"So, now's your chance: that lack of a PhD in Astrology and Alchemy won't hold you back any longer."
So what do they really think?
While I agree that it shouldn't be a science degree, I think there is enough philosophy/social studies to make a reasonable case for a MA, or DPhil out of the topic.
Depends how deeply you want to install things. You can always download the application and install it in userland. I also suspect that you could configure Aptitude after you did the base install so that the user could install whatever they want using the nice GUI and it would go automagically to the users home directory something like/home/bob/Applications. User leaves delete his account and presto his junk apps are gone. At my work we do a similar thing with Macs, everyone can install things into their own application folder but if they want others to be able to use it too they need to have us come by with the admin access to install it in the system applications folder.
... and finding and downloading installable games are easier for Ubuntu IMHO. want a tetris clone, fire up Aptitude and.. oh there is one click on it and install presto. No searching of the internet required and you can be reasonably insured that the game isn't spyware.
That said I wonder if part of the savings they are claiming is for the training that MS suggested? I'd think training would still be required. Especially the expensive IT courses. They might have been lucky and had an entire IT staff that knew both systems but it is unlikely. Sending each admin of on a several thousand euro training course can add up quickly. I suppose the alternative would be to replace your IT staff but that probably would cost even more than retraining the existing one (recruitment costs, severance etc). Here's hoping it works out for them.
Dollhouse: mind-wiped prostitutes: did you get through an episode? I admit they play off the fact that they have a couple good looking girls in it, and I was hessitant to watch it because I was thinking it would be fluff. But there is some cool moral issues with concept which I think could keep it interesting.
IMHO if Friday's are such a bad night for shows that is when they should show the reruns, after all if you are sitting at home on the busiest day of the week you probably won't care much. If you are sitting home on a day that there is nothing else to do and the programing sucks, you probably will.
Yeah and they take the person to court. Same as if you accuse someone of copyright infringement. You get your lawyer to send a nasty letter and/or go to the courts.
The bad thing IMHO is that the RIAA represents a collection of companies. This reduces the cost to the record labels as they don't each have to bring case against a defendant. Which in turn makes it cheaper for frivelous lawsuits. I guess it is kind of class action for companies.
No, don't use POP. POP downloads the emails and then deletes them from the server: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Office_Protocol. If you want a backup you'll need to use IMAP. The bonus with IMAP is that the filtering can be server side too so your folders will look the same whether you are logged in from Thunderbird, a web interface etc. Where as with POP since all the emails get deleted from the server you'll see one set of stuff (the stuff not touched through POP yet, and another (the stuff already one your workstation), in short a mess.
wouldn't it be cool if universities had a senior course in OSS? A project based course, you have to either come up with your own project or get into one that is existing, and then the student does "real world" development for a term. Similar to internships with for profit companies, but the students get a chance to experience OSS development, or get credit for stuff they would do anyways.
That was my thought. One captain decides to be smart and goes quite in the other subs baffles. Then, they are a little slow realizing that the other sub is stopping and rear ends it. Submariners are the fighter pilots of the navy, similar cockiness. You got to be when you are expected to cruise into the middle of a fleet and take out a few ships and sneak away, or go a couple hundred km from the enemies shore and launch missiles. If you weren't you wouldn't be able to sleep.
Do we really need another distro for each country? I tried to send you the file but my France OS doesn't have the same patch levels as your Russian OS, or better yet, why does my France OS have support for Czech characters, or if it doesn't why do Czech people send me files using their character codes in them... I hate to say it but there is something to be said for a lack of choice. People complain MS has 6 versions of Win 7, well how many versions of Linux are there?
Barack Obama as become the first president to use a 8-core laptop.
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First to use a 4G cellphone.
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I'm sorry but technology changes, that is news?
