The resolution of your screen should not be related to the physical size of the fonts. I have seen too many people run large LCDs at sub-optimal resolution because they wanted things to be bigger. The answer is to use a display technology that uses information about the display to calculate pixel dimensions (like Aqua and X) instead of ridiculously assuming that there is a fixed pixel:point ratio (like Windows without a bit of tweaking).
Gimp is not as common outside America or England as you may think, and even in these countries, it's a slang word. Also -- witness the power of branding -- search for Gimp on any search engine and I bet the first page will be GIMP-related.
Of course, when it comes to things like drugs, prostitution and gambling, we have a very interesting situation: the majority of people agree that these things are bad/wrong and should be illegal, however a significant fraction of the population do these things. This is where threads like this come from -- where people see things that they don't believe to be wrong (and mostly what they perceive to be victimless crimes) being outlawed. The truth is that laws change much slower than the perceptions of the citizens about what is right and wrong. There was a time when mixed-race marriage was clearly wrong and against the law. Perceptions changed, and even though mixed-race marriages are still in the minority, they are no longer illegal. The oppressive part only happens when one's values don't align with the government's.
The power of GÃdel's work is that he also provides a method (GÃdel numbering) to convert theorems in other domains to integer arithmetic. This is how he screwed with Russel and Whitehead.
Not that I think an automatic theorem prover is useless, just saying.
Perhaps because I rip my music in MP3 and FLAC formats using a much better ripper than iTunes has (max). Perhaps because I don't have space for my whole library on my laptop, so I move files in and out from my home server which has all my music. Also, sometimes I get music from someone and I don't want to incorporate it into my "full" music library until I've had a chance to listen to it, so I put it in a seperate folder so I can easily delete it later?
The iTunes way only works when you have all your music on your computer at all times, you rip your music using iTunes and you only use one format (MP3) for your music.
When you copy music from another source (even legal other sources like my home server), it boils down to something you do twice -- you copy the music, then you add it to your library. If you don't do it immediately you also run the risk of forgetting to add it to your library or adding it twice. This grates when you know that Amarok works with adding and removing files from the folder structure all the time.
A bash thing I use all the time is M-. (or alt+.), which inserts the last argument of the previous command. This is magic for stuff like
mkdir dirname cp stuff dirname cd dirname -- you would type mkdir dirname cp stuff M-. cd M-.
You can also use emacs-like style by specifying a number of arguments to use with C-u number.
And if the candidate you voted for wins and stuffs up, do you also lose the right to complain about it? One has the opportunity to vote, not the obligation -- someone choosing not to vote is exercising his democratic rights just as vigourously as someone who is voting, or someone who voted differently from you.
What you describe is exactly how Telkom handles their ADSL connections in South Africa, except you can access all local pages instead of just theirs. Of course, there aren't that many interesting South African websites.
I can only laugh when I read this from South Africa, where I am paying $20 per month for a 1 GiB capped account, with $7 per gig if I want to buy more. So cry me a river -- the bandwidth in America (or Canada) is crazy cheap.
Axioms are a lot more like rules than assumptions. You wouldn't say that an intricate forcing mate in chess is 'based on the assumptions of the game', it's the rules. So the axioms of Euclidean geometry are the rules of the game, and the game is finding consistent steps from one set of statements to another.
Unlike science, math has no reality connection. There is no requirement for math to portray reality or hold up to experiments or anything like that. Valid math is math that stays within the rules. The axioms define where we start, but there is no 'assumption' about the correctness of the axioms.
Perhaps the biggest difference here is that there is a realistic expectation (proven by the links to online stores that stock this kind of thing) that the people on Slashdot can help. Add to that the post further up this thread that confirms that they already plan to go to junkyards and that the guy is actually willing to do his own castings and I think you are being a bit unfair. But at least you live up to your nick!
Yes, it is theoretically impossible for him to ask where he could get gears and look around his environment and whatnot. It would certainly be crazy to assume that he has already looked around his environment, done what he could with what he found and then asked around for more. I suppose you never ask someone for something you could have figured out yourself.
