I'd rather people *not* focus on games on linux. How many average computer users play complex non casual games on windows? I'm guessing the percentage is pretty small. You'd be focusing a large amount of resources to capture a small ( and some would say dwindling ) audience.
You might be a Geek, but you aren't just a Geek. Develop other aspects of your personality. Study the arts, philosophy, religion, cooking, comedy, romance, irony, and tragedy. Then you will have something to talk about to a woman worth getting to know.
No, its not that my systems have a low amount of memory installed in them. Its that I do a gazillion things at once on my computer. A couple virtual machines running sucking a gig each, Eclipse running, Five different browsers all running at the same time, email, feed reader, Open office running, Adobe PDF reader, scribus working on creating a pdf, and anti virus.
With all of that running, the 4 gigs of memory doesn't quite seem like enough sometimes. I'd certainly appreciate it if any one of my memory hogging programs could use less. But maybe I don't get a vote in this conversation because I have Chrome, IE, Safari, FireFox and Opera currently running... actually lynx is also running but I don't think its the problem.
I normally wouldn't speak up in such conversations, but From personal experience I have some advice to offer. Do not try to argue who is a Texan with a Texan. I do not mean to bash an entire state, but when it comes to the issue of statehood there is no logic. They can be very rational on any other topic, but there is something about Texan-ness that is a giant blind spot.
I was going to moderate your post, but I couldn't decide which way to mod it. I should have modded it up because you were right in complaining that android doesn't make use of existing libraries,c using a lot of code to be rewritten. But, I also wanted to mod it down for bashing Java unnecessarily. So I just commented instead. Its really just an innocent bystander, that really is fit for production and used heavily by a number of developers on platforms big and small. The walled garden of andriod is the really problem the fact that the grass is made out of Java doesn't change that fact.
What? The US wants to make it easier for the protesters to organize. How is that interfering with Iranian politics? Was the rest of the world interfering in US elections by allowing ex-patriots to communicate with other Us citizens stateside ?
Also, if the protesters have to rely on Twitter uptime... They're pretty much screwed.
Humanity, despite your perception of it, has always been what it is. Its not some entangled state cat in a box. Your observing its flaws did not cause them, nor did your ignoring them prevent their existence. Life is what it is and people are who they are. The question is, what are you going to do about it now that you know something closer to the truth? Stick you head back in the sand? Try to change individuals? Change the system? Fight the Power? Righteous indignation? Legislation?
That's why, I put a physical separator between myself and the ground, to prevent it from catching me. There are many seperators that will work, I myself prefer a step ladder.
Still haven't figured out how to go faster than the rate of the earth's rotation. Maybe you need a step ladder on wheels and a jet engine for that.
Exactly. Its also a great way to mentor newer developers and teach them the tricks of the trade. There is always more than one way to do something, but often they vary greatly in their performance and readability.
I think I understand what you are saying. I do disagree about the North American Emphasis. There are building codes, engineering standards. There is just as much of an emphasis on that. There would be two different legal avenues in a case with a collapsed bridge: one criminal and another civil. The criminal one would focus on the engineering statues followed or not, regardless of any inconvenience or injury ot other people. Heck, if you're own building that you designed and built fell down harming no person and disrupting no one else there would be an investigation into weather or not the building codes had been followed. Individuals unconvinced or hurt could also bring a lawsuit, which would also take into affect engineering guidelines, but more of an emphasis on the harm caused to the individual.
To repeat, I totally understand the European emphasis, do not agree with the NA one. I also do not think the European emphasis is being correctly applied to the antitrust case against Microsoft. But thank you for finally trying to explain what you were thinking.
I would love to understand what the mindset is. Please, tell me. If I don't udnerstand it, fine. But you still haven't explained *what* it is? I may disagree with it,but that doesn't mean I won't understand it. You can tell me that you think Oasis is the best band in the world, and I can disagree, but that doesn't meant I don't understand that you prefer Oasis.
But your response thus far is that because I won't agree and therefore I won't understand, and therefore you won't tell me what your favorite band is.
I still don't understand, and its not because the subject is not capable of being understood, but because your prose is. I thought you were saying that the "incomprehensible" EU mindset was company oriented rather than consumer oriented. What the heck does NA stand for?
Are you saying that the EU's position is that a business must do the best thing for a a customer, regardless of their market share or competition?
Yes. I would definitely agree. It would definitely seem that we Americans prefer mass produced blandness. Although, our one saving grace is that we are actually less bland than the British.
As a life long Human and Us citizen, I don't think I've ever pursued a humanistic solution. What ever that means. At least not on purpose. Anti trust law deals with the companies misdeeds against other companies that then act to harm the consumer. There's nothing wrong with gouging/ mistreating the consumer as long as you don't prevent another company from providing better service. The US Government attorneys prosecuting the Microsoft anti trust case were going after Microsoft in a similar way. Could you care to explain in a little more detail ?
The NT shell was not the same. Trust me, I wrote bash scripts for both. Microsoft stripped down DOS when it embeded it into windows 95/NT. And 95's is different in a number of subtle ways from NT's. But on later versions of NT, you could invoke either one: command or cmd. But not so different as to be differently inspired.
