Debian represents the group of developers most beholden to the FSF. Thats not entirely a bad thing, although there's always a set of people loudly pining for the affections of their chosen God, RMS.
Fortunately, this isn't that big of a deal. Most all of the developers who care so deeply about following RMS's every whim and order have already jumped on the Hurd bandwagon. In theory, the GPL should be compatible with itself, meaning that the kernel.org source could opt to distribute under GPL v3 without asking every developer. Either way, the Linux kernel team will probably spend a good deal of time examining and move very slowly on this, even after the public discussions are over and the final draft is made... final. v2 works well enough at persuading infringers to settle, so there's no hurry to change.
The good news for this guy is that he's being expected to bring the code to the States, not to Japan. So, there's a minute chance the code was written with english variables, so that he can understand the program before having to dig through the software and excising all the strings with a Translate()'d version.
Given that SC2 for GCN outsold the PS2 version, its a serious question should arise for Namco. Apparently, either the money Sony is putting on the table is tipping the scales, or Namco thinks it can be a big fish in a big pond, instead of a big fish in a smaller pond. Whether their renewed focus would pay off, is questionable.
Well, its entirely understandable if the ps2 version of soul calibur 2 underperformed because the development team was spreading their efforts across three platforms. Granted, the ps2 is significantly challenged comparitively, but I don't think its entirely beyond their means. Making the game ps2 specific should allow for a few design comprimises that speed up the game on the ps2. I have to wonder if SC3 will be much more than the SC2 that should have been...
The guide isn't even that useful for those that DON'T know. There's no mention of CPU socket types, or RAM speeds. There's no nod to motherboards with a special orange PCI slot and what that is actually useful for.
I'm not really surprised that your Geek Squad is so poorly trained. Especially in the middle of the Great Plains. Anybody with half a brain prefers the sunny costal areas to the expansive retirement community called Western Kansas.
Placing the swap file on a dedicated partition can indeed improve things. Why?
1. You don't have to go through an intermediary filesystem, with associated overhead.
2. You can give the swap partition priority or at least balance in queuing on a single disk.
3. I'm sure there's a third reason that also validates my theory, given that pretty much every linux distro I know of makes a seperate swap partition. We'll call item #3 the "appeal to authority" argument.
I would also like to take this opportunity to point out that you have indirectly insulted the engineers behind the Linux VM improvements. I realize this article was mostly about innane tweaks to windows XP, but the slander is inconsistant with my views of their work.
if you bother to actually read the sentence in contention, they explicitly indicate that they're referring to the tempation to use a seperate swap drive, rather than a simple partition.
It is NOT illegal to badmouth you to prospective employers, in so much as their statements are generally true. However, it is recommended that you not say anything bad because it exposes the company to liabilities, should the court feels you've exaggerated or lied. Often individual owners or simply sour bosses will ignore this advice, and it's up to you to figure that out.
So while it's not okay for former employers to spread lies about you so you never work in the town again, don't expect the law to cover up the fast that you've never been on time to work once, or that you were stealing more product than selling it.
Its no wonder the rest of the people left ship. By failing to replace lost talent and placing more burden on you, they've shot themselves in the foot. Certainly, there is an expected amount of bad feelings that will be present at the end of any relationship like this. You've tried being reasonable about the transition, and he wants more.
Briefly, size up the situation. Your employment is as will. You've got a new gig lined up, and no obligation to fulfill the duties when you quit. Other things to consider is how badly you need the money, how much you enjoy the work versus what else you could be doing (sleep), and how your new gig would interact with it.
Your boss is haggling with you, which isn't a good sign. Given their track record, they may shove duties onto someone else real quick or expect you to essentially work two jobs by failing to hire anyone new. You need to be aboslute with a last day of employment, or its likely they'll fail to plan adaquetely. Don't worry about burning this bridge. If during some future hiring process they come across this guy and company, the differences in his story between you working 2, 4 and 6 weeks with 3 extra months of duties are going to be small if the transition winds up costing them customers or money. They've set themselves up for it, and any of the above options is accomodating enough for a capable company or boss. If you want, you can try negotiating the prices involved with his offer, but remember that it wasn't money that caused you to leave in the first place.
Hopefully your third and unpublished reason holds up better than the first two.
If 120 dollars is the cost of a free and unregulated market (are you implying that there used to be regulation but those laws have been lifted when you use the word "deregulated"?), then why would the price of the same book in the United Kingdom sell for half the price? The only reasonable explaination is that they are different markets. Yet we've seen the rise of import-exporters who buy books in the UK (from the US) and ship them back to US buyers, and the subsequent rise against their policies. This is an artificially divided market, and the Supreme Court affirms this notion.
