I remember when the Nobel Prize used to mean something, when people won it many years after tremendous accomplishments. It was so exclusive that the best of the best never knew if they would ever receive it. Now it seems you get it for not being like the guy before you.
This is why I thought it was great when one of my profs actually put up a class wiki where we the students as well as the prof could engage in discussion about the problem sets. Everyone knows that you can only learn so much in lectures and part of your understanding comes when trying to complete the assignments. I guess he figured he might as well be influential at the later point as well.
I don't know but I could see them displaying one or two advertisements that you have to wait through before you are allowed to redirect your web browser to the page you want to go to. It could all be a part of the DHCP/authentication scheme.
...when the monetary cost would likely be less than 3 days in Iraq?
Can't we just put aside the Iraqi war for once and talk about something else? This article has nothing to do with Iraq or G.W. Bush. Please take the time to read and respond to the article and leave off-topic comments like these to where they are actually on topic.
I think the best way to test out other jobs is by using others experience to do so. It's normally called informational interviewing, or if you have actually built a relationship with someone whose opinion you trust, it's mentoring. I suggest you try both of these options, talk to people in your field, in companies that you admire, or other people you are connected to like fellow alumni. These people are often very successful at pointing you in the right direction career-wise, as well as having contacts to circulate you resume to for job searching as well. Just be careful, don't assume that any of these people owe you anything, or should find a job for you, they are merely there to help you, and if they choose to do more, well then that is great now isn't it.
Yeah, I was worried when the DoD locked down it's facilities to only allow connections to.mil sites, and eventually to none at all for 5 days. Frightening to say the least.
...but Musical Genome, I don't think so... This is merely picking out songs from similar genres with similar characteristics. It's not evolutionary genetics... Geeze!
You know, I think there maybe something to this. No corporation, especially Microsoft wants to be the loser of a battle for money. Microsoft, for all the negatives that we can say about them seems to be very shrewd about maintaining their dominance, and I think they probably will have the foresight to do so with patents.
Because that is precisely what science is all about. The pursuit of knowledge, good or bad, upside or down. I guess that I would rather know something has a downside rather than avoid it at all costs just in case there happens to be one.
This sort of stuff really impresses me, I think fields like this are *so* important to future research. The thing I don't get is why do people
protest [slashdot.org] ideas like nano-tech without knowing what the possible beinfits are?
Lets face it, the internet and technology is still a leader in the economy and the business world. Innovations that companies actually want are being made everyday by tech companies, and they will be for the foreseeable future. Put this along with the fact that tech savvy geeks can play with most technologies in their spare time and you have a base of people that think it's really cool! I think the trend up is not a fluke, but everything concerning Wall St. needs to be approached cautiously.
"The Eddie Bauer protest group, which calls itself Topless Humans Organized for Natural Genetics, or Thong, had previously disrupted a Chicago nanotech conference with a quick strip-tease and a clever "Plenty of room at this bottom" inked on their hind quarters."
I guess every great protest group needs a great acronym...
How many times have we all complained about having to use non-OSS because it was our only option that accomplished what we wanted it to. I personally have felt this way dozens of times.
Now, it seems the tables have turned. OSS has turned into the exact thing that it despises. I personally think this article raises some interesting issues, particularly concerning living organisms being forced to use open source just because that is the only option available to them.
I think seriously, that the Ferrari and performance cars like it will be around for a while to come. The alure of these cars is not gone in my opinion, even though they have long been surpassed in speed and acceleration. I don't know how many/.ers have been behind the wheel of a Ferrari, but I would still love to drive one if and equivalent electric counterpart was produced.
That being said, maybe Ferrari will pick up this technology, seriously. They always seem to be inovative to push their cars up to the next notch of performance. And maybe, just maybe, if implemented just right, this will finally remove the stigma of a temperamental Ferrari.
I'll bet my browser on OSS anyday of the week. This is personal choice, but for security sake, OSS has the benifit of being open source. It's free and open for all to see, and while that might make it easier to exploit, in my book it also makes it easier to fix. We all know there are no intentional back doors, and no malicious code segments(those of us that still trudge through the code for fun anyway).
>According to the company, the Ubuntu notebooks are reserved for selected parts of Europe, Africa and Middle East where Windows piracy rates are strikingly high.
I guess the US should start pirating windows more to get companies like HP interested in distributing these types of laptops here.
This was a silly article. Where is the intrigue, imagination, or way to argue terribly with our slashdot neighbors.
Or maybe it's just an off day for me;-)
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> No way: this reasoning leads to the conclusion that innovation is only motivated by money
I don't think is implies this at all, just that most OSS fulfills the purpose of recreating what is out there alreadly for us to us for free and modify if we feel the urge to.
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I remember when the Nobel Prize used to mean something, when people won it many years after tremendous accomplishments. It was so exclusive that the best of the best never knew if they would ever receive it. Now it seems you get it for not being like the guy before you.
