Is a better idea. For the idea using lasers, you need power to the lasers, and I think (ok, ok, i'm not a enginner) a constant impulse is better than one pulsed because the possible vibration (and failure modes, what happens if the pellet gets stuck?).
Well... Think your user is not a "CLI guru" and so he do not have the slightest idea of what is "tail","grep ", much less what it means to put "|" between them.
But, he needs to get the job done and have no time to become a "CLI guru"to accomplish this. This is why Linux has failed and keeps failing on the desktop.
I am of the opinion that the problem is actually the Linux GUIs that are junk. Because most of them are made by developers who think in terms of CLI, not GUI.
Most applications "GUI" on linux in fact nothing more than shoddy "shells" for the actual application which runs on the CLI. How the GUI version could be decent if half of the functions available in the CLI application are forgotten, ignored or simply broken in its GUI version?
Interesting. Since you seem to know the subject, if the void is not an impact crater so what could be the cause of the void? I'm not a geologist, but to me it suggests that is maybe the empty "space" left by the continental shelf of India when she was in the direction of China
Well... Is better simply ignore all the stupid/nonsense patents, all of then. And if one lawyer try to enforce any of then, send back to the lawyer contractor the head of the lawyer.... Only the head.
...and in many places. I noticed that many slashdotters failed to understand the point of the article: Here is no requirement that an employee in a dangerous job being a "hero". But the act of for him to stay and say "no, if I leave people may die" even when he may even lose your life with this, this is a hero... And those who risk their lives to defend the lives of others that deserve recognition for all of us, ever.
Slashdot now is... Wikipedia? GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH RUN FOR THE MOUNTAINS!!!! OMGWEALLGONNADIE!!!
Jokes apart, for wind power you need, of course, wind. But wind is not constant and predicable, you may have a constant wind on summer and no wind or a hurricane on winter.
And for the solar idea, is a nice idea but is difficult - if not too expensive in money and physical space - to build a 1200MW-class solar plant. And with a obvious problem: works only with daylight. You got the problem?
I see that you are unable to understand what you read. I used "coffemaker" in an ironic way to poke the nonsense of the comment from Anonymous, but since you apparently can only understand the most obvious examples and in a straight way, then how about I say we need energy for most of the our industrial production, while between these activities to produce food, clothing and many other essential items, and we need that energy in large volumes and in a consistent and reliable way? Better now?
You need power to run your TV, coffemaker and etcetera. Wind power is unreliable, solar power do not have enougth scale (we need gigawatts, not kilowatts). Hidroeletric power is actually the best option, but you have limited locations to put one hidroeletric plant, and geothermal have the same problem (is difficult to find a usefull "hotspot" on a usable place).
In short, we need nuclear power, so we have to keep trying to constantly improve the efficiency and safety of nuclear plants.
And not forgetting of course attempting to simultaneously improve all other possible options, never put all your eggs in only one basket.
Punny humans and their difficulty in understanding the middle-term between banning all / release all:)
I said nothing about releasing the inclusion of things that are not information (false advertising is one example), or obviously offensive things. But, why keep a guy from placing an article with correct information (and maybe with a heresy, no citations!) about your favorite TV show, even if obscure? Thanks to articles like this is that I learned of many sitcoms, movies and games that I liked to watch/play, I would not know that there were it not for such articles.
In resume, clear up what is obviously false, but keep the rest.
Using yourself as an example, you may find irrelevant an "article about TheDarkMaster", but someone else might find relevant. And there we have the following problem: Why someone else can not have the "TheDarkMaster article" just because you think it's irrelevant?
There's a lot of articles on Wikipedia that I think is irrelevant, but I will not deleting them because of it. Why may be irrelevant to me, but it is important to another person.
I could summarize as: "Maybe the article is not interesting/relevant to person B, but it is interesting/relevant to the person A". And if the article was interesting/useful to someone, then he has fulfilled his role even if it seems irrelevant to the person B.
