Isn't Brazil effectively controlled by drug/etc. lords? Even if they don't have control over the voting, I'm not sure it matters a whole lot who the people elect.
Yes, we should be moving largely to PNG for digital imaging (on the web, anyway), and no, nobody is going to pop up and try to screw us with the PNG format. In fact, that's the point.
"Portable Network Graphics", or "PNG's Not GIF!"... either one is good in my book.
> And Mono is why I swtiched from Gnome to KDE. > Any more questions?
Yes, I have the following question:
Why does a small group of developers (some of whom happen to also work on gnome) working on the mono project constitute a reason to abandon gnome?
Mono is in no way linked to the gnome desktop, and IMHO is unlikely to become thusly linked in the near future. The opinions of Miguel (sp?) may have misled you... there is no.NET in GNOME.
Silly ignorant person... you do not need to install windows anyway to use wine to successfully run windows apps like office, etc. Please see codeweavers, lindows, etc.
Here at another UW (University of Wisconsin - Madison) we have quite a few Sun Rays hooked up (to a solaris machine somewhere, I imagine) in public places (Unions, etc.) with no login... they run just Netscape, I think, and are used for web browsing, web email checking, etc. They are quite handy. (Similar to the kiosks with macs inside, but much cooler.)
The same thing can be easily done with linux.
If you want more apps, as word processing, etc. then it's slightly trickier. Of course the immediate place to go is http://www.riverdale.k12.or.us/linux/ and not let it stop at grade 12...
I'm sure people have replied to your sig before...
What prevents me from using KDE the environment without konqueror the browser? I don't think you even have to compile it, much less use it for browsing of files/internet/etc. I can only conclude that you are a silly person.
As for such silly ads on slashdot... why not? They will distract me much less than ads for products I might conceivably use, and might even bring a smile to my face as I scrolled over them.
What developers (and 'computer scientists', if they really must) should do... is support GNOME. It disgusts me that people think KDE is somehow good, even more that they think it is "the best hope for Linux". Wake up and smell the GNOME!
White should not "hurt your eyes". Try turning down the brightness of your monitor. A lot of people keep their monitors blazingly bright because it 'looks more colorful' or some such gibberish. It's just more brightness, and worse on your eyes.
Actually, MS kind of likes to do that. My (University of Wisconsin - Madison) Undergraduate Projects Lab runs a lot of non-MS boxes (various Linux, Solaris, Mac)... so this semester there appeared a bunch of new machnines running windows. So I asked: "Can I fix these machines?" which means of course "Can I get rid of that damn Windows and install an OS I like?" and the answer was "No... they were donated by Microsoft... they have to run windows."
It is worth Microsoft's while to get students to use their products. This is evident many ways; just look at the student price for MS Office: $25 vs. $100s. Microsoft hates it when people use software that isn't Microsoft.
What's interesting about this post not what the article claims to be about. The article, running on an Excite web site, is fairly clearly written deceptively to make Google look bad. It throws in what amounts to an ad for these ridiculous Overture people.
A quick google search on "Excite Overture" leads to an article about how Overture is the company that runs paid ads on the Excite search engine.
So this story is not about how some people are stupid and think google is shady, but about how some people at Excite apparently are both stupid and shady.
You are one funny kid. I'm glad I have nothing better to do right now, because I'm almost enjoying playing this game with you. (Sorry to the moderators, but you've got to have SOME appreciation for posts that are so easy to mod down...)
First of all, I'd like to switch your rebuttals around:
Are you rich? - You are a medical student. I'm curious to see the American medical student who comes from a low-income household...
Are you an idiot? - You are 100k in debt. Now, even granted that once you become a practicing doctor (imagine you have succeeded...) you will likely pay off your debt within 10 years, it is riciculous that you are so far under in light of scholarships that could have been won, work that could have been done, etc.
Movine right along... Let's look at the generosity of Bill Gates. I won't knock it, it is good. What is bad is the economic system that CREATED the HUGE imbalance of wealth. The system that says: the motivation for being a doctor is to make a lot of money, not to help people. The motivation for creating science and technology is to sell it at a profit, not to contribute to the welfare of mankind.
The fact that an INDIVIDUAL is able to contribute such ridiculously large amounts of money is indicative of the PROBLEM, not the solution.
