You need calculus for analysis of algorithms. Even for simple deterministic programs you'll need at least to work with series (which is discrete calculus). Add random inputs and/or noise and you'll need statistics, which itself requires calculus.
According to wikipedia this is what Einstein said himself about that quote:
In a 1943 letter Einstein said he made a statement "which corresponds approximately" with Time article, but that it was made much earlier than 1940 "during the first years of the Nazi regime" and that his actual comments were "more moderate."[4] In a 1950 letter Einstein said that his quoted remarks from the Time article were "not my own", that they had been "elaborated and exaggerated nearly beyond recognition" and that he was "predominantly critical" of the clergy.[5] In a 1943 interview Einstein was extremely critical of the Catholic Church's behavior under the Nazis, and also singled out Pope Pius XII for criticism because of his Concordat with Hitler, saying "Since when can one make a pact with Christ and Satan at the same time?"
Actually he's Portuguese. Admittedly the beginning of his post is confusing and makes it sound like he is from the US. But then it becomes clear he's from Portugal. Sounds like you also didn't read his whole comment:P
I also find it quite amusing that this was proposed by a supposedly (central) left wing party.
I have no party affiliation, and been looking for alternatives. I found MLS (Movimento Liberal Social) rather interesting. If you look at their website, they covered this issue as well as ACTA on their front page. They also seem pretty big free software. And as a bonus are for a stronger separation of church and state. And they are not an extremist party in any sense. I'm surprised they don't get more publicity, at least amongst the younger generations.
Manage List -> Choose update types. It is actually quite fine grained, you can disable all kinds of updates, or keep just some of them. You can also do it individually for each friend. In the individual settings you can also choose to get all updates, most, or none.
You can also use lists to control exactly who can chat with you. Can you do that with G+ circles? Are you sure? What about those who were in your chat before G+ existed? You have dynamic lists on FB with friends in your city, those from your work, from your University, etc. Any automatically generated circles in G+? You can use FB lists to invite people to events. Any integration of G+ circles with your calendar?
Because it's terribly implemented. Hell, lists on facebook now offer better functionality then google circles with things like smartlists. In facebook I use lists to control who I chat with, how about in G+? Yes I can select the circles who are allowed to talk to me, but what about those who I had before G+? They are in the same chat, so how do I manage them? Integration of Google calendar with G+? Oh G+ is not for that, it's not meant for you to actually manage your social life... well then I still need facebook don't I, and in that case why should I bother with both? And I could go on and on...
Could you expand on this? I don't work that much with OO languages. So I looked for 'Liskov substitution principle' and I understand it concerns semantic requirements of types in a hierarchy. But aren't these semantic requirements valuable precisely so that your code behaves uniformly across types, and is therefore reusable?
I can't do much more to educate you than repeat what I just said. They don't "believe" it exists. It is an hypothesis based on models that have been shown to have predictive value. Now they are trying to confirm that hypothesis. If the hypothesis is confirmed great. If not new hypothesis will come. There is no faith here. If there were faith they wouldn't bother looking for it and try to look for data to confirm or disprove their models. They'd just assume it to be true.
Actually it is exactly the other way around. The fact that they spend billions to confirm its hypothesised existence, rather than just take it for granted, is a consequence of their lack of faith.
Still, the way you put it, doesn't sound like a technological or engineering challenge, but mere budget. So I have to wonder how much costs would have to increase to get there in 1/4 of the time.
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You already got a really nice response here, but let me just add a few things.
If you like the "multiple desktop" metaphor then think of activities as different "offices", these are different works spaces that you can go to to perform different tasks, and each office may have it's own decorations, all different kinds of appliances on sight, some appliances always running by default, and possibly multiple desks to put your stuff. Unfortunately the implementation is still (in my opinion) a bit primitive. But eventually it should provide you with all different kinds of office spaces (activities) optimised to work in a certain kind of way, and furthermore make it easy to define your own.
For instance, you could have your Programming Environment. Here programming tools as icons on desktop and panel. By default it could open a couple of konsoles with different tabs in common directories in one of the virtual desktops. In another maybe Git client logged in to your main repository and another konsole. Of course you could be running two such activities of this same kind, one for your Java project and another for some Haskell project, and alternate between both. And when you're not using one of them you could pause it, and ideally in practise this could work as a local "suspend" or "hibernate", i.e. free your processor and possibly memory until you want to return to it and have everything back up running again in the previous state.
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The confusion arises because there's a small paradigm change. You now have activities, which are more generic. The idea is that you run an activity for each particular task you want to accomplish, therefore each activity may have completely different settings and even provide you with completely different user interfaces. And in that context a virtual desktop becomes just a bit of extra space within an activity.
Now you may still say want a wallpaper per desktop anyway, but that's not any more sensible than asking for say, different icons per desktop. And of course this can be generalised to any particular widget. So KDE provides you with an option to change those widgets per virtual desktop. You looking for a specific option for wallpaper only, is a result of your habits based on the fact that previously, there wasn't much else you could change.
