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Let me thank those who replied to me. It appears it *is* possible to get some real information on this site instead of lots of witty put-downs.
-- hendrik
Could we hear from someone who has used it?
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GNOME 3.6 Released
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I'd like to hear from people who have used GNOME 3.6. Is it actually usable for sofware development? Does it fit any kind of reasonable workflow? Or is it just full of eye candy for the end-user?
Slackware Suse Redhat a distro from France I forget the name of, but it was distributed using bittorrent Debian (started with Sarge and just upgraded one release at at time. Currently on wheezy/testing, but server on squeeze/stable)
Sometime during Debian I installed an Ubuntu on one machine for a few months until Debian's display drivers caught up to my hardware. Went back to Debian first chance I got. Ubuntu just didn't give me enough control over what was going on.
It's not treason if he merely exerts his rights to free speach to point out the error of his government's behaviour. It would be treason if he physically attacked the United States or incited others to do so..
There are quite a few psychological problems for which analysis (which seems to be what you're describing) is worthless. These maladies need more active and specific kinds of therapy, and it takes a fair amount of training and experience to provide it. And a PhD. in psychology is a usual prerequisite for practising. He's not there yet.
I use an old kobo reader for novels and.epubs I read straight through. Its pretty useless for conference proceeding.[df's -- the type size is too small. For those I use a Transformer TF101 Android tablet.
Another question is whether you want to read in daylight on in the dark in bed, My wife uses her tablet to read in bed without waking me. But the tablet is pretty useless in bright sunlight.
The ebook reader weights less than the tablet, and is easier to carry around and read on the bus.
I'm not sure equilibrium is actually required, you could extrapolate from similar systems having similar energy distributed similarly among the constituent particles. Some such similar system might indeed be in equilibrium even of the one in the experiment isn't. And energy alone isn't enough to determine temperature -- there are pesky issues like heat capacity and such.
But I'd expect there have to be enough particles and energy states to make statistical talk is meaningful, and it's not clear to me that's the case.
I've gone all the way up to calculus 3 (vectors, multi-dimensional functions, and doing differentials and integrals therein) and I've yet to see calculus applied by any programming. I am curious how one actually implements it though, in what (limited) programming I've done, I haven't seen any clear way to calculate say an integral using something like c++ or c#.
The field you need to study to get the answer to this in practice is called Numerical Analysis. The field you need to study to get the answer to this in theory is Constructive Mathematics, or Intuitionism (which has only a tangential philosophical connectino with anything a normal persono would call intuition).
Numerical Analysis deals with how to get the answers in practical time and space and how to know how accurate the answers are.
Constructivism (in math, not education) is the philosophy in which the only mathematical entities that are considered to exist are those which can be constructed/computed/decided, or something like that. For example, it excludes proof by contradiction.
Is it typically library/api driven and you just feed an equation to those functions? Or do most programmers hardcode them?
If you just use a library, chances are you won't know whether the functions you're dealing with have the kind of bad behaviour that makes the algorithms fail. That said, if you know enough numerical analysis, you'll probably know when to use which library algorithms.
The books he writes as Iain Banks (as opposed to Iain M. Banks are very different. The one I read (A Song of Staone) does not feel like SciFi to me, and is almost tediously depressing. The kind of so depressing that you just wish the book could be over with except you want to know if it might turn ot OK afteer all. It doesn't.
The ones that he writes with his middle initial are excellent..
What are the characteristics of problems that make one better than the other? I see many posts arguing that it all depends on the problem (which almost anyone with a modicum of knowledge and an open mind can conclude), but very few indicating how the characteristics of the problem affect the outcome.
For that matter, what *is* a noSQL data base. Clearly, from the debate here, it's not a relational data base. But this doesn't tell me what it *is*, what facilities it *does* provide.
Please, please enlighten us on these matters, rather than just spewing parametric (but, I admit, amusing) boilerplate.
(I was about to ask, "Can anyone please...", for which the answer would trivially and uninformatively be "yes".)
