:-) You're given the choice - not much is installed unless you agree to install it. We could argue about what "bloated" means - does it mean offering a lot (and maybe installing by default)? And does it even matter with disk space being cheap?
Anyway, you can't compare size of Linux distro with size of Windows installation disk. Those are two different beasts.
Oh my, here it comes again. Comparing pears to apples. If I install MS Windows, what do I get? Operating system with a few (let me say - lousy) applications. If I install Linux distro of my choice, what do I get? Depending on my choice, it can be a full blown suite of application ranging from development to office apps to video processing.
And further more, e.g. KDE has been quite successfull at speeding up between 3.2 and 3.4. I am not so sure about the memory print, but that is no concern for me today (RAM is abundant).
Seeing how Fox buried Futurama and expecting it to be the monster corporation it is likely to be, I would not bet my old socks that an email sent through Fox would reach Matt.
The filter works with the fact that there is an image, not with what is the image itself. If it is an external image, then the URL is fed to the filter. Bayesian filters can do a whole lot of preprossesing before doing the actual weighting.
Second thing is that unless you get a lot of poetry in your regular emails, then you should be able to teach your filter to recognise this spam.
There are fractal curves that fit into finite space but have infinite lenght. For example Koch curve. Now I admit that this does not look like a circle at all. But shaping this so that it looks like a circle is quite easy - let's say your measurements can be precise to within 1/1000000000 meter. So let us first draw a polygon with 1000000000000000000000000000 sides and a diameter of 1 mm (so that you can't distinguish this from a circle - even this is enough to show that you can never measure Pi). Now let us take each (or just one, does not really matterú of the individual sides and apply Koch transformation to them. You won't be able to measure any change but the perimeter will now be infinite!
Unfortunately, there is not such a thing as a "physical" circle or disk. It cannot exist. A perfect circle is only a concept, it cannot exist physically. I can define an object that would have infinite circumference but finite radius. And any physical representation of this object would look like a perfect circle to you, no matter how precise your measurements.
A circle is an abstract concept as is Pi. The relationship is well defined and you cannot argue that. Relationship between Pi and "something that looks like a circle to you" is not defined and can be arbitrary.
Why do you think this is an ego issue? Why do you think this is about priorities.
Scenario 1) Patches are not yet stable to be release to general public but we will give them to AirForce. This sucks
Scenario 2) Patches are stable and tested but we will delay them for several weeks before giving them to general public. This sucks
I am not saying that private company cannot decide for themselves. Sure they can. But I do see a lot of things that are wrong with this, private company or not. There are other types of "wrong" than just "against the law".
This is wrong thinking. A law that is not to be enforced it wrong because it teached people that some laws are not "proper" and do not have to be obeyed. Laws cannot be used as a tool to punish the bad guys when there is nothing else to punish them for.
I can beat ambidextrious... I am (sort of) one. I do some things with my right - writing, playing golf and peeling potatoes.:)
But for you to take advantage of being able to fight with both hands, the fight has to go long enough so that the opponent can adapt to your left-handedness. Otherwise, switching to right hand just gives him the advantage of fighting something he knows how to fight.
No-one. The question I posed was a speculative one, I am not trying to prove anything here. But I did noticed, that the more I specialise in things that I find interesting and that I am good at, the more left-handed people I see near me. But this obviously might be just that I tend to notice that someone is left-handed and remember this, letting tens of right-handers go unnoticed. Sure can be.
There is a advantage of being left-handed - it is the element of surprise when you meet your foe. This obviously works only when the percentage of left-handed individuals is low enough - around 10 - 20 %, IIRC.
I am left-handed and I can say I do take advantage of it. I play volleyball and it always takes some adjusting until the opponent starts to block my left hand instead of my right. Playing squash, opponent often let me play mostly forhand because they don't realise my weak side is the other one.
And quite obviously, this is even true for two left-handed opponents playing against each other. With majority of my opponents being right-handed, I myself am taken bu surprise when I meet left-handed opponent.
Obvously, this advantage is lesser in repeated encounters and lesser when there are more left-handed people around.
