These comments remind me of articles about distracted driving. Someone does a study that shows texting has a negative effect on driving ability and a million slashdot experts line up to post about how the finding doesn't apply to them and their superhuman multitasking abilities.
See, we know about computers therefore everything we post on/. has a sort of timeless wisdom to it. Ignorance is for people who aren't good at computers.
It was early on that I discovered a couple things that made using the book more challenging than it needs to be. Patel uses a non-American dialect of English. While it's quite understandable, at times the usage and sentence structure require one to stop, blink, and reread the passage. Some might find this to be annoying. I looked at it as reading dialogue written by Dickens or Twain, and was fine with it. The other thing is that the instructions at times seem to skip a step, going from point A to point C without a mention of the requisite point B. Again, this causes the occasional confusion for a few moments, but nothing one cannot get past.
Hahaha what the fuck? Are you fifteen years old? I literally cringed while reading this. Instead of stroking your e-beard, why not hone your writing skills a bit before you deign to critique someone else in your book review that reads more like an 8th grader's last-minute book report.
You're right, IPv4 is going nowhere because it's a dead end. The transition to IPv6 will not be instantaneous or painless but it is necessary, inevitable, and will render the old working standard obsolete, and irritating to keep alive. Your argument that version six of the internet protocol is a dead end because it won't support internet protocol connections to internet protocol sites is humorous at best.
Nobody said analogies have to be perfect or that counter arguments are always valid. In this case though, the flaws are severe enough that correct counter-arguments are trivial to come up with. While it may be relatively easy to learn to type quickly, the quality of a program still has zilch to do with how quickly its source code was typed in. Such a suggestion is akin to saying that water poured too slowly is not as refreshing. Sorry, Jeff.
Any reasonably intelligent person should be able to find the flaws in Atwood's analogies and synthesize several decent counter-arguments by themselves. The notion is ridiculous on its face and if the quality of this guy's analogies is any indication of his mental acuity then I'm surprised anyone reads his blog at all. I'm not sure why such a laughably flawed statement should prompt anything but derision, but Slashdot being what it is today, I suppose it is the right place for such a discussion to take place.
Intel gets to work out the kinks on relatively uniform hardware configurations and Apple users are guaranteed to jump all over the first generation of something if it's marketed as "exclusive". It's win-win.
Anyone else get the feeling that these ivory tower intellectual types are looking down their noses at us? I'd much rather we have someone like CowboyNeal as national CTO. Now there's a guy I could have an e-beer with.
Except the root claim is that BSG is somehow more scientifically accurate, which means we are talking about biological evolution, which has nothing to do with the process you describe as "evolution", which is more akin to the kind of "evolution" that takes place in manufacturing.
BSG is no more scientifically plausible than Star Trek, they just use words like "evolution" instead of "warp drive"
When a computer can answer questions from students who don't even know what questions to ask, design lesson plans, and help them improve their writing skills by helping them revise their papers then the computer can replace a teacher. Until then, the internet isn't going to replace traditional means of education any more than Microsoft Encarta on CDROM did in the 90s.
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These comments remind me of articles about distracted driving. Someone does a study that shows texting has a negative effect on driving ability and a million slashdot experts line up to post about how the finding doesn't apply to them and their superhuman multitasking abilities.
See, we know about computers therefore everything we post on /. has a sort of timeless wisdom to it. Ignorance is for people who aren't good at computers.
After owning an iPhone for a few months I have found myself making this gesture quite frequently but it doesn't seem to be having the desired effect.
Hahaha what the fuck? Are you fifteen years old? I literally cringed while reading this. Instead of stroking your e-beard, why not hone your writing skills a bit before you deign to critique someone else in your book review that reads more like an 8th grader's last-minute book report.
You're right, IPv4 is going nowhere because it's a dead end. The transition to IPv6 will not be instantaneous or painless but it is necessary, inevitable, and will render the old working standard obsolete, and irritating to keep alive. Your argument that version six of the internet protocol is a dead end because it won't support internet protocol connections to internet protocol sites is humorous at best.
Nobody said analogies have to be perfect or that counter arguments are always valid. In this case though, the flaws are severe enough that correct counter-arguments are trivial to come up with. While it may be relatively easy to learn to type quickly, the quality of a program still has zilch to do with how quickly its source code was typed in. Such a suggestion is akin to saying that water poured too slowly is not as refreshing. Sorry, Jeff.
Any reasonably intelligent person should be able to find the flaws in Atwood's analogies and synthesize several decent counter-arguments by themselves. The notion is ridiculous on its face and if the quality of this guy's analogies is any indication of his mental acuity then I'm surprised anyone reads his blog at all. I'm not sure why such a laughably flawed statement should prompt anything but derision, but Slashdot being what it is today, I suppose it is the right place for such a discussion to take place.
I suppose I learned a lot about the Perl community though.
I've been dying to know whether the no-name CTO of some joke of a blog franchise has had any thoughts since his incompetence was made public.
I, for one, will be eagerly perusing his recommendations to see if there's anything I've missed.
Because it's too much trouble to quote or reproduce Theo's brief email and people wouldn't know what to make of it anyway.
no you were just wrong
The Moodle codebase should have been taken out back and shot years ago.
I bet 99% of people on either side of this issue have never been to ifpi.org, what exactly is this supposed to accomplish?
Intel gets to work out the kinks on relatively uniform hardware configurations and Apple users are guaranteed to jump all over the first generation of something if it's marketed as "exclusive". It's win-win.
It's probably invitation-only because they have no way of searching for other Diaspora users and adding them short of exchanging URLs: http://groups.google.com/group/diaspora-discuss/browse_thread/thread/60f32519f623e690/23109444fefa1640?#23109444fefa1640 Diaspora's answer to Facebook's search? Google search! (I'm not making this up, read that thread)
Long takes will only hurt the film editing industry, we need to pass a law limiting the length of any given scene.
News for nerds who never took a biology course and are deeply suspicious of the so-called "sciences"
Slashdot does not allow you to delete your posts or close your account. How come there's never any discussion of that in these threads?
Well, enjoy your Hitlerocracy. It's well deserved.
Anyone else get the feeling that these ivory tower intellectual types are looking down their noses at us? I'd much rather we have someone like CowboyNeal as national CTO. Now there's a guy I could have an e-beer with.
Except the root claim is that BSG is somehow more scientifically accurate, which means we are talking about biological evolution, which has nothing to do with the process you describe as "evolution", which is more akin to the kind of "evolution" that takes place in manufacturing.
BSG is no more scientifically plausible than Star Trek, they just use words like "evolution" instead of "warp drive"
Doesn't this story get posted every week? Why not just make it a permanent item on the /. home page?
When a computer can answer questions from students who don't even know what questions to ask, design lesson plans, and help them improve their writing skills by helping them revise their papers then the computer can replace a teacher. Until then, the internet isn't going to replace traditional means of education any more than Microsoft Encarta on CDROM did in the 90s.
ahahahahahh. oh dear, this is going to be a doozy
I don't understand why the fuck these articles keep getting posted since nobody gives a shit about Joomla! in the first place.