Somewhat, but in the end X still gets 100 votes to Y's 50. Who really cares who won what district since it's nothing but a fictional space to make up false statistics? At least to me the actual votes is all that matters. Under gerrymandering you could do all kind of weird restructuring just to get some fake statistics that say, X won 100% of 50 districts, versus Y who won 50% of 100 districts. But X has a lot more people than Y in each district or vice versa. Seems more like a way of just making up crap. How does this help the people, or produce anything useful for society.
But:) I do appreciate your response, at least I understand the concept now.
When I started college there was Computer Science who where mainly programmers dealing with the soft side of the spectrum, and computer engineers that dealt with the hard side.
Seems around 2000/2001 the term IT came about. What is it? I'm amazed Google wasn't #1, but I'm guessing it's more of a Computer Science company rather than IT. At least around here IT tends to mean networking, maintenance, basically to keep systems running without actually creating any software or hardware that does the jobs. So it IT == computer maintenance person?
How or what does a district really do? Perhaps I'm naive but isn't a vote a vote? What matters what district you're in?
If 100 people vote, 51 for x and 49 for y. It shouldn't matter who voted where.
Noticed that the Inferno environment can even run via a browser plugin. I can envision Google looking into this as an option for a Google OS.
Browser plugin that enables a quasi-VM on the system for cross-platform applications.
Looking at the website it looks like the ISS is 8.5 years old. While may not seem that long ago, to put it into perspective, 400mhz CPU where the thing back then. Look at how much has changed in that time period. Perhaps it's time for a system update. (not trolling being serious)
Think of it this way, if you where in the hospital on life support would you want the latest tech or something that powers a cell phone now adays?
I think the dating was not only the weapon, but where it was located in the blubber. I'm guessing blubber builds kinda like tree rings. Deeper the older. But that's just a logical guess.
I for one do a lot of cpu intensive coding, so I *would* use a 1thz processor. One thing I dont understand, they kept wanting to get more ghz for the same size an eventually hit a barrier. So why are we stuck on having a processor so small? I recently bought a 3ghz CPU and it was about the size of a 50 cent piece, and the actual core was smaller than a dime! 3ghz in less space than a dime! Cool, but why can't they just extend outwards?
I wouldn't mind going back to the days when computers were bigger if it meant I could have a 10ghz or 1thz computer. Let the computing begin.
I was just checking out this page here which discussed a machine with 768 cores.
While I do a good amount of parallel programming this is good news to me. But it seems for the average person, this is turning into another mhz/ghz war, this time cores.
What we really need is for software to catch up. Luckily some programs like Premiere, Photoshop have supported multiple CPU's for a while now. But games, etc can really benefit from this. Just stick AI on 1 core, terrain on another, etc etc.
Imaging the military use for this. Soldiers could act like a connected grid, and since it's part of the actual body little to no actual material or weight is needed.
To me this news is more about the momentum of yet another big company hoping to support at least something on Linux. Server side, I don't think QuickBooks will matter much, a client would be more fitting. However what this shows the market is, hey maybe Linux isn't so bad, besides X, Y, Z is supporting it maybe we should.
I'm just hoping this effect builds more momentum till the day when Adobe released a 100% compatible version of Photoshop and Premiere for Linux.
I see where you're coming from. I'm not against the ISS, but one thing that strikes me odd is "What science has been done on it?"
We pump so much money, yet I have yet to hear of a single thing that has come about because of it, every time it's in the news it's about adding a new module or something bad.
On the other hand the Hubble cost A LOT less, and even though Nasa was/has(?) abandoned it, it' still provids a lot of valuable information. Even with some components broken, the Hubble has really kicked ass.
if they will eventually "get" that releasing MS Office code to the open source community is their only option
They dont have to release code.. just give out a 100% accurate specification, and don't threaten to sue just because you write a program that can parse Word 97/07 docs.
This goes for any closed shop. Especially hardware vendors. We'll write the code, just release the docs!:)
Not sure if it still work or not. You use to be able to download Kylix (free? eval?) and that doesnt appear to be the case anymore. So it's not even that it's not supported anymore, I can't even find it. With no distribution channels there are no legal ways of buying it. In the end would it even be worth it? It might have had potential but alas it's gone for better or worse.
Interesting, I did take a look at FPS (freepasal) and even with -D or whatever Delphi mode it still wouldn't work. Mostly because of the Win32 API calls. I even tried stripping all GUI-specific calls out making it a cli app first. Then ran under wine. Worked ok, but we needed it to be fast. In the end it was worth it porting to C.
