Some people may think there're a lot of 'overlaps' on science and religion in areas like evolution, world-creation/big-bang, supreme-being/creator...etc. and make it a necessity to mould them into one big puddle. I really don't see the need of that, because religion and science have two different purposes. Religion asks the question 'why are we here'. Science asks the question 'how do things work'. Leave them in their seperate classes.
What exactly is this initiative trying to achieve? I really don't understand. If we talk about OSS, it's about availability, quality, feature-rich, or even performance. There's no need to address availability because these days, if you want to pay minimum for a graphics card, you get it on-board with dirt.
So what's next? Performance? Are there algorithms that can easily boost many folds on the performance of handling polygons/texture, without increasing hardware requirement/complexity?
It's all about what the manufacturer wants to tell the consumers: 512MB vs 256MB - that DOUBLE!!! I ALWAYS have friends (not just non-IT, but even soft-IT friends) telling me, "yeah, I'm gonna get that vid-card that has X MB of RAM" or "yeah my vid-card sux coz it has Y MB of RAM". Every time I can only shake my head.
However, there's no good single gauge like CPU speed, though it's not truly 100% representative of performance. Now that the GPU arch. are quite different, GPU/RAM clock in there are different, and there's also driver... It's hard for regular consumer to tell the which is better than which, by how much. Even for the rest of us, we have to read all the nitty-gritty detail on review and benchmark before making a better choice than looking at model numbers and price.
Wow... talk about Internet being business-driven, instead of information-driven. I expect to get more top links related to the animal 'tiger' instead of an OS or a hardware retailer. Like these.
I'm totally missing what's in the mind-set of like-minded slashdotters. On one hand people are pounding on HK (and other SE Asia countries) saying it's a pirate heaven and the government is doing shit about it. And now people are pounding them for teaching kids to value IP.
I am endorsing the use of such badge, nor saying commerical business should do things like this. Here you are trying to equate 'valuing IP' and 'serving commercial interests'.
First off, Lenovo is a private corporation, not a state run business. It's all about profit. It's nature is just as good (or evil) as any other businesses in the world. Check this out:
"ThinkPad recommends Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional"
But I agree that it's possible that they may go towards more to a non-MS, or MS-agnostic company.
No wonder consumer hardware is a cut-throat business... TigerDirect may as well trademark lion, turtle, monkey, ass (donkey), chicken, pig, cow...etc name after their system configurations, in order to generate more revenue.
When I think of functional (lisp), my head's twisted and then unwinded. When I think of contraint-based (prolog), my head feels like upside-down. When I think of object-oriented, I think of org-chart. When I think of procedural, I think of spagetti.
Totally agree - single party is just dangerous. If people in power are good, things work out fine, and people/economy prosper, at least for a portion of people (i.e. now). If people in power are bad, shit happens (i.e. cultural revolution).
The fact that we (in America) can vote without fear of reprisal, and with a certain amount of confidence that our votes count, means that we have the power.
But the cold sad truth about the three points you mentioned above - it simply doesn't work like that as expected/intended. Remember vote counting?:)
If you're trying to imply HK is such an evil land, I beg your pardon. It's all a matter of convenience. In North America, our favorite pirate music/movie stores are called BearShare, Gnutella, BT...etc.
The situation in Hong Kong is quite different from the rest of China. Hong Kong judicial system is based on British common law. The basic law set the guiding prinicple around the system after 1997.
I think the judges still wear that stupid wig from colonial days, and vast majority of them are actually ethnicity of non-chinese last time I checked.
"MORTIMER", "HOFFMANN", "Hon Sir Ivor RICHARDSON" doesn't sound Chinese to me. The official language in court is actually English, unless approved by the judge to use Cantonese.
Please, please, please, fellow slash-dotters, for once stop making sweeping statement about China, that because they're communist, they must be evil in every aspect. I'm not saying communist is better but check out how well western democratic is working for all of us. We in Canada are ruling by a party of 35% support (liberal), and soon we'll probably be ruled by a party of 30% (conservatives).
If you want to read more about politics/judicial/business corruption mess, please first check with Halliburton and Enron.
I urge all of us to read more before making judgements.
I think there's no business model, i.e. pretty much no money involvement (can they accept donation?). It's all about quality software, sharing that fruit, and maybe some fame.
