The most annoying thing to me is that it *doesn't* sit at 100% for hours. I have a 6-core CPU, and it sits at 16% for hours because the update process, whatever it is doing, is doing it as a single thread. Obviously it can't take advantage of multiple cores.
I use an iPhone 6, and the fixed and small size of the font is annoying. Viewing in landscape mode is no different, and just makes the lines longer. Compare this to IFLScience, where rotating to landscape leaves the line length the same but the text gets bigger. I can't even pinch to zoom on Slashdot!
Hand-eye co-ordination is best learned in the real world. Take him outside and play with real objects (I've heard it's called "catch") in a natural (non-human constructed) setting.
As for the other two things, typing skills and UI concepts, they can be trivially learned by him 10 years from now just as easily. He'll pick them up on his own before that, anyway.
How many of these would it take to, say, ray-trace Call of Duty: MW3 in real-time, 60 FPS? Would it cost less than using a modern graphics card to do the usual non-ray-traced rendering? That would be pretty cool.
1. Autonomy - can they at least sometimes discover something on their own that needs doing/fixing and go ahead and do it without okaying it with management?
2. Mastery - can they devote enough time to new things (e.g. technology) to feel that they are learning something *and* spending enough time on it to lead to mastery?
3. Purpose - do they have a sense of belonging to something larger than themselves (as opposed to in name only: "there are six people in this group, therefore they are a team!")
These things drive most people and are completely lacking in my workplace. Search YouTube for "RSA Animate drive" for a better description than I gave.
Is that 1 Gb/s symmetric? Can you get close to that when transferring large amounts of data to someone next door or on the same block? That would be worth paying for. Here in Canada, I get 15 MB/s down, 1 MB/s up for C$45/mo. To get around the asymmetry, my neighbour (with whom I have line-of-sight) and I are setting up a 802.11g wireless link. Sad, but at least it's been fun.:)
I concur. My wife and I have a '95 Nissan Sentra which carries all those things fine (we have a 4-month-old daughter). If you need to carry somewhat more, get a tiny trailer which you can hitch up only when you need it. A car with a trailer gets better mileage than an SUV of any description, due to the superior aerodynamics. If you need to carry much more on occasion, *rent* a truck. BTW, our Sentra gets ~52 MP(Canadian)G at 90 KM/h with cruise control. I'm hoping to hold on to it until I can get a plug-in hybrid of some kind.
IIRC, that's four drinks every day, but only if you drink with your meals (presumably lunch and supper). Drinking outside of mealtime (bar hopping, happy hour after work, etc.) has a negative effect.
Where I work (a municipal government), the security folk are more concerned about the appearance of security than actual security. All ports are now blocked but for ftp, http, https and 12173 (specific app). I used to be able to SSH, but no more. The worst part? They are now blocking a pile of "games" sites. The dumb thing, in two parts: (1) they're blocking via a firewall which only blocks IP addresses, not URLs, so they scanned all http traffic for "games" and blocked the corresponding IP address; (2) this blocks "games.slashdot.org"... and it.slashdot.org, and ask.slashdot.org, and books.slashdot.org, and science.slashdot.org -- all *.slashdot.org resolve to the same IP address -- but NOT http://slashdot.org/ !!! So I can view the main page, but almost no articles and comments. Yes, I'm posting this from home. Yes, I explained that games.slashdot.org does not CONTAIN games in any form, but just news ABOUT games, but they haven't responded. They're a bunch of twits.
And for installing in Windows environments via Group Policies, are there official.MSI packages? This is critical for corporate deployments in a properly managed Windows environment. Another issue of concern is: Are temporary/cached web files stored within Local Settings in the user's profile? They ought to be -- otherwise dozens or hundreds of megabytes of these files get copied to the server with the rest of the roaming profile when the user logs in and out. This wastes time and disk space.
It's a great strategy to counter the chicken-and-egg problem. Get a whole lot of people to install it - and use it regularly - on PC hardware that Apple does not have to support, distribute CDs to, or in any way acknowledge. That creates a bigger demand for Mac software, a large user base that wants apps. The more apps and word-of-mouth advertising, the more people will buy Apple hardware to get the support.
