Easy to blame.. Did you know - The Russian module is ready, sitting there at Baikonur. It is not launched because of two recent Proton crashes. It does not strike me as anything out of the ordinary - remember 2 Titan-IV in a row? And 2 delta III's Russian rockets are surprisingly reliable - it is no coincidence Lokheed Martin is going to use Russian engines for its new booster while Boeing is bying Zenith III's for the Sea Launch. US companies did not design new engines since last German engineers, who made Saturn V retired. Gimme a break. Let NASA launch it's own shuttle first, then start pointing fingers. Me thinks its all political - looking for somebody to blame for NASA's own setbacks..
In my personal experience carefully written OO code is a) easier to maintain b) faster to write c) easier to debug Yes, you can write OO fashion in any language, including assembler, but it is much cleaner in language with necessary features. As far as C++ goes, after STL got more or less implemented and standartized - all scientific code became many time easier to design and write. And after I rewrote my simulation/analysis code using STL it became 20% faster. Go figure. I blame the fact I was able to do a more sensible design using STL algorythm features. I do not claim it would make OO superior. People have different ideas what is superior.
If these people were to return to their home country on completion of their research, the US would, in effect, have paid for the education of someone with very return for the American economy I would not say so. Having worked for 6 years for an RA/TA stipend of ~20K a year (well another 20 tuition but that's from one University pocket to another) I would say I was worth the money spent. Grad students are cheap and rather qualified labor. Half the students on my department where non-US, and would not say they had ANY advantage being admitted. Consequently, starting salary at $85K I just got did not look like a terrible undercutting of some "true citizen".. have not seen a lot of them competing...
For example I would sure like if a web page can be SCALED for any monitor size or viewing preference or printing. PDF does a great job at that. It is not a buzzword. It is the only correct way to do that.
UInconsistent, clunky, ugly GUI. Even such nice toolkits as Qt can not make it a looker mostly because nobody will ever standartize on it or any other. Do not even tell me about GNUStep - it is doomed. Development of GUI for Linux is driven by retrogrades. We will all burn in hell. Give mem my PDF desktop.
Arkady Nikelyovich Bogdanov Thanks. But that should be Nikolaievich (Nikol'ajevitch) (son of Nikolai) - I doubt they meant name of "Nikely" for his father... BTW, Bogdanov means "given by God"
I have knfsd 1.4.7 on all boxes, and mounts from Solaris and other servers die for no apparent reason. Especially nice when you are in a middle of 24+ hours calculation that reads/write to that share. It is a big problem around here, - mostly because I can not use Linux on both servers and clients. Servers are whatever they happened to be. All other UNIX'es we have work with each other just fine - it the Linux which is shitty in this aspect...
...what a tremendous pain in the but Linux's NSF is, and how nicely NT's file sharing works, it is not a surprise for me. We moved alll our code science analysis computers to Linux, engineers live with NT. Linux is good for what it is good - but not for anything else...
I have a bunch of Linux boxes to look after in a rather complex network environment.. I am sick of its NFS problems (yes I have tried all the patches etc.)
AFS is not a solution.
People are too busy coding that freaking GNOME doodads it seems.
Can not you just copy it bit-for-bit? Who the fuck cares if it is encrypted or triple encrypted - the copy will work just the same. That's how all that illegal copies you can get in some (hm..my home) countries are done - duplicated on a factory bit for bit.
CSS is for control of PLAYING, not COPYING, dummy.
A way to do that - moderate it up (to 0), wait until somebody moderates it down to -1, then post a comment - SLD udoes your +1 moderation - bang, it is -2 now. I do not know if it is a bug a feature. I found it after I spent all my moderation point, moderating First Posts up to Interesting (as a protest to a dumb story - we should get moderation point for the posted story as well - if it is getting to many -1 it should dissappear from the/.
I had an idea to upgrade my RH 6.1 with Mandrake, but its fancy installer could not even start - botched video mode on my Voodoo3 2000 - could not see anyting. (Dell Precision 410 box) Text mode boot diskette went a bit further, but choked on my SMC DEC chip network card (on-board 905b is dead).
I upgraded to some rawhide packages. Works fine. Screw Mandrake for now..
They were mostly talking about mobile applications - not cars. There it is not against $1.25/gallon, but agains $1+ per AA battery, or $70 per battery with a need for hourly recharging...
.. would be not 1 month on a regular cell phone, but just a few days for a satellite phone. They are too big and power hungry and expensive now - and I need one (why? - mountaneering...)...
If Hawkings is right about every point in the universe being a seething sea of virtual particles
With all due respect to Dr.Hawking - it is far from being his idea.
From what I remember from "Physics of vacuum" course I took 8 years ago, there is a rather fancy way to avoid violating relativity dealing with this "sea" of particle. Until MathML is standartised, I can not quote relevant fromulas here:) (well I can not quote them because I slept thru most of the lectures... anyway)
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Easy to blame.. Did you know - The Russian module is ready, sitting there at Baikonur. It is not launched because of two recent Proton crashes. It does not strike me as anything out of the ordinary - remember 2 Titan-IV in a row? And 2 delta III's Russian rockets are surprisingly reliable - it is no coincidence Lokheed Martin is going to use Russian engines for its new booster while Boeing is bying Zenith III's for the Sea Launch. US companies did not design new engines since last German engineers, who made Saturn V retired. Gimme a break. Let NASA launch it's own shuttle first, then start pointing fingers. Me thinks its all political - looking for somebody to blame for NASA's own setbacks..
