Now that Amarok2 can be customized you can make it look pretty similar to the original Amarok. I miss labels and a few other old features. Also the media player support isn't quite where it used to be, but overall I'd say Amarok2 is getting pretty good. You can't really blame Mandriva for not shipping KDE3 though, it's been unsupported for a few years now. Like it or not KDE4 is KDE.
Which Mandriva bugs in specific weren't being looked into? My experience with the developers has been they are very responsive, but obviously some obscure bugs aren't going to get the highest priority.
It had a few questionable releases around the Mandrake/Mandriva switch, but it's very very good now. From what I've seen it's probably one of the best distros for KDE, better than Fedora and Kubuntu.
The upper part of that character you mention is the roof radical, so I've always thought the origin has something to do with the safe feeling of being in your home.
I'm currently studying Chinese for the fun of it, so of course I agree with everything you say about the value of learning languages. The history of many of the hanzi (kanji) characters is an especially interesting part of it for me.
Problem is the most politically motivated people who would vote in your system are the extremists. Our system is lousy, but that's not a good solution.
That's not a possible unintended consequence, it's an actual one. I just heard last week that a study found an increase in violence used by criminals with 2 strikes against them. It's a really bad idea encouraging criminals to go all in.
It's actually even easier than that. You can easily fit 2 liters of liquid inside your pant legs. The only way you'll get caught is if you're frisked, which is very unlikely. Just make sure you avoid airports with millimeter wave scanners, there aren't that many still.
Have you ever tried stowing a desktop tower, monitor and keyboard under an airplane seat? I'd say the laptop is still relatively portable even if it needs to be plugged in.
He didn't lose it, he's right. No one in their right mind would, having already typed 'cat/proc/cpuinfo', go back to the beginning of the line and change cat to less when they can just tack '| less' on the end instead. If we're talking about writing a script, then sure. But for one-off commands? No way.
A fast CPU doesn't excuse a bad algorithm. You don't get to 1GHz, and then say 'well, CPUs are fast now, let's use bubblesort instead of quicksort.'
Bad example. Bubble sort is O(n^2) whereas quicksort is only O(n log n). That's a big difference. OTOH 'cat/proc/cpuinfo | less' and 'less/proc/cpuinfo' are both O(n).
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Citizens aren't the only ones who pay taxes.
But our current agricultural industry is heavily subsidized by illegal immigrant labor.
Of course you can. What do you think wikipedia is for?
Now that Amarok2 can be customized you can make it look pretty similar to the original Amarok. I miss labels and a few other old features. Also the media player support isn't quite where it used to be, but overall I'd say Amarok2 is getting pretty good. You can't really blame Mandriva for not shipping KDE3 though, it's been unsupported for a few years now. Like it or not KDE4 is KDE.
Which Mandriva bugs in specific weren't being looked into? My experience with the developers has been they are very responsive, but obviously some obscure bugs aren't going to get the highest priority.
It had a few questionable releases around the Mandrake/Mandriva switch, but it's very very good now. From what I've seen it's probably one of the best distros for KDE, better than Fedora and Kubuntu.
Mandriva is quality free distribution.
The upper part of that character you mention is the roof radical, so I've always thought the origin has something to do with the safe feeling of being in your home.
I'm currently studying Chinese for the fun of it, so of course I agree with everything you say about the value of learning languages. The history of many of the hanzi (kanji) characters is an especially interesting part of it for me.
How do humans do it?
I wish all the Rayndians would just go Galt already. They're all talk.
the ones who make their living by making contracts so incomprehensibly complex that people have to hire lawyers just to read the damn things
Kind of like programmers right? Contracts have to be precise and often complex in order to express what is intended.
Yes, the real problem is our voting system which encourages this lousy bi-partisan system.
Problem is the most politically motivated people who would vote in your system are the extremists. Our system is lousy, but that's not a good solution.
The problem he's referring to is that the combined size of all your apps is 256MB on current phones, this isn't an individual app limit.
How can they be sued if they don't sell in the country where it would be illegal. They can't be sued for someone crossing a border with their product.
What do you mean?
That's not a possible unintended consequence, it's an actual one. I just heard last week that a study found an increase in violence used by criminals with 2 strikes against them. It's a really bad idea encouraging criminals to go all in.
Voting for the 3-strikes laws wasn't very young starry-eyed liberal of you.
On /. normal English is more unusual than regexps.
When I last flew on Continental last year they were still providing full meals.
But as I recall the group didn't do the homework necessary to pull this off and the plot was trumped up for political reasons.
It's actually even easier than that. You can easily fit 2 liters of liquid inside your pant legs. The only way you'll get caught is if you're frisked, which is very unlikely. Just make sure you avoid airports with millimeter wave scanners, there aren't that many still.
Have you ever tried stowing a desktop tower, monitor and keyboard under an airplane seat? I'd say the laptop is still relatively portable even if it needs to be plugged in.
He didn't lose it, he's right. No one in their right mind would, having already typed 'cat /proc/cpuinfo', go back to the beginning of the line and change cat to less when they can just tack '| less' on the end instead. If we're talking about writing a script, then sure. But for one-off commands? No way.
A fast CPU doesn't excuse a bad algorithm. You don't get to 1GHz, and then say 'well, CPUs are fast now, let's use bubblesort instead of quicksort.'
Bad example. Bubble sort is O(n^2) whereas quicksort is only O(n log n). That's a big difference. OTOH 'cat /proc/cpuinfo | less' and 'less /proc/cpuinfo' are both O(n).
Still more work. PIDs are cheap, we can afford to be lazy.