Since we're talking about the BBC, wouldn't something more like Bits-Bytes-and-Cockney be more appropriate?
Sorry, guv'nor. Up until somewhat recently BBC newsreaders stuck with RP (Received Pronunciation), just as US announcers, at least at the national level, hewed to a generic "Midwestern" (Iowa) pronunciation.
...but you'll never beat that infinitely variable and infinitely dividable quality of analog.
Um...if memory serves, magnetizable objects are made up of a bunch of little regions, called "magnetic domains," that are like little magnets. (A magnet just has the magnetic fields of the domains all lined up rather than in random directions.) These domains aren't infinitely small, just as photographic film suffers from grain. (Hence the cranking up of tape speed for higher fidelity, increasing the domains passed over per unit time.)
Also, it's not clear to me that an analog medium can be written to or read with infinite accuracy--but I hope someone more knowledgeable than I am can expound on that.
Of course, if [homosexuality] were genetics [sic], according to Darwin, it would be a trait that should have been wiped out long ago since homosexuals cant reproduce.
By that reasoning, sickle-cell anemia should've been wiped out long ago. Unfortunately for the homozygous recessives, the more prevalent heterozygotes gain some resistance to malaria, so that natural selection keeps the gene in the population.
I'm not asserting that homosexuality is genetic, but the above shows that traits can persist despite being disadvantageous to a minority of the population.
That's even assuming that the earthquake wasn't actually a good outcome out of all the possible outcomes; for example, what if the earthquake released tectonic pressure that otherwise would've built up and killed millions instead of hundreds of thousands?
That's why omnipotence is part of the hypothesis part of the problem of evil. An omnipotent god wouldn't have to settle for the least bad solution.
Corporations these days play countries off against each other to ensure that they get the best deal they can...
Consumers these days play businesses off against each other to ensure that they get the best deal they can. The only difference is that the commodity in question is labor, instead of vegetables, cars, or whatever. What makes it virtuous to seek the best price on tomatoes, but evil to do so for labor?
You want a never changing API? Then do what NVIDIA did. Write your OWN never-changing API/ABI, and recompile that for every kernel on the planet at install - now you can keep your proprietary skeletons in the closet and STILL not piss-off linux users....It's hard to install nvidia drivers? Nope../nvidia-installer. Whew, that was... ummm... "hard."
Actually, I'm somewhat pissed off at having to go through the rigamarole every time there's a kernel update, and it was not that easy for Fedora Core 3--if you go through the routine that has worked up to now and that the nvidia README tells one to do, you'll find that X fails to run after a reboot. The rigamarole is now longer, unless you know about the special livna.org RPMs, which the nvidia site doesn't point you at.
As for ATI drivers--ATI still points you at the GATOS project if you want to use the TV tuners on their AIW cards (GATOS now has a member with commit privileges on x.org, but I don't know how much things have advanced. I gave up on ATI after never getting everything going right on my AIW Radeon). ATI's Linux drivers are only for sufficiently new cards, and for a while the banner when one joins #gentoo has included "ati-drivers break xorg 6.8".
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Yes, I remember. Much the same way that the computer section of bookstores used to be CS, and is now largely "[name of app] for [level of brain damage]".
Since TFA quoted someone who cited a limit of 32,000 reassignments, I would guess signed (and that they were just truncating--if it's really a 16-bit counter, the upper bound would be 32,767).
It's not that easy; Easter tracks a "virtual" full moon that doesn't necessarily match the actual full moon, and there's the whole Dominical Letter rigamarole, and... let's just say that its hair has hair. Check out this site.
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I happen to believe in the existance of greater being, not because I can cite someones scientific evidence but because there has to be something more to the world that we don't understand.
Alas, in other contexts, I've found that what I want to be true is pretty useless in determining what actually is true. (Otherwise, Bill Gates would be applying for a job cleaning toilets in the building where I work.)
Science is simply a self-consistent closed system that models the real world.
It's not just that. The important thing about science is that it has a way to filter out bogosity. Nobody believes in phlogiston any more, or thinks that acquired traits are inherited. The model that scientists generally agree on thus improves over time.
