0.3% falsifying research data, can someone explain to me how anything on that list can be considered something other than falsifying research data? Shouldn't this be the total of the other options rather than a seperate choice?
I find it rather interesting that only that the 15+% that said they changed research under pressure from a funding source do not consider that to be falsification.
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True enough, not all geeks are techies and not all techies are geeks. It is possible to be a geek without being a computer geek.
Most techies are good with computers and science and go out to make a pile of cash. Those are not geeks.
For the purpose of determining the fertility of farmers it really does not matter how fertile the bankers are or why they choose to have less children.
My point remains solid as long the farmers can keep pumping out that free labor on a consistant basis.
The common sense-o-meter is an extremely valuable tool when analyzing research. It lets us know that a statistical preference for hamburgers among chemestry students compared to a statistical preference for hotdogs among Algebra students does not in reality have anything to do with the courses and is just a coincidence.
In this case, the common sense-o-meter ticks because anyone who knows farmers is aware that almost all of them have kids and they usually have to count them in pairs. I would venture that a study would show that people working in agriculture have more children than bankers.
Longevity is not just based upon failure, you can replace components one part at a time and keep a pc running indefinately. Longevity is based upon obsolesence. A 486 is obsolete outside the embedded space by any measure.
The grandparent was the first to confuse this issue. The konq developer in question made it very clear that THIS was an exception and that Apple provided these patches in response to the Negative PR. Prior to this Apple had not given them a patch in 2yrs.
Apple was simply releasing source tarballs and the konq devs could download and diff them like everyone else. They would then need to sort through seveal meg of text to interpret the changes, then they would discover that at least half of it was not portable to khtml anyway.
You are blatantly wrong. Apple did not provide patches at all. Apple released source tarballs when they released a new version. The KHTML guys had to download them like everyone else after release and run diff to find the changes.
THIS is the first time Apple ever gave the KHTML guys patches at all.
"and this is turn led to a lot of badly informed comment (mostly on Slashdot), slagging of KDE, Apple, or both."
This ignores the properly informed issue. That there were no patches from Apple at all, just complete release tarballs that the KHTML guys got access to along with everyone else and then had to diff to several megs of text worth of changes and then sort through it.
This was the FIRST case of Apple giving the KDE guys patches at all. This is not a vendication of Apple's previous practices (which were perfectly legal, there is no law requiring community participation or reasonable cooperation), rather it is evidence of how much better giving the kde html guys patches is versus not doing so.
This also increases compatability between Webcore and KHTML and therefore increases the liklihood of future KDE development being portable into Webcore and benefiting Apple in turn.
Don't you think it might be a stretch to claim that permenently leeching energy from the Earths core environmentally safe?
If we run out of oil, we are just out of oil. If we burn up everything, we just have dirty air. If we spill it all out into the ocean, we have some dirty water. If we drain a substantial amount of energy from the Earths core (stop thinking shortterm, if we start it is possible that we will be leeching juice for hundreds of thousands of years into the future) we destroy all life on Earth.
Although it is possible to run linux with very very low memory requirements, it is hardly something you would want to do. A linux system is heavily bottlenecked by the speed of memory and should never be run with little enough ram that swapping would be required. For a linux desktop system running kde that means 512mb-1gb without any applications running (256+ for gnome, the various kde parts like to allocate extra memory for themselves and scale it based on how much ram you have).
If you have more than 64mb of ram, and less than 256mb of ram, you will see better performance on a win9x system.
From the top of a skyscraper in the middle of a 30-mile diameter open field yes, from 5ft up in a steel and glass vehicle surrounded by concrete buildings.. I think not.
Uh oh, I didn't mean to offend a l33t scripting grammar troll.
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Not all within range of one another your not. I think you would have a tough time squeezing 1000 vehicles into the range you could broadcast wifi from a moving vehicle.
That is fine and dandy, except that you are lying. There are similar product offer sites that have multiple tiers of offers but freeipods.com requires only one offer.
There are not multiple sets of offers to fill out. This site has gotten press coverage in multiple major newspapers and magazines and I personally know several people who have recieved their product from THIS website.
In the real world it really isn't all that rose tinted. 1-2yrs ago it was rare to find a job where you could make use of linux skills (beyond it being similar to the *nix boxes), now linux knowledge is a standard requirement for administrators. If you do not know linux to some degree your job prospects are reduced to a tiny subset of job listings.
Seriously, if your an admin it is tough enough to find a job right now, but without EITHER windows or linux knowledge you are screwed.
That is the difference between windows 2003 server and *nix. Win2k3 server can begin to be reasonably secure behind a firewall; as long as the firewall is a *nix box.
