That's fine for corporations but for home users or single machines, if you don't have a suitable disc image, look forward to spending 3 days reinstalling 300 Windows updates and all the applications, then configuring them and restoring the data. If you don't have recovery media, you can play hunt the driver too.
I was thinking the opposite, just publish it. Our societies are more and more afraid of letting people make up their own minds (however much of a struggle that may be) without guidance and context which add their own, often hidden biases.
After reading that editor's comments, I half expect the book to be published with lots of crossings-out and big red scrawls saying, "WRONG!!! Do it again!!!! F minus". I hope the added material will try to be measured and reasonable for a critical reader to accept and not just say "Hitler bad". Which he was.
I'd not heard of fisking before (outside file-systems) but I highly recommend Robert Fisk's "The Great War for Civilization".
The article points out that because of unstable APIs, ABIs and frequent regressions, each kernel version requires a lot of work for NVIDIA to provide drivers, so when they eventually drop support for your GPU, it will be all downhill from the next kernel upgrade.
Hey, don't shoot the messenger, these are American researchers: "The authors... speculate that the wider inequalities in education and medical access in the US may explain povertyâ(TM)s extra power".
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof"? Surely extraordinary claims just require ordinary proof, to the usual scientific standard. Scientists do have a responsibility to investigate extraordinary claims, like cold fusion or continents moving about and it's a big problem if they then can't even get their papers reviewed, let alone published (as in the article), because all their peers are too scared of falling in to the reputation trap.
I get a little thrill when I see a windmill - they're so science-fictiony. Course I wouldn't want to live near one which is why they're best put in the sea, like Donald Trump.
Listen all you Scots, Trump's mouthpiece says that experimenting with wind energy is not only dangerous but foolish, small-minded and parochial. Just say no.
The BBC are reporting that the identification is based at least in part on leaked conversations with Australian tax officials. Who could have taped and leaked those?
This is not about encouraging unsuitable people into programming but about widening the pool - reaching those who would never consider programming as a career because they don't have a computer or no-one in their family has ever worked in an office or they don't know where to start and just need a little help to get going or they have a logical mind but don't know what programming is or think programming is for weirdoes.
No it doesn't. That progressive scheme, introduced in the '90s by John Major's Tory government, was abandoned after a short time amid stories in the press of excessive fines for trivial offences (usually because the person ignored the summons). The status quo was restored and the well-off could breathe easily again.
13. Sharp animals: fight or flight? 14. Green energy: harnessing mammoth power for the home. 15. Fire: friend or foe? 16. Data processing: finding the right pebbles. 17. Chief Technical Shaman says, "Two horsepower is enough for anyone". 18. Politics: Will the sacrifice of Ug the Creator of the Wheel stop the Gods being angry with us? 19. Weapons: devastating pointy stick technology unveiled. 20. Wearable technology: carry many things with the revolutionary "bag".
For once, the US military weren't directly involved. It was people in the Iraqi military, with the usual 3rd world mixture of corruption, ignorance and callousness. "Buy these for $10m and I'll give you $2m". "Nice to do business with you".
The sad thing is that these devices were widely used because the last thing the poor fucker wielding one of these at a checkpoint wants is a device which actually detects bombs.
It is beyond sad that these devices are still in use. McCormick really should be chopped into little pieces, slowly, though I guess the most we can hope for is for him to be pilloried and spat on on the street.
In what other sports are you allowed to rearrange the field of play? Though my main objection is that all that frenzied sweeping just looks very silly. It turns a (semi) serious sport into housework on ice.
The terrible reception for Windows 8 was almost entirely caused by fools howling "Aaaagh, tiles".
I took advantage of MS's introductory offer to upgrade XP to 8 for £20 and quickly found, "Oh look there's a tile which takes you back to the old style desktop" & apart from the start menu and search, didn't really need to use the tiled interface, although it made me wish my laptop had a touch screen. I also noticed that a lot of the Windows dialogues hadn't changed since NT.
Windows 8 has been running happily on my 8 year old Vaio FE31 since then. Furthermore, I don't think Windows has crashed once since 8.1 came out.
Reminds me of a cartoon I saw: 2 dolphins swimming along & one says to the other, "Don't look now but here come those ghastly dolphin-friendly tuna".
I wonder how much they can have to say and how intelligent they can be, given their environment.
"Hi, what are you up to?"
"Oh just swimming, you know. You?"
"Yeah, swimming. Where's Derek?"
"Swimming."
"Doing anything this weekend."
"Swimming."
"How's the kids' new school working out?"
"Swimmingly."
"Have you eaten?"
"I've just had a herring and wrack salad, thanks."
"Ah. Fancy a swim?"
"OK."
Slashdot Mirror
Bowie did as much to encourage space travel as Carl Sagan.
RIP Starman
Yes and he's embarrassed about it. Don't make it worse.
That's fine for corporations but for home users or single machines, if you don't have a suitable disc image, look forward to spending 3 days reinstalling 300 Windows updates and all the applications, then configuring them and restoring the data. If you don't have recovery media, you can play hunt the driver too.
