For those wanting a better reason: instant user switching.
At the moment if you press ctrl+alt+f1 from X it switches to a console, but takes about a second to do so. This is because the video card has to be torn down and then setup again. Likewise if you have two X sessions running, as different users, switching between them is slow.
A professor will typically publish around 500 papers. That's about one paper every two weeks. I cannot see how anyone can produce a high quality paper, including doing the research, in two weeks, every two weeks.
So you assume that everybody in that country will just happen to prefer the art of the cars made in that country, rather than the cars made by a different country? You also assume that everybody in that country will have the same customs and traditions as everyone else in the country.
Um, winelib and GTK are both LGPL. You can port a proprietary Windows app to Linux using wine, or you can port it to Linux by changing it to GTK. You can even pay Nokia (Trolltech) and buy a Qt license and port your software to use that. Then it would work on Windows, Mac and Linux, using the same toolkit.
If you pay Nokia, you get support for Qt with an extremely good track record of fixing critical bugs - much better than the turnaround for MS to fix API bugs.
The purpose of a journal is to make sure that operations either happen or they don't happen - i.e. you don't leave the filesystem in some half way state if the power goes out.
It doesn't verify the actual data written or anything.
: American English (variously abbreviated AmE, AE, AmEng, USEng, en-US[1]), also known as United States English or U.S. English, is a set of dialects of the English language used mostly in the United States.
This used to be the case in linux for certain hardware when the initialization sequences hadn't been figured out, or when firmware had to be uploaded.
I remember some SB soundcards required you to boot up into Windows first, then warm rebooting into Linux (i.e. without a cold shutdown). That way the soundcard would be kept initialized ready for Linux to use.
At first I was confused by posts like yours, but now I'm convinced that people like you have a persecution complex. You somehow feel guilty that you don't use or don't understand Linux, and so see conspiracies where there are none.
Please reread the article and try to point out where the guy handing out Linux CDs is saying that people who don't run Linux are unfaithful (???) evil and bad? You are probably using hyperbole to get your point across, but where exactly do you see even slightest bit of that?
You should calm down and realise that not everyone is out to get you
How do you know if your windows kernel is 'authentic'? It's trivial to change compiled code - just look at how pretty much every game has been cracked to remove piracy protections.
That's not the point. The point is that these days the focus is on understanding the concepts of chemistry (for example) compared to 50 years ago when the focus was on doing the math.
I tried with Sean Carroll's No Nonscense Guide To GR a while ago, and found it quite difficult to follow - he moves quite rapidly without any real exercises to do to check that I understand it.
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For those wanting a better reason: instant user switching.
At the moment if you press ctrl+alt+f1 from X it switches to a console, but takes about a second to do so. This is because the video card has to be torn down and then setup again. Likewise if you have two X sessions running, as different users, switching between them is slow.
This will make the switching almost instant.
A professor will typically publish around 500 papers. That's about one paper every two weeks. I cannot see how anyone can produce a high quality paper, including doing the research, in two weeks, every two weeks.
One poster above did write a driver himself for one of the devices.
Drivers are also a problem. Microsoft have a small number of drivers compared to Linux, relying on third parties to provide binary only drivers.
I find it really funny that it's going to be Windows that has a driver problem. It's not just ARM, but 64bit computers etc as well
So you assume that everybody in that country will just happen to prefer the art of the cars made in that country, rather than the cars made by a different country?
You also assume that everybody in that country will have the same customs and traditions as everyone else in the country.
You really think it would be more efficient if every single country had its own car manufacturing plant? Have you not heard of economy of scale?
Wow, that's your idea of a bug report? Really?
Um, winelib and GTK are both LGPL. You can port a proprietary Windows app to Linux using wine, or you can port it to Linux by changing it to GTK. You can even pay Nokia (Trolltech) and buy a Qt license and port your software to use that. Then it would work on Windows, Mac and Linux, using the same toolkit.
If you pay Nokia, you get support for Qt with an extremely good track record of fixing critical bugs - much better than the turnaround for MS to fix API bugs.
> You don't develop a C++ compiler and then show how compliant it is by listing all the C++ programs it can compile.
There's plenty of C99 code that won't compile with, say, Microsoft's compiler. Their compiler doesn't yet support everything in C99.
> software emulation requires greater processing power,
Well it's a good thing that Wine Is Not an Emulator then.
Wine requires no extra overhead
Hmm, it required changes to GCC.
Anyone know why?
> I prefer to buy Made In USA
Do you also prefer people from other countries not buying USA products?
The purpose of a journal is to make sure that operations either happen or they don't happen - i.e. you don't leave the filesystem in some half way state if the power goes out.
It doesn't verify the actual data written or anything.
You really expect it to cost a lot of money to keep the code on an ftp server, and send a copy to those who request it (which will be nearly none) ?
> Trying to state that American is supposedly a dialect of English is a lousy argument
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English
: American English (variously abbreviated AmE, AE, AmEng, USEng, en-US[1]), also known as United States English or U.S. English, is a set of dialects of the English language used mostly in the United States.
This used to be the case in linux for certain hardware when the initialization sequences hadn't been figured out, or when firmware had to be uploaded.
I remember some SB soundcards required you to boot up into Windows first, then warm rebooting into Linux (i.e. without a cold shutdown). That way the soundcard would be kept initialized ready for Linux to use.
Your example of stupidity is whether a set of dialects of a language can be considered a language in itself? Wow.
At first I was confused by posts like yours, but now I'm convinced that people like you have a persecution complex. You somehow feel guilty that you don't use or don't understand Linux, and so see conspiracies where there are none.
Please reread the article and try to point out where the guy handing out Linux CDs is saying that people who don't run Linux are unfaithful (???) evil and bad? You are probably using hyperbole to get your point across, but where exactly do you see even slightest bit of that?
You should calm down and realise that not everyone is out to get you
How do you know if your windows kernel is 'authentic'? It's trivial to change compiled code - just look at how pretty much every game has been cracked to remove piracy protections.
Anyone else reminded of:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Linux_Needs_Windows_To_Run
I can confirm that the direct image link does work for me.
It's awesome that you posted here :)
A quick question if I may..
Could raytracing be done efficently on quantum computers?
That's not the point. The point is that these days the focus is on understanding the concepts of chemistry (for example) compared to 50 years ago when the focus was on doing the math.
I tried with Sean Carroll's No Nonscense Guide To GR a while ago, and found it quite difficult to follow - he moves quite rapidly without any real exercises to do to check that I understand it.
It's certainly interesting.
You spent 10 years defending a flag?? Couldn't you have just let the enemy have it and make a new one?