Comment Re:Portable Python? (Score 1) 386
Why not go the whole hawg and use vim?
Comment Re:Lol... (Score 1) 299
+1 Sad Reality
Comment Re:"I'm still waiting for my under $50 Macbook." (Score 2, Interesting) 299
It's easy, just start selecting some extra options such as more RAM or an ssd drive. Admittedly the other manufactures also have a high markup on such upgrades but it's much easier to upgrade these parts yourself. Apple do their best to go against this with helpful features such as hard to open cases, oddly sized storage mounts and glued in memory.
If you choose the cheapest RAM / storage options on a "pc laptop" and buy upgrades elsewhere you not only save a few hundred bucks on manufacturers price but also have a spare drive for backups/whatever and an extra RAM stick to flog on ebay. Given Apple's price markup on upgrades the savings will be even greater for similar specs.
As for the GPs comparison of a 13" XPS vs the MacBook Air, Standard: given that the Air uses a low power Core variant the fact that it has a higher clock speed is meaningless. The XPS will be faster and costs 20% less than the Air.
Submission + - A Faster Jigsaw Solving Algorithm (i-programmer.info)
mikejuk writes: Andrew Gallagher at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York has improved the standard approach to automated jigsaw solving by copying what humans do in finding groups of pieces that best match and working outwards from there.
With a speed of 10,000 pieces per 24 hours it can solve large puzzles. Not only that but the type of jigsaw it solves is more difficult than the usual in that the pieces are square and can be placed in any orientation. It is so good it can even solve problems consisting of a number of mixed up puzzles without being told how many or their dimensions.
Of course as well as having fun beating humans at another recreational pastime the technique could be used to unscramble shredded documents as per the recent Darpa challenge.
With a speed of 10,000 pieces per 24 hours it can solve large puzzles. Not only that but the type of jigsaw it solves is more difficult than the usual in that the pieces are square and can be placed in any orientation. It is so good it can even solve problems consisting of a number of mixed up puzzles without being told how many or their dimensions.
Of course as well as having fun beating humans at another recreational pastime the technique could be used to unscramble shredded documents as per the recent Darpa challenge.
Comment Re:Microsoft Pledges to Sell More Macs for Apple (Score 1) 809
How very dare you! It shall be called "The Year of Laptop GNU/Linux" of course!
Comment Re:It happened to me... (Score 1) 151
Installing pirated games, perhaps?
Comment Re:Will Try it (Score 2) 102
Obviously substitute the url for which ever one you decide to actually d/l, but the following ought to work:
wget --limit-rate=20k http://www.dragonflybsd.org/download/#index1h1
Comment Re:Everybody wants to rule the world (Score 1) 214
Hear hear!
Comment Re:PS - Even France is Better than Germany (Score 1) 272
I take my mayonaise with a grain of salt.
Comment Re:Smart (Score 1) 1880
Hear! Hear!
Comment Re:This was proposed in Oregon (Score 1) 500
Over many months the fuel may evaporate, but the taxes are paid up front. Hence, they are certainly exactly the same as the % you pay for using the same fuel in a car vs a mower.
Comment Re:That £3500 PC (Score 1) 174
In the UK healthcare is run by the National Health Servce, a large public sector organisation as the OP pointed out. In other words, not an organisation in the "profitable" sector of the economy. Perhaps they're better on budget control, or atleast slightly more professional than a local council.
Comment This post is must read. (Score 1) 139
Reading your quote, I'd say "cyberpsychology" is in need of a self esteem boost themselves.
Comment Re:Looks less cluttered translated (Score 1) 242
I think http://slashdot.jp/ looks less cluttered, for a start there are no kdawson posts on it.
Comment Wikileaks Mirrors (Score 1) 966
Currently it appears that the main wikileaks site is unavailable. Thankfully wikileaks is actively mirrored, a list of which can be found on http://wikileaks.info/, http://mirror.wikileaks.info/wiki/Afghan_War_Diary,_2004-2010/ ought to take you straight to the original page.
On a side note, the guardians' data blog have a nice writeup and sample of the data: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/datablog/2010/jul/25/wikileaks-afghanistan-data
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