Actually it would be the fault of the person opening the door, not the other way around. Same as someone running across the street without checking the traffic.
Any freshly installed Windows PC will run faster than the one that has been around for couple of months. And it is not simply a matter of fragmentation, it's also registry clutter, pre-fetch, the fact that Windows records what executables you use the most and it computes optimal disk layout based on that etc, shuffling stuff around on disk, slowing other things, performance degradation that comes when you have lots of files in a folder etc.
In general I have not noticed this kind of slowdown with OS X. I have been running my OS X installation for year and a half now, and I have not noticed any slowdown. I find OS X and Linux to be much more resilient to user using it.
I know you meant that as a joke, but it would seem some people will not stop until that is a reality. There were recent reports of scientists being able to tell from live scan of the brain what the subject was thinking about. Wait a couple of hundred years and we will have the technology to implement thought police.
that you have to spend 6 month buried in the basement of your wooden house, because the province is overrun by glacier with -40 degrees temp out there.
For all the grief we give about Bill Gates, at least he is doing something for humanity that is good other than spend money on luxuries. The guy is not a hero and we should not look to him for inspiration. Plenty of other people in streets of Iran to look for that.
He's going to have to do a LOT of good to make up for Windows.
Of course you are not to put your faith in one person interpreting anything for you. Related to this, non-catholics are way way more likely to do exactly that, where local pastor is a mini-pope doing their own faith pronouncements. But I degress. In Catholic church not even pope is allowed to make faith pronouncements of his own that would be binding to any member. It's usually the council of bishops that meets and discusses each fine point and then the pope announces the decision ex-cathedra which makes it official.
Faith is deeply personal thing, and like you said many times now, no one can understand for you or believe for you. However, my faith was handed down to me from generation to generation, and my original spiritual ancestors were there when Jesus was crucified. So, I'm inclined to trust them better than some random "pastor" who is going to tell me all about Bible and what it means.
Whether you like it or not, God did build the church and continues to do so. Also, whether you like it or not, God (Jesus) did choose his disciples, and also on many occasions said that he revealed to them more than to the crowds to whom he spoke in parables that they may hear but never understand.
So, yes, God's chosen ones were told more. The church is built upon them, and their "job" if you will is to guard that deposit of faith, and reveal it to anyone that wants to hear it.
Reading the Bible is profitable to one's soul, and a good thing indeed, but that is not all there is.
What you are talking about is called bibliolatry. You know God didn't descend on Earth one day and in a ball of fire and dazzling light handed "The Bible" to the humans and said "here read this and believe in it".
Besides, God would not give us a book without an interpreter for it. But he did give us an interpreter for it, his holy church. The problem is people have rejected his church and started their own thing reading the bible like it unambiguous and can be interpreted only one way, effectively becoming their own gods.
The mere idea of trusting in Bible only is so absurd to anyone who thinks about it for even 2 min.
Sure, take every opportunity to take a stab at the catholic church. The last acceptible prejudice in America.
I just can't believe that in today's day and age, relative educated (I would assume you are, hanging on Slashdot and all), person like you would still choose to believe fabricated lies rather than go and find out for yourself.
Catholics are not forbidden from reading the bible, they don't have to be "properly" educated to do so, they can talk to God, through Jesus Christ, the one mediator between God and man, they are saved by faith in Christ, they are not saved by works, they don't have to have confessions to have their sins forgiven, they don't worship Mary or saints etc.
But of course, it's much easier to believe lies. They serve a deep purpose for you protestants. The hatred for Catholics is the only thing you agree upon.
You are not truly a mathematician until you learn to abstract. Symbols are ultimate abstractions. Yes, you can invent your own symbols, but you will still have symbols.
Think about how children learn to count. They first count concrete objects, one finger, two fingers,... one apple, two apples, etc. and then we abstract. Remove the object being counted and just have one, two. This is where the big abstraction happens. We arrive to the concept of oneness, without thinking about 1 something. Now add symbols for those abstractions 1, 2 and now you can do some neat things with symbols that translate into concrete objects when applied. This is the essence of math.
Yes, symbolism introduced is standardized so that we can talk to each other and exchange ideas. Otherwise, it would take a lot of time for you to explain all your symbols to me before we could have any meaningful conversation.
that your organization has made your job measurable. It does not matter what they measure your performance by, as long as it is something tangible.
So, you get payed by how many tickets you managed to close in a month. Fine. So, you close as many as you can in a month, resulting in lower quality of each problem fix, resulting in more tickets posted and assigned to you, resulting in you having ensured that next month you have enough tickets as well.
