"...If school courses are designed to strain the straight A students a bit the quality of school graduates is excellent. Try to redeem the mediocre middle and the schools fall apart."
And what if those students are "late-bloomers" or gifted in ways not measured by the limited perspective(tests) of school/educational administrators/educators. It takes all kinds to make society. We had a similar stupidity with blacks in the sixties, shall we create an educationally tiered society as well. In a country where anyone can be president, somehow I don't think dictating what people should be because they don't follow some standard we think they should would be a good thing. How long till the slaves are completely paying for the bullshit of the masters.("... Everyone will have drugs and no one will be in charge. Just like now" -- Carlin) Everyone brings a unique view to the table, even a soldier or a cook. This country was developed on individual initiative as much as group think. It should still be about individual choice and providing the resources for the individual to go whatever direction they wish to go.:rant
How about getting rid of teachers who don't teach and instead of 10 administrators/people for every student have 10 qualified teachers for every student. And pay the teachers a decent wage while they're still young/passionate enough to still care. They take care of the parenting public's most important possession and are paid less than daycare for a four year degree plus extras and/or decades of experience. Nevermind teachers shouldn't be babysitters but since they are, make it worth their while and encourage them to be better teachers. And parents, keep your mouth shut unless you have something useful to say. You had your chance to live now let your kids have theirs and stop trying to live your life through them. I won't get into everyone paying for your breeding decisions./rant
"That is why, IMO, the most critical aspect of world wide security is not nukes or armies, not even police or surveillance laws. The most important factor to peace, stability, and security is the Middle Class."
In other words -- "...The difference between a man and a derelict is a job." - Godfrey Smith/Park - "My Man Godfrey"
A quote from an eighty year old movie. It's embarrassing how we as a species have to keep learning the same thing over and over.
Nah, actually there's groff and a couple of other minor items(in freebsd that is). The other bsds are closer to freedom from the gpl but the compiler is the biggest snag in all of them.
"Creative interpretation" is an excuse women use to not face up to something. When asked about "total time in the game" that means time from starting the game program to program shutdown. And yes, the women did indeed lie as the reason doesn't matter. Using "creative interpretation" to justify lying doesn't make it better as it is still wrong.
"I'll fight for what I care about in the courts and at the ballot box, where it can actually make a difference. "
Has it made a difference in the last decade or so? Patriot act gone? Congress balancing the budget? Healthcare of any use being passed? Police less violent?(seattle cop killing, suspect killed running away). Any recent SCOTUS decisions cut and dried?(gun control)
Fact is, the ballot box is a dismal failure when both sides a crooked. The courts are only useful when they follow the law and not playing politics.
"If you don't publish in the big peer-reviewed journals, you don't get recognition."
If everything is open, since when would you not get recognition? The reality is you would get more recognition if everything is released immediately since there would be more peer review from a larger community than just only the journal reviewers. Increasing innovation by getting the information out the the public as quickly as possible. You'll be better known and move up, if promotion is all you care about. Peer-reviewed journals are just a rip-off of the scientists and taxpayers as slashdot, ars, and other online news aggregators and reviewers have proven. Stop using peer-reviewed journals and the only effect will be another now-unnecessary, fraudulent business disappears.
"His tantrum basically boils down to "you can't present proprietary software as legitimate". Which is BS. Your own decision on how to do things is your decision, you can NOT tell others that their way of doing things is not legitimate. If companies want to do things the proprietary way, that's their decision. If your approach is better, then time will prove that."
RMS is the "spiritual" head of FOSS and actual head of the GNU of which GNOME is a part. And just like any company, since that's what your describing, RMS is chastising the promotion of non FOSS products on FOSS forums just like Microsoft or any other company or group would on messages that would put down their products and promote others on their own forums/boards. Of course, MS and many others would just delete opposing messages, we've seen plenty of that. All RMS is saying is on FOSS boards stay globally on-topic. RMS has done a good job of seeing the pitfalls that proprietary software has put in front of us for decades, unless you have that same track record maybe you should STFU.
