And no software buyer wants their application to be designed and built by green programmers either. That's not what he is trying to say
Not wanting that to be true does not change the fact that it is, but that's not to say they are all equal. A veteran programmer will generally be better than a green. Same goes for any such skilled profession, including nurses.
The problem with Computing jobs in particular is that many employers (and the general public as well) still cannot tell the difference between very different sub sets of the industry.
We have to clarify something akin to why it makes no sense to hire a specialized eye surgeon to do the work of a nurse (and occasionally double as a dentist) and we are surprised when they fail to do so adequately if at all when an actual nurse succeeds.
And then somebody else will interpret it as though what was said was that nurses are all we need after all!
>Learn to sing, learn to play an instrument, join a choral group, join a band -- have fun!
Yes. And always release the transcriptions of the songs you create to make them available to the public. Then anyone can learn your songs, improve them and even fix the odd note or two that might be out of place.
You always want to know exactly what notes are entering your ears, so it goes without saying that you should refuse to listen to any music whose artist has not made the transcriptions available to the public as described.
Your loss really. Sure technologically and stylistically the games are very close but the story is new and quite well developed. I can't imagine someone having (happily I presume) spent so many hours on F3 and being disappointed by NV.
Unless of course you had so much of it that you had enough for life but that's a different story. The game itself certainly delivered
I had to look up a bug walkthrough guide (bugthrough) on the internet just so I could deal with the bugs throughout the game.
If it wasn't for the console that allows you to inject commands live during the game, I would have had major trouble. We're talking bugs like trying to hand in a quest and the npc was nowhere to be found (maybe he was stuck behind a wall or below the visible terain). You had to invoke him using the console to bring him in place
Because of the high level corruption and notoriously bad organization that characterizes us it is a sad truth in our country that many people like you describe get to survive and constantly slip through the cracks. This makes it even harder for the rest of us (which are NOT the majority as you imply) to have a normal productive life without being sucked dry, because in the end, someone has to pay and work for all the parasites to survive.
If you are one of those, and consider it an achievement to be a parasite, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Do you have any reason to suspect so? Nothing in the original posts gives any indication.
In fact the only thing mentioned is how unfriendly the new chips are to FOSS drivers. Nothing else of substance
All the other assumptions about scientists, inadequate linux closed source drivers for CUDA (or whatever they will be using) seem to me like unfounded wild speculation.
I'm sure whoever used such chips would want maximum performance anyway, so closed drivers would be the preferred choice even is FOSS drivers sort of worked
I find it remarkable that people so often confuse pure FOSS driver support with linux support.
How many times does it have to be stressed that nvidia supports linux by providing quality closed source drivers?
If that's not good enough for a minority of linux users, well tough. It's not everybody's problem and anybody who wants to do real work with their nvidia gpu on linux probably finds that the nvidia provided driver works great.
Why would those scientists you mention need to use FOSS drivers?
Off the chain transactions are not a bad thing. They do solve to a large degree the problem of dust transactions. Sure, they are not "official" and rely on a third party that may or may not be trustworthy, but the thing is... at any time you have the option to withdraw them and thus commit them to the blockchain. There will be scams and people will risk losing money but in the end, legitimate organizations will prevail.
Another thing is that other coins with different blockchains also exist. You can use those to make smalller transactions. There does not need to be only one (blockchain) in the end. Some will be ideal for smaller transactions. Bitcoin will never be that. It will be the one to store value instead.
That said, I think the current blockchain technology is getting improved anyway. Something about more transactions per block or bigger transactions or something similar to reduce the current issues
I wonder if it would be possible to completely disable the "problematic" 0.5GB of RAM by a patch or driver update.
Then it would really just be a 3.5GB card and avoid those issues.
I'm sure that just the idea that whatever stuttering is experienced at any given game *might* be due to the RAM issue is enough to drive some of those gamers mad.
So if it could be disabled (optionally of course) it would be good I think.
Which is why a distributed blockchain might actually increase transparency and therefore trust in the system.
On your first post I get the impression you don't trust the technology (bitecoin, leaky scam system etc)
Then you say its people you don't trust because they lack the skills to protect themselves.
In any case they are not thinking about using bitcoin but some derivative of the blockchain technology which, believe it or not, seems to be robust (as an idea at least).
So forget about scam exchange sites, drugs, or whatever else bitcoin seems to have been inextricably linked to.
