Randal Graves: Some guy just came in refusing to pay late fees. Said the video store was closed for two hours yesterday. So, I tore up his membership. Dante Hicks: Shocking abuse of authority. Randal Graves: Hey, I'm a firm believer in the philosophy of a ruling class. Especially since I rule. --Clerks
like my ability to easily transfer a virtualbox image from one computer to another, without dropping into some commandline tool.
I have tried many google tutorials using VBOXmanage, and and not been able to move my image from one machine to another, or clone it on the same computer without it giving an error message during bootup. So I don't look forward to the day my computer dies.
On the plus side, both versions of Python can claim many of the smallest programs in the collection. Ruby (8, 1) might also compete for titles, but unfortunately its performance is so bad its star falls off the performance chart.
Then why the fuck is the Ruby community hyping it so much, and drawing nieve young developers in to a trap?
Not flamebait.
Why can't they make a language, or extend a language like Ruby, such that one can program it as a scripting language, but then add verbosity optionally (i.e. declaring the data types and their sizes, private / static etc. & whatever the hell makes a program light weight and fast) optionally? It's my hope that if I stick with Ruby one day it I won't be forced to learn Python because performance won't be "Ruby's big issue" in every discussion, but really, that is *just* a hope. I hope this isn't a mistake.
Linux is a concept. It's a theory. It's a dream. That's what makes it so powerful.
And it's also what makes it so frustrating for anyone who wants to see it succeed. What is success for an Open Source project? A child learning to walk takes the first step and the parents celebrate the moment, but what is that first step if nothing more than the first of countless more steps?
Linux is my dream.
People _need_ to be converted, and as the enlightened we have a duty to guide them. Microsoft is funded by money, by greed, by sin.
Think of the workers - that same child learning to walk. Where will he walk to if he wants be be a software developer? To high school, to advanced mathematics, to University, bleeding his parents dry, and then to Borders to by MSCE documents so he can work for Microsoft. His parents may have cried with happiness when he first learned, but by now they'll be wishing they never taught him.
Now think of the Linux developer. Most Linux developers can't walk. Why? Because they don't need to. They didn't waste their time in the computer labs at high shool - they were hammering chicks all day and night. Do you see them picking up MSCE qualifactions at a great cost? No? Because they can spend that money on chicks. It's not a theory or dream with Linux, it's real life. It's no skin our backs, neither is it skin off our dicks (or theirs). We must make this our goal.
Sorry to do this (I know the wine project has been around forever), but you know as well as I do, when the world of virtual machines is coming up so well & fast, why wine?
The speed of sonic, or mario jumping / ducking bullets or onto moving platforms - you could test your hand-eye skills without getting a headache. They should make a spectacularly good looking 3d platformer. I remember playing sonic 3d recently and returned it after an hour. It didn't take as much skill / speed I felt.
Also, dare I say it - the graphics are capable of looking better? They can look hand drawn animation, not like bulky blocks put together. Although this distinction is fading now.
Button presses per minute has somethign to do with it.
agreed. Snes games would cost 60GBP (about $100-$120 USD) when they are available. Now they take 40 hours to complete and are created with a huge landacape design / physics / progammer / story teller / film prodution force. I feel happy paying the price of about 35GBP for games. And if I don't like that I can get them second hand.
However, if the games stores seriously want to get me to buy from them instead of just browsing during my lunch break, they have to start meeting amazon prices or less. Who'd pay double for a game unless they wanted it quick?
absoloutely: the next step would be to harness the abilities of a) time dilation (http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/phonedrmarc/2003_may.shtml, http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=UrK&q=time+dilation&btnG=Search&meta=) to allow for future time travel in some space ship, and the ability to drop someone into a coma / life support device for a lifetime or more. If stuntmen, soldiers and astronauts are willing to take those risks I'm sure someone would do this. Seriously, it won't happen in our lifetime, but who could have imagined planes realistically 200 years ago? If we are sent back pictures of a human society (but 2009 years in the future!) on another planet, it would inevitably unite the people of earth, and probably invoke an worldwide effort to make contact. Or perhaps governments to devise operation 'Enduring Intergalatic Freedom'. Eitherway, I find it credible.
