It's more like if they didn't teach *steering* in cars. You don't program to fix a problem with a computer. the computer exists to do repetitive tasks for you, and programming is how you explain YOUR repetitive task to it.
So the GP was just poking fun at Stallman's continual taking credit for Linux's success because of all of "his" GNU tools included in every distro.
I believe I should take issue with that.
I wouldn't call it so much "taking credit" as he simply wants the GNU project to get it's fair share of credit. No one is claiming that GNU is more important than any other component of the OS,
No one, that is, as long as you don't count the guy putting GNU at the beginning of his suggested "combined name"....
First explain why "thru" is inferior to "through" a word in which 42% of the letters are not pronounced. Older doesn't make something more correct somehow either, just stupid longer.
Also, we'd like you to please apologize for "worcester," whomever is responsible for it.
Ten years ago, if you'd said that, you *would* have been an idiot. Even idiots can be right once in a while, in the same way that a stopped clock is correct twice a day.
If, instead, your claim was simply that the bottles weren't proven not to leach anything, you'd be vindicated, and all the idiots who bitched that "you can't prove a negative" would still be idiots.
Seems even better than mummification for preserving the dead. We should figure out how to make it, and stick some creatures from our own time in it, including larger specimens for future paleontologists to ponder over. Like, famous politicians, as a reward for their service.
That recharges using light. All batteries react something at the annode and/or cathode to evolve something they can use later. Plants react CO2 to evolve oxygen (and glucose, etc.) which they run on. They do NOT run on CO2 any more than NiCd batteries run on water.
Hopefully you've got a router. Using the built-in firewall, block the ports that the game requires. on and off for five minutes at a time. So he has to keep logging in and never makes any progress (well, even less than normal...), but doesn't realize you're fiddling with it.
If you can't place a linux box as router without being suspicious, you might be able set up a cron job on cheapo laptop you connect to automatically keep changing the commodity router's settings.
Huh. I always assumed it was just ghosting from reflections in the un-grounded, un-shielded, not impedence-matched 6ft cable run. I get fringes in my CRT monitor when using cheap cable extenders, for instance.
Just get the cheapest inspiron from dell and dump the integrated graphics for...anything that's not integrated. Then you won't have to worry about virtual machines with direct graphics access or any other time sucking rough spots.
Also, if you can wait a few weeks, keep checking the best buy circular for the coupon code for the extra-discounted cheap dell machine.
Yeah. Probably the notion that if you eat "blessed" food, you can have as much of it as you want and you don't have to exercise even if you work in a call center all day.
Diet soda is like carbon credits. It's for weak-willed people who don't care as much about actually being effective as they do about appearing to try to be effective.
The annoying thing, at least according to late night tv ads, is that that scooter may have been paid for by Medicare, under the premise, I assume, that "too fat to walk" is a legitimate disability...
I haven't paid over $100 for a video card in 12 years. I've always been able to max out the settings in every game I cared to buy that was available by the time I bought the card.
And in the first half of that period, I really cared about gaming and gaming performance. I'm sure Best Buy would like you to believe that $200 is a low end device, but you're seriously much better off getting a sub-$50 card now, and another sub-$50 card in a years time if you really need to.
Perhaps he was in a place where there was no dealer of any kind for 800 miles. He didn't say what country he was driving across. Still, Autozone keeps advertising in my area that they'll read the code for you for free, so dealers must not be the only people who can read 'em.
Indeed. Yet, failing to think of it as a game, they end up being manipulated by people who play by different, hidden rules. For instance, folding the health care industry, fully an eighth of the us economy, into the auspices of the federal government.
I've read elsewhere on the Net (in another Slashdot post?) that in some 'third world' countries, people will share what litte food they have with others -- even when it is only three mouthfuls of food for the whole day.
The important thing to determine, when comparing a culture like that with a "greed is good" culture, is whether those ideas are the fundamental causes of their respective success.
If "greed is good" results in 90% being well-fed, and "share the wealth" results in 90% being under-nourished, then draw your own conclusions.
I dunno, I was pretty impressed with the math example.
On the one hand, with Alpha, no one really needs to learn basic calculus any more. On the other hand, with Alpha, lots of people aren't going to learn basic calculus....
