Given that you choose to live in Silver Spring, I'm guessing the low price was a major selling point for you. Christ, I hope you're not another underpaid IRTA who can't afford to live in Bethesda, let alone somewhere fun on the red line in DC. My heart goes out to you.
To be fair, making a distribution that small isn't so hard, it's making one that's also so damn full featured that blows my mind. It's really a pleasure to use, even if you have the hardware to run something bigger.
I work for a boutique investment bank, and the level of modeling done in excel here would shock you in its complexity and functionality. Most of our hires have a CS background because the analytical thinking, understanding of best practices (versioning, programming for expandability, etc), and understanding of modualization, etc, carry through very well. An understanding of finance and accounting is really secondary. Plus, it pays better and make for a better pickup line (Hey, Baby, I'm a computer programmer?).
Oh, to be back in the days of ASCII TradeWars played on the BBSes with a 4800 baud modem. Now I have to play http://www.starportgame.com/Starport: Galactic Empires on broadband. What's this world coming to?
You could always get a buddy who does have an iphone to buy one for you and give you the other one. And I'm sure ebay will be flooded with them. Not to mention you probably can still activate it via itunes at home if you bought it at a brick and mortar apple store.
Two words: Wii Sports. Not really. A better example would be Tiger Woods golf. Yeah, you manually spin the ball after you hit it, but the trajectories are significantly different depending on how open/closed your club face is and how much you rotate as you swing through the ball. Maybe the wiimote isn't responsive enough, but they don't need to change the look of the swing on the screen, just run some math to calculate the trajectory of the ball. Regardless, it does feel a lot more realistic and good than pushing an analog stick forward.
When I read the headline I assumed they were going to explain how it was super fast as well. If the size was what makes it pack a punch then you can't tell us its size and say it packs a punch, it's redundant.
For that matter they could have removed the caps lock key entirely since there's no reason to have it. You could argue data entry, but not on a sub-notebook.
Um... that's not how it works. It logs all the questions you've answered. It penalizes you for answering only 10 questions because of the possibility of lucky guesses. Take the test 2x more and your score won't be penalized anymore.
Yes, the technology is important, but it's the human performances within them that people really connect to As an avid player of Nethack, I assure you, human performances have nothing to do with it. Come to think of it, technology isn't that important either...
/. is notoriously full of atheists. You might get a bias sampling of answers. I'm not an atheist, so maybe I can balance it out.
Many people use myspace as a kind of diary, and I think it is clearly immoral to read someone living's diary without their permission. As for a dead person, we read Anne Frank's all the time; you have to make the call as to whether they might want have wanted you to. Since you are sharing it to help those who he loved and who loved him, it would be difficult to believe he wouldn't.
ATMs Are More Robust Than Voting Machines Well that makes sense. If you compromise an ATM you can steal thousands of dollars. If you compromise a voting machine, all you could steal is the country.
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Yes, and there's two ways to do it.
The first way would be to set up a persistent directory on your windows partition. I think that just amounts to a folder in c: or called casper-rw or something. You should look up "ubuntu persistence" on google to get better instruction
The second method is new to Hardy, and it would involve using Wubi to install Ubuntu without formatting your drive or changing the partitions. My understanding is it creates a disk image file on your windows partition that ubuntu can boot from and save files, etc, to. I guess it's supposed to be just as good as regular install, with just a little less resilience to hard shutdowns. I'm not sure what it does to the bootloader, so you might want to look into that before your wreck anything
I haven't done either, exactly, though I did do the first making a bootable pendrive with persistence. Hope that helps.
Not to mention all the applications native to KDE bundled in Kubuntu rock the socks off the included applications in Ubuntu. Amarok, K3b, Kate, SuperKaramba (ok, not bundled, but native to KDE), ktorrent, konqueror (maybe not for web browsing), kaffeine...
It's ok guys, I'll handle this.
How has Java being closed source affected you personally I can't count the number of times I've cried myself to sleep thinking of the poor children who blindly agree to arbitrary EULAs which they are incapable of understanding.
What effects do you see this having in the future
Now those children blindly agree to the somewhat less arbitrary GPL which they are incapable of understanding.
Just thinking about how much of that storage is filled by redundant data blows my mind. It seems like such an inefficient structure. Imagine how much could be saved if there was only one copy of each song (lossless, why not), each movie, etc, and instead the trillions of dollars spent on storage, we spent slightly less trillions to build up massive networking infrastructure and a few server farms that make it all accessible on the fly. Obviously unrealistic, but a fascinating idea.
I have approaching 2.5TB of media at home, but the vast majority of it just sits there essentially never used. I only need it locally because my home network has the bandwidth to access it whenever I want. But even so, I only use a small part of that bandwidth an hour or two a day at most. Getting rid of redundant storage could realistically reduce storage needs 99% (ever see a torrent with 100 seeds? All the time), and bandwidth consumption wouldn't be too many times greater (by some measures) than YouTube uses, because by far most of the time we aren't consuming highly dense media.
You'd need a world with completely free culture, though. Just a thought.