It's like seeding the education market with cheap software or computers. After a while, people want to use it at work. The same will happen in the consumer market, resulting in more demand in the workplace.
Oh sure, some people will always be proud to say that they've paid Apple nothing, but the overall effect is more hardware sales for Apple in the long run.
Note that Larry McVoy has pointed out that the number of improvements to the commercial version due to suggestions from Open Source developers has been dropping sharply. To me, that means "giving free copies to these guys has been beneficial to my bottom line, but isn't doing much for me lately, in the financial sense". It sounds like this reverse-engineering issue is a smokescreen, a scapegoat for cutting off the "freeloaders" (those contributing to improving the product).
So, he's in it for the money. Is anyone surprised?
Xena was pretty iconic.:-) I stared in Wonder at her, uh, vast tracts of land! Anyway, she's tall, voluptuous and certainly experienced in taking down the bad guys.
Yes, he *is* right. You have missed his point (I had to re-read a section myself). He specifically said that there will never be just *one* Linux vendor standing, because the cost to keeping so many going is next to nil. And this is the problem. It would be great (from the perspective of challenging Microsoft) if only one Linux vendor (providing the best desktop/server distibution) was left standing. Then we could move forward with ousting Microsoft from its dominance.
Look at it this way: Is it better to have (A) roughly 5% of the market worldwide forever, or (B) have the same 5% of the market the way it is, scattered between a large number of distros PLUS another 60% using just one version of one Linux distro?
I'd pick B. That way, everyone's happy: the people who care enough to choose a specific distro still can, and the other 60% can use (what appears to them to be) The Linux. Okay, The GNU/Linux.
No one is saying we all have to use the same distro. Just please come up with one (no more, no less) that looks as pretty and is as easy to use as the Mac, and we can push that to all of our non-computer literate friends, family and business associates.
Venus is probably "more dead" than Mars, and it's looking like we need practice at *removing* greenhouse gasses from an atmosphere, not adding them! It's also closer to Earth's gravity. Does anyone want to calculate the relative energy costs and time to get to Venus as opposed to Mars?
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That's not meaningful "multitasking". Try this: compose an original poem with one hand and develop a new HOWTO with your other hand. You can't do it, and no amount of "practise" will improve that. What you are doing is simple motor-skill type of multitasking, and that's not much more complicated than walking, breathing, chewing gum and blinking "all at the same time" is. Composing both a poem and a HOWTO at the same time uses much of the same higher brain functions, and results in your switching back and forth between them, to the detriment of both, due to the overhead of switching. In software, this has been called "concurrent programming".
History notes: Ralph Stanton (the original pink-tie-wearer at UW) eventually became head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manitoba, where he was occasionally mistaken for the janitor. Rumour has it he's gay (not that there's anything wrong with that!). I believe he retired before or around the time I was at the UofM (1983-88).
As a Canadian, I would add: Make the presidential voting day only about electing the president. I.e. no other votes on bills or other referenda. Save those for a different day. I would allow, perhaps, votes for Congress/Senate seats, but that's about it. Don't mix up the issues.
I also think the voting devices should be paper-based, and exactly the same across the entire country.
Er, in number 6, you mention 'execute' permissions, which Windows does not have. In 7, you suggest changing ownership to another account, but in Windows ownership can only be taken, not given. Even the Administrator account can't just force a file to have a specific owner (other than Administrator).
SysInternals FileMon (http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon. shtml) will let one see which files get modified, although it's probably overkill.
Well, I just spoke to a co-worker who is from Nicaragua, and he said that hembra is NOT an insult. It is often, but not always, used in reference to animals (the female ones), so if used in reference to a dog, it would translate to 'bitch' in the non-insult sense. However, it would also be used to describe the VGA connector on the back of your PC - the plug that goes into it would be 'macho'. Finally, he has also heard it used in a completely innocuous way to describe a female human - a woman - without it being an insult in any way.
