I also own a hp48, but I always wanted a hp48, since it was rumored to have vastly better symbolic integration and loadable programs.
But then I joined university and thereafter I only used the calculator for exams. Now I am a phd student, and I am never more than 1m away from Matlab:)
You needed a hp48 to be able to cheat. There were mods around which enabled them to communicate over a distance of 13 meters. In the danish technical they used to have a special box in which you could put your hp48 calculator. This box would effectively prevent IR communication.
Webpage of company (not yet featuring the bike)
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Here is the homepage of the company. They haven't added the bamboo bike yet, but, I have mailed them and urged them to add it
http://www.christianiabikes.com/english/uk_main.ht m
I have used both for half a year. It wasn't really visible for me whether or not Mozilla was bloated, but I am very happy with the user interface of Galeon. It isn't very different from Mozillas', but the developers have made a lot of small good choices.
As an example each tab has a small cross in the right corner This cross allows you to close the tab without using a pulldown menu.
This is not a big thing, but still I have grown to love it. (Perhaps Mozilla has something equally fast but in that case I never discovered)
Another on again, off again feature I like was the ability to right click on the handle of one of my custom toolbars and opening the entire folder in tabs.
I disagree with you on the usefulness of this feature. Actually I was close to writing a bug report asking them to remove it. In the Galeon version of Redhat 8.0 the feature is assigned to middle click. The problem is that I activate this feature by mistake several times a day, and even with the nice Galeon tabs, it takes a while to delete 20 tabs.
I wish that the developers of Galeon will find strength in this slashdot debate to keep up the good work.
Let's compare software industry with biotech. How many year of education does it take to earn a decent wage? In biotech it takes around 5 years, to get a masters, and you need this to make a difference, but in the software industry a lot of people have made a good living after 1 or 2 years of taking licensed courses Oracle and java.
I am sorry to say this, but a big part of the problem is that these people have been tricked into thinking that they were indispensible. The sad truth is that their wages were heavily inflated.
The point is that even if there had been no outsourcing to third world countries, the wages would still have taken a dive sooner or later.
except racism in those countries will still prevent you from getting a job.
I just came home from half a year of physics research in Bangalore, and I met no racism at all. I am sure that an indian company will happily employ you if you have the skills and you are ready to work for $1000 - $2000 a month. Much of the Indian Computer industry is placed in south India, where they don't speak hindi. Their english is fairly good, so I don't think that language will be a problem for you.
With regards to goverment control of outsourcing I have too objections. First of all I believe that it is morally incorrect. The money in the world are very unfairly distributed, and I happily welcome this step towards economic equality in the world. Secondly I find it obvious that goverment control will fail, as you cannot convince the europeans and japanese to join you.
With respect to the distribution of wealth, I believe that you are right that a great percentage of the money will not make it into the rural areas. In rural areas, they produce rice and vegetables, and there is a limit to how many vegetables, a computer programmer can eat. Thus the major transfer of money will go to the indian middle class. However talking to intellectual indians I met a great sense of responsebility for the poorer classes of india. I guess that the question is whether or not this responsebility can be converted into responsible tax policy.
By the way a chinese programmer earns much less than an indian programmer, so the indians are afraid to lose their newly aquired market part to china.
I have an account in Nordea, (a middle sized bank in northern Europe). My bank advisor was somewhat embarrassed when I recognized Wordperfect 5.1 on his screen.
Personally I have had many good experiences with wordperfect 5.1. Once you know some basic keys (f3 and f7), then it is a very useful program. It hasn't got much eyecandy, but then again who needs that.
Kopete may not have all the features of Gaim. Yet is some of the the most popular ones: Jabber, ICQ, AIM, MSN, Yahoo (in CVS), IRC, Windows LANs, GaduGadu, IRC and SMS.
