I would like to think that it is not just the percentage of the population that holds the beliefs but the rate of growth it has the moment it reached it. Crowds prefer exponential growth than a logarithmic one. Don't have any citations, but I have a feeling it's the former in OS X and Apple computers in general.
Not really. You would be surprised at how insufficient many of the ideas are. Add this to the fact that the majority of the people these days are used to the indoor environment, and are no longer agrarian workers slogging out in the sun. New thoughts and ideas are always welcome.
Heh.. I come from an equally hot place, where it is hard to stand out for more than 5 or 10 minutes, let alone the whole day. The problem with wetting down the pavement is that the water evaporates literally in 10 minutes (since it is water spread over a large area). I don't know if they can spare enough man power to keep repeating this process.
Like other posters said, the only feasible option is constructing a shade preferably with a very good reflective material. Drink water and yoghurt to keep yourself refreshed.
They are trained to speak English, and as far as possible in an accent that people from the United States will be comfortable with. I am aware this often doesn't work well, but when you consider that most of the employees are people from schools that are worse than the toughest public schools in US, you might understand that it's not easy for them to sound convincing. Hence, the intensive training.
I myself have close friends (who are quite brilliant technically in comparison to many undergrads that I have met here) who studied with me in top ranked engineering schools in India. They barely knew any English when they first came in, but picked it up in a year or two.
Dealing with broken packages is not the best experience for new users.
Which packages specifically are broken, may I ask? Not once have I seen broken packages in the more commonly used programs in Ubuntu. But yes, I agree that Linux Mint is a much better option than Ubuntu.
If by broken, you mean unstable then yes. It is somewhat unstable, but no more than what you see on Windows, so it's fine with new users.
needs to go. What's with all this anti-competitive bullshit coming from Microsoft. They actually used to be a very good technology company until a couple of years back.
Whatever GP said completely flew over your head, didn't it? He was basically explaining why Apple iPads are as good as they are today. It's not because the engineers there are geniuses, but because their operations division is has made extremely bold and risky decisions that paid off.
Sorry for my ignorance, but I have no idea what this means. And the sentence quoted below from TFA just made my head spin even more.
With the support for AirPrint, it will now be possible to use an Ubuntu system as a server to allow a printer, that is not compatible with AirPrint, to print using AirPrint.
So what is AirPrint? Is it software made by Apple which can somehow now run on Ubuntu to support printing over wifi? And how does an incompatible printer suddenly become compatible because of Ubuntu?
You are probably a talented programmer, and I completely agree that C or C++ is the holy grail for low level optimization (if you are too noob for Assembly or Hex). I am personally fond of C++ and do not really "get" Java, although I do use it.
This may be obvious, but for many software it's a trade-off between development time, bugginess, manageability and speed, C++ is not always optimal.
C++ is and was always good. It's just that people can't program non-buggy in it, and to be honest it is relatively difficult to do so (which is what makes it fun if you have time;) ). Try vala, although technically it compiles to C.
I have visited OSNews a few times, and the readership there is decent, albeit not as good as slashdot. However, when it comes to news about Microsoft, I definitely prefer reading the articles and comments there. Slashdot has too many trolls, $hills and fanbois. Not everybody mind you, but it's not as easy to find unbiased opinions.
But you will very likely be driving only 40 miles on the 100th day too. It is all about probability, and in your particular case it would be something like (not exactly) a Binomial distribution.
But yeah, I understand your point, it is not trivial to take the long road trips into account. I can think of a couple of ways to handle them but the have their problems.
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I would like to think that it is not just the percentage of the population that holds the beliefs but the rate of growth it has the moment it reached it. Crowds prefer exponential growth than a logarithmic one. Don't have any citations, but I have a feeling it's the former in OS X and Apple computers in general.
It can run Debian though...
But honestly, is there is a point to this apart from a toy OS. Linux and BSD and even Haiku (which is a microkernel) is way ahead in the race.
You missed the joke... Read the second line you quoted again.
As opposed to what? Crowd source? Group think?
