I don't agree with your rant. As a parent I rather educate than forbid. So telling a child about how things work on the Internet, what sort of things will happen and so on should be enough.
I have browsed and seen much of the dirty things that go on in the web. I've seen the memes, I've seen the raids, etc. So it might be easier for me to teach. Probably that has an influence on how much relaxed I am about educating about the web instead of forbidding. There's something else, though. I'm probably much more relaxed about sex than most of our society.
I believe that what people are scared the most is about children, early teens and even teenagers exploring sex. Somehow that freaks people out. It doesn't for me. I see no problem with those groups of people watching porn on the web or even exposing themselves. Of course, they need to be educated about what society thinks of those acts, so they don't fall in society's traps. Moreover, I don't believe at all that you can ruin someone's life because of something he or she published or watched on the web. I really can't.
Educate your children, let them live their lives. There will be mistakes, regrets, that's for sure. But I think it's better to make a mistake and realize it early rather than later. I think skateboarding poses more risks for a child's future than anything she can do on the web; and no, I don't want to forbid skateboards.
You mean, explain why people are unethical? I believe I just did in my previous post. Those who want to have an easy time right now instead of later probably have do a few unethical things along the way. Society just isn't constructed in a way to let people live easy and fun lives. So, if that's what you want, then you'll have to break a few social rules; that's all.
Social mammals tend to emulate the alpha individuals of their groups. The alphas, by dint of successfully establishing themselves as alphas, are viewed as successful -- "well, they're doing something right for themselves, guess it'd be smart for me to do the same." When sociopaths lead our companies, the employees themselves will, generally speaking, start behaving more sociopathically. It's basic survival.
I don't see it like that at all. I think we all want -- and should have -- an easy life with little to no working. And I believe most of us are striking for that in a way or another. Some will save up money so they can be like that in a distant future, others will try to be comfortable and take it easy right now. Both ways have their ups and downs.
We're unique, intelligent animals. So I think any social analysis based on how other animals behave will be way too simplistic and perhaps even wrong. There's probably a few correlations here and there, if you take a big population. But we're so complex individuals that saying person X tries to emulate person Y behavior because Y is an alpha-male is very misleading, and probably just wrong.
I'm not sure that's entirely true. A lot of papers are done for the journals, as opposed to be done for the people. Perhaps I wasn't too clear, but I don't like the notion of scientific papers that you can access only by paying fees to a journal, instead of directly from the researchers. What do you call raw research? Most universities webpages I've gone to don't have too many articles about the research they do there -- if any article at all. Professors webpages often have only the name of their articles and a link to some conference (which requires you to pay a fee to register or download the thing).
I have been interested in papers that I knew about the existence, but I could only read the abstract at ACM. When that happens I contact the author, sometimes they send me the article through email, sometimes they don't -- I don't think they even can do it sometimes. That's the sort thing that doesn't feel right to me.
Bottom line is: scientists report to journals and conferences, I'd like them to report to all the people. Specially because so much of the research is directly or indirectly paid for by tax payers. Well, at least in Brazil that's how it works, perhaps I'm talking nonsense to an american. But I still think the idea of distributing the articles for free is a good one.
I think science should be published on the web for anyone to see. You could pay a fee to have an institution you respect picking good articles and indicating to you. That's a service for article consumers to pay for, not the scientists. That way you pay for a listing of articles, not for the articles themselves.
The problem with smoking at home is when you are in the apartment below mine and you smoke on your window. Then I have to either close mine and feel really hot or leave it open and smell the unpleasant smell of smoke.
Was it just me who thought the article was awful? What it described was nothing more than versioning for applications. I fail to see how what he described as good practice was different from his openoffice wanting to be updated. Was it the need to restart the program afterwards? All examples he provided seem to need to restart at least one program.
In the case of the addition of Canada, for instance, the whole server had to be updated and, I assume, it needed to be restarted. Then he said there was two version of the software, one in canada and one in the US that used the same server. If the clients talk to the server using any reasonable protocol the server would be able to handle both versions just as easy. It could be the case that the only difference is that one client is able to send one sort of message that the other isn't. I can hardly think of a software that has the maintaince problems he exposes.