This can go on indefinitely, or your wise superiors might decide to measure your work somehow else.
Well, I think of 64 bit kernel update as a bit more than a service pack. They are not charging much for the update because most average users like yourself would not know that 64 bit is and why would they want it.
Basically, you can not market 64 kernel update to average user. On the other hand they did not have time to develop and test new UI theme as sell that as greatest and biggest update ever. So, Snow Leopard is really move to 64 bit on the Mac and they want everyone to move to it as fast as they can, hence the price.
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What do you think it means? OS X is certified (by the Open Group) UNIX, and it owns 8% of the desktop market. That's a lot of UNIX machines. Yes, other UNIX OSes dominate on the server (where OS X has no foothold at all), but I doubt there are as many server machines as there are client machines in general.
vi is considered standard UNIX tool. These days most UNIX flavors use VIM as standard vi.
But there is more to software development than just editing text files (even thought it's the one thing we spend most time doing).
But I'm talking about the integrated part of it. UNIX was designed by programmers for programmers. It does have a steep learning curve but in my opinion is worth it. Once you get proficient it's hard to match with anything else.
Could you also tell us how many other IDEs are you proficient with. Otherwise your statement doesn't mean much.
I often hear things like that from people who only ever used VS, and who would not be able to write the code without it to begin with. If you gave them plain text editor and asked them to write code to do something simple they would start crying, or leave immediately if you did that in an interview.
You are just showing your lack of understanding (and ironically you are voted insightful). If you were trying to develop and popularize a cell phone platform that is trying to appeal to kids and young teenagers, would you not try to also have some sort of content rating or control so that parents of those kids (who are actually buying the devices for their kids) will have a peace of mind knowing that their "precious (or is that special) little ones" are not viewing obscene content, but can continue to live in a dream?
This is more or less what is going on here. Yes, Apple could have come up with a lot better way to do this, but apparently due to market pressures didn't have time to implement it properly. Apparently better app rating system is coming with iPhone OS 3.0.
it's not quite clear cut in this case. If they rejected general purpose RSS reader it would be atrocious. But they didn't. They rejected special purpose RSS reader that is used to view content that contains "obscene" words/content (what ever that is).
It would be the same as if I modified Firefox code and made "porn" browser that knows all about juicy links only.
Now, we could argue about where does one draw the line, but that's something else completely that most people here are not discussing.
iPhone is used by a lot of kids and I don't know if app store has any kind of rating and parental controls of what can be installed on the iPhone based on the age of the owner (from the device itself).
So, Apple has decided to do the policing themselves, which is really a thankless job, and extremely error prone as we have seen time and time again.
I'm sure there is a better solution to this problem, that would not be too hard to implement.
Actually, some aspects of computer science can be more like science (you know, hypothesize, create experiment and test your hypothesis) than pure math.
This is particularly true in applications (i.e. programming) where this cycle of write code to implement some functionality, compile, run to test if it works, modify code again etc. is how we really work.
Theology is not religion and is certainly not about any specific deity like Zombie Jesus(TM) or Allah.
Whether you like it or not, we humans are spiritual beings, and people like you who deny that aspect of themselves are not really living their lives to the fullest. Spirituality is not about worshiping Gods in some ritualistic way prescribed by religious form, although it can be that too. It is more about you being awestruck by "simple" questions like why are we here, what is my purpose here if I have any at all, where did we come from, where are we going, etc.
By the way all world religions offer answers to these questions, but are by no means the only answers one can give. One could be scientific about it, and try to answer these question from that perspective, but that kind of analysis usually leaves us cold, feeling small, and somewhat unfulfilled.
or specialize in every field. Studying math and specializing in it is a safe bet to gain most general knowledge that is still applicable to wide array of scientific fields, and that would allow you to follow quite a bit of science.
These days majority of science is based on mathematical models, including physics, chemistry (esp. the physical chemistry part of it), biochemistry, computer science, certainly climate and weather prediction, astronomy, engineering of almost any kind, but esp. electrical and mechanical, and lately more esoteric things like psychology and theories of the mind, and less esoteric things like sociology and crowd behaviors.
True, mathematician is no expert on any of these fields, but is armed with enough mathematical knowledge that coupled with a bit of curiosity and motivation to read and research is enough to give them insight into any of these fields, and sometimes better insight than people who traditionally are bad at formulating theories like biologists, or psychiatrists for example.
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they would know since they are the major malware authors. Duh.
It's the idiots like you that compel cyclists to carry guns instead of an extra water bottle.
Actually it would be the fault of the person opening the door, not the other way around. Same as someone running across the street without checking the traffic.
