Did they try to use something else besides parens? Growing up, to solve math problems, I had to fill in a square box, or place the answer above an underscore. Parens actually have meaning in mathematical notation, so perhaps that is the real source of confusion, and not the equal sign.
I briefly worked at a company which used a hand scanner in lieu of a badge. It was unwisely put between your desk and the restroom. It's no secret not everyone washes their hands after relieving themselves, so I avoided eating lunch at my desk unless I had a bottle of hand sanitizer with me.
Now imagine 4 year olds, touching everything and sucking their thumb, and then checking out a book.
Technologically, scanners work well enough. Implementation, however, is done by the foolish.
What alerted me was "womanizing." Clearly, the DECAF author doesn't know the slash dot audience.:P
Regardless, I've learned with proselytizers, the problem is more within them, than with the people they try to convert (through lying and manipulation and fighting, of course).
I knew a co-worker who programmed lotto machines. He later joined a major stock exchange. Last I heard, he was happily coding for a hedge fund. What all the employers were keen on were his Linux skills -- which were pretty sharp. Maybe working in the gambling industry didn't hurt him because gambling and "investing" are not too different.:)
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You'll find him in "Programmers At Work" by Susan Lammers. That book was published by Microsoft Press back in 1986.
Yes, the stats neglect to mention that safety is measured over miles. An airplane covers a lot more miles than a car, so of course it comes out safer on a per mile basis. A better metric would include take-offs and landings versus the number of trips one makes in a car.
Thanks for a thoughtful post. So the fine point is that the gene itself is not patented, but the process to access the gene is. In addition, no one else is allowed read access to the gene unless they pay a fee to Myriad.
That's like patenting fire. You discover it and patent the process of rubbing 2 sticks together. While I am free to use the sun and a magifying glass, I am not allowed to make a fire because of the cost you incurred discovering it.
I will have to check if Myriad gets government funding.
With micropayments, won't people feel nickeled and dimed (or fractions thereof)?
I wouldn't want to pay fractions of a penny to read a blog post. But if the writer is any good and authors a book, I might buy the book. In the case of Joel Spolsky, I did exactly that.
Similarly, I wouldn't want to pay fractions of a penny each time I used a web app. But I have purchased shareware / donationware.
She called the local news because Dell said it was too late for her to change from Ubuntu back to Windows. She wasn't asking for tech support from the news station; she was asking the news station to mediate the dispute, which is a pretty common request.
My thoughts exactly. ints can be chars, you can do pointer arithmetic, you can rotate and mask bits, drop to machine language, etc. And yes, it takes discipline to keep things neat and orderly.
Python can be a bit more restrictive than C in that space matters. But you don't need to declare specific types.
>>Yes, it's a dream for the shareholders. Ya know, the people the company exists to serve?
A more enlightened company exists to serve its *customers*. Customrs are best served by capable and satisfied employees. Shareholders would benefit as a side-effect.
Too often, "we do this for the sake of the shareholders" line is an excuse for doing something unsavory, immoral, or borderline illegal.
Umm.. it's not 250k corporate revenue; it's the individual with an adjusted gross income over $250k that will be have his/her taxes increased to about Clinton era levels.
Actually, Bush didn't attend Harvard. He went to Yale and sent America into a tail spin. (Not blaming Yale on this point.)
Bill Gates, dropped out of Harvard, and founded a successful monopoly. Which supports your thesis, pedigree is just one of many mesures of future success.
Unix, born in the 1960s, had a 20 year head start over Microsoft, but Unix geeks just weren't interested in bringing a desktop to the masses in the same way Microsoft was.
It's certainly true we could have had something better -- Amiga, Commodore, Apple, etc. -- but if any one of those alternatives succeeded like Microsoft, it would have most likely adopted the same evil practices Microsoft used, and we'd probably end up with a similarly crappy system. In the alternate universe, it could very well have been Commodore Doors.
Fortunately, Linux and Mac are both making headway in the current time line.
