should be explained to them, that information on the internet is not completely reliable (sometimes it is completely unreliable), that 'facts' on the internet are just words/pictures/sounds/videos of something that could have been changed by chance or doctored on purpose.
Yeah, whereas information presented in court is always true and reliable.
Crap. Now you made me make a mess laughing at my own joke.
I've been buying Intel because they support their 3D graphics with open source code really well under Linux, unlike AMD/ATI. But Coreboot says support AMD, because AMD helps them run on AMD chipsets, unlike Intel.
Groups of high energy particles striking each other is not rare in nature. It happens all the time, right in our own atmosphere, on the surface of the moon.
DOn't be one of those fools that travel halfway around the world to sit in a McDonalds or an internet cafe.
I'll agree w/ your statement on McD's but not necessarily on internet cafes. Many internet cafes have a lot of character. The seediest ones are the most interesting. You get to see what people in other countries are doing with their computers.
That said, queue up the stuff that you want to send on your flash drive before you arrive, and download the stuff you want to read for the long boat ride later. Don't spend too much time there.
The language is very well documented online and the mailing lists contain thousands of examples. It is primarily for statistical analysis, and the libraries available for doing such analysis are unparalleled.
That is the whole point of these stupid cameras! They don't have to pay cops to pull people over, and they make a bunch of money catching everyone anyway. The cops aren't there.
I have always found software RAID to be faster than hardware. Apparently CPUs can XOR like crazy. I recently assembled a 4 disk software RAID-5 system for a friend. It read at 300 MBytes/sec, and no, it wasn't in cache. I thought that was pretty impressive.
Obviously having source code is better than not. At no point did I assert otherwise.
My point is that sometimes you just have to be happy with what other people are willing to give you. Perhaps it is just a binary; perhaps it is a preassembled circuit board with no instructions.
However, if you are not allowed to hack that item as it is to the best of your ability and share it with other people, you don't really want it. It is best to steer clear of it, and help create something that is really yours to hack and share.
For me the issue is not, do I get the source code or not? Binary blobs are fine. If someone does not want to give the source that is OK w/ me.
But, if I do not have the right to hack it (whatever form it is) or do not have the right to redistribute my hack, then then it is not free and should not be included in a "free" distribution.
Don't get me wrong, "Switch to Ubuntu" (or some other linux distribution) may be the perfect answers for this woman, and that would be great - but let's be realistic here and not label that as an easy solution.
Obviously if MS were "easy", this guy would not be posting a question to the this web site. Apparently neither he nor this woman know what to do about MS's glaring security holes.
I do not think that the parent post is saying Ubuntu will be easy. It was just easy for him to think of a solution.
Many people are scared of threads, because they try to do fancy things and get burned. The most important thing to remember about threads is KISS.
Using threads can greatly simplify your programming, if you use them well. Keep your threads as modular as possible, like you would your processes. But unlike processes, you get to forget about IPC and all its problems. Woohoo!
I have found that what gets used on campus is what people want to use. In our research group people use Matlab, IDL, R, and Scipy.
People will use mostly what they want to use. Occasionally a close minded prof will require a particular language or package for an assignment, but fortunately all the packages are sufficiently similar, that it does not matter much.
I do parallel computing w/ R (mentioned by GP post). I run it as a compute server on 432 different cores at the same time. I can use all those nodes interactively in parallel.
Could I do that with Matlab without paying more than 1/2 the cost of the cluster? No.
Maybe the "demand" was small because no one could find it on their f-ing web site.
I wanted a new laptop w/ Linux last month, and I looked at virtually every Thinkpad on their web site, and I could select Linux on almost none of them.
I can almost say the same thing about Dell. Only a small fraction of their laptops can I find Linux available.
Most of these companies just are paying lip service to Linux.
Allowing a single corporate entity to control your communication is a bad idea. I suggest this new thing called "email", which is offered by a large number of different providers, and not censored by most.
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The web cam just shows blackness
] grep -ri red linux-2.6.28 | grep -i hat | wc -l
3877
] grep -ri oracle linux-2.6.28 | wc -l
191
should be explained to them, that information on the internet is not completely reliable (sometimes it is completely unreliable), that 'facts' on the internet are just words/pictures/sounds/videos of something that could have been changed by chance or doctored on purpose.
