damn slashdot filtering out my massive block of HAHA
Skate boarding is not a crime, and neither is posting giant blocks of laughter ascii art
Lack of capacity to pay these mortgages will...
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...hardly result in an inability to sell them.
Apps aren't a gold mine, they're a carnival sideshow. Big data is where the money is going to be, apps are just part of the "feeder" infrastructure.
Our friend Richard Branson offers us 5GB of mobile broadband with no contract for $60/month. Prepaid cellphone + Maemo netbook with a usb modem seems the way to go to me..
Hey so:
1) All of the "there is no try, only do" b.s. in Star Wars is stolen from EST, which allegedly destroyed Doug Englebart's company back in the day.
2) George Lucas is allegedly a facist, and Star Wars kind of sucks. It was awesome when we were 3-10 years old. Real science fiction is in books.
Okay, canoes have gotten better over time, and we can fit a mathematical model to it. How is that knowledge at all novel or useful? Is there really any doubt that technology improves over time in 2008? Is it really at all surprising that a mathematical model designed to fit things which improve over time can be fit to the data about technology improving? Next thing, people will be talking about how the historical rates of improvements in jet engine speed and cpu speed mean that we'll soon be transcending humanity....
Yeah, I don't know that the forefathers felt that the right to vote was worth your life. I think it was more the right not to pay taxes on the stuff you imported to sell to all the illiterate colonists who were your neighbors. Then, about ten years(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_confederation), after they had solved the tax problem, they settled on a government that sounded promising based on the philosophy they were into...
"not only are FireFox users a somewhat small percentage of the internet, they actually are even smaller in terms of online spending,therefore blocking FireFox seems to have only minimal financial drawbacks, whereas ending resource theft has tremendous financial rewards for honest, hard-working website owners and developers"
It would seem to me that the number of people 'stealing' content by using firefox with an ad-blocker is necessarily less than the number of people using firefox, since the ad-blocker is a plugin, and most folks don't care vary much. Therefore, blocking all firefox users will definitely block at some 'paying' customers. However, even if *all* firefox users used the ad-blocking plugin, you would at most have a zero sum game, getting rid of a small percentage of ad-scoffers, and so the verbiage "tremendous financial rewards" seems excessive at best.
clearly already abandoned the study of mathematics....
I just wrote this comment, and the damn captcha will not let me through. I must be a turing machine myself.
"Computer science does not need a theory of computation; it needs a comprehensive theory of process expression."
One could argue that the theory of computation is a comprehensive theory of process expression. Most formulations of the the theory of computation consist of ways of precisely describing states and rules for transitioning between them.
Leaving that particular albatross aside for the moment, I would agree that there should be more emphasis on communications skills, teamwork and writing in most computer science programs. I do not agree at all that mathematics is irrelevant to computer science. Mathematics in its modern form is simply the study of relationships between very well defined abstract objects, and analogy and application can be drawn from it just about any endeavor. If you don't understand that, take my word for now, and give some group/category theory a read.
So, I haven't read the report, although, I do now have it open in a background tab, which means I'll at least skim it at some future point. Regardless, I generally dismiss any article that starts with "US not spending enough money on X(Education, Science, Faith Based Initiative, Guns for the homeless)" as these things are generally just an attempt to get public opinion on the side of getting X's practitioners more federal money. Usually the thing the article is complaining about IS a problem , but it ISN'T caused by lack of funds, but by inept management of already disbursed funds. For example, I really don't think that there is any amount of money which is going to fix the public school system. State sponsored monopolies breed corruption and waste like stagnant water breeds mosquitoes. Vouchers, and open competition are really the only thing that will discipline *some* of the unemployable wastoids that we entrust six-eight hours of each of children's days.(I don't think all public school teachers are wasteoids, some are related to me...however, there are a lot of wasteoids, I think that most/.ers were probably a good deal more intelligent then their teachers)
OLPC is fantastic, and I am very, very happy to see the disenfranchised of the world finally getting a crack at using the most powerful labor saving device since the lever. However, it's important to note that this project is going to completely end both the dominance of software development by the US, and I would say possibly even proprietary software. Just think, bilions of children with little to do but kick cans around dirty, dangerous streets are now going to have extremely portable computers that they can write python programs on. Certainly, not every one of these kids is going to learn how to program, but having access will certainly mean that more will than would have otherwise. I'm college educated, and am currently pursuing a PhD. but I would argue that the real reason I've succeeded in academic affairs isn't due to any school system, but rather the fact that my father was educated, and I had access to his bookshelf and his Economist subscription when I was 7 years old. These kids are going to have complete access to one of the best-designed OS's the computer world has seen at the same age, and they're going to have equally little to do, and all the motivation for self-education that grinding poverty can provide. Not every one of these kids will turn into a kernel hacker, but enough are that this is going to be absolutely beautiful. Of course, if you're planning on making $100k a year writing crummy.NET apps for the next 3 decades, things might be looking a little dodgy in a year and a half, but if you lament the dumbing down of the average human's interactions with the bare metal brought on by GUIs, and want to see lots of good free code out there, this is fantastic.
