Geometry wasn't the most useful of my high school math classes, but it was the most fun, because we all worked together to come up with proofs, showing that those lousy formulas we had to memorize all had their root in Euclid.
Similarly, anyone who wants to go anywhere with calculus should at least try to understand the proof of the existence of limits, at least for a few minutes, because that's what makes calculus something other than voodoo.
Like, for instance, if you want to be able to continue receiving most of the channels that you pay for. Maybe you're not "forced" to get new hardware, but most people aren't forced to do much of anything in their lives. OTOH you really want to get that hardware unless there's something wrong with you.
I don't know how serious you're actually trying to be, but let me add a word or two. Back in 1962, Kennedy promised that the exploration of space would be the "most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked." The fact that we've come through it with so little lost is partly the result of a great attention to safety and detail, and partly the result of the fact that it hasn't been much of an adventure for the past 32 years.
And that's the real pity of the space shuttle program. It's still space, and it kills people on occasion. Considering that the technology is ancient, it probably kills more people than it really should. And yet, we use it to go nowhere, and do nothing really interesting. If it was actually "shuttling" someone on the first leg of a longer voyage, maybe it would have a purpose. But we don't have any intent of doing that; everyone knows the space station will never get any real use either, so together they're just massive wastes of money and life. I'm not crying at the grounding of the shuttle.
Yeah, but "refresh" doesn't mean anything like the same thing on an LCD. LCD pixels keep their state until told otherwise (or they lose their power). CRT phosphors are only being excited for about a nanosecond at a time, 60-100 times a second. The rest of the time is a combination of the phosphor fading out while it gives up its energy, and your eyes taking a while to notice that spot isn't bright anymore. It's no surprise that something as weird as all that causes eyestrain and occasional motion sickness.
Yeah, CRTs put out a bit of radiation; so do LCDs. Scientists have theorized that this electromagnetic radiation is, in fact, what allows you to see the picture on the screen.
Why does your software have a handedness? Doesn't that make it incompatible with half of the potential computers in the universe? And what's the chirality of my laptop anyway?
Depends what you're doing with it. If you're doing amateur photography and graphics work, GIMP has everything you need, and at least a few nifty things that photoshop doesn't. If you're looking into doing something a bit more professional, there are still reasons to stick with Photoshop. As any slashdotter would be glad to tell you, GIMP's colorspace support is between weak and nonexistent, and GIMP proper doesn't support 16 bits per channel.
Just be glad that this time your friends in the gubmint managed to produce a stupid, useless failure for only $1 million. It was that much less time spent on stupid, useless failures costing a few billion or trillion.
But in all, um, seriousness, Ubuntu has what appears to be quite a competent partitioning tool in its build of boot-floppies; one can only hope that some of those installer improvements (or ones like them) make their way into Debian. If they don't, someone needs to be hurt.
I think you're on the right track, but I don't entirely agree with your conclusions.
I do think that Debian is slipping, and I do think that they need to either evolve or die (though that's more common sense than insight). But I truly hope that they evolve rather than die. Debian has been a force for a long time now, and they've given quite a bit to the community. I think that now is the time that they need to figure out what they need to take from the community, get their act back together, and then get back to giving. Because while they are in real danger of becoming dead weight, in the final reckoning Debian is a good thing.
Yeah, I get "multi-hour" life too! I get a "multiple" hours out of my Dell's battery... usually... almost... well, I did when I got it. Now (six months later) it's good for just almost two hours at a reasonable load (backlight bright enough to see; processor and HD usage nonzero). At peak load (intentional stress-testing) it draws a good 35W; at 45Wh remaining capacity on the battery (out of an original 53), that comes to 1h20m, or less once you factor in the fact that I'm going to want to auto-hibernate a few minutes before the battery gives out.
No, I'd rather they end up decades ahead, by researching the useful things that will improve peoples' lives, instead of the useless, destructive, and ridiculous things that the government takes our money to fund.
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You shall rue this day.
Well, go on! Start rueing!
You mean... thinking?
Geometry wasn't the most useful of my high school math classes, but it was the most fun, because we all worked together to come up with proofs, showing that those lousy formulas we had to memorize all had their root in Euclid.
Similarly, anyone who wants to go anywhere with calculus should at least try to understand the proof of the existence of limits, at least for a few minutes, because that's what makes calculus something other than voodoo.
The Economist doesn't correspond to either of your pitiful, disgusting "wings", and that is good.