When he goes on to talk about the glibc with an old version of linux kernel. That library exists exactly to export an interface that any program -- old or new -- can use. It does that by communicating with the kernel directly, and I think it's pretty reasonable for one or two functions to stop working on old versions of ther kernel.
From my calculations the latency to go up to the satellite and come back would be about 1ms. I don't think that's bad latency at all. Am I missing something here?
What I did:
281,635.2m / 299,792,458m/s = 0.00093s
For me being good or not is beside the point. The reason people shouldn't use vista is because it isn't free. I really don't understand why someone would chose to use nonfree software, given that free software is clearly much better for the society. Using nonfree software seems rather selfish to me.
If people all over the world would gather money and buy yahoo, then make free as much software they could and, whatever there's no way to be made free, rewrite and release under free license. That would be awfully nice, have one big company, running totally free. A big and free search engine.
A man can dream...
Compared to Firefox, it's prettier (if you think "fancy colors and icons" is more important than "consistent", you'll disagree), is much better integrated into Gnome, has much nicer "search engine support" (type in the address field, and your installed search engines are at the end of the auto complete list - please, someone, give me a firefox extension for that!), Reaching the search field on firefox is as easy as reaching for the url field. It's just a matter of typing C-k or C-l. Your hands don't even leave the home row.
It does have the drag and drop feature, but it sucks. File roller has the worst usability I've seen in a gnome program. Using it with firefox is a pain. If you get the same file two times, the first one file roller will open fine, the second time it will be named something.tgz.1 and file roller will not open the file. I definetely think they should spend some time on making file roller better.
Wrong. Several I can think of. Here's a couple that I have personal experience with.
Bicycles. A Ti bike is a noticeably different ride than other materials.
Eyeglasses. Steel contains quite a bit of nickel. Many people are allergic to it, and get a rash when in constant contact with it. So, in eyeglasses, you have a choice between regular steel, Ti, or plastic. Guess which wins. Plastic? I'd expect to people allergic to steel or nickel to try plastic rather than other metal.
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I don't agree with your rant. As a parent I rather educate than forbid. So telling a child about how things work on the Internet, what sort of things will happen and so on should be enough.
I have browsed and seen much of the dirty things that go on in the web. I've seen the memes, I've seen the raids, etc. So it might be easier for me to teach. Probably that has an influence on how much relaxed I am about educating about the web instead of forbidding. There's something else, though. I'm probably much more relaxed about sex than most of our society.
I believe that what people are scared the most is about children, early teens and even teenagers exploring sex. Somehow that freaks people out. It doesn't for me. I see no problem with those groups of people watching porn on the web or even exposing themselves. Of course, they need to be educated about what society thinks of those acts, so they don't fall in society's traps. Moreover, I don't believe at all that you can ruin someone's life because of something he or she published or watched on the web. I really can't.
Educate your children, let them live their lives. There will be mistakes, regrets, that's for sure. But I think it's better to make a mistake and realize it early rather than later. I think skateboarding poses more risks for a child's future than anything she can do on the web; and no, I don't want to forbid skateboards.
You mean, explain why people are unethical? I believe I just did in my previous post. Those who want to have an easy time right now instead of later probably have do a few unethical things along the way. Society just isn't constructed in a way to let people live easy and fun lives. So, if that's what you want, then you'll have to break a few social rules; that's all.
fyi, according to wikipedia it does run on Mac OS X.
Social mammals tend to emulate the alpha individuals of their groups. The alphas, by dint of successfully establishing themselves as alphas, are viewed as successful -- "well, they're doing something right for themselves, guess it'd be smart for me to do the same." When sociopaths lead our companies, the employees themselves will, generally speaking, start behaving more sociopathically. It's basic survival.
I don't see it like that at all. I think we all want -- and should have -- an easy life with little to no working. And I believe most of us are striking for that in a way or another. Some will save up money so they can be like that in a distant future, others will try to be comfortable and take it easy right now. Both ways have their ups and downs.