Taking a course of "Logical programming" (the theory behind Prolog language), I realised that of those 5 people attending, there are 4 of us left-handed. Do you think this can be linked to the fact that logical programming requires different mental skills that are more common with left-handedness?
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:-) You're given the choice - not much is installed unless you agree to install it. We could argue about what "bloated" means - does it mean offering a lot (and maybe installing by default)? And does it even matter with disk space being cheap?
Anyway, you can't compare size of Linux distro with size of Windows installation disk. Those are two different beasts.
Oh my, here it comes again. Comparing pears to apples. If I install MS Windows, what do I get? Operating system with a few (let me say - lousy) applications. If I install Linux distro of my choice, what do I get? Depending on my choice, it can be a full blown suite of application ranging from development to office apps to video processing.
And further more, e.g. KDE has been quite successfull at speeding up between 3.2 and 3.4. I am not so sure about the memory print, but that is no concern for me today (RAM is abundant).
Seeing how Fox buried Futurama and expecting it to be the monster corporation it is likely to be, I would not bet my old socks that an email sent through Fox would reach Matt.
The filter works with the fact that there is an image, not with what is the image itself. If it is an external image, then the URL is fed to the filter. Bayesian filters can do a whole lot of preprossesing before doing the actual weighting. Second thing is that unless you get a lot of poetry in your regular emails, then you should be able to teach your filter to recognise this spam.
There are fractal curves that fit into finite space but have infinite lenght. For example Koch curve. Now I admit that this does not look like a circle at all. But shaping this so that it looks like a circle is quite easy - let's say your measurements can be precise to within 1/1000000000 meter. So let us first draw a polygon with 1000000000000000000000000000 sides and a diameter of 1 mm (so that you can't distinguish this from a circle - even this is enough to show that you can never measure Pi). Now let us take each (or just one, does not really matterú of the individual sides and apply Koch transformation to them. You won't be able to measure any change but the perimeter will now be infinite!
Unfortunately, there is not such a thing as a "physical" circle or disk. It cannot exist. A perfect circle is only a concept, it cannot exist physically. I can define an object that would have infinite circumference but finite radius. And any physical representation of this object would look like a perfect circle to you, no matter how precise your measurements.
A circle is an abstract concept as is Pi. The relationship is well defined and you cannot argue that. Relationship between Pi and "something that looks like a circle to you" is not defined and can be arbitrary.
Scenario 1) Patches are not yet stable to be release to general public but we will give them to AirForce. This sucks
Scenario 2) Patches are stable and tested but we will delay them for several weeks before giving them to general public. This sucks
I am not saying that private company cannot decide for themselves. Sure they can. But I do see a lot of things that are wrong with this, private company or not. There are other types of "wrong" than just "against the law".
This is wrong thinking. A law that is not to be enforced it wrong because it teached people that some laws are not "proper" and do not have to be obeyed. Laws cannot be used as a tool to punish the bad guys when there is nothing else to punish them for.
But for you to take advantage of being able to fight with both hands, the fight has to go long enough so that the opponent can adapt to your left-handedness. Otherwise, switching to right hand just gives him the advantage of fighting something he knows how to fight.
No-one. The question I posed was a speculative one, I am not trying to prove anything here. But I did noticed, that the more I specialise in things that I find interesting and that I am good at, the more left-handed people I see near me. But this obviously might be just that I tend to notice that someone is left-handed and remember this, letting tens of right-handers go unnoticed. Sure can be.
I am left-handed and I can say I do take advantage of it. I play volleyball and it always takes some adjusting until the opponent starts to block my left hand instead of my right. Playing squash, opponent often let me play mostly forhand because they don't realise my weak side is the other one.
And quite obviously, this is even true for two left-handed opponents playing against each other. With majority of my opponents being right-handed, I myself am taken bu surprise when I meet left-handed opponent.
Obvously, this advantage is lesser in repeated encounters and lesser when there are more left-handed people around.
Taking a course of "Logical programming" (the theory behind Prolog language), I realised that of those 5 people attending, there are 4 of us left-handed. Do you think this can be linked to the fact that logical programming requires different mental skills that are more common with left-handedness?