And if you're wanting to use KATE, why the hell are you using a Mac anyway?
If you read the thread, HuguesT had said "Nearly all of the development tools of Linux are available on OSX via ports, brew or simply compiling oneself." Mr_Wisenheimer was making the point that while possible it was not simple, and as an example described installing Kate.
Whether using Kate on the Mac is a good idea or not is beside the point; Kate was just an example of installing a Linux tool - a mainstream and vey common utility.
That bar graph of a spike starting in 2007 would more likely be related to the release of the iPhone.... Developing for the iPhone required a Mac.... Anyone wanting to get in to iPhone development had to have a Mac and it started mainstreaming the Mac.
So that makes about 25,000,000 people developing for the iPhone. (additional Macs sold 2007-2014 compared with continuing at 2006 rate, roughly, halved to acount for replacements). Very likely.
I suggest reading a bit of history before you post crap like this. Just try The Desert War and The Battle for Caen as examples. The British, Americans, Russians and French all fought ferociously against the Germans, and at one point it was the British alone.
That reminds me of the old joke about the male athlete who planted someone else's urine to clear himself of doping charges. "We have two good news for you; first, you've been cleared of the charges, and second, you're pregnant."
It happened - was a racing cyclist in the 1970's, possibly in the Tour de France. Dope tests were relatively new then and only used in the topmost races.
The "other person" was his wife. The sample was given in front of a doctor, so "planting" someone else's urine would have been very difficult. The story I heard (as told in the "Cycling" newspaper) was that before the test he emptied his bladder behind the bushes and refilled with his wife's urine via a catheter. AFAIR he was not a top rider, just a lowly domestique desparate to stay in contact with the race. He was certainly not cleared of charges.
. Your honor, my client is susceptible to gambling, so this should/should not be taking into account during sentencing.
So there would be an expectation that the client should be treated more leniently? I don't understand why this should be an excuse if that is what you are suggesting (our brain patterns must be different - LoL). How about an analogy :
"Your honour, my client drove into someone because he is susceptible to drinking, so please sentence him lightly".
Anyway, since when was it necessary to study brain patterns to establish if someone is a compulsive gambler?
I'll reverse the question: how do you pay by cheque? The dealer doesn't know if the cheque is real, and it takes time for them to get the money.
Since you say "dealer" you seem to be talking about cars. When you buy a car it would be unusual to drive it straight away. If it is new and you have specified a particualr colour and accessories, it is going to take a few days (at least) for the dealer to get one. Even if it already on the premises the dealer will (or should) want to give it a check-over before releasing it. So in the meantime you give him the cheque and he sees it clear.
Even using a debit card for a big purchase, I am not going to have $20,000 sitting in my current account in case I decide to buy a car that day. I will be looking around for a good deal and when I find it I will only then transfer the required money into my current account - something I would rather do at home than on a mobile in the dealers with a salesman breathing down my neck.
Since you don't use cheques in most of Europe, how do you manage large transactions for things like vehicles?
In the UK cheques are still used widely. I have just written one for my house having been re-roofed, and many people pay utility bills with them. They are not taken in shops any more.
To be honest, a political organization should not receive such emails directly anyway
NATO; an academic working on Russian issues; - these are not "political organisations" (NATO is a defence organisation). You think they should say to the world "Please send all emails for us via our local security police" ?!
They should know who is sending the information. Knowing and keeping up with the sender is.. important
It might be an anonymous tip-off. In this case it sounds like the emails were posing as just that. Ironic from an anonymous poster LoL!
... unsolicited email is bad, NATO and other sensitive document handling people, ok?
If NATO or any other agency working on defence or international relations issues receives an unsolicited email purporting to list pro-Russian extremist activities, then they certainly should open it. That is part of their job - to remain in touch with these affairs. Chances are it is a hoax or scam, but they should still check. Otherwise it would be like the fire brigade refusing to pick up the emergency calls phone in case it is a hoax.
OTOH, they should open such emails in a sandbox suchas a VM, preferably in a non-Windows environment. They are professionals - they should be able to handle this sort of thing.
