You won't hear much about it because it's Microsoft.
That's a job for the MS publicity department. We're (in a way) the open source publicity department, so it's not our problem.
See how Microsoft worked with a (foreign) company and fixed the problem
Microsoft is a big company. The Hotmail team has been doing a great job for a while now, the macdev team produces a version of Office for OSX that is considered by many to be superior to the Windows version, the hardware division puts their name on decent mice and keyboards, OTOH IE5 and 6 are still vulnerable.
hydrogen is H2, so it's roughly the size of two atoms. He is the size of one atom. The He atom is slightly bigger than a single H atom, but much smaller than the H2 molecule.
The amount of air in these things is enormous (we're talking about volumes the size of a thundercloud), so one or two degrees would make a lot of difference. The air temperature in most cities is already two or three degrees C higher than the surroundings, a dome would trap even more heat.
As far as I recall (I haven't read Fuller in a while) this was in the first place seen as a problem. You would have to make sure that the hot air could escape so it wouldn't rip off the roof of your city. Then in typical Bucky fashion, with a lot of handwaving, this was then spun into the floating city idea.
Microsoft is adding more features to their products...
You make it sound like Microsoft is leading the pack, when in fact they are trying to catch up with the rest. All big Linux distro's have supported localisation (including the most obscure languages) for years. Mac OSX is even better in this respect, as all OSX apps support localization (you can even write your own by creating an XML file with the translated strings and adding it to the app) and uses unicode throughout, so I can just cut-and-paste Japanese text from some odd robot site from my browser into a translator and have systrans translate it for me.
Since a large proportion of desktop users is forced to use windows, this is a step in the right direction, but don't try to spin this into MS innovation hype.
I'll be impressed when windows comes multilingual out of the box like all sane operating systems (just choose your language at install time), or when it doesn't complain when I try to network two computers using the same build of the OS, but different language editions.
Fuller's idea was that the whole thing would act like a solar-powered hot air balloon.
Can't find a good link, but according to Fuller's calculations, a dome about a mile in diameter would get enough lift to be lighter than air and become a 'floating city' with a temerature difference of a couple of degrees between inside and outside.
I don't have exact figures, and the biggest problem in doing the math yourself, is finding out the weight of the dome (How thick would the (steel? titanium?) struts have to be, from which material do you make the dome itself?) Do we have a structural engineer in our midst?
Most membranes are far more permeable to hydrogen than they are to helium.
Is this true? hydrogen is a molecule, an helium are single atoms. I'd expect that helium is more difficult to contain than hydrogen, since the particles are half the size (and helium is notorious for leaking through most materials, even glass)
I mean, I just don't see the synnergy between the two brands.
You sound like you've spent way to much time in the company of marketing people. At least you have the decency to misspell the dreaded S-word:) Anyway, coffee houses and culture have a long tradition of going together. Now I admit that Starbucks is a long way from an eighteenth century salon, and pop is won't start a revolution, but it's not hard to see the reasoning behind this, it's good for their image. Besides, if it lures in the iPod kiddies, it might even be a lucrative business decision.
I'm not sure about modding the articles, but between this and the blue skies on Mars (and oh so many others) it might be time for a 'crackpot' category. Perhaps with the head of Alex Chiu as icon:)
I can barely use the terminal in Mac OS X!...(Though if someone would point me toward a general list or guide to the commands available, I might use it
You know the people who proudly proclaim that they're so technologically inept that they can't even set the timer on their own VCR?
Annoying aren't they? Why can't they just take the time and learn how to press a few buttons?
Now turn it around. In 'normal people's eyes, the people beyond contempt are those who don't even have the common sense to wear a clean pair of pants and who don't say 'please' and 'thank you'
Not knowing how to set your VCR doesn't make you look artistic, it makes you look dumb. Wearing a dirty T-shirt doesn't make you a better person. It just makes you look repulsive.
There are simpler methods to ensure that a long string of 0's doesn't occur, without 40% redundancy.
The real reason for the encoding is FEC or Forward Error Correction. It ensures that if you lose a bit here and there, there is enough redundant information spread around the damaged part to reconstruct the original data stream.
AFAIK all CDRs have an information block on them containing maximum recommended burn speed, size, vendor code and media type. If you burn a CD with cdrecord, you can see it for yourself as it echoes that data to your terminal. So I guess it's part of the media info.
