I'd rather Linus. He's proven himself to be a competent manager, gets things done, delegates tasks well, and doesn't make a fuss.
No offense to the guy, but RMS is a dirty hippie, and almost certainly a communist (not that there's anything necessarily wrong with that). Appointing him as Commerce Secretary would be grossly irresponsible.
It's not like what you're describing hasn't already happened -- Steven Chu, Obama's Secretary of Energy is an extremely accomplished scientist with some serious management credentials. I only wish there were more people like Chu to properly balance ideology with pragmatism.
My collegeallocates $1560 of each student's tuition per year toward intercollegiate athletics. This doesn't include athletic funding derived from other sources.
More alarmingly, our athletics programs are not terribly large, nor do they perform particularly well.
If anything, athletics are sucking us dry.
(To save you a Wikipedia search, we're a Div-1 public liberal arts college with 5,850 undergraduates.)
Actually, the iPod Shuffle has a considerably better built-in amplifier than the 'vanilla' iPod models. (This can be measured objectively)
Unfortunately, I haven't seen similar tests for more recent models. nor am I sure if Apple ever bothered to implement the Shuffle's push-pull design in other models.
My state law specifically states that I have the right to defend myself, other people, and my property with a "reasonable" amount of force. And by damned, I would do exactly that. A punch in the nose is more than reasonable for a semester's worth of lecture notes.
I wouldn't say that at all.
Grab your bookbag tightly, and refuse to allow the teacher/professor to touch it. If he or she attempts to get it from you then, it will be an extremely clear case of assault, and the teacher will have a very difficult time explaining himself in court.
At no point does it become necessary to punch the other person in the face, unless you are being threatened with physical harm yourself. As a moral human being, you would be achieving nothing that you could not have also achieved through less violent means.
Of course, if the teacher is threatening you with a punch in the nose, then by all means, go ahead and defend yourself. However, I don't quite think this was the case here.
GNOME seems to be about on par with Mac OS X in terms of configurability, and I hear that Apple is barely selling any machines these days.
But, seriously.... customization doesn't even need to occur via preference panels (if it needs to happen at all). Developers should strive to write apps that are both simple and intuitive. KDE apps tend to suffer from feature-bloat.
Look at Transmission versus Azureus: Azureus does a whole lot more, but suffers from *serious* feature bloat. Transmission does almost everything you'd want a torrent client to do, but has a dead-simple UI, and uses about a tenth as much RAM. Azureus isn't a KDE application, though it does seem to suffer from the same pitfalls as most KDE apps do.
While I'm ranting, I should add that KDE's tendency to put toolbars with dozens of tiny identical-looking blue icons is absolutely maddening.
GNOME's user interface guidelines seem to be much clearer and consistent than those used by KDE. For now, this is a clear reason to pick one over the other for desktop usage.
*Note that none of this applies to the abomination that is the GIMP.
There a whole bunch of houses in Fairbanks that were built on land that wasn't properly surveyed beforehand, and are all currently at 20Â angles relative to the ground.
Most of Alaska is seismically active, so I imagine that you'd be spending lots of time repairing it every time there was a small quake. The 1964 earthquake was among the worst ever recorded.
Most of Alaska also has patches of permafrost, in which case you'd never get deep enough for it to be warm. Similarly, adding heat to frozen soil will cause it to shift, damaging any buildings that happen to be sitting on said soil.
Anchorage is also actually quite a bit warmer than the rest of Alaska, thanks to ocean currents. Its climate is said to be comparable to Chicago. (Several the northern US states actually had -30 temperatures last week!) Up toward Fairbanks, temperatures routinely go down to -50 or -60F (fortunately with very little wind).
The idea's nice, but I just don't think there's enough heat in Alaska to make such a system worthwhile, even ignoring the inherent reliability problems that will inevitably crop up due to seismic activity.
Say what you want, but the memo entitled 'Bin Laden determined to strike targets in the US' was ignored. Even if the attack could not have been prevented, the military and intelligence services could have been on high alert and emergency services on a higher alert. Lazy! Lazy! Fucking life threatening laziness.
