Go for Linux Mint, it's based on Ubuntu (*not* Kubuntu, which is usually much less stable and less supported out there). LinuxMint tries to be the prettiest out there and even as a power-user, I love to see and use all the bling. Unlike your usual GNOME environment, the system bar is at the bottom, and doesn't look much different than the windows one.
I've never had a problem with LinuxMint stable-wise and the distrowatch.com index seems to agree that it's a very good platform.
...you ignore when learning things on your own. Seriously, if you teach yourself a language it's usually by developing a project of your choice (mostly for the fun of it, as it has been for me). What people do is, they go for the fun bit of hacking things together to get a working piece and pick one of two choice:
* Try to use all the language features even if this means overkill for simple situations.
* Go on to piece it together and leave a horrible mess.
I used to do the latter >10 years ago in that situation, starting out in the mess that Visual Basic itself is, never really realising just how bad it was. I was proud of what I'd achieved! Looking back, I can't believe I published any of that. It's when people go for the first choice and start realising how software is meant to look like from the source that they learn to be a competent programmer. There's all these intricate details like Garbage-Collection, String-Manipulation, Floating-Point Math (the point being that it is unlike mat taught at school !) and many more things like Memory-Management and some such that one *can* get to work sloppily, but it's only when one realises how to utilise these things in the correct way that i would agree self-teaching is the way to go.
I'm a self taught programmer, still in university (3rd year with an average mark of 1.8), employed as a software engineer and I'm 100% certain I wouldn't have been able to achieve 1 quarter of these things without teaching myself how to program.....Yeah... it is at this point that people can rightfully say they *do* waste quite some time in university.
+5 Insightful, not Funny, nope.. insightful, only on slashdot could such a thing happen.
Part of the reason i love it as much as i do, oh and while you're here:
I'm a prince from the far lands of absurdistan and would like to ask if you would like to [insert random passage of text here]
Innovation means taking risks when going into directions that may not immediately turn a profit form time to time. Google has been doing this with their 20% rule http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/googles-20-percent-time-in-action.html for quite a while now and some nice projects have resulted.
If this philosophy, which often enough might not result in immediate profit for the company is to be stopped the way you seem to have in mind, then the very thing google stands for could be lost.
In the end, turning to profits like that might be the best way to commit suicide for a company that relies on innovation, good PR and fanboyism as much as google.
One thing to keep in mind is that even though it looks bad (and for email it certainly is..), most other mediums aren't quite as affected by it. I do get quite a bit of Spam on ICQ these days, but the ratio between spam messages and real messages is waaaaaaaay better than 20:1.
I would expect the same to hold true for most other mediums as well, so that it might in fact be a good idea to use those as a separate alternative communication channel should your inbox become overwhelmed.
Something i have noticed over the years is the reduction in Trojans and worms being sent (at least to my inbox). There was a time when i received around 50 trojan-emails a day, whereas now it has been quite a while that a spam mail did actually contain any attachment whatsoever.
To summarize, yeah.. email looks bad, but there's a whole set of alternative or additional channels that can be used which aren't quite as saturated.
Somehow "heat engine" directly translates into "internal combustion engine" for me. But this piece uses electricity, exactly how useful is that?
This is bound to be less efficient than to use the electricity to just power an ordinary electric motor.
I suppose scaling a motor down to that size might be kinda difficult, though, if that was the point, why emphasize that it is a heat engine?
I don't understand at all how the summary is related to the headline. What do RPG elements have to do with that?
I would presume that RPG influences in a game don't stop anyone from making a mod for it? That clearly can't have been the reason
why infinity ward did what they have done.
Obviosly troll, but the point youre missing is that if you don't adhere to standards, your product only works out of the box for one single browser and, if widely used, has to be supported by following generations.
Why taint a perfectly good standard with abominated things that are required to correctly display websites built in the distant past...?
over a million could fit inside a single red blood cell.
And it's just a matter of time until someone does. Let's hope by then software engineering will be in a better state than it is now, or we may be scrambling to kill artificial viruses along with the real ones. As if the world wasn't deadly enough...
Look at the size of that thing, do you really believe it is possible to come up with a program that is complex enough such as that it won't be testable beforehand and still make it fit? Consider that it still needs most of its parts to actually carry out any useful original pupose...