PS. Pater@slashdot.org give us an option for the old slashdot back in preferences - the new ajax doesn't work in many places.
True. I don't need work to know precisely when and for how long I've decided to take a slashdot break. Furthermore, I'm using an IBM clickly keyboard now - I used it for years because I was persuaded keyboard flamewars that oldskool heavy clickly boards were the way to go. I can actually feel myself typing slower, and exhausting pointless energy while being louder. I'm sure there's a happy medium - perhaps it's MS or logitech.
Also, someone should post a list of keyboards without the numpad column. It should be an attachment.
I was going to buy a small one (15GB?) and put my linux partition on it (PC, so mobile benefits don't matter), but figured not too because of the fact that the number of times you can re-write is less. But according to "Because of these wear-leveling techniques, and the fact that a modern NAND device can sustain up to one million write cycles, the overall lifetime of an SSD can be decades. So losing capacity due to flash write cycles is probably not an issue", the option is now still back on.
But the re-write times are twice as slow! (ok I can live with that). But the read times are faster...as a home user, WHERE is this going to benefit me? Will I notice a diffence in 'vim file' or playing/streaming music?
I could maybe see if I were using a laptop, but I don't get how this would benefit me.
Thanks for taking the time to answer if anyone can persuade me different. I might just get it for the cleanness of having a small segregated linux drive - really that's the best reason I can see.
But do you really need ssd in large volumes? No os partition + apps should require more than 10GB, and that gives you about 20GB+ of temp data to play with.
For my next setup (finally building THE dream machine), I'll have a 32gb (actually would have been content with 16gb, but I guess I can rip more large wavs/mov's in one go), I'll have my main parition/documents on the flash drive, and then a big SATAII mechanical drive for storing this large, infrequently accessed files on. I'd have it no other way, even if larger flashes did exist.
I actually figured it would be a nice idea to have a seperate tiny drive for my OS/ACTUAL work, and another for media. This will be convenient for such a setup. And it will be very easy/clear to seperate the wheat from the chaff when backing up.
Linux installation has been known to screw up hardware (sorry, linux is the best but the software does COME WITHOUT WARRANTY, so why should HP fork out if the software screwed up your cdrom drive ( Apologies for re-opening a very old wound).
No that's brilliant - thanks for your opinion. A lot of people are pushing me for python, but I always figured it's reveared status for text processing/manipulation & wealth of existing scripts/implementations would mean perl would win hands down.
But if it's possible to do these things with python, then I'll go for that (soley for the reason that certain people with opinions I respect say it's the new way forward). I don't want to waste my time focusing on two languages (learning perl, and then moving to python later). Text processing in python is precisely the kind of reference I need.
I'm currently going through http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sed2/, but I can see my using perl the more I do website programming. Would an experience scripter suggest that I switch to perl (for it seems it can perform similar text manipulation functions conveniently in a programming lanuage), or spend more time with sed/awk?
I'll probably do both incidentally, but opinions would be appreciated. It seems everyone rates perl. I was going to switch to Python, but apparently Perl is better for smaller/one line regexp manipulation in scripts, and python for building large applications.
I hope this doesn't put people off using gnome. It's still more stable than KDE from my experience, and has many good applications on GTK (which I rate more stable than the kde counterparts - regardless of configurability or not, reliability is quite important to me). If you want more configurability, , and your skills have developed from entry level to enthusiast, move out of KDE & Gnome.
I think for younger people (who have lost sight due to some premature condition or tragedy), this should be Government funded. I would respect a country's government who gave sight to it's citizens. No one should be blind.
It had enjoyable missions from start to finish. I appreciate his point: I'm no gamer, but I remember when playing Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the N64, traipsing around huge landscapes was astounding - the first time. Several years on, I still don't want to play it again (although the completing a game like the does feel relieving).
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Randal Graves: Some guy just came in refusing to pay late fees. Said the video store was closed for two hours yesterday. So, I tore up his membership.
Dante Hicks: Shocking abuse of authority.
Randal Graves: Hey, I'm a firm believer in the philosophy of a ruling class. Especially since I rule.
--Clerks
like my ability to easily transfer a virtualbox image from one computer to another, without dropping into some commandline tool.
