That's great if you never do anything else while you're watching TV.
Re:My brain/eyes are incompatible with 3D TV/movie
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Real cameras have real focal distances
Yes, but virtual cameras don't, and even real cameras have a fair bit of control over depth of field. In my opinion 3D movies should be rendered with as large a depth of field as possible, because the viewer's eyes narrow it automatically. Tight compositions are enough to remove distractions. Even though I know about the trick of looking where the camera is focused, and am therefore able to watch pain free, it breaks the fourth wall for me every time I have to do it.
Yes it sucks at times when I'm downloading etc, then the quality suffers a little
That's not magic jack's fault. Look into setting up traffic shaping. It slows down your web surfing a little while you're talking, but it's nowhere near as noticeable as a loss of audio quality.
Who said anything about unlicensed? Whipping one up in your home workshop, sure, but OEMs obviously are perfectly capable of meeting any necessary licensing conditions.
It wasn't the name he expected to be filtered, but the fact that the email was spoofed, i.e. it appeared to come from a different server than it actually came from.
Don't be insulted. They can't discern your work history by looking at you. I look at it as an opportunity to have some fun. Ask questions like which SATA cable will make your MP3s sound better. The more honest they are, the more likely I am to actually purchase something there.
I have to agree, pretty sad. I still wander in once or twice a year. Last time I went in I told them I was looking for some solder wick. The salesman went and looked, then told me they didn't have any. I looked myself anyway, and sure enough he was looking straight at it, but it was labeled desoldering braid. I still remember as a kid when I could go in for something like an LED and they would recommend a current limiting resistor. Now, I go in for solder wick and they recommend a new cell phone to go with it, and they couldn't tell a transistor from a resistor if their life depended on it.
How can a competent developer not understand operating system concepts?
There's a difference between aptitude and practical skills. I know more about the software for helicopters than pretty much every pilot, but that still doesn't mean I can safely fly one. Nor does it mean I'm incapable of safely flying one. I just haven't learned the practical skills.
Same goes for system administration, especially if like me you use a different operating system at home than at work, and are developing for a third, embedded, operating system. Sure, I can and do install the software I need for my work, but I have no idea of the best practices to protect against malware and other threats, maintain backups, and maintain a consistent configuration across hundreds of computers in a Windows enterprise setting. I could muddle through, and it wouldn't take long to become competent if I had to, but it's simply outside of my purview and interest right now. I won't insult those for whom it is in their purview and interest by pretending it's possible to become competent at their job without even trying.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 565,700 out of approximately 145 million jobs in the United States last year were for computer support. That's one of every 256 jobs. However, a large portion of workers don't use computers for their jobs. I couldn't find statistics for that, but whatever the real ratio is, it's lower than 256:1. It's safe to say your 300:1 ratio is well above average.
Sidestepping your ignorance or deliberate deception on periods of typical Linux support contracts, it still amazes me that comments touting Microsoft support periods continue to appear on articles like this. Who cares if support goes out 10 years if you can't buy a new hard drive that will work with the OS? It's articles and comments like this that give me difficulty discerning what exactly Microsoft "support" entails. A warm fuzzy number you can call where they say you have to upgrade to Windows 7 for that hardware to work?
Definitely a driver problem. Kino especially is pretty good at importing from a DV camera. You'd have to fix it for VLC too. Try # modprobe raw1394 # modprobe ohci1394 # modprobe video1394
Imagine a sheet that looks like the one from the back of the book, but you can type in it and all the numbers fill in automatically. It's not that I think spreadsheets are unnavigable, it's just that using a pdf is a much more pleasant experience to the eye. When I look at something for hours on end, I want it to look nice. I also like to be able to give it to a player and they are familiar with the layout.
It's more useful than you might think. I've personally used it for two purposes:
For a food diary, I put in my current weight and it calculated my daily caloric needs and calories burned for different intensities of exercise.
For roleplaying game character sheets, there are a ton of fields that are dependent on other fields. Javascript lets you enter your dexterity score, for example, and your dexterity mod, defenses, and dex-based skills are all updated accordingly.
I agree on your definition of elegance. "One-liner" and "elegant" rarely belong in the same sentence, in my experience. Elegant code generally is shorter than the most obvious solution, but for me to call it elegant, it must also be immediately understandable by even relative novices. Elegant code is best recognized when you maintain it. If you think a change will take hours until you look at the code and can do it in a few minutes, you're looking at elegant code. There is a feeling of "of course that's the best way to do it" that is obvious even to novices in hindsight, but would likely only occur to an expert in foresight. If only an expert can understand it, it's not elegant code, at least in my book.