Not really. You would be surprised at how insufficient many of the ideas are. Add this to the fact that the majority of the people these days are used to the indoor environment, and are no longer agrarian workers slogging out in the sun. New thoughts and ideas are always welcome.
Heh.. I come from an equally hot place, where it is hard to stand out for more than 5 or 10 minutes, let alone the whole day. The problem with wetting down the pavement is that the water evaporates literally in 10 minutes (since it is water spread over a large area). I don't know if they can spare enough man power to keep repeating this process.
Like other posters said, the only feasible option is constructing a shade preferably with a very good reflective material. Drink water and yoghurt to keep yourself refreshed.
Yes, it's also good that they reached the 15 billion landmark on their own strengths, and not on the basis of bringing other companies down.
They are trained to speak English, and as far as possible in an accent that people from the United States will be comfortable with. I am aware this often doesn't work well, but when you consider that most of the employees are people from schools that are worse than the toughest public schools in US, you might understand that it's not easy for them to sound convincing. Hence, the intensive training.
I myself have close friends (who are quite brilliant technically in comparison to many undergrads that I have met here) who studied with me in top ranked engineering schools in India. They barely knew any English when they first came in, but picked it up in a year or two.
Why would you use (or rather recommend) Knoppix over Puppy?
Dealing with broken packages is not the best experience for new users.
Which packages specifically are broken, may I ask? Not once have I seen broken packages in the more commonly used programs in Ubuntu. But yes, I agree that Linux Mint is a much better option than Ubuntu.
If by broken, you mean unstable then yes. It is somewhat unstable, but no more than what you see on Windows, so it's fine with new users.
needs to go. What's with all this anti-competitive bullshit coming from Microsoft. They actually used to be a very good technology company until a couple of years back.
Whatever GP said completely flew over your head, didn't it? He was basically explaining why Apple iPads are as good as they are today. It's not because the engineers there are geniuses, but because their operations division is has made extremely bold and risky decisions that paid off.
Are you implying that there are sysadmins who moderate the comments on Slashdot? If so, you were wrong.
Google+ and WebRTC maybe. I am quite excited about the latter.
With the support for AirPrint, it will now be possible to use an Ubuntu system as a server to allow a printer, that is not compatible with AirPrint, to print using AirPrint.
So what is AirPrint? Is it software made by Apple which can somehow now run on Ubuntu to support printing over wifi? And how does an incompatible printer suddenly become compatible because of Ubuntu?
I admit, that is pretty damn badass! Not just that he has a prime number UID, but the fact that you actually knew and realized it was a prime number.
Engadget has a couple: Nokia N9 first hands on. It looks quite slick!
You are probably a talented programmer, and I completely agree that C or C++ is the holy grail for low level optimization (if you are too noob for Assembly or Hex). I am personally fond of C++ and do not really "get" Java, although I do use it.
This may be obvious, but for many software it's a trade-off between development time, bugginess, manageability and speed, C++ is not always optimal.
C++ is and was always good. It's just that people can't program non-buggy in it, and to be honest it is relatively difficult to do so (which is what makes it fun if you have time ;) ). Try vala, although technically it compiles to C.
I have visited OSNews a few times, and the readership there is decent, albeit not as good as slashdot. However, when it comes to news about Microsoft, I definitely prefer reading the articles and comments there. Slashdot has too many trolls, $hills and fanbois. Not everybody mind you, but it's not as easy to find unbiased opinions.
On a somewhat unrelated note, what's with the "omnomnom" and "omnomnomnom" tags attached to this story? :P
But you will very likely be driving only 40 miles on the 100th day too. It is all about probability, and in your particular case it would be something like (not exactly) a Binomial distribution.
But yeah, I understand your point, it is not trivial to take the long road trips into account. I can think of a couple of ways to handle them but the have their problems.
Not all.
Just an inquisitive question. Can good hackers read hex code? Or at least a part of it, once they have narrowed something down?
Or are there hex-to-assembly converters? I know for a fact that most hacks take place at this level, just curious about how they do it.
This. I have never visited Steam website because I am not a big gamer since WC3, but I will probably download Steam now to check them out.