Pour 1/2 deciliter of water, 1 deciliter of mays grains, and some salt into a very large bowl. Add microwave film as lid to the bowl and pop for 6 minutes at 900 W. It is easy and healthy.
The fat in prefabricated popcorn bags often contains a lot of trans-fatty-acids. These acids are known to be unhealthy. Use my recipie for improved health and a better popcorn experience.
The big seeling point for Ubuntu is that you can have a system that
Has recent packages (Woody doesn't)
Provides security upgrades (Sarge doesn't)
Is somewhat stable (I believe that Warty is stabler than Sid)
Many packages in Sarge are newer than their counterpart in Warty, and similar Sid has newer packages than Hoary. However these differences are small and unimportant.
Ubuntu has focused on a subset of the Debian archive. The packages in this subset are stable and work well. Furthermore Ubuntu has a "universe" archive that contains most of the packages in Sid.
Some of the universe packages are uninstallable due to missing files. This can be bad if you are very dependent on a specific program.
The shadows is a feature of the xserver named x.org. I think that the good people at Debian have decided to postpose x.org until Sarge has shipped. I think that the best bet is that this will happen in half a year months or so.
The minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen rejects that Bill Gates the founder of the biggest software company in the world have threatened him by closing Navision and moving the 800 developers of Denmarks greatest software succes to the US.
He hasn't done this on any meeting with me. I cannot confirm this way of putting, not at all. We haven't spoken about this, not at all, says Anders Fogh Rasmussen to Ritzau.
The rejection by the minister of state arrives after last tuesday when the newspaper "Børsen" told of a threat given by Bill Gates in November on a meeting with Anders Fogh Rasmussen, minister of economy and commerce Bendt Bendtsen and minister of science Helge Sander.
Apparently the threat were to become reality if parts of the IT-branch succeeded in blocking a controversial EU-directive about software patents, which has been delayed time after time by the effective lobby work of the opponents.
They can build two separate boxes and examine if the results are corellated. If the results are uncorrrelated then at least one of the boxes must be wrong, whereas any correllation should give them the Ranis price (or at least the Nobel price). Of course they can claim that any two prediction boxes will interfere, but this claim is bullshit.
They can also perform a blind experiment in which the box is enclosed in a cupboard for a year. Meanwhile the researchers look in the newspapers to register notable events. Finally they take the box out of the cupboard and compare the results. Strong corellation should lead to the Randi price (or at least to the experiment being repeated)
I always wondered about the following: Counting the 3.8 billion people that watch Bollywood movies. How many of these will watch pirated movies. The article refers to the rich people who can afford to download a movie from the internet, but how about a farmers living in remote places. Can these people afford to pay for official versions of the movies. Which percentage of the income of the Bollywood film industry comes from selling movies (or music) to farmers?
I assume that the end result of this research look like this: A person uses brain center A for short term investments and brain center B for long term investments. Now we have explained the difference between short- and long term investments strategies.
This knowledge must be interesting for a neuroscientist, but how does it become interesting for an economist? I mean what would be the optimal outcome of this research project? Would it be fMRI assisted management courses?
First time I open the start menu after reboot it takes 0.5 sec. Next time I open the menu it is faster. Is there some memory buffering involved in all this? Is this buffering related to my choice of kernel? (gnome 2.8, amd 1200mhz, kernel 2.6.8)
There are many IDE's for Linux, but most of them only supports a few languages. Has there been any efforts to agree on a standard grammar for parsers and lexers and syntax highlighting? Which possibilities are available? (Sorry if I am asking a stupid question here, I am not a computer scientist)
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This wording will allow for non-free relicensing, if RMS or his descendents decide to change the GPL. I pressume that most of the software in a standard Linux distribution is Licensed this way.
Is the FSF democractic in the sense that the GPL license could be hijacked, by enough people joinin the FSF?
Could RMS in principle change the license to state that all the software belongs to him?
Who would be entitled to make new versions of the GPL if the leaders of the FSF died tomorrow?
