I love your dinosaur link. They even provide the "scientific names" for these creatures in a nice table: "dinosaur", "brachiosaurus" and "kronosaurus".
Isn't there a French saying to the effect of "No man will check under his wife's bed unless he himself has hidden under a woman's bed."?
Not sure about that because this is Slashdot and I've never had a GF -- let alone a wife. But I do check under my bed before I go to sleep in case there's monsters or ghosts hiding under there. Sometimes I check twice just in case there's a nymphomaniac under there, but no luck yet.
No, he's scared you might use your new technological tools to make naughty videos -- the worst of which would be to secretly film him with his metaphorical pants down and then post the footage for public delectation.
My brilliant idea is that if you're a boss BEHAVE APPROPRIATELY, ethically and fairly. It's not that hard.
just about everyone I know who bought a laptop before W7 was released (excluding the people who are adept enough to install Linux, XP or W7 themselves) are running Vista
I dont want to sound repetitive, but: the two of them?
I know you're joking but there is a boatload of people out there running Vista... just about everyone I know who bought a laptop before W7 was released (excluding the people who are adept enough to install Linux, XP or W7 themselves) are running Vista. These people don't even know they're running Vista; to them it's just a computer and as long as they can write their emails, look up stuff on the internet, play FreeCell and occasionally write a document they are happy and oblivious to the fact that they're using Vista.
What student pilot? (Seriously, I cannot find mention of a student pilot, except in reference to a similar accident that occurred but they were referring the a student pilot in the previous incident in that case). I'm not saying you're wrong or making it up, I'm just looking for where you read that there was a student pilot.
I'll try to lighten the tone of my response (sorry mjwx, but you must have hit a nerve). What I was trying to say was that my generation and the generation before me actually created the whole genre of "video games". We played them (and I still play them) and we made them. We created tools to make more advanced games easier. For a bit of Monty Python comic relief, I would say that you kids these days have it easy. In my day we used to program in assembly, create our own wireframe models (on paper!), program our own shaders, etc, etc, etc, etc because there was no fancy hardware to do it for us. Oh, and I love gaming... these days it's better though because I have enough loose change to buy as much hardware and games as I want:-)
Why is there still political uproar over games after all these years? It may have been understandable in the mid-1990s when Doom and Mortal Kombat were portraying a level of violence people hadn't seen in games before in such detail, but that time has passed without effect.
Because people over 35 haven't played games as a kid. Now the people over 35 are called "parents" and parents are worth 2 votes per policy.
Hand out a $20 note for a vote on election day and they call it corruption. Hand out $100 p/w for having a crotchspawn and they call it a policy.
Wow. Just wow. I am over 35 (39 actually) and I played games all the time as a kid and into my teens and ever since. Those games I played included Doom (over LAN). Are you that dumb? Heck, my generation and the one before me and my peers CREATED VIDEO GAMES.
Sometimes they mean IT skills, like switching a computer on, using a word processor, reading and sending E-mail, using a spreadsheet application and printing documents. In some deprived parts of the UK school-leavers don't even know how to do those things.
Yes, but do "studying teaching" and "teaching studying" mean the same thing? I could come up with a bunch of examples. "Researching teaching" vs "teaching researching"; "creating teaching" vs "teaching creating"; "finding teaching" vs "teaching finding"; "cunning teaching" vs "teaching cunning"; "creating teaching" vs "teaching creating"; and so on, and so on. All these have different meanings, as does "computing teaching" vs "teaching computing".
What the hell is that even supposed to mean? "Teaching computing" I could understand, but "computing teaching" is a very odd thing to say or write. It doesn't say what it's meant to say!
To a large extent, Red Hat is cashing in on a much broader community effort that has developed Linux and sold it as a viable platform to software developers, says George Weiss, an analyst with the Gartner technology research firm. But Red had a hand in this. “Give credit to Red Hat for fashioning a business model that created value from subscription support,” he adds.
Emphasis mine. I don't think that the success of Red Hat depended on Linux being a viable platform for software developers. Rather, it depended on Linux being a viable platform for servers (I'm not meaning to under-emphasise the desktop users, or the developers, here; all I'm trying to say is that the success of Red Hat probably has little to do with Linux being "developer friendly" and more to do with the server market [and all that entails]).
.. I can't help but think of this as more of a way to make data look the way you want it to.
In short, a visually pleasing way to bend the facts that are presented in the data.
Yes, of course visualisation can be used for that -- the same way statistics in general can be manipulated. But that is an abuse of the tools. I do understand what you're saying though (I think): it might be an easy trap to fall in if one becomes focussed on presentation and therefore losing sight of the actual goal. Used correctly I think visualisation software can provide many insights that would be difficult (prohibitively time-expensive, or just plain non-intuitive) using other traditional methods. As always though, it is up to the author(s) to ensure that the presented data (i.e. information) is correct.
Drones are good. They allow us to kill little brown people from a distance. Bonus points if the little brown people are Muslims. I love drones.
