Agreed. The claims that adrenaline is the cause is going to be proven false. However, I wouldn't doubt that adrenaline under severe stress becomes the transport agent for the real culprit that causes one's DNA to weaken and cause accelerated aging, whereas, adrenaline under sports, sexual intercourse [both emit large quantities of endorphins] will be found to strengthen one's defenses against such attacks on one's DNA and thus slow the aging process. Yogis have long attributed Tantric Sex to very youthful appearances in those far beyond their youth.
You're not alone. I switched the moment GNOME 3 came out for Debian, even in it's incomplete status. I cannot stomach all the Nepomuk crap, the widgets here and there, Dolphin being a bloated pig, etc. The only apps I'm down to using are Kile and Kate. The Plasma crap I could live without.
Seriously. The software gets heavier and heavier with each release and productivity software more often than not is just a KDE interface over some set of utilities or a port from GTK+ and vice versa. KOffice will never strike a chord beyond the 1% crowd. Same goes with Amarok and many others. How about working with corporations to port a flag ship CAD/CAM or FEA, solid modeling solution to KDE?
depends.
1) replacing 20 year old roof at $3000 every 20 years =~ $15,000 every 100 years.
2) replacing every 30 years $3000 + $1500 in additional damage =~ $13,500 every 100 years.
3) replace every 50 years and patch as needed $3000 +$3000 in patching over the years =~ $12,000 every 100 years.
The average cost for a 1500 to 2,000 square foot 20 to 30 year roof in Eastern WA will run you from $18,000 to $30,000 and when they mean 20 or 30 years the true length of time is below 15 and 25 years respectfully.
Didn't the Discovery Channel have an Extreme Engineering episode covering such a thing, like, 10 years ago?
If that's the case, I cannot frickin' wait to see the mile-high tower/city complex in Tokyo.
One question, though... who the hell is footing the bill for this thing, and what is the expected ROI timeline?
What you don't do is take advice from all the hacks on Slashdot giving their keyboard expertise on the cost of such solutions. They don't know the geology of the zone in which they are boring out, they don't know the commercial/consumer viability of it, they don't realize the cost to bore out the Earth can be considerably less than buying out Right-Of-Way in very large states connecting a distance of > 1200 miles doing an upgrade to an already laid infrastructure that has to be updated--right there alone should be a clue that upgrades are always considerably more than a new build out.
Given that they already open sourced CUPS, and don't have any profit in printers, it's more likely than not they would simply open source it like OpenCL, CUPS, Webkit, etc.
Apple developed OpenCL and open-sourced it under the permissive GPL. Kudos for that.
However, CUPS existed and was open-source for years before Apple adopted it in 2002 (they did not create it).
Webkit is a fork of the KHTML library which is and was under the LGPL, and thus Apple had no choice over open-sourcing it and releasing it under a permissive license.
WebKit started as a fork and was completely rewritten. Nothing of KHTML/KJS is in WebKit. Apple took over sponsorship of CUPS and it's creator works for Apple. All but the interfaces within OS X have been released to the public.
C++, especially modern C++, is such a different language from C, that it makes no sense to talk about them as if they are the same. A decent programmer can learn everything they need to know about C in about two weeks. Modern C++ really takes years to really master. When I interview programmers, I'm immediately skeptical of anyone who claims to know "C/C++". Often, this means the most advanced "C++" feature they use is the// comment.
And C99 isn't your C89 equivalent nor is C1x the same as C99. With C99 being the baseline for OpenCL I expect C1x will be a big boon for Parallel Programming.
XCode will soon be updated with the baseline of LLVM 3.0/Clang 3.0/LLDB/LibC++ probably around October or November. C99 is 99% compliant in Clang and C++ is humming along with C++ and C++0x support: http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html
By the way, Chrome uses LLVM/Clang to build against.
I doubt it..a hypersonic cruise missile that costs a few million taking out a carrier that costs a lot more than that with planes that cost a few million each and trained crewmen that aren't that cheap either...
