In fact, here in the Physics department, I've watched a fair amount of people switch from Sun/SGI to Linux, or Mac OS X (and even some from Linux to OS X), because it runs their applications, is cheaper than new SGIs/Suns, and just works right away, unlike (sorry) Linux.
Yeah I guess that's why Fermi has their own distro.
After boot up make a ram disk and copy a minimal working partition along with the music files to the ram disk partition. Mount the ramdisk partition and work off of it.
The gamegear was not technically superior. It was merely the sega master system (competitor of the NES) retrofited to a handheld with a backlit color screen.
Yes it had light, good color, and a faster CPU with more memory (the master system was a better system than the NES in almost every way), but it made a terrible portable device because it ate up about 8 AA's less than 2 hours.
Well I've been following FFIX news and Square has already flatly stated that this will be a multiplatform release. The gamecube will most likely not be left out in the cold, but Square is taking a wait and see attitude with the Xbox and considering Microsoft's poor Japanese support and zero support for the rest of Asia, it would not seem reasonable for Square to make an Xbox port.
Last summer I did a REU at Los Alamos and my mentor who writes and uses plasma code for a living told me that he had never even used pointers before. He said that he didn't need pointers or object anything because that stuff is only for CS people writing GUI stuff and Mickey Mouse programs.
However this is a man that writes in Fortran 90. And Fortran 90 does contain pointers (very ugly syntax) and OO stuff if he would ever need to use them. (I would complain about the ugliness of his code too, but I know my shit stunk too when the deadline was coming in)
On the other hand I have met a professor that prefered C++ because he had many projects and they all very large. He wanted maximum code reuse and all self contained pieces.
And also it is obvious that classes are extremely valuable for other types of math than basic arithmetic like linear algebra and some abstract algegras.
I myself prefer C for its speed/simplicity/size and always having a compiler. I generally make very ugly use of inlines, macros, and global variables to cut code size down without having classes. For bad example
int e #define VECTOR(X) for(e=0;e<3;++e) {X;}
(and then unroll the loops) which applies some statement X component wise, so I could add vectors like VECTOR(a[e]+b[e]). Yes, I know it is ugly, but damnit I have had code that took a month on 9 computers and I just didn't have any extra time for the performance hit of C++.
I work for a content publisher, and let me tell you that the people who manage my place of employment would love nothing better that to get a leg up on companies that make the paper we produce our content on.
My father works for the largest paper company in the world and the economics you need are fairly simple. The biggest influence is lumber value and operation costs. Year after year IP grows more trees than any other company I know. Year after year people need more lumber. If IP can make good money selling some of the lumber, then they will; that means less paper and higher prices (more demand). And as for operation costs, they just keep rising.
Our share price is tied to the price of a roll of paper. As such, cheap, easy to produce e-paper would provide an effective bargaining tool to keep the price of wood based paper cheap and our stock price up.
Very doubtful. If you want some hope then look to China, they are starting some big paper manf in the next few years. You should see results in 6-8 years or so.
So I go to install RPM 4, it wants glibc. Surprise surprise, glibc wants RPM 4.
Uhm, here is a hint. If package a requires b and package b requires a, then just install them both at the same time.
rpm -Uvh ab
And what what are you doing with a tar ball of Mozilla, and why are you using Debian as your first distro ??? Are you trying to make things hard for yourself?
Yes, but what you did is called a "straw man" argument, and that is logically immoral.
A is like B
B is bad
therefore A is bad
Which is not valid.
And also, without knowing anything about what the PS2, Xbox, and Gamecube are made of, only looking at the games, it is blindingly obvious to me that the Gamecube looks much better than the other two. (I can't really make any distinction between the quality of the Xbox and PS2.)
Which brings up another point. If your argument disagrees with reality, then the argument is probably wrong.
And thus ends my lecture on logic, ANOVA, and scientific reasoning.
Artists get most of their money from concerts. Albums are basically just advertising.
Ahhh no. Any band such as that is the rare exception.
Bands go on tour to promote their new and latest album. Pull your fucking head out of the sand; how many times have you heard an artist say "I am now on tour promoting my new album, please buy this shit"
In fact, it is more common for a band to loose money on tour, i.e. U2
I would be surprised to learn that these machines were in anything other than officially authorized kiosks (with air conditioning or something!).
Kiosks and such are 100% property of Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo. The company pays allot of money to put them in ToysRus and generally, employees aren't allowed to fool around with them. I believe that it was Nintendo that was so restrictive that you had to call a rep to reset the machine.
Anyway, there is little excuse for overheating, because Microsoft could have put fans and ventilation in the kiosks if they thought that might be a problem
Only nonsensical possibilities rule out ambiguity.
These ambiguities don't exist so much in spoken English because inflection implies grouping.