Whatever they come up with, on the surface will probably look nothing like bitcoin
What brought those sites down was not a flaw in the technology of the blockchain.
It was either incompetence or plain old fraud which can always occur in any context.
People who lost bitcoins had already given up control of their coin to those organizations and the trading within their platforms is off-the-chain except for the parts where people deposit coin and withdraw.
Nobody ever lost bitcoin that they kept in their own wallets unless they were stupid enough not to get necessary precautions, like getting their pc hacked while not having their wallet encrypted with a secret passphrase.
Bitcoin cannot protect you against stupidity. Nothing can infact
I have tinkered with both in the past but I don't use either. I'm not a programmer by trade, I do mostly sysadmin work.
If I write anything for personnal reasons, it's usually java or preferably C#, always with a full featured IDE to make syntax errors obvious.
The book seems interesting. I'll add it to my wishlist.
What he probably meant was for them to get a taste, not actually apply those skills
It makes sense really. If they can get through such a course, they at least have an idea about variable assignments, conditional checks and branching... maybe even loops if they pay attention:)
Then, writing an excel formula statement can go from being a herculean task to a piece of cake.
And by that time, they have also learned probably how to handle their computer a bit better and organize their files.
They will never write the app themselves, but whatever thought processes they learn will make them much more aware as users
Just as it makes sense to show novice drivers what is under the hood. It doesn't mean they will be servicing their own cars from now on
I'm pretty sure I've played MAME emulated games online in the past....
Of course. MAME started out as MS-DOS FOSS back in 1997
The interesting part in this web arcade is that the emulation is done in javascript. Back in 97, javascript was little more than a toy language for making animations in websites.
Oh, and its obviously legal to play them now.
MAME requires dumps of the original arcade roms which can generally not be aquired legally.
But sure, otherwise, anyone who wants old arcades has already known how to get them. Almost everything that matters has been pefectly emulated for about a decade
A dozen versions for sale? Are you counting server editions too?
For home use there is only one version to consider. Plain 8.1. For Businesses There is 8.1 Pro but depending on your needs and business size, you might even get away ignoring that
Older versions and server versions are not even considered for ordinary users.
The (free) UI add on is optional of course. I too use it but its not a must and is trivial to find and install
Mind you all this is still less variation than a single distro of linux in some cases.
Lets see, there's mint but which version? 16, or is it 17 these days, they seem to change every few months. And what is this? They are all supposed to be the same version but why do they look so different? KDE, Cinnamon, Mate, XFCE.
And why does it say ubuntu there? is that not another distro? Oh its a spin off.
But there is also a debian version too... with no version numbers. Oh god my head hurts I can't make heads or tails of it...
"Road runner was entertaining, and I don't recall any overt racism or sexism, but it is just silly violence for the sake of violence and I think we can do better for our children."
It is clearly slapstick violence, and I believe even kids can tell the difference.
I understand the concerns but at some point we have to admit that children cannot be shielded from absolutely everything. At some point, overprotecting them can have other undesirable consequences and I have a feeling we are already very close (if not past) that point
Correct
I think what he really meant to say is that it is almost impossible in the foreseeable future to extend life expectancy beyond 100 for the average person, even after excluding premature deaths.
There will always be numerous outliers of course, what with several billions of us around
Some people live and breath music all their life
Some were avid fans during their teenage years but their interest waned as they got older, or even the other way round
Some like only a specific genre, others are open to more
Some only ever listen to music while commuting to and from work in their car radio.
Most go to places to socialize. There's bound to be music playing.
So I guess we are all music listeners. Let's see what useful statistics we can conjure up with this info
As soon as you release the transaction from your client, it is visible within seconds.
It will take 10 minutes or longer to get into a block, sure (and buried under a couple of blocks at least to be really "confirmed"), but if you initiate the transaction you can't really take it back and it proves that you at least had the coin at the time to carry it out in the first place
For payments the scale of a meal, that would be enough for me if I were the owner of the restaurant
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And no software buyer wants their application to be designed and built by green programmers either. That's not what he is trying to say
Not wanting that to be true does not change the fact that it is, but that's not to say they are all equal.
A veteran programmer will generally be better than a green. Same goes for any such skilled profession, including nurses.
The problem with Computing jobs in particular is that many employers (and the general public as well) still cannot tell the difference between very different sub sets of the industry.
