another point is that there are only so many hours and days in the school year, and we already constantly make choices - as you point out - about what does and does not warrant precious class room minutes.
mainly a marketing tool, designed to suck money from consumers wallets into the manufacturerers. sometimes it does seem to mean a better thing (there must be 100 threads on/. about how gimp is really NOT photoshop) but many times, professional merely means high priced, perhpas with features that NO ONE really needs
most of the "pros" I know use whatever is lying around - they are good enough that they don't need to get suckered into buying exspensive gold plated gagdets.
I think there was a much easier way to figure out what to do with this story: look (look) at the home page; the aesthetic sense is so bad, you know it is crap going forward. no one who could write a decent sentance would be associated with such bad layout.
if u listen to this show regularly, as I do, living in boston, u know that the host has this irritating and moronic habit of lowering his voice and trying to invest everything with big, earthshaking importance. he is also a right wingnut conservative. Like other NPR (national peurile rightwing radio) hosts, his right wing bias is clearly seen when a liberal caller makes some perfectly reasoanble , if not correct, suggestion, like american attacks in the mid east prior to 9/11 irritated people, or that the failure of the american auto industry is not due to workers, but due to the astonishing incompetance of ceos. when somenone makes one of these comments, he has this incredibly arrogant way of dismissing them, by ignoring the comment, and directing a question to one of his guests that implicitly dismisses the liberal callers question as idiotic. perhpahs the effort by boston university to turn its station into a profit center is driving his views. basically the 90s version of some middlebrow magazine like readers digest or american heritage. yeah, i really do dislike him: he has this incredible forum, and does so little with it
u got that right I have posted before that Open source fighting for the desktop is playing their game, by their rules, which is a sure recipe for failure.
since linux doesn't have drivers, it is essentially dead on the desktop. Since people are locked to office, open/office linux is not a plus.
what open source clearly needs to do is find a new reason to use the computer, patent it, then write code; 1% of people buy a computer cause they hate ms or somehting, 99% buy it to do something. 100% of hte success of fire fox is that it does soemthing 100% of the failure of linux is that it doesnt do anytthing (thats sort of an intelligence test, if you argue that linux does do something, you fail)
most of the comments posted so far are stupid, at best like all the comments about "half the programmers....every single one" clearly, he meant every one of the half; his grammar may not be the best, but calling him on it is nitpicking at best - typ[ical/.ers who can't see the forest for the trees.
HIs basic point is pretty clear: most of "open source" is funded by companies, not by people working for free. Now you can argue if this is correct, but to distort his argument is stupid.
About Kissinger, there is something I have wondered about for a long time: Suppose you are a Vietnamese parent, sleeping in your hut, with your infant there beside you, and US forces decide to waste a few slopses, and lob some napalm into your hut. As the jellied gasoline burns a hole through your babys flesh, which is worse - the smell of burning flesh or the screams ??
That is H Kissinger - worse then a war crimminal, a monster on the order of Himmler, to have storys about him is to lower yourself to his level
time and again on/., we have evidence of the insipid nature of Googles supposed vaunted technology. Google is NOT a good technology, it is NOT a good thing for the web, it is the new MS$, and the sooner that/. realizes that MS is no longer the enenmy, and google is, the better. It is a true measure of h ow incompetant the highly paid ceos of othe software companys are that they can't exploit this I predicted, last year, that as google becomes a real biz that has to compete, all the "fun" stuff for neerds, like math appreciation, will be dropeed in favor of marketers (and gates wonders why he can't find programmers)
you can buy external hardrives at about 30 cents a gig, on special, so 800 bucks is ~~ 2400 gig of hardrive, or about 53 bluray disks, assuming you can efficiently fill the disks at 45 gig each, neglecting the cost of the disk..
as usual, for early adopters YMWV (your mileage Will vary)
it ain't as good as other mail programs Firefox was clealry superior to other browsers; thunderbird is not clearly superior to outlook (the only program i am familiar with) and, imo, is markedly inferior in many ways which brings us to the central truth of open source software: most users use software as tool to get something done; when they are free to choose (as in the browser or mail program used at home) they will willing ly select open source if it is better; they will not if if aint better If someone wants to have a discussion of why tb ain't so good, great - it might acutally lead to something.