But now drones are being used by liberal hippie enviro-commie scum! They're bad people! And only bad people do bad things! That must mean drones are bad!
Aaargh! My head hurts! I'd say "cognitive dissonance" except Rush doesn't like me using big words! What should I do? WHAT SHOULD I --
[pop]
Are you an idiot or just very good at looking like one? I'm going to ignore the racist remarks because they are obviously just a troll. But, "enviro-commie scum"? Oh, and lets just throw the phrase "cognitive dissonance" in there just because it sounds cool, but from your remarks it is apparent there is no dissonance at all in your mind. I will explain your lack of dissonance, because you're slow. You say a) drones are good because they kill little brown people. Therefore it can be inferred that you think little brown people are bad. Therefore drones killing bad people is a good thing. You then say, well imply (and state!), that "liberal hippie enviro-commies'" are bad. So far, so good. Then you say "only bad people do bad things!' Let's assume for a moment that "hippie enviro-scum" are bad (although you haven't said why). Let us further assume that only bad people do bad things, because you said so. You then say that drones must be bad because they are bad people! I hate to break it to you, but drones are not people. I think your "cognitive dissonance" is caused by ignorance and anthropomorphism rather than anything else; i.e. your brain is broken. But only bad people have broken brains, so I am not sure what you should do. Maybe just killing yourself is the simplest solution as then the dissonance is gone and perhaps your cognition will improve.
No, he's not. It's not an LGPL term, but it is a term of the Qt commercial license: Nokia will not license it to you if you have at any point used the LGPL-licensed version in that piece of software.
So? If that's the case then you just purchase the commercial license of Qt ever and just continue using the LGPL version? What's the problem? You can still use Qt is closed source applications under the LGPL version. I can't see what the catch is.
That should have read "never purchase the commercial license"
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I love your dinosaur link. They even provide the "scientific names" for these creatures in a nice table: "dinosaur", "brachiosaurus" and "kronosaurus".
Pretty sure it's a hemi-parasitic plant that for some reason people kiss under at Christmas. The author has just left off "toe".
Missle in the title, the summary AND the "from the pay-no-attention-to-the-missle-behind-the-curtain dept". That's gotta be a record.
Isn't there a French saying to the effect of "No man will check under his wife's bed unless he himself has hidden under a woman's bed."?
Not sure about that because this is Slashdot and I've never had a GF -- let alone a wife. But I do check under my bed before I go to sleep in case there's monsters or ghosts hiding under there. Sometimes I check twice just in case there's a nymphomaniac under there, but no luck yet.
That's Business Ethics 101 - if you're doing something at work that you wouldn't want posted on the front page of the local newspapers, don't do it.
That's true. But if TFA is to be believed maybe they skipped that class :-)
No, he's scared you might use your new technological tools to make naughty videos -- the worst of which would be to secretly film him with his metaphorical pants down and then post the footage for public delectation.
My brilliant idea is that if you're a boss BEHAVE APPROPRIATELY, ethically and fairly. It's not that hard.
just about everyone I know who bought a laptop before W7 was released (excluding the people who are adept enough to install Linux, XP or W7 themselves) are running Vista
I dont want to sound repetitive, but: the two of them?
Yes, you're right. I concede defeat.
The two of them?
I know you're joking but there is a boatload of people out there running Vista... just about everyone I know who bought a laptop before W7 was released (excluding the people who are adept enough to install Linux, XP or W7 themselves) are running Vista. These people don't even know they're running Vista; to them it's just a computer and as long as they can write their emails, look up stuff on the internet, play FreeCell and occasionally write a document they are happy and oblivious to the fact that they're using Vista.
I thought at first this was some kind of weird troll, but I checked your posting history and apparently I was wrong.
You sir do not understand the state.
I most certainly DO understand the state. What I don't understand, however, is what you're talking about.
I'm sure that not every product passes this test, otherwise the test wouldn't be necessary :p
I actually thought the comment was tongue-in-cheek, so, no I am not scared by them.
Thanks. I can't view CNN at the moment (not sure why, maybe it's slashdotted from Australia).
Thank you
What student pilot? (Seriously, I cannot find mention of a student pilot, except in reference to a similar accident that occurred but they were referring the a student pilot in the previous incident in that case). I'm not saying you're wrong or making it up, I'm just looking for where you read that there was a student pilot.
I'll try to lighten the tone of my response (sorry mjwx, but you must have hit a nerve). What I was trying to say was that my generation and the generation before me actually created the whole genre of "video games". We played them (and I still play them) and we made them. We created tools to make more advanced games easier. For a bit of Monty Python comic relief, I would say that you kids these days have it easy. In my day we used to program in assembly, create our own wireframe models (on paper!), program our own shaders, etc, etc, etc, etc because there was no fancy hardware to do it for us. Oh, and I love gaming... these days it's better though because I have enough loose change to buy as much hardware and games as I want :-)
Why is there still political uproar over games after all these years? It may have been understandable in the mid-1990s when Doom and Mortal Kombat were portraying a level of violence people hadn't seen in games before in such detail, but that time has passed without effect.
