Well, I became suspicious when I read "in different helping behaviours, such as doing charity work" - I see a big difference between a disposition for helping, and participating in charity work.
Maybe someone likes to be the boss of a few volunteers, or is looking for a job, or likes travelling. Plus you need time for charity work. Does a single parent without financial support have time for volunteering?
On the other hand a helping attitude shows itself in much more simple ways: Somebody asks for help - you provide it if you can.
I wanted to check the article itself, but I didn't want to give them $30, just for doing their homework: why would they not publish their work in such a way that other's can easily read it? Or are they unaware of this issue?
In summary, this "work" probably needs to be repeated. It's not even an original idea for that matter.
I got the impression this was undermined in the US since salaries are mostly paid only for two terms,; the third term is to be paid from grants. Grants you only get when some other scientists say that what you are planning to do with the funds is worthwhile.
I thought the article was quite informative until I got to "Intimidating scientists with calls for death trials, name calling and calls for decertification appears to be the accepted tactics of the climate alarmists. The real question is: Why do climate alarmists feel the need to resort to such low brow tactics when they have a compliant media willing to repeat their every assertion without question. "
At this point, it's time to stop reading; I'm sure you'll agree: "climate alarmists", "death trials", "compliant media" ?
I don't even see why this "Senate" would take a stand in this manner - the article looks more like propaganda / gossip than anything else.
Mr Raymond quotes the advantage that Linux has in terms of drivers including their source code. Well, if Microsft needs they can distribute those too. They don't want to, but if there is an advantage, they will.
Plus they can lower the cost of their OS considerably.
Another advantage Windows has is the vast amount of System Administrators, that can only work with point-and-click setups and configurations. I've seen them in action. Tell them a log file has some lines of interest and they are all marked with a unique identifier, e.g. "6266626-72772-92388", and they don't immediately think of using grep.You show friendly patience and suggest grep, they don't know what you're talking about. So these quite incompetent people are on the Windows side, and are a huge hurdle all by themselves. They don't even grasp the advantage and are completely stumped to leverage the additional features.
Windows based programmers -- the same holds. An absolute shame in terms of competence, vis-a-vis the power of contemporary computing equipment.
If all other points of the article hold, then it woun't be Linux that will win.
In other words, his advice as to what needs to be done can be safely ignored.
I see no improvements in desktop functionality overall for the last 5 years. I'm writing from a Mac Mini.
There's hardly anything useful and noticable to me compared to KDE/Windows 2000 as I used otherwise. If anything they don't let me reach the/tmp directory from the file browser. The eye-candy is just for the developer's amusement.
Copy and Paste, open window, close window. Tabbed browsing. That's just about all one needs from a desktop.
Speed is just about all that is lacking, but its mostly managable.
Well, most likely someone else would have thought of " wrapping batteries in a metal cylinder " -- There is hardly any effort involved in testing the idea either. So I don't think this is a good example.
Sorry, I don't follow your method. Could you try explaining the "Any attempt to `figure it out` by looking at the iframe source is banned." part? What's in the iframe and how is it involved in blocking?
The recently launched website stephansmap.org aims to be more light-weight:
It's a wiki with a map, and entries can have a date range.
For example, it allows announcing public events, and following up with a description including photos.
As far as I can tell, wikipedia doesn't really want entries like Critical mass - Boston - October 2006, or Portland - Marathon - November 2006. Or a hikes directory, or a busroute directory. Or....
Craigslist did this a while ago. There was a connection to an ebay auction. Jim Buckmaster (craigslist ceo) won the auction. (see http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=1552 ) The second time around this is not that funny is it? Or did Yahoo add something substantial?
Capilano College in North Vancouver has been offering Comp 106, Programming with Robots, for a few years now.
"OBJECTIVES: To introduce students, with little or no previous computer experience, to the basic concepts of hardware, software, and computer programming using Lego Mindstorm robots as a teaching tool. In addition to fundamental programming concepts, students will also be exposed to different topics in Computer Science, including robotics, hardware, operating systems, communication, and social issues. "
'Once the patent is issued there is a presumption of validity that follows with it,' said attorney Bill Heinze
I think that should be challenged in a court, and it easily could be. But my guess is that Patent Lawyers don't want to challenge it because it is the foundation of their work.
There should be enough opportunities to do so, at any rate.
>> consumers [...] shy away from those companies and find another company that offers the same service with better terms, therefore creating competition
I don't see that. All of the Telecom industry looks like a big rip-off to me. Meaning if you're not rip-off you're not Telcom. In other words, where is the "other company" that you can turn to?
Slashdot Mirror
Well, I became suspicious when I read "in different helping behaviours, such as doing charity work" - I see a big difference between a disposition for helping, and participating in charity work.
Maybe someone likes to be the boss of a few volunteers, or is looking for a job, or likes travelling. Plus you need time for charity work. Does a single parent without financial support have time for volunteering?
On the other hand a helping attitude shows itself in much more simple ways: Somebody asks for help - you provide it if you can.
I wanted to check the article itself, but I didn't want to give them $30, just for doing their homework: why would they not publish their work in such a way that other's can easily read it? Or are they unaware of this issue?
In summary, this "work" probably needs to be repeated. It's not even an original idea for that matter.
Stephan
I got the impression this was undermined in the US since salaries are mostly paid only for two terms,; the third term is to be paid from grants. Grants you only get when some other scientists say that what you are planning to do with the funds is worthwhile.
