i just *love* the guy's rant about packaging and downloading necessary files. sure i think you all know where this is going, but this shameless plug is no longer so shameless, especially with headline including you know what. yes, you need to go find RPMs on websites with various mirrors. yes, you need to install all the required libs, etc. i find it quite interesting that he says that mandrake comes with everything you will ever need. why is this a good thing? perhaps because getting new stuff (the largest interaction with the distribution you will have) might not be so terribly easy. i think the solution is obvious
i would sign this "The Debian Troll" but i don't think that is necessary
i really disagree about the second one. mostly, because *gasp* not all algorithms people use come from comp sci books. people develop algorithms all the time, so looking into code for that specific reason might be extremely helpful.
this seems just a like a modified litestep theme. however, besides the multiple desktops, the fundamental UI is idenical to windows: shortcuts on desktop, a start button, taskbar. in this particular case, mostly bitmaps have been changed. as someone said before, though, when theming is implemented correctly you can do a LOT more than this. plus, that is only the look of the desktop, and NOT the look and feel of the UI and all applications
EULAs. they are both very difficult to enforce/fight, yet they exist nevertheless. in both cases they exist simply because of monetary benefit. companies requiring signing an EULA wants to protect its product, while spammers live on 1 out of a million idiots who actually BUY their stuff! even if a bill is passed, i honestly don't think that will stop many spammers, if any, unless there is a mass effort to dismantle them one by one.
the biggest problem with both biological evolution and most neuro-evolution AI systems take an incredibly long time. so, yeah, if wait for a few million generations, there might be *something*, but then again, the model has to be computationally complex enough to be able to evolve to the level we want it to. if we take a system such as a two layer perceptron ANN, and evolve a million generations of it, not much will come of it. so, first the model, then the actual evolution.
there is linux and win32 dll support for it in both mplayer AND xine. plus, they support ra, rm demuxers, as well as streaming RTSP (which bbc uses). as a matter of fact, i am using mplayer at the moment to convert.ra to mp3s...so i am not quite sure what your problem is:)
is that you CANNOT say "the set of all sets." this leads to great paradoxes such as "the set of all sets that do not include itself." if it includes it self, then it itself is not in it. but if it includes itself, it must NOT include itself. you get the idea... any universe in set theory is well defined and not just "all possible values."
so, i think i agree with grandparent that in order for monkeys to type the works of shakespeare, they would need to type randomly (assuming they don't evolve into humans by that time), which they don't (necessarily)
alloca(). it allocates on the stack. in fact it is exactly what int a[1000] compiles to. it is equivalent to doing: int * a = alloca( 1000 * sizeof(int));
i hope you are being sarcastic about smart users. as i said, windows *did* try it, by failed. it only works for small numbers of documents because the directory structure is still extremely apparent to the user. in fact, it is virtually impossible to get anything done *without* knowledge of the dir. structure.
what i am suggesting is having the computer somehow decide how to index your files, instead of you deciding how to do so. to access and save files you would give keywords, and the computer would decide where that goes. as long as you can describe a file in a few words succinctly, this should be no trouble. why should i be the one deciding that my directories are too big. why not have the computer decide that, and do a keyword split?
the whole notion of a file system is kinda outdated. it was a great model, sure... but honestly: users don't CARE where things are, as long as they can access them. on unix there is a path for running programs, but you still have to have a place to save stuff. windows tried to have stuff like "my documents" etc, but still didn't organize the data by type, or anything.
although we might not be there quite yet, the notion of a file system should be hidden from a user. do you a have a filesystem in real life? no... you have places you put stuff. sure, it might go in some specific place, but there is no need for the user to know the details of where things go
it seems to me that people get into OSS for the same reason they might get into local government (i.e. small town politics). if someone is interested in government and politics, they try to do something locally first, because a) people will let them and b) there is less bureaucracy. there is usually little or no pay when involved in local government, but just like working on OSS, it gives a good resume boost and gives valuable experience. i guess the only difference is that local government is not aiming to be a competitor to higher authorities:)
i realize they have a KDE fetish, but is it really necessary to make something to general as a web development environment based on kde *schtuff*, so that i need to load all the bloated libs to use it? they seem to proud of their quality, but rather restrictive with respect to a user's preferences for desktop environment. doesn't seem to be any good reason to not use gtk2... just my unwanted $0.02
i don't know. orsinal wastes my time plenty and i am much older. it almost seems younger kids would find the games boring, with their infinite complexity and all
i noticed that it is impossible to make escher's lizards with that applet. the tesselation escher uses is slightly different: namely, escher's lizard tesselation used a 120 degree rotation, whereas that applet uses translation to calculate a tesselable (is that even a word) tile. definitely interesting nonetheless
what people keep seeming to misunderstand, is that that a 3-manifold is NOT a 3 dimensional object. when we speak of manifolds, we only care about the surface of the object, not its volume. therefore a 3-manifold is one with a 3 dimensional surface, i.e. a 4 dimensional object.
