I've considered getting this tattoed on my arm, because I have never used a single equation as much as that one. It's frequently the only thing you need to say when you're trying to explain a problem to somebody... "So you just do a current loop and then V=IR."
You see, the fact that just about any answer is "correct" in art and other such subjects is one reason we don't take them seriously. Oh, what's that, art students? Your art critiques are SO MUCH HARDER than finals? I seem to recall that you all spent the first 9 weeks of the quarter doing nothing, then did the entire project in the last week, be it snapping 500 photographs of dirt clods or making a collage from magazines to represent the consumerism of today's society.
Signed,
Engineering student
I'll be in the lab if you need me.
No, but film majors apparently do. I watched my film major roommate sit around and glue together a mosque out of styrofoam for his Islamic Culture class or whatever it was called. It wasn't even an art class, it was a liberal arts class.
Having lived with this particular film kid, I may have a bad impression of arts students in general. The d-bags who stuck a big piece of paper in the dorm lounge the year before and proceeded to draw on it with big chunks of charcoal, leaving a filthy mess all over the walls and completely covering the floor for the next week didn't help either.
Hey, another RIT student! I'm one of those obnoxious CE students who think we're better than everyone else. How are the icy winters treating you? I'm off on a co-op in California... best thing about RIT is that you can escape the winter on a paid job.
On the other hand, I never really understood Fourier transforms until I took Circuits... didn't grasp it fully in the math courses, but one day during Circuits lecture it suddenly made perfect sense.
They had to open up and check my portable typewriter when I went through... and there were some questions about the drafting set, which *did* have some very sharp pointy bits. In the end they were very pleasant and let me move on after about a quick, 2 minute check of the items.
I've flown quite a bit and never had bad experiences with TSA, despite carrying various odd bits of electronic/mechanical equipment on almost all of my trips.
What filthy lies you tell, just like a smelly uncultured American! The entire world knows that American beer is limited to Budweiser, Miller, and Coors, why can't you just accept that? Damn dirty Americans and their claims of having hundreds of smaller breweries that produce damn tasty beer. I certainly have not heard testimony from numerous foreigners that American beer can be just as good if not better than foreign beer!
Let me clarify something, very slowly and clearly so everyone can understand: You. Can. Port. This. To. Linux. In fact, it has already been ported to Linux. If you would CTFL (Click The Fine Link) about Plan 9 Ports, you'd see that, wonder of wonders, you can run Venti on Linux. It's free software. It's free as in beer. Download it, install it, modify it, whatever you want. The GPL is not the only free license out there.
Honestly, though, if you really want the best experience with Venti I suggest installing Plan 9. And then, like I said, you can access it from Linux and use it as a home backup system.
My empirical evidence shows otherwise... ...I don't have CPU mark tests, so I apologize for throwing out an assessment without objective measures to base it
If you're going to claim to have empirical evidence, please don't turn around and say you don't have any measurement, but it sure FEELS a lot slower. That said, I agree that running any full Linux or other big OS on a VM is going to be slower. Even Plan 9 isn't too quick when you're running it on VMware under Windows.
It is already free/open source, under the Lucent Public License (assuming you can bring yourself to run non-GPL code, I know it's hard for some people here). Plan 9 Port will allow you to run Venti on Linux, but ideally you just download Plan 9 and install it on your file server; you can then use v9fs to access Plan 9's fileservers.
I do my work natively under Plan 9, so I don't have much experience using Venti and Linux.
My data never goes away... I use Venti at work. Unlike Timemachine, it uses an intelligent backup scheme, coalescing blocks so a block of data will only ever be written once. That means that every time you save more mail, your 2GB mail file doesn't get completely replicated on Venti, just the new data.
OH GOD NOT NUCLEAR, YOU'LL KILL US ALL!
All nuclear power plants are just atom bombs waiting to explode. I mean, we've had nuclear power for 60 years now and there has been one meltdown--frankly, I think it's time to shut them all down.
