That was a pretty shit analogy. No-one benefits from a telephone call except you and the recipient, it's a completely different thing. I don't know what you were talking about with the book, there are free books out there. check out BookCrossing.
I see the parents point completely, contributers shouldn't have to pay to create content.
Should we be doing what we rightly criticise them for?
We do it knowingly and willingly however, which is a big difference than Aunty Lola unknowingly and unwillingly using a beta quality OS on her newfangled computery gizmo.
You don't HAVE to use Linux. You get it for free, a little testing and feedback is a nice way of giving back to the community.
Everyone no doubt has set up an elaborate shell script to automatically comment on google stories, bemoaning the amount of news about google on slashdot.
Don't see any else whinging about the amount of Linux coverage, or OSS coverage.
Everyone's looking for the new "big company" to make snarky comments about.
Why is everyone saying "I'm not paying for that". Unless I RTFA wrong, it doesn't say anything about paying. As far as we know, they could just advertise on the site, as they seem to be a *support* place. I know it's not that likely, but it doesn't say anything about charging.
<flamebait> Will this successor be large enough to break a human back when dropped from 4 feet? Will the controller still require 4" long nail extensions to reach all areas? </flamebait>
I said no such thing. We pretty much have a society, now, where women and men *cannot* be discriminated against when going for jobs and whatnot.
Women simply aren't attracted to computer jobs, for whatever reasons I don't care. Why do we need to attract women to these jobs? To balance some fictional scale until women and men have equal 50% representation in every imaginable job?
If a woman seriously wants a job in computing, then there is no reason whatsoever that she cannot get one.
Stereotypes are almost always based on fact, it's where they come from. From what I can tell, most male hairdressers come across as 'camp', not necessarily gay. Most of them simply are.
Side note: As for "homebrew common sense", what other type do you recommend? "Government issued common sense" or perhaps "Privately Leased common sense".
why is the level of participation by women so low?
Why is the level of participation of men in, say, nursery school(kindergarten for the Americans), so low?
Men are good at certain things, Women are good at certain things. Regardless of "Equal Oppurtunities" etc. Men and Women are fundamentally different, see that's why there are different words for them.:P
I argue that in any country, if the government opposed Internet service, how do you get Internet service?
Governments didn't need to approve nor disapprove of the internet. There is a term called NEUTRALITY and most goverments didn't care when the internet first started. Now they are realising it is most probably a good way to line their own pockets...
Sounds like a suspect way to start levying taxes on even more things. I live in a country where taxes are ridiculously high (England) and if *my* government got control of the internet over here, we'll be screwed in the ass, right through our trousers.
"You want to access slashdot.org? 17% 'Internet Value Tax' will be charged to your ISP, have a nice day"
Basically in this novel the NSA has a secret computer called TRANSLTR, the most powerful computer in the world, that simply brute-forces anything it comes across in 6 minutes. something like 20 million processors or some such large number...
Read it, it's good for people of a paranoid frame of mind;)
Create the ability to change screen res on the fly w/o forcing a shutdown/restart of X and PLEASE indicate that settings you have already stored will not work if in fact they will not work.
How's about hitting ctrl+alt+plus to zoom in (decrease res) or ctrl+alt+minux to zoom out (increase res)? As far as I know, this functionality is standard for X, and doesn't restart the server.
While this is certainly a concern, what are the overall effects of such a mass departure?"
The overall effect would be that of the small group of feminazis (also the loudest of people) crying out in indignation over how unfair it is...
How many people complain about the fact there are nearly no men in nursery school teaching positions? Well we'd say "women are better with children than men". Men are better than women with computers, quite simply!
I know this is a massive generalisation and, probably, a crap analogy--but there are always exceptions.
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That was a pretty shit analogy. No-one benefits from a telephone call except you and the recipient, it's a completely different thing. I don't know what you were talking about with the book, there are free books out there. check out BookCrossing.
I see the parents point completely, contributers shouldn't have to pay to create content.
Should I paint my room red or blue? What will be fashionable in 3 years time?
All browsers, even W3C's own browser amaya, fail it horribly.
The only browser making active progress with fixing the bugs it highlights is Safari for mac.
We do it knowingly and willingly however, which is a big difference than Aunty Lola unknowingly and unwillingly using a beta quality OS on her newfangled computery gizmo.
You don't HAVE to use Linux. You get it for free, a little testing and feedback is a nice way of giving back to the community.
