It would be nice to hear a bit earlier than the order system saying "Oh, you want it shipped *there*? Sorry, we don't do that." - this is a common problem with US online shops that don't mention that they don't ship outside North America until you try to enter your shipping address and find that the Country drop-down box only gives you options for the US and Canada.
I still remember being amazed by Second Reality running on my 386 (which, due to having most of it's memory on the 8Mhz ISA bus, ran DOOM at less than 5fps).
Of course, if you're looking for sheer amazement, try Smash Designs' Second Reality 64, a recreation of Second Reality for the Commodore 64. Complete with fake PC bootup sequence.
Of course, you could just use SIP or IAX2 over IPsec, but I suppose standards aren't really as interesting as exciting new systems that don't interoperate with anything...
There do exist people who care about licensing *and* know how to program, you know. They (usually) care about the rights they have to modify the software they use.
Which existing authoring systems do you want to interoperate with that have been around longer than / as long as TeX? Shouldn't you be complaining that many authoring systems don't interoperate with TeX?
In a RAID-10 system, up to half the drives can fail simultaneously without data loss, as long as one drive in each stripe remains functional. In a RAID-5 system, the loss of two drives guarantees loss of all your data
Up to half the drives can fail... if they're the right drives. Assuming the probability of all drives failing is equal, then once one of your n drives has failed, there's a 1/(n-1) chance that the next drive that fails will have been the first drive's RAID1 twin, and that you'll incur data loss. Schemes with multiple parity disks, such as RAID6, don't suffer from this problem, reducing the probability of data loss upon the failure of a second disk to zero, and don't waste as many disks as RAID0+1.
That's certainly the case here (New Zealand). A consumer affairs show (Fair Go) that hosts an "ad awards" episode every year has to get permission for the ads to be repeated on the show; once, when they were unsuccessful for a particular ad, it was shown as "CENSORED" instead. Not that it won anything:-)
There's just one problem: how do you know that the code that has been subject to public scrutiny is also the code running on the voting machines themselves?
FreeBSD jails can be used for virtual hosting; UML can be used for it too. But for various types of kernel debugging, experimentation with network setups and the like, the ability to run a kernel as a user process is really useful. It's just a pity that (last I checked) the UML ports to operating systems other than Linux hadn't got very far:-(
Learning that when the Japanese say they understand, moral code forces them to say that whether they actually understand or not; apparently, it would be incredibly rude to say, "I am sorry, sir, I don't understand."
So that's what it was! I used to tutor first year CompSci, and a major problem was Asian studens who'd ask for help, claim to understand an explanation, but then be unable to answer questions about what you'd just explained to them.
Our NZ$130 (~US$75) DVD player plays my NTSC Region 1 DVDs on our obstensibly PAL TV. I imagine that it's cheaper to make a DVD player that just works in all markets than having seperate NTSC and PAL versions. Besides, most newish TVs seem happy to sync to either PAL or NTSC signals:-)
What a nice installer! It took four hours, but it was easy to use!
Wow! What a pretty desktop! This distribution must be amazing!
To review a distro properly, you need to use it for at least a month, IMHO. You need enough time to discover that security updates are a pain to install. Enough time to find out that installing third party packages is impossible because the distro uses a beta version of GCC.
In other words, you need to give more than first impressions: anyone can do that, and it's not terribly helpful.
I saw it explained once as "Cost Per thousand iMpressions", which is kind of like calling a somewhat expensive disk interface MOUSE - "sMall cOmpUter Systems intErface". Prehaps they wanted it to sound like "RPM" or something.
3) if i cared about esthetics so much, wouldn't it have been more cost-effective to buy a mac?
I don't know, unless you can point me to an x86 machine made by Apple?
Comp Sci was what coverted me from someone who could write stuff in BASIC/Java/C/C++/assembly/Pascal to someone who could write software well. The prior experience gained from teaching myself programming (starting at age 8:-) was invaluable; but so was that gained through taking all those CompSci papers.
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It's a *laptop*. It's somewhat difficult to use an external mouse on the bus.