Also you have to factor in the damage that ship would have done had it been left alone..
What jet fighter costs a few million each? I agree with your point that the missile is more cost effective, but you're being too conservative with respect to the cost of the Carrier and it's total cost per deployment.
Consider Corporations as the game pieces upon which the Governments of the world are the Board. They will most certainly let security breach scenarios run their course to see how close predicted outcomes are to reality. From there they will develop new security models to adapt.
My late 2009 27" iMac has faulty video drivers to this day, and Apple's acknowledged as much. A secondary display will display digital static every third or fourth time you wake it up. I gave detailed bug reports, and worked endlessly over a period of a year and a half with Apple engineers to track down the problem and get it fixed. I spent countless hours helping them track down the problem, going back and forth on the issue at least 10 times.
I got a notification two weeks ago that the problem was fixed, and updated drivers were released in the latest version of Snow Leopard (and Lion as well, I assume), but only if your hardware was manufactured after December 2010. They had the nerve to ask me to try it on new hardware to see if the problem is resolved.
So I spent all that time helping them, and they screwed me. This issue is a bigger problem than mine is, but I wouldn't expect anything but the very minimum possible to appease customers on anything but the absolute latest equipment.
A secondary display? Guess what? Nvidia's proprietary 280.13 drivers still flake out quite often with multi-displays for the Linux Platform. This is an Nvidia issue and OpenGL accelerated environments.
When is Google pulling h.264 support out of Chrome? I just did a new install on a previously Chrome-less Windows box, and it handled an h.264-only <video> element just fine.
I knew the Mac version of Chrome still played h.264, but I'm not sure if it's relying on its own internals or on the OS in that case.
During the rise of the WebM debate Google yanked H.264 from Chrome for Linux and a few months later added it back. They have continued it, but don't include MPEG-4 support.
Chrome version: 14.0.835.8 dev:
H.264 support
Ogg Theora support
WebM support
This has been supported for at least the past 6 months.
Stop arguing. You know jack about dick on the subject as spazdor has repeatedly shown by actually giving you a chance to research the curve fitting of the heat distribution curves, but I doubt you have the formal education to know how to plot it and will continue telling spazdor they are wrong.
Leave Social Security out of this equation. Social Security is funded by employees as part of their paychecks. I'm fully on-board ramping up advanced funding and research for NASA. What mechanical engineer wouldn't want to see that happen. Cut the War machine and yearly absurd Military Industrial Complex budget. Medicare helps the Nation. Hundreds of billions of unused munitions over decades doesn't.
Raise your hand if you want to take advice from a guy who worked during Apollo 7 to offer a plan for far into the 21st Century. My hand is kept firmly down.
I find in unconscionable that we are doing this with a deficit as large as ours. Exploring such things when you're in the black is one thing; there will be no return on these funds.
On the contrary, exploring alternatives to the status quo that put us in the Red is exactly the right approach to finding solutions to strip ourselves of the last century's oligopolies.
HOAs make one "neighbor from hell" into many "neighbors from hell".
Uniformity in housing is an appeal to create an aesthetic of order where it really doesn't exist. Life isn't tidy no matter how your dress it up.
Depends on the association. Drive around Redmond, Kirkland, Old Issaquah in Washington State, Queen Anne Hill, West Seattle, and a bunch of other areas and you'll discover some seriously stunning zones for landscaping and individual exterior looks. Those locations allowed for all Homes to be built uniquely, but require the damn landscaping to be done and maintained. Tiger Mountain in Issaquah is where an old friend's folks live and the entire zone is part of an HOA and the homes are stunning, the landscaping varies from one owner with 10 acres and Thoroughbreds to their plot of 2.9 acres with traditional Bavarian presentation. Don't confuse the 70s Suburbia and Dead End Culdesacs with truly planned and environment conscious deployments from homes starting at $120k all the way up into the millions. It depends on your location and the intelligence of the region's population.
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I assume you want to include Complex Numbers in there with Reals when studying Quantum Theory, correct?