And we have a problem when the person "B" decides unilaterally that the article should be deleted even if is irrelevant just for her.
I wrote some time ago that Wikipedia should allow any content that could be interesting / informative to someone, after all she did not have the space limitation of a physical encyclopedia. I honestly can not understand why something has to be "remarkable" to be included in Wikipedia, especially when the criteria of "outstanding" is usualy being cited in news sites and the like that are not always have ethical criteria to decide what he saw or not "remarkable." or public interest.
Ohhhh was offended? Poor soul. Want me to apologize, kernel guru and master of the universal truth:) I will not touch this subject, if it bothers you so much, and since you apparently are unable to understand criticism because appears you still think I'm criticizing the kernel or the distro.
Oh, footnote: It is because of attitudes like yours that the year of desktop Linux will always be the current year + 1.
I forgot in my earlier comment: I use Slackware because is the only one who does things in a more or less standardized way at the kernel level. But I am not the "average Joe" from my example, I'm a mad scientist:) As such, I have no problems installing an application from source if I need. But you can not require that from the average Joe.
And what is the relationship between package management and usability of applications, grasshopper? hehe
Read again my previous comment... There, I made it clear that the problem is not the distro, are the applications. The problem is not just make the kernel work (the distros solve it for you reasonably well), or be able to install most applications (Ubuntu and other Debian-based distros do it reasonably well too). The problem is having to deal with atrocities such as OpenOffice, that commit gross errors of kerning, rendering and manipulation of file formats (he can not even deal with the ODF in a manner compatible with other applications like KOffice).
The problem is having to go to the command line and put commands that look like alien language to the Average Joe for any less used function of the application which says it has a GUI, but it is actually a poor and sloppy "shell" on top of a CLI program.
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Is a better idea. For the idea using lasers, you need power to the lasers, and I think (ok, ok, i'm not a enginner) a constant impulse is better than one pulsed because the possible vibration (and failure modes, what happens if the pellet gets stuck?).
Well... Think your user is not a "CLI guru" and so he do not have the slightest idea of what is "tail","grep ", much less what it means to put "|" between them.
But, he needs to get the job done and have no time to become a "CLI guru"to accomplish this. This is why Linux has failed and keeps failing on the desktop.
I am of the opinion that the problem is actually the Linux GUIs that are junk. Because most of them are made by developers who think in terms of CLI, not GUI.
Most applications "GUI" on linux in fact nothing more than shoddy "shells" for the actual application which runs on the CLI. How the GUI version could be decent if half of the functions available in the CLI application are forgotten, ignored or simply broken in its GUI version?
Interesting. Since you seem to know the subject, if the void is not an impact crater so what could be the cause of the void? I'm not a geologist, but to me it suggests that is maybe the empty "space" left by the continental shelf of India when she was in the direction of China
The CERN article is very, very funny
Where are the Gundans, Valkyries, Patlabors, Wantzers and EVAs?
Same thing here. That's annoying.
Is not a cadre of lawyers. Is a squad of ex-SEALs with rocket launchers.
Well... Is better simply ignore all the stupid/nonsense patents, all of then. And if one lawyer try to enforce any of then, send back to the lawyer contractor the head of the lawyer.... Only the head.
Big thanks for the info.
This is because large companies have more money than you and therefore have more rights than you. This is how the world works today.
...and in many places. I noticed that many slashdotters failed to understand the point of the article: Here is no requirement that an employee in a dangerous job being a "hero". But the act of for him to stay and say "no, if I leave people may die" even when he may even lose your life with this, this is a hero... And those who risk their lives to defend the lives of others that deserve recognition for all of us, ever.
Slashdot now is... Wikipedia? GAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH RUN FOR THE MOUNTAINS!!!! OMGWEALLGONNADIE!!!
Jokes apart, for wind power you need, of course, wind. But wind is not constant and predicable, you may have a constant wind on summer and no wind or a hurricane on winter.
