I think exactly what you said is what ubuntu has caught onto. Ubuntu is a complete change in paradigm away from the configure-everything linux to an OS that is user-aware, configurable-yet-sane, and generally does what Microsoft fails at (and fails on an epic magnitude).
tl;dr, dude, tl;dr. executive summary: The first part was funny, you know, the part about John C. Dvorak writing an article. Stopped reading after that.
And what would you do when given a bunch of doublespeak bullshit about "critical thinking" and yet asked to respond to authority as totalitarian as stalinist russia (without the shootings and disappearances, of course). It's a bit of an exaggeration but you'd be surprised at what kind of authority schools have over kids- and when they're in high school and just beginning to explore the world of being an adult, the rules become little more than an annoyance. They think "Why am I wasting my time sitting in an office for something that could be resolved with a slap on the wrist and a detention slip?" Schools need to learn how much control over their students is acceptable. Having happy and safe students is more important than excellence. I speak from experience when a lot of my graduating class now pops meth to deal with their classes and skip days of sleep at a time. The schools try so hard to get their grades up, they end up ripping out the kid's soul.
Naturally flash-based solid state is not near the capacity needed to run a whole system on
Flash linux? Wii's internal flash drive? Any modern cellphone or PDA? The hundreds of thousands of devices that use flash as a replacement for dip switches?
Secondly, it's kinda impractical that you have to erase entire blocks at a time. You can't really do a random-access flip-flop on the bits. From slickypedia: One limitation of flash memory is that although it can be read or programmed a byte or a word at a time in a random access fashion, it must be erased a "block" at a time. This generally sets all bits in the block to 1. Starting with a freshly erased block, any location within that block can be programmed. However, once a bit has been set to 0, only by erasing the entire block can it be changed back to 1. In other words, flash memory (specifically NOR flash) offers random-access read and programming operations, but cannot offer arbitrary random-access rewrite or erase operations.
from TFA: "Solid-state storage devices -- both RAM-based and NAND (Not And) flash-based -- have held promise as worthwhile alternatives to conventional disk drives for some time despite the healthy dose of skepticism they inspire. By no means new, their integration into IT will only happen when the technologies fulfill their potential and go mainstream."
How exactly is RAM and NAND latches an alternative to disk drives? Flash-based disks- okay, I can see, but just say "Flash disks" and not "RAM-based and NAND" because all that inspires is a picture in my head of my freshman EE class where they introduced the most basic nand-latch RAM.
It doesn't matter whether or not they had a radar gun or a method to calculate the speed of passing objects. Did you read the post?
they caught a police office going 17MPH over the posted limit.
So whether or not the office was speeding is a non-issue. I'm pretty sure driving an entire police office along a residential street is illegal in some way.
In before a comment about my signature. I'm writing this in-between college classes for a major that isn't related to religious studies at all. Basically, my position on religion puts personal freedom as a paramount value. A lot of new evangelical rhetoric talks about "only through God can you be free" and what not, which is clearly a load of bullshit, since any religious indoctrination is by nature controlling the way you view the world, and at base is a form of control. I've come to break with the church, recently, and further than that, you need not argue about the existence of God as part of a conversion. The existence of God is a moot point- I'd rather be free on earth and damned for eternity than rewarded as a slave to beliefs. Sort of the opposite of Pascal's Wager, I assume the freedom to criticize authority has a higher priority than "strength from God regardless of existence". Thus, your benefit is reaped only through doubt.
"The object of war is not to die for ones country, its to make the other poor bastard die for his" "The object of war is not to die for one's country, it's to make the other poor bastard die for his"
Since they would not be allowed to conduct business if they didn't allow this, I can't really see how what they did can be considered morally wrong.
This is an idiotic sentence. I think it's quite damningly clear how it can be considered "morally wrong" if you value freedom of information, which google purports to do as per its "do no evil" philosophy. Exactly that: "do no evil" for the good of the profit. What they do in allowing china to censor its product is allowing evil for the sake of profit. I'm sorry and I'll probably be modded flamebait for this, but I find your post extremely ignorant and I find it scary that it's supposed to be FP material.
I don't think it's any more ignorant than letting free that species that will simply take our place. The lioness is no more a tyrant than Man. Also, I think it's more ignorant to abolish the act of killing animals- that is to say, it's more horrifying that in a world where many people are still going hungry, you would remove one of the few sources of protein and lipids from their diet because of some misguided ethical observation that fits in with your world view. First things first, total human liberation. Then we'll talk about the puppies and kitties.
Who cares? Everyone knows PETA are a bunch of deep-ecologist heideggerian neo-fascist ecoterrorists. Groups like them that run off of totalitarian, violence-fueled leadership to promote anarchistic ideals should break up and their followers should get a fucking clue about the real problems in the world. People are dying in Iraq. Jesus Christ is killing the nation he "saved". America is slowly becoming a police state. Ganja is still illegal and nobody can give a solid reason why. Animals are being exploited because we are humans and we exploit resources to live. If we need to exploit resources to live in luxury, so be it. If you want to protect animals, go ahead, make a shelter that guarantees that they can live a healthy, natural life if it makes you feel better.
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I think exactly what you said is what ubuntu has caught onto. Ubuntu is a complete change in paradigm away from the configure-everything linux to an OS that is user-aware, configurable-yet-sane, and generally does what Microsoft fails at (and fails on an epic magnitude).
