You're not far from the truth. Companies as big as Microsoft are entire ecosystems of opinion and endeavor. It's easy for one department to be developing an open-source extinguisher while another genuinely embraces the community.
It is only when an observer (e.g. high level management) really evaluates these respective ventures that one could ever become an "official" stance. And really, the likelihood of said observer actually applying time and mental resources to something as amorphous and non-deadline as "supporting or killing open-source software" is rather slim. So bureaucratic limbo it is.
It seems reasonable to me that someone with any programming experience would be likely to search for a position with adequate compensation, and this excludes teaching in public schools. Consequently, computer courses get taught by those with less marketable skills.
That doesn't explain the absence (if absence there is) of self-teaching. Software development is a highly rewarding experience as personal study.
Adopting the vernacular is a big part of assimilation into a linguistic community. If you want to be identified as part of the community, your language should say, "I identify with you," and "I'm not unlike you," instead of "I think you're stupid."
Depends on your goals, really. If you want to stick to your no-BS values, by all means do so. But your language engenders your identity in large part. Be mindful of the frames you invoke.
Effective strategy: Decide where you want to be in the company; adopt the language and dress of that department or those executives; watch the golf invitations flow.
Standards compliance is a viable component of accessibility, which is an attitude that the user ought to be able to access content in the way most suitable for them. At the risk of reductio ad absurdum, do you plan on scouring the web for a guide to disable screen readers as well?
If you consider your information valuable to readers why impair them from using that information in the way they find most convenient and digestible?--or even,:gasp:, with features that you didn't care or think to implement?
"As discussed above, the decay of an unstable nucleus (radionuclide) is entirely random and it is impossible to predict when a particular atom will decay. However, it is equally likely to decay at any time."
You are 100% correct. I'd like to take this information and make it into a poster and bumper stickers or something.
As to the nazis who suggest that people should stop complaining about getting exploited and work somewhere else, I think their rich Republican daddies and mommies have the blinders firmly in place. The tragedy is that there often ARE no other jobs, none above minimum wage in any event. People need to get a little social consciousness instead of lapping up laissez-faire drivel as if it were actually sound social theory.
Extreme capitalism is great for the economy. It's awful for people.
Sure, your points would be easy to refute. If only they weren't 100% on target.
Well there'll soon be a new source for cheap IT products:)
"(2) PROCEDURES- The procedures set forth in section 413 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 853), other than subsection (d) of that section, and in Rule 32.2 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, shall apply to all stages of a criminal forfeiture proceeding under this section."
The article says nothing about music piracy boosting sales. The evidence "staring them in the face" is simply nonexistent. Furthermore, it's talking about music sold on an international scale. An increase in New Zealand's piracy has little or nothing to do with the successes of the bands overall.
Correct! Although stem cells can be derived from aborted fetuses and, by all means, ought to be if it can help even a single human being.
"In the most controversial method, scientists can also pull stem cells from aborted fetuses, first asking for signed consent from a patient who'd previously (and independently) decided to terminate her pregnancy. This is the procedure most often highlighted by pro-life activists who oppose supporting stem cell research." -Old Time article
Most conservatives though, including Bush if I'm not mistaken, are opposed even to using excess embryos for stem-cell research, which is even more outlandish than refusing to collect stem cells from fetuses that have already been aborted.
Well the real idiocy of the matter is that Roe v. Wade is not going to be overturned. Consequently, abortions continue, providing a viable source of stem cells that remains untapped so long as imbeciles in power are tied inextricably to the Christian Right.
While I'm pro-abortion, conservatives need to realize that two "wrongs" don't make a right. If abortion is so evil, we should at least gain as much good from it as we possibly can. To do otherwise is downright criminal to the medical community and everyone who could benefit from this research.
I'm for it. It's one way to ensure that censorship/filtering, access restrictions, and other bunk legislation are idealistically framed and never enforced.
Students do not "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate."
Or so said the Supreme Court in 1969 in Tinker v. Des Moines.
Their inane school policies have no jurisdiction over constitutionally guarded freedoms.
The greatest among us are those who have sacrificed their navels to the Potato God.
-Terov
I'll run the risk of redundancy (as I have not gone so far as to read all of the threads in response to this--dare I say it--excellent query) and suggest that the far right would make any push for the civil rights of non-human life negligible.
