"All I ever needed to know about Islam, I learned on 9/11."
I often wish it weren't so true =(
Yep. And all the terrorists needed to know about Western ideals and Christianity they learned from some sociopathic nut job. Ignorance is not the way you fight ignorance.
Exactly. One of the car forums I frequented was bought out by some company that only ran forums. They loaded the site with ads and started banning people for ridiculous reasons. So, of course, one intrepid member simply set up their own forum, the only ads coming from sponsoring companies, and a majority of the most knowledgeable members went over there. However, you'd be surprised at how hard it is to get people to move over. The new site is a better forum in every way, but the momentum of the ad-riddled, near unbrowsable site makes it hard to compete with.
Unfortunately, I think products like AdBlock actually do a disservice to web sites that have few ads to begin with. These web sites are run by people who actually care about the community, usually running the site out of pocket or barely breaking even, but to your average user with web block, the site riddled with ads is no different.
This is the exact reason I got AdBlock as well. Every time a page would be stuck loading, I'd look down at the status bar to see what the issue was. 99% of the time it was 1 ad that was holding up the rest of the page.
What is that video suppose to be of? It looks like a video of an actual experiment. The site lists many experiments performed on the tether and talks about the data gathered. It would seem to be an extreme close up of a crystal or something with dust and/or ice floating around.
I can think of a large number of console games that only support one player per console, and I've not come across a game for my computer for a long time that I can't play with a joypad.
I actually can't really think of any big budget games for the PS3 that have any real multiplayer (on the same console) support. I suppose it makes sense. Providing multiplayer support would just be a disincentive for your friends to buy the game, so why prioritize it?
Well, if you have a look at this paper, I think the most telling statistic is simple: folks in the US travel more than double the distance vs. those in Britain, but total time spent travelling is roughly the same. This means our average rate of speed is nearly double that in GB. Double the speed, 1.4x the fatalities.
Well, Cython allows static typing and compiles to native code. And the slight overhead Java has when it comes to writing/compiling small programs is usually overshadowed by the complexity of most commercial products.
Huh? The Earth is a fantastic sample. In fact, it is the only sample we have that we can actually explore in any sort of meaningful way. The fact that our notions about what is required for life has been repeatedly redefined is certainly meaningful and significant. What we know (from exactly this type of research) is that life can survive in very harsh environments, environments that can be found elsewhere in our solar system (and also gives us an excellent starting point). That said, I never made any conclusion, I said it gives us hope and without hope, there would be no funding!
But it gives us hope. Just imagine if the opposite was true; we could never find life in extreme environments. We'd probably be saying looking for life on other planets is most likely a dead end. Instead, life keeps popping up everywhere, even places you could never imagine.
I doubt you'd be using your essay as a source. Rather, you'd realize you wrote a pretty good summary of some subject in your intro with proper sources. You copy/paste this to Wikipedia, along with your sources.
Not the GP, but I learned this fact when learning about assembly and trying to figure out why we used _start and not main. I also learned all about the C convention of prepending functions with underscores and a lot of other jazz. I even did some of the type of stuff the author did (abusing the ELF file format to shrink a simple program's file size). However, a lot of folk don't learn asm, so I think this article would be pretty cool. It is also significantly better written and more cohesive than most of the crap I read.
My statements were not contradictory. I said that there are some users that are not competent enough. I did not say, in general, users are not competent. Replacing the browser is easy and most users would have no problem doing this.
I certainly wouldn't argue that MS has a monopoly. However, I do not think that including a default browser with an OS is an abuse of their monopoly.
Its not so much that it was installed by default as it was integrated into the operating system and couldn't be removed. Sure you could install another browser, but IE would still remain and be required for certain OS functions. That is what got them into this mess; and this is one of the steps they are required to take get out of it.
That they couldn't remove it was MS' argument in their antitrust case in the US. The one in the EU was, literally, just them bundling it with Windows 7 (ie. giving it to OEM and retail users with IE preinstalled). I believe MS' initial solution was to simply remove IE from Windows 7.
an operating system is supposed to be just the kernel and driver framework. The software bundled on top (i.e. the applications) are separate from the OS.
I'm referring to an OS as a marketable product (eg. Ubuntu, Red Hat, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Windows), not technically what an OS is defined as.
Sure an OS can include applications but they must behave like applications and must be able to be removed if they user does not want them.
I think when MS referred to it being inseparable, they meant without breaking the desktop environment (ie. explorer), not the kernel itself. I'm sure Windows can be stripped down to its bare metal. However, MS sells Windows as a lot of interconnected software. Dependencies within software should really not come as a surprise. That something as fundamental as the desktop experience depends on a web browser is a little weird, yes, but should be that surprising. Google Chrome OS (please forgive my use of the term OS here) is pretty much a browser. Imagine the EU telling Google to unbundle the web browser!
Terrorists and torturers alike are willing to compromise their own beliefs and ideals to meet an end. That we can fight, within the bounds of our own beliefs and ideals, without compromise is a testament to our ideals' worth.