This is also about 10 year old computers when power management was in its infancy and often didn't work. Processors used only a few watts at 100% utilization and throttling was unstable or didn't exist. The board already told him not to turn the computers off so the money was being spent anyway, better to use it for something than just warming the rooms. The whole thing smells of political gaming.
35K?? I made under 35K doing technical work on airplanes and people could die if I make a mistake. If you think 35K is low for teaching my sister made about 25k as a teacher in Nebraska under worse conditions and after nearly a decade at it.
Has anybody noticed that there are user documentation projects, slackware book being one of them, Freebsd user manual being another. Ubuntu has an entire library.
And yes man pages, regardless of OS suck. Man means manual as in what it is and how to use it, that means an understandable description of the implementation and options as well as description and examples of its use. Of course, that's when the programmers were interested enough to write man pages at all(DE subprograms,etc). I used slackware since 1993 and freebsd since 2004 and tried various others over 15 years and I still see man pages in linux are often outdated and always cryptic.(howtos AAAHH!) The bsds, at least, keep their pages up to date, although still cryptic sometimes, but at least they have cleaned many issues about their man pages up.
There is also one other flaw that most have complained around is that when you install a command, be it a bsd or linux whatever, the installation process doesn't tell you what the runtime file is. It's kind of hard to do a man command for information on a command when you don't know the runtime file to do "man" on. Freebsd ports and pkg_add both leave you in the dark about this.
I won't get in to documentation on the GUI side as it's just too embarrassing to acknowledge that it actually exists at all.
I also agree with many previous posters that Freebsd as well as the rest of the bsds get the documentation right. Freebsd's documentation and support is excellent against all other comers, and in many ways that includes OSX and Windows.
"There appears to be some kind of business dispute behind all of this: "One of G's companies is in dispute with a person whom she believes is also behind a smear campaign against her. An anonymous letter she received appeared to be a threat to claim that her expenses claims amounted to theft. Another anonymous letter disclosed the information that was later published on the Wikipedia page.""
In other words it's the same shit as was reported a few weeks ago about some public official trying to cover her ass using her son as an excuse to get info about her anonymous opponent. Seems the BS is a flying all over. It's just words, unless it leads to actions that break laws she's got nothing and the judge should know that. We need laws against helicopter parents, especially the mothers!! And if she's using the kid to manipulate the courts I hope she loses her kid and get's sued herself. What about independent adult abuse, often by mothers and prosecutors/politicians, in the name of "for the children"? As for blackmail being illegal, right, if it was even remotely true the worlds prisons wouldn't be big enough for just the government personnel in Europe and America that practice various forms of blackmail on each other and the public. This smells more like the judge being personally involved on a matter that is of no interest to the law. I wonder, since this anonymous poster hasn't broken any laws, exactly what are his rights and isn't the judge violating them by putting this woman's rights above his?
No it isn't. Freebsd's primary focus is and always has been for servers. The motto, "Freebsd, the power to serve". Freebsd is actually working in various directions like most operating systems including Opensolaris.
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Either US or EU is more corrupt, now I have to figure out which one.(~ Klinger & Potter - Mash)
"What do they tell you?'
Eric, you better stop screwing Janice in accounting on the conference table in the projection room before the boss catches and fires your ass.
Actually it's similar to a statement I made to a coworker a few years ago.
"...If school courses are designed to strain the straight A students a bit the quality of school graduates is excellent. Try to redeem the mediocre middle and the schools fall apart."
