I do know that slashdot causes a higher rate of mild retardation than most other sites. Wait, correlation doesn't mean causation. I guess it just means retards are attracted here.
Also, it's like people who drive hybrid cars. True, the sum of all hybrid cars have little effect on the total problems of pollution and foreign oil. However, sometimes as a human you say "I don't want to be a part of the problem. I may not be able to change others' minds, but at least I'm not contributing to the worlds problems".
And it's google so I'm sure they'll put a bunch of engineers on the problem and come up with a solution no one's ever thought of. Like a solar panel that produces energy, makes delicious tofu, and gives handjobs and watermelon.
I think a lot of people get confused about KDE and Gnome. You don't really write a program to run in KDE or Gnome. They'll be written with either QT or GTK+ for the GUI toolkit. They might use certain kde or gnome libs on top of that as well. But both projects are fairly modular and programs usually don't require a full KDE install to run and I've never heard of a KDE program actually needing the user logged into a KDE environment to use the program. You'd just make sure that machine has the needed KDE libs. You can run it under almost any window manager or desktop environment if all the proper libs are in place. So once you've got a mature app written like KOffice, you wouldn't just up and switch GUI toolkits. The only reason an open source project might do that is if they wanted better MS Windows support because historically QT hasn't been as available on windows as gtk. With qt4 I think this is going to change however.
This may have been an issue at one time when I actually knew people making a living on EQ. However, I really doubt it's a huge deal today. Because of the international aspect of most of these games, lots of people with lots of time on their hands have time to make most items and currencies almost worthless in real money. I used to know 5 people who supported themselves on EQ transactions. Today, I don't know any who support themselves via mmorpg.
When the prices come down, yes. At release time however I could build a much better and expandable micro atx system for that price. In a couple of years I think it might be worth it. But I don't see why yellowdog would work so hard to release an impractible product for the launch.
I've heard this a million times but have yet to see a modern system actually have this behavior. I'm fairly certain bash has protected against this behavior for awhile now...
I work at a municipality in FL and manage the web server for the main public website. Some months we are as low as 65% IE visits (that month had 23% firefox). I like looking at our stats because I think it's a pretty good mix. It's geared toward the general public and isn't a tech site, building site, music site, but a site for everyone. Mind you this is up to a million visits a month (somewhat large city).
In many law enforcement officers eyes, if they think you are guilty you are guilty. It's sad, but true. They'll chase down evidence and witnesses and whatever they need to support their case.
Real police departments aren't like the ones you see on CSI and Law & Order. Mistakes happen constantly. Most don't have scientists or real foresincs experts (actually I have yet to see a real scientist in a police department). They just have a couple people who went to a class to learn to operate the DNA and fingerprint machines. Some reports say that up to 25% of people operating these machines aren't properly trained and have wrongly put away people. Juries think that DNA evidence means you did it, when it could really mean the lab tech doesn't know what they are doing. Things are ignored and swept under the rug all the time. Lie detectors are way overused. Fake confessions due to pressure. Lying and decieving tricks in the interrogations. BTW, for those that don't know, detectives can flat out lie to you to get a confession. They can tell you they've got evidence to put you away for life and it won't be so bad if you confess. Most cops keep tape recorders in their cars and will even try to get you to say something incriminating on the ride back.
With all that going on, you have to wonder the validity of "innocent until proven guilty". Hans could have done it, but I refuse to form an opinion until some concrete evidence comes out. And even then you won't really know.
It'd be nice if someone could give an overview of the quality and simplicity of some open source speech recognition projects. I've used sphinx 2,3, and 4 before with little luck. I don't know if I got marbles in my mouth or what. Either way, I'm sure there's got to be someone on slashdot who's used a few and could give an overview to us weekend warriors.
I noticed a commonality in some of their answers. More I guess the way they answered them. When they didn't know an answer, they said "I don't know". I think the ability to admit you actually don't know the answer to something is very important. How many actors, salesman, or politicians have you ever heard use those words? Not too many!
I did work for the USDA horticulture lab around here awhile back. I didn't think security of the data was a huge deal, just as long as no one outside could get to it.
Boy was I wrong. Within the same building, it was a big deal to show other scientists your teams research. They wanted security to make sure other teams couldn't see any of their work. And from what I was told, that's the norm in the scientific community. It's all about keeping your teams funding.
I always grew up thinking the scientific community was open about sharing information, but boy was I wrong. It was quite the shellshock.
I've always found that the best people to manage programmers are experienced programmers. They understand the importantce of revision tracking, documentation, etc, etc. They also understand getting actual code out the door. I think the most frustrating thing as a programmer is beaucracy for beaucracy sake. When people don't understand why you want revision tracking. Then you'll end up with revision tracking that probably isn't effective.
