, and it offers a 43 MB download for Linux. Just put it into the boot parition, and then make a boot disk, and boot off it - It says.
So does that mean, this is just the kernel? Where's the userland? So ok i will boot off the BeOS kernel, but I dont have any software binaries for BeOS...that BeOS may require to run - like the GUI manager, shell, setup files, etc etc etc.
Where can I obtain that?
Or that does not matter?
(I know I should have tried this out before asking you...but I am a newbie so I just wanted to make sure:) )
Thanks
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Reading all the enthusiasm for BeOS users even after the OS became extinct, seems like BeOS was really an excellent OS.
I just visited the OpenBeOS project site, and they have nowhere really mentioned the status of the project.
Can anybody point me to a working version of BeOS? Where can it be obtained? I would like to give it a try.
This is under the assumption that America has qualified students who have the potential to succeed and make significant contributions to the CS field. If there are foreign students who are more qualified, then we're dumbing down our own nation by refusing them for less qualified local students.
I am a foreigner studying in US CS Grad School right now. I must say that it is more correct to take the _best_ students from whichever country they are, since they will add value to the department by doing better quality research, and also enhance the classroom experience. And the US Schools, in fact, really do that today - they take the best students.
I just feel that as we import more students, educate them, and then subsequently export them back to their country we have just devalued our own country a little bit more by shifting knowledge and skills to foreign lands.
Thats clearly happening. Lots of skills, knowledge, and technology is being transferred from the US to outside. But for a developing country like from where I am, this is important and very useful, and helps our country develop. Even otherwise, its good for society, since all countries should develop equally, right?
Also, many times, the foreign students do not go back to their country, so the USA benefits by having a high-skilled person added to the community...
So the present situation turns out to be beneficial for the US as well as other countries.
No. The test was cancelled for the US as well. Read GRE's site here (gre.org)
No. Read the GRE site yourself.
The November 2002 and April 2003 Computer Science Subject Tests have been cancelled worldwide, but the December 2002 test will be administered everywhere in the world barring India and China.
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Though you are asking about Mars, I thought that you might be interested in the moon as well. You know, similar stuff...
.......
There is a DVD available which is titled "To the Moon" which is nice DVD to watch with your kids. Its about the Moon Space program and its cool.
Its Amazon link gives the description as:
This engaging two-hour documentary from NOVA detailing America's space program was produced for the 30th anniversary of the first moon shots. While no 120-minute film can tell all the stories of the space program, To the Moon is more comprehensive than other similar videos. The film details the method that Americans used to reach the moon: lunar orbit rendezvous (one ship circles the moon while another lands). This concept wasn't even on the drawing board at NASA, and the video chronicles the struggle of engineers and astronauts to work out a solution.
Yeah, so until Microsoft stops taking back something in exchange for giving something useful, you will use Latex.
Way to go.
If you make a Microsoft Word Template, then you can get the same uniformity and simplicity that LateX offers when you write new Microsoft Word documents for all the papers.
Also, there is a Formula Tool available in Microsoft Word, I think you need to go into some Menu and add the Tool. It isnt started by default. Using that tool, it is as easy to write formulae as is writing them on paper. Maybe even more easier.
There is some sense in your thinking, and I think if you read some articles/papers in the area, you will be able to write a nice article yourself.
Nonetheless I would still rate that Ganesh Prasad article excellent (ofcourse it cannot be compared with the ESR paper, but then this is just a LinuxToday article, afterall) because it may have not given much insights to you, but it did to me, and I am sure it will give to most people doing the rounds in Slashdot.
Do you think you know more Economics than the author? In that case, please go ahead and write an article about Open Source Economics and send the link to me. I will be obliged to read it.
For me, I found that the article contained a lot of nice insights about Economics related to Open Source - in fact a lot of the questions he answered were troubling me for a long time.
Anyway, using the term "excellent" I understand is a subjective term, and maybe true for me, and not true for others.
So in questioning the term excellent, it will be more useful if you could tell us what exactly are the mistakes the author made?
