Even Netscape navigator is still used by a minority. That's not the point. How many people knows about "about:config", or wants to?
I guess most slashdotters are driven to FF by the extensions; but most of its users were "converted" from IE just because its (perceived and real) vulnerable nature against malware.
If there is really something in those manuscripts, most probably it should come from the middle age when the church was "pretty strong". Now, from the link, I can't relate those discovered "internal counters" of the books' contents to claims like "the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics".
Besides being 99% compatible to Oracle in PL/SQL, it's also 99% compatible for embedded SQL in C applications (Oracle Pro*C). So if you want to migrate an Oracle installation, or create a prototype for a future Oracle installation, Postgresql is the right option.
Actually this is happening with a lot of books, which in turn, annoy the readers which expect a more accurate information than the readmes or the wikis (more if you're a total beginner in the subject.)
The only solution is an updatable e-book that catches with the latest version (for, say, six months from published), or some (more expensive) policy of returning and getting an updated hardcopy version.
If software stores offer updates for the next X years, why not do the same for books, specially for the computing related ones?
> Companies aren't going to write open software to control the $750K spectrometer they just sold you, and to be perfectly honest, I don't think I'd use software off of Sourceforge to control an investment of that type, anyway.
I'm not a chemist, but I think your investigation is not about controlling the spectrometer, but the resulting spectra. So I think it would very interesting and potentially productive if you have the source code of the software that transforms/filters/enhance/displays the output data.
BTW, I don't believe the people at CERN will rely on some close software for tracing their particle collisions.
> "The frustrating, jealously guarded secret is that when it comes to actually enabling others to develop secure systems, we deliver far less value than could be expected.'"
The frustrating, jealously guarded secret is that when it comes to actually enabling others to develop secure systems, NOBODY WANTS TO PAY AN EXTRA BUCK, UNTIL THE DAMAGE IS DONE.
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> Not for all people though, and presumably you are one of those for which asynchronous programming comes natural and easy too. Therein lies the rub.
It's really easier to write multithreading code that works "most of the time" (than the ST counterpart.) What's difficult is to discover and avoid the potential race conditions; most people just assume it's ok if their 30 functional unit tests pass clean.
> Almost every native culture on Earth has legends about a "golden age" when a more advanced civilization existed, which then disappeared during a subsequent "dark age".
This idea appeared and appears every time after the war, specially in conquests with the resulting establishment of an oppressive regime. With time, it becomes part of the "legendary history" and conforms the roots of many independence movements and nationalisms.
After trying to install LL from a CD, I was a bit disappointed because (like in the previous releases) it couldn't work with wireless card (don't remember the brand; is in a Vostro 1520 more than a year old), needing some proprietary driver (also provided by Ubuntu)... which in turn required an Internet connection for downloading (without an UTP cable and some port, it's a catch-22.)
Those proprietary drivers should be included in the images (just another necessary evil.)
Besides, kudos for the Ubuntu people. I hope to start the painful reinstallation for all my machines in the following days, in order to enjoy the extended support frame.
> The trouble with both C and Java is they don't let you define your own types that are on par with the native types so even if you write or find such a library it will be a pain to use.
Exactly; what I don't understand is why the Java people doesn't consider this an important issue, given the "enterprise flavor" they try to inject into.
For C++, yes, I'm sure it could be done with operator overloading, but (after years of struggling) I have to admit this a too convoluted language for my brain.
A long time ago I was in a meeting about the C programming language, until some guy asked about the fixed point math support OBVIOUSLY required for financial operations, which happened to work perfectly and natively in COBOL (he was a COBOL programmer.) Yet I'm looking for equivalent libraries in C (and now in Java.)
The other reason is when your current version is no longer supported. That's why I'm eagerly waiting for this release, since it's a "long term release", so I'll not be upgrading for a long time.