We have to clarify something akin to why it makes no sense to hire a specialized eye surgeon to do the work of a nurse (and occasionally double as a dentist) and we are surprised when they fail to do so adequately if at all when an actual nurse succeeds.
And then somebody else will interpret it as though what was said was that nurses are all we need after all!
No but Oracle is and they offer a variety of their products too.
>Learn to sing, learn to play an instrument, join a choral group, join a band -- have fun!
Yes. And always release the transcriptions of the songs you create to make them available to the public.
Then anyone can learn your songs, improve them and even fix the odd note or two that might be out of place.
You always want to know exactly what notes are entering your ears, so it goes without saying that you should refuse to listen to any music whose artist has not made the transcriptions available to the public as described.
Your loss really.
Sure technologically and stylistically the games are very close but the story is new and quite well developed.
I can't imagine someone having (happily I presume) spent so many hours on F3 and being disappointed by NV.
Unless of course you had so much of it that you had enough for life but that's a different story. The game itself certainly delivered
The bugs. Oh the bugs!
I had to look up a bug walkthrough guide (bugthrough) on the internet just so I could deal with the bugs throughout the game.
If it wasn't for the console that allows you to inject commands live during the game, I would have had major trouble. We're talking bugs like trying to hand in a quest and the npc was nowhere to be found (maybe he was stuck behind a wall or below the visible terain). You had to invoke him using the console to bring him in place
Because of the high level corruption and notoriously bad organization that characterizes us it is a sad truth in our country that many people like you describe get to survive and constantly slip through the cracks.
This makes it even harder for the rest of us (which are NOT the majority as you imply) to have a normal productive life without being sucked dry, because in the end, someone has to pay and work for all the parasites to survive.
If you are one of those, and consider it an achievement to be a parasite, you should be ashamed of yourself.
Do you have any reason to suspect so?
Nothing in the original posts gives any indication.
In fact the only thing mentioned is how unfriendly the new chips are to FOSS drivers. Nothing else of substance
All the other assumptions about scientists, inadequate linux closed source drivers for CUDA (or whatever they will be using) seem to me like unfounded wild speculation.
I'm sure whoever used such chips would want maximum performance anyway, so closed drivers would be the preferred choice even is FOSS drivers sort of worked
I find it remarkable that people so often confuse pure FOSS driver support with linux support.
How many times does it have to be stressed that nvidia supports linux by providing quality closed source drivers?
If that's not good enough for a minority of linux users, well tough. It's not everybody's problem and anybody who wants to do real work with their nvidia gpu on linux probably finds that the nvidia provided driver works great.
Why would those scientists you mention need to use FOSS drivers?
Off the chain transactions are not a bad thing. They do solve to a large degree the problem of dust transactions.
Sure, they are not "official" and rely on a third party that may or may not be trustworthy, but the thing is... at any time you have the option to withdraw them and thus commit them to the blockchain.
There will be scams and people will risk losing money but in the end, legitimate organizations will prevail.
Another thing is that other coins with different blockchains also exist. You can use those to make smalller transactions. There does not need to be only one (blockchain) in the end. Some will be ideal for smaller transactions. Bitcoin will never be that. It will be the one to store value instead.
That said, I think the current blockchain technology is getting improved anyway. Something about more transactions per block or bigger transactions or something similar to reduce the current issues
I don't know but I guess it's for the same reason that windows server 2012 (and r2) have the modern UI
What you wanna tell me that that windows 2012 datacenter edition is not running on a tablet???
I wonder if it would be possible to completely disable the "problematic" 0.5GB of RAM by a patch or driver update.
Then it would really just be a 3.5GB card and avoid those issues.
I'm sure that just the idea that whatever stuttering is experienced at any given game *might* be due to the RAM issue is enough to drive some of those gamers mad.
So if it could be disabled (optionally of course) it would be good I think.
Which is why a distributed blockchain might actually increase transparency and therefore trust in the system.
On your first post I get the impression you don't trust the technology (bitecoin, leaky scam system etc)
Then you say its people you don't trust because they lack the skills to protect themselves.
In any case they are not thinking about using bitcoin but some derivative of the blockchain technology which, believe it or not, seems to be robust (as an idea at least).
So forget about scam exchange sites, drugs, or whatever else bitcoin seems to have been inextricably linked to.
