Yes, but it doesn't solve the problem of email attachments. People are lazy and there are too many steps involved in file hosting, as presently constituted.
I didn't mean to imply that you need to have a solution to complain about a problem. A hobby of mine is to complain about all sorts of things I don't have solutions for. Sorry about that.
Do you have some solution to the "attachment problem"?
There are (many) instances when you need to send a document or some other file to someone via email. I agree that email is not a *good* storage medium, but how is it not valid?
Most PDF manuals I get are very well bookmarked and emenantly searchable.... How is killing a tree 'easier to browse'?
Easier to search? Yes, undoubtedly. Easier to browse? That's a matter of opinion. One of the reasons I prefer paper media, say a magazine, is that you can flip through it and read whatever catches your eye.
Yes, you can do that, to an extent on websites, but it's not the same thing. I can't browse through ALL of Slashdot and start paying attention when I find an interesting comment. I have to go to a page, the Main page, Linux page, etc. and then pick a story. I find digital media to be very, very linear.
I read 75% of Atlas Shrugged from a.txt file. If I can do that, I think you can stop wasting paper for manuals.
What an ironic book to chose to prove your point! In Ayn Rand's world, if he wants to print out the manuals, good for him. He's doing what he perceives as being in his best interest, and he's giving his money some paper manufacturer.
If you'll forgive me, I'm going to quibble with your opening point a bit. You state that nobody has any incentive to pursue R & D, thereby producing these 1 M jobs. I think "the economy" does have incentive to pursue research, but they do not see that incentive. They're looking at the short term - what's going to make them money in the next quarter or year. They have little interest basic research that might yield fruits ten years down the road. The comments on this story suggest that rational people can see that such a view is terribly shortsighted, but here we are.
I'm afraid you're right that some other country, probably one with a more positive view of pure science, will take up where we left off.
Thank you for a sensible contribution to the science and religion discussion on Slashdot. That was refreshing.
We Mormons have this as one of the articles of our faith:
"We claim the privilege of worshiping the almighty god according to the dictates of our own conscious and allow others the same privilege; let them worship how, where, or what they may."
The more I think about that statement, the more I like it. I won't get in your way as you worship science and scoff at me for being naive enough to believe in God. Please show me the same consideration.
That's an interesting point, but it suffers from sloppy logic.
It is true that scientists in the broad sense agree on many core, fundamental ideas. However, one of the great things about science is that they can believe in whatever idea/hypothesis/god suits their observations best. Get ten scientists in a room and ask them to explain a set of data and you'll get a half a dozen different explanations. They don't all agree.. And that's fine. It is true that only one idea is right, but that doesn't make them all agree.
This presentation illustrates the fact nicely. It's worth a look.
It has been quite a while since I did my last Ubuntu install, but as I recall, you have to use the advanced mode unless you want to format your primary hard drive. Many/most people who want to try out Linux (or even a new version of Linux) want to leave the existing OS on the machine and dual boot. Therefore, using the advanced install mode to know where you're putting the "new" OS is very helpful.
It could be argued that economic policies generally espoused by Democrats, organized labor springs to mind, led to the downfall of the American auto industry. There is obviously more at play, but in the eyes of many, the Democrats helped Michigan get into the mess they're in.
I see your point, and I agree. I thought there was some sort of "should" implied in your post and was really responding to that. Apologies for the misunderstanding.
I also believe that like most property, it can be made freely available.
A few questions: Freely available to whom? Everyone? On whose conditions? What kinds of property, besides intellectual, can/should be made freely available?
It's not as if MIT is going to offer the same credit for a online class as a on-campus class and make it 1/4th as difficult. The quality of the institution matters, not the delivery method.
I don't think that anybody adapting a set of lectures for the web is trying to make it easier, but I think that is often the case. In my limited experience (at BYU, incidentally) the online courses were much easier. Granted that was a few years ago; maybe the quality of the online education (not just the institution) has come a long way since then.
Precisely because most non-traditional aged students can't take the time off from adult life to attend! There is a huge unserviced population out there that online schools can address.
