can someone please parse the English for me (first line of TFA): "Open-source developers this week achieved a pleasant late Christmas present for Fedora users of having a working system with using the in-development Linux kernel DBus implementation (KDBUS) paired with the latest systemd code can now yield a booting system."
As a naive user, I'd be wary if they can't even write in English.
random is a silly concept too. It often means we don't know the reasons, so we call it random.
evil is a silly construct. Read: Howard K Bloom, The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into The Forces of History
No. Your comment is illogical. Some people will ALWAYS seek to be richer than others, to control them, to kill them. They're called sociopaths and even Norway has them and so does Slashdot. It's in the genes of some people. It's just that Norway and other Scandinavian countries deal with "criminality" a huge lot better than English speaking countries.
A program is an alogrithm or group of algorithms.
So surely we're talking about "correctness" of algorithms?
Isn't the best textboom on this by Dr Jeffrey Kingston, Algorithms and Data Structures: Design, Correctness, Analysis ??
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2682170-algorithms-and-data-structures
Have to agree with the above comments, but hey, slashdot is not what it used to be (they let me on for example).
I have to declare a possible conflcit of interest too; I know Kingston.
cartoon of ELSEVIER SHOOTING ITSELF IN THE FACE wearing King Caunute clothing.
http://kmccready.wordpress.com/2013/12/06/elsevier-shoots-itself-in-the-face-again/
I've got lots of moderator points to use on SlashdoG, but why bother?
EVERY time I visit
I have to agree about the health profession. And here's an example that may be useful for geeks. For years I suffered from painful hips. At the age of 35 I thought I had early onset arthritis. Two different doctors about two years apart said no, but didn't know what it was. The pain got so bad after four years that I went to another doctor who asked me questions about my lifestyle. He established that I sat in front of a computer too long and then asked me to touch my toes. I couldn't. He said the problem was my hamstrings had shrunk so badly that they were crunching my leg bones up into my hip sockets. Answer simple stretches. Instant relief. Now I do my !@%$! stretches.
My understanding at the time was that the annoyed sting ray had the ability to sense where the heart was and aimed accordingly. I'd be happy to be proved wrong.
1989
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CfA2_Great_Wall
The Great Wall (also called Coma Wall), sometimes specifically referred to as the CfA2 Great Wall, is one of the largest known superstructures in the Universe, (the largest being the Huge-LQG). It is a filament of galaxies approximately 200 million light-years away and has dimensions which measure over 500 million light-years long, 300 million light-years wide and 16 million light-years thick, and includes the Hercules Supercluster, the Coma Supercluster and the Leo Cluster.[1]
It was discovered in 1989 by Margaret Geller and John Huchra based on redshift survey data from the CfA Redshift Survey.
for us all. Better deal would say, by all means copy, BUT you must make it fully available. I'm going through awful problems right now trying to get a copy of a 1776 book which was microfilmed ages ago, then digitised more recently. I don't mind people who did both processes getting a fair return but we need to decide what a fair return is. Super profits for people like the infamous convicted modern Enlgish airport fiction writer just don't cut it.
because it imagines USA has democracy to begin with. You can define anything you want to be democracy, but it's best defined as Proportional Representation. Most people in the USA don't even know what that is. Plato : The penalty for not being involved in politics is to be ruled by your inferiors.
yep. lots of theory about leds but many are a disaster when it comes to quality control (including some expensive ones I put in our house). Let's hope they can do better than the pro-business New Zealand government leaving it all to the market.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11131680
Why I resigned from my stupid cycling organisation.
http://kmccready.wordpress.com/2013/03/01/cycling-deaths-i-resign-from-cycling-action-network-can/
Short version:
1. dooring (a cyclist riding into a car door as it’s being opened because the cyclist is too close). Dumb cyclists should NEVER ride in the door death zone. Attempts to blame car doors (kids in back seat? drivers who haven't been born with x-ray vision to see through door frames?) are dumb
2. attacking coroner's report which said wear bright clothing. (how dumb is that?)
3. No helmet stupidity - any protection is better than none, even if you accept the dumb arguments presented.
8 Catfish = 1 Octo-puss
