The best thing he could do is stop studying Java for awhile and actually study algorithms or AI or graphics or whatever he's interested in. Picking up the syntax of a new language in a month is trivial, but unless you know how to do something with it you're doomed to write "Cat" and "Horse" and "Animal" classes forever.
And - wrong again. Unless you are referring to UAC.
Hiding root inside a cryptic shell is a good security practice to rely on, and brag about over Windows' user-friendly elevation prompts?
Oh really? Windows approved drivers??
There's even such a thing as Linux approved drivers??
You forgot to preface your post with the "Emotional Rant" tag...
What. A lot of hardware like video cards and peripherals are supported only in Windows, and if Linux users want it they have to deal with second-best vendor drivers or reverse engineered drivers.
Please direct me (us) to this new research that supports this claim.
See my comment about X crashes
Does that somehow equate to a "crash"??
Yes, when X becomes unresponsive and I have to kill it with zap or alt-sysrq-k then that's a crash.
Spend a lot of time supporting Vista do you? Is Aero your dancing bear of choice?
OK then, share your experience, if you managed to upgrade enough machines in your Windows ME environment to have any.
Windows has many significant flaws, but these aren't any of them.
viruses and bluescreens aren't just "part of computers", but part of windows
Malware isn't just a part of Windows. If the user is stupid enough to run malicious code with elevated privileges then their computer is going to turn into mush like you describe, regardless of the operating system. Hiding root inside a cryptic shell doesn't really count.
Also, bluescreens haven't been a real complaint against Windows since XP pre-SP1. Any lingering problems are due to drivers, and Linux has much nastier drivers than Windows. Crashes are rare and Windows handles dying programs better than Linux. Badly written X applications occasionally cause my X to freeze up but I've never heard of such a thing on Windows.
Just to put my voice in against the chorus of support for SUSE, I think Debian is the better choice. Packages, features, tools, and etc but more importantly it's free. The DFSG is aggressively enforced by the project. You can't say that with a straight face about anything Novell has touched.
Of course, if he just stays with XP then there's no disruption or learning curve at all.
Actually, they won't care for new things; even the upcoming upgrade to Windows 7 would be a pain and a bother, which is a great opportunity for Linux.
Yes, them not wanting to switch to 7 is a great opportunity to cause them the same new-system headaches but with Linux.
What I'm concerned about is OS look-and-feel and interface — system bar on the bottom with clock, trash, info on the right, menu on the left, menu items similar to those of Windows
If you want XP, just use XP! I don't understand Windows clone distros. If you want Windows then don't switch to Linux.
I absolutely agree. If we're invaded by a foreign power, we should resist fiercely, using our weapons to kill enemy soldiers patrolling in our streets and using homemade bombs to blow up their vehicles so that we can restore the original government. We'll be fighting for our country and the world will look upon us as heroes!
* It is illegal for you to use my name to promote your products without my permission. You can use my name, but not in a way that could be construed as endorsing your product.
I would call it lame. The robot isn't "solving" anything. The real impressive work is what happens before the robot does anything: the algorithm that determines a good solution for the given cube.
As much as I'd like to see several people go to prison over this, I feel bad for the local taxpayers and their kids who will have to go to a school $50 million in the red..
What? "Google doesn't want to be subject to inconvenient laws" is not an excuse! Whether or not you think the laws are fair, it is certainly not acceptable to call the numbers trade secrets that could potentially reveal the companies' business strategy to competitors.
This is basically a slap in Congress's face. Known in the biz as "a stupid move."
The list is pathetically pro-Apple. They're not going to criticize a current product. Look at this quote from TFA:
There was some benefit, however. The hockey puck helped to boost the market for third-party peripherals, and its cold reception forced Apple to rethink its ergonomic approach for future mouse designs.
Translation: Apple is great because the product was so bad that it boosted the market for third-party peripherals!
Well Southwest is saying that not only were there not enough seats, but if there had been extra seats their policy is to give them to oversized passengers for free.
Not on the next flight, they put him on the flight he bought a ticket for. He was trying to change his flight plans at the last minute, which is why they didn't have a seat for him.
Well that pretty much deflates the whole issue. Plus Southwest's policy is pretty generous, and giving him $100 because he couldn't get a seat on standby was totally unnecessary.
I was skeptical about the headline anyway. If you can't be accommodated safely due to your size, then you cannot fly. There's no outrage fuel here.
Sectors, blocks, clusters, cylinders... I hope that as we move to solid state drives, devs have the sense to exorcise these anachronisms from the kernel. We haven't been able to get rid of terminals in the 20 years since they've even existed.. this document is heart wrenching. Try reading it; it'll make you cry to see how deeply the now-irrelevant concept of a terminal runs in Linux.
Have you read Free Culture? It might change your perspective on how "owned" our cultural treasures should be.
