We get 30Mbps as part of us using utilities - gas, water, heat and electricity is reported through a fiberoptic link and we get 30Mb/s (no servers or anything, but email addresses and basic webpage stuff) to the apartment as part of that. If we want to actually pay, we can easily get 100Mb/s with IP-phone (keep our landline number), streaming TV (Tivo over the net, more or less) and a bunch of cable channels served over IP.
As my SO is running her business from home, however, for now we're staying with the normal landlines and fax numbers (though to be fair they have gotten dramatically cheaper the last few years as well).
i couldn't care less if i was bald as a new born. the ladies however, beg to differ
"The ladies" - like every woman (like every man) would have the same taste or the same priorities? Perhaps it's being the kind of person that calls women "the ladies" that pushes them off?
Again, for most middle-aged people it's not the hair, it's the habitual Nixon-after-a-bender look that's the basic problem.
Am I the only one that doesn't have a problem about going bald? Or having some deep complex about body hair in general?
It's not hair or lack of it that makes people look good or bad. You tend to lose it during your early middle age, and frankly it's not the hair situation which makes you look over the hill. If you're like most Western guys it's things like your hanging belly, heavy jowls and plushy, coarse, unkempt complexion that makes you look old and pathetic, not the follicle density of your skull top. You could have a mane big enough to play in a hair band and you'd still look old and pathetic.
At a click rate of 0,16% - about one in 600 - I have to wonder if not a fairly large portion is simple click errors. You intend to click on some other link nearby on the page but by mistake click that one instead. There's several kind of interaction slips just like that that we do in other circumstances after all.
Um, how is dropping balls with text from the ceiling - your own ceiling - in any way clever? Or, for that matter, how is that a "hack"? Had it been a company doing it, it'd be classified solidly in the "lame promotion attempt" category.
I'm sure it will come as a great relief to know the flu is cold related, especially for people in places like Vietnam or south China that of course never catch the flu - avian or otherwise - and who have been rightly upset that we persist in naming flu varieties after cities in their countries in direct defiance of the now obvious fact that it can't have originated from there. Any reports of flu in warm areas are complete fabrications, and dissembling disseminators will be summarily shot for a long time.
So it sits on the campus consuming sugar, starches and alcohol. Just like a graduate student then, except you also get some useful output. Should revolutionize academia; just imagine what this device is capable of once it gets tenure.
"Sorry, but on busy holidays, shinkansen trains are also standing-room-only. I speak from experience."
Well, if you voluntarily travel during Golden Week you deserve it, I guess:) You know it's bad when Japanese news programs have segments on how crowded it is.
Normally, though, the Shinkansen really is very comfortable. And I really like that they run so often - about once every fifteen minutes between Osaka and Tokyo - that you never have to worry about a timetable or anything; just show up and get a ticket for the next train.
That's like saying "I'm dating this girl who's like Jessica Alba. She's latina, has dark hair, and is only five times Jessica Alba's size! So you see, she is plainly like Jessica Alba!".
But it's still a living, breathing girl. By the same token, other discovered extrasolar planets would like trying to have a meaningful relationship with a bulk freighter.
I'm not making a sweeping statement. The author is.
My point is, is the reality that hardware compatibility has improved, but with a few regressions; is compatibility overall the same but with soem regressions and some improvements; or has it worsened with the exception of a few hardware configurations?
His one data point can't tell one way or another. Neither can mine. Making broad statements is simply out of line, in other words.
This is sort-of off topic to the Beryl thing (but then the reviewer didn't manage to stay on topic either), but my experience of Feisty is that it is a lot more stable and supports more stuff out of the box than Edgy ever did for me - and that includes NetworkManager, which so far has been working with both my Wifi and wired network without a single hitch.
Of course, it all depends on exactly what hardware you have. Which means that making sweeping statements on any distributions' hardware compatibility is pretty senseless based on the experience of one machine.
