Hell with that touchy feely crap. Linus has a long history of inciting and joining in flame wars. He obviously enjoys them.
As for Gnome people being nice to him, why? Is he the king of Open Source? I think not.
Yes he has made valuable contributions, but his word is law in only one place, the kernel. Outside that all he has is an opinion. He's entitiled to that opinion, and the respect people have for him does lend it some weight, but its just an opinion, not a commandment.
given the fact that most natural systems exist in some kind of homeostatic relationship with other systems, its likely that the cause is rather complex. I wouldn't have a clue where to start.
That's what I love about science though, there's yet another thing to explain. I wonder what it will reveal?
depending on where I am when I'm working, those machines are upwards of 200 miles away, and when I do use them access to certain repositories still requires payment.
In my university such access is restricted to using on site machines. I rarely work on campus, its not a great place to work, since you have to use shared access machines.
Besides which, that access is often restricted to certain classes of paper.
They don't that I am aware of, however I shall ask. I was just planning on placing the papers online myself, with nice cacheable text abstracts and citations.
I'm currently writing up my thesis, and to be frank, without the google cache I'd have to pay a small fortune just to gain access to the abstracts of some papers I need. It would be very difficult to do what I need to do.
I even found that some papers I've published are locked behind these pay per view portals. Ok I have copies, but given a choice I'd insist they be available free.
The google cache lets me find papers stored outside these portals, often on peoples university home space. Without it I simply couldn't reference some work. as it is I've had to abandon some research because I can't find the things I need in the google cache.
The portals do provide a service, and yes, they should be paid, but I dispute that they should be the only place to find those initial abstracts.
Ruling that non free services cannot be used will restrict the researcher with a low budget from doing research, or so I feel.
Fortunatelly, in science, a negative result is also valid. Ok, they haven't proved telepathy et al. Good, so perhaps those subjects can be abandoned for now and other things done.
Note however that a peer reviewed negative result does not, in the scientific world, mean a permanant negative. If it did then the perceptron[http://www.ccs.fau.edu/~bressler/EDU/Co gNeuro/History%20of%20the%20Perceptron.htm] would not have been developed. What it does mean is that current science cannot provide proof.
What is unusual about Apple is that they were the Next Big Thing in the late 70's/early 80's, and they failed in the face of competition from the cheap IBM PC Clone and Microsoft. Its unusual for what was in the big league at least an 'also ran' to turn around and become a major player once more after sitting in the background for so long. Normally companies in that class are mentioned post mortem only.
Lets face it, as good as Macs are, and they are very good, they have had a pitiful market share for a very long time. The iPod is the only thing that has saved them from eventual abandonment. Sadly quality is not an indicator of market dominance. Faced with shelves full of cheap and nasty PCs, people turned away from the high quality but expensive Macs.
Apple have just launched an advertising campaign for the Mac here in the UK. Would this have happened without iPod? Dream on.
Now I'd prefer if Macs started to gain a wider user base in the UK. For one thing I could advise all those people who constantly need my help to fix their windows boxes (read, clean out the virus and spyware infestations) to switch and save me some precious evenings.
I am an open source developer, and have been so for many years, and being quite frank here, you're talking out of your arse. Four hours is not enough time to write anything of significance, and code *must* be tested, or the other people who take it to use have to do your testing and fixing for you before improving it and adding their own stuff. Not all bugs can be found, but if you haven't even tested for basic errors then your code is awful, and unlikely to get used.
Releasing after a few days perhaps, or a week or so, once the basic code is sound, well that I've done.
I could release it, or anyone else in the hundreds who did the same assignment over the years. tbh that never occured to me, much as was the case with almost all of my undergrad work.
I would be highly suspicious of code written to completion in four hours. Code must be planned, written, thoroughly tested, then released. Anyone who claims to be able to do that in four hours is lying.
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Hell with that touchy feely crap. Linus has a long history of inciting and joining in flame wars. He obviously enjoys them.
As for Gnome people being nice to him, why? Is he the king of Open Source? I think not.
Yes he has made valuable contributions, but his word is law in only one place, the kernel. Outside that all he has is an opinion. He's entitiled to that opinion, and the respect people have for him does lend it some weight, but its just an opinion, not a commandment.
oh no, they went wrong by not looking for the little bag of miracles.
:-)
Last I heard it was somewhere outside Stoke on Trent. All the answers are in there you know.....
ah, well, he had this little bag of, um, miracles, and he, well, sort of fell over one day and dropped it on a pile of worldUgrow.
Then out of that, he created tall the lovely little animals, the end.