"This is probably the most interesting statement you made, as it's so untrue. I've rarely seen a Windows 3.1 program that won't work on XP, but don't try running something that's 11 years old on a "modern" Unix variant. Binary compatibility issues alone would make your statement false. The "Built for XP" crap is just marketing. It's got more to do with the fact that "all of the drivers for the hardware used in this machine are native to the XP CD. You only need to go to the website to get updated drivers." Nothing more. Sure, you'll find the odd program here and there that won't work, but see my prior statements on anecdotal evidence."
Your misunderstanding of the parent makes sense for a windows admin so don't feel bad. I believe he was referring to running new applications on old versions of the OS. Running a win3.1 on XP is not the point so much as running OfficeXP on win3.1 since in the Unix world you do not need to upgrade to the latest OS.
Cars are dangerous if not properly operated. Ham band radio communications are not.
The required knowledge to get a license to drive a car roughly match the knowledge required to perform the task safely. Ham licenses require significant technical knowledge for a task that is literally no more complex than talking into the mic of prebuilt equipment.
Cars require safety precautions be taken when they are OPERATED. Radios require precautions be taken when they are BUILT.
I don't think a ham license should be required to operate on frequencies that are supposed to be reserved for the public. I DO believe licensing and strict guidelines should be required to operate non-certified equipment and to build said equipment.
There are actually hams who fight to keep morse code as a REQUIREMENT to operate. Morse code is great and very useful for some communications, especially over distance; but a lack of knowledge of morse is hardly a reason to ban people from using the radio!
I didn't sell your email address to anyone, most likely you did that yourself. I have actually contributed gpl'd spam filter code, how about yourself?
I know 8 people who have already recieved Ipods and I haven't gotten a single spam on the address I gave the freeipods.com people. You sign up for ONE free trial for something or other and refer 5 people who do the same and they send you a free Ipod.
They are paid by the people running the free trials and come out ahead because most never stick it out to get the five refs. They use legitimate word of mouth referrals to advertise, NOT spam. Not all marketing is evil.
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0.3% falsifying research data, can someone explain to me how anything on that list can be considered something other than falsifying research data? Shouldn't this be the total of the other options rather than a seperate choice?
I find it rather interesting that only that the 15+% that said they changed research under pressure from a funding source do not consider that to be falsification.
True enough, not all geeks are techies and not all techies are geeks. It is possible to be a geek without being a computer geek.
Most techies are good with computers and science and go out to make a pile of cash. Those are not geeks.
For the purpose of determining the fertility of farmers it really does not matter how fertile the bankers are or why they choose to have less children.
My point remains solid as long the farmers can keep pumping out that free labor on a consistant basis.
The common sense-o-meter is an extremely valuable tool when analyzing research. It lets us know that a statistical preference for hamburgers among chemestry students compared to a statistical preference for hotdogs among Algebra students does not in reality have anything to do with the courses and is just a coincidence.
In this case, the common sense-o-meter ticks because anyone who knows farmers is aware that almost all of them have kids and they usually have to count them in pairs. I would venture that a study would show that people working in agriculture have more children than bankers.
Longevity is not just based upon failure, you can replace components one part at a time and keep a pc running indefinately. Longevity is based upon obsolesence. A 486 is obsolete outside the embedded space by any measure.
who says the linux installbase doesn't meet or exceed 16% already?
The file manager doesn't include a web browser, it simply uses the web browser already on the system to render it's display.
The grandparent was the first to confuse this issue. The konq developer in question made it very clear that THIS was an exception and that Apple provided these patches in response to the Negative PR. Prior to this Apple had not given them a patch in 2yrs.
Apple was simply releasing source tarballs and the konq devs could download and diff them like everyone else. They would then need to sort through seveal meg of text to interpret the changes, then they would discover that at least half of it was not portable to khtml anyway.
You are blatantly wrong. Apple did not provide patches at all. Apple released source tarballs when they released a new version. The KHTML guys had to download them like everyone else after release and run diff to find the changes.
THIS is the first time Apple ever gave the KHTML guys patches at all.
"and this is turn led to a lot of badly informed comment (mostly on Slashdot), slagging of KDE, Apple, or both."
This ignores the properly informed issue. That there were no patches from Apple at all, just complete release tarballs that the KHTML guys got access to along with everyone else and then had to diff to several megs of text worth of changes and then sort through it.
This was the FIRST case of Apple giving the KDE guys patches at all. This is not a vendication of Apple's previous practices (which were perfectly legal, there is no law requiring community participation or reasonable cooperation), rather it is evidence of how much better giving the kde html guys patches is versus not doing so.
This also increases compatability between Webcore and KHTML and therefore increases the liklihood of future KDE development being portable into Webcore and benefiting Apple in turn.
