How would you talk with the coder when you're being hired for his position? that's just one case of many when talking isn't possible. Documentation should be written, and well written.
That's some assembly programmer writing something in another language. I see it all day long... Usually that's an EE who never had a lesson on programming and learned it on the field 40 years ago.
No, I think the fear goes in the line that the high risk group is obese people and pregnant women, as found in the winter here in the south. The mortality rate among these groups was pretty high. Quite a lot of places here in south Brazil waived pregnant women from work.
Good luck trying to get a commercial license for almost any GPL'd code out there. For the sake o exaggeration, let's say we want to get a license to redistribute in binary-only for the linux kernel. Who should I contact to buy such a license? Nothing is wrong with the GPL. It serves its objective. The BIG wrong here is to assume (and say everyone else is wrong) that GPL is THE THING. It's not. It's just another license. It's not a one-size-fits-all. GPL is bogus for quite a lot of embedded device development, for example. It simply doesn't apply. OTOH it, or some license alike, should be mandatory in voting machines, for example.
Maybe because a RFC is clear to you because you are a techie. Maybe the letter of the law is as clear to a lawyer as a RFC is for you? Do you happen to know all RFC's? If you do so, have you never got a border case in which there would be some discussion needed, or allow different people have different interpretations and different behaviour? Even something like the C standard (I know, not a RFC) is full of ambiguities, that makes using C as a portable language somewhat a hard task...
Yes, with that cycle, the capacitor of the rectifier circuit would die really very soon. You're effectively loading it with the inrush current, which is very much larger that it's steady-state current. Losses are going really up as well. During power up you're overstressing the input circuit due to overcurrent (needed to charge the rectifier capacitors) and the output circuit due to overvoltage (needed to ionize the gas on the lamp).
The power factor in CFL's isn't just phase, but more harmonic content. Due to rectifier, current is drawn only during the peak. It can be very troublesome. More troublesome, in my opinion, is the fact that cheap ones uses a too cheap capacitor, so that the electronics of the ballast fail before the bulb. As any other product, there are good and bad ones. My experience here tells that sticking to the good brands and models pays off. They don't take an eternity and half to achieve full light output, they last the stated time or more, they don't inject a crapload of EMI back in your line...
No, lobbying is a correct and legitimate procedure of a democracy. It is an important part of making the elected officials aware of the facts or impacts of some legislation. It doesn't include money, it includes arguments. Bribery includes money. That's a big difference. Now, what happens in the congresses around the world and is called lobbying may be one or another.
Just some points... Ethanol is indeed cheaper now. Sometimes it's more expensive. The idea from the photo is somewhat wrong, since ethanol has about 30% less mileage than gasoline. Even though in the photo the ethanol is about 10% cheaper after accounting this difference. Right now the ratio is even bigger due to a good crop. Engines made for that can run on ethanol or gasoline or any mixture without problems. Almost every car sold in Brazil now can do this. Fueling a gasoline engine with ethanol (after adjusting the ECU) will destroy quite a lot of things, since ethanol is more corrosive. Many people had discovered that the hard way here in Brazil, since they converted their car to dual-fuel by some cheap ECU mods... Other really important problem is that it is difficult to start the engine when it's cold (under 10ÂC). For that cars in Brazil have a small tank (about 0.5l) for gasoline that's used to start the engine in low temperatures. Where I live it lasts about one year (during about three months it's cold enough). As a side-note, my car runs on both ethanol and gasoline, but I can't remember the last time it had gasoline in the tank.
The developers seem to forget that there IS a very popular low-cost console sold in emerging markets, the PS2. The PS2 has VASTLY more capabilities than the Zeebo will have, has thousands of games, and it's cheaper. New games are being released for the PS2, at a rate that will almost certainly beat Zeebo. Did I mention the games are vastly superior on the PS2?
Even if it manages to come out cheaper that PS2, there's a wholle lot of cheap unbranded chinese consoles it will have to fight, since the brand is also unknown in the console market
Indeed. My wife went to buy a shawl last week. There were plenty of them, which is not usual here, but the color she wanted were almost everywhere sold-out. After finding it she discovered why, as the seller told her that that one was just like the one from the soap-opera the day before.
Have you tried buying a PRINTER? I'd say you havem tight now, a 50% chance of getting one that will never work in linux. My parents computer runs linux, had one or two usability questions on the lats two years. But I HAD to select very carefully the whole hardware bunch used. Printer is the biggest headache, since most other hardware bought are usb standard devices, like cameras, storage and human interface. Printers don't use a standard interface. Then there's another problem, lack of API/configuration uniformity. One single update can crash your whole system due to an incompatible API or configuration file. It happened with CUPS and said sample. I can fix it in one or two hours, but surely my dad can't, and it's really the least to expect that your PC will work after an update. It happened to my pc, which has the whole keyboard dead in X and I still could not find any advice after searching google and forums except REMOVE ALL THE KDE configuration files. I'd say, from my single sample, that usability for the desktop linux is ready, support isn't.