Agreed. The claims that adrenaline is the cause is going to be proven false. However, I wouldn't doubt that adrenaline under severe stress becomes the transport agent for the real culprit that causes one's DNA to weaken and cause accelerated aging, whereas, adrenaline under sports, sexual intercourse [both emit large quantities of endorphins] will be found to strengthen one's defenses against such attacks on one's DNA and thus slow the aging process. Yogis have long attributed Tantric Sex to very youthful appearances in those far beyond their youth.
You're not alone. I switched the moment GNOME 3 came out for Debian, even in it's incomplete status. I cannot stomach all the Nepomuk crap, the widgets here and there, Dolphin being a bloated pig, etc. The only apps I'm down to using are Kile and Kate. The Plasma crap I could live without.
Seriously. The software gets heavier and heavier with each release and productivity software more often than not is just a KDE interface over some set of utilities or a port from GTK+ and vice versa. KOffice will never strike a chord beyond the 1% crowd. Same goes with Amarok and many others. How about working with corporations to port a flag ship CAD/CAM or FEA, solid modeling solution to KDE?
depends. 1) replacing 20 year old roof at $3000 every 20 years =~ $15,000 every 100 years. 2) replacing every 30 years $3000 + $1500 in additional damage =~ $13,500 every 100 years. 3) replace every 50 years and patch as needed $3000 +$3000 in patching over the years =~ $12,000 every 100 years.
citation: http://www.google.com/search?q=cost+of+roof+repairs
The average cost for a 1500 to 2,000 square foot 20 to 30 year roof in Eastern WA will run you from $18,000 to $30,000 and when they mean 20 or 30 years the true length of time is below 15 and 25 years respectfully.
Didn't the Discovery Channel have an Extreme Engineering episode covering such a thing, like, 10 years ago?
If that's the case, I cannot frickin' wait to see the mile-high tower/city complex in Tokyo.
One question, though... who the hell is footing the bill for this thing, and what is the expected ROI timeline?
What you don't do is take advice from all the hacks on Slashdot giving their keyboard expertise on the cost of such solutions. They don't know the geology of the zone in which they are boring out, they don't know the commercial/consumer viability of it, they don't realize the cost to bore out the Earth can be considerably less than buying out Right-Of-Way in very large states connecting a distance of > 1200 miles doing an upgrade to an already laid infrastructure that has to be updated--right there alone should be a clue that upgrades are always considerably more than a new build out.
Given that they already open sourced CUPS, and don't have any profit in printers, it's more likely than not they would simply open source it like OpenCL, CUPS, Webkit, etc.
Apple developed OpenCL and open-sourced it under the permissive GPL. Kudos for that.
However, CUPS existed and was open-source for years before Apple adopted it in 2002 (they did not create it).
Webkit is a fork of the KHTML library which is and was under the LGPL, and thus Apple had no choice over open-sourcing it and releasing it under a permissive license.
WebKit started as a fork and was completely rewritten. Nothing of KHTML/KJS is in WebKit. Apple took over sponsorship of CUPS and it's creator works for Apple. All but the interfaces within OS X have been released to the public.
The phrase "C/C++", that is.
C++, especially modern C++, is such a different language from C, that it makes no sense to talk about them as if they are the same. A decent programmer can learn everything they need to know about C in about two weeks. Modern C++ really takes years to really master. When I interview programmers, I'm immediately skeptical of anyone who claims to know "C/C++". Often, this means the most advanced "C++" feature they use is the // comment.
And C99 isn't your C89 equivalent nor is C1x the same as C99. With C99 being the baseline for OpenCL I expect C1x will be a big boon for Parallel Programming.
XCode will soon be updated with the baseline of LLVM 3.0/Clang 3.0/LLDB/LibC++ probably around October or November. C99 is 99% compliant in Clang and C++ is humming along with C++ and C++0x support: http://clang.llvm.org/cxx_status.html
By the way, Chrome uses LLVM/Clang to build against.
