A friend of mine & I were trying to think of some use of transparancy on the desktop that was actually useful rather than simply being eye-candy. Considering that reading the text from two overlapping windows is nearly impossible, this gradual fading of unused windows was about the only thing I could come up with that didn't boil down to "D00d!! look at my screenshots!! You can see my desktop through my xterm!".
For x86-64 systems, there's a major awesome just around the corner in the new CPU socket they're going to be releasing (which, among other things, will allow non-FX Athlon64s to use dual-channel memory).
New Mexico seems like a perfect place for it. The odds of it hitting anything of value are pretty slim. Definately better odds than not getting hit by a falling bullet from some cholo shooting his gun in the air on New Year's...
There are hundreds of universities that would love to have Stallman as a member of their research department. MIT would be foolish to just simply let a talent like Stallman walk away.
Really? Looking around the AI lab website, I can't really see any evidence of Stallman actually doing any sort of research in the last 20 years or so. His homepage makes no reference to ongoing research. , and citeseer is currently down preventing me from checking there but I'd be suprised if it turned up anything.
While I'm sure Stallman's a great guy & a tireless crusader for Free software, I don't really see him actually doing much computer science. In my book the primary reason for a CompSci department to hire a researcher is to have them do research.
AMD will soon be shipping dual-core Opterons that will be drop-in replacements for single core, effectively making a dual CPU board into a quad CPU board...
If you think of the math on this, it's not possible for everyone to have a ratio of 1.0, especially when you have greedy bastards going to 2.0 or higher...
You forgot "stop raising the cost of higher education". Currently it's growing much faster than inflation and, if it keeps up, will put higher education out of the hands of anyone who's not at least upper-middle class (you're looking at at least $15k/yr for tuition/books/room/board for state schools).
"Especialy since most of the Americans I know in grad school are only staying for the masters, and most of the internationals are interested in PhD and research."
Strange... it's the exact opposite here. While 2/3 of the grad students are foreign (and 2/3 of them are Indian) I'd say they only make up closer to to 1/4 of the PhDs (and that's counting 4-5 Canadians in a 50ish person program). Of course we're not the biggest or most prestigious program, but the engineering school did get a "top 50" ranking (as if that means much of anything).
What's to stop the community from making some sort of DRMless multi-channel MP3/Ogg format? Let the RIAA push their own formatfor their own files, it doesn't force us to use it for our own data. If users demand support for the non-restricted format, media player authors will be forced to either support it or lose customers.
The difference is, of course, that it's far more difficult for a small handful of people to steal thousands of cars in a night and then use them to stop a legitimate business from operating.
If you're going to do something illegal, go whole hog & just nuke infected machines. Not only would it be less work, but it would also teach people to do their own damned updating.
Actually, I think the reason that most people go to science museums is so that they, personally, don't have to answer all of their children's "Daddy, what makes ______ do _____?" questions.
That's actually a very common reaction to seeing your first Perl code & being told that it is not only human readable but actually performs a useful function.
The problem with unstable is that any given upgrade might possibly break your computer. Testing is probably a much more realistic compromise between the crusty old stable & bleeding edge unstable.
What part of "not living near a giant city" did you miss? Of course it's not shit in Boston, where the cost of living is something like twice the national average.
When you realize that on top of this, Boston, being one of the dotcom boomtowns, is going to have more of a glut in techies, you could probably go elsewhere and get a paycheck that's not held down by a massive pool of dotcom weenies.
On top of that, Boston, having been one of the cities everyone went to in the dotcom boom is going to have a job market that's saturated with people more qualified than yourself willing to work for firesale prices.
There's plenty of places in the country where you don't have a glut of people with entry-level experience; you might want to check them out.
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Crap.
I was actually thinking about this 6mo ago.
A friend of mine & I were trying to think of some use of transparancy on the desktop that was actually useful rather than simply being eye-candy. Considering that reading the text from two overlapping windows is nearly impossible, this gradual fading of unused windows was about the only thing I could come up with that didn't boil down to "D00d!! look at my screenshots!! You can see my desktop through my xterm!".
