That's a good point. As an alternative to Linux, it's only benefit is a semi familiar interface and some windows apps. I bet a bunch of users would be confused why their favorite programs don't work on "Windows".
What's to stop B undergrads from going somewhere besides John Hopkins or Harvard? I would imagine a degree at ANY med school could at least get more doctors on the ground helping those with financial difficulties.
There are other barriers to medical help, such as the condition of health care coverage in this country. I'm not saying that's the sole contributing factor, but it's one of them.
I go to the University of Florida right now. We're decent for a public school, and our medical program is actually pretty good. Some prereqs apply to Premed and all of the Engineering majors, so when I started here I had some classes with premeds.
For example, Calc 1 was extremely difficult. Plus, the rude teacher (one of the course coordinator's bitches) was bad at his job. With outside tutoring, I managed to scrape by. I think Calc is important for most majors, even premed, so this might not be the best example. However, the class shrunk as the year went on. Doing Calculus was difficult, but I can only assume less difficult than being a full time, life saving doctor. It's a good thing that these people got weeded out. Plus, it taught people like me to work harder to actually make it.
What am I trying to get to with all this rambling? I think difficult weed outs are good for the earlier part of your college career. Most premeds won't use Organic. But, they need to prove they can work hard towards a difficult subject early on. Otherwise, the resources go to waste. And as an added benefit, the people who do make it by these weed outs usually gain work ethic from the experience.
Yeah I realized later that due to some internal Python problems omnicomplete wasn't being activated for Python. It's a long story that only seems to apply to my system (probably some file corruption)
Here's another one: GNU/DOS. I never knew this existed, and although it was merged back into FreeDOS later on, it's an interesting tidbit of free software history. I'm a fan of Deltionpedia already.
I think asking a panel of computer scientists about databases would be at least moderately more successful than, say, Political Science majors.
What other large group of people should Adams have interviewed? (I'm open to suggestion here if I'm stupid and missing a large group of people that deal with the economy).
With C / C++ it does really good. It looks in headers etc. and gives a good recommendation.
For Python, eh, not so good. I may not have it set up correctly but I only get recommendations based on what I've already typed. It won't look in modules etc.
The Apple Lisa would cost about $20,000 in today's money. The two aren't related, but the jokes about a $25,000 desktop made me think of when PCs really did cost a whole lot. Just food for thought =)
(And yes, I am perfectly aware that the Lisa was a failure)
I have no idea about anything regarding Toyota and Ferrari. I can tell you, however, that McLaren and Ferrari were involved in a huge scandal just this past year. This was a big deal.
Yeah, but he would have to leave his house to meet the lobbyists that give him his paycheck. Unless these lobbyists really want what they're lobbying. Well, I suppose most are pretty determined...
Scratch that, he should be good. Hey everyone, let's be representatives!
If you're going to disagree with the groupthink, post something well written filled with reasoning (read: more than a sentence). If it isn't flame baity you should be good. And generally, calling the mods "MS hating fuckwits" and "fucking pathetic" doesn't help much with shaking a flamebait moderation.
Hell yeah, I started at $7/hr at a bottom of the barrel tech support job. With some really hard work, I got it up to $9 after a while. And this was for a max of 20 hours per week! Sheesh, I don't get these people scoffing $20/hr for a salesman position.
It will probably never happen. Plus, the competition probably does both teams a lot of good. But let's look at the specific reasons:
Different toolkits. If the projects joined, they would have to consolidate (ie, rewrite) TONS of code. That is, if they wanted to unify the applications look and feel. I suppose they wouldn't have to, but that sort of defeats the purpose.
Different design philosophies. KDE is all about choice, Gnome is all about making the choices for you. Obviously these are big oversimplifications of each (KDE makes some good choices by default, Gnome usually gives the power users a place to change things), but the different design philosophies would be hard to combine.
They're just different: The two projects have grown a lot over the last 10 years, and they both have great systems in place inside their desktop environments. Tons of this work would have to be heavily rewritten or scrapped altogether to make a new unified desktop environment. As an example, Gnome stores a lot of settings in the GConf repository, KDE doesn't.
And one could go on for a while regarding why these projects can't just magically join together. It's sort of like the cries of Webkit in Firefox. Read the Ars article on that subject to get a feel for trying to combine projects with similar goals but completely different designs. They just don't mesh.
Look, the punchline is obviously false, but I actually knew someone who believed this shit. If you have blind faith in something it can be easy to believe and exaggerate things that support your blind faith.
An acquaintance once told me that a man buried a chicken bone in his back yard and then told scientists he found a fossil. They carbon dated it and found it to be ~5000 years old (allegedly, according to this acquaintances story).
Through this, it was inferred that dinosaurs are a test of our faith.
I was quite disgusted but didn't want to get in a debate about this, because I knew my facts and knew she didn't.
The facts being, of course, that this had to be the MAGIC chicken ZORTHARQUACK from THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO.
