For a long time I used to use a 500MHz, 128MB RAM, 8GB HDD computer (I had no source of income - I was 16-18). Here was my setup:
Debian Etch - I would use Lenny now Fluxbox - any *box takes up ~0MB RAM (for all practical estimations, esp. with a gig of RAM) and are very snappy. I like flux- more than black- or open-. Thunar file manager - the Xfce FM. Very quick and customisable. Not vomit-ugly like rox (IMO). Xterm: -> MOC for music -> mutt for e-mail -> finch for IM/IRC -> vim (of course) for text editing Links2 in graphical mode for the web when I could, firefox when I had to....so it's possible to get any POS computer doing anything you want pretty quickly
The hell? What do you mean "if anything"? It doesn't matter if it's not a madly revolutionary concept or technical advancement.
It always annoys me to hear people who know a bit about technology pointing out that something that's become popular isn't all that new an idea. It doesn't matter. What matters is that it is at least SOMEWHAT different to everything else. It could be the popularity or the layout or the logo. It doesn't matter what it is.
In this case, you're just so wrong it's a bit surprising. The difference between Twitter and IRC is massive. Maybe technically they're similar, but to the end user, they're not at all. The thing that people like about it is that you just go and post what you want to say to the world and let whoever wants to hear it hear. It's far more like facebook than IRC.
I work in a department that uses mostly Macs (the rest of the company using Windows, as would be expected). Since we mostly use Macs, and since our IT people have explicitly stated they don't service Macs, we were a little confused when an email went around saying not to update our systems until IT had a chance to clear it. Obviously it was never meant for my department, but given the breadth of fixes, I'm wondering what kind of hell IT will catch if the Sales or Admin departments get updated and find applications broken.
Has anyone had anything break from this update, or has it been smooth sailing?
I was working on the PC late one night When my eyes beheld an eerie sight For bug on windows began to rise And suddenly to my surprise
THEY DID THE PATCH They did the monster patch THE MONSTER PATCH It was a vulnerability smash THEY DID THE PATCH They caught them in a flash THEY DID THE PATCH They did the monster patch
From my computer seat in the office east To the master Ballmer where the vampires feast The faults all came from their humble abodes To get a jolt from my electrodes
THEY DID THE PATCH They did the monster patch THE MONSTER PATCH It was a vulnerability smash THEY DID THE PATCH They caught them in a flash THEY DID THE PATCH They did the monster patch...and so on. I only really wanted to say that your comment made me sing that song, but really it is way longer than I care to do a half-assed parody.
Well, I think the law of diminishing marginal utility applies here: assuming the 'quality raters' are improving the search, assuming the algorithms are being improved with each change, it would probably become economical to drop the quality raters because the search is good enough.
That is, unless they choose to make drastic changes. Personally, I think a more "raw" search like google claims to have is better than a "directed" one, like bing claims to have. Of course, I use the word "claim" in each case...
if their calculations shows odds of 1 in 20 for the last 20 year period, I am very sure they have over estimated the odds.
Don't be. Hundreds (at least - the article says 3000) of meteors hit the surface of the earth every day. Planes are above the surface (obviously) and so have a higher susceptibility to being hit. But something which hasn't been mentioned, which was no doubt taken into account in the calculations, is that the majority of meteors explode in the atmosphere, and this blast could have thrown the plane out of the sky even from an explosion a mile away if the meteor was big enough. For example, thousands of trees over an area of over 2000 square km (!) were flattened to the ground, but not burned, by a meteor explosion over Siberia in 1908.
There are a lot of people saying that the overall probability of a plane being hit is irrelevant, and that the probability of this one being hit is what's important. I disagree.
What we are dealing with here is a plane that actually crashed under unexplained circumstances. To realise the odds of this plane being hit by a meteor, we shouldn't look at the odds of ANY single plane being hit, but rather, the odds that one which went down in unexplained circumstances had been hit by a meteor.
Consider this: Over the summer holidays, some people from my college course don't return. It is most likely in each case that the student dropped out. However, there is the chance that the student died over the summer. We shouldn't look at the odds of this particular student dying, but the odds of ANYONE in the class dying, because we know that those who are present didn't die, by virtue of them being there. So in this case, for each student that didn't return, the chance that she died is: ( 1 - ([odds of no student dying over summer]^[# of students]) )/[number of students that didn't return]
My formula may be a bit off, but you get the idea.
It doesn't look good or seem to fit the shape of a hand. I think if this was the SECOND most expensive mouse then it would have lost its only attraction.
It would be nice to have unix-like workspaces on a phone. If it had swap space 3 times the size of the RAM then I could nicely switch between writing messages and browsing the web without the bother of closing one. Does anyone know if android has anything to this effect?
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For a long time I used to use a 500MHz, 128MB RAM, 8GB HDD computer (I had no source of income - I was 16-18). Here was my setup:
Debian Etch - I would use Lenny now ...so it's possible to get any POS computer doing anything you want pretty quickly
Fluxbox - any *box takes up ~0MB RAM (for all practical estimations, esp. with a gig of RAM) and are very snappy. I like flux- more than black- or open-.
