It's strange how people think Gentooers are into Gentoo for the '--fomg-optimize' thing...
I had to leave Gentoo a few weeks ago because my Laptop couldn't take the massive compiles anymore - my desks are all FreeBSD btw. What I enjoyed about Gentoo was the ports-like package manager and the ability to carefully choose your dependencies via USE-flags. Here I am, back on Debian, and I think it's actually faster... but I don't really care about speed since I exclusively use XMonad and the console - no need for speed improvements on a 1.6 GHz machine with that.
But what I hate is that I don't have overlays anymore. You could dynamically replace any part of your package repository with something you found on the net. Like the proaudio overlay. Or the Haskell overlay. With Debian, this is much harder, as you have to find someone on the Net that will offer his repo of binaries... people are much less likely to offer that since writing an ebuild is easy, but compiling that stuff for different archs is actually not that easy.
For example, I still didn't find any place that offers a.deb of the new Firefox Beta 3. Anyone willing to point me to one?
The speed is only a minor advantage of Gentoo and manifests itself in the much shorter start up times and the ability to easily switch to baselayout2 or einit to even improve that one. But since the average uptime of my laptop is about 2-3 weeks, I don't really care if Debian takes 20 seconds longer to boot up.
I wouldn't trust Bjarne on whatever he says about C++ - he's the creator, and he doesn't have an objective POV. Note that it doesn't matter if he's rather skeptic or enthusiastic about anything C++...
That said, I don't really know if he's right anyways. Everything.NET is going up like a rocket in the Windows world, and companies seem to often be more concerned with their web appearance than with the quality of the programs they write - and thus use Java or.NET, because it's faster to deploy. The FOSS world is making a big fuss about C - and coding GUIs in C (like GTK) has to be the worst idea I've ever seen, by the way (Oh, I'll get modded down for that...). While new and powerful languages like Haskell seem to get a lot of attention.
C++'s main advantage is the same as Microsoft's: it's everywhere, there are just so many libs out there and there exist language bindings for just about everything. We don't really know anything about the lifespan of computer languages yet. Just when I thought it's finally dead for good, I heard about a release of a new version of a FOSS Pascal compiler.
A "black hole" is not a hole like in your cheese - it's just a very sloppy term for an actual object with a higher-than-usual mass. So high, that it swallows all the light it might emit otherwise and thus appears to be totally black. Due to it's (assumed) look it's been dubbed a "black hole", though it's not really a hole -
and it probably wouldn't be too dark around it, too...
The Hawking Evaporation or just random stuff that's falling into it (gas, particles) should emit a considerable amount of light. Within the Event Horizon, of course, everything's pitch dark. So, the thing should actually look like a Space Donut.
Yeah, I figure this is just like potential energy on earth: when something falls towards earth, it gains velocity. When you throw it up you'll need to supply it with the velocity yourself.
As in space there's no up and down you'll have to imagine the space craft "falling" towards the sun when traveling to the sun and thus gaining velocity it didn't have in the beginning. Reverse for traveling to Jupiter.
Of course, like all analogies, this one contains mistakes as the probe could also gain velocity from "falling" towards Jupiter or other objects in space that can exhibit gravitational force upon smaller satellites of the sun or themselves.
I truly think deep in my heart that windows coders just don't give a shit about really doing quality code, all they do is put the crap out then fix and patch. all comes down to the money. You might be right with that. I just witnessed a discussion on IRC about web-design. One guy doing that stuff for money, the other for OSS-projects. The guy doing that for money had his customers: companies, that want sites coded - for their customers, who most likely won't give a damn if that page they're trying to buy things from is valid XHTML or not - so the companies don't give a damn themselves. And at the end of the day, the guy has to code that sites to appeal to the customers - who will most likely use IE in one version or another, since that's the most used browser in the world.
Now, the OSS-guy had valid points, like vicious circle and that - you work around MS's bugs, MS doesn't give a damn -> more bugs, more to work around -> SNAFU.
But when all you wanna do is make a living? How can you give a damn about clean code when that deadline is approaching and you have to show results? In the end, you'll have to accept dirty compromises with yourself. That doesn't necessarily make you a bad coder. Just one that's under too much pressure.
You know, MS are a rich company. It's not like they couldn't afford to hire good programmers. They do. But their management seems to be just exchangeable with any other management of, say, a farming company. They don't seem to understand what they manage, or at least, how it works.
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Excuse me, but how does Nano not depend on cryptic key sequences? ^O for 'write out'? Oh, I see. What's that? ^X for leaving the thing?... and I still didn't quite figure out how to mark and cut&paste stuff.
Yeah, I know, that's probably just me being lazy as it's sure to be rather easy, but with vi it was a simple matter of typing vimtutor and following the instructions. Once you're through it, you'll know everything most people find so hard to understand about vim. And it only takes about half an hour or so.
