I use Linux daily and very heavily. I administer and use it on a 300-core compute cluster, I develop applications on it, I maintain packages for a Linux distribution. I guess I have a lot of use for the environment.
I also need my OS/DE/the whole stack to support my hardware well without spending days tweaking it and to provide me with a GUI that doesn't suck. It does so perfectly on the cluster/server, but is pathetic at it on my laptop (it's a Thinkpad, so the specs are pretty open and the drivers are almost all there; it's the userland support that's absent). KDE 4.1 fails at it. Gnome fails at it less miserably. KDE 4.2 still fails at it. I don't know how long it will take KDE to recover, but I'm not waiting.
I don't like not having the true Linux environment at my fingertips but Cygwin does most of it passably and most of the time I'm connected to a server anyway. Yes, Putty is an ssh client, but Puttycyg is a terminal emulator, and the best one there is for Windows. And it still sucks.
Konsole running Cygwin on Windows will be a nice improvement and as close as one can get to a good platform on Windows so far.
Konsole is not yet ported. Which makes me very sad since I switched to Windows 7 until KDE 4 stops being the trainwreck that it is, but I miss having a terminal emulator that doesn't suck (aka Konsole). Putty is pretty awful in comparison.
It's really disgusting that you got modded to +5, given that Vista and XP64 (and probably Win 7's) 32-bit emulation facilities have almost the same capabilities as the ones on Linux.
You're why Slashdot is disgusting to read every time Microsoft products come up. Meaningless trolls that won't discuss real merits and problems of different technologies but instead regurgitate some ridiculous bullshit.
If it needs to be fragmented eventually there has to be utilities out there to do so. Linux can't be "usually better than Windows" "when it comes to when-you-need-to-defrag" if there isn't any such tool.
Why? I'm not sure why you're so sure about this. Is it some sort of naivete, or blind trust in the omnipotence and omniscience of the free software world?
Anyway, ext2/3 don't have a functional defragmentation tool (at least one dead one exists) because the developers didn't perceive a need. There is in fact little need if the filesystem isn't used in a random delete-write pattern while close to full for extended periods of time. And apparently the developers always had something better to do than help out people who run their filesystems like that.
For ext4, this shortcoming is rectified, and it has an online defragmentation tool.
Bullshit. You're the one who didn't research what you're talking about, and started an ad hominem because of it.
The poster is right, all filesystems fragment over time. It's not possible to not fragment files on a filesystem that is close to being full. No mainstream filesystem driver rearranges files in the background yet. So a simple thought exercise on what happens when you operate a near-full filesystem for an extended period of time will tell you that no filesystem is exempt from fragmentation.
What they did was an illegal change of terms to a contract. What you should have done was buy your appliance, then when they charged you, do a chargeback. Since you never signed up with that company or signed a contract at the retailer, they had no right to charge you.
The horse shit is all yours. You have no idea what you're talking about.
There is a big tradeoff. Making an external battery bay, a battery casing, and an interface between the two takes quite a bit more plastic, metal, wiring, form factor constraint, and other crap than just bolting the wrapped cells (in this case li-poly bricks) to the case from the inside. Not to mention testing.
But then again, you don't sound like you've ever been exposed to lawsuits because your batteries were setting the users' laptops on fire. You've never had to design a laptop case or put it through testing, have you?
It's an issue of self-selection. This material would never have gotten into a decent biology journal because the biologist reviewers would just go "WTF". So the only journal they managed to get this into is one that is apparently reviewed by physicists who don't pay any attention to claims outside their fields of expertise, so at best they just vetted the theoretical physics in the paper, paying no attention to the chemistry or biology in it.
The first author seems prone to making hyperbolic statements - even the paper itself is riddled with unsupported statements, but the press release is really something. I think some people at Princeton are going to be pretty embarrassed about this soon.
This seems to me to be a headline grabber with little to no actual relevance to the research within.
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This was found in the electron transport chain, which occurs in the mitochondria, which have their own DNA...The cell is repairing damaged DNA
First, they never modified anything in vivo. They used some pretty complicated statistics to predict mutation-induced chemical variations, then called that "experimental evidence". Second, are you sure the electron transport chain proteins are coded by mitochondrial DNA? In either case, I'm not sure if mitochondrial DNA has any proofreading activity at all.
The sheer number of biological nonsense stuffed into this paper boggles the mind, and then I look at the press release and just start laughing. It's written in a physics journal from a heavily theoretical chemistry perspective, but it's pretty clear that the authors don't understand biology nearly well enough to make the claims they make.
Like others said: aspirin is more dangerous than other painkillers. It has serious side effects and is easier to OD on. This is why lots of people don't use aspirin at all. I kind of wish that what the summary said came true and it got kicked off the market - lots of people don't know that it's more dangerous than other painkillers.
TWiki is in pretty widespread use. It's not going to go dead, and the developers who got kicked out will now have serious goodwill from distribution packagers who take note of what's happening.
