It is a tell-tale sign of stress when people suddenly start becoming forgetful.
So I would advise you to deal with your stress, and your former good memory will come back. You know: exercise, sleep, lots of fresh air, proper, healthy nutrition, and yes that includes lost of fish. Decide for yourself that life is short and living is now.
Like noted by another slashdotter, the citation is only relevant in case someone else uses your program to create results that are later described in a scientific journal.
In such cases, academic authors will cite your paper anyway. At least they should, and such things is one of the things that reviewer s will check.
My advice is to use an already existing free software license. GPL will give you the maximum protection as an author of academic software. In the README file, put a notice giving the reference to your paper, and state that you'd appreciate a citation. In other words, don't make it a part of the license, which will also make it difficult to include your software in various distributions.
This is the most ridiculous argument I've seen yet on Slashdot.
Your personal earnings do not affect your business, I hope.
The excessively generous personal earnings you pay yourself are deducted from the surplus earnings of your company, which means that this money is not taxed twice.
If you are a responsible businessman, you do not pay yourself higher wages than your business can bear. Thus, higher taxes on the $million or more you personally withdraw should not affect your's or others' businesses. If they do, you are plain greedy and should not be running a business.
The Bush II years have seen tax cut after tax cut that were, in theory, supposed to result in increased growth and therefore reduced deficit. Instead, he has posted record deficits year after year. And still, the fiction that large tax cuts will somehow reduce the deficit persists.
Not exactly. Tax cuts to the wealthiest few percent of the population has no effects like a boost to the economy. These people can hardly increase their spendings, and if they do, it is likely to be luxury and imported products.
The correct way to kickstart the economy in the US is exactly what Obama is suggesting: cut taxes for 95% of the lowest incomes. That will create a significant demand on domestically produced goods such as food, cars, and home improvements, as well as preventing foreclosures.
McCains tax policies, which are Bush++, are likely to make things worse.
Let say for the sake of argument, that by "extraterrestrial life" we mean a civilization that has a more advanced technology than our own, so that they would be able to reach us here at earth.
Then you also need to consider whether this civilization is concurrent with human life on earth. Since we have only existed in a civilization that knows about space travel for 50 years, and the age of the universe is 15 billion years, you have to include a factor of ~ 3 * 10 e-9 into the equation which brings down the probability quite a bit.
The fact is, that the discussion of extraterrestrial civilizations is purely academic. Because we can't get there, we can never prove their existence. So for all practical purposes, such civilizations don't exist.
Our time and effort is much better spent thinking about how we humans can survive on this planet. It's not obvious that human existence has thousands of years ahead of it.
I find it quite chocking that americans seem to think it is acceptable that the human rights of prisoners are violated in prisons, and that the authorities also seem to accept this, or are simply unable to uphold law and order within the prison system.
In discussions of this nature, you often see more or less discrete acceptance of references to "Bubba" or gang rape or other victimization of inmates.
This attitude is reminiscent of a medieval revenge or blood-for-blood mentality which is not appropriate for a modern civilized society.
The conviction and punishment is given by the court, and no mistreatment, torture or humiliation must arbitrarily be added by anybody else. It is the duty of the prison system to protect inmates from abuse and violence.
It makes no sense at all to question evolution. Evolution is a fact, not a theory, it can be observed everyday, everywhere. For a system to display evolutionary behaviour three criteria need to be fullfilled:
the system must be able to propagate some characteristics from one generation to the next
The environment must apply some kind of selection
The system must randomly mutate or combine characteristics when passed from one generation to the next
This can be easily simulated in a computer. Let it run for a thousand generations, and the population will have adapted perfectly to the environment. By this time, evolution will slow down, until the environment changes again.
On the other hand, the evolution of mankind, or more accurately: the descent of man, is a theory, and always will be. We cannot build a time machine and go back a million years and find specimens of our forefathers. All we have is fossils from different time periods, and genome sequences of present-day man and animals.
So while the descent of man in fact is a scientific theory, it is constructed from thousands and thousands of separate pieces of evidence, and thought the exact details will always remain unclear (lack of the time machine) the scientific understanding of what went down is very, very well established.
Mark Shuttleworth's proposal is one of the most important and well-thought out ideas in a long time, and essential in the effort to make Linux compete successfully against Windows. And, solving bug #1 on Ubuntu's bugtracker.
Currently, the release of any distribution, no matter when it happens, will be a snapshot of all the included software packages. Some will be mature, some will just miss a major update, some may be unstable, some may be bleeding edge experimental.
Ubuntu is currently synchronized with Gnome, but the more projects that are able synchronize on a fixed schedule, the more complete, bug-free and up-to-date the distributions will be, because their set of software contains newly released, stable and debugged versions.
This all boils down to the fact that users will get a much better experience, and Linux will shine at its finest. All distributions will benefit from it.