If you want to share the same things in the same way with all of your acquaintances, by all means do it. But that's not how most people behave. To me, circles brings me back to the real world.
Facebook worked fine when it was mostly Uni students. This meant the contact list was somewhat uniform. But while in the beginning most shared pretty much anything over Facebook, I see more and more people now protecting their tagged photos, removing albums, disabling walls. They don't feel that comfortable sharing all that stuff with their aunts, their boyfriend's mother, boss. So they are using Facebook less and less. I have 15 year old cousins who have 0 interest in getting a Facebook account.
If you want to share things with just your close family members, or just close friends, or just computer scientists... how do you do it? You create the respective lists. Initial problems. - They will see the names of the groups and how you organized them (not good for "not so close friends", "hot girls" and the like). - How do you find which pictures you've share with just a particular group of people?
But you also want to talk back and forth with them, wall style. You can restrict your wall to just certain lists, but you only have one wall... so you need a group for each list. Problems: - They will see the name of the groups. - Now you want to start a particular discussion with two lists, or with one list plus one person... create new group just for that? - You have to go to your groups to look at your discussions with that particular groups, no overall view of your discriminated stream.
It is way to messy. Circles on the other hand, are not an afterthought. All your contacts are organized in circles, you share whatever you want with a particular circle, or any group of people you define on the fly. I still think the interface needs to improve a lot, and as well as the basic concept (we need at least sub-circles). But still, even as it is, it's already way better in terms of control of information.
That's part of the point of "activities". KDE should provide you different interfaces for different tasks. If you go to the cashew and select "activities" you have a few activity templates available, such as the "search & launch". So far nothing very interesting is available, but to be fair from what I understand the internals only recently became usable, so I'd expect the situation to slowly change.
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The only one I know of is Sony's Mobius, which was conceived specifically with academia in mind.
You need calculus for analysis of algorithms. Even for simple deterministic programs you'll need at least to work with series (which is discrete calculus). Add random inputs and/or noise and you'll need statistics, which itself requires calculus.
Matlab-esque CAS.
Matlab is a Numerical Computation System, not a Computer Algebra System
In a 1943 letter Einstein said he made a statement "which corresponds approximately" with Time article, but that it was made much earlier than 1940 "during the first years of the Nazi regime" and that his actual comments were "more moderate."[4] In a 1950 letter Einstein said that his quoted remarks from the Time article were "not my own", that they had been "elaborated and exaggerated nearly beyond recognition" and that he was "predominantly critical" of the clergy.[5] In a 1943 interview Einstein was extremely critical of the Catholic Church's behavior under the Nazis, and also singled out Pope Pius XII for criticism because of his Concordat with Hitler, saying "Since when can one make a pact with Christ and Satan at the same time?"
had to go elsewhere when kde3 became impractical to keep running and kde4 was completely broken.
When was this? When did KDE3 become impractical and why and what was the available KDE4 version at the time?
Actually he's Portuguese. Admittedly the beginning of his post is confusing and makes it sound like he is from the US. But then it becomes clear he's from Portugal. Sounds like you also didn't read his whole comment :P
I'm obviously from Portugal... did you read my whole comment? :S
I also find it quite amusing that this was proposed by a supposedly (central) left wing party. I have no party affiliation, and been looking for alternatives. I found MLS (Movimento Liberal Social) rather interesting. If you look at their website, they covered this issue as well as ACTA on their front page. They also seem pretty big free software. And as a bonus are for a stronger separation of church and state. And they are not an extremist party in any sense. I'm surprised they don't get more publicity, at least amongst the younger generations.
Your b is a constant pointer, you can't do b = a. If you, with your whole experience, managed to mess that up, imagine an 11 year old.
And then throw in the added energy required by an air conditioner to remove all that heat from your house.
To be fair, if you really think this actually makes a difference, you also should factor out decreased costs in heating for those in cold places.
Manage List -> Choose update types. It is actually quite fine grained, you can disable all kinds of updates, or keep just some of them. You can also do it individually for each friend. In the individual settings you can also choose to get all updates, most, or none.
You can also use lists to control exactly who can chat with you. Can you do that with G+ circles? Are you sure? What about those who were in your chat before G+ existed? You have dynamic lists on FB with friends in your city, those from your work, from your University, etc. Any automatically generated circles in G+? You can use FB lists to invite people to events. Any integration of G+ circles with your calendar?
Because it's terribly implemented. Hell, lists on facebook now offer better functionality then google circles with things like smartlists. In facebook I use lists to control who I chat with, how about in G+? Yes I can select the circles who are allowed to talk to me, but what about those who I had before G+? They are in the same chat, so how do I manage them? Integration of Google calendar with G+? Oh G+ is not for that, it's not meant for you to actually manage your social life... well then I still need facebook don't I, and in that case why should I bother with both? And I could go on and on...
