This is no different behaviour to that of Ubuntu: the first (and, in fact, only) user defined during installation is the one granted 'sudo' priviledges; effectively, that user is root.
...And that 15-30 minutes costs your company the order of $50-$200, including overheads. As opposed to the cost of leaving your computer on overnight which costs the company the order of $0.05-$0.20. I know which your employer would prefer.
I would say that it's more like "Windows sometimes gets it right, sometimes not. When there are problems they usually aren't trivial to fix." I have much more success troubleshooting linux problems than windows ones. At least in linux the configuration for something is generally in/etc, in a text file readable by any editor. Under Windows I have to trawl through the monstrosity that is the registry to perform the same function.
I too wish Wine worked well enough to use. Ahh the day...
Have you tried it lately?? I mean, really tried it? I run 0.9.12 at home on my pure linux box, and it works well for some things, not so well for others. The Altera Windows FPGA tools work really well, and in fact the compilation is faster under wine than it is under native windows (go figure).
I've usually been able to download any trailer, by following this method:
Go to the site the trailer lives on, view source, and do a search on "mov". The filename usually won't be the first term (since it'll usually have the word "movie" on the site in several places).
Then, once you've found the URL, go to a console window (either a shell in Linux or a cygwin shell in Windows), and type in "wget [URL]" - you can copy and paste the URL in to the text window (middle click on X, right click on cygwin).
Once you've downloaded the file, play it using mplayer. Doesn't cost anything, and can play mov's fullscreen,
Descartes stated "I think, therefore I am", however you haven't yet shown the ability to do the former to prove the latter...
On a less pithy note, how does one go about proving one's own existence? Is it indeed even possible to prove to oneself, let alone to others, that one exists? If indeed you can prove that you exist, and even better provide a methodology for doing the same, you are in danger of putting a whole lot of philosophers out of a job...
I can hear the naturalists clacking away at their keyboards in glee with the "smoking gun" that evolution has finally been "proven" and that the creationists will have to sit in stunned silence under the weight of the evidence finally presented.
And this sentence just goes to show that you don't get it. Evolution can never be "proved". Like any scientific theory, it can only be falsified or strengthened by further evidence. A scientific theory of anything physical (ie, not abstract) can never be proved to be true - that is one of the essences of science. Even the most seemingly elementary of scientific theories over the years have been falsified, and subsequently modified to accommodate new evidence, and even the qualification of physical vs abstract theories isn't strictly true (there are whole branches of mathematics dealing with whether or not the rest of mathematics is based on sound foundations).
Neither true Creationism nor its bastard cousin Intelligent Design can be falsified. They are not scientific theory.
...really fly on modern hardware, and Abiword can still hold its own on a Pentium 133.
A lot of people will scoff at this and go "so what, show me anyone who works with a P133 these days", and they'd be right. However, convergence of technology
means that one day Real Soon Now (tm) people will routinely be running desktop-style apps on Really Small Devices (think mobile phone or PDA). It's these markets that apps like Abiword et al are primed to conquer. I'm sure MS hasn't missed the point either - they ship versions of Word and Excel for pocket PCs.
What about bash? Seriously, though, I don't know of a tool that can save a particular desktop context, although KDE tends to save the context on logout, so when you log back in it's pretty much as you logged out. I don't think it extends to files within apps, though, unless they are KDE apps.
It would make a great utility to sit in the task tray (for windows or for KDE or gnome or OSX or whatever): one click and it saves the complete desktop context (open files and all), and creates a desktop shortcut to that context. Maybe even with check boxes to exclude certain apps (like the mail client or mp3 player for example) from the save.
If you really want a single "chip" for an analog circuit, you can get a hybrid developed. This is essentially a chip made up of the die form of other chips. The good thing is you can develop the device as a normal circuit, then get the hybrid made and manufactured for you in small volumes relatively cheaply.
The main reasons to use hybrids are size, power and noise characteristics, not price, though, as they are AFAIU generally more expensive than a circuit board solution.
