I consider myself extremely lucky to have succeeded in raising my boy, who suffers from a mild type of autism (Aspberger's syndrome), past his 18th year.
At age 6, this boy ran on the frail gutter of a roof, 15 meters from the ground.
He escalated a radiator, opened the window and just took a walk on the gutter, and he foresaw absolutely no danger in doing it..
Ten years later, after having narrowly escaped a dozen of such 'accidents', he did it again.
He walked on the roof border from the bathroom window to the room where is computer was locked out.
And again, he did not feel any sense of danger. He told me he just wanted his computer.
There is a reason why autism, even in it's mildest forms, is still regarded as a disorder.
It might help you wrap your mind with better intensity around some problems.
But that comes at the cost of your awareness to... well, pretty much everything else.
And that doesn't help you to survive, that's for sure.
This is because their DNS are unbelievably broken.
They use to discard IPv6 queries instead of replying "unknown resource".
So your browser needs to wait for a full timeout before it can try IPv4.
$ time -p dig ad.doubleclick.net IN AAAA
; <<>> DiG 9.2.2 <<>> ad.doubleclick.net IN AAAA ;; global options: printcmd ;; connection timed out; no servers could be reached Command exited with non-zero status 9 real 16.10 user 0.01 sys 0.01
Mozilla had to resort to an evil hack just for taking care of those fools.
from the logo? mmh, let me see...
there is indeed some hint of a white star on the far left, sort of fading away, but the rest is positively a french flag.
Ooops... I think I just spoiled a subliminal message:)
> It looks cool but I would need a lot more trust to rely on one wheel
The very principle of this toy is broken anyway. Anyone who has rid a unicycle can tell you: it won't work.
On such a device, the rear/front stability is easy to achieve, but the real challenge, the one that needs skill and a lot of practice, is *lateral* stability at low speed. It's easy to understand: when you feel you are leaning on either side, what do you think you can do? Lean on the other side to correct? Nope, that won't work. Instead, what you do is you slightly turn your wheel in the direction of the leaning, so that it becomes a rear/front lack of balance, and accelerate to compensate. Once you are stable again, you can turn and follow your initial direction.
No automatic system can do that because direction and balance are tightly coupled. If the rider does not understand that, he will simply fall, no matter how many gyroscopes you stick in the beast.
> Is it in comparison to those who are educated now, or in the relative quality of education > between the U.S. (which I assume you are speaking of) and other countries? > If what you say is true, then why hasn't technological inovation slowed down?
> I didn't have to learn Greek or Latin fluently, > but it's most practical application is understand > modern word roots. That we DID do.
mmh... quick then, tell me what's an "oligodendrocyte"?
Anyone with a basic knowledge of ancient greek would answer "a cell with few ramifications", which describes accurately this cell of the human brain. You just can't guess that with 3-4 shallow lessons about "word roots" (a.k.a "etymology", from 'etumos', the origin, and 'logos', the science).
Fact is 90% of native english speakers are now unable to fluently spell any word of latin and greek origin, even the most common.
pseudo/psuedo, information/informatation, affect /effect, complement/compliment, compatible/compa table etc.
This is a great loss, especially when you consider the scientific lexicon, which is mere greek and latin:-/ When you can't properly decompose a word, retaining its meaning requires a huge effort. So you avoid it. And eventually comes the fear of every word longer than two syllables...
But who cares, they say, small is beautiful! Well, no, small is ambiguous.
Beside, code comments have this nice property: they don't modify compiled binaries, so noone will be able to prove they weren't there 2 monthes ago...
Yet, they sound "convincing" to humans.
If you really believe in what you wrote:
> It's not just a case of writing something down and say "Agree to it!",
> everything has to be discussed
then your harsh criticism of Mosfet seems very rude and misplaced to me.
He didn't ignore what you call a "spec", and is in fact tagged as a "new draft" and only a "proposition" on the freedesktop.org page.
