you forgot year zero (or are you born having 1 year already under your belt?)
There was no year zero. "Year 1" should more accurately be called the first year, since there is no zero in ordinals. When you are born, your first year of life begins, and at the end of that period you are 1 year old.
Similarly, at the _end_ of "year x" you are x years old. Which is why the millennium ended at the end of "year 2000".
I think these confusions arise because "year x" is a one-year period, whereas "x years from something" is a specific point in time. It is not always obvious how to relate that point with the period, but usually when you measure something, the total is found at the end.
Considering that it is possible to push out small incremental updates via the daily update system this seems like a good idea to me.
I look forward to the days where I'll never have to install an upgrade again...
Gentoo has worked for me this way for years, and I presume many other distros can do this too. In fact, I rarely even use the install CD for new machines; if I already have a Gentoo box of the came architecture, I just copy the root filesystem and continue from there. Of course, a new kernel (for drivers) and other adjustments are necessary, but rarely a full install.
I'm using an Atom D510 right now, with on-die integrated graphics. Of course, these are not GPUs in the modern sense of "general processing unit", but at least it is an Intel 3D chipset on the processor.
There are a lot of boxes out there doing nothing but serving files and printers,
running on ARM for a couple of years already. It's funny how many comments are talking about hypothetical situations, while home servers like Buffalo Linkstations have been available for years. You can install a proper distro (at least Debian or Gentoo) on one and see for yourself, then imagine what they could do with more CPU power and RAM.
Cybernetics deals with robotics and other control/feedback systems. What kind of a genius decided that it would be a good name for doing things on the Internet?
Moreover, electric vehicles allow easy switching between primary sources. An EV doesn't care whether its electricity comes from coal, nuclear or unicorn tear plants, but a gasoline engine is stuck on that particular fuel forever (or as long as supplies last).
Why the f... did I learn trigonometric equations ins high school?! Really... Polynomial equation solving?!
My students are asking questions just like this. I ask them, what good is jogging if you're not going to be a professional runner? Or what good is going to the gym, if you're not going to be a professional body builder?
So I don't need to have 32-bit libraries on disk wasting space? Not to mention the performance improvements to be had with a proper 64-bit jit'ing JS engine (don't underestimate the power of a larger register set).
This. I would hate to see a distant future where we still use i386 binary browsers with compatibility layers on top of compatibility layers on top of compatibility layers, just because no browser needs more than 4GB.
If we wanted to go with a pseudo-Latin suffix, viri is clearly more familiar and more phonetically successful. The double i simply has no benefit.
Many Latin words that end with -us have the plural form -i. For example "cactus" becomes "cacti". This does not always work, but if you used the same logic, the plural of "virus" would be "viri".
Many people seem to want extra i's for no apparent reason. One source of confusion might be the plural of "radius", "radii". The logic is exactly the same, though; -us is replaced by -i. The extra i is already there in the singular form. This double i already has an established pronounciation, "ray-dee-eye".
Plus the same Huawei that caused Finland to go one step closer to a police state. After they stole inside information from Nokia, a bill allowing the tracking of employee communications was passed as Lex Nokia.
Personally, I find on-screen controls incredibly distracting. When I watch a movie, I want to focus on the movie itself, not a GUI, just like you would in a movie theatre. A keyboard is fine for controls, at least in MPlayer which is designed for watching a movie instead of a GUI.
What we need is a monitor with the subpixels aligned with the long axis. That way, it is optimized for text when oriented vertically. When watching video in the horizontal orientation, the subpixel orientation does not matter.
Obviously, a lot of choices are done under social pressures. There is a kind of positive feedback loop, in that social pressures usually favour the social choices. On the other hand, doing your own thing with sufficient success usually makes you stand out in a positive way, thereby increasing your social status as well.
But there are few external forces that drive you to do your own thing. For example, you don't become a great musician if you only think of the potential fame and fortune. There needs to be an inner drive for music.
I actually find that most people are interested in understanding how things work. However, most people don't have time to learn advanced physics or learn how other things work because they are more worried being busy raising kids, feeding their family, maintaining social relationships
Raising a family and having a social life are choices. Nobody is forced to do either.
I generally feel that some of the basic human needs are (1) being loved and accepted, and (2) doing your own thing. Everyone has to balance between these two, since they are conflicting to some extent. I think nerds/geeks are simply the ones who choose to do a little more of (2).
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if they specialized in tech crime it's a shorter word.
So every high-tech crime has something to do with robotics or other control/feedback systems? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybernetics
Of course I can't see a use for an exascale databus on the mobo anytime soon.
An exascale databus ought to be enough for everyone, at least for the five who comprise the world market for computers.
you forgot year zero (or are you born having 1 year already under your belt?)
There was no year zero. "Year 1" should more accurately be called the first year, since there is no zero in ordinals. When you are born, your first year of life begins, and at the end of that period you are 1 year old.
Similarly, at the _end_ of "year x" you are x years old. Which is why the millennium ended at the end of "year 2000".