There's different types of awesome, however...
For x86-64 systems, there's a major awesome just around the corner in the new CPU socket they're going to be releasing (which, among other things, will allow non-FX Athlon64s to use dual-channel memory).
New Mexico seems like a perfect place for it. The odds of it hitting anything of value are pretty slim. Definately better odds than not getting hit by a falling bullet from some cholo shooting his gun in the air on New Year's...
There are hundreds of universities that would love to have Stallman as a member of their research department. MIT would be foolish to just simply let a talent like Stallman walk away.
Really? Looking around the AI lab website, I can't really see any evidence of Stallman actually doing any sort of research in the last 20 years or so. His homepage makes no reference to ongoing research. , and citeseer is currently down preventing me from checking there but I'd be suprised if it turned up anything.
While I'm sure Stallman's a great guy & a tireless crusader for Free software, I don't really see him actually doing much computer science. In my book the primary reason for a CompSci department to hire a researcher is to have them do research.
AMD will soon be shipping dual-core Opterons that will be drop-in replacements for single core, effectively making a dual CPU board into a quad CPU board...
Segment the network, force laptops onto another vlan & don't allow them to DHCP on the main network.
You realize your problem was the "no-name" part and not that it was a GF4mx, right?
It depends on how you look at it. From the perspective of the average user, if the network is down then "IE is broken".
You mean 7 more years of "Is Linux Ready For The Desktop" articles?
If you think of the math on this, it's not possible for everyone to have a ratio of 1.0, especially when you have greedy bastards going to 2.0 or higher...
You forgot "stop raising the cost of higher education". Currently it's growing much faster than inflation and, if it keeps up, will put higher education out of the hands of anyone who's not at least upper-middle class (you're looking at at least $15k/yr for tuition/books/room/board for state schools).
"Especialy since most of the Americans I know in grad school are only staying for the masters, and most of the internationals are interested in PhD and research."
Strange... it's the exact opposite here. While 2/3 of the grad students are foreign (and 2/3 of them are Indian) I'd say they only make up closer to to 1/4 of the PhDs (and that's counting 4-5 Canadians in a 50ish person program). Of course we're not the biggest or most prestigious program, but the engineering school did get a "top 50" ranking (as if that means much of anything).
What's to stop the community from making some sort of DRMless multi-channel MP3/Ogg format? Let the RIAA push their own formatfor their own files, it doesn't force us to use it for our own data. If users demand support for the non-restricted format, media player authors will be forced to either support it or lose customers.
OK, just tell me how I can pay back the $60k in loans I have from getting a BS & MS in CS at a USian university...
...and this is -exactly- why the license plates in New Mexico say "New Mexico USA" on them.
The difference is, of course, that it's far more difficult for a small handful of people to steal thousands of cars in a night and then use them to stop a legitimate business from operating.
If you're going to do something illegal, go whole hog & just nuke infected machines. Not only would it be less work, but it would also teach people to do their own damned updating.
It's a sad day when a comment that essentially says "I like windows" without an explaination gets modded up Slashdot.
Actually, I think the reason that most people go to science museums is so that they, personally, don't have to answer all of their children's "Daddy, what makes ______ do _____?" questions.
That's actually a very common reaction to seeing your first Perl code & being told that it is not only human readable but actually performs a useful function.
The problem with unstable is that any given upgrade might possibly break your computer. Testing is probably a much more realistic compromise between the crusty old stable & bleeding edge unstable.
What part of "not living near a giant city" did you miss? Of course it's not shit in Boston, where the cost of living is something like twice the national average.
When you realize that on top of this, Boston, being one of the dotcom boomtowns, is going to have more of a glut in techies, you could probably go elsewhere and get a paycheck that's not held down by a massive pool of dotcom weenies.
On top of that, Boston, having been one of the cities everyone went to in the dotcom boom is going to have a job market that's saturated with people more qualified than yourself willing to work for firesale prices.
There's plenty of places in the country where you don't have a glut of people with entry-level experience; you might want to check them out.
Far Cry is a bad example; it doesn't run well on _any_ current machines.