Agreed with most of what you say, except I'd like to expand on the comment "FPGAs are not particularly suitable for general-purpose processing where the system has extensive subsystem interdependencies and shared elements." FPGA's are also particularly suitable for low-volume applications where the designer can't afford to spin an ASIC, and also to fast-to-market applications where the time to market may be the critical factor in success or failure of a particular project.
I've worked a little with some of the smaller Altera FPGAs (mostly FLEX10K, ACEX and Cyclone series), and I find them a fantastic alternative to implementing stuff in microcontrollers - I have a project at the moment where I use the FPGA as a real-time coprocessor for the microcontroller which does most of the communications processing. In the future I might have the confidence to use one of the many soft processor cores available and remove the micro from the board entirely.
A long time ago here in Australia the "D Generation" comedy show did a skit on a razor with 16 blades. Here's a transcript:
"The first blade distracts the hair, while the second and third blades sneak up behind it, cutting off any escape routes. The fourth and fifth blades attempt to coax the hair from its hiding place using modern counselling techniques while the sixth blade, posing as a passing motorist, acts as a decoy, allowing the seventh and eighth blades to swoop down and quickly overpower the hair. The ninth blade, disguised as a postman, administers a small dose of chloroform, allowing blades 10 through 13 to remove the hair and escort it away for further questioning. The 14th blade informs the hair of its rights. The 15th blade handles the paperwork and the 16th blade, well, it's just along for the ride."
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Whatever their format, is there something in the VMWare license that says you can't share them? Because if it's possible to share them, then someone with a valid copy of VMWare (or even, dare I say it, an evaluation version), can create a whole bunch-o-images, and the rest of the world can benefit.
Two words to add to your 75m: "Thermal Expansion". A rise of several degrees in average ocean temperatures will cause them to expand ever so slightly, also raising the ocean levels. A geophysicist professor colleague of mine asserts that the thermal expansion of the ocean Will Be Significant. He's done the calculations.
I have addition & subtraction, (integer) multiplication and division, but most of the "hard work" is done with an FPGA. The application doesn't have much need for arithmetic anyway, so there's no issue with speed. It works well, and yes, it is fun.
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This is no different behaviour to that of Ubuntu: the first (and, in fact, only) user defined during installation is the one granted 'sudo' priviledges; effectively, that user is root.
...And that 15-30 minutes costs your company the order of $50-$200, including overheads. As opposed to the cost of leaving your computer on overnight which costs the company the order of $0.05-$0.20. I know which your employer would prefer.
Pun intended?
I would say that it's more like "Windows sometimes gets it right, sometimes not. When there are problems they usually aren't trivial to fix." I have much more success troubleshooting linux problems than windows ones. At least in linux the configuration for something is generally in /etc, in a text file readable by any editor. Under Windows I have to trawl through the monstrosity that is the registry to perform the same function.
you mean, something like this?
I think you meant "...so we engineers...".
Have you tried it lately?? I mean, really tried it? I run 0.9.12 at home on my pure linux box, and it works well for some things, not so well for others. The Altera Windows FPGA tools work really well, and in fact the compilation is faster under wine than it is under native windows (go figure).
Go to the site the trailer lives on, view source, and do a search on "mov". The filename usually won't be the first term (since it'll usually have the word "movie" on the site in several places).
Then, once you've found the URL, go to a console window (either a shell in Linux or a cygwin shell in Windows), and type in "wget [URL]" - you can copy and paste the URL in to the text window (middle click on X, right click on cygwin).
Once you've downloaded the file, play it using mplayer. Doesn't cost anything, and can play mov's fullscreen,
And yet, ironically, your off-topic (although, relevent) point receives a +insightful moderation. Good work, mods!
On a less pithy note, how does one go about proving one's own existence? Is it indeed even possible to prove to oneself, let alone to others, that one exists? If indeed you can prove that you exist, and even better provide a methodology for doing the same, you are in danger of putting a whole lot of philosophers out of a job...
