You're complaning that the developers were too lazy to code their own libraries on a project with 287,853 lines of code? It sounds to me like they're quite busy already.
Building it from source is virtually impossible, like most Gnome apps- it's a maze of dependencies that makes your head spin trying to get them all satisified. It has the most dependencies of any program I've ever seen, save Request Tracker(but at least RT's dependencies are perl modules, and MOST of that can be handled by CPAN- thank god, because you can end up needing over FIFTY perl modules for RT!) I REALLY want to be using the latest Gnucash, but there are no Mandrake packages, and I don't want to waste 5 hours of my life trying to compile it:-)
What's wrong with cd/usr/ports/finance/gnucash; make install clean?
Like most people, I'd hope he'd ask for a link to a peer reviewed study to back up that claim. Personally, I'm curious how you measure someone's "potental". Do Marijuana smokers achieve 95% potental? 50%? At what point do you measure this? When they die? When they reach 50? Simply capitalizing "fact" doesn't make it so.
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Getting 1-2kg of stuff across the ocean would still be an accomplishment for this plane, since it only weighs 5kg including fuel. Making it profitable would miraculous, given how much this team spent on the effort.
Heck, how can you trust their closed proprietary hardware at that point? You never know if they took and modified their Pentium in there to recognise when you're bootstrapping a compiler and modifing your routines.
The simple fact is that you have to trust someone (or some group of people) along this chain, which is very difficult because the incentive to cheat in elections is huge. You can reduce the danger with a solid system of checks and balances, but there's always the possiblity of the very determined/very rich individual buying off several key players.
You can also buy off paper ballot counters.
Because it is impossible to make a completely 100% fraudproof system, we need to instead focus on trying to keep the process as open and transparent as possible. We need to catch people cheating and insure that there is ample opportunity for detecting fraud.
Yeah, I'm sure the pyramids wern't built that way because it was stable and allowed you to use the finished sides of the building as a ramp. No, it has to be some weird theory involving technologies they wouldn't have the slightest idea about.
Here I was figuring the winning team went for a pyramid because the shape is good for conducting electromagnetic waves _and_ is easy to build with a simple metal screen and tubes.
There are two competing metrics here. The efficiency of the power supply and the actual usable life of the power supply. As your link points out, the power supply is better at converting AC to DC at higher loads, but it doesn't talk about the lifetime of a power supply that's run at capacity for extended periods of time.
Well consider that "evil" is just an extreme form of self centeredness and ambition. If your goals happen to conincide with those of an evil entity, then you will effectively recieve benefit from the actions of the evil entity. Once your goals diverge or even conflict, then the evil entity will show no loyalty to you or your cause and work to deny you the fullfillment of your goals.
Wha? You have never ever had to do that in the Gimp. You just right click, choose "Image->Transforms->Rotate->90 Degrees" and it does exactly what you'd expect. If you rotate a _layer_ then you have to make sure it will fit on a canvas, but I doubt many people want the canvas to resize when they rotate just one layer.
Isn't this what the floating toolbars are all about? You know, the ones that come up by default when you start the Gimp? The pencil tool is sitting right there on the toolbar. I'll grant you that holding down shift on the pencil tool is unintuitive, but it's not like the tool is buried in some menu somewhere.
I always thought a lot of the interface complaints came from people who were used to using Photoshop and then couldn't find stuff in the Gimp because it didn't just copy the Photoshop interface.
I got used to using the Gimp then I tried out my sister's copy of Photoshop for a couple of simple operations. I found the Photoshop interface to be a bit less efficent (the gimp would include a couple of useful features in a dialog box that Photoship didn't) in a couple of places, but more or less equivilent in my mind.
The biggest stumbling block I see for the Gimp is lack of native CMYK support, which is a big deal in the professional publishing biz (or so I'm told). After trying Photoshop, I went back to the Gimp and never thought twice about it.
Who told you that you should be running your power supplies at close to their maximum load? The guy who was trying to sell you the 200W power supply for a P4? Running at close to the maximum load constnatly will reduce the life of your power supply and make it run hotter.
Also, your surge supressor won't stop normal power spikes, they are only designed to stop grossly over voltage spike like you get with lightning strikes. The worst part is that many of them don't even do that. Did you know that most surge supressors, once they're "blown" will fail into an "on" state. It's amost impossible to check to see if your surge supressor is still working.
