Thats not fair there are lots of useful answers on ask slashdot. Their just usually modded down cause they don't attack SCO, Microsoft or the goverment.
Newpapers on paper spend money on finding out what their reader demographic is and which stories people like and want more of etc. With printed papers this is done by doing surveys of random people and hoping that they are indicative of the whole. Marketing people get a warm and fuzzy feeling when they realised that the internet allows them to get information about everyone that uses the service.
How this plays out in the future is up to the public at large. If most people aren't actually worried about what information they give away and how much the sites track them then the companies will track them. If most people instead choose the anonymous options then those demanding info will disappear.
I can't decide myself which I prefer. On one hand I'm not particularly worried that the people writing the news know which stories I actually read, cause this will mean that there is more chance of future stories being of interest to me. But on the other hand I sometimes have to don my tinfoil hat and worry about what kind of things they might be infering from my choice in news stories or which jokes I read etc nad who they might share this info with.
Only trouble is that argument is a load of rubbish. If your linux server has a flaw that you discover you can fix it yourself. You don't have to rely on the unwashed hippies (though that is usually easier cause a bunch of people can change things quicker than you could yourself).
I don't mean to be getting at you it's just that this isn't the first time that I've heard mention of what cooler failures do to computers and I was wondering if you'd evr seen it happen. I've been using computers for quite a few years and have been using the cheapest coolers and m-boards I can get my hands on (for myself and other people) and have yet to have a cooler fail or fall off.
I just wondered if it does actually happen or is it just one of those nighmares that system builders have akin to water cooling springing a leak...
That's very similar to what I eventually got round to. It didn't seem to help but that might just be that I already had them totally befuddled from other less clear attempts to explain things. I don't think I'm ever going to be a teacher.;-)
It's all very well complaining about the failings of the blueprint metaphor but when trying to explain to someone what source code is it is very hard to come up with something accurate. Where else can you have something like source code. If you tell someone that the source code is the program then they don't understande the signifigance of it compared to binaries and as soon as you start explaining about compiling they really get confused. I know people doing tech support who don't know how programs are made - that is something someone else does they just tell you to reboot.
I agree whole heartedly with Bill Thompsons call for greater computer literacy but in the interim can anyone come up with a better way to explain what source is to someone who doesn't care how a computer is programmed but is worried hackers are going to get control of their computer after hearing the news reports.
I liked this quote
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SCO UNIX(R) has all of the security features of the higher priced UNIX(R) solutions but at a fraction of the cost. These security features guard against business interruption,
denial of service attacks...
NO NO! It is going to benefit the animals far more than the humans. What are we going to get on mars? but the animals on earth have less humans ruining things for them.
That is a very interesting use of statistics (ignoring the fact they are made up - they are probably close).
What you should actually be looking at is whether the people playin violent games are more likely to commit violent crimes than those that don't, all other things being equal.
The all other things being equal is nigh on impossible to get so no conclusive conclusion can be reached.
About the only people in the UK that take the BBC seriously is other media. I have never been able to figure that one out myself.
Pretty much everyone I know is annoyed at the cost of the liscence (sp?) for what is generally second rate programming and skewed news that they try to pass off as fair and unbiased.
In normal circumstances it is a toss up whether it is cheaper to farm fish or to catch wild ones. With the added complication of fishing in the antarctic, farming ought to come out cheaper (esp. if you factor in the PR costs to convince people you aren't evil after fishing a species to extinction)
Are you sure about all that?
I haven't done much in chemistry but some of the terminology you were using (orbitals) sounds a lot like you are talking about electrons rather than the nucleus. I am trying to figure out how you could have orbitals in the nucleus but there is nothing for the nucleus to orbit. Electrons orbit the nucleus in shells that fill up in the manner you described but not in isotpes but rather in ions (or different elements).
Was this intended as a joke by somebody who knows what they are talking about and the mods thought you were informative?
Has somebody been lying to you about how chemistry works? Or have lecturers been lying to me about how this works?
You've gone and confused me now.
Slashdot Mirror
Someones been watching minority report?
