That's great, and it works; but I can't seem to be able to do anything useful with it, and can't find any documentation regarding the vmware image on the site. How do I install "links" from the site when wget isn't installed, for example? Any clues from the clueful?
Good question. What does one do with an operating system? Well, it has a compiler:). If you have networking working you can install packages with the 'easypack' script. That uses 'urlget' to retrieve the packages, compiles them, and installs them.
Hmm, perhaps I was too harsh in my GP post then. I didn't know the matter wasn't settled. Still it seems to me very unmathematical to call it 1 just because it's convenient sometimes, and wrong in 'some unimportant' cases. So I, for one, am not convinced:).
Actually, I'd say it's indefinate, not undefined... just as 0/0 is indefinate, it could be every number (0*n=0, thus 0/0=n for any n) n/0 for any non-zero n is undefined (there's no real number you could multiply zero by to get n)
It's true what you say, but 'real' (sorry;)) mathematicians say 0/0 is undefined.
Ok, here's a mind bender: you say that there are infinately many integers, and there are infinately many non-integers between each pair of integers, does this mean that there are more non-integers than there are integers? infinity * infinity is still infinity... My answer would be that, yes, it is still infinity, it's just an infinately larger infinity... You could even say that it's a significantly larger value of infinity... What's infinity divided by infinity?:)
These things have been defined quite well. The number of positive integers (N) is 'aleph null', or countably infinite. It's exactly equal to Z (including zero and negative integers) and Q (fractions),
because there is a 1:1 mapping. It's less than the number of real numbers (R) because there is no
1:1 mapping (cantor's diagonal argument). As I recall it's an open question whether there is an infinity that is less than aleph 1 but less than aleph 0.
How many people here have wound up downloading the "NOCD" versions of games that you paid for, simply because either the nuisance of having to swap disks was keeping you from playing
*Raises hand*
That's really annoying. Just as well I play just one game, as I'd have to buy a cd drive for every game I play to not go crazy from swapping:)
Thanks for the Rime correction. I'm interested in that Iron Maiden song. I tried to iTMS it, but they don't have it. Perhaps there is a fair use arrangement we can come to;) ?
Just to show that I got the reference, and for those wondering..
"from the google-google everywhere dept." is a reference to The
Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner by sir Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
The Mariner tells a story of a ship adrift for so long they
ran out of drinking water, after the 'hero' of the story shoots
an albatross (bad luck)
Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
I think if One were to be playing counter-strike then One would be more likely to say "7urnZ0rZZZ l3ft 3 de3gg wh1l3 T3h p@n t3H 4 d3gr335,d1k thenFr4gzorz"
True, but then One would also be prone to say OMFG CAMPING WHORE1!1!!11 and such.
Put them on a CD-R. If your kids care enough to pass them on to their kids, they can copy the image files to whatever the media-du-jour is.
The older something is, the more interesting it tends to be. So 'his kids' are not the right people to go around making that decision - their kids might be more interested than they are.
Even in your own life you (and with you I mean one, in general) can wish for something back that you'd thrown out, right?
I like the definition of life which is based on complexity theory. Anything that shows less entropy than the environment of which it is contained is typically alive.
I think you're playing mighty fast and loose with 'complexity theory' and (as you're talking about
entropy) thermodynamics. That 'law' only applies to closed systems, you know.
Or perhaps you meant entropy in the information-theoretic sense? Well, in that case it doesn't make
much sense to me either;)
Sorry, were you not able to make out what I was trying to say because I forgot the S?
I'm sure he was, but, like me, he might have been annoyed at such a mis-spelling. The fact that you pretend it was a typo (core vs. corps is no typo, you didn't just leave out an 's') doesn't suit you.
"Its this wild colour scheme that freaks me, you know.
When you press one of these black buttons that are labeled
in black on a black background, a little black light lights
up black to let you know you've done it!"
Have a compay that makes 100 billion trillion dollars a year?
Great, but next year you will have to make 200 billion trillion or else your stock will tank. Its not just about being profitable, stock is all about growth. If not you better pay one hell of a dividend.
Not sure about the above. I don't know much about the stock market, but in principle, all profits increase the value of the stock. After all, the nominal (is that the word) value of a stock is the liquidated value of a company divided by the number of outstanding stocks.
So why would profits have to increase for a stock to keep rising?
After all, you don't have to be a growth stock. As you said, the value is in the dividend then.
The interview is not so great. They're a bunch of uninspired questions with very little interactivity. The interviewer often doesn't seem to know how to respond to the replies he gets. (He just goes "Wow." and that's about it.)