Huh? I've had the -85 for years and year now, and you can definatly program the BASIC with just the keypad if you want. I've done that before in fact, you don't have to go through the menus at all. The variables can also be multiple characters long on the 85, since they're just "Real" values as far as the calculator is concerned. The only thing I don't like is that the built in TI-Basic is dog slow, and takes forever to compile once your program exceeds 10 or 15k.
Interestingly enough, checking the return value of malloc is useless on most platforms anyway. Most platforms overcommit the memory, and you won't know if you're out of memory until you try to access that block you just created (at which point something on the system is going to die to make room for the memory you just requested, possibly even you.).
In some ways, a destructive worm like the one you mentioned above might actually do some good by waking people up to the need to keep their boxes patched or protected so they don't become a host for yet another worm. I can imagine something like the old Michalangelo scare from a few years ago (although that one didn't amount to much).
Look where it has gotten India. They have high technology and good schools in the areas where they are willing to interact with the world (computing, engineering) but still have trouble keeping the lights on and the trains running.
While there are shades of trickle down (ooh scary!) in my post, the real point was about globalization. You can't keep up with the world by yourself, you have to become part of it or you will fall behind. The Chinese have realized this and are trying as hard as they can to become a world player, but they have a lot of interia to overcome first.
Have you actually looked at your server logs? I have never seen a robot (this includes the search engine spiders, crawlers, and whatnot) disobey the robots.txt file. If you're really paranoid about it, disallow everything then allow only the stuff you want public.
I remember my economy eacher telling us why coffee was badly seen as a morning drink in china. Because if only 1/2 of your population takes one cup coffee in the day, it amounts to 50 tons a day in purely imports...
And this would be a bad thing? Isolated economies do not perform well, it is only when you open up to the world market that you can really take off. Not having many imports may look good for your economy on paper, but in reality it is a major obstacle to development. It means your population either has to go without or has to reinvent the wheel. This video codec is an example of the former (what if these guys were instead working on something new that they could sell to the world), and coffee is the second (a nation that is forced to do without is a poor nation).
It is unlikely China is going to make a killing on these royalties. MPEG4 is already widely deployed in the marketplace and the new codec will have to be significantly better to displace it, especially if it is competeing with free encoders like Ogg Tarkin. Finally, this is a catch-up game, while they work on deveoping an deploying their codec, the rest of the world is moving on to bigger and better things.
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You're complaning that the developers were too lazy to code their own libraries on a project with 287,853 lines of code? It sounds to me like they're quite busy already.
You know what I love, "scientific" studies that forget that correlation != causation.
On the other hand, that's a little unfair since the BBC articles were pretty scanty on details.
Like most people, I'd hope he'd ask for a link to a peer reviewed study to back up that claim. Personally, I'm curious how you measure someone's "potental". Do Marijuana smokers achieve 95% potental? 50%? At what point do you measure this? When they die? When they reach 50? Simply capitalizing "fact" doesn't make it so.
Getting 1-2kg of stuff across the ocean would still be an accomplishment for this plane, since it only weighs 5kg including fuel. Making it profitable would miraculous, given how much this team spent on the effort.
Type your response to this post using your standard NES controller.
You are now enlightened.
Heck, how can you trust their closed proprietary hardware at that point? You never know if they took and modified their Pentium in there to recognise when you're bootstrapping a compiler and modifing your routines.
The simple fact is that you have to trust someone (or some group of people) along this chain, which is very difficult because the incentive to cheat in elections is huge. You can reduce the danger with a solid system of checks and balances, but there's always the possiblity of the very determined/very rich individual buying off several key players.
You can also buy off paper ballot counters.
Because it is impossible to make a completely 100% fraudproof system, we need to instead focus on trying to keep the process as open and transparent as possible. We need to catch people cheating and insure that there is ample opportunity for detecting fraud.
Yeah, I'm sure the pyramids wern't built that way because it was stable and allowed you to use the finished sides of the building as a ramp. No, it has to be some weird theory involving technologies they wouldn't have the slightest idea about.
Here I was figuring the winning team went for a pyramid because the shape is good for conducting electromagnetic waves _and_ is easy to build with a simple metal screen and tubes.
There are two competing metrics here. The efficiency of the power supply and the actual usable life of the power supply. As your link points out, the power supply is better at converting AC to DC at higher loads, but it doesn't talk about the lifetime of a power supply that's run at capacity for extended periods of time.
