Then you know nothing about real programming. Seeing to the heart of a problem and figuring out the twist that solves it is one of the most creative things there is. It is crafting not static works, like books, but dynamic, responsive, living words -- programming is to writing what composing is to playing music. Each layer of abstraction requires less technique and rote and more creativity, and programming is one of the most abstract media that people have ever worked in.
If you program by brute force or mathematical proofs and use no creativity, then you are no more a programmer than someone transcribing data is an author.
He IS replying to your message. he is stating that there are no cards on the market that can drive a dual-monitor setup of two dual-link monitors; which is what you suggested in your first post.
Of course the solution is to use two separate dual-link cards, but that doesn't seem to have crossed his mind.
The United States, as a state sponsor of terrorism, has proven itself to be an untrustworthy state. Since the US already has many reactors, should it be turned into a parking lot?
Ohio is very much in the Midwest. This terminology dates from back when the Mississippi was the western border of the nation. Past the Mississippi is just the West.
The Midwest, for future reference, consists of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
Ok, as a Miami student, I have to say that the business school is everything that's wrong with this place.
The CS department actually isn't too bad, faculty-wise; the student body is much less informed than at, say, Case Western, but the professors are knowledgeable and the classes are offered. I have no problems with the CS department - but it is annoying when other, completely worthless departments like business take all the funding and impose dumbed-down classes on us when they send their students into our department.
Through all the Netscape and Mozilla days, I HATED Edit->Preferences. You may be editing your preferences, but that is NOT the category that "edit" means in file menus, and has always meant in file menus. Edit has options relevant to editing the contents of the main menu!
When I saw Tools->Options in Firefox I was all "FINALLY! The happiest day of my browsing life!"
"The idea seems like science fiction, but it is consistent with the laws of physics and biology."
What the hell is that "but" doing there? Is not science fiction PRECISELY imaginative fiction that is consistent with the laws of physics and biology (and the other sciences)?
The use of "science fiction" to mean "something impossible" does a gross disservice to the function of science fiction in our society.
This is the standard open source solution to the features/stability trade-off. Everyone loves new features, and they're the most exciting part of development. But new features often introduce bugs. If there was just one body of code in development, it would always be buggy, and people would complain (even more than they already do.) So you have the 'development' branch where new features are added, and the 'stable' branch which only has bugfixes and such critical updates. Every once in a while, a copy of the development branch is split off and becomes the new stable branch.
When especially important features or updates show up in the development branch, it may be judged that rather than waiting a few months for it to enter stable, it should be ported into the stable branch immediately.
You can always submit wishlist items in Mozilla's bugzilla. Developers will reply and let you know if they might do it sometime or if it's a ludicrous idea. If they don't think it's a bad idea, but nobody takes on the task for lack of time or volition, you can always write a patch yourself and submit it for inclusion, again through bugzilla.
I don't think you can say that the Konqueror devs are reticent about security. It's true that due to its small market share, there simply aren't many security issues discovered to respond to, but I'm sure if one was discovered they would take it seriously.
They've already gone to great lengths to warn users about possible user agent spoofing, against which some other browsers offer no protection.
Well, yes, that is the only legitimate criterion to criticize someone by. You can't draw conclusions about people based on things they didn't choose, such as ethnicity, but things they did choose is the only thing you can base conclusions on. All those things you listed are valid.
Not at all. By playing Civilization nonstop for the past 12 years, I have made myself by far the most appropriate candidate for world dictator. Now I'm just waiting for the world to see my obvious ability. Soon, all cities would be putting aside their current pettily wasteful activities and building a ship to go to Alpha Centauri.
"If in that 20" you had a storage density of...say...1Gb per square inch (hard drives have areal densities of greater than 50Gb per square inch [pcworld.com])"
Emphasis mine.
The fact that hard drives have densities of 50 Gb/square inch has nothing to do with the density of this new medium. It was only mentioned for context and to demonstrate whether this 1Gb/square inch of the new medium is reasonable.
Debian needs to stop thinking they have a monopoly on these things. Gentoo, Mandrake Cooker, and many other distros offer the exact same abilities. And most of their one-command installers are easier to use than apt-get.
What kind of hardware is it? It's a Centris. Is there any other hardware involved? No.
What is the software that's running? Oh my gosh, it's OS X. Is it a mockup of OS X? No. Is it a program that pretends to be OS X? No. It's an actual copy of OS X, and it's running.
So OS X is running. What is it running on? Is it running on some mythical G5 processor in the ether that magically instantiates itself when it senses OS X code on other hardware? Why, no, it's running on the Centris.
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Then you know nothing about real programming. Seeing to the heart of a problem and figuring out the twist that solves it is one of the most creative things there is. It is crafting not static works, like books, but dynamic, responsive, living words -- programming is to writing what composing is to playing music. Each layer of abstraction requires less technique and rote and more creativity, and programming is one of the most abstract media that people have ever worked in.
