Wow, classic Hummer driver personality. But your bloody revenge is based on two assumptions:
a) that you could catch me. An impossibility in my city, as bikes are faster than cars in the downtown cores. b) that your atrophied, car-acclimatized muscles would be any good whatsoever against an athletic young man such as myself.
Ah, but maybe you're some american cowboy who'll whip out your pistol from your glove compartment? Well, fortunately for me I live in a sane country where I don't have to worry about type-A personality gun-nuts.
Yeah. However the Prius is made, they're not the cars putting a coat of pollution on my tongue whenever I bike downtown or giving children and the elderly respiratory problems.
Now excuse me while I go smash my bike lock into some Hummer's tail-light.
Yeah, I see what you are saying, and I guess I even agree. A strong leader is good for defining a clear path of a distro. Which is what many end-users may want.
But if I'm a developer, I want some input. And if I have to make a choice between coding for a distro that gives me that input, and one that defines it's path without me, I'm going to take the former. If many Debian developers feel the same way as I do (not that I would know) then my point is this: Debian's total democracy is what gets it all these developers, which is in turn what got Debian to where it is today. A distro is nothing without it's developers, and I suspect that a distro with a benevolent dictator would never get as many volunteer developers coding for it as one with Debian's current system.
I'm skeptical as to whether a firm leader would be able to keep all those developers together working on Debian. It may work for Ubuntu, but Ubuntu has much fewer developers. And they get paid.
If I were a coder I would be much more likely to volunteer my time to Debian than Ubuntu. I'd rather donate to a fully democratic system than a benevolent dictatorship. And if I'm already coding for a project and they decide that they're going to "empower" someone to ultimately say what goes and what doesn't, I'd be more likely to quit contributing code.
Good! And thanks for this post. I'm hoping we overcome this role model problem before my child (female and black) comes to the conclusion that she's not supposed to be a scientist.
So 6 out of the top 10 are females. What the hell happens after high school? Maybe things are just getting better with this generation.
Unrelated. Usually with some high level math theory title I understand the individual words by themselves, but not all together. But that 3rd place title. Holy crap. 3 words I've never even heard of.
Yes, that is odd. They did do real release notes with each development release this cycle, so it's not as if they are hiding something or have nothing to show. Weird.
And your triangle puzzle with the "extra space" on your site took more time than I care to admit:) I actually remember seeing this one when I was younger and never getting it. So at least I've made some progress.
Wasn't talking about normal pair-production, but rather zero-point energy of the vacuum and it's production of virtual particles, which are seen through the Casimir force. Whether or not this is a wild theory depends on how conservative you are when it comes to theoretical physics, I guess.
To add to what meriguoid said above about the uncertainty principle: Stuff comes out of nothingness all the time. Literally all the time. A particle and it's anti-particle will pop out of nothing for no apparent reason. Physical law allows this through the uncertainty principle. That stuff usually exists for an extremely short amount of time and then ceases to exist again. But some stuff that comes from nothing can be made to stay.
Before recent evidence showed that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, it was assumed by many that the net energy of the whole universe was zero. Positive energy in the form of matter, negative energy in the form of gravitational potential to balance it out.
All anyone cares about is to have hardware with free drivers, from there any distro can be installed.
Yeah I agree. I may be fussy about what my computer ends up like, but I can take care of the details. All I need from the likes of Dell is for them to offer something that I know for certain will work with Linux. In that respect I don't think I am fussy at all, and that Shuttleworth is wrong here.
But you know, there's some in every crowd and if Dell were to offer Linux laptops now without doing a lot more research about what people want, I bet they would get hit hard with complaints from really fussy people who aren't ever satisfied. Especially from ex-Windows "power users" who are also fussy but don't yet know how to solve their own problems in Linux yet. But maybe the coming complaints are inevitable.
To be fair to Shuttlesworth, he didn't actually tell us to stop being fussy. He said we are fussy, without making any judgements. And that this fact would make it harder for Dell to satisfy us. I don't know why the/. article claims he said that.
