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Some package management (apt) would be better if it would be easier for 3rd party vendors to get into the sources.list. For now you either have to get users to edit that file by hand (for which they might not even have the rights) or you have to use another installation mechanism which avoids the package management to which they are used and lose the advantages of stuff like upgrade. Maybe there should be a sources.list per user which allows normal users also to install software and distros could be set-up to work with a certain file-type in a way that if you click it on the web, then a default installer goes up which guides you all the way through the installation.

Right now the situation is that if you want anything that's not in the "official" package repositories (probably the majority of software ...) you are getting into a world where installation is harder than in any other OS. And that is true as well for open-source applications (you want newest blender or one that is months behind?) as closed-source applications (which simply don't get into official repositories anyway).

I also tried using one of the binary installers for a while, but when it stopped working with newer distros (my application still worked) I guessed that tar.gz and zip are for the moment simply the best I can really offer and that's still what I'm using for now.
That 6 core die photo is worth a centerfold poster (I'll be hitting tineye.com for a larger version ;-)

I'd note that AMD's "more-for-less approach" has not been just about number of cores - little 'details' like ECC RAM, VT instructions, or even half-decent graphics in the chipset, have come in at lower price points, nearly down to the budget versions.

P.S. TinEye doesn't seem to have the pic yet; a search for large images of "amd six core phenom die photo" gets hits (many fake, cf. http://aceshardware.freeforums.org/phenom-ii-x6-1090t-3-2ghz...).
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Actually, as someone who has used Linux as desktop software since 1996, I would say the exact opposite: it's making rapid progress compared to where it was once. Perhaps it still hasn't quite caught up, but I'm relatively certain that soonish, it will be 'good enough' for an ever-larger segment of the population. It's already 'good enough' for a lot of people.
That's the best tip of all. Ask yourself this question: "Can I walk through all the vimtutor examples without thinking too much?" If you can't, there is probably stuff in there you should learn. Make sure you know what an operator is, and what insert mode does. Listen to vimtutor when it tells you to learn by doing, not by trying to memorize everything in the tutorial. I learned by doing vimtutor over and over again until I could complete it without referring to help. If I forgot commands, I'd start over completely at the beginning and progress as far as I could until I had to start over to review. Do this a dozen times or so and soon you'll have basic facility.

Also, use vim for everything, not just code. Use it for email, writing projects, file management, and explore what else it can do for you.
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Extroverts won't have a clue about these subtle body language because they have more interesting things to think about.

I think you mean "introverts", there.
I don't get it. . . .

They have two thumbs, but within reach of their thumbs are extra keys. They need these extra keys because there are a lot of characters in their writing. They don't need more thumbs, because they only need to push one of these extra keys at a time.

Do I need more pointer fingers if I need to use one of the Y, H, N, B, T, G, and V keys?
> You make it sound like he was murdered because he was gay. I don't think it was quite that clear cut.

Lets turn it around then. If he hadn't been gay, would he have been murdered?

> Most inventions are 'discovered' by many people at around the same time.

Yeah, this is true. Even revolutionary ideas seem to show up at multiple places at the same time. So it seems that the state of knowledge at the time of invention matters a great deal.
Looks like a talent acquisition, not a complementary product takeover. Kind of like Etherpad. Developers that know the tech which Google is looking to implement in their own line of products.
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Building cost is (partly) dependent on the size of the walls. A long narrow apartment costs a bit more to build, because you need more walls.

People buy based on raw "floor space" measurements, and that's what they get. Optimal "floor space", but a bad layout.
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No, long term stability is not "what it is all about".

Long term stability is one of the very important aspects of the quality of parenting, but it's not all of them.

In fact long term stability is itself determined to some extent by the nature of the relationships between each parent and the child or children.

The point of my question was to help each person who wants to think about this issue clarify their ideas by asking themselves whether it's the nature of the relationship between the "parents" that's the issue, or whether it just matters that there is some sort of strong bond, whatever that may be.

