The catch with Matlab is that outside of academia, it is expensive. If one's workplace has the licenses for it, great. If not, it may be better to make do with Octave, or Numpy & Scipy.
Why are you so adamantly frenetic over something you could fix easily yourself, when that's torn down, the response is about an administratively locked down machine...
Guess where I use Windows? At work, on an administratively locked down machine.
I'd say that the point is more that Microsoft took an interface that worked fine, namely the Start Menu, and replaced it with something that, for the most part, did not work as well. Third-party tools to customize an interface should be niceties, not a cure for someone else's screw-up.
You can fix it yourself if you administer the machine. However, at work, people often can't do that because they are--rightfully--not given the access rights to do so.
Why would you *have* to use Launchpad? I use OS X, and don't use Launchpad at all. The Applications folder didn't go away, and it's easy to remove Launchpad from the Dock. That's far less intrusive than what I've read about the Metro UI.
The copyright holders are alleging that Pirate Bay, isoHunt, etc., are engaging in illegal activities, right? Then why not get the proper authorities involved to take down the people behind sites like Pirate Bay, especially since that's already worked against Megaupload? Even if this wasn't completely successful, it would make sites like Pirate Bay less of a presence on the Internet and thus show up less prominently on search engines. Why have Google and Bing be the police when you can just let the police be the police?
I don't remember Metacity being buggy. What I do remember was that with Sawfish, the seams between it and the rest of GNOME still showed. It had its own control center, for example. On the other hand, with Metacity as the default window manager, a user wouldn't even need to know that there was this application called Metacity that provided window titlebars, etc. Configuring Metacity--what little there was--was done through dialogs that just looked like another piece of GNOME. In short, Metacity's integration with GNOME was far more seamless, and for users who didn't want to dick around with configuration and didn't even know that a focus model other than "Click to Focus" even existed, Metacity was perfectly adequate.
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"Right-wing Christians seem to be more into Old Testament severity."
But the Old Testament, while often barbaric, had at least as much of an emphasis on helping the poor as the New Testament.
"And for those whom it is a problem, that's the way their life is. They can't watch Netflix, they can't buy TV shows from iTunes or watch Hulu, or buy games on Steam. Even YouTube is a pain."
That's not true. My connection is fast enough that I can handle Netflix streaming, YouTube, and Hulu just fine, but a 4 GB download still takes a few hours.
"I use emacs to write code, and vi to edit config files."
Same here. There's are some obvious reasons why a Unix admin would prefer Vi to Emacs: it's nearly always standard equipment on a Unix box, even if Emacs is not, and it's faster when used in a remote login session. Indeed, for administration, the issue of Vi versus Vim is irrelevant, since one's going to use whatever stock Vi is on the machine, and one doesn't necessarily have control over whether that Vi is really Nvi, Vim, or whatnot.
I remember when I was looking into matrix classes for Java and finding that addition, multiplication, etc. were done by things like "A.plus(B.times(C))" rather than the more readable "A + B*C", because Java lacks operator overloading. In an attempt to simplify Java, its designers made a decision that ended up making certain code needlessly harder to maintain.
I thought the next couple questions were also badly thought out:
2. Sometimes I don't feel very sorry for other people when they are having problems.
Well, yes, sometimes I don't feel sorry. If someone who has hurt others goes to jail or gets hoisted by his/her own petard, then, no, I'm not going to feel too sorry.
This question is even worse:
3. When I see someone being taken advantage of, I feel kind of protective towards them.
Protective? I'll probably feel frustrated, instead. I'm hardly likely to be in a position to even protect such a person.
"Then you come out with the stable version, and win."
If you can. If the program is unstable because of lots of little niggling bugs that are hard to find because the code is a bunch of spaghetti, then coming out with a stable version may be a tall order.
I haven't seen that much manga, but what I've happened to read (a little Guyver and Blade of the Immortal, and the Planetes series) has had little to do with cute princesses. Where do people get this idea that manga is about a few particular things when it's a medium used to tell stories in a wide range of genres?
From what I can tell from Googling, the whole point of libg2c was to be a sort of compatibility library for use with g77-compiled binaries, and it isn't needed otherwise.
So, someone who has tried it out... Does it have support for g77? I have a bunch of legacy code that requires some of the old fortran 77 libraries and these are unavailable in 8.10. Gfortran is not an option for me...
Looks like you are confusing compilers and libraries. What Fortran 77 libraries are unavailable in Jaunty? LAPACK is still there. If there's some Fortran 77 library code that you need to compile, GFortran should be able to handle it. It can compile Fortran 77 code, you know, and it's gotten pretty solid in the past couple years.
g77 is unsupported by GNU and is being phased out in favor of Gfortran. Why are you bothering with a legacy compiler whose functionality can be replaced?
Offhand, I'd say that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Now, I've found problems with GFortran on Hardy Heron (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-4.2/+bug/193299), and depending on what compilers you need for class, that *might* be an issue, but otherwise, I'd let it be for now.
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The catch with Matlab is that outside of academia, it is expensive. If one's workplace has the licenses for it, great. If not, it may be better to make do with Octave, or Numpy & Scipy.
Guess where I use Windows? At work, on an administratively locked down machine.
