.and therefore the most numerically advanced version yet.
But as for "is [DirectX 11.2] going to help Microsoft convince people to ugprade or will make them angry?", I can tell you right now that I am just frothing at the mouth in apoplexy because it won't run on my Linux box, and hasn't since 1993. It's about time Microsoft got their shit together.
Well, if people want it, then they can use it. However, though TFS says "Maybe by the end of year, the functionality will make it into the Chrome browser, too", I really hope it doesn't.
I'm one of those people who are a bit ambivalent about our preferred browsers; I was a late-ish adopter of Chrome (and Chromium) after Firefox, and occasionally I swap back and forth. Currently I'm back with Firefox on my computer, and Chrome on my phone. But if the Chrome browser gets padded out with a WP/spreadsheet package, it's very unlikely that I'll ever use it again.
Actually, HotBot was really pretty damn good at refining searches. And, (perhaps surprisingly) so was Excite for a while. I found taking the time to look carefully at their advanced search gave me pretty good results from most of them, depending on what I was looking for.
Having said that, what I often used to do first was put more general terms into Dogpile and let its shotgun approach do the work.
Now there's a thought. If Google could support strict regex, totally excluding non-matches, that would be really cool. Though I admit it's not something I would ever be likely to teach my parents...
AltaVista ROCKED in its day. Of course the same could be said about Wordperfect and Lotus 123 too, but who remembers those anymore.:(
I do. I even remember WordPerfect in its original implementation on Data General minis. Of course, that was when we still had the ARPANET, most likely before a lot of/. denizens were born...
You saved me mentioning that. I used to use dogpile all the time. It was a great way of aggregating search results from all (or most) of the more commonly-known search engines.
However, the US government might like to consider the fact that the reason why so many other nations think of the US as an enemy is because it behaves like one.
Spying on your own citizens is merely oppressive, but spying on citizens of other sovereign nations is the action of an enemy.
Actually, it is. Wiping disks to get rid of malware is an entirely different thing, and has absolutely no correlation with army personnel somehow having to somehow "unsee" or pretend they can't see something that is already in the public domain.
I'm not a hacker; hell, I don't even know how to code--and I can run Linux just fine.
Given that most people don't actually install Windows for themselves, I fail to see the argument that Linux is just "too hard". My wife, a History professor, has had Slackware on her desktop machines since ~2000. Sure, I installed it and upgrade things from time to time - being *VERY* careful not to break things:) - but it's a trouble-free process since it's pretty much a mirror of what I have on my own machines.
She even barely noticed the transition from Gnome 2.xx to KDE4+, other than remarking that some things looked a bit prettier.
I'm not going to buy into the Gnome vs. KDE argument other than to say that I was a huge fan of Gnome right up until the end of the 2.x versions, while at the time I had considered KDE's interface too kluttered and kfugly (although some KDE applications were far more reliably functional). Now the boot is on the other foot: I can't get my head around Gnome 3 (so I don't expect anyone else to), while current versions of KDE are both attractive and functional.
Do you have a landline? 'Cause that's the infrastructure they plan on using for copper to the home.
Nope. I said no possibility of copper, and that's what I've got. So I pay over the odds for a substandard so-called NextG service, which when it is working, is just marginally better than dialup. And like you, I see no likelihood of any improvement with a change of government.
...or to others why their ADSL drops out because the copper wiring needs replacing at the cost of $1b/year goes over their heads.
If they've got copper, they aren't doing too badly. I only live 1/2 an hour's drive from what passes for a large town in Tasmania, and there's absolutely no possibility of copper to my home, let alone fibre.
The NBN ain't a vote changer to most swinging voters.
Swinging voters should be disqualified from voting.
To be honest i think we need one party with absolute power in both houses. Maybe then we might be able to get something done.
We had that with John Howard. He got lots done, and most of it was bad.
There are three things the thinking person quickly learns about Australian politicians:
If a labor politician says he's going to do something nice, he might be in deadly earnest, but he will never get the numbers to carry it through.