I thought the open source idea evolves around:
1. "Gees, these tools sux, let me build my own, in which I can really make good use of"
2. "Hmm... lemme put it on ftp/web. Hmm... others actually find good use of it too"
3. "I may as well release the source coz there're people who's willing to make it even better and put more features..etc."
There are no real non-money biased political organizations out there that anyone can even remotely consider mainstream.
How about this as an alternative? Where we talk about party, we really means it! Ok... joke aside, do you seriously think that if Green or Libertarians has the power and they won't evolve into something republican-like or democratic-like thingie? I think the problem is not in ideology or party, but the people.
We are not running out of oil. It's demand and supply. The current oil price probably has more to do with the Iraq war and SE Asia growth than price fixing.
Oh, I forgot to blame MS:)
I don't think it's about familarity or comfort, because at the end the majority users are the the decision makers. It's always comes down to the dollar sign. If the total cost of ownership of OO is significant enough, I don't see why the decision makers won't go for it.
Consider one of the reason why the majority CS dept. in colleges used unix back then: Solaris, HP-UX, Irix..etc. The labs in the college I went has many plaques written, SUN/HP/SGI donated these equipment...etc. Who has a reason to donate PC to colleges 15-20 years ago?
I have no knowledge but I think there're a lot of financial reason why high-schools uses MS stuff.
All you said is true. But for one moment, do you think the general public in China, thought it was right thing to do during Tiananmen Square? It is not the government who stir up the uprising but the general public. As I mentioned in the above posting the government actually asked public to calm down and even ban protests in cities.
Your son's concern is certainly 100% valid and legitimate. But because their government let Tiananmen Square happened and have not apologized for it, that DOES NOT JUSTIFY the Japanese twisted the history on the textbooks and tell their next generation that the war is about 'liberating asia'. They have the moral responsibilty to tell next-gen nothing but the truth. You son must have heard about holocaust, but does he know anything about what happened in China during WWII?
So you think all these anger and riots happens because governments manipulated a human trait? It's all about rallying for national unity? On top of that the current uprising is from the public, and the government actually asks the public to calm down and even go further as to ban some rally in some cities (in Beijing when a Japanese minister was visiting).
What if your nation is invaded and robbed, your men massacred or used for chem/bio weapon guinea-pigs, women kidnapped, raped and used as sex slaves for the enemies' army. Oh yeah, that has something to do with national unity. And unlike Germany, the Japanese never officially apologizes to any of the involved Asia nations, nor compensation to any of the suffered parties.
I urge you to read.
http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/NanjingMassacre/NM.htm l
http://www.library.yale.edu/NotaBene/nbx3/divupdat.htm
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Some people may think there're a lot of 'overlaps' on science and religion in areas like evolution, world-creation/big-bang, supreme-being/creator...etc. and make it a necessity to mould them into one big puddle. I really don't see the need of that, because religion and science have two different purposes. Religion asks the question 'why are we here'. Science asks the question 'how do things work'. Leave them in their seperate classes.
Like the other guy said, yet most of us can't get around the skull bashing part :)
So what's next? Performance? Are there algorithms that can easily boost many folds on the performance of handling polygons/texture, without increasing hardware requirement/complexity?
However, there's no good single gauge like CPU speed, though it's not truly 100% representative of performance. Now that the GPU arch. are quite different, GPU/RAM clock in there are different, and there's also driver... It's hard for regular consumer to tell the which is better than which, by how much. Even for the rest of us, we have to read all the nitty-gritty detail on review and benchmark before making a better choice than looking at model numbers and price.
Wow... talk about Internet being business-driven, instead of information-driven. I expect to get more top links related to the animal 'tiger' instead of an OS or a hardware retailer. Like these.
I am endorsing the use of such badge, nor saying commerical business should do things like this. Here you are trying to equate 'valuing IP' and 'serving commercial interests'.
"ThinkPad recommends Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional"
But I agree that it's possible that they may go towards more to a non-MS, or MS-agnostic company.
With BT and others P2P, everybody in the business' a loser.
Practical Common Lisp? LOL! Lisp is a language that's fairly impractical, definitely uncommon, and a lot of people pronounce it Lips :)
No wonder consumer hardware is a cut-throat business... TigerDirect may as well trademark lion, turtle, monkey, ass (donkey), chicken, pig, cow...etc name after their system configurations, in order to generate more revenue.