The developers seem to put much energy into making a nice user interface, and therefore Kopete aspires to be a more useful program than Gaim. As an example Kopete features
metacontacts
I think that you are generalizing here. Bangalore is the biggest IT-centrum of India, and there is no metro (But as far as I know they have plans of building one)
Thanks for your answer. At body temperature I would guess that it was sufficient to use a classical calculation. If this is not true, then I would like to see a reference, so that I can learn:)
Here is what I meant to write: In a classical approximation the energy is given by
E = U(x) + T(p)
Here x denotes positions of nuclei, whereas p denotes momenta of nuclei. The kinetic energy T(p) is dependent on masses. whereas U is the potential energy denotes the electronic ground state with fixed nuclei at positions x. Thus U is independent of the masses of the nuclei.
If we let x_m denote the minimum and x_t denote the transistion state then delta U = U(x_t) - U(x_m) is also independent of the masses.
At somewhat low temperature we can perform second order expansions of potential energy around the minimum and the saddle point. I don't remember this stuff completely, but from simple analysys of units I would guess that the result is somewhat similar for the two isotopes.
Hmm I am a little confused about your post. From a classical calculation, I would believe that the chance of being at the transition state is independent of mass.
p(x) = exp(-U(x)/k_BT))
However the reaction rate is also proportional to the average velocity, which again is proportional to sqrt(m k_B T). Here m is some suitable mass, which will depend on the isotopes.
I am not a great programmer myself, but I would love if someone took this discussion as a starting point for making a screen saver showing great faces of Free software programming. I am sure that screensaver would become a hit even if it was not forces down peoples throats:)
Thanks to Hans Reiser for making my day more entertaining:)
The newsreader GNUS has a feature which allows for some kind of distributed moderation. Each moderator puts a score file on an ftp server. When I read
my usenet, my newsreader will open an ftp connection to each ftp-sever, the scores will be applied to the usenet posts (and posters).
Sadly I don't believe that anybody in the world is using this feature. One problem is that ftp is too slow. Another problem is that in the present state of the system each moderator has to have a seperate ftp-server.
By default google is in the galeon toolbar,and I have shortcut, but everything is configurable, and I can chose whichever search engine that I wish to use.
http://galeon.sourceforge.net/bookmarks/
How does a standard compression program respond if I make a large file of random bits and try to compress it. Does it reply with an error message or does it simply return a file that is larger than the original?
PS: This post is a user interface question. I understand the entropy stuff:)
MindGuard protects your mind by jamming and/or scrambling psychotronic mind-control signals and removing harmful engrammic pollutants from
your brain. It also has the ability to scan for and decipher into English specific signals so you can see exactly Who wants to control you and what They are trying to make you think.
With MindGuard, you can rest assured that your most valuable possession - your mind - is safe from the nefarious tinkering of evil-doers.
This port is cleverly hidden in the games category rather than sysutils where it belongs, so the forces of evil are less likely to find it.
The article does not claim that the schools are switching. It only says that staroffice will be available for download. Here is a quick translation with a few typos
Free software for school use
Denmarks 1,1 million school pupils, students and teacher can now turn to back to microsoft. At least with respect to office programs.
A deal between the silicon valley company Sun Micrososystems Incorporated and UNI-C causes that all the school pupils, students and teachers can download the office program Startoffice for free and install it on their home computwer. Alternatively they can buy it on a CD-ROM for the price of frabrication: 10 kr per CD (This is about 1 $). The schools can buy staroffice i packages of 50 cd's
The deal that Sun made with UNI-C follows the directions laid out by minister of education Ulla Tørnæs. They were made public October 30th, and they describe how institutions of education must act when offered office programs for free One of the demands are that such donations do not cost the state any money, another demand is that UNI-C (The IT-center of research and education of Denmark) must administrate and distribute the licences.
UNI-C will have its expenses covered through the 10 kr that the CD's cost. Sun will provide a server with the cost-free OS Linux for the pupils, students and teachers who wish to download StarOffice 6.0.
