Rant: They charge Europeans more in Euro that they charge Americans in dollars. And no, there's no factory in the US. WTF? Where do they get their exchange rates from?
With the dollar just above 2 PLN, buying stuff in the US and having it shipped to Poland is starting to look practical (and profitable).
They certainly won't use CaO or Ca(OH)2, because it's stupid. I woud expect you to know that. They will use CaCO3 (unprocessed limestone). Calcium hydrocarbonate (Ca(HCO3)2) will be formed.
It's the same reaction that causes hard water to be clear until you boil it (calcium hydrocarbonate decomposes into calcium carbonate and CO2).
1. The equilibrium constant for H+ + OH- -> H2O is 10^14, not 10^-7 (that is, the equilibrium is far to the right) 2. They certainly do not intend on dumping CaO or Ca(OH)2 (producing those emits large amounts of CO2). I think they will use unprocessed limestone (CaCO3), which will cause calcium hydrocarbonate to be formed.
Uncompressed density = density of material at 1 atm Compressed density = density of material under given pressure
If we took all the stuff Earth is made of, took it apart and measured the average density of all those rocks at 1 atm, we would get a significantly lower average than what we get by dividing the estimated mass of Earth by its estimated volume.
Unfortunately this won't be as interesting as you think, because they're truly world-class at show, behind-the-scenes action and changing facts by political pressure.
-How many people will be arrested for silly things?
If there are any foreigners arrested, the authorities will claim that they were arrested for offenses not related to politics, and authentic-looking footage will be presented. Rejecting the footage as fake will be regarded as anti-Chinese agitation. Domestic arrestees will be held until the end of the Olympic, and will not be allowed to make public statements under severe penalties (assuming there will be any, which I doubt).
-Will anything be allowed to be broadcasted out of China?
Yes, you won't notice anything unusual. Instead of trying to control the news broadcasts, they will control reality.
-How many Chinese will try to defect?
Zero. There is no noticeable "resistance movement" in China. They really believe in their government, even we think it's evil.
-And of course: The badly translated sign of the day.
All the Zhonglish you see originates from factories which try to save on packaging design. There are lots of people who can speak proper English in China, and they won't be saving on translators or anything that has to do with the Olympics, because it's a matter of life and death.
If downstream factories in other areas have to shutdown there will not be government support, there will be unhappy workers. Having unhappy idle workers while the government is telling everyone to be happy about the Olympics is not a good thing.
Nobody would dare to oppose or express discontent at anything the government does in order to ensure the success of the Olympic Games. It's not even a matter of profit or worldwide publicity anymore. It's a matter of life and death. My Chinese penfriend says that she'll be "serving the Olympic" - this should give you an idea about their dedication. You may condemn their government, but if they can do anything properly at all, then it's motivating people to take action.
in an attempt to say that freedom to modify in place is one of the four freedoms, and it isn't.
How is "modify in place" different from "adapt to your needs" (freedom 1)? Isn't being able to "modify in place" a precondition?
You still have the software and the freedom to use it anywhere else you want.
Yes, you still have your open source iPhone software and you're free to use it on any jailbroken iPhone you want.
Code signing means that someone else than you decides what you can run on your device. Freedom 0 is seized by the signing authority - you can only run programs approved by the authority. Freedom 1 is denied - you can't adapt the program to your needs, because you won't be able to run the modified version. Freedom 2 is mostly left intact, but IMO it's the least significant one, because we also had it with shareware. Freedom 3 is hindered - you can't release your improvements to the public without cooperating with the signing authority.
2) Since I have used iTunes as my jukebox for years anyway... yawn. I can see this would be a problem if you used a free OS as your everyday OS.
Yes, it's precisely the problem of locking out Linux, BSD, etc. users. What you're using as your jukebox is irrelevant because regardless of what you're using I'm still locked out.
If you've converted everything you have to Vorbis/FLAC, then you're a) probably using Linux and b) even if you aren't, not on Apple's radar.
This is funny, because I think it's similar to "If you're wearing a turban, then you're a) probably a Talib and b) even if you aren't, we'll kill you anyway." By the way, why should I care about "Apple's radar" at all? You're in fact saying they aren't supporting OGG and FLAC because they aren't supporting them.
5) I'll have a new phone by the time the battery dies. A two-year-old phone is a dinosaur.
I'll only say "planned obsolescence".
adding a storage slot would make the phone thicker and heavier.
