Yeah, my company switched from text based to XML based data files recently, and the average data file size went from a few hundred K to several megabytes. There's progress for you.
Don't forget that London has never had any sort of planning in its layout - it just sort of grew organically since Roman times (or before, IANAH(istorian)). The roads are full of choke points as it is - addding thousands (which is what you'd need) of toll booths would cause gridlock.
Personally, I'd like to see the centre of London pedestrianised, but then that's probably because I live above a main road in Holland Park, London and the car horns at rush hour are driving me insane.
I was getting tired of the 'stable' Debian release being so out of date, and the 'unstable' distribution being so... well... unstable
Ever heard of testing?
My experience with X is that it's too big, bloated, slow and unstable to be any good to the home user
how many people have had a proper X crash? I can't say I've seen one on any unix machine I've used apart from a crappy suse box, which brings me on to my next point -
that SuSE Linux 8.0 (Pro) is the best Linux distribution that I've ever used.
excuse me? SuSE is horrible - 7.3 was unstable, hard to configure and overly bloated, and from what I have read 8.0 is worse.
and there is no standard way to add additional (nicer) fonts to the system.
Yes, you're right, desktop users are far better off spending their money on a decent monitor/hard disk/amount of memory. However, chips like this mean seriously powerful low-budget servers are possible. Personally I'm hoping my uni dept ditches their outdated ultra60s and goes for a few of these when they come out
The 'content' companies like Disney etc. are trying to use legislation and technology to stop progress and allow them to keep making profits. This is such a short sighted view.
As a (hypothetical) example, take music CDs. A new CD costs £15 over here, and before I buy it I can hear maybe one song off it on the radio if I'm lucky. That's a big investment for something I might only listen to once. So I don't buy many CDs, and I rip oggs of other peoples' music.
But what if the music companies offered different versions of CDs? A cheap one, with just a paper sleeve and the name on the front for a three or four pounds, and a 'premium' edition with extras, proper case, lyric sheet etc at full price?
The fans will buy the full price disc anyway, and everyone else will buy the cheap one. Thus, more sales, less copying(why bother copying when you it doesn't cost you much to get a proper copy?). Greater listening audience means more fans in the future, leads to more sales of the premium version.
I get the music I want without breaking the law, the music industry gets to make its profits still. Everyone is happy. Or is this a dangerous communist anti-american view that will have FBI agents trying to get me extradited?
I'm having to do the same thing, except using C++ to write Prolog programs. Now that is a strange language. Recursion after recursion after recursion...
Having had SuSE 7.3 installed on two of my own boxes and several of my friends', I have to say - Why use SuSE?
If you're not a complete beginner at Linux then the configuration system is pretty nasty. I've observed stability problems with one desktop machine and a mail server that resulted in hard reach-for-reset-switch lockups. The package and update system in Yast is slow and clunky.
I have since switched to mostly using Debian and it's so much better I didn't believe it to start with. A good configuration system, stable, incredible package and update system. And it's completely free (as in beer and speech).
Oh yes, Internet Explorer is the best browser. Not buggy and insecure or anything.
People don't use non-MS software because they hate MS. They use it because MS software is shitty.
Grr. The number of times I've seen reports with awful grammar errors in them, only to have the author say "but Word told me to change it like that". People seem to think grammar checkers can replace actual writing ability.
But I suppose that your average Office user couldn't explain the difference between less and fewer or its and it's anyway.
All this "we only have information going back 150 years, therefore it's not really carbon dioxide causing the warming" stuff ignores two facts:
1)Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases do absorb reradiated heat from the earth. Try putting the absorption spectra of the gases over the emission spectra for the earth, and you'll see what I mean.
2)There is more CO2 in the air than there used to be, and we're burning much more carbon these days.
Surely this is enough to at least make us worried that there could be a problem coming up?
There are plenty of alternatives to cooling water - mostly hydrocarbon based, such as the Dowtherm range. However, water is the pretty much the most effective coolant(at reasonable temperatures) you can use, and has the advantage of being completely non-toxic and cheap.