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Well, anyone who reads SlashDot over the Memorial Day weekend deserves this video.:-)
Actually, I found this pretty funny. Is the average slashdot reader so young as to not recognize this is Gloria Gaynor's disco song "I Will Survive"?
I understand. But when I read the news and comments on www.olpcnews.com, that's the impression I walk away with.
Google never started out saying they were going to be a threat to Microsoft; they just wanted to build a better search. Similarly, OLPC should forget about bashing Microsoft and stay focused the children.
I agree with you though. Putting XP on the OLPC would be a mistake.
I never said the project blocks adding non-free software. I said because of the Open Source Policy, non-open-source software cannot be included by default. It's a really bad policy.
Here's an interview with the Opera CTO Hakom Wium Lie about Opera and the OLPC:
At 2:56: Goldman: Will Opera come preinstalled in this machine? Hakom: They have an open source policy in the project, so were not, probably, not going to be there by default.
Opera is free and useful software. To reject it because it's not OSS isn't rational, it's... what's the word... umm... fundamentalist behavior?
Why not both FireFox and Opera? Note that Opera is also an email client. In resource poor countries, wifi won't be available reliably, so being able to compose email offline would be very useful. Anyway you look at it, Opera is great software and should have been included.
I'll grant you Flash is resource hungry, but there are educational websites that use flash. I downloaded and installed Flash. Runs ok. Why make people go through the trouble?
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Did they try to use something else besides parens? Growing up, to solve math problems, I had to fill in a square box, or place the answer above an underscore. Parens actually have meaning in mathematical notation, so perhaps that is the real source of confusion, and not the equal sign.
I briefly worked at a company which used a hand scanner in lieu of a badge. It was unwisely put between your desk and the restroom. It's no secret not everyone washes their hands after relieving themselves, so I avoided eating lunch at my desk unless I had a bottle of hand sanitizer with me.
Now imagine 4 year olds, touching everything and sucking their thumb, and then checking out a book.
Technologically, scanners work well enough. Implementation, however, is done by the foolish.
What alerted me was "womanizing." Clearly, the DECAF author doesn't know the slash dot audience. :P
Regardless, I've learned with proselytizers, the problem is more within them, than with the people they try to convert (through lying and manipulation and fighting, of course).
Did anyone else read this headline about an intergalactic people verifying Einstein's theories?
I knew a co-worker who programmed lotto machines. He later joined a major stock exchange. Last I heard, he was happily coding for a hedge fund. What all the employers were keen on were his Linux skills -- which were pretty sharp. Maybe working in the gambling industry didn't hurt him because gambling and "investing" are not too different. :)
You'll find him in "Programmers At Work" by Susan Lammers. That book was published by Microsoft Press back in 1986.
Yes, the stats neglect to mention that safety is measured over miles. An airplane covers a lot more miles than a car, so of course it comes out safer on a per mile basis. A better metric would include take-offs and landings versus the number of trips one makes in a car.
Thanks for a thoughtful post. So the fine point is that the gene itself is not patented, but the process to access the gene is. In addition, no one else is allowed read access to the gene unless they pay a fee to Myriad.
That's like patenting fire. You discover it and patent the process of rubbing 2 sticks together. While I am free to use the sun and a magifying glass, I am not allowed to make a fire because of the cost you incurred discovering it.
I will have to check if Myriad gets government funding.
Actually, according to our govt database, George Orwell turned over twice within an hour of this slashdot posting.
Cleartype improved readability on LCD screens, although its sub-pixel rendering has been debated in tech circles.
For the corporate world, remote access was a boon and available in XP Pro.
Vista failed for many reasons -- buggy, limited driver support, marketing too many editions, etc.
I agree though that Microsoft Marketing tries to churn the market. Not sure what's in Windows 7 that will be of interest and value to customers.
ssh wasn't it. Walter was referring to hiding a beautiful Mac in the basement. Macs are meant to be seen as well as used.
With micropayments, won't people feel nickeled and dimed (or fractions thereof)?