Surprisingly, Amazon charges more for the Digital Logic (the chess book) book I used than the college bookstore. It's still less at certain overseas resellers, which is strange.
Publish or perish refers to the academic journals of research for a given field. Places like the IEEE Transactions on Super-conductive Foobar Transistors. Textbooks are icing on the cake.
During my four year degree, it was very rare that I actually used a book written by a professor. In every instance, the price was less than twenty dollars, and in three cases the price was free, two with a capitol F (I guess the GNU philosophy takes a strong hold in academic environments).
Your calculus book, on the other hand, is typically written in a similar way to high school textbooks. There tends to be a slight improvement in quality, because there is more competition from the teachers themselves, but by and large, they're written with a one size fits all philosophy, or perhaps a "This size fits our biggest and pickiest buyer, so you'd start losing weight" one. While PhD's are often consulted during the process. It's not like some professor approaches McGraw and says "I have a calculus book I'd like you to publish, distribute and promote."
Did you like the retarded menus with clickable buttons that do NOTHING, and superfluous headings for submenus? I didn't. I didn't enjoy the button styles that were last seen in windows 3.1 either.
I don't think the Sun team was overly effective in their discussion, either. To take the clock example, multiple clock applications and applets is somewhat confusing. Instead, it would have been neat to provide a single clock, which you could put on gnome-panel by dragging and dropping. Part of the problem was that GNOME didn't have a consistant method or vision of doing things with it. Part of the remaining problem is that Sun didn't either. GNOME is neat, but not that neat right now. 2.10 adds so little to the equation. Options can be a good thing, but it only makes sense to figure out a way to make those options accessible in a consistant manner.
Why Debian has failed to release: 1. Many developers lack the proper motivation, having used unstable/testing for so long that a new stream called experimental is now used to test software that might actually render your computer partially unusable.
2. The release has gotten so stale that there are about 3 guys left recommending that users stay on stable instead of testing or unstable. Most of the current users have little reason to care if a new stable is made or not.
3. Upsteam projects prefer a mantra of release early, release often, which isn't nessecarily a bad thing, but it gives a very narrow window with which to work with developers to iron out "Release Critical Bugs." GNOME, in particular, has seen several iterations roll through testing.
4. The sheer scale of what Debian provides users in the form of a stable release. Debian packages some ungodly amount of software; its part of what makes Debian damned nifty. And its hard to tell people to stop packaging more when it the costs are a few megabytes on some ftp mirrors and the occasional download. But every package provided is a source of potential stable release bugs. Usually only very common packages wind up being labeled "release critical," such as the GNOME package mentioned above.
So we start with very little of this chemical that we need to counter the alarming signals that something is amiss, the injected morphine shoves the equalibrium further, and when its taken away this is supposed to jumpstart the production how?
Amusingly, the last Debian stable branch has gnome 1.4 by default. That was the gnome that was torn to shreds by the Sun Usability report as being confusing, pointless and also pretty damned ugly. Testing uses 2.8, which is starting to approach the usability of XP, four years later. Way to give M$ a run for the money there...;)
Apparently yahoo took the time out of their schedule to dream up some new form of betting. Its not quite a futures market, and not quite a stock market, and might even be closest to a horse race;)
That would be awesome. We can drop guys behind enemy lines, and then they can make semi-permanant and eye catching structures to defend while they wait patiently for reinforcements to break through. Because, I mean, that's the sort of structure I'd want to hide in while the enemy surrounds me and blasts the structure sky high.
Just because their business is selling copy protection doesn't mean their argument or study isn't valid. However, given this strong source of bias, there is a need for strong evidence that they tried to eliminate it. I don't know if Macrovision intends to sell the study (doubtful, it would likely be used best in the hands of their sales force), but the press release and their website is lacking in details, save a sparse "The Macrovision report is based on surveys conducted in February 2005 of approximately 6,000 console game players. The survey participants were randomly selected from a pool of visitors to various game-related websites."
I can't say I doubt that piracy is widespread, but I have to wonder how only 63 percent of console pirates have mod chips. There an XBox emulator I don't know about?
Because scalar constants and lower term variables are disreguarded for theoretical measurements in computing topics. In algorithm analysis, the hand wave is justified by implementation details consuming or at the very least, distoring constants like that. The point is that the links scale quadratically, as opposed to logarithmically, or exponentially, or cubically.
Ironically, the OCaml version posted uses a list rather than a hash table. I'm busy making dinner right now, but I'm certainly interested in seeing if that can be improved upon.
Perhaps this is a case of problem solving by public contradiction?
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Debian represents the group of developers most beholden to the FSF. Thats not entirely a bad thing, although there's always a set of people loudly pining for the affections of their chosen God, RMS.
