I've been using Gentoo for a year now, and I've never had the problem you described...Gentoo's portage always figures out exactly which packages need updating and takes care of it. It's even possible to update a library, such as some of the cryptography ones, and then rebuild everything that statically linked against it.
At Boston University they teach us on MIPS. It was actually one of the easier courses I took there, but maybe that's because I've done a lot more programming than the average BU CS student.
I would have rather bitten the bullet and learned x86, because I could actually USE that for something.
OpenGL is a stateful programming language, in that you can call glColor3f(1,0,0) and then everything will be painted red until you select another color.
Although they're not a programming language, the command-line tools are a good example of statelessness...you call ls or dir and it performs its function, and then it's done.
> ten points if you can name another company that does what halliburton does, or another company that would take the work.
That's why it's no stretch of the imagination to suppose that is part of the reason why Cheny was so keen on blowing everything in Iraq to smithereens...he didn't even need to do anything sneaky to make sure his friends got a multi-billion dollar contract out of the deal.
Haha, I totally know what you mean. Evil Dead is deliciously bad.:)
I was amazed to discover the other week that people are offering episodes of Brisco via bittorrent...the first time I heard Bowler say "DAAAAAAAMN" in about 9 years sure brought a smile to my face.
The *original* poster was talking about plagarism.
Take another look. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=109409&cid=929 0442
Here's how the discussion went.
1) Student complains about persecution for reuse of published works. 2) Elid points out that universities consider reuse plagarism. 3) As you so insightfully pointed out, Picklepuss extolled the virtues of all forms of citation. 4) I pointed out the fact that citation exists for one of two reasons, and his generalization was merely a confusion between the good academic policy of careful citation and a university's own efforts to ensure that students do not attain advantages in certan classes, etc. 5) You missed the boat, and tried to broaden the benefits of citation again. The point of my post was to demonstrate that the academic policies exist ONLY TO AID RESEARCH AND AVOID DECEPTIVE PRACTICES.
In summary, the source for this entire subthread was Elid's assertion that the UK student's actions were plagarism. That was an incorrect assertion. Case closed.
I'm sorry, if you don't understand by now I'm not going to bother making it any easier.
Why don't you find some major authors who reused their own earlier works? I know Whitman used large portions of his earlier poems in making "Leaves of Grass." I'm sure some of Dickinson's poems went through transformations during publication without any kind of notation. If this is such a major offense, these authors ought to be "expelled" from the curriculum too, right?
That has nothing to do with plagarism. Plagarism is misrepresnting OWNERSHIP of work. Schools may have academic honesty policies in place which prohibit that kind of thing, and it frequently gets lumped under the same thing, but it's really unrelated.
If you're a fellow Cambpell fan, you might be interested to know that Campbell actually wrote a book; I received a copy as a birthday present, and it's one of the most entertaining books I've read in a long time. He has a whole litany of horror stories about the making of the Evil Dead books, and such; however, what makes the book really worth reading is that it's so fascinating to see the "blue-collar" side of hollywood, as he puts it. It makes you remember that for every bloated ego pulling in the millions there's a talented guy like Bruce, busting his ass, perched on the edge of "almost famous."
I guess this is kind of a plug, but it's relevant, right? Mods, cut me some slack, he's been my favorite actor since I was a kid.:)
Anyways, the title of his book is "If Chins Could Kill" and I'm sure you can find it online or something.
1) Citations are useful for people doing research. If I read your paper, and I want to know more about a specific item, I will look at your references and get other related books. This is not applicable or useful in this case because the only purpose of the paper was to demonstrate the student's abilities, NOT to create a work that will be read and used by others.
2) To make a clear distinction between what is YOUR thinking and what thinking you BORROWED from someone else. This is the primary reason why plagarism is frowned upon; you're tricking the teacher into thinking you did work when all you did was copy someone else's. However, this isn't applicable here either, because the student actually did the work.
Really, this is just the product of a paranoid administration more obsessed with the letter of the law than the purpose.
Regardless of whether or not that is true, he broke the rules, and I have a hard time believing that he didn't know what he was doing. Ignorance is no excuse, he deserves to be kicked out. That said, though, if the student can prove that the university knew that he was plagarizing but didn't do anything about it until he graduated, well, then the University was taking him for a ride. Therefore, they would owe him whatever tuition he paid between when they first figured it out and now.
The GPL *requires* uploading and downloading...there's no such thing as illegally sharing GPL'd works. It's when people *don't* upload or download their changes that we have a problem.
Notice I didn't say...watching a mother just dump her kid off in day care for the first 6 years of his life so she can afford to support him.
I was criticizing the parents who would rather forget about the kids and go after what makes them happy...and where I grew up, there were PLENTY of people like this, and you could tell from the way their kids came out. The point I'm making is that parents already have enormous influence over their children, and it's just plain stupid to watch people bitch and moan about the content of video games when they're not actually spending time with the kids.
I wasn't trying to criticize parents who are already under stress...the point is this: relying on television, daycare, and video games to do YOUR JOB as a parent is not going to produce healthy, well-adjusted kids, and no amount of censorship will ever change that.