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I turn 20 in two days. Curses!
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There is a package manager, make-based one at that, out there called git. Site in german, package in English.
It's a good tool, which basically monitors source-built programs and creates an uninstallation script for them.
Won't this mean Linus' new tool will have to have a name change?
Everyone no doubt has set up an elaborate shell script to automatically comment on google stories, bemoaning the amount of news about google on slashdot.
Don't see any else whinging about the amount of Linux coverage, or OSS coverage.
Everyone's looking for the new "big company" to make snarky comments about.
I am sure you meant "just as soon" :P
Technically every service they provide revolves around search though, does it not?
gmail provides powerful search funtions to email, for example.
That said, there is an important point here: Linux probably won't "kill" windows, it will be RedHat, or Mandrake, or Debian, or even Linspire :/
Linux at it's heart is nothing more than a Kernel, it's a GNU/Linux distro that people ultimatly install (mostly anyway).
Someone mod this guy +1, pedantic
Instead of "officially supporting" browsers, why not "officially support" web standards and be done with it?
Why is everyone saying "I'm not paying for that". Unless I RTFA wrong, it doesn't say anything about paying. As far as we know, they could just advertise on the site, as they seem to be a *support* place. I know it's not that likely, but it doesn't say anything about charging.
<flamebait>
Will this successor be large enough to break a human back when dropped from 4 feet? Will the controller still require 4" long nail extensions to reach all areas?
</flamebait>
"According to my logic?"
I said no such thing. We pretty much have a society, now, where women and men *cannot* be discriminated against when going for jobs and whatnot.
Women simply aren't attracted to computer jobs, for whatever reasons I don't care. Why do we need to attract women to these jobs? To balance some fictional scale until women and men have equal 50% representation in every imaginable job?
If a woman seriously wants a job in computing, then there is no reason whatsoever that she cannot get one.
Stereotypes are almost always based on fact, it's where they come from. From what I can tell, most male hairdressers come across as 'camp', not necessarily gay. Most of them simply are.
Side note:
As for "homebrew common sense", what other type do you recommend? "Government issued common sense" or perhaps "Privately Leased common sense".
Heh, flamebait? I'm pretty sure I was stating the obvious, but there we go.
why is the level of participation by women so low?
:P
Why is the level of participation of men in, say, nursery school(kindergarten for the Americans), so low?
Men are good at certain things, Women are good at certain things. Regardless of "Equal Oppurtunities" etc. Men and Women are fundamentally different, see that's why there are different words for them.
GIMP IMITATES YOU!
American populace slams "extra-marital fellatio"
I argue that in any country, if the government opposed Internet service, how do you get Internet service?
Governments didn't need to approve nor disapprove of the internet. There is a term called NEUTRALITY and most goverments didn't care when the internet first started. Now they are realising it is most probably a good way to line their own pockets...
Sounds like a suspect way to start levying taxes on even more things. I live in a country where taxes are ridiculously high (England) and if *my* government got control of the internet over here, we'll be screwed in the ass, right through our trousers.
"You want to access slashdot.org? 17% 'Internet Value Tax' will be charged to your ISP, have a nice day"
Any of you read Dan Browns Digital Fortress?
;)
Basically in this novel the NSA has a secret computer called TRANSLTR, the most powerful computer in the world, that simply brute-forces anything it comes across in 6 minutes. something like 20 million processors or some such large number...
Read it, it's good for people of a paranoid frame of mind
So, doesn't isn't your fancy constitution meant to stop this kind of thing?
Create the ability to change screen res on the fly w/o forcing a shutdown/restart of X and PLEASE indicate that settings you have already stored will not work if in fact they will not work.
How's about hitting ctrl+alt+plus to zoom in (decrease res) or ctrl+alt+minux to zoom out (increase res)? As far as I know, this functionality is standard for X, and doesn't restart the server.
p.s. Use the numpad minus and plus
While this is certainly a concern, what are the overall effects of such a mass departure?"
The overall effect would be that of the small group of feminazis (also the loudest of people) crying out in indignation over how unfair it is...
How many people complain about the fact there are nearly no men in nursery school teaching positions? Well we'd say "women are better with children than men". Men are better than women with computers, quite simply!
I know this is a massive generalisation and, probably, a crap analogy--but there are always exceptions.
Kids are coming out of school (in schools around the world now) with the latest programming languages.
In my (limited) experience, kids are coming out schools knowing the latest version of Visual Basic...