Probably 16 or 17. I've been using Fedora since FC3 and its quality went up until things stopped working during installation. For instance, I used to be able to switch to command prompt during installation, set up my drives in any RAID format I wanted, with ANY parameters I wanted, and have the graphical installation recognize my setup and install away. Even wireless worked off the bat on the notebooks I installed on.
Come the new installation process and it looks like everything is dummied down, which I don't mind, as long as the advanced functions don't get taken away. But it looks like they have.
I actually downloaded 24 this morning and tried the live boot on an Acer notebook. To my surprise, it actually recognized the wireless and I was able to get on, but I couldn't fire up any programs (including terminal). All I'd get was a spinning cursor. Granted this was just on one notebook, and I'm going to install 24 on the notebook as soon as I put an SSD in it, but it seems like the installation quality has gone down significantly. I actually liked being able to select my packages during install.
Incidentally, when did systemd make its way into Fedora?
I can SOOOO relate to this. Never could remember formulas and had to derive them during test time, but eventually resorted to cheating in a final. It was 1985 and the university had acquired an HP laserjet. Using WordPerfect I was able to print the formulas with symbols and everything in the smallest font I could. I then used a copier to reduce the print size by 70% twice, enough that I was able to fit 20 or so formulas on the face of my watch.
A lab can actually measure the length light travels in that amount of time and thus reproduce the canonical meter.
I hope they all use the same excellent pump to create a vacuum as closely equal to the outer space as possible, otherwise their measurements will vary significantly
Costs money to equip a classroom with appliances and supply it with raw materials used in cooking - money that can be "put to better use" increasing test scores and such, because increasing test scores increases funding in the NCLB model - teaching people practical life skills is not rewarded.
You know what costs a lot more than equipping a single classroom with appliances (which are usually donated anyway)? Turf on the fucking football field. And get off the test score bandwagon. Test scores don't mean shit and shouldn't translate to dollars. We need to change all that mentality, specially when teachers teach to the test and only on how to get a better test score. We just need better teachers.
It's just a few posts in on this topic, but it's interesting that nobody thinks this is a good idea. Don't get me wrong, I agree with all the posts, because computer programming cannot be shoved down anybody's throat and this $4B won't make everyone a programmer. Those that have the interest will find a way to satisfy that interest. Becoming a good computer programmer is much more than taking a class. It involves night after night of hacking on the keyboard and writing program after program until you're learnt enough that you're valuable. I'm afraid this money will just contribute to the ever-expanding list of people and crappy applications we're seeing on the app stores on our mobile devices. It was just interesting that such initiative would receive such backlash on a site like SD.
I really don't understand this "News for Nerds" narrowing of what we're supposed to see on Slashdot. As a nerd, I've always taken an interest in my own rights and those of my fellow human beings. The stories I see on SD revolves mostly around science and technology with a touch of our rights being lost. It hits me right on the spot. Sure, there are some stories I am not interested in, but I just skip over those. What's the big deal?
Completely here with you. People's sense of "entitlement" is just getting crazy and out of hand. My experience on local on-line deals/swaps hasn't been bad at all, but should someone come on to me like she did on the sale of your couch, I would have just hung up the phone.
Wow! Finally a sensible comment from a woman in the position. Well, not finally. I've heard this from some of my close friends, but most "activist" females out there would shun this view wholeheartedly.
How so? I do not believe audiophiles who spend extra money on an ethernet cable necessarily feel bad about doing so. I would actually suspect that they feel good about it.
In addition, my response was to the argument about data transmission correcting for error due to a bad cable, and that the argument still stands regarding possible noise inserted after the DAC. Like I said before, I believe that's highly unlikely, since noise after the DAC means that there's noise on the MB and there are plenty of more sensitive circuits on the MB susceptible to noise, but to summarily dismiss that theory (or via test results from 20 subjects who were primed anyways) is just wrong.
Sometimes I wonder if anyone actually RTFA. From TFA:
Even the most rabid speaker cable true-believer audiophiles will admit that digital is digital—at this point, almost everyone has accepted that the bits will arrive, or they won’t. However, the audiophile contention is that some amount of electromagnetic interference or noise is transmitted up unshielded Ethernet cables, through the Ethernet port, and into the computer’s DAC (the digital-to-analog converter), which then makes itself apparent to the listener by coloring the sound in some way.
