Comment Re:Nothing new (Score 4, Informative) 389
Nobody's posted the video link, so I'm top-posting.
This is the specific video he was ordered to take down.
Nobody's posted the video link, so I'm top-posting.
This is the specific video he was ordered to take down.
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
Wrong.
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.
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.
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.
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.
* 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.
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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..
Where in the constitution does it say
Congress has the power to make laws.
Were there fewer fools, knaves would starve. - Anonymous