I've been out of the physics loop for a number of years now, but when I was doing research we used RedHat/gcc(c++ and Fortran)/Root++. I think for actual graphics we used Motif but I can't recall now.
The underlying distribution is one of the least important things to decide. Unless you need something exotic built in like clustering etc, any modern distro will give you all the libraries and tools you need. Pick your development libraries more carefully... but distrubution generally pick for ease of use. The less time you spend arguing with the OS the more time you have for actual work.
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Or the more common reason.. book publishers, just like movie and music, are highly risk adverse. They want more of the same, books that read exactly like the books they have already published. So if you have something geared twards a small group or there is something else unusual about your book your chances of getting published are pretty low, esp since as pointed out there will be 99 other writers who do write books that mimic older ones. Quite a few of the best authors got turned down by publishers over and over because they were not following some trend or assumption, until some small (or self) publisher was willing to take a risk on them.
*nods* I think often people forget the human element and 'examples' of such laws. While in the abstract we want a nice slow process to make sure things are done right, but it often costs some little people a lot in the process.
Perhaps, but often I've found that it is simply tied to 'this library requires windows version XYZ' for no feature reason. New libraries are simply compiled against the newest version of the OS and thus often will not work with older versions, and new programs are compiled against new libraries. So quite a bit of the time there is no actual need for the new OS, or any new feature actually being used, but you need the new chain anyway because they were compiled to work with eachother.
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Though in this case, I think they just slowed down the rate of increasing slowness. See! we only got 20% more slow and bloated this time compared to Vista's 40% increase!
Yeah, but those features eat up resources. So if one doesn't use them they are a negative factor. Outside support for new drivers (and other requirements) I can't think of anything that has been added to windows since NT that I actually USE. The only reason I ever upgrade is because either (a) a program I want to run needs a newer version or (b) a piece of hardware I want to use needs a newer version.
As the population ages, the idea of what is a 'child' keeps going up too. I hear people in their 40s talking about teenagers as 'kids', then people in their 70s talking about a 25 year old as 'babies'.
So maybe 20-30 years ago a 14 or 15 year old was ready to be an adult. Now it's a 21-25 year old who is ready to be an 'adult'. Slowly that is shifting as I hear more people talk about college age people as still being children and should have reduced rights.
At this point, what is adult in biological terms and social terms are WAY out of sync. In the wild humans would be breeding in early teens.
Minors in schools do not have the same rights as adults. School officials (or teachers in general) do not need a warrant or probable cause or, well, anything.
As far as I can tell it came out of this weird collective fear parents have had after you started seeing two income households.
And keep in mind, all those things people claim are breeding grounds for pedophiles. Nudist colonies esp are having a really difficult time in the US over the last few decades.
I think people have done that actually ^_^ take a normal keyboard, remove most of the keys, then throw together a special driver for it. Though as you said, you have to get one that allows multiple presses at a hardware level.
chorded keyboards, just like most technologies that try to make life 'easier' on users are built around usage assumptions, making those uses easier but making other uses more difficult.
One of qwerty's strenghts over these special-purpose systems is, well, it is general purpose. You can do more with them but nothing all that well.
I predict that people will still support the Dvorak layout for years to come, regardless of evidence for or against it's usefulness based purly off being differnt or a desire to believe that stupidity stops people from seeing Dvorak's improvements and thus anyone who does use the layout is a better human being.
If your car goes from point A to point B and continues to do it's job just fine, WHY upgrade it indeed?
Generally one upgrades for two basic reasons... (a) the new version does the job better or (b) fear that one will loose social status if they do not.
The car industry struggled to build up option (b) since they depend on people upgrading cars LONG before the car actually needs to be replaced, turning a need into a fashion statement.
sudo is quite secure when used correctly. Unfortunately it has morphed into a general purpose 'I want to run as admin for a single command' utility rather then 'these users have these special abilities' one.
Recall that china has an asymmetric birth rate, more males then females. China is trying to find ways to keep all those raging hormones with no outlet in check. Unfortunately they are taking a page from the puritan page book and hoping that if the males have less access to things that arouse them then they won't lust after women so much and be good little sexually repressed workers.
The support for a national one simply isn't there, and the support has been decreasing every year. The states that have pushed ammendements through locally know their window to do so is closing.
Even the california one, if they had waited a few more years it probably would not have worked.
No, but it is a good example of how little stores can really earn customer loyalty,.. it's also an example of what best buy might have to become some day since fewer and fewer people (over time) are going to bother going to a big box. Probably within the next 10-15 years their cash cow (DVD and CDs) will probably start drying up.
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The fact that the coupon program ran out of money also impacts this.
I've been out of the physics loop for a number of years now, but when I was doing research we used RedHat/gcc(c++ and Fortran)/Root++. I think for actual graphics we used Motif but I can't recall now.
The underlying distribution is one of the least important things to decide. Unless you need something exotic built in like clustering etc, any modern distro will give you all the libraries and tools you need. Pick your development libraries more carefully... but distrubution generally pick for ease of use. The less time you spend arguing with the OS the more time you have for actual work.