A really strange thing is that the account I use in online forums, not hidden in quite a lot of them, rarely gets spam. My real personal account, which I just give to individuals I know, gets a lot of spam. It seems spammers have already found this: web gathered emails aren't very profitable, but recent emails in a zombie computer are much more profitable, since it's an email address people actually read.
Where do your kids stay when you're out? You said telecommuting, so I guess you work from home, but surely you must be present at sometime to meeting/travel... How do your kids learn socialization skills? How are your kids exposed to multiple points of view? Although you can try to do so, probably you'll be very much biased to your point of view. How do you deal with subjects that either are taught too dim in school or that have greatly evolved since then? (Genetics come to mind)
(Sincere questions, which you should have already though and probably have a good answer)
Really, although a little bit inflammatory, he's just stating the overall mentality of the comments I've seen here.
Free speech and thought for all, except for the religious ones, since their ideas are simply stupid and should die. Ain't that what I've been reading here for some time?
Wrong. The low power factor of the ballasts come from harmonic distortion and not from phase shift. It's an even bigger problem to the grid, since it changes quite a lot the current peak, but as it reduces the total power by a huge factor, the same system will manage and give time to the grid to absorb the changes. High power factor is very much feasible, but has added cost. These cheap Chinese cfl's can't afford its cost, as well as they use extremely poor quality electrolytic caps and high loss power electronics to be cheaper. It means that the lamp doesn't have the expected life and the failure mode is in the cap. Adding to that, 6000K cfl's are cheaper and easier to manufacture than lower temperature ones, so most cheap ones just have this color temp option and don't state it in the case.
Which would be quite like a dream as well, since it needs to convert those 10-14.4V to something more palatable to the electronics. 99% of efficiency is a dream in power supplies. It doesn't break the laws of physics, but it's practical realization is just not there yet.
I am from Brazil and work in a large local company. Have also worked for small ones, and while smaller ones don't follow exactly whats in the law, they are very far from the scenario you posted.
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Better yet.
for(p = s->next; p != 0; p = p->next)
Sure it's more verbose, but it's also more readable especially to a novice, since it's closer to the usual prototype of a for loop. (i =0; i xxx; i++)
Wrong. You can't assume NULL=0 and have portable code, although it will most probably work.
How would you talk with the coder when you're being hired for his position?
that's just one case of many when talking isn't possible. Documentation should be written, and well written.
That's some assembly programmer writing something in another language. I see it all day long...
Usually that's an EE who never had a lesson on programming and learned it on the field 40 years ago.
CAD software, EDA software, and a very big bunch of other stuff. Of course I'm talking about the big professional applications, not the hobby ones...
No, I think the fear goes in the line that the high risk group is obese people and pregnant women, as found in the winter here in the south. The mortality rate among these groups was pretty high. Quite a lot of places here in south Brazil waived pregnant women from work.
Good luck trying to get a commercial license for almost any GPL'd code out there. For the sake o exaggeration, let's say we want to get a license to redistribute in binary-only for the linux kernel. Who should I contact to buy such a license?
Nothing is wrong with the GPL. It serves its objective. The BIG wrong here is to assume (and say everyone else is wrong) that GPL is THE THING. It's not. It's just another license. It's not a one-size-fits-all.
GPL is bogus for quite a lot of embedded device development, for example. It simply doesn't apply.
OTOH it, or some license alike, should be mandatory in voting machines, for example.
Here are some pictures, linked from the wikipedia article.
http://www.algalita.org/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=68
Not to mention that no local certs are in the default config...
Ha, mine on algae will put yours in oblivion.
Maybe because a RFC is clear to you because you are a techie. Maybe the letter of the law is as clear to a lawyer as a RFC is for you? Do you happen to know all RFC's? If you do so, have you never got a border case in which there would be some discussion needed, or allow different people have different interpretations and different behaviour?
Even something like the C standard (I know, not a RFC) is full of ambiguities, that makes using C as a portable language somewhat a hard task...
Yes, with that cycle, the capacitor of the rectifier circuit would die really very soon. You're effectively loading it with the inrush current, which is very much larger that it's steady-state current. Losses are going really up as well. During power up you're overstressing the input circuit due to overcurrent (needed to charge the rectifier capacitors) and the output circuit due to overvoltage (needed to ionize the gas on the lamp).
The power factor in CFL's isn't just phase, but more harmonic content. Due to rectifier, current is drawn only during the peak. It can be very troublesome. More troublesome, in my opinion, is the fact that cheap ones uses a too cheap capacitor, so that the electronics of the ballast fail before the bulb.
As any other product, there are good and bad ones. My experience here tells that sticking to the good brands and models pays off. They don't take an eternity and half to achieve full light output, they last the stated time or more, they don't inject a crapload of EMI back in your line...
