But in India, education is also highly subsidized and in a lot of universities, the fee structure is merit-based (i.e. your ranking in your entrance examinations determine which stratum you fall under).
The anonymous coward posts earlier were actually read by mods and brought to the attention of others. But lately I realised that the anonymous coward posts were no longer floated upwards by the mods. So I had to create an account just so my posts will have atleast 1 point.
These days if you want to be modded up, ask the same questions that were asked when a similar article appeared earlier, or just roll out endless memes.
Maybe I am deluded about the times when redundant posts were really modded redundant.
Wow. Good to see the mods finding this thread so novel and very relevant to the original topic. Maybe I should now run along with some meme from here.
If only I could beat the mods with a clue stick.... Even reddit with its uber-simple mod system does better than this. Either slashdot should do better, or maybe just kick out the moderators and introduce reddit style modding.
Benchmarks are useless. There are way more important things to judge an operating system then "speed".
Does Ubuntu have nearly as good of documentation? No. It has that "info" nonsense.
Does documentation displayed in info contain less content somehow?
Does Ubuntu provide a stable platform to build a server? No. It, like most linux distros, changes whole versions during updates. That isn't stable.
The last LTS release of ubuntu was 8.04. What major version changes have happened to it?
Does Ubuntu provide a way to strip itself down to the bare metal? Ain't as easy as the BSD's.
Bare metal means what? Ubuntu already runs on netbooks. Are you trying to run a mail server on your wrist-watch?
Is Ubuntu built around solid engineering and design, or politics? Depends--Ubuntu seems to be less afraid of the big bad FSF as other distros, but it still is steeped in an OS built for politics. FreeBSD is pretty tame and tends to focus on solid engineering rather than political maneuvering.
Ubuntu is built upon debian. And so inherits a very solid release process from it. Your rhetoric about distros being afraid of FSF is mind bogglingly idiotic. And not worth discussing.
But really, Comparing FreeBSD to Ubuntu is like comparing OpenSolaris to Windows 7. FreeBSD is largely a server operating system were as Ubuntu is an end user operating system. And if you are comparing server operating systems, there are far more important criteria than "speed". Things like version stability are vastly more important.
And how are LTS releases of ubuntu lacking in stability?
All in all; do you have any positive feedback for the ubuntu communtiy?
In many schools, football pays for itself and the entire rest of the extracurricular budget.
I have read this claim regurgitated countless times on/.
But not once have i seen a study to back this up. And by study I do not mean what the Top 10 or Top 50 schools are making out of their football teams, but what all the schools taken together make or lose. All in all, do you have a citation for the claim that football pays for America's education?
My girlfriend* just walked in the room and saw me watching the video of the successful flight. All she said was "No, you can't have one."
To be fair, she was joking... I think.
* Don't even think about it.
Dude, you really think the nickname YourExperiment and the words My girlfriend are going to stop people from thinking what they are thinking?
In even moderately large software projects, manual+auto testing is usually done on internal builds. Final or RC builds usually are only subjected to automated testing.
No, it was always just a plain patent infringement case about using XML for the reason that the mark up language was created. The sad part is that i4i created a product that uses Word for all of its user interface. That means they are using way more of Microsoft's code in their own product than Microsoft could have ever "stolen" from them.
How is writing a plugin for Word make i4i using "Microsoft code in their own product" ? If Microsoft is not OK with the plugin they could have removed the plugin functionality form Word instead of really stealing from i4i.
Interesting article. Thanks.
But I think the problems noted with CIPA(Congenital insensitivity to pain) are solveable at least for creating special ops soldiers. Preserve and keep healthy the human units with CIPA until a mission really requires them. And then you send them into circumstances not even a strong willed human can tolerate (e.g. radioactive battlescape).
May not be possible with most (modern) democratic countries, but can become a possibility under extrenuating changes. And discoveries can be used even decades after they are made.
SVG is a stateful 2D scenegraph API while WebGL is (mostly) stateless 3D API.
So are we going to see SVG obsolete a few years from now, when devs start coding their own scenegraph frameworks in javascript using WebGL? I personally am biased towards WebGL due to its Opengl ES 2.0 roots.