Good point. I agree that this is the population that is best served by online courses, but not just because of scheduling conflicts. Most of the people going back to school are ready to learn; they are going back to learn, not to get a grade. Less mature students will still take online courses for the same reason I did: because they are perceived as easier than classroom-based courses.
My main concern with online education and programs such as the University of Phoenix is one of quality. How do these institutions match up with "traditional" schools? I know I'm not the only one who doesn't think that the University of Phoenix, and similar institutions, turn out quality graduates; I see them as degree factories, not institutions of higher learning.
Annectote: I took a couple of online courses as an undergrad. Why? Because they were easy. I would wager that the majority of students who take online courses now, when a similar, but classroom-based, course is offered are doing so because they are (at least perceived) easier.
I must also take exception to those last two sentences. Just because people are doing it does not mean it needs to be done. I can think, of many, many things people are doing that do not need to be done. And although there are more "experienced" students at universities than there were in the past, in my experience at four differnt universities suggests that your stereotypical college student, fresh out of high school, is the norm.
You write that like it's easy. Righ-wing people tend to think in individual terms and fail to see the society as a whole.
That's because society is made up of individuals who are, generally, perfectly capable of making choices for themselves. They are mostly capable of, as you say, "avoiding the conditions that generate" crime, etc.
Was this modded "+5 Informative", or "+5, Poster has a 4-digit ID"? Interesting? maybe. Speculative? Probably. But Informative??
We also don't hear about the impending attack on our planet by Martians who are sick of us littering their pristine planet with rovers and the like. Must mean the press has been stifled in some way.
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Yes, but it doesn't solve the problem of email attachments. People are lazy and there are too many steps involved in file hosting, as presently constituted.
I didn't mean to imply that you need to have a solution to complain about a problem. A hobby of mine is to complain about all sorts of things I don't have solutions for. Sorry about that.
Do you have some solution to the "attachment problem"?
There are (many) instances when you need to send a document or some other file to someone via email. I agree that email is not a *good* storage medium, but how is it not valid?
Thank you, sir. Best post I've read in many moons.
Most PDF manuals I get are very well bookmarked and emenantly searchable.... How is killing a tree 'easier to browse'?
Easier to search? Yes, undoubtedly. Easier to browse? That's a matter of opinion. One of the reasons I prefer paper media, say a magazine, is that you can flip through it and read whatever catches your eye.
Yes, you can do that, to an extent on websites, but it's not the same thing. I can't browse through ALL of Slashdot and start paying attention when I find an interesting comment. I have to go to a page, the Main page, Linux page, etc. and then pick a story. I find digital media to be very, very linear.
I read 75% of Atlas Shrugged from a .txt file. If I can do that, I think you can stop wasting paper for manuals.
What an ironic book to chose to prove your point! In Ayn Rand's world, if he wants to print out the manuals, good for him. He's doing what he perceives as being in his best interest, and he's giving his money some paper manufacturer.
Well played, sir!
If you'll forgive me, I'm going to quibble with your opening point a bit. You state that nobody has any incentive to pursue R & D, thereby producing these 1 M jobs. I think "the economy" does have incentive to pursue research, but they do not see that incentive. They're looking at the short term - what's going to make them money in the next quarter or year. They have little interest basic research that might yield fruits ten years down the road. The comments on this story suggest that rational people can see that such a view is terribly shortsighted, but here we are.
I'm afraid you're right that some other country, probably one with a more positive view of pure science, will take up where we left off.
Thank you for a sensible contribution to the science and religion discussion on Slashdot. That was refreshing.
We Mormons have this as one of the articles of our faith:
"We claim the privilege of worshiping the almighty god according to the dictates of our own conscious and allow others the same privilege; let them worship how, where, or what they may."
The more I think about that statement, the more I like it. I won't get in your way as you worship science and scoff at me for being naive enough to believe in God. Please show me the same consideration.
That's an interesting point, but it suffers from sloppy logic.