You're right. From my own experience I think the only reason to use Joomla! is because there is a damn lot of extensions, and it's very likely one of these matches the specific needs of your use case. Those extensions are mostly a PITA to upgrade, debug and understand (even if some have some kind of documentation), but sometimes work. Joomla! is a perfect heir to the PHP fame.
> No, I expect competent programmers to not do incredibly stupid things, like use filenames with spaces in them.
It is really difficult to find programs that create file names with spaces on purpose.
The problem is that computers are used by..... people! and you know, people is used to spaces to separate words, so the file names will also carry that hideous defect.
> more emphasis on completely pointless features like the ability to use the file manager as a web browser (WHY would I EVER want that?)
Yes, for some reason that kind of "resource namespace abstraction" seems to be some kind of Holy Grail for a lot of developers who assume users will love it; the same thing happens with Kde's Konqueror, year after year, despite 99.99% of the web sites needing something heavy like Firefox et al. and 99.99% of the users desperate due to slow/unresponsive basic file browsing (as provided by Nautilus.)
I understand the font issues for GTK 2, but as the parent, hope this time Gnome 3 wouldn't need a hardware upgrade.
Exactly the same happened in Perú in our last big earthquake (2008). The epicenter was about 200 km south of the capital (Lima), but nobody in all the region could make a call after several hours (afterward there was a government investiagtion to the carriers, pure blah, blah..) Cell phones are useless at least in standard commercial installations or configurations.
Interestingly, the DSL services remained operative (at least in the capital) and it was the only way to communicate with peers.
> Unless you've actually taken a drive and had it perform writes continuously for a decade
Not true at all. That's why people does statistical modeling. The failure rate usually follows a exponential distribution, so you could calibrate their behavior in a fraction of time by analyzing a big set of disks.
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CS is a subset of biology. Any question in CS can and must be restated in a human brain...
With your philosophy, MySQL wouldn't be where it is.
> Until it does, many people will continue to use firefox.
Correction: Until it does, many slashdotters will continue to use firefox.
Even Netscape navigator is still used by a minority. That's not the point. How many people knows about "about:config", or wants to?
I guess most slashdotters are driven to FF by the extensions; but most of its users were "converted" from IE just because its (perceived and real) vulnerable nature against malware.
If there is really something in those manuscripts, most probably it should come from the middle age when the church was "pretty strong". Now, from the link, I can't relate those discovered "internal counters" of the books' contents to claims like "the book of nature is written in the language of mathematics".
Woman jailed for firing open office early in the morning in order to leave work early.
Just please give the Windows users a link/suggestion to download a good PDF viewer, or at least anything less evil than Acrobat Reader.
Non ACID-compliant databases are the current norm. So, be quiet!
Besides being 99% compatible to Oracle in PL/SQL, it's also 99% compatible for embedded SQL in C applications (Oracle Pro*C). So if you want to migrate an Oracle installation, or create a prototype for a future Oracle installation, Postgresql is the right option.
With the first order of 100,000 cells I'm pretty sure the providers will figure out some way to lower the price to about 10k.
Actually this is happening with a lot of books, which in turn, annoy the readers which expect a more accurate information than the readmes or the wikis (more if you're a total beginner in the subject.)
The only solution is an updatable e-book that catches with the latest version (for, say, six months from published), or some (more expensive) policy of returning and getting an updated hardcopy version.
If software stores offer updates for the next X years, why not do the same for books, specially for the computing related ones?
> Companies aren't going to write open software to control the $750K spectrometer they just sold you, and to be perfectly honest, I don't think I'd use software off of Sourceforge to control an investment of that type, anyway.
I'm not a chemist, but I think your investigation is not about controlling the spectrometer, but the resulting spectra. So I think it would very interesting and potentially productive if you have the source code of the software that transforms/filters/enhance/displays the output data.
BTW, I don't believe the people at CERN will rely on some close software for tracing their particle collisions.
> "The frustrating, jealously guarded secret is that when it comes to actually enabling others to develop secure systems, we deliver far less value than could be expected.'"
