I use my laptop, with opensuse, to develop first-principles solid state software. I am Italian, so I my favourite language is Italian, and I had never had a problem with internalization. And
BTW I am not so stupid to spend the hideous quantity of money they want for an iPhone, my 40 Nokia already has a calendar. So I can spend the difference for drugs and holidays.
Maybe you should fill a tank truck with fertilizer and blow up MS headquarters in Seattle, or maybe you are taking it too much on yourself, mr. Ballmer will definitely not steal your girlfriend!
Of course, if you plan to use the laptop as web server+php, a corporate firewall/proxy and a file server with automated tape backup then it may be better to wipe SLED and install you favourite distro instead.
But since the OS is Suse, you still pay a Microsoft tax, am I right? I wonder when we will finally be able to buy laptops without any OS at all on them.
Ignorance is the mother off all FUDs (while Ballmer is the father)
I will be moderated down for this? Who cares, I have to say it. Why the heck do Tk always looks like total crap on linux? It is the most hideous widgets I have ever seen, the graphic designer should be covered in tar and feathers, and he would still look better than the widgets.
For the rest tcl/tk is still one of the easier ways to develop some cross-platform mini-apps, useful when you don't want to loose time in programming graphic interfaces but you have to for marketing reasons.
This could be a good reason to hide (still partial) support for window executables: wine is a very good project, and even with all its glitches it can run a lot of windows apps. Maybe OSX developers are using a lot o wine code but, since it's GPL, they want (and have to) keep it secret as long as they are able to rewrite it from scratch or include it in a way that don't violates GPL licence.
It may even be that they already violated the licence, this could be interesting to investigate, as having open source OSX would be quite nice;-).
Yeah, at a certain point you run up against the uncertaintly principle, but I don't think that is supposed to be anything near an issue until the later half of this century.
I think you have no idea what you are talking about. If you take Silicon as an example its crystal form has atoms separated by about 1 nm (nanometer), but if you add an impurity its effect spread on a radius of the order of 10 nm.
So, you cannot go under 10 nanometer because separate circuits in the micro-(nano?)-processor start to interact between each other
It happens much before reaching the atom limit.
This is why processor producers are pushing for multi-core cpus; reversing Feynmann citation: they know that there is not much room left at the bottom.
And, by the way, modern computers, used for desktop systems, are already doing nothing for 90% of the time; this is because the bandwidtg between RAM and cache is far too low, not to speak about hard disks speed.
To summarize: the way to go is many cores, programmers able to use it (have you ever heard about OMP?), much faster memory access (or equivalently much large proc cache), and solid state disks.
This will reuire dropping a lot of buzzwords, but you can create some new ones.
You ar both right, the point is that for very large business the most important factors is the cost of hardware and software, for medium sized ones the cost of system admins; for small business it is software and hardware again, unless you phone the admin too often or have strange needs.
Why? The case was cut n dry, she broke the law and she lost.
The problem with the case is that all the so-called proofs were coming from the MAFIAA, there were not experts from the tribunal. And the jurors knew nothing about the technicalities. In fact everything we know is that the MAFIAA obtained the IP and MAC address.
In any country governed by roman law such a process would have been dismissed before reaching the court, for lack of evidence. It is only the corrupt common law system that allows such bestialities.
You are not completely accurate: some kind of filters you can apply to an image are reversible, while some other aren't.
Even a blur can be reversible or irreversible depending on how exactly it is applyed. E.g. you can FFT the image then cut away the higher frequency than FFT it back, this kind of blurring is irreversible as the higher requency data is lost forever. Another way to blur (the most common one, actually) is convolve the image with a gaussian, this mean that you replace every point-like pixel with a little gaussian, then sum all the gaussians trasforming it back to pixels; this algorithm is in theory reversible, even if you loose some data due to numerical round-off and space discretization.
Of course you can always draw a big black square over the zone you wish to hide; this is definitely irreversable.
It is at least strange that they have chosen to use skype, as its linux version is complete crap, lacking most of the features. Let's at least hope that this will speed up skype development a bit
no real gamer wants to get vista, why because the drivers are generally non-existent and it takes FAR more hardware to get it to run to an XP level
As ususal, the "real" gamers will just buy 2000$ of hardware, so they will be able to both run Pacman2008 (aka Halo3) on Vista and boast with their friends on how many terafreaks their new graphic adaptor has
P.S. is there really so much difference between pacman and halo? You have to kill everything that moves in a non-realistic location controlling a non-realistic character.
I don't know if you posted the link to be funny or not, but the automatic Italian translation I'm reading know is one of the funniest think I could read (if it wasn't true).
Here is a snipplet back-translated for you to taste (the italic part appear as untranslated english):
Action taken above the discontinuation try ignore, it has been unsuccesful.
Slashdot Mirror
In my country you would have described a crime (racket).
Actually this is the least interesting news I have ever read on Slashdot: Slackware users already knew, rest of the world will never care.
I use my laptop, with opensuse, to develop first-principles solid state software. I am Italian, so I my favourite language is Italian, and I had never had a problem with internalization. And
BTW I am not so stupid to spend the hideous quantity of money they want for an iPhone, my 40 Nokia already has a calendar. So I can spend the difference for drugs and holidays.
