I presume we are then talking about phonon manipulation. Which is pretty cool (sorry for that pun) but at the moment I can't see a lot of applications. Should be able to do lots of interesting photon like things but much slower. Useful if you want to embed logic in a solid material.
Having tried Win8 I found I actually like it. A lot. More than Win7. My first impression was that it was better than OSX but that might just be me. I haven't liked a Windows OS since NT 3.51. Most people complaining are wimps... oh noes no Start button... gees. Learn a new way. I mean really anyone who frequents/. should be the kind of person who likes exploring a new software environment.
What are my own preferences: I like linux mint. I honestly don't understand what people like about OSX, it is ok, certainly slick and shiny. But I did not expect Win8 to be this good, blown away. Fucking MS did something right for once, holy shit. Still not giving up my linux machines though.
I'm not sure how many actually read the article (yeah, I know/.... what am I saying... just read the fucking article guys), clearly you did read it. In summary it says that because we don't know what the actual threshold is, as a hard and fast value, then people hedge their bets and no matter what the value actually is the result is disaster. If the actual value is known then people cooperate and success is achieved, sadly that is not the scenario in the real world.
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I was very pleasantly surprised to find that I really like Windows 8. A friend even said, unbelievably, that he found Win8 more useful than Linux. Not sure about that part, but it is very beautiful and easy to use. I am using it on my aging desktop. Looks amazing. Of course I miss the free stuff but ah well. So, taking that into account the only reason I would think they got rid of him would be for issues unrelated to the actual product.
I wish I had mod points. Agree completely. I recently installed Bodhi Linux, based on Ubuntu 12.04, using Enlightenment. So beautiful. But I don't mind Unity or gnome 2, or KDE. Though gnome and KDE are damn resource hogs. After a while you just want to do stuff and not wait to see dancing monkeys around the borders of your terminal window.
FOSS can do some great stuff but they can also just lose their way. Dolphin & konqueror. Bloody friggin Nautilus, what a pile of junk. I used to run a standard test whenever I fired up a new distro with gnome: load it into another partition, run Nautilus and copy/paste my mounted home directory to the new install partition. My home dir had about 150,000 files... Nautilus always failed (for about 7 years it failed this test every year until I just gave up bothering about it); Konqueror no problems.
"radio wavelength laser"... you mean a MASER, which is even older than the laser. Won't work. Although coherent radiation does not obey the inverse square law it does suffer divergence from diffraction effects (unavoidable) which is inversely proportional to distance. Also masers and lasers aren't very efficient so I don't think this is a solution either. Face it, Tesla was a great guy but on this he was plain wrong.
But empathy exists because it has an evolutionary advantage. All these "soft" and "fuzzy" aspects of human beings aren't there for nothing. They have advantages. The thing is you have to know when to use which one. Obviously, with those you love and trust (note the 'and') you use empathy. For others you may use empathy after your analysis decides they are trustworthy up to some predefined mark. Others may just get the purely analytical approach.
Excellent rant. Agree completely. Each time I see people with an iPad I think they look very nice. But when I pick it up I ask myself, "what will I use it for?" The answer is "nothing". Too heavy for an ereader, can't touch type, screen to small for text editing. Yeah in the past I've coded via terminal windows 80x25, I wouldn't describe it as pleasurable, why should I go back to that? And it's subpowered. Bah. I used to know a guy back in the dos days who actually liked edlin, some people will use anything. Some people will enjoy coding on an iPad. Not me.
Back in the heydays, the rage was all about how and when FOSS would eventually wipe out commercial alternatives.
There was a time when the term 'global domination' was bandied about. What was generally forgotten was that this started out as a joke. But people forgot it was a joke. Global domination was never going to happen, global significance... yes.
Yeah, I repeatedly pick up an iPad and think, "yeah it's nice but I'd never use it." Too heavy, backlit, and expensive for an eReader. Can't touch type (instant fail). So what's the point? I could look at tv programs. Well I have tv, which I don't watch.
I currently have a 15" macbook pro. I'm disappointed, it feels claustrophobic after Linux. My next laptop will be a linux machine. And yeah, Apple these days is starting to resemble Microsoft at its worst, no thanks.
