There's a pyramid of knowledge, with maybe baseball at the bottom, and the Stardust mission somewhere at the top. The top of the pyramid can get surprisingly large funding, because the scientists that are pushing for research at the top have some of the most economically valuable skills.
Maybe you sit somewhere in the middle of the pyramid, with baseball too simple, and stardust too sophisticated for your interest. Don't worry, there's funding for the stuff you care about too. But if people with advanced skills say "let us do X because that interests us" please let them too.
What other posters said is true, and you can confirm it from the source. From the GNU General Public License:
"If the Program does not specify a version number of this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation."
So the solution is to SPECIFY A VERSION NUMBER. i.e. you would write:
"This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 2 exclusively) as published by the Free Software Foundation."
The difference between gigabit and gigabyte needs to be explained on Slashdot about as much as the difference between the Moon and the Sun needs to be explained to astronomers.
It is worth noting that those "leap seconds" amuse only some people. People who work on systems that can't afford a 1 second discontinuity (such as the GPS system) use a continuous counting of the SI second.
"Developers earning TRUSTe's certification will not be permitted to promote that fact, said its executive director, Fran Maier. Rather, TRUSTe will issue a "white list" of trusted programs that partners Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news), America Online Inc., CNET Networks Inc. and other Web publishers may use in determining whose software they wish to ally with or distribute."
A blog article can be occasionally good. But here's a simple rule that slashdot should use:
"Do not accept an article submitted by its own writer!"
Not perfect, but at least if it's submitted by someone else, the article has got at least one positive independent review.
I for one would never dare submitting my own stuff. The proper way is to do nothing. If it's really good someone else will discover it and submit it to slashdot.
Google Maps uses a fixed longitude/latitude distance ratio of ~0.772, while the true ratio depends on latitude (the ratio should be cos(latitude)). So Google Map is optimized for 39.5 of latitude (N or S), and the maps are increasingly distorted as you go toward the poles or the equator.
The GPLFlash project appears on Slashdot because it is back in active development. The GPLFlash project is back in active development because it appears on Slashdot.
Slashdot Mirror
Robyn Peterson has the same problem as the speech recognition systems he's reporting on -- he can't hear the difference between "you're" and "your".
There's a pyramid of knowledge, with maybe baseball at the bottom, and the Stardust mission somewhere at the top. The top of the pyramid can get surprisingly large funding, because the scientists that are pushing for research at the top have some of the most economically valuable skills.
Maybe you sit somewhere in the middle of the pyramid, with baseball too simple, and stardust too sophisticated for your interest. Don't worry, there's funding for the stuff you care about too. But if people with advanced skills say "let us do X because that interests us" please let them too.
Oh come on, do you really say things like "what personal computer did you buy?", "do you play doom3 on your personal computer?"
The term "computer" is adequate.
And there's this large class of computer hardware that is compatible with the IBM PC of 1981. How should we call those? They don't deserve a name?
What other posters said is true, and you can confirm it from the source. From the GNU General Public License:
"If the Program does not specify a version number of this License, you may choose any version ever published by the Free Software Foundation."
So the solution is to SPECIFY A VERSION NUMBER. i.e. you would write:
"This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (version 2 exclusively) as published by the Free Software Foundation."
Attribution should come FIRST.
"According to wikipedia, plagiarism is blah blah blah..."
Not
"blah blah blah... oh and BTW this comes from wikipedia".
The difference between gigabit and gigabyte needs to be explained on Slashdot about as much as the difference between the Moon and the Sun needs to be explained to astronomers.
It is worth noting that those "leap seconds" amuse only some people. People who work on systems that can't afford a 1 second discontinuity (such as the GPS system) use a continuous counting of the SI second.
http://www.leapsecond.com/java/gpsclock.htm
I must say that I prefer the kids' Firefox icon (topleft) than the blue earth icon that the "serious" release uses.
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http://www.edubuntu.org/images/tour/gnome-desktop
Oxymoron?
cEnSuRaBle
The point is that the US creates 22% of the World's wealth with only 4.5% of the population, and would like to stay that way.
From TFA:
"Developers earning TRUSTe's certification will not be permitted to promote that fact, said its executive director, Fran Maier. Rather, TRUSTe will issue a "white list" of trusted programs that partners Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - news), America Online Inc., CNET Networks Inc. and other Web publishers may use in determining whose software they wish to ally with or distribute."
A blog article can be occasionally good. But here's a simple rule that slashdot should use:
"Do not accept an article submitted by its own writer!"
Not perfect, but at least if it's submitted by someone else, the article has got at least one positive independent review.
I for one would never dare submitting my own stuff. The proper way is to do nothing. If it's really good someone else will discover it and submit it to slashdot.
Google Maps uses a fixed longitude/latitude distance ratio of ~0.772, while the true ratio depends on latitude (the ratio should be cos(latitude)). So Google Map is optimized for 39.5 of latitude (N or S), and the maps are increasingly distorted as you go toward the poles or the equator.
For example, Anchorage is stretched horizontally by a factor of 1.60 (yup those should be right angles).
MapQuest is similarly distorted, but Yahoo Maps is not.
In computer science 5 years is 2048 days, the closest power of two.
The GPLFlash project appears on Slashdot because it is back in active development. The GPLFlash project is back in active development because it appears on Slashdot.
Code the device drivers in Rexx.
If the MIT stamp and the Harvard stamp aren't on the same page, then both issues could be disassembled to form a complete stampless issue.
0.865 gigaton for 2004 MN4 impact
vs
32 gigaton for Indian Ocean quake/tsunami, 2004
Here's a GPU performance graph which illustrates his point.
For a CRT could you draw the electron gun and circuits.
sed s/^/i/ /usr/share/dict/words
Which source of greenhouse gas should we eliminate?
- fossil fuel burning
- deforestation
- rice paddies
- landfill sites
- Cowboy Neal
Place your own work in front of the sculpture, and sue them because their mirror is replicating your copyrighted work.
I think thIs iS The way of the FutuRe
with regardS To encryPtiOn.
You've got a nicely steganographed "first post" there.