When I was in college, We had this one professor who was brilliant at his work (numerical methods in astrophysics) and a good teacher. However the guy had no social skills outside of his teaching, and he looked like a tramp. A fellow student ran into him at a train station one day and said "hi!", the professor actually RAN AWAY SCARED.
I was a terminal nerd at the time, but meeting an intelligent guy in his '50s who was less well adjusted to the world than most students, scared the hell out of me. It was like being visited by the ghost of Christmas future.
I'm still rather antisocial, but after watching a possible future played out so vividly, I started to take acquiring social skills a lot more seriously.
You mean one of these? You can't shock people with them but you can give them a nasty burn:) Lighting candles with this thing isn't easy, unless you know plenty of campcraft as it only produces a glowing ember, like flint and steel or rubbing two sticks together.
Oops! You're right. That'll teach me to post before my first cup of coffee.
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Curl up inside your safe self-shell and murmur away.
Isn't that precisely the attitude that is fostered by these invite-only networks? The great thing about the internet today is that you can talk to people whether you belong to their clique or not.
The fact that posts like these are public record does mean that you do have to watch your words, but I don't think that is a problem as long as your posts are reasoned out and you're prepared to defend your position, or admit that you were wrong. If someone really wants to dig up dirt they will always find something, so you might as well speak freely.
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You won't hear much about it because it's Microsoft.
That's a job for the MS publicity department. We're (in a way) the open source publicity department, so it's not our problem.
See how Microsoft worked with a (foreign) company and fixed the problem
Microsoft is a big company. The Hotmail team has been doing a great job for a while now, the macdev team produces a version of Office for OSX that is considered by many to be superior to the Windows version, the hardware division puts their name on decent mice and keyboards, OTOH IE5 and 6 are still vulnerable.
Thanks for that link.
Well, there is linuxbios but what I would really like to see is open firmware for intel architecture (not sure if that is possible)
hydrogen is H2, so it's roughly the size of two atoms. He is the size of one atom. The He atom is slightly bigger than a single H atom, but much smaller than the H2 molecule.
The amount of air in these things is enormous (we're talking about volumes the size of a thundercloud), so one or two degrees would make a lot of difference. The air temperature in most cities is already two or three degrees C higher than the surroundings, a dome would trap even more heat.
As far as I recall (I haven't read Fuller in a while) this was in the first place seen as a problem. You would have to make sure that the hot air could escape so it wouldn't rip off the roof of your city. Then in typical Bucky fashion, with a lot of handwaving, this was then spun into the floating city idea.
Microsoft is adding more features to their products...
You make it sound like Microsoft is leading the pack, when in fact they are trying to catch up with the rest. All big Linux distro's have supported localisation (including the most obscure languages) for years. Mac OSX is even better in this respect, as all OSX apps support localization (you can even write your own by creating an XML file with the translated strings and adding it to the app) and uses unicode throughout, so I can just cut-and-paste Japanese text from some odd robot site from my browser into a translator and have systrans translate it for me.
Since a large proportion of desktop users is forced to use windows, this is a step in the right direction, but don't try to spin this into MS innovation hype.
I'll be impressed when windows comes multilingual out of the box like all sane operating systems (just choose your language at install time), or when it doesn't complain when I try to network two computers using the same build of the OS, but different language editions.
Fuller's idea was that the whole thing would act like a solar-powered hot air balloon.
Can't find a good link, but according to Fuller's calculations, a dome about a mile in diameter would get enough lift to be lighter than air and become a 'floating city' with a temerature difference of a couple of degrees between inside and outside.
I don't have exact figures, and the biggest problem in doing the math yourself, is finding out the weight of the dome (How thick would the (steel? titanium?) struts have to be, from which material do you make the dome itself?) Do we have a structural engineer in our midst?
Most membranes are far more permeable
to hydrogen than they are to helium.
Is this true? hydrogen is a molecule, an helium are single atoms. I'd expect that helium is more difficult to contain than hydrogen, since the particles are half the size (and helium is notorious for leaking through most materials, even glass)
Anyone have a definitive answer on this?
I mean, I just don't see the synnergy between the two brands.