Dude, GP poster has an ID lower than 5000 ! He could well have the data compounded from half of internet servers, including yours.
Or he could have been running a Gundam doll fan site for the past five years ("They're not dolls! They're action figures!!!"), thereby solidly representing the browser choices of the still-living-at-home-at-35 demographic.
That is a bit annoying, I agree (before I used a laptop as my main machine I just used the brace keys on the numeric keypad instead). But if you're annoyed by that, it's probably just easier to remap the curly and square braces to some other keys than to switch to an entirely different layout. I mean, with Dvorak, you suddenly get "ÅÄÖ" on AltGr, which is a lot more annoying than braces, considering that common words like "är" (is), "gå" (go) and "gör" (do) use them. And the letter frequencies are different enough that you don't gain anything by using Dvorak even when you disregard the Swedish characters.
The whole point of Dvorak is predicated on it being more efficient to use than qwerty. If it isn't - and it isn't for most languages - then there's no benefit to changing, while you still incur the negatives.
qwerty isn't optimized for, say, Swedish or Japanese or Mandarin. Neither is Dvorak. So why change?
Can you provide any examples? Most code consists of words. What's left over is punctuation.
Most coders spend at least as much time - normally substantially more - writing in their natural language, not actually writing lines of code. Comments, specs, documentation (in the code and test documentation sense), email, project reports, IM... And that's the stuff you do as part of work, not the time you spend off work on discussion sites, writing a blog, communicating with friends and family or whatever.
I don't assume anyone seriously proposes switching to Dvorak when about to write code, then switching back to their normal layout once you've written your line or two.
Dvorak is optimized for writing English. Most coders - like most computer users in general - do not use English as their main language, and for us Dvorak is substantially worse than the qwerty layout in every way.
So, from a customer viewpoint, what this offers is slower, more expensive hardware that is less tested and buggier than the competitors coming down the pipeline in a month or two?
A minor point is that in most of the United States, at least, it is illegal to drive barefoot.
What? Serious?
So, what counts as "not barefoot"? Does it have to be shoes or is socks sufficient? What material is allowed for the socks - could you just use nylon hose to count as "not barefoot" or does the foot cover have to be opaque? Who defines what counts as "shoes"? or "soles"? How much of the foot does the "shoe" have to cover? If you're driving an automatic, do you still need shoes on both feet? Where do you apply for an exemption in case of a cast? Can you get a religious exemption? Can you be exempt for really bad foot fungus?
Do your police examine peoples' shoes or do you have special roving "foot patrols" to keep the law? How many people are being prosecuted for this?
"Sir, step away from that shoe horn and I mean _right_now_"
I'll never take any comment on European "nanny states" seriously ever again.
Each country has their own laws. This may come as a shock to some, but the US can't/shouldn't enforce our laws on other countries.
But the US isn't, in this case. Instead, it's the Japanese legal authorities that want to impose Japanese law on foreign soil. The turnaround equivalent could for instance the restrictions for paid political speech in the US, which does not stop any foreign blogger or other media talking about the US election, endorsing one candidate over another (without disclosing what agenda they really do and who is paying and so on). Or laws in some countries like Sweden that forbid identifying a crime suspect by name and image before they've actually convicted, but which of course doesn't stop newspapers publishing that info on websites in neighboring countries
I live in Japan and there's a good deal of rules and other things that do make sense here, but the election-related framework is frankly one that no longer does, if it really ever did (candidates are for instance not allowed to actually change the content on their websites once campaigning is started). One way to solve this could be to distinguish push and pull media. Keep restrictions in place for push media like radio, television, magazine ads and so on, media for which it was intended. But allow free use of pull media like websites or Youtube - there the user is actively searching out the info, not getting it stuffed down their throat. The playing field is also more even due to the low cost of setting up and maintaining such a prescence.
I have no comment one way or the other on the advantages of v3 over v2 (and how could I before v3 is even published?). But most of the kernel is explicitly GPLv2 only, not the usual "GPL version 2 or later" and is thus not automatically relicenced.