And this sentence just goes to show that you don't get it. Evolution can never be "proved". Like any scientific theory, it can only be falsified or strengthened by further evidence. A scientific theory of anything physical (ie, not abstract) can never be proved to be true - that is one of the essences of science. Even the most seemingly elementary of scientific theories over the years have been falsified, and subsequently modified to accommodate new evidence, and even the qualification of physical vs abstract theories isn't strictly true (there are whole branches of mathematics dealing with whether or not the rest of mathematics is based on sound foundations).
Neither true Creationism nor its bastard cousin Intelligent Design can be falsified. They are not scientific theory.
Heh, reminds me of when I buy a loaf of "Raisin Toast", that is actually raisin bread. To make it raisin toast, one has to toast it...
A lot of people will scoff at this and go "so what, show me anyone who works with a P133 these days", and they'd be right. However, convergence of technology means that one day Real Soon Now (tm) people will routinely be running desktop-style apps on Really Small Devices (think mobile phone or PDA). It's these markets that apps like Abiword et al are primed to conquer. I'm sure MS hasn't missed the point either - they ship versions of Word and Excel for pocket PCs.
What about bash? Seriously, though, I don't know of a tool that can save a particular desktop context, although KDE tends to save the context on logout, so when you log back in it's pretty much as you logged out. I don't think it extends to files within apps, though, unless they are KDE apps.
It would make a great utility to sit in the task tray (for windows or for KDE or gnome or OSX or whatever): one click and it saves the complete desktop context (open files and all), and creates a desktop shortcut to that context. Maybe even with check boxes to exclude certain apps (like the mail client or mp3 player for example) from the save.
The main reasons to use hybrids are size, power and noise characteristics, not price, though, as they are AFAIU generally more expensive than a circuit board solution.
Why anybody would think that their life is interesting enough to warrant 24/7 recording of it is beyond me.
I've worked a little with some of the smaller Altera FPGAs (mostly FLEX10K, ACEX and Cyclone series), and I find them a fantastic alternative to implementing stuff in microcontrollers - I have a project at the moment where I use the FPGA as a real-time coprocessor for the microcontroller which does most of the communications processing. In the future I might have the confidence to use one of the many soft processor cores available and remove the micro from the board entirely.
A long time ago here in Australia the "D Generation" comedy show did a skit on a razor with 16 blades. Here's a transcript:
"The first blade distracts the hair, while the second and third blades sneak up behind it, cutting off any escape routes. The fourth and fifth blades attempt to coax the hair from its hiding place using modern counselling techniques while the sixth blade, posing as a passing motorist, acts as a decoy, allowing the seventh and eighth blades to swoop down and quickly overpower the hair. The ninth blade, disguised as a postman, administers a small dose of chloroform, allowing blades 10 through 13 to remove the hair and escort it away for further questioning. The 14th blade informs the hair of its rights. The 15th blade handles the paperwork and the 16th blade, well, it's just along for the ride."
Spelling transitional? That's shite. Try strict.
What about Rat Poison? Cheers, mvdw
Whatever their format, is there something in the VMWare license that says you can't share them? Because if it's possible to share them, then someone with a valid copy of VMWare (or even, dare I say it, an evaluation version), can create a whole bunch-o-images, and the rest of the world can benefit.
"milking" the joke. Heh. Yoghurt it?
Well, counterfeiters probably have truckloads of cash with which to buy all sorts of things...
Two words to add to your 75m: "Thermal Expansion". A rise of several degrees in average ocean temperatures will cause them to expand ever so slightly, also raising the ocean levels. A geophysicist professor colleague of mine asserts that the thermal expansion of the ocean Will Be Significant. He's done the calculations.
I have addition & subtraction, (integer) multiplication and division, but most of the "hard work" is done with an FPGA. The application doesn't have much need for arithmetic anyway, so there's no issue with speed. It works well, and yes, it is fun.