I personally think its ridiculous that MS has to offer alternative browsers at all. An operating system is not just the kernel, but all the software bundled on top. IE8 is just a value add on top of windows; one you can easily replace. That some users are so incompetent (I say this with love) they could not install another browser is a testament to the reason why MS even bundled IE8 to start with. Windows is usually bundled with lots of software that have alternatives; from games, to notepad, to web servers. Why not give users a choice of Apache, Lighttpd, IIS, etc. when installing Windows? I say this as a guy who has been using primarily using Linux, both at home and work, for the past 8 or 9 years. I think I'd be very annoyed if Ubuntu required me to choose amongst alternatives for each large piece of software it installs by default.
Yes. If only there was some major linux distribution out there, backed and developed by a leading tech company and supported by many huge device manufacturers that was focused on touch devices. A boy can dream, I suppose.
What would make more sense is for him to write up a sensible proposal for a marketing campaign to make the public aware of the issues related to excessive salt use. However, that would require him to do a lot of analysis, budgeting, and hard work. But making a stupid bill with 0 researc - I mean not even talking to a chef at a neighborhood restaurant - well, that gets lots of publicity and is much easier.
Taking a shit at work, listening to last.fm, playing Sudoku, and IM'ing friends on my phone, all at once... No way would I give that up for a slightly smoother UI.
Boss: "Hey, why did we have a 20% drop in revenue this quarter?"
Sales Guy: "Oh, we told everyone visiting with IE to piss off."
Boss: "Right, good job!"
He answered the question, you just didn't like the answer: it is not a priority for Canonical. Game makers go where the market is and the Linux market is just not there yet. There is no great technical hurdle that, once solved by Canonical, will bring games to Linux. They are doing the best thing they could possibly do to get games to come to Linux: get more people using Linux. They are doing this by focusing on markets that Linux can actually compete in right now.
Why not? Python is a great language to get something up and running fast with, and you can easily create modules in C to handle the heavy lifting. As for multiprocessor support, I assure you, 2 Python processes will run on 2 cores just fine. Yes, multithreading sucks in CPython, but if you can solve your problem by running n largely independent processes (which is probably what the gp does), then you can just fire up n Python processes. They'll make use of those extra cores just fine.
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"All I ever needed to know about Islam, I learned on 9/11."
I often wish it weren't so true =(
Yep. And all the terrorists needed to know about Western ideals and Christianity they learned from some sociopathic nut job. Ignorance is not the way you fight ignorance.
At many of the garbage dumps here they have a section for computers that they will sort through and donate to schools/kids.
Exactly. One of the car forums I frequented was bought out by some company that only ran forums. They loaded the site with ads and started banning people for ridiculous reasons. So, of course, one intrepid member simply set up their own forum, the only ads coming from sponsoring companies, and a majority of the most knowledgeable members went over there. However, you'd be surprised at how hard it is to get people to move over. The new site is a better forum in every way, but the momentum of the ad-riddled, near unbrowsable site makes it hard to compete with.
Unfortunately, I think products like AdBlock actually do a disservice to web sites that have few ads to begin with. These web sites are run by people who actually care about the community, usually running the site out of pocket or barely breaking even, but to your average user with web block, the site riddled with ads is no different.
This is the exact reason I got AdBlock as well. Every time a page would be stuck loading, I'd look down at the status bar to see what the issue was. 99% of the time it was 1 ad that was holding up the rest of the page.
What is that video suppose to be of? It looks like a video of an actual experiment. The site lists many experiments performed on the tether and talks about the data gathered. It would seem to be an extreme close up of a crystal or something with dust and/or ice floating around.
I can think of a large number of console games that only support one player per console, and I've not come across a game for my computer for a long time that I can't play with a joypad.
I actually can't really think of any big budget games for the PS3 that have any real multiplayer (on the same console) support. I suppose it makes sense. Providing multiplayer support would just be a disincentive for your friends to buy the game, so why prioritize it?
No, it means folk in the U.S. average ~30 mph, those in the UK average ~15 mph. I really don't think I've got the math incorrect on this one.
Well, if you have a look at this paper, I think the most telling statistic is simple: folks in the US travel more than double the distance vs. those in Britain, but total time spent travelling is roughly the same. This means our average rate of speed is nearly double that in GB. Double the speed, 1.4x the fatalities.
Well, Cython allows static typing and compiles to native code. And the slight overhead Java has when it comes to writing/compiling small programs is usually overshadowed by the complexity of most commercial products.
Huh? The Earth is a fantastic sample. In fact, it is the only sample we have that we can actually explore in any sort of meaningful way. The fact that our notions about what is required for life has been repeatedly redefined is certainly meaningful and significant. What we know (from exactly this type of research) is that life can survive in very harsh environments, environments that can be found elsewhere in our solar system (and also gives us an excellent starting point). That said, I never made any conclusion, I said it gives us hope and without hope, there would be no funding!
