Finally slashdot admins are really that "do no evil" is just a gimmick.
Nowadays, there are quite a few email postings against google, i think this one is second in the same day.
I think that you should teach using emacs.
And IMO it is wrong to say that emacs is just an editor, it is rather a full fledged editor and with JDE mode, combined with senator, cedet, it has most of the facilities which other IDE's do.
In addition, it has modes for programming in many languages, be it python, ruby, lisp or haskell.
Best of all, it is programmable, and student can hack their way to their own settings and idiosyncracies.
Introduce your students to the Church of Emacs
A huge campaign against.xxx has seen ICANN's public comment board for the registry flooded in recent days by hundreds of posters with little or no understanding of the.xxx bid, but all stating their opposition to its approval.
Are there any reasonable arguments to oppose this bid?
Any true Conservatives, should have rather supported this.xxx bid, as it will help in better blocking/controlling (atleast to some extent) pornography.
Or, maybe it is just another example of Orwellian doublespeak, maybe the Conservatives aren't really bothered about pornography and have some ulterior motives.
The quality of online editions of most Indian paper is horrible. I don't read the print edition, so I cannot comment on that. TOI might be the largest English newspaper, but definitely not a national newspaper.
Look at the headlines and the front page of TOI for any day during the last one year. Unless someone is using adblock, the page is full of ads, and the google ads which you see on a page are good indicator of what kind of material does it have. Compare it with any other tabloid newspapers.
Then the front page has sleazy pictures from indiatimes. The stories are titled in a way so as not to look professional but to titillate you, and the content is most of the time biased, and quite often badly written. Besides they give more importance and prominence to controversial stories than really important news. People die in mishaps or accident, and I get to know about them in BBC or NYT before I see them in TOI, a recent point in case is the stampede in Chennai, that speaks volume.
Unfortunately, there is no Indian English online newspaper which can be called national and is worth reading (Hindu is pretty good, but not national).
After reading the article I am really worried about software patents and treacherous computing.
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Just that it is not published in journal ( I doubt one such existed thousands of years ago) doesn't mean it doesnot work.
It might have been published and there might also have been peer reviews, but the problem is that it wasn't exposed to the western world. Knowledge is no good until it is shared with others.
Does this mean you are against genetically modified crops?
Whats wrong if one is? Genetically modifying crops, can result in a new breed of crops, which can be harmful, or bad for human health. You never know, what you end up with.
Killing diversity is no good. Mutations, do help in diversifying, but they do so over a very long period of time.
And killing the existing bio-diversity in the hope that it will replenish itself in the future is just outright stupid.
I don't understand how people can discredit evolutionism, and at the same time worry about bird flu?
Isn't the entire idea behind bird flue based on the fact that the virus can mutate and evolve into a new form which can easily get transmitted between humans.
Or do the creationists say that since evolution doesn't exist, they don't need to bother about flus?
I don't see anything wrong here, can you please explain?
If someone says distance between PHX and LA is, imagine person running at 10 MPH for 5 days. Is that wrong (it maybe inaccurate)?
I have never heard about wear and tear due to hardware booting up. I daily shut down and restart my computer atleast thrice daily, and I have been using it for 4-years now, still no wear-tear, everything is fine.
Maybe the wear tear you are talking about will happen in even longer run, 10 years or so. If you expect to keep your machines for that long, then you might need to worry.
I wonder what is shit here, seems your thinking is.
What wrong did the shareholders, or the posters of this article *do*? Is stopping some regime from haressing its people, or stopping the regime from depriving its citizen basic human rights something wrong.
Nowhere in this article or in the main article, I found anything offensive or anti-chinese people, unless offcourse you are some chinese party memeber.
I have read many post here where people have been criticizing this article,and the place to where it links.
I don't undertsand how this article is anti-chinese people, unless everyone bashing this post equates the chinese government and chinese party members to chinese people.
Yahoo, and the Chinese government did something bad (and is doing) to an ordinary Chinese citizen (took away his rights).
And as people with conscience, we need to stop them from doing this in the future. And so the shareholders have taken the right step.
But how does this translates to an activity against the Chinese people, as far as I understand this is being done to help Chinese people and their rights.
So, please stop being cynical and thinking of western morality conscience people as dissimulators.
Lot of distros provide live cd, but my idea is to extend the live cd concept by allowing the user to install programs, and then easily burn the new image creating a new live cd. Is that possible? Reading the Knoppix website didn't give any such indication.
Thanks.
I will go further. We want an OS which is more than a 'live cd', that is initially install the OS, configure everything the way you want and install all your applications, games etc. Now, once everything is done, burn it into a cd, and always boot from the cd.
If one wants to install another application boot from the cd, install the application, burn the new image. And there you go.
I think it is a neat idea, any VCs or clients interested? I have started a new company and I am planning to sell Linux distros, with the above capabilities.
The question is not about whether "that a blog poster is a paid astro-turfer" it is about as one poster wrote: "The amendment would have created a loophole in campaign finance reform and allowed unlimited political spending on the web."
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Does one needs to buy a Product Key for testing this release candidate?
Finally slashdot admins are really that "do no evil" is just a gimmick. Nowadays, there are quite a few email postings against google, i think this one is second in the same day.
Mistake, it should be "it is a full fledged IDE with JDE mode" instead of "it is a full fledged editor with JDE mode"
I think that you should teach using emacs.
And IMO it is wrong to say that emacs is just an editor, it is rather a full fledged editor and with JDE mode, combined with senator, cedet, it has most of the facilities which other IDE's do.
