USA law doesn't, contrary to popular belief. "Fair use" is a tradition of *defense* against charges of copyright infringement. That's wildly different from being a law.
As you have realized, I was struck by the flaw that especially hurts WUBI-installs (this on a laptop that should just work - after knowing that GRUB2 would help).
Additionally, I had the pleasure to get a DWA-140 wireless adaptor to work in 10.04 (actually MINT 9; with a terratec cinergy T2 that worked for years still not performing).
To sum up: at the time, I am extremely pissed as I see that the quality of Ubuntu is rapidly degrading (bugs are not fixed, devices that worked cease to function with upgrades); I attribute this to fixed release cycles (and I am watching this for years).
On top of it, I meanwhile think that it is more of a burdon than fun to fix things that should work in the first place.
(Does Ford know that they've hijacked the "Explorer" name?)
Well, from Wikipedia: "The Texas Instruments Explorer is a family of Lisp Machine computers. These computers were sold by Texas Instruments in the 1980s. The Explorer is based on a design from Lisp Machines Incorporated, which is based on the MIT Lisp Machine."
IMHO (and in short), there is no truth, consequently there are no FACTS, just a more or less coherent assembly of assumptions about what 'reality' might look like which is mainly serving the purposes of those in the position to push their interests best.
TFS:Many researchers are coming to view such diseases as manifestations of imbalance in the ecology of the microbes inhabiting the human body.
Which, if you follow the proposition that local balance is only possible within a system that is globally balanced, gives another perspective regards the Gaia principle.
What is bad about it? In analogy to pollution, leading to climate change (not a catastrophy, beware), it just leads to social change, and is not change (equated with progress) just the thing we want?
The "narrowness" of such sites is part of their value, not a deficiency.
Yes; though, implicitly, you base your argument on the prevalence of 'educated' users. These tend to get themselves a special treatment anyway.
I instead (in short but for a long time already) argue that there is no technological progress without mainstream social advancements (which include 'empowerment' of people — what the internet once was thought to be good for).
Only because you are looking at the wrong end of the eye piece your using to judge society.
Rather a strong proposition.
If instead of viewing and judging the effects of technology by looking at the end users you viewed those who actually do the study
Your statement supports the view that there is a tendency to evaluate technology without keeping consequences in mind (social, ecological etc.).
Tolerance of ignorance and stupidity are the enemies of human progress...
I would rather say that the implementation of ignorance and stupidity via an emphasis on 'technology' are the enemies of human progress (while I am aware that it might be difficult to reach a consensus on the meaning of 'progress').
Indeed, and this is to be called ALAS (Advanced Layer Augmented Shielding).
BTW, IMHO, the outlined approach is a paradigm regards advanced technological solutions: if a given system does not work as demanded, create another layer and hope that the increase in complexity will automagically solve the problems.
... I fail to see how a very selective subsample, the online community, can be used meaningfully in calculating risk.
Agreed, but even 'science' relies on statistics without being able to come up with meaningful theories. Rating companies will care a lot less if there is a chance for profit with whatever dubious score they calculate from their 'analysis'.
To be fair, the basic laws behind statistical mechanics are equally simple, yet thermodynamic behaviors can be complex and non-obvious.
The epidemiology is:
Why are people using less energy?
Why are people consuming more energy?
What subtle biochemical and metabolic effects might be involved?
There are a lot more subtle biochemical effects than one might initially suspect.
I rather suspect that a sociological/psychological approach to the first two questions is more appropriate if you want a cure.
... Maybe I'm strange among/.ers, since I don't feel any compelling need to buy the latest shiny toys, but I've given the whole "HD" thing a miss for now.
Same with me.
... I really should set up a MythTV or something...
So do I, but anticipating the crap that is produced I feel not very compelled.
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but you must look at more than one data set to verify your findings
Ahh, the empirical proof.
In my times, this was more in the range of 'support'.
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>You assume German law has a Fair use clause?
USA law doesn't, contrary to popular belief. "Fair use" is a tradition of *defense* against charges of copyright infringement. That's wildly different from being a law.
In the upper left corner they say U.S. Code???
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html
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As you have realized, I was struck by the flaw that especially hurts WUBI-installs (this on a laptop that should just work - after knowing that GRUB2 would help).
Additionally, I had the pleasure to get a DWA-140 wireless adaptor to work in 10.04 (actually MINT 9; with a terratec cinergy T2 that worked for years still not performing).
To sum up: at the time, I am extremely pissed as I see that the quality of Ubuntu is rapidly degrading (bugs are not fixed, devices that worked cease to function with upgrades); I attribute this to fixed release cycles (and I am watching this for years).
