The reason CS used to be more popular with women WAS for sexist reasons. Back in the 80s when no one really know what computer science was, people just thought "Computers? Computers=typing=women's work", and thus there were many women entering CS. Since then the true nature of CS as a harder science has emerged, and thus the levels of women have fallen to the levels of other hard sciences.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Wuala - www.wua.la - which is a distributed online storage system. You agree to store (encrypted) bits of others' files in exchange for the ability to do so on others' machines across the wuala network. It's free and pretty damn cool. They can explain it better than I can: http://wua.la/en/learn/why
It does really take longer to go from slashdot, to amazon, to your email, to a to-do list, to cnn.com than it does to see all that information presented in one place. There isn't really any kind of tradeoff for that functionality. When I say REALLY COOL, what I mean is REALLY USEFUL. It's easier to keep tabs on what's going on. If you don't regularly check a number of sites, then yes, it may not be that useful for you, but for me, getting all the information I regularly read in one place is very convienient.
There is nothing wrong with HTML pages, but pages are a sight more useful when they display exactly what you want. This is a very natural evolution of web pages, I don't see what the problem is.
Yeah, Ajax has been a buzzword recently, but you seem to have an issue with the technology, and not the buzz. Have you used any of these services? You'd notice that they're REALLY COOL! There's nothing wrong with easily organizing content. Try it before you knock it.
"Some, mostly libertarian conservative thinkers like those at the Cato Institute, instinctively oppose any and all regulation and want the free market to determine what services are offered, at what price and to whom.... Of course they are wrong, and badly so.
I'm a market socialist, and I believe that regulated markets are the best way to create social value."
That's it. I haven't really taken this out of context. There is absolutely no supporting argument for this ridiculous statement. I'm surprised that there are still people who openly proclaim they don't believe in a free market. I'm not so sure the writer of this article is a deep thinker.
I'm looking at the pdf now, and it has entries for saturday, january 6th, and sunday, january 7th. The dates are all off! I'm not sure if the numeric dates are off or if the calendar days are, but its going to make it something of a headache trying to figure out whats visible when. Unless I missed something, this seems like a pretty obvious error.
This is really more of a software designer's issue than a strictly Linux one. As we speak, I am looking for my copy of Daemon Tools on my computer, but I can't find it because it's named in the start menu by the software's manufacturer, not the name of the program. This is the case for many windows apps and I view it as a similar problem.
Read between the lines? You mean just assume it's true? Why should we just accept things on faith that they have been 'dumbed down' and are actually true? I understand being frustrated with smarmy responses from/. readers, but just accepting results on blind faith because they have to be 'dumbed down' is absolutely ridiculous.
Sure, there's one sentence that alludes to the new technique, but why was this not an option before? What was preventing people from simply fixing the valve? This seems like the natural solution to me - it seems obvious that narrowing the valve is an inferior solution to simply fixing it. There's no meat to the article.
You have got to be kidding me! This passes for news? Some doctor says 'whoaaaa mannnn, Da Vinci made some nice drawings' and then invents a new way to repair the heart, and the media links the two together. There is NO mention of what the new procedure consists of or why Da Vinci's drawings helped him invent it. I find it very hard to believe the Da Vinci really had some understanding of heart physiology that we don't and when the article makes no effort to convince me otherwise...well, color me skeptical.
Go read http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience/ backstories and learn why you should never listen to the mass media when it comes to scientific discoveries. I'm really surprised this got posted to/.
So no one else thinks that Mulberry is absolutely awful - slow, unwieldy, and obtuse? My university has been using Mulberry for years, and it's almost universally hated by students.
Vector based and pixel based image editing is so completely different, both from a design and mathematical standpoint, it's no surprise that Microsoft's slap-dash attempt at combining both editors into one package failed. Even a company like Adobe would be hard pressed to make such a package. MS needs a lot more experience before pulling this off successfully.
The site is down already, and i saw someone requesting a mirror, so if anyone doesn't know about it, www.mirrordot.com mirrors everything slashdot links to. I've never seen it go down.
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The reason CS used to be more popular with women WAS for sexist reasons. Back in the 80s when no one really know what computer science was, people just thought "Computers? Computers=typing=women's work", and thus there were many women entering CS. Since then the true nature of CS as a harder science has emerged, and thus the levels of women have fallen to the levels of other hard sciences.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Wuala - www.wua.la - which is a distributed online storage system. You agree to store (encrypted) bits of others' files in exchange for the ability to do so on others' machines across the wuala network. It's free and pretty damn cool. They can explain it better than I can: http://wua.la/en/learn/why
It does really take longer to go from slashdot, to amazon, to your email, to a to-do list, to cnn.com than it does to see all that information presented in one place. There isn't really any kind of tradeoff for that functionality. When I say REALLY COOL, what I mean is REALLY USEFUL. It's easier to keep tabs on what's going on. If you don't regularly check a number of sites, then yes, it may not be that useful for you, but for me, getting all the information I regularly read in one place is very convienient.
