You obviously know nothing about the difference
between a "coder" and a "software engineer".
Yes I'm serious - and I'm both a Mechanical
Engineer and Software Engineer. The actual time
"coding" is almost the smallest part of a well
designed project. You need engineers to take care
of the rest that if(5!=duh) doesn't really do
well.
Arguably, a majority of the time is spent in
debugging and support. Both of these are helped a
great bit by the quality of the code in the first
place.
BTW, you come off as really condescending, you
might want to work on that;-)
>>1. Music - Small downloads, many devices geared for it 2. Movie - Compression makes download acceptible via highspeed internet, some won't comprimise with quality and will buy DVD. 3. Computer Gaming - Can turn to subscription services, or make games REALLY big (600 - 3000 Megs) thus making the VERY inconvienent to download.should be more suseptible to piracy. You have a point with online play though, pirated games rarely work online.
How well does Gnome2.0 work without Nautilus? I've never been a big fan of Nautilus and so always removed as much dependence of Nautilus as I feel safe removing from my instalations of Gnome. I've noticed that as I've updated Gnome, that Nautilus has been more and more integrated. For instance Gnome tries to get you to use nautilus to navigate to different control panels, Fortunately I was able to dig up the Gnome Control Center utility last time I updated. Anyways, with Gnome now using a new and incompatible GTK do we lose the gnome control center in favor of the not so nice Nautilus interface?
It's a shame if we have to use Nautilus. One of the reasons I liked Gnome so much was that you weren't really forced to use much of anything. You didn't have to use Sawfish(or now metacity) for your window manager and you didn't have to use GMC or Nautilus(I prefer an XTerm window for the most part)
Thanks for any light you may shed on my questions. And excuse me for being a lazy ass and not doing to much research b4 asking;-)
mind backing up some of those acusations. It's easy to say that an a government agency wastes money, (especialy when your tax money is involved). That doesn't mean you're right though.
An example would be in my hometown, the local schools were operating on about the same budget in the 90's as they had in the 70's(not adjusted for inflation but the same amount). The reasons given by the local community for not supporting the school was the wasteful ways of the school system. Finally, some local businesses decided to prove this and had the school system independently audited( w/ the schools permission of course). Lo and behold it turns out that the system was infact more efficiently operated than most businesses audited by the same group. But still the school system operates w/ a the same small budget. What's my point here? Simply, many people don't like paying taxes, so they like to beleive that their taxes are being wasted so that they can say NO to higher to taxes and feel justified.
Asking someone to explain quicksort without math is like asking someone to explain diagonalizable(spelling?) matrices without math. Diagonalizable matrices and quicksort aren't science(in the traditional sense of the word), they're both mathematic concepts and so need math to be explained.
Anyways, the basic concept of quicksort CAN be explained with VERY LITTLE math: (1) Take a list of whatever (2) Choose an item from that list(however you want) (3) create a new list by taking anything greater in the old list and putting it in the new list. (4) repeat the process for both lists until your list sizes are small(usualy one but can be different depending...)
Ok, this is more or less a quick sort and all the math you needed was knowledge of comparisons
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How very appropriate to release the lyrics alongside the song.
Sort of like a metaphor for the whole opensource thing.
I guess to much english class makes one read to much into things though.
BTW, you come off as really condescending, you might want to work on that;-)
Steve
>>1. Music - Small downloads, many devices geared for it
2. Movie - Compression makes download acceptible via highspeed internet, some won't comprimise with quality and will buy DVD.
3. Computer Gaming - Can turn to subscription services, or make games REALLY big (600 - 3000 Megs) thus making the VERY inconvienent to download.should be more suseptible to piracy. You have a point with online play though, pirated games rarely work online.
Something I'd like to know is...
How well does Gnome2.0 work without Nautilus? I've never been a big fan of Nautilus and so always removed as much dependence of Nautilus as I feel safe removing from my instalations of Gnome. I've noticed that as I've updated Gnome, that Nautilus has been more and more integrated. For instance Gnome tries to get you to use nautilus to navigate to different control panels, Fortunately I was able to dig up the Gnome Control Center utility last time I updated. Anyways, with Gnome now using a new and incompatible GTK do we lose the gnome control center in favor of the not so nice Nautilus interface?
It's a shame if we have to use Nautilus. One of the reasons I liked Gnome so much was that you weren't really forced to use much of anything. You didn't have to use Sawfish(or now metacity) for your window manager and you didn't have to use GMC or Nautilus(I prefer an XTerm window for the most part)
Thanks for any light you may shed on my questions. And excuse me for being a lazy ass and not doing to much research b4 asking;-)
Steve
mind backing up some of those acusations. It's easy to say that an a government agency wastes money, (especialy when your tax money is involved). That doesn't mean you're right though.
An example would be in my hometown, the local schools were operating on about the same budget in the 90's as they had in the 70's(not adjusted for inflation but the same amount). The reasons given by the local community for not supporting the school was the wasteful ways of the school system. Finally, some local businesses decided to prove this and had the school system independently audited( w/ the schools permission of course). Lo and behold it turns out that the system was infact more efficiently operated than most businesses audited by the same group. But still the school system operates w/ a the same small budget. What's my point here? Simply, many people don't like paying taxes, so they like to beleive that their taxes are being wasted so that they can say NO to higher to taxes and feel justified.
-Steve
Asking someone to explain quicksort without math is like asking someone to explain diagonalizable(spelling?) matrices without math. Diagonalizable matrices and quicksort aren't science(in the traditional sense of the word), they're both mathematic concepts and so need math to be explained.
Anyways, the basic concept of quicksort CAN be explained with VERY LITTLE math:
(1) Take a list of whatever
(2) Choose an item from that list(however you want)
(3) create a new list by taking anything greater in the old list and putting it in the new list.
(4) repeat the process for both lists until your list sizes are small(usualy one but can be different depending...)
Ok, this is more or less a quick sort and all the math you needed was knowledge of comparisons
-Steve