Yellow Dog linux
Why can't a system administrator write code and why can't a developer do admin to pay the bills?
Thats not fair there are lots of useful answers on ask slashdot. Their just usually modded down cause they don't attack SCO, Microsoft or the goverment.
Is that thing any good. I have an old gameboy lying around somewhere and am very tempted...
Anybody who has read the book ought to understand that. It is explained after all.
I like that.
Used to be the only company in Scotland but recently there have been shake ups nad now you cna choose what company you get you electricity from.
How this plays out in the future is up to the public at large. If most people aren't actually worried about what information they give away and how much the sites track them then the companies will track them. If most people instead choose the anonymous options then those demanding info will disappear.
I can't decide myself which I prefer. On one hand I'm not particularly worried that the people writing the news know which stories I actually read, cause this will mean that there is more chance of future stories being of interest to me. But on the other hand I sometimes have to don my tinfoil hat and worry about what kind of things they might be infering from my choice in news stories or which jokes I read etc nad who they might share this info with.
Only trouble is that argument is a load of rubbish. If your linux server has a flaw that you discover you can fix it yourself. You don't have to rely on the unwashed hippies (though that is usually easier cause a bunch of people can change things quicker than you could yourself).
I don't mean to be getting at you it's just that this isn't the first time that I've heard mention of what cooler failures do to computers and I was wondering if you'd evr seen it happen. I've been using computers for quite a few years and have been using the cheapest coolers and m-boards I can get my hands on (for myself and other people) and have yet to have a cooler fail or fall off.
I just wondered if it does actually happen or is it just one of those nighmares that system builders have akin to water cooling springing a leak...
That's very similar to what I eventually got round to. It didn't seem to help but that might just be that I already had them totally befuddled from other less clear attempts to explain things. I don't think I'm ever going to be a teacher. ;-)
It's all very well complaining about the failings of the blueprint metaphor but when trying to explain to someone what source code is it is very hard to come up with something accurate. Where else can you have something like source code. If you tell someone that the source code is the program then they don't understande the signifigance of it compared to binaries and as soon as you start explaining about compiling they really get confused. I know people doing tech support who don't know how programs are made - that is something someone else does they just tell you to reboot.
I agree whole heartedly with Bill Thompsons call for greater computer literacy but in the interim can anyone come up with a better way to explain what source is to someone who doesn't care how a computer is programmed but is worried hackers are going to get control of their computer after hearing the news reports.
Duracell has a bunny too
NO NO! It is going to benefit the animals far more than the humans. What are we going to get on mars? but the animals on earth have less humans ruining things for them.
What you should actually be looking at is whether the people playin violent games are more likely to commit violent crimes than those that don't, all other things being equal.
The all other things being equal is nigh on impossible to get so no conclusive conclusion can be reached.
Nah it's only one word.
Now we just need to get them to fix the other 541 words of the article.
Pretty much everyone I know is annoyed at the cost of the liscence (sp?) for what is generally second rate programming and skewed news that they try to pass off as fair and unbiased.
It's kind of worrying that I know that...
In normal circumstances it is a toss up whether it is cheaper to farm fish or to catch wild ones. With the added complication of fishing in the antarctic, farming ought to come out cheaper (esp. if you factor in the PR costs to convince people you aren't evil after fishing a species to extinction)
If I wasn't on /. I would now be really embarassed for posting before actually thinking about what I was posting about.
Are you sure about all that?
I haven't done much in chemistry but some of the terminology you were using (orbitals) sounds a lot like you are talking about electrons rather than the nucleus. I am trying to figure out how you could have orbitals in the nucleus but there is nothing for the nucleus to orbit. Electrons orbit the nucleus in shells that fill up in the manner you described but not in isotpes but rather in ions (or different elements).
Was this intended as a joke by somebody who knows what they are talking about and the mods thought you were informative?
Has somebody been lying to you about how chemistry works? Or have lecturers been lying to me about how this works?
You've gone and confused me now.
Well I never lost connection but I wasn't getting any pictures and it was very slow for a while. It wasn't gone completely but we came very close.