another thing is interesting to note: there are a LOT of problems in mathematics in which n=1 is trivial, n=2 is hard but straight forward. n>3 is not too hard and usually falls under one proof, and n=3 is EXTRAORDINARILY difficult. poincare, random walks, you name it.
they don't know how to count for yet another reason: they said they traded 652000 songs. at 3mb per song that is 1956000 MB or 1.956 terrabytes. i highly doubt any student has that kind of space, and if they do? damn... if they don't though, the RIAA is overcounting for downloading each song more than once.
that is not entirely true. the sickle cell allele is only resistant in the heterozygous form, so much of the population actually doesn't have the allele present.
susceptablity has little to do with *how* DNA is coded. any given gene or allele can provide resistance to a given disease, and as long as there are differences, some people will be susceptible differenly than others. really the only way to eliminate diversity to the point where diseases might affect the entire population is to have *very* few people in the population. unless you specifically change a gene that provides resistant to a certain disease, nothing will change. a lack of diversity is bad, yes...but it would need to be pretty extreme to have a significant effect.
analogy with christian holidays, i.e. m$ office is the standard (and please don't tell me it isn't). the majority doesn't understand it is the standard (i.e, there is something different) and thinks that it is the ONLY way. If i tell some of my friends that i don't have IE or even if a expand the acronym to "internet explorer", they are like "what?? what do you mean, you don't have the internet?". you cannot explain away ignorance, it's just there. m$ created it and is tailoring to it, nothing more.
you mention rich kids as being popular in your HS. this sounds like a very affluent neighborhood where most of the parents of the kids went to college, etc. where i come from, the HS has extremely bright students (i.e. winning national competitions and such) but rich kids are more often than not disliked. there are definitely people who tried to be popular harder than i could ever have. i think this strongly depends on the school. IMHO, "calling the BS card" is rather subjective, and doesn't fit my original post, because i was speaking of a general trend in america NOT localized group selection and such. also, i don't know what college you come from, but 60% of guys in mine are in frats, so the frat mention is again unique and not general.
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i just *love* the guy's rant about packaging and downloading necessary files. sure i think you all know where this is going, but this shameless plug is no longer so shameless, especially with headline including you know what. yes, you need to go find RPMs on websites with various mirrors. yes, you need to install all the required libs, etc. i find it quite interesting that he says that mandrake comes with everything you will ever need. why is this a good thing? perhaps because getting new stuff (the largest interaction with the distribution you will have) might not be so terribly easy. i think the solution is obvious
i would sign this "The Debian Troll" but i don't think that is necessary
i really disagree about the second one. mostly, because *gasp* not all algorithms people use come from comp sci books. people develop algorithms all the time, so looking into code for that specific reason might be extremely helpful.
this seems just a like a modified litestep theme. however, besides the multiple desktops, the fundamental UI is idenical to windows: shortcuts on desktop, a start button, taskbar. in this particular case, mostly bitmaps have been changed. as someone said before, though, when theming is implemented correctly you can do a LOT more than this. plus, that is only the look of the desktop, and NOT the look and feel of the UI and all applications
EULAs. they are both very difficult to enforce/fight, yet they exist nevertheless. in both cases they exist simply because of monetary benefit. companies requiring signing an EULA wants to protect its product, while spammers live on 1 out of a million idiots who actually BUY their stuff! even if a bill is passed, i honestly don't think that will stop many spammers, if any, unless there is a mass effort to dismantle them one by one.
the biggest problem with both biological evolution and most neuro-evolution AI systems take an incredibly long time. so, yeah, if wait for a few million generations, there might be *something*, but then again, the model has to be computationally complex enough to be able to evolve to the level we want it to. if we take a system such as a two layer perceptron ANN, and evolve a million generations of it, not much will come of it. so, first the model, then the actual evolution.
there is linux and win32 dll support for it in both mplayer AND xine. plus, they support ra, rm demuxers, as well as streaming RTSP (which bbc uses). as a matter of fact, i am using mplayer at the moment to convert .ra to mp3s...so i am not quite sure what your problem is :)
is that you CANNOT say "the set of all sets." this leads to great paradoxes such as "the set of all sets that do not include itself." if it includes it self, then it itself is not in it. but if it includes itself, it must NOT include itself. you get the idea... any universe in set theory is well defined and not just "all possible values."