Whatever they come up with, on the surface will probably look nothing like bitcoin
What brought those sites down was not a flaw in the technology of the blockchain.
It was either incompetence or plain old fraud which can always occur in any context.
People who lost bitcoins had already given up control of their coin to those organizations and the trading within their platforms is off-the-chain except for the parts where people deposit coin and withdraw.
Nobody ever lost bitcoin that they kept in their own wallets unless they were stupid enough not to get necessary precautions, like getting their pc hacked while not having their wallet encrypted with a secret passphrase.
Bitcoin cannot protect you against stupidity. Nothing can infact
I have tinkered with both in the past but I don't use either. I'm not a programmer by trade, I do mostly sysadmin work.
If I write anything for personnal reasons, it's usually java or preferably C#, always with a full featured IDE to make syntax errors obvious.
The book seems interesting. I'll add it to my wishlist.
LOL! The period key works. I included periods when they were in the middle of the line and even in two cases where the line ended!
It's a bad typing habit of mine in informal texts. I've always been mildly aware of it but I'm surprised to see others notice it too.
Maybe in my mind, the period in the end of a line is implied. Thanks for bringing the matter to my attention.
What he probably meant was for them to get a taste, not actually apply those skills :)
It makes sense really. If they can get through such a course, they at least have an idea about variable assignments, conditional checks and branching... maybe even loops if they pay attention
Then, writing an excel formula statement can go from being a herculean task to a piece of cake.
And by that time, they have also learned probably how to handle their computer a bit better and organize their files.
They will never write the app themselves, but whatever thought processes they learn will make them much more aware as users
Just as it makes sense to show novice drivers what is under the hood. It doesn't mean they will be servicing their own cars from now on
tbh I just assumed!
I thought it would be too bold to do such a thing without permission, have so much publicity and not worry about going to jail!
I'm pretty sure I've played MAME emulated games online in the past ....
Of course. MAME started out as MS-DOS FOSS back in 1997 The interesting part in this web arcade is that the emulation is done in javascript. Back in 97, javascript was little more than a toy language for making animations in websites.
Oh, and its obviously legal to play them now.
MAME requires dumps of the original arcade roms which can generally not be aquired legally.
But sure, otherwise, anyone who wants old arcades has already known how to get them. Almost everything that matters has been pefectly emulated for about a decade
A dozen versions for sale? Are you counting server editions too? For home use there is only one version to consider. Plain 8.1. For Businesses There is 8.1 Pro but depending on your needs and business size, you might even get away ignoring that Older versions and server versions are not even considered for ordinary users. The (free) UI add on is optional of course. I too use it but its not a must and is trivial to find and install Mind you all this is still less variation than a single distro of linux in some cases. Lets see, there's mint but which version? 16, or is it 17 these days, they seem to change every few months. And what is this? They are all supposed to be the same version but why do they look so different? KDE, Cinnamon, Mate, XFCE. And why does it say ubuntu there? is that not another distro? Oh its a spin off. But there is also a debian version too... with no version numbers. Oh god my head hurts I can't make heads or tails of it...
"Road runner was entertaining, and I don't recall any overt racism or sexism, but it is just silly violence for the sake of violence and I think we can do better for our children." It is clearly slapstick violence, and I believe even kids can tell the difference. I understand the concerns but at some point we have to admit that children cannot be shielded from absolutely everything. At some point, overprotecting them can have other undesirable consequences and I have a feeling we are already very close (if not past) that point
Correct I think what he really meant to say is that it is almost impossible in the foreseeable future to extend life expectancy beyond 100 for the average person, even after excluding premature deaths. There will always be numerous outliers of course, what with several billions of us around
Some people live and breath music all their life Some were avid fans during their teenage years but their interest waned as they got older, or even the other way round Some like only a specific genre, others are open to more Some only ever listen to music while commuting to and from work in their car radio. Most go to places to socialize. There's bound to be music playing. So I guess we are all music listeners. Let's see what useful statistics we can conjure up with this info
As soon as you release the transaction from your client, it is visible within seconds. It will take 10 minutes or longer to get into a block, sure (and buried under a couple of blocks at least to be really "confirmed"), but if you initiate the transaction you can't really take it back and it proves that you at least had the coin at the time to carry it out in the first place For payments the scale of a meal, that would be enough for me if I were the owner of the restaurant