Besides, any person smart enough to not want Windows is going to know they don't get Windows support.
Dell still has to support the hardware. If the video card craps out, the OS is irrelevant. I have RMA'd laptops that had no Windows installed, despite the laptop being preloaded with that trash.
It warrants being relegated to the trash heap and Rossi and his 6 buddies being shunned from the scientific community.
Pseudoscience has no place in today's world.
I bet you believe in ancient aliens also. Did you know that the pyramids are batteries and the Zeus was real, he was an alien shooting lasers that got confused as lightning bolts? Did you know that the Nazi's collaborated with aliens and despite having space-age tech, they still lost? Of course you do.
Show me the math that shows it is theoretically possible.
Also, those 6 scientists were not allowed to actually see inside it, all they could do was report output numbers without knowing where the input is actually coming from.
Women make up for around half of the mathematicians, and a solid percentage of economists, biologists and chemists are women.
Why do women avoid CS and engineering programs? I don't know, but it is the wrong question:
Why does it matter?
Faux diversity like gender and race is not something to aspire to. Finding students who have the aptitude and interest is far more important than meaningless demographics.
In my undergrad and graduate experience and working in industry women tend to fall along the same curve as men.
Very few are great, most are average and some suck.
The great female programmers bring nothing different to the table that the great male programmers bring. The female CS students that were great were naturally interested in the field and were self-driven into it. I have yet to meet anyone who was talked into majoring in CS that wasn't an abysmal failure.
So what does it matter if fewer women are interested?
I am far more concerned about universities dropping weed-out courses than faux-problems like attracting more women. CS and Engineering programs need to stop graduating substandard students, and instead these students should be booted out of the major and forced into brain-dead nonsense like business and communication.
It wasn't that long ago that the undergrad program I went through had 4 weed out courses(2 were CS courses and 2 were math), you had to complete it with a B- or better to pass, and you only had 2 chances at it. There was also a weed out written and programming exam that needed to be passed to get promoted to a upperclassmen and take 300 or 400 level courses. All of that is now gone.
Every course in my graduate program started with a qualifying exam, which you had to take the first or second day of class and you got dropped from the class if you failed it which meant you might as well drop out because it was a small program and each course was offered once a year. It was a masters program and not a PhD. program but less than half who started made it to the point where they could start their thesis or project and less than half of those made it to and passed the defense.
This isn't a "I had to walk 10 miles in the snow both ways" whine, this is a specific reason why CS graduates suck today and why it doesn't matter what the demographics of CS majors is.
That is the sort of thing that needs to come back, not a senseless drive to try and force women into careers they aren't interested in.
Since when do you have to write a different front-end(or backend for that matter) for every Linux distro?
HTTP is great if you only have to deal with simple request-response and light push server, anything more complicated causes more headaches than using sockets and implementing your own domain-specific protocol(or using an existing one).
HTML renders differently in different browsers and versions. The DOM blows
QT works everywhere.
It is not that difficult to write code that will compile and run on any Linux distro, Unix, Windows or OS X.
Also in regards to kernel development, monolith is a overloaded term.
A microkernel shoves as much crap into user space as it can, a monolithic kernel does not. It doesn't mean its architecture has to be monolithic, the Linux kernel is proof of that.
For all of the different processes in systemd, they might as well be shoved in one process because that is exactly the effect that it gives having all its processes tightly coupled to each other.
If people could pull out BS like the logger and login and seamlessly add their own sane processes, the complaints would mostly disappear. Instead, you have to take the binary logger and use that buggy mess to forward it to a sane text logger.
If you systemd apologists can't see how any of this is poor design and detrimental to linux you simply lack the technical knowledge and should stop white knighting for that idiot poettering.
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It doesn't crash every five minutes? That is a positive, right?
Why not take them to small claims court?
Odds are they will not show up and you will get a default judgment.
A class action will get their attention and multiple lawyers involved.
You can't stop them from calling.
Hanging up on them will suffice.
Besides, any person smart enough to not want Windows is going to know they don't get Windows support.
Dell still has to support the hardware. If the video card craps out, the OS is irrelevant. I have RMA'd laptops that had no Windows installed, despite the laptop being preloaded with that trash.
*buntu is garbage.
Anything descending from Debian and Debian itself is garbage
You don't need Windows to be able to use your computer.
Windows is not required by the hardware.
HiThere is your real name?
You are as anonymous as any AC.
Even Kathy Sierra came to the trolls defense over the bogus charges.
What invention that was founded in solid mathematics and science was delayed?
Taking known math and science beyond what is currently known, even if it is just a few steps past established science is greeted with skepticism.
Making a leap that has no scientific or mathematical basis is mocked and shunned, like Rossi's nonsense.
It warrants being relegated to the trash heap and Rossi and his 6 buddies being shunned from the scientific community.
Pseudoscience has no place in today's world.
