Well thank you for the term intellectual bully, I really like it. As for the proper use of whatever term, in this case 'nuff said': I am not a native (english)speaker, so I will no doubt use stange grammar or use terms that are out of date. I don't care. <div name="accent" content="german(einstein)">You may think little of that charm, but it drives the women crazy;-)"</div>
This is a repost from a previous comment (bonus points for the link to it), if you go karma whoring, please be so kind to provide the correct link
The X-20A Dyna-Soar (Dynamic Soarer) was a single-pilot manned reusable spaceplane, really the earliest American manned space project to result in development contracts. It evolved from the German Saenger-Bredt Silverbird intercontinental skip-glide rocket bomber[...]
The X-20A Dyna-Soar (Dynamic Soarer) was a single-pilot manned reusable spaceplane, really the earliest American manned space project to result in development contracts. It evolved from the German Saenger-Bredt Silverbird intercontinental skip-glide rocket bomber see here
and something about that Buran shuttle your rip mentions is here:
The Russian Shuttle Buran ("Snowstorm" in Russian) was authorized in 1976 in response to the United States Space Shuttle program. Building of the shuttles began in 1980, with the first full-scale Aero-Buran rolling out in 1984. It was launched by Energia LV. read more here.
As for the cost argument: yes it is true that if you contract all out in your own country, the nett cost for the state is lower than the expended amount. But those are still unproductive workers. If you have your doubts about a third world country doing space research, why use a different standard for first world countries. All those people (working on hyperexpensive spaceprojects) could also develop more and cleaner technologies that might avert the greenhouse runaway that the US seems to want so bad. (In that perspective it is completely logical that the US develops a new space shuttle at twice the cost).
Obviously you are right on the gimp issue. (Or any Gnome application for that matter) But the rest sounds a bit like You don't know it so you don't like it. Because it is visible, you deem it UI problems. I have been using Linux/KDE for 4 years exclusively now, and I am kuite happy with it. I am pretty sure it would be quite painfull if I had to switch to windows or gnome. The layout of KDE is pretty consistent, the pain comes when i have to use a Gnome (or windows) application that uses different guidelines. But does that difference mean that they had their brains sucked out through the nose?
As for the UI czar you propose: that is not how most projects work. If you treat your developers bad, you will just get no code. However big a czar you might be, with such an attitude you probably work alone. Besides, most of the time, a developer already has absolute control over all the source. He can change whatever he likes, that is what open source is for: If you make it better, please show us.
The resistance you feel when you see something different is just a phase of learning. Except for the gimp, that program has been written especially to torment you.
Why do you need to quote something from a book compiled 17 centuries ago, written by dozens of authors of whom none was this 'god' you speak about. Oh wait I know, so you could put in that last sentence:
As always, your vision, compared to God's, is pitiful and short-sighted.
Well kudos to you, for digging up this wonderfull quote. I bow to your knowledge. You must find that all that wonderfull religous knowledge is pretty valuable if you feel the need to troll on/.
Maybe you care to explain your point? Or wil it be just of the variety:"It such because I say it is such"?
Altough education is in general not very tech savvy and pretty risk averse, (if OSS/linux is really cheaper) there will come a time when schools will be flocking towards it.
You don't need a ERM system to manage your school, teacher want to teach, not sit behind a computer. So whatever programs you will let them use, it will be pretty straigthforward to roll out a new solution.
Most schools are probably running a horribly outdated (cash strapped remember?) management system anyway, so it will be pretty easy to pick one that has much better features. If you can use a OSS packazge for that, you will be cheaper off.
So what is your point exactly? That you tripmaster monkey are very good at using words that show us how smart you are?
Or that your standards are better that that of New Scientist? So what? Why do you need to complain about that here on/.? Wouldn't you be better of writing to NS instead?
Or is it maybe you felt you needed to show of your 'sophisticated' language skills? (at the expense of NS) If you want admiration, you'd do better by doing something constructive, something positive. Please?
