Yeah except for the fact that it offers nothing that the average user of Facebook wants or cares about.
Just like Wikipedia in its first few years -- tons of articles on Star Wars and computer languages. Very little for non-geeks. Poor writing and editing and lots of vandalism.
But free (as in speech) has advantages. Wikipedia had and still has its growing pains, but one by one its freedom overcame 'offering nothing the average user of Brittanica wanted or cared about'.
How good was Wikipedia in its alpha stages and, a few years later, when was the last time you used any other encyclopedia?
A free software community inspired social network?
Why this has no more chance to succeed than an online encyclopedia that anyone could edit!
Any fool knows, just like Brittanica dominates that field with advantages that free (as in speech) could never compete with, so will Facebook always dominate in social networking.
NEUTRINOS, they are very small.
They have no charge and have no mass
And do not interact at all.
The earth is just a silly ball
To them, through which they simply pass,
Like dustmaids down a drafty hall
Or photons through a sheet of glass.
They snub the most exquisite gas,
Ignore the most substantial wall,
Cold shoulder steel and sounding brass,
Insult the stallion in his stall,
And scorning barriers of class,
Infiltrate you and me! Like tall
and painless guillotines, they fall
Down through our heads into the grass.
At night, they enter at Nepal
and pierce the lover and his lass
From underneath the bed-you call
It wonderful; I call it crass.
From the article: "Apparently there is a more scientific name for the 'death ray,' a name that the hotel's management prefers: 'solar convergence phenomenon.'"
The latter name isn't scientific. It's Orwellian: "'Orwellian' describes the situation, idea, or societal condition that George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free society. It connotes an attitude and a policy of control by propaganda, surveillance, misinformation, denial of truth,... The use of euphemism to describe an agency, program or other concept, especially when the name denotes the opposite of what is actually occurring. E.g. a department that wages war is called the 'Ministry of Peace.'
I don't know. What do you expect from a 21-year old kid from University of Helsinki? Personally I don't believe anyone expects much from it but nowadays you have the entire IT world being carried by a pet project made by a little Finnish kid from University of Helsinki.
Is this also the case? I don't know, really. Yet, I hope it is.
You know, there was a bit of code there before Linus started. Linus's pet project was one of many many people's pet projects.
Sometimes I question calling the operating system GNU/Linux, but when people imply Linus wrote the entire OS, I see why people press for the recognition to everyone who contributed all the free code.
Beyond costs, should they also be liable for manslaughter or something similar if their needs are frivolous and others with more genuine needs can't access the services?
"Like it or not, I can attest to the fact that I often mentally judge someone by their speech if I am talking to them, or by their spelling and punctuation if I am reading their writing."
There's your problem right there: being judgmental. That's your problem, not theirs.
"Now, unleash the Grammar Nazis...:)"
Your problem isn't grammar, it's style. Too many words. For example, the first eleven words of your post are bloat. You could replace the whole first sentence with "I judge people by their communication skills," a savings of 30/37 words, or 81%. Most of your other sentences have extra words and the paragraphs have extra sentences. Come to think of it, you might replace the whole post with that sentence, losing some meaning but gaining clarity and brevity.
It would be hard to overstate the impact Escalante has made on the education reform movement in the U.S. He and Rafe Esquith were the first to prove very publicly and definitively that demography is not destiny and that inner-city kids, with great teaching and high expectations, could achieve at high levels.
At his peak, Escalante had 187 students at one time sitting for the Calculus AP exam — and his students accounted for ONE-THIRD of all Mexican-Americans passing the exam in the country.
Well before HP printers, Gutenberg utterly dominated the printing market. For a time, virtually every printed book on the market was printed by Gutenberg.
Perhaps due to no effort whatsoever made to maintain the brand, it is associated almost exclusively with one book least popular among techies.
Now the name is associated with blatantly pirated versions of books. If its current incarnation ever eeks out a profit it will certainly be sued by the entire publishing industry.
Slashdot Mirror
They should be happy. They fabricated the concept of Satan so if the internet helps people spread the idea, it's helping spread their fabrication.
If they don't want it spread, don't make up the concept.
I say they take off and nuke the entire drives from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2s1MspmfEwg
Yeah except for the fact that it offers nothing that the average user of Facebook wants or cares about.
Just like Wikipedia in its first few years -- tons of articles on Star Wars and computer languages. Very little for non-geeks. Poor writing and editing and lots of vandalism.
But free (as in speech) has advantages. Wikipedia had and still has its growing pains, but one by one its freedom overcame 'offering nothing the average user of Brittanica wanted or cared about'.
How good was Wikipedia in its alpha stages and, a few years later, when was the last time you used any other encyclopedia?
A free software community inspired social network?
Why this has no more chance to succeed than an online encyclopedia that anyone could edit!