Also this kind of sampling is rather common in literature. I'm not sure how extensive her plagiarism was, but a large proportion of The Waste Land for example is pieced together from other writings..
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The best thing he could do is stop studying Java for awhile and actually study algorithms or AI or graphics or whatever he's interested in. Picking up the syntax of a new language in a month is trivial, but unless you know how to do something with it you're doomed to write "Cat" and "Horse" and "Animal" classes forever.
Wrong.
Hiding root inside a cryptic shell is a good security practice to rely on, and brag about over Windows' user-friendly elevation prompts?
There's even such a thing as Linux approved drivers??
What. A lot of hardware like video cards and peripherals are supported only in Windows, and if Linux users want it they have to deal with second-best vendor drivers or reverse engineered drivers.
See my comment about X crashes
Yes, when X becomes unresponsive and I have to kill it with zap or alt-sysrq-k then that's a crash.
OK then, share your experience, if you managed to upgrade enough machines in your Windows ME environment to have any.
Windows has many significant flaws, but these aren't any of them.
Malware isn't just a part of Windows. If the user is stupid enough to run malicious code with elevated privileges then their computer is going to turn into mush like you describe, regardless of the operating system. Hiding root inside a cryptic shell doesn't really count.
Also, bluescreens haven't been a real complaint against Windows since XP pre-SP1. Any lingering problems are due to drivers, and Linux has much nastier drivers than Windows. Crashes are rare and Windows handles dying programs better than Linux. Badly written X applications occasionally cause my X to freeze up but I've never heard of such a thing on Windows.
Pushing the limits of engine efficiency is certainly productive research...
Just to put my voice in against the chorus of support for SUSE, I think Debian is the better choice. Packages, features, tools, and etc but more importantly it's free. The DFSG is aggressively enforced by the project. You can't say that with a straight face about anything Novell has touched.
Of course, if he just stays with XP then there's no disruption or learning curve at all.
Yes, them not wanting to switch to 7 is a great opportunity to cause them the same new-system headaches but with Linux.
If you want XP, just use XP! I don't understand Windows clone distros. If you want Windows then don't switch to Linux.
2.6.26 is less than 2 years old. Not too much to brag about since Linux is on a much more rapid development cycle than Windows.
I absolutely agree. If we're invaded by a foreign power, we should resist fiercely, using our weapons to kill enemy soldiers patrolling in our streets and using homemade bombs to blow up their vehicles so that we can restore the original government. We'll be fighting for our country and the world will look upon us as heroes!
The lego robot isn't impressive news is all I'm saying. The algorithm already existed.
Of course, you could be dropped from the team and by the time the courts sort it out you're too old to really compete and your Olympic dream dies.
Meet this post.
I would call it lame. The robot isn't "solving" anything. The real impressive work is what happens before the robot does anything: the algorithm that determines a good solution for the given cube.
As much as I'd like to see several people go to prison over this, I feel bad for the local taxpayers and their kids who will have to go to a school $50 million in the red..
Congress has the power to make laws.
What? "Google doesn't want to be subject to inconvenient laws" is not an excuse! Whether or not you think the laws are fair, it is certainly not acceptable to call the numbers trade secrets that could potentially reveal the companies' business strategy to competitors.
This is basically a slap in Congress's face. Known in the biz as "a stupid move."
email would have worked just as well.
The list is pathetically pro-Apple. They're not going to criticize a current product. Look at this quote from TFA:
Translation: Apple is great because the product was so bad that it boosted the market for third-party peripherals!
They don't make it to my main page - it's disabled. Unless someone marks it Technology of course...
Well Southwest is saying that not only were there not enough seats, but if there had been extra seats their policy is to give them to oversized passengers for free.
Not on the next flight, they put him on the flight he bought a ticket for. He was trying to change his flight plans at the last minute, which is why they didn't have a seat for him.
Well that pretty much deflates the whole issue. Plus Southwest's policy is pretty generous, and giving him $100 because he couldn't get a seat on standby was totally unnecessary.
I was skeptical about the headline anyway. If you can't be accommodated safely due to your size, then you cannot fly. There's no outrage fuel here.
Yes, thank you. That's exactly what I mean.
Foreign executives being arrested for political reasons? Sounds like they should be clamoring over each other on the roof to get a spot on the last chopper out of Beijing. Not a slow scaling-back of operations.
Sectors, blocks, clusters, cylinders... I hope that as we move to solid state drives, devs have the sense to exorcise these anachronisms from the kernel. We haven't been able to get rid of terminals in the 20 years since they've even existed.. this document is heart wrenching. Try reading it; it'll make you cry to see how deeply the now-irrelevant concept of a terminal runs in Linux.
Have you read Free Culture? It might change your perspective on how "owned" our cultural treasures should be.
Also this kind of sampling is rather common in literature. I'm not sure how extensive her plagiarism was, but a large proportion of The Waste Land for example is pieced together from other writings..