Yes, Plato's Socretes demonstrated that the uneducated boy always knew geometry. Socretes concluded, however, that this demonstrated the truth of reincarnation; a previous life of the slave boy must have been a nobleman, since slaves obviously would never be able to understand geometry as well as Greek noblemen would. (According to Plato.) So the author of the article at MSNBC obviously either hadn't read first-hand or didn't understand the original source's claims.
This is a great idea, honestly... but who runs NetBSD on their laptops?
Actually, due to it's (at least at one time) better support for laptop features, many *BSD users chose it over FreeBSD. NetBSD may have less drivers quantitatively, but when it has drivers (and it has a decent amount), they are of very high quality.
then run "sudo nvidia-glx-config enable". I have a TNT2 M64 card and this works for me.
Thanks,
That worked. I still had to go in and change X to use nvida vs nv before it worked.
Maybe you had changed it manually beforehand so nvidia-glx-config wouldn't touch it, much like dpkg-reconfigure on all Debian systems will ignore hand-modified files on the theory that if you made personal changes you don't want a configurator writing over them.
Not exactly. The Windows nvidia drivers work to spec (Win98/nt/xp etc.). The Linux drivers should work the same (2.4, 2.6 kernal drivers). It works under SuSE it should work under Ubuntu.
I'd only heard of the Windows driver problem. The Linux driver program I can confirm, on multiple distributions nvidia hardware accelerated drivers newer than 7174 don't work, and nvidia themselves, buried in their help forum, recommend that you run that if you have a TNT card because they've dropped support for older cards in the current version.
Been trying to get 3D to work all day on my sons computer. Ubuntu 5.10 fails at it.I had SuSE 9.1 installed on the box and the card (PCI TNT) worked with no problems.
This isn't Ubuntu's fault, nVidia decided to no longer support TNT cards in both its Windows and its Linux closed source drivers. Ubuntu's default install is the latest nvidia binary drivers; I assume the present version of SuSE hasn't gotten the most recent drivers yet. Ubuntu will work fine with a TNT card though if you install nvidia-glx-legacy and linux-restricted-modules-$(uname -r)-nvidia-legacy, then run "sudo nvidia-glx-config enable". I have a TNT2 M64 card and this works for me.
Actually, I think this whole lawsuit is China's shield for another crackdown on internet usage. China wants to censor their internet as much as possible. If they can use "think about the children" as an excuse this lawsuit could be, and probably will be, used in the service of propaganda.
Amen. And I should point out that it was a Jesuit who came up with the Big Bang...
And an Orthodox Jew (Peniaz), working at Bell Labs, found the microwave background radiation that proves the big bang; thus winning the Nobel Prize in Physics.
The difference in quality is not imaginary. Compare the old MS-DOS editor, QEdit, with the trivial and ubiquitous Unix editor, PICO.
That's a rather unfair comparison as PICO, originally an editor that was part of PINE, a email client originally for non-Unix literate novices, isn't an especially Unix-like editor and is optional in many distributions of Linux.
A fairer comparison could be made between the both popular and ubiquitous editors vi, Emacs (well, Emacs would loose the bloat war) and QEdit. QEdit didn't have things like regular expressions that both of them have, and it's macro language is puny next to the things you can do with vim or Emacs. Also vi and others can open files larger than the memory size while QEdit was limited to available memory. (QEdit was considered fancy for being able to load larger files than 64K, a limit most MS-DOS editors had.)
Most Unix operating systems ran on proprietary hardware only. NT could be installed on cheap hardware you could buy from a store.
The exception was SCO Unix. But SCO treated it exclusively as a high-end product, so it didn't end up on desktops.
No, you obviously weren't around during the Unix wars, and you (and the mods who moderated you to +5) didn't even read TFA which mentions the fact that there were a dozen PC SysV Unixes available at the time, some of them popular. If you RTFA you'd have seen this:
"Twelve years ago, I oversaw a PC Magazine feature on Unix on Intel. My team and I reviewed at Unixes from Consensys, Dell, Interactive, SCO, Univel, Sun, and NeXT.
We also looked at, but didn't review, Unixes from UHC, Microport and other companies most of you have never heard of.
You did get the part right about them being overpriced like SCO, costing about $300-$1,500, not counting low end Unix-like operating systems like Minix and Coherant that ran on cheap hardware but had little more than V7 compatability, much less being full-blown SysV operating systems like the ones mentioned ITFA. (Of course, Microsoft was even at one time in the propritary Unix business, "XENIX", which they sold to SCO when they wanted to get out of the Unix business.)
Of course AppKit was ported to Windows (and other environments) back in the OpenStep days but likely the port hasn't been maintained much with the newer UI paradigm that Mac OS X has been using (sheets, etc)..
(I'm blowing away using mod points for this reply, but here goes anyway.:-) )
GNUstep is a mature project to clone openstep and some of the most important elements of the OS X API. It runs, not only on Linux and Unix, but also on Windows and even the Mac. (Though the windows version needs more beta testers.)
but I doubt that New Deal is the source of the problem considering that in the developed world we have both the highest crime rates and the smallest of the programs you blame for it.