I'd say that the point is more that Microsoft took an interface that worked fine, namely the Start Menu, and replaced it with something that, for the most part, did not work as well. Third-party tools to customize an interface should be niceties, not a cure for someone else's screw-up.
You can fix it yourself if you administer the machine. However, at work, people often can't do that because they are--rightfully--not given the access rights to do so.
Why would you *have* to use Launchpad? I use OS X, and don't use Launchpad at all. The Applications folder didn't go away, and it's easy to remove Launchpad from the Dock. That's far less intrusive than what I've read about the Metro UI.
"I'm sorry, but what in the hell did you expect??"
That the "dweeb" at the phone store would (gasp!) behave professionally and not invade a customer's privacy?
The copyright holders are alleging that Pirate Bay, isoHunt, etc., are engaging in illegal activities, right? Then why not get the proper authorities involved to take down the people behind sites like Pirate Bay, especially since that's already worked against Megaupload? Even if this wasn't completely successful, it would make sites like Pirate Bay less of a presence on the Internet and thus show up less prominently on search engines. Why have Google and Bing be the police when you can just let the police be the police?
No, my brain went to about the same place as yours. I was a bit surprised that no one joked about it sooner.
So the Iranian government is worried about porn, but it's okay for its interrogators to threaten sexual assault? How does this make any sense?
Oh, sure, because Mercola is such a reliable source. Oh wait ...
True, but if you are doing that, then you are probably, well, making money from Photoshop, like the previous poster said.
It's not so much that as it is that there are issues with licensing and patents, especially regarding Pantone.
Actually, it isn't America. It's the EU.
I don't remember Metacity being buggy. What I do remember was that with Sawfish, the seams between it and the rest of GNOME still showed. It had its own control center, for example. On the other hand, with Metacity as the default window manager, a user wouldn't even need to know that there was this application called Metacity that provided window titlebars, etc. Configuring Metacity--what little there was--was done through dialogs that just looked like another piece of GNOME. In short, Metacity's integration with GNOME was far more seamless, and for users who didn't want to dick around with configuration and didn't even know that a focus model other than "Click to Focus" even existed, Metacity was perfectly adequate.
"Right-wing Christians seem to be more into Old Testament severity."
But the Old Testament, while often barbaric, had at least as much of an emphasis on helping the poor as the New Testament.
"And for those whom it is a problem, that's the way their life is. They can't watch Netflix, they can't buy TV shows from iTunes or watch Hulu, or buy games on Steam. Even YouTube is a pain."
That's not true. My connection is fast enough that I can handle Netflix streaming, YouTube, and Hulu just fine, but a 4 GB download still takes a few hours.
"I use emacs to write code, and vi to edit config files."
Same here. There's are some obvious reasons why a Unix admin would prefer Vi to Emacs: it's nearly always standard equipment on a Unix box, even if Emacs is not, and it's faster when used in a remote login session. Indeed, for administration, the issue of Vi versus Vim is irrelevant, since one's going to use whatever stock Vi is on the machine, and one doesn't necessarily have control over whether that Vi is really Nvi, Vim, or whatnot.
The code snippet shown in the ZDNET article, the code that Google supposedly ripped off, is GPL.
I remember when I was looking into matrix classes for Java and finding that addition, multiplication, etc. were done by things like "A.plus(B.times(C))" rather than the more readable "A + B*C", because Java lacks operator overloading. In an attempt to simplify Java, its designers made a decision that ended up making certain code needlessly harder to maintain.
I thought the next couple questions were also badly thought out:
Well, yes, sometimes I don't feel sorry. If someone who has hurt others goes to jail or gets hoisted by his/her own petard, then, no, I'm not going to feel too sorry.
This question is even worse:
Protective? I'll probably feel frustrated, instead. I'm hardly likely to be in a position to even protect such a person.
"Then you come out with the stable version, and win."
If you can. If the program is unstable because of lots of little niggling bugs that are hard to find because the code is a bunch of spaghetti, then coming out with a stable version may be a tall order.
I haven't seen that much manga, but what I've happened to read (a little Guyver and Blade of the Immortal, and the Planetes series) has had little to do with cute princesses. Where do people get this idea that manga is about a few particular things when it's a medium used to tell stories in a wide range of genres?
From what I can tell from Googling, the whole point of libg2c was to be a sort of compatibility library for use with g77-compiled binaries, and it isn't needed otherwise.
So, someone who has tried it out... Does it have support for g77? I have a bunch of legacy code that requires some of the old fortran 77 libraries and these are unavailable in 8.10. Gfortran is not an option for me...
Looks like you are confusing compilers and libraries. What Fortran 77 libraries are unavailable in Jaunty? LAPACK is still there. If there's some Fortran 77 library code that you need to compile, GFortran should be able to handle it. It can compile Fortran 77 code, you know, and it's gotten pretty solid in the past couple years.
g77 is unsupported by GNU and is being phased out in favor of Gfortran. Why are you bothering with a legacy compiler whose functionality can be replaced?
Offhand, I'd say that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Now, I've found problems with GFortran on Hardy Heron (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gcc-4.2/+bug/193299), and depending on what compilers you need for class, that *might* be an issue, but otherwise, I'd let it be for now.
"The main one is that NetBSD is famous for running on many archictures -- even some toasters."
I didn't know Cylons could run NetBSD. :P