Editors don't have a testiclue.
Can we have this as a sticky at the start of each thread asking for advice?
I was thinking the opposite, just publish it. Our societies are more and more afraid of letting people make up their own minds (however much of a struggle that may be) without guidance and context which add their own, often hidden biases.
After reading that editor's comments, I half expect the book to be published with lots of crossings-out and big red scrawls saying, "WRONG!!! Do it again!!!! F minus".
I hope the added material will try to be measured and reasonable for a critical reader to accept and not just say "Hitler bad". Which he was.
I'd not heard of fisking before (outside file-systems) but I highly recommend Robert Fisk's "The Great War for Civilization".
Interesting you picked that: it was the only one in the list I disagreed with.
The article points out that because of unstable APIs, ABIs and frequent regressions, each kernel version requires a lot of work for NVIDIA to provide drivers, so when they eventually drop support for your GPU, it will be all downhill from the next kernel upgrade.
You are mistaking plain stupidity for being progressive or left-wing. Stupidity and ignorance are not restricted to the left.
Hey, don't shoot the messenger, these are American researchers: "The authors ... speculate that the wider inequalities in education and medical access in the US may explain povertyâ(TM)s extra power".
"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof"? Surely extraordinary claims just require ordinary proof, to the usual scientific standard. Scientists do have a responsibility to investigate extraordinary claims, like cold fusion or continents moving about and it's a big problem if they then can't even get their papers reviewed, let alone published (as in the article), because all their peers are too scared of falling in to the reputation trap.
I get a little thrill when I see a windmill - they're so science-fictiony. Course I wouldn't want to live near one which is why they're best put in the sea, like Donald Trump.
Listen all you Scots, Trump's mouthpiece says that experimenting with wind energy is not only dangerous but foolish, small-minded and parochial. Just say no.
Sorry, should have said Representatives (I'm not from round these parts).
Did any of the senators or their staff actually spot this Trojan cuckoo before the vote? Did anyone say anything?
The BBC are reporting that the identification is based at least in part on leaked conversations with Australian tax officials. Who could have taped and leaked those?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/worl...
I have that on Linux and UnNetHack on Android.
The Internet Should Consider "Closing Up Donald Trump In Some Way"
What's wrong with "everyone should learn how"?
This is not about encouraging unsuitable people into programming but about widening the pool - reaching those who would never consider programming as a career because they don't have a computer or no-one in their family has ever worked in an office or they don't know where to start and just need a little help to get going or they have a logical mind but don't know what programming is or think programming is for weirdoes.
No it doesn't. That progressive scheme, introduced in the '90s by John Major's Tory government, was abandoned after a short time amid stories in the press of excessive fines for trivial offences (usually because the person ignored the summons). The status quo was restored and the well-off could breathe easily again.
I like no. 7
13. Sharp animals: fight or flight?
14. Green energy: harnessing mammoth power for the home.
15. Fire: friend or foe?
16. Data processing: finding the right pebbles.
17. Chief Technical Shaman says, "Two horsepower is enough for anyone".
18. Politics: Will the sacrifice of Ug the Creator of the Wheel stop the Gods being angry with us?
19. Weapons: devastating pointy stick technology unveiled.
20. Wearable technology: carry many things with the revolutionary "bag".
For once, the US military weren't directly involved. It was people in the Iraqi military, with the usual 3rd world mixture of corruption, ignorance and callousness.
"Buy these for $10m and I'll give you $2m".
"Nice to do business with you".
The sad thing is that these devices were widely used because the last thing the poor fucker wielding one of these at a checkpoint wants is a device which actually detects bombs.
It is beyond sad that these devices are still in use. McCormick really should be chopped into little pieces, slowly, though I guess the most we can hope for is for him to be pilloried and spat on on the street.
In what other sports are you allowed to rearrange the field of play? Though my main objection is that all that frenzied sweeping just looks very silly. It turns a (semi) serious sport into housework on ice.
Well no.
The terrible reception for Windows 8 was almost entirely caused by fools howling "Aaaagh, tiles".
I took advantage of MS's introductory offer to upgrade XP to 8 for £20 and quickly found, "Oh look there's a tile which takes you back to the old style desktop" & apart from the start menu and search, didn't really need to use the tiled interface, although it made me wish my laptop had a touch screen. I also noticed that a lot of the Windows dialogues hadn't changed since NT.
Windows 8 has been running happily on my 8 year old Vaio FE31 since then. Furthermore, I don't think Windows has crashed once since 8.1 came out.
I may install an SSD for Windows 10.
Reminds me of a cartoon I saw: 2 dolphins swimming along & one says to the other, "Don't look now but here come those ghastly dolphin-friendly tuna". I wonder how much they can have to say and how intelligent they can be, given their environment. "Hi, what are you up to?" "Oh just swimming, you know. You?" "Yeah, swimming. Where's Derek?" "Swimming." "Doing anything this weekend." "Swimming." "How's the kids' new school working out?" "Swimmingly." "Have you eaten?" "I've just had a herring and wrack salad, thanks." "Ah. Fancy a swim?" "OK."