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That is why they established the Linux Standard Base (LSB) and freedesktop.org. You say "My software runs on LSB 3.2 IA32 and IA64" and provide a.deb and.rpm for each and be done with it. It's no more difficult that supporting Win32 and Win64 and providing a.exe and.msi for each.
I swear, some people miss no opportunity to smugly mention their ad-blocker. What smug comment? Oh, that's right, I don't see them because I use the Smug-Block extension.
I thought Linux cached used libraries in RAM already, resulting in the appearance that Linux was always using up all my memory but wasn't really Linux uses a disk cache in RAM to keep from re-hitting the HD for often-accessed files. It actually is using up all your memory that hasn't been allocated to an application (which is good, because unused memory is wasted memory), but it will drop some disk cache space when other applications need more memory.
If true, then this basically does what? Guesses what you want to use and loads them for me? Essentially, yes. On of the bigger bottlenecks to application startup is disk seek/read times. By performing this action in the background before it is requested, you won't hit that lag time. The new versions of Java are doing something similar to speed up the cold-start time for Java apps.
Another benefit, and I'm not sure if Preload does this, is to arrange the files on the HD so they are not fragmented, and are in the same position on the disk, so that a single (or small number of) read can copy everything into RAM, instead of hitting the disk over and over.
Installing Java is not as easy as using apt-get. Try something more like this which is a bit more involved especially if things don't go perfectly at each step. That guide is from 2005, Sun's JDK and JRE have been available from the Ubuntu repos for about a year, so it really is as easy as using apt-get. But even before that, you just had to download the.bin from Sun, execute it as root, and it will install just fine.
Similarly, this step by step guide more accurately depicts what it takes to install postgres. Unfortunately, this wasn't available when I was doing my install (October 2006). It took me significantly longer than the install on my laptop. Installing Postgres is also as easy as using apt-get, that's even the first step in that guide. Everything else is for configuring the postgres user account's password so that the "postgres" system account and the "postgres" database account have matching passwords, so you don't have to run pgadmin and the postgres CLI as root. This isn't necessary to get Postgres installed and running.
I wasn't aware, at the time (never having installed or used linux before) that it could be reset without resetting the system, which would have lost the changes. Really, nobody mentioned that you could do that in the instructions you read? But I do believe that the LiveCD will use the proprietary drivers by default now, especially now that Compiz effects are enabled by default. The Restricted Driver manager has also greatly reduced the work needed to enable them.
Additionally, my sound card might have worked but I couldn't test because it doesn't come with mp3 support out of the box and I didn't attempt to try any other format. The LiveCD ships with example media, including Ogg Vorbis files, which you could have used instead of MP3.
They are still fruit flies however and not some other kind of flies. And even if chimpanzees evolved into humans, we're all still apes, and not some other kind of mammal, right? Or is there some reason that the members of the fruit fly's family are to be considered "the same", while the members of the ape family are to be considered "different"?
Horses and donkeys can breed to make mules. Are mules a new species? Horses and donkey's are different species. Mules are sterile, so they would not be considered a new species.
There is a large, unbridgeable jump between apes and people. No more so than between one species of fruit fly and another, where you seem to accept evolution.
If the custom schema functionality was simply a side effect of XML, for example, then it would be in the ODF spec as well. It is.
It's also important to understand the product lifecycle to work with R&D, and it is idiocy to think that such an important change as the Office file format would be treated the way you describe It would be idiocy for such an important change to be treated that way, yes, I completely agree. However, anybody with experience in a large development environment with multiple layers of management will know such idiocy is the rule, not the exception. Nothing that Microsoft has delivered in the past would make me thing they are any different.
It warns you when some people's opinions are unreliable, whether it's due to incompetence or a hidden agenda. My impression in your case is that it's both. Again, you've already stated that you are not qualified to make informed statements on the technical aspects of our topic, so by what authority to you feel you can make informed statements about my competency?
Also the missing bit about the "Law of Propagation of Light", which forms the basis of the "Theory of Relativity". Similarly, there are Mendel's "Law of Segregation" and "Law of Independent Assortment", which form the basis for the "Theories of Evolution".