I saw someone griping that these decks don't have the CPU to run office. Who cares, if you want to produce professional looking documents, get LaTeX going and write a freaking book....Forget about web 2.0, when this project comes to fruition in 15 years we're going to be seeing an absolutely glorious technical renaissance. I just hope they don't all decide to DDoS Estonia...
>We all know there's a crisis in university computer science departments. Student numbers are dwindling - down 115 >just last year.
Down 115 where? At De Monfort? This is hardly a clear sentence to begin with.
On a deeper note, the number of students enrolled in Computer Science dropping does not imply that the field is dying. Nearly 50% of American technical PhD's are imported from other countries. This doesn't imply that technical subjects are unimportant, it just suggests that American's don't appreciate their importance. Intellectual pursuits are to be judged by intrinsic merit, not mere popularity.
Not that I'm really in favor of more law, but it seems like their should be some sort of rule about the complexity of contracts, and how it needs to be relevant to the actual importance/price of the contracted good/service. People are never going to read 15 pages of incomprehensible contract for a free email account or a cell phone. Have they really agreed to anything when they agree to such a contract?
Since when are there any authoritative sources?
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People simply need to learn to consider all information critically. Wikipedia will never be a pipeline to absolute truth. It's a good source of information. You can go and read Wikipedia and get a whole bunch of ideas, and maybe make some useful conjectures based on them, but you shouldn't read them and then go of ranting like you're Bill O'Reilly or some other demagogue. There's really no source that is so authoratative that it justifies that sort of ranting(excepting of course, The Bible, or maybe the Koran or the Torah, I can't remember which one). Wikipedia is a wonderful thing. It's also just as likely to contain nonsense as any book or the average person's head.
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damn slashdot filtering out my massive block of HAHA
Skate boarding is not a crime, and neither is posting giant blocks of laughter ascii art
...hardly result in an inability to sell them. Apps aren't a gold mine, they're a carnival sideshow. Big data is where the money is going to be, apps are just part of the "feeder" infrastructure.
Our friend Richard Branson offers us 5GB of mobile broadband with no contract for $60/month. Prepaid cellphone + Maemo netbook with a usb modem seems the way to go to me..
I'm curious, how does this package handle snmp data? Looking through their commit tree, I found one commit which mentioned snmp, and nothing at all in a full text search of the docs. http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=pcp/pcp.git;a=commit;h=1500bd088898317c42eede0f0748f1fd09989c69
See further: http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/0bfa43fc05/mainstream-media-commercial-from-jon-lajoie
People who search on yahoo are not looking to stay at yahoo. People who search at youtube are looking to stay at youtube. This story is bogus.
Hey so: 1) All of the "there is no try, only do" b.s. in Star Wars is stolen from EST, which allegedly destroyed Doug Englebart's company back in the day. 2) George Lucas is allegedly a facist, and Star Wars kind of sucks. It was awesome when we were 3-10 years old. Real science fiction is in books.
Wasn't there some really famous trio of blind Palestinian phreakers? Clearly, blindness should be outlawed, as it leads to anti-social behavior.
Okay, canoes have gotten better over time, and we can fit a mathematical model to it. How is that knowledge at all novel or useful? Is there really any doubt that technology improves over time in 2008? Is it really at all surprising that a mathematical model designed to fit things which improve over time can be fit to the data about technology improving? Next thing, people will be talking about how the historical rates of improvements in jet engine speed and cpu speed mean that we'll soon be transcending humanity....
Yeah, I don't know that the forefathers felt that the right to vote was worth your life. I think it was more the right not to pay taxes on the stuff you imported to sell to all the illiterate colonists who were your neighbors. Then, about ten years(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Articles_of_confederation), after they had solved the tax problem, they settled on a government that sounded promising based on the philosophy they were into...
is about as bad a euphemism as 'terminate with extreme prejudice'...
Roofnet is better than skynet: http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/papers/roofnet:mobicom 05/roofnet-mobicom05.pdf
"not only are FireFox users a somewhat small percentage of the internet, they actually are even smaller in terms of online spending,therefore blocking FireFox seems to have only minimal financial drawbacks, whereas ending resource theft has tremendous financial rewards for honest, hard-working website owners and developers" It would seem to me that the number of people 'stealing' content by using firefox with an ad-blocker is necessarily less than the number of people using firefox, since the ad-blocker is a plugin, and most folks don't care vary much. Therefore, blocking all firefox users will definitely block at some 'paying' customers. However, even if *all* firefox users used the ad-blocking plugin, you would at most have a zero sum game, getting rid of a small percentage of ad-scoffers, and so the verbiage "tremendous financial rewards" seems excessive at best.
to the frontpage of slashdot. Is today an immobile news day or something?