They did a myth busters on that. Toilet seats are actually pretty clean. It's like the "we can put a man in space but we can't..." comparison. I'd be more concerned if my desk were more dirty than licking an ass directly.
I think this may be one of the reasons Nintendo got left behind in the last generation of systems. By all accounts, gamecube was an awesome system (and I think the wii will be as well). The thing is, most hardcore gamers I know don't like it. They don't dislike it, but they would never spend weeks on a gamecube game like they do on their ps2 games. The gamecube is a social gamer system. One meant for the 1 dollar cog guys like me. I'm just a casual gamer. I love the gamecube; but I'm not rabid about it. I don't go on game forums and rant and rave and call people n00bs or bust out a "rofl coptor" or a "loler coaster". I play some games with my friends when they are over. When they are gone, gamecube has left my head for the week.
And maybe this is the problem. They are making games for people who aren't rabid about them. They are making games for people without a lot of time to invest in them. These people aren't out there preaching and making them money. These people are working.
Pretty much. Basically, it's a myth that an unskilled user can download linux and use it as a drop in replacement for a slow computer.
Let's take a real world scenario. A 100mhz Pentium I with 32MB of ram. Right off the bat I can tell you what distro's it isn't going to run. Basically any popular general purpose distribution like Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Mandriva, or Fedora. They are going to have to run something like Damn Small Linux. I very highly doubt an unexperienced user is going to know enough to download DSL and be able to get it to work with all their hardware (hardware of that era probably used a winmodem). What are their other options? Debian stable without a GUI. Ummm, rolling their own with uclibc buildroot?
Basically, the point being linux can run on extremely slow old hardware. The linux kernel can still run ok on 486 processors. However, it takes skill. I'm willing to bet half the people on slashdot wouldn't even be able to get linux and a GUI installed and running with reasonable speed on a 100mhz computer. You are basically working with today's standards for an embedded system. How many windows 98 users do you know that can install an embedded system?
If it's too hard for you to use, then it ain't for you brotha. I don't hear people whine that uclibc buildroot scripts are hard to use. They are just as difficult as their target audience can stand. Gentoo is the same way. It's not a user friendly general purpose distribution. It's meant for great control over your system. It's just a difficult as its target audience can handle. Obviously it's as easy as it needs to be. I don't think a gui that let's you click "Next" a bunch of times is really going to attract more long term gentoo users.
I think naming it javascript was perhaps the worst naming decision of anything since colon blow. I've had to explain the difference so many times I'm tired. It's not even like the cracker/hacker mixup where you can fool yourself into keeping quiet. The languages almost nothing to do with each other and would be like someone mixing up a whale and a rhino.
I know it's a dupe, but I missed out on the discussion last time =P
The books his son are using were probably published 10-15 years ago. When you factor in the amount of time from when the author actually wrote them, I'd say it's closer to 20. The books being written today probably don't have code examples in them. Even if MS were to include basic in Vista right now, there would be a lag time of when it'd appear in books again.
That being said, I think he has a point that a simple programming language should be included in consumer operating systems. I really don't think basic fits the bill. It doesn't matter anyway because his point was that basic is already in the text books. The lag time of today's books being written would make that point moot. I think it would be more important to create a purely educational language. Nothing pragmatic about it. I don't think anyone will care if it's dog slow. Make it heavily focused on math operations. Create it so high school computer and math teachers get a boner over it. Make it truely open so it can run on their calculators and phones. Bundle it with every general purpose OS. Let them solve problems with it and not have the language get in the way.
I think that's really the solution for the problem. Not basic, not python, but a purely educational language that kids can write fun stuff in that teachers love. The die-hard programmers don't have to love it, it's not for them.
I agree that 64-bit has been supported in Linux for almost as long as Linux has been portable. I also agree that 64-bit is the future. What I do question however are those numbers. I don't think the simple action of recompiling for AMD64 will get any performance gain. From what other qualified individuals have told me (nothing I write is ever so large I benchmark 32-bit vs 64-bit versions to optimize), if you just recompile with a different target, your code will almost always be equal or slower in speed. It is when you code specifically to take advantage of the 64-bit address space you see benefit. However, just recompiling in itself won't help you much if any.
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I do know that slashdot causes a higher rate of mild retardation than most other sites. Wait, correlation doesn't mean causation. I guess it just means retards are attracted here.
Yes, but 1.6 megawatts is no small feat.