But oddly enough the negation of a negative is a positive much like with First Order Logic and Arithmetic. This is not true in Spanish, where double negatives can be negative.
See this web page, it is a very configurable portal and you can edit your email addresses, change your passwords, upload files to your homepage. And all of this works in Windows, Mac, and Linux. No special software is required, just a standards supporting webbrowser.
It may be my ignorance, but I don't know any other ISP that provides that kind of crossplatform solution.
@home also does your email 'mail' and nntp 'news'. And the nntp has good lists, even an @home unix list.
I am not saying that excite@home does not suck, but they do actually do something.
Interesting question, and I cannot give you an absolute answer but I can point out a few things.
If during the cooling period, atoms were decaying, then I imagine that the recoil from conservation of momentum would not have a good effect on the temperature.
It is classical BEC theory that the entire system shares one wavefunction, but many BEC physicists believe that this is idealized.
Unfortunately I see many (not the majority) mathematicians, physicists, and scientists in general using PowerPoint. While this is nothing bad in itself, PowerPoint allows them to make a presentation worse than if they just used transparencies.
Without font AA on, the equations look bad in Windows.
PowerPoint lets people put text and equations on colored background so they are hard to see.
Equation fonts don't ever seem to use the correct size or weight font and are always more difficult to read than LaTeX slides.
People seem to have a difficult time going back and forth through slides.
In fact the only thing of value that I have ever seen are animations and media type things, but nothing that can't be done with HTML.
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I don't use either Gnome or KDE, because I like just a nice WM like E or WindowMaker so I feel my opinion is probably not very biased.
After Gnome became stable (1.X) I tried both Gnome and KDE and found that KDE was like vanilla MacOS and seemed to lack the amount of neat features that Gnome had. But I still didn't use Gnome because it was too slow on my machine.
I just recently used both and I have to say that I think the roles have reversed. The newest KDE is very sexy with good use of anti-aliasing and alpha. KDE seems to have gone the OSX route but with a more mature look.
I would say that I think the latest KDE is even better than OSX, but I am biased in that I think that the Aqua theme is ass candy fugly.
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Yeah I guess that's why Fermi has their own distro.
- Transforming the data to a complex vector space, C^n if you will.
- Using some very complicated seed and algorithm to generate randomish data in this complex domain that approximates the transformed data.
- Investigaiting the differences, and storing the differences with a "complex combinatorial series".
Yes it sounds like crap but it's not as empty as social texts.I don't think the Pygmies have electricity.
And we can still make fun of the Amish too.
RAM is cheap now a days.
Get a new mobo and deck it out with like 4GB.
After boot up make a ram disk and copy a minimal working partition along with the music files to the ram disk partition. Mount the ramdisk partition and work off of it.
There you go, problem fixed.
The gamegear was not technically superior. It was merely the sega master system (competitor of the NES) retrofited to a handheld with a backlit color screen.
Yes it had light, good color, and a faster CPU with more memory (the master system was a better system than the NES in almost every way), but it made a terrible portable device because it ate up about 8 AA's less than 2 hours.
You could barely finish a game.
Well I've been following FFIX news and Square has already flatly stated that this will be a multiplatform release. The gamecube will most likely not be left out in the cold, but Square is taking a wait and see attitude with the Xbox and considering Microsoft's poor Japanese support and zero support for the rest of Asia, it would not seem reasonable for Square to make an Xbox port.
However this is a man that writes in Fortran 90. And Fortran 90 does contain pointers (very ugly syntax) and OO stuff if he would ever need to use them. (I would complain about the ugliness of his code too, but I know my shit stunk too when the deadline was coming in)
On the other hand I have met a professor that prefered C++ because he had many projects and they all very large. He wanted maximum code reuse and all self contained pieces.
And also it is obvious that classes are extremely valuable for other types of math than basic arithmetic like linear algebra and some abstract algegras.
I myself prefer C for its speed/simplicity/size and always having a compiler. I generally make very ugly use of inlines, macros, and global variables to cut code size down without having classes. For bad example
int e
#define VECTOR(X) for(e=0;e<3;++e) {X;}
(and then unroll the loops) which applies some statement X component wise, so I could add vectors like VECTOR(a[e]+b[e]). Yes, I know it is ugly, but damnit I have had code that took a month on 9 computers and I just didn't have any extra time for the performance hit of C++.
My father works for the largest paper company in the world and the economics you need are fairly simple. The biggest influence is lumber value and operation costs. Year after year IP grows more trees than any other company I know. Year after year people need more lumber. If IP can make good money selling some of the lumber, then they will; that means less paper and higher prices (more demand). And as for operation costs, they just keep rising.