It's easy to say that, but those memos had been streaming in for a long time, and frankly, there's damned near nothing that you can do to proactively prevent such a vague threat, apart from appeasing the people making the threats.
Similarly, disaster preparedness is always a good idea, no matter what any intelligence or weather reports say. In the case of 9/11, local responders were tremendously well-prepared (even in spite of losing their primary command post), while New Orleans' inadequate response to Katrina exposed the many failures at the executive level.
I hate to defend the Bush administration in any way, but I think that your criticism might be somewhat off-target.
Real taxes paid by corporations is actually pretty low by world standards. No, you won't get a cite because I'm lazy.
Anyone care to jump in with a citation? There are about a dozen +4/+5 posts on this topic that make that assertion without providing a shred of evidence.
A better solution: Reclassify all marriages as civil unions. Given that marriage is a traditionally religious institution, the federal government should not have a hand in its regulation to start with.
I should probably point out here that a constitutional amendment requires 2/3 of the states to approve it.
I find it fairly unlikely that it would pass, especially given that the inclusion of the word "marriage" would almost certainly require the modification of the first amendment as well. There's very little room to wiggle around the fact that marriage is a religious institution.
This is something mainly specific to the BBC (I've also lived in the UK, though I never attended school there)
American educational TV does exist, though much of it is distributed via VHS, DVD, internet, or filmstrip. It's far more convenient to allow teachers to decide when and where they want to show the film.
Also, much of the US has pitiful broadcast reception. Whereas I could receive 20+ channels of crystal-clear digital broadcasts in my middle-of-nowhere village in Scotland, I can barely receive 1 or 2 analogue networks from my house located barely an hour outside of New York City.
Ironically, a good portion of the films we watched were produced by the BBC.
Most schools have no reason for owning any sort of TV tuner in every classroom, and are located in steel-roofed buildings that do not get reception easily.
Last I checked also, projectors weren't terribly common in K-8 schools, and also don't include any sort of tuner.
This is nothing but a slashvertisement for the Canon EOS 5D Mark II.
Canon is wasting their money if they paid for such a slashvertisement. Far as I can tell, photographers are already salivating worse than Pavlov's dogs over that camera.
Far as I can tell, photographers are already salivating worse than Pavlov's dogs over that camera.
Even more remarkable is the movie mode, which has cinematographers drooling over it, given that it's nearly an order of magnitude cheaper than any other video-cam that can produce footage at that resolution/quality. If I found 2 grand lying around, I'd snatch one up in heartbeat.
Typically, an image produced on an SLR will have a tad bit more dynamic range. This can be huge, although there's still a ton of room for improvement in this regard.
Also (somewhat included in your original post) are lower noise and wider apertures.
I'd actually throw 1GB in both machines, and test both with that.
Given that we're testing network performance, and not swap performance, I'd want to rule out swap file usage as a factor in this test. Ubuntu 8.04 and Firefox 3 will begin swapping in a machine with only 512Mb of RAM.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but as long as you're behind a switch or a router, any one box shouldn't be able to "hog" bandwidth, unless it's threading transfers through multiple TCP streams or somesuch....
I sincerely doubt that most people are purchasing iPhones because it's a fashion accessory. I'm sure there are those who are, but that's not the point.
The iPhone is a Blackberry for non-business types. It also offers a number of innovations that are genuinely useful, and not available anywhere else (a web-browser that doesn't suck, a media player that actually integrates well into the rest of the phone, and visual voicemail to name a few)
I don't own one. I'm locked into a contract with Verizon, and even if I wasn't, I still couldn't afford one. However, I'll gladly acknowledge that the iPhone's feature-set is extremely attractive. The fact that it's rather slick-looking is just icing on the cake.
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I'd rather Linus. He's proven himself to be a competent manager, gets things done, delegates tasks well, and doesn't make a fuss.
No offense to the guy, but RMS is a dirty hippie, and almost certainly a communist (not that there's anything necessarily wrong with that). Appointing him as Commerce Secretary would be grossly irresponsible.
