I am no gamer and I have no idea what Nuke Dukem is, and but I was amused that the author of the review was offended by this.
Duke Nukem Forever is the kind of game where you find a pack of cigarettes whose cover shows a mustached man wearing leather—and they're called "Faggs."
They would probably use Chromium. AFAIK, Ubuntu doesn't ship with non-free software as default. But meh, no big deal, it's just an apt-get install away.
No, you can't patent a mathematical formula, but it should be "ethical" to patent an implementation of a mathematical formula (=algorithm) for a specific application. Why the hell would someone spend years of research creating an algorithm if it is going to be easy to implement it a week after his/her labor and associated costs?
Oh, and there is a world of difference between software and algorithm.
Copying your code does not apply for closed source applications anyway, my question has has more to do with the working algorithms that you put money and man-hours into. These are rarely used directly in your final application. Without patents, there is little incentive to put money into research, why not just wait for someone else to build and test a working prototype of an algorithm, and then implement it for your own application. You would be saving a lot of money this way. In case, you manage to produce a shinier product with the same algorithm, you are going to make more money.
I am currently wary of a patent for an algorithm filed by a huge corporation just recently. It is certainly hampering progress in my application and it is a screwed up system on the whole, but I can understand why they would want to protect it. Everyone would just look at it, and go like "Oh this works, let me implement it".
I have a possibly naive question. When a company starts investing in hardcore R&D in computer science, they do it with some level of confidence that by the end of the research, they will get some patent-able results that they can use freely, and at the same time prevent other companies from outright copying them without the need for the huge initial investment.
Basically, in such a situation, you get copy-cat trolls instead of patent trolls. How would you propose to solve this problem, if patents are eliminated all together?
I am all for making patents hard to achieve and lowering their life-spans, but IMO removing them completely will hurt research more than help it.
What? I am from one of those "non-western" countries, and I am convinced that overpopulation is the root cause of most of our problems. It's also a problem that's not simple to solve, unless we go genocidal of a couple of big sects or a lot of small sects. I would go forth and make a guess that through non-radical means it would take us about 300 - 400 years to bring our population down to sane levels, by enforcing one child per family, or giving strong incentives for couples not to have children.
Someone mentioned about mismanagement of resources, and while I am sure that this is true because of bureaucracy and corrupt practices, 1. it is hard to prove how much effect a better managed system will have, and 2. it doesn't tackle the root problem, which is overpopulation.
No. Simplicity on surface hiding underlying complexity (from having to notify 500 contacts about your email address change) is not Occam's Razor. Occam's razor would be to simply delete it, or mark them as spam.
Why worry? Its not like it takes too much time or effort to update to the next version.
False. If there is one problem with Ubuntu, it is that upgrading from one version to another is completely broken, and ASUS would be better off not having too handle such problems.
If you are one of those few who have not had any problems, consider yourself lucky. However, it may be possible to ensure that it works properly for a limited set of laptops.
Wow no. I highly doubt it. It could be something to do with the fact that two months is just not enough for them to test Ubuntu 11.04, and that there are too many unresolved issues with Unity and Compiz.
What I am more worried about is, when 10.10 becomes obsolete or when 12.04 comes out, can ASUS or Canonical provide a seamless upgrade? As of now, the answer is no, you invariably end up breaking something.
(Some experts are of the opinion that) men are wired to be sexually jealous but simultaneously they're also sexually aroused so if a man sees a woman — including his partner — with another man, he becomes more aroused.
Is this true? I would be jealous for sure, but sexually aroused when my girlfriend cheats on me? I don't think so. Are these proven facts, or just a theory based on some weakly correlated evidence?
What? I would say that it's the other way around. I would guess that the actual infection rates are higher. I bet that many of the people who didn't download this tool are probably the same people who are running an expired version of McAfee on their Windows XP without any Service Packs applied.
Just recently, my parents were complaining about how their computer was behaving very slow and strangely. The number of malware, crapware and toolbars I had to uninstall via remote desktop using Teamspeak (we live on different continents) was enormous. Lol!
Good tutorial for someone who wants to jump into some parallel programming, but it's mostly Operating Systems 101 (or 601).
Honestly though, if you have not optimized your algorithm or code to for parallelism and you want to do it now, you might probably be better off writing the whole thing from scratch, and the tutorial explains why very nicely/.
You don't even need to do this, at least in Linux Mint (and I am sure Ubuntu and all it's derivatives). Double-clicking on a shell script, gives you the option of either opening it as a text file, or running it in the terminal.
I am really sick of this yellow journalism that's been popping up lately on Slashdot! Whoever is putting these articles on the front page, needs to do a better job.
It's supposed to be "News For Nerds", just report actual fucking facts related to science or tech, and not anti-MS bullshit or what color muffin Steve Jobs had for breakfast!
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I agree. But you are not going to be solving combinatorial problems in Javascript anyhow.
If I had a choice between 2000s and1990s I would choose the latter though. IMHO, it was the decade of greatest technological progress since the 60s.
