Ok, so the referenced fields that have problem with stats are both not Sciences. Medicine has no theories that govern the human body. All they do is memorize a bunch of crap and then poke some squishy bits and memorize how it looks and feels when healthy/normal v.s. unhealthy/abnormal. It's really the Engineers, Physicists, Chemists and to a lesser extent (though they are gaining market-share) Biologists, that make the true breakthroughs in Medicine.
And the social "sciences" are just plain an embarrassment when it compares to real Science. Seriously...
People in the real Sciences would have been forced to take enough Mathematics and/or Statistics to be able to properly interpret Statistics. And just as importantly, be able to do proper experiment design (Medicine, I'm looking at you). Then there's the whole not being able to tell the difference between causation and correlation. I could go on.
How exact was this funny? RMS, even though he did do good things in the beginning, is a problem. Just check out the Subversion fiasco and the strawman thread on an OpenBSD mailing list (@misc I believe). The guy's nuts. He talks about stuff that he hasn't a clue on and completely avoids any point from another person that shows.
Unfortunately, he can't really be avoided. That is, assuming that your project gets any publicity and isn't GPL'd, he'll find you. And he's a hard guy to get rid of given that his only job seems to be stirring the shit.
* Waiting to get marked troll by Linux zealots as I have a poor view of there hero.
Aside from the obvious 'why wasn't the safety on' and 'what was a gun lying around with a 3 year old about' comments, what about the guns weight. Sorry, but those things are heavy. So much so, that I doubt that a kid that age could have lifted it. What else was going on?
Exactly. If we were advancing instead of regressing socially, then we wouldn't have even thought about such applications of this technology. Or if we did, we'd be repulsed by it.
Measures to prevent this were in place before the incident happened both in the US and elsewhere. The problem isn't the rules (pre-9/11 rules were enough). The problem is the complete moron who is employed to enforce them.
Another problem is that the typical moron walking around doesn't realise that one just plain can't do everything. A free society comes with risks. Deal with it. Hell, a police state can't prevent this sort of thing if the person wanting to do something is even remotely clever.
The point of airport security is to have a high probability of catching the clumsy and the stupid. Anything beyond that and innocent people are significantly compromised (by inconvenience and liberties and...) for an insignificant (at best) increase in security.
All I have to say about this sort of thing is that the response is, again, just fucking embarrassing.
That was just the "justification" for it. The law really kills free speech in a most horrific way. In fact, pretty much every German freaked out over this and protested (unlike when similar things happened/happens in the US/Canada). It's nice that at least one politician is trying to get rid of it.
How exactly is a blind person supposed to play a FPS? How about something as simple as a platformer? Simply put, video games are a visual medium. Unless that game is specifically targeted towards the blind, this isn't going to happen.
While many experts expect technological limits to kick in eventually, engineers always seem to find ways around such roadblocks.
Engineers get around technological limits. They do NOT get around physical ones. This is a limit governed by the laws of Physics. It can't be worked around without new Physics allowing it to. Remember, Engineering is built on these laws.
Is it possible this trait is far less common in women than men?
If the medical profession is any indication, yes. The numbers are such that women M.D.'s work about 80% (or there abouts - I believe that is Canadian specific as well) the number of hours as men do. And btw, that number comes from my feminist wife.
This also fits my personal experience. I've worked with and gone to school with many women. But, none of them were willing to do any programming beyond that in which was required. In fact, none of them were willing to even really talk about anything tech outside of work. For them, it was about the paycheck and nothing more.
But, to comment on my conduct on mailing lists, etc. I don't even read the name of the person that I'm responding to. I just reply to the content. Which brings up a likely cause (studies have shown this in the work-place) of this/perceived/ sexism; differences in the way men and women communicate. Men tend to be quite aggressive when the do so (relatively speaking) and this tends to get interpreted as an attack by women.
This also brings up another point. Namely, that, how arrogant does someone have to be, to think that the work-place will change to meet there needs? This is a universal thing, not just applicable here. Here, it must be said that women must understand that in a male dominated industry, that they'll have to learn to live, etc in it. That the industry isn't going to change for them and to assume that, and complain because that isn't happening is asinine. And before anyone spouts off about me being sexist or some such, I expect the same of myself when I enter a new work-place. The "outsider" climatizes to the new environment, or fails.