And what if those students are "late-bloomers" or gifted in ways not measured by the limited perspective(tests) of school/educational administrators/educators. It takes all kinds to make society. We had a similar stupidity with blacks in the sixties, shall we create an educationally tiered society as well. In a country where anyone can be president, somehow I don't think dictating what people should be because they don't follow some standard we think they should would be a good thing. How long till the slaves are completely paying for the bullshit of the masters.("... Everyone will have drugs and no one will be in charge. Just like now" -- Carlin) Everyone brings a unique view to the table, even a soldier or a cook. This country was developed on individual initiative as much as group think. It should still be about individual choice and providing the resources for the individual to go whatever direction they wish to go. :rant /rant
How about getting rid of teachers who don't teach and instead of 10 administrators/people for every student have 10 qualified teachers for every student. And pay the teachers a decent wage while they're still young/passionate enough to still care. They take care of the parenting public's most important possession and are paid less than daycare for a four year degree plus extras and/or decades of experience. Nevermind teachers shouldn't be babysitters but since they are, make it worth their while and encourage them to be better teachers. And parents, keep your mouth shut unless you have something useful to say. You had your chance to live now let your kids have theirs and stop trying to live your life through them. I won't get into everyone paying for your breeding decisions.
"...out to consume your soul just for spite."
No, just for profit which is worse.
"That is why, IMO, the most critical aspect of world wide security is not nukes or armies, not even police or surveillance laws. The most important factor to peace, stability, and security is the Middle Class."
In other words -- "...The difference between a man and a derelict is a job." - Godfrey Smith/Park - "My Man Godfrey"
A quote from an eighty year old movie. It's embarrassing how we as a species have to keep learning the same thing over and over.
"(I believe GCC was the last remaining bit)."
Nah, actually there's groff and a couple of other minor items(in freebsd that is). The other bsds are closer to freedom from the gpl but the compiler is the biggest snag in all of them.
"Creative interpretation" is an excuse women use to not face up to something. When asked about "total time in the game" that means time from starting the game program to program shutdown. And yes, the women did indeed lie as the reason doesn't matter. Using "creative interpretation" to justify lying doesn't make it better as it is still wrong.
You can run vim(plugin-imperator?..) in firefox, so what?
Apparently, God has made himself illegal."
Thank youuuuu!
"...right place if you're looking for virgins."
Unfortunately they won't be young(upperteens/twentysomething) and female.
"I'll fight for what I care about in the courts and at the ballot box, where it can actually make a difference. "
Has it made a difference in the last decade or so? Patriot act gone? Congress balancing the budget? Healthcare of any use being passed? Police less violent?(seattle cop killing, suspect killed running away). Any recent SCOTUS decisions cut and dried?(gun control)
Fact is, the ballot box is a dismal failure when both sides a crooked. The courts are only useful when they follow the law and not playing politics.
"If you don't publish in the big peer-reviewed journals, you don't get recognition."
If everything is open, since when would you not get recognition? The reality is you would get more recognition if everything is released immediately since there would be more peer review from a larger community than just only the journal reviewers. Increasing innovation by getting the information out the the public as quickly as possible. You'll be better known and move up, if promotion is all you care about. Peer-reviewed journals are just a rip-off of the scientists and taxpayers as slashdot, ars, and other online news aggregators and reviewers have proven. Stop using peer-reviewed journals and the only effect will be another now-unnecessary, fraudulent business disappears.
"His tantrum basically boils down to "you can't present proprietary software as legitimate". Which is BS. Your own decision on how to do things is your decision, you can NOT tell others that their way of doing things is not legitimate. If companies want to do things the proprietary way, that's their decision. If your approach is better, then time will prove that."
RMS is the "spiritual" head of FOSS and actual head of the GNU of which GNOME is a part. And just like any company, since that's what your describing, RMS is chastising the promotion of non FOSS products on FOSS forums just like Microsoft or any other company or group would on messages that would put down their products and promote others on their own forums/boards. Of course, MS and many others would just delete opposing messages, we've seen plenty of that. All RMS is saying is on FOSS boards stay globally on-topic. RMS has done a good job of seeing the pitfalls that proprietary software has put in front of us for decades, unless you have that same track record maybe you should STFU.