"the free patches.." wow, FREE security patches How generous of Mr. Jobs. this is an example of market-speak, an orwellian version of the english language, where the subject (apple) is always made to appear in a favorable light, with every possible action embellished, and every possible flaw minimized. this might seem like minor carping, untill you think about why the word "free" is there. surely you would expect a reputable company, as a matter of course, to stand behind its products and deliver free fixes to flaws; that this is embellished with positive language is perverse.
here we have a comment about a press release about a study why on earth are people so lazy they can't provide a citation to the exact original study, so you can actually see what the authors found out - not what they said, or the press release said, or the/. editor or submittor said, but what was found sloppy, lazy , stupid - no wonder people off shore
nonsense people are very complex - they are quite capable of believing superstitious nonsense (like religion, homeopathy or intellignet design) in one part of their life, and still do good sceince in some other field. go read some oscar wilde
not being an electronics expert, I could not find a copy of the actual paper, but this url http://www.zurich.ibm.com/news/07/cooling.html actually gives some details, so people can actually shoot their mouths off knowing what it is that is being trashed.
dell is a huge company, renowned for its sales prowess, and they need HELP ? this is insane on its face.
That you have to buy linux boxes from small companies no one has heard of instead of dell says that there is no market; when there is a market, dell will simply buy linux vendors, the way they bought alienware.
this is how the real non/. world works: small companies struggle to make a product in a niche market, and when the market gets big enought, the small company gets bought.
A more important thing to think about is why linux is such a disaster on the desktop. If could be linux has made the classic mistake of letting the competition - wintel - define the rules. It could be that linux is simply not a good fit for the desktop; not everything works for everything. It could be that the linux mindset is failing to recognize what is needed (drivers, fewer distros, less emphasis on cutting edge). the classic definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing an expect diffrent results. linux has been doing the same thing for a while, with zilcho exceptance on the desktop. Time to rethink the strategy
I used to have as a neighbor a world famous theoretical physicist, who worked on gravity ( i think) and i once asked him if anything could go faster then c, the speed of light in vacumn
and he gave me that look parents give kids when they are asking a whole series of particularly irritating and stupid questions.
no, he said, repeat slowly, C is the maximum. whatever it is, it ain't faster.
so, this is like perpetual motion machines: you may not know exactly the super clever trick being used, but it really aint worth worrying about. If something does go faster then C, it will be front page news, and you will hear about it pretty quickly, like from teh nobel prize committee..... or, to put it in/. geek speak, this iis like someone telling you he has this simple trick to make any babe love you. You know not only is it jive, but it ain;t worth figuring out either
There seems to be a lot of mis conceptions on/. about how the legal system works. read "A civil action" and pay particular attention to the evil smart harvard lawyer (I forget his name, starts with an F i think)
This guy is clearly a rent a genius, and one of the tricks he uses to completely foils the opposition is the psychological effect of objections...
also pay attention to the two experts in the case; both are international renowned academics and total jerks.
remember OJ and the glove ?
the point is, that in these legal cases where 10s of millions of dollars are at stake, it is the norm, not the exception to have totally incompetent witnesses, and totally lazy defense lawyers; after all, if the RIAA is paying you 500 buck s an hour plus exspenses, u gonna work hard or cruise ? It may sound surprising, but in a lot of cases large companies get taken to the cleaners by their law firms
u shd watch the fox reality quiz show, r u smarter then a 5 th grader. one constestatn, ID as an amer hist grad from usc, did not know the 1st american prez to be impeached.
and u r proud of your status. unbeleivable. and , u will probably object to my spelling errors, typical/. coulnt see the forest if the trees were all cut down and turned into paper billboards of forests...
u do know that ~ 50% of bankruptcys in this country are tied to large medical bills ? u ever been in a welfare line ? u actuallyknow anyone beeen in a welfare line ? even if they are lazy, how about picking on corporate types who take home multi million paychecks when they get fired
from the article " Qumranet Location: Santa Clara, CA and Netanya, Israel Product or Service: Although still in stealth-mode, Qumranet has generated enough buzz in the open-source community that its future product offering is already coming into focus. The company will deliver virtualization solutions developed around a kernel-based approach that allows the software to be smaller and more efficient than competing solutions. "
This reads like a parody of bad buzzword english I think one can safely ignore anything the author of this article has to say, and probably anything on a website that would allow this to appear.
a highly experienced linux user, acknowledged as a hacker, had to spend four hours on a trivial upgrade ? And linux is ready to take over the desktop ?
maybe it is time linux got real, and realized the desktop is not a good market. I bet that would make linux a better product , if you concentrate on where your strength is, like servers - if all the energy squandered on kde and gnome desktops, and all that other stuff had gone into apache/security/database stuff, linux would rule the server
am i the only one who thinks all the editing in the pdf amounts to legalistic parsing of words that has little to do with teaching on the ground ? however, this legalistic parsing creates "standards" which can be used to make "objective" goals which can be used to make CHEAP standardized tests, which can be used to get good grades so as to get more money from the odious, near pedophiliac law known as every child left behind
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another point is that there are only so many hours and days in the school year, and we already constantly make choices - as you point out - about what does and does not warrant precious class room minutes.
on how clunky and poorly written the nasa software is, with obligatory Govt can't get anything right diatribes.
nice post - to bad most people can't understand this
mainly a marketing tool, designed to suck money from consumers wallets into the manufacturerers. sometimes it does seem to mean a better thing (there must be 100 threads on /. about how gimp is really NOT photoshop)
but many times, professional merely means high priced, perhpas with features that NO ONE really needs
most of the "pros" I know use whatever is lying around - they are good enough that they don't need to get suckered into buying exspensive gold plated gagdets.