Googeln is a verb now? Oh, great. I think it's even worse than it is in English. :)
You wouldn't need the Hubble Space Telescope anymore, that's for sure!
That rhymes even worse than the original.
That was Voyager 6 or something like that. I suppose the writers were a little overoptimistic in thinking that we'd ever get past 2.
Like, for instance, if you want to be able to continue receiving most of the channels that you pay for. Maybe you're not "forced" to get new hardware, but most people aren't forced to do much of anything in their lives. OTOH you really want to get that hardware unless there's something wrong with you.
"Machine translation is an example of applying semantics to a syntactic structure. It doesn't work"
Okay, you can stop there.
No, in fact it's Phillips. This has been noted already, but that post was mysteriously modded into oblivion.
Any vendor that doesn't at least provide a compilable (and patchable) glue layer like nVidia's really deserves to be hurt.
I don't know how serious you're actually trying to be, but let me add a word or two. Back in 1962, Kennedy promised that the exploration of space would be the "most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked." The fact that we've come through it with so little lost is partly the result of a great attention to safety and detail, and partly the result of the fact that it hasn't been much of an adventure for the past 32 years.
And that's the real pity of the space shuttle program. It's still space, and it kills people on occasion. Considering that the technology is ancient, it probably kills more people than it really should. And yet, we use it to go nowhere, and do nothing really interesting. If it was actually "shuttling" someone on the first leg of a longer voyage, maybe it would have a purpose. But we don't have any intent of doing that; everyone knows the space station will never get any real use either, so together they're just massive wastes of money and life. I'm not crying at the grounding of the shuttle.
Yeah, but "refresh" doesn't mean anything like the same thing on an LCD. LCD pixels keep their state until told otherwise (or they lose their power). CRT phosphors are only being excited for about a nanosecond at a time, 60-100 times a second. The rest of the time is a combination of the phosphor fading out while it gives up its energy, and your eyes taking a while to notice that spot isn't bright anymore. It's no surprise that something as weird as all that causes eyestrain and occasional motion sickness.
Yeah, CRTs put out a bit of radiation; so do LCDs. Scientists have theorized that this electromagnetic radiation is, in fact, what allows you to see the picture on the screen.
Why does your software have a handedness? Doesn't that make it incompatible with half of the potential computers in the universe? And what's the chirality of my laptop anyway?
Depends what you're doing with it. If you're doing amateur photography and graphics work, GIMP has everything you need, and at least a few nifty things that photoshop doesn't. If you're looking into doing something a bit more professional, there are still reasons to stick with Photoshop. As any slashdotter would be glad to tell you, GIMP's colorspace support is between weak and nonexistent, and GIMP proper doesn't support 16 bits per channel.
Just be glad that this time your friends in the gubmint managed to produce a stupid, useless failure for only $1 million. It was that much less time spent on stupid, useless failures costing a few billion or trillion.
That works too, and I'm glad to hear it. Of course, it's a moot point unless Debian actually has a release sometime.
But in all, um, seriousness, Ubuntu has what appears to be quite a competent partitioning tool in its build of boot-floppies; one can only hope that some of those installer improvements (or ones like them) make their way into Debian. If they don't, someone needs to be hurt.
You get a type-and-click interface, which is even better![1]
[1] Click optional. See your keyboard manufacturer for details.
Who said anything about Debian Stable? Debian's "unstable" is more stable than a Redhat point-zero release any day of the week ;)
I think you're on the right track, but I don't entirely agree with your conclusions.
I do think that Debian is slipping, and I do think that they need to either evolve or die (though that's more common sense than insight). But I truly hope that they evolve rather than die. Debian has been a force for a long time now, and they've given quite a bit to the community. I think that now is the time that they need to figure out what they need to take from the community, get their act back together, and then get back to giving. Because while they are in real danger of becoming dead weight, in the final reckoning Debian is a good thing.
Yeah, I get "multi-hour" life too! I get a "multiple" hours out of my Dell's battery... usually... almost... well, I did when I got it. Now (six months later) it's good for just almost two hours at a reasonable load (backlight bright enough to see; processor and HD usage nonzero). At peak load (intentional stress-testing) it draws a good 35W; at 45Wh remaining capacity on the battery (out of an original 53), that comes to 1h20m, or less once you factor in the fact that I'm going to want to auto-hibernate a few minutes before the battery gives out.
Or perhaps a fee, which is assessed when you return the movie late.
No, I'd rather they end up decades ahead, by researching the useful things that will improve peoples' lives, instead of the useless, destructive, and ridiculous things that the government takes our money to fund.