In addition, it has modes for programming in many languages, be it python, ruby, lisp or haskell.
Best of all, it is programmable, and student can hack their way to their own settings and idiosyncracies.
Introduce your students to the Church of Emacs
A huge campaign against
Are there any reasonable arguments to oppose this bid?
Any true Conservatives, should have rather supported this .xxx bid, as it will help in better blocking/controlling (atleast to some extent) pornography.
Or, maybe it is just another example of Orwellian doublespeak, maybe the Conservatives aren't really bothered about pornography and have some ulterior motives.
Indeed such an Internet exists, read more about it at Freenet.
I am not able to access cnet and zdnet since yesterday. I live in India, am I the only one facing this problem?
The quality of online editions of most Indian paper is horrible. I don't read the print edition, so I cannot comment on that. TOI might be the largest English newspaper, but definitely not a national newspaper.
Look at the headlines and the front page of TOI for any day during the last one year. Unless someone is using adblock, the page is full of ads, and the google ads which you see on a page are good indicator of what kind of material does it have. Compare it with any other tabloid newspapers.
Then the front page has sleazy pictures from indiatimes. The stories are titled in a way so as not to look professional but to titillate you, and the content is most of the time biased, and quite often badly written. Besides they give more importance and prominence to controversial stories than really important news. People die in mishaps or accident, and I get to know about them in BBC or NYT before I see them in TOI, a recent point in case is the stampede in Chennai, that speaks volume.
Unfortunately, there is no Indian English online newspaper which can be called national and is worth reading (Hindu is pretty good, but not national).
After reading the article I am really worried about software patents and treacherous computing. Please help ZNet migrate to free software by registering and showing your support at the following link. http://znet.2y.net/zbb/index.php
Times of India is worse than tabloid quality newspaper, and they decide to publish such crap on their front page is no suprise.
Don't pay any credence to this story, there are always some jingoists on both sides of the border.
I have not tried ruby yet, but are there any CMS similar to Mambo/Joomla for ruby?
Thanks.
Just that it is not published in journal ( I doubt one such existed thousands of years ago) doesn't mean it doesnot work.
It might have been published and there might also have been peer reviews, but the problem is that it wasn't exposed to the western world. Knowledge is no good until it is shared with others.
Does this mean you are against genetically modified crops?
Whats wrong if one is? Genetically modifying crops, can result in a new breed of crops, which can be harmful, or bad for human health. You never know, what you end up with.
Killing diversity is no good. Mutations, do help in diversifying, but they do so over a very long period of time. And killing the existing bio-diversity in the hope that it will replenish itself in the future is just outright stupid.
I don't understand how people can discredit evolutionism, and at the same time worry about bird flu?
Isn't the entire idea behind bird flue based on the fact that the virus can mutate and evolve into a new form which can easily get transmitted between humans.
Or do the creationists say that since evolution doesn't exist, they don't need to bother about flus?
I don't see anything wrong here, can you please explain?
If someone says distance between PHX and LA is, imagine person running at 10 MPH for 5 days. Is that wrong (it maybe inaccurate)?
I have never heard about wear and tear due to hardware booting up. I daily shut down and restart my computer atleast thrice daily, and I have been using it for 4-years now, still no wear-tear, everything is fine. Maybe the wear tear you are talking about will happen in even longer run, 10 years or so. If you expect to keep your machines for that long, then you might need to worry.
What is written in lisp?
Are there any lisp libraries/packages for logging, which will log the function name and probably the line number, etc.
So far I have been logging in lisp only using a homewritten trivial 'tracer' macro.
I wonder what is shit here, seems your thinking is.
What wrong did the shareholders, or the posters of this article *do*? Is stopping some regime from haressing its people, or stopping the regime from depriving its citizen basic human rights something wrong.
Nowhere in this article or in the main article, I found anything offensive or anti-chinese people, unless offcourse you are some chinese party memeber.
I have read many post here where people have been criticizing this article,and the place to where it links.
I don't undertsand how this article is anti-chinese people, unless everyone bashing this post equates the chinese government and chinese party members to chinese people.
Yahoo, and the Chinese government did something bad (and is doing) to an ordinary Chinese citizen (took away his rights).
And as people with conscience, we need to stop them from doing this in the future. And so the shareholders have taken the right step.
But how does this translates to an activity against the Chinese people, as far as I understand this is being done to help Chinese people and their rights.
So, please stop being cynical and thinking of western morality conscience people as dissimulators.
Lot of distros provide live cd, but my idea is to extend the live cd concept by allowing the user to install programs, and then easily burn the new image creating a new live cd. Is that possible? Reading the Knoppix website didn't give any such indication. Thanks.
I will go further. We want an OS which is more than a 'live cd', that is initially install the OS, configure everything the way you want and install all your applications, games etc. Now, once everything is done, burn it into a cd, and always boot from the cd.
If one wants to install another application boot from the cd, install the application, burn the new image. And there you go.
I think it is a neat idea, any VCs or clients interested? I have started a new company and I am planning to sell Linux distros, with the above capabilities.
Use mozilla firefox and install adblock and flash blocks. They will get rid of all flash and ads, which you don't want.
The question is not about whether "that a blog poster is a paid astro-turfer" it is about as one poster wrote: "The amendment would have created a loophole in campaign finance reform and allowed unlimited political spending on the web."
I hope you understand it.
I feel like singing:
Hickory, dickory, dock!
The mouse ran up the clock;
The clock struck one,
And down he run,
Hickory, dickory, dock!