But, then again, you could never get PETA to back the eating of vegetarian human beings (i.e. still meat).;)
But apparently using this new technology to grow vegetarian human muscle for eating would pose no ethical concerns to PETA, especially if you use some of your own muscle cells as the "seed." Come on, like you've never sucked the blood off your finger when you cut yourself!
Congratulations on making the first reasonable argument. Google has made way too many statements like "We are not interested in locking or preventing users from installing other operating systems, on their hardware if they so please." (toward the end) to make me believe an advertising model to offset free netbooks is viable. However, factor in a two-year contract for internet service, and it makes perfect sense. Google provides a simple, secure, easy to support, easy to upgrade OS, gaining some ad revenue, but doesn't lose much if the end user wipes the OS. The ISP assumes the financial risk with the contract, and gets the monthly payments in return, and can provide a usable netbook for cheaper thanks to the low hardware requirements of Google's OS, maybe even kicking part of the contract revenue back to Google in exchange for support. That sounds like the Google way.
Chromium is still very much under development. I have no doubt gears will be fully supported before the OS is released to the general non-OS-hacker public next year.
IE 6 came out the same year as XP, so IE 5 is only slightly older than the OS you're using.
By the way, posting anonymously doesn't really help you against exploits like this. You're vulnerable by visiting malicious or infected websites. Hope you either have a really good IPS or never click on links.
Allow me to translate from trollspeak. "no way of doing that" means "no way of doing that, that I could find by clicking around for a minute on the GUI." In this case, I don't even think they did that, because there are options to change how often it prompts for updates, and for applying security updates automatically without prompting.
I really like Ubuntu's choice of default behavior here. Prompting the user to apply updates means no "I lost data because it upgraded while I was in the middle of working on it" kinds of complaints. My wife can wait to apply updates until after an important task she is working on. I can see what packages are being updated before applying them so I know where to be on the lookout for potential problems.
Maybe it makes me an elitist, but I also like that you have to know what you're doing in order to change that default behavior too much. Most of the complaints about foolproof features in software come from people who don't think they are the fools.
I might agree with you if this guy's question was about having trouble convincing his management to upgrade, but it isn't. They've already decided to upgrade even though it isn't broken yet, and they are asking for a plan to accomplish it. In my experience, companies proactive enough to do this are making their own luck.
I see a company who took a calculated risk of a possible occasional day of downtime, probably in exchange for getting up and running faster and cheaper. Now that they are in a position to do so, they are exiting that risk in a controlled manner. This company will now have their desired infrastructure and the advantages of having had cheaper infrastructure costs when it mattered most. The OP doesn't say. Maybe they have had problems with downtime, but the cost was obviously worth it or they wouldn't still be in business. The overly cautious often misattribute success to luck, when it was really a conscious assessment that assuming a risk would have more benefits than drawbacks.
Mucking about with the packaging is the clearest sign you're using the wrong distribution. No one can tell you what the best distro is for your needs, but take a friendly word of advice from someone who used to run gentoo testing, one of the most bleeding edge repositories out there, still considered it to lag too far, so started compiling some apps from cvs, still found that lagging too far, and started manually patching security fixes from mailing lists before they were even committed to cvs. If that sounds like addictive behavior to you, I wouldn't disagree. Upgraders Anonymous, anyone?
Guess what I run now? My two computers run karmic koala, and my wife's computer runs hardy heron LTS. At some point I asked myself what benefit I was gaining from my obsession with being up to date. I couldn't give a better answer than what you said above: a couple point versions. What's a point version, really? What new features did I rely on, or even just really like from those point versions? I couldn't tell you. What additional risk did I assume by waiting for the normal security update process to propagate through? A negligible few weeks during which my easier to update IDS rules and other layers of security told me I never had anything to worry about. What benefits have I received since I stopped worrying about having the latest and greatest? A system that breaks far less often, and requires much less of my own effort to maintain, while still having a feature set that only lags a few months behind. I still keep up with the news of up and coming new features, but don't worry if it won't work on my desktop until lucid, or whenever. You may have better answers for your situation than I did, but I hope you'll at least ask them of yourself.
