I wonder why they picked Wikipedia? All the others seem pretty geeky low visibility things that would have trouble raising non-geek funds whereas Wikipedia is pretty widely known.
...that this is a just another computer museum, rather than one dedicated to computer memory, I was getting excited by the thought of all those glass cases full of SIMMs, DIMMs and maybe even some magnetic core.
I present two possibilities for your consideration:
1. Google made a deal with Sun for promotional purposes. I doubt they were selling many copies to begin with but might make good advertising for the Sun brand.
2. They pirated it using BitTorrent and are now illegally redistributing it.
Using Slashdot logic: 1 involves "deals" and "advertising" so it is probably evil. 2 involves piracy and BitTorrent so is probably just fighting the evil of copyright and outdated business models. And Google do no evil, so must be 2. Am I right?
It's been said that math and science are the most likely things to be shared between different, intelligent races. If that's the case, then many alien species may find classical music to be very pleasing in its forms and the interplays of wavelengths. Ratios play into visual mediums in interesting and beautiful ways.
I agree on the science and math. I strongly disagree on the music - sure the ratio of tones might be a universal but there's a lot more to it that - music is tailored to our attention span for a start, things are repeated just enough for us to remember then, just before we get bored, a new theme is introduced. It seems unlikely that anything else would coincidentally have the same thresholds. And who's to say they wouldn't prefer their music at humming bird speeds? Or as a week long contest like a cricket match?!
As for the visual arts - they're even worse because our colour perception is so arbitrary. Whole paintings would likely look brown to an alien!
Something else will just evolve to replace us once we're gone.
Also, seeing our Art as something 'bigger than us' seems strange to me. All of our Art forms are so tied to the way the human visual, auditory, language and memory systems work I doubt they'd be of any value to a non-human.
ut why does NASA need a fleet of luxury BMW sedans?
Well, lets say you're an astronaut and your car's in the shop, but you really need to drive cross country to hunt down the new girlfriend of your ex-lover - one of these would be ideal.
Personally I am not in favour of copylefted music, even though I am a big fan of copylefted software. My reason is that it takes a lot of work to become a great musician, in fact you probably need to dedicate your whole lief to it. The same is true of becoming a great writer of software, but the huge difference is that it is relatively easy to get someone to pay you (lots!) to perfect your craft in software - if you're lucky your employer might even pay you to write the copylefted software. The same isn't true for musicians, if they aren't making money from their music they have to waste their time working some unrelated.
Also I don't like the idea of recorded music as just an advertisement for live shows - most fans only want the recorded music and will never attend a concert, why should the concert goers pay all the bills?
I'm not saying it's the wrong thing for you to do, I just don't think it's the way forward in general.
This man is a genius! Obviously the main problem for CIOs switching from
MS to linux is: What happens to the saved licensing costs? You don't want it cut
from your budget because that will make you less important...
So this guy's answer: replace it with 4 different OS's! That's 4x the support
staff! Might even require a budget increase! And headcount, oh more of
that lovely headcount!
I suspect once this idea gets out it really will be the year of the linux
desktop!
Now, I just have to figure out if I'm joking or not. I know I don't usually end every sentence with an exclamation mark...
Slashdot Mirror
"URGE" always seemed to me to be one of the ugliest, dumbest-sounding names
Look on the bright side, they could have called it "Surge", think what a PR disaster that would have been.
Ssshhh - think of the children!
****ing **** ****mart!!
Should I check this is OK with my parents?
does fccBay operate under significantly different rules from eBay?
:)
Some things are a bit different. Like they don't display the % of positive/negative feedback, or they'd never manage to sell anything
I'm hoping the units are going to be kWh/slasdotting.
The ESRB takes games too seriously - it's the gamers they don't take seriously.
I wonder why they picked Wikipedia? All the others seem pretty geeky low visibility things that would have trouble raising non-geek funds whereas Wikipedia is pretty widely known.
will Janeway give the crew the day off?
well, yes it does run Linux - full SMP 2.6 according to the blurb on their site.
What is the floating point performance?
Judging from the applications they mention (networking / video stuff) I'm guessing it doesn't have much floating point performance.
He would have been better off getting his face remodelled to look like Harison's.
From TFA it appears that OpenAds competes with DoubleClick's adserver software (which Google charges for).
no thing to see he remove a long
A long what????
...that this is a just another computer museum, rather than one dedicated to computer memory, I was getting excited by the thought of all those glass cases full of SIMMs, DIMMs and maybe even some magnetic core.
Can we get sharks out of the way too?
Or is this something that everyone is paying for, or is the content somehow regulated by the UK government?
The BBC is paid for by a license fee which everyone who has a TV (or radio etc) has to pay. So, yes!
Using Slashdot logic: 1 involves "deals" and "advertising" so it is probably evil. 2 involves piracy and BitTorrent so is probably just fighting the evil of copyright and outdated business models. And Google do no evil, so must be 2. Am I right?
It's been said that math and science are the most likely things to be shared between different, intelligent races. If that's the case, then many alien species may find classical music to be very pleasing in its forms and the interplays of wavelengths. Ratios play into visual mediums in interesting and beautiful ways.
;)
I agree on the science and math. I strongly disagree on the music - sure the ratio of tones might be a universal but there's a lot more to it that - music is tailored to our attention span for a start, things are repeated just enough for us to remember then, just before we get bored, a new theme is introduced. It seems unlikely that anything else would coincidentally have the same thresholds. And who's to say they wouldn't prefer their music at humming bird speeds? Or as a week long contest like a cricket match?!
As for the visual arts - they're even worse because our colour perception is so arbitrary. Whole paintings would likely look brown to an alien!
In short, I disagree back
Something else will just evolve to replace us once we're gone.
Also, seeing our Art as something 'bigger than us' seems strange to me. All of our Art forms are so tied to the way the human visual, auditory, language and memory systems work I doubt they'd be of any value to a non-human.
But I'm not involved in the story. So I won't.
Copying this policy could really work for Slashdot I think.
ut why does NASA need a fleet of luxury BMW sedans?
Well, lets say you're an astronaut and your car's in the shop, but you really need to drive cross country to hunt down the new girlfriend of your ex-lover - one of these would be ideal.
Isn't the definition of a "smart teen", one that DOES have sex? You gotta admit; the teens that have sex must be doing something smart.
Yes, the headline should say "High IQ", not "Smart". There are all kinds of smart.
Also I don't like the idea of recorded music as just an advertisement for live shows - most fans only want the recorded music and will never attend a concert, why should the concert goers pay all the bills?
I'm not saying it's the wrong thing for you to do, I just don't think it's the way forward in general.
This man is a genius! Obviously the main problem for CIOs switching from MS to linux is: What happens to the saved licensing costs? You don't want it cut from your budget because that will make you less important...
So this guy's answer: replace it with 4 different OS's! That's 4x the support staff! Might even require a budget increase! And headcount, oh more of that lovely headcount!
I suspect once this idea gets out it really will be the year of the linux desktop!
Now, I just have to figure out if I'm joking or not. I know I don't usually end every sentence with an exclamation mark...
Hey don't be so hard on the parent, maybe he just talks like Wallace.
It's a cracking tool! More cheese Grommet!