Where should I look to learn more about this?
Definition of sourcecode of graphics files.
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Revising the GPL
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Suppose I use a layered gimp file to create a png-file, for a GPL'ed program. Does the license require me to distribute the layered gimp file along with my binaries? What is a "preferred form of the work for making modifications to it"? Perhaps the answer to this question will be clarified in the upcoming version of the license. (See prior discussion on linux.debian.legal).
Copenhagen (capital of Denmark, North of Germany) has had
free bikes for a few years. Each spring the city buys a set of bikes for the turist season. These bikes last for about 6 months, and in the autumn most of them have been destroyed. The advertisers pay around
200$ for placing an ad on a bike, and the city takes care of repairing the bike.
If I remember corectly the bike repairing is taken care of by an unemployment project (training the unemplyed to have a job), so in the effect the bike are partly being paid for by social help:)
My point is that bittorrent is different from Kazaa. Bittorrent makes it easy for the RIAA to sue the torrent providers, whereas Kazaa has been constructed to make it easy for everybody to stay hidden.
The opensource community should applaud the bittorrent project for making it easy to distribute software in an effective and transparent way. If you like public domain music and speeches. You should also applaud them:)
Reading todays story I get the feeling that the poster wants to use a few law abiding OSS-file sharers as an excuse for letting everybody else share copyrighted music. However this attempt is misguided and meaningless.
RIAA is not filing legal charges against bittorrent as a program. Perhaps they would like to shut down the sourceforge site, but it is much easier for them to attack the torrent providers.One of the qualities of bittorrent is that it is fairly visible whether a torrent provider links illegal stuff, and therefore it is easy for RIAA to track down the right people.
This is good news for the open source community,
because in a year or two there will be no more sites like supernova.org, because the RIAA have sued the illegal trorrent providers into hell, and the open source community will still be able to use bittorrent to provide download of open source software.
Of course the closing down of illegal bittorrent sites will not be the end of P2P, but it will render todays story meaningless. Whats the point listing up legal use of P2P, when bittorrent provides a transparent effective technology?
The next question is whether or not a symbolic math package is useful at highscool/freshman level.
Maple and Mathematica can look really flashy when you see them for the first time, but after half an hour you end up asking a question that can only be solved if you spend a lot of time looking through the manual, trying to understand all the list operations.(I don't know if Maxima is advanced enough to create this kind of problems)
When using Matlab or Octave it is easier to guess what is possible and what is not. This way the students have a better chance of trying to do something on their own hand.So even if Octave cannot integrate it may still be the better education tool in a highscool computer lab.
If I understand correctly the the poster just wishes to give his students a glimpse of what computers can do in mathematics. Therefore I would advice him to use Octave.
By the way you can also find a great deal of very specialized java applet on the web. Perhaps they are more accessible to the students than Octave.
Re:Is this really anything close to an accurate co
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BZFlag goes Platinum
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· Score: 3, Informative
The Debian popularity contest, rates bzflag as number
66.
It counts the number of computers, who that have install the popcon package as well as bzflag.
Just for reference: The article does not mention anything about computers taking decission for the driver. It describes the aquisition of a wind tunnel and a large cluster for doing computational fluid dynamics (CFP). These two toys will help the Sauber Petrona team to optimize the outer shape of the car.
The news us that large clusters have become a useful tool for analyzing the aerodynamics of a race car.
XEN is a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) originally developed by the Systems Research Group of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, as part of the UK-EPSRC funded XenoServers project.
Xen enables multiple operating system images to execute concurrently on the same hardware with very low performance overhead --- much lower than commercial offerings for the same x86 platform.
I am using Woody at work (physics Ph.D.). Most people at the institution use programs like emacs, (which doesn't evolve so fast anymore) and Matlab (which installs nicely), so we don't lose much by using debian stable.
My only grudge is that I am getting a little tired of icewm. I mean it's a really fast wm, and the gui is clean, but I use GNOME 2.6 at home and I like all the bells and whizzles.
