sadly, i bet most/. readers are windows users. although there is a lower percentage of windows users here than in the general population, windows is probably still king. i will probably not be popular for pointing this out, but that's life, i guess. i'd be very curious to see a statistical summary of/.'s server logs, although i doubt they would ever do something like that (if they even log such information).
or maybe a lot of people are just like me and are at work, where we have to use windows. or maybe even more of you are even more like me and really have no interest in loading adobe's official acrobat reader on your linux box when xpdf (and gpdf) are totally sufficient for your purposes.
i myself try to use xdvi as often as i can, especially when in the production phase of latex documents. so fast.
When do you use a hand saw, compared to using a power saw? Different carpenters will have different answers. But having both at your command makes you a better craftsperson.
perhaps it makes you a more capable craftsperson, but just having the tools does not really help. better? maybe, but not necessarily good. it's knowing when to use one over the other that really makes you good.
that being said, i love perl for quick stuff, i/o and text processing, and lots of other things. php is great for web and i am definitely interested in looking into python...
a for profit business?!?!? are you crazy? the united states government is hemoraging money at unprecedented rates! the defecit has never been this high! the debt has never been this high! stupid and shortsighted though they may be, profit has nothing to do with it.
For all the praises sung of Google's making Internet search actually useful and all of the technologically cool things that have come out of their research labs, it is often overlooked that they really dropped the ball when it came to Usenet. Formerly a very useful service, especially for those seeking support and discussion of the arcane, DejaNews has become pretty lame under Google. While Google is one of the more trusted Internet companies, their road to stratospheric stock prices has not been without falter.
actually, mostly they are taking the money away from less sophisticated (and usually less wealthy) people, not transfering it among each other. once you have money, you pay smart trading strategists to "beat the market" in exchange for a share of the profits.
The trades executed by Long Term Capital Management, the hedge fund whose woeful tale is told in When Genius Failed were very much a "global macro" fund. Most of their work dealt with the relative values of various government bonds. There is quite a bit of quantitative analysis that can go into this, however, you can do many things without tons of data-crunching as well. It is true, however, that they did consider their strategies to be arbitrage.
this will be our largest and most public release to date
Firefox is already at the top of the Mozilla.org website, taking up about 6 times as much space as the full Mozilla suite. There has been no real marketing for Netscape, Mozilla, or Firefox recently, so I am wondering how this release will be more public. Any ideas?
I remember using TextBridge in 1998 on a Mac with an Apple scanner. It was quite excellent at the time. I can't say whether it has improved, but I cannot imagine that it has gotten any worse. On typed documents, I got about 98% accuracy--sometimes better.
It is $80 now and there appears to only be a Windows version, but you appear to be running Windows, so no problem there. Enjoy.
The article's ultimate suggestion is to buy a new PC. For this game. Seriously.
It also suggests that just getting a new processor is not enough "unless you take joy in swapping out a motherboard or building your own system." I understand that your current motherboard may not support a 1.5GHz processor, but to the uninitiated, this sounds quite scary. It makes it seem like a new motherboard is always necessary for a new processor, which is clearly not the case.
Isn't this game projected to be released on PS2, XBox, or GameCube? This would cost $100-$150, cheaper if bought used.
Those hardcore gamers who are set on a new PC will buy one anyway. Those for whom this article would be informative are being given the wrong advice.
just buy a hardware firewall. do the install with the network cable unplugged, then plug in from behind the firewall to get the updates.
alternately, you could download all the service packs, patches, etc., burn them to a CD, and do the install completely disconnected from the internet, then run the patches, then connect.
Unless you are looking to do seriously advanced things (and even if you are), LaTex and BibTeX are things that can be learned very easily from online resources. Spending money on a book is totally wasteful. Just google for keywords relating to what you are trying to do (and include the word "latex" in your search). Also look around for.tex files people have posted--these can be very useful as well.
What if the error produces another valid tar archive? How would the computer know which one was the correct one? You actually need *3* copies to reliably dectect a single error if you are doing it this stupid way.
There are WAY better (by better I mean take up less space and can detect more errors) methods of error detection (and correction), which have filled volumes of research publications and books, so I will not try to get into them here, but a (maybe not so) simple software trick will definitely save a lot of space over the method you suggest. Whether there is an archiving system (or a file system) that does this natively, I can't really say, but I would imagine that this "Ask Slashdot" is not the first time anyone has thought of it.