Why more tensile strenght? if you are down below, all that watere is trying to crush your boat together, not trying to bend it (like what happens on the surface with big waves)
this bendy concrete will be no good for sub, as it contains even more air in the mix. That is fine for dry environments, but bad in marine environments. Or would you like a porous submarine?
finding matching pieces of DNA in science is mostly done by comparing Pieces of the sequence you are investigating with huge databases containing all known dna sequences, and trying if the match is bigger than the initially found piece. This method allows for naturally occurring mutations, deletions and additions. You will have to tweak some parameters (a match of 20 letters in dna is pretty significant, in code it is not) to get meaningfull results, but you will find the cases whwere somebody has done a search and replace on the variables and passed it off as his own work.
Unfortunately this method requires big clusters of computers to execute the queries quickly...
Freeware: Distributed as freeware for business or personal use. However if you want to redistribute Wink, you need to get permission from the author.
so it is just another closed source windows program that has been ported to linux. I don't think I care, as its main output format is flash, judging from the 90% estimate on the homepage.
Listen up, you dumb author: I will use flash like i use javascript, when it becomes a ieee or w3c standard, provided the ratio (usefull content)/(ads+nonsense) goes over 2. Then I will invite you for a skiing trip in hell too.
the metals used are indeed undisclosed, but the magnetic pump is fairly straigthforward:
You run a current in a magnetic field(between two magnets) the current creates it's own magnetic field. Two magnetic fields means you get a force on the magnets and the conducting medium: the medium is pumped in the direction of the force. Voila your pump without moving parts.
Actually in the cold war era, it was believed that the USSR had submarines that had this type of propulsion system. The fact that it has no propellor makes it pretty silent, which is a bonus for submarines.
Stanford law professor Hank Greely, who chaired the ethics committee, said the board was satisfied that the size and shape of the mouse brain would prevent the human cells from creating any traits of humanity. Just in case, Greely said, the committee recommended closely monitoring the mices behavior and immediately killing any that display human-like behavior.
So how much would the life expectancy of this human mind trapped in a sheeps body be? Pretty long I think, they'll never see the difference. Baa!
and more painfull: the mirrordow seems to be having problems too: seems that it can't connect to mysql:
Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (111)
Does anybody have another mirror of those messages?
ISPs ignore requests from this foundation.
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The same foundation that is behind this proposal ("Stichting Brein") is also trying to prosecute filesharers. Most ISP do not cooperate with them by providing the names of their users as this foundation has no legal rights of discovery ("opsporingsbevoegheid"). Thank $DEIETY that copyright violations are still a matter of civil law, not criminal law.
While I agree that there may be stubborn developers working on OSS, most of them will not be able to hold back these changes if they have no detrimental effect. If anybody can fetch and apply these changes to khtml, then how long will it be before somebody releses those patches for the kde version of khtml?
Not too long metinks.
Re:great result, but not really a "discovery"
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There is a feasible fusion generator that you failed to mention, invented in the '60 by the inventor of television, Philo Farnsworth.
"Unlike most controlled fusion systems, which slowly heat a magnetically confined plasma, the fusor injects "high temperature" ions directly into a reaction chamber, thereby avoiding a considerable amount of complexity.
When Farnsworth-Hirsch Fusor was first introduced to the fusion research world in the late 1960s, the Fusor was the first device that could clearly demonstrate it was producing any fusion reactions at all.
It has since been abandoned as a potential fusion generator, since you still have to put in more energy than comes out of it (like every other fusion technology thus far). Some suggest this may be because it is too simple and offers less ways to spend lots of money on it (and acquire status and research grants by doing so).
And humans discovered fusion in the morning, when they opened their eyes and looked at the sun...
Yes they would. safari and konq share the underlyin redering engine: khtml. This is GPL code so the improvements are available. Now if Apples version of khtml passes that test, what developer would turn those improvements away? Most likely the API is unchanged, so it is a simple matter of plugging it in.
"Not invented here" syndrome is not very productive, esp for open source projects.
This program is to be released next year, and will probably be delayed a few more times. MS' spinmeisters are just trying to keep it in the news, so they create 'news events' that are no events at all. Even negative attention is better than no attention at all. But is it worth the attention? No, not for me, I use Linux exclusively since 2001, and so can you.