Ajax runs quickly and isn't graphic-intensive.
There is nothing wrong with HTML pages, but pages are a sight more useful when they display exactly what you want. This is a very natural evolution of web pages, I don't see what the problem is.
Yeah, Ajax has been a buzzword recently, but you seem to have an issue with the technology, and not the buzz. Have you used any of these services? You'd notice that they're REALLY COOL! There's nothing wrong with easily organizing content. Try it before you knock it.
From TFA:
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"Some, mostly libertarian conservative thinkers like those at the Cato Institute, instinctively oppose any and all regulation and want the free market to determine what services are offered, at what price and to whom.
Of course they are wrong, and badly so.
I'm a market socialist, and I believe that regulated markets are the best way to create social value."
That's it. I haven't really taken this out of context. There is absolutely no supporting argument for this ridiculous statement. I'm surprised that there are still people who openly proclaim they don't believe in a free market. I'm not so sure the writer of this article is a deep thinker.
...considering no one even knows if dark energy EXISTS.
I also just noticed that it strangely corrects itself the next day, and the calendar is accurate from the 8th forward.
The dates are correct, just ignore the day of the week for today.
I'm looking at the pdf now, and it has entries for saturday, january 6th, and sunday, january 7th. The dates are all off! I'm not sure if the numeric dates are off or if the calendar days are, but its going to make it something of a headache trying to figure out whats visible when. Unless I missed something, this seems like a pretty obvious error.
This is really more of a software designer's issue than a strictly Linux one. As we speak, I am looking for my copy of Daemon Tools on my computer, but I can't find it because it's named in the start menu by the software's manufacturer, not the name of the program. This is the case for many windows apps and I view it as a similar problem.
Read between the lines? You mean just assume it's true? Why should we just accept things on faith that they have been 'dumbed down' and are actually true? I understand being frustrated with smarmy responses from /. readers, but just accepting results on blind faith because they have to be 'dumbed down' is absolutely ridiculous.
This has 'backfire' written all over it.
It would appear that the times DID get the spacing wrong, since I seriously doubt the UK has randomly decided to use US units.
Sure, there's one sentence that alludes to the new technique, but why was this not an option before? What was preventing people from simply fixing the valve? This seems like the natural solution to me - it seems obvious that narrowing the valve is an inferior solution to simply fixing it. There's no meat to the article.
You have got to be kidding me! This passes for news? Some doctor says 'whoaaaa mannnn, Da Vinci made some nice drawings' and then invents a new way to repair the heart, and the media links the two together. There is NO mention of what the new procedure consists of or why Da Vinci's drawings helped him invent it. I find it very hard to believe the Da Vinci really had some understanding of heart physiology that we don't and when the article makes no effort to convince me otherwise...well, color me skeptical.
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Go read http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/badscience/ backstories and learn why you should never listen to the mass media when it comes to scientific discoveries. I'm really surprised this got posted to
For whatever reason, it performs INCREDIBLY slowly here. Most people have started using webmail as the preferred alternative.
So no one else thinks that Mulberry is absolutely awful - slow, unwieldy, and obtuse? My university has been using Mulberry for years, and it's almost universally hated by students.
This is ridiculous. Is there really no link?
Yeah I read the entire original source. So what? He goes and finds the articles and submits them to /.
There is nothing wrong with that. He wouldn't be finding the articles otherwise.
You just can't stand someone making a little money. The ads aren't hurting anyone.
GTFO, socialist.
Engadget has just posted this article. Very creepy realistic android.
WTF? Flamebait? This is a totally valid comment.
Vector based and pixel based image editing is so completely different, both from a design and mathematical standpoint, it's no surprise that Microsoft's slap-dash attempt at combining both editors into one package failed. Even a company like Adobe would be hard pressed to make such a package. MS needs a lot more experience before pulling this off successfully.
What about things like uniforms? I know most cheap bulk clothing is manufactured in East Asia.
Actually, the buzz around the Doom movie is pretty good.
The site is down already, and i saw someone requesting a mirror, so if anyone doesn't know about it, www.mirrordot.com mirrors everything slashdot links to. I've never seen it go down.