So, at 13 billion years old then this gobular cluster contains stars that are almost as old as the Universe, and older than our galaxy. Makes you wonder, if there are any worlds there (I know probaby metal poor) then any nascent life would have had so much time to get going, even under the feeble light of a red dwarf, that it could well be anything by now. Fascinating.
I dunno. I am so on the borderline. I am extremely disillusioned with the Australian Labor Party selling out their principles (if they can remember what those are) while the Liberal Party are almost to the point of learning the goose step. At this point the Green Party is looking pretty good. Considering all the crazy shit that the traditional parties do in spite of promising not to do during the elections only the Greens seem to have any principles or sanity left.
I used to find that anything over 12 hours and subtle bugs started to get introduced. 16 hours more obvious bugs. Have a sleep, look at the code and I usually say, "What was I thinking? The answer is obvious!" Code for 10 minutes... fixed!
What he is referring to are the studies by cognitive scientists that show that people who become experts do 4.5 hours of intese activity per day. Not 4.5 hours of work, they may do 8 - 10 hours work a day but only 4.5 hours is at this special level. Also they can not do it for longer than 90 minutes at a stretch. 4.5 hours is a maximum value, this seems to be related to the way our brains work.
I've read somewhere that out of a regular 8-hour working day, people are at the peak of their productivity for about 4.5 hours.
This is related to the amount of intense focus required to become an expert and improve your performance. A random reference to this figure is here. I can't remember the original reference. It applies to non-sports environments as well. Many tasks don't require that level of focus but if you want to actually get something out of your work then you need to do the 4.5 hours of intense work per day. And 4.5 hours is a maximum not an average. It appears to be a hard limit. Of course we work so we can live, otherwise we would all work for free, or not at all. So we have to clock up the hours in a competent capacity but not necessarily excelling.
I smell a bubble about to burst. If the market is this hyped up anything less than a staggering improvement will cause disappointment. Maybe it will all be ok but I'd be selling right now.
is to deliberately use an incorrect answer. First street you lived in? Make one up that only you know. Mother's maiden name? Make it up. Just have a reliable way of remembering it.
The Big Ball of Mud has a lot of wisdom in it. Came across it years ago. It is still relevant. The point of the Big Ball of Mud antipattern, as described, is that they WORK. That is why they are popular. They may not work very well when they scale up but they are still functional enough. The trouble with the example here is that the domain knowledge must be preserved. Rewriting the code will likely lose domain knowledge, this is not acceptable. There is no easy answer. It will require analysis, comments, documentation, writing unit tests, careful rewrites of components and testing. Make it simpler and usable, teach how principles about how to add better code and offer support. The goal should be to make it easier for the user and/or the next dev to use or maintain it.
Since IE doesn't seem to be available for the Linux and the Mac (note the 'and') then I don't use it (apart from just not trusting it). For some time I was using FF and Chrome together (with different proxy settings), made it very convenient. Chrome was nice but I wanted to add some addons. Hmm, how much do I trust them? Wait a second, how much do I trust Google? Pause Then I realised that I do not trust Google, or I trust it far less than Mozilla. After that I deleted Chrome. I now use FF exclusively.
However, I do not like this rapid release cycle. Am I the only one who has noticed some odd gesture like effects in recent FF installs. You'll move the mouse quickly in one direction and.... wtf... it has just gone back a page but I don't have gestures enabled, or do I? I didn't install any such addon that's for sure. Not happy about that.
Is this really a "memory leak"? Or is it, more likely, you are just opening heaps of stuff with lots of images etc? I never have a problem with memory these days on FF on any platform... well on Windows it alerts me when FF is using over half a gig but then I guess having all those tabs open might have been a problem huh?
Some people are just not suited to Mathematics at all and find themselves completely incapable of doing it. I think that for those it would be better to have a Mathematics Appreciation subject, like Art Appreciation. Such a subject would give people an understanding about why many people love it and why it is so important and perhaps a taste of its beauty. And you never know, maybe it will act as an incentive for some to learn more themselves, people are much better at learning when they are motivated.
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I presume we are then talking about phonon manipulation. Which is pretty cool (sorry for that pun) but at the moment I can't see a lot of applications. Should be able to do lots of interesting photon like things but much slower. Useful if you want to embed logic in a solid material.
