"Genetic treatments may offer an alternative to pharmaceuticals."
So a company has two options. Either a (theoretically and best case) one time genetic therapy which will raise the wrath of a public who leaned everything they know about science from bad movies. Or slightly less effective pills targeting the same mechanism, but which can be sold again and again to a person throughout their lives. I think the whole customer for life deal has a bit more appeal.
Geeks tend to have trouble adjusting to social norms? They tend to prefer comfort to fitting in? I am SHOCKED! Slashdot, I was worried that you wouldn't be able to continue to provide insightful news and social commentary after John Katz left. I'm glad to see I was so wrong.
I hate to say it, but that's just human nature no matter what the field. Humans in general aren't very good at revising opinions on rather large or abstract concepts. Past a certain age it becomes even more difficult to do so. There's been enough time since java came onto the scene for the then kids to pass into early middle-age, with the even stronger resistance to change that comes with it.
QT is as bad as all that on OSX? Out of curiosity, what would you say is a viable cross-platform gui library if one wants, eventually, to support osx? Or would you say non-native isn't worth doing at this point?
Sadly I think that kind of teaching extends to every subject out there, all the way from science to gym. One of my biggest beefs about my own high school education was that none of my science classes went into experimental design. It was basically just a long list of facts to memorize, with a big sticker saying "because SCIENCE says so!" From what I've heard, that seems to be more the norm than the exception. Which I think is one of the worst things that can happen in a highly technological society. It's just teaching a blind faith which can easily lead into all kinds of other crap. Exactly the kind of things that a firm grounding in scientific thought should prevent. A new ager says one thing about the world, a funamentalist christian another, and a scientist yet another. The good reaction is to critically examine their data, looking for flaws in their design and demanding repeatability. Kids aren't being tought that kind of skill, and instead have to either rely on blind faith in what they think is science, but with no idea of how to really determine what's true. So they can't tell the difference betwean a fact coming from a real scientist, exagerations to get grant money, exagerations in the popular press to sell papers, and so-called "creation science".
Among the Linux crowd, it seems like there's long been this strong demand that Linux change its nature, and turn into something more akin to Windows. Which, pretty much, would destroy most of the things that are most cool about Linux. BeOS on the other hand is much closer to being a dropin replacement for Windows, at least as far as the user experience goes. The whole control panel, program installs by downloading a single binary off of a website, a single window manager and sound system. Not to mention it's an amazingly responsive system.
When I pointed this out to many responders, and mentioned the fact that I'm merely attempting to suggest a Desktop environment that would help Linux adoption, I got another surprising response: "Who said we wanted regular users? Linux is for the elite. If you're too stupid to recompile your kernel or read all the scattered HOWTOs, you're too stupid to use Linux!"
The ultimate American sin, refusing to say that everyone is equally good at everything.
Believe it or not, there are people on both sides that are actually *boggle* reasonable.
Between conservatives and liberals, I'll most certainly agree with you. I'll even give you the point when it comes to elected officials in the Republican and Democratic parties, on the extremely rare occasion you can drag them away from constant repetition of "talking point" catch phrases. Between Democrats and Republican citizens, no. The whole idea of just taking your vote and throwing it into "whoever those guys say I should vote for" is bad, but in the US it's even worse. You're only an inch or two away from only having one party with two names as it is. I just don't understand what Americans find so difficult about checking out a candidates position, how their actual voting record aligns with that stated platform, then voting on issues rather than group affiliation.
I know I wouldn't want to face the morning without a little chocamine.
But then again, I'm also on an mao-b inhabiter so might be getting a
bit of an extra boost.
Suse was one of the first flavours of Linux that I used, I think about four years back. I quite liked it, with my only major beef being that software seemed to often be fairly old. How are things these days? Are the major players such as KDE or firefox kept up-to-date in their repositories?
Excercise is great, and I'm a big proponent of it. My own problem with sports in school comes from your mention of teamwork and fairness. My school stressed those as well, to the point where most of us never received any actual excercise in gym class. Anyone who actually put any effort into winning wasn't a "team player". And that was in the few games where getting any excercise was even something which could be strived for. Everything had to be so fair to everyone that most of the sports were chosen to stress standing around or slowly strolling while waiting for our occasional ten seconds of activity. I agree with the parent, we'd have been a lot better off just dropping the pretense that it was doing anyone but the fattest or most out of shape any good, and tailor a workout to each person based on their current status.
Pretty much the same for me. I usually buy an anime dvd every month or two, and it's always been one which I saw the first part of through fansubs. The cost of most make it too prohibitive to just buy on the recomendation of annonomyous internet folk, and it's not a medium any of my friends are interested in. If it wasn't for fansubs, my purchases would be zero. The money would be going to books, which I can skim in the bookstore to see if it matches my taste.