The best we could hope for would be something like PETA, but rather People for the Humane Treatment of Aliens, and we can hardly count their noble achievements in the realm of animal rights as even a shadow of what we enjoy as civil rights.
In short, the outlook is grim for Earth as a universal tourist site unless our extra-terrestrial vacationers plan on sightseeing incognito.
As for the rights of AI, I consider these very sketchy, and I would almost certainly tend to agree with the conservatives on this one. Consciousness is a difficult thing to fully grasp (ironically), and I would say virtually impossible to test. Furthermore, it is most likely that the only reason we endeavor on the path of artificial intelligence is to exact a certain e-slavery from our virtual companions.
The greatest among us are those who have sacrificed their navels to the Potato God.
-Terov
What I often see, and this may be offtopic, is that new projects--not unlike Berlin, are attacked because the majority feels that status quo is just fine. The way I see it, status quo may be just fine, but when something better (at least in the perspective of a user or developer) comes along, there should be nothing hindering the switch. "Third Standard," or in this case, "Second Standard," seem to be dirty words when something new comes along, but isn't looking for superior solutions beneficial to everyone eventually? Berlin is a perfect example of working on a better way, and isn't that what Linux is all about?
The greatest among us are those who have sacrificed their navels to the Potato God. -Terov
What, then is the motivation to have a site? Is it to get visitors? To help people? When mammoth commercial sites with their glaring banners are blocking the view of the average user, are either of these goals met?
I hate conservatives and I hate liberals, but most of all, I HATE extremists! Kill them all! -Terov
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You're not far from the truth.
Companies as big as Microsoft are entire ecosystems of opinion and endeavor. It's easy for one department to be developing an open-source extinguisher while another genuinely embraces the community.
It is only when an observer (e.g. high level management) really evaluates these respective ventures that one could ever become an "official" stance.
And really, the likelihood of said observer actually applying time and mental resources to something as amorphous and non-deadline as "supporting or killing open-source software" is rather slim. So bureaucratic limbo it is.
It seems reasonable to me that someone with any programming experience would be likely to search for a position with adequate compensation, and this excludes teaching in public schools.
Consequently, computer courses get taught by those with less marketable skills.
That doesn't explain the absence (if absence there is) of self-teaching.
Software development is a highly rewarding experience as personal study.
Buddhism isn't a theistic religion.
Adopting the vernacular is a big part of assimilation into a linguistic community. If you want to be identified as part of the community, your language should say, "I identify with you," and "I'm not unlike you," instead of "I think you're stupid."
Depends on your goals, really. If you want to stick to your no-BS values, by all means do so. But your language engenders your identity in large part. Be mindful of the frames you invoke.
Effective strategy:
Decide where you want to be in the company; adopt the language and dress of that department or those executives; watch the golf invitations flow.
Are you actually serious?
:gasp:, with features that you didn't care or think to implement?
Standards compliance is a viable component of accessibility, which is an attitude that the user ought to be able to access content in the way most suitable for them. At the risk of reductio ad absurdum, do you plan on scouring the web for a guide to disable screen readers as well?
If you consider your information valuable to readers why impair them from using that information in the way they find most convenient and digestible?--or even,
You should really reconsider.
Without a doubt the most rhetorically satisfying rant I've read on /. in months. I applaud your honesty.
Try the second one, scooter:
"As discussed above, the decay of an unstable nucleus (radionuclide) is entirely random and it is impossible to predict when a particular atom will decay. However, it is equally likely to decay at any time."
As I recall the random number is generated via the radioactive decay of unstable nuclei, a phenomenon assumed to be utterly chaotic.
Here's a Wikilink.
Also informative:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactivity
It's a good thing they didn't choose "Linnovate," or they'd still be in trouble.
You are 100% correct. I'd like to take this information and make it into a poster and bumper stickers or something.
As to the nazis who suggest that people should stop complaining about getting exploited and work somewhere else, I think their rich Republican daddies and mommies have the blinders firmly in place. The tragedy is that there often ARE no other jobs, none above minimum wage in any event. People need to get a little social consciousness instead of lapping up laissez-faire drivel as if it were actually sound social theory.
Extreme capitalism is great for the economy. It's awful for people.
Sure, your points would be easy to refute. If only they weren't 100% on target.