And for the solar idea, is a nice idea but is difficult - if not too expensive in money and physical space - to build a 1200MW-class solar plant. And with a obvious problem: works only with daylight. You got the problem?
I see that you are unable to understand what you read. I used "coffemaker" in an ironic way to poke the nonsense of the comment from Anonymous, but since you apparently can only understand the most obvious examples and in a straight way, then how about I say we need energy for most of the our industrial production, while between these activities to produce food, clothing and many other essential items, and we need that energy in large volumes and in a consistent and reliable way? Better now?
You need power to run your TV, coffemaker and etcetera. Wind power is unreliable, solar power do not have enougth scale (we need gigawatts, not kilowatts). Hidroeletric power is actually the best option, but you have limited locations to put one hidroeletric plant, and geothermal have the same problem (is difficult to find a usefull "hotspot" on a usable place).
In short, we need nuclear power, so we have to keep trying to constantly improve the efficiency and safety of nuclear plants.
And not forgetting of course attempting to simultaneously improve all other possible options, never put all your eggs in only one basket.
The best comment I read on this article.
Punny humans and their difficulty in understanding the middle-term between banning all / release all :)
I said nothing about releasing the inclusion of things that are not information (false advertising is one example), or obviously offensive things. But, why keep a guy from placing an article with correct information (and maybe with a heresy, no citations!) about your favorite TV show, even if obscure? Thanks to articles like this is that I learned of many sitcoms, movies and games that I liked to watch/play, I would not know that there were it not for such articles.
In resume, clear up what is obviously false, but keep the rest.
Using yourself as an example, you may find irrelevant an "article about TheDarkMaster", but someone else might find relevant. And there we have the following problem: Why someone else can not have the "TheDarkMaster article" just because you think it's irrelevant?
There's a lot of articles on Wikipedia that I think is irrelevant, but I will not deleting them because of it. Why may be irrelevant to me, but it is important to another person.
Yep.
I could summarize as: "Maybe the article is not interesting/relevant to person B, but it is interesting/relevant to the person A". And if the article was interesting/useful to someone, then he has fulfilled his role even if it seems irrelevant to the person B.
And we have a problem when the person "B" decides unilaterally that the article should be deleted even if is irrelevant just for her.
I wrote some time ago that Wikipedia should allow any content that could be interesting / informative to someone, after all she did not have the space limitation of a physical encyclopedia. I honestly can not understand why something has to be "remarkable" to be included in Wikipedia, especially when the criteria of "outstanding" is usualy being cited in news sites and the like that are not always have ethical criteria to decide what he saw or not "remarkable." or public interest.
Thanks for the info :)
Man, You like to throw gasoline on fire :)
(And i agree. Is stupid to say that one software is "better" only because is FOSS.)
Ohhhh was offended? Poor soul. Want me to apologize, kernel guru and master of the universal truth :) I will not touch this subject, if it bothers you so much, and since you apparently are unable to understand criticism because appears you still think I'm criticizing the kernel or the distro.
Oh, footnote: It is because of attitudes like yours that the year of desktop Linux will always be the current year + 1.
I forgot in my earlier comment: I use Slackware because is the only one who does things in a more or less standardized way at the kernel level. But I am not the "average Joe" from my example, I'm a mad scientist:) As such, I have no problems installing an application from source if I need. But you can not require that from the average Joe.
And what is the relationship between package management and usability of applications, grasshopper? hehe
Read again my previous comment... There, I made it clear that the problem is not the distro, are the applications. The problem is not just make the kernel work (the distros solve it for you reasonably well), or be able to install most applications (Ubuntu and other Debian-based distros do it reasonably well too). The problem is having to deal with atrocities such as OpenOffice, that commit gross errors of kerning, rendering and manipulation of file formats (he can not even deal with the ODF in a manner compatible with other applications like KOffice).
The problem is having to go to the command line and put commands that look like alien language to the Average Joe for any less used function of the application which says it has a GUI, but it is actually a poor and sloppy "shell" on top of a CLI program.