Any freshly installed Windows PC will run faster than the one that has been around for couple of months. And it is not simply a matter of fragmentation, it's also registry clutter, pre-fetch, the fact that Windows records what executables you use the most and it computes optimal disk layout based on that etc, shuffling stuff around on disk, slowing other things, performance degradation that comes when you have lots of files in a folder etc.
In general I have not noticed this kind of slowdown with OS X. I have been running my OS X installation for year and a half now, and I have not noticed any slowdown. I find OS X and Linux to be much more resilient to user using it.
I know you meant that as a joke, but it would seem some people will not stop until that is a reality. There were recent reports of scientists being able to tell from live scan of the brain what the subject was thinking about. Wait a couple of hundred years and we will have the technology to implement thought police.
that you have to spend 6 month buried in the basement of your wooden house, because the province is overrun by glacier with -40 degrees temp out there.
For all the grief we give about Bill Gates, at least he is doing something for humanity that is good other than spend money on luxuries. The guy is not a hero and we should not look to him for inspiration. Plenty of other people in streets of Iran to look for that.
He's going to have to do a LOT of good to make up for Windows.
Of course you are not to put your faith in one person interpreting anything for you. Related to this, non-catholics are way way more likely to do exactly that, where local pastor is a mini-pope doing their own faith pronouncements. But I degress. In Catholic church not even pope is allowed to make faith pronouncements of his own that would be binding to any member. It's usually the council of bishops that meets and discusses each fine point and then the pope announces the decision ex-cathedra which makes it official.
Faith is deeply personal thing, and like you said many times now, no one can understand for you or believe for you. However, my faith was handed down to me from generation to generation, and my original spiritual ancestors were there when Jesus was crucified. So, I'm inclined to trust them better than some random "pastor" who is going to tell me all about Bible and what it means.
Whether you like it or not, God did build the church and continues to do so. Also, whether you like it or not, God (Jesus) did choose his disciples, and also on many occasions said that he revealed to them more than to the crowds to whom he spoke in parables that they may hear but never understand.
So, yes, God's chosen ones were told more. The church is built upon them, and their "job" if you will is to guard that deposit of faith, and reveal it to anyone that wants to hear it.
Reading the Bible is profitable to one's soul, and a good thing indeed, but that is not all there is.
What you are talking about is called bibliolatry. You know God didn't descend on Earth one day and in a ball of fire and dazzling light handed "The Bible" to the humans and said "here read this and believe in it".
Besides, God would not give us a book without an interpreter for it. But he did give us an interpreter for it, his holy church. The problem is people have rejected his church and started their own thing reading the bible like it unambiguous and can be interpreted only one way, effectively becoming their own gods.
The mere idea of trusting in Bible only is so absurd to anyone who thinks about it for even 2 min.
Sure, take every opportunity to take a stab at the catholic church. The last acceptible prejudice in America.
I just can't believe that in today's day and age, relative educated (I would assume you are, hanging on Slashdot and all), person like you would still choose to believe fabricated lies rather than go and find out for yourself.
Catholics are not forbidden from reading the bible, they don't have to be "properly" educated to do so, they can talk to God, through Jesus Christ, the one mediator between God and man, they are saved by faith in Christ, they are not saved by works, they don't have to have confessions to have their sins forgiven, they don't worship Mary or saints etc.
But of course, it's much easier to believe lies. They serve a deep purpose for you protestants. The hatred for Catholics is the only thing you agree upon.
You are not truly a mathematician until you learn to abstract. Symbols are ultimate abstractions. Yes, you can invent your own symbols, but you will still have symbols.
Think about how children learn to count. They first count concrete objects, one finger, two fingers, ... one apple, two apples, etc. and then we abstract. Remove the object being counted and just have one, two. This is where the big abstraction happens. We arrive to the concept of oneness, without thinking about 1 something. Now add symbols for those abstractions 1, 2 and now you can do some neat things with symbols that translate into concrete objects when applied. This is the essence of math.
Yes, symbolism introduced is standardized so that we can talk to each other and exchange ideas. Otherwise, it would take a lot of time for you to explain all your symbols to me before we could have any meaningful conversation.
Tethering does not work for me. I get a message to contact Rogers about tethering on my iPhone when I try to enable it in the network settings.
that your organization has made your job measurable. It does not matter what they measure your performance by, as long as it is something tangible.
So, you get payed by how many tickets you managed to close in a month. Fine. So, you close as many as you can in a month, resulting in lower quality of each problem fix, resulting in more tickets posted and assigned to you, resulting in you having ensured that next month you have enough tickets as well.
This can go on indefinitely, or your wise superiors might decide to measure your work somehow else.