clearly already abandoned the study of mathematics.... I just wrote this comment, and the damn captcha will not let me through. I must be a turing machine myself. "Computer science does not need a theory of computation; it needs a comprehensive theory of process expression." One could argue that the theory of computation is a comprehensive theory of process expression. Most formulations of the the theory of computation consist of ways of precisely describing states and rules for transitioning between them. Leaving that particular albatross aside for the moment, I would agree that there should be more emphasis on communications skills, teamwork and writing in most computer science programs. I do not agree at all that mathematics is irrelevant to computer science. Mathematics in its modern form is simply the study of relationships between very well defined abstract objects, and analogy and application can be drawn from it just about any endeavor. If you don't understand that, take my word for now, and give some group/category theory a read.
on freaking linux, you really ought to turn in any certifications or degrees you've recieved with regards to computers.
So, I haven't read the report, although, I do now have it open in a background tab, which means I'll at least skim it at some future point. Regardless, I generally dismiss any article that starts with "US not spending enough money on X(Education, Science, Faith Based Initiative, Guns for the homeless)" as these things are generally just an attempt to get public opinion on the side of getting X's practitioners more federal money. Usually the thing the article is complaining about IS a problem , but it ISN'T caused by lack of funds, but by inept management of already disbursed funds. For example, I really don't think that there is any amount of money which is going to fix the public school system. State sponsored monopolies breed corruption and waste like stagnant water breeds mosquitoes. Vouchers, and open competition are really the only thing that will discipline *some* of the unemployable wastoids that we entrust six-eight hours of each of children's days.(I don't think all public school teachers are wasteoids, some are related to me...however, there are a lot of wasteoids, I think that most /.ers were probably a good deal more intelligent then their teachers)
meant to say decade and a half about the stuff really hitting the fan for the average code monkey, not year and a half
OLPC is fantastic, and I am very, very happy to see the disenfranchised of the world finally getting a crack at using the most powerful labor saving device since the lever. However, it's important to note that this project is going to completely end both the dominance of software development by the US, and I would say possibly even proprietary software. Just think, bilions of children with little to do but kick cans around dirty, dangerous streets are now going to have extremely portable computers that they can write python programs on. Certainly, not every one of these kids is going to learn how to program, but having access will certainly mean that more will than would have otherwise. I'm college educated, and am currently pursuing a PhD. but I would argue that the real reason I've succeeded in academic affairs isn't due to any school system, but rather the fact that my father was educated, and I had access to his bookshelf and his Economist subscription when I was 7 years old. These kids are going to have complete access to one of the best-designed OS's the computer world has seen at the same age, and they're going to have equally little to do, and all the motivation for self-education that grinding poverty can provide. Not every one of these kids will turn into a kernel hacker, but enough are that this is going to be absolutely beautiful. Of course, if you're planning on making $100k a year writing crummy .NET apps for the next 3 decades, things might be looking a little dodgy in a year and a half, but if you lament the dumbing down of the average human's interactions with the bare metal brought on by GUIs, and want to see lots of good free code out there, this is fantastic.
I saw someone griping that these decks don't have the CPU to run office. Who cares, if you want to produce professional looking documents, get LaTeX going and write a freaking book....Forget about web 2.0, when this project comes to fruition in 15 years we're going to be seeing an absolutely glorious technical renaissance. I just hope they don't all decide to DDoS Estonia...
>We all know there's a crisis in university computer science departments. Student numbers are dwindling - down 115 >just last year. Down 115 where? At De Monfort? This is hardly a clear sentence to begin with. On a deeper note, the number of students enrolled in Computer Science dropping does not imply that the field is dying. Nearly 50% of American technical PhD's are imported from other countries. This doesn't imply that technical subjects are unimportant, it just suggests that American's don't appreciate their importance. Intellectual pursuits are to be judged by intrinsic merit, not mere popularity.
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It's all about the myelin sheath. Cephalapods might have cooler eyes and skin, but we've got faster neurons.
Not that I'm really in favor of more law, but it seems like their should be some sort of rule about the complexity of contracts, and how it needs to be relevant to the actual importance/price of the contracted good/service. People are never going to read 15 pages of incomprehensible contract for a free email account or a cell phone. Have they really agreed to anything when they agree to such a contract?
People simply need to learn to consider all information critically. Wikipedia will never be a pipeline to absolute truth. It's a good source of information. You can go and read Wikipedia and get a whole bunch of ideas, and maybe make some useful conjectures based on them, but you shouldn't read them and then go of ranting like you're Bill O'Reilly or some other demagogue. There's really no source that is so authoratative that it justifies that sort of ranting(excepting of course, The Bible, or maybe the Koran or the Torah, I can't remember which one). Wikipedia is a wonderful thing. It's also just as likely to contain nonsense as any book or the average person's head.
It would seem to me that if Red Hat's support was as bad as oracle is alleging then they wouldn't be kicking ass and taking names in this survey: http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2006/0 1/09/daily6.html