I was just mentioning that big companies do get better deals on pretty much everything.
Perhaps due to buying more (and therefore deserve it) or perhaps just because they can put pressure (and then it is questionable whether they deserve it or not).
Hydroelectric turbines are already extremely efficient (over 80% if not 90%), there cannot be much improvements any more. Besides they are completely different.
For the wind turbines... I suspect this is apples to oranges comparision. Getting 100% power increase on low wind is not going to make big difference on a site when yearly output is calculated - unless the place is not very good for windmills in the first place.
After all the energy of the wind is proportional to the cube of the speed.
You should still google for "Multiobjective Evolutionary Optimisation of Small Wind Turbine Blades", sometimes you cannot choose the place.
This would be true only if there were no copycats and if nobody ever followed a leader or his/her text as ultimate truth.
Alas, there are. People are not born racists, they grow up to be. Racists speeches given by charismatic persons can and do affect some. (not you and not me, but some).
So should racist speeches be prohibited? There are pros (it decreases amount of racism) and cons (freedom of speech).
Please. They do this only because Google is leading in the game. If they really were after interoperability Sharepoint would properly work in Firefox (and Opera,...).
C is likely to remain strong until we just have more CPU power than [...]
We already do (have more than C can handle[1]): dual and quad core processors.
There is as of now no really good parallel (or multi-threaded) language. Java and Erlang are perhaps the best, which essentially says where we stand right now.
Please do not talk about Posix thread libraries, they do tell enough about the memory model. Java was the first language to define one, but it is not 100% clear. C++ is just about to define one for itself[2].
It actually is worse than the Ubuntu 8.10 one, for me.
Oh boy, this is going to be a long day to get everything working.
If Linux had stable kernel ABI (application binary interface), the fix would take maybe 15 minutes. After installing the binary blobs CPU scaling, audio + mic, webcam, WiFi, DVB-T would all work.
Now it is going to take a whole day, maybe more. And every kernel update is going to break all of them.
Set indentation to 4 spaces: (defalias 'c4 (read-kbd-macro "ESC x set- variable RET c- basic- offset RET 4 RET")) (global-set-key 'f4 'c4)
This setting has changed four (4) times while I have been using (X)Emacs. Before the last change it was possible to put it into init.el, it no longer is. The whole bullshit is the reason I stopped using XEmacs, forever.
In an ideal world, Linux would be EASIER than Windows.
It already is. A lot.
But it is, IMHO, not even close being "easy".
What it needs is 1. Stable kernel binary interface. Seriously. 2. Better package manager. Now if I want to install, say Java, there is no "Java" in the Synaptic. There are "java-commmon", "java-fonts", "java-doc", "java-this",... There really should be "Java runtime" and that's it (and it should install jdk). I think Synaptic can be improved to accomplish that. Java is not the only one. 3. Easier way to get DVD's and mp3's to play. This has been a hassle every time. 4. WiFi configuration fixes. At home I have WPA2 and the wireless does not remember the password.
I must have missed some.
Yes, some of those are easier in Windows, but Windows has it's own, huge, problems.
With Ubuntu 8.04 the biggest problem definitely is not the command line.
The biggest problem is that some tasks are just too damn cumbersome.
Examples: 1. Installing Java, or especially NetBeans. 2. Proprietary drivers. This has the ridiculous side effect that you must know that ALL updates (including security) must be disabled. 3. Bluetooth and lirc are far too difficult to set up. I have never gotten either to work... and I tried to get the BT for a day. 4. Removing the most useless program on earth: Totem. 5. Synaptic does not have enough virtual packages. Knowing which packages to install to get xyzzy (e.g. java, lirc, bluetooth) to work... too difficult.
Just an example: in Ubuntu 8.10 EeePC (700) does not have working Wifi.
Then my DVB-T card is not supported by 8.04. So I have to compile from sources.
And to keep it working I have to disable all (including security) updates. Sure this can be done through the GUI, but it really, REALLY, should not be required.
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Sun chose CDDL exactly because it's GPL-incompatible
It may be one reason, but if you check the differences you'll notice it cannot be the only reason. It cannot be the main reason either.
Would you be surprised if some big delivery companies get gas cheaper than you do?
Why?
Competing products? What are you talking about?
I was just mentioning that big companies do get better deals on pretty much everything.
Perhaps due to buying more (and therefore deserve it) or perhaps just because they can put pressure (and then it is questionable whether they deserve it or not).
Sorry but I prefer honesty.
No, you don't. You do not want to know how cheaply some other gets the same service, it would make you feel bad.
You want to feel good.
Don't deceive yourself thinking that everyone should get the same price.
When I was a child I had an abacus.
I still managed to add five to three, but cannot remember the colours of the "balloons" ...
At that time there were perhaps two or three persons on earth who could code "a little".
Oh, boy.
runner-up is "+1, your uid is prime"
Don't we all?
It always amazes me how people complain about Java and still seem to require exactly what it gives.
Yes, Java is quite bloated but several gigs of memory costs bloody nothing.
Unfortunately the secure browser which was discussed in slashdot maybe half an year ago is nit FOSS.
And even more unfortunately I cannot find it anymore :(
Actually ... Sun is in the centre of the universe (by current understanding).
It has been mathematically proven.
So are you, btw, and everything else, as amazing as it sounds.
Hydroelectric turbines are already extremely efficient (over 80% if not 90%), there cannot be much improvements any more. Besides they are completely different.
For the wind turbines ... I suspect this is apples to oranges comparision. Getting 100% power increase on low wind is not going to make big difference on a site when yearly output is calculated - unless the place is not very good for windmills in the first place.
After all the energy of the wind is proportional to the cube of the speed.