Its machine art. Not practical, but conceptual. Nature's creations are highly dependent on the surrounding climate. Our human creations tend to be the same regardless of the weather ( with a few exceptions we take great care in creating an ideal environment for anything whose quality would depend upon the surrounding climate). So this is a mixture between the two. Something human made that depends upon the environment on purpose.
I'm not buying the furniture, but its interesting. If I were ever to find myself in some alternate reality where we lacked our giant automated factories, but still had small machines. This would be pretty useful. We could adapt it to make clothing that was appropriate for the current weather. Then we could trade the clothing for muskets, whiskey and dvds.
My friend at cern working on programs for the LHC has to do everything in c++ or python. So python might be a good one to learn. I love fortran 90/95 its a good language that only has a hint of the unpleasantness that was fortran 66. As, I'm sure others have posted there are some very high performance libraries/compilers for fortran number crunching. But, its not that hard to pick up if you know c/python.
But it was pretty funny taking that FORTRAN class with some cs students who only knew ADA. They were sort of freaked out by its "modern" features and "easy" string handling. It was right then and there that I realized I had dodged a major bullet by not becoming a cs major at the school.
Don't bring music into this, you'll lose the argument. The major record companies don't optimize for best quality sound, just loudest and in doing so lose the dynamic range of the original. Independent producers/publishers might not make their music as loud, but over all better. Xbox/PS3 is to Wii as Major Labels are to Independents.
Ok, how many of those are going to switch to a different operating system due to the delay in zfs?;) Now you understand the lack of pressure in getting ZFS in a widely released snow leopard.
1) Oracle hasn't publicly said anything of that nature, nor is even any rumors to that effect. 2) They aren't mentioning the features that zfs provides under any kind of name
Most likely, they've been focusing too much on the embedded space with the iphone and didn't have the man power to integrate a complex third party FS into their OS. As it was only going to be for the OSX Server for "production servers", they probably thought that was the easiest thing to drop. I mean, lets be honest no one really uses OSX Server for anything really mission critical that relies on it for the kind of storage capabilities ZFS would provide. Do they? Feel free to correct me with real world usage senarios of OSX Server ( I haven't heard of much).
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I'd rather people *not* focus on games on linux. How many average computer users play complex non casual games on windows? I'm guessing the percentage is pretty small. You'd be focusing a large amount of resources to capture a small ( and some would say dwindling ) audience.
You might be a Geek, but you aren't just a Geek. Develop other aspects of your personality. Study the arts, philosophy, religion, cooking, comedy, romance, irony, and tragedy. Then you will have something to talk about to a woman worth getting to know.
No, its not that my systems have a low amount of memory installed in them. Its that I do a gazillion things at once on my computer. A couple virtual machines running sucking a gig each, Eclipse running, Five different browsers all running at the same time, email, feed reader, Open office running, Adobe PDF reader, scribus working on creating a pdf, and anti virus.
With all of that running, the 4 gigs of memory doesn't quite seem like enough sometimes. I'd certainly appreciate it if any one of my memory hogging programs could use less. But maybe I don't get a vote in this conversation because I have Chrome, IE, Safari, FireFox and Opera currently running ... actually lynx is also running but I don't think its the problem.
I normally wouldn't speak up in such conversations, but From personal experience I have some advice to offer. Do not try to argue who is a Texan with a Texan. I do not mean to bash an entire state, but when it comes to the issue of statehood there is no logic. They can be very rational on any other topic, but there is something about Texan-ness that is a giant blind spot.
I was going to moderate your post, but I couldn't decide which way to mod it. I should have modded it up because you were right in complaining that android doesn't make use of existing libraries,c using a lot of code to be rewritten. But, I also wanted to mod it down for bashing Java unnecessarily. So I just commented instead. Its really just an innocent bystander, that really is fit for production and used heavily by a number of developers on platforms big and small. The walled garden of andriod is the really problem the fact that the grass is made out of Java doesn't change that fact.
If you take a cynical tone, just about any job can be made to sound worthless. But any job properly done is about service.
Uhhmm... What job isn't about service?
What? The US wants to make it easier for the protesters to organize. How is that interfering with Iranian politics? Was the rest of the world interfering in US elections by allowing ex-patriots to communicate with other Us citizens stateside ?
Also, if the protesters have to rely on Twitter uptime ... They're pretty much screwed.
Humanity, despite your perception of it, has always been what it is. Its not some entangled state cat in a box. Your observing its flaws did not cause them, nor did your ignoring them prevent their existence. Life is what it is and people are who they are. The question is, what are you going to do about it now that you know something closer to the truth? Stick you head back in the sand? Try to change individuals? Change the system? Fight the Power? Righteous indignation? Legislation?
That's why, I put a physical separator between myself and the ground, to prevent it from catching me. There are many seperators that will work, I myself prefer a step ladder.
Still haven't figured out how to go faster than the rate of the earth's rotation. Maybe you need a step ladder on wheels and a jet engine for that.
