Well if you actually bought the distro, SUSE used to come with a pretty nice book that had all of the commands you could ever want in it. There are also sections of Debian's website and the Gentoo website that document it. While we're at it, I can also mention the O'reilly Running Linux book. I could also go on about this search engine called google.
I can't speak for the others as I don't use them, but I can speak for Gentoo. It's documentation is spotty. There is plenty of detailed documentation on specific parts of the system. What there isn't is basic documentation for someone new to Linux. Really basic stuff tends to get overlooked. A lot of their documentation seems to be of the form "if you want to run this particular X, do this. if you want to run this other one, do something else", without really going into the advantages or disadvantages of the different options (which text editor, which desktop system, which mail server...). And Gentoo is certainly one of the best.
Frankly, the sections in the book that come with the distro and the man pages can get someone started and good use of a search engine or IRC or mailing list can help you figure out those other problems.
Once you get started the info is mostly there, but it's hard to get started. How is a new user supposed to know that the O'Reilly book is what they need? IRC and mailing lists are pretty intimidating to the newbie. Searching, even with Google, can be tough if you don't know the terminology, or if your question is quite general (try searching Google to find information on Linux mail servers, for example, and you'll get a flood of irrelevant information).
Command line lets the user input commands providing he already knows beforehand what commands he has at his disposal.
Ah, whatever happened to RTFM...
What FM? System level documentation of Linux (and Windows) is spotty at best, non-existant more often. man -k seems to be about the best bet, and that's a pretty sad state of affairs.
It doesn't matter whether some guy thinks they're terrorists or not - let facts speak for themself:
At that time, the Greenpeace vessel caused a collision with our research ship. Greenpeace activities caused damage to property and included theft of personal property and trespassing.
The alleged facts, as reported by the aggrieved party, a group ideologically opposed to Greenpeace who misrepresent what they do in order to evade the worldwide moratorium on whaling. Hardly impartial, as I said.
Dr. Seiji Ohsumi, Director General of the Institute of Cetacean Research in Tokyo today referred to Greenpeace as an "eco-terrorist organization"
Consider the source. The DG of a "research" institute that is really just a whaling company operating via a legal loophole. Not exactly an impartial judgement.
To do things that way you should make the features correspond to bits in a bitmask. The way you've done it implies that feature #3 is a superset of feature #2. So:
feature #3 = 0100, feature #2 = 0010, and 0100|0010 = 0110 = 5. Hmmm.
But the point is that much more complex algorithms weren't used (this is absolutely brute force -- improvements could only make it faster)... only the implementation language and the hardware have changed.
Not true, the phyiscal modelling of the transparent objects could have been made more accurate at the cost of performance. The number and types of objects in the scene will also effect performance. If the scene and algorithm are not identical you can't draw conclusions about the efficiency of the renderer.
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who says the problem scales linear? maybe it's not O(n) but O(n*logn) or something.
It pretty much has to scale linearly to be able to distribute it the way he's doing. Also, when you think about it, he's tracing the paths of photons and photons don't really interact with each other so therefore the complexity of the problem scales linearly with the number of photons.
Who, exactly is wondering what Burt Rutan is up to? I mean, I realize that not everybody cares about spaceflight, but I promise that anybody who knows who Burt Rutan IS could hardly have missed the 2010 recent news stories about what he is up to. I guess unless they are a slashdot editor...
What's worse is that the pictures are all just ripped off the Scaled Composites site's photo gallery. What is the point of this article exactly? Just to reward some guy for a bit of copyright infringement?
Overall, the biggest problem with the new MSN search seems to be that it doesn't ignore words like "the" and "what" which shouldn't be in your search in the first place.
Seems to be case-sensitive too - that's a big problem.
One significant aspect of the technology that needs to be addressed however, and raised by a fellow/.'er, is that the cartridge must be re-useable. Not infinitely, but it should be able to hold at least 6 good stops to itself before needing a cartridge change. (By law, and good safety policy, such systems should be regularly tested.)