Contrast with religion, which prides itself on being unchanging.
Now, if there's a common assumption that the scientific model is correct, rather than "just" the best we can do at the moment, there's a problem--schools are doing a lousy job of science education. But if people, I think rightly, conclude that science is a better way to deal with the real world than religion, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.
If the author of TFA has a beef, it should be with lazy OSS authors who don't write their apps in a portable fashion, or who succumb to the siren song of people like Robert Scoble, who was urging Mozilla to tie itself inextricably to Longhorn, thus making Mozilla Windows-only as MS tried to do to Java code with their polluted Java. As long as they don't do that, eventually OSS apps will cover the majority of things people want to do with computers, and eventually they'll ask themselves why they are bothering to pay the MS Tax.
In the immortal words of AOL users, "me too." I have to use XP at work, and I find that yes, I get my desktop right away, but it takes another minute or so of intense flailing away at the hard drive before XP will deign to notice my clicking on anything.
If memory serves--I'm trying to remember where I read this, and it may be obsolete--an MS Word document file is simply a dump of its in-memory representation, so one would expect it to be gratuitously large.
Agreed--decoupling GUI from the internal function so that one could insert one's GUI of choice would be a great thing to do, not just for GIMP but for many apps. But I still wish people would say more than just "GIMP's UI sucks" or "Photoshop's UI rules." If they stop there, I suppose they have the short-lived satisfaction of venting, but without specifics, how the [insert favorite expletive] do they expect GIMP to improve?
Perhaps a good first step towards that would be if people sharing that opinion would post something more informative and detailed than "GIMP UI sux0rs" and "Photoshop UI rules."
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Since we're talking about the BBC, wouldn't something more like Bits-Bytes-and-Cockney be more appropriate?
Sorry, guv'nor. Up until somewhat recently BBC newsreaders stuck with RP (Received Pronunciation), just as US announcers, at least at the national level, hewed to a generic "Midwestern" (Iowa) pronunciation.
...but you'll never beat that infinitely variable and infinitely dividable quality of analog.
Um...if memory serves, magnetizable objects are made up of a bunch of little regions, called "magnetic domains," that are like little magnets. (A magnet just has the magnetic fields of the domains all lined up rather than in random directions.) These domains aren't infinitely small, just as photographic film suffers from grain. (Hence the cranking up of tape speed for higher fidelity, increasing the domains passed over per unit time.)
Also, it's not clear to me that an analog medium can be written to or read with infinite accuracy--but I hope someone more knowledgeable than I am can expound on that.
Of course, if [homosexuality] were genetics [sic], according to Darwin, it would be a trait that should have been wiped out long ago since homosexuals cant reproduce.
By that reasoning, sickle-cell anemia should've been wiped out long ago. Unfortunately for the homozygous recessives, the more prevalent heterozygotes gain some resistance to malaria, so that natural selection keeps the gene in the population.
I'm not asserting that homosexuality is genetic, but the above shows that traits can persist despite being disadvantageous to a minority of the population.
That's even assuming that the earthquake wasn't actually a good outcome out of all the possible outcomes; for example, what if the earthquake released tectonic pressure that otherwise would've built up and killed millions instead of hundreds of thousands?
That's why omnipotence is part of the hypothesis part of the problem of evil. An omnipotent god wouldn't have to settle for the least bad solution.
I believe that there's something to induction (induction as opposed to deduction, not mathematical induction)...well, it's worked so far!
Corporations these days play countries off against each other to ensure that they get the best deal they can...
Consumers these days play businesses off against each other to ensure that they get the best deal they can. The only difference is that the commodity in question is labor, instead of vegetables, cars, or whatever. What makes it virtuous to seek the best price on tomatoes, but evil to do so for labor?
You want a never changing API? Then do what NVIDIA did. Write your OWN never-changing API/ABI, and recompile that for every kernel on the planet at install - now you can keep your proprietary skeletons in the closet and STILL not piss-off linux users....It's hard to install nvidia drivers? Nope. ./nvidia-installer. Whew, that was... ummm... "hard."