I have tried many google tutorials using VBOXmanage, and and not been able to move my image from one machine to another, or clone it on the same computer without it giving an error message during bootup. So I don't look forward to the day my computer dies.
or fans that blow them out of the way.
or a barrier around the engine inflow.
I bet there is a solution, just no one gives a fuck to implement it until a few more planes go down, this time in the city.
Seriously some people with a lot of money need to get their shit together.
Thanks for that. Druby (http://www.cs.umd.edu/projects/PL/druby/) also seems to be a right step for a faster language.
On the plus side, both versions of Python can claim many of the smallest programs in the collection. Ruby (8, 1) might also compete for titles, but unfortunately its performance is so bad its star falls off the performance chart.
Then why the fuck is the Ruby community hyping it so much, and drawing nieve young developers in to a trap?
Not flamebait.
Why can't they make a language, or extend a language like Ruby, such that one can program it as a scripting language, but then add verbosity optionally (i.e. declaring the data types and their sizes, private / static etc. & whatever the hell makes a program light weight and fast) optionally? It's my hope that if I stick with Ruby one day it I won't be forced to learn Python because performance won't be "Ruby's big issue" in every discussion, but really, that is *just* a hope. I hope this isn't a mistake.
Linux is a concept. It's a theory. It's a dream. That's what makes it so powerful.
And it's also what makes it so frustrating for anyone who wants to see it succeed. What is success for an Open Source project? A child learning to walk takes the first step and the parents celebrate the moment, but what is that first step if nothing more than the first of countless more steps?
Linux is my dream.
People _need_ to be converted, and as the enlightened we have a duty to guide them. Microsoft is funded by money, by greed, by sin.
Think of the workers - that same child learning to walk. Where will he walk to if he wants be be a software developer? To high school, to advanced mathematics, to University, bleeding his parents dry, and then to Borders to by MSCE documents so he can work for Microsoft. His parents may have cried with happiness when he first learned, but by now they'll be wishing they never taught him.
Now think of the Linux developer. Most Linux developers can't walk. Why? Because they don't need to. They didn't waste their time in the computer labs at high shool - they were hammering chicks all day and night. Do you see them picking up MSCE qualifactions at a great cost? No? Because they can spend that money on chicks. It's not a theory or dream with Linux, it's real life. It's no skin our backs, neither is it skin off our dicks (or theirs). We must make this our goal.
Hi,
Sorry to do this (I know the wine project has been around forever), but you know as well as I do, when the world of virtual machines is coming up so well & fast, why wine?
The speed of sonic, or mario jumping / ducking bullets or onto moving platforms - you could test your hand-eye skills without getting a headache. They should make a spectacularly good looking 3d platformer. I remember playing sonic 3d recently and returned it after an hour. It didn't take as much skill / speed I felt.
Also, dare I say it - the graphics are capable of looking better? They can look hand drawn animation, not like bulky blocks put together. Although this distinction is fading now.
Button presses per minute has somethign to do with it.
There are some games I can't play at a high volume or with most family in the room - those are the games with bad language evey minute.
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How much Karma do I need to switch off offensive and bias story tags?
agreed. Snes games would cost 60GBP (about $100-$120 USD) when they are available. Now they take 40 hours to complete and are created with a huge landacape design / physics / progammer / story teller / film prodution force. I feel happy paying the price of about 35GBP for games. And if I don't like that I can get them second hand.
However, if the games stores seriously want to get me to buy from them instead of just browsing during my lunch break, they have to start meeting amazon prices or less. Who'd pay double for a game unless they wanted it quick?
absoloutely: the next step would be to harness the abilities of a) time dilation (http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/phonedrmarc/2003_may.shtml, http://www.google.co.in/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&hs=UrK&q=time+dilation&btnG=Search&meta=) to allow for future time travel in some space ship, and the ability to drop someone into a coma / life support device for a lifetime or more. If stuntmen, soldiers and astronauts are willing to take those risks I'm sure someone would do this.
Seriously, it won't happen in our lifetime, but who could have imagined planes realistically 200 years ago? If we are sent back pictures of a human society (but 2009 years in the future!) on another planet, it would inevitably unite the people of earth, and probably invoke an worldwide effort to make contact. Or perhaps governments to devise operation 'Enduring Intergalatic Freedom'. Eitherway, I find it credible.
