Really? What metrics are you using to determine the quality of the software? Because from what I've seen, Facebook's uptime has been pretty good, and bugs fairly rare.
How does uptime tell you anything apart from the fact that Facebook has good hosting?
One of the guy I meant to mention above, went out from high school, learning packaging, worked as an apprentice (ie no college), and then got into a very senior position in a security firm (all the details hidden because it's not relevant). And he is barely elder to me.
You don't have to be in front of the computer at your place. You could rather go out and work in a company, getting flamed by your colleagues. Honestly, I found the communication to be better when the person physically sits with you discussing your problem than getting it solved over IRC. But that could be just me, and my poor communication skills.
And yes. Agree with the MIT OCW thing.
Walter Lewis' lectures are probably the most complete lecture series in the entire course. I am forever indebted to him for me clearing my mech class (compulsory subject that I did not want to take)
My friend asked me to get her a course worth reading from literature and philosophy, and it barely had anything there.
In addition to the programming initiatives at Khan academy and MIT OCW that existed already.
We have dropouts/people who never went to college holding high positions (work with a bunch of such guys on open source projects) Why would people even go to college once this becomes mainstream?
There's always a reason why people still prefer using Google. The only reason why I can see people using Bing or Yahoo is because that's the default engine on their web browser or something like that.
The worst part is that Google wants to build a driverless car. Flight pilots have been trained to react to emergencies in a calm manner and they have time to do so while in air. Neither is true for cars. People will panic when something goes wrong, and there won't be any time to react to them. Your life (and others life) will be completely dependent on the AI, and lets face it, there will be bugs.. Google isn't exactly known for bug free products. Hell, even NASA has bugs and they use billions so that there wouldn't be any. I just think it's a really bad idea and Google is being irresponsible and malicious with such project. Of course they will also hide some "we are not responsible for accidents in any way" under some clause. Let me just say that somewhere in the future we will be hearing how Google killed some innocent people and children.
You clearly have no idea about what you're talking about.
I watched a few lectures from ai-class.com, and turns out the car has already been built and is safe upto a very high degree. The car that is currently used has already traveled several thousand miles on its own (exact number in the video below)
What you are missing is the advanced computer vision techniques that are discovered cannot be used in the air, because everything is fucking blue. On the road, computer vision techniques can used to identify objects (which is covered to some extent in ai-class.com). Also we have the added advantage of using GPS when driving on road (I am not sure what is the airborne equivalent of GPS)
Plus you can't see the difference between a bunch of people who wrote code because they wanted to pay their bills vs a dedicated bunch of people who are doing it just because they are passionate about AI (Thrun and his colleagues)
I strongly suggest you to have a look at (the entire video before you be judgemental): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqDvbguZsAA before you comment something related to how much current AI technology sucks.
In fact, dropdown consoles are the first thing I install.
If you want something more active in development, try Yakuake, though it has KDE dependencies. I personally run Tilda on my Xfce laptop, and it works just fine.
But why are we discussing dropdown consoles anyway?:P
No mention of Unity? It has been made to look worse than the ribbon these days (by techwriters).
Also one could comment on UI on websites, webapps, phone apps. The author didn't seem to mind them at all, though they are the ones that successfully annoy the shit out of me.
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Or you could install this: http://disconnect.me/ along with an Adblock. No?
7 eats 9.
"Install Ubuntu the first time you install Linux. Make sure your second install/install after a year is Arch Linux, whatever comes first."
My two cents
Really? What metrics are you using to determine the quality of the software? Because from what I've seen, Facebook's uptime has been pretty good, and bugs fairly rare.
How does uptime tell you anything apart from the fact that Facebook has good hosting?
I am running Arch Linux with DWM as the WM.
Wow. I feel left out.
For the same reason Justin Beiber has the most viewed video to his name on youtube.
Really? :o
One of the guy I meant to mention above, went out from high school, learning packaging, worked as an apprentice (ie no college), and then got into a very senior position in a security firm (all the details hidden because it's not relevant). And he is barely elder to me.
