Do you know what her high school life was like? More importantly, why should that be a reason to exclude her from the discussion at all? Just because this happened to be two geeks who shot up a school doesn't mean that non-geeks have no right to speak up. Maybe the fact that it was non-geeks who actually died in that high school should give them some right to speak about the problem. Or is that not enough for you?
You may not agree with this piece, but you should give it more due respect than saying that it's just an inflammatory piece by just a music critic. Or, alternatively, next any topic comes up anywhere about something not geek-related, keep your mouth shut. Don't ever talk about sports, or politics unrelated to encryption and net regulation, and certainly don't talk about literature, history, or philosophy. You, after all, are just a computer geek.
Are we sure that this is flamebait? To me it's so funny that it can be nothing other than sarcasm and could pass for a story on Segfault with just a little bit of polish.
As I recall, there are over a million people with doctorates in the United States. Are you sure that they're all more deserving than Linus Torvalds? I suspect not - in fact, at the very least, I know one person who is not. So there we go, at the very least Linus Torvalds is more deserving of a PhD than one person who worked to get his by writing a dissertation. Linus just got his by writing a kernel, that's all.
My question is why Slashdot, which was the home of "College sucks - true geeks just hack!" has all of a sudden turned on Linus for not deserving this degree. I would guess that what Linus has done by popularizing OSS is far more influential and important than what most people in CS academia do, and it's not like Linus hasn't upheld academic traditions. Linux is, after all, under the GPL and a work done with thousands of collaborators.
"the purely materialistic goal of faster development?" Well, while I agree that there are other goals to be considered (although not neccesarily those that RMS mentioned), I don't think that faster development should be discounted. If Linux weren't better than Windows, how many of us would use it just because it was open source?
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Wasn't Pagestream for the Atari first (not the Amiga)? Or am I confusing it with something else?
Don't forget that Dvorak wrote that 1998's MacWorld would be the last one ever because Apple was definitely on the way out. Jobs, he wrote, was just a return to the past. Maybe so, but the 1999 MacWorld was definitely superior to 1998's.
Nonetheless, however, I still enjoy Dvorak. Even if he's always wrong.:)
Since I don't actually know anyone at Slashdot, although I did twice e-mail Rob (once asking if he knew someone I know at Hope College and once asking for contact info for Black Light Media), I really don't think that was it. It could just be they read my submission first. I'm not sure how they handle submissions, but perhaps someone else read your submission (let's say yours was first) and didn't think it was worth posting, but then someone else read mine and that person thought that it was worth posting.
Don't assume conspiracies, they're almost never true.
One of the reasons that Connectix thought this wouldn't be a problem was because Sony loses money on each Playstation unit it sells. They're just sold to create a market for the games, on which Sony collects royalties. Therefore, having a Playstation emulator would only increase the market for which one could write games, bringing in more royalties to Sony. If this model is true, then it would seem that Sony is just being greedy, and is bargaining to get royalties from the Playstation emulator as well as the games.
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Do you know what her high school life was like? More importantly, why should that be a reason to exclude her from the discussion at all? Just because this happened to be two geeks who shot up a school doesn't mean that non-geeks have no right to speak up. Maybe the fact that it was non-geeks who actually died in that high school should give them some right to speak about the problem. Or is that not enough for you?
You may not agree with this piece, but you should give it more due respect than saying that it's just an inflammatory piece by just a music critic. Or, alternatively, next any topic comes up anywhere about something not geek-related, keep your mouth shut. Don't ever talk about sports, or politics unrelated to encryption and net regulation, and certainly don't talk about literature, history, or philosophy. You, after all, are just a computer geek.
Are we sure that this is flamebait? To me it's so funny that it can be nothing other than sarcasm and could pass for a story on Segfault with just a little bit of polish.
As I recall, there are over a million people with doctorates in the United States. Are you sure that they're all more deserving than Linus Torvalds? I suspect not - in fact, at the very least, I know one person who is not. So there we go, at the very least Linus Torvalds is more deserving of a PhD than one person who worked to get his by writing a dissertation. Linus just got his by writing a kernel, that's all.
My question is why Slashdot, which was the home of "College sucks - true geeks just hack!" has all of a sudden turned on Linus for not deserving this degree. I would guess that what Linus has done by popularizing OSS is far more influential and important than what most people in CS academia do, and it's not like Linus hasn't upheld academic traditions. Linux is, after all, under the GPL and a work done with thousands of collaborators.
So you can occassionally boot up Windows and remind yourself why you use Linux and why you support OSS.
"the purely materialistic goal of faster development?" Well, while I agree that there are other goals to be considered (although not neccesarily those that RMS mentioned), I don't think that faster development should be discounted. If Linux weren't better than Windows, how many of us would use it just because it was open source?
Wasn't Pagestream for the Atari first (not the Amiga)? Or am I confusing it with something else?
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Stop Anonymous Corwards.
Don't forget that Dvorak wrote that 1998's MacWorld would be the last one ever because Apple was definitely on the way out. Jobs, he wrote, was just a return to the past. Maybe so, but the 1999 MacWorld was definitely superior to 1998's.
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Nonetheless, however, I still enjoy Dvorak. Even if he's always wrong.
Since I don't actually know anyone at Slashdot, although I did twice e-mail Rob (once asking if he knew someone I know at Hope College and once asking for contact info for Black Light Media), I really don't think that was it. It could just be they read my submission first. I'm not sure how they handle submissions, but perhaps someone else read your submission (let's say yours was first) and didn't think it was worth posting, but then someone else read mine and that person thought that it was worth posting.
Don't assume conspiracies, they're almost never true.
One of the reasons that Connectix thought this
wouldn't be a problem was because Sony loses money on each Playstation unit it sells. They're just sold to create a market for the games, on which Sony collects royalties. Therefore, having a Playstation emulator would only increase the market for which one could write games, bringing in more royalties to Sony. If this model is true, then it would seem that Sony is just being greedy, and is bargaining to get royalties from the Playstation emulator as well as the games.