In general, nobody really drinks rosée in wine-drinking country. It's very popular in anglo-saxon countries because it's light flavour makes it easier to drink than proper wine.
Furthermore, the name of the wine only comes from the kind of grapes used to make it and the place where it's made. You can have very good merlot and prosecco, but you can't expect to buy them for 2.95$ in a 7eleven.
I love the Novell-Microsoft agreement, you now why?
Because since it has been signed, when some geek find out I use linux and start the usual psycho-babbling about Italian translations of free, how cool gimp is, how fast gentoo is or how evil skype is, I can just say "I use SUSE, and I happy with it".
Guaranteed to shut obnoxious open-source paladins up 98% of the times
also, I like the layout produced by gecko/firefox much more than the one produced by webkit/konqueror, maybe it's better no googlechrome, but it does not run on linux
I know nobody actually bothered to read it, but from the graph it looks like there are much more email addresses starting with an "a" than with a "z". The former get about as much spam as legit emails, while the latter get about 2 or 3 times more spam than legit emails.
Lines are cheap. Time added trying to figure out an obfuscated code structure because somebody wanted to save lines (ie, put the open brace on the same line instead of doing the above) is expensive.
I found it difficult to follow the flow of a program when I have to scroll up/down a lot. Hence I try very hard to save vertical space, e.g. with this kind of syntax:
for(i=0;i<10;i++) {
for(j=0;j<10;j++) { ...
} }
In this way I can save an extra indentation level (so I can use longer lines), and one line
Blas libraries history dates back to 1979 (http://www.netlib.org/blas/faq.html#1.2, http://www.netlib.org/blas/faq.html#1.2), their netlib implementation probably contains some routine which has remained unchanged since then. They are still widely used.
Crap, this was the most boring post I ever read on Slashdot. God, now I need half a litre of real Italian coffee, and consider it's just half past three PM here. I should save a bookmark in case I shall ever suffer of insomnia. Yawn, yawn, zzz
18 months are not three years, and KDE3 support will definitely last one more year and a half. Consider that a real non-beta version of KDE4 (aka KDE4.1) will be out sometime this summer.
throw some furniture at my computer. There are still some nasty quirks (like opening dozens of windows that steal focus during installing packages via YaST) but I can stand those.
There have been a lot of complain on that yast "feature", I think it have been somehow softened, if not fixed, in oS 11
The facts that gimp opens up ~200 windows to do the simpler tasks is already insane. Add the lack of predefined shortcuts (you can customize them, but you will lost on everybody else computer, plus they are lost from time to time). Mix it with modifier keys wich interfer with each other (i.e. if I press CTRL to subtract a rectangular selection, I will have to subtract a *square* selection instead).
I can also recall the insane scripting language, even if it is not interface in the stricter sens. I can more or less program a dozen languages but I could never really understand that pita; furthermore most filters are badly designed and cannot be used in a script.
The printing interface sucks so much that I have to open the window before using it. It was probably designed to use the printer directly in order to make a better use of advanced features. Its support for printers from the nineties is still incomplete: you will have to manually select PPD files. even if you do it, gimp is not able to autoparse the available printing options and display them in a (not even sub-decent) interface.
How do you define a "better" algorithm? Well, a better algorithm is an algoithm that works better on the field, it may seem obvious, but it is not at all.
Usually it is not possible to test an algorithm deeply enough until its development is finished. On the other hand you would rather not spend a lot of time developing an algorithm that is not good enough. Hence the quality of algorithms is often deduced by some indicators, like some small test samples.
Finally, as the general theory improves, the difference in performance between the top ranking algorithm decreases, and may start to depend quite strongly on the subset of the general total population to wich they are actually applied. We cannot simply say that "given two algorithms, the best one is the one which performs better on all possible samples;" we should rather say "the best one is the one which performs better on most of the real world samples."
You can clearly see how actually impractical this definition is, this is why finding a good ranking algorithm requires constant tuning, as they do in google. A better algorithm may not be so much better, or may lack of generality when tested in the real world. More data always helps.
Maybe the subject is a bit rude, but I cannot like D&D any more. It is getting more and more cumbersome and unrealistic, it more of a math problem than a simple canvas on which to build with your fantasy.
It have been a few years now, since I last did some role playing with my friend, in the last period we had much more fun using a simple set of rules we had developed ourselves than any boxed set
D&D is especially bad as it started as a simple set of rules, with some original points and, and than evolved to gigantic, while keeping it's original inconsistencies and awkward mechanics.
Anyway I don't I will have much time to play it again until I retire, and it will take, well.. about 40 years
The floppy was indeed 1.44, but it was not formatted to store 1.44MB. If I remember correctly a floppy disk could keep about 2MB, standard MSDOS format only used about 1.4 MB for redundancy. The QNX live floppy used more space for the data, actually I cannot remember how much.
Anyway, this is not of concern to anybody now, as floppies almost estinguished.
I know you are joking, but MSDOS Edit kicked a real lot of ass: it was very easy to used and intuitive; actually as powerful as nano/pico but much easier. Of course you can't compare it with the beast or the whale, it's just a text-based text editor.
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This is sound advice! You should also remember to always mention you credit card details and your ebay password.
In general, nobody really drinks rosée in wine-drinking country. It's very popular in anglo-saxon countries because it's light flavour makes it easier to drink than proper wine.
Furthermore, the name of the wine only comes from the kind of grapes used to make it and the place where it's made. You can have very good merlot and prosecco, but you can't expect to buy them for 2.95$ in a 7eleven.
I love the Novell-Microsoft agreement, you now why?