I see by your sig that you're a Lisp programmer:)
I don't program much in Lisp, although I have some familiarity with it, but on Linux my editor and my window manager are both written in Lisp: emacs and stumpwm. They work quite well... stumpwm includes an entire lisp interpreter in its binary and comes in at just 33M; you can hit C-t : at any time to evaluate a Common Lisp expression, and of course the window manager can be modified on the fly if you're a leet haxxor.
emacs is a Lisp interpreter, an editor, a games package, an irc client, many things, but its memory usage is just a drop in the bucket compared to the monstrosities I mentioned above. Of course, there's quite a few complete operating systems that can boot in the amount of RAM required by emacs:)
In my opinion, the absolute minimum you should use is one dedicated machine as a CPU/auth/file server and one "terminal", which can either run Plan 9 and pull the root filesystem from your server or can run Windows/Linux/OS X and access Plan 9 through "drawterm" (it's like remote desktop/vnc, but better).
Running what we call a standalone terminal without an auth or file server, which is what you get when you do a straight install from CD, can still be useful *if* you have an account on one of the Plan 9 public access systems (in New York (currently down), Spain, or Japan), but your file access will be quite slow.
Actually, I'm not a Mac user, more of a bitter Plan 9 hacker:) Given a choice, I'd probably use Mac over Windows, but I do my real work on Plan 9 and Linux.
It seems to be general usage that "Sci-fi" is cheap crap (or a mostly crap TV channel), while "science fiction" or "SF" is high-quality stuff like Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.
Hey, keep it down, I'm working on my novel. The Mac *just works* and I can do complicated things like check email, read news, and write stuff without having to learn 7 zillion commands! It's so easy!
If you'll excuse me, I have to run to the coffeeshop and kick Mac-using hipsters until they run away in that funny stride that comes when men wear women's jeans.
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Quiet now, don't let the proles hear you say that, they'll get restless.
V=IR
V=IR
V=IR
I've considered getting this tattoed on my arm, because I have never used a single equation as much as that one. It's frequently the only thing you need to say when you're trying to explain a problem to somebody... "So you just do a current loop and then V=IR."
You see, the fact that just about any answer is "correct" in art and other such subjects is one reason we don't take them seriously. Oh, what's that, art students? Your art critiques are SO MUCH HARDER than finals? I seem to recall that you all spent the first 9 weeks of the quarter doing nothing, then did the entire project in the last week, be it snapping 500 photographs of dirt clods or making a collage from magazines to represent the consumerism of today's society.
Signed,
Engineering student
I'll be in the lab if you need me.
No, but film majors apparently do. I watched my film major roommate sit around and glue together a mosque out of styrofoam for his Islamic Culture class or whatever it was called. It wasn't even an art class, it was a liberal arts class.
Having lived with this particular film kid, I may have a bad impression of arts students in general. The d-bags who stuck a big piece of paper in the dorm lounge the year before and proceeded to draw on it with big chunks of charcoal, leaving a filthy mess all over the walls and completely covering the floor for the next week didn't help either.
Hey, another RIT student! I'm one of those obnoxious CE students who think we're better than everyone else. How are the icy winters treating you? I'm off on a co-op in California... best thing about RIT is that you can escape the winter on a paid job.
On the other hand, I never really understood Fourier transforms until I took Circuits... didn't grasp it fully in the math courses, but one day during Circuits lecture it suddenly made perfect sense.
They had to open up and check my portable typewriter when I went through... and there were some questions about the drafting set, which *did* have some very sharp pointy bits. In the end they were very pleasant and let me move on after about a quick, 2 minute check of the items.
I've flown quite a bit and never had bad experiences with TSA, despite carrying various odd bits of electronic/mechanical equipment on almost all of my trips.
What filthy lies you tell, just like a smelly uncultured American! The entire world knows that American beer is limited to Budweiser, Miller, and Coors, why can't you just accept that? Damn dirty Americans and their claims of having hundreds of smaller breweries that produce damn tasty beer. I certainly have not heard testimony from numerous foreigners that American beer can be just as good if not better than foreign beer!