I'm thinking of trying it. It's time to learn another language. I don't know what kind of a game it'll be, or even whether it'll be playable, but it'll be written in ocaml (or maybe Gambit Scheme. Scheme has changed a lot since I last was involved with it back in the 80's.). It'll probably be a 3D game, with the environment entirely built out of their 2D tiles. But I do have more important things to do, so I can't apply as much effort to this project as I'd like.
Feel free to look on the liberated pixel cup in a month to see if I produced anything or just had fun coding.
If you created is, and you hold the copyright, you an do anything you want with it. You can give it away, you can licence it to others under any number of licenses you want, it's yours.
But if you use others' art or code in your project, that art is theirs, and you have to follow the rules they sest. In particular, if their code is GPL, you cn only distribute binary versions of your program under the GPL, which means you have to release source code.
If you release your own code under the GPL, anyone else can do what they want with it, as long as they distribute it under GPL. But it's still yours, and you can release it under any number of other licenses if you want, and you can include it in your commercial software if you wish.
None of this prohibits you from selling it. But be aware that if it was released under GPL, anyone else can sell it too, if they wish. You may find you have stiff competition, which can keep the price low.
As I heard it, he actually licensed the name from the Beatles, with the agreement he would stay out of the music business. There was a renegotiation a few years ago about that clause, and the matter was fully resolved.
The decryption key is on the DVD, but it's encrypted many times using the various encryption keys entrusted to various manufacturere. This way, if a manufacturer breaks the rules, it's just deleted from future DVDs and its equipment becomes useless for new DVDs.
I don't know where thet region key is actually stored.
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Let me thank those who replied to me. It appears it *is* possible to get some real information on this site instead of lots of witty put-downs.
-- hendrik
I'd like to hear from people who have used GNOME 3.6. Is it actually usable for sofware development?
Does it fit any kind of reasonable workflow?
Or is it just full of eye candy for the end-user?
-- hendrik
Slackware
Suse
Redhat
a distro from France I forget the name of, but it was distributed using bittorrent
Debian (started with Sarge and just upgraded one release at at time. Currently on wheezy/testing, but server on squeeze/stable)
Sometime during Debian I installed an Ubuntu on one machine for a few months until Debian's display drivers caught up to my hardware. Went back to Debian first chance I got. Ubuntu just didn't give me enough control over what was going on.
--- hendrik
Yay! Type Theory!
It's not treason if he merely exerts his rights to free speach to point out the error of his government's behaviour. It would be treason if he physically attacked the United States or incited others to do so..
There are quite a few psychological problems for which analysis (which seems to be what you're describing) is worthless. These maladies need more active and specific kinds of therapy, and it takes a fair amount of training and experience to provide it. And a PhD. in psychology is a usual prerequisite for practising. He's not there yet.
Here in Quebec, the notary actually reads the entire document to you and asks you enough questions that he is sure you've understood it.
I always thought that the whole point of having computers count votes was to enable voting fraud.
I use an old kobo reader for novels and .epubs I read straight through. Its pretty useless for conference proceeding .[df's -- the type size is too small. For those I use a Transformer TF101 Android tablet.
Another question is whether you want to read in daylight on in the dark in bed, My wife uses her tablet to read in bed without waking me. But the tablet is pretty useless in bright sunlight.
The ebook reader weights less than the tablet, and is easier to carry around and read on the bus.
eV measures energy. K measures temperature. They're different things.
I'm not sure equilibrium is actually required, you could extrapolate from similar systems having similar energy distributed similarly among the constituent particles. Some such similar system might indeed be in equilibrium even of the one in the experiment isn't. And energy alone isn't enough to determine temperature -- there are pesky issues like heat capacity and such.
But I'd expect there have to be enough particles and energy states to make statistical talk is meaningful, and it's not clear to me that's the case.
Did I miss where the original article and the summary mentioned the scale they were using? I didn't see a C, F, or K to disambiguate.