It would be nice to hear a bit earlier than the order system saying "Oh, you want it shipped *there*? Sorry, we don't do that." - this is a common problem with US online shops that don't mention that they don't ship outside North America until you try to enter your shipping address and find that the Country drop-down box only gives you options for the US and Canada.
This becomes somewhat more difficult if you're using an iBook.
I still remember being amazed by Second Reality running on my 386 (which, due to having most of it's memory on the 8Mhz ISA bus, ran DOOM at less than 5fps).
Of course, if you're looking for sheer amazement, try Smash Designs' Second Reality 64, a recreation of Second Reality for the Commodore 64. Complete with fake PC bootup sequence.
Of course, you could just use SIP or IAX2 over IPsec, but I suppose standards aren't really as interesting as exciting new systems that don't interoperate with anything...
There do exist people who care about licensing *and* know how to program, you know. They (usually) care about the rights they have to modify the software they use.
Er... Pico doesn't even meet the Debian Free Software Guidelines.
:-)
And WordPerfect 5.1 made it quite easy to forget about formatting, especially if you turned off Reveal Codes
Which existing authoring systems do you want to interoperate with that have been around longer than / as long as TeX? Shouldn't you be complaining that many authoring systems don't interoperate with TeX?
-- Blackadder series 3, episode "Amy and Amiability"
But it's certainly not ironing.
Up to half the drives can fail... if they're the right drives. Assuming the probability of all drives failing is equal, then once one of your n drives has failed, there's a 1/(n-1) chance that the next drive that fails will have been the first drive's RAID1 twin, and that you'll incur data loss. Schemes with multiple parity disks, such as RAID6, don't suffer from this problem, reducing the probability of data loss upon the failure of a second disk to zero, and don't waste as many disks as RAID0+1.
That's certainly the case here (New Zealand). A consumer affairs show (Fair Go) that hosts an "ad awards" episode every year has to get permission for the ads to be repeated on the show; once, when they were unsuccessful for a particular ad, it was shown as "CENSORED" instead. Not that it won anything :-)
There's just one problem: how do you know that the code that has been subject to public scrutiny is also the code running on the voting machines themselves?
FreeBSD jails can be used for virtual hosting; UML can be used for it too. But for various types of kernel debugging, experimentation with network setups and the like, the ability to run a kernel as a user process is really useful. It's just a pity that (last I checked) the UML ports to operating systems other than Linux hadn't got very far :-(
...you can buy *glasses* from what sounds like some sort of discount department store? How does this work? Please elaborate.
So that's what it was! I used to tutor first year CompSci, and a major problem was Asian studens who'd ask for help, claim to understand an explanation, but then be unable to answer questions about what you'd just explained to them.
Is that The GIANT book of Spectrum Games in your pocket, or, er, a Spectrum itself?
At least Sinclair himself is a HoF member.
Violence is the only language Clippy understands
So true... if you start asking Clippy questions about metal fatigue, it brings up help topics on how to turn it off...
Our NZ$130 (~US$75) DVD player plays my NTSC Region 1 DVDs on our obstensibly PAL TV. I imagine that it's cheaper to make a DVD player that just works in all markets than having seperate NTSC and PAL versions. Besides, most newish TVs seem happy to sync to either PAL or NTSC signals :-)
The budget version of the X800 AT will of course be the
Radeon X800 XT/286
It's called Usenet.
Most Linux distro reviews I've seen go like this:
To review a distro properly, you need to use it for at least a month, IMHO. You need enough time to discover that security updates are a pain to install. Enough time to find out that installing third party packages is impossible because the distro uses a beta version of GCC.
In other words, you need to give more than first impressions: anyone can do that, and it's not terribly helpful.
I saw it explained once as "Cost Per thousand iMpressions", which is kind of like calling a somewhat expensive disk interface MOUSE - "sMall cOmpUter Systems intErface". Prehaps they wanted it to sound like "RPM" or something.
Why do you need x86?
Comp Sci was what coverted me from someone who could write stuff in BASIC/Java/C/C++/assembly/Pascal to someone who could write software well. The prior experience gained from teaching myself programming (starting at age 8 :-) was invaluable; but so was that gained through taking all those CompSci papers.
:-)
No, I'm not being paid to write the above