It's not like what you're describing hasn't already happened -- Steven Chu, Obama's Secretary of Energy is an extremely accomplished scientist with some serious management credentials. I only wish there were more people like Chu to properly balance ideology with pragmatism.
My college allocates $1560 of each student's tuition per year toward intercollegiate athletics. This doesn't include athletic funding derived from other sources.
More alarmingly, our athletics programs are not terribly large, nor do they perform particularly well.
If anything, athletics are sucking us dry.
(To save you a Wikipedia search, we're a Div-1 public liberal arts college with 5,850 undergraduates.)
Actually, the iPod Shuffle has a considerably better built-in amplifier than the 'vanilla' iPod models. (This can be measured objectively)
Unfortunately, I haven't seen similar tests for more recent models. nor am I sure if Apple ever bothered to implement the Shuffle's push-pull design in other models.
My state law specifically states that I have the right to defend myself, other people, and my property with a "reasonable" amount of force. And by damned, I would do exactly that. A punch in the nose is more than reasonable for a semester's worth of lecture notes.
I wouldn't say that at all.
Grab your bookbag tightly, and refuse to allow the teacher/professor to touch it. If he or she attempts to get it from you then, it will be an extremely clear case of assault, and the teacher will have a very difficult time explaining himself in court.
At no point does it become necessary to punch the other person in the face, unless you are being threatened with physical harm yourself. As a moral human being, you would be achieving nothing that you could not have also achieved through less violent means.
Of course, if the teacher is threatening you with a punch in the nose, then by all means, go ahead and defend yourself. However, I don't quite think this was the case here.
... the brain is gone.
....but nobody noticed, because garbage collection never got implemented.....
So what you're saying is that Stonehenge is at risk of being trampled by dwarves?
The UK is "officially" on Metric, though it's quite informal.
Ask any Brit what he weighs.... I doubt you'll get your answer in kilos (or pounds for that matter)
we have both water, and - by virtue of solar power if necessary, oxygen from electrolysis.
With water? Forget solar power. We'll do power electrolisis with nuclear fusion.
How about fission? We already know how to do it.
GNOME seems to be about on par with Mac OS X in terms of configurability, and I hear that Apple is barely selling any machines these days.
But, seriously.... customization doesn't even need to occur via preference panels (if it needs to happen at all). Developers should strive to write apps that are both simple and intuitive. KDE apps tend to suffer from feature-bloat.
Look at Transmission versus Azureus: Azureus does a whole lot more, but suffers from *serious* feature bloat. Transmission does almost everything you'd want a torrent client to do, but has a dead-simple UI, and uses about a tenth as much RAM. Azureus isn't a KDE application, though it does seem to suffer from the same pitfalls as most KDE apps do.
While I'm ranting, I should add that KDE's tendency to put toolbars with dozens of tiny identical-looking blue icons is absolutely maddening.
GNOME's user interface guidelines seem to be much clearer and consistent than those used by KDE. For now, this is a clear reason to pick one over the other for desktop usage.
*Note that none of this applies to the abomination that is the GIMP.
There a whole bunch of houses in Fairbanks that were built on land that wasn't properly surveyed beforehand, and are all currently at 20Â angles relative to the ground.
Most of Alaska is seismically active, so I imagine that you'd be spending lots of time repairing it every time there was a small quake. The 1964 earthquake was among the worst ever recorded.
Most of Alaska also has patches of permafrost, in which case you'd never get deep enough for it to be warm. Similarly, adding heat to frozen soil will cause it to shift, damaging any buildings that happen to be sitting on said soil.
Anchorage is also actually quite a bit warmer than the rest of Alaska, thanks to ocean currents. Its climate is said to be comparable to Chicago. (Several the northern US states actually had -30 temperatures last week!) Up toward Fairbanks, temperatures routinely go down to -50 or -60F (fortunately with very little wind).
The idea's nice, but I just don't think there's enough heat in Alaska to make such a system worthwhile, even ignoring the inherent reliability problems that will inevitably crop up due to seismic activity.
Say what you want, but the memo entitled 'Bin Laden determined to strike targets in the US' was ignored. Even if the attack could not have been prevented, the military and intelligence services could have been on high alert and emergency services on a higher alert. Lazy! Lazy! Fucking life threatening laziness.
