Philosophy of science is as useful to scientists as hydrodynamics is to pilots. -Mateo_LeFou
The person or animal who applies the knowledge doesn't necessarily need to study how it's hatched, but she's gotta be pleased that *someone is studying it.
There wouldn't be any pilots if some geeky geniuses hadn't figured out that it was *possible to fly.
"In this day and age, where almost all federal litigation is electronic and there are *pdf files of every document, I feel there is no excuse for holding back on that."
I have it on good authority that Microsoft and Massachussets are getting together to take care of that, by converting everything to Genuine Vista "Open" Office XML(TM)
"I needed to use the console no less than 5 times. That's *needed* to, there was no GUI way to do what I was trying to do."
I'd love details. My wife and 6yo have been using Ubuntu for a couple years and she only used the console once. She typed "supertux" and it said "try 'sudo apt-get install supertux'" so she did. Then she played supertux
Another man duck-walks across the flight deck.... He's about sixty, with a dirigible of white hair that was not ruffled in any way by the downdraft. "Hello, everyone," he says cheerfully. "Who are you?" Tony says. The new guy looks crestfallen. "Greg Ritchie," he says. Then, when no one seems to react, he jogs their memory. "President of the United States." "Oh! Sorry. Nice to meet you, Mr. President," Tony says, extending his hand....
1. BillGates descends from the mountain with stone tablets outlining his latest tech scheme. 2. FOSS folk (Group A) beg clients to steer clear. 3. MBA folk (Group B) make fun of group A 4. Tech scheme changes, screws clients 5. Clients ask for some bit of functionality that tech scheme isn't interested in providing. *Must work with tech scheme, which they can't get away from now. 6. FOSS folk say that's hard, maybe impossible. 7. Group B says that FOSS doesn't work very well.
"Iraq had plenty of hatred to go round prior to the invasion..."
1) Plenty? Not sure what you mean... more is not worse, then? 2) What about other places (Indonesia comes to mind) that were relatively indifferent to U.S. before and are now sending young men into the middle east to fight us.
Actually, this patent kinda sucks, because mobile hardware and software is getting flexible and robust enough to actually make CueCatish behavior useful.
No, I don't mean "Oooh, an ad for Coke! I wanna go to their website now!"
I mean "Shit, is this the right kind of semisweet dutch processed chocolate for that cake my wife is making? I'll IM the UPC to her and see... "
"The danger with Obama's rigid timetable is that it may not allow U.S. commanders to react to events on the ground"
I never found this line persuasive. Honestly, if something *really unexpected and dire happened and required an adjustment to the withdrawal schedule, you think Obama (or any president) is going to say "no, no we can't change the plan. It says August 10 on this piece of paper, so we're leaving Tikrit August 10 despite the fact that (e.g.) China just invaded it.. "
I feel like Johnny one-note this month, but this comes from the fact that the government is a couple decades behind in their grasp of copyright and patent law.
Having been sold the notion that what these laws protect is "property" rather than a government-originated monopoly, their critical thinking stops.
If you could convince 'em that abortion was a form of stealing, Roe v Wade would be overturned in a week.
Oh, I don't torrent hollywood movies and don't condone it. I was refuting two principles you seem to hold:
1) One's right to get paid for X has something, anything, to do with the effort involved therein..
2) People don't do things unless they get paid
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>if it comes up heads, its exploitable. Tails its gonna be ok.
In this case, wouldn't there be as many false negatives as false positives?
This thread should finally make us bite the bullet and allow scores to go to +10
Or, ideally, eleven.
http://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
"I feel sorry for the kids that will only learn how to be office droids."
In Soviet Colombia, office droids learn how to be kids!
"I would say a good F/OSS alternative to SharePoint would be great"
http://www.knowledgetree.com/ ?
"If you want to keep us secure, take a page from Linux and open up your OS to public scrutiny so that people can perfect it. What are you afraid of?"
You must be new here
>mfh (56)
or not
I loves me some Feynman, but this doesn't map.
Philosophy of science is as useful to scientists as hydrodynamics is to pilots.
-Mateo_LeFou
The person or animal who applies the knowledge doesn't necessarily need to study how it's hatched, but she's gotta be pleased that *someone is studying it.
There wouldn't be any pilots if some geeky geniuses hadn't figured out that it was *possible to fly.
"Itâ(TM)s generally suspected that Vista was a rush release ... "
Um.. six years is a rush release?