>>UNI-C exists to help the danish education world, so of course we are happy to be able to mediate such a special initiative from Sun, says Dorthe Olesen, administrative director of UNI-C.
The most used office system in the world Microsoft Office, does not have a version for Linux
Because of the dominance of Microsoft in office and operative systems, a growing number of state owned institutions work on creating alternatives - primarily a combination of starofice and Linux
If all 1,1 milion pupils, students and teachers use the offer, the total value is about 200 million kr (20 mil $) (says sun)
I always browse slashdot at +2 in order to avoid lesser comments, but sometimes a comment like the parent to this post gets modded up to +4 for no apparent reason. Slashdot really needs a moderation reason named "correcting". This way poster the parent post can get his well earned karma, but I can avoid having to read the post. I want:
"funny" -5, "correcting" -5 "redundant" -5, "off topic" -5, "Troll" -1
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But then I joined university and thereafter I only used the calculator for exams. Now I am a phd student, and I am never more than 1m away from Matlab
You needed a hp48 to be able to cheat. There were mods around which enabled them to communicate over a distance of 13 meters. In the danish technical they used to have a special box in which you could put your hp48 calculator. This box would effectively prevent IR communication.
Here is the homepage of the company. They haven't added the bamboo bike yet, but, I have mailed them and urged them to add it http://www.christianiabikes.com/english/uk_main.ht m
As an example each tab has a small cross in the right corner This cross allows you to close the tab without using a pulldown menu. This is not a big thing, but still I have grown to love it. (Perhaps Mozilla has something equally fast but in that case I never discovered)
I disagree with you on the usefulness of this feature. Actually I was close to writing a bug report asking them to remove it. In the Galeon version of Redhat 8.0 the feature is assigned to middle click. The problem is that I activate this feature by mistake several times a day, and even with the nice Galeon tabs, it takes a while to delete 20 tabs.
I wish that the developers of Galeon will find strength in this slashdot debate to keep up the good work.
I am sorry to say this, but a big part of the problem is that these people have been tricked into thinking that they were indispensible. The sad truth is that their wages were heavily inflated.
The point is that even if there had been no outsourcing to third world countries, the wages would still have taken a dive sooner or later.
I just came home from half a year of physics research in Bangalore, and I met no racism at all. I am sure that an indian company will happily employ you if you have the skills and you are ready to work for $1000 - $2000 a month. Much of the Indian Computer industry is placed in south India, where they don't speak hindi. Their english is fairly good, so I don't think that language will be a problem for you.
With regards to goverment control of outsourcing I have too objections. First of all I believe that it is morally incorrect. The money in the world are very unfairly distributed, and I happily welcome this step towards economic equality in the world. Secondly I find it obvious that goverment control will fail, as you cannot convince the europeans and japanese to join you.
With respect to the distribution of wealth, I believe that you are right that a great percentage of the money will not make it into the rural areas. In rural areas, they produce rice and vegetables, and there is a limit to how many vegetables, a computer programmer can eat. Thus the major transfer of money will go to the indian middle class. However talking to intellectual indians I met a great sense of responsebility for the poorer classes of india. I guess that the question is whether or not this responsebility can be converted into responsible tax policy.
By the way a chinese programmer earns much less than an indian programmer, so the indians are afraid to lose their newly aquired market part to china.
Personally I have had many good experiences with wordperfect 5.1. Once you know some basic keys (f3 and f7), then it is a very useful program. It hasn't got much eyecandy, but then again who needs that.
The developers seem to put much energy into making a nice user interface, and therefore Kopete aspires to be a more useful program than Gaim. As an example Kopete features metacontacts
PS: I am writing this from Bangalore
E = U(x) + T(p)
Here x denotes positions of nuclei, whereas p denotes momenta of nuclei. The kinetic energy T(p) is dependent on masses. whereas U is the potential energy denotes the electronic ground state with fixed nuclei at positions x. Thus U is independent of the masses of the nuclei. If we let x_m denote the minimum and x_t denote the transistion state then delta U = U(x_t) - U(x_m) is also independent of the masses.