On top of it, I meanwhile think that it is more of a burdon than fun to fix things that should work in the first place.
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TFS: The device is said to be running Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition and the boot time reported to be almost instant.
The question is whether it will crash instantly after a kernel update (due to a GRUB issue). This will instantly please all users.
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(Does Ford know that they've hijacked the "Explorer" name?)
Well, from Wikipedia: "The Texas Instruments Explorer is a family of Lisp Machine computers. These computers were sold by Texas Instruments in the 1980s. The Explorer is based on a design from Lisp Machines Incorporated, which is based on the MIT Lisp Machine."
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Whereas, Gaia is not FACT!
IMHO (and in short), there is no truth, consequently there are no FACTS, just a more or less coherent assembly of assumptions about what 'reality' might look like which is mainly serving the purposes of those in the position to push their interests best.
TFS: Many researchers are coming to view such diseases as manifestations of imbalance in the ecology of the microbes inhabiting the human body.
Which, if you follow the proposition that local balance is only possible within a system that is globally balanced, gives another perspective regards the Gaia principle.
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Well, Critics of Kyoto talks say air now a commodity.
As of Wednesday, November 07, 2001.
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Where is the place that is now what slashdot was?
There is none. See "What Really Killed K5" for some analyses.
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What is bad about it? It just leads to social change (like climate change), and change (aka progress) is the thing we all want!
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What is bad about it? In analogy to pollution, leading to climate change (not a catastrophy, beware), it just leads to social change, and is not change (equated with progress) just the thing we want?
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... you can copy.
As simple as that.
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However these were specially modified trains, while this Chinese train broke the speed record for an unmodified train
Presumably it is a modified mixture of technology developped by Kawasaki, Siemens, Bombardier etc. .
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Reminds me of 'Biophotonics' which, IMHO, is inappropriately categorized as 'Pseudoscience' more often than not.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biophoton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz-Albert_Popp
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... blindly walking into lamp posts ...
I recall I managed to do that as a child daydreaming without any gadgetry.
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The "narrowness" of such sites is part of their value, not a deficiency.
Yes; though, implicitly, you base your argument on the prevalence of 'educated' users. These tend to get themselves a special treatment anyway.
I instead (in short but for a long time already) argue that there is no technological progress without mainstream social advancements (which include 'empowerment' of people — what the internet once was thought to be good for).
CC.
Rather a strong proposition.
...
If instead of viewing and judging the effects of technology by looking at the end users you viewed those who actually do the study
Your statement supports the view that there is a tendency to evaluate technology without keeping consequences in mind (social, ecological etc.).
Tolerance of ignorance and stupidity are the enemies of human progress
I would rather say that the implementation of ignorance and stupidity via an emphasis on 'technology' are the enemies of human progress (while I am aware that it might be difficult to reach a consensus on the meaning of 'progress').
CC.
Yes and no.
Exactly; but, as I perceive it, technology and consequences of use are usually evaluated in order to end up with a 'Yes' answer.
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Now you can know all that you can see with a diminished field of view. Another way to look at how technology does not equate with 'progress'.
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Quote: "Is Google Making Us Stupid?" ( http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/09/1332252 )
In a way, this also gives a hint on how to explain the Dupe-Phenomenon.
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Indeed, and this is to be called ALAS (Advanced Layer Augmented Shielding).
BTW, IMHO, the outlined approach is a paradigm regards advanced technological solutions: if a given system does not work as demanded, create another layer and hope that the increase in complexity will automagically solve the problems.
CC.
... I fail to see how a very selective subsample, the online community, can be used meaningfully in calculating risk.
Agreed, but even 'science' relies on statistics without being able to come up with meaningful theories. Rating companies will care a lot less if there is a chance for profit with whatever dubious score they calculate from their 'analysis'.
CC.
To be fair, the basic laws behind statistical mechanics are equally simple, yet thermodynamic behaviors can be complex and non-obvious.
The epidemiology is: Why are people using less energy? Why are people consuming more energy? What subtle biochemical and metabolic effects might be involved?
There are a lot more subtle biochemical effects than one might initially suspect.
I rather suspect that a sociological/psychological approach to the first two questions is more appropriate if you want a cure.
CC.
... Maybe I'm strange among /.ers, since I don't feel any compelling need to buy the latest shiny toys, but I've given the whole "HD" thing a miss for now.
... I really should set up a MythTV or something ...
Same with me.
So do I, but anticipating the crap that is produced I feel not very compelled.
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"100% security" ... "100% minus any bugs in the implementation"
I truly wonder if there is anything like "100% security". Probably if there is no 'security' at all (if it is not needed? impossible to observe?).
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