Bill [Gates] also said 640k should be enough memory for anyone
(I have the audio recording!)
Really? Please could you give a link to that. People have argued over and over whether he really said that. He denies it himself, so it would be very interesting if a recording exists and can be made public.
That's the reason why even if I own a really nice Multimeter, I still use an old analog one from time to time (because of the too-fast response time of Digital)
I bought a mid-range digital multi-meter and was disappointed to find there is no damping on the readout. Even such a simple thing as reading a battery voltage the display acts crazy until you press the probes on really hard and keep dead still. As a result I still reach for an old, really cheap (it was from Tandy) little analog meter for most jobs unless I want particular accuracy or something out of the analog meter's range.
I would put a damping circuit in it myself if there were any means of doing so (the display is surface mounted on the PCB). I so mistrust it that I will not use it for checking that house mains circuits are dead before I work on them. That is a sad state of affairs.
Also, don't forget "survivor bias" - how many meters of yours work vs. how many were made? I mean, everyone says "stuff was built better in the past" yet we're not flooded with antique radios, classic cars, old TVs, etc.
In fact I have a lot of old analog stuff (multi-meters, audio kit) that my father left. I am currently refurbishing his multimeter - only because the sockets for the test leads have corroded, nothing wrong with the analog galvanometer itself.
Much of that old stuff did not "die", people threw it away because they assumed newer stuff was better, or because the old stuff becomes incompatible. Marketing droids see to the first, and as an example of the second I threw away a tube TV only because it would not receive digital broadcasting; another example is my father's camera which would last for ever except soon you won't be able to get film processed any more.
Older stuff did not look better, but tended to be made better, partly because people expected things like cameras, TVs, and even early PC's(!) to last their lifetime. I have some 1950's kitchen cupboards now in my workshop containing tools, nuts and bolts etc of massive total weight. I could have replaced them with more modern surplus cupboards but have put those in the trash instead, as there is no way they could have stood that weight. I do tend to keep a lot of older stuff; but because most people do not, they never see a direct comparison so do not realise the race to the bottom in quality that has been going on for a generation now. It is the boiling frog effect.
What are you complaining about? I once used an IBM keyboard to a mainframe (different from the Model M) and it actually had a little speaker inside it to make a clicking sound each time a key was pressed. It was to satisfy people who had come from mechanical typewriters.
You could turn the speaker off (I did) and then it just made the Model M sound. Same technology I suppose.
I find the sound of keyboards soothing, in fact worryingly somnolent.
The UK at one time (certainly around the 1950s-60s) had the world's highest number of electric vehicles on the road - tens of thousands of them I believe.
They were milk delivery trucks (called "Milk Floats") which typically delivered milk around town in glass bottles to people's doorsteps at around 5-6 am every day. That was before most people had fridges but wanted fresh milk every morning. They ran on batteries and had a top speed of about 8mph.
It was ideal, like it would also be ideal for rubbish (US garbage) collection. Electric drives are good for the constant start-stop driving with long-ish pauses in between. Also the early morning milk floats did not wake people up as a IC-engined truck would have done.
Fridges and car ownership brought an end to most doorstep milk deliveries, but there are still some around.
Yes [in the UK] I can see a GP for free, but quotas and waiting lists are ridiculous and it simply means that you don't get referred and you don't get treated unless bits are literally dropping off you..
I dont think you understand how the UK NHS works. They make you wait for a long time for treatment in the hope that you will die first. It saves money.
International Standards eh? Like my company management is always droning on about "World Standards". Actually, if you take the average of "International" quality standards, it's shit.
I suspect what Jmstuckman meant was that the controls were not intuitive to humans, or have a range of control that is awkward. In other words, imagine that the gas pedal on your car had 1 mm of travel
I have driven trains. They have massive momentum, but feeble acceleration and braking. Make a normal brake application at full speed and nothing seems to happen for a while. Driving them is quite a knack, nothing like driving a car, and you need to be familiar with what is still out of sight ahead. I think that a human taking over from auto will do poorly because, as the train is in usually auto, they are simply out of practice.
