While Debian is the source of many *buntu packages, Kubuntu have their own KDE packages, they are completely separate from Debian's KDE packages. So don't badmouth Debian KDE just because Kubuntu suck. Debian's is one of the most vanilla and well working KDE versions.
There probably were better ways of increasing computational speed using multicore processor designs than just increasing the clock speed. Kind of like going from a V4 engine to V6 being a better option in terms of power than increasing the individual piston HP of the V4 from 25 to 30.
There is no such thing as a V4. A typical 4-cylinder engines are inline engines. The 'V' in V6 and V8 is the configuration of the engine two parts not a unit of measurement. Note that at first only V8 made sense because it was just two ordinary 4-cylinder engines in V-configuration. The V is important because there are both 6-cylinder engines in V-configuration and inline-configuration (inline-6 and V6).
In online chat it's comical how often you can tell the 'Continental European speaking English' as opposed to the 'Native Brit or Irish person' purely from their superior grammar and spelling. That's particularly true for the younger age groups.
Are you being sarcastic? Especially followed by:
Problem is that all kids are prepared to pass those stupid tests and outside them they know jack shit
I think I know what he is saying, but that is not an example of superiour grammar.
Of course they are. Provincial, state, & city governments are all, uhm, governments.
What on earth is a city government? Do you mean the city council or the majors office?
Anyway, the mistake is much more basic than that, most institutions are never government(al). They are public, governments change, but the institutions don't, only those tied directly to the faith of the existing government can be called government institutions.
Actually, what made the Amiga great was that they couldn't hard code everything. Moving to harddisk was easy. I never got one, but I had extra memory and loaded two floppy to RAM to cut down on disk changes (Monkey Island II: 22 disks). What made it easy was that all drives had to be accessed by name, so you just had to have another possibly virtual disk with the same name as the floppy.
Except that the automobile wasn't built as a response to the horse manure problem, it was built as a response to the people-want-to-travel-faster-and-more-cheaply problem.
Considering the car for decades was slower, less reliable and much much more expensive. I think you are after-rationalizing.
The architecture doesn't have to support it. It is a chastity vow from the program, that while it may use 64bit, it simply opts to only use 32bit while still running in 64bit mode. Sounds confusing but is really simple.
The register is still 64bit (because CPU is in 64bit mode). The memory slot used to store pointers is 32bit (because no more is needed). The 64bit instruction set still has "load 32bit from memory" which may be used to load 32bit pointers into 64bit registers.
Now: The reason no one is doing it is becaue the C api states that the pointers should be 64bit when in 64bit mode. If you use a trick like this, your application will no longer be following standards, making it unable to use standard libraries.
You do realize that Firefox is ad-supported as well. There is a reason Google it the default search provider, and why the Google toolbar is distributed with Firefox. You may not like a visible ad, but you certainly have bought into an ad supported browser.
I can't say for all the affected routers but the D-Link 655 has a guest mode for unsecured wireless networks. This means this essid only provides internet and not access to the LAN. To get to the LAN you need to use the other secure essid (the router can handle multiple wireless networks with varying security).
Guess it was ignorance of the meaning of the word then. Like it or not, AVI is still widely used. Until it isn't, it will not be obsolete. You need a new word. Might I suggest one of the following: anachronous, antiquated, antique, archaic, behind the times, dated, old-hat, out, outdated, outmoded, passé, unfashionable
The word is deprecated. Like obsolete, except people are still using it, but you wish they weren't.
While technically true, that's functionally meaningless. If your program supports limited codecs that work with a particular container (for example... AVI) ditching one is the same as ditching the other.
It is not even technically true. The first version of DiVX was the MSMPEG4 codec in an AVI-container. This was special because the MSMPEG4 was limited by Microsoft to only be used in ASF-containers. So the entire point, what defined DiVX;) is that it is contained in AVI.