Any scientific study will be a combination of observations (facts), generalizations (laws) and explanations (theories). The problem I have with the wording of these kinds of school board decisions is that they don't specify that only the "theory" of evolution should be labeled "theory" and not "fact", such that the actual facts and laws that form the basis of evolution are also labeled as "non-fact". Thus we have people still doubting that evolution actually happens, and not just doubting the explanation for how it happens.
Genetic researchers have tried hard to breed thousands of generations of fruit flies. They have come up with all sorts of weird forms, some with missing or extra parts. But guess what? ALL of them are STILL fruit flies. "Fruit flies" are not a species. So even if they are still fruit flies, they can diverge into different species of fruit fly. Speciation has been demonstrated many times by creating distinct species of fruit fly.
Does that tell you that something might be wrong with the evolutionary idea that birds can evolve from reptiles or humans from apes? If you are ok with variation within the family Drosophilidae (Fruit fly), why are you not ok with variation within the family of Hominidae, which includes humans and the great apes? Or is it just that you are completely ignorant on topics of biology in general and evolution specifically?
If you mean Word97 then I presume it's escaped your attention that releasing the Word97 format is exactly what The Fucking Article is about?! Actually I think the specific example I'm thinking of was a reference to WordPerfect.
Not being a programmer, I can't comment as an expert but new functionality like mechanisms for data representation doesn't sound like the kind of thing you'd do in a cheap'n'easy conversion. Custom schemas is a function of XML itself, not MSOOXML. And Microsoft's binary formats already allowed for integration with external sources via their OLE/Compound Document format. The problem is that not all of those sources are covered by the promise not to sue. It would be like promising not to sue you for rendering HTML, but allowing the possibility to sue you for rendering GIF images, or processing Javascript, you can't build a compatible browser without them.
Overall - the bullshit factor seems high on your post. You've already admitted not being a programmer, is it safe to assume that you have not read any of the the MSOOXML spec as well? If that is the case, what exactly qualifications do you have to detect bullshit on this topic?
Yeah, but it took a really long time before anyone would even seriously consider the idea. Not so long after it was proven, though.
Well, actually the scientists did claim to have the correct answer for hundreds of years. Don't confuse science the ideal with scientists. I very clearly said "science" and not "scientists".
I'm not saying that micro and macro evolution would be caused by forces too dissimilar, I am saying that one should be very careful when accepting the default merely because it is the default. We don't accept it because it is the default, we accept is because there is no other explanation that makes better predictions or is supported with better evidence. Again I say, prove that the basic assumption is true (that micro and macro are governed by separate processes) and science will move in that direction, but until you can we will continue to default to the one explanation that does have evidence.
I'm going on the working assumption that if something doesn't form part of the data that represents the document, then it can hardly be an important part of the spec. Could you give an example of what you'd be worried about? There are parts of the MSOOXML spec that reference other specs and/or applications to define how something should be handled. If MSOOXML says "display this like it was displayed in Works97", but they haven't promised not to sue you for implementing something based on the Works97 spec, then what do you do?
If it were simple for M$, I can't see why they would have required the intermediary XML format they used. I never looked at their intermediary XML, but I was told by others that it was mostly XML tags containing binary content, with additional XML providing some meta-data. I can only assume that the binary data was mostly identical to that of the old binary formats.
Is there some other proprietary binary -> XML conversion work you've done to explain why it's such a simple process? It's not a simple process to do it right, but it is simple to do it wrong. Reading the XML spec, it seems like they mostly took "bytes 8-11 define attribute x", and converted it into "tag y defines attribute x", and so the document is structured around the process or loading/saving existing C/C++ data structures, and not structured around the data it contains. Also the fact that every bug, hack and work-around that existed in the binary formats exists in MSOOXML without reason. Someone at MS came up with a requirement to convert.doc and.xls into XML, and the developers came up with the easiest solution that met the letter of the requirement.
Until you prove that disease comes from external agents That was proven, and so science moved forward. This is exactly how things should work in science, and exactly how things do work in science. Science never claims to have the correct answer from the start, but science will always move progressively closer to the correct answer over time.
If someone can prove a different mechanism behind so called micro and macro evolution, then science can move forward with 2 separate theories. Until such time, we have one theory that explains both events.