Yes, or anything else by Robert Forward. I learned something from every book I've read by him. Also good are Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. A lot of work went into those to make much of the science accurate.
Yeah but the basis is wrong. You can't compare hours, days and months to a base 10 system. Real pi day should be (3.14159..)*(365.25/10)=114 (rounding down for effect) = 11th of March. Hey that's yesterday. Happy belated real pi day!
Installing boost on Windows is not any more difficult than installing it on Linux. You just download it, unzip it, and enter a single bjam command to compile and install it.
Wow, you sound as bad as those stereotypical Linux zealots. "Installing foobar is easy, you just gzip -x foobar.tar.gz./configure make make install" done.
Did you read the part of my post where it said "10s of seconds"? That included the searching for it in Synaptic and downloading it part. No compiling necessary. And that was just one anecdote. Fact is, in Linux I don't have to go crawling around the web for free and good compilers, IDE's and other developmental tools.
Technically, sure, I'm a teacher I guess. But I spend the vast majority of my time in a lab in the cold, dark basement. I spend 5 hours a week teaching and grading undergrads. And it doesn't feel like part of my paid duties because if I somehow get overlooked for a teaching assignment and end up not doing any teaching for the semester, I get paid the same. Also, I didn't know I'd have to do it before I got here. Post-docs don't have to teach at most universities.
Which is something to keep in mind when sending your kids to university: large "prestigious" schools often have grad-students (or post-docs, grumble, grumble) who don't care about teaching doing the teaching, whereas smaller schools often have their professors doing it.
I'm not a coder, I'm a scientist. Sometimes I have to code. Getting the tools to do so is many times easier (faster, cheaper, less confusion, etc.) for me on Linux than on Windows. A colleague recently suggested I try quantlib. He also mentioned that they require Boost which can be a real pain in the ass to get compiled and installed on an XP machine. I went home and installed both of these libraries in 10s of seconds with Synaptic.
I wouldn't be surprised. That show has already had way too many cases of deus ex machina, what's one more? So many times I've hoped that I'd finally seen the last of one of the characters I don't like, but no, the biggest character who died (and probably ever will) was Billy. Great.
Maybe the key to finding earth and making peace with the cylons is having every character on the show come back from the brink of death.
And as for your predictions, I vote that all 3 will happen.
Thanks for the concern, but don't worry. In the spirit of breaking up a problem into smaller parts, I discussed the radiative effects with them afterwards. That you think a teacher (not that I really am one, the uni makes me do it) could be so ignorant is also pretty disturbing.
Yeah, I didn't agree with that part of the student's reference either. The argument must have been in the absence of the tremendous amount of radiation coming from the sun. So just considering the temperature and pressure in the corona.
Yes, I messed up on the 305K body temperature. But using a more accurate temp of 310K would only increases the time to freezing by 6%.
But why do you say they would soon freeze to death in a vaccuum? The whole point of this thread (and why space movies are dumb) is that they wouldn't freeze to death, at least not quickly. The only mechanism for heat loss is from blackbody radiation which, as I calculated, will take a several hours to drop a person to the freezing point. Dropping the person's temp to 305K would only take half an hour. But it doesn't matter if they die before reaching the freezing point. A living being won't be able to "heat themself" anymore than a dead one. They will both lose energy at the same rate, excluding all the heat loss from breathing that the living person is doing.
So, the end result is that if you are some amazing person that can survive the extremly low pressure and lack of oxygen of a vaccuum, you will die in half an hour from low body temperature, and your body will reach the freezing point in 3.5 hours. This is still a far cry from some movies where they instantly turn to ice pillars, and is also much slower than if you just step outside naked in the winter (where I'm from).
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Wow, classic Hummer driver personality. But your bloody revenge is based on two assumptions:
a) that you could catch me. An impossibility in my city, as bikes are faster than cars in the downtown cores.
b) that your atrophied, car-acclimatized muscles would be any good whatsoever against an athletic young man such as myself.