I'm not trying to lead anyone to on conclusion or other, just point out a thought experiment that might help people understand their own points of view.
> down to the last pixel-perfect detail

Placing this level of importance on aesthetics indicates that signalling IS an important factor. Most people who don't care about (or don't even understand) signalling generally wouldn't even notice 'the last pixel-perfect detail'. There's nothing wrong with liking nice clothes though, as long as they do the job.
Not me. I use Linux (among other OSes) because it's Open and Free, and I think that it's important to have an alternative to proprietary systems.

I don't consider it to have a better UI or to be easier to develop for and I feel more comfortable with Windows.
But it's not that simple : often, the bleeding-edge fixes others annoying bugs and it's really hard to have an estimate of the affected population. Maybe they should add an extra step to their installer that would allow to send anonymously data about your hardware configuration to Canonical ?
Where did anyone mention love? I think you've just presented us with a false dilemma.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
I agree, most of the time when I got into a fight in school was because I wasn't paying attention to the aggressive body language of my challenger. When I did notice it, I found I was usually able to talk myself out of the fights by simply taking what the guy was saying and turning it back on him. It defused the immediate situation because it prevented the bully from amping himself up.

One incident in middle school permanently ruined the reputation of a would-be bully since all he knew how to say to start a fight was "common man, let's go". To which I responded "okay, sounds great, where to?" He repeated his statement over and over while I repeated mine. Eventually, it defused the fight. I think he simply didn't know how to respond when I didn't back down and simply took what he was saying absolutely literally instead of as the slang he meant. It also happened in front of a crowd and all through middle and high school was ribbed as the guy who couldn't figure out where to go. He used to get a few compasses at the beginning of every year and offers to help him find his way to class.
Surely the issue here is that the iPhone was lost property, and knowing full-well who the owners were (and who to give it back to) both parties - the guy in the bar and the Gizmondo editor - struck a deal for someone's lost phone.

Here in the UK, at least, it's an offense to knowingly sell-on lost property. Arrington seems to gloss over this and is only looking at it for scoop value. Details of an iPhone 4G prototype isn't information that could be argued needs to be exposed to the public. That's not journalism.
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He had a lot of idiosyncrasies like that.

Another example:

one day he told me I shouldn't leave windows (on the computer, not physical windows) open when I go home at the evenings because it looks like I left work in the middle of doing something.

After that I made sure I minimized all the windows before leaving.
Then you need to try the following things:
- vim or emacs
- tmux or screen
- tiling window managers
- zsh

Each of these things result in a massive usability increase.
graphics processing units (GPUs) give desktop personal computers the same speed that supercomputers had ten years ago

Huh? GPUs give our desktops their speed? O RLY?
How is this even in debate? Of course boys learn how to be a man, to a significant degree, by observing their father (not emulating, but observing) and girls by observing their mother.

I think there's a tendency for people to underestimate the exposure they get to their families as compared to the exposure they get to anyone else in the world when it comes to close emotional contact.

Some of use who are aware of having had emotionally withdrawn fathers (or mothers) realise this better than others.
Googling for "Steve Jobs email" turns up a huge number of references.
Well, I was wondering, if they are so super parallelable then shouldn't I do something to take advantage of that? They say CPUs with many, many cores are not too far off and that software is the issue. Programmers don't write code to take advantage of it, I'm told. I was just wondering
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It would make sense not to allow you (not you personally, in fact anyone) to have a child with a "surrogate", i.e. a mother who deliberatly chooses before conception to play no role in raising that child.
As a business decision, if you run an organization with males from 6 to 18 and you have someone who prefers sexual contact with males it might not be a good idea to send all of those people to the woods alone together... without baby oil and Niel Diamond songs.

The Boy Scouts have enough problems with people who don't disclose that they prefer males, hence an 18.5 million dollar lawsuit that the Boy Scouts just lost. Further, imagine trying to get parents to have there kids join a group with a gay leader or that might have a gay leader.

The religion part is very open, for example the Spaghetti Monster religion would qualify so does believing in "Mother Earth" for whatever that means. I was a Den leader for several years for Cub Scouts, an atheist dad and son joined, it wasn't a big deal but I qualified them first by making sure they didn't mind all of the "Duty to God" type sayings.
On the other hand, I could easily imagine a situation, however, where this is not the desired outcome, such as in a company where software is only a minor component. In that case, your firmer hand on scheduling seems far more beneficial.