Thunar file manager - the Xfce FM. Very quick and customisable. Not vomit-ugly like rox (IMO).
Xterm:
-> MOC for music
-> mutt for e-mail
-> finch for IM/IRC
-> vim (of course) for text editing
Links2 in graphical mode for the web when I could, firefox when I had to.
Why do the magnetic poles in the picture come out through India and the Atlantic ocean?
pix plz
The hell? What do you mean "if anything"? It doesn't matter if it's not a madly revolutionary concept or technical advancement.
It always annoys me to hear people who know a bit about technology pointing out that something that's become popular isn't all that new an idea. It doesn't matter. What matters is that it is at least SOMEWHAT different to everything else. It could be the popularity or the layout or the logo. It doesn't matter what it is.
In this case, you're just so wrong it's a bit surprising. The difference between Twitter and IRC is massive. Maybe technically they're similar, but to the end user, they're not at all. The thing that people like about it is that you just go and post what you want to say to the world and let whoever wants to hear it hear. It's far more like facebook than IRC.
I work in a department that uses mostly Macs (the rest of the company using Windows, as would be expected). Since we mostly use Macs, and since our IT people have explicitly stated they don't service Macs, we were a little confused when an email went around saying not to update our systems until IT had a chance to clear it. Obviously it was never meant for my department, but given the breadth of fixes, I'm wondering what kind of hell IT will catch if the Sales or Admin departments get updated and find applications broken.
Has anyone had anything break from this update, or has it been smooth sailing?
I was working on the PC late one night
When my eyes beheld an eerie sight
For bug on windows began to rise
And suddenly to my surprise
THEY DID THE PATCH
They did the monster patch
THE MONSTER PATCH
It was a vulnerability smash
THEY DID THE PATCH
They caught them in a flash
THEY DID THE PATCH
They did the monster patch
From my computer seat in the office east
To the master Ballmer where the vampires feast
The faults all came from their humble abodes
To get a jolt from my electrodes
THEY DID THE PATCH ...and so on. I only really wanted to say that your comment made me sing that song, but really it is way longer than I care to do a half-assed parody.
They did the monster patch
THE MONSTER PATCH
It was a vulnerability smash
THEY DID THE PATCH
They caught them in a flash
THEY DID THE PATCH
They did the monster patch
Well, I think the law of diminishing marginal utility applies here: assuming the 'quality raters' are improving the search, assuming the algorithms are being improved with each change, it would probably become economical to drop the quality raters because the search is good enough.
That is, unless they choose to make drastic changes. Personally, I think a more "raw" search like google claims to have is better than a "directed" one, like bing claims to have. Of course, I use the word "claim" in each case...
if their calculations shows odds of 1 in 20 for the last 20 year period, I am very sure they have over estimated the odds.
Don't be. Hundreds (at least - the article says 3000) of meteors hit the surface of the earth every day. Planes are above the surface (obviously) and so have a higher susceptibility to being hit. But something which hasn't been mentioned, which was no doubt taken into account in the calculations, is that the majority of meteors explode in the atmosphere, and this blast could have thrown the plane out of the sky even from an explosion a mile away if the meteor was big enough. For example, thousands of trees over an area of over 2000 square km (!) were flattened to the ground, but not burned, by a meteor explosion over Siberia in 1908.
There are a lot of people saying that the overall probability of a plane being hit is irrelevant, and that the probability of this one being hit is what's important. I disagree.
What we are dealing with here is a plane that actually crashed under unexplained circumstances. To realise the odds of this plane being hit by a meteor, we shouldn't look at the odds of ANY single plane being hit, but rather, the odds that one which went down in unexplained circumstances had been hit by a meteor.
Consider this: Over the summer holidays, some people from my college course don't return. It is most likely in each case that the student dropped out. However, there is the chance that the student died over the summer. We shouldn't look at the odds of this particular student dying, but the odds of ANYONE in the class dying, because we know that those who are present didn't die, by virtue of them being there. So in this case, for each student that didn't return, the chance that she died is:
( 1 - ([odds of no student dying over summer]^[# of students]) )/[number of students that didn't return]
My formula may be a bit off, but you get the idea.
It doesn't look good or seem to fit the shape of a hand. I think if this was the SECOND most expensive mouse then it would have lost its only attraction.
Well, yes, but finding gases in the atmosphere by spectroscopy is a lot easier. Luckily, they can look for two things. High-5's all round
As far as I know, most of the techniques used for detecting exoplanets depend on the planet being ~Jupiter mass and pretty close because then
-you get gravitational "wobble"
-you're more likely to be in line for a transit
-mass is enough for gravitational lensing
"another planet-sized object"
Perhaps Xenu's spacecraft was bigger than we imagined.
It would be nice to have unix-like workspaces on a phone. If it had swap space 3 times the size of the RAM then I could nicely switch between writing messages and browsing the web without the bother of closing one. Does anyone know if android has anything to this effect?