I am with Nokia on this issue, but don't make the mistake of thinking they are good guys. Nokia has traditionally been the Microsoft of the cell phone industry. Ignoring standards, making their own incompatible standards and even making phones with severe security issues. They had SMS viruses at one point! Also Nokia has been pushing for software patents in Europe, making them a sworn enemy of many geeks.
It seems more to me the journalists did their own fear-mongering. The politicians just followed the prevailing winds like always. I wish politicians would have more balls than that, but I also wish I could fly!
Well, the old Doctor Who shows are interesting but not interesting enough to watch.
As a huge fan of the new series I am constantly tempted to buy and watch some of the old shows, but the pain of repeated disappointment is now holding me back from watching the old crap.
Of course the driving performance is the exact same. There is only one driving engine, the electric one, and creating power-enough for it is not hard. Now the real question is: What is its fuel-performance when batteries are depleted?
At the very least, math-wise you need Statistics, for the user surveys and interviews you'll conduct. (Assuming you're good at your job.) You also need a good dose of Psychology to set up testing, and learn all the established knowledge you'll save time not re-testing.
Sorry, I was talking from a university point of view. None of the math there is relevant. Yes you need statistics, but not statistic theory (you are not researching new distributions). A yes you need a brain to create a good interface, HCI is very hard to actually do. You don't need a brain to learn it though, the theory is still vague and there few difficult facts or abstractions like in other parts of CS. And yes I was exaggerating because making fun of HCI is part of my CS culture.
You may call that advanced math, but it is not what I meant by advanced math courses. I am talking about later courses for a math major, at least where I studied our later courses was way beyond anything you mentioned. All computability theory and combinatorics are introductory math, or at best advanced applied math, but they don't teach applied math at the math department.
You also have to remember that Nokia had no choice of closing Qt because of the Free-Qt legal agreement it has with KDE. This meant any attempt to close-source Qt would release the last open-source version under BSD. This made embracing the advantages of open source the only viable business decision (or that the only purchasers of Trolltech would be the ones interested in keeping Qt open source).
True not all fields require math, but just to answer the question. Yes, choose what you like:
If you want to do algorithms and language theory, you need discrete math, graph theory, etc. If you want to do graphics and signal processing, you need calculus (also called math analysis), geometry and differential. If you want to do human computer interface, you don't need math (or a brain).
If you want to kick ass, you need all the introductory math you put your hands on (advanced university level math is too theoretical though and only useful for quantum physics and math majors).
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While Debian is the source of many *buntu packages, Kubuntu have their own KDE packages, they are completely separate from Debian's KDE packages. So don't badmouth Debian KDE just because Kubuntu suck. Debian's is one of the most vanilla and well working KDE versions.
There is no such thing as a V4. A typical 4-cylinder engines are inline engines. The 'V' in V6 and V8 is the configuration of the engine two parts not a unit of measurement. Note that at first only V8 made sense because it was just two ordinary 4-cylinder engines in V-configuration. The V is important because there are both 6-cylinder engines in V-configuration and inline-configuration (inline-6 and V6).
Are you being sarcastic? Especially followed by:
I think I know what he is saying, but that is not an example of superiour grammar.
What on earth is a city government? Do you mean the city council or the majors office?
Anyway, the mistake is much more basic than that, most institutions are never government(al). They are public, governments change, but the institutions don't, only those tied directly to the faith of the existing government can be called government institutions.
Are they anywhere? I thought many people was just misusing of the word "government" when they meant "public".
Actually, what made the Amiga great was that they couldn't hard code everything. Moving to harddisk was easy. I never got one, but I had extra memory and loaded two floppy to RAM to cut down on disk changes (Monkey Island II: 22 disks). What made it easy was that all drives had to be accessed by name, so you just had to have another possibly virtual disk with the same name as the floppy.
No, I think Mercedes did, but of course the Swedish did pioneer the moose crash-test for obvious reasons.
Considering the car for decades was slower, less reliable and much much more expensive. I think you are after-rationalizing.
