...precariously close to censorship. What really makes wikipedia great is the fact that anyone can contribute and that poor content will be weeded out by the multitude of readers (these also being the editors) who recognize it as such, not by a chosen few who have an effective veto.
Though Portage is a fantastic and powerful package management system, I still believe that Gentoo is better suited to being a hacker's, rather than an average user's, distribution, simply because the average user cares not about USE flags and compiler optimizations and whatnot. Portage's strength lies in its customizability and hackability, but, in my experience, it requires more participation and maintenance both to use and to configure.
RPM, in my opinion, is better suited for rm fodder. Dependencies are a pain, and the package selection is not as good as that of Portage or deb, or at least wasn't when I was using it.
deb is an amazing packaging system with heaps of available packages and it makes light work of dependencies. I run Debian on my server, and there are no package management problems whatsoever.
So, while I run Gentoo on my main PC and HTPC, I recommend Debian, or other deb-based distros, to those interested in trying Linux for the first time.
Too bad there's no credible alternative to vista or vista 2nd release in sight for your average gaming-oriented PC. I wouldn't use linux for general desktop stuff either, too much pain if there's no ideological reason to go there.
Too bad you're misinformed. A good Linux desktop distribution can be up and running painlessly in half an hour, and nearly everything just works. I host LAN parties on a regular basis, with my own computers, every one of which runs a Linux-based operating system. The variety of titles is staggering - http://icculus.org/lgfaq/gamelist.php lists just a few. Granted, this is not as impressive as the list for Windows, but it qualifies as a "credible alternative".
I started out at a young age with BASIC, which taught me nothing about actual programming. Functions? Return values? Closures? Memory management? Nope.
A few years later, in my pre-teens, I moved onto C. This is what actually got me into programming. A solid language, a useful language, and a language that teaches one to appreciate what the machine is actually doing, though not quite as much so as ASM.
Now that C had taught me the fundamentals, I went on to learn Java, Perl, and Scheme, among others. Though these may also be good introductory languages, every programmer will have to deal with a pointer at some point or another.
Each command is so simple that there's no chance you'll get hit with a language bug.
Well, it's entirely possible that in a modern CISC architecture, an instruction such as MMAJNZFKL (multiply, move, add, jump if not zero, and then flash the keyboard LEDs) would be mis-implemented.
Inconsistent light over the course of a year, eh? Quit bitching. Earth has had seasons since time immemorial. If you can't deal with it, I suggest that you move to the Equator, where each and every day lasts 12 hours almost exactly. Some variation in day length is no reason to change our clocks twice a year.
As a bit of an amateur astronomer, I find daylight savings especially irritating, because in the summer, while it is in effect, the sun is up longer _anyhow_, so it gets dark later in the first place. If the DST people had given it any thought at all, they would save daylight in the winter.
...who (in a previous incarnation) introduced such radical policies as universal healthcare.
the Green party has too many eviro-nuts
...and the other parties have too few.
The reason they are small is that they are not popular with the voters.
Consider this: the Conservatives are unacceptable to the majority of Canadian voters. Most people voted for other parties. The Conservatives got in partially because of vote-splitting and partially (as mentioned above) because of our skewed electoral system.
...people who might have voted NDP vote Liberal because they're justifiably frightened of Harper and his Reform/Alliance/Conservative Party.
...because their vote is moot if their candidate of choice is not elected, so they are effectively forced to vote for one of the two biggest and (presumably) most popular parties.
If Canada's electoral system were based on proportional representation, then the distribution of seats in the House would actually represent (hence "representation") the views of the electorate.
Canadians are so used to looking down their noses at "ignorant" Americans, but at least every American I've met has some idea of how their system of government works, unlike you snot-nosed clowns who clearly don't know a goddam thing.
Strange, then, that the latest Canadian election induced 64.7 percent of our apathetic, snot-nosed electorate to come to the polls, while the latest American election managed to induce only 55.3 percent of the American electorate to do the same.
Sources: Federal Elections Commission (USA) and Elections Canada.
Exactly. Cryptography is a method of ensuring, among other things, that a message sent from one party to another cannot be read by an attacker. However, in the case of DRM, the recipient and attacker are the same person; therefore, DRM is essentially a trivial case of cryptography, which is basically equivalent to sending the data in the clear, if somewhat more inconvenient for the movie viewer or music listener.