Also, it's like people who drive hybrid cars. True, the sum of all hybrid cars have little effect on the total problems of pollution and foreign oil. However, sometimes as a human you say "I don't want to be a part of the problem. I may not be able to change others' minds, but at least I'm not contributing to the worlds problems".
And it's google so I'm sure they'll put a bunch of engineers on the problem and come up with a solution no one's ever thought of. Like a solar panel that produces energy, makes delicious tofu, and gives handjobs and watermelon.
I think a lot of people get confused about KDE and Gnome. You don't really write a program to run in KDE or Gnome. They'll be written with either QT or GTK+ for the GUI toolkit. They might use certain kde or gnome libs on top of that as well. But both projects are fairly modular and programs usually don't require a full KDE install to run and I've never heard of a KDE program actually needing the user logged into a KDE environment to use the program. You'd just make sure that machine has the needed KDE libs. You can run it under almost any window manager or desktop environment if all the proper libs are in place. So once you've got a mature app written like KOffice, you wouldn't just up and switch GUI toolkits. The only reason an open source project might do that is if they wanted better MS Windows support because historically QT hasn't been as available on windows as gtk. With qt4 I think this is going to change however.
This may have been an issue at one time when I actually knew people making a living on EQ. However, I really doubt it's a huge deal today. Because of the international aspect of most of these games, lots of people with lots of time on their hands have time to make most items and currencies almost worthless in real money. I used to know 5 people who supported themselves on EQ transactions. Today, I don't know any who support themselves via mmorpg.
When the prices come down, yes. At release time however I could build a much better and expandable micro atx system for that price. In a couple of years I think it might be worth it. But I don't see why yellowdog would work so hard to release an impractible product for the launch.
I've heard this a million times but have yet to see a modern system actually have this behavior. I'm fairly certain bash has protected against this behavior for awhile now...
I work at a municipality in FL and manage the web server for the main public website. Some months we are as low as 65% IE visits (that month had 23% firefox). I like looking at our stats because I think it's a pretty good mix. It's geared toward the general public and isn't a tech site, building site, music site, but a site for everyone. Mind you this is up to a million visits a month (somewhat large city).
In many law enforcement officers eyes, if they think you are guilty you are guilty. It's sad, but true. They'll chase down evidence and witnesses and whatever they need to support their case.
Real police departments aren't like the ones you see on CSI and Law & Order. Mistakes happen constantly. Most don't have scientists or real foresincs experts (actually I have yet to see a real scientist in a police department). They just have a couple people who went to a class to learn to operate the DNA and fingerprint machines. Some reports say that up to 25% of people operating these machines aren't properly trained and have wrongly put away people. Juries think that DNA evidence means you did it, when it could really mean the lab tech doesn't know what they are doing. Things are ignored and swept under the rug all the time. Lie detectors are way overused. Fake confessions due to pressure. Lying and decieving tricks in the interrogations. BTW, for those that don't know, detectives can flat out lie to you to get a confession. They can tell you they've got evidence to put you away for life and it won't be so bad if you confess. Most cops keep tape recorders in their cars and will even try to get you to say something incriminating on the ride back.
With all that going on, you have to wonder the validity of "innocent until proven guilty". Hans could have done it, but I refuse to form an opinion until some concrete evidence comes out. And even then you won't really know.
(yahoo guy in the back browsing slashdot at work)
Shit! *click* Whew.
It'd be nice if someone could give an overview of the quality and simplicity of some open source speech recognition projects. I've used sphinx 2,3, and 4 before with little luck. I don't know if I got marbles in my mouth or what. Either way, I'm sure there's got to be someone on slashdot who's used a few and could give an overview to us weekend warriors.
I noticed a commonality in some of their answers. More I guess the way they answered them. When they didn't know an answer, they said "I don't know". I think the ability to admit you actually don't know the answer to something is very important. How many actors, salesman, or politicians have you ever heard use those words? Not too many!
I did work for the USDA horticulture lab around here awhile back. I didn't think security of the data was a huge deal, just as long as no one outside could get to it.
Boy was I wrong. Within the same building, it was a big deal to show other scientists your teams research. They wanted security to make sure other teams couldn't see any of their work. And from what I was told, that's the norm in the scientific community. It's all about keeping your teams funding.
I always grew up thinking the scientific community was open about sharing information, but boy was I wrong. It was quite the shellshock.
All jokes aside... This robot looks exactly like Johnny 5!! NEED INPUT!
They are big players in the asterisk market. I'd put each in the top 5 most important projects/companies to Asterisk adoption.