At somewhat low temperature we can perform second order expansions of potential energy around the minimum and the saddle point. I don't remember this stuff completely, but from simple analysys of units I would guess that the result is somewhat similar for the two isotopes.
p(x) = exp(-U(x)/k_BT))
However the reaction rate is also proportional to the average velocity, which again is proportional to sqrt(m k_B T). Here m is some suitable mass, which will depend on the isotopes.
Thanks to Hans Reiser for making my day more entertaining :)
Sadly I don't believe that anybody in the world is using this feature. One problem is that ftp is too slow. Another problem is that in the present state of the system each moderator has to have a seperate ftp-server.
See the info-file for more info Info gnus
By default google is in the galeon toolbar,and I have shortcut, but everything is configurable, and I can chose whichever search engine that I wish to use. http://galeon.sourceforge.net/bookmarks/
Seriously, I don't think that Microsoft needs the kind of indirect goverment subsidies that you propose.
PS: This post is a user interface question. I understand the entropy stuff :)
MindGuard protects your mind by jamming and/or scrambling psychotronic mind-control signals and removing harmful engrammic pollutants from your brain. It also has the ability to scan for and decipher into English specific signals so you can see exactly Who wants to control you and what They are trying to make you think. With MindGuard, you can rest assured that your most valuable possession - your mind - is safe from the nefarious tinkering of evil-doers. This port is cleverly hidden in the games category rather than sysutils where it belongs, so the forces of evil are less likely to find it.
Are you danish * Yes * No but I want to be * I am cowboy neal BTW: I am danish too
The article does not claim that the schools are switching. It only says that staroffice will be available for download. Here is a quick translation with a few typos
Free software for school use
Denmarks 1,1 million school pupils, students and teacher can now turn to back to microsoft. At least with respect to office programs.
A deal between the silicon valley company Sun Micrososystems Incorporated and UNI-C causes that all the school pupils, students and teachers can download the office program Startoffice for free and install it on their home computwer. Alternatively they can buy it on a CD-ROM for the price of frabrication: 10 kr per CD (This is about 1 $). The schools can buy staroffice i packages of 50 cd's
The deal that Sun made with UNI-C follows the directions laid out by minister of education Ulla Tørnæs. They were made public October 30th, and they describe how institutions of education must act when offered office programs for free
One of the demands are that such donations do not cost the state any money, another demand is that UNI-C (The IT-center of research and education of Denmark) must administrate and distribute the licences.
UNI-C will have its expenses covered through the 10 kr that the CD's cost. Sun will provide a server with the cost-free OS Linux for the pupils, students and teachers who wish to download StarOffice 6.0.
>>UNI-C exists to help the danish education world, so of course we are happy to be able to mediate such a special initiative from Sun, says Dorthe Olesen, administrative director of UNI-C.
The most used office system in the world Microsoft Office, does not have a version for Linux
Because of the dominance of Microsoft in office and operative systems, a growing number of state owned institutions work on creating alternatives - primarily a combination of starofice and Linux
If all 1,1 milion pupils, students and teachers use the offer, the total value is about 200 million kr (20 mil $) (says sun)
Did anyone try playing PE without any investment? How far did they get?
I always browse slashdot at +2 in order to avoid lesser comments, but sometimes a comment like the parent to this post gets modded up to +4 for no apparent reason. Slashdot really needs a moderation reason named "correcting". This way poster the parent post can get his well earned karma, but I can avoid having to read the post. I want: "funny" -5, "correcting" -5 "redundant" -5, "off topic" -5, "Troll" -1
But sadly he replies by email . He has a nice website., but he should consider changing his webmaster .
Damn it is impossible to delete posts in slashdot. I meant this link
Have a loook here