I converted the corporate Windows installation to a VM with VMware Converter and run it under Virtualbox. IS doesn't even know, they just call sometimes and ask why my PC wasn't turned on when they were trying to push something.
I'm not a gamer but I hear than many games work under Wine or cxgames, some with better performance than under WIndows. And nouveau and radeonhd have made a lot of progress recently.
Now that Thunderbird is the default mail client in Ubuntu my fervent hope is that somebody will write a calendar plugin that works with Exchange. It's the only reason why I keep an XP VM with Outlook around.
This is just a short blip fueled by cheap energy. Once it's over there will be time to build a sustainable civilization. It won't be very tech intensive though and there won't be very many people. That's the solution to Fermi's paradox.
And also the Russian RD180 closed loop engines which are designed to also use the energy driving the pumps for propulsion which means that they are more efficient.
So now is the question rather when we will see a Saturn VI on the launch pad...
And then a Gemini successor, then revive the Mercury program...
Yup. The problem is that there's a lot of carbon left. I've been firmly in the doomer camp for a couple of years now. We will have at least 6-7C warming by the end of the century. Good luck with that. Thank $DEITY I don't have children.
>not being able to just play a Blu Ray disc but having to sit through at least 15 minutes of ads Just torrent it. You have a paid version so you're not even pirating anything.
MS doesn't have obscene amounts of money to throw at everything any more so they'll have to focus on profitable products and technologies. I think that'll primarily mean their core business of Windows+browser+Office. Everything else will be measured by profitability.
I had exactly that in a German high school: Voluntary extra courses in the afternoon/evening. That was in small groups (10 at most), doing more challenging stuff than the curriculum, and it was done by teachers who were a lot more engaged than the average, often pretty fresh and not disillusioned yet (and with state of the art knowledge, not like the almost 60 year old physics teacher who had never heard anything about QM.) Some, like CS, were run by the local college. Good times. It was sometimes midnight when I got home from the computer lab.
Amen. I started university coasting like I did in HS. It was around the middle of second semester calculus that I had a big WHOA! moment. There are actually things that are hard? Oops. But that goes away after some time. Once the sink-or-swim phase is over you can go back to coasting - until you go into a PhD program. Or if you're studying math or physics maybe. The one issue I see here is that college/university is a big waste of time for many. There are basically no apprenticeship style job programs in the US as compared to Germany for example. You don't need a BS degree to be an IT person or a programmer for basic coding (which is the vast majority of tasks.) Conversely, I have seen atrocious code from BSCS folks.
I can very well remember how many people criticized MS for moving the graphics subsystem into the kernel for a slight performance advantage. I liked NT3 with all its VMS heritage and it was clear that MS was spoiling the clean design.
1. Make laptops with 60GB SSDs instead of 250GB HDDs. 2. Offer them without Windows and package an Ubuntu CD instead. 3. Sell them at the same price as before. 4. Profit!
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Not to mention sleeping with people.
There are no more interesting games than bash, perl and gcc. Sometimes mdadm and lvm, but they're too hard so I never advance a level.
I converted the corporate Windows installation to a VM with VMware Converter and run it under Virtualbox. IS doesn't even know, they just call sometimes and ask why my PC wasn't turned on when they were trying to push something.
I'm not a gamer but I hear than many games work under Wine or cxgames, some with better performance than under WIndows. And nouveau and radeonhd have made a lot of progress recently.
Now that Thunderbird is the default mail client in Ubuntu my fervent hope is that somebody will write a calendar plugin that works with Exchange.
It's the only reason why I keep an XP VM with Outlook around.
There is no such thing as proof in science, only in math.
All there is is hypotheses and theories and data/evidence to support them.
This is just a short blip fueled by cheap energy. Once it's over there will be time to build a sustainable civilization. It won't be very tech intensive though and there won't be very many people.
That's the solution to Fermi's paradox.
Because it was mostly isotropic and in equilibrium so there was't any pressure to fuse nuclei? Just a hunch.
And also the Russian RD180 closed loop engines which are designed to also use the energy driving the pumps for propulsion which means that they are more efficient.
So now is the question rather when we will see a Saturn VI on the launch pad...
And then a Gemini successor, then revive the Mercury program...
Yup. The problem is that there's a lot of carbon left.
I've been firmly in the doomer camp for a couple of years now. We will have at least 6-7C warming by the end of the century.
Good luck with that. Thank $DEITY I don't have children.
>not being able to just play a Blu Ray disc but having to sit through at least 15 minutes of ads
Just torrent it. You have a paid version so you're not even pirating anything.
MS doesn't have obscene amounts of money to throw at everything any more so they'll have to focus on profitable products and technologies. I think that'll primarily mean their core business of Windows+browser+Office. Everything else will be measured by profitability.
Sounds like there is room for small ISPs to resell the big guy's bandwidth but with their own DNS server.
What, no crying children, people whispering or candy wrapper/bags crackling? How boring.
But, but, but.. corporations are people too! So shouldn't they have a right to happiness?
But there are several free usenet providers for text only groups so there's no business model.
60GB SSDs can be had for $60 retail now so they can't be $40 more expensive than HDs for an OEM, unless you get the HDs for free.
Some universities in my country have too many freshmen so they deliberately try to make half of them drop out.
Which is not a bad strategy when you consider the alternative: absurdly high entrance requirements.
Or absurdly high tuitions.
Science, shmience! As long as we can fund the military and the banks...
I had exactly that in a German high school: Voluntary extra courses in the afternoon/evening. That was in small groups (10 at most), doing more challenging stuff than the curriculum, and it was done by teachers who were a lot more engaged than the average, often pretty fresh and not disillusioned yet (and with state of the art knowledge, not like the almost 60 year old physics teacher who had never heard anything about QM.) Some, like CS, were run by the local college. Good times. It was sometimes midnight when I got home from the computer lab.
Amen.
I started university coasting like I did in HS. It was around the middle of second semester calculus that I had a big WHOA! moment. There are actually things that are hard? Oops.
But that goes away after some time. Once the sink-or-swim phase is over you can go back to coasting - until you go into a PhD program. Or if you're studying math or physics maybe.
The one issue I see here is that college/university is a big waste of time for many. There are basically no apprenticeship style job programs in the US as compared to Germany for example. You don't need a BS degree to be an IT person or a programmer for basic coding (which is the vast majority of tasks.) Conversely, I have seen atrocious code from BSCS folks.
If only there was some way to install a different window manager...
Yes, Canonical should really add some code to do that and push it upstream so other Debian users don't have to use Unity!
I can very well remember how many people criticized MS for moving the graphics subsystem into the kernel for a slight performance advantage. I liked NT3 with all its VMS heritage and it was clear that MS was spoiling the clean design.
In the prosperous 1960s, CEOs made about 30x the salary of the average worker for the same company.
Today, it goes higher than 1000x.
Corporate profits are up, worker incomes are down. That is not an economic system that is sustainable.
George Mobus has a hypothesis about that.
1. Make laptops with 60GB SSDs instead of 250GB HDDs.
2. Offer them without Windows and package an Ubuntu CD instead.
3. Sell them at the same price as before.
4. Profit!