I estimate it would be at most 2 mm thicker and 5 g heavier. That's a wise trade-off indeed. As for the removable battery, that's harder to estimate but I think it would be rather negligible. Most phones would not have user-removable batteries if this could save significant weight.
It's not the fault of the OS that applications don't play nice and don't clean up after themselves upon uninstall.
"If everyone behaved, the world would be perfect". The problem is that this will never be the case, so there should be some mechanism to prevent this on the OS side. In Linux this is done by the package maintainers which would remove excessive menu / home folder spam if anyone tried it.
how many packages are available for Linux? How many applications are available for Windows? Yeah, YOU be the guy who has to manage the package manager.
If it was a feature of the OS, it would be managed by Microsoft. They would have the necessary resources. Moreover, I have 32566 packages in Ubuntu (with a few additional repos) - that doesn't sound too modest.
Again - not the fault of the OS. Many apps will keep a separate copy of dlls in their own directories, in case another program uses the same dll and removes it upon uninstallation.
That kind of defeats the point of shared libraries. OS-integrated dependency management is the only tried and working solution to the DLL bloat. However, it requires large-scale cooperation, while in the proprietary software world we see competition and multiple apps trying to wrestle the control of the user's experience from each other, so I don't think it will ever be implemented in Windows.
The constant installing and uninstalling is your fault. YOURS. If you hate the bloat, stop using programs that don't clean up after themselves.
But there's no way to know which ones don't clean up until AFTER you have uninstalled several such programs. It is the programs' fault, and on a more fundamental level, the Windows registry's complexity and lack of scalability.
Use a registry cleaner.
If it's necessary to use the system reliably, why it's not shipped with the OS then and added as a scheduled maintenance by default? I know there's a cleaning tool that ships with Windows but it doesn't do too well.
If you can't trust yourself to run as administrator, then THAT'S a valid reason to turn in any "geek card" you may have illegitimately obtained.
Yeah. And seatbelts and airbags are for pussies. It's not about whether you can trust yourself, but whether you can trust the entire world not to try to harm you while you're vulnerable.
If you're administrating a machine for a user who can't be trusted, they should NOT have the ability to install random plugins and crap.
True OS security is when the attacker can execute any code he wants and still can't compromise the system. Anything else is smoke and mirrors. I can run any programs from my home directory, but to delete a system file I would either need to authenticate as root or find a privilege escalation exploit.
Have you used any other OSes? Because you sound rather like a Windows-only person.
Except Linux isn't copyrighted as a whole. Each source code contribution is copyrighted on its own. If there is a permanent steady stream of valuable contributions, only the extremely outdated versions of Linux (at least 50 years old!) will be available to the public domain, so it will be GPL'd forever.
Knowing the EU, which is every bit as much a tool of business as the US government
Yet, they're kicking some serious Micosoft ass, and they struck down European software patents. Additionally, EU is not monolithic. The European Commission is much more prone to lobbying than Eouropean Parliament (which was responsible for preventing software patents).
Because somebody could figure out how to make Linux PS3 games or buy PS3s for the hardware alone while completely ignoring the games, and this could theoretically leave Sony's asshole in ruins, because they sell the consoles at a loss and make it up with high margin game sales...
You are looking in the wrong place. GTK is not a Qt equivalent, because GTK is strictly a GUI toolkit, while Qt is a Win32-style one-in-all. The whole set of GNOME libraries is closer to being a full Qt equivalent - it has XML, database access, IPC, etc.
If I'm correct (I'm not a native English speaker) the first a is an 'a' while the second a is 'ei'. There are several more than 5 vowel sounds in English. It's just that you use only 5 characters for them. Even simple words like "race" are mind-boggling - the a is actually an 'ei', the c is actually 's' and the final e is mute!
For nearly-phonetic writing look at Slavic languages (there are some exceptions, like word-final w, but those are at least consistent), or at relatively modern scripts like Vietnamese.
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Rant: They charge Europeans more in Euro that they charge Americans in dollars. And no, there's no factory in the US. WTF? Where do they get their exchange rates from?
With the dollar just above 2 PLN, buying stuff in the US and having it shipped to Poland is starting to look practical (and profitable).
You mean... calcium carbonate and hydrogen?
Hydrogen? WTF? You must live in a different universe.
They will just use unprocessed limestone and utilize only the last equation. Problem solved.
