I'll tell you what needs to happen. All these grateful and passionate Users need to band together and organize a conference.
Once that happens, invite all the Developers to 'come down from their cloud' to visit and participate in this conference.
The list of workshops you'll want to develop will include 'The life of a Bug; From Discovery to Patch', 'Version Control for Laypeople', and a three parter on 'How Open Source Works'.
Get off your cloud? How about 'get off your duff'?
Just like Shuttleworth started Canonical to address userspace conditions, someone needs to get going on the meatspace support structure. Even older than your xfree86.conf file are the arguments 'Devs don't understand Users' and 'Sales doesn't understand Engineering'.
Sorry SuperMicro, but you could use a bigger umbrella.
So, Dell: Buy SuperMicro
Also, Dell, you need to make some serious inroads in the backend service arena. There are several dozen cloud service and storage business starting up every week. Buy two or three of each. Three billion Dollars should go pretty far in this arena.
Split the software and services from the hardware. While you're at it, buy or invest heavily in implementation and sales engineer forces.
Once all the divisions are established, take some of the leftover funds and run a few Super Bowl ads around Dell Ver. 2.0, where directly offered services come with the requisite backing (whether cloud or otherwise)
Propose a ridiculous answer, then suggest it is the common response?
How about this:
If the content is published without copyright, the license requirements should allow for physical replication, as the original digital version is protected and version controlled.
Life of a hard copy? As long as the information is relevant.
Life of a digital copy? As long as the information is relevant, with the added feature of perpetual evolution.
Let's imagine a world without an oxygen fueled brain...
Ah! It's a simple world because there is distinct lack of brains, due to a lack of oxygen!
Without managing blood flow and fuel supply according to its needs? Way simple!
Let's emulate all of nature, eliminating all the things we deem 'irrelevant' to the simulation.. What gets left out? Whales? Plankton? Ants? Yeast? Pollen?
How complete is your implementation? Outcome not what you expected?
You're looking at a shiny red hammer when you get automagic wireless configuration, stuff that 'just works', and easy and relatively complete package management.
You're looking into a stocked toolbox when you have a need to recognize and capitalize on the full scope of those packages - not just the tool to address the majority of what needs to be done.
One of the local places, bordering on a chain, practically, used to offer free unlimited wireless.
They recently evaluated their offerings - both in drinks and service. Now you get a key (voucher) good for two hours of access.
It's triggered by your MAC (though I have used two devices on the same key) and when the timer kicks over, you aren't routed to the tubes anymore.
A small cup of coffee is what? About $2.00 in most cities? With that, you get pretty decent throughput, and no filtering for things like torrents or any apparent throttling.
Darn fine value in my book. Even college students and the unemployed can afford $2.71.
The best part? Plenty of people show up without computers. In fact, so many chatters are there, its often a requirement to bring the noise canceling headphones!
The graphs are nice, but they don't tell the whole story.
What builds?
I have noticed severe memory leaks with Mozilla apps not at stable release level.
TFA by 'Perf Protector' says 'a beta tester' is providing the data - from an 'infected' Windows machine, apparently in a corporate environment.
Coincidentally(?) 'Perf Protector' is the tool used to generate the graphs as well as the handle of the poster. Is this a soft anti-Mozilla Slashvertisement for a Windows performance monitoring tool?
You're an artisan. As an artisan, you apprentice under a specialty with a short life, but exceedingly high payoff, which is it's own reward.
Increased tenure does not imply increased capability, unlike typical 'Professions', i.e., Plumber, Mechanic, Lawyer, Professor, Accountant, TV Producer.. Like the brick layer, you are a means to an end. A potentially cushy end, but an end nonetheless.
Basic technological skills do not include programming, and I'll argue that Intermediate-level persons are better off without, as well.
Let's get your vocab enhanced by 30-50% with the terms involved, and we'll talk if you can actually grasp programming at a conceptual level.
Teach the 'gist' of computer programming through already familiar concepts - with BASIC if you like. See how many of your subjects are OK with not clicking something.
I'm not entirely qualified to make a fluid dynamics analogy, but bear with me here..
Tribes are eddys.
If a current within a fluid encourages inter-eddy interaction (dispersal, conjoinment) - no matter how temporary or permanent, yet the tendency is for eddys to exist outside a flow or current system.
How can tribes not also persist outside those social currents not strong enough to induce diffusion?
There are still 'Kolmogrov microscales' when there appear to be no eddys..
Slashdot Mirror
Yep.. Space Invaders, too.. SIGGRAPH talk: http://www.visual6502.org/docs/6502_in_action_14_web.pdf
I'll tell you what needs to happen. All these grateful and passionate Users need to band together and organize a conference.
Once that happens, invite all the Developers to 'come down from their cloud' to visit and participate in this conference.
The list of workshops you'll want to develop will include 'The life of a Bug; From Discovery to Patch', 'Version Control for Laypeople', and a three parter on 'How Open Source Works'.
Get off your cloud? How about 'get off your duff'?
Just like Shuttleworth started Canonical to address userspace conditions, someone needs to get going on the meatspace support structure. Even older than your xfree86.conf file are the arguments 'Devs don't understand Users' and 'Sales doesn't understand Engineering'.
Now, how about stepping up to the plate?
Sorry SuperMicro, but you could use a bigger umbrella.
So, Dell: Buy SuperMicro
Also, Dell, you need to make some serious inroads in the backend service arena. There are several dozen cloud service and storage business starting up every week. Buy two or three of each. Three billion Dollars should go pretty far in this arena.
