Halfway through a wite the thing goes botched.. and now your filesystem integrity is b0rked beyond all hope of repair. You might be able to clone the SSD onto a new one or onto a magnetic disk and repair the damage from there. Sure the disk may be readable, but your data may just as well be very far up shit creek by then.
I have a SGI Octane sitting in the corner here which doubles very nicely as a room heater. IRIX is also stuffed to the brim with clever tweaks and ideas, so it's a bit of both I guess.
CS grads who can't remember or figure out where to find critical documents lack the basic intelligence or the motivation needed to finish the program: they should fail. Same goes for those who can't click their way around a basic OS + wordprocessor combo and manage backup copies of their docs: epic fail.
Electronic courseware is a godsend as far as I'm concerned: thousands upon thousands of pages fit in a simple tablet or ereader which puts it all at your fingertips. Back when I was a student books and other paperwork took a sizable chunk out of my already cramped living space. A tablet with a usable browsing/searching app would have been most welcom.
Why don't you get a life yourself instead of slinging insults and profanities at people you know nothing about from behind the cowardly mask of online anonymity?
Dude.. I've just read post upon post of agressive flaming here, mostly from you. Expressing yourself in such an insufferable know-it-all kind of way detracts hugely from any technical merit your software may have, which I'm not disputing because I haven't looked at it. I'm simply extremely distrustful of anyone who keeps repeating that they're unquestionably right on everything they say. Sounds too much like a priest I knew as a child.
6 isn't that far-fetched. You have Debian and its many derivatives which are extremely similar under the hood, RedHat and its seven dwarfs which will manage with the same RPM, OpenSUSE and a few oddballs like Arch, Gentoo and Slackware. If Blizzard supports these, the rest of the world will support itself right up to FreeBSD and back as long as Blizzard provides both x86 and amd64 builds and lets us know what libs they link against.
Just release it for the most popular distro(-family), which is undeniably Ubuntu (covering Debian and Mint as well). The geeks will get it to work on everything else, no support needed or they wouldn't be using non-Ubuntu or non-Mint Linux anyway. As long as Blizzard provides builds for Ubuntu LTS x86 and amd64, the rest will be done for them.
You just proved my point. Somehow there's a yuck-factor involved when actual meat is grown in a lab, but it's apparently not there when consumers see processed soy proteins, salt and artificial flavoring pressed together into a cheap "chicken" burger. I'd call that a double standard. If actual real chicken breast can be grown in a lab without animals suffering, I'll have that over any of the mystery meat today's fast-food chains sell.
I don't understand the yuck-factor. Go buy a McChicken at the big yellow M. There's nothing recognizably chicken-ish about that product at all. The taste and texture is completely different from the chicken I tasted as a kid, when my grandfather would routinely kill and prepare his own chickens for dinner. I can tell you from personal experience that the yuck-factor in actually killing a chicken with a blade is much higher than that of an electricallly stimulated nuggy grown inside a petri dish.
I used to be 29 when working with a colleague who was 64 at the time. He learned programming in ALGOL on Burroughs mainframes. Very tight, very sparse, very unreadable when he did Perl. Perl in fact lets you do this, as does C, but it's not needed anymore. It was downright impossible to get him to rename functions and variables to something descriptive or to use comments. That stuff used to cost back when the bits of RAM were visible with the naked eye. Today the balance tips another way. Doesn't mean the old dogs see any merit in that though and they will wield their seniority when pushed too hard.
Personally I can really enjoy tweaking 6502 or 68K assembly by hand, but that's a hobby. At work I deal with business applications that, when slow, usually are just fed more iron because it's cheaper. The inner geek cringes at the thought, but it's the reality of business.
Back in 1992'ish my 386 PC with its 20MHz. CPU and 4MB RAM ran Ultima VII. It had an utterly believable game world with a huge amount of freedom and interactivity and layer upon layer of depth to the story. Seeing how the laptop I'm typing this from runs at 2.5GHz. and has 4GB's of RAM, I'm deeply disappointed with the state of gaming as it is now. FPS games got better graphics, but their stories are hardly much more than running along waypoints shooting everything that moves. Origin went utterly down the tubes when EA got involved. Sadly there probably won't ever be a game like Ultima VII, but updated in depth and scope for today's hardware.
(Despite Redhat being our organization's standard)
The point in time when this was decided was also the point in time your organization stopped thinking about stuff like this, right? Seriously, I'm usually not one for breaking the mold but the threat of tunnel vision is definitely there if you stop looking from side to side.
FreeBSD? Right here on my laptop, my media center, my personal web and mail servers, and a hell of a lot of servers (est. 400 or so) at work. But we probably haven't met. If we have, I generally don't use my preference for FreeBSD as a conversation starter.
Prototypes? There's an automated convenience store right here in my street, it's been there for about 8 years now. I can go there in the dead of night to get a can of pringles or a box of dishwasher-tabs if need be.. but it's ludicrously expensive (I don't understand why), so the only thing I ever bought there was a USB stick years ago.
Eowyn, Arwen, heck, even Rosie Cotton comes across as independent strong female characters to me and I'd say Galadriel is quite capable of pulling her own weight in the story.
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Halfway through a wite the thing goes botched.. and now your filesystem integrity is b0rked beyond all hope of repair. You might be able to clone the SSD onto a new one or onto a magnetic disk and repair the damage from there. Sure the disk may be readable, but your data may just as well be very far up shit creek by then.
I have a SGI Octane sitting in the corner here which doubles very nicely as a room heater. IRIX is also stuffed to the brim with clever tweaks and ideas, so it's a bit of both I guess.
