Until birth, it's either a part of the mother's anatomy to do what she feels like (if it's implanted in the womb already) or just a thing in a glass if it's not.
Err no. The unborn baby is not part of the mother's anatomy. It's a separate living organism hiding itself from the mother's immune system. Practically a parasite.
Correction. Go-OO is not just some improved version, it is the the official version that you get in a number of distributions these days. Check their downloads page... Debian, Ubuntu and Gentoo carry it as the official "openoffice" package in their own repositories. And as far as I can make out, that is the case with openSUSE too.
I highly recommend any Windows users or administrators read Mark Russinovich's latest blog entry Pushing the Limits of Windows: Virtual Memory . It goes over all these things and describes the difference between virtual memory, committed memory, and why it really is important to have a paging file, even on that system with 8GB of physical RAM.
Ok, I decided to go and check out the linked article. Here's what he has to say (emphasis mine):
Some feel having no paging file results in better performance, but in general, having a paging file means Windows can write pages on the modified list (which represent pages that aren't being accessed actively but have not been saved to disk) out to the paging file, thus making that memory available for more useful purposes (processes or file cache).
I am not an expert at systems, but seems to me that he is saying that Windows tries to write disk buffers ("file cache"?) to the pagefile in order to make more space. That sounds quite stupid. Even if that is not the intended meaning, he still says that having a page file allows the system to swap out less actively accessed pages to the disk. But he misses the point then: people who disable page files for better performance want to disable exactly this behaviour. They don't want the system to swap out less active programs.
IANAB (I am not a biologist), but if the possibility set of the patient-harvested polypotent stem cells include trachea cells, I don't see why you would need pluripotent stem cells in order for it to be a "success"?
You seem to be pretty pissed off about being snubbed because of your email id. Agreed that the person behind the yahoo account (you) might be a perfectly reasonable candidate for future business, but its much more likely that he is not. The GP already mentions the cost of fully entertaining every query that comes in, and hence uses this simple metric to improve the ROI on responding to a query. Elitist? He is just being practical. Judging the email domain is quite an effective yardstick to determine if the query is worth entertaining. GP also mentions that free domains are not ignored, they are replied with a low-cost boilerplate reply. Of course, all this does not apply if the business actually caters to common individuals, since everyone doesn't have a personal domain name.
I believe a cow's eyes are on the sides of their head. Not at the front of their head, like ours. Therefore, the sun would be in their right eye in the morning, and the left eye in the afternoon.
Yeah, but they would still like it on their ass rather than their forehead anyway!
I don't use Gentoo, but I do know about it. My question was, why is the "compiler yourself" approach relevant, as in, what significant advantage does that have for the topic at hand, which is about installing only completely free software. To achieve that goal, all one has to do is install software with a license that falls in one's definition of "free". The flexibility that Gentoo's installation process provides is not relevant for such a simple task. And I admit, the part about all software being compiled from source anyway was a lame attempt at sarcasm.:)
Gentoo only installs non-free stuff if you tell it to do so, since you have complete control over the entire installation process and everything is built from the source.
Errr... why is the last part relevant? Isn't all software always built from source? Unless its interpreted, of course, in which case there's very little to build.
Instead of thinking as recruiting as a "gather resumes, filter resumes" procedure, you're going to have to think of it as a "track down the winners and make them talk to you" procedure.
I have three basic methods for how to go about this:
1. Go to the mountain
2. Internships
3. Build your own community*
Kubuntu 8.04 WILL be released, it just won't be 3 years supported, aka LTS, but tradicionally 18 months, which is half of that time. After that, Kubuntu 8.10 release will contain KDE 4 at it's best. Why don't they simply decouple Kubuntu and Ubuntu LTS releases? Let the next Kubuntu LTS come when KDE is stable enough. Even better... work out a schedule with KDE the way Ubuntu and GNOME releases are synchronised.
That "it" refers to the parent message, I suppose. Any plans of actually sending the replaced nVidia card back to nVidia? Or maybe AMD/ATI would take it on an exchange offer.
Most programmers I know aren't too keen on using their free time to discuss legalities and philosophies.
Indeed that is correct. But what most people fail to see are the people in open source. Philosophies and tools are all fine... what really makes a difference is the way developers interact. Point out the way email address of individuals are present in manpages, in the source files... or how one can simply join a mailing list and start contributing to a project pretty fast.
You could also include stuff about how a huge amount of importance is given to "Doing It Just Right" instead of simply "Getting It Done"... that what gets you acceptance is quality code.
Mark Shuttleworth's page on the Ubuntu wiki is also a good starting point to try gaining an insight into "open source".
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarkShuttleworth
Isn't this attitude exactly what people like Carl Sagan try to fight?
Importance is relative? Of course it is. Relative to the size of the cosmos and the possibility of innumerable other inhabited or habitable worlds out there, the Earth itself is unimportant. But its importance to us gets amplified even more!
It seems you didn't really read the poster very well and understand its message. You make it sound as if people intend to abandon Earth in favour of the Cosmos. What they are actually trying to say is to save us (and the Earth) form ourselves, exactly because we're such an insignificant thing from the point of view of the Cosmos, and the Earth is all we have right now.