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That's great if you never do anything else while you're watching TV.
Real cameras have real focal distances
Yes, but virtual cameras don't, and even real cameras have a fair bit of control over depth of field. In my opinion 3D movies should be rendered with as large a depth of field as possible, because the viewer's eyes narrow it automatically. Tight compositions are enough to remove distractions. Even though I know about the trick of looking where the camera is focused, and am therefore able to watch pain free, it breaks the fourth wall for me every time I have to do it.
Yes it sucks at times when I'm downloading etc, then the quality suffers a little
That's not magic jack's fault. Look into setting up traffic shaping. It slows down your web surfing a little while you're talking, but it's nowhere near as noticeable as a loss of audio quality.
Who said anything about unlicensed? Whipping one up in your home workshop, sure, but OEMs obviously are perfectly capable of meeting any necessary licensing conditions.
It wasn't the name he expected to be filtered, but the fact that the email was spoofed, i.e. it appeared to come from a different server than it actually came from.
Don't be insulted. They can't discern your work history by looking at you. I look at it as an opportunity to have some fun. Ask questions like which SATA cable will make your MP3s sound better. The more honest they are, the more likely I am to actually purchase something there.
I have to agree, pretty sad. I still wander in once or twice a year. Last time I went in I told them I was looking for some solder wick. The salesman went and looked, then told me they didn't have any. I looked myself anyway, and sure enough he was looking straight at it, but it was labeled desoldering braid. I still remember as a kid when I could go in for something like an LED and they would recommend a current limiting resistor. Now, I go in for solder wick and they recommend a new cell phone to go with it, and they couldn't tell a transistor from a resistor if their life depended on it.
How can a competent developer not understand operating system concepts?
There's a difference between aptitude and practical skills. I know more about the software for helicopters than pretty much every pilot, but that still doesn't mean I can safely fly one. Nor does it mean I'm incapable of safely flying one. I just haven't learned the practical skills.
Same goes for system administration, especially if like me you use a different operating system at home than at work, and are developing for a third, embedded, operating system. Sure, I can and do install the software I need for my work, but I have no idea of the best practices to protect against malware and other threats, maintain backups, and maintain a consistent configuration across hundreds of computers in a Windows enterprise setting. I could muddle through, and it wouldn't take long to become competent if I had to, but it's simply outside of my purview and interest right now. I won't insult those for whom it is in their purview and interest by pretending it's possible to become competent at their job without even trying.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, 565,700 out of approximately 145 million jobs in the United States last year were for computer support. That's one of every 256 jobs. However, a large portion of workers don't use computers for their jobs. I couldn't find statistics for that, but whatever the real ratio is, it's lower than 256:1. It's safe to say your 300:1 ratio is well above average.
Sidestepping your ignorance or deliberate deception on periods of typical Linux support contracts, it still amazes me that comments touting Microsoft support periods continue to appear on articles like this. Who cares if support goes out 10 years if you can't buy a new hard drive that will work with the OS? It's articles and comments like this that give me difficulty discerning what exactly Microsoft "support" entails. A warm fuzzy number you can call where they say you have to upgrade to Windows 7 for that hardware to work?
Definitely a driver problem. Kino especially is pretty good at importing from a DV camera. You'd have to fix it for VLC too. Try
# modprobe raw1394
# modprobe ohci1394
# modprobe video1394
They can't help using their phones while driving. Brain cancer impairs their judgment.
Imagine a sheet that looks like the one from the back of the book, but you can type in it and all the numbers fill in automatically. It's not that I think spreadsheets are unnavigable, it's just that using a pdf is a much more pleasant experience to the eye. When I look at something for hours on end, I want it to look nice. I also like to be able to give it to a player and they are familiar with the layout.
Why on earth would you use a PDF?
Because it's much easier to identify the fields while you're editing, and it's much prettier than a spreadsheet when you print it out.
Not that I don't trust myself, but this is really not the time to solicit javascript-enabled pdfs from strangers.
It's more useful than you might think. I've personally used it for two purposes:
I agree on your definition of elegance. "One-liner" and "elegant" rarely belong in the same sentence, in my experience. Elegant code generally is shorter than the most obvious solution, but for me to call it elegant, it must also be immediately understandable by even relative novices. Elegant code is best recognized when you maintain it. If you think a change will take hours until you look at the code and can do it in a few minutes, you're looking at elegant code. There is a feeling of "of course that's the best way to do it" that is obvious even to novices in hindsight, but would likely only occur to an expert in foresight. If only an expert can understand it, it's not elegant code, at least in my book.
so until and unless major browsers start implementing things like JIT compilation
Wish granted (at least for chrome).