Agreed, she shouldn't be mocked. However, I don't think she has a case. Someone selling you a computer doesn't have a responsiblity to find out everything you plan to use it for. Once you say "I'll take it", next comes "give me your payment info". I would be analogous to someone walking into a car dealership and being "sold" on a corvette, only to sue because he can't tow his boat with it. Sorry but it is the customers responsiblity to check that the product means their needs.
Always wondered how they did that but never bothered to look it up. I thought they were doing surface analysis and then extracting the numbers, that would be a really hard problem, looks like they found a similar solution. I guess they must leave the cameras in place as I'd suspect it would be a real pain if you moved the camera after each game and then had to recalibrate.
Utilities push online billing because it saves them money; the fact that it also saves energy in the process and is more convenient for consumers is a win/win/win.
I moved to Germany recently. My utility has a great idea but might not work elsewhere. They estimate my utility usage based on last years usage. They bill me a monthly amount. At the end of the year if I used more they bill me for it, if I used less they refund it. I receive one "bill" a year. It really isn't a bill as it is automatically deposited/charged to my bank account.
I realize a lot of people aren't as trusting as is required in Germany (all my bills are automatically withdrawn, ie. the companies have my banking info, not me having a autopay thing on my bank account), but man are things simple in a world were people trust each other. I get paid automatically, I get charged automatically. Fortunately I make much more than I spend, so when I want to do something I just take out a wad of cash and don't worry about it. No worries of forgetting to pay something.
Basel 2 lets banks with "sufficiently sophisticated" internal risk management to use internal estimates of risk (often VaR) to determine their required capital. The problem is that the models are so complex that it isn't clear in the community who's model is the most accurate. Add to that proprietary components, ie things deemed trade secret by system vendors/in house developers and you have a black box that spits a number out. The company might have an idea of how good their systems are, but good luck finding out if you are a customer or an investor. Heck government regulators simply don't have enough time to properly understand each banks systems.
Taleb overlooks the problems with the other side though. If you have a mandated risk management system, the hopefully rare, occurrences of model error, or just the "long part" of the distribution mean that the whole banking sector can fail together rather than just losing a few banks. To much regulation essentially means the regulators picking the risk model for you.
I think a mixed approach is the best, which I think Basel 2 is trying to force (but could do much better). You need to have some controls to ban hair brained approaches. But banks should have the most interest in their own survival. Allowing flexibility to model their own risk should lead to more innovation; banks have an incentive (and the money) to model better, less capital required = greater ROA, and also investing opportunities open up. As well, it should diversify the sector more which should allow it to continue even if one area gets clobbered.
My understanding is that was one of the features of the Xeon chips and presumably got transferred over to the core 2 world. The idea is that the work load gets moved around to distribute the heat better on the die. More even heat leads to more efficient cooling.
You have a point when it comes to cache locality. It can be somewhat mitigated by smart timing of the core switching. For example long time on each core (as you probably would notice with your system monitor), or doing something like switching on each block read from memory. Presumably the thread is blocking on the memory read and will be using that data coming from RAM, so some of the currently cached data would probably be aged out to make room for it. If you swap cores, and possibly L2 caches at that time you can write to even older cache.
Anyways, this is a really old problem that the article mentions, as other people have commented it has been around since at least the 80's. Any system with two or more processors sharing RAM have cache coherency issues and issues with devices (at least who has the image of the driver in the cache and possibly who has the physical connection to the device). Fun problems to solve, it should keep us tech geeks busy for several years to come.
I totally agree. A console isn't a mobile disk player, so you shouldn't assume it is meant to be moved around while playing. Who so desperately needs to move their console while playing anyways?
I'm not going to toot procedural over OOP or vis versa. Just IMHO procedural is easier to learn at the beginning and is closer to what is "actually" happening in the computer.
Object orientated stuff adds a lot of complexity before you can start to even learn how to code. The fact that people even mentioned the difficulty in constructing a good object model diagram seems to reinforce my idea. When you are trying to learn how to program and someone spends hours teaching you how to read UML and then showing you diagrams you'll get bored out of your mind.