You're not screwed. You just have to place the bet earlier. For instance, your parents could take out "pre-existing condition" insurance when the pregnancy is first determined, but before it's safe or practical to do a test for such conditions.
Insurance is gambling. If information is available it will be used. You can't make things fairer by forcing one party to ignore information that all parties have access to.
I like 300 million dollar movies. Even if they're crappy, usually, they're at least visually interesting. The recent Star trek for instance was a dog of a film, but the excellent special effects afforded by it's hundred+ million dollar budget really glosses over all that.
While a lot of$300e6 movies might not be worth making (ahem... Michael Bay...), I would be sad to live in a world where they never got made.
Also, the film doesn't have to be 300x more entertaining to be 300x more benefit to society. It could be just 20x more entertaining and have 15x the audience as a result.
You don't buy an eBook reader for the official books, and you don't buy a kindle for the amazon ebooks.
You buy an ebook reader to burn through all the classics, which are available in convenient formats over at project gutenberg. For free, because they're long out of copyright. You buy a kindle, specifically, for the anywhere wikipedia access.
The tricky bit is figuring out what the sellers think they are selling, and what the product actually is.
No, he's right. We're using the wrong model. Once a work is created, we have the capability to distribute it to nearly everyone extremely cheaply.
The model is best which encourages the creation of reproducible works, but hinders least their actual reproduction.
The problem is that a better model is difficult to imagine. One surely must exist, but so far six billion minds haven't stumbled upon it. And not for lack of trying. So you're also right: the proper solution isn't to just take what you want, either.
Not true. It needs to tell the level, because you can't tell from one sample 20 minutes later whether someone was over the limit in their car and slowly sobering up, or they were actually completely legal in the car and have been slowly absorbing the alcohol remaining in their stomachs. For instance if they followed the standard lame-brain advice of always eating while drinking.
So, following the chemist's rule, they need to take more than one sample, because they need to fit those samples to a standard model curve in order to estimate what the alcohol concentration was at the time the driver was actually operating a vehicle, since it's not actually illegal to be drunk at a police station.
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It's more like if they didn't teach *steering* in cars. You don't program to fix a problem with a computer. the computer exists to do repetitive tasks for you, and programming is how you explain YOUR repetitive task to it.
So the GP was just poking fun at Stallman's continual taking credit for Linux's success because of all of "his" GNU tools included in every distro.
I believe I should take issue with that.
I wouldn't call it so much "taking credit" as he simply wants the GNU project to get it's fair share of credit. No one is claiming that GNU is more important than any other component of the OS,
No one, that is, as long as you don't count the guy putting GNU at the beginning of his suggested "combined name"....
First explain why "thru" is inferior to "through" a word in which 42% of the letters are not pronounced. Older doesn't make something more correct somehow either, just stupid longer.
Also, we'd like you to please apologize for "worcester," whomever is responsible for it.
Ten years ago, if you'd said that, you *would* have been an idiot. Even idiots can be right once in a while, in the same way that a stopped clock is correct twice a day.
If, instead, your claim was simply that the bottles weren't proven not to leach anything, you'd be vindicated, and all the idiots who bitched that "you can't prove a negative" would still be idiots.
Seems even better than mummification for preserving the dead. We should figure out how to make it, and stick some creatures from our own time in it, including larger specimens for future paleontologists to ponder over. Like, famous politicians, as a reward for their service.
That recharges using light. All batteries react something at the annode and/or cathode to evolve something they can use later. Plants react CO2 to evolve oxygen (and glucose, etc.) which they run on. They do NOT run on CO2 any more than NiCd batteries run on water.
Hopefully you've got a router. Using the built-in firewall, block the ports that the game requires. on and off for five minutes at a time. So he has to keep logging in and never makes any progress (well, even less than normal...), but doesn't realize you're fiddling with it.
If you can't place a linux box as router without being suspicious, you might be able set up a cron job on cheapo laptop you connect to automatically keep changing the commodity router's settings.
Huh. I always assumed it was just ghosting from reflections in the un-grounded, un-shielded, not impedence-matched 6ft cable run. I get fringes in my CRT monitor when using cheap cable extenders, for instance.
Just get the cheapest inspiron from dell and dump the integrated graphics for...anything that's not integrated. Then you won't have to worry about virtual machines with direct graphics access or any other time sucking rough spots.