No, lobbying is a correct and legitimate procedure of a democracy. It is an important part of making the elected officials aware of the facts or impacts of some legislation. It doesn't include money, it includes arguments.
Bribery includes money. That's a big difference.
Now, what happens in the congresses around the world and is called lobbying may be one or another.
Just some points...
Ethanol is indeed cheaper now. Sometimes it's more expensive. The idea from the photo is somewhat wrong, since ethanol has about 30% less mileage than gasoline. Even though in the photo the ethanol is about 10% cheaper after accounting this difference. Right now the ratio is even bigger due to a good crop.
Engines made for that can run on ethanol or gasoline or any mixture without problems. Almost every car sold in Brazil now can do this. Fueling a gasoline engine with ethanol (after adjusting the ECU) will destroy quite a lot of things, since ethanol is more corrosive. Many people had discovered that the hard way here in Brazil, since they converted their car to dual-fuel by some cheap ECU mods...
Other really important problem is that it is difficult to start the engine when it's cold (under 10ÂC). For that cars in Brazil have a small tank (about 0.5l) for gasoline that's used to start the engine in low temperatures. Where I live it lasts about one year (during about three months it's cold enough).
As a side-note, my car runs on both ethanol and gasoline, but I can't remember the last time it had gasoline in the tank.
The developers seem to forget that there IS a very popular low-cost console sold in emerging markets, the PS2. The PS2 has VASTLY more capabilities than the Zeebo will have, has thousands of games, and it's cheaper. New games are being released for the PS2, at a rate that will almost certainly beat Zeebo. Did I mention the games are vastly superior on the PS2?
Even if it manages to come out cheaper that PS2, there's a wholle lot of cheap unbranded chinese consoles it will have to fight, since the brand is also unknown in the console market
Indeed.
My wife went to buy a shawl last week. There were plenty of them, which is not usual here, but the color she wanted were almost everywhere sold-out. After finding it she discovered why, as the seller told her that that one was just like the one from the soap-opera the day before.
Have you tried buying a PRINTER? I'd say you havem tight now, a 50% chance of getting one that will never work in linux.
My parents computer runs linux, had one or two usability questions on the lats two years. But I HAD to select very carefully the whole hardware bunch used. Printer is the biggest headache, since most other hardware bought are usb standard devices, like cameras, storage and human interface. Printers don't use a standard interface.
Then there's another problem, lack of API/configuration uniformity. One single update can crash your whole system due to an incompatible API or configuration file. It happened with CUPS and said sample. I can fix it in one or two hours, but surely my dad can't, and it's really the least to expect that your PC will work after an update. It happened to my pc, which has the whole keyboard dead in X and I still could not find any advice after searching google and forums except REMOVE ALL THE KDE configuration files.
I'd say, from my single sample, that usability for the desktop linux is ready, support isn't.
I haven't read the code, but if it is done like that it may not be an error at all, but just a low-pass filter. A rather bad one...
A really strange thing is that the account I use in online forums, not hidden in quite a lot of them, rarely gets spam. My real personal account, which I just give to individuals I know, gets a lot of spam. It seems spammers have already found this: web gathered emails aren't very profitable, but recent emails in a zombie computer are much more profitable, since it's an email address people actually read.
Interesting?
I would think funny, since overcrowding is as far from eco-friendly as possible.
Where do your kids stay when you're out? You said telecommuting, so I guess you work from home, but surely you must be present at sometime to meeting/travel...
How do your kids learn socialization skills?
How are your kids exposed to multiple points of view? Although you can try to do so, probably you'll be very much biased to your point of view.
How do you deal with subjects that either are taught too dim in school or that have greatly evolved since then? (Genetics come to mind)
(Sincere questions, which you should have already though and probably have a good answer)
Why troll?
Really, although a little bit inflammatory, he's just stating the overall mentality of the comments I've seen here.
Free speech and thought for all, except for the religious ones, since their ideas are simply stupid and should die. Ain't that what I've been reading here for some time?
Wrong.
The low power factor of the ballasts come from harmonic distortion and not from phase shift.
It's an even bigger problem to the grid, since it changes quite a lot the current peak, but as it reduces the total power by a huge factor, the same system will manage and give time to the grid to absorb the changes.
High power factor is very much feasible, but has added cost. These cheap Chinese cfl's can't afford its cost, as well as they use extremely poor quality electrolytic caps and high loss power electronics to be cheaper. It means that the lamp doesn't have the expected life and the failure mode is in the cap.
Adding to that, 6000K cfl's are cheaper and easier to manufacture than lower temperature ones, so most cheap ones just have this color temp option and don't state it in the case.
Which would be quite like a dream as well, since it needs to convert those 10-14.4V to something more palatable to the electronics.
99% of efficiency is a dream in power supplies. It doesn't break the laws of physics, but it's practical realization is just not there yet.
I am from Brazil and work in a large local company. Have also worked for small ones, and while smaller ones don't follow exactly whats in the law, they are very far from the scenario you posted.