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The most annoying thing to me is that it *doesn't* sit at 100% for hours. I have a 6-core CPU, and it sits at 16% for hours because the update process, whatever it is doing, is doing it as a single thread. Obviously it can't take advantage of multiple cores.
I use an iPhone 6, and the fixed and small size of the font is annoying. Viewing in landscape mode is no different, and just makes the lines longer. Compare this to IFLScience, where rotating to landscape leaves the line length the same but the text gets bigger. I can't even pinch to zoom on Slashdot!
That assumes the piece of wood is rectangular and you have a straightedge long enough. That's not a "random" piece of wood.
Hand-eye co-ordination is best learned in the real world. Take him outside and play with real objects (I've heard it's called "catch") in a natural (non-human constructed) setting.
As for the other two things, typing skills and UI concepts, they can be trivially learned by him 10 years from now just as easily. He'll pick them up on his own before that, anyway.
How many of these would it take to, say, ray-trace Call of Duty: MW3 in real-time, 60 FPS? Would it cost less than using a modern graphics card to do the usual non-ray-traced rendering? That would be pretty cool.
Generally, three things motivate people:
1. Autonomy - can they at least sometimes discover something on their own that needs doing/fixing and go ahead and do it without okaying it with management?
2. Mastery - can they devote enough time to new things (e.g. technology) to feel that they are learning something *and* spending enough time on it to lead to mastery?
3. Purpose - do they have a sense of belonging to something larger than themselves (as opposed to in name only: "there are six people in this group, therefore they are a team!")
These things drive most people and are completely lacking in my workplace. Search YouTube for "RSA Animate drive" for a better description than I gave.
Is that 1 Gb/s symmetric? Can you get close to that when transferring large amounts of data to someone next door or on the same block? That would be worth paying for. Here in Canada, I get 15 MB/s down, 1 MB/s up for C$45/mo. To get around the asymmetry, my neighbour (with whom I have line-of-sight) and I are setting up a 802.11g wireless link. Sad, but at least it's been fun. :)
See also Stupid to the Last Drop: How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (And Doesn't Seem to Care) by William Marsden. There's whole chapter devoted to this. Nukes + oil = horrendously dumb. Doesn't even get much oil out.
I concur. My wife and I have a '95 Nissan Sentra which carries all those things fine (we have a 4-month-old daughter). If you need to carry somewhat more, get a tiny trailer which you can hitch up only when you need it. A car with a trailer gets better mileage than an SUV of any description, due to the superior aerodynamics. If you need to carry much more on occasion, *rent* a truck. BTW, our Sentra gets ~52 MP(Canadian)G at 90 KM/h with cruise control. I'm hoping to hold on to it until I can get a plug-in hybrid of some kind.
IIRC, that's four drinks every day, but only if you drink with your meals (presumably lunch and supper). Drinking outside of mealtime (bar hopping, happy hour after work, etc.) has a negative effect.
I'm surprised no one's mentioned the transputer.
Where I work (a municipal government), the security folk are more concerned about the appearance of security than actual security. All ports are now blocked but for ftp, http, https and 12173 (specific app). I used to be able to SSH, but no more. The worst part? They are now blocking a pile of "games" sites. The dumb thing, in two parts: (1) they're blocking via a firewall which only blocks IP addresses, not URLs, so they scanned all http traffic for "games" and blocked the corresponding IP address; (2) this blocks "games.slashdot.org"... and it.slashdot.org, and ask.slashdot.org, and books.slashdot.org, and science.slashdot.org -- all *.slashdot.org resolve to the same IP address -- but NOT http://slashdot.org/ !!! So I can view the main page, but almost no articles and comments. Yes, I'm posting this from home. Yes, I explained that games.slashdot.org does not CONTAIN games in any form, but just news ABOUT games, but they haven't responded. They're a bunch of twits.
And for installing in Windows environments via Group Policies, are there official .MSI packages? This is critical for corporate deployments in a properly managed Windows environment. Another issue of concern is: Are temporary/cached web files stored within Local Settings in the user's profile? They ought to be -- otherwise dozens or hundreds of megabytes of these files get copied to the server with the rest of the roaming profile when the user logs in and out. This wastes time and disk space.
