I like the fact that the GNOME interface has remained fairly consistent over time. I don't have to re-learn everything with each release.
That's one of my core complaints about Windows, too. I remember when Windows 95 came out, and I kept hitting that damn "X" button instead of the maximize button. And I was only twelve years old.
I hate monopolies, but I have to say I agree. Oracle has shown more support for OSS than PeopleSoft has, and it'd be an improvement if the software my college uses for payroll, class scheduling, and virtually every other function supported a browser other than IE.
I guess I'm still hung up on whether the ends justify the means in this case.
My cat tries to suckle from my earlobes, and I'm still alive.
But then, I've only got one cat. I'll lay down on the couch, and he'll jump up on my chest and suckle. Either that,or he sticks his head under my chin and sleeps.
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All things considered, what's the cost-per-tflop of that sort of system. These guys don't require as much cooling, space, or whatever else you care to think about.
Has anyone tried stuffing several into a single 1U chassis? For a sort of cluster of clusters?
One catagory of people who's lives have been made more difficult by technology: Customer service.
Whether that be tech support over the phone, or (If you consider "Windows" a "technology", then there's a big boost in your stress right there.) tutoring students taking computer courses at community college, technology hasn't helped a great deal.
With every additional bit of sophistication, more training is required of the user. Unless, of course, you can train the user to figure things out on their own. That's what GUIs were supposed to be good for; users could apply the visual/spatial capabilities of their brains to learning how to do complex tasks.
Well, if anyone thought to teach a student to use a "GUI", much less doing so before trying to teach that student to use all of the advanced features of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, FrontPage and Access.
(Our CO-101 course teaches you Access. Our CO-105 course teaches you how to use Windows. Our CO-109 course teaches you how to use a computer. God help me, I'm going insane!)
As a tutor, I've grown absolutely sick and tired of taking appointments involving CO-101 material. It's the Course Technologies book that tells you key by key, click by click, step by step what to do in order to complete your assignment. Students don't get a damn thing out of that kind of book, and I don't have the time or authority to spend the time elevating the student to a higher level, so they can see how all the material comes together.
Kernels as far back as 2.0.x still receive security updates. As new kernel series are developed, the old ones are handed to maintainers who become responsible for the security of the product.
Not really two different beasts, in that respect. A lot of projects use that sort of system. ReiserFS, Mozilla and MySQL are the ones that pop off the top of my head.
You're not just flamebait, you're a troll. Of course there's R&D...it's just at the user-developer end. There's plugins that do things nobody wants to spend the time to implement in Photoshop.
The core system does a lot, but the real usefulness of the GIMP (at least for professional folks) lies in that they can write up a perl script to accomplish any damn thing they can think of. Of course, you can write C plugins as well.
You can't do that so easily with Photoshop unless you've already invested the time and money to make it common practice. (Which, sadly, a lot of firms do. It's easier to commit to trudging an extra couple of miles in familiar territory than risk learning something new.)
Well, the phrase "free exchange of ideas" probably originally stemmed from limitations on speech, not limitations on available cash. That's why IEEE is such a good idea, even if you have to pay to see any of the standards.
Debian upgrades to newer versions of Debian just fine.
Just don't try to run the "unstable" distribution without an internet connection. At least, not if you intend to install any new software.
I'm having a nightmare sneakernetting files back and forth from work without an internet connection. Anyone know of decent tools? apt-zip isn't good enough; I need to use a key fob, and I don't have access to connect USB devices to vmware.
At this point, I've settled on placing the files I've downloaded in my cache for apt-move to find.
I used the wrong word. Perhaps "republished" is more proper. In any case, the relevance of the stories to the era in which they were republished is still striking.
It drives me crazy that I can cite several sources online whenever I get into an argument with my parents, and all they say is "Well, if it's on the internet, it must be true." </sarcasm>
What good is all those billions of pages, if the people you're trying to convince refuse to believe a word of it that they disagree with?
When I search for something, I don't want to get a page that's a marketing front for what I'm trying to find, I want an informational, probably technical, page on the item I'm searching for.
Such pages don't usually mindlessly repeat the keyword I'm searching for over and over again.
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I like the fact that the GNOME interface has remained fairly consistent over time. I don't have to re-learn everything with each release.
That's one of my core complaints about Windows, too. I remember when Windows 95 came out, and I kept hitting that damn "X" button instead of the maximize button. And I was only twelve years old.
I hate monopolies, but I have to say I agree. Oracle has shown more support for OSS than PeopleSoft has, and it'd be an improvement if the software my college uses for payroll, class scheduling, and virtually every other function supported a browser other than IE.
I guess I'm still hung up on whether the ends justify the means in this case.
My cat tries to suckle from my earlobes, and I'm still alive.
But then, I've only got one cat. I'll lay down on the couch, and he'll jump up on my chest and suckle. Either that,or he sticks his head under my chin and sleeps.
Ohhh, that looks simply awesome.
And it'd wipe out any army in minutes!
