I think it's obvious that the GIMP really needs more web 2.0 integration. And maybe some really annoying flashing advertisements too. (But since this is a FOSS project, just make it go to a blank page after you hit the monkey)
It's quite likely that your ancestors didn't enter this nation legally either. Or if they did enter legally, they were forced to utilize one of the "tricks" of getting American citizenship in order to stay (Marrying for the sake of citizenship). Or some just lived out their lives illegally knowing that because their children were born in America that they would be able to live here legally. That happened with all immigrants who came here, because American laws have always been xenophobic to varying degrees. Our laws have always been somewhat xenophobic for a nation that prides itself as a melting pot of cultures, and I encourage everyone who wants to become an American citizen to give the middle finger to those oppressive laws and follow their dreams.
You don't have the time to spend training someone? Python is so ridiculously easy to learn that anyone who can code worth a damn can learn it. I am on a co-op where they had said I would be doing C/C++ and I ended up switching to Python about half way through- I had never used Python before and didn't even realize going in that I would be doing Python. The language is pretty intuitive and easy to learn quickly. After about a week I felt pretty comfortable in Python and familiar with a good portion of the documentation- including its integration with C/C++.
Maybe after undergrad I'll just move down to Tampa... Rochester is too damn cold anyway.
The amount of variables you leave out of your post is so amazing that it's almost not worth replying to. Do hard drives just magically listen to phone conversations, or is there any other hardware connecting them to the telephone system? (And admins, and blah blah it's pretty obvious you've low balled the number by several orders)
And what exactly are your qualifications to use caps so damn much? You better have more than econ 101 under your belt to talk with such an air of self imposed authority.
It isn't necessary to italicize so many words. The emphasis of what you are saying comes through just fine without it. Nonetheless I do agree with your post.
This is hardly a purely corporate project. As another commenter has pointed out, there's 31 universities involved. This is the kind of project that really should be sponsored.
But there is plenty of innovation in Germany, and if the current tax structure and barriers to entry are what it takes to keep it from becoming like America... then keep them.
That's not a straw man argument at all. If anything, it's a appeal of reconciliation between sides, saying that misanthrope101 understands what this person is saying and agrees somewhat. There should be more posts like that one.
You very obviously have no idea what a straw man argument is. The GP put a strong position forward that broadened and responded, correctly, to its parent post. Just because you disagree doesn't make it a straw man.
And here you bring up the oldest argument in the book, "it hurts the poor." Simply put, those poor people will be a whole lot worse off when global warming changes our climate even more, especially because they are poor. Furthermore, SUVs are generally not luxury vehicles and it doesn't matter whether the person driving it is rich or poor: They need to pay for their gas addiction. Someone is going to have to pay and change their lifestyle, because making excuses certainly isn't going to stop global warming.
They are pretty close? They are exactly the same without taxes because it's the same damn commodity. The point is, that our gas price is artificially low and should have much higher taxes on it. I could get into a discussion of market externalities and how preventing global warming and pollution deserves these higher taxes to curb oil usage, but that's for another post some other time...
Maybe it is, but that still doesn't make the Republican/Democrat distinction relevant. Every case of voter fraud should be found and the perpetrators punished.
While I would absolutely say there are more good examples of credible bloggers like this one, there are undoubtedly many who aren't credible. But there is also the problem of continuing credibility. Once this person is in the limelight and people are listening, what happens if something is posted that isn't credible? (but people don't know until later, or at all). There is no oversight, no editor and fact checkers confirming the posts.
Lastly, your point that "You dont get credibility by working in a well-known newspaper, you get credibility by writing interesting/insightful articles." isn't true. In fact, one possible future of blogging is visible now on the New York Time's editorial page- blogs that are posted there under the NY Times name. The Times is saying they are verifying that these people are ones you can trust. Credibility definitely comes with being in a well-known newspaper, and not interesting/insightful articles. You really should have said: "You dont get readership by working in a well-known newspaper, you get readership by writing interesting/insightful articles."
Journalism talks a pretty talk about verifying sources and getting multiple angles and being "fair" but I see absolutely no reason beyond the pretty rhetoric to believe it is doing any of those things.
