Well, when I explained the "apt-get update" deal, he was almost amazed. He developed a program that allows a single administrator to push updates. Kind of like a remote apt-get update for select packages.
I have tried setting up a Fedora 5 box and I didn't like it.
Yumex only shows your the dependencies when you are about to remove something and then it shows you the dependencies along other packages which you chose to remove. It would be fine with 1 package, but if you select 10 pacikages you down't know which package is removing which dependecies.
Synaptic on the other hand will actually tell you to mark the dependencies to be removed when you select the package to be removed. Then it will still list it along other selected packages. This way, you can find out which package depends on what and then make the decision to remove or not remove.
There is also no core-system meta-package. On Ubuntu, if you remove ubuntu-desktop, you know that you are removing something that has to be there no matter what. Fedora lets you remove stuff without questions and without protecting the user from himself.
In computer science, you aren't taught 20 programming languages, you are taught to think in terms of OOP, functional and procedural ways. If you look at most computer languages, the syntax comes from BCPL and can be picked up rather easily. In my college, (CUNY at Brooklyn College...) we have research projects which is where you learn on your own and you better know how to learn from a book.
Of couse, this is not to say that the teacher in 6th grade should ignore his/her students (fire his/her ass if he/she does).
I was also somewhat in your boat, but except I came to US later (by 1 year) and that I was doing 2 digit addition/subtraction in kindergarden while most kids were struggling with single digits, I dunno why. In Ukrainian school, my classmates were amazed at my math ability. In US, I found the same attitude mainly because I went to school with a lot of kids from former USSR.
After having taken a required simple chemistry course, I am amazed at people taking Organic Chemistry and having little trouble with it.
OpenGL was first made by Silicon Graphics... it was simply GL back then.
DirectX is made by one company.
EAX comes from Creative.
How does the market fail exactly?
when I buy a DVD over BitTorrent, I have to worry about the andwidth from/to other customers?
Customers are not your free servers.
If I buy a DVD, I want to be able to max out my connection instantly from servers provided by WB, not by other customers.
If I buy a track, I want uncompressed, all information file (wav) not a cut down encoded version (mp3).
Note that I never said that they weren't happy. The russian comic did say that there is no point in being sad.
As for demanding rent. Do they demand rent from the 18 year old when they know he doesn't have a job? Also, them demanding rent is only to push the kid out so he can learn and function on his own, much like birds push their young out of the nest so they learn to fly.
As for comparison to USA. I am attending a city college. If I held a job full time, I'd be ablle to pay for it and live on my own at the expense of getting enough sleep and actually being able to study (life in NYC is not cheap). Taking out a loan? Then you are almost forced t take the first employment opportunity no matter how conditions at work are. If such would happen, the quality of life in US would fall quickly as employers would seek to hire fresh grads with huge loans and pay them to barely survive. It is the same principle of why many people say that to keep slaves is more expensive than to hire someone when the employment opportunities are low. Much like in the early 20th century when a wave of european immigrants hit.
As for sitting with an infant. Have you ever spent time next to a a child who is 2 or 3 years old (when they start learning to speak and ask why everything around them works the way it works)? They are fascinating to say the least, party because I am a comp sci major who has some interest in artificial intelligence. A 2 year old learns the structure of your language just by you being there for 2 years and speaking casually.
What would you say to the fact that if someone has a problem with a Microsoft product, they can go straight to the source. To the people who really made the product. The way Linux is developed, there are at least two tiers of manufacturing. The lower tier is the Linus and company who are developing the kerel and the high level are the actual distributors (Red Hat, Novell, etc.). In today's world, if you are in charge of a multi-million dollar project of setting up servers/datacenters, don't you want a corporate entity that is completely responsible for their product as a scapegoat?
In the words of one russian stand up comic is that things can only get better. They are so bad that they can't get worse, only better. I find this very true about the Africa that is below the poverty line.
how about adding a run-time compile feature?
how about being able to read in a string and use that as a variable name? (hash table with pointer/reference?)
10 year olds in team america: world police... parents were pisses and walked out AFTER the sex scene... I was histerical... at the scene and the parents ^^
especially since the movie is rated R
In Russia, there is no such thing as police brutality, that's why when a cop in Russia asks you to do something, you do it because of fear of being beaten severily and then not be able to do anything.
If you know that your car is outfitted with GPS and you want to do something stupid (rob a bank for example), then you will think twice about it.
the next Doom3/HL2/Far Cry killer that THQ will publish next year, STALKER: SHadow of Chernobyl is developed by a Ukrainian company called GSC gameworld. They also developed Firestarter if you played it:)
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MRAM heating the CRT faster???
Well, when I explained the "apt-get update" deal, he was almost amazed. He developed a program that allows a single administrator to push updates. Kind of like a remote apt-get update for select packages.
I have tried setting up a Fedora 5 box and I didn't like it.
Yumex only shows your the dependencies when you are about to remove something and then it shows you the dependencies along other packages which you chose to remove. It would be fine with 1 package, but if you select 10 pacikages you down't know which package is removing which dependecies.