Procedural languages in general let the student jump right into making programs that do stuff. As the course progresses they'll learn better ways to do things, figure out what helps them prevent bugs etc. But pushing off the satisfaction of "making something" well into the future as OOP fans tend to want to do is not a good idea.
How about having sex with multiple women and everyone take care of themselves? In the words of Ice Cube: "Give you money why bother. Cause you know I'm lookin nothin like your father":)
Another thought: doesn't "Do no harm" only apply to you patients or to people in general? One would hope that vows of morality would apply to everyone not just people that are giving you money.
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So what do they really think?
While I agree that it shouldn't be a science degree, I think there is enough philosophy/social studies to make a reasonable case for a MA, or DPhil out of the topic.
Depends how deeply you want to install things. You can always download the application and install it in userland. I also suspect that you could configure Aptitude after you did the base install so that the user could install whatever they want using the nice GUI and it would go automagically to the users home directory something like /home/bob/Applications. User leaves delete his account and presto his junk apps are gone. At my work we do a similar thing with Macs, everyone can install things into their own application folder but if they want others to be able to use it too they need to have us come by with the admin access to install it in the system applications folder.
Hey Romulans are like the Cardassians, lie while telling the truth, then no one can accuse you of lying :-)
That said I wonder if part of the savings they are claiming is for the training that MS suggested? I'd think training would still be required. Especially the expensive IT courses. They might have been lucky and had an entire IT staff that knew both systems but it is unlikely. Sending each admin of on a several thousand euro training course can add up quickly. I suppose the alternative would be to replace your IT staff but that probably would cost even more than retraining the existing one (recruitment costs, severance etc). Here's hoping it works out for them.
IMHO if Friday's are such a bad night for shows that is when they should show the reruns, after all if you are sitting at home on the busiest day of the week you probably won't care much. If you are sitting home on a day that there is nothing else to do and the programing sucks, you probably will.
The bad thing IMHO is that the RIAA represents a collection of companies. This reduces the cost to the record labels as they don't each have to bring case against a defendant. Which in turn makes it cheaper for frivelous lawsuits. I guess it is kind of class action for companies.
A: No thanks I'm good for now.
No, don't use POP. POP downloads the emails and then deletes them from the server: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post_Office_Protocol. If you want a backup you'll need to use IMAP. The bonus with IMAP is that the filtering can be server side too so your folders will look the same whether you are logged in from Thunderbird, a web interface etc. Where as with POP since all the emails get deleted from the server you'll see one set of stuff (the stuff not touched through POP yet, and another (the stuff already one your workstation), in short a mess.
wouldn't it be cool if universities had a senior course in OSS? A project based course, you have to either come up with your own project or get into one that is existing, and then the student does "real world" development for a term. Similar to internships with for profit companies, but the students get a chance to experience OSS development, or get credit for stuff they would do anyways.
That was my thought. One captain decides to be smart and goes quite in the other subs baffles. Then, they are a little slow realizing that the other sub is stopping and rear ends it. Submariners are the fighter pilots of the navy, similar cockiness. You got to be when you are expected to cruise into the middle of a fleet and take out a few ships and sneak away, or go a couple hundred km from the enemies shore and launch missiles. If you weren't you wouldn't be able to sleep.
Do we really need another distro for each country? I tried to send you the file but my France OS doesn't have the same patch levels as your Russian OS, or better yet, why does my France OS have support for Czech characters, or if it doesn't why do Czech people send me files using their character codes in them ... I hate to say it but there is something to be said for a lack of choice. People complain MS has 6 versions of Win 7, well how many versions of Linux are there?
Barack Obama as become the first president to use a 8-core laptop. ------ First to use a 4G cellphone. ------ I'm sorry but technology changes, that is news?
Agreed, she shouldn't be mocked. However, I don't think she has a case. Someone selling you a computer doesn't have a responsiblity to find out everything you plan to use it for. Once you say "I'll take it", next comes "give me your payment info". I would be analogous to someone walking into a car dealership and being "sold" on a corvette, only to sue because he can't tow his boat with it. Sorry but it is the customers responsiblity to check that the product means their needs.
