This would also have the disadvantage for the president that the paper trail showing his blatant disregard facts or prudence would be quickly and easily readable. He needs *more* obscurity, not less, to pull this off.
I can get instant results with OS X Tiger vs. I will get better results, someday, maybe, with Longhorn.
In other news, Low-Level Microsoft employees have been using the following pick-up line at local pubs:``while Brad Pitt may be better looking I am *now*, in about 2 years I will be SO much better looking.
Uh, if you could READ what I ACTUALLY wrote, I called didn't call professors paragons of intellect or of openmindedness. And I would actually be the first to say that becoming a professor need not require becoming a first rate teacher---and that some professors suck, that they all are subject to human foibles, and the like.
All *I* suggested was that students frequently take their talents and skills to be far greater than they are---and that clearly having a ph.d. means that there is some (though perhaps defeasible) difference between the prof and you.
I think your philosophy prof was probably right, if this post is any indication of your ability to analyze and respond to texts. I imagine that you don't remember the ``straw man" fallacy from your philosophy class, but this is a fine examplar of it.
At least your prof was nice enough to offer that you call him when you get a ph.d. . . . he could have been a real jerk and told you stfu and foad.
I'm sorry to hear about your experience, and it is a shame.
However, an alternate explanation is that the professor, who is, after all, the expert in your classroom, just thought the paper wasn't as ``kick ass" as you, a student with 15 weeks worth of experience in the field, did.
It is interesting that students believe their opinions on the subject matter of a course to be as insightful, important, and correct as someone who has been working on the subject for many years. It sounds to me like the professors aren't necessarily the arrogant and doctrinaire people in these cases.
The first one is really a non-starter: that Fedora gives a newbie (or anyone) too many choices. Yeah, great, that is the POINT of having multiple distributions. Ubuntu is fabulously easy, as was Yellowdog when I installed it several years ago. No choice of desktops; just run the installer, and in XX minutes (your time may vary) you have a working desktop.
The other beef is that Linux has ``forked". The beauty here is that there ARE distributions that are point and click (again Ubuntu is very well integrated), and that there is LFS, Gentoo, and the like for those who like to have a bit of choice.
So, it is hard to see your complaints as anything but precisely the virtues of the status quo.
Well, a few main reasons:
1. I believe in Free Software, and I value the freedom it provides.
2. My iBook (rev 2, g3 500) runs OS X really slowly, and GNU/Linux (formerly Yellow Dog, currently Ubuntu) performs much better. Since nobody's pitching in to replace my hardware, this is my best option. (Though, in fairness, if I were buying new hardware I'd probably buy a powerbook and put Ubuntu on it.)
3. While I appreciate the aesthetic of the lickable interface of OS X, I refuse to surrender the ability to choose my window manager in X. I prefer Window Manager Improved (WMI) as an interface to my computer. OS X doesn't give me that sort of control over my environment. It is my computer, and I want it to accomodate my working style---not have to adapt my habits to the design preferences of anyone else.
I've been using linux on my iBook for several years now, and I generally prefer it to OS X. (Admittedly, OS X ran slowly on my iBook given its specs.)
The politics of free software aside, I find that having the choice of window managers is pretty important to me. I really don't want much eye candy anymore, and I've come to really love discarding the mouse as much as possible. I started using Ratpoison as a window manager, but have since made the switch to Window Manager Improved---which works precisely as I want.
This isn't to say that others would prefer the OS X model for working; I just find the interface of OS X to get in the way more often than it helps.
And finding & installing software on Linux-PPC is only occassionally problematic. I'd highly recommend it to anyone with older (heck even with newer!) software.
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Or pdf2ps foo.pdf | ps2ascii foo.ps | cat foo.txt
Though I guess we'd have to muck up things a bit and pipe that last part to Less.
This would also have the disadvantage for the president that the paper trail showing his blatant disregard facts or prudence would be quickly and easily readable. He needs *more* obscurity, not less, to pull this off.