Yeah, whereas information presented in court is always true and reliable.
Crap. Now you made me make a mess laughing at my own joke.
All the comments to this article will be spiderman analogies.
Hmm...
Normal... Troll... Funny... Informative...
Where's Luddite?
I've been buying Intel because they support their 3D graphics with open source code really well under Linux, unlike AMD/ATI.
But Coreboot says support AMD, because AMD helps them run on AMD chipsets, unlike Intel.
Help!
So much for not sacrificing ideals for safety.
Asshole.
Groups of high energy particles striking each other is not rare in nature. It happens all the time, right in our own atmosphere, on the surface of the moon.
This is all Chicken-Little nonsense.
DOn't be one of those fools that travel halfway around the world to sit in a McDonalds or an internet cafe.
I'll agree w/ your statement on McD's but not necessarily on internet cafes. Many internet cafes have a lot of character. The seediest ones are the most interesting. You get to see what people in other countries are doing with their computers.
That said, queue up the stuff that you want to send on your flash drive before you arrive, and download the stuff you want to read for the long boat ride later. Don't spend too much time there.
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The language is very well documented online and the mailing lists contain thousands of examples. It is primarily for statistical analysis, and the libraries available for doing such analysis are unparalleled.
That is the whole point of these stupid cameras! They don't have to pay cops to pull people over, and they make a bunch of money catching everyone anyway.
The cops aren't there.
I have always found software RAID to be faster than hardware. Apparently CPUs can XOR like crazy.
I recently assembled a 4 disk software RAID-5 system for a friend. It read at 300 MBytes/sec, and no, it wasn't in cache. I thought that was pretty impressive.
Obviously having source code is better than not. At no point did I assert otherwise.
My point is that sometimes you just have to be happy with what other people are willing to give you. Perhaps it is just a binary; perhaps it is a preassembled circuit board with no instructions.
However, if you are not allowed to hack that item as it is to the best of your ability and share it with other people, you don't really want it. It is best to steer clear of it, and help create something that is really yours to hack and share.
I agree w/ parent.
For me the issue is not, do I get the source code or not? Binary blobs are fine. If someone does not want to give the source that is OK w/ me.
But, if I do not have the right to hack it (whatever form it is) or do not have the right to redistribute my hack, then then it is not free and should not be included in a "free" distribution.
He embeds them in gel and he suspends them with elastic.
Don't get me wrong, "Switch to Ubuntu" (or some other linux distribution) may be the perfect answers for this woman, and that would be great - but let's be realistic here and not label that as an easy solution.
Obviously if MS were "easy", this guy would not be posting a question to the this web site. Apparently neither he nor this woman know what to do about MS's glaring security holes.
I do not think that the parent post is saying Ubuntu will be easy. It was just easy for him to think of a solution.
The debt clock gives a per family portion. ~$86k. Compare that with the median income. Whoo!
Many people are scared of threads, because they try to do fancy things and get burned. The most important thing to remember about threads is KISS.
Using threads can greatly simplify your programming, if you use them well. Keep your threads as modular as possible, like you would your processes. But unlike processes, you get to forget about IPC and all its problems. Woohoo!
Explain how online video games work from a networking and storage point of view.
You don't do video games? Doesn't matter.
I have found that what gets used on campus is what people want to use. In our research group people use Matlab, IDL, R, and Scipy.
People will use mostly what they want to use. Occasionally a close minded prof will require a particular language or package for an assignment, but fortunately all the packages are sufficiently similar, that it does not matter much.
I do parallel computing w/ R (mentioned by GP post). I run it as a compute server on 432 different cores at the same time. I can use all those nodes interactively in parallel.
Could I do that with Matlab without paying more than 1/2 the cost of the cluster?
No.
Those kids are way ahead of my son. He just likes to make games using blender and python.
because of comparatively small demand.
Maybe the "demand" was small because no one could find it on their f-ing web site.
I wanted a new laptop w/ Linux last month, and I looked at virtually every Thinkpad on their web site, and I could select Linux on almost none of them.
I can almost say the same thing about Dell. Only a small fraction of their laptops can I find Linux available.
Most of these companies just are paying lip service to Linux.
Allowing a single corporate entity to control your communication is a bad idea. I suggest this new thing called "email", which is offered by a large number of different providers, and not censored by most.