If a Liberal politician says he's going to do something nice, he's lying.
If a Liberal politician says he's going to do something nasty, you can bet he's deadly serious.
A bunch of drone engineers who know only how to operate a slide rule, and with very little expose to creative endeavor more complex and deep than reality TV will not be good engineers.
Actually, finding an engineer who knows how to use a slide rule might be a challenge. I remember getting some funny looks when I took my slide-rule into an examination, by way of precaution after had to endure my HP-48 throwing a tantrum once too many,
Maybe that was true to an extent in the 13th century, but it sure isn't now.
The earliest of the universities (Bologna, IIRC) was set up to educate lawyers in their craft. That was what paid the bills to allow them to later take students in theology and medicine.
It seems the concept of a truly well-rounded education is one that originated in Early Modern times (though I expect students of the institutions mentioned previously would have been expected to at least have a background in the classics), and flourished through the 19th Century. I guess I might have been lucky to have caught a tail-end of this at my high school, where it was common for any intelligent student to exit as some sort of polymath.
I think it's a bit sad that this breadth of knowledge is no longer considered worth achieving. Those of us here who say "Who cares about Aristophanes? He won't meet the next KPI" are no different from those who would rather sit down with a beer and watch the football.
If you haven't gotten a well-rounded education, you're not really educated.
This brings to mind a quote from Joseph Weizenbaum, (Computer Power and Human Reason):
"I am professionally trained in computer science, which is to say
(in all seriousness) that I am extremely poorly educated."
The Humanities, admittedly, also attempt to base their skepticism in reality. However, not having had a rigorous proving method, they have less success.
The degree of "success", as you put it, in an academic argument in humanities is much more complex than the binary process enshrined in the Scientific Method. Sure, there has certainly been some woolly thinking in humanities disciplines, but you shouldn't have to do too much reading to find at least as many howlers among the scientific literature.
I have seen a great deal of this disdain for the humanities from engineers, but much less from scientists at the real "cutting edge", such as physicists and mathematicians. Maybe that should tell you something.
[Disclaimer: I have degrees in Music, Computer Science and in Biotechnology.]
I think majors in the humanities should take some engineering courses... like some basic math, and formal logic.
The most clued-up logicians I have ever met are graduates in philosophy. Logic is a seriously hard course of study, and I haven't met many engineers who are up to the challenge. (It's just a pity that philosophers are doomed to unemployment.)
On the other hand, I don't know if the universities I have attended are typical, but I have noticed an extreme level of erudition with regard to humanities in a majority of the most brilliant mathematics professors I have known. It seems to come with the territory, for some reason. I have not noticed any such broad-mindedness among engineers.
I'm a well paid computer scientist and I've never used calculus. Why does everyone need calculus?
Well, when I was at uni, most computer "science" students were directed into discrete mathematics streams, which were probably more relevant to what you're talking about. The rest of us - whether we were into physics, chemistry or (in my case) biotechnology, do in fact need calculus on a daily basis, because we're dealing with processes involving rates of change and areas bounded by curves on a graph.
I'm also assuming that in this day and age, the cost of good rope and sail is negligible...
Actually, they can be very expensive. In the days of square-riggers, you could pretty much hang any old rag from your yards and call it a sail. But a modern sailmaker's work is the product of a serious amount of mathematical modelling and painstaking work, in addition to some very costly materials. Cordage isn't quite so bad, but it's enough to make any boat owner really look after his ropes.
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Its 8.1 not 8 that's the upgrade you plank
.and therefore the most numerically advanced version yet.
But as for "is [DirectX 11.2] going to help Microsoft convince people to ugprade or will make them angry?", I can tell you right now that I am just frothing at the mouth in apoplexy because it won't run on my Linux box, and hasn't since 1993. It's about time Microsoft got their shit together.