Could you expand on this? I don't work that much with OO languages. So I looked for 'Liskov substitution principle' and I understand it concerns semantic requirements of types in a hierarchy. But aren't these semantic requirements valuable precisely so that your code behaves uniformly across types, and is therefore reusable?
Actually, a long way beyond, but hey.
You see moving the desktop compositing on to the GPU removes load off the CPU, therefore making the entire system faster.
So does turning off compositing.
Still a shame those gui's became so bloathed and slooowwww. And thank God for fluxbox and the likes.
If this is how you feel, then you'd use Kwin with effects off, and wouldn't care about lack of OpenGL compositing. So I don't see your point.
I don't remember XP having compositing window manager. They'll still be able to use KDE and Kwin, just not OpenGL compositing.
I can't do much more to educate you than repeat what I just said. They don't "believe" it exists. It is an hypothesis based on models that have been shown to have predictive value. Now they are trying to confirm that hypothesis. If the hypothesis is confirmed great. If not new hypothesis will come. There is no faith here. If there were faith they wouldn't bother looking for it and try to look for data to confirm or disprove their models. They'd just assume it to be true.
Actually it is exactly the other way around. The fact that they spend billions to confirm its hypothesised existence, rather than just take it for granted, is a consequence of their lack of faith.
Still, the way you put it, doesn't sound like a technological or engineering challenge, but mere budget. So I have to wonder how much costs would have to increase to get there in 1/4 of the time.
You already got a really nice response here, but let me just add a few things.
If you like the "multiple desktop" metaphor then think of activities as different "offices", these are different works spaces that you can go to to perform different tasks, and each office may have it's own decorations, all different kinds of appliances on sight, some appliances always running by default, and possibly multiple desks to put your stuff. Unfortunately the implementation is still (in my opinion) a bit primitive. But eventually it should provide you with all different kinds of office spaces (activities) optimised to work in a certain kind of way, and furthermore make it easy to define your own.
For instance, you could have your Programming Environment. Here programming tools as icons on desktop and panel. By default it could open a couple of konsoles with different tabs in common directories in one of the virtual desktops. In another maybe Git client logged in to your main repository and another konsole. Of course you could be running two such activities of this same kind, one for your Java project and another for some Haskell project, and alternate between both. And when you're not using one of them you could pause it, and ideally in practise this could work as a local "suspend" or "hibernate", i.e. free your processor and possibly memory until you want to return to it and have everything back up running again in the previous state.
The confusion arises because there's a small paradigm change. You now have activities, which are more generic. The idea is that you run an activity for each particular task you want to accomplish, therefore each activity may have completely different settings and even provide you with completely different user interfaces. And in that context a virtual desktop becomes just a bit of extra space within an activity.
Now you may still say want a wallpaper per desktop anyway, but that's not any more sensible than asking for say, different icons per desktop. And of course this can be generalised to any particular widget. So KDE provides you with an option to change those widgets per virtual desktop. You looking for a specific option for wallpaper only, is a result of your habits based on the fact that previously, there wasn't much else you could change.
If you want to share the same things in the same way with all of your acquaintances, by all means do it. But that's not how most people behave. To me, circles brings me back to the real world.
Facebook worked fine when it was mostly Uni students. This meant the contact list was somewhat uniform. But while in the beginning most shared pretty much anything over Facebook, I see more and more people now protecting their tagged photos, removing albums, disabling walls. They don't feel that comfortable sharing all that stuff with their aunts, their boyfriend's mother, boss. So they are using Facebook less and less. I have 15 year old cousins who have 0 interest in getting a Facebook account.
If you want to share things with just your close family members, or just close friends, or just computer scientists... how do you do it? You create the respective lists. Initial problems.
- They will see the names of the groups and how you organized them (not good for "not so close friends", "hot girls" and the like).
- How do you find which pictures you've share with just a particular group of people?
But you also want to talk back and forth with them, wall style. You can restrict your wall to just certain lists, but you only have one wall... so you need a group for each list. Problems:
- They will see the name of the groups.
- Now you want to start a particular discussion with two lists, or with one list plus one person... create new group just for that?
- You have to go to your groups to look at your discussions with that particular groups, no overall view of your discriminated stream.
It is way to messy. Circles on the other hand, are not an afterthought. All your contacts are organized in circles, you share whatever you want with a particular circle, or any group of people you define on the fly. I still think the interface needs to improve a lot, and as well as the basic concept (we need at least sub-circles). But still, even as it is, it's already way better in terms of control of information.
From the linked announcement, which you obviously didn't bother to read:
MeeGo development continues forward on a six-month cadence, with MeeGo 1.3 scheduled to be released in October, 2011.
That's part of the point of "activities". KDE should provide you different interfaces for different tasks. If you go to the cashew and select "activities" you have a few activity templates available, such as the "search & launch". So far nothing very interesting is available, but to be fair from what I understand the internals only recently became usable, so I'd expect the situation to slowly change.