If you do, seriously, you need to document it and submit the story to slashdot, fark, or something along those lines. That's just too amusing to not share among the few who'd actually get it.
Well, count me in with option 2 then. There, now 100% of the people you asked this of on slashdot are in the second catagory!
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I'd say you have a point in almost anything but a BeOS thread. I'm too tired to go into how annoying it was to move on when Be went down, but it's a posterchild for why depending on a closed OS from someone other than MS or Apple might not be a good move.
I'm too tired for the long answer, the short answer is pick up a good book on the history of science. There's been a long line of "obvious things" that when put to the test proved to be misleading. And doing things soley for the sake of curiosity, well, sometimes they do pan out with practical application. Sometimes not as well, but it's not really possible to ever know one way or another beforehand.
Your life span is like a nanosecond in a day, and you are wasting time cutting off your penis and belly-aching about stuff that never stopped Helen Keller or Stephen Hawking.
And you're wasting time belly-aching, and drawing very unrealistic conclusions about his life. Helen Keller and Stephen Hawking are human, I doubt either of them went through life without a complaint about trivial matters. Would you argue that neither of them ever did anything with their lives because they woke up one day and got cross over the weather or an annoying fly buzzing in their ear?
Not to mention that installing from Suns binary will make it invisible to the rest of the package manager, so it won't know you actually have Java installed. So there's the additional step of converting it to a proper package before installing.
A new edonkey-like net might seem faster at first because all the users are downloading the same recent hollywood movies. But leave the net running for a few years and it will end up looking just like edonk.
Years back I used to use a private edonkey network, with releases mentioned on a webpage. There'd be as many seeds and downloaders for a new file as for a lot of what I download with bittorrent now. Even then, with the situation at its absolute best, I was only getting about 50% of bittorrent speed. It's quite possible there might be some underlying reason for it that was jinxing me, but hey, those are my experiences and I'm going to base my opinion on them.
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Amen. I can read faster than a presenter can talk. Any lecture using powerpoint is a waste of both our time. Just give me the damn slides.
I'm still waiting for the damn made for tv movie to come out on DVD. Mediocre I'm sure, but I'm a sucker for that story.
"Genetic treatments may offer an alternative to pharmaceuticals." So a company has two options. Either a (theoretically and best case) one time genetic therapy which will raise the wrath of a public who leaned everything they know about science from bad movies. Or slightly less effective pills targeting the same mechanism, but which can be sold again and again to a person throughout their lives. I think the whole customer for life deal has a bit more appeal.
Geeks tend to have trouble adjusting to social norms? They tend to prefer comfort to fitting in? I am SHOCKED! Slashdot, I was worried that you wouldn't be able to continue to provide insightful news and social commentary after John Katz left. I'm glad to see I was so wrong.
I hate to say it, but that's just human nature no matter what the field. Humans in general aren't very good at revising opinions on rather large or abstract concepts. Past a certain age it becomes even more difficult to do so. There's been enough time since java came onto the scene for the then kids to pass into early middle-age, with the even stronger resistance to change that comes with it.
QT is as bad as all that on OSX? Out of curiosity, what would you say is a viable cross-platform gui library if one wants, eventually, to support osx? Or would you say non-native isn't worth doing at this point?
Sadly I think that kind of teaching extends to every subject out there, all the way from science to gym. One of my biggest beefs about my own high school education was that none of my science classes went into experimental design. It was basically just a long list of facts to memorize, with a big sticker saying "because SCIENCE says so!" From what I've heard, that seems to be more the norm than the exception. Which I think is one of the worst things that can happen in a highly technological society. It's just teaching a blind faith which can easily lead into all kinds of other crap. Exactly the kind of things that a firm grounding in scientific thought should prevent. A new ager says one thing about the world, a funamentalist christian another, and a scientist yet another. The good reaction is to critically examine their data, looking for flaws in their design and demanding repeatability. Kids aren't being tought that kind of skill, and instead have to either rely on blind faith in what they think is science, but with no idea of how to really determine what's true. So they can't tell the difference betwean a fact coming from a real scientist, exagerations to get grant money, exagerations in the popular press to sell papers, and so-called "creation science".
Among the Linux crowd, it seems like there's long been this strong demand that Linux change its nature, and turn into something more akin to Windows. Which, pretty much, would destroy most of the things that are most cool about Linux. BeOS on the other hand is much closer to being a dropin replacement for Windows, at least as far as the user experience goes. The whole control panel, program installs by downloading a single binary off of a website, a single window manager and sound system. Not to mention it's an amazingly responsive system.