So, the contention is not that these cables will differ in a "DATA" setting, but that the cheaper cable may introduce unwanted noise into the circuit after the DAC. Now we can argue whether that does or does not happen (I believe it to be highly unlikely), but the argument is not about digital noise.
I am a contractor and have to supply my own computer at work.
Work: Running Fedora 22 on ASRock X58 Extreme, Intel i7 930, 12GB RAM, cheap video card, 3x64GB SSD in RAID0 and 3x2TB Enterprise SATA in RAID5. Work is used for sysadmin and development stuff.
Home: Dual booting Ubuntu Studio and Windows 7 on Gigabyte MB with Intel i5 something, 16GB RAM, GTX760, 3x64GB SSD in RAID0 (Linux only), 500GB RevoDrive 3 PCIE SSD (Windows only), and 1TB Enterprise SATA (split for Windows and Linux). I use Linux for everything I do everything (including an xp virtual machine to run QuickBooks Pro) except gaming, which is where Windows comes in.
I've been pretty happy with the set up. My graphics card at home gets upgraded once every two years and I upped my RAM to 16, but besides that I don't have to do anything to the boxes, other than occasional fan replacement and dusting the power supply.
You're missing the point of the app. It's not merely a speech recognition piece of software as much as it is a search engine that understands your plain sentences and is able to find exactly the answer you're after. Hell, show me a web site that I can type any of the sentences in the demo in a search box and have it come up with the answers as quickly as in the demo.
I bow to your oh so low Slashdot identity. Lowest I have seen in a long time.
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Back in the days I used to use Windows I used PFE, a multi window editor. For the past 14 or so year I have been using Linux and Kate is my favorite editor now. Does syntax highlighting, tabs vs. spaces, tiled views, profiles for project management, and allows multiple windows on multiple monitors. I'm not sure what more I can ask an editor. It's funny how some of us make the editor our "IDE" and do everything else on the command line like you say.
Yeah, except you don't know if they put yoga mats in it or not. Translate that to using libraries for coding and you're really putting your existence in hands of a few (or many, depending on which library you use). I'm not saying we shouldn't be using libraries. Of course I'm not going to program routines in assembler and write everything from scratch, but when it comes to website design, checking for invalid input falls squarely on the hand of the developer, not libraries.
... reload it regularly like a Windows gaming box.
Wow! The Windows install/update/drivers process is so painful that I am extremely careful in selecting what I install on my gaming machine. I can upgrade to a new version of Fedora in 15 minutes, give or take a minute or two, though. When it comes to my Windows installation, the ONLY thing I install is games I intend to play. Now if I need to experiment in a Windows environment I don't care about, I use VirtualBox and turn on snapshots.
I'm pretty sure NASA would have to account for all of these additions, but do we live in the same precision world as does NASA? Do command lines like "date +%s" historically count these seconds?
I'm not sure if you're specifically referring to the US Constitution or the whole shebang, including all the amendments (and the bill of rights). We constantly see courts skirmishing around the first and fourth amendments. They go back and forth, so I wouldn't so hastily toss out the Constitution.
Just like the true Stingray can only live under water, these Stingray devices, I've heard, stop at the lawn. The CANNOT, by definition, trespass the space line between the sidewalk and the lawn, so you'd be safe if you were standing on the lawn. They can crawl over concrete, though. So they can go up your driveway and onto your porch, but the threshold into your house/apartment stops them dead in their tracks.
Well, you've just described the definition of terrorism. It is there so it can terrorize people and make life more difficult. Al Qaeda won. Not because they killed 3000 people, but because they successfully rearranged the lives of Americans and most of the rest of the World, all for the worst. Many people (Muslim and not) suffered because of their act, many people will continue to suffer. We lost and we continue to lose, every day, via these bullshit tactics by TSA, the CIA, the FBI, and the U.S. Congress and the Supreme Court. All of our rights are being stripped away one bit at a time. I am an immigrant and this is not what I signed up for.
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When they did Gnome 3 I moved to XFCE and have never looked back.