We're unique, intelligent animals. So I think any social analysis based on how other animals behave will be way too simplistic and perhaps even wrong. There's probably a few correlations here and there, if you take a big population. But we're so complex individuals that saying person X tries to emulate person Y behavior because Y is an alpha-male is very misleading, and probably just wrong.
If only you could find those same articles in the authors web site... I bet it would be even more amazing!
I'm not sure that's entirely true. A lot of papers are done for the journals, as opposed to be done for the people. Perhaps I wasn't too clear, but I don't like the notion of scientific papers that you can access only by paying fees to a journal, instead of directly from the researchers. What do you call raw research? Most universities webpages I've gone to don't have too many articles about the research they do there -- if any article at all. Professors webpages often have only the name of their articles and a link to some conference (which requires you to pay a fee to register or download the thing). I have been interested in papers that I knew about the existence, but I could only read the abstract at ACM. When that happens I contact the author, sometimes they send me the article through email, sometimes they don't -- I don't think they even can do it sometimes. That's the sort thing that doesn't feel right to me. Bottom line is: scientists report to journals and conferences, I'd like them to report to all the people. Specially because so much of the research is directly or indirectly paid for by tax payers. Well, at least in Brazil that's how it works, perhaps I'm talking nonsense to an american. But I still think the idea of distributing the articles for free is a good one.
I think science should be published on the web for anyone to see. You could pay a fee to have an institution you respect picking good articles and indicating to you. That's a service for article consumers to pay for, not the scientists. That way you pay for a listing of articles, not for the articles themselves.
Yes, cloud + lightning paradigm.
and it only took one "masturbating monkey" comment.
The problem with smoking at home is when you are in the apartment below mine and you smoke on your window. Then I have to either close mine and feel really hot or leave it open and smell the unpleasant smell of smoke.
I gave some dubious site my credit card and my money mysteriously went missing.
Was it just me who thought the article was awful? What it described was nothing more than versioning for applications. I fail to see how what he described as good practice was different from his openoffice wanting to be updated. Was it the need to restart the program afterwards? All examples he provided seem to need to restart at least one program. In the case of the addition of Canada, for instance, the whole server had to be updated and, I assume, it needed to be restarted. Then he said there was two version of the software, one in canada and one in the US that used the same server. If the clients talk to the server using any reasonable protocol the server would be able to handle both versions just as easy. It could be the case that the only difference is that one client is able to send one sort of message that the other isn't. I can hardly think of a software that has the maintaince problems he exposes. When he goes on to talk about the glibc with an old version of linux kernel. That library exists exactly to export an interface that any program -- old or new -- can use. It does that by communicating with the kernel directly, and I think it's pretty reasonable for one or two functions to stop working on old versions of ther kernel.
I mean, why are they even allowed?
When computers are asked to solve a math question, they are always 100% certain they know the answer.
My intel processor only takes educated guesses.
From my calculations the latency to go up to the satellite and come back would be about 1ms. I don't think that's bad latency at all. Am I missing something here? What I did: 281,635.2m / 299,792,458m/s = 0.00093s
What you miss is that china has a lot to offer, cuba not so much.
Would it be impossible to catch the satellite when it falls? I bet it would be very fun to study.
For me being good or not is beside the point. The reason people shouldn't use vista is because it isn't free. I really don't understand why someone would chose to use nonfree software, given that free software is clearly much better for the society. Using nonfree software seems rather selfish to me.
If people all over the world would gather money and buy yahoo, then make free as much software they could and, whatever there's no way to be made free, rewrite and release under free license. That would be awfully nice, have one big company, running totally free. A big and free search engine. A man can dream...
It does have the drag and drop feature, but it sucks. File roller has the worst usability I've seen in a gnome program. Using it with firefox is a pain. If you get the same file two times, the first one file roller will open fine, the second time it will be named something.tgz.1 and file roller will not open the file. I definetely think they should spend some time on making file roller better.
If you use OpenBSD you'll see that OpenBSD 4.1 had only 11 bugs on its first year (http://www.openbsd.org/errata41.html).
Getting the torrent is free.
Is it bullet proof? Only then I'll feel safe enough to play quake. I always feared a bullet missing my character and going right through my monitor!