What companies do you know that produce good, high-quality code? I was depressed to find I couldn't think of many. Maybe Sun before they disappeared, and NeXT, before they disappeared, and SGI.
I see you haven't tried to secure a newly installed Irix system.
This is expected behaviour in Scandinavia – the boss is responsible for making sure the employees don't work too much. This boss might be somewhat more considerate than most, but the overtime rules are fairly strict (except for bosses and in academia).
While 'hard working' isn't exactly a swear word in the Nordic countries, it carries a connotation of not spending enough time with your family (and on yourself), and hence has a somewhat negative ring; unlike in the US where it is the ultimate complement.
But since OSX is more window-oriented than previous versions of MacOS, I'm not sure that the menubar on top actually makes that much sense anymore, even on a Mac.
But the Amiga hid the menus until you right-clicked. So you actually saved some space / got a status bar for free – and it would work with focus-follows-mouse (if you set that up).
The idea that these behaviours (fun) could be exposed to any of the islamic faith,...
FTFY.
(Check the rest of the stuff they object to – basically anything even remotely connected to anything that might give the slightest amount of enjoyment. *And*, they object to.baby based on a porn argument, which is somewhat... worrisome. But, on the other hand, someone else objected to.ieee on the grounds that "we don't need another porn domain" (though, some IEEE members probably do look at porn, and most probably find technical manuals quite titillating, so maybe the objection was fair.))
They certainly have a right to object, even though I may find the Saudi regime (and much of your comment) objectionable...
I do believe the *entire [alleged] point* of these new-fangled gTLDs was to provide for special interests / communities, so the old "why do the silly gays always want their own stuff" argument doesn't work very well here. Not that it actually works that well anyway, but here it's just stupid. "Damn footballers, they always want special treatment, why should they get their own tld? And why did they have to ruin a perfectly good word like 'football' by adopting it for a male-on-male close contact activity instead of people just being happy running around after a ball? etc."
Anyways, I'd rather see them all rejected. Who the f*ck needs.tennis or.shop, when we already have such excellent and well-regarded TLDs as.info and.biz?
Except that you don't need to find the password, just a string that has the same hash. And the chance of that depends on the hash function, not on the length of the original password.
Besides, you don't need a fully mechanical state machine and an infinite tape to show the interested public some of Turing's highly important computer science work (as opposed to impressing the Slashdot crowd, or showcasing the Engima code breaking work, which seems to be what most 'normal' people associate with him these days).
With that goal in mind, I think the project has been highly successful – it has been reported in major Dutch newspapers and generated a lot of interest in the Netherlands.
Land-locked mammals probably had trouble competing in the same niche as birds. Probably why birds are still hugely successful (some species even thrive sharing territory with highly competitive humans). Non-flying birds are restricted to rather unusual habitats (like Antarctica, New Zealand,...), so there must be something to be said for good, old-fashioned mammals as well.
Note that birds have rather high energy requirements (high body temperature, and flying is expensive), so that may be why they lose out to mammals and reptiles on the ground. But IANAB, so that's only a guess.
Aha, but how many dinosaurs were actually cold-blooded? The current ones certainly aren't, they run hotter than mammals (though they are certainly also tiny compared to some of the huge ones of the past).
I wasn't suggesting that they give it for $0 - I was suggesting that they make the architecture open source, say w/ a license that allows anybody to study the code, but charges a certain amount if someone wants to use for commercial purposes i.e. to fab a CPU.
Also known as *not* making it open source... Unless you're talking about living off the patent licenses.
Also, experience with the Athlon has probably shown them that it's impossible to get a good foothold in the desktop market, even with a superior product, since the main PC manufacturers are in bed with Intel. The tiny margins don't help either. In the high-end market, the margins are better, and they've already had quite a bit of success in the supercomputer market (Cray, for example), where the CPU/GPU combo is highly desirable.