Probably 16 or 17. I've been using Fedora since FC3 and its quality went up until things stopped working during installation. For instance, I used to be able to switch to command prompt during installation, set up my drives in any RAID format I wanted, with ANY parameters I wanted, and have the graphical installation recognize my setup and install away. Even wireless worked off the bat on the notebooks I installed on.
Come the new installation process and it looks like everything is dummied down, which I don't mind, as long as the advanced functions don't get taken away. But it looks like they have.
I actually downloaded 24 this morning and tried the live boot on an Acer notebook. To my surprise, it actually recognized the wireless and I was able to get on, but I couldn't fire up any programs (including terminal). All I'd get was a spinning cursor. Granted this was just on one notebook, and I'm going to install 24 on the notebook as soon as I put an SSD in it, but it seems like the installation quality has gone down significantly. I actually liked being able to select my packages during install.
Incidentally, when did systemd make its way into Fedora?
I can SOOOO relate to this. Never could remember formulas and had to derive them during test time, but eventually resorted to cheating in a final. It was 1985 and the university had acquired an HP laserjet. Using WordPerfect I was able to print the formulas with symbols and everything in the smallest font I could. I then used a copier to reduce the print size by 70% twice, enough that I was able to fit 20 or so formulas on the face of my watch.
Woosh!
A lab can actually measure the length light travels in that amount of time and thus reproduce the canonical meter.
I hope they all use the same excellent pump to create a vacuum as closely equal to the outer space as possible, otherwise their measurements will vary significantly
Costs money to equip a classroom with appliances and supply it with raw materials used in cooking - money that can be "put to better use" increasing test scores and such, because increasing test scores increases funding in the NCLB model - teaching people practical life skills is not rewarded.
You know what costs a lot more than equipping a single classroom with appliances (which are usually donated anyway)? Turf on the fucking football field. And get off the test score bandwagon. Test scores don't mean shit and shouldn't translate to dollars. We need to change all that mentality, specially when teachers teach to the test and only on how to get a better test score. We just need better teachers.
It's just a few posts in on this topic, but it's interesting that nobody thinks this is a good idea. Don't get me wrong, I agree with all the posts, because computer programming cannot be shoved down anybody's throat and this $4B won't make everyone a programmer. Those that have the interest will find a way to satisfy that interest. Becoming a good computer programmer is much more than taking a class. It involves night after night of hacking on the keyboard and writing program after program until you're learnt enough that you're valuable. I'm afraid this money will just contribute to the ever-expanding list of people and crappy applications we're seeing on the app stores on our mobile devices. It was just interesting that such initiative would receive such backlash on a site like SD.
I really don't understand this "News for Nerds" narrowing of what we're supposed to see on Slashdot. As a nerd, I've always taken an interest in my own rights and those of my fellow human beings. The stories I see on SD revolves mostly around science and technology with a touch of our rights being lost. It hits me right on the spot. Sure, there are some stories I am not interested in, but I just skip over those. What's the big deal?
Completely here with you. People's sense of "entitlement" is just getting crazy and out of hand. My experience on local on-line deals/swaps hasn't been bad at all, but should someone come on to me like she did on the sale of your couch, I would have just hung up the phone.
Wow! Finally a sensible comment from a woman in the position. Well, not finally. I've heard this from some of my close friends, but most "activist" females out there would shun this view wholeheartedly.
How so? I do not believe audiophiles who spend extra money on an ethernet cable necessarily feel bad about doing so. I would actually suspect that they feel good about it.
In addition, my response was to the argument about data transmission correcting for error due to a bad cable, and that the argument still stands regarding possible noise inserted after the DAC. Like I said before, I believe that's highly unlikely, since noise after the DAC means that there's noise on the MB and there are plenty of more sensitive circuits on the MB susceptible to noise, but to summarily dismiss that theory (or via test results from 20 subjects who were primed anyways) is just wrong.
Even the most rabid speaker cable true-believer audiophiles will admit that digital is digital—at this point, almost everyone has accepted that the bits will arrive, or they won’t. However, the audiophile contention is that some amount of electromagnetic interference or noise is transmitted up unshielded Ethernet cables, through the Ethernet port, and into the computer’s DAC (the digital-to-analog converter), which then makes itself apparent to the listener by coloring the sound in some way.
