Configuring an Internet connection as shared and another interface with a static LAN IP as being on a private network? Networking with Vista/7 just sucks.
Thing is: You can only be expert in ONE of them. Period.
You can easily be expert or well informed in more than one field.
You think it's possible to be an expert in physics and a second field? Most physicists i know are an expert in a sub-field of physics and only well informed about other sub-fields. I guess this is also true about CS, where experts in applied CS may be only well informed about theoretical CS. There are sure some of them experts in all physics or CS, but i don't think this comes easily.
I guess Mr. Foogle thought more of the "world ruled by corporations which workers are a small, cared for, elite - pretty much everyone else's fucked" part of Gibson's novels.
Today, introductory courses in computer science are too often focused merely on teaching students to use software like word processing and spreadsheet programs,
Seriously? I mean, they teach that stuff in computer science classes?
And now we have Win7, who no one really bitches about and says its polished.
Speaking from personal expierience: IMO it sucks on single-core machines. And on my single-core it gives me a couple bluescreens per day. XP runs just fine on that machine with the same workload.
Edit a local file. When files on the network become available again, import from your local file into a file on network. Was it really that hard? I know, a reason to procrastinate in case of network failure just went out the window. And license servers are a bad idea anyway.
The energy density of the vacuum is in essence undefined (in quantum theory at least - in general relativity it's a different matter, which is where problems come in). Only energy differences matter.
Is it really undefined? Can't we say it's infinite? Sure, you can discriminate part of the frequencies by setting boundary conditions with a cavity (and that's where the Casimir effect comes in) - but that's it.
I had this when I tried to run Windows 7 on my old machine (32bit). Random crashes, 7 or so alone in the first 48h. This machine never gave me issues with Linux, Windows XP or Vista. So I run Prime95 on Win 7 on it - guaranteed error in about 2h of processing. And now comes the odd part: Prime95 runs straight 9h on both XP and Vista without any problems. Anyone else got such problems?
Also, maybe someone can help me out here. Why the hell does Windows Update often aggressively use 100% CPU when running in the background? By "aggressively" I mean it will tremendously slow down anything else you are doing (not at all the same thing as a low-priority task that can use 100% CPU when nothing else wants the CPU).
Maybe Windows Update is just running high-priority then? Sounds stupid, but maybe using your computer during an upgrade can be stupid, too. Depends on what you're updating.
I can boot Linux on the same PC and update not only the core OS (which would be similar in function to Windows Update) but also every last installed application without that kind of system load, without any noticable slowdown in any regular applications (browser, office software, e-mail client) I use.
Sounds like you're updates never rebuilt any indexes (documentation in XML format, LaTeX and X11 fonts come to mind).
If someone with a wide variety of experience with alternatives wants to speak up and tell me why they really like Windows, why it's not substandard compared to any other modern system, please do, but good luck to ya.
As a long time (> 10 a) Linux user (sprinkled with Net- and FreeBSD use) and Windows user since a few month (again), I conclude that it's hardware support, multimedia support and (better) support for specialized apps like Origin, LabView, SolidWorks or Autodesk Inventor (though the last one is a PITA, IMO). I still use Linux for things like xmgrace, octave, TeXLive, maxima and gnuplot but only because i can't afford Origin, Maple/Mathematica and Matlab. I also haven't found a good replacement for Kile yet. I wouldn't be surprised if Maple/Mathematica, Matlab and other programs like Pro/E and Catia would run better on Windows, too.
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Science is not nerdy anymore? I don't think so.
Do you ever read discussions on Wikipedia articles? Maybe you should start.
Lately they're getting more and more. It's awful.
Configuring an Internet connection as shared and another interface with a static LAN IP as being on a private network? Networking with Vista/7 just sucks.
Thing is: You can only be expert in ONE of them. Period.
You can easily be expert or well informed in more than one field.
You think it's possible to be an expert in physics and a second field? Most physicists i know are an expert in a sub-field of physics and only well informed about other sub-fields. I guess this is also true about CS, where experts in applied CS may be only well informed about theoretical CS. There are sure some of them experts in all physics or CS, but i don't think this comes easily.