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Some of us live in India.
Err no. The unborn baby is not part of the mother's anatomy. It's a separate living organism hiding itself from the mother's immune system. Practically a parasite.
whoosh!
You do realize that this will only affect hybrid or electric cars right?
There. Fixed that for you!
Correction. Go-OO is not just some improved version, it is the the official version that you get in a number of distributions these days. Check their downloads page ... Debian, Ubuntu and Gentoo carry it as the official "openoffice" package in their own repositories. And as far as I can make out, that is the case with openSUSE too.
So in Redmond, the internet browse you!
I highly recommend any Windows users or administrators read Mark Russinovich's latest blog entry Pushing the Limits of Windows: Virtual Memory . It goes over all these things and describes the difference between virtual memory, committed memory, and why it really is important to have a paging file, even on that system with 8GB of physical RAM.
Ok, I decided to go and check out the linked article. Here's what he has to say (emphasis mine):
Some feel having no paging file results in better performance, but in general, having a paging file means Windows can write pages on the modified list (which represent pages that aren't being accessed actively but have not been saved to disk) out to the paging file, thus making that memory available for more useful purposes (processes or file cache).
I am not an expert at systems, but seems to me that he is saying that Windows tries to write disk buffers ("file cache"?) to the pagefile in order to make more space. That sounds quite stupid. Even if that is not the intended meaning, he still says that having a page file allows the system to swap out less actively accessed pages to the disk. But he misses the point then: people who disable page files for better performance want to disable exactly this behaviour. They don't want the system to swap out less active programs.
Huh? Are you sure you are not a biologist?
There. Fixed it for you.
You seem to be pretty pissed off about being snubbed because of your email id. Agreed that the person behind the yahoo account (you) might be a perfectly reasonable candidate for future business, but its much more likely that he is not. The GP already mentions the cost of fully entertaining every query that comes in, and hence uses this simple metric to improve the ROI on responding to a query. Elitist? He is just being practical. Judging the email domain is quite an effective yardstick to determine if the query is worth entertaining. GP also mentions that free domains are not ignored, they are replied with a low-cost boilerplate reply. Of course, all this does not apply if the business actually caters to common individuals, since everyone doesn't have a personal domain name.
Why not!
Have you read this? Seems like they have really started pushing FF3 hard like they said they would!
Yeah, but they would still like it on their ass rather than their forehead anyway!
The folks over at whatever magazine website TFA was from ... they've just made a lot of people avoid ever visiting their site again.
So, a few days from now, a lot of people are going to say: "Uh, so which was that site I decided to avoid because of that lame article?"
I don't use Gentoo, but I do know about it. My question was, why is the "compiler yourself" approach relevant, as in, what significant advantage does that have for the topic at hand, which is about installing only completely free software. To achieve that goal, all one has to do is install software with a license that falls in one's definition of "free". The flexibility that Gentoo's installation process provides is not relevant for such a simple task. And I admit, the part about all software being compiled from source anyway was a lame attempt at sarcasm. :)
Gentoo only installs non-free stuff if you tell it to do so, since you have complete control over the entire installation process and everything is built from the source.
Errr ... why is the last part relevant? Isn't all software always built from source? Unless its interpreted, of course, in which case there's very little to build.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FindingGreatDevelopers.html
And of course, phone towers are far more difficult to steal than wires!
with massive bandwidth, why connect to a centralized online service instead of just connecting to your home computer?
Note the term "centralized online service", which can obviously be more reliable than your plain old home computer.
That "it" refers to the parent message, I suppose. Any plans of actually sending the replaced nVidia card back to nVidia? Or maybe AMD/ATI would take it on an exchange offer.
Indeed that is correct. But what most people fail to see are the people in open source. Philosophies and tools are all fine ... what really makes a difference is the way developers interact. Point out the way email address of individuals are present in manpages, in the source files ... or how one can simply join a mailing list and start contributing to a project pretty fast.
You could also include stuff about how a huge amount of importance is given to "Doing It Just Right" instead of simply "Getting It Done" ... that what gets you acceptance is quality code.
A good resource will be this dissertation that uses Debian as a case study: http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2005/08/msg 00206.html
Mark Shuttleworth's page on the Ubuntu wiki is also a good starting point to try gaining an insight into "open source". https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarkShuttleworth
Ummm ... special relativity is not the complete picture, right? Especially, gravity is dealt with in the general relativity, right?
Isn't this attitude exactly what people like Carl Sagan try to fight? Importance is relative? Of course it is. Relative to the size of the cosmos and the possibility of innumerable other inhabited or habitable worlds out there, the Earth itself is unimportant. But its importance to us gets amplified even more!
It seems you didn't really read the poster very well and understand its message. You make it sound as if people intend to abandon Earth in favour of the Cosmos. What they are actually trying to say is to save us (and the Earth) form ourselves, exactly because we're such an insignificant thing from the point of view of the Cosmos, and the Earth is all we have right now.