Not just in soviet russia...
tl;dr, dude, tl;dr.
executive summary:
The first part was funny, you know, the part about John C. Dvorak writing an article. Stopped reading after that.
And what would you do when given a bunch of doublespeak bullshit about "critical thinking" and yet asked to respond to authority as totalitarian as stalinist russia (without the shootings and disappearances, of course). It's a bit of an exaggeration but you'd be surprised at what kind of authority schools have over kids- and when they're in high school and just beginning to explore the world of being an adult, the rules become little more than an annoyance. They think "Why am I wasting my time sitting in an office for something that could be resolved with a slap on the wrist and a detention slip?"
Schools need to learn how much control over their students is acceptable. Having happy and safe students is more important than excellence. I speak from experience when a lot of my graduating class now pops meth to deal with their classes and skip days of sleep at a time.
The schools try so hard to get their grades up, they end up ripping out the kid's soul.
Naturally flash-based solid state is not near the capacity needed to run a whole system on
Flash linux? Wii's internal flash drive? Any modern cellphone or PDA? The hundreds of thousands of devices that use flash as a replacement for dip switches?
Secondly, it's kinda impractical that you have to erase entire blocks at a time. You can't really do a random-access flip-flop on the bits. From slickypedia:
One limitation of flash memory is that although it can be read or programmed a byte or a word at a time in a random access fashion, it must be erased a "block" at a time. This generally sets all bits in the block to 1. Starting with a freshly erased block, any location within that block can be programmed. However, once a bit has been set to 0, only by erasing the entire block can it be changed back to 1. In other words, flash memory (specifically NOR flash) offers random-access read and programming operations, but cannot offer arbitrary random-access rewrite or erase operations.
from TFA: "Solid-state storage devices -- both RAM-based and NAND (Not And) flash-based -- have held promise as worthwhile alternatives to conventional disk drives for some time despite the healthy dose of skepticism they inspire. By no means new, their integration into IT will only happen when the technologies fulfill their potential and go mainstream."
How exactly is RAM and NAND latches an alternative to disk drives? Flash-based disks- okay, I can see, but just say "Flash disks" and not "RAM-based and NAND" because all that inspires is a picture in my head of my freshman EE class where they introduced the most basic nand-latch RAM.
Umm... isn't the SEC going to say something about this?
It doesn't matter whether or not they had a radar gun or a method to calculate the speed of passing objects. Did you read the post?
they caught a police office going 17MPH over the posted limit.
So whether or not the office was speeding is a non-issue. I'm pretty sure driving an entire police office along a residential street is illegal in some way.
Have you ever read wikipedia?
Have you ever read wikipedia... on WEEEEEED????
In before a comment about my signature.
I'm writing this in-between college classes for a major that isn't related to religious studies at all.
Basically, my position on religion puts personal freedom as a paramount value. A lot of new evangelical rhetoric talks about "only through God can you be free" and what not, which is clearly a load of bullshit, since any religious indoctrination is by nature controlling the way you view the world, and at base is a form of control. I've come to break with the church, recently, and further than that, you need not argue about the existence of God as part of a conversion. The existence of God is a moot point- I'd rather be free on earth and damned for eternity than rewarded as a slave to beliefs.
Sort of the opposite of Pascal's Wager, I assume the freedom to criticize authority has a higher priority than "strength from God regardless of existence". Thus, your benefit is reaped only through doubt.
Christopher Lloyd was really freaking out about the fact that it required 1.21 Jiggawatts of power.
sorry, meant "proprietary"
closed, but open source.
"The object of war is not to die for ones country, its to make the other poor bastard die for his"
"The object of war is not to die for one's country, it's to make the other poor bastard die for his"
Life is too short to proofread indeed.
I was waiting for someone to drop what I was going to say.
"umm... I totally don't use my trash hotmail address for porn newsletters. >_>"
Too late, iPhone's got you there.
Whatever, when I get my CS MS, I'll move to UK and enjoy a less saturated job market.
Redundant? Wow, monkies with modpoints...
I for one welcome our monkey-with-modpoint overlords. :/
Also, welcome to a week ago, slashdot.
You all need to get the fuck back to 4chan right now.
I hate to be all Ayn Rand in your face, but if energy prices were proportional to the amount we needed to save, then your tax would be unnecessary.
I'm sorry and I'll probably be modded flamebait for this, but I find your post extremely ignorant and I find it scary that it's supposed to be FP material.
I don't think it's any more ignorant than letting free that species that will simply take our place. The lioness is no more a tyrant than Man.
Also, I think it's more ignorant to abolish the act of killing animals- that is to say, it's more horrifying that in a world where many people are still going hungry, you would remove one of the few sources of protein and lipids from their diet because of some misguided ethical observation that fits in with your world view.
First things first, total human liberation. Then we'll talk about the puppies and kitties.
Who cares? Everyone knows PETA are a bunch of deep-ecologist heideggerian neo-fascist ecoterrorists.
Groups like them that run off of totalitarian, violence-fueled leadership to promote anarchistic ideals should break up and their followers should get a fucking clue about the real problems in the world. People are dying in Iraq. Jesus Christ is killing the nation he "saved". America is slowly becoming a police state. Ganja is still illegal and nobody can give a solid reason why.
Animals are being exploited because we are humans and we exploit resources to live. If we need to exploit resources to live in luxury, so be it. If you want to protect animals, go ahead, make a shelter that guarantees that they can live a healthy, natural life if it makes you feel better.