I certainly agree, Cowon's players support FLAC and OGG (Vorbis, damnit you "it's-not-a-codec-it's-a-container"-smart-asses), but the Grandparent added
and I can't find a single one in my "budget" price range that has ogg support. Cowon's players are way overpriced - they rely on a community of rabid audiophiles (which I happen to belong to) to buy their products that have only a few advantages over cheaper players... Like superior sound quality, 50-60 hours of battery (for the iAudio7) and flac/ogg support. That made me pay 200 Euro for my player. Way too expensive, still.
Apart from it not supporting DRM, ogg has only advantages - it's equal or superior to most other codecs (the widely used mp3 and wma are inferior) and it's open-source w/o patents restrictions...
Seriously, does anyone have an explanation for that?
Seriously, people need to get off this meme of Boycotting all of a company's product because one device doesn't work the way they want it to. Except that I want to boycott Samsung because it works the way they want it to. It's about not supporting a company that's doing research in something I consider to be criminal.
That's why I linked to the google search. One of the first hits is this beautiful picture - if it was FLAT flat you'd see some mountains in the distance since you'd just have to see something that's not the salt lake. But you don't. In fact, you only see the sky. Really beutiful shot, btw.
wheez! I seem to have forgotten the tags. I didn't expect this kind of statement to be percieved so badly - maybe that's because I'm European and afaik we didn't abuse Chinese laborers (at least not them!), so I don't have this perspective on that.
Disclamer: I'm a member of a people that had been enslaved for about 500 years and hence I know how it feels like when 50% of your ancestors died in liberation attempts and your petty nation is ridiculed by both the West and its former tyrants because of lack of economic progress and a culture they generally don't understand. Tell you what it feels like: just the same, as far as I can tell.
How do we get rid of racist statements just as mine a few posts ago? BFC: don't perieve them to be racist statements! Seriously, when a person wants to be treated as equal this person wants to be treated equally well or badly as every other person. At least I want to! Not like "ooh, he's the one, you know. We're not supoosed to say the XYZ-word when he's here. Better watch you're tongue". So I make jokes about Jews in front of my Jewish friends and they laugh because they know I'm not offending them I'm rather being sarcastic against a culture that allows those statements to be offending. When I said 'Chinamen' I wanted to (sort of) ridicule my post's parent's author by (sort of) descending to a level he (sort of) understands. Now notice that though I just said that, it's most likely untrue and this person is most likely a fairly intelligent person (he/she can operate a computer - and navigate to/. Heck I know a lot of people that can't!). That's called sarcasm. At least around here.
Jesus effing Christ, everybody on this thread seems to be drunk.
Go to Wikipedia and figure it out yourself. Or better yet: go to bed and sleep. Look out of the window when you wake up tomorrow and try to find out why on earth you're not seeing the Chinamen in the far distance.
Well, OK. You've got an excuse for asking this, since you're drunk. There is no FLAT flat on the earth. The area still shows a horizon which means that it's EARTH flat and not FLAT flat:
And this is bad how, again? Please, explain. It may not be really bad. Both Mac OS X and Ubuntu do not have a root account by default, too (you can, however activate it yourself). They usually just 'run applications as root' via sudo or similar functionality, which leads to your next comment:
I thought there was no root account? Apparently you don't know how *nices handle privileges and security. Go, read up on sudo and setuid. No offense meant, but if you're praising UAC you should know what it tries to mimic.
That said, UAC is no bad thing - if it wasn't for
and even then it balks at you. This is Vista's fault how, again? That's the drawback. I can't log in as an administrator to do some administrative work without being bothered by the OS. OK, maybe I can, I must admit that I have only used VISTA for about an hour or so when one of my users got a new computer. He downgraded within a weeks time. As an administrator, I like to open up a console (window) and log in with some supervisor account to perform a couple of tasks that would otherwise ask me for privileges...
Let's face it: Vista is a giant step for Windows, but a small one for operating systems overall. Compared to XP, Vista excels with a lot of new features (besides the graphic UI) that may even make it worth the money - but unfortunately it introduces a lot of unwanted behaivour and while you may feel that "UAC works as advertised", UAC still has to catch up a little to reach the standard of today's operating system security models.
Right. (Database) servers. That probably have a lot of I/O operations and frequently write to disks. You know about limitations of flash memory don't you?
That's also one of the major reasons that I won't buy any of this hardware anytime soon. I need to be able to write a lot to my disk without bricking it in turn...
I think the main reason why laptops "grow" is the fact that a lot of people use them as a replacement for a desktop PC. They don't care about its size and they do care about its performance.
And about the WalMart thingie that's bigger than need be: well, packing the hardware tight together isn't exactly easy or cheap + it's harder to cool those cramped spaces. That might be a reason. But that's just a gues..