This is a SOUTH korean paper about NORTH korean hackers. This is not one nation calling their own hackers l33t as numerous posts above have suggested.
Don't you think it might be a stretch to claim that permenently leeching energy from the Earths core environmentally safe?
If we run out of oil, we are just out of oil. If we burn up everything, we just have dirty air. If we spill it all out into the ocean, we have some dirty water. If we drain a substantial amount of energy from the Earths core (stop thinking shortterm, if we start it is possible that we will be leeching juice for hundreds of thousands of years into the future) we destroy all life on Earth.
No, it's the CENTER in the same way that the chocolate layer of a peanut filled M&M is the center. In short it's not.
Although it is possible to run linux with very very low memory requirements, it is hardly something you would want to do. A linux system is heavily bottlenecked by the speed of memory and should never be run with little enough ram that swapping would be required. For a linux desktop system running kde that means 512mb-1gb without any applications running (256+ for gnome, the various kde parts like to allocate extra memory for themselves and scale it based on how much ram you have).
If you have more than 64mb of ram, and less than 256mb of ram, you will see better performance on a win9x system.
Entrapment is only illegal if done by an officer of the state. Private corporations and citizens can entrap one another all day long AFAIK.
From the top of a skyscraper in the middle of a 30-mile diameter open field yes, from 5ft up in a steel and glass vehicle surrounded by concrete buildings.. I think not.
Uh oh, I didn't mean to offend a l33t scripting grammar troll.
Here, please accept this peace offering... hmm should I give you some blotter... no, not blotter... banana... closer.. oh I know! Accept this sugar cube as a sign of goodwill and affection!
P.S. I wasn't the AC.
Your nick is Tripmaster Monkey and your claiming that THIS is the stupidest thing you've seen all day?
Not all within range of one another your not. I think you would have a tough time squeezing 1000 vehicles into the range you could broadcast wifi from a moving vehicle.
That is fine and dandy, except that you are lying. There are similar product offer sites that have multiple tiers of offers but freeipods.com requires only one offer.
There are not multiple sets of offers to fill out. This site has gotten press coverage in multiple major newspapers and magazines and I personally know several people who have recieved their product from THIS website.
In the real world it really isn't all that rose tinted. 1-2yrs ago it was rare to find a job where you could make use of linux skills (beyond it being similar to the *nix boxes), now linux knowledge is a standard requirement for administrators. If you do not know linux to some degree your job prospects are reduced to a tiny subset of job listings.
Seriously, if your an admin it is tough enough to find a job right now, but without EITHER windows or linux knowledge you are screwed.
That is the difference between windows 2003 server and *nix. Win2k3 server can begin to be reasonably secure behind a firewall; as long as the firewall is a *nix box.
"This is probably the most interesting statement you made, as it's so untrue. I've rarely seen a Windows 3.1 program that won't work on XP, but don't try running something that's 11 years old on a "modern" Unix variant. Binary compatibility issues alone would make your statement false. The "Built for XP" crap is just marketing. It's got more to do with the fact that "all of the drivers for the hardware used in this machine are native to the XP CD. You only need to go to the website to get updated drivers." Nothing more. Sure, you'll find the odd program here and there that won't work, but see my prior statements on anecdotal evidence."
Your misunderstanding of the parent makes sense for a windows admin so don't feel bad. I believe he was referring to running new applications on old versions of the OS. Running a win3.1 on XP is not the point so much as running OfficeXP on win3.1 since in the Unix world you do not need to upgrade to the latest OS.
Cars are dangerous if not properly operated. Ham band radio communications are not.
The required knowledge to get a license to drive a car roughly match the knowledge required to perform the task safely. Ham licenses require significant technical knowledge for a task that is literally no more complex than talking into the mic of prebuilt equipment.
Cars require safety precautions be taken when they are OPERATED. Radios require precautions be taken when they are BUILT.
I don't think a ham license should be required to operate on frequencies that are supposed to be reserved for the public. I DO believe licensing and strict guidelines should be required to operate non-certified equipment and to build said equipment.
There are actually hams who fight to keep morse code as a REQUIREMENT to operate. Morse code is great and very useful for some communications, especially over distance; but a lack of knowledge of morse is hardly a reason to ban people from using the radio!
I didn't sell your email address to anyone, most likely you did that yourself. I have actually contributed gpl'd spam filter code, how about yourself?
I know 8 people who have already recieved Ipods and I haven't gotten a single spam on the address I gave the freeipods.com people. You sign up for ONE free trial for something or other and refer 5 people who do the same and they send you a free Ipod.
They are paid by the people running the free trials and come out ahead because most never stick it out to get the five refs. They use legitimate word of mouth referrals to advertise, NOT spam. Not all marketing is evil.