"We've had single Atom CPUs for some years now... :)"
Now if we'd just stop electing the bastards...
"Plus of course slashdot is an American based web siute aimed at Americans as the primary audience."
Then why does it carry so many UK stories?
This is also about 10 year old computers when power management was in its infancy and often didn't work. Processors used only a few watts at 100% utilization and throttling was unstable or didn't exist. The board already told him not to turn the computers off so the money was being spent anyway, better to use it for something than just warming the rooms. The whole thing smells of political gaming.
35K?? I made under 35K doing technical work on airplanes and people could die if I make a mistake. If you think 35K is low for teaching my sister made about 25k as a teacher in Nebraska under worse conditions and after nearly a decade at it.
Has anybody noticed that there are user documentation projects, slackware book being one of them, Freebsd user manual being another. Ubuntu has an entire library.
And yes man pages, regardless of OS suck. Man means manual as in what it is and how to use it, that means an understandable description of the implementation and options as well as description and examples of its use. Of course, that's when the programmers were interested enough to write man pages at all(DE subprograms,etc). I used slackware since 1993 and freebsd since 2004 and tried various others over 15 years and I still see man pages in linux are often outdated and always cryptic.(howtos AAAHH!) The bsds, at least, keep their pages up to date, although still cryptic sometimes, but at least they have cleaned many issues about their man pages up.
There is also one other flaw that most have complained around is that when you install a command, be it a bsd or linux whatever, the installation process doesn't tell you what the runtime file is. It's kind of hard to do a man command for information on a command when you don't know the runtime file to do "man" on. Freebsd ports and pkg_add both leave you in the dark about this.
I won't get in to documentation on the GUI side as it's just too embarrassing to acknowledge that it actually exists at all.
I also agree with many previous posters that Freebsd as well as the rest of the bsds get the documentation right. Freebsd's documentation and support is excellent against all other comers, and in many ways that includes OSX and Windows.
"There appears to be some kind of business dispute behind all of this: "One of G's companies is in dispute with a person whom she believes is also behind a smear campaign against her. An anonymous letter she received appeared to be a threat to claim that her expenses claims amounted to theft. Another anonymous letter disclosed the information that was later published on the Wikipedia page.""
In other words it's the same shit as was reported a few weeks ago about some public official trying to cover her ass using her son as an excuse to get info about her anonymous opponent. Seems the BS is a flying all over. It's just words, unless it leads to actions that break laws she's got nothing and the judge should know that. We need laws against helicopter parents, especially the mothers!! And if she's using the kid to manipulate the courts I hope she loses her kid and get's sued herself. What about independent adult abuse, often by mothers and prosecutors/politicians, in the name of "for the children"? As for blackmail being illegal, right, if it was even remotely true the worlds prisons wouldn't be big enough for just the government personnel in Europe and America that practice various forms of blackmail on each other and the public. This smells more like the judge being personally involved on a matter that is of no interest to the law. I wonder, since this anonymous poster hasn't broken any laws, exactly what are his rights and isn't the judge violating them by putting this woman's rights above his?
"a gruesome account of a 17th century blood transfusion."
Bring on the twilighters!!!
"...What has this to do with paedophilia? Not much. But it has a lot to do with children."
You just stated a just as good and more practical monologue than George Carlin(RIP) about children.
"Enter guy with black hair, black goatee, horns, pitchfork, and dressed in red."
We already have that.
Freebsd is your salvation!!
A UNIX certification, like most, is about money, pay and get certified, don't and you won't. It has nothing to do with quality.
"FreeBSD is more towards a desktop"
No it isn't. Freebsd's primary focus is and always has been for servers. The motto, "Freebsd, the power to serve". Freebsd is actually working in various directions like most operating systems including Opensolaris.
"No, because Linux does add features not available on Windows."
No, because Freebsd does add features not available on Linux.
Fixed that for you.