Valve MUST make Linux a viable gamming plataform, or they are out of the game.
That said, they get the same result whatever market share Linux gets. The reason they must run on Linux is not because everybody will sudenly switch, it is because they can use it to threaten Microsoft in the case MS extends their PC monopoly into the game distribution market.
The Mac simply doesn't enable such kind of "deal".
Last time I was out to buy a modem, I couldn't find a single one reasonably priced (within 1000% of the cheapest model's price) model that supported IPv6.
I use it as bridge, but most people will have a problem with it.
Except for the GPUs without useful drivers, yes, economy of scale favour free software anyway. The only problem is that GPUs without drivers are a huge problem.
(Yes, we are making some inroads in the small computer market, mostly thanks to the Raspbery Pi. But then, that's a different market.)
Yep, that may be a huge factor. You talk about second grade, but my daughter's class started doing it at pre-school.
Is not as much that the boys aren't ostracized, the reality is that they just don't care as much. They fall fast into a clique of people like him, and the clique don't ostracize each other (like the girls cliques do).
Also, girls do have an easier time relating to the teachers, and the OP has a point, girls are just better at being quiet and studying.
What I learned is that databases should always use GMT and you should never ask the system for the local time and then convert to GMT, as it may lie. Instead ask the system for the GMT time.
All sane* databses store time as seconds since epoch. That's a format that can be converted to GMT without error whatever are the settings of your OS. The user interface, by the other side, rarely uses a simple format, and will often translate things wrong.
* Yes, if your database doesn't do that, it's insane. so are its developers and you for developing/using it. I get the no true scotsman, no need to point it.
b) range 01/01/2012 - 10/12/2012 entered by the user, inclusive. On 10/12/2012 00:00:01 the system determines the current date is no longer in the range. Bug, certainly not what the user intended.
How do you make an inclusive range of ANY value that you'll store on a medium with higter resolution than your range? Ans. You add 1 to the end point, and store as a not inclusive range. (You will also want to subtract 1 of the high resolution units if you are storing it in a countable representation.) Nothing different for dates.
c) amount of days between 1/1/2012 CET and 1/6/2012 CEST. A naive way to calculate this is is to subtract the two dates (with millisec precision) and divide by 24 hours. That will give the wrong answer though.
That's still not a reason for not representing your time in seconds since epoch. Any representation that solves this problem will make it hard to order timestamps and calculate the lenght of intervals. Instead of changing your notation, you just don't do it the naive way.
I guess they are trying to get a confortable shape for a robot with arms. That would exclude most animal forms, except for human, spider, crab or octopus-like ones. Base on our reaction to the actual animals that hold those forms, human-like is the most likely to succeed.
I think the best bet is a completely artificial shape.
I'd say you have the wrong fear here. At the moment our robots can even conceive "decomissioning" people, we'd have already lost. If people accept they as equals or not won't change a thing.
But then, yes, those people that think about robots the same way they think about live beings disturb me too... And there are lots of people that are able to program a computer, but won't see why it's different from an animal.
It's here. You also can get it from your distro's reposotory.
It's very usefull to test pages in development. Also, you can install several versions of IE at the same Ubuntu computer. But it probably won't emulate this bug, so you won't have the complete experience of having your computer owned (by this exploit).
LEDs never flicked. Crappy power bricks flick, and today's non-crappy bricks cost 15 cents each in bulky. If your LEDs are flicking, you need to spend a few cents more on them.
Yep, I for one don't like to have "daylight" around at night. I like "firelight" way more. I have enough trouble to sleep alreay, there is no need to pretend that it's noon at 2 AM.
Have you ever looked to the window in an office and discovered that it's night already? That's not a good thing.
I have a crappy power supply. The CFLs I put at home last for about a year (except for the kitchen, where they last for half a year - too much turning on and off there).
Now that LEDs are really competitive, I think I'll never buy a CFL again.
he didn't lose his shit at the mechanic. Instead of screaming and cursing at him, or ordering that he be fired or otherwise punished, the pilot said something like, "I bet you're not going to do that again, are you? Now fix my goddamned plane.
That mechanic wasn't repeating that it was all the pilot's fault.
What bothers me is the amount of people complaining that Linux development should be less transparent. What is up with you people? Political correctness kills people, literaly; but this time it'd just make your computer stop working.
Jobs are created by consuption (AKA demand). Investiment opportunities are also created by consuption, investiment requires both capital and demand to happen. Jobs only require demand. That's why people have work to do at the poorest places of Africa, and can be without a job at the richest places of Europe.
The problem that you probably are thinking about is that capital enables productivity gains. Jobs that don't apply much capital normaly don't create much wealth. But that doesn't mean the job doesn't exist, only that the people that depend on it (all of them, suppliers and consumers) are poor.
Food is a much more essential good than fiber optic internet service, and yet I never hear anyone calling for the municipalities to nationalize (city-ize?) all the food stores in town.
So much for learning history... Roads have been made public for food and army distribution. As those services are critical, eveybody already called for it a long time ago. Today nobody even thinks they can be left for the free market.
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Valve MUST make Linux a viable gamming plataform, or they are out of the game.
That said, they get the same result whatever market share Linux gets. The reason they must run on Linux is not because everybody will sudenly switch, it is because they can use it to threaten Microsoft in the case MS extends their PC monopoly into the game distribution market.