I meant the bug is how I did it...
It did. It's a bug I would think.
Test of the moderation system - will it go to -2 ?
Nevada
If we could send one men to the Moon, why not to send them all.
And a picture of a bunch of men marching on the Moon.
Liked it.
In my personal experience carefully written OO code is a) easier to maintain b) faster to write c) easier to debug Yes, you can write OO fashion in any language, including assembler, but it is much cleaner in language with necessary features. As far as C++ goes, after STL got more or less implemented and standartized - all scientific code became many time easier to design and write. And after I rewrote my simulation/analysis code using STL it became 20% faster. Go figure. I blame the fact I was able to do a more sensible design using STL algorythm features. I do not claim it would make OO superior. People have different ideas what is superior.
Certifiable bullshit. But who cares. It is still very interesting bullshit...
Because that as little pay as he can legally get away with is about 85,000 / 200 = 425 times what I would be making bak home ??
If these people were to return to their home country on completion of their research, the US would, in effect, have paid for the education of someone with very return for the American economy I would not say so. Having worked for 6 years for an RA/TA stipend of ~20K a year (well another 20 tuition but that's from one University pocket to another) I would say I was worth the money spent. Grad students are cheap and rather qualified labor. Half the students on my department where non-US, and would not say they had ANY advantage being admitted. Consequently, starting salary at $85K I just got did not look like a terrible undercutting of some "true citizen".. have not seen a lot of them competing...
For example I would sure like if a web page can be SCALED for any monitor size or viewing preference or printing. PDF does a great job at that. It is not a buzzword. It is the only correct way to do that.
UInconsistent, clunky, ugly GUI. Even such nice toolkits as Qt can not make it a looker mostly because nobody will ever standartize on it or any other. Do not even tell me about GNUStep - it is doomed. Development of GUI for Linux is driven by retrogrades. We will all burn in hell. Give mem my PDF desktop.
Arkady Nikelyovich Bogdanov Thanks. But that should be Nikolaievich (Nikol'ajevitch) (son of Nikolai) - I doubt they meant name of "Nikely" for his father... BTW, Bogdanov means "given by God"
I have knfsd 1.4.7 on all boxes, and mounts from Solaris and other servers die for no apparent reason. Especially nice when you are in a middle of 24+ hours calculation that reads/write to that share. It is a big problem around here, - mostly because I can not use Linux on both servers and clients. Servers are whatever they happened to be. All other UNIX'es we have work with each other just fine - it the Linux which is shitty in this aspect...
...what a tremendous pain in the but Linux's NSF is, and how nicely NT's file sharing works, it is not a surprise for me. We moved alll our code science analysis computers to Linux, engineers live with NT. Linux is good for what it is good - but not for anything else...
----- I wonder if Arkady was a linux user?
Who is Arkady?
The only thing where Sun has a big advantage
You forgot a working NFS in Solaris.
I have a bunch of Linux boxes to look after in a rather complex network environment.. I am sick of its NFS problems (yes I have tried all the patches etc.)
AFS is not a solution.
People are too busy coding that freaking GNOME doodads it seems.
Can not you just copy it bit-for-bit? Who the fuck cares if it is encrypted or triple encrypted - the copy will work just the same. That's how all that illegal copies you can get in some (hm..my home) countries are done - duplicated on a factory bit for bit.
CSS is for control of PLAYING, not COPYING, dummy.
A way to do that - moderate it up (to 0), wait until somebody moderates it down to -1, then post a comment - SLD udoes your +1 moderation - bang, it is -2 now. /.
I do not know if it is a bug a feature. I found it after I spent all my moderation point, moderating First Posts up to Interesting (as a protest to a dumb story - we should get moderation point for the posted story as well - if it is getting to many -1 it should dissappear from the
...I am bored to death apparently...
Moderation Totals:Offtopic=2, Flamebait=4, Troll=4, Funny=7, Underrated=1, Total=18
:)
Wow, that sure got you guys moving...
Nice ASCII though...
Well, since I could not moderate the story...
I had an idea to upgrade my RH 6.1 with Mandrake, but its fancy installer could not even start - botched video mode on my Voodoo3 2000 - could not see anyting. (Dell Precision 410 box) Text mode boot diskette went a bit further, but choked on my SMC DEC chip network card (on-board 905b is dead).
I upgraded to some rawhide packages. Works fine.
Screw Mandrake for now..
They were mostly talking about mobile applications - not cars. There it is not against $1.25/gallon, but agains $1+ per AA battery, or $70 per battery with a need for hourly recharging...
.. would be not 1 month on a regular cell phone, but just a few days for a satellite phone. They are too big and power hungry and expensive now - and I need one (why? - mountaneering...)...
If Hawkings is right about every point in the universe being a seething sea of virtual particles
:) (well I can not quote them because I slept thru most of the lectures... anyway)
With all due respect to Dr.Hawking - it is far from being his idea.
From what I remember from "Physics of vacuum" course I took 8 years ago, there is a rather fancy way to avoid violating relativity dealing with this "sea" of particle. Until MathML is standartised, I can not quote relevant fromulas here