As part of downloading the information about songs and movies from the Web site, the program also transmits an identifier number unique to each user on the computer
I just want to know what other purpose an ID number on "just a CDDB lookup" could serve. Apart from tracking my viewing/listening habits for marketing companies, that is.
I used Solaris 8 on intel for a few months and I have to say it was pretty nasty. Very little hardware support, poor performance and huge difficulties getting software to work, as porting to solaris is not exactly a high priority for developers.
Here at the CPSE at Imperial College, London, I use a set of C++ class libraries called ooMILP (Tsiakis/Pantelides). They basically provide an OO wrapper between the integer/linear program solver (eg CPLEX) and your code. I find them really useful for my PhD work in process scheduling.
I've had exactly the same experience - I used KDE when I first switched from windows, then switched to WindowMaker once I was happier with the Unix way of doing things. It's so much faster to use once you know what you're doing.
The newspaper on the desk in front of me cost 50p. At 35 pages full size, plus 25 more tabloid size pages of reviews and stuff, I guess that's about a penny-a-page.
But that has like 2000 words per page plus pictures. If, for example, Yahoo news charged a penny a page for their tiny 'news' story pages, that would be ridiculous. But a penny for access to the whole news site on a daily basis? Maybe.
If you actually mean this, then you've obviously never done any real research. Informal idea exchange is the basis of how loads of stuf gets done in academia.
Just because DirectX is the most widely used API doesn't neccesarily make it the best. But, given M$'s tactics, it will no doubt eventually become the only game API anyone uses, especially once the Xbox is popular.
Wooden boxes run fine - I built myself a black cube box(celeron-600) from chipboard for $15. It runs cooler and quieter than my old metal tower, plus it looks better.
Some hardware accelerated features would be nice. As XFree86 has OpenGL support, and almost all desktop machines have reasonable opengl drivers available these days, why not render the window manager as a 3D app. Then you get hardware accelerated alpha, icon scaling and a whole lot more.
I have who knows how many transistors sitting idle in my graphics card - can't somebody use them?
You actually use the MS word grammar checker? The number of times that I have read through coursework documents at college and pointed out horrible grammatical errors to the authors, only to have them say "but Word told me to do it" is huge.
'Features' like grammar checkers are the reason MS office is so infuriating to use. Instead of concentrating on the core functionality that everyone uses, MS keep adding all these half-baked ideas.
I've been forced to use MS office for so long now because all my work has been group projects, and I have needed to merge my work with others. Finally now I can switch to Quark or Tex.
I've been running XFree86 on my solaris/X86 system for a couple of months, so is this really news?
Apart from the size of the Linux community, is there much else to distinguish Linux and Solaris? I only run Solaris because it's what my department uses (except they get nice Sparc boxes), and have been considering changing to something else.
Exactly. I can't believe so many religous people completely missed the fact that Dogma was actually a very pro-religion film, just anti the stupid things people have done in its name.
The openGL dll (still v1.1, thanks to micros~1) is included in all windows installs, and every graphics card apart from POSs like S3 virges has pretty decent openGL drivers.
Even my old Voodoo1/2/3s had decent openGL drivers once 3DFX got off their arses and realised glide was a dead end.
You're joking, right? OpenGL is so clean and simple an API. The most complex part of most opengl code is the code to get the window and rendering context, and even then you can just use GLUT.
Hey! An IC student.
I've just got an offer to do the MSc computing conversion course at IC (just about to finish Chemical Engineering) this year, and I'm torn between a chem eng phd (which means earning some money at least) and doing the computing course (which means big loans).
Am I likely to learn all that much in DOC that I could apply to a real world job, and couldn't teach myself while doing a phd (which will involve much C++ coding anyway)?
Exactly. How can anyone try to run a company (insurance or whatever) making profit out of sick people. The NHS in britain has been run down for years by the Tory bastards who believed that everyone should have private health insurance, hence the poor quality of service. Now that there is money available for investment and we have a government that, despite its problems, at least thinks about the little people, things shoud improve.
I see your point about government and rights, but I don't entirely believe the whole minimal government thing. We should only allow government to do things in society that are better done by them than by individiuals. Hence justice systems, armies and the like are all run by or report to governmental agencies.
Things like the Health Service and public transport fall under this heading.
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As part of downloading the information about songs and movies from the Web site, the program also transmits an identifier number unique to each user on the computer I just want to know what other purpose an ID number on "just a CDDB lookup" could serve. Apart from tracking my viewing/listening habits for marketing companies, that is.
LaTeX code perhaps? Certainly that's what the vast majority of the work I see is in.
Sorry, somebody already patented that one in Australia last year: here. Is crazy, no?