I missed the boat on buying stock in full-body scanner companies, but I may still be able to make a killing on the lead bathing suit manufacturers.
Lead bathing suit lacks something. How about bullet proof bikini.
Can't wait for them to get sued when someone tries jumping in the pool wearing a lead bathing suit :)
Or getting shot while wearing a bullet proof bikini...
Just make them spherical.
Reduced stackability => increased cost.
I guess Mr. Foogle thought more of the "world ruled by corporations which workers are a small, cared for, elite - pretty much everyone else's fucked" part of Gibson's novels.
Today, introductory courses in computer science are too often focused merely on teaching students to use software like word processing and spreadsheet programs,
Seriously? I mean, they teach that stuff in computer science classes?
And now we have Win7, who no one really bitches about and says its polished.
Speaking from personal expierience: IMO it sucks on single-core machines. And on my single-core it gives me a couple bluescreens per day. XP runs just fine on that machine with the same workload.
I didn't even know she was sick.
I didn't even know who Brittany Murphy was.
Edit a local file. When files on the network become available again, import from your local file into a file on network. Was it really that hard? I know, a reason to procrastinate in case of network failure just went out the window. And license servers are a bad idea anyway.
Leaving some of your DNA at crime scenes comes to mind. DNA already can be fabricated from it's description without using a sample.
I thought that someone got a cut of their hair and wanted to bleach them.
I use pencil for years and had never such problems. Maybe just bad paper/pencil combination.
Since when is Fedora a metric regarding stability?
If you have time for taking lecture notes again. I don't.
How is this a Troll? It's a valid point. Oh, yeah. The first thing that dies in war is truth. I forgot. Mea culpa.
WOOOOSH!
Time and energy are conjugate variables,
Time and frequency are.
The energy density of the vacuum is in essence undefined (in quantum theory at least - in general relativity it's a different matter, which is where problems come in). Only energy differences matter.
Is it really undefined? Can't we say it's infinite? Sure, you can discriminate part of the frequencies by setting boundary conditions with a cavity (and that's where the Casimir effect comes in) - but that's it.
Of course, but only as long as there's a certain ratio of electric monopoles to magnetic monopoles satisfied. It simply is just another kind of gauge.
Wasn't the theory that this boson is already there and responsible for matter having mass? So why should creating one be impossible?
I had this when I tried to run Windows 7 on my old machine (32bit). Random crashes, 7 or so alone in the first 48h. This machine never gave me issues with Linux, Windows XP or Vista. So I run Prime95 on Win 7 on it - guaranteed error in about 2h of processing. And now comes the odd part: Prime95 runs straight 9h on both XP and Vista without any problems. Anyone else got such problems?
Also, maybe someone can help me out here. Why the hell does Windows Update often aggressively use 100% CPU when running in the background? By "aggressively" I mean it will tremendously slow down anything else you are doing (not at all the same thing as a low-priority task that can use 100% CPU when nothing else wants the CPU).
Maybe Windows Update is just running high-priority then? Sounds stupid, but maybe using your computer during an upgrade can be stupid, too. Depends on what you're updating.
I can boot Linux on the same PC and update not only the core OS (which would be similar in function to Windows Update) but also every last installed application without that kind of system load, without any noticable slowdown in any regular applications (browser, office software, e-mail client) I use.
Sounds like you're updates never rebuilt any indexes (documentation in XML format, LaTeX and X11 fonts come to mind).
If someone with a wide variety of experience with alternatives wants to speak up and tell me why they really like Windows, why it's not substandard compared to any other modern system, please do, but good luck to ya.
As a long time (> 10 a) Linux user (sprinkled with Net- and FreeBSD use) and Windows user since a few month (again), I conclude that it's hardware support, multimedia support and (better) support for specialized apps like Origin, LabView, SolidWorks or Autodesk Inventor (though the last one is a PITA, IMO). I still use Linux for things like xmgrace, octave, TeXLive, maxima and gnuplot but only because i can't afford Origin, Maple/Mathematica and Matlab. I also haven't found a good replacement for Kile yet. I wouldn't be surprised if Maple/Mathematica, Matlab and other programs like Pro/E and Catia would run better on Windows, too.