Using a signed 64-bit value introduces a new wraparound date that is over twenty times greater than the estimated age of the universe: approximately 292 billion years from now, at 15:30:08 on Sunday, 4 December 292,277,026,596.
...until you put a typo in/etc/fstab when you're not used to plain old vi, and get to discover the joys of learning ed. Without a man page because that was in/usr too.
I worried about Qt's future when they tried forcing Qt onto Symbian. I'm glad they gave up. If all else fails, we can still have a Free port maintained by the KDE people or something.
Since the 1980s, congresspersons and staffers have been "going downtown" -- becoming lobbyistsâ"and the big draw is money.[79] The "lucrative world of K Street" means that former congresspersons with even "modest seniority" can move into jobs paying $1 million or more annually, without including bonuses for bringing in new clients.[79] The general concern of this revolving-door activity is that elected officialsâ"persons who were supposed to represent the interests of citizensâ"have instead become entangled with the big-money interests of for-profit corporations and interest groups with narrow concerns, and that public officials have been taken over by private interests.[53]
I'm sorry, what were you saying about theaters for bribery again?
For power users, Windows simply cannot match the ease of use of a command line that can do literally everything. For example, I switch between three sets of screen resolutions and layouts with shell scripts. Also, KDevelop4.
I don't know of any other profession, _including_ meteorologists, where being wrong in your prediction that often is acceptable.
Keep in mind, that drop that the smart guys couldn't predict, was caused by rumors. The stock market is a strange beast, and nobody understands it completely: the very act of trying to model it, changes it. At least for models with enough predictive power to make you money.
People will pirate pretty much anything, as long as there are people who are willing to crack and people who are willing to download. There's nothing you can do about it.
The scale of piracy, however, is highly dependent on the quality of the pirated version compared to the original. As long as you do everything you can to make your paying customers happy, there's no reason to worry. Business models based on DRM, DLC, etc. that do nothing except annoy your players, will see a higher piracy rate simply because you made the pirated version that much more better than what you sell.
But then, the question is loaded, and presumes that Mandriva's fall is solely due to the marketability of a Linux distro.
They are trying to sell something that's free, and adding nothing of value in the process. Of course they're going to fail.
Linux is marketable. I can wholeheartedly recommend Debian for data centers or Ubuntu as a non-gaming desktop. However, I have no idea what Mandriva is trying to be, much less why I should pay them for.
> Humans consume resources. If you're concerned about limited resources,
I don't like this tiny little box you think in. What about colonizing space? What about economic systems of the machine age where people don't have to work to live at a decent standard?
It's because of fear like yours that I don't have my flying car yet.
The problem with Haskell is that it forces you to solve a problem. You don't write for loop, because that's a solved problem, it's a function called "map". You don't write synchronization logic, because that's a solved problem, it's a function called "atomically".
To write Haskell, you have to get off your ass and solve your own problem. (Or reimplement an existing library, but that's hard to explain to the boss.)
> We're geeks: we're smarter than average (in terms of IQ at least) basically by definition.
Bullshit. We've just invested significant time and effort into understanding computers. Does that make us smarter than people getting really good at other areas of their life?
Actually, I think they are. The more people know about social engineering (or pretty much any "evil" knowledge, technique or information), the more people will realize when it's happening to them.
Remember the old saying: if you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have them.
I thought this was about Anonymous, not Wikileaks. Anonymous in particular and 4chan in general has not brought to light anything I'm aware of except tentactle porn torrents.
That's it, I've had it with this thread. Read this whole discussion again, but with "Allah" instead of "Anonymous". They're equally real.
For a better deal, say that they can have their required materials sold in electronic format for half the cost, but they're only tied to the registered account of the device?
For an even better deal, put all the material on it, up to and including some college level stuff, for free. Keep them learning when the teacher is boring.
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Using a signed 64-bit value introduces a new wraparound date that is over twenty times greater than the estimated age of the universe: approximately 292 billion years from now, at 15:30:08 on Sunday, 4 December 292,277,026,596.
...until you put a typo in /etc/fstab when you're not used to plain old vi, and get to discover the joys of learning ed. Without a man page because that was in /usr too.
I wish that was a joke.
I worried about Qt's future when they tried forcing Qt onto Symbian. I'm glad they gave up. If all else fails, we can still have a Free port maintained by the KDE people or something.
Ever since they're not allowed to burn both the books and the author, yes.