You should still google for "Multiobjective Evolutionary Optimisation of Small Wind Turbine Blades", sometimes you cannot choose the place.
This would be true only if there were no copycats and if nobody ever followed a leader or his/her text as ultimate truth.
Alas, there are. People are not born racists, they grow up to be. Racists speeches given by charismatic persons can and do affect some. (not you and not me, but some).
So should racist speeches be prohibited? There are pros (it decreases amount of racism) and cons (freedom of speech).
Unfortunately we cannot pick both.
CDDL over GPL is one advantage, to some. Another is binary drivers.
Lets face it, neither is ever going to be in Linux.
Yeah, if all you die, I wo...
Wait a minit, are you going to take the 'net with you?
Lucky you. It did[1] not for me.
[1] Five months ago in my previous job.
I am certain it will never work as well with FF as with IE. Why would it?
Way to go, Microsoft!
Please. They do this only because Google is leading in the game. If they really were after interoperability Sharepoint would properly work in Firefox (and Opera, ...).
C is likely to remain strong until we just have more CPU power than [...]
We already do (have more than C can handle[1]): dual and quad core processors.
There is as of now no really good parallel (or multi-threaded) language. Java and Erlang are perhaps the best, which essentially says where we stand right now.
Please do not talk about Posix thread libraries, they do tell enough about the memory model. Java was the first language to define one, but it is not 100% clear. C++ is just about to define one for itself[2].
Therefore for example D is not the next language.
[1] Not that you said or even implied that.
[2] http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/c++mm/
At the very moment I have about 20-30 tabs open, to EEEuser wiki, to Ubuntu-EEE, to Array.org, to ... you name it.
None of then have a bunch of packages to install over 8.10 to get it fully functional.
Stuff for 8.04 is unusable, and that, my friend, is the problem: no binary (or even source) compatibility anywhere.
It maybe should, but does not.
You still need a lot of other stuff which, incidentally, is not documented on the site. Hotkeys, for example.
It might the easiest way but I think I'll search for all the sources, then keeping up is easier (I do not want to get too far away from Ubuntu).
Binary drivers.
I am, at the very moment, trying desparately to get EeePC to work with Ubuntu.
If Linux had binary drivers I would just copy them from the original distro. Now it is huge PITA.
I tried it, on my new 900.
It actually is worse than the Ubuntu 8.10 one, for me.
Oh boy, this is going to be a long day to get everything working.
If Linux had stable kernel ABI (application binary interface), the fix would take maybe 15 minutes. After installing the binary blobs CPU scaling, audio + mic, webcam, WiFi, DVB-T would all work.
Now it is going to take a whole day, maybe more. And every kernel update is going to break all of them.
You got one right.
Without the religious opinion the driver Asus bundles would be OK.
I leave it as an exercise to the reader to deduce who(m) I mean.
P.S. The wifi in the Eee is quite decent.
Set indentation to 4 spaces:
(defalias 'c4 (read-kbd-macro
"ESC x set- variable RET c- basic- offset RET 4 RET"))
(global-set-key 'f4 'c4)
This setting has changed four (4) times while I have been using (X)Emacs. Before the last change it was possible to put it into init.el, it no longer is. The whole bullshit is the reason I stopped using XEmacs, forever.
(global-set-key 'f1 'help-command)
(global-set-key 'f2 'dabbrev-expand)
(global-set-key 'f7 'call-last-kbd-macro)
(global-set-key 'f12 'compile)
(global-set-key "\C-s" 'save-buffer)
(global-set-key "\C-o" 'find-file)
(global-set-key "\C-v" 'yank)
(global-set-key "\C-z" 'advertised-undo)
(global-set-key "\C-q" 'save-buffers-kill-emacs)
(global-unset-key "\C-b" )
(global-set-key "\C-b?" 'describe-key-briefly)
(global-set-key "\C-b\C-q" 'quoted-insert)
(global-set-key "\C-b\C-w" 'kill-region)
(global-set-key "\C-b\C-o" 'open-line)
In an ideal world, Linux would be EASIER than Windows.
It already is. A lot.
But it is, IMHO, not even close being "easy".
What it needs is ... There really should be "Java runtime" and that's it (and it should install jdk). I think Synaptic can be improved to accomplish that. Java is not the only one.
1. Stable kernel binary interface. Seriously.
2. Better package manager. Now if I want to install, say Java, there is no "Java" in the Synaptic. There are "java-commmon", "java-fonts", "java-doc", "java-this",
3. Easier way to get DVD's and mp3's to play. This has been a hassle every time.
4. WiFi configuration fixes. At home I have WPA2 and the wireless does not remember the password.
I must have missed some.
Yes, some of those are easier in Windows, but Windows has it's own, huge, problems.
With Ubuntu 8.04 the biggest problem definitely is not the command line.
The biggest problem is that some tasks are just too damn cumbersome.
Examples: ... and I tried to get the BT for a day. ... too difficult.
1. Installing Java, or especially NetBeans.
2. Proprietary drivers. This has the ridiculous side effect that you must know that ALL updates (including security) must be disabled.
3. Bluetooth and lirc are far too difficult to set up. I have never gotten either to work
4. Removing the most useless program on earth: Totem.
5. Synaptic does not have enough virtual packages. Knowing which packages to install to get xyzzy (e.g. java, lirc, bluetooth) to work
Just an example: in Ubuntu 8.10 EeePC (700) does not have working Wifi.
Then my DVB-T card is not supported by 8.04. So I have to compile from sources.
And to keep it working I have to disable all (including security) updates. Sure this can be done through the GUI, but it really, REALLY, should not be required.
I think you have hugely misunderstood Darwin and evolution.
And completely sidestep moral and ethical issues.
HAND.