Personally I'm a socialist and support our high taxes in Sweden, but I make sure to never miss out an opportunity to withhold as much taxes I can get away with.. Has more to do with personal greed than with any political ideology
I think this is a pretty good summary of why absolute socialism (not what you have in sweden) doesn't work
Pick a route about twice as far as you can run and keep at it every day until you can do it. Add a mile every couple months until you're happy with where you are. You can run anywhere (good for consultants) and you'll find it makes you better at all sports (even if im not the most skilled bball player i can sure as hell run them ragged)
Absolutely the racist undertones should be avoided. There is an important thing to remember here - though. Unlike what was typically the case in America and Europe in the early 1900s, the Chinese government can silence detractors that want to hobble the economy in favor of protecting the environment. Also, America's "sordid" past was before most people were aware of concept of global warming and carcinogens. China is acting irresponsibly and the structure of their government almost ensures that things aren't going to get much better any time soon.
you're assuming that doSomething() is entirely unparallelizable and that every line depends on the previous line.... not the case for generic code. a smart compiler or informed programmer can make even the most trivial programs work on multiple cores.
this is by no means a cure all but you're generally going to be okay if you only use mirrors that end in.edu. i use arch linux which doesn't do any fancy digital signing stuff but until someone hacks the repo at georgia tech i won't start to panic.
The thing about Neal Boortz (and like minded people) is that they don't seem to care that juicing ANWR and the outer continental shelf is just a way to offload a huge problem from their generation onto ours. Does he, or anyone, really believe that if we drove gas prices back down to $2 a gallon we'd have the wherewithal to realize we should still be looking for alternative fuels? We didn't do it in the 80s, why would we do it now? This is a good kick in the pants and I wouldn't support any measure to soften the blow.
in my eyes this is excellent news. i get the interface of ms office (sorry guys it's miles ahead of OOo) with the open standards of open office. what's to complain about?
I'm not sure about this particular chip but doesn't VLIW normally mean no microcode? Microcode is the set of RISC commands that make up a CISC command. VLIW is just a RISC machine in which the compiler does all the optimization (branch prediction, hazard detection, etc). Normally VLIW machines fetch multiple instructions at once and issue them without fear of any hazards because the compiler takes care of it. Very neat idea, but not CISC
Although I can't buy a blog from them my school is more than happy to sell me a wide variety of t-shirts and caps on their.edu domain. At least blogs can be considered an academic pursuit.
Come on. You really think Microsoft wants to increase the vulnerability of old versions of Office (which are still the vast majority in corporate America). This not only makes their software looks bad, it increases the amount of work they have to do to support the older versions (yes, they still support Office 2003). You don't sell new cars by convincing people the last model was rubbish.
I think your tin-foil hat fits a little to tight.
Seems to me like the challenge is to create a script for "POV-ray" that is less than 512 bytes to create a cool animation. Title lead me to believe that some of those animations were under 512 bytes which would have been totally amazing.
I could never figure out how to use clit either. I think the trick is to just fumble around with it until something happens. A buddy of mine told me I should try it on my laptop. Never worked for me though, not enough RAM.
I would guess that the only variable is the mass of the asteroid. While we've had decades to accurately estimate the mass of Earth and nearby planets, the mass of an asteroid hurdling through space might be more tricky to ascertain. I would think that the trajectory of the asteroid is a complex equation involving the gravitational pull of planets (which we know) as well as the asteroid's momentum (unknown mass and known speed).
Vista Ultimate is about $350, not $700. The cheap price of OSX is subsidized by your purchase of Apple hardware (which isn't so cheap). Vista offers more binary backward compatibility than any distribution of Linux I've played around with. Also, it doesn't use 30% of your resources for DRM, that's a made up statistic unless you're running Vista on your toaster. I've never heard of one person's media experience thwarted by Vista's legendary DRM. I double click an mp3 file and it plays, same with any other file I have the decoder for. This won't be a popular post but why on earth did that bullshit fanboy rambling get modded up?
"An alternative OS with Google
Apps and other Web 2.0 apps
for the masses"
So we have an unknown linux vendor shipping an OS filled with google applications and it's called gOS. Oh, and they got a deal with Walmart. Is this the elusive Google Os?
For the life of me I cannot figure out why KDE isn't the default desktop of Ubuntu. Kubuntu at the moment is an inferior product but only because it receives a fraction of the resources that Ubuntu does. Hopefully KDE4 will be enough to sway the Canonical crowd. I'm a happy user of the KDE desktop on Arch Linux and until Gnome has an answer to kioslaves, dolphin, or the many superior QT apps (amarok, kmail, etc) I'll stay that way.
I know this runs counter to the "et tu billy" culture that has developed around here but it is worth mentioning that Bill Gates is a philanthropist at heart. He has given away an estimated 29 billion USD since the year 2000. His influence at Microsoft is still considerable even if he doesn't have the fancy title on his office he once did. Maybe Gates thinks he can create some useful software and give it away for free. I doubt Microsoft can compete with an already mature and free Linux product in this market but I support the competition. We shouldn't be so fast to judge.
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Personally I'm a socialist and support our high taxes in Sweden, but I make sure to never miss out an opportunity to withhold as much taxes I can get away with.. Has more to do with personal greed than with any political ideology
I think this is a pretty good summary of why absolute socialism (not what you have in sweden) doesn't work
Pick a route about twice as far as you can run and keep at it every day until you can do it. Add a mile every couple months until you're happy with where you are. You can run anywhere (good for consultants) and you'll find it makes you better at all sports (even if im not the most skilled bball player i can sure as hell run them ragged)
i've been using kde4.1 for a couple of days now and it is pretty great. there are a few annoyances however....