Any fool knows, just like Brittanica dominates that field with advantages that free (as in speech) could never compete with, so will Facebook always dominate in social networking.
Oh wait...
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
Cosmic Gall, by John Updike
NEUTRINOS, they are very small.
They have no charge and have no mass
And do not interact at all.
The earth is just a silly ball
To them, through which they simply pass,
Like dustmaids down a drafty hall
Or photons through a sheet of glass.
They snub the most exquisite gas,
Ignore the most substantial wall,
Cold shoulder steel and sounding brass,
Insult the stallion in his stall,
And scorning barriers of class,
Infiltrate you and me! Like tall
and painless guillotines, they fall
Down through our heads into the grass.
At night, they enter at Nepal
and pierce the lover and his lass
From underneath the bed-you call
It wonderful; I call it crass.
Steve Jobs already solved this "mess for both users and developers, Contrast this with Apple's integrated App Store, which offers users the easiest-to-use, largest app store in the world, preloaded on every iPhone.'"
The solution is obvious: integrate all sales under Apple!
From the article: "Apparently there is a more scientific name for the 'death ray,' a name that the hotel's management prefers: 'solar convergence phenomenon.'"
The latter name isn't scientific. It's Orwellian: "'Orwellian' describes the situation, idea, or societal condition that George Orwell identified as being destructive to the welfare of a free society. It connotes an attitude and a policy of control by propaganda, surveillance, misinformation, denial of truth, ... The use of euphemism to describe an agency, program or other concept, especially when the name denotes the opposite of what is actually occurring. E.g. a department that wages war is called the 'Ministry of Peace.'
I don't know. What do you expect from a 21-year old kid from University of Helsinki? Personally I don't believe anyone expects much from it but nowadays you have the entire IT world being carried by a pet project made by a little Finnish kid from University of Helsinki.
Is this also the case? I don't know, really. Yet, I hope it is.
You know, there was a bit of code there before Linus started. Linus's pet project was one of many many people's pet projects.
Sometimes I question calling the operating system GNU/Linux, but when people imply Linus wrote the entire OS, I see why people press for the recognition to everyone who contributed all the free code.
Beyond costs, should they also be liable for manslaughter or something similar if their needs are frivolous and others with more genuine needs can't access the services?
"Like it or not, I can attest to the fact that I often mentally judge someone by their speech if I am talking to them, or by their spelling and punctuation if I am reading their writing."
There's your problem right there: being judgmental. That's your problem, not theirs.
"Now, unleash the Grammar Nazis ... :)"
Your problem isn't grammar, it's style. Too many words. For example, the first eleven words of your post are bloat. You could replace the whole first sentence with "I judge people by their communication skills," a savings of 30/37 words, or 81%. Most of your other sentences have extra words and the paragraphs have extra sentences. Come to think of it, you might replace the whole post with that sentence, losing some meaning but gaining clarity and brevity.
But it's your writing. It's up to you.
FTA: Mamta Varma, a ministry spokeswoman, said falling hardware costs and intelligent design make the price tag plausible.
Through divine providence, I sadly predict this product will sell well in the United States, especially among the non-technical.
Now we can disperse the oil into the environment through car engines so we won't pollute so much ...
... oh wait
their version of teaching English was route memorization
Naturally they have to memorize routes because China could block Google maps at any time.
Reading that snarky page, I can think of a ninth type of page that doesn't have to be made.
I guess they disagree, though, because they still made it
I don't care for most of my cow-orkers, and have little time available to do much with my friends who live nearby.
Maybe if they stopped orking their cows you'd find more time for them.
It would be hard to overstate the impact Escalante has made on the education reform movement in the U.S. He and Rafe Esquith were the first to prove very publicly and definitively that demography is not destiny and that inner-city kids, with great teaching and high expectations, could achieve at high levels.
At his peak, Escalante had 187 students at one time sitting for the Calculus AP exam — and his students accounted for ONE-THIRD of all Mexican-Americans passing the exam in the country.
Well, did they find the Higgs yet?
What Free Antivirus Do You Install On Windows?
GNU/Linux, of course.
If Professor Takahashi uses the Takahashi Method to present his results, it will be the longest presentation ever -- 2.5 trillion slides!
Or $2,000 less. Or they could charge an extra 616,816 cents.
Or $618,616 less would have given a palindrome and rotational and reflection symmetry.
Crap, I was going to post something funny, but now I'm 1.26 microseconds late. Sorry, I gotta run...
Which is interactive, the black hole or the simulation?
Okay, let's talk about Zuckerberg.
Can anyone comment on the rumors that he has syphilis? Or why he might have a prescription for viagra?
Perhaps due to no effort whatsoever made to maintain the brand, it is associated almost exclusively with one book least popular among techies.
Now the name is associated with blatantly pirated versions of books. If its current incarnation ever eeks out a profit it will certainly be sued by the entire publishing industry.