If you remember, the US send soldiers to Somalia as well. It didn't help much, and the soldiers were pulled out.
The architecture doesn't have to support it. It is a chastity vow from the program, that while it may use 64bit, it simply opts to only use 32bit while still running in 64bit mode. Sounds confusing but is really simple.
The register is still 64bit (because CPU is in 64bit mode).
The memory slot used to store pointers is 32bit (because no more is needed).
The 64bit instruction set still has "load 32bit from memory" which may be used to load 32bit pointers into 64bit registers.
Now: The reason no one is doing it is becaue the C api states that the pointers should be 64bit when in 64bit mode. If you use a trick like this, your application will no longer be following standards, making it unable to use standard libraries.
Technically that is not adware, it is spyware...
I can't say for all the affected routers but the D-Link 655 has a guest mode for unsecured wireless networks. This means this essid only provides internet and not access to the LAN. To get to the LAN you need to use the other secure essid (the router can handle multiple wireless networks with varying security).
I see a beta version 1.31EUb02 listed from the 18/1 with the specific changelog of fixing this vulnerability.
The word is deprecated. Like obsolete, except people are still using it, but you wish they weren't.
It is not even technically true. The first version of DiVX was the MSMPEG4 codec in an AVI-container. This was special because the MSMPEG4 was limited by Microsoft to only be used in ASF-containers. So the entire point, what defined DiVX ;) is that it is contained in AVI.
I am with Nokia on this issue, but don't make the mistake of thinking they are good guys. Nokia has traditionally been the Microsoft of the cell phone industry. Ignoring standards, making their own incompatible standards and even making phones with severe security issues. They had SMS viruses at one point! Also Nokia has been pushing for software patents in Europe, making them a sworn enemy of many geeks.
It seems more to me the journalists did their own fear-mongering. The politicians just followed the prevailing winds like always. I wish politicians would have more balls than that, but I also wish I could fly!
Well, the old Doctor Who shows are interesting but not interesting enough to watch.
As a huge fan of the new series I am constantly tempted to buy and watch some of the old shows, but the pain of repeated disappointment is now holding me back from watching the old crap.
So is this a new technology or is this the same as the LPD screens you can buy today?
If it is new, it is unfortunate not only to reuse an acronym, but reusing one in the same domain.
If it the same, what is the news?
Of course the driving performance is the exact same. There is only one driving engine, the electric one, and creating power-enough for it is not hard. Now the real question is: What is its fuel-performance when batteries are depleted?
And if postgresql fails there is still firebird, and all the other open source database that kick ass but are less known than mysql and postgresql.
Sorry, I was talking from a university point of view. None of the math there is relevant. Yes you need statistics, but not statistic theory (you are not researching new distributions). A yes you need a brain to create a good interface, HCI is very hard to actually do. You don't need a brain to learn it though, the theory is still vague and there few difficult facts or abstractions like in other parts of CS. And yes I was exaggerating because making fun of HCI is part of my CS culture.
You may call that advanced math, but it is not what I meant by advanced math courses. I am talking about later courses for a math major, at least where I studied our later courses was way beyond anything you mentioned. All computability theory and combinatorics are introductory math, or at best advanced applied math, but they don't teach applied math at the math department.
You also have to remember that Nokia had no choice of closing Qt because of the Free-Qt legal agreement it has with KDE. This meant any attempt to close-source Qt would release the last open-source version under BSD. This made embracing the advantages of open source the only viable business decision (or that the only purchasers of Trolltech would be the ones interested in keeping Qt open source).
True not all fields require math, but just to answer the question. Yes, choose what you like:
If you want to do algorithms and language theory, you need discrete math, graph theory, etc.
If you want to do graphics and signal processing, you need calculus (also called math analysis), geometry and differential.
If you want to do human computer interface, you don't need math (or a brain).
If you want to kick ass, you need all the introductory math you put your hands on (advanced university level math is too theoretical though and only useful for quantum physics and math majors).