Because people over 35 haven't played games as a kid. Now the people over 35 are called "parents" and parents are worth 2 votes per policy.
Hand out a $20 note for a vote on election day and they call it corruption. Hand out $100 p/w for having a crotchspawn and they call it a policy.
Wow. Just wow. I am over 35 (39 actually) and I played games all the time as a kid and into my teens and ever since. Those games I played included Doom (over LAN). Are you that dumb? Heck, my generation and the one before me and my peers CREATED VIDEO GAMES.
Thanks.
I'm not sure the OP was trolling... it sounds more like sarcasm to me, but I like your response apart from that.
Sometimes they mean IT skills, like switching a computer on, using a word processor, reading and sending E-mail, using a spreadsheet application and printing documents. In some deprived parts of the UK school-leavers don't even know how to do those things.
Yes, but do "studying teaching" and "teaching studying" mean the same thing? I could come up with a bunch of examples. "Researching teaching" vs "teaching researching"; "creating teaching" vs "teaching creating"; "finding teaching" vs "teaching finding"; "cunning teaching" vs "teaching cunning"; "creating teaching" vs "teaching creating"; and so on, and so on. All these have different meanings, as does "computing teaching" vs "teaching computing".
What the hell is that even supposed to mean? "Teaching computing" I could understand, but "computing teaching" is a very odd thing to say or write. It doesn't say what it's meant to say!
The success of Red Hat does not depend on them selling anything at all. That $1 billion is for services and support - the product itself is free.
I bet you 5 gold pieces that I can split a hair finer than you! ;-)
To a large extent, Red Hat is cashing in on a much broader community effort that has developed Linux and sold it as a viable platform to software developers, says George Weiss, an analyst with the Gartner technology research firm. But Red had a hand in this. “Give credit to Red Hat for fashioning a business model that created value from subscription support,” he adds.
Emphasis mine. I don't think that the success of Red Hat depended on Linux being a viable platform for software developers. Rather, it depended on Linux being a viable platform for servers (I'm not meaning to under-emphasise the desktop users, or the developers, here; all I'm trying to say is that the success of Red Hat probably has little to do with Linux being "developer friendly" and more to do with the server market [and all that entails]).
.. I can't help but think of this as more of a way to make data look the way you want it to.
In short, a visually pleasing way to bend the facts that are presented in the data.
Yes, of course visualisation can be used for that -- the same way statistics in general can be manipulated. But that is an abuse of the tools. I do understand what you're saying though (I think): it might be an easy trap to fall in if one becomes focussed on presentation and therefore losing sight of the actual goal. Used correctly I think visualisation software can provide many insights that would be difficult (prohibitively time-expensive, or just plain non-intuitive) using other traditional methods. As always though, it is up to the author(s) to ensure that the presented data (i.e. information) is correct.
Drones are good. They allow us to kill little brown people from a distance. Bonus points if the little brown people are Muslims. I love drones.
But now drones are being used by liberal hippie enviro-commie scum! They're bad people! And only bad people do bad things! That must mean drones are bad!
Aaargh! My head hurts! I'd say "cognitive dissonance" except Rush doesn't like me using big words! What should I do? WHAT SHOULD I --
[pop]
Are you an idiot or just very good at looking like one? I'm going to ignore the racist remarks because they are obviously just a troll. But, "enviro-commie scum"? Oh, and lets just throw the phrase "cognitive dissonance" in there just because it sounds cool, but from your remarks it is apparent there is no dissonance at all in your mind. I will explain your lack of dissonance, because you're slow. You say a) drones are good because they kill little brown people. Therefore it can be inferred that you think little brown people are bad. Therefore drones killing bad people is a good thing. You then say, well imply (and state!), that "liberal hippie enviro-commies'" are bad. So far, so good. Then you say "only bad people do bad things!' Let's assume for a moment that "hippie enviro-scum" are bad (although you haven't said why). Let us further assume that only bad people do bad things, because you said so. You then say that drones must be bad because they are bad people! I hate to break it to you, but drones are not people. I think your "cognitive dissonance" is caused by ignorance and anthropomorphism rather than anything else; i.e. your brain is broken. But only bad people have broken brains, so I am not sure what you should do. Maybe just killing yourself is the simplest solution as then the dissonance is gone and perhaps your cognition will improve.
No, he's not. It's not an LGPL term, but it is a term of the Qt commercial license: Nokia will not license it to you if you have at any point used the LGPL-licensed version in that piece of software.
So? If that's the case then you just purchase the commercial license of Qt ever and just continue using the LGPL version? What's the problem? You can still use Qt is closed source applications under the LGPL version. I can't see what the catch is.
That should have read "never purchase the commercial license"