Duke Nukem Forever is the kind of game where you find a pack of cigarettes whose cover shows a mustached man wearing leather—and they're called "Faggs."
They would probably use Chromium. AFAIK, Ubuntu doesn't ship with non-free software as default. But meh, no big deal, it's just an apt-get install away.
(uses threads! figure that). .
As opposed to?
We need to go deeper...
No, you can't patent a mathematical formula, but it should be "ethical" to patent an implementation of a mathematical formula (=algorithm) for a specific application. Why the hell would someone spend years of research creating an algorithm if it is going to be easy to implement it a week after his/her labor and associated costs?
Oh, and there is a world of difference between software and algorithm.
Copying your code does not apply for closed source applications anyway, my question has has more to do with the working algorithms that you put money and man-hours into. These are rarely used directly in your final application. Without patents, there is little incentive to put money into research, why not just wait for someone else to build and test a working prototype of an algorithm, and then implement it for your own application. You would be saving a lot of money this way. In case, you manage to produce a shinier product with the same algorithm, you are going to make more money.
I am currently wary of a patent for an algorithm filed by a huge corporation just recently. It is certainly hampering progress in my application and it is a screwed up system on the whole, but I can understand why they would want to protect it. Everyone would just look at it, and go like "Oh this works, let me implement it".
Basically, in such a situation, you get copy-cat trolls instead of patent trolls. How would you propose to solve this problem, if patents are eliminated all together?
I am all for making patents hard to achieve and lowering their life-spans, but IMO removing them completely will hurt research more than help it.
What? I am from one of those "non-western" countries, and I am convinced that overpopulation is the root cause of most of our problems. It's also a problem that's not simple to solve, unless we go genocidal of a couple of big sects or a lot of small sects. I would go forth and make a guess that through non-radical means it would take us about 300 - 400 years to bring our population down to sane levels, by enforcing one child per family, or giving strong incentives for couples not to have children.
Someone mentioned about mismanagement of resources, and while I am sure that this is true because of bureaucracy and corrupt practices, 1. it is hard to prove how much effect a better managed system will have, and 2. it doesn't tackle the root problem, which is overpopulation.
No. Simplicity on surface hiding underlying complexity (from having to notify 500 contacts about your email address change) is not Occam's Razor. Occam's razor would be to simply delete it, or mark them as spam.
.. a bit dramatic, don't you think? I wonder what the last topic is going to be. :)
That seriously HAS to be a parody of religious beliefs! There is no way the author is serious about the stuff that he wrote.
Why worry? Its not like it takes too much time or effort to update to the next version.
False. If there is one problem with Ubuntu, it is that upgrading from one version to another is completely broken, and ASUS would be better off not having too handle such problems.
If you are one of those few who have not had any problems, consider yourself lucky. However, it may be possible to ensure that it works properly for a limited set of laptops.
What I am more worried about is, when 10.10 becomes obsolete or when 12.04 comes out, can ASUS or Canonical provide a seamless upgrade? As of now, the answer is no, you invariably end up breaking something.
RHEL and Debian use Firefox 3.5, AFAIK. I guess it it will be okay, as long as they keep the simple HTML version, or switch to Chromium.
No, Linus mentioned that it is an evolutionary (not revolutionary) release, and that the APIs and ABIs wouldn't change.
AFAIK, Stuxnet was brought into the system through USB.
(Some experts are of the opinion that) men are wired to be sexually jealous but simultaneously they're also sexually aroused so if a man sees a woman — including his partner — with another man, he becomes more aroused.
Is this true? I would be jealous for sure, but sexually aroused when my girlfriend cheats on me? I don't think so. Are these proven facts, or just a theory based on some weakly correlated evidence?
What? I would say that it's the other way around. I would guess that the actual infection rates are higher. I bet that many of the people who didn't download this tool are probably the same people who are running an expired version of McAfee on their Windows XP without any Service Packs applied.
Just recently, my parents were complaining about how their computer was behaving very slow and strangely. The number of malware, crapware and toolbars I had to uninstall via remote desktop using Teamspeak (we live on different continents) was enormous. Lol!
I am no fan of Microsoft Corporation, but you sir, are a troll
I wonder how this will affect Netflix on these phones. I am pretty sure that MAFIA is scared about such phones right?
Good tutorial for someone who wants to jump into some parallel programming, but it's mostly Operating Systems 101 (or 601).
Honestly though, if you have not optimized your algorithm or code to for parallelism and you want to do it now, you might probably be better off writing the whole thing from scratch, and the tutorial explains why very nicely/.
You don't even need to do this, at least in Linux Mint (and I am sure Ubuntu and all it's derivatives). Double-clicking on a shell script, gives you the option of either opening it as a text file, or running it in the terminal.
It's supposed to be "News For Nerds", just report actual fucking facts related to science or tech, and not anti-MS bullshit or what color muffin Steve Jobs had for breakfast!