I had found this excellent article a few days ago:
0 OPBZCY--
http://linuxtoday.com/infrastructure/200104120062
It is about Open Source Economics, money from open source, and what are some economics-related myths about open source.
Though it is not "exactly" relevant to this topic, it talks about related issues.
Your reply was insightful, and reflected a great deal of reflection (sorry for the choice of words) on your part regarding the behavior of people. But I have something to add.
Your reasoning that "I wont allow myself to be cheated" is based on reasoning of past experiences and social logic is sound - and means that this emotion is actually reason-based. I agree.
But, then, "most" emotions can be explained by reason and logic. Love is nothing but an act with purpose correlating with survival/reproduction of the species (reproduction is obvious, survival is by way of mutual help for survival). Hatred is based on reasoning that "this guy can damage my survival chances", "this girl cannot fulfill my love(reproduction) wishes", "this behavior is not good for society's well being--sort of social darwinism", or other rational thoughts. Greed, Ego are other emotions which also have rational basis for survival.
So then what are we left with - Humor? Humor was the most difficult one for me to find a reason to, and I couldnt. So basically I looked up the internet, and found theories of Laughter and Humor, which can explain even that based on reason. I wont go into that here, you can find it yourself.
So then....what are emotions??? I would say emotions are only rational behavior but with rationality hidden a little deeper non-obvious way. But we still call them emotions after all....so this ultimatum experiment's claim of this as an emotion is not incorrect.
What do you say?
Actually SCO cannot reveal the lines in public. If they do, then in a moment's notice, somebody will write a patch that replaces the 80-line code and does the same thing in a different way. What will SCO do then? ;-)
Are kids these days getting more stupid? I hope not, but looking at the problems asked in the last five years...
Yeah of course. Have you not read this news story?
I noticed that the US performance is not as good as it has been in the past. In the past, US got atleast 2-3 teams into the top 10. But this year not even one was in the top 10, though there were 5 in 11-21 ranks.
Why are Russia and China and Poland (Warsaw univ i s Polish) always ahead in world competitions like this one and the Physics/Math Olympiads? Do you see what I see - is there a link with Communism?
cool
this looks like some computer renderings of case designs with photoshopped screenshots.
:-D Well Said.
A thousand.
I see this game in a different way. I am sure that I am not going to get a chance to go to a distant planet to live in my lifetime - I can do it in this game.
:)
And when I make money in the game, I can spend it here in real life and get food, clothing and shelter here.
Thats as close to reality it gets.
I am off to the distant planet!
but I was very impressed with how Disney employees managed them in very heavy crowds.
;) )
This strikes me....it would be great if these are kept for public use within amusement parks like Disneyland, Universal Studios and the like....
Walking from one end of the park to another is darn inconvenient and a waste of time!!!
(And dont tell me the park owners cannot afford to have some dozens lying around -people might come to the park to enjoy those
Considering the number of times I've been almost seriously injured by people using blades, scooters, mopeds, and bicycles on sidewalks, I'm quite happy to not have Segways allowed.
:) Looks kinda similar.
Funny. You know what, when vehicles running on wheels, (something like today's bicycles) were first made, there were some strong objections that it would endanger the people walking besides the person doing the ride...
Good we got through.
I just read this on the segway site:
The Segway HT intuitively balances the way humans do--moving forward and backward, responding to changes in your body's position. There is no accelerator and no brakes. Lean forward and you move forward. Straighten up and you stop. Lean back, and you move back. To turn, rotate the steering grip under your wrist in either direction.
And that was it.
I am now just waiting for the money I can afford for it and its price tag to come closer, and soon I will find myself moving around my house on this!!!
I guess if the price goes down, it will be a cool thing for students who live near school campuses.
I get the feeling that we're comparing apples to celery here.
m
Maybe you should read informative article by Hans Moravec, one of the leading figures in Robotics:
http://www.transhumanist.com/volume1/moravec.ht
You don't actually believe that the combined economies of two of the most populous countries on Earth is somehow smaller than that of two countries (North America is the U.S.A and Canada). Do you? look, the board of Microsoft should be shitting their pants right about now.