When I pointed this out to many responders, and mentioned the fact that I'm merely attempting to suggest a Desktop environment that would help Linux adoption, I got another surprising response: "Who said we wanted regular users? Linux is for the elite. If you're too stupid to recompile your kernel or read all the scattered HOWTOs, you're too stupid to use Linux!"
The ultimate American sin, refusing to say that everyone is equally good at everything.
Believe it or not, there are people on both sides that are actually *boggle* reasonable.
Between conservatives and liberals, I'll most certainly agree with you. I'll even give you the point when it comes to elected officials in the Republican and Democratic parties, on the extremely rare occasion you can drag them away from constant repetition of "talking point" catch phrases. Between Democrats and Republican citizens, no. The whole idea of just taking your vote and throwing it into "whoever those guys say I should vote for" is bad, but in the US it's even worse. You're only an inch or two away from only having one party with two names as it is. I just don't understand what Americans find so difficult about checking out a candidates position, how their actual voting record aligns with that stated platform, then voting on issues rather than group affiliation.
I know I wouldn't want to face the morning without a little chocamine. But then again, I'm also on an mao-b inhabiter so might be getting a bit of an extra boost.
Suse was one of the first flavours of Linux that I used, I think about four years back. I quite liked it, with my only major beef being that software seemed to often be fairly old. How are things these days? Are the major players such as KDE or firefox kept up-to-date in their repositories?
They way he was raised and environment and what not affected his personality way more than DNA ever could.
Parent: "given the same environment to mature in"
Excercise is great, and I'm a big proponent of it. My own problem with sports in school comes from your mention of teamwork and fairness. My school stressed those as well, to the point where most of us never received any actual excercise in gym class. Anyone who actually put any effort into winning wasn't a "team player". And that was in the few games where getting any excercise was even something which could be strived for. Everything had to be so fair to everyone that most of the sports were chosen to stress standing around or slowly strolling while waiting for our occasional ten seconds of activity. I agree with the parent, we'd have been a lot better off just dropping the pretense that it was doing anyone but the fattest or most out of shape any good, and tailor a workout to each person based on their current status.
Do you vote?
I think the vast majority of Americans who vote by party rather than issue have made the point less significant than it should be.
At the risk of lowering myself to a 'me2', well said.
Pretty much the same for me. I usually buy an anime dvd every month or two, and it's always been one which I saw the first part of through fansubs. The cost of most make it too prohibitive to just buy on the recomendation of annonomyous internet folk, and it's not a medium any of my friends are interested in. If it wasn't for fansubs, my purchases would be zero. The money would be going to books, which I can skim in the bookstore to see if it matches my taste.
If you do, seriously, you need to document it and submit the story to slashdot, fark, or something along those lines. That's just too amusing to not share among the few who'd actually get it.
If anything, I've found that to be the norm. Can't stand them myself though.
Well, count me in with option 2 then. There, now 100% of the people you asked this of on slashdot are in the second catagory!
I'd say you have a point in almost anything but a BeOS thread. I'm too tired to go into how annoying it was to move on when Be went down, but it's a posterchild for why depending on a closed OS from someone other than MS or Apple might not be a good move.
I'm too tired for the long answer, the short answer is pick up a good book on the history of science. There's been a long line of "obvious things" that when put to the test proved to be misleading. And doing things soley for the sake of curiosity, well, sometimes they do pan out with practical application. Sometimes not as well, but it's not really possible to ever know one way or another beforehand.
Your life span is like a nanosecond in a day, and you are wasting time cutting off your penis and belly-aching about stuff that never stopped Helen Keller or Stephen Hawking.
And you're wasting time belly-aching, and drawing very unrealistic conclusions about his life. Helen Keller and Stephen Hawking are human, I doubt either of them went through life without a complaint about trivial matters. Would you argue that neither of them ever did anything with their lives because they woke up one day and got cross over the weather or an annoying fly buzzing in their ear?
Not to mention that installing from Suns binary will make it invisible to the rest of the package manager, so it won't know you actually have Java installed. So there's the additional step of converting it to a proper package before installing.
A new edonkey-like net might seem faster at first because all the users are downloading the same recent hollywood movies. But leave the net running for a few years and it will end up looking just like edonk.
Years back I used to use a private edonkey network, with releases mentioned on a webpage. There'd be as many seeds and downloaders for a new file as for a lot of what I download with bittorrent now. Even then, with the situation at its absolute best, I was only getting about 50% of bittorrent speed. It's quite possible there might be some underlying reason for it that was jinxing me, but hey, those are my experiences and I'm going to base my opinion on them.