The problem I think people will have with this article is that he doesn't acknowledge this point.
The generalization simply can't be true - genetically modified food is a very broad category.

Seems like they tested one specific modified soy.
You do realise your story essentially supports the notion that your purchase was based on fashion and signalling right? I mean "Maybe they had really good features but I didn't care" actually typifies my view of an Apple fan.
Meh.. What is the reason exactly?

"Note: comments will still be aggregated by BackType and accessible through our website; however, users will no longer have the ability to explicitly claim any comments"

Tbey're still doing all the server side stuff. This is a feature many people love and they take it away.

They're also keeping URL profiles but not user profiles. Seems arbitrary.
upvoted for pacman. I actually have only tried arch at a friend's place, because for some anal reason Arch does not provide livecds. Only a command shell from where you must build your system up, which is quite a pain.

But I have only heard good things about pacman (and it's ultra simple package format). It enables Arch's rolling releases model, which means that you are always up2date without having to go from Beserking Baboon to Chittering Chimpanzee.

It is a much saner model for a stable, usable desktop system. If you can manage to combine this with a kernel update technology like ksplice, you have a super stable, updated Linux desktop without ever having to reboot (which makes the whole splash screen effort quite pointless actually)
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I think you're both right. What I think would made a real difference is making some cruel-but-kind decisions about deprecation.

State officially the other mechanisms are broken, then drop everything that doesn't use pulse from the repositories.
3. The ability to come up with an even better solution for a business problem.

In my experience, a lot of business people don't really know what is possible so their solutions aren't always that good.

Example: "I need to know if I own more than 3% of a company. Give me a report that tells me what percent I own of each company.
"
"How about a big flashing light or warning if you own more than 3% (or set it at 2% so you know when you are getting close) so that you don't need to spend time each day looking at the report."
Oh aye. Published where?
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I've always read it pah-steer-eee-us. I know that's wrong but the word has always looked like posterior to me. Fun service though.
Thanks for posting. No you don't have to be sorry for pimping your own stuff. If you didn't, I probably never would have heard of Grafico.
Yeah. I've paid for virtualization tools, games, proprietary libraries that made my life easier (OSS back in the day).

I'd happily pay Dag Wieers for RHEL/Fedora repo access if he asked for cash too.
See also
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and especially
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for pictures of the hair inside the mouth

and http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1314908/ for related article published in peer reviewed journal
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It asks for your own password (ala Mac - that said, it could simply ask you to confirm ala Windows).

End users don't do linking or worry about dependencies.
See: http://www.hardwareinsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/gp...

Graphics cards (streaming multiprocessors) are computational beasts.
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> Apple’s complaint will be that information about the phone leaked early, giving competitors a head start on copying the features. That’s a reasonable complaint

Really? I'm fairly sure there was nothing particularly interesting in the leak other than the leak itself. Res improvements and a front facing cameras? Yawn.

After the leak, 42% of Mashable readers preferred an HTC Incredible over the unreleased iPhone.
No it does'nt, but it is DRM all the same.

If you were an app maker, why would you prefer a closed source DRM, than an open-source security model in the OS ?

I just dont get it: everyone likes Steam, but they dont like DRM in the OS - is it something so distasteful that a computer gets tainted by built in DRM ?
And then you will find someone who gets pissed off with Steam, goes looking for alternatives... and the consumer ends up with 10 different kinds of app-store software (on Windows, I have Direct2Drive, Steam and StarForce for different games)

I dont know how it can be managed with a built-in DRM, but I suspect something like a PPA (Personal Package Archives) would enable everyone to self-publish their software, yet still be part of a web-of-trust model.
Ridiculous. Large-scale neuron simulations currently are like an algorithms assignment where I have some code written but don't understand the algorithm so I just tweak things all night and never get anywhere. In other words: "let's hope it does something interesting by just connecting millions of these things that we can kind of describe but don't understand at all."

We are VERY far from understanding the brain. Even for single neurons, we do not understand what is important and what we should ignore. We do not understand real-life neural networks at all. For example, we have the entire neuronal connectivity map for C elegans (only 302 neurons), the worm's genetic structure, and more -- and we still don't understand how its nervous system works, and we can't even simulate it.

