Macbooks are not more expensive than the rest. The latest Macbooks are one of the best laptops around the $1,000 mark (which, interestingly enough, becomes a good €1,000 in Europe). The only competitor is Dell, which has the advantage of allowing you to customize your hardware slightly. Macbooks are good by default though, while with Dells you need to tinker.
HP, Acer, don't make me laugh. That's very poor quality.
Look up what the rules for identifying sentence boundaries in Unicode are, and write your text so that your sentences can be distinguished by applying these rules. Unicode is THE standard for dealing with natural text, so that's what you should follow.
Nothing new here. Being extremist one-way only exacerbates being extremist the other way, which is why Japan has so many contrasts.
The main reason they have such flashy things everywhere is probably because the traditional culture of Zen, Tao etc. became overwhelming, and they wanted something different.
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That's why I don't do bleeding edge hardware at home unless I have an absolute need for it (e.g. gaming, or some bloatware application that needs that type of horsepower)
When it was announced that Dell was selling computers loaded with Ubuntu, I went to their site and looked. I looked hard, and didn't see anything. Then on another site I found a link to an obscure page on the Dell website that you wouldn't find in any other way. And there, I saw that they were selling old models of their products, with only the low-end hardware choices, for a more expensive price than what they sell the new model with high-end choices and Windows. To the point where even a person who would want to buy a Dell computer and install Ubuntu on it would buy one preloaded with Windows and install Ubuntu himself.
And now they're going to say they're pulling it because it didn't sell enough. Of course it didn't, they purposely made it that way; it's like they wanted it to fail from the get go.
The only major manufacturer that allows you to install anything you want on your phone, as far as I know, is Nokia, with the N900. Which is a true Linux, not an Android.
So if you want a manufacturer-supported way of doing whatever you want on your open phone, the N900 is the only choice.
Firefox is extremely sluggish for me. Just tried Chrome. I thought it was unstable on Linux, but it's pretty good and lightning fast. Don't really like the interface and the lack of settings though.
C++ assumes that developers are not smart. That any person who should be coding can also handle manual memory management
Memory management *should* be done automatically in C++, as this is the only practical way to enforce exception-safety throughout, and it also makes programs easier to reason about. It's simply done with RAII rather than garbage collection. It still requires the coder to think of resource ownership as part of the design.
But they shouldn't be. That's why you have so many problems with SQL injection [xkcd.com] attacks, for example.
Dealing with SQL injection or XSS certainly doesn't require engineering expertise. It only requires common sense.
You need to encode data in a specific way to embed it in some other data which is under a specific format under which some characters have special meaning. The fact that most web developers don't even understand this -- or just barely enough to apply it to SQL injection and XSS because they've been told to -- says wonders about competence in the field.
In an environment where there is not an enforced indentation style, people don't all use the same ones (which, as you described things, was your case), so someone will use spaces.
So if you merge your code into that codebase, it should use spaces as well, so as not to mix tabs and spaces.
The fact that you think that your code is self-contained and a bit apart from the rest is irrelevant, because someone is eventually going to edit your code.
About the only difference was in indentation - mine is "always put the opening brace on the same line, one true tab, else in same column as if, no braces for any single-line condition to a control structure (for, if, else, while, etc)"
I hope they took the other person's then. Never mix tabs and spaces.
So this system requires CPUs to burn scarce, real electricity in order to generate virtual electronic tokens whose only purpose is to simulate the scarcity of rare metals
No, it requires computing power. It just happens that electricity-based CPUs are the most powerful method we have to compute at the moment. But you could just use pen and paper, or even just your brain.
What next, a search result that depends on your religion? If you type "Origin of the Universe", you get articles about the Bible if the engine thinks you're Christian, and scientific material otherwise?
They need to understand there is little value in subjective data. Their results are already biased enough, they should take steps to fix that, not make it worse.
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Macbooks are not more expensive than the rest.
The latest Macbooks are one of the best laptops around the $1,000 mark (which, interestingly enough, becomes a good €1,000 in Europe).