I'm also wondering, is the more expensive GS worth it? Are there any downsides to getting the GS version?
Not any more; it's China (see bottom of page). The Globe and Mail reported "China beats out Canada as top exporter to U.S." on September 15th, quoting July trade figures.
Bush probably still thinks Japan or Mexico are number one, though.
It's a great strategy to counter the chicken-and-egg problem. Get a whole lot of people to install it - and use it regularly - on PC hardware that Apple does not have to support, distribute CDs to, or in any way acknowledge. That creates a bigger demand for Mac software, a large user base that wants apps. The more apps and word-of-mouth advertising, the more people will buy Apple hardware to get the support.
It's like seeding the education market with cheap software or computers. After a while, people want to use it at work. The same will happen in the consumer market, resulting in more demand in the workplace.
Oh sure, some people will always be proud to say that they've paid Apple nothing, but the overall effect is more hardware sales for Apple in the long run.
Note that Larry McVoy has pointed out that the number of improvements to the commercial version due to suggestions from Open Source developers has been dropping sharply. To me, that means "giving free copies to these guys has been beneficial to my bottom line, but isn't doing much for me lately, in the financial sense". It sounds like this reverse-engineering issue is a smokescreen, a scapegoat for cutting off the "freeloaders" (those contributing to improving the product).
So, he's in it for the money. Is anyone surprised?
Xena was pretty iconic. :-) I stared in Wonder at her, uh, vast tracts of land! Anyway, she's tall, voluptuous and certainly experienced in taking down the bad guys.
Look at it this way: Is it better to have (A) roughly 5% of the market worldwide forever, or (B) have the same 5% of the market the way it is, scattered between a large number of distros PLUS another 60% using just one version of one Linux distro?
I'd pick B. That way, everyone's happy: the people who care enough to choose a specific distro still can, and the other 60% can use (what appears to them to be) The Linux. Okay, The GNU/Linux.
No one is saying we all have to use the same distro. Just please come up with one (no more, no less) that looks as pretty and is as easy to use as the Mac, and we can push that to all of our non-computer literate friends, family and business associates.
Venus is probably "more dead" than Mars, and it's looking like we need practice at *removing* greenhouse gasses from an atmosphere, not adding them! It's also closer to Earth's gravity. Does anyone want to calculate the relative energy costs and time to get to Venus as opposed to Mars?
That's not meaningful "multitasking". Try this: compose an original poem with one hand and develop a new HOWTO with your other hand. You can't do it, and no amount of "practise" will improve that. What you are doing is simple motor-skill type of multitasking, and that's not much more complicated than walking, breathing, chewing gum and blinking "all at the same time" is. Composing both a poem and a HOWTO at the same time uses much of the same higher brain functions, and results in your switching back and forth between them, to the detriment of both, due to the overhead of switching. In software, this has been called "concurrent programming".
History notes: Ralph Stanton (the original pink-tie-wearer at UW) eventually became head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manitoba, where he was occasionally mistaken for the janitor. Rumour has it he's gay (not that there's anything wrong with that!). I believe he retired before or around the time I was at the UofM (1983-88).
I also think the voting devices should be paper-based, and exactly the same across the entire country.
Er, in number 6, you mention 'execute' permissions, which Windows does not have. In 7, you suggest changing ownership to another account, but in Windows ownership can only be taken, not given. Even the Administrator account can't just force a file to have a specific owner (other than Administrator).
. shtml) will let one see which files get modified, although it's probably overkill.
SysInternals FileMon (http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/filemon
Okay, nitpicking done.
Well, I just spoke to a co-worker who is from Nicaragua, and he said that hembra is NOT an insult. It is often, but not always, used in reference to animals (the female ones), so if used in reference to a dog, it would translate to 'bitch' in the non-insult sense. However, it would also be used to describe the VGA connector on the back of your PC - the plug that goes into it would be 'macho'. Finally, he has also heard it used in a completely innocuous way to describe a female human - a woman - without it being an insult in any way.