This is a problem with this field -- why in the heck are we trying to simulate human and cat brains -- perhaps the most complex of them all -- when we can't even simulate a simple worm?? What ever happened to the idea of starting simple then working our way up??

I am always shocked when I look on the shelves at the bookstore and see lots of books titled "How the brain works" -- when we actually understand so little.
There was a study that went like this (but I can't find it now...I hope I remember it correctly):

We take a sample of subjects. They sit in a room. They are told that in the other room is another person that they will play a game against (actually the outcomes of the games they play are the same for everyone). At some point this involves giving electric shocks to this person. Before they start they are shown a movie of this other person. Now, part of the group gets a movie of a man acting normal and the other part is gets a movie of the same man acting gay. After this the subjects are tested for gayness. It turned out that there is a positive correlation between gayness and the severity of the electric shocks delivered to the gay acting guy. So the theory is that homophobes are (a little) gay themselves, and they are afraid that they act like the gay guy.

Edit: here it is http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=single-angr...

It turns out my memory didn't work flawlessly ;)
Having worked in AI research for a number of years in the late 80s and 90s (very much in the symbolic side of things) - I ended up thinking that the only way anyone was ever going to construct an artificial mind capable of real general intelligence is by reverse engineering biological systems. So I agree with that part of the article.

However, I wouldn't get too excited about any of this happening any time soon. Personally, I still feel the field is still thrashing around looking for an approach that achieves some kind of traction and that provides a long term basis for ongoing progress.

As is often said, AI is still in its pre-Newtonian phase - I would love for a breakthrough to happen (although you have to refer to Vinge for some potential issues with this) but I really don't expect, like with fusion, that much to happen in my lifetime.

For the foreseeable future there are only going to be intelligent entities on one side of our screens - so far a great job is being done on augmenting our own natural intelligences (e.g. Google) so I'm personally more interested in that side of things.
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Apt has little to do with the underlying package format - there is an apt version for RPM.
My problem is I read a lot, I am open mind to a very wide variety of subjects. I like reading and I know I am not alone with that, here on HN. The main question is: do you use those information somewhere else or it just sticks in your brain for some later usage? Even if I am focused only on information that I am intrested with it is _too__much_ to gather everything. So, filtering. Still too much. Maybe it's time to switch internet off? There will be always something interesting to read/watch/listen but what will you do on blackout?
Other people did do it, and even at nearly the exact same time. Turing just did it more convincingly. (See: Alonzo Church and the Lambda calculus).
Your last line is the crux of the whole argument. There is nothing inherently wrong with not fitting in. There is something wrong with making no effort to fit in and then blaming the world that you feel left out, refusing to accept any responsibility yourself..
Deploy early and continuously, ideally in a single step - but that's a given.

Not sure what, if any new, point is being made here.
This blog post by Russian-Ukrainian biologist explains, why this study is wrong in many ways: http://progenes.livejournal.com/90883.html (Russian)

"Conclusion: it is obvious that hamsters are breeding poorly and even dying because of some unknown causes, but this "study" can't tell anything about this causes"
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I'm not sure why you didn't - it's right there in the linked article. Perhaps the throwaway disguise is a clue?
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"This is why no animal has evolved wheels"

instead animals evolved brains and hands that invent and build wheels. Nice way to jump out of the supposed limitation of hill-climbing algorithm.
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> Those apps aren't hard to develop because libraries or the environment or whatever

They are hard to develop because it's difficult choosing libraries, the environment, whatever, and your choice for today may be deprecated in 6 months. Of course, with the proper abstractions you can painlessly rewrite your app to target the newest toys.

But there are always costs involved ... sure you could rewrite it in a couple of weeks, but quality assurance (if you're a professional that doesn't releases pieces of shit) takes as long as it did for the original target.

> they're hard to develop because their developers want them to be closed

Yeah well, it's their choice, and accommodating applications that aren't open-source should be a requirement of any OS because, you know, the majority of desktop apps in production are closed and that ain't changing because it's a valid business model.

> Starting with such a handicap makes things complicated :)

It's only a handicap on Linux. The other platforms, including Solaris, have been doing just fine. Which makes me wonder about which part is handicapped.
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Or, maybe neither and maybe I'm referring to X11.