So, the contention is not that these cables will differ in a "DATA" setting, but that the cheaper cable may introduce unwanted noise into the circuit after the DAC. Now we can argue whether that does or does not happen (I believe it to be highly unlikely), but the argument is not about digital noise.
To be overturned in an appeal.
I am a contractor and have to supply my own computer at work. Work: Running Fedora 22 on ASRock X58 Extreme, Intel i7 930, 12GB RAM, cheap video card, 3x64GB SSD in RAID0 and 3x2TB Enterprise SATA in RAID5. Work is used for sysadmin and development stuff. Home: Dual booting Ubuntu Studio and Windows 7 on Gigabyte MB with Intel i5 something, 16GB RAM, GTX760, 3x64GB SSD in RAID0 (Linux only), 500GB RevoDrive 3 PCIE SSD (Windows only), and 1TB Enterprise SATA (split for Windows and Linux). I use Linux for everything I do everything (including an xp virtual machine to run QuickBooks Pro) except gaming, which is where Windows comes in. I've been pretty happy with the set up. My graphics card at home gets upgraded once every two years and I upped my RAM to 16, but besides that I don't have to do anything to the boxes, other than occasional fan replacement and dusting the power supply.
You're missing the point of the app. It's not merely a speech recognition piece of software as much as it is a search engine that understands your plain sentences and is able to find exactly the answer you're after. Hell, show me a web site that I can type any of the sentences in the demo in a search box and have it come up with the answers as quickly as in the demo.
I bow to your oh so low Slashdot identity. Lowest I have seen in a long time.
Back in the days I used to use Windows I used PFE, a multi window editor. For the past 14 or so year I have been using Linux and Kate is my favorite editor now. Does syntax highlighting, tabs vs. spaces, tiled views, profiles for project management, and allows multiple windows on multiple monitors. I'm not sure what more I can ask an editor. It's funny how some of us make the editor our "IDE" and do everything else on the command line like you say.
Yeah, except you don't know if they put yoga mats in it or not. Translate that to using libraries for coding and you're really putting your existence in hands of a few (or many, depending on which library you use). I'm not saying we shouldn't be using libraries. Of course I'm not going to program routines in assembler and write everything from scratch, but when it comes to website design, checking for invalid input falls squarely on the hand of the developer, not libraries.
... reload it regularly like a Windows gaming box.
Wow! The Windows install/update/drivers process is so painful that I am extremely careful in selecting what I install on my gaming machine. I can upgrade to a new version of Fedora in 15 minutes, give or take a minute or two, though. When it comes to my Windows installation, the ONLY thing I install is games I intend to play. Now if I need to experiment in a Windows environment I don't care about, I use VirtualBox and turn on snapshots.
Or he's stating that they are all awful. In recent history in any case.
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Go fuck yourself with a 10ft pole, my dear Mr. Cameron.
Just saving a lookup for some people.
I'm pretty sure NASA would have to account for all of these additions, but do we live in the same precision world as does NASA? Do command lines like "date +%s" historically count these seconds?
I'm not sure if you're specifically referring to the US Constitution or the whole shebang, including all the amendments (and the bill of rights). We constantly see courts skirmishing around the first and fourth amendments. They go back and forth, so I wouldn't so hastily toss out the Constitution.
Just like the true Stingray can only live under water, these Stingray devices, I've heard, stop at the lawn. The CANNOT, by definition, trespass the space line between the sidewalk and the lawn, so you'd be safe if you were standing on the lawn. They can crawl over concrete, though. So they can go up your driveway and onto your porch, but the threshold into your house/apartment stops them dead in their tracks.
Well, you've just described the definition of terrorism. It is there so it can terrorize people and make life more difficult. Al Qaeda won. Not because they killed 3000 people, but because they successfully rearranged the lives of Americans and most of the rest of the World, all for the worst. Many people (Muslim and not) suffered because of their act, many people will continue to suffer. We lost and we continue to lose, every day, via these bullshit tactics by TSA, the CIA, the FBI, and the U.S. Congress and the Supreme Court. All of our rights are being stripped away one bit at a time. I am an immigrant and this is not what I signed up for.