Ten minutes you posted this I corrected myself and said Great Society.
Which has an even greater resemblence to what you blame crime on.
The problems in NOLA were due to the culture of entitlement, and lack of personal responsibility that the new deal has created among the poorest of the US.
Is that so? Then why don't we hear about the high crime rates of Scandanavia, or even Great Britain and Canada, who have more of a social saftey net than we do? That is not to say that the cycle of the culture of poverty needs to be broken, but I doubt that FDR's New Deal is the source of the problem considering that in the developed world we have both the highest crime rates and the smallest of the programs you blame for it.
For another take on design patterns, I consider them to be nothing more than tricks to get around the braindead limitations of most mainstream object oriented languages. Its no accident that non object oriented languages like Lisp and ML don't have quite so many design patterns.
What do you mean Lisp doesn't have object oriented features? Have you heard of CLOS, built into Common Lisp? (CLOS is even older than C++, CLOS was the first OO extention of a mainstream language.)
Even Paul Graham, a Lisper critic of object oriented programming, creates his own set of object oriented systems in the final tutorial chapter of his book, "ANSI Common Lisp". (It's easy to build object systems in any language, such as Common LISP or Scheme, which have lambda and lexical scope.)
As for ML, the most popular ML language is OCAML. The "O" in OCAML stands for "objective", guess what that means. It's no wonder you posted as an AC, you obviously don't know anything about Lisp or ML other than what you've read in someones' blog.
"Ashkenazi" means being from in the land of Ashkenaz, mentioned in Genesis 10, identified as Germany in Jewish tradition. Ashkenazi Jews are Central or Eastern European extraction.
The second large group of Jews are the Sephardi Jews, from Spain and Portugal and resettled mostly in Islamic areas after the Spanish Expulsion of 1492.
Actually, although one would wish it were better, the fact is that 70% of users from a distribution of 2002 upgraded to a 2005 distro release without *any* problems. Try that with nearly any other Linux distribution and you'll get at least some breakage, even if the versions are only six months or a year apart.
The main surprise is that Debian usually doesn't have any problems with a dist-upgrade and that now it needs a bit more care, not that this particularly wasn't done well comparitavely speaking.
Python 2.4 is already in both unstable and testing (Sarge); it just includes python 2.3 as part of the base install and 2.3 is the default if you "apt-get install python"
40% adhere to the principle that Belief gets in the way of learning.
If that's so, then Newton, Kepler, Knuth, Penrose, and Einstein, all of whom agreed about there being a creator, weren't any good at learning new things. (To be fair, Einstein, and perhaps Penrose, are not traditionally religious, but they aren't atheists.)
(R.A. Heinlein - "Time Enough for Love")
Heinlein is entertaining but you should really take what he says with a very large grain of salt. (Especially in TEfL which is written in his later dirty-old-man stage.;-) )
I don't think any assumption can be proven by reason alone, but only with evidence. We can't disprove the existence of God, but we haven't been able to prove His existence either. It is most difficult to prove a negative. But that's where Occam's Razor comes in.
William of Occam was a theist, a Franciscan friar for that matter. I'm sure he's not happy about the most common (ab)use of his Rule of Parsimony.
I thought that the X-Box 360 would be running IBM's once-popular mainframe OS and an ancestor of the current "z-OS" of the IBM z-Series mainframes, OS/360
If Gates had never created Microsoft, and never cloned the PC's underpinnings away from IBM
Gates never "cloned the PC's underpinnings". Gates provided, under contract with IBM, PC-DOS and it's *very* generic and not neccesarily IBM compatable MS-DOS.
It was the cloning of the IBM PC BIOS, performed first by Compaq and later by companies such as Phoenix BIOS that sold their product to third parties, that led to the IBM PC clones.
If IBM hadn't gotten PC DOS from Microsoft, they probably would have gotten it from Digital Research, as they had first intended. Since MS's PC-DOS 1.0 was a somewhat minimal clone of DR's CP/M, I don't think that the IBM PC would have a history that was much different. If anything since there already was a clone market for the eight bit CP/M-80, IBM choosing Digital Research probably would have *accelerated* the clone wars.
It's somewhat ironic that BusinessWeek is rolling out a blogging service after Paul Graham's new article originally claimed that BusinessWeek ran an article on http://del.icio.us/ due to PR money gotten from a VC. Therefore Bloggers for that, among other reasons, are superior to traditional media, according to Paul Graham.
(Of course, Paul Graham retracted this claim when BusinessWeek informed him today the article was sponteneous, uninfluenced by a PR firm; but I'm sure BusinessWeek had his article foremost in their thoughts when they announced their new blogging site.)
There is a big difference between knowing enough about one's Linux distro to install a program and having enough common sense to find programs on the internet with minimal risk of installing malware.