The Mac simply doesn't enable such kind of "deal".
Around here the cheapest option costs about $40.
Last time I was out to buy a modem, I couldn't find a single one reasonably priced (within 1000% of the cheapest model's price) model that supported IPv6.
I use it as bridge, but most people will have a problem with it.
That's easy to solve. Just disconnect your computer and it won't affect you anymore.
Just put less places to hide near the surface in the tank, and the adult Guppies will eat their own babies.
Nope. Surface won't fly.
It's easier than teaching high paid competent IT people how to keep Sharepoint correctly backed-up.
(Is that even possible?)
They are also aquiring Sharepoint. So any war will probably have a half life of around two years untill all the data is forgoten.
Except for the GPUs without useful drivers, yes, economy of scale favour free software anyway. The only problem is that GPUs without drivers are a huge problem.
(Yes, we are making some inroads in the small computer market, mostly thanks to the Raspbery Pi. But then, that's a different market.)
Yep, that may be a huge factor. You talk about second grade, but my daughter's class started doing it at pre-school.
Is not as much that the boys aren't ostracized, the reality is that they just don't care as much. They fall fast into a clique of people like him, and the clique don't ostracize each other (like the girls cliques do).
Also, girls do have an easier time relating to the teachers, and the OP has a point, girls are just better at being quiet and studying.
Now, of course, that's over a population. YMMV.
All sane* databses store time as seconds since epoch. That's a format that can be converted to GMT without error whatever are the settings of your OS. The user interface, by the other side, rarely uses a simple format, and will often translate things wrong.
* Yes, if your database doesn't do that, it's insane. so are its developers and you for developing/using it. I get the no true scotsman, no need to point it.
b) range 01/01/2012 - 10/12/2012 entered by the user, inclusive. On 10/12/2012 00:00:01 the system determines the current date is no longer in the range. Bug, certainly not what the user intended.
How do you make an inclusive range of ANY value that you'll store on a medium with higter resolution than your range? Ans. You add 1 to the end point, and store as a not inclusive range. (You will also want to subtract 1 of the high resolution units if you are storing it in a countable representation.) Nothing different for dates.
c) amount of days between 1/1/2012 CET and 1/6/2012 CEST. A naive way to calculate this is is to subtract the two dates (with millisec precision) and divide by 24 hours. That will give the wrong answer though.
That's still not a reason for not representing your time in seconds since epoch. Any representation that solves this problem will make it hard to order timestamps and calculate the lenght of intervals. Instead of changing your notation, you just don't do it the naive way.
I guess they are trying to get a confortable shape for a robot with arms. That would exclude most animal forms, except for human, spider, crab or octopus-like ones. Base on our reaction to the actual animals that hold those forms, human-like is the most likely to succeed.
I think the best bet is a completely artificial shape.
I'd say you have the wrong fear here. At the moment our robots can even conceive "decomissioning" people, we'd have already lost. If people accept they as equals or not won't change a thing.
But then, yes, those people that think about robots the same way they think about live beings disturb me too... And there are lots of people that are able to program a computer, but won't see why it's different from an animal.
Have you looked at it?
All the proplems of a walled garden go away when you remove the walls. Everybody likes having a well maintainted garden to play.
It's here. You also can get it from your distro's reposotory.
It's very usefull to test pages in development. Also, you can install several versions of IE at the same Ubuntu computer. But it probably won't emulate this bug, so you won't have the complete experience of having your computer owned (by this exploit).
Time to wake up.
LEDs never flicked. Crappy power bricks flick, and today's non-crappy bricks cost 15 cents each in bulky. If your LEDs are flicking, you need to spend a few cents more on them.
Yep, I for one don't like to have "daylight" around at night. I like "firelight" way more. I have enough trouble to sleep alreay, there is no need to pretend that it's noon at 2 AM.
Have you ever looked to the window in an office and discovered that it's night already? That's not a good thing.
I have a crappy power supply. The CFLs I put at home last for about a year (except for the kitchen, where they last for half a year - too much turning on and off there).
Now that LEDs are really competitive, I think I'll never buy a CFL again.
Why would he live a company that will even pay him for getting a degree? Also, he'll probably get more pay once he finish anyway.
That's a kind of win-win situation. The company gets a well educated and happy employee, he gets a degree and a raise.
That mechanic wasn't repeating that it was all the pilot's fault.
What bothers me is the amount of people complaining that Linux development should be less transparent. What is up with you people? Political correctness kills people, literaly; but this time it'd just make your computer stop working.
I don't think missing those satelites will make people stop noticing the huricanes.
No, but yes and yes.
Jobs are created by consuption (AKA demand). Investiment opportunities are also created by consuption, investiment requires both capital and demand to happen. Jobs only require demand. That's why people have work to do at the poorest places of Africa, and can be without a job at the richest places of Europe.
The problem that you probably are thinking about is that capital enables productivity gains. Jobs that don't apply much capital normaly don't create much wealth. But that doesn't mean the job doesn't exist, only that the people that depend on it (all of them, suppliers and consumers) are poor.
So much for learning history... Roads have been made public for food and army distribution. As those services are critical, eveybody already called for it a long time ago. Today nobody even thinks they can be left for the free market.