You post is incoherent... You haven't a clue what you are talking about. Experience doesn't prevent one from being innovative. It helps one know where innovation can work and where it can't, and keeps one from jousting at windmills. Inexperience doesn't give one the discernment that an experienced worker can have.
Wy the changes? There isn't much difference, really, if you know your stuff... I used to use FreeBSD for a long time (3.2 - 6.2), but have moved to netbsd recently. FreeBSD seems too much like Linux for my taste lately...
One place I worked at had POP3 disabled, but still had IMAP on, but didn't tell anyone... and I don't think that any of the administrators knew it was on... I stumbled onto it while setting up my Linux mail client. I think I was the only one using IMAP out of about 9000 people, because I had a problem with my account once, and one of the administrators asked me specifically how I was accessing it, I told them, and they were amazed... Go figure!
Try finding diskettes for the Microport System V/2.4 port for the 286, or for Xenix for the 286. They actually worked! I would let you use mine, but I inadvertantly tossed them several years ago:-( .
There was something cool about having 5 or 6 people on a 10 or 12 mhz 286 with 6 Mb RAM, actually getting something useful accomplished, and quickly...
I may be mistaken, but wan't this posted previously, sometime last month maybe? I remember following a link from/. to the same market-speak page on the HP site.... What's the deal, nothing new to post?
Here! Here! And for those of us who are in the know, and think money is the main means to everything else, a little chaos in the industry would be clear path to make more dough:^D
There are no "simple answers". Evolution is not _a_ theory, but an intricatedly interlocked set of several theories (5 according to Ernst Mayr) that pertain to selection, common descent, multiplication of species, gradualism of change, etc. These theories are based on facts, observations, explanations that can explain the facts, and elimination of any other possible explanations. Creationism is not based on facts, but belief and faith in religious ideas and dogma. Creationists attempts to "debunk" evolution and "prove" creationism were exposed in the mid-'80's as misguided, mistaken interpretations of facts; deliberate exclusion of exculpatory facts and evidence supporting evolution and disproving creationism; and, in some cases, a misguided and uneducated understanding of what evolution actually is.
I must disagree with the statement that science is a religion. That is a "canned" response from the creationist movement, and is no more than an attempt to equate science and religion, thus validating their belief in creationism ("it is science"), and putting creationism and evolution on equal footing. This cannot be done, as creationism and evolution are come from different portions of human experience. It is sort of like the old hack of "comparing apples and oranges". Science is not a religion: science is based on the _proof_ of ideas about how the natural world operates. Religion has only to do with the spiritual world, and has nothing whatsoever to do with proving things. (One cannot "prove" that one belief system, or religion, is better than another. One _can_ objectively prove that fossils are the altered remains of once living things.) (I believe this was adequately handled in one of the posts above, so I won't go on...)
I am disappointed that something like what has happened in Kansas could, once again, actually make it to the point of being supported by the state government. I believe it is a reflection of the serious lack of good basic education in this country (particularly in the liberal arts, not necessarily science). Only a good, broad-based education can prevent this sort of thing from recurring; and I believe, unfortunately, that we are in for a long period of occurrences like this....
The resurgence of fundamentalism in the U.S. in the last few years should have been a wake-up call to the supporters of evolution, but, once again, we have been caught behind the 8-ball again.
Once more into fray, my friends.....
(p.s - I just reread DarkFire's post and I noticed that he advocates teaching only facts in school: however, please note that facts without a meaningful and coherent framework for context are meaningless and useless. (His example of math as a good example of teaching facts only is ludicrous, as it has more theories and hypotheses lending structure to mathematical thought than almost any other field of study.) That is part of the problem with education today: it is a mismash of facts and competing, conflicting theories of interpretation, with a severe lack of guidance from educators, parents, and anyone else of standing.)
Slashdot Mirror
You post is incoherent... You haven't a clue what you are talking about. Experience doesn't prevent one from being innovative. It helps one know where innovation can work and where it can't, and keeps one from jousting at windmills. Inexperience doesn't give one the discernment that an experienced worker can have.