Unfortunately, the attention people have paid to this project has
started to wane. I figure either people really aren't that
interested, or they just don't know about it. I decided to test the
waters by posting to a few different forums around on the web. It
turns out that there are plenty of interested people, but they just
haven't heard about it because word hasn't spread.
Although my employer is capable of and willing to help me to market
this, they have not taken an intrusive role in the project, in part
because they understand that this is not a normal project. This is
more of a community project than it is a "Tech Source" project, and
they have respected that. Unfortunately, being an engineer rather
than a sales person, I haven't had huge success on my own in
generating the necessary awareness among those who would be interested
in this sort of thing.
I read it the following way: Tech source is not willing to take a risk investing in this card until they see a market. The whole project is a personal hobby project of Timothy Miller.
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The fat in prefabricated popcorn bags often contains a lot of trans-fatty-acids. These acids are known to be unhealthy. Use my recipie for improved health and a better popcorn experience.
Has recent packages (Woody doesn't)
Provides security upgrades (Sarge doesn't)
Is somewhat stable (I believe that Warty is stabler than Sid)
Many packages in Sarge are newer than their counterpart in Warty, and similar Sid has newer packages than Hoary. However these differences are small and unimportant.
Ubuntu has focused on a subset of the Debian archive. The packages in this subset are stable and work well. Furthermore Ubuntu has a "universe" archive that contains most of the packages in Sid. Some of the universe packages are uninstallable due to missing files. This can be bad if you are very dependent on a specific program.
The shadows is a feature of the xserver named x.org. I think that the good people at Debian have decided to postpose x.org until Sarge has shipped. I think that the best bet is that this will happen in half a year months or so.
If you get tired of waiting you can practice online at www.eyeplaygames.com.
The minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen rejects that Bill Gates the founder of the biggest software company in the world have threatened him by closing Navision and moving the 800 developers of Denmarks greatest software succes to the US.
He hasn't done this on any meeting with me. I cannot confirm this way of putting, not at all. We haven't spoken about this, not at all, says Anders Fogh Rasmussen to Ritzau.
The rejection by the minister of state arrives after last tuesday when the newspaper "Børsen" told of a threat given by Bill Gates in November on a meeting with Anders Fogh Rasmussen, minister of economy and commerce Bendt Bendtsen and minister of science Helge Sander.
Apparently the threat were to become reality if parts of the IT-branch succeeded in blocking a controversial EU-directive about software patents, which has been delayed time after time by the effective lobby work of the opponents.
Sorry about my horrible english
They can also perform a blind experiment in which the box is enclosed in a cupboard for a year. Meanwhile the researchers look in the newspapers to register notable events. Finally they take the box out of the cupboard and compare the results. Strong corellation should lead to the Randi price (or at least to the experiment being repeated)
I always wondered about the following: Counting the 3.8 billion people that watch Bollywood movies. How many of these will watch pirated movies. The article refers to the rich people who can afford to download a movie from the internet, but how about a farmers living in remote places. Can these people afford to pay for official versions of the movies. Which percentage of the income of the Bollywood film industry comes from selling movies (or music) to farmers?
Here is a homepage with some nice articles http://www.ccnl.emory.edu/greg/. This article looks especially nice http://www.ccnl.emory.edu/greg/MontagueBernsPrinte d.pdf.
Basically they brain scan people during the process of making a decission. The relation to economics seems to be buzz.
This knowledge must be interesting for a neuroscientist, but how does it become interesting for an economist? I mean what would be the optimal outcome of this research project? Would it be fMRI assisted management courses?
First time I open the start menu after reboot it takes 0.5 sec. Next time I open the menu it is faster. Is there some memory buffering involved in all this? Is this buffering related to my choice of kernel? (gnome 2.8, amd 1200mhz, kernel 2.6.8)
I am referring to something like semantic for emacs http://cedet.sourceforge.net/semantic.shtml.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
This wording will allow for non-free relicensing, if RMS or his descendents decide to change the GPL. I pressume that most of the software in a standard Linux distribution is Licensed this way.
