Because ironically, we have enough oil left to screw up our climate, but not enough to satisfy our hummer/easyjet/air conditioning/200pounds a year meat frenzy for more than a generation.
I do agree that Ipod is a good product, at least from a hardware point of view...
But at the same time, it couldn't suck more given every software restriction.
I mean, any other mp3 player bought on Ebay form Hong Kong for 20 bucks is more user-friendly.
I got my Ipod 5th gen. 30Go from freepay.com for 5$, and I still feel frustrated because I cannot add photos from any other computer than mine, cannot add music files without using Itunes and still have to keep a damn double copy of my music & photos if I don't want to wait an hour every time I want to add a file on it.
Apple is no better than MS, they just have cooler adds.
Re:I never quite understood the benefit of Rails
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Ruby On Rails 1.2 Released
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· Score: 3, Interesting
I really didn't understand either before I decided to invest some time and try tutorials.
It's already been 15 years I've been programming (Logo:), Basic, C++, Fortran, Caml, Java, Ruby...) and I now have the impression that I never really understood programming before having known rails.
So please, try it at least 2 hours, and you'll be amazed by how fun, efficient and beautiful it is.
Everytime I heard someone talking about REST, migrations, rake, capistrano, scaffolding, ActiveRecord, AJAX, routes & nice URL's, I just thought "Whatever! Those are just buzz/hype words without any meaning, and it won't change my programming life".
But it sure did, and I think noone can ever understand it before giving it a fair chance.
Thanks a lot DHH and keep up the good work!
PS: You might want to check http://backpackit.com/ if you look for a "real-world functionality".
I suppose youve never seen any Ruby code.
Im pretty sure you could do this in just 10 lines while still being understandable.
5 minutes later
Got it! (Sorry, in 12 lines)
def calendar(given_year)
date=Time.utc(given_year)
print given_year
while date.year==given_year
print date.strftime("/n/n%B/n")+" "*3*((date.wday-1)%7) if date.day==1
print date.day.to_s.rjust(3)
puts "\n" if date.wday%7==0
date+=60*60*24
end
end
Here's the result (its well formatted and aligned in ascii):
Thanks!
Being called an idiot by an ignorant is a true compliment:)
Please take a look at "4. Why is the sea level higher off the coast of Bermuda than New York?" and "14. How much does sea level rise if all the world's ice melts?" there
However, when land ice melts the distribution of the mass of water around the global ocean is by no means uniform. A large melting would result in a modification in the Earth's gravity field which would result in the sea level change being higher in some places than in others.
As always, were talking about _global_ warming. It means you can neither confirm nor infirm it by saying:
"Oh baby, It's cold outside!" in a given location at a given time.
Though scientists can forecast global trends, they cannot tell you for sure "It's gonna snow in August in Alabama".
And global warming doesn't mean warming in every place on earth either.
Poles and winters will get more affected than summers and tropical regions.
You know what? Even the sea level can rise in some point while dropping in another.
Driving a Hummer and looking for a cheap excuse, huh?
"It's not my 3tonnes car, it's the 500 kg cow upon the hill!"
I live in France, and traffic _is_ the #1 cause of global warming.
But it's true, by comparing masses, there are more cows than French guys in France, and they do account for a lot of CH4 emissions.
Anyway, neither our actual transport habits nor our actual eating habits are sustainable, and we have to change both (oh, and a lot of other things BTW) if mankind wants to get a decent chance to survive for 100+ years
How can you tell us such a non-sense and still be rated "Informative"????
The definition of renewable energy is basically : "If you can use an energy today without preventing mankind from using it tomorrow, then it's renewable. If you end up depleting the source after a *very* long time, it's sustainable. Otherwise it's just as good as coal, oil or uranium."
So, biomass is only renewable if you mind planting the same amount of trees you used. Standard nuclear fission isn't renewable, while fusion and breeding fission are. Wind/solar/tide/wave/hydraulic energy are renewable too, while geothermal energy is only considered sustainable.
Using your definition, even you and me are "renewable". We just have to wait till someone looks like one of us!
You're not the first one to ask this question, and I won't be the first one neither to give this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photovoltaic?section= Energy_return_on_investment#Energy_return_on_inves tment
I tried to calculate energy payback-time for different cells, and got results ranging from 8 months to 2 and a half years.
