This debate is very old and has been settled long ago: theoretical knowledge (and the ability to learn new things, developed while obtaining that knowledge) is more important -- in almost any field, not just CS -- than the practical experience.
Hunh.
Theory is important, no doubt, but all theory and very little practice makes Jack a very, very, very bad programmer.
And programming, after all, is the raison d'etre of digital computers.
On the other hand, as far as I can see, compiz is more or less functionally identical to metacity, just with more wobbling -- it even uses the same window themes. Why would I want to run metacity instead?
Better question: why run a compositing window manager? What's the point? My kids LOVE the wobbling windows, but I'm a grown up and wobbly burning windows are nothing but a waste of RAM and cycles that could be better spent making the system more responsive.
Then use a directory where you have write access. c:\beta was just an example. I thought you would easily figure that out given that you are running Debian.
The point is: why should you need write access to a non-$HOME directory, no matter where it is?
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If you don't have write-access to c:\beta\firefox, then you are not the administrator. If you are not the administrator of a machine, and the administrator refuses to grant you this write access, then you probably shouldn't be running alpha software on the machine.
So, in other words, Windows programmers Joe User to need write access outside of his $HOME?
No fucking wonder it's crawling with viruses and bots.
Leads me to believe, yet again, that there is are population size constraints on effective/efficient government. The best-run countries don't have a humongous population.
Whew, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that.
The MOZ_NO_REMOTE variable will prevent it from connecting to another running instance of Firefox. All the settings are stored in the profile directory so it will leave the regular installation alone.
What if you don't have write-access to c:\beta\firefox ?
To say that a HUGE multinational bank would get some banker's son to set up it's entire windows network is a truly asinine statement that hangs your total stupidity for all the world to see.
This article gives no indication that Orkut is collaborating with Bad People.
If you want to do business in the US, you follow American laws. If you want to do business in Mexico, you follow Mexican laws. If you want to do business in China, you follow Chinese laws. If you want to do business in Russia, you pay lots of bribes.
it seems Google is coperating above and beyond the extent required by law. The police are congratulating them for not making them do any paperwork before handing over the IPs and other identifying details of anyone who posts anything deemed "offensive".
Or... Orkut might be thinking: "Indian magistrates rubber-stamp these kinds of police requests anyway, so lets just set up an electronic request process and make our lives easier."
You're right. He ignored Islamofascism. (But the Republicans would have also.)
They said he was trying to "wag the dog" and that there wasn't a real threat from Saddam, it was all just hype
You are referring to Clinton shooting some cruise missiles at Sudan and Afghanistan 3 days after his finger-wagging "I have not had sexual relations with that woman" speech and the day of his Grand Jury (which he lied to and was thus disbarred) testimony, and was a throw-back to the movie/Canadian Bacon/ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109370/).
Maybe not, but it will tell me where I am when my boat sinks!
You don't care if you know where you are when your boat sinks, you care if others know where you are. And that's why emergency buoys have transmitters and probably flashing lights and bright green dye.
I imagine that it would be used as a supplement to traditional submarine navigation methods. Submariners could check in with it very occasionally in order to correct any minor deviations and measure accuracy.
No Ohio-class submariner who wants to keep his job more than 30 minutes would send out a ping. Heck, no military submarine on patrol would send out a ping. If it were lost, it could raise an antenna.
What it would be useful for is scientific robot submersibles.
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Hunh.
Theory is important, no doubt, but all theory and very little practice makes Jack a very, very, very bad programmer.
And programming, after all, is the raison d'etre of digital computers.
But everybody is equal, remember?
Better question: why run a compositing window manager? What's the point? My kids LOVE the wobbling windows, but I'm a grown up and wobbly burning windows are nothing but a waste of RAM and cycles that could be better spent making the system more responsive.
In it, he argues that the best programmers are those who are able to accept their personal limitations.
Harry Calahan,
How would you get locked in by storing song metadata in SQLite?
Oh, you were comparing it to SQLite. Sorry. Point taken
Yes. MySQL is a total POS and SQLite is an excellent choice for small, embedded systems.
Like managing an album catalogs.
Why load 750GB of music into a database?
Or is PostgreSQL "just" used to store the catalog?
I thought you would easily figure that out given that you are running Debian.
The point is: why should you need write access to a non-$HOME directory, no matter where it is?
So, in other words, Windows programmers Joe User to need write access outside of his $HOME?
No fucking wonder it's crawling with viruses and bots.
Whew, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that.
Just wait for the metric assload of fucknozzles.
What if you don't have write-access to c:\beta\firefox ?
How long?
I've had 40 tabs open, and (in the v1.5 & 2.0 series) see the RES mem get up to 300m, but no higher.
That's what DVRs and FF is for...
It's been a long time since I've seen any instability in the nvidia driver. (But then, maybe I just don't push the envelope.)
This article gives no indication that Orkut is collaborating with Bad People.
If you want to do business in the US, you follow American laws. If you want to do business in Mexico, you follow Mexican laws. If you want to do business in China, you follow Chinese laws. If you want to do business in Russia, you pay lots of bribes.
What's the problem?
Or... Orkut might be thinking: "Indian magistrates rubber-stamp these kinds of police requests anyway, so lets just set up an electronic request process and make our lives easier."
You're right. He ignored Islamofascism. (But the Republicans would have also.)
They said he was trying to "wag the dog" and that there wasn't a real threat from Saddam, it was all just hype
You are referring to Clinton shooting some cruise missiles at Sudan and Afghanistan 3 days after his finger-wagging "I have not had sexual relations with that woman" speech and the day of his Grand Jury (which he lied to and was thus disbarred) testimony, and was a throw-back to the movie
Rarely.
Navigating in and out of ports, for example.
Why? The boat hasn't dived yet, there are sailors on the conning tower, radar is probably active, and there are radio antennae for "regular" GPS.
You don't care if you know where you are when your boat sinks, you care if others know where you are. And that's why emergency buoys have transmitters and probably flashing lights and bright green dye.
No Ohio-class submariner who wants to keep his job more than 30 minutes would send out a ping. Heck, no military submarine on patrol would send out a ping. If it were lost, it could raise an antenna.
What it would be useful for is scientific robot submersibles.
And if, for "competitive advantage", Phoenix & AMI choose different standards?
Grant money.