If you program by brute force or mathematical proofs and use no creativity, then you are no more a programmer than someone transcribing data is an author.
What the hell are you talking about?
This isn't a gyroscopic or 3d-mouse, it's just a normal mouse that's shaped differently.
He IS replying to your message. he is stating that there are no cards on the market that can drive a dual-monitor setup of two dual-link monitors; which is what you suggested in your first post.
Of course the solution is to use two separate dual-link cards, but that doesn't seem to have crossed his mind.
How do you backup thousands of clay figurines and sets?
The United States, as a state sponsor of terrorism, has proven itself to be an untrustworthy state. Since the US already has many reactors, should it be turned into a parking lot?
Ohio is very much in the Midwest. This terminology dates from back when the Mississippi was the western border of the nation. Past the Mississippi is just the West.
The Midwest, for future reference, consists of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin.
Ok, as a Miami student, I have to say that the business school is everything that's wrong with this place.
The CS department actually isn't too bad, faculty-wise; the student body is much less informed than at, say, Case Western, but the professors are knowledgeable and the classes are offered. I have no problems with the CS department - but it is annoying when other, completely worthless departments like business take all the funding and impose dumbed-down classes on us when they send their students into our department.
Something that works on 9 out of 10 browsers but not the 10th IS the standard.
Through all the Netscape and Mozilla days, I HATED Edit->Preferences. You may be editing your preferences, but that is NOT the category that "edit" means in file menus, and has always meant in file menus. Edit has options relevant to editing the contents of the main menu!
When I saw Tools->Options in Firefox I was all "FINALLY! The happiest day of my browsing life!"
What the hell is that "but" doing there? Is not science fiction PRECISELY imaginative fiction that is consistent with the laws of physics and biology (and the other sciences)?
The use of "science fiction" to mean "something impossible" does a gross disservice to the function of science fiction in our society.
This is the standard open source solution to the features/stability trade-off. Everyone loves new features, and they're the most exciting part of development. But new features often introduce bugs. If there was just one body of code in development, it would always be buggy, and people would complain (even more than they already do.) So you have the 'development' branch where new features are added, and the 'stable' branch which only has bugfixes and such critical updates. Every once in a while, a copy of the development branch is split off and becomes the new stable branch.
When especially important features or updates show up in the development branch, it may be judged that rather than waiting a few months for it to enter stable, it should be ported into the stable branch immediately.
You can always submit wishlist items in Mozilla's bugzilla. Developers will reply and let you know if they might do it sometime or if it's a ludicrous idea. If they don't think it's a bad idea, but nobody takes on the task for lack of time or volition, you can always write a patch yourself and submit it for inclusion, again through bugzilla.
I don't think you can say that the Konqueror devs are reticent about security. It's true that due to its small market share, there simply aren't many security issues discovered to respond to, but I'm sure if one was discovered they would take it seriously. They've already gone to great lengths to warn users about possible user agent spoofing, against which some other browsers offer no protection.
Well, yes, that is the only legitimate criterion to criticize someone by. You can't draw conclusions about people based on things they didn't choose, such as ethnicity, but things they did choose is the only thing you can base conclusions on. All those things you listed are valid.
Printed page has already embraced Interactive Fiction. Ever hear of Choose Your Own Adventure books?
You puzzle me. Who said anything about only running with Windows?
If you're using KDE, just turn off focus-stealing...New windows' taskbar buttons blink, instead of coming to the forefront.
Not at all. By playing Civilization nonstop for the past 12 years, I have made myself by far the most appropriate candidate for world dictator. Now I'm just waiting for the world to see my obvious ability. Soon, all cities would be putting aside their current pettily wasteful activities and building a ship to go to Alpha Centauri.
Well, it's just been conclusively demonstrated that a lot more people in the US admire Bush than not.
Build it on the equator. ;-)
Emphasis mine.
The fact that hard drives have densities of 50 Gb/square inch has nothing to do with the density of this new medium. It was only mentioned for context and to demonstrate whether this 1Gb/square inch of the new medium is reasonable.
He didn't. Read his post.
As in 1024 Mebibytes = 1 Gibibyte, while 1000 Megabytes = 1 Gigabyte.
Debian needs to stop thinking they have a monopoly on these things. Gentoo, Mandrake Cooker, and many other distros offer the exact same abilities. And most of their one-command installers are easier to use than apt-get.
What kind of hardware is it? It's a Centris. Is there any other hardware involved? No.
What is the software that's running? Oh my gosh, it's OS X. Is it a mockup of OS X? No. Is it a program that pretends to be OS X? No. It's an actual copy of OS X, and it's running.
So OS X is running. What is it running on? Is it running on some mythical G5 processor in the ether that magically instantiates itself when it senses OS X code on other hardware? Why, no, it's running on the Centris.
See OS X. See OS X run. Run, OS X, run.