We tend to rationalize the Big Bang as it seen from within space/time, so we say 'everything expanded outward' but if we 'look form the outside', the whole thing still can be considered a point, as the space/time is constrained within is own boundaries.
In this view univers history becomes changes within a point, incomprehensible as it may be, is not more irrational than the assumed 'reality' of the singularity at time zero.
I've been working on windows and posix systems for more than 30 years now, and the BIG flaw in windows is simple, MS has deliberately fuzzied the kernel/OS concept.
Call me up when MS retuns to sanity and common sense, meanwhile windows is just a dollar machine. They are a convicted monopolist, the IE and the OS thing, do you remenber?
Just a month ago (July/12)... GoogleSky.. talking about scanning astronomical plates.
The curious thing is that the.com domain was registered just on Jun/29!, and the domain name servers seems not to be updated yet (Aug/22), the basename url (googlesky.com) leads to a page stating the domain name is still on sale!. Vacation time at Google perhaps?
On another front, will GoogleSky add a time shift scroll control to the pages? Astronomical data can be computed if no image is available...
Their progress should be watched, and frankly, encouraged...even if that "encouragement" is criticism pointing them towards what the market is demanding.
Shit, pile of shit, MS should have been splited years ago for monopolistic behaviour (they were found guilty), the rest is just a maskerade.
There's a matter of degree, to be sure, but even still you're most likely wasting your time "optimizing" individual lines of C code since the compiler can probably do a better job and that's been the case for quite a while.
Terrible, if people start to give up to optimize the code (and understanding why it works), the net result will always be a noticeable decrease in programming quality (a very usual situation).
I know that you are aiming at premature optimization, and you are really right on this one, but the notion that 'optimize code' == 'wasting time' is a perfect excuse to not to learn how and why things work.
You have to know how to optimize the code to decide when is detrimental to use that optimization, and then, when you know how to do it, you realize it's a matter of degree, as you rightly said.
It would be desirable to have a process/system that could verify that between two a,b consecutive versions of wikipedia (the whole GB files) 'b' (the later) is really 'a' (the previous) plus the editions after the 'a' snapshot creation.
That way it would not be possible to edit the whole file 'inside'wikipedia, (let's go paranoic, i know..)
What I feel really amazing in this posts, is that people talk about CD as quality music! Fantastic!
I suppouse they never heard the quality of old vinil or magnetic tapes records. (I said 'old' just because there are a lot of 'new' vinils that also crap from a sound quality perspective).
1) Human categories are far more than 200000, and even if you reduce the number to a manageable level, they have no graphical definition (suppouse the 'face' category, how could you clasify a cubist picture of a 'face'?), and
2) The fact that they claim not to use annotations, probably means they are using clustering techniques to detect image groups with a high graphical intersimilarity factor, that's is, the class is not a concept but a bunch of similar pictures, I supposue.
And... it's also kind of ironic that this relatively small patch often brings more practical benefits to the desktop than all the "big" desktop interactivity/latency features (cfs, swap-prefetch, -rt kernel) combined.
Talking a bout desktop interactivity, it seems you missed to mention Con's scheduler in gamming scenarios, curious eh?.
Sorry, but it's a shame that linux still doesn't have a proper file change notification, (one that does allow recursive subdirectory watches).
The system knows whenever a program access a file, it has to verify the path at open time, so there's no excuse to not to have a decent watch detection system.
just like a KDE app has to build support for kioslaves (or use a component that does).
The kde api is quite generic, wherever you need to access a file (ie: standard file menus), you can use the netaccess object to make the download whatever the protocol is being specified in the url, http,ftp,etc. It's really powerful, is that easy/powerful using the gnome-vfs?
We are just looking for beings like us (sharing our won world description), that's why the Fermi paradox still works.
The possibilities of what we call 'intelligence' to exist across the universe are small, while the probabilities of a 'real intelligence' that consider us as non intelligent are greater, that is: There has to be intelligent beings in the univers, but we are not on his league.
Well, I was just suggesting that the usual scientific view of the world is really flawed (usually results as some kind of elaborate 'faith') if we don't take philosphy into acount. About the Xian story, I don't have the slightest idea.
You can find physical explanations for everything that happens in the universe.