Amen to that. I'm not even an American and I find it depressing.
The H2O doesn't stay around long though, it just rains. Disturbances in the amount of H2O are gone after about 10 days. CH4 decades. CO2 centuries.
Having tried Win8 I found I actually like it. A lot. More than Win7. My first impression was that it was better than OSX but that might just be me. I haven't liked a Windows OS since NT 3.51. Most people complaining are wimps ... oh noes no Start button ... gees. Learn a new way. I mean really anyone who frequents /. should be the kind of person who likes exploring a new software environment.
What are my own preferences: I like linux mint. I honestly don't understand what people like about OSX, it is ok, certainly slick and shiny. But I did not expect Win8 to be this good, blown away. Fucking MS did something right for once, holy shit. Still not giving up my linux machines though.
I'm not sure how many actually read the article (yeah, I know /. ... what am I saying ... just read the fucking article guys), clearly you did read it. In summary it says that because we don't know what the actual threshold is, as a hard and fast value, then people hedge their bets and no matter what the value actually is the result is disaster. If the actual value is known then people cooperate and success is achieved, sadly that is not the scenario in the real world.
I was very pleasantly surprised to find that I really like Windows 8. A friend even said, unbelievably, that he found Win8 more useful than Linux. Not sure about that part, but it is very beautiful and easy to use. I am using it on my aging desktop. Looks amazing. Of course I miss the free stuff but ah well. So, taking that into account the only reason I would think they got rid of him would be for issues unrelated to the actual product.
I wish I had mod points. Agree completely. I recently installed Bodhi Linux, based on Ubuntu 12.04, using Enlightenment. So beautiful. But I don't mind Unity or gnome 2, or KDE. Though gnome and KDE are damn resource hogs. After a while you just want to do stuff and not wait to see dancing monkeys around the borders of your terminal window.
FOSS can do some great stuff but they can also just lose their way. Dolphin & konqueror. Bloody friggin Nautilus, what a pile of junk. I used to run a standard test whenever I fired up a new distro with gnome: load it into another partition, run Nautilus and copy/paste my mounted home directory to the new install partition. My home dir had about 150,000 files ... Nautilus always failed (for about 7 years it failed this test every year until I just gave up bothering about it); Konqueror no problems.
A spoof scientific article for Halloween, more likely.
"radio wavelength laser" ... you mean a MASER, which is even older than the laser. Won't work. Although coherent radiation does not obey the inverse square law it does suffer divergence from diffraction effects (unavoidable) which is inversely proportional to distance. Also masers and lasers aren't very efficient so I don't think this is a solution either. Face it, Tesla was a great guy but on this he was plain wrong.
But empathy exists because it has an evolutionary advantage. All these "soft" and "fuzzy" aspects of human beings aren't there for nothing. They have advantages. The thing is you have to know when to use which one. Obviously, with those you love and trust (note the 'and') you use empathy. For others you may use empathy after your analysis decides they are trustworthy up to some predefined mark. Others may just get the purely analytical approach.
Excellent rant. Agree completely. Each time I see people with an iPad I think they look very nice. But when I pick it up I ask myself, "what will I use it for?" The answer is "nothing". Too heavy for an ereader, can't touch type, screen to small for text editing. Yeah in the past I've coded via terminal windows 80x25, I wouldn't describe it as pleasurable, why should I go back to that? And it's subpowered. Bah. I used to know a guy back in the dos days who actually liked edlin, some people will use anything. Some people will enjoy coding on an iPad. Not me.
Back in the heydays, the rage was all about how and when FOSS would eventually wipe out commercial alternatives.
There was a time when the term 'global domination' was bandied about. What was generally forgotten was that this started out as a joke. But people forgot it was a joke. Global domination was never going to happen, global significance ... yes.
Yeah, I repeatedly pick up an iPad and think, "yeah it's nice but I'd never use it." Too heavy, backlit, and expensive for an eReader. Can't touch type (instant fail). So what's the point? I could look at tv programs. Well I have tv, which I don't watch.
I currently have a 15" macbook pro. I'm disappointed, it feels claustrophobic after Linux. My next laptop will be a linux machine. And yeah, Apple these days is starting to resemble Microsoft at its worst, no thanks.
