Pick up almost any book about nuclear energy and you will find that the prevailing wisdom is that nuclear plants must be very large in order to be competitive.
They probably mean competitive with other nuclear plants. Commercially. The Navy's doesn't need to make a profit, and its nuclear plants are competing with diesel engines.
I disagree too with the assertion that one should use windows if "You are new to using computers."
I guess that depends. If the user is going to purchase a printer or DSL or something and "need" to run the CD (because the packaging says I must run the disk first!), they'll get confused when it doesn't run. And when they call tech support over the useless software, the techs on the other end won't be able to help.
This one was tricky — I'd basically given up on it, until at a LAN party a couple months ago, one of my friends pointed out that the real problem was that I didn't have the latest patches. And the patch installer simply doesn't work under wine...
I admit I don't know much about it, but I don't get the impression that TeX support as much of a moving target as Web browser security/UI/standards/etc. What massive changes has LaTeX needed to undergo these last few years in order to stay relevant? Mozilla has improved their Acid3 support, deal with security vulnerabilities that will never apply to LaTeX, added Theora support for the tag, they're probably working on the rest of HTML5, they're changing to a Chrome-like UI, they're overhauling their plugin system...so much opportunity for "trivial" bugs.
Some closed-source code is "available" even if it's not (legally) usable in mainstream open source projects. Wasn't that the case with the early Unix variants? Then there's MS's Shared Source, and the Win2k code leak a few years ago.
I'd disagree with that. First, the right to socialized systems like military protection and even civil systems like due process definitely requires the assistance of another.
No. You have a right to do whatever you are capable of, to the extent that you can enforce your will on the world. Unfortunately, the same is true of everyone else, and many of those people can and will enforce their rights in ways that will violate yours. Since you can't do much on your own to prevent this, you choose to give up some of your more antisocial rights (everything the law prevents you from doing, like theft) in exchange for society helping you enforce some of your other rights (the right to keep what you'e acquired honestly). Military protection and civil systems are some of the things you get for the rights you've sacrificed.
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He's joking. Sourceforge, Slashdot, and Thinkgeek all have the same corporate overlord.
The first Macs came out in 1984. OSX-based macs that have been without without power and a backup battery think it is 1970.
How are they measuring Debian? The ~175 MB netinstall disk? Base install + GNOME or KDE? Entire repository?
Then there's all the architectures Debian supports...
Is it illegal to sell that info in this market?
Read Asimov's "The Last Question" some time. No power source lasts forever.
It doesn't have to be an efficient nuclear plant to beat other forms of propulsion. And the nuke plants can run far longer without refueling.
Pick up almost any book about nuclear energy and you will find that the prevailing wisdom is that nuclear plants must be very large in order to be competitive.
They probably mean competitive with other nuclear plants. Commercially. The Navy's doesn't need to make a profit, and its nuclear plants are competing with diesel engines.
Brilliant. Instead of needing to get one "back yard", you now need half a dozen.
Actually, this could work out... smaller plant means smaller yard, right? We could put them in rougher terrain away from people.
Theoretically.
Do geotargeting ads correctly identify which town you're in? And does Google provide geotargeting?
Built-in Javascript control on par with NoScript. And my computer doesn't freeze up for a few seconds when I'm manipulating several dozen bookmarks.
You aren't the only one ;-)
I disagree too with the assertion that one should use windows if "You are new to using computers."
I guess that depends. If the user is going to purchase a printer or DSL or something and "need" to run the CD (because the packaging says I must run the disk first!), they'll get confused when it doesn't run. And when they call tech support over the useless software, the techs on the other end won't be able to help.
Einstein didn't have a CS degree, either.
Is this in a Linux VM?
This one was tricky — I'd basically given up on it, until at a LAN party a couple months ago, one of my friends pointed out that the real problem was that I didn't have the latest patches. And the patch installer simply doesn't work under wine...
Since when?
I admit I don't know much about it, but I don't get the impression that TeX support as much of a moving target as Web browser security/UI/standards/etc. What massive changes has LaTeX needed to undergo these last few years in order to stay relevant? Mozilla has improved their Acid3 support, deal with security vulnerabilities that will never apply to LaTeX, added Theora support for the tag, they're probably working on the rest of HTML5, they're changing to a Chrome-like UI, they're overhauling their plugin system...so much opportunity for "trivial" bugs.
I thought Fedora was first out with ext4...
Users don't appreciate having to jump through hoops just to watch the funny cat.
Some closed-source code is "available" even if it's not (legally) usable in mainstream open source projects. Wasn't that the case with the early Unix variants? Then there's MS's Shared Source, and the Win2k code leak a few years ago.
Not that I'm agreeing with GP ;-)
I'd disagree with that. First, the right to socialized systems like military protection and even civil systems like due process definitely requires the assistance of another.
No. You have a right to do whatever you are capable of, to the extent that you can enforce your will on the world. Unfortunately, the same is true of everyone else, and many of those people can and will enforce their rights in ways that will violate yours. Since you can't do much on your own to prevent this, you choose to give up some of your more antisocial rights (everything the law prevents you from doing, like theft) in exchange for society helping you enforce some of your other rights (the right to keep what you'e acquired honestly). Military protection and civil systems are some of the things you get for the rights you've sacrificed.
...middle-click on the 'back' button - thereby opening up the previous page in a new tab instead.
Awesome. Works in Chromium, too!
IIRC, the tribes that descended from that incest were major opponents of Israel.
I'm pro same-sex marriage. But to say gays don't have a right to marry is not true.
I'm not*, and even I think that argument is stupid.
* I'm more "anti-government-involvement-in-the-whole-business". Let the religions worry about who they will and will not consider "married".
minor != child