Incidentally, the train (electric ones at least that I have driven) might as well have only 1mm of control handle travel. You drive them full on or off. For a lower speed you tend to nudge it along.
As an outsider, but a slightly knowledgable one, I though the North started it. Yes, the South declared secession, but the North started the war by marching into Virginia with the intent of occupying Richmond, although they only got as far as Bull Run. It would be like England invading Scotland tomorrow if the Scotish Nationalists win. Or like Germany and France invading the UK if the UK declared it had left the EU.
Pity this discussion has gone off-topic (was about Malasian workers).
I can totally see that 'inner city' schools will be forced to spend billions on this technology, and it will be sold to the public as 'giving the poorest children the biggest hand up".
They said the same thing about computers (ie we would not need teachers) and then the same about the Internet. Hasn't happened. I believe a similar thing was said about tape recorders when they first came out too.
Anyway, why does some CEO get so much news coverage? As CEO of a VR company, he would say that wouldn't he?
Sloppy Headline? It is a whole f#@king sloppy body of the article, the one in the link above I mean. Actually, I don't have a problem with the headline, which reads "Local Motors’ 3D Printed ‘Strati’ Car Has Just Taken Its First Test Drive. I don't expect detail in a headline.
Fail. Nowhere does the author state the ''entire car'' was printed,
In fact TFA says "Over the six day span of the IMTS, the company managed to 3D print, and assemble an entire automobile"
... so in the context of this news item it states exactly that. If it were meant to be read as not the entire automobile then it doesn't come over as a news story - the 3D printed part could just be the badge on the front. So the reader is being urged to believe it is the entire car. That is being dishonest.
I don't know why they needed to be. If it had been told correctly it would have been an interesting story anyway. Instead they have created a flamefest.
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And if you're wanting to use KATE, why the hell are you using a Mac anyway?
If you read the thread, HuguesT had said "Nearly all of the development tools of Linux are available on OSX via ports, brew or simply compiling oneself." Mr_Wisenheimer was making the point that while possible it was not simple, and as an example described installing Kate.
Whether using Kate on the Mac is a good idea or not is beside the point; Kate was just an example of installing a Linux tool - a mainstream and vey common utility.
That bar graph of a spike starting in 2007 would more likely be related to the release of the iPhone. ... Developing for the iPhone required a Mac. ... Anyone wanting to get in to iPhone development had to have a Mac and it started mainstreaming the Mac.
So that makes about 25,000,000 people developing for the iPhone. (additional Macs sold 2007-2014 compared with continuing at 2006 rate, roughly, halved to acount for replacements). Very likely.
What idiot modded this as informative?
I suggest reading a bit of history before you post crap like this. Just try The Desert War and The Battle for Caen as examples. The British, Americans, Russians and French all fought ferociously against the Germans, and at one point it was the British alone.
That reminds me of the old joke about the male athlete who planted someone else's urine to clear himself of doping charges. "We have two good news for you; first, you've been cleared of the charges, and second, you're pregnant."
It happened - was a racing cyclist in the 1970's, possibly in the Tour de France. Dope tests were relatively new then and only used in the topmost races.
The "other person" was his wife. The sample was given in front of a doctor, so "planting" someone else's urine would have been very difficult. The story I heard (as told in the "Cycling" newspaper) was that before the test he emptied his bladder behind the bushes and refilled with his wife's urine via a catheter. AFAIR he was not a top rider, just a lowly domestique desparate to stay in contact with the race. He was certainly not cleared of charges.
. Your honor, my client is susceptible to gambling, so this should/should not be taking into account during sentencing.
So there would be an expectation that the client should be treated more leniently? I don't understand why this should be an excuse if that is what you are suggesting (our brain patterns must be different - LoL). How about an analogy :
"Your honour, my client drove into someone because he is susceptible to drinking, so please sentence him lightly".
Anyway, since when was it necessary to study brain patterns to establish if someone is a compulsive gambler?