I would like to see a bunch of Linux disk utilities like parted, fsck, dd, etc., hardware diagnosis programs like memtest86, benchmarking software, security auditing, etc. All the stuff we usually have on a Live-CD Linux system.
I guess the webbrowser is useful, and so is Skype in case you need to make a call to a support hotline.
And finally, why not LinuxBIOS instead of Megatrends?
Does anyone else think that this whole affair is Theo de Raadt's payback for the Broadcom Driver dispute earlier this year? Then, de Raadt vehemently accused the Linux developers of "ganging up" on one guy from his OpenBSD team, who had copied code GPL'ed from the Broadcom Driver project and removed the GPL clause.
I've read many times that SCO Unix is a very stable product, albeit -- with the poor management -- has fallen behind with respect to hardware support. I'm sure SCO Unix would have had a niche of users and applications, and the company could have done well by working with the community and offering a Linux distribution to other customers.
I feel bad for the SCO developers and employees who've most likely tried to do their jobs, while their management have spent all their time running the business into the ground.
Most likely, Novell will regain the ownership of Unix. Then it remains to be seen what will happen.
If anyone is interested, my top candidates for improvement or python would be:
* regular {} blocks instead of semantic whitespace
I agree completely. I love Python, but syntactic whitespace is the major problem of the language. It comes from Guido's idiosyncrasy of having Python being a "teaching language", but that is no longer the main use of the language.
However, Python already has a starting 'brace', it's the colon. It would be aesthetically pleasing to use the semicolon as the ending 'brace', it would fit into the general 'look' of Python:
a = 1 while > 10: a += 1 b = a + 2 ; print a
Which would work even if Slashdot's <ecode> environment botches up the indentation and you copy-pasted it directly to your terminal window.
Think of the notorious IBM Deathstars (now Hitachi). Those were even on warranty and many will never buy them again because of the hassle of returning so many.
... but the ones that did survive just keep going and going and going and....
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Chances are, that after you are dead, nobody will care about your gigabytes of data, your holiday photos or your emails to other unknown citizens.
Unless you are exceptionally famous, forget about it. Nobody will care.
Forget about your backups. Get a life.
1. In 50 years, the supplier of your memory cards most likely will no longer exist
2. If your data's gone, what good will the warranty be?
It is a tell-tale sign of stress when people suddenly start becoming forgetful.
So I would advise you to deal with your stress, and your former good memory will come back. You know: exercise, sleep, lots of fresh air, proper, healthy nutrition, and yes that includes lost of fish. Decide for yourself that life is short and living is now.
Heh. Worlds fastest computer runs Linux.
This statement is not interesting at all. Sooner or later, every piece of technology will die. I will die. You will die, Woz will die.
It's a trivial truth not worth the all the attention.
Like noted by another slashdotter, the citation is only relevant in case someone else uses your program to create results that are later described in a scientific journal.
In such cases, academic authors will cite your paper anyway. At least they should, and such things is one of the things that reviewer s will check.
My advice is to use an already existing free software license. GPL will give you the maximum protection as an author of academic software. In the README file, put a notice giving the reference to your paper, and state that you'd appreciate a citation. In other words, don't make it a part of the license, which will also make it difficult to include your software in various distributions.
This is the most ridiculous argument I've seen yet on Slashdot.
Your personal earnings do not affect your business, I hope. The excessively generous personal earnings you pay yourself are deducted from the surplus earnings of your company, which means that this money is not taxed twice.
If you are a responsible businessman, you do not pay yourself higher wages than your business can bear. Thus, higher taxes on the $million or more you personally withdraw should not affect your's or others' businesses. If they do, you are plain greedy and should not be running a business.
The Bush II years have seen tax cut after tax cut that were, in theory, supposed to result in increased growth and therefore reduced deficit. Instead, he has posted record deficits year after year. And still, the fiction that large tax cuts will somehow reduce the deficit persists.
Not exactly. Tax cuts to the wealthiest few percent of the population has no effects like a boost to the economy. These people can hardly increase their spendings, and if they do, it is likely to be luxury and imported products.
The correct way to kickstart the economy in the US is exactly what Obama is suggesting: cut taxes for 95% of the lowest incomes. That will create a significant demand on domestically produced goods such as food, cars, and home improvements, as well as preventing foreclosures.
McCains tax policies, which are Bush++, are likely to make things worse.
The secrecy surrounding this incident is stunning.
It is completely unacceptable if private enterprises can limit or deny the public information about incidents happening in space exploration.
In the case of private space travel, there should be completely open and public crash investigations like in the airline industry.
So they'll be able to find nothing even faster...
If you read cuil.com's info page, you will see that "cuil" is an old irish word, that is pronounced "cool".
Your statistics lack one factor, however: time.
