I would advocate teaching the students to look through the surface and judge the people by their skills, especially in a work (non-client-related) environment.
However the one thing Debian and the other binary distros really should learn from Gentoo is how to produce good documentation without creating too much documentation. There is exactly one guide for every major issue with Gentoo and none of them is excessive in length.
Debian is designed for production use. If there are not much people using (as in being admin for) it they are doing a good job. If it were hard to use and had frequent downtimes they would need more admins.
You know that you will create people exactly like those terrorists you Americans seem to hate so much. People that believe so much what their religious leaders say that they will die for their religion and whatever stupid rules it has (and all religions have at least some of those).
I think "if everyone did it it would destroy society/lead to anarchy" is a pretty good indicator for harmful actions that should be forbidden by basic laws.
Programming languages ARE better to understand as everything is defined with exactly one semantic. They are designed that way. You could translate programming language into english but the other direction is impossible because you can not determine which meaning of a word with several meanings was meant in a given sentence.
So perhaps children should just take politicians and strive to be like them. After all it is so much better to have no conscience, be totally ego-centric, lie whenever it furthers your interests, take action when someone pays you instead of following your ideals,...
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First, you have an ibook wich are not meant to be upgraded.
If they had solved the (IMO unsolvable) problem of natural language programming it would be easy for them to create a perfect automated chinese-english translater, yes.
Anyone who had never even watched someone cook something for a few hours and just knows the names of the meals that taste best but doesn't even know the names of all ingredients or how they look raw should be denied access to a stove, yes.
Strange. I have lots of software installed written in Lisp, Python, Ruby, Perl, Ocaml and quite a few other languages of a much higher abstraction level than C. At least on Linux I have. In Windows however...
I have 2 GB of RAM in my recently purchased PC and I use ratpoison as WM, not because of RAM, I couldn't care less about that. I use it because I like it staying out of my way and I noticed when using other WMs before that I wouldn't use anything in non-maximized windows anyway and used xterms for anything most of you probably use a GUI file manager for. It is just the way I work best and working any other way just because I have the RAM is a stupid way to think.
And to answer your question: I use the RAM for games, playing movies without using my harddisk much (that way it is free to burn my DVDs in the background which my old pc couldn't do) and generally to use more programs in parallel. I never do benchmarks (except for the basic "I notice video-lag" or "I notice my burner only writes 1x speed" benchmarks) and I never post any results or specs of my hardware online to brag about it. I decided to invest into RAM because this PC is new (a few weeks old) and I don't want to upgrade it for at least 2-3 years from now.
As you use it constantly and it doesn't get swapped out it is a difference if your window manager uses 1 or 100 MB of RAM. Most likely your application will have to be swapped in the latter case and will run slower because of that.
However for me personally a window manager doesn't have to be small because of speed. Small WM tend to stay out of my way much better than big WMs or even DEs do. I know which apps I will use and I don't want anything to assume anything about me in that department and preload lots of crap only the mysterious average user needs but I don't. WMs are a matter of personal preference after all.
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Talking Bullshit is better than waging war.
I would advocate teaching the students to look through the surface and judge the people by their skills, especially in a work (non-client-related) environment.
However the one thing Debian and the other binary distros really should learn from Gentoo is how to produce good documentation without creating too much documentation. There is exactly one guide for every major issue with Gentoo and none of them is excessive in length.
Debian is designed for production use. If there are not much people using (as in being admin for) it they are doing a good job. If it were hard to use and had frequent downtimes they would need more admins.
Just burn multiple copies and give each person who might whine when they are lost one copy. That way it is everyone's fault when all copies are lost.
Microsoft lawyers also make more money than most reading /.
If you seriously think having sex with someone other than your wife/husband is something worse than waging war you have serious issues.
You know that you will create people exactly like those terrorists you Americans seem to hate so much. People that believe so much what their religious leaders say that they will die for their religion and whatever stupid rules it has (and all religions have at least some of those).
I think "if everyone did it it would destroy society/lead to anarchy" is a pretty good indicator for harmful actions that should be forbidden by basic laws.
What you call centrist is right-wing by the standards of most non-US countries.
Programming languages ARE better to understand as everything is defined with exactly one semantic. They are designed that way. You could translate programming language into english but the other direction is impossible because you can not determine which meaning of a word with several meanings was meant in a given sentence.
So perhaps children should just take politicians and strive to be like them. After all it is so much better to have no conscience, be totally ego-centric, lie whenever it furthers your interests, take action when someone pays you instead of following your ideals, ...
If you have to start explaining the joke do it right. No one not noticing this pun knows what the Oil for Food Program is/was.
If they had solved the (IMO unsolvable) problem of natural language programming it would be easy for them to create a perfect automated chinese-english translater, yes.
Anyone who had never even watched someone cook something for a few hours and just knows the names of the meals that taste best but doesn't even know the names of all ingredients or how they look raw should be denied access to a stove, yes.
Strange. I have lots of software installed written in Lisp, Python, Ruby, Perl, Ocaml and quite a few other languages of a much higher abstraction level than C. At least on Linux I have. In Windows however...
Perhaps we should think about applying that concept to laws?
If you like ion you might want to try ratpoison.
If you tend not to use them it IS bloat.
If he doesn't miss them without a DE he tends not to use them.
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I have 2 GB of RAM in my recently purchased PC and I use ratpoison as WM, not because of RAM, I couldn't care less about that. I use it because I like it staying out of my way and I noticed when using other WMs before that I wouldn't use anything in non-maximized windows anyway and used xterms for anything most of you probably use a GUI file manager for. It is just the way I work best and working any other way just because I have the RAM is a stupid way to think.
And to answer your question: I use the RAM for games, playing movies without using my harddisk much (that way it is free to burn my DVDs in the background which my old pc couldn't do) and generally to use more programs in parallel. I never do benchmarks (except for the basic "I notice video-lag" or "I notice my burner only writes 1x speed" benchmarks) and I never post any results or specs of my hardware online to brag about it. I decided to invest into RAM because this PC is new (a few weeks old) and I don't want to upgrade it for at least 2-3 years from now.
As you use it constantly and it doesn't get swapped out it is a difference if your window manager uses 1 or 100 MB of RAM. Most likely your application will have to be swapped in the latter case and will run slower because of that.
However for me personally a window manager doesn't have to be small because of speed. Small WM tend to stay out of my way much better than big WMs or even DEs do. I know which apps I will use and I don't want anything to assume anything about me in that department and preload lots of crap only the mysterious average user needs but I don't. WMs are a matter of personal preference after all.
I believe ratpoison is even more minimalistic than ion.
I think this recent bash.org Quote sums Real up best.