Fortunately, this isn't that big of a deal. Most all of the developers who care so deeply about following RMS's every whim and order have already jumped on the Hurd bandwagon. In theory, the GPL should be compatible with itself, meaning that the kernel.org source could opt to distribute under GPL v3 without asking every developer. Either way, the Linux kernel team will probably spend a good deal of time examining and move very slowly on this, even after the public discussions are over and the final draft is made... final. v2 works well enough at persuading infringers to settle, so there's no hurry to change.
The good news for this guy is that he's being expected to bring the code to the States, not to Japan. So, there's a minute chance the code was written with english variables, so that he can understand the program before having to dig through the software and excising all the strings with a Translate()'d version.
Given that SC2 for GCN outsold the PS2 version, its a serious question should arise for Namco. Apparently, either the money Sony is putting on the table is tipping the scales, or Namco thinks it can be a big fish in a big pond, instead of a big fish in a smaller pond. Whether their renewed focus would pay off, is questionable.
Well, its entirely understandable if the ps2 version of soul calibur 2 underperformed because the development team was spreading their efforts across three platforms. Granted, the ps2 is significantly challenged comparitively, but I don't think its entirely beyond their means. Making the game ps2 specific should allow for a few design comprimises that speed up the game on the ps2. I have to wonder if SC3 will be much more than the SC2 that should have been...
"THere's still something dangerous with the state deciding which material is objectionable, and which isn't, even if the blacklist is optional"
Would this be anything like the laws against sending obscene content through the US postal service?
The guide isn't even that useful for those that DON'T know. There's no mention of CPU socket types, or RAM speeds. There's no nod to motherboards with a special orange PCI slot and what that is actually useful for.
I'm not really surprised that your Geek Squad is so poorly trained. Especially in the middle of the Great Plains. Anybody with half a brain prefers the sunny costal areas to the expansive retirement community called Western Kansas.
Placing the swap file on a dedicated partition can indeed improve things. Why?
1. You don't have to go through an intermediary filesystem, with associated overhead.
2. You can give the swap partition priority or at least balance in queuing on a single disk.
3. I'm sure there's a third reason that also validates my theory, given that pretty much every linux distro I know of makes a seperate swap partition. We'll call item #3 the "appeal to authority" argument.
I would also like to take this opportunity to point out that you have indirectly insulted the engineers behind the Linux VM improvements. I realize this article was mostly about innane tweaks to windows XP, but the slander is inconsistant with my views of their work.
if you bother to actually read the sentence in contention, they explicitly indicate that they're referring to the tempation to use a seperate swap drive, rather than a simple partition.
It is NOT illegal to badmouth you to prospective employers, in so much as their statements are generally true. However, it is recommended that you not say anything bad because it exposes the company to liabilities, should the court feels you've exaggerated or lied. Often individual owners or simply sour bosses will ignore this advice, and it's up to you to figure that out.
So while it's not okay for former employers to spread lies about you so you never work in the town again, don't expect the law to cover up the fast that you've never been on time to work once, or that you were stealing more product than selling it.
Its no wonder the rest of the people left ship. By failing to replace lost talent and placing more burden on you, they've shot themselves in the foot. Certainly, there is an expected amount of bad feelings that will be present at the end of any relationship like this. You've tried being reasonable about the transition, and he wants more.
Briefly, size up the situation. Your employment is as will. You've got a new gig lined up, and no obligation to fulfill the duties when you quit. Other things to consider is how badly you need the money, how much you enjoy the work versus what else you could be doing (sleep), and how your new gig would interact with it.
Your boss is haggling with you, which isn't a good sign. Given their track record, they may shove duties onto someone else real quick or expect you to essentially work two jobs by failing to hire anyone new. You need to be aboslute with a last day of employment, or its likely they'll fail to plan adaquetely. Don't worry about burning this bridge. If during some future hiring process they come across this guy and company, the differences in his story between you working 2, 4 and 6 weeks with 3 extra months of duties are going to be small if the transition winds up costing them customers or money. They've set themselves up for it, and any of the above options is accomodating enough for a capable company or boss. If you want, you can try negotiating the prices involved with his offer, but remember that it wasn't money that caused you to leave in the first place.
Hopefully your third and unpublished reason holds up better than the first two.
If 120 dollars is the cost of a free and unregulated market (are you implying that there used to be regulation but those laws have been lifted when you use the word "deregulated"?), then why would the price of the same book in the United Kingdom sell for half the price? The only reasonable explaination is that they are different markets. Yet we've seen the rise of import-exporters who buy books in the UK (from the US) and ship them back to US buyers, and the subsequent rise against their policies. This is an artificially divided market, and the Supreme Court affirms this notion.
Surprisingly, Amazon charges more for the Digital Logic (the chess book) book I used than the college bookstore. It's still less at certain overseas resellers, which is strange.
