Yes, I do blame the user. It's not like it's any big secret that all operating systems need to be patched on occasion. People should be responsible for themselves, instead of claiming that the corporation / the government / society / whoever else should be their babysitter.
Why would you think they
won't get it right later?
Because the beta phase is supposed to be the time where you identify problems and correct them. This isn't a new problem -- in fact, people have been complaining about the same issue for previous versions, and Firefox has the same problem.
Glancing at this, this really isn't much of a textbook. It's more just a collection of short definitions and notes. It might be useful as a quick reference -- perhaps as a review if your math is a little rusty -- but it doesn't fill the role of a real textbook.
It seems to me that the authors (or "project leaders," or whatever you want to call them) thought that an "open textbook" would be really cool, but failed to realize that just declaring something open doesn't make it write itself. They haven't even settled on a topic for the book!
Because usually random numbers obtained from rand() aren't evenly distributed. It's also part of the reason why using (rand() % n) to get a number from 0 to n-1 is wrong.
Right, michael. Like you wouldn't have been the first to complain about how the government's antispam list does nothing if they had decided to create a do-not-spam list. At least it sounds like they gave the idea some consideration, and had a real reason not to do it.
For example, Yafray required the very most recent point release of GCC when 0.0.6 came out...sigh).
Not only that, they're locked to that specific point release of GCC. (You need something like gcc 3.3.2 to compile; gcc 3.4, for instance, won't cut it.)
I wanted to give Yafray a try, but to be honest, I'm not about to go through the pain of downgrading gcc just to play with a new raytracer. There's something to be said about excersizing a little restraint in your code so that it's portable.
If I rememeber correctly, the only animal capable of speaking back as some Gorilla that could speak back with sign language.
Whether this is true or not is still a rather contentious issue -- although most people seem to accept that some animals can link words to objects or actions, whether or not they can "learn language" is still debateable. Try checking out this article for a brief, but (IMO) fairly even-handed summary of the situation.
You would probably be better off running shred on the device file: "shred -v/dev/hdb", or whatever. Your method has trouble on journaled filesystems, and will leave information like filenames and directory structure around.
So, your hypothesis is that the ends justify the means - particularly when money is at stake?
Here we are, posting to a discussion about somebody who was annoyed at someone else putting words in his mouth... and you're putting words in the parent poster's mouth. The OP didn't say a thing about "ends justify the means," and I rather doubt that he believes that in any case.
It contains the spurious phrase: 'Michael Sims reports a large opening in his backdoor for all to use', which is certainly not in the original article.
Maybe not, but that's only because the authors of the original article don't know michael.
Sophie ends up in the jail cell near the end, and DONT free her...
Are you sure about that? I thought that happened if you got to the point where she is possessed by Nur-Ab-Sal (?), and didn't rescue her. Or is there another ending that I missed? (Or, for that matter, I suppose that I may be misremembering and you're right.)
You might try hitting 'ctrl+[' instead of escape; it took a little getting used to, but I can use vi much faster now than when I had to use escape. Having caps lock be escape probably is a bit easier for that, but having the control key in a convenient place makes many, many things easier.
I love rox, but I've noticed that I only tend to use it for certain tasks: for instance, I usually keep a rox window to browse my music collection, and I use it when I need to handle a large number of files that isn't easily addressable using the shell. I still find that keeping an xterm open for file management speeds things up, in most cases.
Of course, one of the things I like about Linux is that we have lots of great command-line and gui tools, and can use whatever's best for the job.
That was a case a year or two ago. Now, everybody and their dog has a pop-up blocker, because it "came with my interweb." Most of these people probably don't even know what a pop-up is. They're not going to realize that the pop-up blocker is being circumvented.
Whether or not the reason for building a supercomputer was political, the use is scientific. I think that we can use as many political excuses as possible to fund science.
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Yes, I do blame the user. It's not like it's any big secret that all operating systems need to be patched on occasion. People should be responsible for themselves, instead of claiming that the corporation / the government / society / whoever else should be their babysitter.
Because the beta phase is supposed to be the time where you identify problems and correct them. This isn't a new problem -- in fact, people have been complaining about the same issue for previous versions, and Firefox has the same problem.
Version numbers are meaningless outside of a particular project. Although many projects use the "0.x is beta" system, that's by no means universal.
More to the point, however, if they can't get upgrading to work right in the beta phase, why should we expect them to get it right later?
This would be more meaningful if the vast majority of recent viruses and worms weren't spread because users are too stupid to install free OS updates.
It seems to me that the authors (or "project leaders," or whatever you want to call them) thought that an "open textbook" would be really cool, but failed to realize that just declaring something open doesn't make it write itself. They haven't even settled on a topic for the book!
Because usually random numbers obtained from rand() aren't evenly distributed. It's also part of the reason why using (rand() % n) to get a number from 0 to n-1 is wrong.
Right, michael. Like you wouldn't have been the first to complain about how the government's antispam list does nothing if they had decided to create a do-not-spam list. At least it sounds like they gave the idea some consideration, and had a real reason not to do it.
- The article submitters don't RTFA.
- The editors don't RTFA.
- The posters don't RTFA.
- The moderators don't RTFA.
As far as I can tell, nobody visits these web sites. So what exactly is the slashdot effect?You're planning on waiting more than a full year between computer upgrades? Are you sure you're on the right website?
Not only that, they're locked to that specific point release of GCC. (You need something like gcc 3.3.2 to compile; gcc 3.4, for instance, won't cut it.)
I wanted to give Yafray a try, but to be honest, I'm not about to go through the pain of downgrading gcc just to play with a new raytracer. There's something to be said about excersizing a little restraint in your code so that it's portable.
Since the parent post was modded "interesting" instead of "funny," here's the snopes.com page...
You would probably be better off running shred on the device file: "shred -v /dev/hdb", or whatever. Your method has trouble on journaled filesystems, and will leave information like filenames and directory structure around.
Here we are, posting to a discussion about somebody who was annoyed at someone else putting words in his mouth
Are you sure about that? I thought that happened if you got to the point where she is possessed by Nur-Ab-Sal (?), and didn't rescue her. Or is there another ending that I missed? (Or, for that matter, I suppose that I may be misremembering and you're right.)
You might try hitting 'ctrl+[' instead of escape; it took a little getting used to, but I can use vi much faster now than when I had to use escape. Having caps lock be escape probably is a bit easier for that, but having the control key in a convenient place makes many, many things easier.
I love rox, but I've noticed that I only tend to use it for certain tasks: for instance, I usually keep a rox window to browse my music collection, and I use it when I need to handle a large number of files that isn't easily addressable using the shell. I still find that keeping an xterm open for file management speeds things up, in most cases.
Of course, one of the things I like about Linux is that we have lots of great command-line and gui tools, and can use whatever's best for the job.
That was a case a year or two ago. Now, everybody and their dog has a pop-up blocker, because it "came with my interweb." Most of these people probably don't even know what a pop-up is. They're not going to realize that the pop-up blocker is being circumvented.
Whether or not the reason for building a supercomputer was political, the use is scientific. I think that we can use as many political excuses as possible to fund science.
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"Very well. Carry on."
You don't get contacted three times by a collection agency for being one day late with your Visa payment.