Who is entitled to change the wording of the GPL.
Is the FSF democractic in the sense that the GPL license could be hijacked, by enough people joinin the FSF?
Could RMS in principle change the license to state that all the software belongs to him?
Who would be entitled to make new versions of the GPL if the leaders of the FSF died tomorrow?
Where should I look to learn more about this?
Suppose I use a layered gimp file to create a png-file, for a GPL'ed program. Does the license require me to distribute the layered gimp file along with my binaries? What is a "preferred form of the work for making modifications to it"? Perhaps the answer to this question will be clarified in the upcoming version of the license. (See prior discussion on linux.debian.legal).
If I remember corectly the bike repairing is taken care of by an unemployment project (training the unemplyed to have a job), so in the effect the bike are partly being paid for by social help :)
apt-torrent update && apt-torrent upgrade && apt-torrent moo
The opensource community should applaud the bittorrent project for making it easy to distribute software in an effective and transparent way. If you like public domain music and speeches. You should also applaud them :)
RIAA is not filing legal charges against bittorrent as a program. Perhaps they would like to shut down the sourceforge site, but it is much easier for them to attack the torrent providers.One of the qualities of bittorrent is that it is fairly visible whether a torrent provider links illegal stuff, and therefore it is easy for RIAA to track down the right people.
This is good news for the open source community, because in a year or two there will be no more sites like supernova.org, because the RIAA have sued the illegal trorrent providers into hell, and the open source community will still be able to use bittorrent to provide download of open source software. Of course the closing down of illegal bittorrent sites will not be the end of P2P, but it will render todays story meaningless. Whats the point listing up legal use of P2P, when bittorrent provides a transparent effective technology?
The next question is whether or not a symbolic math package is useful at highscool/freshman level. Maple and Mathematica can look really flashy when you see them for the first time, but after half an hour you end up asking a question that can only be solved if you spend a lot of time looking through the manual, trying to understand all the list operations.(I don't know if Maxima is advanced enough to create this kind of problems) When using Matlab or Octave it is easier to guess what is possible and what is not. This way the students have a better chance of trying to do something on their own hand.So even if Octave cannot integrate it may still be the better education tool in a highscool computer lab. If I understand correctly the the poster just wishes to give his students a glimpse of what computers can do in mathematics. Therefore I would advice him to use Octave. By the way you can also find a great deal of very specialized java applet on the web. Perhaps they are more accessible to the students than Octave.
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Is this story some kind of troll? They included Linux Thorvalds and Klaus Knoppix, but they left out Bill Gates :)
The news us that large clusters have become a useful tool for analyzing the aerodynamics of a race car.
XEN is a Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) originally developed by the Systems Research Group of the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, as part of the UK-EPSRC funded XenoServers project.
Xen enables multiple operating system images to execute concurrently on the same hardware with very low performance overhead --- much lower than commercial offerings for the same x86 platform.
My only grudge is that I am getting a little tired of icewm. I mean it's a really fast wm, and the gui is clean, but I use GNOME 2.6 at home and I like all the bells and whizzles.
Unfortunately, the attention people have paid to this project has started to wane. I figure either people really aren't that interested, or they just don't know about it. I decided to test the waters by posting to a few different forums around on the web. It turns out that there are plenty of interested people, but they just haven't heard about it because word hasn't spread.
Although my employer is capable of and willing to help me to market this, they have not taken an intrusive role in the project, in part because they understand that this is not a normal project. This is more of a community project than it is a "Tech Source" project, and they have respected that. Unfortunately, being an engineer rather than a sales person, I haven't had huge success on my own in generating the necessary awareness among those who would be interested in this sort of thing.
I read it the following way: Tech source is not willing to take a risk investing in this card until they see a market. The whole project is a personal hobby project of Timothy Miller.