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Go for Linux Mint, it's based on Ubuntu (*not* Kubuntu, which is usually much less stable and less supported out there). LinuxMint tries to be the prettiest out there and even as a power-user, I love to see and use all the bling. Unlike your usual GNOME environment, the system bar is at the bottom, and doesn't look much different than the windows one. I've never had a problem with LinuxMint stable-wise and the distrowatch.com index seems to agree that it's a very good platform.
...you ignore when learning things on your own. Seriously, if you teach yourself a language it's usually by developing a project of your choice (mostly for the fun of it, as it has been for me). What people do is, they go for the fun bit of hacking things together to get a working piece and pick one of two choice: * Try to use all the language features even if this means overkill for simple situations. * Go on to piece it together and leave a horrible mess. I used to do the latter >10 years ago in that situation, starting out in the mess that Visual Basic itself is, never really realising just how bad it was. I was proud of what I'd achieved! Looking back, I can't believe I published any of that. It's when people go for the first choice and start realising how software is meant to look like from the source that they learn to be a competent programmer. There's all these intricate details like Garbage-Collection, String-Manipulation, Floating-Point Math (the point being that it is unlike mat taught at school !) and many more things like Memory-Management and some such that one *can* get to work sloppily, but it's only when one realises how to utilise these things in the correct way that i would agree self-teaching is the way to go. I'm a self taught programmer, still in university (3rd year with an average mark of 1.8), employed as a software engineer and I'm 100% certain I wouldn't have been able to achieve 1 quarter of these things without teaching myself how to program. ....Yeah... it is at this point that people can rightfully say they *do* waste quite some time in university.
+5 Insightful, not Funny, nope.. insightful, only on slashdot could such a thing happen. Part of the reason i love it as much as i do, oh and while you're here: I'm a prince from the far lands of absurdistan and would like to ask if you would like to [insert random passage of text here]
Innovation means taking risks when going into directions that may not immediately turn a profit form time to time. Google has been doing this with their 20% rule http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/googles-20-percent-time-in-action.html for quite a while now and some nice projects have resulted. If this philosophy, which often enough might not result in immediate profit for the company is to be stopped the way you seem to have in mind, then the very thing google stands for could be lost. In the end, turning to profits like that might be the best way to commit suicide for a company that relies on innovation, good PR and fanboyism as much as google.
Mod parent up, exactly my thoughts as a Software Developer as well.
One thing to keep in mind is that even though it looks bad (and for email it certainly is..), most other mediums aren't quite as affected by it. I do get quite a bit of Spam on ICQ these days, but the ratio between spam messages and real messages is waaaaaaaay better than 20:1. I would expect the same to hold true for most other mediums as well, so that it might in fact be a good idea to use those as a separate alternative communication channel should your inbox become overwhelmed. Something i have noticed over the years is the reduction in Trojans and worms being sent (at least to my inbox). There was a time when i received around 50 trojan-emails a day, whereas now it has been quite a while that a spam mail did actually contain any attachment whatsoever. To summarize, yeah.. email looks bad, but there's a whole set of alternative or additional channels that can be used which aren't quite as saturated.
huh? Weird metrics... Why not just tell us it's about 3.5 LoC ?
Somehow "heat engine" directly translates into "internal combustion engine" for me. But this piece uses electricity, exactly how useful is that? This is bound to be less efficient than to use the electricity to just power an ordinary electric motor. I suppose scaling a motor down to that size might be kinda difficult, though, if that was the point, why emphasize that it is a heat engine?
I don't understand at all how the summary is related to the headline. What do RPG elements have to do with that? I would presume that RPG influences in a game don't stop anyone from making a mod for it? That clearly can't have been the reason why infinity ward did what they have done.
Obviosly troll, but the point youre missing is that if you don't adhere to standards, your product only works out of the box for one single browser and, if widely used, has to be supported by following generations. Why taint a perfectly good standard with abominated things that are required to correctly display websites built in the distant past...?
over a million could fit inside a single red blood cell.
And it's just a matter of time until someone does. Let's hope by then software engineering will be in a better state than it is now, or we may be scrambling to kill artificial viruses along with the real ones. As if the world wasn't deadly enough...
Look at the size of that thing, do you really believe it is possible to come up with a program that is complex enough such as that it won't be testable beforehand and still make it fit? Consider that it still needs most of its parts to actually carry out any useful original pupose...