I used to be fat, with very little muscle. Losing the fat was simple - I rode my bicycle for at least one hour every day, and cut back on my food intake. As for gaining muscle mass, I never had a personal trainer, but by doing weight training exercizes gleaned from various web sites, I managed to beef up considerably - not to body builder levels, of course, but the difference is noticable. It is by no means necessary to go to a gym, as long as you mind your form and ensure that you are not "cheating".
To lose fat, any sort of physical activity would do - cycling, walking, weight training, or whatever, as long as you can keep it up.
As for weight training, the choice between free weights and machines can be as controversial as that between vi and emacs; I, however, would recommend free weights, as they are more versatile and more taxing on the muscles.
One last thing: one of the most important aspects of getting in shape is the diet. I don't mean the diets that are advertised on magazine covers and the like, but I do mean that eating healthily is critical. Jolt may be a coder staple, but try coffee instead - less sugar. Avoid processed foods, and try to eat nutritious meals.
While the power requirement to run all of these drives continuously would indeed be great, you don't necessarily need a back-up _array_ - instead, use them for off-line back-up media. A single PC equipped with a removable HDD enclosure or three would do the job nicely.
Everyone implicitly chooses a level of technology to use. Even the Amish build dwellings - this is a form of technology. My grandmother owns a computer and uses it mainly for e-mail, which she absolutely loves. She has no need for instant messaging or the like. Such is the great thing about technology - one can choose which technologies to use.
nVidia, like all corporations, is more concerned with serving its shareholders than its users, so they use dirty tricks like this in an attempt to force some users to shell out $600 more for the same product. Instead of focusing on producing the best hardware designs they possibly can and leaving driver development to the community, where the most good can be done (more platforms supported, using hardware to maximum potential, etc.), they capitalize on their monopoly on drivers for their products.
Interesting that the President decides which countries are considered to be "internet-restricting". I suppose that allowing the USA to top that list would be a violation of national security, right?
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...precariously close to censorship. What really makes wikipedia great is the fact that anyone can contribute and that poor content will be weeded out by the multitude of readers (these also being the editors) who recognize it as such, not by a chosen few who have an effective veto.
Though Portage is a fantastic and powerful package management system, I still believe that Gentoo is better suited to being a hacker's, rather than an average user's, distribution, simply because the average user cares not about USE flags and compiler optimizations and whatnot. Portage's strength lies in its customizability and hackability, but, in my experience, it requires more participation and maintenance both to use and to configure.
RPM, in my opinion, is better suited for rm fodder. Dependencies are a pain, and the package selection is not as good as that of Portage or deb, or at least wasn't when I was using it.
deb is an amazing packaging system with heaps of available packages and it makes light work of dependencies. I run Debian on my server, and there are no package management problems whatsoever.
So, while I run Gentoo on my main PC and HTPC, I recommend Debian, or other deb-based distros, to those interested in trying Linux for the first time.
"what it is to be" an H2 driver is to be a douche...
Does that imply that an H2 is merely a large vagina?
Too bad there's no credible alternative to vista or vista 2nd release in sight for your average gaming-oriented PC. I wouldn't use linux for general desktop stuff either, too much pain if there's no ideological reason to go there.
Too bad you're misinformed. A good Linux desktop distribution can be up and running painlessly in half an hour, and nearly everything just works. I host LAN parties on a regular basis, with my own computers, every one of which runs a Linux-based operating system. The variety of titles is staggering - http://icculus.org/lgfaq/gamelist.php lists just a few. Granted, this is not as impressive as the list for Windows, but it qualifies as a "credible alternative".
I started out at a young age with BASIC, which taught me nothing about actual programming. Functions? Return values? Closures? Memory management? Nope. A few years later, in my pre-teens, I moved onto C. This is what actually got me into programming. A solid language, a useful language, and a language that teaches one to appreciate what the machine is actually doing, though not quite as much so as ASM. Now that C had taught me the fundamentals, I went on to learn Java, Perl, and Scheme, among others. Though these may also be good introductory languages, every programmer will have to deal with a pointer at some point or another.
You learn 2 + 2 = 4 before you learn a^2 + b^2 = c^2.
...which you learn before you learn a^n + b^n = c^n, n > 2.
Each command is so simple that there's no chance you'll get hit with a language bug.
Well, it's entirely possible that in a modern CISC architecture, an instruction such as MMAJNZFKL (multiply, move, add, jump if not zero, and then flash the keyboard LEDs) would be mis-implemented.
...or buy a shielded cable. Really, it's not worth the system resources.
Yes, medicare is considered extremely radical in the UK and Canada.
You guessed wrong.