Throwing money at security won't make something more secure. That's really up to who is doing the programming i.e. how competent they are. Just look at all the security products out there that have massive security holes in them regardless of whether they are commercial or open-source.
I do believe that you've entirely missed the point of that paragraph. They still wouldn't have to pay a dime. As in, who cares if they would have to offer the source to something where the source is already available.
The GPL is not the godsend that many people believe it to be. In fact, if looking at current (and past) business practice is any indication, the GPL would have actually hindered OpenSSH's adoption, not promoted it. Businesses really hate that viral open source thing in the GPL regardless of whether there code actually touches the GPL'd code. Just not worth the risk for many (most?).
Honestly, who cares? Should we even pay attention? The correct answer is no. Students don't see the value of Maths nor Science nor many many things. They don't see the value because they've yet to have the life experience that is required to see that value. Hell, most adults don't see the value of it even though it's right in front of there faces. In fact, every single Maths and Physics class I have ever taken required assignments to be handed in, in writing. And what about exams? It's just not tractable to setup thousands of computers, non-networked, for exams if students can't write. And if it's illegible, the student gets a zero.
So, yah, writing is kind of important.
To the teachers in the crowd, perhaps instead of bitching that the students don't understand the value, YOU SHOULD DO YOUR JOBS AND EXPLAIN IT TO THEM!
Invariably these games use 99% of the CPU because Javascript doesn't have a real sleep() function.
It's called timer. Use a timer. Javascript is event driven. Use a timer.
There's no decent way to manipulate sounds (like an FMOD for javascript).
Well, there's SoundManager (flash) and one could do similar things with a Java interface.
3D games sound like a nice idea but they'll be prohibitively...
Well, you loose here because every game that's on a different platform has such issues. EVERYTHING that's developed cross-browser (i.e. cross-platform) or on multiple consoles (i.e. cross-platform) or on PC/Mac/Linux (i.e. cross-platform) has such issues. When it comes to performance, I should mention that not too long ago Canvascape was unplayable (no textures) on my computer. But, recent performance improvements makes even the textured version playable.
In all seriousness, what I see you doing is thinking of modern games that are on the consoles, etc and putting something like that on the web. Are you sure that's a good assumption? Because, with what I see of the 2d canvas games, they are quite reasonable. Why wouldn't we expect the same of the 3d variety? i.e. You've made a bad initial assumption and ran with that. Fail.
Well, assuming that the code is actively (and properly) maintained, then that isn't a bad metric. Essentially, it's because any security flaw is the result of a bug. It's just a bug that can be exploited. So, if the code is maintained properly, then bug fixes will be continuous and as such, reduce the number of exploitable bugs.
Good metric, yes. Absolute metric, no.
"""... which is basically one of the tenets of OSS."""
And where did you hear that? Because, I never have and I've been around for a while.
Ah yes, it's not killing literacy as long as we redefine the term. We'll just call the complete lack of punctuation, grammar, syntax, etc a "bold new direction" and that'll make everything ok. Because, people are at least "writing" you know.
Seriously, I read what 1st years write in there assignments and a lot of the time, I can't comprehend what they're trying to say. It could almost be a string of random words for all that is communicated. I've also seen this problem progress a great deal over the past decade. It's a real problem, it's getting worse and crack-pottery like this nonsensical project are just attempts at justifying student stupidity.
We really really *really* need to get the primary and secondary school teachers to actually teach again. Otherwise, we're screwed.
Sorry, I don't mean to be rude. But, as has been stated above, Open-source is largely done by volunteers. So, thinking that you can get a response, any response, within a couple hours is profoundly naive/stupid. It's likely that while you send your email to the spokesman while doing your day job, (s)he is at his/her day job working and won't get around to check his/her PERSONAL account for several hours. It's the nature of the beast and ignoring that is... well... naive/stupid.
Honestly, what you're attempting is to get "us" to bend over backwards to solve your problem. And I rather take offense to that. "We" are not your monkeys.
But, tell me, why can't you just say to your boss something like, "The guys that develop this are volunteers and won't be able to get back to us in time because they are at there day jobs right now. How about I figure out who to talk to and send off an email while you get me something else to work on for right now?"