Synaptic on the other hand will actually tell you to mark the dependencies to be removed when you select the package to be removed. Then it will still list it along other selected packages. This way, you can find out which package depends on what and then make the decision to remove or not remove.
There is also no core-system meta-package. On Ubuntu, if you remove ubuntu-desktop, you know that you are removing something that has to be there no matter what. Fedora lets you remove stuff without questions and without protecting the user from himself.
My AI prof said "They are expensive toys, but cheap robots" about the LEGO Mindstorm kits.
... and expensive toy but a cheap supercomputer node :D
Maybe the PS3 will be the same
In computer science, you aren't taught 20 programming languages, you are taught to think in terms of OOP, functional and procedural ways. If you look at most computer languages, the syntax comes from BCPL and can be picked up rather easily. ...) we have research projects which is where you learn on your own and you better know how to learn from a book.
In my college, (CUNY at Brooklyn College
Of couse, this is not to say that the teacher in 6th grade should ignore his/her students (fire his/her ass if he/she does).
I was also somewhat in your boat, but except I came to US later (by 1 year) and that I was doing 2 digit addition/subtraction in kindergarden while most kids were struggling with single digits, I dunno why. In Ukrainian school, my classmates were amazed at my math ability. In US, I found the same attitude mainly because I went to school with a lot of kids from former USSR.
After having taken a required simple chemistry course, I am amazed at people taking Organic Chemistry and having little trouble with it.
OpenGL was first made by Silicon Graphics ... it was simply GL back then.
DirectX is made by one company.
EAX comes from Creative.
How does the market fail exactly?
when I buy a DVD over BitTorrent, I have to worry about the andwidth from/to other customers? Customers are not your free servers. If I buy a DVD, I want to be able to max out my connection instantly from servers provided by WB, not by other customers. If I buy a track, I want uncompressed, all information file (wav) not a cut down encoded version (mp3).
Hey, easy on the CIA. I might be higher by them someday. We wouldn't want you to disappear, now do we?
Use Ubuntu and come hang out in #ubuntu (on freenode). There aren't any snobs there. :D
in soviet russian /. meets your post when winblows blows, kde gets eaten by a gnome who chokes on it and dies ...
Note that I never said that they weren't happy. The russian comic did say that there is no point in being sad. As for demanding rent. Do they demand rent from the 18 year old when they know he doesn't have a job? Also, them demanding rent is only to push the kid out so he can learn and function on his own, much like birds push their young out of the nest so they learn to fly. As for comparison to USA. I am attending a city college. If I held a job full time, I'd be ablle to pay for it and live on my own at the expense of getting enough sleep and actually being able to study (life in NYC is not cheap). Taking out a loan? Then you are almost forced t take the first employment opportunity no matter how conditions at work are. If such would happen, the quality of life in US would fall quickly as employers would seek to hire fresh grads with huge loans and pay them to barely survive. It is the same principle of why many people say that to keep slaves is more expensive than to hire someone when the employment opportunities are low. Much like in the early 20th century when a wave of european immigrants hit. As for sitting with an infant. Have you ever spent time next to a a child who is 2 or 3 years old (when they start learning to speak and ask why everything around them works the way it works)? They are fascinating to say the least, party because I am a comp sci major who has some interest in artificial intelligence. A 2 year old learns the structure of your language just by you being there for 2 years and speaking casually.
What would you say to the fact that if someone has a problem with a Microsoft product, they can go straight to the source. To the people who really made the product. The way Linux is developed, there are at least two tiers of manufacturing. The lower tier is the Linus and company who are developing the kerel and the high level are the actual distributors (Red Hat, Novell, etc.). In today's world, if you are in charge of a multi-million dollar project of setting up servers/datacenters, don't you want a corporate entity that is completely responsible for their product as a scapegoat?
In the words of one russian stand up comic is that things can only get better. They are so bad that they can't get worse, only better. I find this very true about the Africa that is below the poverty line.
C'mon ... I am bilingual and I'm a gamer. I want that world title!!! Bring it on!!!
I have no life. Looks like the IA architecture backfired on Intel.
how about adding a run-time compile feature? how about being able to read in a string and use that as a variable name? (hash table with pointer/reference?)
umm, use Linux? I would suggest FreeBSD, but Netcraft says it's dead. :( I don't get it.
10 year olds in team america: world police ... parents were pisses and walked out AFTER the sex scene ... I was histerical ... at the scene and the parents ^^
especially since the movie is rated R
New source of child porn? >.>
Isn't this a dupe from the dinosaur age???
don't we already know this?
In Russia, there is no such thing as police brutality, that's why when a cop in Russia asks you to do something, you do it because of fear of being beaten severily and then not be able to do anything. If you know that your car is outfitted with GPS and you want to do something stupid (rob a bank for example), then you will think twice about it.
they could've asked nicely ...
if you didn't play it, then you probably don't know of it.
the next Doom3/HL2/Far Cry killer that THQ will publish next year, STALKER: SHadow of Chernobyl is developed by a Ukrainian company called GSC gameworld. They also developed Firestarter if you played it :)