Not only MS is guilty of using this vaporware tactics. All the media are lapping it up too, without even a single note of critisism. It seems we not only need the icbm adress of MS, but those of it's minion news outlets too;-)
Build a electrostatic fusor, as invented by Farnsworth (also invented tv). I admid it is a bit more involved science project, since you need deuterium, a big high vacuum chamber and several hundreds of kilovolts to start it, but you will get that geigerteller spinning.
Alas no invention yet how to get this to break even for energy input/output.
And chances are high that you never used any Linux distro for more then a few hours, until you were fed up with your own inabilty to learn new stuff and switched back to your teletubbies 'computer'.
It says something about you, not about the software you tried.
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Well thank you for the term intellectual bully, I really like it. As for the proper use of whatever term, in this case 'nuff said': I am not a native (english)speaker, so I will no doubt use stange grammar or use terms that are out of date. I don't care. ;-)"</div>
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see more here
here is more on the dynasoar:
and something about that Buran shuttle your rip mentions is here:
As for the cost argument: yes it is true that if you contract all out in your own country, the nett cost for the state is lower than the expended amount. But those are still unproductive workers. If you have your doubts about a third world country doing space research, why use a different standard for first world countries. All those people (working on hyperexpensive spaceprojects) could also develop more and cleaner technologies that might avert the greenhouse runaway that the US seems to want so bad. (In that perspective it is completely logical that the US develops a new space shuttle at twice the cost).
nuff said...
Obviously you are right on the gimp issue. (Or any Gnome application for that matter) But the rest sounds a bit like You don't know it so you don't like it. Because it is visible, you deem it UI problems.
I have been using Linux/KDE for 4 years exclusively now, and I am kuite happy with it. I am pretty sure it would be quite painfull if I had to switch to windows or gnome. The layout of KDE is pretty consistent, the pain comes when i have to use a Gnome (or windows) application that uses different guidelines. But does that difference mean that they had their brains sucked out through the nose?
As for the UI czar you propose: that is not how most projects work. If you treat your developers bad, you will just get no code. However big a czar you might be, with such an attitude you probably work alone. Besides, most of the time, a developer already has absolute control over all the source. He can change whatever he likes, that is what open source is for: If you make it better, please show us.
The resistance you feel when you see something different is just a phase of learning. Except for the gimp, that program has been written especially to torment you.
Well kudos to you, for digging up this wonderfull quote. I bow to your knowledge. You must find that all that wonderfull religous knowledge is pretty valuable if you feel the need to troll on
Maybe you care to explain your point? Or wil it be just of the variety:"It such because I say it is such"?
Altough education is in general not very tech savvy and pretty risk averse, (if OSS/linux is really cheaper) there will come a time when schools will be flocking towards it.
You don't need a ERM system to manage your school, teacher want to teach, not sit behind a computer. So whatever programs you will let them use, it will be pretty straigthforward to roll out a new solution.
Most schools are probably running a horribly outdated (cash strapped remember?) management system anyway, so it will be pretty easy to pick one that has much better features. If you can use a OSS packazge for that, you will be cheaper off.
So what is your point exactly? That you tripmaster monkey are very good at using words that show us how smart you are?
/.? Wouldn't you be better of writing to NS instead?
Or that your standards are better that that of New Scientist? So what? Why do you need to complain about that here on
Or is it maybe you felt you needed to show of your 'sophisticated' language skills? (at the expense of NS) If you want admiration, you'd do better by doing something constructive, something positive. Please?
why not, they would upset the whitebalance on that thing?
OTOH a lot of people believe very strongly in capitalism and that it will solve all their problems.
I prefer decapitalism.
Why more tensile strenght? if you are down below, all that watere is trying to crush your boat together, not trying to bend it (like what happens on the surface with big waves)
this bendy concrete will be no good for sub, as it contains even more air in the mix. That is fine for dry environments, but bad in marine environments. Or would you like a porous submarine?
finding matching pieces of DNA in science is mostly done by comparing Pieces of the sequence you are investigating with huge databases containing all known dna sequences, and trying if the match is bigger than the initially found piece.