They certainly won't use CaO or Ca(OH)2, because it's stupid. I woud expect you to know that. They will use CaCO3 (unprocessed limestone). Calcium hydrocarbonate (Ca(HCO3)2) will be formed.
It's the same reaction that causes hard water to be clear until you boil it (calcium hydrocarbonate decomposes into calcium carbonate and CO2).
1. The equilibrium constant for H+ + OH- -> H2O is 10^14, not 10^-7 (that is, the equilibrium is far to the right)
2. They certainly do not intend on dumping CaO or Ca(OH)2 (producing those emits large amounts of CO2). I think they will use unprocessed limestone (CaCO3), which will cause calcium hydrocarbonate to be formed.
Commentary on the Drake's equation
Uncompressed density = density of material at 1 atm
Compressed density = density of material under given pressure
If we took all the stuff Earth is made of, took it apart and measured the average density of all those rocks at 1 atm, we would get a significantly lower average than what we get by dividing the estimated mass of Earth by its estimated volume.
Unfortunately this won't be as interesting as you think, because they're truly world-class at show, behind-the-scenes action and changing facts by political pressure.
-How many people will be arrested for silly things?
If there are any foreigners arrested, the authorities will claim that they were arrested for offenses not related to politics, and authentic-looking footage will be presented. Rejecting the footage as fake will be regarded as anti-Chinese agitation. Domestic arrestees will be held until the end of the Olympic, and will not be allowed to make public statements under severe penalties (assuming there will be any, which I doubt).
-Will anything be allowed to be broadcasted out of China?
Yes, you won't notice anything unusual. Instead of trying to control the news broadcasts, they will control reality.
-How many Chinese will try to defect?
Zero. There is no noticeable "resistance movement" in China. They really believe in their government, even we think it's evil.
-And of course: The badly translated sign of the day.
All the Zhonglish you see originates from factories which try to save on packaging design. There are lots of people who can speak proper English in China, and they won't be saving on translators or anything that has to do with the Olympics, because it's a matter of life and death.
If downstream factories in other areas have to shutdown there will not be government support, there will be unhappy workers. Having unhappy idle workers while the government is telling everyone to be happy about the Olympics is not a good thing.
Nobody would dare to oppose or express discontent at anything the government does in order to ensure the success of the Olympic Games. It's not even a matter of profit or worldwide publicity anymore. It's a matter of life and death. My Chinese penfriend says that she'll be "serving the Olympic" - this should give you an idea about their dedication. You may condemn their government, but if they can do anything properly at all, then it's motivating people to take action.
in an attempt to say that freedom to modify in place is one of the four freedoms, and it isn't.
How is "modify in place" different from "adapt to your needs" (freedom 1)? Isn't being able to "modify in place" a precondition?
You still have the software and the freedom to use it anywhere else you want.
Yes, you still have your open source iPhone software and you're free to use it on any jailbroken iPhone you want.
Code signing means that someone else than you decides what you can run on your device.
Freedom 0 is seized by the signing authority - you can only run programs approved by the authority.
Freedom 1 is denied - you can't adapt the program to your needs, because you won't be able to run the modified version.
Freedom 2 is mostly left intact, but IMO it's the least significant one, because we also had it with shareware.
Freedom 3 is hindered - you can't release your improvements to the public without cooperating with the signing authority.
Doesn't look very free software to me.
2) Since I have used iTunes as my jukebox for years anyway... yawn. I can see this would be a problem if you used a free OS as your everyday OS.
Yes, it's precisely the problem of locking out Linux, BSD, etc. users. What you're using as your jukebox is irrelevant because regardless of what you're using I'm still locked out.
If you've converted everything you have to Vorbis/FLAC, then you're a) probably using Linux and b) even if you aren't, not on Apple's radar.
This is funny, because I think it's similar to "If you're wearing a turban, then you're a) probably a Talib and b) even if you aren't, we'll kill you anyway." By the way, why should I care about "Apple's radar" at all? You're in fact saying they aren't supporting OGG and FLAC because they aren't supporting them.
5) I'll have a new phone by the time the battery dies. A two-year-old phone is a dinosaur.
I'll only say "planned obsolescence".
adding a storage slot would make the phone thicker and heavier.
I estimate it would be at most 2 mm thicker and 5 g heavier. That's a wise trade-off indeed. As for the removable battery, that's harder to estimate but I think it would be rather negligible. Most phones would not have user-removable batteries if this could save significant weight.
(picture in TFA)
On Mac, even exploits have user-friendly GUIs!