This is simply a ridiculous assertion, especially when comparing traditional media to blogs. In all forms of traditional media there is an editor. The vast majority of blogs have no editor, and even if they do, they don't have the same incentive to verify facts and tell the truth as traditional print does. Papers like the New York Times, Washington Post, and others (along with news stations, etc) make money because they are trusted. If you do not trust one, then you simply go to a different one. And even those that I would say are the worst sources of news (FOX) still generally have journalistic principles in tact.
Now also consider the editor. The editor is there not just to cut articles to be the correct word length- he or she is looking out to make sure these articles are correct. The reputation of the editor and the journalist are on the line with every article or story that gets put out, and once their reputation is tarnished they are done in the industry (See scandals at the NY Times for proof at that). A blog, on the other hand, is written by someone who if they lie and lose readership must simply make a new blog. Their reputation is not permanently tarnished since a blog allows for a level of anonymity.
Finally, compare the quality of blog postings to those on the editorial page of the New York Times. I would say not a single blog can compare to the NY Times editorial page simply because of the option of edited guest editorials. But even if you compare them to the standard 3-6 NY Times editorials and daily op-eds, only a few blogs are able to come close to the level of those columns. In the future, more blogs may be of that quality, but they will still suffer from the problems listed above, unless they were to band together under an editor.... (which would require columnists and give the Ask/. submitter a job!)
Talk about a complete red herring argument. Who cares what a Time magazine article from 1974 says? There was absolutely no large scale movement or scientific evidence regarding a "global cooling"
In fact, this article goes to prove exactly why those who think global warming is false are wrong. It cites a few scientists using data that is too short in scope to see anything of value. Global warming is based on lots of evidence going back thousands of years. Many scientists agree, and only a few disagree.
And finally, Time magazine is a crapy magazine anyway.
And that patch will ensure people can't use that particular exploit against the machines in our elections! Those patches could help prevent voter fraud. So go at it, play with EMS/Unity/un5. Your participation can make a difference.
This is absolutely not an unrealistic rant, however I will admit that the author doesn't bring out one of the strongest arguments against Microsoft.
It is clear that Microsoft is a monopoly because they are setting price. Look back to any basic econ course and you'll find that companies (in theory) should not be able to set price. They take the price handed to them by the market. Now it's obvious that this is rarely the case in the real world, but there isn't any competition with Microsoft (except for Linux, but beyond nerds nobody uses that...) This gives Microsoft free reign to charge whatever bullshit amount they want and get away with it.
Microsoft should absolutely be broken up. The prices they are charging are robbery, and even though many of us have other options for our OS, remember that many businesses and people have nowhere to go but Vista.
At least there is one thing everybody can do: Switch as many people to Linux or BSD as you can. (Or Mac, but their prices are also too high and set based on brand loyalty rather than competition).
There really are some issues that the feed highlights. For example, messages about when people enter and leave relationships. This isn't the kind of information people want blasted around, but have no problem letting people know. It's simply something most people wouldn't notice, but now know the minute someone de-relationships someone on Facebook. The information that once had to be shopped around for is now readily available right on the front page. You can't miss it even if you try. For the last few days I've learned all sorts of things about my friends and acquaintances that I didn't necessarily want or need to know.
The way I have interpreted this whole mess is that even though people are rallying against the feed, I feel that many people may really be concerned about the amount of privacy they lose on facebook in general. The feed did a great job of highlighting the amazing lack of privacy one has on facebook. So even though facebook has implemented a number of "privacy" features for the feed, I suspect many more people will be taking a harder look at what they post on Facebook and other P2P sites. This will serve as a wakeup call for many, including myself.
Having been on a plane that has caught fire (thankfully we had just landed), let it be known that the crew is very fast at putting it out. They are trained for this sorts of situations, so you'd have to start one hell of a damn fire very quickly (so it is large before the smoke alarms and smoke is all over) or it will be put out before doing much other than torching a bathroom.
