You can install Gnome & KDE apps side-by-side and they just work.
This is not the case, you probably missed the slashdot story on the drama between GNOME and Canonical. In particular see Aaron Seigo's rant on how GNOME ignored "status notifiers", a cross desktop specification submitted to Freedesktop.org and with an existing implementation by Canonical.
My guess is couples using condoms feel much more comfortable not withdrawing than couples using the pill (that's my experience anyway). So it might be the case that, unless they had specific instructions not to withdraw, many of the couples using the pill often used both these methods combined.
To the best of my knowledge, the first browser that provided inline PDF viewing without having to add a plugin - was Safari. It was doing that long before Chrome, anyway.
F6 selects the text in the URL bar. In practise this is more general than clearing. You can simply start typing and the previous text will be gone (and if you don't want to type new text you don't have any reason to clear it). On the other hand you can also for instance, simply copy the text, or move your cursor and edit it.
Just fine? KDE 4.5 and 4.6 (upcoming) crash on log in with nvidias drivers ver 260.xx.xx (on openSUSE 11.3 32bit?). Many other applications and applets also crash, particularly on 4.6 where krunner, amarok and search and launch activity are amongst the affected ones. This is one of the currently most reported bugs at the moment with a current dup count of 58! As if all this wasn't enough in 4.6 the window manager also almost immediately freezes until desktop effects are automatically disabled.
So basically when you try KDE 4.6 on openSUSE 11.3 with updated nvidia drivers what happens is. You can't login due to desktop crash. If you fix that by removing the offending applets from the config files. On login Krunner crashes and keeps re-spawning and crashing. If you manage to kill it then desktop freezes and if all goes well effects are disabled. And if you get past then you can use it... without krunner, effects, and some of its best applications.
I love okular. That said it doesn't even support pdf annotations.
You can annotate pdfs, but these are stored separately, so if you send it to someone else they're all gone. In all fairness the problem is actually in poppler and not directly in okular but in the end it does affect the later.
There's another problem: while gains from Moore's law have historically been realized by a recompile or less, most new algorithms require actually changing the code.
I think you're forgetting about actually changing the hardware, in the former case.
> I believe the field should be called "Algorithm Development".
There's a lot in computer science that has nothing to do with the development of algorithms (e.g. semantics, computability theory, complexity theory, type theory, etc...). I'd call it "Science of Computations" rather than "Computers".
True. I expected good Chrome extensions for Google services, made by Google. But that is not the case at all which is surprising. Even their GMail checker is pretty bad, doesn't even support multiple accounts (so I use Simple Gmail Checker instead).
Personally I use Google Bookmarks. Fairly, simple but enough for my needs. Furthermore I like to have them associated with my google account. I manage them with "Yet Another Google Bookmarks Extension" for Chromium.
It is also tedious to write long function names, at least it would look concise when written. Also if you have a few non-ascii symbols you use all the time, there are ways to simplify their input. Quite a few languages do this already (check some theorem provers like isabelle and coq and their proof general interfaces for emacs).
Right now it's the darling of the social internet, but a few years ago that title belonged to MySpace. Remember MySpace?
I'm not going to be naive and say FB will be here forever, but MS was in a very different situation back then. While it was a quite a big social network, there was plenty of space for others to grow. I've met just a handful of MS users. I have to try hard to think of internet users without FB. Also MB appealed to a particular kind of user and had trouble expanding outside those bounds. Facebook began with the Uni crowd but successfully cleared the boundaries. MB had many other weak spots, it was not that useful, it did not provide that much functionality, and it was all messed up with spam.
To dethrone FB now, you have to invade its space, and provide some sufficiently appealing extra. That is going to be damned hard. Why would people move? Security and privacy?... FB'd have to mess up pretty bad for that to happen. Better interface? FB's quite good. More functionality? They can adapt pretty fast. The only reason I can think of is, younger generation wanting to have their own thing. But man... that is going to take a while. There's no decent alternative yet, plenty 14 year old kids are still becoming FB users these days. So unless something really nasty happens, I bet they'll be continue quite strong for many years.
