"You'd have to be a real masochist today to chose a Linux desktop over an OSX desktop for a Unix development experience."
Why? Most development tools including gcc end Eclipse runs MUCH better under Linux. I currently run Eclipse under Linux, and it's fast and well behaved, unlike under Mac OS X where it is slow as hell. (When people complain about Eclipse performance, they mostly are complaining about it on Mac OS X)
The credit card company, only get the total transaction amount and the shop which should get the money.
The shop only get a "Transaction accepted" but they don't get any information about the credit card used. Other then sometimes the last 4 digits, but you can't trace with that.
I am currently running Kde Fedora, with Kde Plasma 5.5.3 (The newest Plasma is 5.5.4, released just a few days ago som I am 0.0.1 from the newest when using standard Fedora).
So for me, Fedora with kde instead of Gnome seems to be the perfect Kde based linux.
They do not require a credit card on file to play, BUT they require you to input a credit card in order to do the initial creation of the first apple id account. (See: https://support.apple.com/en-u...). Once it's created you can then remove the credit card again.
They do the same thing for sd cards. You need a sd card in order to boot the phone for the first time, but once it's booted you can remove the sd card. And I still don't understand why.
Not really: From their documentation: (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203905)
"If you're using the store for the first time with an existing Apple ID, you must provide a payment method. After you create the account, you can change your payment information to None."
So the first time you have to input credit card, which you can then remove again. How that is user friendly is anyone's guess.
What? Foreign master cards works and can be used 98% of the places which takes credit card. (I know exactly 1 local shop which don't take master cord).
But if you pay with a credit card in Sweden* the merchant will not get your name, or any other personal information. All he will get is a "Transaction accepted" from the credit card company, and maybe the part of your credit card number which is also printed on your credit card receipts.
*Ok, I only know how it works in Denmark, but I can't imagine it being different in sweden.
Would $ or euro not count as a globaly accepted and digital currency? Most of the economy is 100% digital, and I think you can pay with $ digitally in 99% of all countries.
"There are some computing tasks that can't really be split up among multiple nodes, so they still require gigantic CPU requirements. Usually this is related to legacy databases which cost less to keep on the legacy architecture than spend the time to try to move it to PC clusters."
True but what does that have to do with the usage of Power/Sparc? There do exists 32 and 64 processor xeon systems, and sgi will even sell you a system with 256 cpus and 64 TB ram if you can pay the price.
https://www.sgi.com/products/s... Let me quote "SGI UV 3000 scales to extraordinary levels - up to 256 CPU sockets and 64TB of cache-coherent shared memory in a single system."
A cs major might not be able to "calculate a range of IPs given a single IP and a netmask" on the spot, but if a cs major can't google what a netmask is, and then write a program which gives you the min and max ip for the range included in the same network as the given ip/netmask he is useless as a software developer.
It can be done in under 10 lines of code, and should not even take an hour to do. It is basic bit operations and a cs major should know how a number is represented on a modern cpu.
You might not need multivariate calculus, but I find the method used for proving things, are very useful when analysing software behaviour.
But you absolutely need "OS design" because you need to know about things as processes and threads. Virtual and physical memory, semaphores and so on.
And while I don't think I will ever have to write a compiler myself, the compiler writing course is still the best way to learn to work on recursive datas tructures which is useful, and in fact the thing I do for a living right now.
"So it had nothing to do with a severance package. When the company started doing better they were forced to compensate employees that were fired when the company was doing badly."
Where does that come from? This claim(That they had to pay, because they did better) is not in the story. Or did I just miss it?
"The funny thing is that Greece already has its budget balanced better than most other countries. What is crushing it is the debt burden, not the income vs. expenses equation."
Do you have any source for this? All the sources I could find say that Greece still spend more money then they get in taxes, excluding depth payments and loan. But some of them said that Greece has a a budget which might chance this in the future.
And something funny: The amount of Euro they have gotten in loan the last 12 months, is larger then the amount of money they have paid in interests and loan payments in the last 12 months. So the net flow of Euros into Greece is positive, and so they should have no problem paying their depth with a balanced budget.
Why would you expect toString() to work on a InputStream?
There is no general safe way to create a String from an InputStream, because mapping from a byte stream(Which is what a InputStream is) to a string is not 1:1.
That is: The same string can be encoded as different bytes, depending on the encoding such as UTF-8, UTF-16 iso-8859-1).
The funny thing is that Sun did not think about this when they first created Java, so there are a bunch of deprecated methods which create strings from bytes, trying to guess the encoding or reading in from the systems default locale.
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Who said anything about being raped by a woman?
"You'd have to be a real masochist today to chose a Linux desktop over an OSX desktop for a Unix development experience."
Why? Most development tools including gcc end Eclipse runs MUCH better under Linux. I currently run Eclipse under Linux, and it's fast and well behaved, unlike under Mac OS X where it is slow as hell. (When people complain about Eclipse performance, they mostly are complaining about it on Mac OS X)
Only if you don't read the article. (Yes I know this is slashdot, but still).
Hint: There is an aditional 5% increase each year you have been there.
Really? Really?