Because since it has been signed, when some geek find out I use linux and start the usual psycho-babbling about Italian translations of free, how cool gimp is, how fast gentoo is or how evil skype is, I can just say "I use SUSE, and I happy with it".
Guaranteed to shut obnoxious open-source paladins up 98% of the times
You've been found guilty of telling an old joke wrong and than explaining it pedantically. The jury is unanimous: the sentence is death.
I think it is much easier to bring 2 USB keys to Mexico, move the data on them and send them home via regular mail, separately.
It's about 100% for me, e.g. I'm at work now
also, I like the layout produced by gecko/firefox much more than the one produced by webkit/konqueror, maybe it's better no googlechrome, but it does not run on linux
I know nobody actually bothered to read it, but from the graph it looks like there are much more email addresses starting with an "a" than with a "z". The former get about as much spam as legit emails, while the latter get about 2 or 3 times more spam than legit emails.
What's not to like? I want to have the double closing curly brace "}}", for the rest it depend on the length of for specifier.
Lines are cheap. Time added trying to figure out an obfuscated code structure because somebody wanted to save lines (ie, put the open brace on the same line instead of doing the above) is expensive.
I found it difficult to follow the flow of a program when I have to scroll up/down a lot. Hence I try very hard to save vertical space, e.g. with this kind of syntax:
for(i=0;i<10;i++) {
...
for(j=0;j<10;j++) {
} }
In this way I can save an extra indentation level (so I can use longer lines), and one line
And there is also Swiss-German which is not German, but is similar.
You know, this is what people call a dialect
BTW Swiss-spoken Italian has a funny accent
OMG!1! It's the first modern-greek-themed porn novel I read
Someone thinks people will use WinCE just because it looks like windows xp; but Vista doesn't look like windows xp either.
Blas libraries history dates back to 1979 (http://www.netlib.org/blas/faq.html#1.2, http://www.netlib.org/blas/faq.html#1.2), their netlib implementation probably contains some routine which has remained unchanged since then. They are still widely used.
I bet he doesn't now that you can have a better use of a girlfriend than make her test Ubuntu!
Crap, this was the most boring post I ever read on Slashdot. God, now I need half a litre of real Italian coffee, and consider it's just half past three PM here. I should save a bookmark in case I shall ever suffer of insomnia. Yawn, yawn, zzz
18 months are not three years, and KDE3 support will definitely last one more year and a half. Consider that a real non-beta version of KDE4 (aka KDE4.1) will be out sometime this summer.
I remember the old days, when they all started with x
throw some furniture at my computer. There are still some nasty quirks (like opening dozens of windows that steal focus during installing packages via YaST) but I can stand those.
There have been a lot of complain on that yast "feature", I think it have been somehow softened, if not fixed, in oS 11
The facts that gimp opens up ~200 windows to do the simpler tasks is already insane. Add the lack of predefined shortcuts (you can customize them, but you will lost on everybody else computer, plus they are lost from time to time). Mix it with modifier keys wich interfer with each other (i.e. if I press CTRL to subtract a rectangular selection, I will have to subtract a *square* selection instead).
I can also recall the insane scripting language, even if it is not interface in the stricter sens. I can more or less program a dozen languages but I could never really understand that pita; furthermore most filters are badly designed and cannot be used in a script.
The printing interface sucks so much that I have to open the window before using it. It was probably designed to use the printer directly in order to make a better use of advanced features. Its support for printers from the nineties is still incomplete: you will have to manually select PPD files. even if you do it, gimp is not able to autoparse the available printing options and display them in a (not even sub-decent) interface.
How do you define a "better" algorithm? Well, a better algorithm is an algoithm that works better on the field, it may seem obvious, but it is not at all. Usually it is not possible to test an algorithm deeply enough until its development is finished. On the other hand you would rather not spend a lot of time developing an algorithm that is not good enough. Hence the quality of algorithms is often deduced by some indicators, like some small test samples. Finally, as the general theory improves, the difference in performance between the top ranking algorithm decreases, and may start to depend quite strongly on the subset of the general total population to wich they are actually applied. We cannot simply say that "given two algorithms, the best one is the one which performs better on all possible samples;" we should rather say "the best one is the one which performs better on most of the real world samples." You can clearly see how actually impractical this definition is, this is why finding a good ranking algorithm requires constant tuning, as they do in google. A better algorithm may not be so much better, or may lack of generality when tested in the real world. More data always helps.
Maybe the subject is a bit rude, but I cannot like D&D any more. It is getting more and more cumbersome and unrealistic, it more of a math problem than a simple canvas on which to build with your fantasy.
It have been a few years now, since I last did some role playing with my friend, in the last period we had much more fun using a simple set of rules we had developed ourselves than any boxed set
D&D is especially bad as it started as a simple set of rules, with some original points and, and than evolved to gigantic, while keeping it's original inconsistencies and awkward mechanics.
Anyway I don't I will have much time to play it again until I retire, and it will take, well.. about 40 years
It looks like you DNS servers suck.
The floppy was indeed 1.44, but it was not formatted to store 1.44MB. If I remember correctly a floppy disk could keep about 2MB, standard MSDOS format only used about 1.4 MB for redundancy. The QNX live floppy used more space for the data, actually I cannot remember how much.
Anyway, this is not of concern to anybody now, as floppies almost estinguished.
I know you are joking, but MSDOS Edit kicked a real lot of ass: it was very easy to used and intuitive; actually as powerful as nano/pico but much easier. Of course you can't compare it with the beast or the whale, it's just a text-based text editor.