Videocassette piracy costs the movie industry worldwide more than $3.5 billion,...
Comments like this always annoy me. How the hell do they know? Firstly, how do they count the number of pirated copies, and secondly, how do they know how many of those pirated copies would actually be legal copies if the pirated copy wasn't available?
I care. Like hundreds of thousands of other users out there, I use numerical solvers, logic solvers and the like every day. The incredible development of the x86 processors means that I can get a machine that will do this kind of work very quickly for very little money (which is an important point for academics).
Personally, I started using a unix system because that's what I had at work. Initially, I found the linux approach to GUIs very strange and hard to use after years of Windows use.
But now, six months later, having used linux and solaris on the desktop exclusively, I have been forced to go back to using Windows for a short period. And it made me realise just how crap the windows gui is compared to even the simplest unix windowmanager. For example, I now can't work without:
1) Multiple desktops 2) focus-follows-pointer so I can actually *use* multiple windows 3) keyboard bindings for common tasks (like maximize window, launch terminal etc)
add to those the customisability of any linux GUI and I can't see why anyone would want to use a windows machine at all.
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And look at the crappy uptimes she gets now she's using IIS. A 90 day average of 22 days? 'Server horriblis', i think.
Yeah, my company switched from text based to XML based data files recently, and the average data file size went from a few hundred K to several megabytes. There's progress for you.
Don't forget that London has never had any sort of planning in its layout - it just sort of grew organically since Roman times (or before, IANAH(istorian)). The roads are full of choke points as it is - addding thousands (which is what you'd need) of toll booths would cause gridlock.
Personally, I'd like to see the centre of London pedestrianised, but then that's probably because I live above a main road in Holland Park, London and the car horns at rush hour are driving me insane.
I was getting tired of the 'stable' Debian release being so out of date, and the 'unstable' distribution being so... well... unstable
Ever heard of testing?My experience with X is that it's too big, bloated, slow and unstable to be any good to the home user
how many people have had a proper X crash? I can't say I've seen one on any unix machine I've used apart from a crappy suse box, which brings me on to my next point -that SuSE Linux 8.0 (Pro) is the best Linux distribution that I've ever used.
excuse me? SuSE is horrible - 7.3 was unstable, hard to configure and overly bloated, and from what I have read 8.0 is worse.and there is no standard way to add additional (nicer) fonts to the system.
apt-get install msttffonts i believeYes, you're right, desktop users are far better off spending their money on a decent monitor/hard disk/amount of memory. However, chips like this mean seriously powerful low-budget servers are possible. Personally I'm hoping my uni dept ditches their outdated ultra60s and goes for a few of these when they come out
The 'content' companies like Disney etc. are trying to use legislation and technology to stop progress and allow them to keep making profits. This is such a short sighted view.
As a (hypothetical) example, take music CDs. A new CD costs £15 over here, and before I buy it I can hear maybe one song off it on the radio if I'm lucky. That's a big investment for something I might only listen to once. So I don't buy many CDs, and I rip oggs of other peoples' music.
But what if the music companies offered different versions of CDs? A cheap one, with just a paper sleeve and the name on the front for a three or four pounds, and a 'premium' edition with extras, proper case, lyric sheet etc at full price?
The fans will buy the full price disc anyway, and everyone else will buy the cheap one. Thus, more sales, less copying(why bother copying when you it doesn't cost you much to get a proper copy?). Greater listening audience means more fans in the future, leads to more sales of the premium version.
I get the music I want without breaking the law, the music industry gets to make its profits still. Everyone is happy. Or is this a dangerous communist anti-american view that will have FBI agents trying to get me extradited?
I'm having to do the same thing, except using C++ to write Prolog programs. Now that is a strange language. Recursion after recursion after recursion...
>Netherlands (Netherlandish?)