I've always found that the best people to manage programmers are experienced programmers. They understand the importantce of revision tracking, documentation, etc, etc. They also understand getting actual code out the door. I think the most frustrating thing as a programmer is beaucracy for beaucracy sake. When people don't understand why you want revision tracking. Then you'll end up with revision tracking that probably isn't effective.
They did a myth busters on that. Toilet seats are actually pretty clean. It's like the "we can put a man in space but we can't..." comparison. I'd be more concerned if my desk were more dirty than licking an ass directly.
I think this may be one of the reasons Nintendo got left behind in the last generation of systems. By all accounts, gamecube was an awesome system (and I think the wii will be as well). The thing is, most hardcore gamers I know don't like it. They don't dislike it, but they would never spend weeks on a gamecube game like they do on their ps2 games. The gamecube is a social gamer system. One meant for the 1 dollar cog guys like me. I'm just a casual gamer. I love the gamecube; but I'm not rabid about it. I don't go on game forums and rant and rave and call people n00bs or bust out a "rofl coptor" or a "loler coaster". I play some games with my friends when they are over. When they are gone, gamecube has left my head for the week.
And maybe this is the problem. They are making games for people who aren't rabid about them. They are making games for people without a lot of time to invest in them. These people aren't out there preaching and making them money. These people are working.
Pretty much. Basically, it's a myth that an unskilled user can download linux and use it as a drop in replacement for a slow computer.
Let's take a real world scenario. A 100mhz Pentium I with 32MB of ram. Right off the bat I can tell you what distro's it isn't going to run. Basically any popular general purpose distribution like Ubuntu, OpenSuse, Mandriva, or Fedora. They are going to have to run something like Damn Small Linux. I very highly doubt an unexperienced user is going to know enough to download DSL and be able to get it to work with all their hardware (hardware of that era probably used a winmodem). What are their other options? Debian stable without a GUI. Ummm, rolling their own with uclibc buildroot?
Basically, the point being linux can run on extremely slow old hardware. The linux kernel can still run ok on 486 processors. However, it takes skill. I'm willing to bet half the people on slashdot wouldn't even be able to get linux and a GUI installed and running with reasonable speed on a 100mhz computer. You are basically working with today's standards for an embedded system. How many windows 98 users do you know that can install an embedded system?
If it's too hard for you to use, then it ain't for you brotha. I don't hear people whine that uclibc buildroot scripts are hard to use. They are just as difficult as their target audience can stand. Gentoo is the same way. It's not a user friendly general purpose distribution. It's meant for great control over your system. It's just a difficult as its target audience can handle. Obviously it's as easy as it needs to be. I don't think a gui that let's you click "Next" a bunch of times is really going to attract more long term gentoo users.
I think naming it javascript was perhaps the worst naming decision of anything since colon blow. I've had to explain the difference so many times I'm tired. It's not even like the cracker/hacker mixup where you can fool yourself into keeping quiet. The languages almost nothing to do with each other and would be like someone mixing up a whale and a rhino.
... you just blew my mind man
Snakes on a plane...
Sharks on a rollercoaster...
Lasers on a chip...
I know it's a dupe, but I missed out on the discussion last time =P
The books his son are using were probably published 10-15 years ago. When you factor in the amount of time from when the author actually wrote them, I'd say it's closer to 20. The books being written today probably don't have code examples in them. Even if MS were to include basic in Vista right now, there would be a lag time of when it'd appear in books again.
That being said, I think he has a point that a simple programming language should be included in consumer operating systems. I really don't think basic fits the bill. It doesn't matter anyway because his point was that basic is already in the text books. The lag time of today's books being written would make that point moot. I think it would be more important to create a purely educational language. Nothing pragmatic about it. I don't think anyone will care if it's dog slow. Make it heavily focused on math operations. Create it so high school computer and math teachers get a boner over it. Make it truely open so it can run on their calculators and phones. Bundle it with every general purpose OS. Let them solve problems with it and not have the language get in the way.
I think that's really the solution for the problem. Not basic, not python, but a purely educational language that kids can write fun stuff in that teachers love. The die-hard programmers don't have to love it, it's not for them.
I agree that 64-bit has been supported in Linux for almost as long as Linux has been portable. I also agree that 64-bit is the future. What I do question however are those numbers. I don't think the simple action of recompiling for AMD64 will get any performance gain. From what other qualified individuals have told me (nothing I write is ever so large I benchmark 32-bit vs 64-bit versions to optimize), if you just recompile with a different target, your code will almost always be equal or slower in speed. It is when you code specifically to take advantage of the 64-bit address space you see benefit. However, just recompiling in itself won't help you much if any.
I found out the hard way =(