Ouch...He's using flash as the HD for the computing nodes. Hope they're set to be mounted read-only.
Maybe he should consider PXE instead.
Not to mention that mini-ITX is VIA-proprietary technology. At least, I think it is.
And VIA markets their own line of CPUs for use in that scenario.
However, I wouldn't mind seeing Pentium-M or mobile Athlons placed on mini-ITX boards.
All things considered, what's the cost-per-tflop of that sort of system. These guys don't require as much cooling, space, or whatever else you care to think about.
Has anyone tried stuffing several into a single 1U chassis? For a sort of cluster of clusters?
One catagory of people who's lives have been made more difficult by technology: Customer service.
Whether that be tech support over the phone, or (If you consider "Windows" a "technology", then there's a big boost in your stress right there.) tutoring students taking computer courses at community college, technology hasn't helped a great deal.
With every additional bit of sophistication, more training is required of the user. Unless, of course, you can train the user to figure things out on their own. That's what GUIs were supposed to be good for; users could apply the visual/spatial capabilities of their brains to learning how to do complex tasks.
Well, if anyone thought to teach a student to use a "GUI", much less doing so before trying to teach that student to use all of the advanced features of Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, FrontPage and Access.
(Our CO-101 course teaches you Access. Our CO-105 course teaches you how to use Windows. Our CO-109 course teaches you how to use a computer. God help me, I'm going insane!)
As a tutor, I've grown absolutely sick and tired of taking appointments involving CO-101 material. It's the Course Technologies book that tells you key by key, click by click, step by step what to do in order to complete your assignment. Students don't get a damn thing out of that kind of book, and I don't have the time or authority to spend the time elevating the student to a higher level, so they can see how all the material comes together.
An intranet over a borked Hayes-compatible modem? Talk about penny-pinching management. No surprise the facilities weren't there.
One of the reasons I love Perl is that the following line of code works:
open ( PERLYGATES ) or die "Trying";
I want to know why they chose to get into the browser market in the first place.
It's called sweeping it under the rug. Until, of course, someone trips over the raised rug or sees dust puff out when the rug is stepped on.
Kernels as far back as 2.0.x still receive security updates. As new kernel series are developed, the old ones are handed to maintainers who become responsible for the security of the product.
Not really two different beasts, in that respect. A lot of projects use that sort of system. ReiserFS, Mozilla and MySQL are the ones that pop off the top of my head.
What, so the original Pentium would be "I came, I saw, I estimated?"
I'd rather enjoy living it than sit back getting depressed thinking about it.
Your first point is only an issue if you intend to write a program that can handle arbitrary XML data.
For many (most?) applications, you already have a good idea what the data you're working with is going to be like.
I find XML mostly useful because I can edit data with vim, and not require the original application.
Like my grandmother. She reads the Net Force series of books.
So, OK. If getting past a firewall involved shooting the gaurd in a fantasy world, then we'd all be screwed.
I helped run an ISP with my parents, and she was terrified for our safety after she watched The Net.
You're not just flamebait, you're a troll. Of course there's R&D...it's just at the user-developer end. There's plugins that do things nobody wants to spend the time to implement in Photoshop.
The core system does a lot, but the real usefulness of the GIMP (at least for professional folks) lies in that they can write up a perl script to accomplish any damn thing they can think of. Of course, you can write C plugins as well.
You can't do that so easily with Photoshop unless you've already invested the time and money to make it common practice. (Which, sadly, a lot of firms do. It's easier to commit to trudging an extra couple of miles in familiar territory than risk learning something new.)
Well, the phrase "free exchange of ideas" probably originally stemmed from limitations on speech, not limitations on available cash. That's why IEEE is such a good idea, even if you have to pay to see any of the standards.
Debian upgrades to newer versions of Debian just fine.
Just don't try to run the "unstable" distribution without an internet connection. At least, not if you intend to install any new software.
I'm having a nightmare sneakernetting files back and forth from work without an internet connection. Anyone know of decent tools? apt-zip isn't good enough; I need to use a key fob, and I don't have access to connect USB devices to vmware.
At this point, I've settled on placing the files I've downloaded in my cache for apt-move to find.
I used the wrong word. Perhaps "republished" is more proper. In any case, the relevance of the stories to the era in which they were republished is still striking.
It drives me crazy that I can cite several sources online whenever I get into an argument with my parents, and all they say is "Well, if it's on the internet, it must be true." </sarcasm>
What good is all those billions of pages, if the people you're trying to convince refuse to believe a word of it that they disagree with?
Come to think of it, search engines used to work that way. And many intra-site search engine packages still do. (Like a lot of OEM sites out there.)
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Keeping that in mind was part of knowing how to effectively use a search engine. Perhaps Google's spoiled me.
When I search for something, I don't want to get a page that's a marketing front for what I'm trying to find, I want an informational, probably technical, page on the item I'm searching for.
Such pages don't usually mindlessly repeat the keyword I'm searching for over and over again.