When I think of functional (lisp), my head's twisted and then unwinded. When I think of contraint-based (prolog), my head feels like upside-down. When I think of object-oriented, I think of org-chart. When I think of procedural, I think of spagetti.
The fact that we (in America) can vote without fear of reprisal, and with a certain amount of confidence that our votes count, means that we have the power.
But the cold sad truth about the three points you mentioned above - it simply doesn't work like that as expected/intended. Remember vote counting? :)
If you're trying to imply HK is such an evil land, I beg your pardon. It's all a matter of convenience. In North America, our favorite pirate music/movie stores are called BearShare, Gnutella, BT...etc.
I think the judges still wear that stupid wig from colonial days, and vast majority of them are actually ethnicity of non-chinese last time I checked. "MORTIMER", "HOFFMANN", "Hon Sir Ivor RICHARDSON" doesn't sound Chinese to me. The official language in court is actually English, unless approved by the judge to use Cantonese.
Please, please, please, fellow slash-dotters, for once stop making sweeping statement about China, that because they're communist, they must be evil in every aspect. I'm not saying communist is better but check out how well western democratic is working for all of us. We in Canada are ruling by a party of 35% support (liberal), and soon we'll probably be ruled by a party of 30% (conservatives).
If you want to read more about politics/judicial/business corruption mess, please first check with Halliburton and Enron.
I urge all of us to read more before making judgements.
Excuse me but what is the significance of this tablet PC? There're tons of these similar thingie out there...
1. "Gees, these tools sux, let me build my own, in which I can really make good use of"
2. "Hmm... lemme put it on ftp/web. Hmm... others actually find good use of it too"
3. "I may as well release the source coz there're people who's willing to make it even better and put more features..etc."
from /dev/zero to /dev/null?
How about this as an alternative? Where we talk about party, we really means it! Ok... joke aside, do you seriously think that if Green or Libertarians has the power and they won't evolve into something republican-like or democratic-like thingie? I think the problem is not in ideology or party, but the people.
We are not running out of oil. It's demand and supply. The current oil price probably has more to do with the Iraq war and SE Asia growth than price fixing. Oh, I forgot to blame MS :)
de Beers has been doing that for years without getting sued.
I don't think it's about familarity or comfort, because at the end the majority users are the the decision makers. It's always comes down to the dollar sign. If the total cost of ownership of OO is significant enough, I don't see why the decision makers won't go for it. Consider one of the reason why the majority CS dept. in colleges used unix back then: Solaris, HP-UX, Irix..etc. The labs in the college I went has many plaques written, SUN/HP/SGI donated these equipment...etc. Who has a reason to donate PC to colleges 15-20 years ago? I have no knowledge but I think there're a lot of financial reason why high-schools uses MS stuff.
All you said is true. But for one moment, do you think the general public in China, thought it was right thing to do during Tiananmen Square? It is not the government who stir up the uprising but the general public. As I mentioned in the above posting the government actually asked public to calm down and even ban protests in cities. Your son's concern is certainly 100% valid and legitimate. But because their government let Tiananmen Square happened and have not apologized for it, that DOES NOT JUSTIFY the Japanese twisted the history on the textbooks and tell their next generation that the war is about 'liberating asia'. They have the moral responsibilty to tell next-gen nothing but the truth. You son must have heard about holocaust, but does he know anything about what happened in China during WWII?
So you think all these anger and riots happens because governments manipulated a human trait? It's all about rallying for national unity? On top of that the current uprising is from the public, and the government actually asks the public to calm down and even go further as to ban some rally in some cities (in Beijing when a Japanese minister was visiting). What if your nation is invaded and robbed, your men massacred or used for chem/bio weapon guinea-pigs, women kidnapped, raped and used as sex slaves for the enemies' army. Oh yeah, that has something to do with national unity. And unlike Germany, the Japanese never officially apologizes to any of the involved Asia nations, nor compensation to any of the suffered parties. I urge you to read. http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/NanjingMassacre/NM.htm l
http://www.library.yale.edu/NotaBene/nbx3/divupdat .htm
At the end of the day, he'll probably come up with a new RCS, and it'll be compatible with BK.