It's actually very easy to get through life with clinical depression without worrying about what George W. Bush did...
Nonsense. What people focus on while depressed comes in on there own experience while they are depressed. So, if they like watching the news, etc, then it's actually highly likely that they'll focus on that. Otherwise, it's people screwing them in other ways. In other words, what one focuses on while depressed is dependent on that particular person. So, it's not "easy," nor "not easy" to "get through life with clinical depression without worrying about what George W. Bush did". It just depends on "you." "You" don't really have much of a choice in the matter in more ways than one.
I got asked once, if I would prefer to live intelligently in a prison knowing I was in one, or stupidly in the same place not knowing what it was. I would choose the latter.
I would choose the former. Why? Because, I'd use my intelligence to figure a way out of the prison. Look at that. I used my intelligence to figure a way out of a shitty situation and I'm not currently depressed. That's called thinking outside the box, btw.
For the record I am bipolar (Manic Depressive in old terminology).
For the record, the diagnostic criteria for type I (and probably NOS, though I haven't looked that up in a while) does NOT require a (major) depressive episode. So, one could just have (hypo)manias with no depression and still perfectly meet a Bipolar diagnosis. In other words, just saying that you are Bipolar is meaningless without knowing which type you are. You may not have experienced depression at all (though your link implies that, many people write about such things without having experienced them).
Intelligent, eh?
Btw, I'm Bipolar type I and I do get depressions (among other things).
Oh, and what's with the implying "I've suffered depression therefore what I say is more meaningful" bullshit. So, what? You think that really matters? Point of fact, it doesn't. I've talked with many a person that have had very interesting and profound things to say on Bipolar/Depression who haven't experienced it themselves. What makes what I say any more valid then what they have to say? Saying that it does would mean that I would be weighing (extreme) anecdotal evidence heavier than other (extreme) anecdotal evidence. Not exactly scientific. Not exactly intelligent.
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Ok, so the referenced fields that have problem with stats are both not Sciences. Medicine has no theories that govern the human body. All they do is memorize a bunch of crap and then poke some squishy bits and memorize how it looks and feels when healthy/normal v.s. unhealthy/abnormal. It's really the Engineers, Physicists, Chemists and to a lesser extent (though they are gaining market-share) Biologists, that make the true breakthroughs in Medicine.
And the social "sciences" are just plain an embarrassment when it compares to real Science. Seriously...
People in the real Sciences would have been forced to take enough Mathematics and/or Statistics to be able to properly interpret Statistics. And just as importantly, be able to do proper experiment design (Medicine, I'm looking at you). Then there's the whole not being able to tell the difference between causation and correlation. I could go on.
Hear hear!!!
How exact was this funny? RMS, even though he did do good things in the beginning, is a problem. Just check out the Subversion fiasco and the strawman thread on an OpenBSD mailing list (@misc I believe). The guy's nuts. He talks about stuff that he hasn't a clue on and completely avoids any point from another person that shows.
Unfortunately, he can't really be avoided. That is, assuming that your project gets any publicity and isn't GPL'd, he'll find you. And he's a hard guy to get rid of given that his only job seems to be stirring the shit.
* Waiting to get marked troll by Linux zealots as I have a poor view of there hero.
Aside from the obvious 'why wasn't the safety on' and 'what was a gun lying around with a 3 year old about' comments, what about the guns weight. Sorry, but those things are heavy. So much so, that I doubt that a kid that age could have lifted it. What else was going on?
Make sure his IP is static and use that to throttle.
Exactly. If we were advancing instead of regressing socially, then we wouldn't have even thought about such applications of this technology. Or if we did, we'd be repulsed by it.
Measures to prevent this were in place before the incident happened both in the US and elsewhere. The problem isn't the rules (pre-9/11 rules were enough). The problem is the complete moron who is employed to enforce them.
Another problem is that the typical moron walking around doesn't realise that one just plain can't do everything. A free society comes with risks. Deal with it. Hell, a police state can't prevent this sort of thing if the person wanting to do something is even remotely clever.
The point of airport security is to have a high probability of catching the clumsy and the stupid. Anything beyond that and innocent people are significantly compromised (by inconvenience and liberties and ...) for an insignificant (at best) increase in security.
All I have to say about this sort of thing is that the response is, again, just fucking embarrassing.