Even extreme PV-Cells bashers don't succeed in proving that payback-time exceeds 5 years, which still lefts you 3 times as much "free" energy.
Please don't assume it's totally harmless and I won't assume it's totally harmful.
Sure, we're all gonna die, but some precautionary principle could ease the pain.
Such concentration systems are usually coupled with thermal applications:
-you increase the overall efficiency of the system (up to 80-90%) by getting both electricity and heat
-you heat water while cooling down cells, which improve their efficiency too (you can get as much as 30% with germanium) http://www.solartecag.de/sites/innovation.htm
Sometimes it's worth spending nights writing and optimizing C programs to gain just a few milliseconds, sometimes you just need to write a small script in either Python or Ruby to automatize a task you'll never do again.
In this case, would you really care about execution speed? I'll just go for the ease of string/files/array/hashes manipulation, write a powerful script in 10 minutes and go drink a coffee while my script works for me and you're still struggling with your char str[80];.
Re:what about easyubuntu?
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Ubuntu 6.10 is Out
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· Score: 2, Informative
Though I really didn't agree with their lack of respect for the GPL at first, it seems that Automatix is now in the right track.
And I must admit that their product is really good and very helpful, both for newbies and veterans installing bunches of 6.(06/10):
http://www.getautomatix.com/
Installing java, flash, dvd, mp3 support as well as skype or googleearth is as easy as using synaptic.
With an Ati Radeon 9200, I didn't even have to modify xorg.conf or install any driver, while Mandriva 2007 just told me : "Your graphic card is unsupported, you'll never be able to use 3D desktop"
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Nope.
Because ironically, we have enough oil left to screw up our climate, but not enough to satisfy our hummer/easyjet/air conditioning/200pounds a year meat frenzy for more than a generation.
Just commenting one point:
I do agree that Ipod is a good product, at least from a hardware point of view...
But at the same time, it couldn't suck more given every software restriction.
I mean, any other mp3 player bought on Ebay form Hong Kong for 20 bucks is more user-friendly.
I got my Ipod 5th gen. 30Go from freepay.com for 5$, and I still feel frustrated because I cannot add photos from any other computer than mine, cannot add music files without using Itunes and still have to keep a damn double copy of my music & photos if I don't want to wait an hour every time I want to add a file on it.
Apple is no better than MS, they just have cooler adds.
I really didn't understand either before I decided to invest some time and try tutorials. :), Basic, C++, Fortran, Caml, Java, Ruby ...) and I now have the impression that I never really understood programming before having known rails.
It's already been 15 years I've been programming (Logo
So please, try it at least 2 hours, and you'll be amazed by how fun, efficient and beautiful it is.
Everytime I heard someone talking about REST, migrations, rake, capistrano, scaffolding, ActiveRecord, AJAX, routes & nice URL's, I just thought "Whatever! Those are just buzz/hype words without any meaning, and it won't change my programming life".
But it sure did, and I think noone can ever understand it before giving it a fair chance.
Thanks a lot DHH and keep up the good work!
PS: You might want to check http://backpackit.com/ if you look for a "real-world functionality".
Sorry, but I don't know what a "banner font for the heading" is.
:)
Oh, and with your silly argument, any program could fit in 1 line, the one used to call it!
Wow!
......
......
I suppose youve never seen any Ruby code.
Im pretty sure you could do this in just 10 lines while still being understandable.
5 minutes later
Got it! (Sorry, in 12 lines)
def calendar(given_year)
date=Time.utc(given_year)
print given_year
while date.year==given_year
print date.strftime("/n/n%B/n")+" "*3*((date.wday-1)%7) if date.day==1
print date.day.to_s.rjust(3)
puts "\n" if date.wday%7==0
date+=60*60*24
end
end
Here's the result (its well formatted and aligned in ascii):
2007
January
1 2 3 4 5 6 7
8 9 10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20 21
22 23 24 25 26 27 28
29 30 31
February
1 2 3 4
5 6 7 8 9 10 11
12 13 14 15 16 17 18
19 20 21 22 23 24 25
26 27 28
March
1 2 3 4
Being called an idiot by an ignorant is a true compliment
Please take a look at "4. Why is the sea level higher off the coast of Bermuda than New York?" and "14. How much does sea level rise if all the world's ice melts?" there
As always, were talking about _global_ warming. It means you can neither confirm nor infirm it by saying:
"Oh baby, It's cold outside!" in a given location at a given time. Though scientists can forecast global trends, they cannot tell you for sure "It's gonna snow in August in Alabama".