Well, I think of 64 bit kernel update as a bit more than a service pack. They are not charging much for the update because most average users like yourself would not know that 64 bit is and why would they want it.
Basically, you can not market 64 kernel update to average user. On the other hand they did not have time to develop and test new UI theme as sell that as greatest and biggest update ever. So, Snow Leopard is really move to 64 bit on the Mac and they want everyone to move to it as fast as they can, hence the price.
What do you think it means? OS X is certified (by the Open Group) UNIX, and it owns 8% of the desktop market. That's a lot of UNIX machines. Yes, other UNIX OSes dominate on the server (where OS X has no foothold at all), but I doubt there are as many server machines as there are client machines in general.
vi is considered standard UNIX tool. These days most UNIX flavors use VIM as standard vi.
But there is more to software development than just editing text files (even thought it's the one thing we spend most time doing).
But I'm talking about the integrated part of it. UNIX was designed by programmers for programmers. It does have a steep learning curve but in my opinion is worth it. Once you get proficient it's hard to match with anything else.
I find UNIX terminal is the best IDE and developer platform ever created and never duplicated, widely used for just about anything on a regular basis.
Could you also tell us how many other IDEs are you proficient with. Otherwise your statement doesn't mean much.
I often hear things like that from people who only ever used VS, and who would not be able to write the code without it to begin with. If you gave them plain text editor and asked them to write code to do something simple they would start crying, or leave immediately if you did that in an interview.
You don't use OS X? If you do, then yes, your filessystem (coupled with spotlight and a few metadata entries) will do all those things and more.
I guess different people are getting different value out of their OS X investment.
You are just showing your lack of understanding (and ironically you are voted insightful). If you were trying to develop and popularize a cell phone platform that is trying to appeal to kids and young teenagers, would you not try to also have some sort of content rating or control so that parents of those kids (who are actually buying the devices for their kids) will have a peace of mind knowing that their "precious (or is that special) little ones" are not viewing obscene content, but can continue to live in a dream?
This is more or less what is going on here. Yes, Apple could have come up with a lot better way to do this, but apparently due to market pressures didn't have time to implement it properly. Apparently better app rating system is coming with iPhone OS 3.0.
it's not quite clear cut in this case. If they rejected general purpose RSS reader it would be atrocious. But they didn't. They rejected special purpose RSS reader that is used to view content that contains "obscene" words/content (what ever that is).
It would be the same as if I modified Firefox code and made "porn" browser that knows all about juicy links only.
Now, we could argue about where does one draw the line, but that's something else completely that most people here are not discussing.
iPhone is used by a lot of kids and I don't know if app store has any kind of rating and parental controls of what can be installed on the iPhone based on the age of the owner (from the device itself).
So, Apple has decided to do the policing themselves, which is really a thankless job, and extremely error prone as we have seen time and time again.
I'm sure there is a better solution to this problem, that would not be too hard to implement.
Actually, some aspects of computer science can be more like science (you know, hypothesize, create experiment and test your hypothesis) than pure math.
This is particularly true in applications (i.e. programming) where this cycle of write code to implement some functionality, compile, run to test if it works, modify code again etc. is how we really work.
Theology is not religion and is certainly not about any specific deity like Zombie Jesus(TM) or Allah.
Whether you like it or not, we humans are spiritual beings, and people like you who deny that aspect of themselves are not really living their lives to the fullest. Spirituality is not about worshiping Gods in some ritualistic way prescribed by religious form, although it can be that too. It is more about you being awestruck by "simple" questions like why are we here, what is my purpose here if I have any at all, where did we come from, where are we going, etc.
By the way all world religions offer answers to these questions, but are by no means the only answers one can give. One could be scientific about it, and try to answer these question from that perspective, but that kind of analysis usually leaves us cold, feeling small, and somewhat unfulfilled.
or specialize in every field. Studying math and specializing in it is a safe bet to gain most general knowledge that is still applicable to wide array of scientific fields, and that would allow you to follow quite a bit of science.
These days majority of science is based on mathematical models, including physics, chemistry (esp. the physical chemistry part of it), biochemistry, computer science, certainly climate and weather prediction, astronomy, engineering of almost any kind, but esp. electrical and mechanical, and lately more esoteric things like psychology and theories of the mind, and less esoteric things like sociology and crowd behaviors.
True, mathematician is no expert on any of these fields, but is armed with enough mathematical knowledge that coupled with a bit of curiosity and motivation to read and research is enough to give them insight into any of these fields, and sometimes better insight than people who traditionally are bad at formulating theories like biologists, or psychiatrists for example.