the French don't want Nazi relics being sold in their country
And they don't want it to be sold to their country. They don't care about americans trading among themselves.
The American Yahoo site is *not* operating on French soil
No, but they support shipping to French soil.
rance's gov't should take responsibility for their country, instead of suing a
foreign corporation because they are unwilling (or unable) to enforce their own laws.
Is that what you want to hear as a response of any South American Nation selling drugs to the US, when the US asks them to stop that? No, you expect them to respect US law, and not sell the stuff to americans. I am aware of the fact, that yahoo is not actually selling the stuff, but they protege the trade.
No, you did only read the thread, but not the article. They want that the stuff is not accessable for french customers. If they can only achieve this by removing the pages completely that's Yahoo's problem.
There is zero basis for allowing French laws to followed here in the US.
Of course not. The US are a sovereign nation. They don't need to follow french law. However, concider a french site selling material that is banned in the US, but not in France, let's say certain drugs (maybe replace France by the Neather Lands). Wouldn't you expect this nation
to respect US laws and NOT sell theese goods to US customers? I don't think the french judge has the right in any juristical sense to impose anything onto any US company. I think you should do that yourself, but obviously you don't really care what US companies do in foreign nations (by you I mean a certain, non neglectable part of the US citizens, but most probably not you, the AC, I just reply to).
It's very sad to see that man non-US people's prejudices on US americans seem to be true even on an "open minded" forum as I thought/. would be.
I am german and concider myself as an advocate on free speech. I do not agree with the french judge, and I don't think the way we handle Nazi remnants in Germany is the right way. Actually I think the assertion of free speech in the states is one of the most valuable achievements in todays US.
That said, I disrepect all you arrogant bastards that think the US are the ultimate ruler of the world in any moral or jurisdictional way. How dare you support US companies, that make money in France in ways that are illegal there (e.g. selling nazi goods from french to french persons) ??? Even if you don't agree with this jurisdiction you should respect it.
How do they keep the blimp stationary while placing the building on its destined site?
They build zeppelines of different sizes. For the _very_ larg ones you will have portable "harbours". You will need conventional ground heavy weight transport for that, but it is still much cheaper and much mor easy then to transport everything on ground.
And how do they diconnect the building? I can imagine the blimp will go up like a cork once the building is disconnected.
This is actually a problem. Two solutions:
use counter weights. e.g. punp water into the ship while disconnecting.
fluidify the Helium to reduce buoyancy.
both versions have huge disadvantages. water may not be availabe in the needed amounts. or the other way round, where do you put it once at the location where to lift the weight? If you could fluidify the Helium when desired it would be perfect, but this is not easy at all. Impossible as for today.
So in the future I will have to pay a cent per article and two if I want to comment. Moderation in 5 cents a point?
Napster is 1 cent a search and $1 the song. Google goes 20 searches a cent. The Fish costs you 0.2 cents the word and BritannicaOnline will charge 10 cents per search.
Anyone still remembers knows good old BTX (or teletex)? You had to pay certain small amounts per page, which havebeen charged to your phonebill.. HORRIBLE!
I hope this won't work out as most things by Deutsche Telekom do.
No problem with releasing under two licenses. thought, there is no way that you can force somebody to pay for your GPL program.
That would be against the point.
nope. no problem in selling your GPLed code for $$. Only, who ever buys it is allowd to redistribute it for free. So that makes only sense in special cases.
Offer support for a game? It's a bad game then.
GPL is a very good license, but it's not one-size-fits-all. There a many places where GPL is just not the way to go.
Half of it is dead.
Supercomputer applications can be ordered by the inherent parallelism of the underlying problem. Some problems are inherent parallel (e.g. SETI, HEP, etc.) some require communication (Weather, NP, etc.). Wherever communication is needed old fasioned "supercomputers" e.g. shared mem SIMD, MIMD, ccNUMA etc. mashines will be superior to clusters, i.e. distributed mem MIMD mashines.
"800kb to 3Mb" isn't any better than a tuned implementation of X11
1) read 2) think 3) post QT/Embedded includes a big bunch of applications from addressbook over wordprocessor to MPEG (+mp3) player and games. all that fits into 2MB. That is much better then X11 and any other toolkit.
Have you actually spend a second and read the article?
But the Qt Palmtop Environment uses
Qt/Embedded, so there is no need for an X11 server, no extra client libraries, no separate window manager, no
layer-upon-layer of toolkits -- Qt/Embedded works directly with the Linux framebuffer.
Also it leaves open
the question of how the Higgs itself gets its mass.