On an odd note though, while doing the translation I did have my first look at Delphi for Windows, and to honest I was blown away. I still like emacs + gdb, but the Delphi IDE was pretty sweet. *waits to be flamed*
Nope they are currently in production now. After it appeared on Adult Swim it became a huge hit. DVD sales from my understanding where really good so they are actually bringing it back! Can't wait. BTW here is a MATT GROENING Interview
Kylix died a long time ago. From my understanding it sucked compared to Delphi and Borland never really supported it. Not trolling because I really wish it was still around. I just recently had to convert a lot of old Delphi code to linux so I had to translate it to C. Not hard work, but time consuming. If I could have just dumped it into Kylix it would have made life a lot more simple, and saved me a couple months.
Linux doesn't have a comprehensive IDE on the lines of Microsoft Visual Studio to develop programs
C/C++ use Qt, kdevelop, or gnomes IDE
Java use Eclipse.
There are several IDE's for programming on a linux system. Also you have to define IDE, if you mean VS like then the previous should suffice. But there are also IDE's like rhide, but that is a bit old school.
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But :) I do appreciate your response, at least I understand the concept now.
Seems around 2000/2001 the term IT came about. What is it? I'm amazed Google wasn't #1, but I'm guessing it's more of a Computer Science company rather than IT. At least around here IT tends to mean networking, maintenance, basically to keep systems running without actually creating any software or hardware that does the jobs. So it IT == computer maintenance person?
How or what does a district really do? Perhaps I'm naive but isn't a vote a vote? What matters what district you're in? If 100 people vote, 51 for x and 49 for y. It shouldn't matter who voted where.
Noticed that the Inferno environment can even run via a browser plugin. I can envision Google looking into this as an option for a Google OS. Browser plugin that enables a quasi-VM on the system for cross-platform applications.
But it "didnt run fine" so now would be a good time to update :) Agree had nothing gone wrong it's best to leave working alone.
Think of it this way, if you where in the hospital on life support would you want the latest tech or something that powers a cell phone now adays?
Kinda like the Vega 2 processor, which has 48 cores? Now if I could only find a specification manual to learn it's instruction set.
I smell a lawsuit from a juice company. :)
I think the dating was not only the weapon, but where it was located in the blubber. I'm guessing blubber builds kinda like tree rings. Deeper the older. But that's just a logical guess.
I wouldn't mind going back to the days when computers were bigger if it meant I could have a 10ghz or 1thz computer. Let the computing begin.
What we really need is for software to catch up. Luckily some programs like Premiere, Photoshop have supported multiple CPU's for a while now. But games, etc can really benefit from this. Just stick AI on 1 core, terrain on another, etc etc.
Imaging the military use for this. Soldiers could act like a connected grid, and since it's part of the actual body little to no actual material or weight is needed.
It's somewhat large? Check
It even has it's own moon? Check
So why is this not considered a planet? I never understood why we demoted Pluto.
of a new Cold War? This time not with nukes, but cyber warfare?
I'm just hoping this effect builds more momentum till the day when Adobe released a 100% compatible version of Photoshop and Premiere for Linux.
On the other hand the Hubble cost A LOT less, and even though Nasa was/has(?) abandoned it, it' still provids a lot of valuable information. Even with some components broken, the Hubble has really kicked ass.
Apple kinda released OS X.. it's called Darwin. But that's just the underlying OS. It's Cocoa and Carbon frameworks and Aqua that's closed.
They dont have to release code.. just give out a 100% accurate specification, and don't threaten to sue just because you write a program that can parse Word 97/07 docs.
This goes for any closed shop. Especially hardware vendors. We'll write the code, just release the docs! :)
Not sure if it still work or not. You use to be able to download Kylix (free? eval?) and that doesnt appear to be the case anymore. So it's not even that it's not supported anymore, I can't even find it. With no distribution channels there are no legal ways of buying it. In the end would it even be worth it? It might have had potential but alas it's gone for better or worse.
On an odd note though, while doing the translation I did have my first look at Delphi for Windows, and to honest I was blown away. I still like emacs + gdb, but the Delphi IDE was pretty sweet. *waits to be flamed*
Don't breath then might hurt microorganisms in the air. ;)
Nope they are currently in production now. After it appeared on Adult Swim it became a huge hit. DVD sales from my understanding where really good so they are actually bringing it back! Can't wait. BTW here is a MATT GROENING Interview
Kylix died a long time ago. From my understanding it sucked compared to Delphi and Borland never really supported it. Not trolling because I really wish it was still around. I just recently had to convert a lot of old Delphi code to linux so I had to translate it to C. Not hard work, but time consuming. If I could have just dumped it into Kylix it would have made life a lot more simple, and saved me a couple months.
C/C++ use Qt, kdevelop, or gnomes IDE
Java use Eclipse.
There are several IDE's for programming on a linux system. Also you have to define IDE, if you mean VS like then the previous should suffice. But there are also IDE's like rhide, but that is a bit old school.
Need to do web development? Try Zend + PHP
Driver or hardware layer coding? emacs/vi/gas/gcc
Cross-platform application? Java + eclipse