:) Anyway, coffee houses and culture have a long tradition of going together. Now I admit that Starbucks is a long way from an eighteenth century salon, and pop is won't start a revolution, but it's not hard to see the reasoning behind this, it's good for their image. Besides, if it lures in the iPod kiddies, it might even be a lucrative business decision.
You sound like you've spent way to much time in the company of marketing people. At least you have the decency to misspell the dreaded S-word
I'm not sure about modding the articles, but between this and the blue skies on Mars (and oh so many others) it might be time for a 'crackpot' category. Perhaps with the head of Alex Chiu as icon :)
I can barely use the terminal in Mac OS X!...(Though if someone would point me toward a general list or guide to the commands available, I might use it
try the linux users guide
yes,it's aimed at linux, but most of the commands they describe are generic to unix and GNU tools.
All my linux experience translated directly to the OSX command line (especially now Panther uses bash by default instead of csh for the CLI)
Wouldn't that be 75% redundancy?
I'm not sure how you manage to get 75%.
This is my reasoning: I may be wrong: 8 bits of data are 'spread' over 14 bits
8/14 = 57% is original data -> 43% is redundant.
or "about 40%" when I calculated it quickly in my head.
You know the people who proudly proclaim that they're so technologically inept that they can't even set the timer on their own VCR?
Annoying aren't they? Why can't they just take the time and learn how to press a few buttons?
Now turn it around. In 'normal people's eyes, the people beyond contempt are those who don't even have the common sense to wear a clean pair of pants and who don't say 'please' and 'thank you'
Not knowing how to set your VCR doesn't make you look artistic, it makes you look dumb.
Wearing a dirty T-shirt doesn't make you a better person. It just makes you look repulsive.
There are simpler methods to ensure that a long string of 0's doesn't occur, without 40% redundancy.
The real reason for the encoding is FEC or Forward Error Correction. It ensures that if you lose a bit here and there, there is enough redundant information spread around the damaged part to reconstruct the original data stream.
AFAIK all CDRs have an information block on them containing maximum recommended burn speed, size, vendor code and media type. If you burn a CD with cdrecord, you can see it for yourself as it echoes that data to your terminal. So I guess it's part of the media info.
Kuro5hin? Hah!...
When kuro5hin first was set up...
Kuro5hin is full of people who...
Yeah you don't want to be over there. All they do is talk about kuro5hin. I'm glad you're above that.
As far as I can tell, a human brain is a lot like an EPROM in that you can erase it's contents by applying UV radiation.
If you don't believe me, try having a conversation with someone who visits a tanning booth on a regular basis.
When I was in college, We had this one professor who was brilliant at his work (numerical methods in astrophysics) and a good teacher. However the guy had no social skills outside of his teaching, and he looked like a tramp. A fellow student ran into him at a train station one day and said "hi!", the professor actually RAN AWAY SCARED.
I was a terminal nerd at the time, but meeting an intelligent guy in his '50s who was less well adjusted to the world than most students, scared the hell out of me. It was like being visited by the ghost of Christmas future.
I'm still rather antisocial, but after watching a possible future played out so vividly, I started to take acquiring social skills a lot more seriously.
bsplayer does all of those things while using less system resources than WMPlayer.
You mean one of these? You can't shock people with them but you can give them a nasty burn :)
Lighting candles with this thing isn't easy, unless you know plenty of campcraft as it only produces a glowing ember, like flint and steel or rubbing two sticks together.
Oops! You're right. That'll teach me to post before my first cup of coffee.
Curl up inside your safe self-shell and murmur away.
Isn't that precisely the attitude that is fostered by these invite-only networks? The great thing about the internet today is that you can talk to people whether you belong to their clique or not.
The fact that posts like these are public record does mean that you do have to watch your words, but I don't think that is a problem as long as your posts are reasoned out and you're prepared to defend your position, or admit that you were wrong. If someone really wants to dig up dirt they will always find something, so you might as well speak freely.
I guess in the same way that glue-sniffers that scrawl their names on bus-shelters are part of an 'artistic movement'
Give a kid a felt-tip pen and he thinks he's Bastiat, give the same kid a computer and he thinks he's Kevin Mitnick.
Thank you very kindly.
What? Oooh Elvish! Then I guess the school-trip to Graceland is out?
Oops didn't RTFA all the way. hashcash is mentioned in the article.