Or the more common reason.. book publishers, just like movie and music, are highly risk adverse. They want more of the same, books that read exactly like the books they have already published. So if you have something geared twards a small group or there is something else unusual about your book your chances of getting published are pretty low, esp since as pointed out there will be 99 other writers who do write books that mimic older ones. Quite a few of the best authors got turned down by publishers over and over because they were not following some trend or assumption, until some small (or self) publisher was willing to take a risk on them.
*nods* I think often people forget the human element and 'examples' of such laws. While in the abstract we want a nice slow process to make sure things are done right, but it often costs some little people a lot in the process.
Well, it's nice that this was killed on appeal. Kinda sad it made it to this point though.
Perhaps, but often I've found that it is simply tied to 'this library requires windows version XYZ' for no feature reason. New libraries are simply compiled against the newest version of the OS and thus often will not work with older versions, and new programs are compiled against new libraries. So quite a bit of the time there is no actual need for the new OS, or any new feature actually being used, but you need the new chain anyway because they were compiled to work with eachother.
Since I use a hardware firewall, that is not a feature that had a positive impact for me.
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No matter how much money you spend, you can't make a racehorse out of a pig. You can, however, make an awfully fast pig.
-- An old saying about program efficiency
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Though in this case, I think they just slowed down the rate of increasing slowness. See! we only got 20% more slow and bloated this time compared to Vista's 40% increase!
Yeah, but those features eat up resources. So if one doesn't use them they are a negative factor. Outside support for new drivers (and other requirements) I can't think of anything that has been added to windows since NT that I actually USE. The only reason I ever upgrade is because either (a) a program I want to run needs a newer version or (b) a piece of hardware I want to use needs a newer version.
So more features is not always a plus.
As the population ages, the idea of what is a 'child' keeps going up too. I hear people in their 40s talking about teenagers as 'kids', then people in their 70s talking about a 25 year old as 'babies'.
So maybe 20-30 years ago a 14 or 15 year old was ready to be an adult. Now it's a 21-25 year old who is ready to be an 'adult'. Slowly that is shifting as I hear more people talk about college age people as still being children and should have reduced rights.
At this point, what is adult in biological terms and social terms are WAY out of sync. In the wild humans would be breeding in early teens.
Minors in schools do not have the same rights as adults. School officials (or teachers in general) do not need a warrant or probable cause or, well, anything.
As far as I can tell it came out of this weird collective fear parents have had after you started seeing two income households.
And keep in mind, all those things people claim are breeding grounds for pedophiles. Nudist colonies esp are having a really difficult time in the US over the last few decades.
It is comments like this that make me sad that slashdot moderation only goes up to +5.
I think people have done that actually ^_^ take a normal keyboard, remove most of the keys, then throw together a special driver for it. Though as you said, you have to get one that allows multiple presses at a hardware level.
Depends on what you have to type.
chorded keyboards, just like most technologies that try to make life 'easier' on users are built around usage assumptions, making those uses easier but making other uses more difficult.
One of qwerty's strenghts over these special-purpose systems is, well, it is general purpose. You can do more with them but nothing all that well.
I predict that people will still support the Dvorak layout for years to come, regardless of evidence for or against it's usefulness based purly off being differnt or a desire to believe that stupidity stops people from seeing Dvorak's improvements and thus anyone who does use the layout is a better human being.
Then don't use sudo.
My point is that sudo was designed for the case where you need to split up admin type abilities between multiple users.
So of COURSE it is going to be a poor solution for single user systems where you just want a wrapper around root.
Abusing an existing tool is a poor subsitute for developing a new tool that actually does the job.
well put.
If microsoft wanted a real killer OS, they would release XP SE or something with updated drivers and fixes.
The only downside to running XP at this point is drivers are slowly becoming more difficult to get a hold of.
If your car goes from point A to point B and continues to do it's job just fine, WHY upgrade it indeed?
Generally one upgrades for two basic reasons...
(a) the new version does the job better or
(b) fear that one will loose social status if they do not.
The car industry struggled to build up option (b) since they depend on people upgrading cars LONG before the car actually needs to be replaced, turning a need into a fashion statement.
sudo is quite secure when used correctly. Unfortunately it has morphed into a general purpose 'I want to run as admin for a single command' utility rather then 'these users have these special abilities' one.
And of course this can all backfire if you have all these high expectations and hype, then the OS does not live up to them like people expect it to.
Recall that china has an asymmetric birth rate, more males then females. China is trying to find ways to keep all those raging hormones with no outlet in check. Unfortunately they are taking a page from the puritan page book and hoping that if the males have less access to things that arouse them then they won't lust after women so much and be good little sexually repressed workers.
The support for a national one simply isn't there, and the support has been decreasing every year. The states that have pushed ammendements through locally know their window to do so is closing.
Even the california one, if they had waited a few more years it probably would not have worked.
No, but it is a good example of how little stores can really earn customer loyalty,.. it's also an example of what best buy might have to become some day since fewer and fewer people (over time) are going to bother going to a big box. Probably within the next 10-15 years their cash cow (DVD and CDs) will probably start drying up.
I felt the same way about CompUSA.