So, phrased differently, 3 different operating systems, developed by the same company, are so hostile to each other that a team from the very same company had to put a lot of efforts to make a simple demo portable on those systems ? And they are celebrating for that ? Looks like a demonstration of an epic failure from my point of view...
And on the other hand, different teams from different companies and organizations are doing this all the time for decades ( can't count the number of projects compiling on all the GNU/Linux flavors, BSD's and basically any vaguely POSIX system around )
I don't think Chrome OS is a good thing for desktop Linux. Who will develop for an OS on which you can't install any applications ? Commercial vendors won't target Chrome OS / Linux, they will target the web browsers, and that won't have any impact on the "monoculture" problem of the desktop.
Let's use a (bad) human analogy...
Earth is like someone smoking, drinking alcohol, and eating junk food for ages. Of course someone like that will face some health problems sooner or latter.
We are here.
Now, there are these obvious alternatives:
1/ Stop smoking and drinking, get a good diet, do some sport. ( = cut CO2 emissions)
or
2/ Continue with the same life-style and take tons of drugs to counter the negative effects of it. (= geo-engineering)
The second solution may work for a while, but on the long run it just doesn't work, period.
the only sane alternative is:
3/ Adopt a sane lifestyle AND use a moderate amount of drugs to help a little bit to go back into the limits.
So, geo-engineering can't be a long-term solution.
Seeing the screenshots, I realize that displaying the tools vertically on each side of the screen is the only good way to smartly use your screen space, as long as your document is in "portrait" mode and that most of the screen these days are more large than high...
What really would matter is, are there PC makers who would pre install Firefox at the factory? They throw in so much of crapware but not Firefox, GIMP and OpenOffice. Why? Is Mozilla foundation working with any vendor to preinstall it?
Ho yes, more and more PC makers are pre-installing Firefox, Gimp and OpenOffice... along with Ubuntu...
And how a earth-like gravity is a big bonus?
A reduced gravity like those found on Mars or on the Moon are probably enough to prevent weightlessness illness.
On the other hand, a huge gravity field like eath's (or Venus) is a big problem for space flight:
where you only need a LM ascent module (less than 5 metric tons) to get 2 men from Moon's surface to low orbit,
you need a Tian2/Gemini (150 tons!) or a Soyuz to put 2 men in earth orbit.
It's tough to imagine hand-drawn passwords becoming much more popular than USB fingerprint readers. True, they increase security over standard text passwords, but how am I supposed to give a throwaway password to a coworker so that he can use my machine while I'm on vacation? When was the last time you let one of your fingers to a cowroker while you're on vacation?
It seems it'll be a long way to an effective solution... if any You mean, "to an effective problem", because from my point of view, the solution has just been found: AACS cracked, problem solved.
"Tant mieux pour la France!"... If you're not disabled, if you're not gay, if you're not homeless, if you're not jobless, if you're not from a poor neighborhood, if you're not poor, if you're not black, if you're not Arab, if you're not thinking different, if you're not against software patent, if you don't need help...
The parent's comment is funny, but I just want to point out that we're talking about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter , which as the name illustrates is absolutely not a rover (like the Mars Exploration Rovers...), but is orbiting Mars...
These graphics were obviously generated by "dot" of the http://www.graphviz.org/ suite...
I were using those softwares to draw Myspace social networks.
I was convinced it was the more stupid use of Graphviz possible.
This guy demonstrates that I was wrong...
The Moon is the last place someone want to be to monitor the Earth.
Most of the time satellites watching our planet are either on a polar low earth orbit ( 800km), allowing them to "scan" the entire Earth in 24 hours, as, you know, it's spinning; or in geosynchronous orbit, to watch the same place all the time, but it's far (36,000km).
On the surface of the Moon, you are at 385,000km, and it takes two weeks to make a revolution, so two weeks to scan the globe.
And it take a lot more fuel to get there.
Definitely not a good choice.
The purpose of a re-entry capsule (for maned flight) is slightly different from a ICBM re-entry vehicle.
The capsule is supposed to land at speed ~= 0
The ICBM re-entry vehicle impacts Earth or is detonated at a speed of Mach 10 or 15 .
It's definitely not the same thing.