Always wondered how they did that but never bothered to look it up. I thought they were doing surface analysis and then extracting the numbers, that would be a really hard problem, looks like they found a similar solution. I guess they must leave the cameras in place as I'd suspect it would be a real pain if you moved the camera after each game and then had to recalibrate.
Utilities push online billing because it saves them money; the fact that it also saves energy in the process and is more convenient for consumers is a win/win/win.
I moved to Germany recently. My utility has a great idea but might not work elsewhere. They estimate my utility usage based on last years usage. They bill me a monthly amount. At the end of the year if I used more they bill me for it, if I used less they refund it. I receive one "bill" a year. It really isn't a bill as it is automatically deposited/charged to my bank account.
I realize a lot of people aren't as trusting as is required in Germany (all my bills are automatically withdrawn, ie. the companies have my banking info, not me having a autopay thing on my bank account), but man are things simple in a world were people trust each other. I get paid automatically, I get charged automatically. Fortunately I make much more than I spend, so when I want to do something I just take out a wad of cash and don't worry about it. No worries of forgetting to pay something.
Taleb overlooks the problems with the other side though. If you have a mandated risk management system, the hopefully rare, occurrences of model error, or just the "long part" of the distribution mean that the whole banking sector can fail together rather than just losing a few banks. To much regulation essentially means the regulators picking the risk model for you.
I think a mixed approach is the best, which I think Basel 2 is trying to force (but could do much better). You need to have some controls to ban hair brained approaches. But banks should have the most interest in their own survival. Allowing flexibility to model their own risk should lead to more innovation; banks have an incentive (and the money) to model better, less capital required = greater ROA, and also investing opportunities open up. As well, it should diversify the sector more which should allow it to continue even if one area gets clobbered.
You have a point when it comes to cache locality. It can be somewhat mitigated by smart timing of the core switching. For example long time on each core (as you probably would notice with your system monitor), or doing something like switching on each block read from memory. Presumably the thread is blocking on the memory read and will be using that data coming from RAM, so some of the currently cached data would probably be aged out to make room for it. If you swap cores, and possibly L2 caches at that time you can write to even older cache.
Anyways, this is a really old problem that the article mentions, as other people have commented it has been around since at least the 80's. Any system with two or more processors sharing RAM have cache coherency issues and issues with devices (at least who has the image of the driver in the cache and possibly who has the physical connection to the device). Fun problems to solve, it should keep us tech geeks busy for several years to come.
I totally agree. A console isn't a mobile disk player, so you shouldn't assume it is meant to be moved around while playing. Who so desperately needs to move their console while playing anyways?
Object orientated stuff adds a lot of complexity before you can start to even learn how to code. The fact that people even mentioned the difficulty in constructing a good object model diagram seems to reinforce my idea. When you are trying to learn how to program and someone spends hours teaching you how to read UML and then showing you diagrams you'll get bored out of your mind.
Procedural languages in general let the student jump right into making programs that do stuff. As the course progresses they'll learn better ways to do things, figure out what helps them prevent bugs etc. But pushing off the satisfaction of "making something" well into the future as OOP fans tend to want to do is not a good idea.
Like all loyal German's they run SAP to optimize the process.
How about having sex with multiple women and everyone take care of themselves? In the words of Ice Cube: "Give you money why bother. Cause you know I'm lookin nothin like your father" :)
Another thought: doesn't "Do no harm" only apply to you patients or to people in general? One would hope that vows of morality would apply to everyone not just people that are giving you money.
You think you have problems getting your laptop through airport security now, wait until the iPipeBomb ships :)
You got that great Java support and vi. What more could you want?
I have their fluid mechanics and deferential geometry books and found them quite helpful (and cheap ~$15, hard price to beat :)).