-khotkeys doesnt work for me
-desktop search doesn't seem to work (ala strigi)
-artifacts left in the system tray
Seriously? At least pick a standard with a working implementation....
Absolutely the racist undertones should be avoided. There is an important thing to remember here - though. Unlike what was typically the case in America and Europe in the early 1900s, the Chinese government can silence detractors that want to hobble the economy in favor of protecting the environment. Also, America's "sordid" past was before most people were aware of concept of global warming and carcinogens. China is acting irresponsibly and the structure of their government almost ensures that things aren't going to get much better any time soon.
you're assuming that doSomething() is entirely unparallelizable and that every line depends on the previous line.... not the case for generic code. a smart compiler or informed programmer can make even the most trivial programs work on multiple cores.
this is by no means a cure all but you're generally going to be okay if you only use mirrors that end in .edu. i use arch linux which doesn't do any fancy digital signing stuff but until someone hacks the repo at georgia tech i won't start to panic.
use established repos, duh
The thing about Neal Boortz (and like minded people) is that they don't seem to care that juicing ANWR and the outer continental shelf is just a way to offload a huge problem from their generation onto ours. Does he, or anyone, really believe that if we drove gas prices back down to $2 a gallon we'd have the wherewithal to realize we should still be looking for alternative fuels? We didn't do it in the 80s, why would we do it now? This is a good kick in the pants and I wouldn't support any measure to soften the blow.
You realize Apple are the ones most to blame for the resurgence of the PC=windows shit right?
Hi I'm a mac. and I'm a PC
in my eyes this is excellent news. i get the interface of ms office (sorry guys it's miles ahead of OOo) with the open standards of open office. what's to complain about?
I'm not sure about this particular chip but doesn't VLIW normally mean no microcode? Microcode is the set of RISC commands that make up a CISC command. VLIW is just a RISC machine in which the compiler does all the optimization (branch prediction, hazard detection, etc). Normally VLIW machines fetch multiple instructions at once and issue them without fear of any hazards because the compiler takes care of it. Very neat idea, but not CISC
because your minivan doesn't explode when aerostar goes belly up
i can only assume you typed that moments after huffing from a spray paint can
Although I can't buy a blog from them my school is more than happy to sell me a wide variety of t-shirts and caps on their .edu domain. At least blogs can be considered an academic pursuit.
Just drop your computer in a lake.
Let's find Bill and kick his f*cking ass.
Come on. You really think Microsoft wants to increase the vulnerability of old versions of Office (which are still the vast majority in corporate America). This not only makes their software looks bad, it increases the amount of work they have to do to support the older versions (yes, they still support Office 2003). You don't sell new cars by convincing people the last model was rubbish. I think your tin-foil hat fits a little to tight.
Seems to me like the challenge is to create a script for "POV-ray" that is less than 512 bytes to create a cool animation. Title lead me to believe that some of those animations were under 512 bytes which would have been totally amazing.
I could never figure out how to use clit either. I think the trick is to just fumble around with it until something happens. A buddy of mine told me I should try it on my laptop. Never worked for me though, not enough RAM.
Microsoft's answer to pdf is xps. Their answer to flash is silverlight.
I host my website from a mini server taped to the back of the toilet in a local coffee shop with free wifi. I change the battery twice a month.
I would guess that the only variable is the mass of the asteroid. While we've had decades to accurately estimate the mass of Earth and nearby planets, the mass of an asteroid hurdling through space might be more tricky to ascertain. I would think that the trajectory of the asteroid is a complex equation involving the gravitational pull of planets (which we know) as well as the asteroid's momentum (unknown mass and known speed).
Vista Ultimate is about $350, not $700. The cheap price of OSX is subsidized by your purchase of Apple hardware (which isn't so cheap). Vista offers more binary backward compatibility than any distribution of Linux I've played around with. Also, it doesn't use 30% of your resources for DRM, that's a made up statistic unless you're running Vista on your toaster. I've never heard of one person's media experience thwarted by Vista's legendary DRM. I double click an mp3 file and it plays, same with any other file I have the decoder for. This won't be a popular post but why on earth did that bullshit fanboy rambling get modded up?
http://www.thinkgos.com/index.html
"An alternative OS with Google Apps and other Web 2.0 apps for the masses"
So we have an unknown linux vendor shipping an OS filled with google applications and it's called gOS. Oh, and they got a deal with Walmart. Is this the elusive Google Os?
For the life of me I cannot figure out why KDE isn't the default desktop of Ubuntu. Kubuntu at the moment is an inferior product but only because it receives a fraction of the resources that Ubuntu does. Hopefully KDE4 will be enough to sway the Canonical crowd. I'm a happy user of the KDE desktop on Arch Linux and until Gnome has an answer to kioslaves, dolphin, or the many superior QT apps (amarok, kmail, etc) I'll stay that way.
I know this runs counter to the "et tu billy" culture that has developed around here but it is worth mentioning that Bill Gates is a philanthropist at heart. He has given away an estimated 29 billion USD since the year 2000. His influence at Microsoft is still considerable even if he doesn't have the fancy title on his office he once did. Maybe Gates thinks he can create some useful software and give it away for free. I doubt Microsoft can compete with an already mature and free Linux product in this market but I support the competition. We shouldn't be so fast to judge.