Wow, you've converted me, right there. I have seen the light!
:-)
I'm going to change all the proofs in my Thesis to 'because God did it'.
I win! instant phd, no possibility of argument remains, my hypothesis is proved
ps. Uncyclopedia is a bad place to link to, every time I go there I get trapped for hours...
Yeah, that's all cool, I hear Dave'll fix it next tuesday.
I din't knew whit you moan
your going to be frustrated for a long time then.
You could try religeon, they have *all* the answers, so long as you don't actually ask any questions....
given the fact that most natural systems exist in some kind of homeostatic relationship with other systems, its likely that the cause is rather complex. I wouldn't have a clue where to start.
That's what I love about science though, there's yet another thing to explain. I wonder what it will reveal?
perhaps its because if they can create a myth of low supply they can up the price?
Google has the most money, so I suspect the case is more about a fast buck.
depending on where I am when I'm working, those machines are upwards of 200 miles away, and when I do use them access to certain repositories still requires payment.
wouldn't I just love one of those. That would take resources to set up that I lack.
In my university such access is restricted to using on site machines. I rarely work on campus, its not a great place to work, since you have to use shared access machines.
Besides which, that access is often restricted to certain classes of paper.
They don't that I am aware of, however I shall ask. I was just planning on placing the papers online myself, with nice cacheable text abstracts and citations.
I'm currently writing up my thesis, and to be frank, without the google cache I'd have to pay a small fortune just to gain access to the abstracts of some papers I need. It would be very difficult to do what I need to do.
I even found that some papers I've published are locked behind these pay per view portals. Ok I have copies, but given a choice I'd insist they be available free.
The google cache lets me find papers stored outside these portals, often on peoples university home space. Without it I simply couldn't reference some work. as it is I've had to abandon some research because I can't find the things I need in the google cache.
The portals do provide a service, and yes, they should be paid, but I dispute that they should be the only place to find those initial abstracts.
Ruling that non free services cannot be used will restrict the researcher with a low budget from doing research, or so I feel.
Or, and far more sinister, a quiet step towards insisting that the Telcos have complete control of the 'tubes' in case of disaster.
That the net is inherently able to route around problems is obviously ignored here.
well I've heard of no significant advances in telepsychic helmets since H2G2 in the 1980's, so it probably is current
Fortunatelly, in science, a negative result is also valid. Ok, they haven't proved telepathy et al. Good, so perhaps those subjects can be abandoned for now and other things done.
o gNeuro/History%20of%20the%20Perceptron.htm] would not have been developed. What it does mean is that current science cannot provide proof.
Note however that a peer reviewed negative result does not, in the scientific world, mean a permanant negative. If it did then the perceptron[http://www.ccs.fau.edu/~bressler/EDU/C
eh? Explain..
What is unusual about Apple is that they were the Next Big Thing in the late 70's/early 80's, and they failed in the face of competition from the cheap IBM PC Clone and Microsoft. Its unusual for what was in the big league at least an 'also ran' to turn around and become a major player once more after sitting in the background for so long. Normally companies in that class are mentioned post mortem only.
Lets face it, as good as Macs are, and they are very good, they have had a pitiful market share for a very long time. The iPod is the only thing that has saved them from eventual abandonment. Sadly quality is not an indicator of market dominance. Faced with shelves full of cheap and nasty PCs, people turned away from the high quality but expensive Macs.
Apple have just launched an advertising campaign for the Mac here in the UK. Would this have happened without iPod? Dream on.
Now I'd prefer if Macs started to gain a wider user base in the UK. For one thing I could advise all those people who constantly need my help to fix their windows boxes (read, clean out the virus and spyware infestations) to switch and save me some precious evenings.
hi there, did anyone call for a really hair HD plumber?
its probably to halt the slashdotting.
yawn...
I am an open source developer, and have been so for many years, and being quite frank here, you're talking out of your arse.
Four hours is not enough time to write anything of significance, and code *must* be tested, or the other people who take it to use have to do your testing and fixing for you before improving it and adding their own stuff.
Not all bugs can be found, but if you haven't even tested for basic errors then your code is awful, and unlikely to get used.
Releasing after a few days perhaps, or a week or so, once the basic code is sound, well that I've done.
I could release it, or anyone else in the hundreds who did the same assignment over the years. tbh that never occured to me, much as was the case with almost all of my undergrad work.
I would be highly suspicious of code written to completion in four hours. Code must be planned, written, thoroughly tested, then released. Anyone who claims to be able to do that in four hours is lying.