Malware is pretty rare in the Linux world due to the more secure design of Unix. In general anything you download from freshmeat.net, for example, is safe. However, getting it to compile if you don't have the correct dependencies installed can be an adventure.:-)
It's always better in Linux to enable swap even if you don't need it. Linux's memory management optimizes differently when it thinks the amount of memory you have available is limited to on-board RAM.
Hard drive space is cheap enough, and the amount needed small enough, that it's better to operate with a swap file; 1.5 to 2 times the amount of RAM as a swap file seems to be the canonical rule of thumb.
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Yes, Plato's Socretes demonstrated that the uneducated boy always knew geometry. Socretes concluded, however, that this demonstrated the truth of reincarnation; a previous life of the slave boy must have been a nobleman, since slaves obviously would never be able to understand geometry as well as Greek noblemen would. (According to Plato.) So the author of the article at MSNBC obviously either hadn't read first-hand or didn't understand the original source's claims.
Actually, I think this whole lawsuit is China's shield for another crackdown on internet usage. China wants to censor their internet as much as possible. If they can use "think about the children" as an excuse this lawsuit could be, and probably will be, used in the service of propaganda.
A fairer comparison could be made between the both popular and ubiquitous editors vi, Emacs (well, Emacs would loose the bloat war) and QEdit. QEdit didn't have things like regular expressions that both of them have, and it's macro language is puny next to the things you can do with vim or Emacs. Also vi and others can open files larger than the memory size while QEdit was limited to available memory. (QEdit was considered fancy for being able to load larger files than 64K, a limit most MS-DOS editors had.)
No, you obviously weren't around during the Unix wars, and you (and the mods who moderated you to +5) didn't even read TFA which mentions the fact that there were a dozen PC SysV Unixes available at the time, some of them popular. If you RTFA you'd have seen this:
You did get the part right about them being overpriced like SCO, costing about $300-$1,500, not counting low end Unix-like operating systems like Minix and Coherant that ran on cheap hardware but had little more than V7 compatability, much less being full-blown SysV operating systems like the ones mentioned ITFA. (Of course, Microsoft was even at one time in the propritary Unix business, "XENIX", which they sold to SCO when they wanted to get out of the Unix business.)(I'm blowing away using mod points for this reply, but here goes anyway. :-) )
GNUstep is a mature project to clone openstep and some of the most important elements of the OS X API. It runs, not only on Linux and Unix, but also on Windows and even the Mac. (Though the windows version needs more beta testers.)
Even Paul Graham, a Lisper critic of object oriented programming, creates his own set of object oriented systems in the final tutorial chapter of his book, "ANSI Common Lisp". (It's easy to build object systems in any language, such as Common LISP or Scheme, which have lambda and lexical scope.)
As for ML, the most popular ML language is OCAML. The "O" in OCAML stands for "objective", guess what that means. It's no wonder you posted as an AC, you obviously don't know anything about Lisp or ML other than what you've read in someones' blog.
The second large group of Jews are the Sephardi Jews, from Spain and Portugal and resettled mostly in Islamic areas after the Spanish Expulsion of 1492.
The main surprise is that Debian usually doesn't have any problems with a dist-upgrade and that now it needs a bit more care, not that this particularly wasn't done well comparitavely speaking.
Python 2.4 is already in both unstable and testing (Sarge); it just includes python 2.3 as part of the base install and 2.3 is the default if you "apt-get install python"
I thought that the X-Box 360 would be running IBM's once-popular mainframe OS and an ancestor of the current "z-OS" of the IBM z-Series mainframes, OS/360
It was the cloning of the IBM PC BIOS, performed first by Compaq and later by companies such as Phoenix BIOS that sold their product to third parties, that led to the IBM PC clones.
If IBM hadn't gotten PC DOS from Microsoft, they probably would have gotten it from Digital Research, as they had first intended. Since MS's PC-DOS 1.0 was a somewhat minimal clone of DR's CP/M, I don't think that the IBM PC would have a history that was much different. If anything since there already was a clone market for the eight bit CP/M-80, IBM choosing Digital Research probably would have *accelerated* the clone wars.
(Of course, Paul Graham retracted this claim when BusinessWeek informed him today the article was sponteneous, uninfluenced by a PR firm; but I'm sure BusinessWeek had his article foremost in their thoughts when they announced their new blogging site.)
Come on Microsoft, make a filesystem that doesn't need defragmenting like *nix.
"File in more than one folder simultaneously"
Symlinks or hardlinks, finally. Welcome to the '80s.
Ad campaign
Well, luckily IBM has conducted a pro-Linux campaign, but, unlike Windows, Linux doesn't need an ad campaign to suceeed.
Maybe Canada was before the Japanese in doing this operation, but that doesn't mean anything because Canada is not a real country anyway. ;-)
Hard drive space is cheap enough, and the amount needed small enough, that it's better to operate with a swap file; 1.5 to 2 times the amount of RAM as a swap file seems to be the canonical rule of thumb.