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Now that IBM has discovered optimization, maybe they could start using this revolutionary method on Lotus Notes...
So, phrased differently, 3 different operating systems, developed by the same company, are so hostile to each other that a team from the very same company had to put a lot of efforts to make a simple demo portable on those systems ? And they are celebrating for that ? Looks like a demonstration of an epic failure from my point of view... And on the other hand, different teams from different companies and organizations are doing this all the time for decades ( can't count the number of projects compiling on all the GNU/Linux flavors, BSD's and basically any vaguely POSIX system around )
Mine actualy exploded while parsing "father of seven, socialist COBOL programmer"... Seven is coded in COBOL ???? O_o
I don't think Chrome OS is a good thing for desktop Linux. Who will develop for an OS on which you can't install any applications ? Commercial vendors won't target Chrome OS / Linux, they will target the web browsers, and that won't have any impact on the "monoculture" problem of the desktop.
Let's use a (bad) human analogy... Earth is like someone smoking, drinking alcohol, and eating junk food for ages. Of course someone like that will face some health problems sooner or latter. We are here. Now, there are these obvious alternatives: 1/ Stop smoking and drinking, get a good diet, do some sport. ( = cut CO2 emissions) or 2/ Continue with the same life-style and take tons of drugs to counter the negative effects of it. (= geo-engineering) The second solution may work for a while, but on the long run it just doesn't work, period. the only sane alternative is: 3/ Adopt a sane lifestyle AND use a moderate amount of drugs to help a little bit to go back into the limits. So, geo-engineering can't be a long-term solution.
Seeing the screenshots, I realize that displaying the tools vertically on each side of the screen is the only good way to smartly use your screen space, as long as your document is in "portrait" mode and that most of the screen these days are more large than high...
And how a earth-like gravity is a big bonus? A reduced gravity like those found on Mars or on the Moon are probably enough to prevent weightlessness illness. On the other hand, a huge gravity field like eath's (or Venus) is a big problem for space flight: where you only need a LM ascent module (less than 5 metric tons) to get 2 men from Moon's surface to low orbit, you need a Tian2/Gemini (150 tons!) or a Soyuz to put 2 men in earth orbit.
Without a little bit of that kind of politics, it will come a day you won't have the freedom to write software anymore...
"Tant mieux pour la France!"... If you're not disabled, if you're not gay, if you're not homeless, if you're not jobless, if you're not from a poor neighborhood, if you're not poor, if you're not black, if you're not Arab, if you're not thinking different, if you're not against software patent, if you don't need help...
Anybody having played Elite and/or one of its sequel knows that for years...
... for the US elections
"65535 votes for X in this voting machine??? errr! Must be the solar storm..."
Am I the only one having checked the date after reading this title? For a second, I believed I was back in the 90's...
The parent's comment is funny, but I just want to point out that we're talking about the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter , which as the name illustrates is absolutely not a rover (like the Mars Exploration Rovers...), but is orbiting Mars...
These graphics were obviously generated by "dot" of the http://www.graphviz.org/ suite...
I were using those softwares to draw Myspace social networks.
I was convinced it was the more stupid use of Graphviz possible.
This guy demonstrates that I was wrong...
... Hell has frozen over.
... it is THEIR data. In Soviet Russia, DVDs own you...not 2 weeks to make a revolution... 4 weeks! 2 weeks to go watch the other side of Earth...
The Moon is the last place someone want to be to monitor the Earth. Most of the time satellites watching our planet are either on a polar low earth orbit ( 800km), allowing them to "scan" the entire Earth in 24 hours, as, you know, it's spinning; or in geosynchronous orbit, to watch the same place all the time, but it's far (36,000km). On the surface of the Moon, you are at 385,000km, and it takes two weeks to make a revolution, so two weeks to scan the globe. And it take a lot more fuel to get there. Definitely not a good choice.
The purpose of a re-entry capsule (for maned flight) is slightly different from a ICBM re-entry vehicle. The capsule is supposed to land at speed ~= 0 The ICBM re-entry vehicle impacts Earth or is detonated at a speed of Mach 10 or 15 . It's definitely not the same thing.
If Amiga is dead, it can only mean one thing... P0WN3D BY ATARI!!!!!! W000000000000000T!!!!! errr, forget it...