I've finally managed to get my Debian testing system (AMD64) to produce sound (the very first ALSA HOWTO you hit when using Google is from 1999 - sigh).
It's so great to listen to all the Toccata's and Fuga's of Bach that I already owned on vinyl, but now downloaded (unfortunately as MP3's, not OGG/Vorbis' format).
I can't keep buying new parts (belts, needles) for my aging turntable into eternity (the thing is 32 years old by now).
Thank God for a format that can be played until doomsday comes !
> The advantages are well-known - the most important being the elimination of "false precision" that you > can get with a mindless calculation with a 10-sig-fig calculator.
Nope.
I am a remedial teacher in maths, physics and chemistry.
The most important flaw a slide rule *doesn't* have and a calculator *has*, is that a calculator always gives you a complete (i.e., mantissa *plus* exponent) answer.
A slide rule *forces* you to first think about the "size" of the answer - after that you can get the (3-4) digits right.
Trust me - I see this done wrong soooo often with calculators...
My experience is pretty much completely the opposite to yours. I first got Vista a few months ago, and it's fantastic. Maybe it's the 4GB of memory, but it flies along. It's running two 22" monitors, and it's the fastest OS I've seen.
Not surprising. When 4 GB, quad core laptops become a commodity next year, I'll finally be able to run our Numerical Weather Forecasting system that needed a 50 CPU Sun Fire 15000 until November 2006, at home.
It won't run at full speed (rather at 1/4) - but the machine has enough memory to run it without swapping.
It's time the Free Software types like me put our full weight behind Windows Vista - at least it keeps Moore's law up and running !
The intention is to write a C99 compiler while still keeping it small, simple, fast and understandable. I think of it as if it shall be able to compile and run on PDP11 (even if it may not happen in reality). But with this in mind it becomes important to think twice about what algorithms are used.
Good luck. The C99 Standard weighs in at 554 pages - about on par with the Fortran 2003 Standard (580 pages).
Writing a small compiler for a large language spec will be no mean feat.
I'm a remedial teacher of math and physics (occasionally chemistry, although strictly speaking I'm not qualified for that).
I routinely have to try to get underperforming girls "over the hill" (into the next year of high school).
Although I'm quite sure this book won't give me an array of recipes, just being able to get a glimpse of what girls of that age think is important *and how to relate that to math* will be extremely useful.
I'm off to the [fill-in online bookstore of choice] to buy this book !
> So what's this "gap" they talk about? Seems to me the guys are falling behind.
That's what you observe when girls *are* involved - when they're absent (like in my college years), you'll just don't notice the general lack of excellence.
> I work with a woman like that and being that she spends most of her day taking personal phone calls and > playing Hearts, I have a real problem with her telling everyone how important her job is to the institution.
Hmmm, how much I recognize this. I also work far, far more effectively at home. So much so that I could just be playing Tetris at work all day and it wouldn't matter.
$ expr 1039 \* 30103
31277017
then shift the decimal point five places to the left and round to nearest integer.
(oh, for the mathematically challenged: 0.30103 is the logarithm of 2 base ten).
> People still need face time but they do not need to be physically present in the office every day.
Indeed. It'll also help if people (i.e., PHB's) realize that just having everyone work at home for one day in the week already solves 20 % of the problem.
> RIAA, MPAA, NSA, CIA, FBI, IRS, Lawyers, Rich Scientologist perverts, corrupt, sold out > congressmen/senators, AT&T, Verizon and countless more.
That's only part of the problem. The *real* problem is why South Koreans (and too many others) *still* think that country is a great place to raise their children...
> you must sign an agreement that forbids you to 'mention or imply the name of Google' > in public ever again.
OK, there go all the comments by Google employees to mails on the GCC mailing lists and entries to ChangeLogs in GCC - all of those are as public as they get.
I hope Google's NDA is not as silly as this excerpt makes it out...
> What's really needed is some 'professional' IT organisation to sell a definitive Linux solution for > a whole workplace. And support it. And point out that actually it a) costs less to support and > b) is way cheaper.
Perhaps. But for a typical can-do manager, it's far easier to say: Office automation is not part of our core business, so I'll outsource it (not necessarily to a country half a day away timezone-wise).
Whew, I never really knew how large Pamela Jones' (Groklaw's) influence really was - until I read some random guy wanted to boost his CV by claiming he was a paralegal for 5 years.
Come on guys. My title is Doctorandus Of Physics. Where "Doctorandus" means (yeah, its Latin !) "He who must become Doctor" (i.e. get a PhD).
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... because I want to buy a quad core, 4 Gbyte laptop next year.
:-)
Obviously, I'm going to run something else on it than Windows
I've finally managed to get my Debian testing system (AMD64) to produce sound (the very first ALSA HOWTO you hit when using Google is from 1999 - sigh).