Obama center-right? What is wrong with you, can you not tell right from left?
Wy the changes? There isn't much difference, really, if you know your stuff... I used to use FreeBSD for a long time (3.2 - 6.2), but have moved to netbsd recently. FreeBSD seems too much like Linux for my taste lately...
Gee, you must work at the same place as me.... And yes, it is focused on watching internal traffic and staff.... very nice atmosphere...
One place I worked at had POP3 disabled, but still had IMAP on, but didn't tell anyone... and I don't think that any of the administrators knew it was on... I stumbled onto it while setting up my Linux mail client. I think I was the only one using IMAP out of about 9000 people, because I had a problem with my account once, and one of the administrators asked me specifically how I was accessing it, I told them, and they were amazed... Go figure!
Try lyx...
Damn 20 second thingy....
Some of us don't have a choice, asshole... get a clue.
Try finding diskettes for the Microport System V/2.4 port for the 286, or for Xenix for the 286. They actually worked! I would let you use mine, but I inadvertantly tossed them several years ago :-( .
There was something cool about having 5 or 6 people on a 10 or 12 mhz 286 with 6 Mb RAM, actually getting something useful accomplished, and quickly...
So what if they do steal code.... At least it wouldn't suck as bad as it does now...
We don't live in a democracy, because Al Gore who probably got the most votes in Florida didn't win!
We live in a REPUBLIC!! Not a democracy!! Catch a clue! It doesn't matter who won the popular vote, only the electoral votes count!
I may be mistaken, but wan't this posted previously, sometime last month maybe? I remember following a link from /. to the same market-speak page on the HP site.... What's the deal, nothing new to post?
Here! Here! And for those of us who are in the know, and think money is the main means to everything else, a little chaos in the industry would be clear path to make more dough :^D
There are no "simple answers". Evolution is not _a_ theory, but an intricatedly interlocked set of several theories (5 according to Ernst Mayr) that pertain to selection, common descent, multiplication of species, gradualism of change, etc. These theories are based on facts, observations, explanations that can explain the facts, and elimination of any other possible explanations. Creationism is not based on facts, but belief and faith in religious ideas and dogma. Creationists attempts to "debunk" evolution and "prove" creationism were exposed in the mid-'80's as misguided, mistaken interpretations of facts; deliberate exclusion of exculpatory facts and evidence supporting evolution and disproving creationism; and, in some cases, a misguided and uneducated understanding of what evolution actually is.
I must disagree with the statement that science is a religion. That is a "canned" response from the creationist movement, and is no more than an attempt to equate science and religion, thus validating their belief in creationism ("it is science"), and putting creationism and evolution on equal footing. This cannot be done, as creationism and evolution are come from different portions of human experience. It is sort of like the old hack of "comparing apples and oranges". Science is not a religion: science is based on the _proof_ of ideas about how the natural world operates. Religion has only to do with the spiritual world, and has nothing whatsoever to do with proving things. (One cannot "prove" that one belief system, or religion, is better than another. One _can_ objectively prove that fossils are the altered remains of once living things.) (I believe this was adequately handled in one of the posts above, so I won't go on...)
I am disappointed that something like what has happened in Kansas could, once again, actually make it to the point of being supported by the state government. I believe it is a reflection of the serious lack of good basic education in this country (particularly in the liberal arts, not necessarily science). Only a good, broad-based education can prevent this sort of thing from recurring; and I believe, unfortunately, that we are in for a long period of occurrences like this....
The resurgence of fundamentalism in the U.S. in the last few years should have been a wake-up call to the supporters of evolution, but, once again, we have been caught behind the 8-ball again.
Once more into fray, my friends.....
(p.s - I just reread DarkFire's post and I noticed that he advocates teaching only facts in school: however, please note that facts without a meaningful and coherent framework for context are meaningless and useless. (His example of math as a good example of teaching facts only is ludicrous, as it has more theories and hypotheses lending structure to mathematical thought than almost any other field of study.) That is part of the problem with education today: it is a mismash of facts and competing, conflicting theories of interpretation, with a severe lack of guidance from educators, parents, and anyone else of standing.)