If you don't have the grades, you MUST have something else to show off your brilliance, because the only thing to differentiate a bunch of recent college grads is their GPA (and internships, which you only get if you have a high GPA). Unfortunately the inertia which carries you through your college coursework effortlessly is going to end soon after you graduate, and you will have to work really hard to get what you want. Don't get depressed even for a moment, because not having a high GPA only means you can't use the traditional route. All you have to do is concentrate on one thing and do it really, really well. Sooner than later your achievements will flow with the Force. Learn to do one thing better than everyone else, and it may seem that you can do anything better than anyone else. This will keep you going.
You could just boot directly from the drive containing the Linux, which IMO is something Ubuntu should suggest in the install if you're installing Linux on a different drive.
It's sad because the double standards we've established with affirmative action laws have actually turned around and created the exact same discrimination for a different reason. Maybe it's the same reason, with a different excuse? When you're in a shop where you wonder how that one black person got that good job, it's likely that if you interact at all with him, he realizes that you consider him inferior (he's not psychic-- as a black person, he has met lots of white people who consider him inferior, and just notices the pattern). And this is what he thinks of you: if you don't consider him (the only black person there) qualified, based on his race, you probably think there is no black person in the country qualified for the job. So you must be some exceptionally gifted white guy in a field of extremely exceptionally gifted people. As since, as we all know, you aren't, the black guy just thinks you're a common racist. Moreover, the black guy is disappointed that all the average and below-average white workers get a pass (they earned their jobs) yet you only complain about him. Apparently, when an "unqualified" white guy is hired, it's an accident; but when an "unqualified" black person is hired, it's because of race, and it is morally abhorrent.
But that's beside the point. What the GP (not me, I'm a different AC) meant was whether it'd make *sense* to do so. And that certainly is valid question. It may be a valid question, but it is kinda silly. In my experience the question is asked by white people who have no black or African-American friends. If you're wondering whether a person is African-American (in the only commonly-used sense) just ask them. If you consider it mildly unpatriotic for Americans to hyphenate their Americanism, don't pretend the problem is someone else's-- it's yours. Stop whining.
You are focusing on a tiny, tiny, tiny piece of the problem. Not true at all, at least for people like me with eye problems. The color makes ALL the difference. I can't stare for a minute at many background/foreground color combinations people find easy to read (like black on white). Green on black is great, and Vim's desert colorscheme is very nice for people with weak eyes.
That's an idiotic reason to drop the courses. Of course minorities are less interested in Latin literature and Italian. Why does that mean the courses have less value? You guys are getting yourselves all worked up over nothing. It was purely a money decision. All the talk about minorities is an excuse (and it doesn't make much sense, which is why I'm surprised you guys fell for it). Business as usual...
One of the reasons C++ will never die is that it is extremely useful to people who write highly specialized code. There are A LOT of people/groups who do this (and you will never believe this, but that's your problem). For some things, even doing quick proof-of-concepts in Python/Perl/C/Whateever would be a pain because representing basic objects is so complicated that they can only be expressed easily in certain languages. It seems to me that people who are turned off by C++ see its misuse in corporate environments, where any simple, general-purpose programming language will do. In other areas not as visible to the typical contract/corporate programmers, scientists and engineers need a language powerful enough to reasonably represent almost any concept they need. C++ is the best thing we have.
I think their idea is to prevent uptake of competitors' software. This is great forward-thinking on their part, because the Gimp (or Apple's product) has yet to become a real threat. VMWare was a little late with their free version, and now we have KVM which runs perfectly on the latest CPUs, as well as others, which people actually prefer. MS Office is kinda de facto free, and it's definitely killed all the competition. I wouldn't be surprised if Adobe could have the same effect by unleashing the reigns a little on its full version of Photoshop. I never met a Photoshop pirate who actually needed features specific to Photoshop. The pros are usually happy to pay for it.
Um, what? AMD's processors are terrible these days.
Um, no. Last year I got an Athlon X2 4600+ (65 watts max) and it does everything I need, and the stock HSF is almost silent. I seriously doubt an Intel processor could do everything this processor does for me, for the same amount of money. And no, I can't overclock because I can't risk the math errors.
It's silly to compare the processors based on those commonly used benchmarks (Quake? WTF?). Even those artificial benchmarks which purport to demonstrate number crunching speed are not as useful as you might think. I could do just as well with an Intel processor, but it will cost me significantly more money to do so because the Intel motherboards and processors are more expensive. I suppose if I played games I would buy a really fast Intel processor, crank the voltage, run a really loud HSF to keep it cool, and curse AMD for not providing me with this wonderful oppotunity. But alas, I don't.