I wouldn't want to pay fractions of a penny to read a blog post. But if the writer is any good and authors a book, I might buy the book. In the case of Joel Spolsky, I did exactly that.
Similarly, I wouldn't want to pay fractions of a penny each time I used a web app. But I have purchased shareware / donationware.
She called the local news because Dell said it was too late for her to change from Ubuntu back to Windows. She wasn't asking for tech support from the news station; she was asking the news station to mediate the dispute, which is a pretty common request.
My thoughts exactly. ints can be chars, you can do pointer arithmetic, you can rotate and mask bits, drop to machine language, etc. And yes, it takes discipline to keep things neat and orderly.
Python can be a bit more restrictive than C in that space matters. But you don't need to declare specific types.
Oh well, the article was all in fun anyway.
>>Yes, it's a dream for the shareholders. Ya know, the people the company exists to serve?
A more enlightened company exists to serve its *customers*. Customrs are best served by capable and satisfied employees. Shareholders would benefit as a side-effect.
Too often, "we do this for the sake of the shareholders" line is an excuse for doing something unsavory, immoral, or borderline illegal.
And aspirin is linked to reyes syndrome in children.
Umm.. it's not 250k corporate revenue; it's the individual with an adjusted gross income over $250k that will be have his/her taxes increased to about Clinton era levels.
To paraphrase SlashDot:
Corporate Revenue - expenses = profit!
Actually, Bush didn't attend Harvard. He went to Yale and sent America into a tail spin. (Not blaming Yale on this point.)
Bill Gates, dropped out of Harvard, and founded a successful monopoly. Which supports your thesis, pedigree is just one of many mesures of future success.
Head of IT makes you a HIT man instead of a CIO... which, sadly, is sometimes true.
Pre-emptive comment: Yes, you can be a Senior Head of IT, too.
Unix, born in the 1960s, had a 20 year head start over Microsoft, but Unix geeks just weren't interested in bringing a desktop to the masses in the same way Microsoft was.
It's certainly true we could have had something better -- Amiga, Commodore, Apple, etc. -- but if any one of those alternatives succeeded like Microsoft, it would have most likely adopted the same evil practices Microsoft used, and we'd probably end up with a similarly crappy system. In the alternate universe, it could very well have been Commodore Doors.
Fortunately, Linux and Mac are both making headway in the current time line.
Well, anyone who reads SlashDot over the Memorial Day weekend deserves this video. :-)
Actually, I found this pretty funny. Is the average slashdot reader so young as to not recognize this is Gloria Gaynor's disco song "I Will Survive"?
No, it's not just you. Also,
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>> To my surprise there was no clear winner or loser,
Not sure why it is a *surprise* there was no clear winner or loser. That's what I would expect.
>>The goal isn't to defeat MS,
I understand. But when I read the news and comments on www.olpcnews.com, that's the impression I walk away with.
Google never started out saying they were going to be a threat to Microsoft; they just wanted to build a better search. Similarly, OLPC should forget about bashing Microsoft and stay focused the children.
I agree with you though. Putting XP on the OLPC would be a mistake.
I never said the project blocks adding non-free software. I said because of the Open Source Policy, non-open-source software cannot be included by default. It's a really bad policy.
Here's an interview with the Opera CTO Hakom Wium Lie about Opera and the OLPC:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWG5Dl1IyF4
At 2:56:
Goldman: Will Opera come preinstalled in this machine?
Hakom: They have an open source policy in the project, so were not, probably, not going to be there by default.
Opera is free and useful software. To reject it because it's not OSS isn't rational, it's... what's the word... umm... fundamentalist behavior?
Why not both FireFox and Opera? Note that Opera is also an email client. In resource poor countries, wifi won't be available reliably, so being able to compose email offline would be very useful. Anyway you look at it, Opera is great software and should have been included. I'll grant you Flash is resource hungry, but there are educational websites that use flash. I downloaded and installed Flash. Runs ok. Why make people go through the trouble?