As long as IBM is contributing to open, reusable software, who cares why they're doing it? The danger of Microsoft is that they can just say "oh, we don't want that software to run anymore" or "we don't want to support that anymore" and it just disappears. As long as IBM uses the GPL, the power is in the hands of the community. If they turn evil, we can just fork the code and do what we please with it.
There's always going to be violent video games. The problem is not that there aren't video games that have morality...look at the Ultima games...or the Star Wars ones. The problem is that kids are naturally curious about the games that are BAD. It doesn't matter how many good video games there are out there....kids are always going to find the one game that's evil. Really, there are only three solutions:
1) Forbid all video games that do not impose "correct" morality 2) Raise your children in an isolated bubble, never exposing them to anything that espouses "bad" morality 3) Let your children experience what they want, within limits, so long as you teach them what is right and wrong
You can let a kid play all the violent video games he wants; so long as he has a caring mother and father, he'll turn out OK....and if he doesn't have caring parents, if it's not GTA teaching him how to be a criminal, it'll just be something else. In short, bad parenting creates bad kids who have independent, unrelated desires to play "bad" video games and do "bad" things. Good parenting creates "good" kids who have the same desire to play "bad" video games but less chance of a desire to do "bad" things.
To all of the parents who are always whining "the video games are controlling my childen" I say: you have a thousand times more influence than any video game ever will...if your kids are turning out poorly it's because you're a shitty parent....stop trying to blame everyone else.
I don't understand why the author's article is so upset at this kid playing GTA. If his mom is raising him correctly, he should be able to cap grandmas all day long and still be a well-adjusted kid. If she's not, well, then he's got bigger things to worry about than a video game. Everyone just wants to bitch about the video game to show that they are MORALLY OFFENDED! You know what offends my morals? Watching a mother just dump her kid off in day care for the first 6 years of his life so she can drive a nicer car. I'd rather raise my kid on GTA than put him through that.
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I've been using Gentoo for a year now, and I've never had the problem you described...Gentoo's portage always figures out exactly which packages need updating and takes care of it. It's even possible to update a library, such as some of the cryptography ones, and then rebuild everything that statically linked against it.
It's basically the results of a good smear campaign.
At Boston University they teach us on MIPS. It was actually one of the easier courses I took there, but maybe that's because I've done a lot more programming than the average BU CS student.
I would have rather bitten the bullet and learned x86, because I could actually USE that for something.
Haha, silly debian users...I run Gentoo. I'll let you guys know what 0.9 is like next week, when it finishes compiling. ;)
Thanks, that's one rad pic.
...I'd probably make some wiseass comment about how this means that BSD is dying...well...aww heck.
BSD IS DYING! DYYYYYYING!
...waterchicken was next in line.
But as soon as we DO find the sharpest knife, I can guarantee you we'll make sure it gets to him. >:)
Your SHELL has state. Command-line tools do not.
OpenGL is a stateful programming language, in that you can call glColor3f(1,0,0) and then everything will be painted red until you select another color.
Although they're not a programming language, the command-line tools are a good example of statelessness...you call ls or dir and it performs its function, and then it's done.
> ten points if you can name another company that does what halliburton does, or another company that would take the work.
That's why it's no stretch of the imagination to suppose that is part of the reason why Cheny was so keen on blowing everything in Iraq to smithereens...he didn't even need to do anything sneaky to make sure his friends got a multi-billion dollar contract out of the deal.
You can find all of the old Brisco episodes on Bittorrent...try suprnova.org.
Haha, I totally know what you mean. Evil Dead is deliciously bad. :)
I was amazed to discover the other week that people are offering episodes of Brisco via bittorrent...the first time I heard Bowler say "DAAAAAAAMN" in about 9 years sure brought a smile to my face.
The *original* poster was talking about plagarism.
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Take another look. http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=109409&cid=92
Here's how the discussion went.
1) Student complains about persecution for reuse of published works.
2) Elid points out that universities consider reuse plagarism.
3) As you so insightfully pointed out, Picklepuss extolled the virtues of all forms of citation.
4) I pointed out the fact that citation exists for one of two reasons, and his generalization was merely a confusion between the good academic policy of careful citation and a university's own efforts to ensure that students do not attain advantages in certan classes, etc.
5) You missed the boat, and tried to broaden the benefits of citation again. The point of my post was to demonstrate that the academic policies exist ONLY TO AID RESEARCH AND AVOID DECEPTIVE PRACTICES.
In summary, the source for this entire subthread was Elid's assertion that the UK student's actions were plagarism. That was an incorrect assertion. Case closed.
I'm sorry, if you don't understand by now I'm not going to bother making it any easier.
Why don't you find some major authors who reused their own earlier works? I know Whitman used large portions of his earlier poems in making "Leaves of Grass." I'm sure some of Dickinson's poems went through transformations during publication without any kind of notation. If this is such a major offense, these authors ought to be "expelled" from the curriculum too, right?