But it gives us hope. Just imagine if the opposite was true; we could never find life in extreme environments. We'd probably be saying looking for life on other planets is most likely a dead end. Instead, life keeps popping up everywhere, even places you could never imagine.
I doubt you'd be using your essay as a source. Rather, you'd realize you wrote a pretty good summary of some subject in your intro with proper sources. You copy/paste this to Wikipedia, along with your sources.
Not the GP, but I learned this fact when learning about assembly and trying to figure out why we used _start and not main. I also learned all about the C convention of prepending functions with underscores and a lot of other jazz. I even did some of the type of stuff the author did (abusing the ELF file format to shrink a simple program's file size). However, a lot of folk don't learn asm, so I think this article would be pretty cool. It is also significantly better written and more cohesive than most of the crap I read.
My statements were not contradictory. I said that there are some users that are not competent enough. I did not say, in general, users are not competent. Replacing the browser is easy and most users would have no problem doing this.
I certainly wouldn't argue that MS has a monopoly. However, I do not think that including a default browser with an OS is an abuse of their monopoly.
Its not so much that it was installed by default as it was integrated into the operating system and couldn't be removed. Sure you could install another browser, but IE would still remain and be required for certain OS functions. That is what got them into this mess; and this is one of the steps they are required to take get out of it.
That they couldn't remove it was MS' argument in their antitrust case in the US. The one in the EU was, literally, just them bundling it with Windows 7 (ie. giving it to OEM and retail users with IE preinstalled). I believe MS' initial solution was to simply remove IE from Windows 7.
an operating system is supposed to be just the kernel and driver framework. The software bundled on top (i.e. the applications) are separate from the OS.
I'm referring to an OS as a marketable product (eg. Ubuntu, Red Hat, Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Windows), not technically what an OS is defined as.
Sure an OS can include applications but they must behave like applications and must be able to be removed if they user does not want them.
I think when MS referred to it being inseparable, they meant without breaking the desktop environment (ie. explorer), not the kernel itself. I'm sure Windows can be stripped down to its bare metal. However, MS sells Windows as a lot of interconnected software. Dependencies within software should really not come as a surprise. That something as fundamental as the desktop experience depends on a web browser is a little weird, yes, but should be that surprising. Google Chrome OS (please forgive my use of the term OS here) is pretty much a browser. Imagine the EU telling Google to unbundle the web browser!
Terrorists and torturers alike are willing to compromise their own beliefs and ideals to meet an end. That we can fight, within the bounds of our own beliefs and ideals, without compromise is a testament to our ideals' worth.
Would you prefer another major terrorist attack that kills thousands of people?
I'd rather die than stoop down to the same level as the terrorists, yes.
I personally think its ridiculous that MS has to offer alternative browsers at all. An operating system is not just the kernel, but all the software bundled on top. IE8 is just a value add on top of windows; one you can easily replace. That some users are so incompetent (I say this with love) they could not install another browser is a testament to the reason why MS even bundled IE8 to start with. Windows is usually bundled with lots of software that have alternatives; from games, to notepad, to web servers. Why not give users a choice of Apache, Lighttpd, IIS, etc. when installing Windows? I say this as a guy who has been using primarily using Linux, both at home and work, for the past 8 or 9 years. I think I'd be very annoyed if Ubuntu required me to choose amongst alternatives for each large piece of software it installs by default.
Yes. If only there was some major linux distribution out there, backed and developed by a leading tech company and supported by many huge device manufacturers that was focused on touch devices. A boy can dream, I suppose.
What would make more sense is for him to write up a sensible proposal for a marketing campaign to make the public aware of the issues related to excessive salt use. However, that would require him to do a lot of analysis, budgeting, and hard work. But making a stupid bill with 0 researc - I mean not even talking to a chef at a neighborhood restaurant - well, that gets lots of publicity and is much easier.
Taking a shit at work, listening to last.fm, playing Sudoku, and IM'ing friends on my phone, all at once... No way would I give that up for a slightly smoother UI.
Not all sites target folk who spend a lot of money.
Boss: "Hey, why did we have a 20% drop in revenue this quarter?"
Sales Guy: "Oh, we told everyone visiting with IE to piss off."
Boss: "Right, good job!"
He answered the question, you just didn't like the answer: it is not a priority for Canonical. Game makers go where the market is and the Linux market is just not there yet. There is no great technical hurdle that, once solved by Canonical, will bring games to Linux. They are doing the best thing they could possibly do to get games to come to Linux: get more people using Linux. They are doing this by focusing on markets that Linux can actually compete in right now.
Why not? Python is a great language to get something up and running fast with, and you can easily create modules in C to handle the heavy lifting. As for multiprocessor support, I assure you, 2 Python processes will run on 2 cores just fine. Yes, multithreading sucks in CPython, but if you can solve your problem by running n largely independent processes (which is probably what the gp does), then you can just fire up n Python processes. They'll make use of those extra cores just fine.