if you shut it down you have to remember what you were working on
That's a proper WTF right there. Both KDE and XFCE remember all open windows, and restore them when you turn the computer back on. Why can't a multiple-hundred-dollar OS?
Arch leaves most of their packages as vanilla as possible.
This the second best thing about arch, the best one being the first to get updates. See http://oswatershed.org/ for comparison. I agree that it's the best experience I've seen, and I run it on all my computers.
Unfortunately, Arch does want constant updates. And by that I mean constant. Many times I ran "pacman -Syu" immediately after a large update, and a few new packages showed up. As we probably all know, normal users don't want updates. They hate Windows update (well, who doesn't), and so they hate Linux updates as well.
I tried to learn Blender a couple of times. My major gripe was not its interface, but rather that it's difficult to find written tutorials. All of them seem to be videos.
Yes, I was being sarcastic, I hoped it would be obvious but I know it's hard to tell on the internet. As a student of physics, I don't have these problems, and all my classmates have either jobs or paid PhD programs (as in, we'll be paid for working on the PhD) lined up. However, the situation is quite different for other young people.
Yeah, I felt a bit stupid after posting that. This is one of those example where the problem has a complete and simple mathematical formulation. An analytical solution can be proved to be periodic. What these guys did was find numerical solutions. However, now that they have some ideas where to look, it should be easier to come up with analytical orbits.
You're basically separating them into "civil" and "church" marriage. Here in Slovenia, they are already separate (as in you can't get legally married in a church, like you can in USA). It's not that great of a solution, because many people will still want the "civil union" to be between a man and a woman. We recently had a referendum about giving some recognition to same-sex unions, which was rejected. I wasn't following it closely, but I think the main controversy was about adoption rights.
Also, we live in a country with almost half its population atheist, so I don't think this would work in America.
There are no proofs in physics, only experiments. Experiments are difficult in this case, so these solutions were found with numerical simulation. Additional simulations by other physicist (and for this problem, there will be many) will show whether these are proper solutions or caused by the authors' mistakes.
As sibling above points out, people will probably try to find analytical solutions that match these.
Pretty much all integrators used for celestial mechanics have variable dt. The reason is that there are long periods where almost nothing happens, and then you come very close to a star (or two of the 3 bodies come very close together) where you have very rapid changes of velocity and you need very small dt. Because most of the newly found solutions include such close encounters, their accuracy may be questionable.
I don't really know anything about (semi-)professional photography, but I always assumed objectives from different manufacturers were compatible. Can't you use your old glass with the new, different camera?
But QML _is_ what the other guy is using. It is not, however, what Canonical is already using, which was Aaron's entire point. In this case, Canonical is definitely moving in the right direction. Now, if
- Canonical starts using QML with the same components (same API) it for Unity apps
- Ubuntu Phone and Plasma use the same QML components free software on mobiles should have a bright future. Even as a third option, like on desktops, it should be great.
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1. Do they have a command-line client?
2. Does it require root privileges?
He did say Gigapeople, not Gibipeople.
The link takes me to a Nose search for "The Beach". Seinfeld/Kramer reference or something else?
Condoms? No, I think they're just trying to get geeks to breed.
if you shut it down you have to remember what you were working on
That's a proper WTF right there. Both KDE and XFCE remember all open windows, and restore them when you turn the computer back on. Why can't a multiple-hundred-dollar OS?
Arch leaves most of their packages as vanilla as possible.
This the second best thing about arch, the best one being the first to get updates. See http://oswatershed.org/ for comparison. I agree that it's the best experience I've seen, and I run it on all my computers.
Unfortunately, Arch does want constant updates. And by that I mean constant. Many times I ran "pacman -Syu" immediately after a large update, and a few new packages showed up. As we probably all know, normal users don't want updates. They hate Windows update (well, who doesn't), and so they hate Linux updates as well.
Why do you say that as if being Qt-based were a bad thing?
I tried to learn Blender a couple of times. My major gripe was not its interface, but rather that it's difficult to find written tutorials. All of them seem to be videos.
[Apple] have now switched to the lowest bidder, at the expense of quality.
You make it sound like they deliberately chose the cheapest provider out of many. However, with Samsung gone, LG was the only choice.
You don't have to use Qt's build system to build programs using Qt.
While on topic, their container and string classes have such great APIs that I often use it in school projects just for that.
Yes, I was being sarcastic, I hoped it would be obvious but I know it's hard to tell on the internet. As a student of physics, I don't have these problems, and all my classmates have either jobs or paid PhD programs (as in, we'll be paid for working on the PhD) lined up. However, the situation is quite different for other young people.
Yeah, I felt a bit stupid after posting that. This is one of those example where the problem has a complete and simple mathematical formulation. An analytical solution can be proved to be periodic. What these guys did was find numerical solutions. However, now that they have some ideas where to look, it should be easier to come up with analytical orbits.
Because there's no unemployed youth in Europe. And even those few who are, generally don't spend time on the Internet.
Or, the quite famous PHP hammer.
He: "Big deal. All the royalties I've gotten from you wouldn't even take me out to dinner at my favorite restaurant."
So the problem here, as it often happens on Slashdot, are publishers.
You're basically separating them into "civil" and "church" marriage. Here in Slovenia, they are already separate (as in you can't get legally married in a church, like you can in USA). It's not that great of a solution, because many people will still want the "civil union" to be between a man and a woman. We recently had a referendum about giving some recognition to same-sex unions, which was rejected. I wasn't following it closely, but I think the main controversy was about adoption rights.
Also, we live in a country with almost half its population atheist, so I don't think this would work in America.
Maybe Hans Reiser could come up with something.
There are no proofs in physics, only experiments. Experiments are difficult in this case, so these solutions were found with numerical simulation. Additional simulations by other physicist (and for this problem, there will be many) will show whether these are proper solutions or caused by the authors' mistakes.
As sibling above points out, people will probably try to find analytical solutions that match these.
Pretty much all integrators used for celestial mechanics have variable dt. The reason is that there are long periods where almost nothing happens, and then you come very close to a star (or two of the 3 bodies come very close together) where you have very rapid changes of velocity and you need very small dt. Because most of the newly found solutions include such close encounters, their accuracy may be questionable.
I wouldn't mind seeing Ford Prefect in this movie.
Interesting... it took a game distribution platform to convince people that Linux is a viable gaming platform. Isn't it ironic?
That's not a counter point, he says he only gets two productive hours a day at the office.
I don't really know anything about (semi-)professional photography, but I always assumed objectives from different manufacturers were compatible. Can't you use your old glass with the new, different camera?
No need, just put out a sign saying "Beware of Leopard".
But QML _is_ what the other guy is using. It is not, however, what Canonical is already using, which was Aaron's entire point. In this case, Canonical is definitely moving in the right direction. Now, if
- Canonical starts using QML with the same components (same API) it for Unity apps
- Ubuntu Phone and Plasma use the same QML components
free software on mobiles should have a bright future. Even as a third option, like on desktops, it should be great.