I think there was a much easier way to figure out what to do with this story: look (look) at the home page; the aesthetic sense is so bad, you know it is crap going forward.
no one who could write a decent sentance would be associated with such bad layout.
if u listen to this show regularly, as I do, living in boston, u know that the host has this irritating and moronic habit of lowering his voice and trying to invest everything with big, earthshaking importance.
he is also a right wingnut conservative. Like other NPR (national peurile rightwing radio) hosts, his right wing bias is clearly seen when a liberal caller makes some perfectly reasoanble , if not correct, suggestion, like american attacks in the mid east prior to 9/11 irritated people, or that the failure of the american auto industry is not due to workers, but due to the astonishing incompetance of ceos. when somenone makes one of these comments, he has this incredibly arrogant way of dismissing them, by ignoring the comment, and directing a question to one of his guests that implicitly dismisses the liberal callers question as idiotic. perhpahs the effort by boston university to turn its station into a profit center is driving his views.
basically the 90s version of some middlebrow magazine like readers digest or american heritage.
yeah, i really do dislike him: he has this incredible forum, and does so little with it
u got that right
/office linux is not a plus.
I have posted before that Open source fighting for the desktop is playing their game, by their rules, which is a sure recipe for failure.
since linux doesn't have drivers, it is essentially dead on the desktop. Since people are locked to office, open
what open source clearly needs to do is find a new reason to use the computer, patent it, then write code; 1% of people buy a computer cause they hate ms or somehting, 99% buy it to do something.
100% of hte success of fire fox is that it does soemthing
100% of the failure of linux is that it doesnt do anytthing (thats sort of an intelligence test, if you argue that linux does do something, you fail)
most of the comments posted so far are stupid, at best /.ers who can't see the forest for the trees.
like all the comments about "half the programmers....every single one" clearly, he meant every one of the half; his grammar may not be the best, but calling him on it is nitpicking at best - typ[ical
HIs basic point is pretty clear: most of "open source" is funded by companies, not by people working for free.
Now you can argue if this is correct, but to distort his argument is stupid.
About Kissinger, there is something I have wondered about for a long time:
Suppose you are a Vietnamese parent, sleeping in your hut, with your infant there beside you, and US forces decide to waste a few slopses, and lob some napalm into your hut. As the jellied gasoline burns a hole through your babys flesh,
which is worse - the smell of burning flesh or the screams ??
That is H Kissinger - worse then a war crimminal, a monster on the order of Himmler, to have storys about him is to lower yourself to his level
time and again on /., we have evidence of the insipid nature of Googles supposed vaunted technology. /. realizes that MS is no longer the enenmy, and google is, the better.
Google is NOT a good technology, it is NOT a good thing for the web, it is the new MS$, and the sooner that
It is a true measure of h ow incompetant the highly paid ceos of othe software companys are that they can't exploit this
I predicted, last year, that as google becomes a real biz that has to compete, all the "fun" stuff for neerds, like math appreciation, will be dropeed in favor of marketers (and gates wonders why he can't find programmers)
you can buy external hardrives at about 30 cents a gig, on special, so 800 bucks is ~~ 2400 gig of hardrive, or about 53 bluray disks, assuming you can efficiently fill the disks at 45 gig each, neglecting the cost of the disk..
as usual, for early adopters YMWV (your mileage Will vary)
it ain't as good as other mail programs
Firefox was clealry superior to other browsers; thunderbird is not clearly superior to outlook (the only program i am familiar with) and, imo, is markedly inferior in many ways
which brings us to the central truth of open source software: most users use software as tool to get something done; when they are free to choose (as in the browser or mail program used at home) they will willing ly select open source if it is better; they will not if if aint better
If someone wants to have a discussion of why tb ain't so good, great - it might acutally lead to something.