I bet you believe in ancient aliens also. Did you know that the pyramids are batteries and the Zeus was real, he was an alien shooting lasers that got confused as lightning bolts? Did you know that the Nazi's collaborated with aliens and despite having space-age tech, they still lost? Of course you do.
Show me the math that shows it is theoretically possible.
The paper has an alarming lack of information that precludes it from being a scientific paper.
All 6 of these professors are now 100% cranks and will be shunned and rightly so.
What is worse is that these six (reputable) researchers from Italy and Sweden" were only allowed to view the machine that displayed power output.
They were not allowed to take it apart and do real scientific research on it.
That makes them no reputable by definition. A reputable scientist would not put his name on something that is 100% unverifiable.
Also, those 6 scientists were not allowed to actually see inside it, all they could do was report output numbers without knowing where the input is actually coming from.
Anyone with solar power and is also hooked up to their power grid can and does sell any surplus to their local power company.
Your little story is off-topic.
http://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/...
That is 100% unverifiable.
Let's see some real proof that the numbers claimed in that unpublished, not peer-reviewed paper is accurate or even close to real.
A high level of scrutiny?
A single paper is hardly scrutiny. The results claimed are not verifiable and the paper is not published by any peer-reviewed journal.
Let's see it out in the open where any physicist can test it.
If you can't get your patent application past the USPTO you have nothing at all of substance.
Those morons accepted a patent application on an array of pointers with the ability to point to longer strings.
Women make up for around half of the mathematicians, and a solid percentage of economists, biologists and chemists are women.
Why do women avoid CS and engineering programs? I don't know, but it is the wrong question:
Why does it matter?
Faux diversity like gender and race is not something to aspire to. Finding students who have the aptitude and interest is far more important than meaningless demographics.
In my undergrad and graduate experience and working in industry women tend to fall along the same curve as men.
Very few are great, most are average and some suck.
The great female programmers bring nothing different to the table that the great male programmers bring. The female CS students that were great were naturally interested in the field and were self-driven into it. I have yet to meet anyone who was talked into majoring in CS that wasn't an abysmal failure.
So what does it matter if fewer women are interested?
I am far more concerned about universities dropping weed-out courses than faux-problems like attracting more women. CS and Engineering programs need to stop graduating substandard students, and instead these students should be booted out of the major and forced into brain-dead nonsense like business and communication.
It wasn't that long ago that the undergrad program I went through had 4 weed out courses(2 were CS courses and 2 were math), you had to complete it with a B- or better to pass, and you only had 2 chances at it. There was also a weed out written and programming exam that needed to be passed to get promoted to a upperclassmen and take 300 or 400 level courses. All of that is now gone.
Every course in my graduate program started with a qualifying exam, which you had to take the first or second day of class and you got dropped from the class if you failed it which meant you might as well drop out because it was a small program and each course was offered once a year. It was a masters program and not a PhD. program but less than half who started made it to the point where they could start their thesis or project and less than half of those made it to and passed the defense.
This isn't a "I had to walk 10 miles in the snow both ways" whine, this is a specific reason why CS graduates suck today and why it doesn't matter what the demographics of CS majors is.
That is the sort of thing that needs to come back, not a senseless drive to try and force women into careers they aren't interested in.
Using generic drivers that come with the install results in hardware that can not be used to its full potential.
You forgot to add the 3 hours of the always enjoyable update/reboot cycle.
And the running around to 80 websites to download software to make it usable.
I can go from blank HDD to fully installed and patched opensuse 13.1 in 30 minutes.
What?
Since when do you have to write a different front-end(or backend for that matter) for every Linux distro?
HTTP is great if you only have to deal with simple request-response and light push server, anything more complicated causes more headaches than using sockets and implementing your own domain-specific protocol(or using an existing one).
HTML renders differently in different browsers and versions. The DOM blows
QT works everywhere.
It is not that difficult to write code that will compile and run on any Linux distro, Unix, Windows or OS X.
You actually think that adding bloat is a good thing? Using journald to pipe logs to rational and sane logging systems is a solution in your world?
Also in regards to kernel development, monolith is a overloaded term.
A microkernel shoves as much crap into user space as it can, a monolithic kernel does not. It doesn't mean its architecture has to be monolithic, the Linux kernel is proof of that.
For all of the different processes in systemd, they might as well be shoved in one process because that is exactly the effect that it gives having all its processes tightly coupled to each other.
If people could pull out BS like the logger and login and seamlessly add their own sane processes, the complaints would mostly disappear. Instead, you have to take the binary logger and use that buggy mess to forward it to a sane text logger.
If you systemd apologists can't see how any of this is poor design and detrimental to linux you simply lack the technical knowledge and should stop white knighting for that idiot poettering.
The Linux kernel is monolithic in design but modular in architecture.
Systemd is the opposite and is the wrong way to approach it.
ls and cd are programs
new lines are free ya know.