Also, if you can wait a few weeks, keep checking the best buy circular for the coupon code for the extra-discounted cheap dell machine.
Maybe they're the ghosts.
Rubies on the other hand..
You know, jeweled bearings actually do improve the performance of (non-quartz...) watches. But you can't see them...
Yeah. Probably the notion that if you eat "blessed" food, you can have as much of it as you want and you don't have to exercise even if you work in a call center all day.
Diet soda is like carbon credits. It's for weak-willed people who don't care as much about actually being effective as they do about appearing to try to be effective.
The annoying thing, at least according to late night tv ads, is that that scooter may have been paid for by Medicare, under the premise, I assume, that "too fat to walk" is a legitimate disability...
I haven't paid over $100 for a video card in 12 years. I've always been able to max out the settings in every game I cared to buy that was available by the time I bought the card.
And in the first half of that period, I really cared about gaming and gaming performance. I'm sure Best Buy would like you to believe that $200 is a low end device, but you're seriously much better off getting a sub-$50 card now, and another sub-$50 card in a years time if you really need to.
Perhaps he was in a place where there was no dealer of any kind for 800 miles. He didn't say what country he was driving across. Still, Autozone keeps advertising in my area that they'll read the code for you for free, so dealers must not be the only people who can read 'em.
Indeed. Yet, failing to think of it as a game, they end up being manipulated by people who play by different, hidden rules. For instance, folding the health care industry, fully an eighth of the us economy, into the auspices of the federal government.
I've read elsewhere on the Net (in another Slashdot post?) that in some 'third world' countries, people will share what litte food they have with others -- even when it is only three mouthfuls of food for the whole day.
The important thing to determine, when comparing a culture like that with a "greed is good" culture, is whether those ideas are the fundamental causes of their respective success.
If "greed is good" results in 90% being well-fed, and "share the wealth" results in 90% being under-nourished, then draw your own conclusions.
I dunno, I was pretty impressed with the math example.
On the one hand, with Alpha, no one really needs to learn basic calculus any more. On the other hand, with Alpha, lots of people aren't going to learn basic calculus....
You're not screwed. You just have to place the bet earlier. For instance, your parents could take out "pre-existing condition" insurance when the pregnancy is first determined, but before it's safe or practical to do a test for such conditions.
Insurance is gambling. If information is available it will be used. You can't make things fairer by forcing one party to ignore information that all parties have access to.
I like 300 million dollar movies. Even if they're crappy, usually, they're at least visually interesting. The recent Star trek for instance was a dog of a film, but the excellent special effects afforded by it's hundred+ million dollar budget really glosses over all that.
While a lot of$300e6 movies might not be worth making (ahem... Michael Bay...), I would be sad to live in a world where they never got made.
Also, the film doesn't have to be 300x more entertaining to be 300x more benefit to society. It could be just 20x more entertaining and have 15x the audience as a result.
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So, what do they sell??
You don't buy an eBook reader for the official books, and you don't buy a kindle for the amazon ebooks.
You buy an ebook reader to burn through all the classics, which are available in convenient formats over at project gutenberg. For free, because they're long out of copyright. You buy a kindle, specifically, for the anywhere wikipedia access.
The tricky bit is figuring out what the sellers think they are selling, and what the product actually is.
You know, you can do geocaching with a topo map. You don't actually need a fancy electric toy.
No, he's right. We're using the wrong model. Once a work is created, we have the capability to distribute it to nearly everyone extremely cheaply.
The model is best which encourages the creation of reproducible works, but hinders least their actual reproduction.
The problem is that a better model is difficult to imagine. One surely must exist, but so far six billion minds haven't stumbled upon it. And not for lack of trying. So you're also right: the proper solution isn't to just take what you want, either.
Not true. It needs to tell the level, because you can't tell from one sample 20 minutes later whether someone was over the limit in their car and slowly sobering up, or they were actually completely legal in the car and have been slowly absorbing the alcohol remaining in their stomachs. For instance if they followed the standard lame-brain advice of always eating while drinking.
So, following the chemist's rule, they need to take more than one sample, because they need to fit those samples to a standard model curve in order to estimate what the alcohol concentration was at the time the driver was actually operating a vehicle, since it's not actually illegal to be drunk at a police station.