I say: write 'em in ROT13.
So, does RTFM become ``Here's your sign"?
The fair test seems to be this:
I can get instant results with OS X Tiger vs. I will get better results, someday, maybe, with Longhorn.
In other news, Low-Level Microsoft employees have been using the following pick-up line at local pubs:``while Brad Pitt may be better looking I am *now*, in about 2 years I will be SO much better looking.
Uh, if you could READ what I ACTUALLY wrote, I called didn't call professors paragons of intellect or of openmindedness. And I would actually be the first to say that becoming a professor need not require becoming a first rate teacher---and that some professors suck, that they all are subject to human foibles, and the like.
All *I* suggested was that students frequently take their talents and skills to be far greater than they are---and that clearly having a ph.d. means that there is some (though perhaps defeasible) difference between the prof and you.
I think your philosophy prof was probably right, if this post is any indication of your ability to analyze and respond to texts. I imagine that you don't remember the ``straw man" fallacy from your philosophy class, but this is a fine examplar of it.
At least your prof was nice enough to offer that you call him when you get a ph.d. . . . he could have been a real jerk and told you stfu and foad.
I'm sorry to hear about your experience, and it is a shame.
However, an alternate explanation is that the professor, who is, after all, the expert in your classroom, just thought the paper wasn't as ``kick ass" as you, a student with 15 weeks worth of experience in the field, did.
It is interesting that students believe their opinions on the subject matter of a course to be as insightful, important, and correct as someone who has been working on the subject for many years. It sounds to me like the professors aren't necessarily the arrogant and doctrinaire people in these cases.
Uh, you've got two very different beefs:
The first one is really a non-starter: that Fedora gives a newbie (or anyone) too many choices. Yeah, great, that is the POINT of having multiple distributions. Ubuntu is fabulously easy, as was Yellowdog when I installed it several years ago. No choice of desktops; just run the installer, and in XX minutes (your time may vary) you have a working desktop.
The other beef is that Linux has ``forked". The beauty here is that there ARE distributions that are point and click (again Ubuntu is very well integrated), and that there is LFS, Gentoo, and the like for those who like to have a bit of choice.
So, it is hard to see your complaints as anything but precisely the virtues of the status quo.
Pulp Fiction was *NOT* the ``freshest, most original thing put in theaters . . . ever". It was, like most of Tarrantino's stuff, a tedious pastiche.
Well, a few main reasons: 1. I believe in Free Software, and I value the freedom it provides. 2. My iBook (rev 2, g3 500) runs OS X really slowly, and GNU/Linux (formerly Yellow Dog, currently Ubuntu) performs much better. Since nobody's pitching in to replace my hardware, this is my best option. (Though, in fairness, if I were buying new hardware I'd probably buy a powerbook and put Ubuntu on it.) 3. While I appreciate the aesthetic of the lickable interface of OS X, I refuse to surrender the ability to choose my window manager in X. I prefer Window Manager Improved (WMI) as an interface to my computer. OS X doesn't give me that sort of control over my environment. It is my computer, and I want it to accomodate my working style---not have to adapt my habits to the design preferences of anyone else.
I've been using linux on my iBook for several years now, and I generally prefer it to OS X. (Admittedly, OS X ran slowly on my iBook given its specs.)
The politics of free software aside, I find that having the choice of window managers is pretty important to me. I really don't want much eye candy anymore, and I've come to really love discarding the mouse as much as possible. I started using Ratpoison as a window manager, but have since made the switch to Window Manager Improved---which works precisely as I want.
This isn't to say that others would prefer the OS X model for working; I just find the interface of OS X to get in the way more often than it helps.
And finding & installing software on Linux-PPC is only occassionally problematic. I'd highly recommend it to anyone with older (heck even with newer!) software.
Isn't the problem that someone else has yet to invent the technology---so that Microsoft can then outright buy rather than develop it in house?