The peak capacity of a wind farm is probably several times the average you can get from it. Besides, you have to use it when it blows, you cannot store wind.
In hydroelectric power stations the peak capacity is usually twice the average power. You can deliver more power in the 6~10 pm hours when consumption is higher and store water from midnight to 6 am when consumption is lower. You don't have this option with wind power, therefore wind can never be your main energy source.
The problem with Katrina wasn't Katrina itself, it was the idiots who built levees that allowed a city to exist below the natural water level in a zone where hurricanes happen from time to time.
The problem with MS-Windows is the legislation that allows copyrights for binary executable files. Check the US Constitution: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries". Which part of "Writings" they didn't understand? Where is it mentioned the exclusive Right to codes compiled from Writings?
If the US Constitution were fully respected, programmers should have to publish their source code in order to get copyright protection.
AI today is like flying machines were in the 1890s. People had many ideas on how to do it, but until they had engines with the needed power/weight ratio it was impossible. And just like AI today, there were many eminent scientists who proclaimed that heavier-than-air flight was impossible.
It's a minor problem in that it's simple to solve. It only takes several months, because it requries[sic] rewriting, from scratch, a sizeable portion of the code.
You, and the moderator who gave you +1, Informative, seem to be rather ignorant of the English language. Being simple or complicated has nothing to do with being a minor or major problem. If it requires rewriting from scratch a sizeable portion of code, it's a BIG problem by definition. Maybe it's easy to do, but it's still a lot of work. Besides, if a general purpose language depends on a library in such a way that a development system cannot be released without that library, there's something wrong. Perhaps this quick comparison will give you a hint of why apparently trivial problems become so big in Java.
Sun is trying to compete against Microsoft for the corporate market, but no matter how many job offers there are for Java, they still lag behind Python, Perl, and Ruby in the preference of open source developers.
you don't know what you're talking about, because this isn't a major problem.
If so, then it speaks a lot about Sun's commitment to open source. If minor problems are enough to delay the release for several months, then what will happen if a major problem does appear?
Methinks it speaks very ill for Java, if the sound support is so deeply woven into the language that this becomes a major problem.
Back in 1973, when Dennis Ritchie created C, the decoupling of I/O from the syntax by using libraries was a major advantage over the languages of the day, such as Fortran and Cobol. Today languages such as Perl or Python have further perfected this concept. In Python there are standard APIs so that in many cases you can switch to another library without changing the function calls.
Java may be more used than Python or Ruby, but so is VB, too, in the corporate applications. Perhaps Sun will find that it takes more than a free-as-in-speech licence to catch the spirit of free software.
Even if the Tacoma Dome were a true "geodesic dome", which it isn't, using the spherical shape for a dome had been in use for at least 1500 years before Buckminster Fuller was born.
You raise an interesting point. TFA says "In one of the many letters he wrote to his son in the 1740s, Lord Chesterfield offered the following advice:... ". According to Wikipedia, the 3rd Earl of Chesterfield died in 1726, and the 5th Earl of Chesterfield was born in 1755, so the only "Earl of Chesterfield" that could have written letters in the 1740s was the 4th.
So, how the fsck could he have written to his son if his *first* son, who inherited the title, wasn't born until 15 years after that decade?
Back then, we had articles on different database systems, IDEs, different linux distros, with lots of commentary as to the details of why one might be better then another. Including specific tips or tricks of the trade or related tools.
With Natalie Portman hot grits inside. You have to face the facts, people who are technically minded have a humorous side.
When the karma patrol took over, what would you expect other than a heavy political bias?
TFA should be: "TTrees' Leaves Grow At a Cool 70 in the USA and Myanmar And At a Cool 21 Everywhere Else Where The Middle Ages Have Ended And The Age Of Enlightment Has Arrived", but they ran out of space. Strings in Slashdot have a 120 character limit, you know.
I'd rather have the source code which I can read and try to understand than an executable file alone.
The only reason why we don't see an article "Undocumented Commercial Software On the Rise" is because the public cannot see how badly documented the commercial software is.
I have a feeling that modern "blockbuster" movies are a giant step backwards. We had much more fun when films were done with shorter budgets and more imagination. Fx are OK for a while, but they can't make a bad film good.
FTA: "Independent research has shown time after time that people who download illegally generally spend less on music than people that don't, which undermines investment in new music."
Well, I suppose deaf people spend even less in buying music. The error, as always, is assuming buying would be an option for people who download illegally.
I recently downloaded an old movie from a torrent. I would have paid, maybe $1, for that movie. It's on sale at Amazon for $14.95. If I didn't have the option of an illegal download, I simply wouldn't have watched it. There's no way I'll pay $15 for something that's worth at most $1 to me.
What truly undermines that market aren't illegal downloads. Until the industry learns how to calculate pricing according to market rules, they'll have to live with it.
There used to be a certain schedule for films. First they were shown at theaters. Then, a few months after, they were released in VHS. Broadcasting started only a year or so after theater release.
It seems that the MPAA is trying to maximize their profit, at the expense of the public in general. We are stuck with technical hassle just because the MPAA wants to use government regulation instead of logical market forces to prevent unauthorized copying.
I used to use about a gallon of water per tank of petrol to get 40mpg out of my '82 Volvo 340
I did the same to my '73 Dodge Dart with the 318 V8. I stuck a hypodermic needle in the distributor vacuum advance hose, it took a while to get the exact size of needle, a pharmacist friend gave me the needles.
The V8 was already smooth and quiet, and had torque enough, but I got significantly better mileage, something like a 30%~40% increase.