Since the 1980s, congresspersons and staffers have been "going downtown" -- becoming lobbyistsâ"and the big draw is money.[79] The "lucrative world of K Street" means that former congresspersons with even "modest seniority" can move into jobs paying $1 million or more annually, without including bonuses for bringing in new clients.[79] The general concern of this revolving-door activity is that elected officialsâ"persons who were supposed to represent the interests of citizensâ"have instead become entangled with the big-money interests of for-profit corporations and interest groups with narrow concerns, and that public officials have been taken over by private interests.[53]
I'm sorry, what were you saying about theaters for bribery again?
QML is essentially JavaScript, with all its costs.
For power users, Windows simply cannot match the ease of use of a command line that can do literally everything. For example, I switch between three sets of screen resolutions and layouts with shell scripts. Also, KDevelop4.
I don't know of any other profession, _including_ meteorologists, where being wrong in your prediction that often is acceptable.
Keep in mind, that drop that the smart guys couldn't predict, was caused by rumors. The stock market is a strange beast, and nobody understands it completely: the very act of trying to model it, changes it. At least for models with enough predictive power to make you money.
People will pirate pretty much anything, as long as there are people who are willing to crack and people who are willing to download. There's nothing you can do about it.
The scale of piracy, however, is highly dependent on the quality of the pirated version compared to the original. As long as you do everything you can to make your paying customers happy, there's no reason to worry. Business models based on DRM, DLC, etc. that do nothing except annoy your players, will see a higher piracy rate simply because you made the pirated version that much more better than what you sell.
But then, the question is loaded, and presumes that Mandriva's fall is solely due to the marketability of a Linux distro.
They are trying to sell something that's free, and adding nothing of value in the process. Of course they're going to fail.
Linux is marketable. I can wholeheartedly recommend Debian for data centers or Ubuntu as a non-gaming desktop. However, I have no idea what Mandriva is trying to be, much less why I should pay them for.
> Humans consume resources. If you're concerned about limited resources,
I don't like this tiny little box you think in. What about colonizing space? What about economic systems of the machine age where people don't have to work to live at a decent standard?
It's because of fear like yours that I don't have my flying car yet.
The problem with Haskell is that it forces you to solve a problem. You don't write for loop, because that's a solved problem, it's a function called "map". You don't write synchronization logic, because that's a solved problem, it's a function called "atomically".
To write Haskell, you have to get off your ass and solve your own problem. (Or reimplement an existing library, but that's hard to explain to the boss.)
> We're geeks: we're smarter than average (in terms of IQ at least) basically by definition.
Bullshit. We've just invested significant time and effort into understanding computers. Does that make us smarter than people getting really good at other areas of their life?
Actually, I think they are. The more people know about social engineering (or pretty much any "evil" knowledge, technique or information), the more people will realize when it's happening to them.
Remember the old saying: if you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have them.
i have a hard time believing that they have enough people part of anon, to get 32 caught at once... cover story?
Is it so hard to believe 32 of them were dumb enough?
When that happens, we log back to Facebook and bitch about our lives even more.
We'd need a complete rethinking of resource distribution otherwise, and I doubt most of us could imagine a world without capitalism.
A lot of people buy stuff as a replacement of their personalities.
FTFY
This is similiar to obtaining technical certifications for factory jobs. Americans simply do not do them anymore in a global economy.
The very idea of this comparison makes me sad about the state of modern software.
we do need a source of cheap labor.
If CEO's knew what seasoned developers know about Microsoft, they would run away in fear.
If normal people knew what developers know about software, civilization would collapse.
That's why they're out buying iPads and that's where this CromeOS thing is aiming for also.
Selling bicycles is not the way to help drivers fix their car.
I thought this was about Anonymous, not Wikileaks. Anonymous in particular and 4chan in general has not brought to light anything I'm aware of except tentactle porn torrents.
That's it, I've had it with this thread. Read this whole discussion again, but with "Allah" instead of "Anonymous". They're equally real.
Since I know Microsoft well, that is all the reason I need to avoid Mono now and forever.
You know Bill doesn't work there anymore, right?
Geek alert! Geek alert! Geek alert!
Congratulations, you have detected a geek on a website that labels itself "News for nerds".
For a better deal, say that they can have their required materials sold in electronic format for half the cost, but they're only tied to the registered account of the device?
For an even better deal, put all the material on it, up to and including some college level stuff, for free. Keep them learning when the teacher is boring.
Isn't that what school is supposed to be about?