Easy, if univers=sum of energy/space/time then anything happening in that 'univers' has to be about energy/space/time, right. But how can you logically demostrate that the univers is only energy/space/time ?
Well, it turns out that we have no such a proof, in fact reason,when applied to the perceived world presents a quite different landscape: we are traped in a perception cage, 'reality' is something we try to understand but we have no idea of what it is.
I am also an amateur photograph, but I am still avoiding being digital. I would like to ask you, is current cameras definition really comparable to chemical films?
his own times, were really good musicians meet to share ideas. It's internet stopping people to share ideas? No, quite the contrary, but then, what's happenning to our society/music lately? It's a very usual opinion that the global quality of actual music is far worse then 50's-90's.
Halamka preferred Ubuntus user interface to SUSEs because it was simpler and more straightforward, but he notes that SUSE might be more appropriate for workers used to Windows.
The FA seems to ignore the existance of different GUIs, is not SUSE vs UBUNTO, is KDE vs GNOME.
Is my opinion that KDE should be used instead of GNOME for a linux based windows replacement solution.
I fully agree with the first part of your post, but I don't buy this 'Con's reaction justify Linus judgment' argument:
1) It seems clear on the mailing lists that Con was really a good maintainer (only one 'problem' reported).
2) Con's reaction seems quite understandable, after a very long time working on a project you see it not only refused by the maintainers (perfecty ok on that), but suddenly 'copied/inspired/wahtereryouwant' by that very same maintainer (not quite right).
EGO leads to sectarism, that's all. The problem is that it seems that Con's scheduler was very good at gamming, and it's a shame that Linux dimissed a good piece of code on a specially sensible area for personal motives.
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We tend to rationalize the Big Bang as it seen from within space/time, so we say 'everything expanded outward' but if we 'look form the outside', the whole thing still can be considered a point, as the space/time is constrained within is own boundaries. In this view univers history becomes changes within a point, incomprehensible as it may be, is not more irrational than the assumed 'reality' of the singularity at time zero.
I've been working on windows and posix systems for more than 30 years now, and the BIG flaw in windows is simple, MS has deliberately fuzzied the kernel/OS concept.
Call me up when MS retuns to sanity and common sense, meanwhile windows is just a dollar machine. They are a convicted monopolist, the IE and the OS thing, do you remenber?
Just a month ago (July/12) ... GoogleSky .. talking about scanning astronomical plates.
The curious thing is that the .com domain was registered just on Jun/29!, and the domain name servers seems not to be updated yet (Aug/22), the basename url (googlesky.com) leads to a page stating the domain name is still on sale!. Vacation time at Google perhaps?
On another front, will GoogleSky add a time shift scroll control to the pages? Astronomical data can be computed if no image is available...
Their progress should be watched, and frankly, encouraged...even if that "encouragement" is criticism pointing them towards what the market is demanding.
Shit, pile of shit, MS should have been splited years ago for monopolistic behaviour (they were found guilty), the rest is just a maskerade.
There's a matter of degree, to be sure, but even still you're most likely wasting your time "optimizing" individual lines of C code since the compiler can probably do a better job and that's been the case for quite a while.
Terrible, if people start to give up to optimize the code (and understanding why it works), the net result will always be a noticeable decrease in programming quality (a very usual situation).
I know that you are aiming at premature optimization, and you are really right on this one, but the notion that 'optimize code' == 'wasting time' is a perfect excuse to not to learn how and why things work.
You have to know how to optimize the code to decide when is detrimental to use that optimization, and then, when you know how to do it, you realize it's a matter of degree, as you rightly said.
Caroll has been astroturfing for years on ZDnet.
It would be desirable to have a process/system that could verify that between two a,b consecutive versions of wikipedia (the whole GB files) 'b' (the later) is really 'a' (the previous) plus the editions after the 'a' snapshot creation.
That way it would not be possible to edit the whole file 'inside'wikipedia, (let's go paranoic, i know..)
What I feel really amazing in this posts, is that people talk about CD as quality music! Fantastic!
I suppouse they never heard the quality of old vinil or magnetic tapes records. (I said 'old' just because there are a lot of 'new' vinils that also crap from a sound quality perspective).
Fourtunately, we still have live music.