It is true that scientists in the broad sense agree on many core, fundamental ideas. However, one of the great things about science is that they can believe in whatever idea/hypothesis/god suits their observations best. Get ten scientists in a room and ask them to explain a set of data and you'll get a half a dozen different explanations. They don't all agree.. And that's fine. It is true that only one idea is right, but that doesn't make them all agree.
This presentation illustrates the fact nicely. It's worth a look.
It has been quite a while since I did my last Ubuntu install, but as I recall, you have to use the advanced mode unless you want to format your primary hard drive. Many/most people who want to try out Linux (or even a new version of Linux) want to leave the existing OS on the machine and dual boot. Therefore, using the advanced install mode to know where you're putting the "new" OS is very helpful.
It could be argued that economic policies generally espoused by Democrats, organized labor springs to mind, led to the downfall of the American auto industry. There is obviously more at play, but in the eyes of many, the Democrats helped Michigan get into the mess they're in.
Stick to physics; evolution does make testable predictions. It usually takes a while to run the tests, though.
I see your point, and I agree. I thought there was some sort of "should" implied in your post and was really responding to that. Apologies for the misunderstanding.
I also believe that like most property, it can be made freely available.
A few questions: Freely available to whom? Everyone? On whose conditions? What kinds of property, besides intellectual, can/should be made freely available?
It's not as if MIT is going to offer the same credit for a online class as a on-campus class and make it 1/4th as difficult. The quality of the institution matters, not the delivery method.
I don't think that anybody adapting a set of lectures for the web is trying to make it easier, but I think that is often the case. In my limited experience (at BYU, incidentally) the online courses were much easier. Granted that was a few years ago; maybe the quality of the online education (not just the institution) has come a long way since then.
Precisely because most non-traditional aged students can't take the time off from adult life to attend! There is a huge unserviced population out there that online schools can address.
Good point. I agree that this is the population that is best served by online courses, but not just because of scheduling conflicts. Most of the people going back to school are ready to learn; they are going back to learn, not to get a grade. Less mature students will still take online courses for the same reason I did: because they are perceived as easier than classroom-based courses.
My main concern with online education and programs such as the University of Phoenix is one of quality. How do these institutions match up with "traditional" schools? I know I'm not the only one who doesn't think that the University of Phoenix, and similar institutions, turn out quality graduates; I see them as degree factories, not institutions of higher learning.
Annectote: I took a couple of online courses as an undergrad. Why? Because they were easy. I would wager that the majority of students who take online courses now, when a similar, but classroom-based, course is offered are doing so because they are (at least perceived) easier.
I must also take exception to those last two sentences. Just because people are doing it does not mean it needs to be done. I can think, of many, many things people are doing that do not need to be done. And although there are more "experienced" students at universities than there were in the past, in my experience at four differnt universities suggests that your stereotypical college student, fresh out of high school, is the norm.
Well, according to this Wikipedia has faced questions about its reliability, but it's getting better.
In Utah, the maximum alcohol content of beer, ANY beer, is capped at 3.2%
Not entirely true. You can get "real" beer at the liquor store.
You write that like it's easy. Righ-wing people tend to think in individual terms and fail to see the society as a whole.
That's because society is made up of individuals who are, generally, perfectly capable of making choices for themselves. They are mostly capable of, as you say, "avoiding the conditions that generate" crime, etc.
My kingdom for a mod point. Very well said, sir!
I don't know about the GP, but I try to boldly split infinitives at least once in every sentence if there is any way to slyly make it work.
Not if you're in the militia, as I plan to be.
Thanks for the info; I'm glad to see it will, in theory, be addressed at some point.
I'll second that. I went in and turned them off again yesterday, to no avail. I think it has to do with tags being out of beta.
Was this modded "+5 Informative", or "+5, Poster has a 4-digit ID"? Interesting? maybe. Speculative? Probably. But Informative??
We also don't hear about the impending attack on our planet by Martians who are sick of us littering their pristine planet with rovers and the like. Must mean the press has been stifled in some way.