What surprises me a bit is how they've completely held off on marketing it so far. At their booth at Supercomputing'11 in November, they had *no one* from AMD who knew anything about the APU, they could only refer to a university partner who had done some experiments. They're probably waiting for the high-end APUs, but still, I would have thought that they'd be interesting in getting people started with experiments, so they have something to show off later.
A bird says: Hey baby, I may be pretty bland compared to other potential mates, but check out my superfine UV colored feathers, oh yeh! Oh they just look like a dull brown... damnit, if only I had an advanced brain and opposable thumbs I could invent a black light and get laid.
Fortunately for the bird, it wouldn't need any inventions to show off its nice UV-coloured feathers, since the potential mate can already see them.
Some birds of prey (like the kestrel) can even follow the trail of UV-reflecting urine scent marks left by its prey – just like a CSI detective.
Assuming you can even find the stolen books and texts online (with Baghdad being a major center of learning and knowledge while Europe was in the Dark Ages, you can be pretty sure that they might have had a few irreplaceable texts) , do you have any idea how much modern publishers charge for online access to journals? It's expensive enough to be a major issue even for universities in the richest countries.
And regarding replacing equipment and rebuilding, that's assuming Hallibu–sorry, the Iraqi people–prioritize rebuilding their universities over restoring order, getting oil production on track, and rebuilding the completely fucked up basic infrastructure.
Actually, you get too little of this (in Norway, at least).
Prevention (in the form of getting people to eat healthier, exercise more, etc.) is typically paid from a different budget than the health care budget, and it's a lot easier to cut the prevention budget than the health care budget. So in practice the health care budget gets fatter, and little attention is paid to things that could have made people healthier. This also goes for things like welfare; if you'd used health care a bit more sensibly in some cases, you could get more people back to work and earn more taxes and pay less in disability benefits. But that would require a holistic view of spending, across departments and different levels of local and national government.
And, of course, you can't cut the tax on fruit and vegetables without the dairy and meat industry complaining and wanting cuts too. Overall, eating healthy is a lot more expensive than eating junk food (assuming you're educated enough to *know* what food is healthy).
You *do* have campaigns against smoking, though, and restrictions on alcohol (but that's more due to morals/puritanical tradition). But it's almost impossible to get treated for drug addiction, particularly if you life and health isn't already ruined by drugs...
Everything in the first group is something that people get assigned at birth and cannot change, so discrimination based on them must be strongly opposed. But the stuff in the second group is something that people can change at any time if they want to, so criticizing people for their religion or political ideas should always be fair game.
We were talking about demonization, and not mere criticism, weren't we? Anyway, even for criticism, there's a subtle difference between criticizing people for their religion/politics, and criticizing their religion/politics. If you're in favor of the former, consider yourself criticized.
Sounds good to me. Multi-threaded synchronization is notoriously hard to get right, so why risk it unless you *really* need the multicore performance?
And the thing with browsers isn't that they need access to more resources – they should have *less* resources (CPU, memory) and use them better. I'm not particularly happy with dedicating 25% of a CPU just to have a browser window with some tabs open while I'm working on something else – particularly not while I'm on battery. Why can't I get Firefox (and/or Chromium) to suspend the JS engine and any plugins on tabs that aren't visible anyway? Yes I know that you *sometimes* want to listen to audio from another tab, but most of the time even that is just annoying.
Oh, and just sandbox the damn stuff, and get rid og 93% of the possible security issues...
But am I annoyed enough to file wishlists in Bugzilla or start writing patches? Not really, but that's possibly because I believe complaining on Slashdot should be more than enough to get things fixed.
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Hmm, still haven't found a good replacement for Deluxe Paint.
What companies do you know that produce good, high-quality code? I was depressed to find I couldn't think of many. Maybe Sun before they disappeared, and NeXT, before they disappeared, and SGI.
I see you haven't tried to secure a newly installed Irix system.
This is expected behaviour in Scandinavia – the boss is responsible for making sure the employees don't work too much. This boss might be somewhat more considerate than most, but the overtime rules are fairly strict (except for bosses and in academia).