Our share price is tied to the price of a roll of paper. As such, cheap, easy to produce e-paper would provide an effective bargaining tool to keep the price of wood based paper cheap and our stock price up.
Very doubtful. If you want some hope then look to China, they are starting some big paper manf in the next few years. You should see results in 6-8 years or so.
Uhm, here is a hint. If package a requires b and package b requires a, then just install them both at the same time.
rpm -Uvh a b
And what what are you doing with a tar ball of Mozilla, and why are you using Debian as your first distro ??? Are you trying to make things hard for yourself?
..also making the laser scatter off of nothing in empty space so you can see it.
Revolutionary new developments in lasers not in the visible range.
Do you know prolog, because I thought that it was pretty damn simple.
Haskell on the other hand is a bit far out. But I think a good programmer could learn LISP one week and Haskell the next.
Otherwise I agree with you.
Counter Example:
Virtual Hylide for the Sega Saturn
1st Generation game
more choppy than that raytraced Wolfenstein3D clone on the TI85
but then 3rd gen games like Virtua Fighter 2 looked great and ran smooth in high res.
I think the Xbox is a big piece of shit too, but your argument is bunk
Speak for your self anonymous coward.
I will never buy a Nvidia product again.
Yes, but what you did is called a "straw man" argument, and that is logically immoral.
A is like B
B is bad
therefore A is bad
Which is not valid.
And also, without knowing anything about what the PS2, Xbox, and Gamecube are made of, only looking at the games, it is blindingly obvious to me that the Gamecube looks much better than the other two. (I can't really make any distinction between the quality of the Xbox and PS2.)
Which brings up another point. If your argument disagrees with reality, then the argument is probably wrong.
And thus ends my lecture on logic, ANOVA, and scientific reasoning.
Ahhh no. Any band such as that is the rare exception.
Bands go on tour to promote their new and latest album. Pull your fucking head out of the sand; how many times have you heard an artist say "I am now on tour promoting my new album, please buy this shit"
In fact, it is more common for a band to loose money on tour, i.e. U2
Kiosks and such are 100% property of Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo. The company pays allot of money to put them in ToysRus and generally, employees aren't allowed to fool around with them. I believe that it was Nintendo that was so restrictive that you had to call a rep to reset the machine.
Anyway, there is little excuse for overheating, because Microsoft could have put fans and ventilation in the kiosks if they thought that might be a problem
True story:
3 kids walk into the Toys R Us R-zone chanting the mantra "X-box rules".
They walk up to the kiosk and play Munch's Oddysee.
The next thing you hear is "X-box is gay"
But what happens when the computer frame is bent a fraction of a degree. How can one possibly compensate for that and keep the sizes so small.
Everything would have to be right up against eachother and secured beyond firmly.
English is not associative.
Without parentheses there is ambiguity.
Only nonsensical possibilities rule out ambiguity.
These ambiguities don't exist so much in spoken English because inflection implies grouping.
But oddly enough the negation of a negative is a positive much like with First Order Logic and Arithmetic. This is not true in Spanish, where double negatives can be negative.
Type in 'www' in your URL bar.
Log in with your user name and password.
See this web page, it is a very configurable portal and you can edit your email addresses, change your passwords, upload files to your homepage. And all of this works in Windows, Mac, and Linux. No special software is required, just a standards supporting webbrowser.
It may be my ignorance, but I don't know any other ISP that provides that kind of crossplatform solution.
@home also does your email 'mail' and nntp 'news'. And the nntp has good lists, even an @home unix list.
I am not saying that excite@home does not suck, but they do actually do something.
Unfortunately I see many (not the majority) mathematicians, physicists, and scientists in general using PowerPoint. While this is nothing bad in itself, PowerPoint allows them to make a presentation worse than if they just used transparencies.
Without font AA on, the equations look bad in Windows.
PowerPoint lets people put text and equations on colored background so they are hard to see.
Equation fonts don't ever seem to use the correct size or weight font and are always more difficult to read than LaTeX slides.
People seem to have a difficult time going back and forth through slides.
In fact the only thing of value that I have ever seen are animations and media type things, but nothing that can't be done with HTML.
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I don't use either Gnome or KDE, because I like just a nice WM like E or WindowMaker so I feel my opinion is probably not very biased.
After Gnome became stable (1.X) I tried both Gnome and KDE and found that KDE was like vanilla MacOS and seemed to lack the amount of neat features that Gnome had. But I still didn't use Gnome because it was too slow on my machine.
I just recently used both and I have to say that I think the roles have reversed. The newest KDE is very sexy with good use of anti-aliasing and alpha. KDE seems to have gone the OSX route but with a more mature look.
I would say that I think the latest KDE is even better than OSX, but I am biased in that I think that the Aqua theme is ass candy fugly.