I am beginning to suspect that only the Europeans did not have the prime directive. It seems all other nations left America alone, and did not `claim' it.
Traditional (ie non-calculator) textbooks and teaching techniques generally pick "nice" numbers for problems. They do this because it is unrealistic to expect the student to produce correct answers in a reasonable period of time, and to do that for all the odd problems on the page, and to do that in one evening, along with all your other homework. However, this is completely unrealistic; NO problems encountered outside the classroom have "nice" numbers unless they are specially constructed.
I think they pick nice numbers because it makes it easier fot the idea behind the method to be easily seen. Real world examples tend to bog students down in details which are beside the point of the excercise.
HP tried to NOT have an RPN business calclator, but failed. This is why they introduced the 17Bii (with RPN) soon after the HP-17B (without). The business market decided they want RPN. And also the 19B/19Bii.
As I understood, evolution does not know where it is going.
But in the case of linux there are definite directions it is going. One of them is unix compatibility (posix and whatnot). The windowing systems are try to emulate win95 or macos (and these have some design in them).
Unix is great and all but I want to know its fault, and at the tender age of thiry some must be showing.
I have trying to get a comprehensive list of what *IS* wrong with Unix. The sort of faults I am looking for are the things like root is god, files can have only one owner at a time etc... Does anyone know of such a list.
I guess most people on slashdot are white.
The racism in the US is there, but it has become subtle of late, so most whites do not see it. The other thing is that whites never experience it so they believe it does not exist.
I have been complimented about how good my english is. What does this say about the complimenter? Yes I know they are trying to be nice, but that is the the most ass-backward compliment.
Now I do not deal with people face-to-face when buying computer equipment as they (predominantly white males) assume I do not know what I am talking about. Now I deal over the phone and just meet face to face when collecting. `Over the phone nobody knows you are black).
OT: When someone says they are colorblind, they usually try to paint everyone white (and does a bad job of it).
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Africa is a HUGE place. It pains me when people try to describe it as one little country. Most of you do not describe Europe or Asia in that fashion.
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I am from Zimbabwe. Geeks exist there. Here is my personal view of the free software situation in Zimbabwe (at least when I was there three years ago)
Linux and FreeBSD were expensive. It could be obtained in two ways. One way was to download it yourself. But local calls were charged by the minute, so it cost a lot. The second way was to get an ISP to burn a CD for you, but they were mostly clueless and most likely would only get the kernel, AND bill you a huge amount.
Importing the CD was difficult due to foreign currency restrictions, and the general cost of a US dollar.
The main university there (http://www.uz.ac.zw) was and still has the computer facilities controlled by power freaks with no computer clue, and so getting free software there was hopeless.
The other problem (which is also here in the US) is that you still paid the MSFT tax.
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Maybe it will turn out like the dinosours in Jurassic Park, and destroy Internet Explorer?
They should have gotten rid of the floppy port and the IDE (use scsi).
The board is not as big a leap as apple made in the iMac.
The unix mindset has become too pervasive in the midrange computers. Nobody is implementing new ideas because everything has to be `posix compliant'.
Better operating systems are not getting a chance, e.g. plan9, hurd (I am not sure about this myself).
You could argue that unix can assimilate things, but that can only go so far. Some time we have to break out of the mindset.
Linux is nice but has not advanced the state of the art.
Even though Unix is not profit-making like windows it has the same power as microsoft in stiffling innovation (to some degree).
Can anyone explain to me why reading a book is better than watching TV?
I can think of hundreds of books which are worse than (above) average TV and lots of programs which are better than an average paperback.
Do you people honestly expect them to cheerlead for unix. They are a business for crissake and unix is their arh-nemesis.
And advertising does work. That is the only way for people to know you exist (at least in a competetive commercial environment).
I am beginning to suspect that only the Europeans did not have the prime directive. It seems all other nations left America alone, and did not `claim' it.
`Game Over' by David Sheff is a very good book on the history of Nintendo. It has also been recently updated with news of the impact of Sony.
Go read it. You will enjoy it!
I think they pick nice numbers because it makes it easier fot the idea behind the method to be easily seen. Real world examples tend to bog students down in details which are beside the point of the excercise.
Even in the non-geek world RPN rulez.
HP tried to NOT have an RPN business calclator, but failed. This is why they introduced the 17Bii (with RPN) soon after the HP-17B (without). The business market decided they want RPN. And also the 19B/19Bii.
Your post does not sound efficient though.
Make lots of them to make all bugs (even in WIndows!) shallow?
Will that ever happen?
Even bigger and better than a storm in a teacup.
Does it do metric time.
Web site for that is http://zapatopi.net/metrictime.html
Are they still building it?
As I understood, evolution does not know where it is going.
But in the case of linux there are definite directions it is going. One of them is unix compatibility (posix and whatnot). The windowing systems are try to emulate win95 or macos (and these have some design in them).
I think evolution is the wrong term to use.
In this regard UIX has a real problem. It seems a lot of people think the current UNIX way is the only way to arrange files.
I am beginning to believe the unix (linux in particular) crowd has blinkers on, and will not see the faults of their system.
I have been looking at plan9 from bell labs recently. Has anyone here used both hurd and plan9 enough to give advantages of each?
Unix is great and all but I want to know its fault, and at the tender age of thiry some must be showing.
I have trying to get a comprehensive list of what *IS* wrong with Unix. The sort of faults I am looking for are the things like root is god, files can have only one owner at a time etc... Does anyone know of such a list.
I would certainly hope they put a better BIOS than what is on the current intel boards. A Sun style one maybe?
My impression is that real thinking will be needed in Go because of the fantastically larger number of possible positions.
I guess most people on slashdot are white. The racism in the US is there, but it has become subtle of late, so most whites do not see it. The other thing is that whites never experience it so they believe it does not exist. I have been complimented about how good my english is. What does this say about the complimenter? Yes I know they are trying to be nice, but that is the the most ass-backward compliment. Now I do not deal with people face-to-face when buying computer equipment as they (predominantly white males) assume I do not know what I am talking about. Now I deal over the phone and just meet face to face when collecting. `Over the phone nobody knows you are black). OT: When someone says they are colorblind, they usually try to paint everyone white (and does a bad job of it).
\begin{gripe}
Africa is a HUGE place. It pains me when people try to describe it as one little country. Most of you do not describe Europe or Asia in that fashion.
\end{gripe}
I am from Zimbabwe. Geeks exist there. Here is my personal view of the free software situation in Zimbabwe (at least when I was there three years ago)
Linux and FreeBSD were expensive. It could be obtained in two ways. One way was to download it yourself. But local calls were charged by the minute, so it cost a lot. The second way was to get an ISP to burn a CD for you, but they were mostly clueless and most likely would only get the kernel, AND bill you a huge amount.
Importing the CD was difficult due to foreign currency restrictions, and the general cost of a US dollar.
The main university there (http://www.uz.ac.zw) was and still has the computer facilities controlled by power freaks with no computer clue, and so getting free software there was hopeless.
The other problem (which is also here in the US) is that you still paid the MSFT tax.