I am an Indian.
Let me tell you, most of the software used in India is pirated and we like get almost every software produced on earth for 5 dollars for the pirated copies. Only the big companies use licensed software.
US Companies are hardly making any money out of India. And even after this Government initiative of Linux, the big companies will continue to use Windows. So this hardly affects anything to the US.
At one US university I attended, the overwhelming majority of the computer science faculty were Indian. At my current one, about a third of the students are Indian, and many of the most impressive students are Indian. India is beating the living crap out of the US in CS. Some damn fine intellectuals, and lots of software shops.
:-) )
I am an Indian studying in a US CS Graduate course. You may be right in saying that there are more fine Indians in the US Computer Science departments today than from other countries including the US.
I have tried to analyse this and the reasons I have come up with are as follows -
1. In India, there are only two ways to a career - either Engineer or Doctor. Almost everyone of the 1 billion people in India who goes for a undergrad degree wants to get into either of these two fields, since other fields generally dont have better job prospects. So the BEST and SMARTEST Indian students are to be found in these two fields. Whereas in the US, you have too many options for a career, so the smart people in the US are distributed in hundreds of majors.
2. India has just TOO MANY people and LESS Resources. So students have to really compete very hard to get into colleges, to get decent grades, to get jobs. Indian students, all their lives, have to really EXCEL to get anywhere in life. So they end up studying more and learning more than Americans. Americans have a cool life - plenty of resources and less people. So they dont have a compulsion to excel, they study as much as their interest dictates, and they learn as must they want to. They dont have a burden to really excel. Still, actually, all of technology has been invented by mostly Americans, and there are still many fine Americans in the CS dept.
3. The brightest of the Indian students in India come to the US. Almost all of the top 5% students of a class in India, come to the US for higher studies because of very superior education standards of the US.
(Please mod me up - I want to convey this to everyone.
WTF!!
When I clicked on your link, (a valid link), the link directed me to a different page where there was just one line on the page and nothing else -
"Bugzilla bugs are not allowed to be linked from Slashdot."
WTF? Whats this?
Then I want to their bugzilla homepage, and typed the bug ID and then got to their page.
Why on earth is Mozilla's Bugzilla not allowing links from Slashdot???????
Thank you for the info.
:) )
I saw the site, and it offers a 43 MB download for Linux. Just put it into the boot parition, and then make a boot disk, and boot off it - It says.
So does that mean, this is just the kernel? Where's the userland? So ok i will boot off the BeOS kernel, but I dont have any software binaries for BeOS...that BeOS may require to run - like the GUI manager, shell, setup files, etc etc etc.
Where can I obtain that?
Or that does not matter?
(I know I should have tried this out before asking you...but I am a newbie so I just wanted to make sure
Thanks
Reading all the enthusiasm for BeOS users even after the OS became extinct, seems like BeOS was really an excellent OS.
I just visited the OpenBeOS project site, and they have nowhere really mentioned the status of the project.
Can anybody point me to a working version of BeOS? Where can it be obtained? I would like to give it a try.
Thanks.
I am a foreigner studying in US CS Grad School right now. I must say that it is more correct to take the _best_ students from whichever country they are, since they will add value to the department by doing better quality research, and also enhance the classroom experience. And the US Schools, in fact, really do that today - they take the best students.
I just feel that as we import more students, educate them, and then subsequently export them back to their country we have just devalued our own country a little bit more by shifting knowledge and skills to foreign lands.
Thats clearly happening. Lots of skills, knowledge, and technology is being transferred from the US to outside. But for a developing country like from where I am, this is important and very useful, and helps our country develop. Even otherwise, its good for society, since all countries should develop equally, right?
Also, many times, the foreign students do not go back to their country, so the USA benefits by having a high-skilled person added to the community...
So the present situation turns out to be beneficial for the US as well as other countries.
No. Read the GRE site yourself.
The November 2002 and April 2003 Computer Science Subject Tests have been cancelled worldwide, but the December 2002 test will be administered everywhere in the world barring India and China.