"A word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC for Women's Army Corps, or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words, such as radar for radio detecting and ranging."
(The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
It says nothing about the pronoucability or ease of spelling...
The PS2 does not run any form of Linux.
However, Linux is used on the PS2 Dev kits for developing games. (The PS2 Dev kits are effectively PCs with a built-in PS2 - the dev kits emulates the DVD/CDROM etc... if needed)
There are many instances where C++ can actually produce faster code.
For a simple example, compare the C qsort with a C++ template Quicksort function. In the C++ version, the comparison operator would likely be compiled inline to the function, meaning that you don't get the overhead of a function call for every comparison. In C the only way you could do this would to be to write quicksort yourself for every data type that needs it. C++ templates allow a lot of work to be done at compile time, rather than at runtime.
I think it's more likely that he's put a check on the MS Exchange servers to catch any copies of that mail that get forwarded. Not exactly foolproof, but better than nothing...
Discredit seems a bit harsh. He just seems to be encouraging his peons to try and make sure that they beat Linux to the punch when they're dealing with their corporate customers, especially when those customers are looking at getting rid of their specialist UNIX systems in favour of PC-based stuff.
He does imply that Windows beats Linux in all corners, but a guy's allowed an opinion, especially when he's trying to rally the troops...;)
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GDP isn't a particularly good measurement, as it doesn't take into account the size of the country.
GDP per Capita is much better. Interestingly Luxembourg comes out on top followed by the USA. The UK comes in at 20 (for the 2000 stats)
We can get jobs in other Euro-zone coutries. We have been able to for some time, even though (here in Britain) we have not opted to become part of the single currency.
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A pleasure to be of service;)
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Ireland is not part of Britain. It is a completely seperate country which *has* now gone over to using the Euro. Perhaps you are confusing it with Northern Ireland, which is probably best described as a self-governing part of Britain.
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I always felt that the big advantage with digital cameras was the fact that you didn't need to get the pictures developed. You have them instantly. You've got to store the pictures somewhere. I wouldn't be too bothered by storing 50 images on a $5 chip. At least that way I don't have to worry about my hard drive crashing and losing all my data, or something like that.
Nice idea, but it'd be too heavy for dirigibles to lift, I'm sure.
Let's say the tower is 100m in diameter and the cloth weighs 25g / square metre, which is pretty optimistic, I'd say...
that's 2*pi*50 (radius) * 1000 (height) * 0.025..
7853 metric tons.
A cubic meter of hydrogen will lift about 970grams at sea level.
That's pretty heavy.
so (ignoring the height of the tube), that's 8095876 cubic metres of hydrogen required to lift the thing.
That would need a sphere roughly 250m in diameter to hold it up.
Okay, so maybe that's just about possible, but that's only a very optimistic guess.... I've not counted for the fact that the dirigible is going to need to be able to lift itself, that you'd need a hydrogen/helium mix to stop it being dangerous, that the tunnel might be twice as wide, that the cloth might be heavier, and of course that the cloth would be much heavier once it has been rained on...
I thought the term 'innocent' in this context was normally only used to describe civillians. Although not by implication 'guilty', it is generally accepted that dying is recognised hazard of a career in the armed forces, and to a certain extent, "Those who live by the sword die by the sword". Although it is a noble thing to risk death and mutilation for the good of your country, killing others, even your enemies, can at best be described as a regrettable necessity; hence the innapropriateness of the adjective 'innocent' when applied to combatants.
Quit whining, fool
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NOBODY IS INTERESTED IN YOUR PATHETIC WHINING!
Anyway, you did get the credit "8000 other slashdot readers"
I do understand freedom. However, absolute freedom is also known as 'anarchy'. We trade the freedom to shoot someone for the security of knowing that if someone tries to shoot us they will be punished, and hopefully prevented from doing the same thing again. We trade the freedom to drive as fast as we damn well please on any side of the road for the security of knowing that we can drive in (relative) safety. We trade the freedom to claim anything we like about anybody else for the security of knowing that we can take those that spread lies about us to court to prevent it from happening any more. And we trade the freedom to spread other people's work around as much as we like for the security of knowing that others will compensate us for the work that we have done.
Now, the line that you draw with all these things is down to personal (or rather governmental and cultural) taste, - here in the UK we have considerably stricter gun laws than in the US, but we are allowed to drive faster, and have sex and drink earlier, and burn any flag we damn well please.