Ah, but maybe you're some american cowboy who'll whip out your pistol from your glove compartment? Well, fortunately for me I live in a sane country where I don't have to worry about type-A personality gun-nuts.
:P
Yeah. However the Prius is made, they're not the cars putting a coat of pollution on my tongue whenever I bike downtown or giving children and the elderly respiratory problems.
Now excuse me while I go smash my bike lock into some Hummer's tail-light.
Yeah, I see what you are saying, and I guess I even agree. A strong leader is good for defining a clear path of a distro. Which is what many end-users may want.
But if I'm a developer, I want some input. And if I have to make a choice between coding for a distro that gives me that input, and one that defines it's path without me, I'm going to take the former. If many Debian developers feel the same way as I do (not that I would know) then my point is this: Debian's total democracy is what gets it all these developers, which is in turn what got Debian to where it is today. A distro is nothing without it's developers, and I suspect that a distro with a benevolent dictator would never get as many volunteer developers coding for it as one with Debian's current system.
I'm skeptical as to whether a firm leader would be able to keep all those developers together working on Debian. It may work for Ubuntu, but Ubuntu has much fewer developers. And they get paid.
If I were a coder I would be much more likely to volunteer my time to Debian than Ubuntu. I'd rather donate to a fully democratic system than a benevolent dictatorship. And if I'm already coding for a project and they decide that they're going to "empower" someone to ultimately say what goes and what doesn't, I'd be more likely to quit contributing code.
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Good! And thanks for this post. I'm hoping we overcome this role model problem before my child (female and black) comes to the conclusion that she's not supposed to be a scientist.
So 6 out of the top 10 are females. What the hell happens after high school? Maybe things are just getting better with this generation.
Unrelated. Usually with some high level math theory title I understand the individual words by themselves, but not all together. But that 3rd place title. Holy crap. 3 words I've never even heard of.
Yes, that is odd. They did do real release notes with each development release this cycle, so it's not as if they are hiding something or have nothing to show. Weird.
And your triangle puzzle with the "extra space" on your site took more time than I care to admit :) I actually remember seeing this one when I was younger and never getting it. So at least I've made some progress.
Wasn't talking about normal pair-production, but rather zero-point energy of the vacuum and it's production of virtual particles, which are seen through the Casimir force. Whether or not this is a wild theory depends on how conservative you are when it comes to theoretical physics, I guess.
To add to what meriguoid said above about the uncertainty principle:
Stuff comes out of nothingness all the time. Literally all the time. A particle and it's anti-particle will pop out of nothing for no apparent reason. Physical law allows this through the uncertainty principle. That stuff usually exists for an extremely short amount of time and then ceases to exist again. But some stuff that comes from nothing can be made to stay.
Before recent evidence showed that the expansion of the universe is accelerating, it was assumed by many that the net energy of the whole universe was zero. Positive energy in the form of matter, negative energy in the form of gravitational potential to balance it out.
All anyone cares about is to have hardware with free drivers, from there any distro can be installed.
Yeah I agree. I may be fussy about what my computer ends up like, but I can take care of the details. All I need from the likes of Dell is for them to offer something that I know for certain will work with Linux. In that respect I don't think I am fussy at all, and that Shuttleworth is wrong here.
But you know, there's some in every crowd and if Dell were to offer Linux laptops now without doing a lot more research about what people want, I bet they would get hit hard with complaints from really fussy people who aren't ever satisfied. Especially from ex-Windows "power users" who are also fussy but don't yet know how to solve their own problems in Linux yet. But maybe the coming complaints are inevitable.
To be fair to Shuttlesworth, he didn't actually tell us to stop being fussy. He said we are fussy, without making any judgements. And that this fact would make it harder for Dell to satisfy us. I don't know why the /. article claims he said that.
Yes, or anything else by Robert Forward. I learned something from every book I've read by him. Also good are Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy. A lot of work went into those to make much of the science accurate.
Hey, I didn't do it, I was just predicting. And trying to be funny, though not very successfully I guess.