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Excuse me, but I think that Tracemonkey is actually faster than V8. Has Tracemonkey really fallen that far behind in two weeks?
To play devil's advocate to this and one of my previous posts in this topic:
CE at least has Mobile Office 2007, something that traditionally Windows users might find comforting.
That's a good point. As an alternative to Linux, it's only benefit is a semi familiar interface and some windows apps. I bet a bunch of users would be confused why their favorite programs don't work on "Windows".
What's to stop B undergrads from going somewhere besides John Hopkins or Harvard? I would imagine a degree at ANY med school could at least get more doctors on the ground helping those with financial difficulties.
There are other barriers to medical help, such as the condition of health care coverage in this country. I'm not saying that's the sole contributing factor, but it's one of them.
I go to the University of Florida right now. We're decent for a public school, and our medical program is actually pretty good. Some prereqs apply to Premed and all of the Engineering majors, so when I started here I had some classes with premeds.
For example, Calc 1 was extremely difficult. Plus, the rude teacher (one of the course coordinator's bitches) was bad at his job. With outside tutoring, I managed to scrape by. I think Calc is important for most majors, even premed, so this might not be the best example. However, the class shrunk as the year went on. Doing Calculus was difficult, but I can only assume less difficult than being a full time, life saving doctor. It's a good thing that these people got weeded out. Plus, it taught people like me to work harder to actually make it.
What am I trying to get to with all this rambling? I think difficult weed outs are good for the earlier part of your college career. Most premeds won't use Organic. But, they need to prove they can work hard towards a difficult subject early on. Otherwise, the resources go to waste. And as an added benefit, the people who do make it by these weed outs usually gain work ethic from the experience.
Yeah I realized later that due to some internal Python problems omnicomplete wasn't being activated for Python. It's a long story that only seems to apply to my system (probably some file corruption)
That was quite funny, too bad the mods didn't get it.
Here's another one: GNU/DOS. I never knew this existed, and although it was merged back into FreeDOS later on, it's an interesting tidbit of free software history. I'm a fan of Deltionpedia already.
You appear to be the only one rolling on the floor laughinging
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OK, I'll ask.
Why is vim so much better than emacs??
I think asking a panel of computer scientists about databases would be at least moderately more successful than, say, Political Science majors.
What other large group of people should Adams have interviewed? (I'm open to suggestion here if I'm stupid and missing a large group of people that deal with the economy).
With C / C++ it does really good. It looks in headers etc. and gives a good recommendation.
For Python, eh, not so good. I may not have it set up correctly but I only get recommendations based on what I've already typed. It won't look in modules etc.
The Apple Lisa would cost about $20,000 in today's money. The two aren't related, but the jokes about a $25,000 desktop made me think of when PCs really did cost a whole lot. Just food for thought =)
(And yes, I am perfectly aware that the Lisa was a failure)
I have no idea about anything regarding Toyota and Ferrari. I can tell you, however, that McLaren and Ferrari were involved in a huge scandal just this past year. This was a big deal.
Yeah, but he would have to leave his house to meet the lobbyists that give him his paycheck. Unless these lobbyists really want what they're lobbying. Well, I suppose most are pretty determined...
Scratch that, he should be good. Hey everyone, let's be representatives!
If you're going to disagree with the groupthink, post something well written filled with reasoning (read: more than a sentence). If it isn't flame baity you should be good. And generally, calling the mods "MS hating fuckwits" and "fucking pathetic" doesn't help much with shaking a flamebait moderation.
More like skezzond prast =(
Nice try though!
Hell yeah, I started at $7/hr at a bottom of the barrel tech support job. With some really hard work, I got it up to $9 after a while. And this was for a max of 20 hours per week! Sheesh, I don't get these people scoffing $20/hr for a salesman position.
It will probably never happen. Plus, the competition probably does both teams a lot of good. But let's look at the specific reasons:
And one could go on for a while regarding why these projects can't just magically join together. It's sort of like the cries of Webkit in Firefox. Read the Ars article on that subject to get a feel for trying to combine projects with similar goals but completely different designs. They just don't mesh.
Look, the punchline is obviously false, but I actually knew someone who believed this shit. If you have blind faith in something it can be easy to believe and exaggerate things that support your blind faith.
An acquaintance once told me that a man buried a chicken bone in his back yard and then told scientists he found a fossil. They carbon dated it and found it to be ~5000 years old (allegedly, according to this acquaintances story).
Through this, it was inferred that dinosaurs are a test of our faith.
I was quite disgusted but didn't want to get in a debate about this, because I knew my facts and knew she didn't.
The facts being, of course, that this had to be the MAGIC chicken ZORTHARQUACK from THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO.
...been various customers who've received phonebills reaching into the 5000€ range...
Holy shit, isn't that, like, 100 million dollars???
And this is why Youtube is an attack on my faith in humanity :(
No.