I thinkt he word you're looking for is Dutch.
anything too obvious cannot be shown, so you can't have the characters in the show saying 'drink budweiser, it's really good', for example
Surely the subtle placements are more dangerous - kind of subliminal advertising in that they create a general feeling that $PRODUCT_NAME is 'good'.I'm amazed that half even now that.Otherwise intelligent people without any sort of science education very often don't even know what electrons are.
Oh yeah, having a way to just "download and select run" to install new apps would be good for linux too ;)
I suppose typing apt-get install $APP_NAME is too much work?Having had SuSE 7.3 installed on two of my own boxes and several of my friends', I have to say - Why use SuSE?
If you're not a complete beginner at Linux then the configuration system is pretty nasty. I've observed stability problems with one desktop machine and a mail server that resulted in hard reach-for-reset-switch lockups. The package and update system in Yast is slow and clunky.
I have since switched to mostly using Debian and it's so much better I didn't believe it to start with. A good configuration system, stable, incredible package and update system. And it's completely free (as in beer and speech).
Wasn't there already a Hotmail/Passport exploit where you could steal credit card details just by having them open an email?
Somebody already did that. Standard protocols good, embrace and extend bad.
Oh yes, Internet Explorer is the best browser. Not buggy and insecure or anything. People don't use non-MS software because they hate MS. They use it because MS software is shitty.
Look at the MS employee rant!
There's a radio signal that's broadcasts the exact time that some alarm clocks use: the UK one is at Rugby, but there are equivalents worldwide.
Good point. I can't believe they missed that. If it weren't for MS's history, I'd think the whole thing was a hoax.
Grr. The number of times I've seen reports with awful grammar errors in them, only to have the author say "but Word told me to change it like that". People seem to think grammar checkers can replace actual writing ability.
But I suppose that your average Office user couldn't explain the difference between less and fewer or its and it's anyway.
All this "we only have information going back 150 years, therefore it's not really carbon dioxide causing the warming" stuff ignores two facts:
1)Carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases do absorb reradiated heat from the earth. Try putting the absorption spectra of the gases over the emission spectra for the earth, and you'll see what I mean.
2)There is more CO2 in the air than there used to be, and we're burning much more carbon these days.
Surely this is enough to at least make us worried that there could be a problem coming up?
There are plenty of alternatives to cooling water - mostly hydrocarbon based, such as the Dowtherm range. However, water is the pretty much the most effective coolant(at reasonable temperatures) you can use, and has the advantage of being completely non-toxic and cheap.
Videocassette piracy costs the movie industry worldwide more than $3.5 billion,... Comments like this always annoy me. How the hell do they know? Firstly, how do they count the number of pirated copies, and secondly, how do they know how many of those pirated copies would actually be legal copies if the pirated copy wasn't available?
I care. Like hundreds of thousands of other users out there, I use numerical solvers, logic solvers and the like every day. The incredible development of the x86 processors means that I can get a machine that will do this kind of work very quickly for very little money (which is an important point for academics).
OK, games'll admit are the only reason I still have a windows install at all. But apps? Which ones?
MS word? Don't make me laugh. Possibly the worst word processor I have had the misfortune to use. Try latex/emacs.
Internet explorer? Insecure as hell and crap at anything other than basic web-browsing.
Outlook? Again insecure, also slow, annoying to use and bloated.
Photoshop? good program, but better on the mac (or use gimp).
continues ad nauseam...
Personally, I started using a unix system because that's what I had at work. Initially, I found the linux approach to GUIs very strange and hard to use after years of Windows use.
But now, six months later, having used linux and solaris on the desktop exclusively, I have been forced to go back to using Windows for a short period. And it made me realise just how crap the windows gui is compared to even the simplest unix windowmanager. For example, I now can't work without:
1) Multiple desktops
2) focus-follows-pointer so I can actually *use* multiple windows
3) keyboard bindings for common tasks (like maximize window, launch terminal etc)
add to those the customisability of any linux GUI and I can't see why anyone would want to use a windows machine at all.