These sites don't have a very long shelf life. They're popular for a few years, and then they die off when the next, newest popular social media site takes off.
These sites haven't been around long enough for us to know that.
Regarding the first part yes agree, he was probably being paid by the Uni. Although to be fair, for anyone that knows how it works, that's almost no different from being paid by the grocery store if that happens to be your job. Meaning that writing the book is pretty much a second job, it's not like they'll cut on your job or expect you to publish less. In any case I still concede you have a point.
The second part I don't get though. I don't see my Uni buying new volumes every couple of years by any means. My own copy is now about 6 years old and that's what I use. Also maybe it's different over there. But like I said, I've never seen students being required to buy the book. Classes should be self contained, and the book just an extra and available for free at the library.
That makes no sense. According to your metric the more it sells the less valuable it is. There is a risk factor there, he could have made little or no money from his book, like many other authors out there. He sells a lot, good for him.
I've been a teacher assistant for Calculus quite a few times. Many if not most professors tend to follow Stewart's book in their course preparation, but the book is not required material for the students by any means. In fact they rarely buy it. Classes are self contained, we provide exercise sheets, and some professors also provide their own notes. That's enough. And if they do want to read the book for free it is available at the library.
Fair price actually.
The book is over 1100 pages long. I actually own a version that comes in two volumes, so that would be $85 each. They are used for 3 or 4 semester calculus courses and the quality of the material is really good. It's money well spent.
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You can install Gnome & KDE apps side-by-side and they just work.
This is not the case, you probably missed the slashdot story on the drama between GNOME and Canonical. In particular see Aaron Seigo's rant on how GNOME ignored "status notifiers", a cross desktop specification submitted to Freedesktop.org and with an existing implementation by Canonical.
Moreover, 'the differences in KDE 4.6 and GNOME 3 (the latest releases)
GNOME's latest release is actually 2.32. Version 3 wasn't released yet.
My guess is couples using condoms feel much more comfortable not withdrawing than couples using the pill (that's my experience anyway). So it might be the case that, unless they had specific instructions not to withdraw, many of the couples using the pill often used both these methods combined.
To the best of my knowledge, the first browser that provided inline PDF viewing without having to add a plugin - was Safari. It was doing that long before Chrome, anyway.
Konqueror did it before Safari.
No one-click clear the URL bar.
F6 selects the text in the URL bar. In practise this is more general than clearing. You can simply start typing and the previous text will be gone (and if you don't want to type new text you don't have any reason to clear it). On the other hand you can also for instance, simply copy the text, or move your cursor and edit it.
While it does seem to be a problem in the drivers, X11 is not crashing.
Just fine? KDE 4.5 and 4.6 (upcoming) crash on log in with nvidias drivers ver 260.xx.xx (on openSUSE 11.3 32bit?). Many other applications and applets also crash, particularly on 4.6 where krunner, amarok and search and launch activity are amongst the affected ones. This is one of the currently most reported bugs at the moment with a current dup count of 58! As if all this wasn't enough in 4.6 the window manager also almost immediately freezes until desktop effects are automatically disabled.
So basically when you try KDE 4.6 on openSUSE 11.3 with updated nvidia drivers what happens is. You can't login due to desktop crash. If you fix that by removing the offending applets from the config files. On login Krunner crashes and keeps re-spawning and crashing. If you manage to kill it then desktop freezes and if all goes well effects are disabled. And if you get past then you can use it... without krunner, effects, and some of its best applications.
I love okular. That said it doesn't even support pdf annotations.
You can annotate pdfs, but these are stored separately, so if you send it to someone else they're all gone. In all fairness the problem is actually in poppler and not directly in okular but in the end it does affect the later.
Some say the same about kangaroos.
There's another problem: while gains from Moore's law have historically been realized by a recompile or less, most new algorithms require actually changing the code.
I think you're forgetting about actually changing the hardware, in the former case.