So, at 13 billion years old then this gobular cluster contains stars that are almost as old as the Universe, and older than our galaxy. Makes you wonder, if there are any worlds there (I know probaby metal poor) then any nascent life would have had so much time to get going, even under the feeble light of a red dwarf, that it could well be anything by now. Fascinating.
I dunno. I am so on the borderline. I am extremely disillusioned with the Australian Labor Party selling out their principles (if they can remember what those are) while the Liberal Party are almost to the point of learning the goose step. At this point the Green Party is looking pretty good. Considering all the crazy shit that the traditional parties do in spite of promising not to do during the elections only the Greens seem to have any principles or sanity left.
I used to find that anything over 12 hours and subtle bugs started to get introduced. 16 hours more obvious bugs. Have a sleep, look at the code and I usually say, "What was I thinking? The answer is obvious!" Code for 10 minutes ... fixed!
What he is referring to are the studies by cognitive scientists that show that people who become experts do 4.5 hours of intese activity per day. Not 4.5 hours of work, they may do 8 - 10 hours work a day but only 4.5 hours is at this special level. Also they can not do it for longer than 90 minutes at a stretch. 4.5 hours is a maximum value, this seems to be related to the way our brains work.
I've read somewhere that out of a regular 8-hour working day, people are at the peak of their productivity for about 4.5 hours.
This is related to the amount of intense focus required to become an expert and improve your performance. A random reference to this figure is here. I can't remember the original reference. It applies to non-sports environments as well. Many tasks don't require that level of focus but if you want to actually get something out of your work then you need to do the 4.5 hours of intense work per day. And 4.5 hours is a maximum not an average. It appears to be a hard limit. Of course we work so we can live, otherwise we would all work for free, or not at all. So we have to clock up the hours in a competent capacity but not necessarily excelling.
I smell a bubble about to burst. If the market is this hyped up anything less than a staggering improvement will cause disappointment. Maybe it will all be ok but I'd be selling right now.
is to deliberately use an incorrect answer. First street you lived in? Make one up that only you know. Mother's maiden name? Make it up. Just have a reliable way of remembering it.
The Big Ball of Mud has a lot of wisdom in it. Came across it years ago. It is still relevant. The point of the Big Ball of Mud antipattern, as described, is that they WORK. That is why they are popular. They may not work very well when they scale up but they are still functional enough. The trouble with the example here is that the domain knowledge must be preserved. Rewriting the code will likely lose domain knowledge, this is not acceptable. There is no easy answer. It will require analysis, comments, documentation, writing unit tests, careful rewrites of components and testing. Make it simpler and usable, teach how principles about how to add better code and offer support. The goal should be to make it easier for the user and/or the next dev to use or maintain it.
Since IE doesn't seem to be available for the Linux and the Mac (note the 'and') then I don't use it (apart from just not trusting it). For some time I was using FF and Chrome together (with different proxy settings), made it very convenient. Chrome was nice but I wanted to add some addons. Hmm, how much do I trust them? Wait a second, how much do I trust Google? Pause Then I realised that I do not trust Google, or I trust it far less than Mozilla. After that I deleted Chrome. I now use FF exclusively.
However, I do not like this rapid release cycle. Am I the only one who has noticed some odd gesture like effects in recent FF installs. You'll move the mouse quickly in one direction and .... wtf ... it has just gone back a page but I don't have gestures enabled, or do I? I didn't install any such addon that's for sure. Not happy about that.
Is this really a "memory leak"? Or is it, more likely, you are just opening heaps of stuff with lots of images etc? I never have a problem with memory these days on FF on any platform ... well on Windows it alerts me when FF is using over half a gig but then I guess having all those tabs open might have been a problem huh?
Some people are just not suited to Mathematics at all and find themselves completely incapable of doing it. I think that for those it would be better to have a Mathematics Appreciation subject, like Art Appreciation. Such a subject would give people an understanding about why many people love it and why it is so important and perhaps a taste of its beauty. And you never know, maybe it will act as an incentive for some to learn more themselves, people are much better at learning when they are motivated.
You'll be hoping for a root kit but you'll just get viruses.