Take, for example, the strength of Superman. To leap a 30-story building in a single bound, Superman's leg muscles must produce nearly 6,000 pounds of force while jumping, Kakalios calculates. The Man of Steel was that strong because he was designed to resist Krypton's powerful gravity.
This is wrong. Superman is as strong as he is because of the yellow sun of the Earth (as opposed to the red sun of Krypton). The comics say nothing about how massive the planet is, just that the Earth's sun gave him super powers. Plus, he is not really jumping, he's flying. This description does not lend itself to description by the laws of physics, but that's okay.
Most phenomena in comic books is completely wrong according to the laws of physics (the law of conservation of energy is the most often flauted--with energy fields being created spontaneously, and the law of conservation of momentum is violated every time somebody flies without any means of propulsion).
We like comics because they are fantasy. Even if you can find some accurate depictions of physical phenomena in comics, it is a dangerous enterprise to use comics to teach physics. If students are taught that some "comic book physics" is accurate, then they may come to believe that all such physics is accurate.
For a dose of semi-reality in comics, I turn to Batman, the most bad-ass human ever to be dreamed up. But even Batman is not that physically accurate. The first time he shot up a grappling hook to save him from falling off a building, his arms would be ripped clean off. But I don't care. Batman is cool.
In my opinion, physics should stay away from comics, because thinking about the physics involved in comics makes them not fun, since nearly every cool thing that happens in comic books defies the laws of physics.
get him nothing and don't make him get you anything. i don't know a single guy who likes the institution of valentine's day. sure it's nice to have a day to be romantic with your sweetheart, but most guys i know want to minimize the number of obligatory gift-giving days in the year. birthdays, anniversaries, valentine's day...we can only afford so much. save your money for a nice birthday present, or get yourself something nice and pretend it came from your boyfriend:-).
Honestly, this is why I don't use emacs for config file editing. I hate all those *~ files and I know I will just be deleting them all the time. It's one thing for source code somewhere in your own home directory, but another thing to be cluttering up/etc. Vi (actually I use vim) works great for config files, or you can use nano/pico/whatever if you don't like the modefulness (is that a word?) of vi.
lots of the software is built in-house, but many standard programs run on mac os x also, like renderman, maya, and shake. although this software runs on other platforms, many media shops are used to running mac on the desktop, so apple is hoping it can edge itself into the server market. with the purchase of shake, apple is looking to combine software and hardware for a complete renderfarm solution (shake, xserve, xserve raid).
plus shake is much less expensive on mac os x, so companies might end up saving some money by going with the mac hardware if they are already using shake.
the real market is computationally intensive media tasks (mostly renderfamrs). although there are many linux programs that do this, there are more that run on mac os, so it's beneficial for places to have tons of ppc mac hardware kicking around to finish rendering their cgi.
plus the altivec instruction set makes some scientific computation better, for example dna sequencing is supposed to be really fast on a mac.
plus the xserves are really easy to administer, so it's good for companies that don't have special tech staff, or maybe use all macs, but want a server (or several servers).
Since everyone seems to be having mostly positive experiences, I thought I would let it be known that 10.3.2 rendered my 550MHz TiBook unbootable. Reinstalling 10.3.0 completely fixed the problem (and it still works fine after updating to 10.3.1). I haven't tried putting 10.3.2 on again because, quite frankly, I am afraid the same thing will happen again. Just make sure you have your 10.3 discs on hand before you install.
Yes, I am aware of that. However, the GNU project does not claim "100% compatibility" between releases. In fact, the differences between releases are widely documented and prominently noted. Don't believe them? Check the source.
All I was saying is that claiming "100% compatibility" is a pretty bold statement. It was clearly written by the marketing department, not the developers. Granted they admit elsewhere that it's not actually 100% compatible, but maybe after rounding and a couple floating point errors, they got 100... who knows.
My first thought was, "does this mean it can finally compile the Linux kernel?" But the website says "with a few kernel modifications, [icc] can build the kernel." Since gcc can compile it without modifications, doesn't this mean they are not 100% compatible? Also, there is no link to these patches anywhere, just this article on icc 7. Do you have to figure out the problems and fix them yourself?
Obviously there is other software to compile besides the Linux kernel, but since the icc is so tuned to the Intel hardware, and Linux interacts so directly with the hardware, people believe that icc would give great benefits to the kernel. At the very least, nothing can claim 100% gcc compatibility unless it can compile Linux unmodified.