That was just the "justification" for it. The law really kills free speech in a most horrific way. In fact, pretty much every German freaked out over this and protested (unlike when similar things happened/happens in the US/Canada). It's nice that at least one politician is trying to get rid of it.
How exactly is a blind person supposed to play a FPS? How about something as simple as a platformer? Simply put, video games are a visual medium. Unless that game is specifically targeted towards the blind, this isn't going to happen.
While many experts expect technological limits to kick in eventually, engineers always seem to find ways around such roadblocks.
Engineers get around technological limits. They do NOT get around physical ones. This is a limit governed by the laws of Physics. It can't be worked around without new Physics allowing it to. Remember, Engineering is built on these laws.
Is it possible this trait is far less common in women than men?
If the medical profession is any indication, yes. The numbers are such that women M.D.'s work about 80% (or there abouts - I believe that is Canadian specific as well) the number of hours as men do. And btw, that number comes from my feminist wife.
This also fits my personal experience. I've worked with and gone to school with many women. But, none of them were willing to do any programming beyond that in which was required. In fact, none of them were willing to even really talk about anything tech outside of work. For them, it was about the paycheck and nothing more.
But, to comment on my conduct on mailing lists, etc. I don't even read the name of the person that I'm responding to. I just reply to the content. Which brings up a likely cause (studies have shown this in the work-place) of this /perceived/ sexism; differences in the way men and women communicate. Men tend to be quite aggressive when the do so (relatively speaking) and this tends to get interpreted as an attack by women.
This also brings up another point. Namely, that, how arrogant does someone have to be, to think that the work-place will change to meet there needs? This is a universal thing, not just applicable here. Here, it must be said that women must understand that in a male dominated industry, that they'll have to learn to live, etc in it. That the industry isn't going to change for them and to assume that, and complain because that isn't happening is asinine. And before anyone spouts off about me being sexist or some such, I expect the same of myself when I enter a new work-place. The "outsider" climatizes to the new environment, or fails.
... they made 1984 a reality game.
Throwing money at security won't make something more secure. That's really up to who is doing the programming i.e. how competent they are. Just look at all the security products out there that have massive security holes in them regardless of whether they are commercial or open-source.
I do believe that you've entirely missed the point of that paragraph. They still wouldn't have to pay a dime. As in, who cares if they would have to offer the source to something where the source is already available.
The GPL is not the godsend that many people believe it to be. In fact, if looking at current (and past) business practice is any indication, the GPL would have actually hindered OpenSSH's adoption, not promoted it. Businesses really hate that viral open source thing in the GPL regardless of whether there code actually touches the GPL'd code. Just not worth the risk for many (most?).
Honestly, who cares? Should we even pay attention? The correct answer is no. Students don't see the value of Maths nor Science nor many many things. They don't see the value because they've yet to have the life experience that is required to see that value. Hell, most adults don't see the value of it even though it's right in front of there faces. In fact, every single Maths and Physics class I have ever taken required assignments to be handed in, in writing. And what about exams? It's just not tractable to setup thousands of computers, non-networked, for exams if students can't write. And if it's illegible, the student gets a zero.
So, yah, writing is kind of important.
To the teachers in the crowd, perhaps instead of bitching that the students don't understand the value, YOU SHOULD DO YOUR JOBS AND EXPLAIN IT TO THEM!
The problem with offering OpenGL access to Javascript is that Javascript isn't a good language for fast matrix math.
Yah, because it's not like the underlying javascript engine, where the matrix math is actually run, couldn't be enhanced...
Similarly to your other complaint.
Invariably these games use 99% of the CPU because Javascript doesn't have a real sleep() function.
It's called timer. Use a timer. Javascript is event driven. Use a timer.
There's no decent way to manipulate sounds (like an FMOD for javascript).
Well, there's SoundManager (flash) and one could do similar things with a Java interface.
3D games sound like a nice idea but they'll be prohibitively...
Well, you loose here because every game that's on a different platform has such issues. EVERYTHING that's developed cross-browser (i.e. cross-platform) or on multiple consoles (i.e. cross-platform) or on PC/Mac/Linux (i.e. cross-platform) has such issues. When it comes to performance, I should mention that not too long ago Canvascape was unplayable (no textures) on my computer. But, recent performance improvements makes even the textured version playable.