That has nothing to do with plagarism. Plagarism is misrepresnting OWNERSHIP of work. Schools may have academic honesty policies in place which prohibit that kind of thing, and it frequently gets lumped under the same thing, but it's really unrelated.
If you're a fellow Cambpell fan, you might be interested to know that Campbell actually wrote a book; I received a copy as a birthday present, and it's one of the most entertaining books I've read in a long time. He has a whole litany of horror stories about the making of the Evil Dead books, and such; however, what makes the book really worth reading is that it's so fascinating to see the "blue-collar" side of hollywood, as he puts it. It makes you remember that for every bloated ego pulling in the millions there's a talented guy like Bruce, busting his ass, perched on the edge of "almost famous."
:)
I guess this is kind of a plug, but it's relevant, right? Mods, cut me some slack, he's been my favorite actor since I was a kid.
Anyways, the title of his book is "If Chins Could Kill" and I'm sure you can find it online or something.
There are two reasons.
1) Citations are useful for people doing research. If I read your paper, and I want to know more about a specific item, I will look at your references and get other related books. This is not applicable or useful in this case because the only purpose of the paper was to demonstrate the student's abilities, NOT to create a work that will be read and used by others.
2) To make a clear distinction between what is YOUR thinking and what thinking you BORROWED from someone else. This is the primary reason why plagarism is frowned upon; you're tricking the teacher into thinking you did work when all you did was copy someone else's. However, this isn't applicable here either, because the student actually did the work.
Really, this is just the product of a paranoid administration more obsessed with the letter of the law than the purpose.
Regardless of whether or not that is true, he broke the rules, and I have a hard time believing that he didn't know what he was doing. Ignorance is no excuse, he deserves to be kicked out. That said, though, if the student can prove that the university knew that he was plagarizing but didn't do anything about it until he graduated, well, then the University was taking him for a ride. Therefore, they would owe him whatever tuition he paid between when they first figured it out and now.
The GPL *requires* uploading and downloading...there's no such thing as illegally sharing GPL'd works. It's when people *don't* upload or download their changes that we have a problem.
Notice I didn't say...watching a mother just dump her kid off in day care for the first 6 years of his life so she can afford to support him.
I was criticizing the parents who would rather forget about the kids and go after what makes them happy...and where I grew up, there were PLENTY of people like this, and you could tell from the way their kids came out. The point I'm making is that parents already have enormous influence over their children, and it's just plain stupid to watch people bitch and moan about the content of video games when they're not actually spending time with the kids.
I wasn't trying to criticize parents who are already under stress...the point is this: relying on television, daycare, and video games to do YOUR JOB as a parent is not going to produce healthy, well-adjusted kids, and no amount of censorship will ever change that.
As long as IBM is contributing to open, reusable software, who cares why they're doing it? The danger of Microsoft is that they can just say "oh, we don't want that software to run anymore" or "we don't want to support that anymore" and it just disappears. As long as IBM uses the GPL, the power is in the hands of the community. If they turn evil, we can just fork the code and do what we please with it.
Who cares why they're helping us?
There's always going to be violent video games. The problem is not that there aren't video games that have morality...look at the Ultima games...or the Star Wars ones. The problem is that kids are naturally curious about the games that are BAD. It doesn't matter how many good video games there are out there....kids are always going to find the one game that's evil. Really, there are only three solutions:
1) Forbid all video games that do not impose "correct" morality
2) Raise your children in an isolated bubble, never exposing them to anything that espouses "bad" morality
3) Let your children experience what they want, within limits, so long as you teach them what is right and wrong
You can let a kid play all the violent video games he wants; so long as he has a caring mother and father, he'll turn out OK....and if he doesn't have caring parents, if it's not GTA teaching him how to be a criminal, it'll just be something else. In short, bad parenting creates bad kids who have independent, unrelated desires to play "bad" video games and do "bad" things. Good parenting creates "good" kids who have the same desire to play "bad" video games but less chance of a desire to do "bad" things.
To all of the parents who are always whining "the video games are controlling my childen" I say: you have a thousand times more influence than any video game ever will...if your kids are turning out poorly it's because you're a shitty parent....stop trying to blame everyone else.
I don't understand why the author's article is so upset at this kid playing GTA. If his mom is raising him correctly, he should be able to cap grandmas all day long and still be a well-adjusted kid. If she's not, well, then he's got bigger things to worry about than a video game. Everyone just wants to bitch about the video game to show that they are MORALLY OFFENDED! You know what offends my morals? Watching a mother just dump her kid off in day care for the first 6 years of his life so she can drive a nicer car. I'd rather raise my kid on GTA than put him through that.
Jeez, it was sarcasm...can't you guys take a joke?
DOWN WITH MT! DIRTY FASCISTS! DAMN YOU AND YOUR NO-LONGER-FREE LICENSING SCHEMES! IF I WANTED TO HAVE MY FREEDOM TAKEN AWAY I'D... ...wait a minute...
...Hmm...
20 grand worth of Apple goodies?
*becomes suddenly quiet and opens emacs*
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