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Good question. What does one do with an operating system? Well, it has a compiler :). If you have networking working you can install packages with the 'easypack' script. That uses 'urlget' to retrieve the packages, compiles them, and installs them.
root, no password.
Hmm, perhaps I was too harsh in my GP post then. I didn't know the matter wasn't settled. Still it seems to me very unmathematical to call it 1 just because it's convenient sometimes, and wrong in 'some unimportant' cases. So I, for one, am not convinced :).
It's true what you say, but 'real' (sorry ;)) mathematicians say 0/0 is undefined.
Ok, here's a mind bender: you say that there are infinately many integers, and there are infinately many non-integers between each pair of integers, does this mean that there are more non-integers than there are integers? infinity * infinity is still infinity... My answer would be that, yes, it is still infinity, it's just an infinately larger infinity... You could even say that it's a significantly larger value of infinity... What's infinity divided by infinity? :)
These things have been defined quite well. The number of positive integers (N) is 'aleph null', or countably infinite. It's exactly equal to Z (including zero and negative integers) and Q (fractions), because there is a 1:1 mapping. It's less than the number of real numbers (R) because there is no 1:1 mapping (cantor's diagonal argument). As I recall it's an open question whether there is an infinity that is less than aleph 1 but less than aleph 0.
For more about this, see cardinal numbers.
You couldn't have been wronger. 0^0 is undefined, no matter what some silly calculator says.
Let's see an OS written in java, then.
Also, Don't believe everything you think.
I've since acquired a copy from 'Live after Death', email me if you want to.. come to an arrangement for a digital copy.
*Raises hand* :)
That's really annoying. Just as well I play just one game, as I'd have to buy a cd drive for every game I play to not go crazy from swapping
Thanks for the Rime correction. I'm interested in that Iron Maiden song. I tried to iTMS it, but they don't have it. Perhaps there is a fair use arrangement we can come to ;) ?
WEDYMBT?
what he means is, There's No Such Thing As A Free Lunch :).
The Mariner tells a story of a ship adrift for so long they ran out of drinking water, after the 'hero' of the story shoots an albatross (bad luck)
Water, water, everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink;
Water, water, everywhere,
Nor any drop to drink.
So. That's that.
True, but then One would also be prone to say OMFG CAMPING WHORE1!1!!11 and such.
Sorta've like how a convicted felon can't own guns legally.
Except that he didn't have them.
The older something is, the more interesting it tends to be. So 'his kids' are not the right people to go around making that decision - their kids might be more interested than they are.
Even in your own life you (and with you I mean one, in general) can wish for something back that you'd thrown out, right?
I think you're playing mighty fast and loose with 'complexity theory' and (as you're talking about entropy) thermodynamics. That 'law' only applies to closed systems, you know.
Or perhaps you meant entropy in the information-theoretic sense? Well, in that case it doesn't make much sense to me either ;)
On second thought, nothing might happen, because i isn't used and so everything can be optimized away.
On third thought, that would be wrong, because it should (if compiled) crash, because that's what the program says :).
For reads, quite a lot - seeks can be shorter because data can come from either disk, and bandwidth can be higher because of parallel reads.
I admit that this goes for raid-0 too.
For writes, I suppose there's no benefit in raid1, it's probably slower. But the read/write ratio is usually large.
Sorry, were you not able to make out what I was trying to say because I forgot the S?
I'm sure he was, but, like me, he might have been annoyed at such a mis-spelling. The fact that you pretend it was a typo (core vs. corps is no typo, you didn't just leave out an 's') doesn't suit you.
No, I have no on-topic point.
"Its this wild colour scheme that freaks me, you know.
When you press one of these black buttons that are labeled
in black on a black background, a little black light lights
up black to let you know you've done it!"
Not sure about the above. I don't know much about the stock market, but in principle, all profits increase the value of the stock. After all, the nominal (is that the word) value of a stock is the liquidated value of a company divided by the number of outstanding stocks.
So why would profits have to increase for a stock to keep rising?
After all, you don't have to be a growth stock. As you said, the value is in the dividend then.
I'd gladly be enlightened though.
I think you mean: mu :)
The interview is not so great. They're a bunch of uninspired questions with very little interactivity. The interviewer often doesn't seem to know how to respond to the replies he gets. (He just goes "Wow." and that's about it.)
But I really like Andy :-)
That is a phenomenally ignorant statement. There are other C compilers, even at the time Linux was first written.
I can't tell if you're joking or not.. Nevertheless, it's pretty funny :)