I wasn't talking about theories, I was talking about observations. The theories can change based on new observations, but old observations will never change. Since we base facts on observations, facts are immutable.
Cool, but you still haven't proven how a fish can grow lungs without compromising it's current breathing system. I'm not sure what I'm missing. I gave you an example of a fish that can breath air, as well as using gills to extract free oxygen from water. I've proven to you that such an animal is possible, what more do you need?
Ubuntu 7.10.
I am having a difficult time connecting my old Fuji MX-700 to it. I know that I was able to get photos off of it, via the console. For some reason, it doesn't work anymore. Wow, I've never seen a digital camera that used an RS232 connector before. Does Digikam not work for you? They claim to support all the cameras that gPhoto2 supports, and gPhoto2 lists the MX-700 as supported.
It looks like Fuji provides a TWAIN driver for it, so you might try pulling the pictures into Gimp by treating it like a scanner.
Technically they could be classified as separate species just by the act of separation and keeping them isolated from each other. Geographic isolation is just as good as genetic isolation for establishing a new species.
Please, show me how fish can grow lungs to breath only air, without compromising their current breathing system From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoceratodus
This creature normally uses its gills for respiration, but is also capable of taking in oxygen from the air when water quality is poor, or there are low dissolved oxygen levels, such as when water temperatures are high during summer.
G = Einstein's Gravitational constant G, the gravitational constant, was discovered by Newton, not Einstein.
The other main issue is the value of G. 6.67 * 10^-11 is an awful number that Einstein hated. This was one of reasons why he spent the entire rest of his life searching for something better in the form of a Grand Theory of Everything. Unfortunately he never found it. Einstein didn't hate the gravitational constant, he hated his Cosmological Constant, which he only needed because he was trying to create a static universe, which later observations proved was not the case, so it turns out he never needed it in the first place.
This only predicts the attractive force between two bodies (m1, m2), if you try and apply it to three bodies you have to approximate two of the bodies into one. Sometimes this works well but sometimes it falls down. Not at all, you simply run the calculation for A-B, B-C and C-A, then the "net" force on B is "A-B + B-C". You can do this for as many bodies as you wish.
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That is why they established the Linux Standard Base (LSB) and freedesktop.org. You say "My software runs on LSB 3.2 IA32 and IA64" and provide a .deb and .rpm for each and be done with it. It's no more difficult that supporting Win32 and Win64 and providing a .exe and .msi for each.
True, it would have been better in reply to the AC who brought Tenenbaum into it, but what's the point in replying to an AC?
You left out Theo de Raadt. Shame on you.
Another benefit, and I'm not sure if Preload does this, is to arrange the files on the HD so they are not fragmented, and are in the same position on the disk, so that a single (or small number of) read can copy everything into RAM, instead of hitting the disk over and over.
Also the missing bit about the "Law of Propagation of Light", which forms the basis of the "Theory of Relativity". Similarly, there are Mendel's "Law of Segregation" and "Law of Independent Assortment", which form the basis for the "Theories of Evolution".
Any scientific study will be a combination of observations (facts), generalizations (laws) and explanations (theories). The problem I have with the wording of these kinds of school board decisions is that they don't specify that only the "theory" of evolution should be labeled "theory" and not "fact", such that the actual facts and laws that form the basis of evolution are also labeled as "non-fact". Thus we have people still doubting that evolution actually happens, and not just doubting the explanation for how it happens.
If someone can prove a different mechanism behind so called micro and macro evolution, then science can move forward with 2 separate theories. Until such time, we have one theory that explains both events.
You don't need it for an expanding universe, but you do need it for an accelerating universe. Though of course the value is completely different.
I cannot conclude that the theory of gravity is immutable, no, but I can conclude that the existance of the phenomena of gravity is an immutable fact.
I wasn't talking about theories, I was talking about observations. The theories can change based on new observations, but old observations will never change. Since we base facts on observations, facts are immutable.
It looks like Fuji provides a TWAIN driver for it, so you might try pulling the pictures into Gimp by treating it like a scanner.
Technically they could be classified as separate species just by the act of separation and keeping them isolated from each other. Geographic isolation is just as good as genetic isolation for establishing a new species.
That's ok, there is no single theory of Gravity either. It was an analogy, not a strict definition.