I find it odd that many people think that biological machines are somehow easier to endow with a "will" than mechanical machines.
I understand that the hard-coded survival instinct discourages thinking of oneself as no more than a physical system that exists BECAUSE it has self-preservation.
While it is true that no sane person is likely to design a robot to kill everyone and "take over the world", it is possible that a person could design a robot/computer system to design more advanced robots, which in turn design more advanced robots. Robots designed to look after themselves, with their own self-preservation instinct. And once you do that, it's hard to say whether their "artificial" (no more than your own) needs will conflict with those of humans.
"Corporations look out for profit only, not the people." - This is an argument for socialism, and a valid one.
"People are dying in Africa and they sell $4 cups of coffee." - This is an illustration of the economic imbalance that exists in the world, an imbalance that many feel should be addressed.
You, sir, are either rich, an idiot, or a bigot. Oh, wait...
And I can't say I really see how this discussion belongs in this thread...
The amateur robots of BattleBots, etc. are by no means representative of the current state-of-the-art in robotics or machine intelligence. They're remote control toys made in garages, for goodness sake!
Interesting link to (only one example of) a far more current, advanced robotic system. Quote: "Chinese researchers said they have engineered a hand, as deft as a human's, for a space robot which will soon be sent into space as a prelude to the country's first manned space mission."
Slashdot Mirror
What's that last item all about? The logo looks identical in both the old and new links, as far as I can tell...
Don't post while sleepy?
Isn't Brazil effectively controlled by drug/etc. lords? Even if they don't have control over the voting, I'm not sure it matters a whole lot who the people elect.
Not that it's much better elsewhere...
I use them, but I'd rather use metric.
What's so imperative about Java that you have to impede gcc 3.1?
Java is not so great.
Yes, we should be moving largely to PNG for digital imaging (on the web, anyway), and no, nobody is going to pop up and try to screw us with the PNG format. In fact, that's the point.
"Portable Network Graphics", or "PNG's Not GIF!"... either one is good in my book.
http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/
> And Mono is why I swtiched from Gnome to KDE.
.NET in GNOME.
> Any more questions?
Yes, I have the following question:
Why does a small group of developers (some of whom happen to also work on gnome) working on the mono project constitute a reason to abandon gnome?
Mono is in no way linked to the gnome desktop, and IMHO is unlikely to become thusly linked in the near future. The opinions of Miguel (sp?) may have misled you... there is no
That this "phonic" thing, built with the ultra-portable .net dealy, still only runs on linux (or at least nix-ish) machines with gtk?
.net apps written for windows similarly only work with the "windows gui toolkit" (or whatever)?
On a more serious note...
Seriously. Where's the portability at? Will
http://www.spidereyeballs.com/os5/set2/small_os5_r 10_0092.html
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5 _r 10_0118.html
http://www.spidereyeballs.com/os5/set2/small_os
http://www.spidereyeballs.com/os5/perl/small_os
Silly ignorant person... you do not need to install windows anyway to use wine to successfully run windows apps like office, etc. Please see codeweavers, lindows, etc.
It all depends on what you want to do...
Here at another UW (University of Wisconsin - Madison) we have quite a few Sun Rays hooked up (to a solaris machine somewhere, I imagine) in public places (Unions, etc.) with no login... they run just Netscape, I think, and are used for web browsing, web email checking, etc. They are quite handy. (Similar to the kiosks with macs inside, but much cooler.)
The same thing can be easily done with linux.
If you want more apps, as word processing, etc. then it's slightly trickier. Of course the immediate place to go is http://www.riverdale.k12.or.us/linux/ and not let it stop at grade 12...
is ridiculous. And it isn't even new; it's just a remix! Hello, silly "record" "industry" people...
You can bid for flight TRAINING, silly person. Not an actual flight itself.
I'm sure people have replied to your sig before...
What prevents me from using KDE the environment without konqueror the browser? I don't think you even have to compile it, much less use it for browsing of files/internet/etc. I can only conclude that you are a silly person.
As for such silly ads on slashdot... why not? They will distract me much less than ads for products I might conceivably use, and might even bring a smile to my face as I scrolled over them.