On the contrary, he carefully looked at it, and issued very well-founded arguments (here)
as to why he thought it was wrong.
Last time I heard, he was even implementing a full set of useful CLI tools to back up it's own proposal.
So I'd be very curious to hear why you think this very skilled and talented programmer, with a huge experience in graphics, is not welcome to change a vapor and PR "draft" into an effective and sound specification?
If even wannabe spec writers can't stand constructive criticism, then there's few hope for interoperability indeed...
> However, looking at my shiny new gnome-2.2
> installation, I must say that perhaps that is slowly
> changing. This looks MUCH more like an interface
> for the ordinary people who want to actually USE
> the applications, not hack them
ever heard about KDE in KIOSK mode?
It does just the same, only much better.
And it doesn"t enforce this simplistic Joe User mindset on the whole user base, regardless of
their needs or tastes.
*shrug*
Well, Konqueror 3.1 has good support for tabbed-browsing so it should be pretty straightforward for Apple developers to merge the necessary changes since 3.0.2 (it's where they started).
In case you didn't notice, Safari is an early Beta...
From the ccache homepage, which is also a Samba hosted project:
ccache is a compiler cache.
It acts as a caching pre-processor to C/C++ compilers, using the -E compiler switch and a hash to detect when a compilation can be satisfied from cache. This often results in a 5 to 10 times speedup in common compilations.
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I consider myself extremely lucky to have succeeded in raising my boy, who suffers from a mild type of autism (Aspberger's syndrome), past his 18th year.
At age 6, this boy ran on the frail gutter of a roof, 15 meters from the ground. He escalated a radiator, opened the window and just took a walk on the gutter, and he foresaw absolutely no danger in doing it..
Ten years later, after having narrowly escaped a dozen of such 'accidents', he did it again.
He walked on the roof border from the bathroom window to the room where is computer was locked out.
And again, he did not feel any sense of danger. He told me he just wanted his computer.
There is a reason why autism, even in it's mildest forms, is still regarded as a disorder. It might help you wrap your mind with better intensity around some problems. But that comes at the cost of your awareness to... well, pretty much everything else.
And that doesn't help you to survive, that's for sure.
This is because their DNS are unbelievably broken.
They use to discard IPv6 queries instead of replying "unknown resource". So your browser needs to wait for a full timeout before it can try IPv4.
Mozilla had to resort to an evil hack just for taking care of those fools.
from the logo? mmh, let me see... there is indeed some hint of a white star on the far left, sort of fading away, but the rest is positively a french flag.
Ooops... I think I just spoiled a subliminal message :)
What's scarier is that everyone here parsed your sentence as a recursive substitution pattern. :(
dear god
> Perhaps they're planning strategic changes that
> could take them below Apple or AMD in
> clockspeed
Well,of course they are... haven't you heard?
a Centrino platform with a Pentium M at 1.8Ghz already performs like a P4 @ 2.8GHz...
Now, think about the same ship on steroids:
"That is Conroe. It is a desktopified Merom, due out in late 2006. "
> It looks cool but I would need a lot more trust to rely on one wheel
The very principle of this toy is broken anyway.
Anyone who has rid a unicycle can tell you: it won't work.
On such a device, the rear/front stability is easy to achieve, but the real challenge, the one that needs skill and a lot of practice, is *lateral* stability at low speed.
It's easy to understand: when you feel you are leaning on either side, what do you think you can do? Lean on the other side to correct? Nope, that won't work.
Instead, what you do is you slightly turn your wheel in the direction of the leaning, so that it becomes a rear/front lack of balance, and accelerate to compensate.
Once you are stable again, you can turn and follow your initial direction.
No automatic system can do that because direction and balance are tightly coupled.
If the rider does not understand that, he will simply fall, no matter how many gyroscopes you stick in the beast.
> Is it in comparison to those who are educated now, or in the relative quality of education
> between the U.S. (which I assume you are speaking of) and other countries?