Disclaimer:I love Debian's way of doing things; but wonder whether it (Debian) has any answer to what this Redhat release has to offer. Does it?
Debian offers a far wider selection of software backed up by the same reliability level as redhat.
But, Redhat is able to feature enterprisey features earlier than other distros because it employs a large number of linux developers.
I see that there is a push by some broadband providers to LOWER the definition to 1/3 of its current minimum, from 768 mb/s to 256 mb/s. I have to strongly urge that this action NOT be taken, but, rather, that the minimum broadband speed either be left alone, or, preferably raised to 1500 mb/s.
respectfully
Dave Mundt
1500mb/s? surely you mean 1500 kb/s. Have you sent the comment already?:)
Indian here.
My ISP delivers at least 50% of max speed during daytime and 100% throughput during night. There is a advisory 100 GB cap, wherein after hitting the limit, you get not more than 50% of max speed in day, but still get 100% max speed during the night.
Though I don't know if they gurantee this how many 9's reliability, they have delivered the bandwidth for past few years.
Given that today's high end graphics cards(e.g. 4870X2) offer far more TFLOPs than the PS3, I fail to see how linux not running on PS3 is a loss for the supercomputing fraternity. Machine for machine, Folding@home gets more computation out of PCs equipped with graphics cards rather than the PS3s. It is just that there are a lot more PS3s involved in Folding@Home than PCs fitted with nice graphics cards, which totals up the PS3 FLOPs beyond the gamer PCs.
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But in India, education is also highly subsidized and in a lot of universities, the fee structure is merit-based (i.e. your ranking in your entrance examinations determine which stratum you fall under).
Fucking socialist commies!!!
The anonymous coward posts earlier were actually read by mods and brought to the attention of others. But lately I realised that the anonymous coward posts were no longer floated upwards by the mods. So I had to create an account just so my posts will have atleast 1 point.
These days if you want to be modded up, ask the same questions that were asked when a similar article appeared earlier, or just roll out endless memes.
Maybe I am deluded about the times when redundant posts were really modded redundant.
Wow. Good to see the mods finding this thread so novel and very relevant to the original topic. Maybe I should now run along with some meme from here.
If only I could beat the mods with a clue stick.... Even reddit with its uber-simple mod system does better than this. Either slashdot should do better, or maybe just kick out the moderators and introduce reddit style modding.
What are you trying to say? And why did you get modded insightful for an inane comment?
The Man from Pakistan: The True Story of the World's Most Dangerous Nuclear Smuggler Read this book, and wonder why A. Q. Khan has not been punished till date for spreading the nuclear know how to states like north korea, Iran and Libya.
In a nuclear war, America is the only state capable of defeating China or Russia.
...and start the nuclear winter. Never forget the nuclear winter.
And dont forget India and China!!!
Benchmarks are useless. There are way more important things to judge an operating system then "speed".
Does Ubuntu have nearly as good of documentation? No. It has that "info" nonsense.
Does documentation displayed in info contain less content somehow?
Does Ubuntu provide a stable platform to build a server? No. It, like most linux distros, changes whole versions during updates. That isn't stable.
The last LTS release of ubuntu was 8.04. What major version changes have happened to it?
Does Ubuntu provide a way to strip itself down to the bare metal? Ain't as easy as the BSD's.
Bare metal means what? Ubuntu already runs on netbooks. Are you trying to run a mail server on your wrist-watch?
Is Ubuntu built around solid engineering and design, or politics? Depends--Ubuntu seems to be less afraid of the big bad FSF as other distros, but it still is steeped in an OS built for politics. FreeBSD is pretty tame and tends to focus on solid engineering rather than political maneuvering.
Ubuntu is built upon debian. And so inherits a very solid release process from it. Your rhetoric about distros being afraid of FSF is mind bogglingly idiotic. And not worth discussing.
But really, Comparing FreeBSD to Ubuntu is like comparing OpenSolaris to Windows 7. FreeBSD is largely a server operating system were as Ubuntu is an end user operating system. And if you are comparing server operating systems, there are far more important criteria than "speed". Things like version stability are vastly more important.