While 'hard working' isn't exactly a swear word in the Nordic countries, it carries a connotation of not spending enough time with your family (and on yourself), and hence has a somewhat negative ring; unlike in the US where it is the ultimate complement.
But since OSX is more window-oriented than previous versions of MacOS, I'm not sure that the menubar on top actually makes that much sense anymore, even on a Mac.
But the Amiga hid the menus until you right-clicked. So you actually saved some space / got a status bar for free – and it would work with focus-follows-mouse (if you set that up).
The idea that these behaviours (fun) could be exposed to any of the islamic faith, ...
FTFY.
(Check the rest of the stuff they object to – basically anything even remotely connected to anything that might give the slightest amount of enjoyment. *And*, they object to .baby based on a porn argument, which is somewhat ... worrisome. But, on the other hand, someone else objected to .ieee on the grounds that "we don't need another porn domain" (though, some IEEE members probably do look at porn, and most probably find technical manuals quite titillating, so maybe the objection was fair.))
They certainly have a right to object, even though I may find the Saudi regime (and much of your comment) objectionable...
I do believe the *entire [alleged] point* of these new-fangled gTLDs was to provide for special interests / communities, so the old "why do the silly gays always want their own stuff" argument doesn't work very well here. Not that it actually works that well anyway, but here it's just stupid. "Damn footballers, they always want special treatment, why should they get their own tld? And why did they have to ruin a perfectly good word like 'football' by adopting it for a male-on-male close contact activity instead of people just being happy running around after a ball? etc."
Anyways, I'd rather see them all rejected. Who the f*ck needs .tennis or .shop, when we already have such excellent and well-regarded TLDs as .info and .biz?
Except that you don't need to find the password, just a string that has the same hash. And the chance of that depends on the hash function, not on the length of the original password.
Besides, you don't need a fully mechanical state machine and an infinite tape to show the interested public some of Turing's highly important computer science work (as opposed to impressing the Slashdot crowd, or showcasing the Engima code breaking work, which seems to be what most 'normal' people associate with him these days).
With that goal in mind, I think the project has been highly successful – it has been reported in major Dutch newspapers and generated a lot of interest in the Netherlands.
Land-locked mammals probably had trouble competing in the same niche as birds. Probably why birds are still hugely successful (some species even thrive sharing territory with highly competitive humans). Non-flying birds are restricted to rather unusual habitats (like Antarctica, New Zealand, ...), so there must be something to be said for good, old-fashioned mammals as well.
Note that birds have rather high energy requirements (high body temperature, and flying is expensive), so that may be why they lose out to mammals and reptiles on the ground. But IANAB, so that's only a guess.
Aha, but how many dinosaurs were actually cold-blooded? The current ones certainly aren't, they run hotter than mammals (though they are certainly also tiny compared to some of the huge ones of the past).
Norway, for one: http://www.norway.no/temaside/tema.asp?stikkord=94261 (p. 31-37 of the pdf linked at the bottom)
I wasn't suggesting that they give it for $0 - I was suggesting that they make the architecture open source, say w/ a license that allows anybody to study the code, but charges a certain amount if someone wants to use for commercial purposes i.e. to fab a CPU.
Also known as *not* making it open source... Unless you're talking about living off the patent licenses.
Damn right, a 640k sled ought to be enough for anybody! :P
Also, experience with the Athlon has probably shown them that it's impossible to get a good foothold in the desktop market, even with a superior product, since the main PC manufacturers are in bed with Intel. The tiny margins don't help either. In the high-end market, the margins are better, and they've already had quite a bit of success in the supercomputer market (Cray, for example), where the CPU/GPU combo is highly desirable.
What surprises me a bit is how they've completely held off on marketing it so far. At their booth at Supercomputing'11 in November, they had *no one* from AMD who knew anything about the APU, they could only refer to a university partner who had done some experiments. They're probably waiting for the high-end APUs, but still, I would have thought that they'd be interesting in getting people started with experiments, so they have something to show off later.
