Not usually one to support AC but yes, I checked the 'turn off adds' box tonight because I really don't want to have pornographic Korean games shoved down my throat (ahem). Fix it please/.
One of the most enlightening books I ever read was Peter Woit's crticicism of string theory The problem with modern physics is that it now takes so long to learn what has gone before that you are past your productivity peak by the time you have the tools needed to be able to contribute. Put very simply - mankind is close to the limit of what we can work out. We need either a genius way further out on the curve than Einstein or Hawkins (who doesn't want to just become an investment banker...) or we need an extrordinarily lucky break. We won't be getting better data than the LHC has provided for another century,
Well, I'm not necessarily convinced by your arguments, or as the ACs have said, you'd be elbowing Steven Hawkins off the Stockholm stage, but I agree with the sentiment that 'dark matter/energy' is PRspeke for "we don't know WTF is going on" I've seen some interesting articles (even here on/,) with possible alternatives: our universe is the 3D event horizon of a 4-D universe black hole for example (or somesuch). I can possibly accept that Dirac's quantum foam vacuum shows up as a mass that might explain the matter side, but the gravity-expulsive dark energy? No, that's BS.
(there are some houses near me that are only accessible by Interstate - I guess those people could always just choose to starve or hire delivery people, maybe find a job that operates by mail, so their rights aren't infringed, right?)
Or instigate a property development / transportation policy that's not quite so crazy!
Interesting! I knew about ETA, of course (owned by Swatch) but not about Seiko. There are one or two Seikos on the Indian eBay shops that looked pretty nice, as it happens. Today's lunchtime internetting sorted, thank you!
On a clean install of 13.10 I got a couple of crash reports for trivial stuff for the first couple of days, but now it's rock solid. Keep/home on a separate drive and do a clean install of / on every release and Ubuntu is solid enough for production desktop.
The only universal socially acceptable watch is one with an analog dial.
Exactly. Preferably a mechanical one. Modern Swiss if you can afford it but there are a lot of very nice vintage mechanical Swiss watches available on eBay for the same kind of money as a modern quartz one. Back in the 70s when quartz first came in they were considered landfill, now they're appreciated for the little precision marvels they really are. There are an awful lot that were dumped (commercially speaking) in India that are now showing up. This for example. They aren't the same quality as your Rolexes or IWCs but that's because all that now remains of the industry is the very high end.
But yeah, if you're making a distro that doesn't appeal to either the sort of people who can volunteer useful help, or the sort who are willing to donate money
I must be an exception then, since I've contributed both code and money and if you spend a little time in the vast Ubuntu Forums you'll find there are plenty of people contributing expertise, if not actual code, much of which is useful for any distro, not just *buntu.
I personally don't use the Launcher thing for anything other than launching programs so I'm not sending any meaningful search data to Amazon (Do I care if they know I opened gparted?) However I do think the whole 'scope' idea is interesting and for this reason I've left it activated just to see how it might develop into something that I would find useful one day.
Harshly stated, but in essence, true: Linux has to generate income. Android does it with massive, unavoidable invasion of privacy. Ubuntu does it with a minor, transparent and easily disabled intrusion into some of your online life. It's not like any of us have any real privacy online anymore anyway, so why not let some of the goodies leak to someone actually fdoing something positive with it?
...so the purchase cost is irrelevant - these things will be subsisdised heavily on 24 month contracts all over the world, so now you can get a Windows Laptop with Office FOR FREE. The OS in 8.1 guise really isn't so bad and the third-party apps are improving all the time. This one will do well, both for Nokia and the MS ARM port. I'm already sold on W8 (just got my Surface Pro 2 today) I'd never go for an MS ARM tablet, but this Nokia? I'm tempted.
Very, very well said, sir! I shall soon have in my hands a Surface Pro 2 - bit heavier, same size as my wife's iPad. She can watch cat videos for eight hours, I can run multi-process scientific analysis for the same time. What's more - if I want to, I can run it in virtualized Linux for nearly as long, whilst watching the same lolcatz as the mrs...
The Fortran I'm writing is pretty much pseudo code. It's only the lowest level math stuff that looks exactly the same in any language, but is run thousands of times per loop. All you need of the language itself is subroutine(inputs, output) and you're done.
For balance. I have too and I love the fact that the menu is always in the same place and I love the HUD; not having to hunt through submenus. Metro shares many of the same ideas and yes, I'm pretty pleased with Win8.1 too.
If Linux is ever going to catch on in the Win 7/8 OSX Scarycat world it has to have a visual impact. Ubuntu delivers this. More users = more oppotunity for devs = better future Linux for all. FFS Shuttleworth is the best thing that happened to Linux since, well, Linus.
Erm, what's wrong with using good ol' FORTRAN with Python/Numpy/Scipy? Combined with the multiprocessing module I have coded up some very fast multi-core routines in very little time. f2py is almost stupidly easy to use, especially on Linux
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Not usually one to support AC but yes, I checked the 'turn off adds' box tonight because I really don't want to have pornographic Korean games shoved down my throat (ahem). Fix it please /.