so, i think i agree with grandparent that in order for monkeys to type the works of shakespeare, they would need to type randomly (assuming they don't evolve into humans by that time), which they don't (necessarily)
alloca(). it allocates on the stack. in fact it is exactly what int a[1000] compiles to. it is equivalent to doing: int * a = alloca( 1000 * sizeof(int));
i hope you are being sarcastic about smart users. as i said, windows *did* try it, by failed. it only works for small numbers of documents because the directory structure is still extremely apparent to the user. in fact, it is virtually impossible to get anything done *without* knowledge of the dir. structure.
what i am suggesting is having the computer somehow decide how to index your files, instead of you deciding how to do so. to access and save files you would give keywords, and the computer would decide where that goes. as long as you can describe a file in a few words succinctly, this should be no trouble. why should i be the one deciding that my directories are too big. why not have the computer decide that, and do a keyword split?
the whole notion of a file system is kinda outdated. it was a great model, sure... but honestly: users don't CARE where things are, as long as they can access them. on unix there is a path for running programs, but you still have to have a place to save stuff. windows tried to have stuff like "my documents" etc, but still didn't organize the data by type, or anything.
although we might not be there quite yet, the notion of a file system should be hidden from a user. do you a have a filesystem in real life? no... you have places you put stuff. sure, it might go in some specific place, but there is no need for the user to know the details of where things go
...make up for SOME things with big computers...oh wait
it seems to me that people get into OSS for the same reason they might get into local government (i.e. small town politics). if someone is interested in government and politics, they try to do something locally first, because a) people will let them and b) there is less bureaucracy. there is usually little or no pay when involved in local government, but just like working on OSS, it gives a good resume boost and gives valuable experience. i guess the only difference is that local government is not aiming to be a competitor to higher authorities :)
i realize they have a KDE fetish, but is it really necessary to make something to general as a web development environment based on kde *schtuff*, so that i need to load all the bloated libs to use it? they seem to proud of their quality, but rather restrictive with respect to a user's preferences for desktop environment. doesn't seem to be any good reason to not use gtk2... just my unwanted $0.02
i don't know. orsinal wastes my time plenty and i am much older. it almost seems younger kids would find the games boring, with their infinite complexity and all
i noticed that it is impossible to make escher's lizards with that applet. the tesselation escher uses is slightly different: namely, escher's lizard tesselation used a 120 degree rotation, whereas that applet uses translation to calculate a tesselable (is that even a word) tile. definitely interesting nonetheless
what people keep seeming to misunderstand, is that that a 3-manifold is NOT a 3 dimensional object. when we speak of manifolds, we only care about the surface of the object, not its volume. therefore a 3-manifold is one with a 3 dimensional surface, i.e. a 4 dimensional object.
another thing is interesting to note: there are a LOT of problems in mathematics in which n=1 is trivial, n=2 is hard but straight forward. n>3 is not too hard and usually falls under one proof, and n=3 is EXTRAORDINARILY difficult. poincare, random walks, you name it.
unzip fly; touch penis; make love; man woman
this results in the output:
cannot find fly
cannot make love
no manual entry for woman
they don't know how to count for yet another reason: they said they traded 652000 songs. at 3mb per song that is 1956000 MB or 1.956 terrabytes. i highly doubt any student has that kind of space, and if they do? damn... if they don't though, the RIAA is overcounting for downloading each song more than once.
that is not entirely true. the sickle cell allele is only resistant in the heterozygous form, so much of the population actually doesn't have the allele present.
susceptablity has little to do with *how* DNA is coded. any given gene or allele can provide resistance to a given disease, and as long as there are differences, some people will be susceptible differenly than others. really the only way to eliminate diversity to the point where diseases might affect the entire population is to have *very* few people in the population. unless you specifically change a gene that provides resistant to a certain disease, nothing will change. a lack of diversity is bad, yes...but it would need to be pretty extreme to have a significant effect.
no, it's by account around here, which basically means a specific IP address.
really, with what version of xine. mplayer gives me video, but no audio; xine just aborts
for once it's not the editors
analogy with christian holidays, i.e. m$ office is the standard (and please don't tell me it isn't). the majority doesn't understand it is the standard (i.e, there is something different) and thinks that it is the ONLY way. If i tell some of my friends that i don't have IE or even if a expand the acronym to "internet explorer", they are like "what?? what do you mean, you don't have the internet?". you cannot explain away ignorance, it's just there. m$ created it and is tailoring to it, nothing more.
you mention rich kids as being popular in your HS. this sounds like a very affluent neighborhood where most of the parents of the kids went to college, etc. where i come from, the HS has extremely bright students (i.e. winning national competitions and such) but rich kids are more often than not disliked. there are definitely people who tried to be popular harder than i could ever have. i think this strongly depends on the school. IMHO, "calling the BS card" is rather subjective, and doesn't fit my original post, because i was speaking of a general trend in america NOT localized group selection and such. also, i don't know what college you come from, but 60% of guys in mine are in frats, so the frat mention is again unique and not general.