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I think it's obvious that the GIMP really needs more web 2.0 integration. And maybe some really annoying flashing advertisements too. (But since this is a FOSS project, just make it go to a blank page after you hit the monkey)
It's quite likely that your ancestors didn't enter this nation legally either. Or if they did enter legally, they were forced to utilize one of the "tricks" of getting American citizenship in order to stay (Marrying for the sake of citizenship). Or some just lived out their lives illegally knowing that because their children were born in America that they would be able to live here legally. That happened with all immigrants who came here, because American laws have always been xenophobic to varying degrees. Our laws have always been somewhat xenophobic for a nation that prides itself as a melting pot of cultures, and I encourage everyone who wants to become an American citizen to give the middle finger to those oppressive laws and follow their dreams.
You don't have the time to spend training someone? Python is so ridiculously easy to learn that anyone who can code worth a damn can learn it. I am on a co-op where they had said I would be doing C/C++ and I ended up switching to Python about half way through- I had never used Python before and didn't even realize going in that I would be doing Python. The language is pretty intuitive and easy to learn quickly. After about a week I felt pretty comfortable in Python and familiar with a good portion of the documentation- including its integration with C/C++. Maybe after undergrad I'll just move down to Tampa... Rochester is too damn cold anyway.
The amount of variables you leave out of your post is so amazing that it's almost not worth replying to. Do hard drives just magically listen to phone conversations, or is there any other hardware connecting them to the telephone system? (And admins, and blah blah it's pretty obvious you've low balled the number by several orders)
And what exactly are your qualifications to use caps so damn much? You better have more than econ 101 under your belt to talk with such an air of self imposed authority.
It isn't necessary to italicize so many words. The emphasis of what you are saying comes through just fine without it. Nonetheless I do agree with your post.
This is hardly a purely corporate project. As another commenter has pointed out, there's 31 universities involved. This is the kind of project that really should be sponsored.
But there is plenty of innovation in Germany, and if the current tax structure and barriers to entry are what it takes to keep it from becoming like America... then keep them.
That's not a straw man argument at all. If anything, it's a appeal of reconciliation between sides, saying that misanthrope101 understands what this person is saying and agrees somewhat. There should be more posts like that one.
You very obviously have no idea what a straw man argument is. The GP put a strong position forward that broadened and responded, correctly, to its parent post. Just because you disagree doesn't make it a straw man.
Don't feed the troll...
To summarize for the GP, and all others who disagree with the parent's very informative post, RTFA.
And here you bring up the oldest argument in the book, "it hurts the poor." Simply put, those poor people will be a whole lot worse off when global warming changes our climate even more, especially because they are poor. Furthermore, SUVs are generally not luxury vehicles and it doesn't matter whether the person driving it is rich or poor: They need to pay for their gas addiction. Someone is going to have to pay and change their lifestyle, because making excuses certainly isn't going to stop global warming.
They are pretty close? They are exactly the same without taxes because it's the same damn commodity. The point is, that our gas price is artificially low and should have much higher taxes on it. I could get into a discussion of market externalities and how preventing global warming and pollution deserves these higher taxes to curb oil usage, but that's for another post some other time...
Well tough shit: You do. Deal with it and face the realities of security, or your ideas will never be relevant.
Maybe it is, but that still doesn't make the Republican/Democrat distinction relevant. Every case of voter fraud should be found and the perpetrators punished.
Your reasoning is horribly flawed, and like many other slashdot posters I, too, will be removing all of the domains I have registered on GoDaddy.
Actually, we do do it right now. Do you get electricity for your house from a generator or do you get it from a power company?
While I would absolutely say there are more good examples of credible bloggers like this one, there are undoubtedly many who aren't credible. But there is also the problem of continuing credibility. Once this person is in the limelight and people are listening, what happens if something is posted that isn't credible? (but people don't know until later, or at all). There is no oversight, no editor and fact checkers confirming the posts.
Lastly, your point that "You dont get credibility by working in a well-known newspaper, you get credibility by writing interesting/insightful articles." isn't true. In fact, one possible future of blogging is visible now on the New York Time's editorial page- blogs that are posted there under the NY Times name. The Times is saying they are verifying that these people are ones you can trust. Credibility definitely comes with being in a well-known newspaper, and not interesting/insightful articles. You really should have said: "You dont get readership by working in a well-known newspaper, you get readership by writing interesting/insightful articles."
