We have this nifty concept called "conservativism," or not wasting electricity, money, and natural resources now. That's the point behind DST: using less electricity and benefitting because of it.
You forgot the part about hating gays and poor people!
That's all well and good until grandma wants to use anything other than that stuff or I'm not around to support it and my parents have to fix problems.
Seriously, I used to be into doing stuff with computers because I COULD. It was a great experience to play with Linux and BSD on lots of crappy, obsolete systems and would encourage all high school and early-college aged kids to do so (while making time for socialization).
Now I have access to all the exotic UNIX hardware I could ever care to use. I threw out everything, got a powerbook and have never been happier.
When I want to have fun tinkering, I code. I think people will get more out of programming than simply amassing a ton of hardware and installing operating systems on them (watching console messages scroll by does not make you smart). (Which is not to say that you shouldn't LEARN how to do that stuff, but having a dozen workstations at home when 1 or 2 would do serves no real purpose. No Timmy, you do not need separate dns and mail servers for timmy.com)
Although some applications really benefit from this kind of book (Photoshop), is Firefox really complex enough to merit a book, particularly when it is a moving target in terms of basic things -- like the changes in the preferences system under OS X? It doesn't seem complex enough that even my grandmother would need a book like this and anyone who DOES need the level of depth in the book would be perfectly capable of researching it online. It seems like a waste of money when it'll be out of date in three months.
This is kind of a trivial optimization! Basically, you extend your pthreads library so all the threads within a single shared memory application schedule themselves on cores on the same chip. Big deal! Now if it could figure out how to schedule processes on "adjacent" cpus to optimize their common memory accesses, I'd be more impressed.
It is not a 100% optimal solution, but I find that managing file type associations through the list interface provided is simpler than doing so through every program's own dialog. Its too bad there isn't a more grandma friendly way for managing program associations on a computer. Still, they should ask before changing it in the first place.
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You forgot the part about hating gays and poor people!
Yes, but does $NEWFANGLEDDEVICE work this way? Can your mom get... ohhh let's say:
- USB mass storage
- USB Video Capture device
to work on her own with Linux? Are the modules installed?
Device support is good on Linux now, but it is nowhere as easy to maintain as Windows for an average home user.
lower bound on the number of people, upper bound on price per account
hence "lower bound"
Well, pretty much anyone I went to school with can run AdAware. Not that many of them can figure out kernel modules for a new CDR.
$580000000 / 22064129 profiles (lower bound set by the number of "friends" "tom" has)
= $26.287010921664 / profile
That's all well and good until grandma wants to use anything other than that stuff or I'm not around to support it and my parents have to fix problems.
Jeez!
Not to be overly pedantic but even though this may correspond to the yield, the hydrogen is originally part of the water, not the sodium.
Seriously, I used to be into doing stuff with computers because I COULD. It was a great experience to play with Linux and BSD on lots of crappy, obsolete systems and would encourage all high school and early-college aged kids to do so (while making time for socialization).
Now I have access to all the exotic UNIX hardware I could ever care to use. I threw out everything, got a powerbook and have never been happier.
When I want to have fun tinkering, I code. I think people will get more out of programming than simply amassing a ton of hardware and installing operating systems on them (watching console messages scroll by does not make you smart). (Which is not to say that you shouldn't LEARN how to do that stuff, but having a dozen workstations at home when 1 or 2 would do serves no real purpose. No Timmy, you do not need separate dns and mail servers for timmy.com)
You sir, are a maroon.
You're OTM sir! Remember in FF2US when you couldn't get into the Basement of Baron until certain stuff had happened. ROROROROR!
I thought the plot kind of fell apart towards then end when it was essentially all "find lots of hidden powerful shit".
Although some applications really benefit from this kind of book (Photoshop), is Firefox really complex enough to merit a book, particularly when it is a moving target in terms of basic things -- like the changes in the preferences system under OS X? It doesn't seem complex enough that even my grandmother would need a book like this and anyone who DOES need the level of depth in the book would be perfectly capable of researching it online. It seems like a waste of money when it'll be out of date in three months.
and you could complain about silly crap more and sound like a sad gamer nerd!
Let me guess.... you're in a CounterStrike clan?
i2hub is restricted to internet 2 IPs.... hmmm
Would it be fair to say that many if not all these students are violating their school's AUPs by running this software?
anyone know if this is actually effective?
Dude, you're on slashdot.
This is kind of a trivial optimization! Basically, you extend your pthreads library so all the threads within a single shared memory application schedule themselves on cores on the same chip. Big deal! Now if it could figure out how to schedule processes on "adjacent" cpus to optimize their common memory accesses, I'd be more impressed.
It is not a 100% optimal solution, but I find that managing file type associations through the list interface provided is simpler than doing so through every program's own dialog. Its too bad there isn't a more grandma friendly way for managing program associations on a computer. Still, they should ask before changing it in the first place.
Steals .torrent file associations.
This is the official client! Jeez, how does it "steal" them.
Isn't this EXACTLY what regression tests were designed for?
what about VMS
this came on vinyl iirc
what's his name
and what's his domain name.... (no hostname)