An Amiga 500 or Commodore 64 would have been a lot more inspiring, considering the huge demoscenes these platforms had in their heydays.
Dijkstra of course had godlike skills with a blackboard.
CS grads who can't remember or figure out where to find critical documents lack the basic intelligence or the motivation needed to finish the program: they should fail. Same goes for those who can't click their way around a basic OS + wordprocessor combo and manage backup copies of their docs: epic fail. Electronic courseware is a godsend as far as I'm concerned: thousands upon thousands of pages fit in a simple tablet or ereader which puts it all at your fingertips. Back when I was a student books and other paperwork took a sizable chunk out of my already cramped living space. A tablet with a usable browsing/searching app would have been most welcom.
Why don't you get a life yourself instead of slinging insults and profanities at people you know nothing about from behind the cowardly mask of online anonymity?
I have to be neither a chicken or a chef to have an informed opinion on the quality of an omelette.
Not everything with a price has value.
Which patents are those, exactly, and where is it proven that they are being infringed upon by Linux?
Dude.. I've just read post upon post of agressive flaming here, mostly from you. Expressing yourself in such an insufferable know-it-all kind of way detracts hugely from any technical merit your software may have, which I'm not disputing because I haven't looked at it. I'm simply extremely distrustful of anyone who keeps repeating that they're unquestionably right on everything they say. Sounds too much like a priest I knew as a child.
That comment was actually better the second time I read it.
6 isn't that far-fetched. You have Debian and its many derivatives which are extremely similar under the hood, RedHat and its seven dwarfs which will manage with the same RPM, OpenSUSE and a few oddballs like Arch, Gentoo and Slackware. If Blizzard supports these, the rest of the world will support itself right up to FreeBSD and back as long as Blizzard provides both x86 and amd64 builds and lets us know what libs they link against.
Just release it for the most popular distro(-family), which is undeniably Ubuntu (covering Debian and Mint as well). The geeks will get it to work on everything else, no support needed or they wouldn't be using non-Ubuntu or non-Mint Linux anyway. As long as Blizzard provides builds for Ubuntu LTS x86 and amd64, the rest will be done for them.
You just proved my point. Somehow there's a yuck-factor involved when actual meat is grown in a lab, but it's apparently not there when consumers see processed soy proteins, salt and artificial flavoring pressed together into a cheap "chicken" burger. I'd call that a double standard. If actual real chicken breast can be grown in a lab without animals suffering, I'll have that over any of the mystery meat today's fast-food chains sell.
I don't understand the yuck-factor. Go buy a McChicken at the big yellow M. There's nothing recognizably chicken-ish about that product at all. The taste and texture is completely different from the chicken I tasted as a kid, when my grandfather would routinely kill and prepare his own chickens for dinner. I can tell you from personal experience that the yuck-factor in actually killing a chicken with a blade is much higher than that of an electricallly stimulated nuggy grown inside a petri dish.
Well, with the GEM/KMS work on Intel progressing I'd guess FreeBSD support for Nouveau will also come within reach..
The Hobbit, scarcely 300 paper pages of children's story in print, leads to a big data problem. Now there's excessive bloat if I ever saw any.
I used to be 29 when working with a colleague who was 64 at the time. He learned programming in ALGOL on Burroughs mainframes. Very tight, very sparse, very unreadable when he did Perl. Perl in fact lets you do this, as does C, but it's not needed anymore. It was downright impossible to get him to rename functions and variables to something descriptive or to use comments. That stuff used to cost back when the bits of RAM were visible with the naked eye. Today the balance tips another way. Doesn't mean the old dogs see any merit in that though and they will wield their seniority when pushed too hard. Personally I can really enjoy tweaking 6502 or 68K assembly by hand, but that's a hobby. At work I deal with business applications that, when slow, usually are just fed more iron because it's cheaper. The inner geek cringes at the thought, but it's the reality of business.
Investment implies some form of return.. Sinking time into pointless games in't an investment, it's a waste.
--Ebenezer Scrooge
Halon? Are those even legal anymore!?
Back in 1992'ish my 386 PC with its 20MHz. CPU and 4MB RAM ran Ultima VII. It had an utterly believable game world with a huge amount of freedom and interactivity and layer upon layer of depth to the story. Seeing how the laptop I'm typing this from runs at 2.5GHz. and has 4GB's of RAM, I'm deeply disappointed with the state of gaming as it is now. FPS games got better graphics, but their stories are hardly much more than running along waypoints shooting everything that moves. Origin went utterly down the tubes when EA got involved. Sadly there probably won't ever be a game like Ultima VII, but updated in depth and scope for today's hardware.
(Despite Redhat being our organization's standard) The point in time when this was decided was also the point in time your organization stopped thinking about stuff like this, right? Seriously, I'm usually not one for breaking the mold but the threat of tunnel vision is definitely there if you stop looking from side to side.
FreeBSD? Right here on my laptop, my media center, my personal web and mail servers, and a hell of a lot of servers (est. 400 or so) at work. But we probably haven't met. If we have, I generally don't use my preference for FreeBSD as a conversation starter.
Prototypes? There's an automated convenience store right here in my street, it's been there for about 8 years now. I can go there in the dead of night to get a can of pringles or a box of dishwasher-tabs if need be.. but it's ludicrously expensive (I don't understand why), so the only thing I ever bought there was a USB stick years ago.
Eowyn, Arwen, heck, even Rosie Cotton comes across as independent strong female characters to me and I'd say Galadriel is quite capable of pulling her own weight in the story.