Let me clarify something, very slowly and clearly so everyone can understand: You. Can. Port. This. To. Linux. In fact, it has already been ported to Linux. If you would CTFL (Click The Fine Link) about Plan 9 Ports, you'd see that, wonder of wonders, you can run Venti on Linux. It's free software. It's free as in beer. Download it, install it, modify it, whatever you want. The GPL is not the only free license out there.
Honestly, though, if you really want the best experience with Venti I suggest installing Plan 9. And then, like I said, you can access it from Linux and use it as a home backup system.
If you're going to claim to have empirical evidence, please don't turn around and say you don't have any measurement, but it sure FEELS a lot slower. That said, I agree that running any full Linux or other big OS on a VM is going to be slower. Even Plan 9 isn't too quick when you're running it on VMware under Windows.
It is already free/open source, under the Lucent Public License (assuming you can bring yourself to run non-GPL code, I know it's hard for some people here). Plan 9 Port will allow you to run Venti on Linux, but ideally you just download Plan 9 and install it on your file server; you can then use v9fs to access Plan 9's fileservers.
I do my work natively under Plan 9, so I don't have much experience using Venti and Linux.
My data never goes away... I use Venti at work. Unlike Timemachine, it uses an intelligent backup scheme, coalescing blocks so a block of data will only ever be written once. That means that every time you save more mail, your 2GB mail file doesn't get completely replicated on Venti, just the new data.
Wow, posted when there were 0 comments... and showed up as the third almost identical comment
Good to see the Slashdot hive mind is still functioning
Duct tape, camera lens.
Problem solved; feel free to buy the set-top boxes.
1. Create technology
2. Wait for one design to win the market
3. Sue manufacturer
4. Profit!
OH GOD NOT NUCLEAR, YOU'LL KILL US ALL!
All nuclear power plants are just atom bombs waiting to explode. I mean, we've had nuclear power for 60 years now and there has been one meltdown--frankly, I think it's time to shut them all down.
I see by your sig that you're a Lisp programmer :)
I don't program much in Lisp, although I have some familiarity with it, but on Linux my editor and my window manager are both written in Lisp: emacs and stumpwm. They work quite well... stumpwm includes an entire lisp interpreter in its binary and comes in at just 33M; you can hit C-t : at any time to evaluate a Common Lisp expression, and of course the window manager can be modified on the fly if you're a leet haxxor.
emacs is a Lisp interpreter, an editor, a games package, an irc client, many things, but its memory usage is just a drop in the bucket compared to the monstrosities I mentioned above. Of course, there's quite a few complete operating systems that can boot in the amount of RAM required by emacs :)
640K should be enough for anyone.
Finally, I'll have enough space to run Firefox, OpenOffice, and Eclipse *all at the same time*! As long as I don't leave Firefox running too long.
In my opinion, the absolute minimum you should use is one dedicated machine as a CPU/auth/file server and one "terminal", which can either run Plan 9 and pull the root filesystem from your server or can run Windows/Linux/OS X and access Plan 9 through "drawterm" (it's like remote desktop/vnc, but better).
Running what we call a standalone terminal without an auth or file server, which is what you get when you do a straight install from CD, can still be useful *if* you have an account on one of the Plan 9 public access systems (in New York (currently down), Spain, or Japan), but your file access will be quite slow.
30 years? Try 50.
Actually, I'm not a Mac user, more of a bitter Plan 9 hacker :) Given a choice, I'd probably use Mac over Windows, but I do my real work on Plan 9 and Linux.
It seems to be general usage that "Sci-fi" is cheap crap (or a mostly crap TV channel), while "science fiction" or "SF" is high-quality stuff like Asimov, Clarke, Heinlein. Now you know, and knowing is half the battle.
Hey, keep it down, I'm working on my novel. The Mac *just works* and I can do complicated things like check email, read news, and write stuff without having to learn 7 zillion commands! It's so easy!
If you'll excuse me, I have to run to the coffeeshop and kick Mac-using hipsters until they run away in that funny stride that comes when men wear women's jeans.