Nobody's requested transfer of copyright to any code in the kernel. For the kernel, in practical terms it has never mattered what Torvalds' thoughts on the GPL is, since they'd need individual permission from every contributor to do so (or rewrite the parts that get no permission or where the contributor or their estate recipients can no longer be found). It'd be the mess of mozilla licensing all over again, but even worse.
The last two research labs I worked at both have sales and support contracts with Dell; when we need a new computer - from a server to a workstation to a laptop - unless we have specific reason otherwise, we buy Dell. And they all come with Windows.
Of course, the previous lab was perhaps 80% Linux, and the current one is 50% (and the in-house IT group installs a dual-boot Linux by default on every Windows machine). And in fact I know there's been growing grumbling about this kind of exclusive deal when they aren't offering what we're using (no, the OS is not the whole issue but it's a fairly big part).
In this kind of environment, sales of the Linux version would easily be more than half of all machines, including laptops. Now of course, this is not a very common environment on one hand, but we go through computing equipment like a TV preacher goes through hairspray on the other, so the field of research is not totally insignificant even for a large corporation.
The last term looks a bit like 3*450 if you are writing sloppy (and odds are you are if you're rushing to solve this baby with a laplace transform >.).
Well, no real point in continuing this discussion. I'd like to point out, however, that normally you always require the actual multiplication operator written out between two digits; you can really only omit it when you have a digit sequence followed by a symbol.
Since you normally write multiplication as a dot rather than a star ("104" rather than "10*4") when working by hand, you in fact increase the risk of confusion slightly with a decimal point rather than comma; that dot has to only slip down a little from it's center position before you may ask yourself if you meant "54" or "5.4".
Easy solution: use underscore as separator. We even have precedence from several computer languages that all allow it.
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We get 30Mbps as part of us using utilities - gas, water, heat and electricity is reported through a fiberoptic link and we get 30Mb/s (no servers or anything, but email addresses and basic webpage stuff) to the apartment as part of that. If we want to actually pay, we can easily get 100Mb/s with IP-phone (keep our landline number), streaming TV (Tivo over the net, more or less) and a bunch of cable channels served over IP.
As my SO is running her business from home, however, for now we're staying with the normal landlines and fax numbers (though to be fair they have gotten dramatically cheaper the last few years as well).
i couldn't care less if i was bald as a new born. the ladies however, beg to differ
"The ladies" - like every woman (like every man) would have the same taste or the same priorities? Perhaps it's being the kind of person that calls women "the ladies" that pushes them off?
Again, for most middle-aged people it's not the hair, it's the habitual Nixon-after-a-bender look that's the basic problem.
Am I the only one that doesn't have a problem about going bald? Or having some deep complex about body hair in general?
It's not hair or lack of it that makes people look good or bad. You tend to lose it during your early middle age, and frankly it's not the hair situation which makes you look over the hill. If you're like most Western guys it's things like your hanging belly, heavy jowls and plushy, coarse, unkempt complexion that makes you look old and pathetic, not the follicle density of your skull top. You could have a mane big enough to play in a hair band and you'd still look old and pathetic.
At a click rate of 0,16% - about one in 600 - I have to wonder if not a fairly large portion is simple click errors. You intend to click on some other link nearby on the page but by mistake click that one instead. There's several kind of interaction slips just like that that we do in other circumstances after all.
I know. That's why I wonder how this can be labeled a hack. It's not clever, it's not subversive, it's been done in various ways many times before.
Um, how is dropping balls with text from the ceiling - your own ceiling - in any way clever? Or, for that matter, how is that a "hack"? Had it been a company doing it, it'd be classified solidly in the "lame promotion attempt" category.
I'm sure it will come as a great relief to know the flu is cold related, especially for people in places like Vietnam or south China that of course never catch the flu - avian or otherwise - and who have been rightly upset that we persist in naming flu varieties after cities in their countries in direct defiance of the now obvious fact that it can't have originated from there. Any reports of flu in warm areas are complete fabrications, and dissembling disseminators will be summarily shot for a long time.