"Your freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose"... To view copyright only from the consumer's point of view seems to me to be just as shortsighted as the seemingly prevailing view in the music industry, which is bringing in crippled CDs to stop people playing them on their computers, viewing things only from the producer's point of view.
Obviously there are many people who code/make music/create art who do not ask to be compensated. Fair enough! that's their choice. But there are many who, although they still enjoy practising their art/skill, wish to be financially compensated for their work. Any time/work *is* worth money. To claim otherwise would be to reduce everything to the bare cost of the materials involved, which would not allow anybody to make a living from anything but farming and mining.
When you pay for software (and this applies to music and art as well...), you are effectively paying for a service - the service of someone writing the code instead of you having to do it. As a result of many people paying for it, you don't have to shoulder the entire cost of that development by yourself.
Why shouldn't the person who created the code/art be entitled to compensation for the work they put in?
This is one of the things that I really don't understand about RMS's philosophy. He asks 'how can it be wrong to share a program with one's friend?' without asking 'how can it be fair to make use of another person's work without compensating them for the effort they put into it?'
The 'real work' in a game is pretty much split 50/50 between programming and things like artwork, level design etc. I'm sure there are exceptions (Final Fantasy could be one), but that's been pretty much the way it is on the games I've worked on.
This is one of the reasons I can't agree with RMS. Why is it that someone who creates some music, a level design, some textures or a model deserves compensation for their hard work, but somehow someone who spends just as much energy writing code does not?
That's not the point. There's a load of jobs that they'll find useful that they'll only get considered for if they're familiar with MS Office.
Many of the kids from these schools are going to have hard enough time as it is. Why make it hard on them by making them learn to use a different OS with different software than that which is used by the vast majority of businesses? (I'm talking desktop stuff here - but I don't suppose a large proportion of school leavers are looking for sys admin jobs...)
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http://webopedia.internet.com/TERM/a/acronym.html
I should have used this dictionary the first time.
The unpronounceable version of an Acronym is an 'Initialism'....
"A word formed from the initial letters of a name, such as WAC for Women's Army Corps, or by combining initial letters or parts of a series of words, such as radar for radio detecting and ranging."
(The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
It says nothing about the pronoucability or ease of spelling...
(Although the examples used can be pronounced)
The PS2 does not run any form of Linux.
However, Linux is used on the PS2 Dev kits for developing games. (The PS2 Dev kits are effectively PCs with a built-in PS2 - the dev kits emulates the DVD/CDROM etc... if needed)
There are many instances where C++ can actually produce faster code.
For a simple example, compare the C qsort with a C++ template Quicksort function. In the C++ version, the comparison operator would likely be compiled inline to the function, meaning that you don't get the overhead of a function call for every comparison. In C the only way you could do this would to be to write quicksort yourself for every data type that needs it. C++ templates allow a lot of work to be done at compile time, rather than at runtime.
Check out http://www.oonumerics.org/blitz/ for fast C++ scientific applications.
cheers,
Tim
Go to a better Cinema?
I think it's more likely that he's put a check on the MS Exchange servers to catch any copies of that mail that get forwarded. Not exactly foolproof, but better than nothing...
Discredit seems a bit harsh. He just seems to be encouraging his peons to try and make sure that they beat Linux to the punch when they're dealing with their corporate customers, especially when those customers are looking at getting rid of their specialist UNIX systems in favour of PC-based stuff.
;)
He does imply that Windows beats Linux in all corners, but a guy's allowed an opinion, especially when he's trying to rally the troops...
GDP isn't a particularly good measurement, as it doesn't take into account the size of the country.
GDP per Capita is much better. Interestingly Luxembourg comes out on top followed by the USA. The UK comes in at 20 (for the 2000 stats)
We can get jobs in other Euro-zone coutries. We have been able to for some time, even though (here in Britain) we have not opted to become part of the single currency.
A pleasure to be of service ;)
Ireland is not part of Britain. It is a completely seperate country which *has* now gone over to using the Euro. Perhaps you are confusing it with Northern Ireland, which is probably best described as a self-governing part of Britain.
Read the Story.
Ireland *has* changed over to the Euro.
... you must be very proud.
Unfortunately I just ran out of moderation points.
I always felt that the big advantage with digital cameras was the fact that you didn't need to get the pictures developed. You have them instantly. You've got to store the pictures somewhere. I wouldn't be too bothered by storing 50 images on a $5 chip. At least that way I don't have to worry about my hard drive crashing and losing all my data, or something like that.