The frustrating, jealously guarded secret is that when it comes to actually enabling others to develop secure systems, NOBODY WANTS TO PAY AN EXTRA BUCK, UNTIL THE DAMAGE IS DONE.
> Not for all people though, and presumably you are one of those for which asynchronous programming comes natural and easy too. Therein lies the rub.
It's really easier to write multithreading code that works "most of the time" (than the ST counterpart.) What's difficult is to discover and avoid the potential race conditions; most people just assume it's ok if their 30 functional unit tests pass clean.
> Almost every native culture on Earth has legends about a "golden age" when a more advanced civilization existed, which then disappeared during a subsequent "dark age".
This idea appeared and appears every time after the war, specially in conquests with the resulting establishment of an oppressive regime. With time, it becomes part of the "legendary history" and conforms the roots of many independence movements and nationalisms.
After trying to install LL from a CD, I was a bit disappointed because (like in the previous releases) it couldn't work with wireless card (don't remember the brand; is in a Vostro 1520 more than a year old), needing some proprietary driver (also provided by Ubuntu)... which in turn required an Internet connection for downloading (without an UTP cable and some port, it's a catch-22.)
Those proprietary drivers should be included in the images (just another necessary evil.)
Besides, kudos for the Ubuntu people. I hope to start the painful reinstallation for all my machines in the following days, in order to enjoy the extended support frame.
> The trouble with both C and Java is they don't let you define your own types that are on par with the native types so even if you write or find such a library it will be a pain to use.
Exactly; what I don't understand is why the Java people doesn't consider this an important issue, given the "enterprise flavor" they try to inject into.
For C++, yes, I'm sure it could be done with operator overloading, but (after years of struggling) I have to admit this a too convoluted language for my brain.
A long time ago I was in a meeting about the C programming language, until some guy asked about the fixed point math support OBVIOUSLY required for financial operations, which happened to work perfectly and natively in COBOL (he was a COBOL programmer.) Yet I'm looking for equivalent libraries in C (and now in Java.)
The other reason is when your current version is no longer supported. That's why I'm eagerly waiting for this release, since it's a "long term release", so I'll not be upgrading for a long time.
You're right. From my own experience I think the only reason to use Joomla! is because there is a damn lot of extensions, and it's very likely one of these matches the specific needs of your use case. Those extensions are mostly a PITA to upgrade, debug and understand (even if some have some kind of documentation), but sometimes work. Joomla! is a perfect heir to the PHP fame.
> No, I expect competent programmers to not do incredibly stupid things, like use filenames with spaces in them.
It is really difficult to find programs that create file names with spaces on purpose.
The problem is that computers are used by..... people! and you know, people is used to spaces to separate words, so the file names will also carry that hideous defect.
It's not my antivirus.
> more emphasis on completely pointless features like the ability to use the file manager as a web browser (WHY would I EVER want that?)
Yes, for some reason that kind of "resource namespace abstraction" seems to be some kind of Holy Grail for a lot of developers who assume users will love it; the same thing happens with Kde's Konqueror, year after year, despite 99.99% of the web sites needing something heavy like Firefox et al. and 99.99% of the users desperate due to slow/unresponsive basic file browsing (as provided by Nautilus.)
I understand the font issues for GTK 2, but as the parent, hope this time Gnome 3 wouldn't need a hardware upgrade.
Exactly the same happened in Perú in our last big earthquake (2008). The epicenter was about 200 km south of the capital (Lima), but nobody in all the region could make a call after several hours (afterward there was a government investiagtion to the carriers, pure blah, blah..) Cell phones are useless at least in standard commercial installations or configurations.
Interestingly, the DSL services remained operative (at least in the capital) and it was the only way to communicate with peers.
> Unless you've actually taken a drive and had it perform writes continuously for a decade
Not true at all. That's why people does statistical modeling. The failure rate usually follows a exponential distribution, so you could calibrate their behavior in a fraction of time by analyzing a big set of disks.