It may not be technically feasible. You don't expect to reuse an airbag in a car, do you? It may be disproportionally expensive (6 stop version might cost 10x what the one stop version does). As for testing, it is probably possible to test without doing a full scale stop. Test the detection system, test that the brake engages correctly (may not be possible if the brake is engaged explosively). Again, you don't test airbags by triggering them.
You Presume Google had no knowledge, and you presume MS has full knowledge.
Sound bias to me.
MS had full knowledge because they required their employee to write IE. Google did not have full knowledge (AFAIK) because they did not require their employee to steal code.
ALL corporations and business must be held accountable for the actions there employees take while 'on the clock'.
The theft did not occur while Orkut was working for Google.
It sounds like your father was found legally responsible for the accident, which makes the company legally responsible as he was working at the time. I imagine that if the heart attack had of been confirmed he would not have been found liable.
Being Orkut is acting as an agent of Google, unfortunately the company is liable. Logically though the blame should fall on the individual, but targeting the company and the individual seems to be the legal approach.
Orkut was not acting as an agent of Google when he stole the code. It is therefore not clear that Google is liable. It is also possible, even likely, that Google's contract with Orkut contains a waiver of liability on their part for any code that Orkut brings to Google (i.e. Orkut guarentees that the code is legally his to give to Google). Either way Google has a vested interest in fighting this on Orkut's behalf, and I'm sure they will.
I just had a look at fueleconomy.gov to compare some convertible cars (which should suffer this drag effect to some degree) with the equivalent non-convertible model. There does sometimes seem to be a drop in fuel economy for the convertibles, but nowhere near 10%.
The real travesty is that the Model T Ford had a milage of about 25/gallon oh so many years ago, and we really haven't improved on that all that much.
The Model T produced about 20HP. These days you can get engines producing more than 400HP that'll give 25MPG. You can buy cars with fuel economy of 60+MPG, if you want, and they still perform well.
maybe it's because he uses air conditioning more (though some folks argue that the wind drag from open windows hurts fuel economy more than running the AC).
AC generally costs around 10% fuel-wise. It's extremely unlikely that leaving windows open would cause that much drag.
First, why do researchers assume that blood flow and glucose use equals proof of thought patterns? Now, there may be a correlation, but as my research methods professor loved to say "correlation does not equal causation"
It's not just a correlation though, it's correlation plus plausible mechanism.
What this REALLY means is that they have already suffered a "major loss of data" but never made any backups and have been trying to hide the fact that the database has been GONE for weeks, months, or even years under grade school-level excuses.
Possibly. I still prefer the other theory: "we're not giving you the data you want, we don't care what the law says".
I thought the statement about Linus is that he wouldn't have started Linux if he had known about Minix?
He knew about Minix. He didn't like the limitations Minix had and the license didn't permit him to release improvements. He also wanted to write Linux as a learning exercise, he wouldn't have got that by merely using another OS.
One idea my boss had was perhaps people could come to a site and find a simular question they have, and pay to see the answer. I also fail to see how this would work either, as a little googling usually reveals the answer to any technical question I have.
Not all questions are easily answered just by using a search engine, particularly very general or very complex questions. But Google pretty much already do what your boss suggested. Go to Google Answers. You can browse the previous answers so if your question is there, great. If not ask a question and nominate a price you are willing to pay for the answer ($2-$200). Hopefully a researcher will answer the question, if so Google keeps 25% of the price, the researcher keeps the rest.
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To do things that way you should make the features correspond to bits in a bitmask. The way you've done it implies that feature #3 is a superset of feature #2. So:
feature #3 = 0100, feature #2 = 0010, and 0100|0010 = 0110 = 5. Hmmm.
I just had a look at fueleconomy.gov to compare some convertible cars (which should suffer this drag effect to some degree) with the equivalent non-convertible model. There does sometimes seem to be a drop in fuel economy for the convertibles, but nowhere near 10%.