Well consider that "evil" is just an extreme form of self centeredness and ambition. If your goals happen to conincide with those of an evil entity, then you will effectively recieve benefit from the actions of the evil entity. Once your goals diverge or even conflict, then the evil entity will show no loyalty to you or your cause and work to deny you the fullfillment of your goals.
Wha? You have never ever had to do that in the Gimp. You just right click, choose "Image->Transforms->Rotate->90 Degrees" and it does exactly what you'd expect. If you rotate a _layer_ then you have to make sure it will fit on a canvas, but I doubt many people want the canvas to resize when they rotate just one layer.
Isn't this what the floating toolbars are all about? You know, the ones that come up by default when you start the Gimp? The pencil tool is sitting right there on the toolbar. I'll grant you that holding down shift on the pencil tool is unintuitive, but it's not like the tool is buried in some menu somewhere.
I always thought a lot of the interface complaints came from people who were used to using Photoshop and then couldn't find stuff in the Gimp because it didn't just copy the Photoshop interface.
I got used to using the Gimp then I tried out my sister's copy of Photoshop for a couple of simple operations. I found the Photoshop interface to be a bit less efficent (the gimp would include a couple of useful features in a dialog box that Photoship didn't) in a couple of places, but more or less equivilent in my mind.
The biggest stumbling block I see for the Gimp is lack of native CMYK support, which is a big deal in the professional publishing biz (or so I'm told). After trying Photoshop, I went back to the Gimp and never thought twice about it.
Who told you that you should be running your power supplies at close to their maximum load? The guy who was trying to sell you the 200W power supply for a P4? Running at close to the maximum load constnatly will reduce the life of your power supply and make it run hotter.
Also, your surge supressor won't stop normal power spikes, they are only designed to stop grossly over voltage spike like you get with lightning strikes. The worst part is that many of them don't even do that. Did you know that most surge supressors, once they're "blown" will fail into an "on" state. It's amost impossible to check to see if your surge supressor is still working.
My question is how many LoCs[1] it will have in storage.
[1] Library of Congress
I don't know about you, but I think my body is already contaminated by large levels of dihydrogen monoxide.
Huh? I've had the -85 for years and year now, and you can definatly program the BASIC with just the keypad if you want. I've done that before in fact, you don't have to go through the menus at all. The variables can also be multiple characters long on the 85, since they're just "Real" values as far as the calculator is concerned. The only thing I don't like is that the built in TI-Basic is dog slow, and takes forever to compile once your program exceeds 10 or 15k.
Interestingly enough, checking the return value of malloc is useless on most platforms anyway. Most platforms overcommit the memory, and you won't know if you're out of memory until you try to access that block you just created (at which point something on the system is going to die to make room for the memory you just requested, possibly even you.).
In some ways, a destructive worm like the one you mentioned above might actually do some good by waking people up to the need to keep their boxes patched or protected so they don't become a host for yet another worm. I can imagine something like the old Michalangelo scare from a few years ago (although that one didn't amount to much).
How are robots supposed to exploit the disallowed (and presumably hidden?) URLs in the robots.txt if they never download it?
Look where it has gotten India. They have high technology and good schools in the areas where they are willing to interact with the world (computing, engineering) but still have trouble keeping the lights on and the trains running.
While there are shades of trickle down (ooh scary!) in my post, the real point was about globalization. You can't keep up with the world by yourself, you have to become part of it or you will fall behind. The Chinese have realized this and are trying as hard as they can to become a world player, but they have a lot of interia to overcome first.
Well, since I was referring to things that download robots.txt and then peruse the disallowed URLs documented within, I don't see your point.
That link just spit out a whole bunch of pages warning users not to give away their passwords.
Have you actually looked at your server logs? I have never seen a robot (this includes the search engine spiders, crawlers, and whatnot) disobey the robots.txt file. If you're really paranoid about it, disallow everything then allow only the stuff you want public.
It is unlikely China is going to make a killing on these royalties. MPEG4 is already widely deployed in the marketplace and the new codec will have to be significantly better to displace it, especially if it is competeing with free encoders like Ogg Tarkin. Finally, this is a catch-up game, while they work on deveoping an deploying their codec, the rest of the world is moving on to bigger and better things.