Maybe you should fill a tank truck with fertilizer and blow up MS headquarters in Seattle, or maybe you are taking it too much on yourself, mr. Ballmer will definitely not steal your girlfriend!
Of course, if you plan to use the laptop as web server+php, a corporate firewall/proxy and a file server with automated tape backup then it may be better to wipe SLED and install you favourite distro instead.
But since the OS is Suse, you still pay a Microsoft tax, am I right? I wonder when we will finally be able to buy laptops without any OS at all on them.
Ignorance is the mother off all FUDs (while Ballmer is the father)
The cost is really ridiculous, releasing the master on bittorrent would be so much cheaper.
Actually 18 is 6 times 3.000
I will be moderated down for this? Who cares, I have to say it. Why the heck do Tk always looks like total crap on linux? It is the most hideous widgets I have ever seen, the graphic designer should be covered in tar and feathers, and he would still look better than the widgets.
For the rest tcl/tk is still one of the easier ways to develop some cross-platform mini-apps, useful when you don't want to loose time in programming graphic interfaces but you have to for marketing reasons.
Nor the arstechnica article, nor the slashdot entry has a link to Online OpenOffice, so I am posting it here: oOOo.
Maybe we should instruct journalists that linking to external pages won't hurt they business and is actually the building block of the www.
This could be a good reason to hide (still partial) support for window executables: wine is a very good project, and even with all its glitches it can run a lot of windows apps. Maybe OSX developers are using a lot o wine code but, since it's GPL, they want (and have to) keep it secret as long as they are able to rewrite it from scratch or include it in a way that don't violates GPL licence.
It may even be that they already violated the licence, this could be interesting to investigate, as having open source OSX would be quite nice ;-).
Master painter know the breed and care of the animal they get their brushes from.
Yes, but he can also paint with his bare fingers, if necessary.
Could you please send me the address of your drug dealer? Use PM if possible.
Yeah, at a certain point you run up against the uncertaintly principle, but I don't think that is supposed to be anything near an issue until the later half of this century.
I think you have no idea what you are talking about. If you take Silicon as an example its crystal form has atoms separated by about 1 nm (nanometer), but if you add an impurity its effect spread on a radius of the order of 10 nm.
So, you cannot go under 10 nanometer because separate circuits in the micro-(nano?)-processor start to interact between each other
It happens much before reaching the atom limit.
This is why processor producers are pushing for multi-core cpus; reversing Feynmann citation: they know that there is not much room left at the bottom.
And, by the way, modern computers, used for desktop systems, are already doing nothing for 90% of the time; this is because the bandwidtg between RAM and cache is far too low, not to speak about hard disks speed.
To summarize: the way to go is many cores, programmers able to use it (have you ever heard about OMP?), much faster memory access (or equivalently much large proc cache), and solid state disks.
This will reuire dropping a lot of buzzwords, but you can create some new ones.
you forgot the sharp after the ampersand and typed a totally random code, anyway even if you did stuff correctly the result would not be not so good:
It looks like the internet is the more important thing in your life, or maybe it just is.
You ar both right, the point is that for very large business the most important factors is the cost of hardware and software, for medium sized ones the cost of system admins; for small business it is software and hardware again, unless you phone the admin too often or have strange needs.
Commons sense economics never works
Why? The case was cut n dry, she broke the law and she lost.
The problem with the case is that all the so-called proofs were coming from the MAFIAA, there were not experts from the tribunal. And the jurors knew nothing about the technicalities. In fact everything we know is that the MAFIAA obtained the IP and MAC address.
In any country governed by roman law such a process would have been dismissed before reaching the court, for lack of evidence. It is only the corrupt common law system that allows such bestialities.
You are not completely accurate: some kind of filters you can apply to an image are reversible, while some other aren't. Even a blur can be reversible or irreversible depending on how exactly it is applyed. E.g. you can FFT the image then cut away the higher frequency than FFT it back, this kind of blurring is irreversible as the higher requency data is lost forever. Another way to blur (the most common one, actually) is convolve the image with a gaussian, this mean that you replace every point-like pixel with a little gaussian, then sum all the gaussians trasforming it back to pixels; this algorithm is in theory reversible, even if you loose some data due to numerical round-off and space discretization. Of course you can always draw a big black square over the zone you wish to hide; this is definitely irreversable.
Just because some guy got back 50% of the price in a French court
So you are saying we should value your not so humble opinion more then a court decision, even a french one?
It is at least strange that they have chosen to use skype, as its linux version is complete crap, lacking most of the features. Let's at least hope that this will speed up skype development a bit
no real gamer wants to get vista, why because the drivers are generally non-existent and it takes FAR more hardware to get it to run to an XP level
As ususal, the "real" gamers will just buy 2000$ of hardware, so they will be able to both run Pacman2008 (aka Halo3) on Vista and boast with their friends on how many terafreaks their new graphic adaptor has
P.S. is there really so much difference between pacman and halo? You have to kill everything that moves in a non-realistic location controlling a non-realistic character.
iDiot!
or maybe Abort, Retry , Ignore, Fail
I don't know if you posted the link to be funny or not, but the automatic Italian translation I'm reading know is one of the funniest think I could read (if it wasn't true).
Here is a snipplet back-translated for you to taste (the italic part appear as untranslated english):
Action taken above the discontinuation try ignore, it has been unsuccesful.