Publish or perish refers to the academic journals of research for a given field. Places like the IEEE Transactions on Super-conductive Foobar Transistors. Textbooks are icing on the cake.
During my four year degree, it was very rare that I actually used a book written by a professor. In every instance, the price was less than twenty dollars, and in three cases the price was free, two with a capitol F (I guess the GNU philosophy takes a strong hold in academic environments).
Your calculus book, on the other hand, is typically written in a similar way to high school textbooks. There tends to be a slight improvement in quality, because there is more competition from the teachers themselves, but by and large, they're written with a one size fits all philosophy, or perhaps a "This size fits our biggest and pickiest buyer, so you'd start losing weight" one. While PhD's are often consulted during the process. It's not like some professor approaches McGraw and says "I have a calculus book I'd like you to publish, distribute and promote."
Did you like the retarded menus with clickable buttons that do NOTHING, and superfluous headings for submenus? I didn't. I didn't enjoy the button styles that were last seen in windows 3.1 either.
I don't think the Sun team was overly effective in their discussion, either. To take the clock example, multiple clock applications and applets is somewhat confusing. Instead, it would have been neat to provide a single clock, which you could put on gnome-panel by dragging and dropping. Part of the problem was that GNOME didn't have a consistant method or vision of doing things with it. Part of the remaining problem is that Sun didn't either. GNOME is neat, but not that neat right now. 2.10 adds so little to the equation. Options can be a good thing, but it only makes sense to figure out a way to make those options accessible in a consistant manner.
Why Debian has failed to release:
1. Many developers lack the proper motivation, having used unstable/testing for so long that a new stream called experimental is now used to test software that might actually render your computer partially unusable.
2. The release has gotten so stale that there are about 3 guys left recommending that users stay on stable instead of testing or unstable. Most of the current users have little reason to care if a new stable is made or not.
3. Upsteam projects prefer a mantra of release early, release often, which isn't nessecarily a bad thing, but it gives a very narrow window with which to work with developers to iron out "Release Critical Bugs." GNOME, in particular, has seen several iterations roll through testing.
4. The sheer scale of what Debian provides users in the form of a stable release. Debian packages some ungodly amount of software; its part of what makes Debian damned nifty. And its hard to tell people to stop packaging more when it the costs are a few megabytes on some ftp mirrors and the occasional download. But every package provided is a source of potential stable release bugs. Usually only very common packages wind up being labeled "release critical," such as the GNOME package mentioned above.
So we start with very little of this chemical that we need to counter the alarming signals that something is amiss, the injected morphine shoves the equalibrium further, and when its taken away this is supposed to jumpstart the production how?
Amusingly, the last Debian stable branch has gnome 1.4 by default. That was the gnome that was torn to shreds by the Sun Usability report as being confusing, pointless and also pretty damned ugly. Testing uses 2.8, which is starting to approach the usability of XP, four years later. Way to give M$ a run for the money there... ;)
Apparently yahoo took the time out of their schedule to dream up some new form of betting. Its not quite a futures market, and not quite a stock market, and might even be closest to a horse race ;)
That would be awesome. We can drop guys behind enemy lines, and then they can make semi-permanant and eye catching structures to defend while they wait patiently for reinforcements to break through. Because, I mean, that's the sort of structure I'd want to hide in while the enemy surrounds me and blasts the structure sky high.
Just because their business is selling copy protection doesn't mean their argument or study isn't valid. However, given this strong source of bias, there is a need for strong evidence that they tried to eliminate it. I don't know if Macrovision intends to sell the study (doubtful, it would likely be used best in the hands of their sales force), but the press release and their website is lacking in details, save a sparse "The Macrovision report is based on surveys conducted in February 2005 of approximately 6,000 console game players. The survey participants were randomly selected from a pool of visitors to various game-related websites."
I can't say I doubt that piracy is widespread, but I have to wonder how only 63 percent of console pirates have mod chips. There an XBox emulator I don't know about?
Because scalar constants and lower term variables are disreguarded for theoretical measurements in computing topics. In algorithm analysis, the hand wave is justified by implementation details consuming or at the very least, distoring constants like that. The point is that the links scale quadratically, as opposed to logarithmically, or exponentially, or cubically.
This appears to be confirmed by the gpl-violations lead Harald Welte's screen name: LaForge.
It's all over The Tube, as well =(
Ironically, the OCaml version posted uses a list rather than a hash table. I'm busy making dinner right now, but I'm certainly interested in seeing if that can be improved upon.
Perhaps this is a case of problem solving by public contradiction?
More like a hovercraft would kick up such large quanities of dust and sand in a desert as to make it impossible to spectate such an event.
Most likely B or B/G mixed, given that the DS is supposed to connect to it.