What developers (and 'computer scientists', if they really must) should do... is support GNOME. It disgusts me that people think KDE is somehow good, even more that they think it is "the best hope for Linux". Wake up and smell the GNOME!
Netscape 4.x, or Mozilla (mozilla-based NS, if you want)? I find Mozilla to render just about everything more (or at least as) correctly as IE.
White should not "hurt your eyes". Try turning down the brightness of your monitor. A lot of people keep their monitors blazingly bright because it 'looks more colorful' or some such gibberish. It's just more brightness, and worse on your eyes.
Actually, MS kind of likes to do that. My (University of Wisconsin - Madison) Undergraduate Projects Lab runs a lot of non-MS boxes (various Linux, Solaris, Mac)... so this semester there appeared a bunch of new machnines running windows. So I asked: "Can I fix these machines?" which means of course "Can I get rid of that damn Windows and install an OS I like?" and the answer was "No... they were donated by Microsoft... they have to run windows."
It is worth Microsoft's while to get students to use their products. This is evident many ways; just look at the student price for MS Office: $25 vs. $100s. Microsoft hates it when people use software that isn't Microsoft.
What's interesting about this post not what the article claims to be about. The article, running on an Excite web site, is fairly clearly written deceptively to make Google look bad. It throws in what amounts to an ad for these ridiculous Overture people.
A quick google search on "Excite Overture" leads to an article about how Overture is the company that runs paid ads on the Excite search engine.
So this story is not about how some people are stupid and think google is shady, but about how some people at Excite apparently are both stupid and shady.
You are one funny kid. I'm glad I have nothing better to do right now, because I'm almost enjoying playing this game with you. (Sorry to the moderators, but you've got to have SOME appreciation for posts that are so easy to mod down...)
First of all, I'd like to switch your rebuttals around:
Are you rich? - You are a medical student. I'm curious to see the American medical student who comes from a low-income household...
Are you an idiot? - You are 100k in debt. Now, even granted that once you become a practicing doctor (imagine you have succeeded...) you will likely pay off your debt within 10 years, it is riciculous that you are so far under in light of scholarships that could have been won, work that could have been done, etc.
Movine right along... Let's look at the generosity of Bill Gates. I won't knock it, it is good. What is bad is the economic system that CREATED the HUGE imbalance of wealth. The system that says: the motivation for being a doctor is to make a lot of money, not to help people. The motivation for creating science and technology is to sell it at a profit, not to contribute to the welfare of mankind.
The fact that an INDIVIDUAL is able to contribute such ridiculously large amounts of money is indicative of the PROBLEM, not the solution.
I find it odd that many people think that biological machines are somehow easier to endow with a "will" than mechanical machines.
I understand that the hard-coded survival instinct discourages thinking of oneself as no more than a physical system that exists BECAUSE it has self-preservation.
While it is true that no sane person is likely to design a robot to kill everyone and "take over the world", it is possible that a person could design a robot/computer system to design more advanced robots, which in turn design more advanced robots. Robots designed to look after themselves, with their own self-preservation instinct. And once you do that, it's hard to say whether their "artificial" (no more than your own) needs will conflict with those of humans.
But wait... the control system is a computer system...
Your ignorance is only outshone by your elitism.
"Corporations look out for profit only, not the people." - This is an argument for socialism, and a valid one.
"People are dying in Africa and they sell $4 cups of coffee." - This is an illustration of the economic imbalance that exists in the world, an imbalance that many feel should be addressed.
You, sir, are either rich, an idiot, or a bigot. Oh, wait...
And I can't say I really see how this discussion belongs in this thread...
The amateur robots of BattleBots, etc. are by no means representative of the current state-of-the-art in robotics or machine intelligence. They're remote control toys made in garages, for goodness sake!
Interesting link to (only one example of) a far more current, advanced robotic system. Quote: "Chinese researchers said they have engineered a hand, as deft as a human's, for a space robot which will soon be sent into space as a prelude to the country's first manned space mission."
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/china-02e.html
Why does the link point to slashdot.org?
The characters were Elvish, according to Frodo, but the language was definitely of Mordor; the parent post nearly quotes the book/film.
I suspect it is something like the dialect of Elvish spoken in Mordor, by the Orcs, who were once Elves.
But then I'm no expert.