This method allows for naturally occurring mutations, deletions and additions. You will have to tweak some parameters (a match of 20 letters in dna is pretty significant, in code it is not) to get meaningfull results, but you will find the cases whwere somebody has done a search and replace on the variables and passed it off as his own work.
Unfortunately this method requires big clusters of computers to execute the queries quickly...
so it is just another closed source windows program that has been ported to linux. I don't think I care, as its main output format is flash, judging from the 90% estimate on the homepage.
Listen up, you dumb author: I will use flash like i use javascript, when it becomes a ieee or w3c standard, provided the ratio (usefull content)/(ads+nonsense) goes over 2. Then I will invite you for a skiing trip in hell too.
It is a good thing this stuff is not in debian.
the metals used are indeed undisclosed, but the magnetic pump is fairly straigthforward:
You run a current in a magnetic field(between two magnets) the current creates it's own magnetic field. Two magnetic fields means you get a force on the magnets and the conducting medium: the medium is pumped in the direction of the force. Voila your pump without moving parts.
Actually in the cold war era, it was believed that the USSR had submarines that had this type of propulsion system. The fact that it has no propellor makes it pretty silent, which is a bonus for submarines.
So how much would the life expectancy of this human mind trapped in a sheeps body be? Pretty long I think, they'll never see the difference. Baa!
Does anybody have another mirror of those messages?
The same foundation that is behind this proposal ("Stichting Brein") is also trying to prosecute filesharers. Most ISP do not cooperate with them by providing the names of their users as this foundation has no legal rights of discovery ("opsporingsbevoegheid"). Thank $DEIETY that copyright violations are still a matter of civil law, not criminal law.
picture here.
It comes from this blog.
Also have a look here: fusor.net
I'd really hate to be the guy responsible for telivision. I do not want to bear the responisbility for big brother and the likes ;-)
Yes, many great inventions from that era are contested, as is this one probably.
But what do Nipkov and the others have to do with fusion?
it's a bomb, not an energy plant as such.
But yes, more energy comes out of it than you put in.
While I agree that there may be stubborn developers working on OSS, most of them will not be able to hold back these changes if they have no detrimental effect. If anybody can fetch and apply these changes to khtml, then how long will it be before somebody releses those patches for the kde version of khtml?
Not too long metinks.
Have a look at it here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnsworth-Hirsch_Fu
It has since been abandoned as a potential fusion generator, since you still have to put in more energy than comes out of it (like every other fusion technology thus far). Some suggest this may be because it is too simple and offers less ways to spend lots of money on it (and acquire status and research grants by doing so).
And humans discovered fusion in the morning, when they opened their eyes and looked at the sun...
Yes they would. safari and konq share the underlyin redering engine: khtml. This is GPL code so the improvements are available. Now if Apples version of khtml passes that test, what developer would turn those improvements away? Most likely the API is unchanged, so it is a simple matter of plugging it in.
"Not invented here" syndrome is not very productive, esp for open source projects.
This program is to be released next year, and will probably be delayed a few more times. MS' spinmeisters are just trying to keep it in the news, so they create 'news events' that are no events at all. Even negative attention is better than no attention at all. But is it worth the attention? No, not for me, I use Linux exclusively since 2001, and so can you.
;-)
Not only MS is guilty of using this vaporware tactics. All the media are lapping it up too, without even a single note of critisism. It seems we not only need the icbm adress of MS, but those of it's minion news outlets too
Build a electrostatic fusor, as invented by Farnsworth (also invented tv). I admid it is a bit more involved science project, since you need deuterium, a big high vacuum chamber and several hundreds of kilovolts to start it, but you will get that geigerteller spinning.
Alas no invention yet how to get this to break even for energy input/output.
And chances are high that you never used any Linux distro for more then a few hours, until you were fed up with your own inabilty to learn new stuff and switched back to your teletubbies 'computer'.
It says something about you, not about the software you tried.