I will be very surprised if this whole thing results in anything but the complete failure of Theony's little enterprise and straightforward replacement of TWiki with the fork.
You call that simplistic lines and an aggressive tone? I see nothing of the sort.
This whole premise that people have a consensus on how cars look is faulty. Sure, you might get a consensus about a humvee, a countach or a vw bug, but in the bland styling world of most consumer cars, reactions are thoroughly ambiguous and probably based on external factors more than the actual styling in question. Case in point: BMW styling (angry??? I could use a lot of adjectives to describe a BMW but angry would not be anywhere on the list). Another case in point: Your characterization of the american Focus as "aggressive".
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If you suggested that every single change to the codebase be reviewed by multiple developers in a traditional proprietary software development house you would be, rightly, laughed at.
That's an interesting theory. I wonder what the rates of flux are of the atmosphere with and without the magnetic field in a planet the size of Earth or Mars. How long would it take for just this effect to leech out a significant portion of the atmosphere?
Ask a climatologist what the largest influence on earth's climate is, and his answer will be "the earth's magnetosphere." It deflects the solar wind greatly; without this effect, the earth would be as arid as the moon, which has no magnetosphere.
It may be a little buggy, but Endnote's CWYW for Word 2007 (in combination with Word 2007's excellent UI and reduced quirkiness compared to 2003) is really the best way to write articles I know of. And yes, I use latex with bibtex with citeulike as well.
To answer your question, I don't know much about new citation formats (there are way too many already), but the best alternative I've seen is direct BibTeX import from CiteULike or another online database.
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In my experience, the guys who consistently write the worst code also tend to have "lone wolf" mentalities.
In my experience, the people who consistently write the worst code are the people who have never been forced to reuse it.
All the good coders I know write most of their code the "good" way not because someone else might have to change it (although eventually that does come into play), but because they will. On the other hand, people who have literally not learned to reuse their code yet write unusable code.
Is it so hard to understand that it's entirely possible to drive a 27 mpg highway rated car at 36 mpg highway? And why is it possible to ad hominem the poster in every other sentence and still get modded +5?
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I use Linux daily and very heavily. I administer and use it on a 300-core compute cluster, I develop applications on it, I maintain packages for a Linux distribution. I guess I have a lot of use for the environment.
I also need my OS/DE/the whole stack to support my hardware well without spending days tweaking it and to provide me with a GUI that doesn't suck. It does so perfectly on the cluster/server, but is pathetic at it on my laptop (it's a Thinkpad, so the specs are pretty open and the drivers are almost all there; it's the userland support that's absent). KDE 4.1 fails at it. Gnome fails at it less miserably. KDE 4.2 still fails at it. I don't know how long it will take KDE to recover, but I'm not waiting.
I don't like not having the true Linux environment at my fingertips but Cygwin does most of it passably and most of the time I'm connected to a server anyway. Yes, Putty is an ssh client, but Puttycyg is a terminal emulator, and the best one there is for Windows. And it still sucks.
Konsole running Cygwin on Windows will be a nice improvement and as close as one can get to a good platform on Windows so far.
Konsole is not yet ported. Which makes me very sad since I switched to Windows 7 until KDE 4 stops being the trainwreck that it is, but I miss having a terminal emulator that doesn't suck (aka Konsole). Putty is pretty awful in comparison.
It's really disgusting that you got modded to +5, given that Vista and XP64 (and probably Win 7's) 32-bit emulation facilities have almost the same capabilities as the ones on Linux.
You're why Slashdot is disgusting to read every time Microsoft products come up. Meaningless trolls that won't discuss real merits and problems of different technologies but instead regurgitate some ridiculous bullshit.
If it needs to be fragmented eventually there has to be utilities out there to do so. Linux can't be "usually better than Windows" "when it comes to when-you-need-to-defrag" if there isn't any such tool.
Why? I'm not sure why you're so sure about this. Is it some sort of naivete, or blind trust in the omnipotence and omniscience of the free software world?
Anyway, ext2/3 don't have a functional defragmentation tool (at least one dead one exists) because the developers didn't perceive a need. There is in fact little need if the filesystem isn't used in a random delete-write pattern while close to full for extended periods of time. And apparently the developers always had something better to do than help out people who run their filesystems like that.
For ext4, this shortcoming is rectified, and it has an online defragmentation tool.
Bullshit. You're the one who didn't research what you're talking about, and started an ad hominem because of it.
The poster is right, all filesystems fragment over time. It's not possible to not fragment files on a filesystem that is close to being full. No mainstream filesystem driver rearranges files in the background yet. So a simple thought exercise on what happens when you operate a near-full filesystem for an extended period of time will tell you that no filesystem is exempt from fragmentation.
What they did was an illegal change of terms to a contract. What you should have done was buy your appliance, then when they charged you, do a chargeback. Since you never signed up with that company or signed a contract at the retailer, they had no right to charge you.