Self Defense: You're doing it wrong.
LOLspeak: ur doin it rong!!!1one
The training could also cause side effects
Did it shorten some people's lives? Yes.
Actually even that's disputable...
Vanilla kernel hibernate on Linux is dog-slow compared to XP, so there are some differences. I haven't tried TuxOnIce though.
Since he literally HAS TO buy new hardware (...) to get Splashtop
Look at their developer page. While they probably won't release everything, it gives some hints about building a similar system.
The sad truth is that education doesn't work, except in cases when it's not really necessary.
It's not the fault of the OS that applications don't play nice and don't clean up after themselves upon uninstall.
"If everyone behaved, the world would be perfect". The problem is that this will never be the case, so there should be some mechanism to prevent this on the OS side. In Linux this is done by the package maintainers which would remove excessive menu / home folder spam if anyone tried it.
how many packages are available for Linux? How many applications are available for Windows? Yeah, YOU be the guy who has to manage the package manager.
If it was a feature of the OS, it would be managed by Microsoft. They would have the necessary resources. Moreover, I have 32566 packages in Ubuntu (with a few additional repos) - that doesn't sound too modest.
Again - not the fault of the OS. Many apps will keep a separate copy of dlls in their own directories, in case another program uses the same dll and removes it upon uninstallation.
That kind of defeats the point of shared libraries. OS-integrated dependency management is the only tried and working solution to the DLL bloat. However, it requires large-scale cooperation, while in the proprietary software world we see competition and multiple apps trying to wrestle the control of the user's experience from each other, so I don't think it will ever be implemented in Windows.
The constant installing and uninstalling is your fault. YOURS. If you hate the bloat, stop using programs that don't clean up after themselves.
But there's no way to know which ones don't clean up until AFTER you have uninstalled several such programs. It is the programs' fault, and on a more fundamental level, the Windows registry's complexity and lack of scalability.
Use a registry cleaner.
If it's necessary to use the system reliably, why it's not shipped with the OS then and added as a scheduled maintenance by default? I know there's a cleaning tool that ships with Windows but it doesn't do too well.
If you can't trust yourself to run as administrator, then THAT'S a valid reason to turn in any "geek card" you may have illegitimately obtained.
Yeah. And seatbelts and airbags are for pussies. It's not about whether you can trust yourself, but whether you can trust the entire world not to try to harm you while you're vulnerable.
If you're administrating a machine for a user who can't be trusted, they should NOT have the ability to install random plugins and crap.
True OS security is when the attacker can execute any code he wants and still can't compromise the system. Anything else is smoke and mirrors. I can run any programs from my home directory, but to delete a system file I would either need to authenticate as root or find a privilege escalation exploit.
Have you used any other OSes? Because you sound rather like a Windows-only person.
Except Linux isn't copyrighted as a whole. Each source code contribution is copyrighted on its own. If there is a permanent steady stream of valuable contributions, only the extremely outdated versions of Linux (at least 50 years old!) will be available to the public domain, so it will be GPL'd forever.
Knowing the EU, which is every bit as much a tool of business as the US government
Yet, they're kicking some serious Micosoft ass, and they struck down European software patents. Additionally, EU is not monolithic. The European Commission is much more prone to lobbying than Eouropean Parliament (which was responsible for preventing software patents).
Because somebody could figure out how to make Linux PS3 games or buy PS3s for the hardware alone while completely ignoring the games, and this could theoretically leave Sony's asshole in ruins, because they sell the consoles at a loss and make it up with high margin game sales...
if you put Vista on suitable hardware with good drivers there is really almost nothing seriously wrong with it.
This "if" thing is what's seriously wrong with it.
You are looking in the wrong place. GTK is not a Qt equivalent, because GTK is strictly a GUI toolkit, while Qt is a Win32-style one-in-all. The whole set of GNOME libraries is closer to being a full Qt equivalent - it has XML, database access, IPC, etc.
Abacus is spelled phonetically.
No it isn't.
If I'm correct (I'm not a native English speaker) the first a is an 'a' while the second a is 'ei'. There are several more than 5 vowel sounds in English. It's just that you use only 5 characters for them. Even simple words like "race" are mind-boggling - the a is actually an 'ei', the c is actually 's' and the final e is mute!
For nearly-phonetic writing look at Slavic languages (there are some exceptions, like word-final w, but those are at least consistent), or at relatively modern scripts like Vietnamese.