The only competitor is Dell, which has the advantage of allowing you to customize your hardware slightly. Macbooks are good by default though, while with Dells you need to tinker.
HP, Acer, don't make me laugh. That's very poor quality.
Look up what the rules for identifying sentence boundaries in Unicode are, and write your text so that your sentences can be distinguished by applying these rules.
Unicode is THE standard for dealing with natural text, so that's what you should follow.
It's basically a bamboo tablet, except a bamboo tablet also works as a graphics tablet.
There is nothing innovative about this, and claiming it is "The largest Multi-Touch trackpad ever" is just false.
Nothing new here.
Being extremist one-way only exacerbates being extremist the other way, which is why Japan has so many contrasts.
The main reason they have such flashy things everywhere is probably because the traditional culture of Zen, Tao etc. became overwhelming, and they wanted something different.
firefox?
When it was announced that Dell was selling computers loaded with Ubuntu, I went to their site and looked. I looked hard, and didn't see anything. Then on another site I found a link to an obscure page on the Dell website that you wouldn't find in any other way.
And there, I saw that they were selling old models of their products, with only the low-end hardware choices, for a more expensive price than what they sell the new model with high-end choices and Windows. To the point where even a person who would want to buy a Dell computer and install Ubuntu on it would buy one preloaded with Windows and install Ubuntu himself.
And now they're going to say they're pulling it because it didn't sell enough. Of course it didn't, they purposely made it that way; it's like they wanted it to fail from the get go.
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The Nokia N900 is subsidized and is available from all major carries at about the same price as any other smartphone.
The only major manufacturer that allows you to install anything you want on your phone, as far as I know, is Nokia, with the N900. Which is a true Linux, not an Android.
So if you want a manufacturer-supported way of doing whatever you want on your open phone, the N900 is the only choice.
Seriously, who uses that kind of meaningless notation anymore?
That's just silly. It should have used LLVM.
Then run pulseaudio on top of ALSA, like everyone. You can still use ALSA directly if you want to.
Virtualization requires specific hardware to work well.
Very few constructors motherboard constructors provide working Intel VT-d for example.
Firefox is extremely sluggish for me.
Just tried Chrome. I thought it was unstable on Linux, but it's pretty good and lightning fast. Don't really like the interface and the lack of settings though.
I'd quite like to have one of those.
What are those magic browsers you speak of?
On Linux, all of them are slow (except maybe Opera).
Memory management *should* be done automatically in C++, as this is the only practical way to enforce exception-safety throughout, and it also makes programs easier to reason about.
It's simply done with RAII rather than garbage collection. It still requires the coder to think of resource ownership as part of the design.
Attempted rape or even rape itself is not a good reason to murder someone.
Dealing with SQL injection or XSS certainly doesn't require engineering expertise. It only requires common sense.
You need to encode data in a specific way to embed it in some other data which is under a specific format under which some characters have special meaning. The fact that most web developers don't even understand this -- or just barely enough to apply it to SQL injection and XSS because they've been told to -- says wonders about competence in the field.
I didn't say that.
I merely stated that such tasks were relegated to people with next to no competence.
Or any other form of web development.
In an environment where there is not an enforced indentation style, people don't all use the same ones (which, as you described things, was your case), so someone will use spaces.
So if you merge your code into that codebase, it should use spaces as well, so as not to mix tabs and spaces.
The fact that you think that your code is self-contained and a bit apart from the rest is irrelevant, because someone is eventually going to edit your code.
That was probably the only good thing in his coding style...
I hope they took the other person's then.
Never mix tabs and spaces.
No, it requires computing power. It just happens that electricity-based CPUs are the most powerful method we have to compute at the moment.
But you could just use pen and paper, or even just your brain.
Yes, that's really what we need...
What next, a search result that depends on your religion? If you type "Origin of the Universe", you get articles about the Bible if the engine thinks you're Christian, and scientific material otherwise?
They need to understand there is little value in subjective data. Their results are already biased enough, they should take steps to fix that, not make it worse.