> If what you say is true, then why hasn't technological inovation slowed down?
Two words: brain drain.
> I didn't have to learn Greek or Latin fluently,
t /effect,a table
:-/
> but it's most practical application is understand
> modern word roots. That we DID do.
mmh... quick then, tell me what's an "oligodendrocyte"?
Anyone with a basic knowledge of ancient greek would answer "a cell with few ramifications", which describes accurately this cell of the human brain. You just can't guess that with 3-4 shallow lessons about "word roots" (a.k.a "etymology", from 'etumos', the origin, and 'logos', the science).
Fact is 90% of native english speakers are now unable to fluently spell any word of latin and greek origin, even the most common.
pseudo/psuedo,
information/informatation,
affec
complement/compliment,
compatible/comp
etc.
This is a great loss, especially when you consider the scientific lexicon, which is mere greek and latin
When you can't properly decompose a word, retaining its meaning requires a huge effort.
So you avoid it.
And eventually comes the fear of every word longer than two syllables...
But who cares, they say, small is beautiful!
Well, no, small is ambiguous.
Beside, code comments have this nice property:
they don't modify compiled binaries, so noone will be able to prove they weren't there 2 monthes ago...
Yet, they sound "convincing" to humans.
Clever, isn't it?
If you really believe in what you wrote:
> It's not just a case of writing something down and say "Agree to it!",
> everything has to be discussed
then your harsh criticism of Mosfet seems very rude and misplaced to me.
He didn't ignore what you call a "spec", and is in fact tagged as a "new draft" and only a
"proposition" on the freedesktop.org page.
On the contrary, he carefully looked at it, and issued very well-founded
arguments (here) as to why he thought it was wrong.
Last time I heard, he was even implementing a full set of useful CLI tools
to back up it's own proposal.
So I'd be very curious to hear why you think this very skilled and talented programmer,
with a huge experience in graphics, is not welcome to change a vapor and PR "draft"
into an effective and sound specification?
If even wannabe spec writers can't stand constructive criticism,
then there's few hope for interoperability indeed...
> the amount of bloat on KDE, for example,
>[...] is killing my local network.
Well, that's entirely your fault, if you ask me.
1) run kpersonalizer
2) drag the candy-o-meter slider to the left
3) enjoy the 300% bandwith decrease!
> But al-Jazeera is at least equally as bad.
Clearly! For instance, both CNN and Al-Jazeera
censor the dreadful pictures of Saddam's WOMD.
Oh wait.
> However, looking at my shiny new gnome-2.2
> installation, I must say that perhaps that is slowly
> changing. This looks MUCH more like an interface
> for the ordinary people who want to actually USE
> the applications, not hack them
ever heard about KDE in KIOSK mode?
It does just the same, only much better.
And it doesn"t enforce this simplistic Joe User
mindset on the whole user base, regardless of
their needs or tastes.
*shrug*
You can find a thorough test of the Athlon XP 2700+, made with Linux software,
here
Well, Konqueror 3.1 has good support for tabbed-browsing so it should be pretty straightforward for Apple developers to merge the necessary changes since 3.0.2 (it's where they started).
In case you didn't notice, Safari is an early Beta...
G.From the ccache homepage, which is also a Samba hosted project
ccache is a compiler cache.
It acts as a caching pre-processor to C/C++ compilers, using the -E compiler switch and a hash to detect when a compilation can be satisfied from cache.
This often results in a 5 to 10 times speedup in common compilations.
>- no 'run' interface like win32. sorry, but I
> can window-key-R and type \\machine\sharename
> and I'm there. Can't do that with RH.
Of course you can. In KDE:
ALT+F2 then smb://the/machine
Maybe you should try to think more about what is an objective criterium, and what is pure cultural bias.
For instance, "Gnome"in French means "Dwarf".
I kind of doubt this is considered as elegant :-)