PS. Pater@slashdot.org give us an option for the old slashdot back in preferences - the new ajax doesn't work in many places.
Linux also has a PR problem.
Huh? What r u talking about?
True. I don't need work to know precisely when and for how long I've decided to take a slashdot break. Furthermore, I'm using an IBM clickly keyboard now - I used it for years because I was persuaded keyboard flamewars that oldskool heavy clickly boards were the way to go. I can actually feel myself typing slower, and exhausting pointless energy while being louder. I'm sure there's a happy medium - perhaps it's MS or logitech.
Also, someone should post a list of keyboards without the numpad column. It should be an attachment.
did you get the job, or let your prejudices overwhelm you?
I was going to buy a small one (15GB?) and put my linux partition on it (PC, so mobile benefits don't matter), but figured not too because of the fact that the number of times you can re-write is less. But according to "Because of these wear-leveling techniques, and the fact that a modern NAND device can sustain up to one million write cycles, the overall lifetime of an SSD can be decades. So losing capacity due to flash write cycles is probably not an issue", the option is now still back on.
But the re-write times are twice as slow! (ok I can live with that). But the read times are faster...as a home user, WHERE is this going to benefit me? Will I notice a diffence in 'vim file' or playing/streaming music?
I could maybe see if I were using a laptop, but I don't get how this would benefit me.
Thanks for taking the time to answer if anyone can persuade me different.
I might just get it for the cleanness of having a small segregated linux drive - really that's the best reason I can see.
as pointed out, $$$.
But do you really need ssd in large volumes?
No os partition + apps should require more than 10GB, and that gives you about 20GB+ of temp data to play with.
For my next setup (finally building THE dream machine), I'll have a 32gb (actually would have been content with 16gb, but I guess I can rip more large wavs/mov's in one go), I'll have my main parition/documents on the flash drive, and then a big SATAII mechanical drive for storing this large, infrequently accessed files on. I'd have it no other way, even if larger flashes did exist.
I actually figured it would be a nice idea to have a seperate tiny drive for my OS/ACTUAL work, and another for media. This will be convenient for such a setup. And it will be very easy/clear to seperate the wheat from the chaff when backing up.
Linux installation has been known to screw up hardware (sorry, linux is the best but the software does COME WITHOUT WARRANTY, so why should HP fork out if the software screwed up your cdrom drive ( Apologies for re-opening a very old wound).
That's great. Where can I buy such an applicator to put on the thermal paste like this?
No that's brilliant - thanks for your opinion. A lot of people are pushing me for python, but I always figured it's reveared status for text processing/manipulation & wealth of existing scripts/implementations would mean perl would win hands down.
But if it's possible to do these things with python, then I'll go for that (soley for the reason that certain people with opinions I respect say it's the new way forward). I don't want to waste my time focusing on two languages (learning perl, and then moving to python later). Text processing in python is precisely the kind of reference I need.
Useful review.
I'm currently going through http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/sed2/, but I can see my using perl the more I do website programming. Would an experience scripter suggest that I switch to perl (for it seems it can perform similar text manipulation functions conveniently in a programming lanuage), or spend more time with sed/awk?
I'll probably do both incidentally, but opinions would be appreciated. It seems everyone rates perl.
I was going to switch to Python, but apparently Perl is better for smaller/one line regexp manipulation in scripts, and python for building large applications.
I hope this doesn't put people off using gnome. It's still more stable than KDE from my experience, and has many good applications on GTK (which I rate more stable than the kde counterparts - regardless of configurability or not, reliability is quite important to me). If you want more configurability, , and your skills have developed from entry level to enthusiast, move out of KDE & Gnome.
This is fucking amazing, and huge. No, really.
I think for younger people (who have lost sight due to some premature condition or tragedy), this should be Government funded. I would respect a country's government who gave sight to it's citizens. No one should be blind.
It had enjoyable missions from start to finish. I appreciate his point: I'm no gamer, but I remember when playing Zelda: Ocarina of Time for the N64, traipsing around huge landscapes was astounding - the first time. Several years on, I still don't want to play it again (although the completing a game like the does feel relieving).
Er, no we don't. If you read some Austen you see that people commonly used -ize before our generation - it's been bastardized by commoners since then.