Well there'll soon be a new source for cheap IT products :)
"(2) PROCEDURES- The procedures set forth in section 413 of the Controlled Substances Act (21 U.S.C. 853), other than subsection (d) of that section, and in Rule 32.2 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure, shall apply to all stages of a criminal forfeiture proceeding under this section."
Looking forward to it.
Mod parent up.
The article says nothing about music piracy boosting sales. The evidence "staring them in the face" is simply nonexistent. Furthermore, it's talking about music sold on an international scale. An increase in New Zealand's piracy has little or nothing to do with the successes of the bands overall.
Again, Roe v. Wade isn't going anywhere.
Not deriving some utility from what certain people consider a tragedy COMPOUNDS that tragedy.
Hadn't heard of that.
Given the resources available, it seems a shame that research is currently confined to the cultures already under study.
Correct! Although stem cells can be derived from aborted fetuses and, by all means, ought to be if it can help even a single human being.
"In the most controversial method, scientists can also pull stem cells from aborted fetuses, first asking for signed consent from a patient who'd previously (and independently) decided to terminate her pregnancy. This is the procedure most often highlighted by pro-life activists who oppose supporting stem cell research."
-Old Time article
Most conservatives though, including Bush if I'm not mistaken, are opposed even to using excess embryos for stem-cell research, which is even more outlandish than refusing to collect stem cells from fetuses that have already been aborted.
Well the real idiocy of the matter is that Roe v. Wade is not going to be overturned. Consequently, abortions continue, providing a viable source of stem cells that remains untapped so long as imbeciles in power are tied inextricably to the Christian Right.
While I'm pro-abortion, conservatives need to realize that two "wrongs" don't make a right. If abortion is so evil, we should at least gain as much good from it as we possibly can. To do otherwise is downright criminal to the medical community and everyone who could benefit from this research.
I'm for it. It's one way to ensure that censorship/filtering, access restrictions, and other bunk legislation are idealistically framed and never enforced.
Go U.N.
If they can get it down to seven days then we'll have something ;)
Most people on Slashdot maybe.
Students do not "shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate."
Or so said the Supreme Court in 1969 in Tinker v. Des Moines.
Their inane school policies have no jurisdiction over constitutionally guarded freedoms.
The greatest among us are those who have sacrificed their navels to the Potato God. -Terov
I'll run the risk of redundancy (as I have not gone so far as to read all of the threads in response to this--dare I say it--excellent query) and suggest that the far right would make any push for the civil rights of non-human life negligible.
The best we could hope for would be something like PETA, but rather People for the Humane Treatment of Aliens, and we can hardly count their noble achievements in the realm of animal rights as even a shadow of what we enjoy as civil rights.
In short, the outlook is grim for Earth as a universal tourist site unless our extra-terrestrial vacationers plan on sightseeing incognito.
As for the rights of AI, I consider these very sketchy, and I would almost certainly tend to agree with the conservatives on this one. Consciousness is a difficult thing to fully grasp (ironically), and I would say virtually impossible to test. Furthermore, it is most likely that the only reason we endeavor on the path of artificial intelligence is to exact a certain e-slavery from our virtual companions.
The greatest among us are those who have sacrificed their navels to the Potato God. -Terov
Take a look at these message boards for a good laugh. I love the smell of human stupidity in the morning! I'm xaranth BTW, yes, the very cynical one.
The greatest among us are those who have sacrificed their navels to the Potato God. -Terov
What I often see, and this may be offtopic, is that new projects--not unlike Berlin, are attacked because the majority feels that status quo is just fine. The way I see it, status quo may be just fine, but when something better (at least in the perspective of a user or developer) comes along, there should be nothing hindering the switch.
"Third Standard," or in this case, "Second Standard," seem to be dirty words when something new comes along, but isn't looking for superior solutions beneficial to everyone eventually? Berlin is a perfect example of working on a better way, and isn't that what Linux is all about?
The greatest among us are those who have sacrificed their navels to the Potato God. -Terov
Sorry about the abundance of commas. Not a good writing day ;)
I hate conservatives and I hate liberals, but most of all,
I HATE extremists! Kill them all!
-Terov
What, then is the motivation to have a site? Is it to get visitors? To help people? When mammoth commercial sites with their glaring banners are blocking the view of the average user, are either of these goals met?
I hate conservatives and I hate liberals, but most of all,
I HATE extremists! Kill them all!
-Terov