I haven't been able to try it, but multiple choice doesn't seem like a good authentication system. If a captcha breaker can succeed even 20% of the time, that's usually considered good enough for mass exploitation. Maybe the geometric center aspect will help, but there has to be a margin for human error which the machine can capitalize on.
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Given that you choose to live in Silver Spring, I'm guessing the low price was a major selling point for you. Christ, I hope you're not another underpaid IRTA who can't afford to live in Bethesda, let alone somewhere fun on the red line in DC. My heart goes out to you.
Goodwill?
To be fair, making a distribution that small isn't so hard, it's making one that's also so damn full featured that blows my mind. It's really a pleasure to use, even if you have the hardware to run something bigger.
I work for a boutique investment bank, and the level of modeling done in excel here would shock you in its complexity and functionality. Most of our hires have a CS background because the analytical thinking, understanding of best practices (versioning, programming for expandability, etc), and understanding of modualization, etc, carry through very well. An understanding of finance and accounting is really secondary. Plus, it pays better and make for a better pickup line (Hey, Baby, I'm a computer programmer?).
The way I heard it is that memories become legend, legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again.
My preacher told me this, and I've always just taken it on faith (pun intended)
To be fair, Disney, through its subsidiaries, is the largest producer of porn in the world.
Oh, to be back in the days of ASCII TradeWars played on the BBSes with a 4800 baud modem. Now I have to play http://www.starportgame.com/Starport: Galactic Empires on broadband. What's this world coming to?
You could always get a buddy who does have an iphone to buy one for you and give you the other one. And I'm sure ebay will be flooded with them. Not to mention you probably can still activate it via itunes at home if you bought it at a brick and mortar apple store.
When I read the headline I assumed they were going to explain how it was super fast as well. If the size was what makes it pack a punch then you can't tell us its size and say it packs a punch, it's redundant.
For that matter they could have removed the caps lock key entirely since there's no reason to have it. You could argue data entry, but not on a sub-notebook.
Um... that's not how it works. It logs all the questions you've answered. It penalizes you for answering only 10 questions because of the possibility of lucky guesses. Take the test 2x more and your score won't be penalized anymore.
You're an idiot. OSS isn't about not making money, its about freedom of information. Corporations and for-profits evil by default.
/. is notoriously full of atheists. You might get a bias sampling of answers. I'm not an atheist, so maybe I can balance it out.
Many people use myspace as a kind of diary, and I think it is clearly immoral to read someone living's diary without their permission. As for a dead person, we read Anne Frank's all the time; you have to make the call as to whether they might want have wanted you to. Since you are sharing it to help those who he loved and who loved him, it would be difficult to believe he wouldn't.
Yes, and there's two ways to do it.
The first way would be to set up a persistent directory on your windows partition. I think that just amounts to a folder in c: or called casper-rw or something. You should look up "ubuntu persistence" on google to get better instruction
The second method is new to Hardy, and it would involve using Wubi to install Ubuntu without formatting your drive or changing the partitions. My understanding is it creates a disk image file on your windows partition that ubuntu can boot from and save files, etc, to. I guess it's supposed to be just as good as regular install, with just a little less resilience to hard shutdowns. I'm not sure what it does to the bootloader, so you might want to look into that before your wreck anything
I haven't done either, exactly, though I did do the first making a bootable pendrive with persistence. Hope that helps.
Not to mention all the applications native to KDE bundled in Kubuntu rock the socks off the included applications in Ubuntu. Amarok, K3b, Kate, SuperKaramba (ok, not bundled, but native to KDE), ktorrent, konqueror (maybe not for web browsing), kaffeine...
Wow, I just thought it would sound funnier that way, but you took it all serious like.
Now those children blindly agree to the somewhat less arbitrary GPL which they are incapable of understanding.
This is truly a magnificent day!
When 1024 = 1000 to them, we should be surprised by other bits of fuzzy math.
Just thinking about how much of that storage is filled by redundant data blows my mind. It seems like such an inefficient structure. Imagine how much could be saved if there was only one copy of each song (lossless, why not), each movie, etc, and instead the trillions of dollars spent on storage, we spent slightly less trillions to build up massive networking infrastructure and a few server farms that make it all accessible on the fly. Obviously unrealistic, but a fascinating idea. I have approaching 2.5TB of media at home, but the vast majority of it just sits there essentially never used. I only need it locally because my home network has the bandwidth to access it whenever I want. But even so, I only use a small part of that bandwidth an hour or two a day at most. Getting rid of redundant storage could realistically reduce storage needs 99% (ever see a torrent with 100 seeds? All the time), and bandwidth consumption wouldn't be too many times greater (by some measures) than YouTube uses, because by far most of the time we aren't consuming highly dense media. You'd need a world with completely free culture, though. Just a thought.
Yes, but does it run on linux?
I haven't been able to try it, but multiple choice doesn't seem like a good authentication system. If a captcha breaker can succeed even 20% of the time, that's usually considered good enough for mass exploitation. Maybe the geometric center aspect will help, but there has to be a margin for human error which the machine can capitalize on.