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or just spend 2 minutes on the mysql website and you could have found this.
sadly, i bet most /. readers are windows users. although there is a lower percentage of windows users here than in the general population, windows is probably still king. i will probably not be popular for pointing this out, but that's life, i guess. i'd be very curious to see a statistical summary of /.'s server logs, although i doubt they would ever do something like that (if they even log such information).
or maybe a lot of people are just like me and are at work, where we have to use windows. or maybe even more of you are even more like me and really have no interest in loading adobe's official acrobat reader on your linux box when xpdf (and gpdf) are totally sufficient for your purposes.
i myself try to use xdvi as often as i can, especially when in the production phase of latex documents. so fast.
that being said, i love perl for quick stuff, i/o and text processing, and lots of other things. php is great for web and i am definitely interested in looking into python...
a for profit business?!?!? are you crazy? the united states government is hemoraging money at unprecedented rates! the defecit has never been this high! the debt has never been this high! stupid and shortsighted though they may be, profit has nothing to do with it.
For all the praises sung of Google's making Internet search actually useful and all of the technologically cool things that have come out of their research labs, it is often overlooked that they really dropped the ball when it came to Usenet. Formerly a very useful service, especially for those seeking support and discussion of the arcane, DejaNews has become pretty lame under Google. While Google is one of the more trusted Internet companies, their road to stratospheric stock prices has not been without falter.
actually, mostly they are taking the money away from less sophisticated (and usually less wealthy) people, not transfering it among each other. once you have money, you pay smart trading strategists to "beat the market" in exchange for a share of the profits.
:-)
still discouraged?
The trades executed by Long Term Capital Management, the hedge fund whose woeful tale is told in When Genius Failed were very much a "global macro" fund. Most of their work dealt with the relative values of various government bonds. There is quite a bit of quantitative analysis that can go into this, however, you can do many things without tons of data-crunching as well. It is true, however, that they did consider their strategies to be arbitrage.
Firefox is already at the top of the Mozilla.org website, taking up about 6 times as much space as the full Mozilla suite. There has been no real marketing for Netscape, Mozilla, or Firefox recently, so I am wondering how this release will be more public. Any ideas?
slightly off-topic, but Payback is a also a great movie.
Conspiracy Theory was pretty cool as well.
I remember using TextBridge in 1998 on a Mac with an Apple scanner. It was quite excellent at the time. I can't say whether it has improved, but I cannot imagine that it has gotten any worse. On typed documents, I got about 98% accuracy--sometimes better.
It is $80 now and there appears to only be a Windows version, but you appear to be running Windows, so no problem there. Enjoy.
maybe content will be available via xbox live ($50 for the year, rather than several hundred--or thousand--for a pc upgrade or new pc).
xbox live is big these days.
The article's ultimate suggestion is to buy a new PC. For this game. Seriously.
It also suggests that just getting a new processor is not enough "unless you take joy in swapping out a motherboard or building your own system." I understand that your current motherboard may not support a 1.5GHz processor, but to the uninitiated, this sounds quite scary. It makes it seem like a new motherboard is always necessary for a new processor, which is clearly not the case.
Isn't this game projected to be released on PS2, XBox, or GameCube? This would cost $100-$150, cheaper if bought used.
Those hardcore gamers who are set on a new PC will buy one anyway. Those for whom this article would be informative are being given the wrong advice.
just buy a hardware firewall. do the install with the network cable unplugged, then plug in from behind the firewall to get the updates.
alternately, you could download all the service packs, patches, etc., burn them to a CD, and do the install completely disconnected from the internet, then run the patches, then connect.
sorry, dude. nothing can make your oldsmobile cool. :-)
dont' waste your money on a book. check google. a couple starting points are [in pdf]:
.tex files people have posted--these can be very useful as well.
The Not So Short Guide to LaTeX2e
The Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List
Unless you are looking to do seriously advanced things (and even if you are), LaTex and BibTeX are things that can be learned very easily from online resources. Spending money on a book is totally wasteful. Just google for keywords relating to what you are trying to do (and include the word "latex" in your search). Also look around for
What if the error produces another valid tar archive? How would the computer know which one was the correct one? You actually need *3* copies to reliably dectect a single error if you are doing it this stupid way.
There are WAY better (by better I mean take up less space and can detect more errors) methods of error detection (and correction), which have filled volumes of research publications and books, so I will not try to get into them here, but a (maybe not so) simple software trick will definitely save a lot of space over the method you suggest. Whether there is an archiving system (or a file system) that does this natively, I can't really say, but I would imagine that this "Ask Slashdot" is not the first time anyone has thought of it.