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The peak capacity of a wind farm is probably several times the average you can get from it. Besides, you have to use it when it blows, you cannot store wind.
In hydroelectric power stations the peak capacity is usually twice the average power. You can deliver more power in the 6~10 pm hours when consumption is higher and store water from midnight to 6 am when consumption is lower. You don't have this option with wind power, therefore wind can never be your main energy source.
Firefox running on an AMD processor uses "2200+" Mb of memory, which actually means about 100 Mb in an Intel processor
The problem with Katrina wasn't Katrina itself, it was the idiots who built levees that allowed a city to exist below the natural water level in a zone where hurricanes happen from time to time.
The problem with MS-Windows is the legislation that allows copyrights for binary executable files. Check the US Constitution: "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries". Which part of "Writings" they didn't understand? Where is it mentioned the exclusive Right to codes compiled from Writings?
If the US Constitution were fully respected, programmers should have to publish their source code in order to get copyright protection.
AI today is like flying machines were in the 1890s. People had many ideas on how to do it, but until they had engines with the needed power/weight ratio it was impossible. And just like AI today, there were many eminent scientists who proclaimed that heavier-than-air flight was impossible.
You, and the moderator who gave you +1, Informative, seem to be rather ignorant of the English language. Being simple or complicated has nothing to do with being a minor or major problem. If it requires rewriting from scratch a sizeable portion of code, it's a BIG problem by definition. Maybe it's easy to do, but it's still a lot of work. Besides, if a general purpose language depends on a library in such a way that a development system cannot be released without that library, there's something wrong. Perhaps this quick comparison will give you a hint of why apparently trivial problems become so big in Java.
Sun is trying to compete against Microsoft for the corporate market, but no matter how many job offers there are for Java, they still lag behind Python, Perl, and Ruby in the preference of open source developers.
If so, then it speaks a lot about Sun's commitment to open source. If minor problems are enough to delay the release for several months, then what will happen if a major problem does appear?
Methinks it speaks very ill for Java, if the sound support is so deeply woven into the language that this becomes a major problem.
Back in 1973, when Dennis Ritchie created C, the decoupling of I/O from the syntax by using libraries was a major advantage over the languages of the day, such as Fortran and Cobol. Today languages such as Perl or Python have further perfected this concept. In Python there are standard APIs so that in many cases you can switch to another library without changing the function calls.
Java may be more used than Python or Ruby, but so is VB, too, in the corporate applications. Perhaps Sun will find that it takes more than a free-as-in-speech licence to catch the spirit of free software.
Even if the Tacoma Dome were a true "geodesic dome", which it isn't, using the spherical shape for a dome had been in use for at least 1500 years before Buckminster Fuller was born.
You raise an interesting point. TFA says "In one of the many letters he wrote to his son in the 1740s, Lord Chesterfield offered the following advice:
So, how the fsck could he have written to his son if his *first* son, who inherited the title, wasn't born until 15 years after that decade?
With Natalie Portman hot grits inside. You have to face the facts, people who are technically minded have a humorous side.
When the karma patrol took over, what would you expect other than a heavy political bias?
TFA should be: "TTrees' Leaves Grow At a Cool 70 in the USA and Myanmar And At a Cool 21 Everywhere Else Where The Middle Ages Have Ended And The Age Of Enlightment Has Arrived", but they ran out of space. Strings in Slashdot have a 120 character limit, you know.
Because they simulate nuclear bombs, now that actual testing is forbidden by international treaty.
Maybe they want to try to beat the download record again, when all those people come looking for the patches.
I suppose people who violate the GPL wouldn't know how to do this. If you are good at coding you respect other people's code.
Funny, I'm a basic end user and I have no problem with backups. I have my music in
No, I don't think so. Not for me at least. I still prefer the kde-classic icon theme.
Works fine for me.
I wonder, can this be used to monitor GPL violations?
Why should they extend support beyond December 21st, 2012?
The only reason why we don't see an article "Undocumented Commercial Software On the Rise" is because the public cannot see how badly documented the commercial software is.
Well, not specifically the British Pornographic Industry, but there's a strong relation.
Try the following experiment: compare this movie with this one. Then compare this film with this one.
I have a feeling that modern "blockbuster" movies are a giant step backwards. We had much more fun when films were done with shorter budgets and more imagination. Fx are OK for a while, but they can't make a bad film good.
Well, I suppose deaf people spend even less in buying music. The error, as always, is assuming buying would be an option for people who download illegally.
I recently downloaded an old movie from a torrent. I would have paid, maybe $1, for that movie. It's on sale at Amazon for $14.95. If I didn't have the option of an illegal download, I simply wouldn't have watched it. There's no way I'll pay $15 for something that's worth at most $1 to me.
What truly undermines that market aren't illegal downloads. Until the industry learns how to calculate pricing according to market rules, they'll have to live with it.
But, of course, "enough people" in this case means *one* person. The others can copy the recording.
When I saw the title of TFA I thought it was about John and Michael Darling
It seems that the MPAA is trying to maximize their profit, at the expense of the public in general. We are stuck with technical hassle just because the MPAA wants to use government regulation instead of logical market forces to prevent unauthorized copying.
I did the same to my '73 Dodge Dart with the 318 V8. I stuck a hypodermic needle in the distributor vacuum advance hose, it took a while to get the exact size of needle, a pharmacist friend gave me the needles.
The V8 was already smooth and quiet, and had torque enough, but I got significantly better mileage, something like a 30%~40% increase.
Now, if moderators did some research first...