Not to mention the ambiguity in lb -- is that lb mass or lb force? N.m makes a lot more sense to me, then if you want to talk about energy you can use Joules. I don't understand why America still uses these crazy units.
Well, yes, and this is why no-one who knows anything will claim that X is an operating system, or that any of the many window managers or desktop managers are operating systems. All the original DOS-based Windows releases were effectively more like KDE or Gnome.
So, to review, there is an operating system and stuff that runs on top of the operating system. Most people associate the operating system with what they can see. These are the people who want to see what Linux "looks like" and expect you to show them something on the screen. Then there are the people who use Operating System to mean some layer that abstracts straight hardware calls to operating system calls and provides some level of functionality to allow programs to run, schedule these programs and so on. They refer to the NT kernel and some related services as an operating system and explorer.exe as a shell.
FWIW, that use of methodology in the summary should be method, as in "Penn State, which is #48 using US News's method..."
I thought it was OK to be an anal language grinch on Slashdot!
Actually, algorithms like simplex scale exponentially in the worst case (which is not nice). Internal point methods are polynomial time, but are slower than simplex in most practical cases.
Adding in the integer part makes the whole thing NP hard again.
One reason could be that Slashdot is populated by people who think Lisp or Haskell rock, together with people who think Perl/Python/Ruby rock and people who think no-one needs more than C (or assembly). Some of the people reading here write programs for phones or PICs. Many of them know many, many languages, have tried c++ and not liked it. Like me.
The whole moderation system does not need consensus, just enough people who agree to get the score up to 5. In addition, the reason why more languages exist (other than c++, with or without boost) is because c++ does not solve the programming language problem.
Word processors and typesetters have different areas of application. You say LaTeX is not the best tool anymore. Do you honestly believe the many pro-LaTeX posters on such a well-commented slashdot article are using LaTeX just because it "looks different"? Surely they would have seen the light by now?
My informal evaluation has tipped the scale on the side of LaTeX due to the ease of use for my application. It automates the stuff that makes me want to cry when I use Word. The handling of floating bodies, cross-referencing and ease of incorporating automatically generated stuff from other programs makes it unbeatable for me. The quality of output is just a bonus. Even with the same fonts, the same small margins and similar headings in both packages, the TeX output is better typeset (especially the math -- Word's math is a lot more trouble and hardly ever gets it right).
The only area of application I can see for Word is for documents less than 10 pages containing no math or advanced cross-referencing. The reason why Word is so popular is that this describes the vast majority of documents people create.
The best reason I can think of is that I have never seen Word reflow a whole paragraph when I typed a single word at the end like I have seen LaTeX do. I think the requirements of a smooth user experience means that Word breaks lines on a per-line basis, while LaTeX can afford to do per-paragraph optimization.
Another reason why people pay to have something done is becuase they can't/don't want to do it themselves or to gain specific advantage from someone's labour. This means that people who can do something that many people can't may get paid to do something that they would have done for free anyway so that one specific person or group gains advantage from their labour. Many artists, mathematicians, analysts and people from many walks of life enjoy what they do for a living.
I happen to love my job and I am still quite pleased that I can get paid for doing things I would have done anyway. I always advise people to find a way to make money from their passion rather than spending half their day doing something else to fund it.
Have you ever seen the linux kernel sources? Many, many files. Or the emacs sources, or the gcc sources? Many people working/leading these projects use vi/emacs and make. They are not dumb. Many of them have tried the alternatives and gone back to tools that do what they want. I can honestly not believe that any one development tool can be optimal for all programmers simultaneously. So if you dig Xcode, that's fine -- many people do. Many people like a good text editor and a Makefile and really don't suffer for it.