The horse shit is all yours. You have no idea what you're talking about.
There is a big tradeoff. Making an external battery bay, a battery casing, and an interface between the two takes quite a bit more plastic, metal, wiring, form factor constraint, and other crap than just bolting the wrapped cells (in this case li-poly bricks) to the case from the inside. Not to mention testing.
But then again, you don't sound like you've ever been exposed to lawsuits because your batteries were setting the users' laptops on fire. You've never had to design a laptop case or put it through testing, have you?
Stuff beyond Pentium 3 has not been revolutionary, performance wise, for a desktop.
It has. You've been living under a rock.
It's an issue of self-selection. This material would never have gotten into a decent biology journal because the biologist reviewers would just go "WTF". So the only journal they managed to get this into is one that is apparently reviewed by physicists who don't pay any attention to claims outside their fields of expertise, so at best they just vetted the theoretical physics in the paper, paying no attention to the chemistry or biology in it.
The first author seems prone to making hyperbolic statements - even the paper itself is riddled with unsupported statements, but the press release is really something. I think some people at Princeton are going to be pretty embarrassed about this soon.
This seems to me to be a headline grabber with little to no actual relevance to the research within.
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This was found in the electron transport chain, which occurs in the mitochondria, which have their own DNA ...The cell is repairing damaged DNA
First, they never modified anything in vivo. They used some pretty complicated statistics to predict mutation-induced chemical variations, then called that "experimental evidence". Second, are you sure the electron transport chain proteins are coded by mitochondrial DNA? In either case, I'm not sure if mitochondrial DNA has any proofreading activity at all.
The sheer number of biological nonsense stuffed into this paper boggles the mind, and then I look at the press release and just start laughing. It's written in a physics journal from a heavily theoretical chemistry perspective, but it's pretty clear that the authors don't understand biology nearly well enough to make the claims they make.
Like others said: aspirin is more dangerous than other painkillers. It has serious side effects and is easier to OD on. This is why lots of people don't use aspirin at all. I kind of wish that what the summary said came true and it got kicked off the market - lots of people don't know that it's more dangerous than other painkillers.
TWiki is in pretty widespread use. It's not going to go dead, and the developers who got kicked out will now have serious goodwill from distribution packagers who take note of what's happening.
I will be very surprised if this whole thing results in anything but the complete failure of Theony's little enterprise and straightforward replacement of TWiki with the fork.
breaking from their national heritage in being hard-working
Good to see you breaking from your national heritage in being a bigoted demagogue.
You call that simplistic lines and an aggressive tone? I see nothing of the sort.
This whole premise that people have a consensus on how cars look is faulty. Sure, you might get a consensus about a humvee, a countach or a vw bug, but in the bland styling world of most consumer cars, reactions are thoroughly ambiguous and probably based on external factors more than the actual styling in question. Case in point: BMW styling (angry??? I could use a lot of adjectives to describe a BMW but angry would not be anywhere on the list). Another case in point: Your characterization of the american Focus as "aggressive".
If you suggested that every single change to the codebase be reviewed by multiple developers in a traditional proprietary software development house you would be, rightly, laughed at.
You have no idea what you're talking about.
That's an interesting theory. I wonder what the rates of flux are of the atmosphere with and without the magnetic field in a planet the size of Earth or Mars. How long would it take for just this effect to leech out a significant portion of the atmosphere?
Ask a climatologist what the largest influence on earth's climate is, and his answer will be "the earth's magnetosphere." It deflects the solar wind greatly; without this effect, the earth would be as arid as the moon, which has no magnetosphere.
This is bullshit.
It may be a little buggy, but Endnote's CWYW for Word 2007 (in combination with Word 2007's excellent UI and reduced quirkiness compared to 2003) is really the best way to write articles I know of. And yes, I use latex with bibtex with citeulike as well.
To answer your question, I don't know much about new citation formats (there are way too many already), but the best alternative I've seen is direct BibTeX import from CiteULike or another online database.
clearly you haven't seen Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind, which holds a much dearer place in many people's hearts than the Homer character.
The mehve still looks cooler
In my experience, the guys who consistently write the worst code also tend to have "lone wolf" mentalities.
In my experience, the people who consistently write the worst code are the people who have never been forced to reuse it.
All the good coders I know write most of their code the "good" way not because someone else might have to change it (although eventually that does come into play), but because they will. On the other hand, people who have literally not learned to reuse their code yet write unusable code.
Hey, can someone with mod points mod the parent as flamebait? Because it most certainly is...
How did this idiot get modded +5??
Is it so hard to understand that it's entirely possible to drive a 27 mpg highway rated car at 36 mpg highway? And why is it possible to ad hominem the poster in every other sentence and still get modded +5?
Maybe it's the UK specs that are at fault.
I've smelled a bunch of recent diesel Mercedes and assorted other cars while in Austria and Germany. They certainly didn't stink to me.