What happens if the person you are talking to has a rootkit, or prints out the conversation, or otherwise compromises the data? There's no real way to protect your entire conversation. Easy enough:
Every single nanojoule of energy the tree emits is there to be interacted with. If there's something it can interact with, it does make a noise for that something. If not, that energy (the entropy this tree-falling has created) will travel forever - until it hits something that it can be "observed" by. Remember: Observation = Interaction.
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It's strange how people think Gentooers are into Gentoo for the '--fomg-optimize' thing...
... people are much less likely to offer that since writing an ebuild is easy, but compiling that stuff for different archs is actually not that easy.
.deb of the new Firefox Beta 3. Anyone willing to point me to one?
I had to leave Gentoo a few weeks ago because my Laptop couldn't take the massive compiles anymore - my desks are all FreeBSD btw. What I enjoyed about Gentoo was the ports-like package manager and the ability to carefully choose your dependencies via USE-flags. Here I am, back on Debian, and I think it's actually faster... but I don't really care about speed since I exclusively use XMonad and the console - no need for speed improvements on a 1.6 GHz machine with that.
But what I hate is that I don't have overlays anymore. You could dynamically replace any part of your package repository with something you found on the net. Like the proaudio overlay. Or the Haskell overlay. With Debian, this is much harder, as you have to find someone on the Net that will offer his repo of binaries
For example, I still didn't find any place that offers a
The speed is only a minor advantage of Gentoo and manifests itself in the much shorter start up times and the ability to easily switch to baselayout2 or einit to even improve that one. But since the average uptime of my laptop is about 2-3 weeks, I don't really care if Debian takes 20 seconds longer to boot up.
I wouldn't trust Bjarne on whatever he says about C++ - he's the creator, and he doesn't have an objective POV. Note that it doesn't matter if he's rather skeptic or enthusiastic about anything C++...
.NET is going up like a rocket in the Windows world, and companies seem to often be more concerned with their web appearance than with the quality of the programs they write - and thus use Java or .NET, because it's faster to deploy. The FOSS world is making a big fuss about C - and coding GUIs in C (like GTK) has to be the worst idea I've ever seen, by the way (Oh, I'll get modded down for that...). While new and powerful languages like Haskell seem to get a lot of attention.
That said, I don't really know if he's right anyways. Everything
C++'s main advantage is the same as Microsoft's: it's everywhere, there are just so many libs out there and there exist language bindings for just about everything. We don't really know anything about the lifespan of computer languages yet. Just when I thought it's finally dead for good, I heard about a release of a new version of a FOSS Pascal compiler.
And we're waaaay offtopic here...
A "black hole" is not a hole like in your cheese - it's just a very sloppy term for an actual object with a higher-than-usual mass. So high, that it swallows all the light it might emit otherwise and thus appears to be totally black. Due to it's (assumed) look it's been dubbed a "black hole", though it's not really a hole - and it probably wouldn't be too dark around it, too...
The Hawking Evaporation or just random stuff that's falling into it (gas, particles) should emit a considerable amount of light. Within the Event Horizon, of course, everything's pitch dark. So, the thing should actually look like a Space Donut.
Yeah, I figure this is just like potential energy on earth: when something falls towards earth, it gains velocity. When you throw it up you'll need to supply it with the velocity yourself.
As in space there's no up and down you'll have to imagine the space craft "falling" towards the sun when traveling to the sun and thus gaining velocity it didn't have in the beginning. Reverse for traveling to Jupiter.
Of course, like all analogies, this one contains mistakes as the probe could also gain velocity from "falling" towards Jupiter or other objects in space that can exhibit gravitational force upon smaller satellites of the sun or themselves.
Or am I completely mistaken?
Now, the OSS-guy had valid points, like vicious circle and that - you work around MS's bugs, MS doesn't give a damn -> more bugs, more to work around -> SNAFU.
But when all you wanna do is make a living? How can you give a damn about clean code when that deadline is approaching and you have to show results? In the end, you'll have to accept dirty compromises with yourself. That doesn't necessarily make you a bad coder. Just one that's under too much pressure.
You know, MS are a rich company. It's not like they couldn't afford to hire good programmers. They do. But their management seems to be just exchangeable with any other management of, say, a farming company. They don't seem to understand what they manage, or at least, how it works.
But they won't be such a big joke, got it?
Excuse me, but how does Nano not depend on cryptic key sequences? ^O for 'write out'? Oh, I see. What's that? ^X for leaving the thing? ... and I still didn't quite figure out how to mark and cut&paste stuff.
Yeah, I know, that's probably just me being lazy as it's sure to be rather easy, but with vi it was a simple matter of typing vimtutor and following the instructions. Once you're through it, you'll know everything most people find so hard to understand about vim. And it only takes about half an hour or so.
Meh. I think the number one procrastination-trigger around IT-companies is still /. and not e-mails.