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The resolution of your screen should not be related to the physical size of the fonts. I have seen too many people run large LCDs at sub-optimal resolution because they wanted things to be bigger. The answer is to use a display technology that uses information about the display to calculate pixel dimensions (like Aqua and X) instead of ridiculously assuming that there is a fixed pixel:point ratio (like Windows without a bit of tweaking).
Gimp is not as common outside America or England as you may think, and even in these countries, it's a slang word. Also -- witness the power of branding -- search for Gimp on any search engine and I bet the first page will be GIMP-related.
Of course, when it comes to things like drugs, prostitution and gambling, we have a very interesting situation: the majority of people agree that these things are bad/wrong and should be illegal, however a significant fraction of the population do these things. This is where threads like this come from -- where people see things that they don't believe to be wrong (and mostly what they perceive to be victimless crimes) being outlawed. The truth is that laws change much slower than the perceptions of the citizens about what is right and wrong. There was a time when mixed-race marriage was clearly wrong and against the law. Perceptions changed, and even though mixed-race marriages are still in the minority, they are no longer illegal. The oppressive part only happens when one's values don't align with the government's.
So, if they're brave enough to say "neither of them" (by not voting) this is bad. Got it.
The power of GÃdel's work is that he also provides a method (GÃdel numbering) to convert theorems in other domains to integer arithmetic. This is how he screwed with Russel and Whitehead.
Not that I think an automatic theorem prover is useless, just saying.
Perhaps because I rip my music in MP3 and FLAC formats using a much better ripper than iTunes has (max). Perhaps because I don't have space for my whole library on my laptop, so I move files in and out from my home server which has all my music. Also, sometimes I get music from someone and I don't want to incorporate it into my "full" music library until I've had a chance to listen to it, so I put it in a seperate folder so I can easily delete it later?
The iTunes way only works when you have all your music on your computer at all times, you rip your music using iTunes and you only use one format (MP3) for your music.
When you copy music from another source (even legal other sources like my home server), it boils down to something you do twice -- you copy the music, then you add it to your library. If you don't do it immediately you also run the risk of forgetting to add it to your library or adding it twice. This grates when you know that Amarok works with adding and removing files from the folder structure all the time.
find /home -user `id -u`
Find prints by default and uname -u does what the sed does. I can't figure out what the {} is supposed to do in the above.
A bash thing I use all the time is M-. (or alt+.), which inserts the last argument of the previous command. This is magic for stuff like
mkdir dirname
cp stuff dirname
cd dirname --
you would type
mkdir dirname
cp stuff M-.
cd M-.
You can also use emacs-like style by specifying a number of arguments to use with C-u number.
And if the candidate you voted for wins and stuffs up, do you also lose the right to complain about it? One has the opportunity to vote, not the obligation -- someone choosing not to vote is exercising his democratic rights just as vigourously as someone who is voting, or someone who voted differently from you.
What you describe is exactly how Telkom handles their ADSL connections in South Africa, except you can access all local pages instead of just theirs. Of course, there aren't that many interesting South African websites.
I can only laugh when I read this from South Africa, where I am paying $20 per month for a 1 GiB capped account, with $7 per gig if I want to buy more. So cry me a river -- the bandwidth in America (or Canada) is crazy cheap.
Axioms are a lot more like rules than assumptions. You wouldn't say that an intricate forcing mate in chess is 'based on the assumptions of the game', it's the rules. So the axioms of Euclidean geometry are the rules of the game, and the game is finding consistent steps from one set of statements to another.
Unlike science, math has no reality connection. There is no requirement for math to portray reality or hold up to experiments or anything like that. Valid math is math that stays within the rules. The axioms define where we start, but there is no 'assumption' about the correctness of the axioms.
Perhaps the biggest difference here is that there is a realistic expectation (proven by the links to online stores that stock this kind of thing) that the people on Slashdot can help. Add to that the post further up this thread that confirms that they already plan to go to junkyards and that the guy is actually willing to do his own castings and I think you are being a bit unfair. But at least you live up to your nick!