This is why I thought it was great when one of my profs actually put up a class wiki where we the students as well as the prof could engage in discussion about the problem sets. Everyone knows that you can only learn so much in lectures and part of your understanding comes when trying to complete the assignments. I guess he figured he might as well be influential at the later point as well.
I don't know but I could see them displaying one or two advertisements that you have to wait through before you are allowed to redirect your web browser to the page you want to go to. It could all be a part of the DHCP/authentication scheme.
...when the monetary cost would likely be less than 3 days in Iraq?
Can't we just put aside the Iraqi war for once and talk about something else? This article has nothing to do with Iraq or G.W. Bush. Please take the time to read and respond to the article and leave off-topic comments like these to where they are actually on topic.
I think the best way to test out other jobs is by using others experience to do so. It's normally called informational interviewing, or if you have actually built a relationship with someone whose opinion you trust, it's mentoring. I suggest you try both of these options, talk to people in your field, in companies that you admire, or other people you are connected to like fellow alumni. These people are often very successful at pointing you in the right direction career-wise, as well as having contacts to circulate you resume to for job searching as well. Just be careful, don't assume that any of these people owe you anything, or should find a job for you, they are merely there to help you, and if they choose to do more, well then that is great now isn't it.
Yeah, I was worried when the DoD locked down it's facilities to only allow connections to .mil sites, and eventually to none at all for 5 days. Frightening to say the least.
...but Musical Genome, I don't think so... This is merely picking out songs from similar genres with similar characteristics. It's not evolutionary genetics... Geeze!
You know, I think there maybe something to this. No corporation, especially Microsoft wants to be the loser of a battle for money. Microsoft, for all the negatives that we can say about them seems to be very shrewd about maintaining their dominance, and I think they probably will have the foresight to do so with patents.
Why not just buy your personal info back from the phishers that have already stolen it??
Because that is precisely what science is all about. The pursuit of knowledge, good or bad, upside or down. I guess that I would rather know something has a downside rather than avoid it at all costs just in case there happens to be one.
So you call me names, and post anonymously... Hmm...
This sort of stuff really impresses me, I think fields like this are *so* important to future research. The thing I don't get is why do people protest [slashdot.org] ideas like nano-tech without knowing what the possible beinfits are?
Lets face it, the internet and technology is still a leader in the economy and the business world. Innovations that companies actually want are being made everyday by tech companies, and they will be for the foreseeable future. Put this along with the fact that tech savvy geeks can play with most technologies in their spare time and you have a base of people that think it's really cool! I think the trend up is not a fluke, but everything concerning Wall St. needs to be approached cautiously.
"The Eddie Bauer protest group, which calls itself Topless Humans Organized for Natural Genetics, or Thong, had previously disrupted a Chicago nanotech conference with a quick strip-tease and a clever "Plenty of room at this bottom" inked on their hind quarters."
I guess every great protest group needs a great acronym...
I wonder if now that IE 7 has lower rights version, will they be able to remove it from the OS?
How many times have we all complained about having to use non-OSS because it was our only option that accomplished what we wanted it to. I personally have felt this way dozens of times.
Now, it seems the tables have turned. OSS has turned into the exact thing that it despises. I personally think this article raises some interesting issues, particularly concerning living organisms being forced to use open source just because that is the only option available to them.
I think seriously, that the Ferrari and performance cars like it will be around for a while to come. The alure of these cars is not gone in my opinion, even though they have long been surpassed in speed and acceleration. I don't know how many /.ers have been behind the wheel of a Ferrari, but I would still love to drive one if and equivalent electric counterpart was produced.
That being said, maybe Ferrari will pick up this technology, seriously. They always seem to be inovative to push their cars up to the next notch of performance. And maybe, just maybe, if implemented just right, this will finally remove the stigma of a temperamental Ferrari.
I'll bet my browser on OSS anyday of the week. This is personal choice, but for security sake, OSS has the benifit of being open source. It's free and open for all to see, and while that might make it easier to exploit, in my book it also makes it easier to fix. We all know there are no intentional back doors, and no malicious code segments(those of us that still trudge through the code for fun anyway).
It's firefox all the way for me.
>According to the company, the Ubuntu notebooks are reserved for selected parts of Europe, Africa and Middle East where Windows piracy rates are strikingly high.
I guess the US should start pirating windows more to get companies like HP interested in distributing these types of laptops here.
This was a silly article. Where is the intrigue, imagination, or way to argue terribly with our slashdot neighbors.
;-)
Or maybe it's just an off day for me
> No way: this reasoning leads to the conclusion that innovation is only motivated by money
I don't think is implies this at all, just that most OSS fulfills the purpose of recreating what is out there alreadly for us to us for free and modify if we feel the urge to.