It's so great to listen to all the Toccata's and Fuga's of Bach that I already owned on vinyl, but now downloaded (unfortunately as MP3's, not OGG/Vorbis' format).
I can't keep buying new parts (belts, needles) for my aging turntable into eternity (the thing is 32 years old by now).
Thank God for a format that can be played until doomsday comes !
> The advantages are well-known - the most important being the elimination of "false precision" that you
...
> can get with a mindless calculation with a 10-sig-fig calculator.
Nope.
I am a remedial teacher in maths, physics and chemistry.
The most important flaw a slide rule *doesn't* have and a calculator *has*, is that a calculator always gives you a complete (i.e., mantissa *plus* exponent) answer.
A slide rule *forces* you to first think about the "size" of the answer - after that you can get the (3-4) digits right.
Trust me - I see this done wrong soooo often with calculators
Not surprising. When 4 GB, quad core laptops become a commodity next year, I'll finally be able to run our Numerical Weather Forecasting system that needed a 50 CPU Sun Fire 15000 until November 2006, at home.
It won't run at full speed (rather at 1/4) - but the machine has enough memory to run it without swapping.
It's time the Free Software types like me put our full weight behind Windows Vista - at least it keeps Moore's law up and running !
Good luck. The C99 Standard weighs in at 554 pages - about on par with the Fortran 2003 Standard (580 pages). Writing a small compiler for a large language spec will be no mean feat.
Hey, that sounds like good old Al Capone !
As in "outer space".
> What model of Dinosaur did your ancestors prefer driving?
Now there's an easy one to answer: Just watch the Flintstones !
> Who is the target audience for this book?
How about: Me ?
I'm a remedial teacher of math and physics (occasionally chemistry, although strictly speaking I'm not qualified for that).
I routinely have to try to get underperforming girls "over the hill" (into the next year of high school).
Although I'm quite sure this book won't give me an array of recipes, just being able to get a glimpse of what girls of that age think is important *and how to relate that to math* will be extremely useful.
I'm off to the [fill-in online bookstore of choice] to buy this book !
> So what's this "gap" they talk about? Seems to me the guys are falling behind.
That's what you observe when girls *are* involved - when they're absent (like in my college years), you'll just don't notice the general lack of excellence.
> I work with a woman like that and being that she spends most of her day taking personal phone calls and
> playing Hearts, I have a real problem with her telling everyone how important her job is to the institution.
Hmmm, how much I recognize this. I also work far, far more effectively at home. So much so that I could just be playing Tetris at work all day and it wouldn't matter.
The title *should* have been:
Creationism relegated to museum.
It's the ease of mind the buyers get that their machines cannot be hacked easily when connected to the Internet, or their Web surfing being "phished".
> I wish they would offer a dual boot option (Ubuntu/XP) but Microsoft doesn't allow that.
You have had the dual boot option for years, now.
Finally, Dell will find out if you want to *pay* for that second option (even if it really was your first).
$ expr 1039 \* 30103 31277017 then shift the decimal point five places to the left and round to nearest integer. (oh, for the mathematically challenged: 0.30103 is the logarithm of 2 base ten).
> People still need face time but they do not need to be physically present in the office every day. Indeed. It'll also help if people (i.e., PHB's) realize that just having everyone work at home for one day in the week already solves 20 % of the problem.
> So a handful of people don't know about or how to use the track changes features in Word and that
...
> means the "U.S." is incompetent?
No, it just means that *when people care* (i.e., on Wall Street) they know about this feature.
If you're just a drone in the streets of Baghdad - well, who cares
> RIAA, MPAA, NSA, CIA, FBI, IRS, Lawyers, Rich Scientologist perverts, corrupt, sold out
...
> congressmen/senators, AT&T, Verizon and countless more.
That's only part of the problem. The *real* problem is why South Koreans (and too many others) *still* think that country is a great place to raise their children
> you must sign an agreement that forbids you to 'mention or imply the name of Google'
...
> in public ever again.
OK, there go all the comments by Google employees to mails on the GCC mailing lists and entries to ChangeLogs in GCC - all of those are as public as they get.
I hope Google's NDA is not as silly as this excerpt makes it out
So it now costs $ 175 because it has to support Windows ?
Plagiarize, plagiarize, plagiarize.
This was all covered in Isaac Asimov's excellent short story: "Little Lost Robot", which appeared in 1947
"All the troubles of the world."
> What's really needed is some 'professional' IT organisation to sell a definitive Linux solution for
> a whole workplace. And support it. And point out that actually it a) costs less to support and
> b) is way cheaper.
Perhaps. But for a typical can-do manager, it's far easier to say: Office automation is not part of our core business, so I'll outsource it (not necessarily to a country half a day away timezone-wise).
Ugh, three years is only 3 * 365 * 24 = 26280 hours - not a million - not even close ...