Crappy, but not creepy like in TFA (yet).
Neither?
I believe that's still an option, even though it's not as convenient as Gmail.
Still, I do see a lot of my students and colleagues using Gmail, possibly because the University provides crappy service. I guess I'm old-fashioned.
Yes. Good thing Google doesn't have software that automatically reads through your emails for its own purposes... Whoops!
A bird says: Hey baby, I may be pretty bland compared to other potential mates, but check out my superfine UV colored feathers, oh yeh! Oh they just look like a dull brown... damnit, if only I had an advanced brain and opposable thumbs I could invent a black light and get laid.
Fortunately for the bird, it wouldn't need any inventions to show off its nice UV-coloured feathers, since the potential mate can already see them.
Some birds of prey (like the kestrel) can even follow the trail of UV-reflecting urine scent marks left by its prey – just like a CSI detective.
mix those two approaches by making user mounts executable, but ignoring dangerous flags.
Also known as 'nosuid', which is the default for user mounts (at least with mount, together with 'nodev').
Assuming you can even find the stolen books and texts online (with Baghdad being a major center of learning and knowledge while Europe was in the Dark Ages, you can be pretty sure that they might have had a few irreplaceable texts) , do you have any idea how much modern publishers charge for online access to journals? It's expensive enough to be a major issue even for universities in the richest countries.
And regarding replacing equipment and rebuilding, that's assuming Hallibu–sorry, the Iraqi people–prioritize rebuilding their universities over restoring order, getting oil production on track, and rebuilding the completely fucked up basic infrastructure.
Actually, you get too little of this (in Norway, at least).
Prevention (in the form of getting people to eat healthier, exercise more, etc.) is typically paid from a different budget than the health care budget, and it's a lot easier to cut the prevention budget than the health care budget. So in practice the health care budget gets fatter, and little attention is paid to things that could have made people healthier. This also goes for things like welfare; if you'd used health care a bit more sensibly in some cases, you could get more people back to work and earn more taxes and pay less in disability benefits. But that would require a holistic view of spending, across departments and different levels of local and national government.
And, of course, you can't cut the tax on fruit and vegetables without the dairy and meat industry complaining and wanting cuts too. Overall, eating healthy is a lot more expensive than eating junk food (assuming you're educated enough to *know* what food is healthy).
You *do* have campaigns against smoking, though, and restrictions on alcohol (but that's more due to morals/puritanical tradition). But it's almost impossible to get treated for drug addiction, particularly if you life and health isn't already ruined by drugs...
Everything in the first group is something that people get assigned at birth and cannot change, so discrimination based on them must be strongly opposed. But the stuff in the second group is something that people can change at any time if they want to, so criticizing people for their religion or political ideas should always be fair game.
We were talking about demonization, and not mere criticism, weren't we? Anyway, even for criticism, there's a subtle difference between criticizing people for their religion/politics, and criticizing their religion/politics. If you're in favor of the former, consider yourself criticized.
Sounds good to me. Multi-threaded synchronization is notoriously hard to get right, so why risk it unless you *really* need the multicore performance?
And the thing with browsers isn't that they need access to more resources – they should have *less* resources (CPU, memory) and use them better. I'm not particularly happy with dedicating 25% of a CPU just to have a browser window with some tabs open while I'm working on something else – particularly not while I'm on battery. Why can't I get Firefox (and/or Chromium) to suspend the JS engine and any plugins on tabs that aren't visible anyway? Yes I know that you *sometimes* want to listen to audio from another tab, but most of the time even that is just annoying.
Oh, and just sandbox the damn stuff, and get rid og 93% of the possible security issues...
But am I annoyed enough to file wishlists in Bugzilla or start writing patches? Not really, but that's possibly because I believe complaining on Slashdot should be more than enough to get things fixed.
Well, you know – if it hadn't been for the US in WW2, the UK would have had decent train service now... :P