This is wrong. Superman is as strong as he is because of the yellow sun of the Earth (as opposed to the red sun of Krypton). The comics say nothing about how massive the planet is, just that the Earth's sun gave him super powers. Plus, he is not really jumping, he's flying. This description does not lend itself to description by the laws of physics, but that's okay.
Most phenomena in comic books is completely wrong according to the laws of physics (the law of conservation of energy is the most often flauted--with energy fields being created spontaneously, and the law of conservation of momentum is violated every time somebody flies without any means of propulsion).
We like comics because they are fantasy. Even if you can find some accurate depictions of physical phenomena in comics, it is a dangerous enterprise to use comics to teach physics. If students are taught that some "comic book physics" is accurate, then they may come to believe that all such physics is accurate.
For a dose of semi-reality in comics, I turn to Batman, the most bad-ass human ever to be dreamed up. But even Batman is not that physically accurate. The first time he shot up a grappling hook to save him from falling off a building, his arms would be ripped clean off. But I don't care. Batman is cool.
In my opinion, physics should stay away from comics, because thinking about the physics involved in comics makes them not fun, since nearly every cool thing that happens in comic books defies the laws of physics.
get him nothing and don't make him get you anything. i don't know a single guy who likes the institution of valentine's day. sure it's nice to have a day to be romantic with your sweetheart, but most guys i know want to minimize the number of obligatory gift-giving days in the year. birthdays, anniversaries, valentine's day...we can only afford so much. save your money for a nice birthday present, or get yourself something nice and pretend it came from your boyfriend :-).
Honestly, this is why I don't use emacs for config file editing. I hate all those *~ files and I know I will just be deleting them all the time. It's one thing for source code somewhere in your own home directory, but another thing to be cluttering up /etc. Vi (actually I use vim) works great for config files, or you can use nano/pico/whatever if you don't like the modefulness (is that a word?) of vi.
lots of the software is built in-house, but many standard programs run on mac os x also, like renderman, maya, and shake. although this software runs on other platforms, many media shops are used to running mac on the desktop, so apple is hoping it can edge itself into the server market. with the purchase of shake, apple is looking to combine software and hardware for a complete renderfarm solution (shake, xserve, xserve raid).
plus shake is much less expensive on mac os x, so companies might end up saving some money by going with the mac hardware if they are already using shake.
XServe fits into 1U of rackspace and comes with (pretty much) exactly what a server wants and doesn't come with what it doesn't want.
A rack full of computers with superdrives and 3D cards? (like you would get with the G5s) It seems like a waste of money to me.
the real market is computationally intensive media tasks (mostly renderfamrs). although there are many linux programs that do this, there are more that run on mac os, so it's beneficial for places to have tons of ppc mac hardware kicking around to finish rendering their cgi.
plus the altivec instruction set makes some scientific computation better, for example dna sequencing is supposed to be really fast on a mac.
plus the xserves are really easy to administer, so it's good for companies that don't have special tech staff, or maybe use all macs, but want a server (or several servers).
Since everyone seems to be having mostly positive experiences, I thought I would let it be known that 10.3.2 rendered my 550MHz TiBook unbootable. Reinstalling 10.3.0 completely fixed the problem (and it still works fine after updating to 10.3.1). I haven't tried putting 10.3.2 on again because, quite frankly, I am afraid the same thing will happen again. Just make sure you have your 10.3 discs on hand before you install.
Anyone else have this problem?
Yes, I am aware of that. However, the GNU project does not claim "100% compatibility" between releases. In fact, the differences between releases are widely documented and prominently noted. Don't believe them? Check the source.
All I was saying is that claiming "100% compatibility" is a pretty bold statement. It was clearly written by the marketing department, not the developers. Granted they admit elsewhere that it's not actually 100% compatible, but maybe after rounding and a couple floating point errors, they got 100... who knows.
My first thought was, "does this mean it can finally compile the Linux kernel?" But the website says "with a few kernel modifications, [icc] can build the kernel." Since gcc can compile it without modifications, doesn't this mean they are not 100% compatible? Also, there is no link to these patches anywhere, just this article on icc 7. Do you have to figure out the problems and fix them yourself?
Obviously there is other software to compile besides the Linux kernel, but since the icc is so tuned to the Intel hardware, and Linux interacts so directly with the hardware, people believe that icc would give great benefits to the kernel. At the very least, nothing can claim 100% gcc compatibility unless it can compile Linux unmodified.