But, then again, you could never get PETA to back the eating of vegetarian human beings (i.e. still meat). ;)
But apparently using this new technology to grow vegetarian human muscle for eating would pose no ethical concerns to PETA, especially if you use some of your own muscle cells as the "seed." Come on, like you've never sucked the blood off your finger when you cut yourself!
Congratulations on making the first reasonable argument. Google has made way too many statements like "We are not interested in locking or preventing users from installing other operating systems, on their hardware if they so please." (toward the end) to make me believe an advertising model to offset free netbooks is viable. However, factor in a two-year contract for internet service, and it makes perfect sense. Google provides a simple, secure, easy to support, easy to upgrade OS, gaining some ad revenue, but doesn't lose much if the end user wipes the OS. The ISP assumes the financial risk with the contract, and gets the monthly payments in return, and can provide a usable netbook for cheaper thanks to the low hardware requirements of Google's OS, maybe even kicking part of the contract revenue back to Google in exchange for support. That sounds like the Google way.
Chromium is still very much under development. I have no doubt gears will be fully supported before the OS is released to the general non-OS-hacker public next year.
IE 6 came out the same year as XP, so IE 5 is only slightly older than the OS you're using.
By the way, posting anonymously doesn't really help you against exploits like this. You're vulnerable by visiting malicious or infected websites. Hope you either have a really good IPS or never click on links.
Allow me to translate from trollspeak. "no way of doing that" means "no way of doing that, that I could find by clicking around for a minute on the GUI." In this case, I don't even think they did that, because there are options to change how often it prompts for updates, and for applying security updates automatically without prompting.
I really like Ubuntu's choice of default behavior here. Prompting the user to apply updates means no "I lost data because it upgraded while I was in the middle of working on it" kinds of complaints. My wife can wait to apply updates until after an important task she is working on. I can see what packages are being updated before applying them so I know where to be on the lookout for potential problems.
Maybe it makes me an elitist, but I also like that you have to know what you're doing in order to change that default behavior too much. Most of the complaints about foolproof features in software come from people who don't think they are the fools.
I might agree with you if this guy's question was about having trouble convincing his management to upgrade, but it isn't. They've already decided to upgrade even though it isn't broken yet, and they are asking for a plan to accomplish it. In my experience, companies proactive enough to do this are making their own luck.
I see a company who took a calculated risk of a possible occasional day of downtime, probably in exchange for getting up and running faster and cheaper. Now that they are in a position to do so, they are exiting that risk in a controlled manner. This company will now have their desired infrastructure and the advantages of having had cheaper infrastructure costs when it mattered most. The OP doesn't say. Maybe they have had problems with downtime, but the cost was obviously worth it or they wouldn't still be in business. The overly cautious often misattribute success to luck, when it was really a conscious assessment that assuming a risk would have more benefits than drawbacks.
Mucking about with the packaging is the clearest sign you're using the wrong distribution. No one can tell you what the best distro is for your needs, but take a friendly word of advice from someone who used to run gentoo testing, one of the most bleeding edge repositories out there, still considered it to lag too far, so started compiling some apps from cvs, still found that lagging too far, and started manually patching security fixes from mailing lists before they were even committed to cvs. If that sounds like addictive behavior to you, I wouldn't disagree. Upgraders Anonymous, anyone?
Guess what I run now? My two computers run karmic koala, and my wife's computer runs hardy heron LTS. At some point I asked myself what benefit I was gaining from my obsession with being up to date. I couldn't give a better answer than what you said above: a couple point versions. What's a point version, really? What new features did I rely on, or even just really like from those point versions? I couldn't tell you. What additional risk did I assume by waiting for the normal security update process to propagate through? A negligible few weeks during which my easier to update IDS rules and other layers of security told me I never had anything to worry about. What benefits have I received since I stopped worrying about having the latest and greatest? A system that breaks far less often, and requires much less of my own effort to maintain, while still having a feature set that only lags a few months behind. I still keep up with the news of up and coming new features, but don't worry if it won't work on my desktop until lucid, or whenever. You may have better answers for your situation than I did, but I hope you'll at least ask them of yourself.