It's an even-handed piece that fully reflects the continuing deep skepticism in the community of Microsoft's motives and actions.
/. article?
Does it reflect our continuing deep skepticism more than the tag of "itsatrap" which is soon to adorn this
Yeah but the basis is wrong. You can't compare hours, days and months to a base 10 system. Real pi day should be (3.14159..)*(365.25/10)=114 (rounding down for effect) = 11th of March. Hey that's yesterday. Happy belated real pi day!
Installing boost on Windows is not any more difficult than installing it on Linux. You just download it, unzip it, and enter a single bjam command to compile and install it.
./configure make make install" done.
Wow, you sound as bad as those stereotypical Linux zealots. "Installing foobar is easy, you just gzip -x foobar.tar.gz
Did you read the part of my post where it said "10s of seconds"? That included the searching for it in Synaptic and downloading it part. No compiling necessary. And that was just one anecdote. Fact is, in Linux I don't have to go crawling around the web for free and good compilers, IDE's and other developmental tools.
Technically, sure, I'm a teacher I guess. But I spend the vast majority of my time in a lab in the cold, dark basement. I spend 5 hours a week teaching and grading undergrads. And it doesn't feel like part of my paid duties because if I somehow get overlooked for a teaching assignment and end up not doing any teaching for the semester, I get paid the same. Also, I didn't know I'd have to do it before I got here. Post-docs don't have to teach at most universities.
Which is something to keep in mind when sending your kids to university: large "prestigious" schools often have grad-students (or post-docs, grumble, grumble) who don't care about teaching doing the teaching, whereas smaller schools often have their professors doing it.
I'm not a coder, I'm a scientist. Sometimes I have to code. Getting the tools to do so is many times easier (faster, cheaper, less confusion, etc.) for me on Linux than on Windows. A colleague recently suggested I try quantlib. He also mentioned that they require Boost which can be a real pain in the ass to get compiled and installed on an XP machine. I went home and installed both of these libraries in 10s of seconds with Synaptic.
So for me, Linux is very "pro-developer".
Well, that's a blatant exaggeration. According to this recent BBC poll they're only the 3rd most hated nation right now.
I wouldn't be surprised. That show has already had way too many cases of deus ex machina, what's one more? So many times I've hoped that I'd finally seen the last of one of the characters I don't like, but no, the biggest character who died (and probably ever will) was Billy. Great.
Maybe the key to finding earth and making peace with the cylons is having every character on the show come back from the brink of death.
And as for your predictions, I vote that all 3 will happen.
Thanks for the concern, but don't worry. In the spirit of breaking up a problem into smaller parts, I discussed the radiative effects with them afterwards. That you think a teacher (not that I really am one, the uni makes me do it) could be so ignorant is also pretty disturbing.
Yeah, I didn't agree with that part of the student's reference either. The argument must have been in the absence of the tremendous amount of radiation coming from the sun. So just considering the temperature and pressure in the corona.
Yes, I messed up on the 305K body temperature. But using a more accurate temp of 310K would only increases the time to freezing by 6%.
But why do you say they would soon freeze to death in a vaccuum? The whole point of this thread (and why space movies are dumb) is that they wouldn't freeze to death, at least not quickly. The only mechanism for heat loss is from blackbody radiation which, as I calculated, will take a several hours to drop a person to the freezing point. Dropping the person's temp to 305K would only take half an hour. But it doesn't matter if they die before reaching the freezing point. A living being won't be able to "heat themself" anymore than a dead one. They will both lose energy at the same rate, excluding all the heat loss from breathing that the living person is doing.
So, the end result is that if you are some amazing person that can survive the extremly low pressure and lack of oxygen of a vaccuum, you will die in half an hour from low body temperature, and your body will reach the freezing point in 3.5 hours. This is still a far cry from some movies where they instantly turn to ice pillars, and is also much slower than if you just step outside naked in the winter (where I'm from).
Well, thanks to bill C-24, those lobbyists are hopefully just wasting their time.