Do you really pay money to transfer money from one bank account, to an other bank account? Your US Banks are really fucking their customers then.
Which "they" could do such an analys?
The credit card company, only get the total transaction amount and the shop which should get the money.
The shop only get a "Transaction accepted" but they don't get any information about the credit card used. Other then sometimes the last 4 digits, but you can't trace with that.
What is wrong with kde on Fedora?
I am currently running Kde Fedora, with Kde Plasma 5.5.3 (The newest Plasma is 5.5.4, released just a few days ago som I am 0.0.1 from the newest when using standard Fedora).
So for me, Fedora with kde instead of Gnome seems to be the perfect Kde based linux.
They do not require a credit card on file to play, BUT they require you to input a credit card in order to do the initial creation of the first apple id account. (See: https://support.apple.com/en-u...). Once it's created you can then remove the credit card again.
They do the same thing for sd cards. You need a sd card in order to boot the phone for the first time, but once it's booted you can remove the sd card. And I still don't understand why.
Not really: From their documentation: (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203905)
"If you're using the store for the first time with an existing Apple ID, you must provide a payment method. After you create the account, you can change your payment information to None."
So the first time you have to input credit card, which you can then remove again. How that is user friendly is anyone's guess.
What? On fedora its a single line to install the binary nvidia driver. Or 2 lines, if you also need to add the nonfree repository first.
What? Foreign master cards works and can be used 98% of the places which takes credit card. (I know exactly 1 local shop which don't take master cord).
Not sure, but I have newer seen a tourist without a credit card. Do they even exists?
Not really. The only thing the bank know, is where I spent my money. The bank don't know what I bought.
But if you pay with a credit card in Sweden* the merchant will not get your name, or any other personal information. All he will get is a "Transaction accepted" from the credit card company, and maybe the part of your credit card number which is also printed on your credit card receipts.
*Ok, I only know how it works in Denmark, but I can't imagine it being different in sweden.
Would $ or euro not count as a globaly accepted and digital currency? Most of the economy is 100% digital, and I think you can pay with $ digitally in 99% of all countries.
Nope. To quote from his statement:
"Immigration unnecessarily defers the collapse of capitalism, its final crisis,"
So he sounds more like a communist or anarchist.
What does "memorizing a lot of facts" have to do with not re-invent the wheel?
"There are some computing tasks that can't really be split up among multiple nodes, so they still require gigantic CPU requirements. Usually this is related to legacy databases which cost less to keep on the legacy architecture than spend the time to try to move it to PC clusters."
True but what does that have to do with the usage of Power/Sparc? There do exists 32 and 64 processor xeon systems, and sgi will even sell you a system with 256 cpus and 64 TB ram if you can pay the price.
https://www.sgi.com/products/s...
Let me quote "SGI UV 3000 scales to extraordinary levels - up to 256 CPU sockets and 64TB of cache-coherent shared memory in a single system."
A cs major might not be able to "calculate a range of IPs given a single IP and a netmask" on the spot, but if a cs major can't google what a netmask is, and then write a program which gives you the min and max ip for the range included in the same network as the given ip/netmask he is useless as a software developer.
It can be done in under 10 lines of code, and should not even take an hour to do. It is basic bit operations and a cs major should know how a number is represented on a modern cpu.
You might not need multivariate calculus, but I find the method used for proving things, are very useful when analysing software behaviour.
But you absolutely need "OS design" because you need to know about things as processes and threads. Virtual and physical memory, semaphores and so on.
And while I don't think I will ever have to write a compiler myself, the compiler writing course is still the best way to learn to work on recursive datas tructures which is useful, and in fact the thing I do for a living right now.
Java, and GWT(The java to javascript compiler) is the best solution for that. problem.
"So it had nothing to do with a severance package. When the company started doing better they were forced to compensate employees that were fired when the company was doing badly."
Where does that come from? This claim(That they had to pay, because they did better) is not in the story. Or did I just miss it?
"The funny thing is that Greece already has its budget balanced better than most other countries. What is crushing it is the debt burden, not the income vs. expenses equation."
Do you have any source for this? All the sources I could find say that Greece still spend more money then they get in taxes, excluding depth payments and loan. But some of them said that Greece has a a budget which might chance this in the future.
And something funny: The amount of Euro they have gotten in loan the last 12 months, is larger then the amount of money they have paid in interests and loan payments in the last 12 months. So the net flow of Euros into Greece is positive, and so they should have no problem paying their depth with a balanced budget.
It that was true, how do you account for other countries with far less then half the number of criminals per citizen as usa?
Why would you expect toString() to work on a InputStream?
There is no general safe way to create a String from an InputStream, because mapping from a byte stream(Which is what a InputStream is) to a string is not 1:1.
That is: The same string can be encoded as different bytes, depending on the encoding such as UTF-8, UTF-16 iso-8859-1).
The funny thing is that Sun did not think about this when they first created Java, so there are a bunch of deprecated methods which create strings from bytes, trying to guess the encoding or reading in from the systems default locale.
Why should the add blocking plugin require side-loading without user interaction?
It don't as far as I know.