Grammer... Penguinoflight isn't doing that well either...
Nice idea, but it'd be too heavy for dirigibles to lift, I'm sure.
Let's say the tower is 100m in diameter and the cloth weighs 25g / square metre, which is pretty optimistic, I'd say...
that's 2*pi*50 (radius) * 1000 (height) * 0.025..
7853 metric tons.
A cubic meter of hydrogen will lift about 970grams at sea level.
That's pretty heavy.
so (ignoring the height of the tube), that's 8095876 cubic metres of hydrogen required to lift the thing.
That would need a sphere roughly 250m in diameter to hold it up.
Okay, so maybe that's just about possible, but that's only a very optimistic guess.... I've not counted for the fact that the dirigible is going to need to be able to lift itself, that you'd need a hydrogen/helium mix to stop it being dangerous, that the tunnel might be twice as wide, that the cloth might be heavier, and of course that the cloth would be much heavier once it has been rained on...
I thought the term 'innocent' in this context was normally only used to describe civillians. Although not by implication 'guilty', it is generally accepted that dying is recognised hazard of a career in the armed forces, and to a certain extent, "Those who live by the sword die by the sword". Although it is a noble thing to risk death and mutilation for the good of your country, killing others, even your enemies, can at best be described as a regrettable necessity; hence the innapropriateness of the adjective 'innocent' when applied to combatants.
NOBODY IS INTERESTED IN YOUR PATHETIC WHINING!
Anyway, you did get the credit "8000 other slashdot readers"
Get over yourself fur feck's sake.
Pathetic.
I do understand freedom. However, absolute freedom is also known as 'anarchy'. We trade the freedom to shoot someone for the security of knowing that if someone tries to shoot us they will be punished, and hopefully prevented from doing the same thing again. We trade the freedom to drive as fast as we damn well please on any side of the road for the security of knowing that we can drive in (relative) safety. We trade the freedom to claim anything we like about anybody else for the security of knowing that we can take those that spread lies about us to court to prevent it from happening any more. And we trade the freedom to spread other people's work around as much as we like for the security of knowing that others will compensate us for the work that we have done.
Now, the line that you draw with all these things is down to personal (or rather governmental and cultural) taste, - here in the UK we have considerably stricter gun laws than in the US, but we are allowed to drive faster, and have sex and drink earlier, and burn any flag we damn well please.
"Your freedom to swing your fist ends at my nose"... To view copyright only from the consumer's point of view seems to me to be just as shortsighted as the seemingly prevailing view in the music industry, which is bringing in crippled CDs to stop people playing them on their computers, viewing things only from the producer's point of view.
Obviously there are many people who code/make music/create art who do not ask to be compensated. Fair enough! that's their choice. But there are many who, although they still enjoy practising their art/skill, wish to be financially compensated for their work. Any time/work *is* worth money. To claim otherwise would be to reduce everything to the bare cost of the materials involved, which would not allow anybody to make a living from anything but farming and mining.
When you pay for software (and this applies to music and art as well...), you are effectively paying for a service - the service of someone writing the code instead of you having to do it. As a result of many people paying for it, you don't have to shoulder the entire cost of that development by yourself.
Why should they be free?
Why shouldn't the person who created the code/art be entitled to compensation for the work they put in?
This is one of the things that I really don't understand about RMS's philosophy. He asks 'how can it be wrong to share a program with one's friend?' without asking 'how can it be fair to make use of another person's work without compensating them for the effort they put into it?'
The 'real work' in a game is pretty much split 50/50 between programming and things like artwork, level design etc. I'm sure there are exceptions (Final Fantasy could be one), but that's been pretty much the way it is on the games I've worked on.
This is one of the reasons I can't agree with RMS. Why is it that someone who creates some music, a level design, some textures or a model deserves compensation for their hard work, but somehow someone who spends just as much energy writing code does not?
Maybe, but at least I know how to preview my comments on Slashdot...
I could be a rich man...
(Not, of course that I'd ever do anything like that...)
Searching with regular expressions would be cool, though...
That's not the point. There's a load of jobs that they'll find useful that they'll only get considered for if they're familiar with MS Office.
Many of the kids from these schools are going to have hard enough time as it is. Why make it hard on them by making them learn to use a different OS with different software than that which is used by the vast majority of businesses? (I'm talking desktop stuff here - but I don't suppose a large proportion of school leavers are looking for sys admin jobs...)