Actually, I'm somewhat pissed off at having to go through the rigamarole every time there's a kernel update, and it was not that easy for Fedora Core 3--if you go through the routine that has worked up to now and that the nvidia README tells one to do, you'll find that X fails to run after a reboot. The rigamarole is now longer, unless you know about the special livna.org RPMs, which the nvidia site doesn't point you at.
As for ATI drivers--ATI still points you at the GATOS project if you want to use the TV tuners on their AIW cards (GATOS now has a member with commit privileges on x.org, but I don't know how much things have advanced. I gave up on ATI after never getting everything going right on my AIW Radeon). ATI's Linux drivers are only for sufficiently new cards, and for a while the banner when one joins #gentoo has included "ati-drivers break xorg 6.8".
Yes, I remember. Much the same way that the computer section of bookstores used to be CS, and is now largely "[name of app] for [level of brain damage]".
Since TFA quoted someone who cited a limit of 32,000 reassignments, I would guess signed (and that they were just truncating--if it's really a 16-bit counter, the upper bound would be 32,767).
Clock speed != performance, no matter what the Blue Man Group might want you to think.
...could your car be hax0red, as in The Wrath of Khan?
It's not that easy; Easter tracks a "virtual" full moon that doesn't necessarily match the actual full moon, and there's the whole Dominical Letter rigamarole, and... let's just say that its hair has hair. Check out this site.
...nother brick in the mass storage unit.
Darn. Doesn't scan.
I happen to believe in the existance of greater being, not because I can cite someones scientific evidence but because there has to be something more to the world that we don't understand.
Alas, in other contexts, I've found that what I want to be true is pretty useless in determining what actually is true. (Otherwise, Bill Gates would be applying for a job cleaning toilets in the building where I work.)
See also William Sargant's classic Battle for the Mind: A Physiology of Conversion and Brainwashing.
Science is simply a self-consistent closed system that models the real world.
It's not just that. The important thing about science is that it has a way to filter out bogosity. Nobody believes in phlogiston any more, or thinks that acquired traits are inherited. The model that scientists generally agree on thus improves over time.
Contrast with religion, which prides itself on being unchanging.
Now, if there's a common assumption that the scientific model is correct, rather than "just" the best we can do at the moment, there's a problem--schools are doing a lousy job of science education. But if people, I think rightly, conclude that science is a better way to deal with the real world than religion, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.
...because well-written OSS isn't tied to Windows. That reduces the applications barrier to entry
If the author of TFA has a beef, it should be with lazy OSS authors who don't write their apps in a portable fashion, or who succumb to the siren song of people like Robert Scoble, who was urging Mozilla to tie itself inextricably to Longhorn, thus making Mozilla Windows-only as MS tried to do to Java code with their polluted Java. As long as they don't do that, eventually OSS apps will cover the majority of things people want to do with computers, and eventually they'll ask themselves why they are bothering to pay the MS Tax.
In the immortal words of AOL users, "me too." I have to use XP at work, and I find that yes, I get my desktop right away, but it takes another minute or so of intense flailing away at the hard drive before XP will deign to notice my clicking on anything.
If memory serves--I'm trying to remember where I read this, and it may be obsolete--an MS Word document file is simply a dump of its in-memory representation, so one would expect it to be gratuitously large.
In fact, the responsibility to do everything possible for happiness and welfare is a moral imperative.
OK...the government knows how to get in touch with me; where's my new car and house? Shouldn't they be giving me that for my happiness and welfare?
(The above, of course, is sarcasm. The government owes me no such thing, nor does it owe people an education.)
...and how much of the article would you have to change to get something that probably appeared in print fifty or so years ago?
Agreed--decoupling GUI from the internal function so that one could insert one's GUI of choice would be a great thing to do, not just for GIMP but for many apps. But I still wish people would say more than just "GIMP's UI sucks" or "Photoshop's UI rules." If they stop there, I suppose they have the short-lived satisfaction of venting, but without specifics, how the [insert favorite expletive] do they expect GIMP to improve?
Perhaps a good first step towards that would be if people sharing that opinion would post something more informative and detailed than "GIMP UI sux0rs" and "Photoshop UI rules."
...could they also ditch the ghastly font the splash screen uses for "the gimp"?