Stephan
I thought the article was quite informative until I got to "Intimidating scientists with calls for death trials, name calling and calls for decertification appears to be the accepted tactics of the climate alarmists. The real question is: Why do climate alarmists feel the need to resort to such low brow tactics when they have a compliant media willing to repeat their every assertion without question. "
At this point, it's time to stop reading; I'm sure you'll agree: "climate alarmists", "death trials", "compliant media" ?
I don't even see why this "Senate" would take a stand in this manner - the article looks more like propaganda / gossip than anything else.
The site stephansmap.org is geared towards this. It actually goes beyond: it has time integration.
I developed it. So far needs some more users. So I'm redesigning it.
Stephan
The page compresses with gzip from 188,398 bytes down to 13,326 bytes. In plain text it displays ca. 5,000 bytes.
1 7240 "Will Solve Captcha for Money?"
So with HTML compression the size of this encoding isn't really a problem.
But as mentioned at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha the real hurdle is that the opponent can use low-paid data entry workers: http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/06/12
Stephan
With a 500MHz - 1GHz system you should do just fine.
Those can be had for $100-200 if they are not thrown out.
Work out a backup system.
Use a revision control system (subversion.tigris.org). Should be good for your python scripts and latex work. Use make even with latex.
Stephan
No, I meant they can use the source code for the Linux device drivers in order to build Windows versions for the ones that they are missing. -- S
>> so set up an international infrastructure for funding, for buying used hardware and redeploying them as Linux boxes.
As in freegeek (freegeek.org)
Mr Raymond quotes the advantage that Linux has in terms of drivers including their source code. Well, if Microsft needs they can distribute those too. They don't want to, but if there is an advantage, they will.
Plus they can lower the cost of their OS considerably.
Another advantage Windows has is the vast amount of System Administrators, that can only work with point-and-click setups and configurations. I've seen them in action. Tell them a log file has some lines of interest and they are all marked with a unique identifier, e.g. "6266626-72772-92388", and they don't immediately think of using grep.You show friendly patience and suggest grep, they don't know what you're talking about. So these quite incompetent people are on the Windows side, and are a huge hurdle all by themselves. They don't even grasp the advantage and are completely stumped to leverage the additional features.
Windows based programmers -- the same holds. An absolute shame in terms of competence, vis-a-vis the power of contemporary computing equipment.
If all other points of the article hold, then it woun't be Linux that will win.
In other words, his advice as to what needs to be done can be safely ignored.
I see no improvements in desktop functionality overall for the last 5 years. I'm writing from a Mac Mini.
/tmp directory from the file browser.
There's hardly anything useful and noticable to me compared to KDE/Windows 2000 as I used otherwise.
If anything they don't let me reach the
The eye-candy is just for the developer's amusement.
Copy and Paste, open window, close window. Tabbed browsing. That's just about all one needs from a desktop.
Speed is just about all that is lacking, but its mostly managable.
Stephan
Why does this not sound like research?
Stephan
Well, most likely someone else would have thought of " wrapping batteries in a metal cylinder " -- There is hardly any effort involved in testing the idea either. So I don't think this is a good example.
Stephan
That'll fit nicely with stephansmap.org or the spacetimebrowser
:)
at spacetimebrowser.org
Stephan
Sorry, I don't follow your method. Could you try explaining the "Any attempt to `figure it out` by looking at the iframe source is banned." part? What's in the iframe and how is it involved in blocking?
Thanks --
Stephan
Have money, will waste other people's time (the happy patent applicant)
The recently launched website stephansmap.org aims to be more light-weight:
....
It's a wiki with a map, and entries can have a date range.
For example, it allows announcing public events, and following up with a description including photos.
As far as I can tell, wikipedia doesn't really want entries like Critical mass - Boston - October 2006, or
Portland - Marathon - November 2006. Or a hikes directory, or a busroute directory. Or
Stephan
Craigslist did this a while ago. There was a connection to an ebay auction. Jim Buckmaster (craigslist ceo) won the auction. (see http://www.dvorak.org/blog/?p=1552 ) The second time around this is not that funny is it? Or did Yahoo add something substantial?
Stephan
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Stephan
Certainly your approach will work for a while, but not for too long. As you say yourself.
It might be fun to write the programs though.
Stephan
I don't eat meat. Sometimes fish, but drink milk every day.
I don't see why any intelligent person would regularly eat industrially produced meat.
I find it quite simple to avoid. "Too expensive," is what I say jokingly. A friend said, "now I can eat more", after cutting out meat.
Would there be a way to avoid repeat Slashdot articles using Google?
(Bonus points -- without using Google)
Stephan
Which college?
Stephan
Capilano College in North Vancouver has been offering Comp 106, Programming with Robots, for a few years now.
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"OBJECTIVES: To introduce students, with little or no previous computer experience, to the basic concepts of hardware, software, and computer programming using Lego Mindstorm robots as a teaching tool. In addition to fundamental programming concepts, students will also be exposed to different topics in Computer Science, including robotics, hardware, operating systems, communication, and social issues. "
http://www.capcollege.bc.ca/programs/computing-sc
http://courses.capcollege.bc.ca/comp/gallery/robo
Stephan
I think that should be challenged in a court, and it easily could be. But my guess is that Patent Lawyers don't want to challenge it because it is the foundation of their work.
There should be enough opportunities to do so, at any rate.
Stephan
>> consumers [...] shy away from those companies and find another company that offers the same service with better terms, therefore creating competition
I don't see that. All of the Telecom industry looks like a big rip-off to me. Meaning if you're not rip-off you're not Telcom. In other words, where is the "other company" that you can turn to?