I've gone all the way up to calculus 3 (vectors, multi-dimensional functions, and doing differentials and integrals therein) and I've yet to see calculus applied by any programming. I am curious how one actually implements it though, in what (limited) programming I've done, I haven't seen any clear way to calculate say an integral using something like c++ or c#.
The field you need to study to get the answer to this in practice is called Numerical Analysis. The field you need to study to get the answer to this in theory is Constructive Mathematics, or Intuitionism (which has only a tangential philosophical connectino with anything a normal persono would call intuition).
Numerical Analysis deals with how to get the answers in practical time and space and how to know how accurate the answers are.
Constructivism (in math, not education) is the philosophy in which the only mathematical entities that are considered to exist are those which can be constructed/computed/decided, or something like that. For example, it excludes proof by contradiction.
Is it typically library/api driven and you just feed an equation to those functions? Or do most programmers hardcode them?
If you just use a library, chances are you won't know whether the functions you're dealing with have the kind of bad behaviour that makes the algorithms fail. That said, if you know enough numerical analysis, you'll probably know when to use which library algorithms.
In many ways, programming is applied formal logic.
The books he writes as Iain Banks (as opposed to Iain M. Banks are very different. The one I read (A Song of Staone) does not feel like SciFi to me, and is almost tediously depressing. The kind of so depressing that you just wish the book could be over with except you want to know if it might turn ot OK afteer all. It doesn't.
The ones that he writes with his middle initial are excellent..
you should only have to care about what you want, not where it's stored.
Isn't that what Google is for?
So we need a p2p system that maintains and distributes the comments that users make on torrents. Any proposals?
If it could have used UV instead of infrared, we could have energy-generating sunscreen!
What are the characteristics of problems that make one better than the other? I see many posts arguing that it all depends on the problem (which almost anyone with a modicum of knowledge and an open mind can conclude), but very few indicating how the characteristics of the problem affect the outcome.
For that matter, what *is* a noSQL data base. Clearly, from the debate here, it's not a relational data base. But this doesn't tell me what it *is*, what facilities it *does* provide.
Please, please enlighten us on these matters, rather than just spewing parametric (but, I admit, amusing) boilerplate.
(I was about to ask, "Can anyone please ...", for which the answer would trivially and uninformatively be "yes".)
I'm thinking of trying it. It's time to learn another language. I don't know what kind of a game it'll be, or even whether it'll be playable, but it'll be written in ocaml (or maybe Gambit Scheme. Scheme has changed a lot since I last was involved with it back in the 80's.).
It'll probably be a 3D game, with the environment entirely built out of their 2D tiles. But I do have more important things to do, so I can't apply as much effort to this project as I'd like.
Feel free to look on the liberated pixel cup in a month to see if I produced anything or just had fun coding.
-- hendrik
If you created is, and you hold the copyright, you an do anything you want with it. You can give it away, you can licence it to others under any number of licenses you want, it's yours.
But if you use others' art or code in your project, that art is theirs, and you have to follow the rules they sest. In particular, if their code is GPL, you cn only distribute binary versions of your program under the GPL, which means you have to release source code.
If you release your own code under the GPL, anyone else can do what they want with it, as long as they distribute it under GPL. But it's still yours, and you can release it under any number of other licenses if you want, and you can include it in your commercial software if you wish.
None of this prohibits you from selling it. But be aware that if it was released under GPL, anyone else can sell it too, if they wish. You may find you have stiff competition, which can keep the price low.
-- hendrik
It's a rule that the code has to be GPL. The art can has to be dual licenced, GPL and a specific creative commons license.
-- hendrik
Ah. The whole story. Thanks.
As I heard it, he actually licensed the name from the Beatles, with the agreement he would stay out of the music business. There was a renegotiation a few years ago about that clause, and the matter was fully resolved.
The decryption key is on the DVD, but it's encrypted many times using the various encryption keys entrusted to various manufacturere. This way, if a manufacturer breaks the rules, it's just deleted from future DVDs and its equipment becomes useless for new DVDs.
I don't know where thet region key is actually stored.