Exactly. Its also a great way to mentor newer developers and teach them the tricks of the trade. There is always more than one way to do something, but often they vary greatly in their performance and readability.
Well, if they want a big grant, they'll soon learn to start calling things by their more dramatic names.
I think I understand what you are saying. I do disagree about the North American Emphasis. There are building codes, engineering standards. There is just as much of an emphasis on that. There would be two different legal avenues in a case with a collapsed bridge: one criminal and another civil. The criminal one would focus on the engineering statues followed or not, regardless of any inconvenience or injury ot other people. Heck, if you're own building that you designed and built fell down harming no person and disrupting no one else there would be an investigation into weather or not the building codes had been followed. Individuals unconvinced or hurt could also bring a lawsuit, which would also take into affect engineering guidelines, but more of an emphasis on the harm caused to the individual.
To repeat, I totally understand the European emphasis, do not agree with the NA one. I also do not think the European emphasis is being correctly applied to the antitrust case against Microsoft. But thank you for finally trying to explain what you were thinking.
Yes it would have gone straight through without causing that much damage, but the story says it bounced off, not passed through.
I would love to understand what the mindset is. Please, tell me. If I don't udnerstand it, fine. But you still haven't explained *what* it is? I may disagree with it,but that doesn't mean I won't understand it. You can tell me that you think Oasis is the best band in the world, and I can disagree, but that doesn't meant I don't understand that you prefer Oasis.
But your response thus far is that because I won't agree and therefore I won't understand, and therefore you won't tell me what your favorite band is.
I still don't understand, and its not because the subject is not capable of being understood, but because your prose is. I thought you were saying that the "incomprehensible" EU mindset was company oriented rather than consumer oriented. What the heck does NA stand for? Are you saying that the EU's position is that a business must do the best thing for a a customer, regardless of their market share or competition?
Yes. I would definitely agree. It would definitely seem that we Americans prefer mass produced blandness. Although, our one saving grace is that we are actually less bland than the British.
As a life long Human and Us citizen, I don't think I've ever pursued a humanistic solution. What ever that means. At least not on purpose. Anti trust law deals with the companies misdeeds against other companies that then act to harm the consumer. There's nothing wrong with gouging/ mistreating the consumer as long as you don't prevent another company from providing better service. The US Government attorneys prosecuting the Microsoft anti trust case were going after Microsoft in a similar way. Could you care to explain in a little more detail ?
The NT shell was not the same. Trust me, I wrote bash scripts for both. Microsoft stripped down DOS when it embeded it into windows 95/NT. And 95's is different in a number of subtle ways from NT's. But on later versions of NT, you could invoke either one: command or cmd. But not so different as to be differently inspired.
Its machine art. Not practical, but conceptual. Nature's creations are highly dependent on the surrounding climate. Our human creations tend to be the same regardless of the weather ( with a few exceptions we take great care in creating an ideal environment for anything whose quality would depend upon the surrounding climate). So this is a mixture between the two. Something human made that depends upon the environment on purpose.
I'm not buying the furniture, but its interesting. If I were ever to find myself in some alternate reality where we lacked our giant automated factories, but still had small machines. This would be pretty useful. We could adapt it to make clothing that was appropriate for the current weather. Then we could trade the clothing for muskets, whiskey and dvds.
My friend at cern working on programs for the LHC has to do everything in c++ or python. So python might be a good one to learn. I love fortran 90/95 its a good language that only has a hint of the unpleasantness that was fortran 66. As, I'm sure others have posted there are some very high performance libraries/compilers for fortran number crunching. But, its not that hard to pick up if you know c/python.
But it was pretty funny taking that FORTRAN class with some cs students who only knew ADA. They were sort of freaked out by its "modern" features and "easy" string handling. It was right then and there that I realized I had dodged a major bullet by not becoming a cs major at the school.
Don't bring music into this, you'll lose the argument. The major record companies don't optimize for best quality sound, just loudest and in doing so lose the dynamic range of the original. Independent producers/publishers might not make their music as loud, but over all better. Xbox/PS3 is to Wii as Major Labels are to Independents.
I will never understand brittish food. Fish & chips? yes. Anything else, Heck no. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1191606/Beanz-meanz-microwaves-Heinz-create-gadget-heat-snack-60-seconds.html
Ok, how many of those are going to switch to a different operating system due to the delay in zfs? ;) Now you understand the lack of pressure in getting ZFS in a widely released snow leopard.
1) Oracle hasn't publicly said anything of that nature, nor is even any rumors to that effect.
2) They aren't mentioning the features that zfs provides under any kind of name
Most likely, they've been focusing too much on the embedded space with the iphone and didn't have the man power to integrate a complex third party FS into their OS. As it was only going to be for the OSX Server for "production servers", they probably thought that was the easiest thing to drop. I mean, lets be honest no one really uses OSX Server for anything really mission critical that relies on it for the kind of storage capabilities ZFS would provide. Do they? Feel free to correct me with real world usage senarios of OSX Server ( I haven't heard of much).