And how are LTS releases of ubuntu lacking in stability? All in all; do you have any positive feedback for the ubuntu communtiy?
So Google "barks back" but Microsoft "hits back"?
> Now who the hell modded parent up? /. mods suck bigtime these days. To get modded up, just write a emo post.
In many schools, football pays for itself and the entire rest of the extracurricular budget/
[citation needed] And not a citation of top 100 earners, but rather what percentage of schools recoup money from their football teams.
In many schools, football pays for itself and the entire rest of the extracurricular budget.
I have read this claim regurgitated countless times on /.
But not once have i seen a study to back this up. And by study I do not mean what the Top 10 or Top 50 schools are making out of their football teams, but what all the schools taken together make or lose. All in all, do you have a citation for the claim that football pays for America's education?
My girlfriend* just walked in the room and saw me watching the video of the successful flight. All she said was "No, you can't have one." To be fair, she was joking... I think. * Don't even think about it.
Dude, you really think the nickname YourExperiment and the words My girlfriend are going to stop people from thinking what they are thinking?
I really wish wall street would get off their 'risk models' fetish.
Why should they? The government is going to bail them out anyways.
In even moderately large software projects, manual+auto testing is usually done on internal builds. Final or RC builds usually are only subjected to automated testing.
No, it was always just a plain patent infringement case about using XML for the reason that the mark up language was created. The sad part is that i4i created a product that uses Word for all of its user interface. That means they are using way more of Microsoft's code in their own product than Microsoft could have ever "stolen" from them.
How is writing a plugin for Word make i4i using "Microsoft code in their own product" ? If Microsoft is not OK with the plugin they could have removed the plugin functionality form Word instead of really stealing from i4i.
Interesting article. Thanks. But I think the problems noted with CIPA(Congenital insensitivity to pain) are solveable at least for creating special ops soldiers. Preserve and keep healthy the human units with CIPA until a mission really requires them. And then you send them into circumstances not even a strong willed human can tolerate (e.g. radioactive battlescape). May not be possible with most (modern) democratic countries, but can become a possibility under extrenuating changes. And discoveries can be used even decades after they are made.
SVG is a stateful 2D scenegraph API while WebGL is (mostly) stateless 3D API. So are we going to see SVG obsolete a few years from now, when devs start coding their own scenegraph frameworks in javascript using WebGL? I personally am biased towards WebGL due to its Opengl ES 2.0 roots.
yeah. I think the generals must have had multiple orgasms when told of this discovery.
A 5 megapixel camera phone is enough for you then. There are some with optical zoom too.
A unified patent system would actually benefit individual inventors, small businesses, and startups more than established players with deep pockets.
A handful of patents are not worth much against the thousands of patents the small investor may be potentially violating.
Disclaimer:I love Debian's way of doing things; but wonder whether it (Debian) has any answer to what this Redhat release has to offer. Does it?
Debian offers a far wider selection of software backed up by the same reliability level as redhat. But, Redhat is able to feature enterprisey features earlier than other distros because it employs a large number of linux developers.
I see that there is a push by some broadband providers to LOWER the definition to 1/3 of its current minimum, from 768 mb/s to 256 mb/s. I have to strongly urge that this action NOT be taken, but, rather, that the minimum broadband speed either be left alone, or, preferably raised to 1500 mb/s.
respectfully Dave Mundt
1500mb/s? surely you mean 1500 kb/s. Have you sent the comment already? :)
Indian here. My ISP delivers at least 50% of max speed during daytime and 100% throughput during night. There is a advisory 100 GB cap, wherein after hitting the limit, you get not more than 50% of max speed in day, but still get 100% max speed during the night. Though I don't know if they gurantee this how many 9's reliability, they have delivered the bandwidth for past few years.
Given that today's high end graphics cards(e.g. 4870X2) offer far more TFLOPs than the PS3, I fail to see how linux not running on PS3 is a loss for the supercomputing fraternity. Machine for machine, Folding@home gets more computation out of PCs equipped with graphics cards rather than the PS3s. It is just that there are a lot more PS3s involved in Folding@Home than PCs fitted with nice graphics cards, which totals up the PS3 FLOPs beyond the gamer PCs.