Yes, they should have gone for Flash, which is... controled by Adobe. This is just another "OMG it's Microsoft, it is bad!" article.
Don't know about you, but I've been reading Slashdot for years, and I don't recall much love being thrown at Adobe Flash. I think the Slashdot consensus is they both suck.
Honestly, I haven't heard enough information to even think that he is guilty. And I'm not thinking "guilty beyond a reasonable doubt"-- just my gut feelings. I'm not aware of any physical evidence that remotely suggests Nina Reiser is dead. The most incriminating evidence is probably the books Hans Reiser bought. If I were a juror, I would discount the blood "evidence". I mean, if you have sex on a sleeping bag, there might be blood stains for several reasons. The other blood stains don't suggest murder either-- I would not be surprised to find similar stains in the homes of living people. I think it would be a shame for a jury to convict him given no hard evidence of her death. A guy who buys books like that probably doesn't have the smarts to figure out how to dump a body in the Bay w/o it ever being discovered.
but I'd never pay for it. I would like a keyboard better than the generic (Windows) PC or Mac keyboards. Does there exist a keyboard without the Windows or Mac option keys anymore? I'd love to get one (new) if it costs less than $30.
Actually, Frontline has been awesome for decades. I get disappointed when I discover people I know never heard of it. But anyway, Democracy Now is not a liberal show. It's on the Pacifica network, which is very leftist (think highly insightful liberal, which is almost nonexistent in the USA). If you're in California, it's KPFK in southern CA and KPFA in northern CA, and there is a station in Washington D.C. (where it's based, I think). They play lectures by Noam Chomsky and Michael Parenti (at least during the fund drives). So if you voted for GW twice, you won't find anything interesting about Democracy Now, because, you know, they hate America. If you've never heard of Michael Parenti, you should listen to some of his lectures on audiotape from the early 90s (or is it CDs now?). Great speaker and very insightful.
Look at the "Related Articles" at the bottom of the page. They sure do like to pit their subjects against one another. Talk about dramtization...
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Wow. Dude, KVM is the only one I've gotten to work with no fuss. For me it was downloading kvm-57.tar.gz,./configure; make; sudo make install; qemu-imw create... image.img; qemu-system-x86_64 -hda... ; qemu-system-x86_64 image.img. Installing Debian is best (vs, say, Fedora) because it's faster with a smaller amount of memory. Now go ahead and download KVM and enjoy!
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I think you missed my point, but I'm too lazy to write any more.
If you don't have the grades, you MUST have something else to show off your brilliance, because the only thing to differentiate a bunch of recent college grads is their GPA (and internships, which you only get if you have a high GPA). Unfortunately the inertia which carries you through your college coursework effortlessly is going to end soon after you graduate, and you will have to work really hard to get what you want. Don't get depressed even for a moment, because not having a high GPA only means you can't use the traditional route. All you have to do is concentrate on one thing and do it really, really well. Sooner than later your achievements will flow with the Force. Learn to do one thing better than everyone else, and it may seem that you can do anything better than anyone else. This will keep you going.
You could just boot directly from the drive containing the Linux, which IMO is something Ubuntu should suggest in the install if you're installing Linux on a different drive.
For some reason, the UUID trick only works on my machine when I use a an initrd. Or maybe I'm doing something wrong.
Yeah, but that's o.k. because Southwest pilots and flight attendants are cool and laid-back :)
Did I mention using the right tool for the job? Use perl for this example.
You guys are weird. Someone gave incorrect, convoluted code (in C++) for doing something, and you criticize C++ for this???
I think you would look less silly if you just stated "C++ is crap!" without trying to give any evidence. Seriously.
One of the reasons C++ will never die is that it is extremely useful to people who write highly specialized code. There are A LOT of people/groups who do this (and you will never believe this, but that's your problem). For some things, even doing quick proof-of-concepts in Python/Perl/C/Whateever would be a pain because representing basic objects is so complicated that they can only be expressed easily in certain languages. It seems to me that people who are turned off by C++ see its misuse in corporate environments, where any simple, general-purpose programming language will do. In other areas not as visible to the typical contract/corporate programmers, scientists and engineers need a language powerful enough to reasonably represent almost any concept they need. C++ is the best thing we have.