I have patented metapatenting as a concept.
41% of all /. jokes are infringing
"In this day and age, where almost all federal litigation is electronic and there are *pdf files of every document, I feel there is no excuse for holding back on that."
I have it on good authority that Microsoft and Massachussets are getting together to take care of that, by converting everything to Genuine Vista "Open" Office XML(TM)
"Folks get a Linux machine and it is just them,Google,and a big scary CLI."
hm.. I thought I somehow inadvertently retrieved a cached page from 1998, but that doesn't make sense 'cause you mention "Google" ...
For the people I think you might be talking about, right-clicking on anything is approximately as scary as the cli.
"I needed to use the console no less than 5 times. That's *needed* to, there was no GUI way to do what I was trying to do."
I'd love details. My wife and 6yo have been using Ubuntu for a couple years and she only used the console once. She typed "supertux" and it said "try 'sudo apt-get install supertux'" so she did. Then she played supertux
"Cool. So everybody... "
Right at the word 'everybody' is where you indicate that you missed the point entirely.
I recommend he buy the box set and then use the torrent.
Actually, I *really recommend that he explore free music. Free as in music.
No, but in the words of Jeff Goldblum
Life ... finds a way.
l)
Another man duck-walks across the flight deck.... He's about sixty, with a dirigible of white hair that was not ruffled in any way by the downdraft.
"Hello, everyone," he says cheerfully.
"Who are you?" Tony says.
The new guy looks crestfallen. "Greg Ritchie," he says.
Then, when no one seems to react, he jogs their memory. "President of the United States."
"Oh! Sorry. Nice to meet you, Mr. President," Tony says, extending his hand....
-Snow Crash
It's not fun to play, but I love it:
1. BillGates descends from the mountain with stone tablets outlining his latest tech scheme.
2. FOSS folk (Group A) beg clients to steer clear.
3. MBA folk (Group B) make fun of group A
4. Tech scheme changes, screws clients
5. Clients ask for some bit of functionality that tech scheme isn't interested in providing. *Must work with tech scheme, which they can't get away from now.
6. FOSS folk say that's hard, maybe impossible.
7. Group B says that FOSS doesn't work very well.
"Iraq had plenty of hatred to go round prior to the invasion..."
1) Plenty? Not sure what you mean... more is not worse, then?
2) What about other places (Indonesia comes to mind) that were relatively indifferent to U.S. before and are now sending young men into the middle east to fight us.
Actually, this patent kinda sucks, because mobile hardware and software is getting flexible and robust enough to actually make CueCatish behavior useful.
No, I don't mean "Oooh, an ad for Coke! I wanna go to their website now!"
I mean "Shit, is this the right kind of semisweet dutch processed chocolate for that cake my wife is making? I'll IM the UPC to her and see... "
"The danger with Obama's rigid timetable is that it may not allow U.S. commanders to react to events on the ground"
I never found this line persuasive. Honestly, if something *really unexpected and dire happened and required an adjustment to the withdrawal schedule, you think Obama (or any president) is going to say "no, no we can't change the plan. It says August 10 on this piece of paper, so we're leaving Tikrit August 10 despite the fact that (e.g.) China just invaded it.. "
"the two candidates are essentially in agreement on methods and timelines to end our participation in it."
That's not what I heard. Obama, as I recall, insists on a timeline but McCain (so wise) joins W in establishing a time *horizon.
Surely anyone can see how dangerously naive Obama's view is.
We won phase 1, clearing the country of (alas, nonexistent) WMD and ousting a brutal dictator.
Phase 2 is trying to stamp out the hatred and violence that phase 1 fomented.
As in so many things, the previous solution is the new problem.
"put *the information* on the web, in a data form in a documented and standards-compliant format."
Yeah, right. I don't see how anyone's going to get a Rich Internet Experience(TM) out of that.
I feel like Johnny one-note this month, but this comes from the fact that the government is a couple decades behind in their grasp of copyright and patent law.
Having been sold the notion that what these laws protect is "property" rather than a government-originated monopoly, their critical thinking stops.
If you could convince 'em that abortion was a form of stealing, Roe v Wade would be overturned in a week.
Oh, I don't torrent hollywood movies and don't condone it. I was refuting two principles you seem to hold: 1) One's right to get paid for X has something, anything, to do with the effort involved therein.. 2) People don't do things unless they get paid