What the hell was that? A few incomprehensible paragraphs?! Where is the hard hitting investigation, the internal company dirt, the sweet bitterness that only a former Microserf can have? I feel dirty, used, betrayed.
I'm hoping that it is a Fortran 90/95 compiler. A lot of people scoff at Fortran, calling it the cockroach of computer languages (millions of apps out there that just won't die!). I used to be one of them (one of those people, not the apps).
However, in graduate school, I was developing a biology simulation in Matlab. The development went well, but the execution was painfully slow. Since Fortran 90/95 was syntactically similar to Matlab I was able to port his huge simulation in a few days and keep working in Fortran without much of a learning curve. Say what you want, for high performance numerical computing with lots of vector operations, Fortran is one of the best languages out there.
Bringing this back to the open source world, numerically intense vector computations can be developed in Octave, and easily ported to Fortran 90/95. It's a one-two punch that I would definitely find useful. Unfortunately, the only free Fortran compilers I've found are for Fortran 77.
Everyone knows that Beta kicked ass as far as video cassetes went. But VHS won, it just positioned itself better in the market.
I see parallels in Gnome and KDE. I think KDE is a much better environment, but Gnome has been much better at market positioning. I'm sad to say it, but I think that KDE will play second fiddle to Gnome.
Intel said that you could turn the Pentium III serial number off. That didn't matter, though, because a cracker could read it anyway. I'm sure that when they say off, they really mean the same sort of thing.
My main gripe with SETI at home is the hideous display. I want eye candy eye candy eye candy. Make the colors meaningful. Make me want to look at my screen (after all, that is what screen savers are for). But these randomly gradiented blocky bars are ugly.
"Each reader becomes a highly-wired researcher and reporter, foraging for information."
Sounds like my graduate school days, where to keep up with my research, my teaching, and my classes, I was snorting coke, popping speed, and guzzling coffee like it was good beer. Of course, when the weekend came around I would be so wound up that I would start drinking beer like it was coffee just to slow down my shaking. Somewhere along the line I found myself with a diploma and no marketable talents. But now I have found my calling in the new Open Media. Jon, once again you've changed my life.
But I do like the idea of using GNUCash. Will this work for window managers like Window Maker? Being required to install Gnome just to make this run seems like a waste. I left the Windows world because of bloat, and the last thing I want to do is install Gnome (or KDE, which is bloated _and_ ugly).
When I was in graduate school I had a friend who came to the US from India on a student visa. He is working on his Ph.D. and is doing most of the work at Los Alamos. If our nuclear secrets are so important, why is the US government letting foreign nationals into our research lab. If you let citizens from developing nuclear nations (i.e. China, India) into these labs you had better expect to have theft and espionage.
Which brings me to my next rant. If you need people to do this research, find American Ph.D. students. Encourage them to finish their degrees. I left my Ph.D. program because most of the breaks were given to the foreign students. Why should I stick around a degree program when non-US students are given more funding? Why should I stick around when I can take a job somewhere else improve my lifestyle?
The X-files is a television show. One that used to be pretty cool, before Fox killed it and started beating it like the dead horse. I used to watch it because I liked it. Now I don't like it, so I don't watch it. For me, this is the same as it being cancelled. Instead of sitting in front of your box, crying about how bad the show has become, just change the channel or turn it off. It was good while it lasted, now it is time to move on.
Some time ago, you spoke at my university (Washinton University) about an endangered species of bird, indigenous to New Zealand (apparently this bird mates once every seven years or so).
That same year, the former prime minister of New Zealand (his name escapes me right now) spoke at my university about an endangered species of bird, indigenous to New Zealand (once again, a bird that mates every seven years or so).
My question is: are you the former Prime Minister of New Zealand?
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It's kind of kinky. . .
However, in graduate school, I was developing a biology simulation in Matlab. The development went well, but the execution was painfully slow. Since Fortran 90/95 was syntactically similar to Matlab I was able to port his huge simulation in a few days and keep working in Fortran without much of a learning curve. Say what you want, for high performance numerical computing with lots of vector operations, Fortran is one of the best languages out there.
Bringing this back to the open source world, numerically intense vector computations can be developed in Octave, and easily ported to Fortran 90/95. It's a one-two punch that I would definitely find useful. Unfortunately, the only free Fortran compilers I've found are for Fortran 77.
Just my two bits.
I see parallels in Gnome and KDE. I think KDE is a much better environment, but Gnome has been much better at market positioning. I'm sad to say it, but I think that KDE will play second fiddle to Gnome.
Intel said that you could turn the Pentium III serial number off. That didn't matter, though, because a cracker could read it anyway. I'm sure that when they say off, they really mean the same sort of thing.
I'm not a trollin', just stating my opinion.
Sounds like my graduate school days, where to keep up with my research, my teaching, and my classes, I was snorting coke, popping speed, and guzzling coffee like it was good beer. Of course, when the weekend came around I would be so wound up that I would start drinking beer like it was coffee just to slow down my shaking. Somewhere along the line I found myself with a diploma and no marketable talents. But now I have found my calling in the new Open Media. Jon, once again you've changed my life.
Flame on
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But I do like the idea of using GNUCash. Will this work for window managers like Window Maker? Being required to install Gnome just to make this run seems like a waste. I left the Windows world because of bloat, and the last thing I want to do is install Gnome (or KDE, which is bloated _and_ ugly).
Flame away.
Which brings me to my next rant. If you need people to do this research, find American Ph.D. students. Encourage them to finish their degrees. I left my Ph.D. program because most of the breaks were given to the foreign students. Why should I stick around a degree program when non-US students are given more funding? Why should I stick around when I can take a job somewhere else improve my lifestyle?
The X-files is a television show. One that used to be pretty cool, before Fox killed it and started beating it like the dead horse. I used to watch it because I liked it. Now I don't like it, so I don't watch it. For me, this is the same as it being cancelled. Instead of sitting in front of your box, crying about how bad the show has become, just change the channel or turn it off. It was good while it lasted, now it is time to move on.
Some time ago, you spoke at my university (Washinton University) about an endangered species of bird, indigenous to New Zealand (apparently this bird mates once every seven years or so).
That same year, the former prime minister of New Zealand (his name escapes me right now) spoke at my university about an endangered species of bird, indigenous to New Zealand (once again, a bird that mates every seven years or so).
My question is: are you the former Prime Minister of New Zealand?