So it sits on the campus consuming sugar, starches and alcohol. Just like a graduate student then, except you also get some useful output. Should revolutionize academia; just imagine what this device is capable of once it gets tenure.
"Sorry, but on busy holidays, shinkansen trains are also standing-room-only. I speak from experience."
:) You know it's bad when Japanese news programs have segments on how crowded it is.
Well, if you voluntarily travel during Golden Week you deserve it, I guess
Normally, though, the Shinkansen really is very comfortable. And I really like that they run so often - about once every fifteen minutes between Osaka and Tokyo - that you never have to worry about a timetable or anything; just show up and get a ticket for the next train.
That's like saying "I'm dating this girl who's like Jessica Alba. She's latina, has dark hair, and is only five times Jessica Alba's size! So you see, she is plainly like Jessica Alba!".
But it's still a living, breathing girl. By the same token, other discovered extrasolar planets would like trying to have a meaningful relationship with a bulk freighter.
I'm not making a sweeping statement. The author is.
My point is, is the reality that hardware compatibility has improved, but with a few regressions; is compatibility overall the same but with soem regressions and some improvements; or has it worsened with the exception of a few hardware configurations?
His one data point can't tell one way or another. Neither can mine. Making broad statements is simply out of line, in other words.
This is sort-of off topic to the Beryl thing (but then the reviewer didn't manage to stay on topic either), but my experience of Feisty is that it is a lot more stable and supports more stuff out of the box than Edgy ever did for me - and that includes NetworkManager, which so far has been working with both my Wifi and wired network without a single hitch.
Of course, it all depends on exactly what hardware you have. Which means that making sweeping statements on any distributions' hardware compatibility is pretty senseless based on the experience of one machine.
Dude, GP poster has an ID lower than 5000 ! He could well have the data compounded from half of internet servers, including yours.
Or he could have been running a Gundam doll fan site for the past five years ("They're not dolls! They're action figures!!!"), thereby solidly representing the browser choices of the still-living-at-home-at-35 demographic.
That is a bit annoying, I agree (before I used a laptop as my main machine I just used the brace keys on the numeric keypad instead). But if you're annoyed by that, it's probably just easier to remap the curly and square braces to some other keys than to switch to an entirely different layout. I mean, with Dvorak, you suddenly get "ÅÄÖ" on AltGr, which is a lot more annoying than braces, considering that common words like "är" (is), "gå" (go) and "gör" (do) use them. And the letter frequencies are different enough that you don't gain anything by using Dvorak even when you disregard the Swedish characters.
The whole point of Dvorak is predicated on it being more efficient to use than qwerty. If it isn't - and it isn't for most languages - then there's no benefit to changing, while you still incur the negatives.
qwerty isn't optimized for, say, Swedish or Japanese or Mandarin. Neither is Dvorak. So why change?
Can you provide any examples? Most code consists of words. What's left over is punctuation.
... And that's the stuff you do as part of work, not the time you spend off work on discussion sites, writing a blog, communicating with friends and family or whatever.
Most coders spend at least as much time - normally substantially more - writing in their natural language, not actually writing lines of code. Comments, specs, documentation (in the code and test documentation sense), email, project reports, IM
I don't assume anyone seriously proposes switching to Dvorak when about to write code, then switching back to their normal layout once you've written your line or two.
Dvorak is optimized for writing English. Most coders - like most computer users in general - do not use English as their main language, and for us Dvorak is substantially worse than the qwerty layout in every way.
So no, most coders are not switching to Dvorak.
So, from a customer viewpoint, what this offers is slower, more expensive hardware that is less tested and buggier than the competitors coming down the pipeline in a month or two?
I suspect I an do without.
A minor point is that in most of the United States, at least, it is illegal to drive barefoot.
What? Serious?
