I found the repost useful. Reading the Headline and summary on the HP - DMCA article, I had no interest in reading the full article. Hence, I never read anything about the cost of Ink.
Reposting the story with a different theme may get the attention of people who may not have been interested in the original story... people like myself. The link may be a Dupe, but the idea behind the posts were not.
Everyone is saying "Debian is not for newbies". Well I, for one, disagree.
Three(four?) years ago, I decided I wanted to "Learn Linux". I didn't jsut want to "use" Linux, if I did, I would have gone RedHat or Mandrake. No, I chose Debian because it would help me learn how Linux worked.
The stable dist is rock solid. You KNOW everything is going to work together. While learning, I know if it isn't working its MY fault. I would hate to have dealt with missing libraries as a newbie!
Also, it IS hard to install and it DOESN'T magically detect and install/configure everything. No better way to learn than beating your head against the monitor for a few hours a day.
It took three months for me to get a fully functional desktop, but I'll tell you this: I know Linux far better than my friends who started with RedHat.
he is originally from Alert Bay, BC and grew up in the Vancouver, BC area. Accoring to this story, he is now the Director of Research for the Police Foundation in Washington D.C.
This Topic got me worked up enough to actually go get a Slashdot UserID...
I'm starting to think that everyone on SlashDot is an expert in Experimental Design for Research, and that they have Statistics degrees! Every time a study comes out and gets posted on Slashdot, everybody is quick to jump on it saying,
"This doesn't prove causal relationships! Look at what they said about RedWine...", or "It doesn't say how large a sample group it was! This study is flawed!"
Guess what. Providing you read the article at all, you're not reading the study as it appears in a scientific journal! You're reading a dumbed down... simplified write-up on a news site for everyday people! Think about it, did you see an mention af what Stat Methods they used? Did you see any graphs or Data Plots?
The people on Slashdot, especially, should realise that News Outlets pick stories and spin them for greater drama to build readership!
I actually have a bit of upper-level psych. in my background and I've done enough experimental design and read enough Journal Articles to tell you this...
Most researchers have done YEARS of Statistics and more experimental design than I would ever want to dream of. They "know" that their research is not conclusive. In fact most studies state in the conlusion that they didn't take x, y, z into consideration, and this doesn't prove a causal relationship (because they usually don't), and more research is needed!. That is actually a fairly common statement in research papers. Why? The researchers want grant money for more research.
In short, if you've only read the News Write-up and not the Journal Article, don't pretend you've read the whole study. Oh, and if you haven't even read the article, don't post! (How big is the sample size... It WAS IN THE SECOND PARAGRAPH!)
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That is EXACTLY what I was thinking of when I read the parent post. That quote and
"Take the average price of settlement and call that X..."
Snazzed
I found the repost useful. Reading the Headline and summary on the HP - DMCA article, I had no interest in reading the full article. Hence, I never read anything about the cost of Ink.
Reposting the story with a different theme may get the attention of people who may not have been interested in the original story... people like myself. The link may be a Dupe, but the idea behind the posts were not.
Thanks
Snazzed
Everyone is saying "Debian is not for newbies". Well I, for one, disagree.
Three(four?) years ago, I decided I wanted to "Learn Linux". I didn't jsut want to "use" Linux, if I did, I would have gone RedHat or Mandrake. No, I chose Debian because it would help me learn how Linux worked.
The stable dist is rock solid. You KNOW everything is going to work together. While learning, I know if it isn't working its MY fault. I would hate to have dealt with missing libraries as a newbie!
Also, it IS hard to install and it DOESN'T magically detect and install/configure everything. No better way to learn than beating your head against the monitor for a few hours a day.
It took three months for me to get a fully functional desktop, but I'll tell you this: I know Linux far better than my friends who started with RedHat.
Snazzed
he is originally from Alert Bay, BC and grew up in the Vancouver, BC area. Accoring to this story, he is now the Director of Research for the Police Foundation in Washington D.C.
But then again, stranger things have happened.
This Topic got me worked up enough to actually go get a Slashdot UserID...
I'm starting to think that everyone on SlashDot is an expert in Experimental Design for Research, and that they have Statistics degrees! Every time a study comes out and gets posted on Slashdot, everybody is quick to jump on it saying,
"This doesn't prove causal relationships! Look at what they said about RedWine...",
or
"It doesn't say how large a sample group it was! This study is flawed!"
Guess what. Providing you read the article at all, you're not reading the study as it appears in a scientific journal! You're reading a dumbed down... simplified write-up on a news site for everyday people! Think about it, did you see an mention af what Stat Methods they used? Did you see any graphs or Data Plots?
The people on Slashdot, especially, should realise that News Outlets pick stories and spin them for greater drama to build readership!
I actually have a bit of upper-level psych. in my background and I've done enough experimental design and read enough Journal Articles to tell you this...
Most researchers have done YEARS of Statistics and more experimental design than I would ever want to dream of. They "know" that their research is not conclusive. In fact most studies state in the conlusion that they didn't take x, y, z into consideration, and this doesn't prove a causal relationship (because they usually don't), and more research is needed!. That is actually a fairly common statement in research papers. Why? The researchers want grant money for more research.
In short, if you've only read the News Write-up and not the Journal Article, don't pretend you've read the whole study. Oh, and if you haven't even read the article, don't post! (How big is the sample size... It WAS IN THE SECOND PARAGRAPH!)