You don't have to be in front of the computer at your place. You could rather go out and work in a company, getting flamed by your colleagues. Honestly, I found the communication to be better when the person physically sits with you discussing your problem than getting it solved over IRC. But that could be just me, and my poor communication skills.
And yes. Agree with the MIT OCW thing.
Walter Lewis' lectures are probably the most complete lecture series in the entire course. I am forever indebted to him for me clearing my mech class (compulsory subject that I did not want to take)
My friend asked me to get her a course worth reading from literature and philosophy, and it barely had anything there.
Three education related sites released this year:
In addition to the programming initiatives at Khan academy and MIT OCW that existed already.
We have dropouts/people who never went to college holding high positions (work with a bunch of such guys on open source projects) Why would people even go to college once this becomes mainstream?
If the guy who gave people a reason to buy a computer says this, it must be true.
And then a white rabbit. (Jefferson Airplane style)
He was a bit religious, and talked of seeing deamons around him...
I am not that religious, but I had the same problem. I had nightmares about acpid, crond, httpd, mysqld being all around me... That was bad shit.
http://wiki.rtorrent.org/MagnetUri should help.
Nothing from the *ubuntu family matches the freedom that Archlinux and Slackware give.
Please try :)
Sorry, Windows "just updates stuff".
What did you type into the command line? I tried typing "sudo pacman -Syu" but it said unrecognized command :(
I was looking forward to get updates to my games and Adobe suite and Internet explorer that way :(
And you haven't worked on Archlinux because?
Here's what's wrong with standards: Mandatory XKCD mention.
These are the kind of guys that make me feel ashamed to be a 7 UID person.
Indian on Slashdot! :o
Cross post for a pic from reddit.com
There's always a reason why people still prefer using Google. The only reason why I can see people using Bing or Yahoo is because that's the default engine on their web browser or something like that.
The worst part is that Google wants to build a driverless car. Flight pilots have been trained to react to emergencies in a calm manner and they have time to do so while in air. Neither is true for cars. People will panic when something goes wrong, and there won't be any time to react to them. Your life (and others life) will be completely dependent on the AI, and lets face it, there will be bugs.. Google isn't exactly known for bug free products. Hell, even NASA has bugs and they use billions so that there wouldn't be any. I just think it's a really bad idea and Google is being irresponsible and malicious with such project. Of course they will also hide some "we are not responsible for accidents in any way" under some clause. Let me just say that somewhere in the future we will be hearing how Google killed some innocent people and children.
You clearly have no idea about what you're talking about.
I watched a few lectures from ai-class.com, and turns out the car has already been built and is safe upto a very high degree. The car that is currently used has already traveled several thousand miles on its own (exact number in the video below)
What you are missing is the advanced computer vision techniques that are discovered cannot be used in the air, because everything is fucking blue. On the road, computer vision techniques can used to identify objects (which is covered to some extent in ai-class.com). Also we have the added advantage of using GPS when driving on road (I am not sure what is the airborne equivalent of GPS)
Plus you can't see the difference between a bunch of people who wrote code because they wanted to pay their bills vs a dedicated bunch of people who are doing it just because they are passionate about AI (Thrun and his colleagues)
I strongly suggest you to have a look at (the entire video before you be judgemental): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqDvbguZsAA before you comment something related to how much current AI technology sucks.
We'll come back to this when Wayland becomes usable.
In fact, dropdown consoles are the first thing I install.
If you want something more active in development, try Yakuake, though it has KDE dependencies. I personally run Tilda on my Xfce laptop, and it works just fine.
But why are we discussing dropdown consoles anyway? :P
No mention of Unity? It has been made to look worse than the ribbon these days (by techwriters).
Also one could comment on UI on websites, webapps, phone apps. The author didn't seem to mind them at all, though they are the ones that successfully annoy the shit out of me.
One of the school board members took it and was unable to answer any of the 60 math questions, though he guessed correctly on 10 of them.
Wait.
Even a gorilla could have got 15/60. It's probability 101. (And a rather sensible assumption that all questions had 4 options)