So, what counts as "not barefoot"? Does it have to be shoes or is socks sufficient? What material is allowed for the socks - could you just use nylon hose to count as "not barefoot" or does the foot cover have to be opaque? Who defines what counts as "shoes"? or "soles"? How much of the foot does the "shoe" have to cover? If you're driving an automatic, do you still need shoes on both feet? Where do you apply for an exemption in case of a cast? Can you get a religious exemption? Can you be exempt for really bad foot fungus?
Do your police examine peoples' shoes or do you have special roving "foot patrols" to keep the law? How many people are being prosecuted for this?
"Sir, step away from that shoe horn and I mean _right_now_"
I'll never take any comment on European "nanny states" seriously ever again.
Each country has their own laws. This may come as a shock to some, but the US can't/shouldn't enforce our laws on other countries.
But the US isn't, in this case. Instead, it's the Japanese legal authorities that want to impose Japanese law on foreign soil. The turnaround equivalent could for instance the restrictions for paid political speech in the US, which does not stop any foreign blogger or other media talking about the US election, endorsing one candidate over another (without disclosing what agenda they really do and who is paying and so on). Or laws in some countries like Sweden that forbid identifying a crime suspect by name and image before they've actually convicted, but which of course doesn't stop newspapers publishing that info on websites in neighboring countries
I live in Japan and there's a good deal of rules and other things that do make sense here, but the election-related framework is frankly one that no longer does, if it really ever did (candidates are for instance not allowed to actually change the content on their websites once campaigning is started). One way to solve this could be to distinguish push and pull media. Keep restrictions in place for push media like radio, television, magazine ads and so on, media for which it was intended. But allow free use of pull media like websites or Youtube - there the user is actively searching out the info, not getting it stuffed down their throat. The playing field is also more even due to the low cost of setting up and maintaining such a prescence.
Well, it's social science after all - a post-graduation food-service career doesn't require a lot of writing.
I have no comment one way or the other on the advantages of v3 over v2 (and how could I before v3 is even published?). But most of the kernel is explicitly GPLv2 only, not the usual "GPL version 2 or later" and is thus not automatically relicenced.
Nobody's requested transfer of copyright to any code in the kernel. For the kernel, in practical terms it has never mattered what Torvalds' thoughts on the GPL is, since they'd need individual permission from every contributor to do so (or rewrite the parts that get no permission or where the contributor or their estate recipients can no longer be found). It'd be the mess of mozilla licensing all over again, but even worse.
The last two research labs I worked at both have sales and support contracts with Dell; when we need a new computer - from a server to a workstation to a laptop - unless we have specific reason otherwise, we buy Dell. And they all come with Windows.
Of course, the previous lab was perhaps 80% Linux, and the current one is 50% (and the in-house IT group installs a dual-boot Linux by default on every Windows machine). And in fact I know there's been growing grumbling about this kind of exclusive deal when they aren't offering what we're using (no, the OS is not the whole issue but it's a fairly big part).
In this kind of environment, sales of the Linux version would easily be more than half of all machines, including laptops. Now of course, this is not a very common environment on one hand, but we go through computing equipment like a TV preacher goes through hairspray on the other, so the field of research is not totally insignificant even for a large corporation.
1 000d^2V/dt^2 + 20,003dV/dt + 3 450V = 0
The last term looks a bit like 3*450 if you are writing sloppy (and odds are you are if you're rushing to solve this baby with a laplace transform >.).
Well, no real point in continuing this discussion. I'd like to point out, however, that normally you always require the actual multiplication operator written out between two digits; you can really only omit it when you have a digit sequence followed by a symbol.
Since you normally write multiplication as a dot rather than a star ("104" rather than "10*4") when working by hand, you in fact increase the risk of confusion slightly with a decimal point rather than comma; that dot has to only slip down a little from it's center position before you may ask yourself if you meant "54" or "5.4".
Easy solution: use underscore as separator. We even have precedence from several computer languages that all allow it.