... which they then invest in adverts here on /.
In fact, companies lose hundreds of manhours per day to this site...
Wait, I think I got an error in my logic there...
I still don't understand why though.
Apart from it not supporting DRM, ogg has only advantages - it's equal or superior to most other codecs (the widely used mp3 and wma are inferior) and it's open-source w/o patents restrictions...
Seriously, does anyone have an explanation for that?
admittedly, that's way off topic here, though...
Somoene makes a joke about Martin Luther King being a pointer to Jesus Christ and I laugh about it.
Holy shit, I'm brain damaged, now I know it.
Thanks for the laugh, Mister, appreciated.
That's why I linked to the google search. One of the first hits is this beautiful picture - if it was FLAT flat you'd see some mountains in the distance since you'd just have to see something that's not the salt lake. But you don't. In fact, you only see the sky. Really beutiful shot, btw.
wheez! I seem to have forgotten the tags. I didn't expect this kind of statement to be percieved so badly - maybe that's because I'm European and afaik we didn't abuse Chinese laborers (at least not them!), so I don't have this perspective on that.
/. Heck I know a lot of people that can't!). That's called sarcasm. At least around here.
Disclamer: I'm a member of a people that had been enslaved for about 500 years and hence I know how it feels like when 50% of your ancestors died in liberation attempts and your petty nation is ridiculed by both the West and its former tyrants because of lack of economic progress and a culture they generally don't understand. Tell you what it feels like: just the same, as far as I can tell.
How do we get rid of racist statements just as mine a few posts ago? BFC: don't perieve them to be racist statements! Seriously, when a person wants to be treated as equal this person wants to be treated equally well or badly as every other person. At least I want to! Not like "ooh, he's the one, you know. We're not supoosed to say the XYZ-word when he's here. Better watch you're tongue". So I make jokes about Jews in front of my Jewish friends and they laugh because they know I'm not offending them I'm rather being sarcastic against a culture that allows those statements to be offending. When I said 'Chinamen' I wanted to (sort of) ridicule my post's parent's author by (sort of) descending to a level he (sort of) understands. Now notice that though I just said that, it's most likely untrue and this person is most likely a fairly intelligent person (he/she can operate a computer - and navigate to
Jesus effing Christ, everybody on this thread seems to be drunk.
Go to Wikipedia and figure it out yourself. Or better yet: go to bed and sleep. Look out of the window when you wake up tomorrow and try to find out why on earth you're not seeing the Chinamen in the far distance.
Well, OK. You've got an excuse for asking this, since you're drunk. There is no FLAT flat on the earth. The area still shows a horizon which means that it's EARTH flat and not FLAT flat:
http://www.google.com/search?&rls=hi&q=salar+de+uyuni&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
That said, UAC is no bad thing - if it wasn't for and even then it balks at you. This is Vista's fault how, again? That's the drawback. I can't log in as an administrator to do some administrative work without being bothered by the OS. OK, maybe I can, I must admit that I have only used VISTA for about an hour or so when one of my users got a new computer. He downgraded within a weeks time. As an administrator, I like to open up a console (window) and log in with some supervisor account to perform a couple of tasks that would otherwise ask me for privileges...
Let's face it: Vista is a giant step for Windows, but a small one for operating systems overall. Compared to XP, Vista excels with a lot of new features (besides the graphic UI) that may even make it worth the money - but unfortunately it introduces a lot of unwanted behaivour and while you may feel that "UAC works as advertised", UAC still has to catch up a little to reach the standard of today's operating system security models.
Right. (Database) servers. That probably have a lot of I/O operations and frequently write to disks. You know about limitations of flash memory don't you?
That's also one of the major reasons that I won't buy any of this hardware anytime soon. I need to be able to write a lot to my disk without bricking it in turn...
I think the main reason why laptops "grow" is the fact that a lot of people use them as a replacement for a desktop PC. They don't care about its size and they do care about its performance.
And about the WalMart thingie that's bigger than need be: well, packing the hardware tight together isn't exactly easy or cheap + it's harder to cool those cramped spaces. That might be a reason. But that's just a gues..
Don't speak with noobs.
A woman on slashdot that addresses her husband as 'honey' and not with his screen name??
You're a faker, Mister, and not a good one!
Define 'make a noise'.
Every single nanojoule of energy the tree emits is there to be interacted with. If there's something it can interact with, it does make a noise for that something. If not, that energy (the entropy this tree-falling has created) will travel forever - until it hits something that it can be "observed" by.
Remember: Observation = Interaction.
From TFA:
Date: received 4 Nov 2007
Old indeed. 8 days. That's a lot, Microsoft might have already fixed it, you see, they fix things fast!
If you would regard an HTML-input form as a white rectangle with a grey border you wouldn't be able to post here, would you?
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They're symbols, mnemonics, call them what thou wilst