Inconsistent light over the course of a year, eh? Quit bitching. Earth has had seasons since time immemorial. If you can't deal with it, I suggest that you move to the Equator, where each and every day lasts 12 hours almost exactly. Some variation in day length is no reason to change our clocks twice a year.
As a bit of an amateur astronomer, I find daylight savings especially irritating, because in the summer, while it is in effect, the sun is up longer _anyhow_, so it gets dark later in the first place. If the DST people had given it any thought at all, they would save daylight in the winter.
Anyhow, I'm off to Saskatchewan. Farewell.
...about whether people will start charging for sex.
the NDP are a bunch of radical socialists
...who (in a previous incarnation) introduced such radical policies as universal healthcare.
the Green party has too many eviro-nuts
...and the other parties have too few.
The reason they are small is that they are not popular with the voters.
Consider this: the Conservatives are unacceptable to the majority of Canadian voters. Most people voted for other parties. The Conservatives got in partially because of vote-splitting and partially (as mentioned above) because of our skewed electoral system.
Sure if everyone had their own LHC this wouldn't be needed, but now I assume there is more users than there is LHCs ..
Now, yes, but look at what happened with the computer. In a few years, we may all be walking around with atom smashers in our pockets.
...people who might have voted NDP vote Liberal because they're justifiably frightened of Harper and his Reform/Alliance/Conservative Party.
...because their vote is moot if their candidate of choice is not elected, so they are effectively forced to vote for one of the two biggest and (presumably) most popular parties.
If Canada's electoral system were based on proportional representation, then the distribution of seats in the House would actually represent (hence "representation") the views of the electorate.
Canadians are so used to looking down their noses at "ignorant" Americans, but at least every American I've met has some idea of how their system of government works, unlike you snot-nosed clowns who clearly don't know a goddam thing.
Strange, then, that the latest Canadian election induced 64.7 percent of our apathetic, snot-nosed electorate to come to the polls, while the latest American election managed to induce only 55.3 percent of the American electorate to do the same.
Sources: Federal Elections Commission (USA) and Elections Canada.
The ISO standard format for computer office suite online help systems: a talking paperclip.
Exactly. Cryptography is a method of ensuring, among other things, that a message sent from one party to another cannot be read by an attacker. However, in the case of DRM, the recipient and attacker are the same person; therefore, DRM is essentially a trivial case of cryptography, which is basically equivalent to sending the data in the clear, if somewhat more inconvenient for the movie viewer or music listener.
It would matter on, say, an embedded system.
I used to be fat, with very little muscle. Losing the fat was simple - I rode my bicycle for at least one hour every day, and cut back on my food intake. As for gaining muscle mass, I never had a personal trainer, but by doing weight training exercizes gleaned from various web sites, I managed to beef up considerably - not to body builder levels, of course, but the difference is noticable. It is by no means necessary to go to a gym, as long as you mind your form and ensure that you are not "cheating".
To lose fat, any sort of physical activity would do - cycling, walking, weight training, or whatever, as long as you can keep it up.
As for weight training, the choice between free weights and machines can be as controversial as that between vi and emacs; I, however, would recommend free weights, as they are more versatile and more taxing on the muscles.
One last thing: one of the most important aspects of getting in shape is the diet. I don't mean the diets that are advertised on magazine covers and the like, but I do mean that eating healthily is critical. Jolt may be a coder staple, but try coffee instead - less sugar. Avoid processed foods, and try to eat nutritious meals.
Keep at it!
While the power requirement to run all of these drives continuously would indeed be great, you don't necessarily need a back-up _array_ - instead, use them for off-line back-up media. A single PC equipped with a removable HDD enclosure or three would do the job nicely.
before the USA makes laws restricting the export of strong magnets.
Everyone implicitly chooses a level of technology to use. Even the Amish build dwellings - this is a form of technology. My grandmother owns a computer and uses it mainly for e-mail, which she absolutely loves. She has no need for instant messaging or the like. Such is the great thing about technology - one can choose which technologies to use.
using M-x time-jump is allowed.
nVidia, like all corporations, is more concerned with serving its shareholders than its users, so they use dirty tricks like this in an attempt to force some users to shell out $600 more for the same product. Instead of focusing on producing the best hardware designs they possibly can and leaving driver development to the community, where the most good can be done (more platforms supported, using hardware to maximum potential, etc.), they capitalize on their monopoly on drivers for their products.
Kudos to TechARP for their hack.
Interesting that the President decides which countries are considered to be "internet-restricting". I suppose that allowing the USA to top that list would be a violation of national security, right?