Let say for the sake of argument, that by "extraterrestrial life" we mean a civilization that has a more advanced technology than our own, so that they would be able to reach us here at earth.
Then you also need to consider whether this civilization is concurrent with human life on earth. Since we have only existed in a civilization that knows about space travel for 50 years, and the age of the universe is 15 billion years, you have to include a factor of ~ 3 * 10 e-9 into the equation which brings down the probability quite a bit.
The fact is, that the discussion of extraterrestrial civilizations is purely academic. Because we can't get there, we can never prove their existence. So for all practical purposes, such civilizations don't exist.
Our time and effort is much better spent thinking about how we humans can survive on this planet. It's not obvious that human existence has thousands of years ahead of it.
I find it quite chocking that americans seem to think it is acceptable that the human rights of prisoners are violated in prisons, and that the authorities also seem to accept this, or are simply unable to uphold law and order within the prison system.
In discussions of this nature, you often see more or less discrete acceptance of references to "Bubba" or gang rape or other victimization of inmates.
This attitude is reminiscent of a medieval revenge or blood-for-blood mentality which is not appropriate for a modern civilized society.
The conviction and punishment is given by the court, and no mistreatment, torture or humiliation must arbitrarily be added by anybody else. It is the duty of the prison system to protect inmates from abuse and violence.
You are making the Prosecutor's Fallacy here...
It makes no sense at all to question evolution. Evolution is a fact, not a theory, it can be observed everyday, everywhere. For a system to display evolutionary behaviour three criteria need to be fullfilled:
This can be easily simulated in a computer. Let it run for a thousand generations, and the population will have adapted perfectly to the environment. By this time, evolution will slow down, until the environment changes again.
On the other hand, the evolution of mankind, or more accurately: the descent of man, is a theory, and always will be. We cannot build a time machine and go back a million years and find specimens of our forefathers. All we have is fossils from different time periods, and genome sequences of present-day man and animals.
So while the descent of man in fact is a scientific theory, it is constructed from thousands and thousands of separate pieces of evidence, and thought the exact details will always remain unclear (lack of the time machine) the scientific understanding of what went down is very, very well established.
... and Bill Gates is prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen's guru and personal adviser on IT-technology...
Mark Shuttleworth's proposal is one of the most important and well-thought out ideas in a long time, and essential in the effort to make Linux compete successfully against Windows. And, solving bug #1 on Ubuntu's bugtracker.
Currently, the release of any distribution, no matter when it happens, will be a snapshot of all the included software packages. Some will be mature, some will just miss a major update, some may be unstable, some may be bleeding edge experimental.
Ubuntu is currently synchronized with Gnome, but the more projects that are able synchronize on a fixed schedule, the more complete, bug-free and up-to-date the distributions will be, because their set of software contains newly released, stable and debugged versions.
This all boils down to the fact that users will get a much better experience, and Linux will shine at its finest. All distributions will benefit from it.I agree... so close, but no cigar.
I would like to see a bunch of Linux disk utilities like parted, fsck, dd, etc., hardware diagnosis programs like memtest86, benchmarking software, security auditing, etc. All the stuff we usually have on a Live-CD Linux system.
I guess the webbrowser is useful, and so is Skype in case you need to make a call to a support hotline.
And finally, why not LinuxBIOS instead of Megatrends?
Does anyone else think that this whole affair is Theo de Raadt's payback for the Broadcom Driver dispute earlier this year? Then, de Raadt vehemently accused the Linux developers of "ganging up" on one guy from his OpenBSD team, who had copied code GPL'ed from the Broadcom Driver project and removed the GPL clause.
See here: http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/85224/index.html
I've read many times that SCO Unix is a very stable product, albeit -- with the poor management -- has fallen behind with respect to hardware support. I'm sure SCO Unix would have had a niche of users and applications, and the company could have done well by working with the community and offering a Linux distribution to other customers.
I feel bad for the SCO developers and employees who've most likely tried to do their jobs, while their management have spent all their time running the business into the ground.
Most likely, Novell will regain the ownership of Unix. Then it remains to be seen what will happen.
* regular {} blocks instead of semantic whitespace
I agree completely. I love Python, but syntactic whitespace is the major problem of the language. It comes from Guido's idiosyncrasy of having Python being a "teaching language", but that is no longer the main use of the language.
However, Python already has a starting 'brace', it's the colon. It would be aesthetically pleasing to use the semicolon as the ending 'brace', it would fit into the general 'look' of Python:
Which would work even if Slashdot's <ecode> environment botches up the indentation and you copy-pasted it directly to your terminal window.
We hail our bacterial microlords.
If some other player, say, Sun, Novell, IBM, decides to take overt SCO, the stocks will shoot up. It's a high risk to take but hey, SCOX is cheap!