Don't know for sure I didn't RTFA, but:
1) Human categories are far more than 200000, and even if you reduce the number to a manageable level, they have no graphical definition (suppouse the 'face' category, how could you clasify a cubist picture of a 'face'?), and
2) The fact that they claim not to use annotations, probably means they are using clustering techniques to detect image groups with a high graphical intersimilarity factor, that's is, the class is not a concept but a bunch of similar pictures, I supposue.
And ... it's also kind of ironic that this relatively small patch often brings more practical benefits to the desktop than all the "big" desktop interactivity/latency features (cfs, swap-prefetch, -rt kernel) combined.
Talking a bout desktop interactivity, it seems you missed to mention Con's scheduler in gamming scenarios, curious eh?.
dnotify anf inotify are really flawed.
Sorry, but it's a shame that linux still doesn't have a proper file change notification, (one that does allow recursive subdirectory watches).
The system knows whenever a program access a file, it has to verify the path at open time, so there's no excuse to not to have a decent watch detection system.
just like a KDE app has to build support for kioslaves (or use a component that does).
The kde api is quite generic, wherever you need to access a file (ie: standard file menus), you can use the netaccess object to make the download whatever the protocol is being specified in the url, http,ftp,etc. It's really powerful, is that easy/powerful using the gnome-vfs?
dont'know about gnome-vfs, but kioslaves are for all kde apps, not just the file maneger, that's a difference!.
We are just looking for beings like us (sharing our won world description), that's why the Fermi paradox still works.
The possibilities of what we call 'intelligence' to exist across the universe are small, while the probabilities of a 'real intelligence' that consider us as non intelligent are greater, that is: There has to be intelligent beings in the univers, but we are not on his league.
The Ubuntu installation dosn't have a localization option???
Well, I was just suggesting that the usual scientific view of the world is really flawed (usually results as some kind of elaborate 'faith') if we don't take philosphy into acount. About the Xian story, I don't have the slightest idea.
You can find physical explanations for everything that happens in the universe.
Easy, if univers=sum of energy/space/time then anything happening in that 'univers' has to be about energy/space/time, right. But how can you logically demostrate that the univers is only energy/space/time ?
Well, it turns out that we have no such a proof, in fact reason,when applied to the perceived world presents a quite different landscape: we are traped in a perception cage, 'reality' is something we try to understand but we have no idea of what it is.
Thanks! It seems I am gonna stay analogic for a while, (I like to do big bw pictures). :)
About RAW vs JPEG, as a programmer i am on your side, raw is THE DATA, jpeg is just a lossy compression version.
I am also an amateur photograph, but I am still avoiding being digital. I would like to ask you, is current cameras definition really comparable to chemical films?
I've read the posts, it's just me (and my preferences, as I only use KDE) or there are a LOT of posts pushing the Gnome agenda?
Yes, experienced people know a lot about hypocresy, unfortunately.
his own times, were really good musicians meet to share ideas.
It's internet stopping people to share ideas? No, quite the contrary, but then, what's happenning to our society/music lately? It's a very usual opinion that the global quality of actual music is far worse then 50's-90's.
Halamka preferred Ubuntus user interface to SUSEs because it was simpler and more straightforward, but he notes that SUSE might be more appropriate for workers used to Windows.
The FA seems to ignore the existance of different GUIs, is not SUSE vs UBUNTO, is KDE vs GNOME.
Is my opinion that KDE should be used instead of GNOME for a linux based windows replacement solution.
I wonder what a direct Linux implementation would do. I just love seeing folks buying the headlines instead of blazing their own paths.
Yes, that's teh point. What I want (unrealistically by now, i know) is linux only games. Attract gamers to linux not linuxers to games.
I fully agree with the first part of your post, but I don't buy this 'Con's reaction justify Linus judgment' argument:
1) It seems clear on the mailing lists that Con was really a good maintainer (only one 'problem' reported).
2) Con's reaction seems quite understandable, after a very long time working on a project you see it not only refused by the maintainers (perfecty ok on that), but suddenly 'copied/inspired/wahtereryouwant' by that very same maintainer (not quite right).
EGO leads to sectarism, that's all. The problem is that it seems that Con's scheduler was very good at gamming, and it's a shame that Linux dimissed a good piece of code on a specially sensible area for personal motives.