I used Solaris 8 on intel for a few months and I have to say it was pretty nasty. Very little hardware support, poor performance and huge difficulties getting software to work, as porting to solaris is not exactly a high priority for developers.
Here at the CPSE at Imperial College, London, I use a set of C++ class libraries called ooMILP (Tsiakis/Pantelides). They basically provide an OO wrapper between the integer/linear program solver (eg CPLEX) and your code. I find them really useful for my PhD work in process scheduling.
I've had exactly the same experience - I used KDE when I first switched from windows, then switched to WindowMaker once I was happier with the Unix way of doing things. It's so much faster to use once you know what you're doing.
Where does all the money to feed FSF people come from? The FSF seems to get most of its money from donations, or from the programmers' other jobs.
But presumably most of this money comes from people working in proprietary software who also use GNU tools or whatever.
So if all software was free (which is what Stallman et al. want, isn't it?) where would the FSF get money to feed itself?
Or am I missing something? Somebody please explain how the system works.
The newspaper on the desk in front of me cost 50p. At 35 pages full size, plus 25 more tabloid size pages of reviews and stuff, I guess that's about a penny-a-page.
But that has like 2000 words per page plus pictures. If, for example, Yahoo news charged a penny a page for their tiny 'news' story pages, that would be ridiculous. But a penny for access to the whole news site on a daily basis? Maybe.
If you actually mean this, then you've obviously never done any real research. Informal idea exchange is the basis of how loads of stuf gets done in academia.
Just because DirectX is the most widely used API doesn't neccesarily make it the best. But, given M$'s tactics, it will no doubt eventually become the only game API anyone uses, especially once the Xbox is popular.
Wooden boxes run fine - I built myself a black cube box(celeron-600) from chipboard for $15. It runs cooler and quieter than my old metal tower, plus it looks better.
Oh, come on, jokes about French people are always funny.
Some hardware accelerated features would be nice. As XFree86 has OpenGL support, and almost all desktop machines have reasonable opengl drivers available these days, why not render the window manager as a 3D app. Then you get hardware accelerated alpha, icon scaling and a whole lot more.
I have who knows how many transistors sitting idle in my graphics card - can't somebody use them?
Yeah, cos giving everyone guns in america has really cut their murder rate.
I think people are confusing SI and metric. For example, metric uses litres, while SI uses metres cubed.
knots are not SI. m/s is SI.
Huh? Once I start using what, I won't go back to what?
You actually use the MS word grammar checker? The number of times that I have read through coursework documents at college and pointed out horrible grammatical errors to the authors, only to have them say "but Word told me to do it" is huge.
'Features' like grammar checkers are the reason MS office is so infuriating to use. Instead of concentrating on the core functionality that everyone uses, MS keep adding all these half-baked ideas.
I've been forced to use MS office for so long now because all my work has been group projects, and I have needed to merge my work with others. Finally now I can switch to Quark or Tex.
I've been running XFree86 on my solaris/X86 system for a couple of months, so is this really news?
Apart from the size of the Linux community, is there much else to distinguish Linux and Solaris? I only run Solaris because it's what my department uses (except they get nice Sparc boxes), and have been considering changing to something else.
Exactly. I can't believe so many religous people completely missed the fact that Dogma was actually a very pro-religion film, just anti the stupid things people have done in its name.
The openGL dll (still v1.1, thanks to micros~1) is included in all windows installs, and every graphics card apart from POSs like S3 virges has pretty decent openGL drivers.
Even my old Voodoo1/2/3s had decent openGL drivers once 3DFX got off their arses and realised glide was a dead end.
You're joking, right? OpenGL is so clean and simple an API. The most complex part of most opengl code is the code to get the window and rendering context, and even then you can just use GLUT.
Hey, we British may not have a constitution, but at least (since last year) we actually have a bill of human rights. Only 200 years late!
Hey! An IC student. I've just got an offer to do the MSc computing conversion course at IC (just about to finish Chemical Engineering) this year, and I'm torn between a chem eng phd (which means earning some money at least) and doing the computing course (which means big loans). Am I likely to learn all that much in DOC that I could apply to a real world job, and couldn't teach myself while doing a phd (which will involve much C++ coding anyway)?
Exactly. How can anyone try to run a company (insurance or whatever) making profit out of sick people. The NHS in britain has been run down for years by the Tory bastards who believed that everyone should have private health insurance, hence the poor quality of service. Now that there is money available for investment and we have a government that, despite its problems, at least thinks about the little people, things shoud improve.
I see your point about government and rights, but I don't entirely believe the whole minimal government thing. We should only allow government to do things in society that are better done by them than by individiuals. Hence justice systems, armies and the like are all run by or report to governmental agencies. Things like the Health Service and public transport fall under this heading.