Journalism talks a pretty talk about verifying sources and getting multiple angles and being "fair" but I see absolutely no reason beyond the pretty rhetoric to believe it is doing any of those things.
/. submitter a job!)
This is simply a ridiculous assertion, especially when comparing traditional media to blogs. In all forms of traditional media there is an editor. The vast majority of blogs have no editor, and even if they do, they don't have the same incentive to verify facts and tell the truth as traditional print does. Papers like the New York Times, Washington Post, and others (along with news stations, etc) make money because they are trusted. If you do not trust one, then you simply go to a different one. And even those that I would say are the worst sources of news (FOX) still generally have journalistic principles in tact.
Now also consider the editor. The editor is there not just to cut articles to be the correct word length- he or she is looking out to make sure these articles are correct. The reputation of the editor and the journalist are on the line with every article or story that gets put out, and once their reputation is tarnished they are done in the industry (See scandals at the NY Times for proof at that). A blog, on the other hand, is written by someone who if they lie and lose readership must simply make a new blog. Their reputation is not permanently tarnished since a blog allows for a level of anonymity.
Finally, compare the quality of blog postings to those on the editorial page of the New York Times. I would say not a single blog can compare to the NY Times editorial page simply because of the option of edited guest editorials. But even if you compare them to the standard 3-6 NY Times editorials and daily op-eds, only a few blogs are able to come close to the level of those columns. In the future, more blogs may be of that quality, but they will still suffer from the problems listed above, unless they were to band together under an editor.... (which would require columnists and give the Ask
Talk about a complete red herring argument. Who cares what a Time magazine article from 1974 says? There was absolutely no large scale movement or scientific evidence regarding a "global cooling"
In fact, this article goes to prove exactly why those who think global warming is false are wrong. It cites a few scientists using data that is too short in scope to see anything of value. Global warming is based on lots of evidence going back thousands of years. Many scientists agree, and only a few disagree.
And finally, Time magazine is a crapy magazine anyway.
And that patch will ensure people can't use that particular exploit against the machines in our elections! Those patches could help prevent voter fraud. So go at it, play with EMS/Unity/un5. Your participation can make a difference.
This is absolutely not an unrealistic rant, however I will admit that the author doesn't bring out one of the strongest arguments against Microsoft.
It is clear that Microsoft is a monopoly because they are setting price. Look back to any basic econ course and you'll find that companies (in theory) should not be able to set price. They take the price handed to them by the market. Now it's obvious that this is rarely the case in the real world, but there isn't any competition with Microsoft (except for Linux, but beyond nerds nobody uses that...) This gives Microsoft free reign to charge whatever bullshit amount they want and get away with it.
Microsoft should absolutely be broken up. The prices they are charging are robbery, and even though many of us have other options for our OS, remember that many businesses and people have nowhere to go but Vista.
At least there is one thing everybody can do: Switch as many people to Linux or BSD as you can. (Or Mac, but their prices are also too high and set based on brand loyalty rather than competition).
There really are some issues that the feed highlights. For example, messages about when people enter and leave relationships. This isn't the kind of information people want blasted around, but have no problem letting people know. It's simply something most people wouldn't notice, but now know the minute someone de-relationships someone on Facebook. The information that once had to be shopped around for is now readily available right on the front page. You can't miss it even if you try. For the last few days I've learned all sorts of things about my friends and acquaintances that I didn't necessarily want or need to know.
The way I have interpreted this whole mess is that even though people are rallying against the feed, I feel that many people may really be concerned about the amount of privacy they lose on facebook in general. The feed did a great job of highlighting the amazing lack of privacy one has on facebook. So even though facebook has implemented a number of "privacy" features for the feed, I suspect many more people will be taking a harder look at what they post on Facebook and other P2P sites. This will serve as a wakeup call for many, including myself.
I don't think I really understand their cost comparison...
How many Libraries of Congress is that?
Having been on a plane that has caught fire (thankfully we had just landed), let it be known that the crew is very fast at putting it out. They are trained for this sorts of situations, so you'd have to start one hell of a damn fire very quickly (so it is large before the smoke alarms and smoke is all over) or it will be put out before doing much other than torching a bathroom.