I think these confusions arise because "year x" is a one-year period, whereas "x years from something" is a specific point in time. It is not always obvious how to relate that point with the period, but usually when you measure something, the total is found at the end.
Considering that it is possible to push out small incremental updates via the daily update system this seems like a good idea to me.
I look forward to the days where I'll never have to install an upgrade again...
Gentoo has worked for me this way for years, and I presume many other distros can do this too. In fact, I rarely even use the install CD for new machines; if I already have a Gentoo box of the came architecture, I just copy the root filesystem and continue from there. Of course, a new kernel (for drivers) and other adjustments are necessary, but rarely a full install.
I can is reenigne?
I'm using an Atom D510 right now, with on-die integrated graphics. Of course, these are not GPUs in the modern sense of "general processing unit", but at least it is an Intel 3D chipset on the processor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Atom_microprocessors#.22Pineview.22_.2845_nm.29_2
There are a lot of boxes out there doing nothing but serving files and printers,
running on ARM for a couple of years already. It's funny how many comments are talking about hypothetical situations, while home servers like Buffalo Linkstations have been available for years. You can install a proper distro (at least Debian or Gentoo) on one and see for yourself, then imagine what they could do with more CPU power and RAM.
Cybernetics deals with robotics and other control/feedback systems. What kind of a genius decided that it would be a good name for doing things on the Internet?
Those who do not understand (uni)X are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
Moreover, electric vehicles allow easy switching between primary sources. An EV doesn't care whether its electricity comes from coal, nuclear or unicorn tear plants, but a gasoline engine is stuck on that particular fuel forever (or as long as supplies last).
Surely you are familiar with the old phrase, history is written by the whiners?
Why the f... did I learn trigonometric equations ins high school?! Really... Polynomial equation solving?!
My students are asking questions just like this. I ask them, what good is jogging if you're not going to be a professional runner? Or what good is going to the gym, if you're not going to be a professional body builder?
Intel is starting to feel the heat from ARM.
Wait, I thought heat comes from Intel, not from ARM.
Why would you need a 64-bit native browser?
So I don't need to have 32-bit libraries on disk wasting space? Not to mention the performance improvements to be had with a proper 64-bit jit'ing JS engine (don't underestimate the power of a larger register set).
This. I would hate to see a distant future where we still use i386 binary browsers with compatibility layers on top of compatibility layers on top of compatibility layers, just because no browser needs more than 4GB.
So a jailbroken A is more open than a B in its original, closed state? Fascinating.
Conservatives by definition "conserve", they try to keep things the same.
One could also conserve money and natural resources. Not that it has anything to do with conservatives.
If we wanted to go with a pseudo-Latin suffix, viri is clearly more familiar and more phonetically successful. The double i simply has no benefit.
Many Latin words that end with -us have the plural form -i. For example "cactus" becomes "cacti". This does not always work, but if you used the same logic, the plural of "virus" would be "viri".
Many people seem to want extra i's for no apparent reason. One source of confusion might be the plural of "radius", "radii". The logic is exactly the same, though; -us is replaced by -i. The extra i is already there in the singular form. This double i already has an established pronounciation, "ray-dee-eye".
Change one character and you screw up badly. Lets face it,
(I'd like to respond with something clever, but I'm afraid I'll negate my entire argument a'la Muphry.)
The fix mentioned in TFA is also in the 2.6.36 changelog. So if you use the latest vanilla kernel, it is already fixed.
How about they shorten it to LOffice
Would that be pronounced as Lo-Fi's? A bit like the mobile version of Windows, which is just a Lo-Fi CE.
Plus the same Huawei that caused Finland to go one step closer to a police state. After they stole inside information from Nokia, a bill allowing the tracking of employee communications was passed as Lex Nokia.
Personally, I find on-screen controls incredibly distracting. When I watch a movie, I want to focus on the movie itself, not a GUI, just like you would in a movie theatre. A keyboard is fine for controls, at least in MPlayer which is designed for watching a movie instead of a GUI.
What we need is a monitor with the subpixels aligned with the long axis. That way, it is optimized for text when oriented vertically. When watching video in the horizontal orientation, the subpixel orientation does not matter.
Obviously, a lot of choices are done under social pressures. There is a kind of positive feedback loop, in that social pressures usually favour the social choices. On the other hand, doing your own thing with sufficient success usually makes you stand out in a positive way, thereby increasing your social status as well.
But there are few external forces that drive you to do your own thing. For example, you don't become a great musician if you only think of the potential fame and fortune. There needs to be an inner drive for music.
I actually find that most people are interested in understanding how things work. However, most people don't have time to learn advanced physics or learn how other things work because they are more worried being busy raising kids, feeding their family, maintaining social relationships
Raising a family and having a social life are choices. Nobody is forced to do either.
I generally feel that some of the basic human needs are (1) being loved and accepted, and (2) doing your own thing. Everyone has to balance between these two, since they are conflicting to some extent. I think nerds/geeks are simply the ones who choose to do a little more of (2).