"the free patches.."
wow, FREE security patches
How generous of Mr. Jobs.
this is an example of market-speak, an orwellian version of the english language, where the subject (apple) is always made to appear in a favorable light, with every possible action embellished, and every possible flaw minimized.
this might seem like minor carping, untill you think about why the word "free" is there. surely you would expect a reputable company, as a matter of course, to stand behind its products and deliver free fixes to flaws; that this is embellished with positive language is perverse.
here we have a comment about a press release about a study
why on earth are people so lazy they can't provide a citation to the exact original study, so you can actually see what the authors found out - not what they said, or the press release said, or the/. editor or submittor said, but what was found
sloppy, lazy , stupid - no wonder people off shore
nonsense
people are very complex - they are quite capable of believing superstitious nonsense (like religion, homeopathy or intellignet design) in one part of their life, and still do good sceince in some other field.
go read some oscar wilde
not being an electronics expert, I could not find a copy of the actual paper, but this url http://www.zurich.ibm.com/news/07/cooling.html actually gives some details, so people can actually shoot their mouths off knowing what it is that is being trashed.
dell is a huge company, renowned for its sales prowess, and they need HELP ?
this is insane on its face.
That you have to buy linux boxes from small companies no one has heard of instead of dell says that there is no market; when there is a market, dell will simply buy linux vendors, the way they bought alienware.
this is how the real non/. world works: small companies struggle to make a product in a niche market, and when the market gets big enought, the small company gets bought.
A more important thing to think about is why linux is such a disaster on the desktop. If could be linux has made the classic mistake of letting the competition - wintel - define the rules. It could be that linux is simply not a good fit for the desktop; not everything works for everything. It could be that the linux mindset is failing to recognize what is needed (drivers, fewer distros, less emphasis on cutting edge).
the classic definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing an expect diffrent results. linux has been doing the same thing for a while, with zilcho exceptance on the desktop.
Time to rethink the strategy
I used to have as a neighbor a world famous theoretical physicist, who worked on gravity ( i think)
and i once asked him if anything could go faster then c, the speed of light in vacumn
and he gave me that look parents give kids when they are asking a whole series of particularly irritating and stupid questions.
no, he said, repeat slowly, C is the maximum. whatever it is, it ain't faster.
so, this is like perpetual motion machines: you may not know exactly the super clever trick being used, but it really aint worth worrying about.
If something does go faster then C, it will be front page news, and you will hear about it pretty quickly, like from teh nobel prize committee.....
or, to put it in/. geek speak, this iis like someone telling you he has this simple trick to make any babe love you. You know not only is it jive, but it ain;t worth figuring out either
There seems to be a lot of mis conceptions on /. about how the legal system works. read "A civil action" and pay particular attention to the evil smart harvard lawyer (I forget his name, starts with an F i think)
This guy is clearly a rent a genius, and one of the tricks he uses to completely foils the opposition is the psychological effect of objections...
also pay attention to the two experts in the case; both are international renowned academics and total jerks.
remember OJ and the glove ?
the point is, that in these legal cases where 10s of millions of dollars are at stake, it is the norm, not the exception to have totally incompetent witnesses, and totally lazy defense lawyers; after all, if the RIAA is paying you 500 buck s an hour plus exspenses, u gonna work hard or cruise ? It may sound surprising, but in a lot of cases large companies get taken to the cleaners by their law firms
u shd watch the fox reality quiz show, r u smarter then a 5 th grader. one constestatn, ID as an amer hist grad from usc, did not know the 1st american prez to be impeached.
/. coulnt see the forest if the trees were all cut down and turned into paper billboards of forests...
and u r proud of your status.
unbeleivable.
and , u will probably object to my spelling errors, typical
u do know that ~ 50% of bankruptcys in this country are tied to large medical bills ?
u ever been in a welfare line ?
u actuallyknow anyone beeen in a welfare line ?
even if they are lazy, how about picking on corporate types who take home multi million paychecks when they get fired
from the article
" Qumranet
Location: Santa Clara, CA and Netanya, Israel
Product or Service: Although still in stealth-mode, Qumranet has generated enough buzz in the open-source community that its future product offering is already coming into focus. The company will deliver virtualization solutions developed around a kernel-based approach that allows the software to be smaller and more efficient than competing solutions. "
This reads like a parody of bad buzzword english
I think one can safely ignore anything the author of this article has to say, and probably anything on a website that would allow this to appear.
a highly experienced linux user, acknowledged as a hacker, had to spend four hours on a trivial upgrade ?
And linux is ready to take over the desktop ?
maybe it is time linux got real, and realized the desktop is not a good market. I bet that would make linux a better product , if you concentrate on where your strength is, like servers - if all the energy squandered on kde and gnome desktops, and all that other stuff had gone into apache/security/database stuff, linux would rule the server
am i the only one who thinks all the editing in the pdf amounts to legalistic parsing of words that has little to do with teaching on the ground ?
however, this legalistic parsing creates "standards" which can be used to make "objective" goals which can be used to make CHEAP standardized tests, which can be used to get good grades so as to get more money from the odious, near pedophiliac law known as every child left behind
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