It's easy to say that, but those memos had been streaming in for a long time, and frankly, there's damned near nothing that you can do to proactively prevent such a vague threat, apart from appeasing the people making the threats.
Similarly, disaster preparedness is always a good idea, no matter what any intelligence or weather reports say. In the case of 9/11, local responders were tremendously well-prepared (even in spite of losing their primary command post), while New Orleans' inadequate response to Katrina exposed the many failures at the executive level.
I hate to defend the Bush administration in any way, but I think that your criticism might be somewhat off-target.
Real taxes paid by corporations is actually pretty low by world standards. No, you won't get a cite because I'm lazy.
Anyone care to jump in with a citation? There are about a dozen +4/+5 posts on this topic that make that assertion without providing a shred of evidence.
For now, I'm not quite buying it....
A better solution: Reclassify all marriages as civil unions. Given that marriage is a traditionally religious institution, the federal government should not have a hand in its regulation to start with.
I should probably point out here that a constitutional amendment requires 2/3 of the states to approve it.
I find it fairly unlikely that it would pass, especially given that the inclusion of the word "marriage" would almost certainly require the modification of the first amendment as well. There's very little room to wiggle around the fact that marriage is a religious institution.
This is something mainly specific to the BBC (I've also lived in the UK, though I never attended school there)
American educational TV does exist, though much of it is distributed via VHS, DVD, internet, or filmstrip. It's far more convenient to allow teachers to decide when and where they want to show the film.
Also, much of the US has pitiful broadcast reception. Whereas I could receive 20+ channels of crystal-clear digital broadcasts in my middle-of-nowhere village in Scotland, I can barely receive 1 or 2 analogue networks from my house located barely an hour outside of New York City.
Ironically, a good portion of the films we watched were produced by the BBC.
Also, don't forget VLC! It can capture, encode, stream, and play all in one package (and do so on virtually every platform under the sun).
Most schools have no reason for owning any sort of TV tuner in every classroom, and are located in steel-roofed buildings that do not get reception easily.
Last I checked also, projectors weren't terribly common in K-8 schools, and also don't include any sort of tuner.
Canon is wasting their money if they paid for such a slashvertisement. Far as I can tell, photographers are already salivating worse than Pavlov's dogs over that camera.
Even more remarkable is the movie mode, which has cinematographers drooling over it, given that it's nearly an order of magnitude cheaper than any other video-cam that can produce footage at that resolution/quality. If I found 2 grand lying around, I'd snatch one up in heartbeat.
Typically, an image produced on an SLR will have a tad bit more dynamic range. This can be huge, although there's still a ton of room for improvement in this regard.
Also (somewhat included in your original post) are lower noise and wider apertures.
Such as?
Shooting in RAW is great, and I do it all the time, because it helps me adjust exposure, white-balance, etc.
I'm not quite sure why you'd want to any of those things to a professional portrait that's already been through post-processing.
I'd actually throw 1GB in both machines, and test both with that.
Given that we're testing network performance, and not swap performance, I'd want to rule out swap file usage as a factor in this test. Ubuntu 8.04 and Firefox 3 will begin swapping in a machine with only 512Mb of RAM.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but as long as you're behind a switch or a router, any one box shouldn't be able to "hog" bandwidth, unless it's threading transfers through multiple TCP streams or somesuch....
Are you serious?
I sincerely doubt that most people are purchasing iPhones because it's a fashion accessory. I'm sure there are those who are, but that's not the point.
The iPhone is a Blackberry for non-business types. It also offers a number of innovations that are genuinely useful, and not available anywhere else (a web-browser that doesn't suck, a media player that actually integrates well into the rest of the phone, and visual voicemail to name a few)
I don't own one. I'm locked into a contract with Verizon, and even if I wasn't, I still couldn't afford one. However, I'll gladly acknowledge that the iPhone's feature-set is extremely attractive. The fact that it's rather slick-looking is just icing on the cake.
Real hackers just stick the UTP on their tongue and decipher the signals with their taste buds
So you're the final cylon?