Yes, it is theoretically impossible for him to ask where he could get gears and look around his environment and whatnot. It would certainly be crazy to assume that he has already looked around his environment, done what he could with what he found and then asked around for more. I suppose you never ask someone for something you could have figured out yourself.
Not to mention the ambiguity in lb -- is that lb mass or lb force? N.m makes a lot more sense to me, then if you want to talk about energy you can use Joules. I don't understand why America still uses these crazy units.
Well, yes, and this is why no-one who knows anything will claim that X is an operating system, or that any of the many window managers or desktop managers are operating systems. All the original DOS-based Windows releases were effectively more like KDE or Gnome.
So, to review, there is an operating system and stuff that runs on top of the operating system. Most people associate the operating system with what they can see. These are the people who want to see what Linux "looks like" and expect you to show them something on the screen. Then there are the people who use Operating System to mean some layer that abstracts straight hardware calls to operating system calls and provides some level of functionality to allow programs to run, schedule these programs and so on. They refer to the NT kernel and some related services as an operating system and explorer.exe as a shell.
FWIW, that use of methodology in the summary should be method, as in "Penn State, which is #48 using US News's method..."
I thought it was OK to be an anal language grinch on Slashdot!
Actually, algorithms like simplex scale exponentially in the worst case (which is not nice). Internal point methods are polynomial time, but are slower than simplex in most practical cases. Adding in the integer part makes the whole thing NP hard again.
One reason could be that Slashdot is populated by people who think Lisp or Haskell rock, together with people who think Perl/Python/Ruby rock and people who think no-one needs more than C (or assembly). Some of the people reading here write programs for phones or PICs. Many of them know many, many languages, have tried c++ and not liked it. Like me.
The whole moderation system does not need consensus, just enough people who agree to get the score up to 5. In addition, the reason why more languages exist (other than c++, with or without boost) is because c++ does not solve the programming language problem.
Word processors and typesetters have different areas of application. You say LaTeX is not the best tool anymore. Do you honestly believe the many pro-LaTeX posters on such a well-commented slashdot article are using LaTeX just because it "looks different"? Surely they would have seen the light by now?
My informal evaluation has tipped the scale on the side of LaTeX due to the ease of use for my application. It automates the stuff that makes me want to cry when I use Word. The handling of floating bodies, cross-referencing and ease of incorporating automatically generated stuff from other programs makes it unbeatable for me. The quality of output is just a bonus. Even with the same fonts, the same small margins and similar headings in both packages, the TeX output is better typeset (especially the math -- Word's math is a lot more trouble and hardly ever gets it right).
The only area of application I can see for Word is for documents less than 10 pages containing no math or advanced cross-referencing. The reason why Word is so popular is that this describes the vast majority of documents people create.
The best reason I can think of is that I have never seen Word reflow a whole paragraph when I typed a single word at the end like I have seen LaTeX do. I think the requirements of a smooth user experience means that Word breaks lines on a per-line basis, while LaTeX can afford to do per-paragraph optimization.
Grammar Nazi Says: Methodology is not the same as method.
Another reason why people pay to have something done is becuase they can't/don't want to do it themselves or to gain specific advantage from someone's labour. This means that people who can do something that many people can't may get paid to do something that they would have done for free anyway so that one specific person or group gains advantage from their labour. Many artists, mathematicians, analysts and people from many walks of life enjoy what they do for a living. I happen to love my job and I am still quite pleased that I can get paid for doing things I would have done anyway. I always advise people to find a way to make money from their passion rather than spending half their day doing something else to fund it.
Have you ever seen the linux kernel sources? Many, many files. Or the emacs sources, or the gcc sources? Many people working/leading these projects use vi/emacs and make. They are not dumb. Many of them have tried the alternatives and gone back to tools that do what they want. I can honestly not believe that any one development tool can be optimal for all programmers simultaneously. So if you dig Xcode, that's fine -- many people do. Many people like a good text editor and a Makefile and really don't suffer for it.
Statistically, more than 90% of people have more than the average number of legs.