Whooosh!
I'll reverse the question: how do you pay by cheque? The dealer doesn't know if the cheque is real, and it takes time for them to get the money.
Since you say "dealer" you seem to be talking about cars. When you buy a car it would be unusual to drive it straight away. If it is new and you have specified a particualr colour and accessories, it is going to take a few days (at least) for the dealer to get one. Even if it already on the premises the dealer will (or should) want to give it a check-over before releasing it. So in the meantime you give him the cheque and he sees it clear.
Even using a debit card for a big purchase, I am not going to have $20,000 sitting in my current account in case I decide to buy a car that day. I will be looking around for a good deal and when I find it I will only then transfer the required money into my current account - something I would rather do at home than on a mobile in the dealers with a salesman breathing down my neck.
Since you don't use cheques in most of Europe, how do you manage large transactions for things like vehicles?
In the UK cheques are still used widely. I have just written one for my house having been re-roofed, and many people pay utility bills with them. They are not taken in shops any more.
To be honest, a political organization should not receive such emails directly anyway
NATO; an academic working on Russian issues; - these are not "political organisations" (NATO is a defence organisation). You think they should say to the world "Please send all emails for us via our local security police" ?!
They should know who is sending the information. Knowing and keeping up with the sender is .. important
It might be an anonymous tip-off. In this case it sounds like the emails were posing as just that. Ironic from an anonymous poster LoL!
... unsolicited email is bad, NATO and other sensitive document handling people, ok?
If NATO or any other agency working on defence or international relations issues receives an unsolicited email purporting to list pro-Russian extremist activities, then they certainly should open it. That is part of their job - to remain in touch with these affairs. Chances are it is a hoax or scam, but they should still check. Otherwise it would be like the fire brigade refusing to pick up the emergency calls phone in case it is a hoax.
OTOH, they should open such emails in a sandbox suchas a VM, preferably in a non-Windows environment. They are professionals - they should be able to handle this sort of thing.
Bill [Gates] also said 640k should be enough memory for anyone (I have the audio recording!)
Really? Please could you give a link to that. People have argued over and over whether he really said that. He denies it himself, so it would be very interesting if a recording exists and can be made public.
That's the reason why even if I own a really nice Multimeter, I still use an old analog one from time to time (because of the too-fast response time of Digital)
I bought a mid-range digital multi-meter and was disappointed to find there is no damping on the readout. Even such a simple thing as reading a battery voltage the display acts crazy until you press the probes on really hard and keep dead still. As a result I still reach for an old, really cheap (it was from Tandy) little analog meter for most jobs unless I want particular accuracy or something out of the analog meter's range.
I would put a damping circuit in it myself if there were any means of doing so (the display is surface mounted on the PCB). I so mistrust it that I will not use it for checking that house mains circuits are dead before I work on them. That is a sad state of affairs.
Also, don't forget "survivor bias" - how many meters of yours work vs. how many were made? I mean, everyone says "stuff was built better in the past" yet we're not flooded with antique radios, classic cars, old TVs, etc.
In fact I have a lot of old analog stuff (multi-meters, audio kit) that my father left. I am currently refurbishing his multimeter - only because the sockets for the test leads have corroded, nothing wrong with the analog galvanometer itself.
Much of that old stuff did not "die", people threw it away because they assumed newer stuff was better, or because the old stuff becomes incompatible. Marketing droids see to the first, and as an example of the second I threw away a tube TV only because it would not receive digital broadcasting; another example is my father's camera which would last for ever except soon you won't be able to get film processed any more.
Older stuff did not look better, but tended to be made better, partly because people expected things like cameras, TVs, and even early PC's(!) to last their lifetime. I have some 1950's kitchen cupboards now in my workshop containing tools, nuts and bolts etc of massive total weight. I could have replaced them with more modern surplus cupboards but have put those in the trash instead, as there is no way they could have stood that weight. I do tend to keep a lot of older stuff; but because most people do not, they never see a direct comparison so do not realise the race to the bottom in quality that has been going on for a generation now. It is the boiling frog effect.