I think their idea is to prevent uptake of competitors' software. This is great forward-thinking on their part, because the Gimp (or Apple's product) has yet to become a real threat. VMWare was a little late with their free version, and now we have KVM which runs perfectly on the latest CPUs, as well as others, which people actually prefer. MS Office is kinda de facto free, and it's definitely killed all the competition. I wouldn't be surprised if Adobe could have the same effect by unleashing the reigns a little on its full version of Photoshop. I never met a Photoshop pirate who actually needed features specific to Photoshop. The pros are usually happy to pay for it.
Um, what? AMD's processors are terrible these days.
Um, no. Last year I got an Athlon X2 4600+ (65 watts max) and it does everything I need, and the stock HSF is almost silent. I seriously doubt an Intel processor could do everything this processor does for me, for the same amount of money. And no, I can't overclock because I can't risk the math errors.
It's silly to compare the processors based on those commonly used benchmarks (Quake? WTF?). Even those artificial benchmarks which purport to demonstrate number crunching speed are not as useful as you might think. I could do just as well with an Intel processor, but it will cost me significantly more money to do so because the Intel motherboards and processors are more expensive. I suppose if I played games I would buy a really fast Intel processor, crank the voltage, run a really loud HSF to keep it cool, and curse AMD for not providing me with this wonderful oppotunity. But alas, I don't.
Wow, an anonymous person just won the Funniest Post of The Year So Far award.
The article claims DDR3 uses 10W per DIMM more than DDR2. Is this true? If so, that's pretty outrageous.
Yes, they should have gone for Flash, which is
Don't know about you, but I've been reading Slashdot for years, and I don't recall much love being thrown at Adobe Flash. I think the Slashdot consensus is they both suck.
Silverlight is NOT Windows only.
Yes it is. Thank you.
Honestly, I haven't heard enough information to even think that he is guilty. And I'm not thinking "guilty beyond a reasonable doubt"-- just my gut feelings. I'm not aware of any physical evidence that remotely suggests Nina Reiser is dead. The most incriminating evidence is probably the books Hans Reiser bought. If I were a juror, I would discount the blood "evidence". I mean, if you have sex on a sleeping bag, there might be blood stains for several reasons. The other blood stains don't suggest murder either-- I would not be surprised to find similar stains in the homes of living people. I think it would be a shame for a jury to convict him given no hard evidence of her death. A guy who buys books like that probably doesn't have the smarts to figure out how to dump a body in the Bay w/o it ever being discovered.
but I'd never pay for it. I would like a keyboard better than the generic (Windows) PC or Mac keyboards. Does there exist a keyboard without the Windows or Mac option keys anymore? I'd love to get one (new) if it costs less than $30.
Actually, Frontline has been awesome for decades. I get disappointed when I discover people I know never heard of it. But anyway, Democracy Now is not a liberal show. It's on the Pacifica network, which is very leftist (think highly insightful liberal, which is almost nonexistent in the USA). If you're in California, it's KPFK in southern CA and KPFA in northern CA, and there is a station in Washington D.C. (where it's based, I think). They play lectures by Noam Chomsky and Michael Parenti (at least during the fund drives). So if you voted for GW twice, you won't find anything interesting about Democracy Now, because, you know, they hate America. If you've never heard of Michael Parenti, you should listen to some of his lectures on audiotape from the early 90s (or is it CDs now?). Great speaker and very insightful.
Look at the "Related Articles" at the bottom of the page. They sure do like to pit their subjects against one another. Talk about dramtization...
* 2008: Year of the Linux Desktop 02/05/08
* Top 3 Brands That Refuse to Support Linux 01/19/08
* Linux Users to Blame for Lack of Linux Popularity 01/15/08
* Linux Time Machine Alternative Reviewed 01/05/08
* Fedora 8: An Assault On Ubuntu 12/30/07
* Restricted Codecs Mess in Linux 12/26/07
* Kernel Developers vs. Mainstream Users Duel 12/20/07
* KDE 4: The Latest In Linux Improvement 12/18/07
* KINO Developers Impress With Unconventional UI 12/10/07
* Ubuntu Gutsy Release Candidate Review 12/02/07
So you've never used a spoon, right idiot?
I guess you didn't get the memo. There is no spoon.
Wow. Dude, KVM is the only one I've gotten to work with no fuss. For me it was downloading kvm-57.tar.gz, ./configure; make; sudo make install; qemu-imw create ... image.img; qemu-system-x86_64 -hda ... ; qemu-system-x86_64 image.img. Installing Debian is best (vs, say, Fedora) because it's faster with a smaller amount of memory. Now go ahead and download KVM and enjoy!