And global warming doesn't mean warming in every place on earth either.
Poles and winters will get more affected than summers and tropical regions.
You know what? Even the sea level can rise in some point while dropping in another.
Driving a Hummer and looking for a cheap excuse, huh?
"It's not my 3tonnes car, it's the 500 kg cow upon the hill!"
I live in France, and traffic _is_ the #1 cause of global warming.
But it's true, by comparing masses, there are more cows than French guys in France, and they do account for a lot of CH4 emissions.
Anyway, neither our actual transport habits nor our actual eating habits are sustainable, and we have to change both (oh, and a lot of other things BTW) if mankind wants to get a decent chance to survive for 100+ years
This post was sponsored by Hummer, Mercedes and the American/European way of life.
Hope you liked it folks!
How can you tell us such a non-sense and still be rated "Informative"????
The definition of renewable energy is basically : "If you can use an energy today without preventing mankind from using it tomorrow, then it's renewable. If you end up depleting the source after a *very* long time, it's sustainable. Otherwise it's just as good as coal, oil or uranium."
So, biomass is only renewable if you mind planting the same amount of trees you used. Standard nuclear fission isn't renewable, while fusion and breeding fission are. Wind/solar/tide/wave/hydraulic energy are renewable too, while geothermal energy is only considered sustainable.
Using your definition, even you and me are "renewable". We just have to wait till someone looks like one of us!
You're not the first one to ask this question, and I won't be the first one neither to give this link:= Energy_return_on_investment#Energy_return_on_inves tment
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photovoltaic?section
I tried to calculate energy payback-time for different cells, and got results ranging from 8 months to 2 and a half years.
Even extreme PV-Cells bashers don't succeed in proving that payback-time exceeds 5 years, which still lefts you 3 times as much "free" energy.
512Mb graphics memory is exactly what Vista needs to run properly!
Oh, wait a minute...
...sailboats & solar panels?
Please don't assume it's totally harmless and I won't assume it's totally harmful.
Sure, we're all gonna die, but some precautionary principle could ease the pain.
Easy. You obviously didn't read this.
Such concentration systems are usually coupled with thermal applications:
-you increase the overall efficiency of the system (up to 80-90%) by getting both electricity and heat
-you heat water while cooling down cells, which improve their efficiency too (you can get as much as 30% with germanium)
http://www.solartecag.de/sites/innovation.htm
would be Grisbi:
It's easy to learn, use & configure.
More info there:
http://www.grisbi.org/index.en.html (en)
http://www.grisbi.org/index.es.html (es)
http://www.grisbi.org/index.fr.html (fr)
And already included in Debian/Ubuntu repos.
Sometimes it's worth spending nights writing and optimizing C programs to gain just a few milliseconds, sometimes you just need to write a small script in either Python or Ruby to automatize a task you'll never do again.
In this case, would you really care about execution speed? I'll just go for the ease of string/files/array/hashes manipulation, write a powerful script in 10 minutes and go drink a coffee while my script works for me and you're still struggling with your char str[80];.
Though I really didn't agree with their lack of respect for the GPL at first, it seems that Automatix is now in the right track. And I must admit that their product is really good and very helpful, both for newbies and veterans installing bunches of 6.(06/10): http://www.getautomatix.com/ Installing java, flash, dvd, mp3 support as well as skype or googleearth is as easy as using synaptic.
Using Beryl on a fresh Edgy install is as easy as adding repos and installing beryl package:5 1&highlight=beryl (en)
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2638
http://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/applications/beryl (fr)
With an Ati Radeon 9200, I didn't even have to modify xorg.conf or install any driver, while Mandriva 2007 just told me : "Your graphic card is unsupported, you'll never be able to use 3D desktop"
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/23/204125 2 :)
We'll know it tomorrow!
No need to wait for the official announcement!o x/releases/2.0/
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firef