In all seriousness, what I see you doing is thinking of modern games that are on the consoles, etc and putting something like that on the web. Are you sure that's a good assumption? Because, with what I see of the 2d canvas games, they are quite reasonable. Why wouldn't we expect the same of the 3d variety? i.e. You've made a bad initial assumption and ran with that. Fail.
Why not put them together and get Complex Currency!
Well, assuming that the code is actively (and properly) maintained, then that isn't a bad metric. Essentially, it's because any security flaw is the result of a bug. It's just a bug that can be exploited. So, if the code is maintained properly, then bug fixes will be continuous and as such, reduce the number of exploitable bugs.
Good metric, yes. Absolute metric, no.
"""... which is basically one of the tenets of OSS."""
And where did you hear that? Because, I never have and I've been around for a while.
Dude, no. Painting your car red doesn't make it go faster. That's just silly. What you need are some speed holes.
Ah yes, it's not killing literacy as long as we redefine the term. We'll just call the complete lack of punctuation, grammar, syntax, etc a "bold new direction" and that'll make everything ok. Because, people are at least "writing" you know.
Seriously, I read what 1st years write in there assignments and a lot of the time, I can't comprehend what they're trying to say. It could almost be a string of random words for all that is communicated. I've also seen this problem progress a great deal over the past decade. It's a real problem, it's getting worse and crack-pottery like this nonsensical project are just attempts at justifying student stupidity.
We really really *really* need to get the primary and secondary school teachers to actually teach again. Otherwise, we're screwed.
Sorry, I don't mean to be rude. But, as has been stated above, Open-source is largely done by volunteers. So, thinking that you can get a response, any response, within a couple hours is profoundly naive/stupid. It's likely that while you send your email to the spokesman while doing your day job, (s)he is at his/her day job working and won't get around to check his/her PERSONAL account for several hours. It's the nature of the beast and ignoring that is... well... naive/stupid.
Honestly, what you're attempting is to get "us" to bend over backwards to solve your problem. And I rather take offense to that. "We" are not your monkeys.
But, tell me, why can't you just say to your boss something like, "The guys that develop this are volunteers and won't be able to get back to us in time because they are at there day jobs right now. How about I figure out who to talk to and send off an email while you get me something else to work on for right now?"
It's actually very easy to get through life with clinical depression without worrying about what George W. Bush did...
Nonsense. What people focus on while depressed comes in on there own experience while they are depressed. So, if they like watching the news, etc, then it's actually highly likely that they'll focus on that. Otherwise, it's people screwing them in other ways. In other words, what one focuses on while depressed is dependent on that particular person. So, it's not "easy," nor "not easy" to "get through life with clinical depression without worrying about what George W. Bush did". It just depends on "you." "You" don't really have much of a choice in the matter in more ways than one.
Not that kind of depression. They are talking about clinical depression.
I got asked once, if I would prefer to live intelligently in a prison knowing I was in one, or stupidly in the same place not knowing what it was. I would choose the latter.
I would choose the former. Why? Because, I'd use my intelligence to figure a way out of the prison. Look at that. I used my intelligence to figure a way out of a shitty situation and I'm not currently depressed. That's called thinking outside the box, btw.
For the record I am bipolar (Manic Depressive in old terminology).
For the record, the diagnostic criteria for type I (and probably NOS, though I haven't looked that up in a while) does NOT require a (major) depressive episode. So, one could just have (hypo)manias with no depression and still perfectly meet a Bipolar diagnosis. In other words, just saying that you are Bipolar is meaningless without knowing which type you are. You may not have experienced depression at all (though your link implies that, many people write about such things without having experienced them).
Intelligent, eh?
Btw, I'm Bipolar type I and I do get depressions (among other things).
Oh, and what's with the implying "I've suffered depression therefore what I say is more meaningful" bullshit. So, what? You think that really matters? Point of fact, it doesn't. I've talked with many a person that have had very interesting and profound things to say on Bipolar/Depression who haven't experienced it themselves. What makes what I say any more valid then what they have to say? Saying that it does would mean that I would be weighing (extreme) anecdotal evidence heavier than other (extreme) anecdotal evidence. Not exactly scientific. Not exactly intelligent.
Try again. Fail.