Split the software and services from the hardware. While you're at it, buy or invest heavily in implementation and sales engineer forces.
Once all the divisions are established, take some of the leftover funds and run a few Super Bowl ads around Dell Ver. 2.0, where directly offered services come with the requisite backing (whether cloud or otherwise)
Assignee: Halliburton Energy Services Inc.
I'd like to run this through my legalese relationship parser to generate some relational diagrams between the methods and the claims.
Something tells me there are some sploits to be found..
Propose a ridiculous answer, then suggest it is the common response?
How about this:
If the content is published without copyright, the license requirements should allow for physical replication, as the original digital version is protected and version controlled.
Life of a hard copy? As long as the information is relevant.
Life of a digital copy? As long as the information is relevant, with the added feature of perpetual evolution.
Let's imagine a world without an oxygen fueled brain...
Ah! It's a simple world because there is distinct lack of brains, due to a lack of oxygen!
Without managing blood flow and fuel supply according to its needs? Way simple!
Let's emulate all of nature, eliminating all the things we deem 'irrelevant' to the simulation.. What gets left out? Whales? Plankton? Ants? Yeast? Pollen?
How complete is your implementation? Outcome not what you expected?
You're looking at a shiny red hammer when you get automagic wireless configuration, stuff that 'just works', and easy and relatively complete package management.
You're looking into a stocked toolbox when you have a need to recognize and capitalize on the full scope of those packages - not just the tool to address the majority of what needs to be done.
I should have put a premium on /maturity/ when comparing the two..
My mistake!
The *best* is my *favorite*.
Favouritism is only that. Best is Best. Period.
Mass audiences are incapable of finding appeal in Debian. ..for good reason.
What appeal could they find in a well organized toolbox, when all they really want is a shiny red hammer?
MS would rather step over them all to where they estimate things will go rather than resign to being an late starting also-ran.
If those guys are all occupied with WebKit, it frees MS to do something bold.
I was fucked out of pre-high school algebra by a grading process that allowed me and my buddy to grade each others papers.
A+ all the way..
Here are two factoids guaranteed to blow your minds:
1. This stupendous class was taught in a Montessori environment.
2. This Montessori environment was a Dallas (Texas) Public School
Could this happen today? No fucking way.
The school is now a 'special' school for immigrants.
...thereby keeping it off the secondary market.
Why should you run out and buy another $300 device? Because you have reached the end of the effective life of the last $300 device you bought.
Fool me once...
One of the local places, bordering on a chain, practically, used to offer free unlimited wireless.
They recently evaluated their offerings - both in drinks and service. Now you get a key (voucher) good for two hours of access.
It's triggered by your MAC (though I have used two devices on the same key) and when the timer kicks over, you aren't routed to the tubes anymore.
A small cup of coffee is what? About $2.00 in most cities? With that, you get pretty decent throughput, and no filtering for things like torrents or any apparent throttling.
Darn fine value in my book. Even college students and the unemployed can afford $2.71.
The best part? Plenty of people show up without computers. In fact, so many chatters are there, its often a requirement to bring the noise canceling headphones!
As above.
http://slashdot.org/users.pl?op=edithome
Authors: timothy
Uncheck..
The graphs are nice, but they don't tell the whole story.
What builds?
I have noticed severe memory leaks with Mozilla apps not at stable release level.
TFA by 'Perf Protector' says 'a beta tester' is providing the data - from an 'infected' Windows machine, apparently in a corporate environment.
Coincidentally(?) 'Perf Protector' is the tool used to generate the graphs as well as the handle of the poster. Is this a soft anti-Mozilla Slashvertisement for a Windows performance monitoring tool?
I had pre-CompSci in 7th and 8th grade, taught by an old mainframer.
He gave us challenging computer science problems. We turned them out on C64s.
When the work was done, out came the joysticks..
Thanks, Barry!
and it helps you skip that bottom rung (black hole) 'job' nonsense altogether.
Those who 'can', 'do'. Those who 'can't' deliver pizzas.
You're an artisan. As an artisan, you apprentice under a specialty with a short life, but exceedingly high payoff, which is it's own reward.
Increased tenure does not imply increased capability, unlike typical 'Professions', i.e., Plumber, Mechanic, Lawyer, Professor, Accountant, TV Producer..
Like the brick layer, you are a means to an end. A potentially cushy end, but an end nonetheless.
Basic technological skills do not include programming, and I'll argue that Intermediate-level persons are better off without, as well.
Let's get your vocab enhanced by 30-50% with the terms involved, and we'll talk if you can actually grasp programming at a conceptual level.
Teach the 'gist' of computer programming through already familiar concepts - with BASIC if you like. See how many of your subjects are OK with not clicking something.
...also, it scares me when scientists get visibly excited over the possibility of a 'smoking gun'.
Self-serving science is bad karma
Maybe what they're measuring is coming from Earth's core..
(No, I didn't RTFA)
It's one of those 'hmm' deals..
I'm not entirely qualified to make a fluid dynamics analogy, but bear with me here..
Tribes are eddys.
If a current within a fluid encourages inter-eddy interaction (dispersal, conjoinment) - no matter how temporary or permanent, yet the tendency is for eddys to exist outside a flow or current system.
How can tribes not also persist outside those social currents not strong enough to induce diffusion?
There are still 'Kolmogrov microscales' when there appear to be no eddys..
By your argument U.S Universities are harder to complain about because K-12 is shite?
Students graduate with a B.S. who cannot master 8th grade math, geography or spelling, let alone logic or a second language..