Well, if people want it, then they can use it. However, though TFS says "Maybe by the end of year, the functionality will make it into the Chrome browser, too", I really hope it doesn't.
I'm one of those people who are a bit ambivalent about our preferred browsers; I was a late-ish adopter of Chrome (and Chromium) after Firefox, and occasionally I swap back and forth. Currently I'm back with Firefox on my computer, and Chrome on my phone. But if the Chrome browser gets padded out with a WP/spreadsheet package, it's very unlikely that I'll ever use it again.
Actually, HotBot was really pretty damn good at refining searches. And, (perhaps surprisingly) so was Excite for a while. I found taking the time to look carefully at their advanced search gave me pretty good results from most of them, depending on what I was looking for.
Having said that, what I often used to do first was put more general terms into Dogpile and let its shotgun approach do the work.
I gave up using Google over a year ago
As a matter of interest: ...and replaced it with what? Google isn't what it was, but I haven't found anything nearly as good.
Now there's a thought. If Google could support strict regex, totally excluding non-matches, that would be really cool. Though I admit it's not something I would ever be likely to teach my parents...
the site is blocked by MacAfee for having malware.
What's McAfee doing blocking your pipes when he's supposed to be on the run?
AltaVista ROCKED in its day. Of course the same could be said about Wordperfect and Lotus 123 too, but who remembers those anymore. :(
I do. I even remember WordPerfect in its original implementation on Data General minis. Of course, that was when we still had the ARPANET, most likely before a lot of /. denizens were born...
You saved me mentioning that. I used to use dogpile all the time. It was a great way of aggregating search results from all (or most) of the more commonly-known search engines.
We have seen the enemy, and he is us.
No cigar.
However, the US government might like to consider the fact that the reason why so many other nations think of the US as an enemy is because it behaves like one.
Spying on your own citizens is merely oppressive, but spying on citizens of other sovereign nations is the action of an enemy.
And it's not as silly as it sounds.
Actually, it is. Wiping disks to get rid of malware is an entirely different thing, and has absolutely no correlation with army personnel somehow having to somehow "unsee" or pretend they can't see something that is already in the public domain.
Disagree with your view, but I will up-mod you because someone down-modded you for no reason other than giving an oppinion. Uh uh. I don't play that.
Good luck trying to mod and post in the same thread. :)
I'm not a hacker; hell, I don't even know how to code--and I can run Linux just fine.
Given that most people don't actually install Windows for themselves, I fail to see the argument that Linux is just "too hard". My wife, a History professor, has had Slackware on her desktop machines since ~2000. Sure, I installed it and upgrade things from time to time - being *VERY* careful not to break things :) - but it's a trouble-free process since it's pretty much a mirror of what I have on my own machines.
She even barely noticed the transition from Gnome 2.xx to KDE4+, other than remarking that some things looked a bit prettier.
I'm not going to buy into the Gnome vs. KDE argument other than to say that I was a huge fan of Gnome right up until the end of the 2.x versions, while at the time I had considered KDE's interface too kluttered and kfugly (although some KDE applications were far more reliably functional). Now the boot is on the other foot: I can't get my head around Gnome 3 (so I don't expect anyone else to), while current versions of KDE are both attractive and functional.
Do you have a landline? 'Cause that's the infrastructure they plan on using for copper to the home.
Nope. I said no possibility of copper, and that's what I've got. So I pay over the odds for a substandard so-called NextG service, which when it is working, is just marginally better than dialup. And like you, I see no likelihood of any improvement with a change of government.
Why is it so hard for you guys to spell hobbyist?
...or to others why their ADSL drops out because the copper wiring needs replacing at the cost of $1b/year goes over their heads.
If they've got copper, they aren't doing too badly. I only live 1/2 an hour's drive from what passes for a large town in Tasmania, and there's absolutely no possibility of copper to my home, let alone fibre.
The NBN ain't a vote changer to most swinging voters.
Swinging voters should be disqualified from voting.
To be honest i think we need one party with absolute power in both houses. Maybe then we might be able to get something done.