No. It doesn't. The Higgs itself gets it's mass via the same Higgs mechanism. What actually is wrong is that the Higgs boson is responsible for the masses. Right is: The Higgs-Field (not the boson) is responsible for the mass (of fundamentals).
Infortunately all reasonable theories predict the spin of the Higgs to be zero. That means you cannot alter it as you can with the spin of an electron (fermion) or vector boson. no chance to alter mass.
For some more (but brief) information about the Higgs boson read
here
Some comments:
The collider has been used to confirm the existence of the Higgs particle unsuccessfully.
Maybe some of you wonder why these guys can't tell if they found the Higgs particle or not. Let me try to explain. It's all about statistics.
Imagine you have two dices, one has the numbers from one to six on it. The other one you just know it has the numbers one to five and the last number can be any of 1 to 6, there might be e.g. another 2 or something. let's call this dice 'signal dice'. Unfortunately they look exactly the same and you can only read the number on top.
The Higgs is like the number 6 on the second dice.
ok. roll the dices. you get 3 and 5. Now you know there is at least a 3 or a 5 on the signal dice. Noone cares. again: 1 and 6. Wow.. do we have something? You don't know because you cannot tell which dice shows the 6.
The trick: if you roll a hundert times, you expect
100 * 2 (dices) / 6 = 33.3 times the number 6 if the 'signal dice' has a 6 and only 100 * 1 / 6 = 16 times 6 if the signal dice has no 6.
You see, a single (or a few) rolles don't help. Even if you see the 6, it might be the other dice.
Unfortunately they cut the power to LEP so they cannot keep on rolling.
Actually only
Aleph has 3.5 sigma excess in one channel Z*->H Z (H -> b + anti b), so that means pretty much nothing and they don't really trust their Monte Carlo (which provides the second dice:). That means they see something, but just have not enough data to really confirm the existence. NOrmally you do that with at leat 5 sigma.
According to commentators, whoever finds the Higgs first will probably win a Nobel Prize.
Well, todays HEP collaborations are very large. Especially when it commes to LHC experiments. There is no single 'person' that is by any means able to actually 'find' the Higgs. My best guess is that, given the Higgs particle will ever be found, Peter Higgs himself might get the Nobel Prize.
The first chanclor of germany after WII said ones...
Wow, I must have missed a couple of lessons in school. So Sir Winston Churchill was chancelor in Germany. And I always thought the guy was Konrad Adenauer.
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And they don't want it to be sold to their country. They don't care about americans trading among themselves.
The American Yahoo site is *not* operating on French soil
No, but they support shipping to French soil.
rance's gov't should take responsibility for their country, instead of suing a foreign corporation because they are unwilling (or unable) to enforce their own laws.
Is that what you want to hear as a response of any South American Nation selling drugs to the US, when the US asks them to stop that? No, you expect them to respect US law, and not sell the stuff to americans. I am aware of the fact, that yahoo is not actually selling the stuff, but they protege the trade.
No, you did only read the thread, but not the article. They want that the stuff is not accessable for french customers. If they can only achieve this by removing the pages completely that's Yahoo's problem.
Of course not. The US are a sovereign nation. They don't need to follow french law. However, concider a french site selling material that is banned in the US, but not in France, let's say certain drugs (maybe replace France by the Neather Lands). Wouldn't you expect this nation to respect US laws and NOT sell theese goods to US customers? I don't think the french judge has the right in any juristical sense to impose anything onto any US company. I think you should do that yourself, but obviously you don't really care what US companies do in foreign nations (by you I mean a certain, non neglectable part of the US citizens, but most probably not you, the AC, I just reply to).
I am german and concider myself as an advocate on free speech. I do not agree with the french judge, and I don't think the way we handle Nazi remnants in Germany is the right way. Actually I think the assertion of free speech in the states is one of the most valuable achievements in todays US.
That said, I disrepect all you arrogant bastards that think the US are the ultimate ruler of the world in any moral or jurisdictional way. How dare you support US companies, that make money in France in ways that are illegal there (e.g. selling nazi goods from french to french persons) ??? Even if you don't agree with this jurisdiction you should respect it.
Cheers, Peter
That would be indeed a thread, as not even MS is able do open a .doc document perfectly (when using different versions of MSWord)
CHeers, Peter
They build zeppelines of different sizes. For the _very_ larg ones you will have portable "harbours". You will need conventional ground heavy weight transport for that, but it is still much cheaper and much mor easy then to transport everything on ground.
And how do they diconnect the building? I can imagine the blimp will go up like a cork once the building is disconnected.