Higgs isn't even really confirmed yet AFAIAA
One of the most enlightening books I ever read was Peter Woit's crticicism of string theory The problem with modern physics is that it now takes so long to learn what has gone before that you are past your productivity peak by the time you have the tools needed to be able to contribute. Put very simply - mankind is close to the limit of what we can work out. We need either a genius way further out on the curve than Einstein or Hawkins (who doesn't want to just become an investment banker...) or we need an extrordinarily lucky break. We won't be getting better data than the LHC has provided for another century,
Well, I'm not necessarily convinced by your arguments, or as the ACs have said, you'd be elbowing Steven Hawkins off the Stockholm stage, but I agree with the sentiment that 'dark matter/energy' is PRspeke for "we don't know WTF is going on" I've seen some interesting articles (even here on /,) with possible alternatives: our universe is the 3D event horizon of a 4-D universe black hole for example (or somesuch). I can possibly accept that Dirac's quantum foam vacuum shows up as a mass that might explain the matter side, but the gravity-expulsive dark energy? No, that's BS.
(there are some houses near me that are only accessible by Interstate - I guess those people could always just choose to starve or hire delivery people, maybe find a job that operates by mail, so their rights aren't infringed, right?)
Or instigate a property development / transportation policy that's not quite so crazy!
Interesting! I knew about ETA, of course (owned by Swatch) but not about Seiko. There are one or two Seikos on the Indian eBay shops that looked pretty nice, as it happens. Today's lunchtime internetting sorted, thank you!
On a clean install of 13.10 I got a couple of crash reports for trivial stuff for the first couple of days, but now it's rock solid. Keep /home on a separate drive and do a clean install of / on every release and Ubuntu is solid enough for production desktop.
This. Well said, sir
Couldn't just downmod could you? Had to start name-calling too. Big man AC! Oh and go f*ck yourself. I'm no shill, just not a mindless hater.
The only universal socially acceptable watch is one with an analog dial.
Exactly. Preferably a mechanical one. Modern Swiss if you can afford it but there are a lot of very nice vintage mechanical Swiss watches available on eBay for the same kind of money as a modern quartz one. Back in the 70s when quartz first came in they were considered landfill, now they're appreciated for the little precision marvels they really are. There are an awful lot that were dumped (commercially speaking) in India that are now showing up. This for example. They aren't the same quality as your Rolexes or IWCs but that's because all that now remains of the industry is the very high end.
But yeah, if you're making a distro that doesn't appeal to either the sort of people who can volunteer useful help, or the sort who are willing to donate money
I must be an exception then, since I've contributed both code and money and if you spend a little time in the vast Ubuntu Forums you'll find there are plenty of people contributing expertise, if not actual code, much of which is useful for any distro, not just *buntu.
I personally don't use the Launcher thing for anything other than launching programs so I'm not sending any meaningful search data to Amazon (Do I care if they know I opened gparted?) However I do think the whole 'scope' idea is interesting and for this reason I've left it activated just to see how it might develop into something that I would find useful one day.
> all of the real work is still being done by someone else.
If Canonical weren't doing something then Ubuntu would be Debian. They are adding value, even if it may not be of value to you.
Harshly stated, but in essence, true: Linux has to generate income. Android does it with massive, unavoidable invasion of privacy. Ubuntu does it with a minor, transparent and easily disabled intrusion into some of your online life. It's not like any of us have any real privacy online anymore anyway, so why not let some of the goodies leak to someone actually fdoing something positive with it?
...so the purchase cost is irrelevant - these things will be subsisdised heavily on 24 month contracts all over the world, so now you can get a Windows Laptop with Office FOR FREE. The OS in 8.1 guise really isn't so bad and the third-party apps are improving all the time. This one will do well, both for Nokia and the MS ARM port. I'm already sold on W8 (just got my Surface Pro 2 today) I'd never go for an MS ARM tablet, but this Nokia? I'm tempted.
This
Very, very well said, sir! I shall soon have in my hands a Surface Pro 2 - bit heavier, same size as my wife's iPad. She can watch cat videos for eight hours, I can run multi-process scientific analysis for the same time. What's more - if I want to, I can run it in virtualized Linux for nearly as long, whilst watching the same lolcatz as the mrs...
The Fortran I'm writing is pretty much pseudo code. It's only the lowest level math stuff that looks exactly the same in any language, but is run thousands of times per loop. All you need of the language itself is subroutine(inputs, output) and you're done.
At least Python is still on the running
For balance. I have too and I love the fact that the menu is always in the same place and I love the HUD; not having to hunt through submenus. Metro shares many of the same ideas and yes, I'm pretty pleased with Win8.1 too.
The registry, when used exactly how you're not really supposed to, is kinda useful...
If Linux is ever going to catch on in the Win 7/8 OSX Scarycat world it has to have a visual impact. Ubuntu delivers this. More users = more oppotunity for devs = better future Linux for all. FFS Shuttleworth is the best thing that happened to Linux since, well, Linus.
F2Py is so insanely useful, if it falls out of support I'l ltake it up myself.
Erm, what's wrong with using good ol' FORTRAN with Python/Numpy/Scipy? Combined with the multiprocessing module I have coded up some very fast multi-core routines in very little time. f2py is almost stupidly easy to use, especially on Linux
The whole point of Ubuntu was to make Debian work in the real world. By and large they succeeded.