We had that with John Howard. He got lots done, and most of it was bad.
There are three things the thinking person quickly learns about Australian politicians:
If a labor politician says he's going to do something nice, he might be in deadly earnest, but he will never get the numbers to carry it through.
If a Liberal politician says he's going to do something nice, he's lying.
If a Liberal politician says he's going to do something nasty, you can bet he's deadly serious.
Either way, we're fucked.
A bunch of drone engineers who know only how to operate a slide rule, and with very little expose to creative endeavor more complex and deep than reality TV will not be good engineers.
Actually, finding an engineer who knows how to use a slide rule might be a challenge. I remember getting some funny looks when I took my slide-rule into an examination, by way of precaution after had to endure my HP-48 throwing a tantrum once too many,
Maybe that was true to an extent in the 13th century, but it sure isn't now.
The earliest of the universities (Bologna, IIRC) was set up to educate lawyers in their craft. That was what paid the bills to allow them to later take students in theology and medicine.
It seems the concept of a truly well-rounded education is one that originated in Early Modern times (though I expect students of the institutions mentioned previously would have been expected to at least have a background in the classics), and flourished through the 19th Century. I guess I might have been lucky to have caught a tail-end of this at my high school, where it was common for any intelligent student to exit as some sort of polymath.
I think it's a bit sad that this breadth of knowledge is no longer considered worth achieving. Those of us here who say "Who cares about Aristophanes? He won't meet the next KPI" are no different from those who would rather sit down with a beer and watch the football.
Hmmm. Maybe if we had an intelligent designer, our "playgrounds" wouldn't be situated so closely to our waste disposal.
Much as I hate people saying +1 etc, if you're going to make good posts like this, why not do so under your own ID?
If you haven't gotten a well-rounded education, you're not really educated.
This brings to mind a quote from Joseph Weizenbaum, (Computer Power and Human Reason):
"I am professionally trained in computer science, which is to say (in all seriousness) that I am extremely poorly educated."
The Humanities, admittedly, also attempt to base their skepticism in reality. However, not having had a rigorous proving method, they have less success.
The degree of "success", as you put it, in an academic argument in humanities is much more complex than the binary process enshrined in the Scientific Method. Sure, there has certainly been some woolly thinking in humanities disciplines, but you shouldn't have to do too much reading to find at least as many howlers among the scientific literature.
I have seen a great deal of this disdain for the humanities from engineers, but much less from scientists at the real "cutting edge", such as physicists and mathematicians. Maybe that should tell you something.
[Disclaimer: I have degrees in Music, Computer Science and in Biotechnology.]
I think majors in the humanities should take some engineering courses... like some basic math, and formal logic.
The most clued-up logicians I have ever met are graduates in philosophy. Logic is a seriously hard course of study, and I haven't met many engineers who are up to the challenge. (It's just a pity that philosophers are doomed to unemployment.)
On the other hand, I don't know if the universities I have attended are typical, but I have noticed an extreme level of erudition with regard to humanities in a majority of the most brilliant mathematics professors I have known. It seems to come with the territory, for some reason. I have not noticed any such broad-mindedness among engineers.
I'm a well paid computer scientist and I've never used calculus. Why does everyone need calculus?
Well, when I was at uni, most computer "science" students were directed into discrete mathematics streams, which were probably more relevant to what you're talking about. The rest of us - whether we were into physics, chemistry or (in my case) biotechnology, do in fact need calculus on a daily basis, because we're dealing with processes involving rates of change and areas bounded by curves on a graph.
I'm also assuming that in this day and age, the cost of good rope and sail is negligible...
Actually, they can be very expensive. In the days of square-riggers, you could pretty much hang any old rag from your yards and call it a sail. But a modern sailmaker's work is the product of a serious amount of mathematical modelling and painstaking work, in addition to some very costly materials. Cordage isn't quite so bad, but it's enough to make any boat owner really look after his ropes.