This is actually a problem. Two solutions:
use counter weights. e.g. punp water into the ship while disconnecting.
fluidify the Helium to reduce buoyancy.
both versions have huge disadvantages. water may not be availabe in the needed amounts. or the other way round, where do you put it once at the location where to lift the weight? If you could fluidify the Helium when desired it would be perfect, but this is not easy at all. Impossible as for today.
Cheers, Peter
Napster is 1 cent a search and $1 the song. Google goes 20 searches a cent. The Fish costs you 0.2 cents the word and BritannicaOnline will charge 10 cents per search.
Anyone still remembers knows good old BTX (or teletex)? You had to pay certain small amounts per page, which havebeen charged to your phonebill.. HORRIBLE!
I hope this won't work out as most things by Deutsche Telekom do.
Cheers, Peter
No. This is wo be self-administered justice and cannot be justified.
Offer support for a game? It's a bad game then.
GPL is a very good license, but it's not one-size-fits-all. There a many places where GPL is just not the way to go.
Cheers.
+1 Funny
FUNNY +1
How much bandwith does a digital Monitor (e.g. a TMDS link) consume? There would be only powercables left....
Do you think the guy sits there: "Hmmm should I fix Konq or write some Java bindings?"
Best of all, you troll get moded up by some even more stupid moderator!
If it was ever coredumping GNOME getting another kinding everyone would clap their hands.
Slashdot became a rediculous platform of wannabes.
WRONG! US is the largest poluter. Meassured per head, per $SBF, per you name it.
Yes. I _need_ a HiRes head mounted display, i.e. two screens, i.e. double pixel freq.
Half of it is dead.
Supercomputer applications can be ordered by the inherent parallelism of the underlying problem. Some problems are inherent parallel (e.g. SETI, HEP, etc.) some require communication (Weather, NP, etc.). Wherever communication is needed old fasioned "supercomputers" e.g. shared mem SIMD, MIMD, ccNUMA etc. mashines will be superior to clusters, i.e. distributed mem MIMD mashines.
"800kb to 3Mb" isn't any better than a tuned implementation of X11 1) read
2) think
3) post
QT/Embedded includes a big bunch of applications from addressbook over wordprocessor to MPEG (+mp3) player and games. all that fits into 2MB. That is much better then X11 and any other toolkit.
No. It doesn't. The Higgs itself gets it's mass via the same Higgs mechanism. What actually is wrong is that the Higgs boson is responsible for the masses. Right is: The Higgs-Field (not the boson) is responsible for the mass (of fundamentals).
He is a particle physicist, and thinks of matter in terms of gauge bosons and fundamental fermions. So the Higgs is pretty much the thing.
Infortunately all reasonable theories predict the spin of the Higgs to be zero. That means you cannot alter it as you can with the spin of an electron (fermion) or vector boson. no chance to alter mass.
For some more (but brief) information about the Higgs boson read here
Some comments:
Maybe some of you wonder why these guys can't tell if they found the Higgs particle or not. Let me try to explain. It's all about statistics. Imagine you have two dices, one has the numbers from one to six on it. The other one you just know it has the numbers one to five and the last number can be any of 1 to 6, there might be e.g. another 2 or something. let's call this dice 'signal dice'. Unfortunately they look exactly the same and you can only read the number on top.
The Higgs is like the number 6 on the second dice.
ok. roll the dices. you get 3 and 5. Now you know there is at least a 3 or a 5 on the signal dice. Noone cares. again: 1 and 6. Wow.. do we have something? You don't know because you cannot tell which dice shows the 6.
The trick: if you roll a hundert times, you expect 100 * 2 (dices) / 6 = 33.3 times the number 6 if the 'signal dice' has a 6 and only 100 * 1 / 6 = 16 times 6 if the signal dice has no 6.
You see, a single (or a few) rolles don't help. Even if you see the 6, it might be the other dice. Unfortunately they cut the power to LEP so they cannot keep on rolling.
Actually only Aleph has 3.5 sigma excess in one channel Z*->H Z (H -> b + anti b), so that means pretty much nothing and they don't really trust their Monte Carlo (which provides the second dice :). That means they see something, but just have not enough data to really confirm the existence. NOrmally you do that with at leat 5 sigma.
Well, todays HEP collaborations are very large. Especially when it commes to LHC experiments. There is no single 'person' that is by any means able to actually 'find' the Higgs. My best guess is that, given the Higgs particle will ever be found, Peter Higgs himself might get the Nobel Prize.I guess Mueller-Maghun thinks no.
try unix2dos and dos2unix , they come along with most Linux/BSD distros.
Cheers
Wow, I must have missed a couple of lessons in school. So Sir Winston Churchill was chancelor in Germany. And I always thought the guy was Konrad Adenauer.
Cheres,
Peter