What are you complaining about? I once used an IBM keyboard to a mainframe (different from the Model M) and it actually had a little speaker inside it to make a clicking sound each time a key was pressed. It was to satisfy people who had come from mechanical typewriters.
You could turn the speaker off (I did) and then it just made the Model M sound. Same technology I suppose.
I find the sound of keyboards soothing, in fact worryingly somnolent.
The UK at one time (certainly around the 1950s-60s) had the world's highest number of electric vehicles on the road - tens of thousands of them I believe.
They were milk delivery trucks (called "Milk Floats") which typically delivered milk around town in glass bottles to people's doorsteps at around 5-6 am every day. That was before most people had fridges but wanted fresh milk every morning. They ran on batteries and had a top speed of about 8mph.
It was ideal, like it would also be ideal for rubbish (US garbage) collection. Electric drives are good for the constant start-stop driving with long-ish pauses in between. Also the early morning milk floats did not wake people up as a IC-engined truck would have done.
Fridges and car ownership brought an end to most doorstep milk deliveries, but there are still some around.
Yes [in the UK] I can see a GP for free, but quotas and waiting lists are ridiculous and it simply means that you don't get referred and you don't get treated unless bits are literally dropping off you..
I dont think you understand how the UK NHS works. They make you wait for a long time for treatment in the hope that you will die first. It saves money.
International Standards eh? Like my company management is always droning on about "World Standards". Actually, if you take the average of "International" quality standards, it's shit.
Why do you insult me claiming I need to run Windows
It wasn't an insult. If you want an insult, try this :- It's Lenny
RTFA. It said they changing the default from Xfce, not KDE
... the Pope is a ... Oh damn, you guessed that already too?
I suspect what Jmstuckman meant was that the controls were not intuitive to humans, or have a range of control that is awkward. In other words, imagine that the gas pedal on your car had 1 mm of travel
I have driven trains. They have massive momentum, but feeble acceleration and braking. Make a normal brake application at full speed and nothing seems to happen for a while. Driving them is quite a knack, nothing like driving a car, and you need to be familiar with what is still out of sight ahead. I think that a human taking over from auto will do poorly because, as the train is in usually auto, they are simply out of practice.
Incidentally, the train (electric ones at least that I have driven) might as well have only 1mm of control handle travel. You drive them full on or off. For a lower speed you tend to nudge it along.
The South started the war
As an outsider, but a slightly knowledgable one, I though the North started it. Yes, the South declared secession, but the North started the war by marching into Virginia with the intent of occupying Richmond, although they only got as far as Bull Run. It would be like England invading Scotland tomorrow if the Scotish Nationalists win. Or like Germany and France invading the UK if the UK declared it had left the EU.
Pity this discussion has gone off-topic (was about Malasian workers).
I can totally see that 'inner city' schools will be forced to spend billions on this technology, and it will be sold to the public as 'giving the poorest children the biggest hand up".
They said the same thing about computers (ie we would not need teachers) and then the same about the Internet. Hasn't happened. I believe a similar thing was said about tape recorders when they first came out too.
Anyway, why does some CEO get so much news coverage? As CEO of a VR company, he would say that wouldn't he?
Sloppy Headline? It is a whole f#@king sloppy body of the article, the one in the link above I mean. Actually, I don't have a problem with the headline, which reads "Local Motors’ 3D Printed ‘Strati’ Car Has Just Taken Its First Test Drive. I don't expect detail in a headline.
Fail. Nowhere does the author state the ''entire car'' was printed,
In fact TFA says "Over the six day span of the IMTS, the company managed to 3D print, and assemble an entire automobile"
... so in the context of this news item it states exactly that. If it were meant to be read as not the entire automobile then it doesn't come over as a news story - the 3D printed part could just be the badge on the front. So the reader is being urged to believe it is the entire car. That is being dishonest.
I don't know why they needed to be. If it had been told correctly it would have been an interesting story anyway. Instead they have created a flamefest.