> I believe the field should be called "Algorithm Development".
There's a lot in computer science that has nothing to do with the development of algorithms (e.g. semantics, computability theory, complexity theory, type theory, etc...). I'd call it "Science of Computations" rather than "Computers".
True. I expected good Chrome extensions for Google services, made by Google. But that is not the case at all which is surprising. Even their GMail checker is pretty bad, doesn't even support multiple accounts (so I use Simple Gmail Checker instead).
Personally I use Google Bookmarks. Fairly, simple but enough for my needs. Furthermore I like to have them associated with my google account. I manage them with "Yet Another Google Bookmarks Extension" for Chromium.
Maybe is an issue with proprietary nvidia drivers?
It's kind of funny that there's a discussion about certain symbols being evil, in a game where you're running around shooting people's heads.
So what?
It is also tedious to write long function names, at least it would look concise when written. Also if you have a few non-ascii symbols you use all the time, there are ways to simplify their input. Quite a few languages do this already (check some theorem provers like isabelle and coq and their proof general interfaces for emacs).
Right now it's the darling of the social internet, but a few years ago that title belonged to MySpace. Remember MySpace?
I'm not going to be naive and say FB will be here forever, but MS was in a very different situation back then. While it was a quite a big social network, there was plenty of space for others to grow. I've met just a handful of MS users. I have to try hard to think of internet users without FB. Also MB appealed to a particular kind of user and had trouble expanding outside those bounds. Facebook began with the Uni crowd but successfully cleared the boundaries. MB had many other weak spots, it was not that useful, it did not provide that much functionality, and it was all messed up with spam.
To dethrone FB now, you have to invade its space, and provide some sufficiently appealing extra. That is going to be damned hard. Why would people move? Security and privacy?... FB'd have to mess up pretty bad for that to happen. Better interface? FB's quite good. More functionality? They can adapt pretty fast. The only reason I can think of is, younger generation wanting to have their own thing. But man... that is going to take a while. There's no decent alternative yet, plenty 14 year old kids are still becoming FB users these days. So unless something really nasty happens, I bet they'll be continue quite strong for many years.
These sites don't have a very long shelf life. They're popular for a few years, and then they die off when the next, newest popular social media site takes off.
These sites haven't been around long enough for us to know that.
The title alone screamed crackpot to me...
Well, all I can tell you is that it is definitely the norm in Portugal, and that furthermore I had the same exact experience in the UK.
Regarding the first part yes agree, he was probably being paid by the Uni. Although to be fair, for anyone that knows how it works, that's almost no different from being paid by the grocery store if that happens to be your job. Meaning that writing the book is pretty much a second job, it's not like they'll cut on your job or expect you to publish less. In any case I still concede you have a point.
The second part I don't get though. I don't see my Uni buying new volumes every couple of years by any means. My own copy is now about 6 years old and that's what I use. Also maybe it's different over there. But like I said, I've never seen students being required to buy the book. Classes should be self contained, and the book just an extra and available for free at the library.
That makes no sense. According to your metric the more it sells the less valuable it is. There is a risk factor there, he could have made little or no money from his book, like many other authors out there. He sells a lot, good for him.
I've been a teacher assistant for Calculus quite a few times. Many if not most professors tend to follow Stewart's book in their course preparation, but the book is not required material for the students by any means. In fact they rarely buy it. Classes are self contained, we provide exercise sheets, and some professors also provide their own notes. That's enough. And if they do want to read the book for free it is available at the library.
Fair price actually. The book is over 1100 pages long. I actually own a version that comes in two volumes, so that would be $85 each. They are used for 3 or 4 semester calculus courses and the quality of the material is really good. It's money well spent.
I'd say that what Facebook ought to copy isn't FourSquare but GetGlue (...). As a geek i'm a lot more interested in (...)
Why do you think facebook should focus on geeks?
Yes. Which they are not supposed to in a democrat process.
In this case they also had fake accounts to bury articles and posts multiple times.