Vacuum cleaners are different than vacuum tubes.
You could think of Guitar Amps.
Gala, Jona Gold or other variants from Washington are the best.
I doubt it..a hypersonic cruise missile that costs a few million taking out a carrier that costs a lot more than that with planes that cost a few million each and trained crewmen that aren't that cheap either... Also you have to factor in the damage that ship would have done had it been left alone..
What jet fighter costs a few million each? I agree with your point that the missile is more cost effective, but you're being too conservative with respect to the cost of the Carrier and it's total cost per deployment.
Consider Corporations as the game pieces upon which the Governments of the world are the Board. They will most certainly let security breach scenarios run their course to see how close predicted outcomes are to reality. From there they will develop new security models to adapt.
Nope.
My late 2009 27" iMac has faulty video drivers to this day, and Apple's acknowledged as much. A secondary display will display digital static every third or fourth time you wake it up. I gave detailed bug reports, and worked endlessly over a period of a year and a half with Apple engineers to track down the problem and get it fixed. I spent countless hours helping them track down the problem, going back and forth on the issue at least 10 times.
I got a notification two weeks ago that the problem was fixed, and updated drivers were released in the latest version of Snow Leopard (and Lion as well, I assume), but only if your hardware was manufactured after December 2010. They had the nerve to ask me to try it on new hardware to see if the problem is resolved.
So I spent all that time helping them, and they screwed me. This issue is a bigger problem than mine is, but I wouldn't expect anything but the very minimum possible to appease customers on anything but the absolute latest equipment.
A secondary display? Guess what? Nvidia's proprietary 280.13 drivers still flake out quite often with multi-displays for the Linux Platform. This is an Nvidia issue and OpenGL accelerated environments.
Then why didn't he just stay with GNOME 2?
Is there a distro that offers Gnome 2 and a recent kernel at the same time? The best I've found is gentoo with 2.6.38
It's called Debian Sid. You don't have to install GNOME 3 to run Linux Kernel 3.x.
When I want to take advice from the creator of a Kernel will be the day I take advice from a UI Designer on how to design a Kernel.
Spend your time on actual roads and rail lines. We can manage the cars and our loss of them just fine.
When is Google pulling h.264 support out of Chrome? I just did a new install on a previously Chrome-less Windows box, and it handled an h.264-only <video> element just fine.
I knew the Mac version of Chrome still played h.264, but I'm not sure if it's relying on its own internals or on the OS in that case.
During the rise of the WebM debate Google yanked H.264 from Chrome for Linux and a few months later added it back. They have continued it, but don't include MPEG-4 support.
Chrome version: 14.0.835.8 dev:
This has been supported for at least the past 6 months.
Stop talking out your rear. PacketVideo has been around for quite some time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PacketVideo
http://www.packetvideo.com/
If you think they don't produce products, or even products specifically for that Patent then you're truly too stupid for words.
Bingo! We have a winner!
You're missing the point.
Stop arguing. You know jack about dick on the subject as spazdor has repeatedly shown by actually giving you a chance to research the curve fitting of the heat distribution curves, but I doubt you have the formal education to know how to plot it and will continue telling spazdor they are wrong.
Leave Social Security out of this equation. Social Security is funded by employees as part of their paychecks. I'm fully on-board ramping up advanced funding and research for NASA. What mechanical engineer wouldn't want to see that happen. Cut the War machine and yearly absurd Military Industrial Complex budget. Medicare helps the Nation. Hundreds of billions of unused munitions over decades doesn't.
Raise your hand if you want to take advice from a guy who worked during Apollo 7 to offer a plan for far into the 21st Century. My hand is kept firmly down.
I find in unconscionable that we are doing this with a deficit as large as ours. Exploring such things when you're in the black is one thing; there will be no return on these funds.
On the contrary, exploring alternatives to the status quo that put us in the Red is exactly the right approach to finding solutions to strip ourselves of the last century's oligopolies.
HOAs make one "neighbor from hell" into many "neighbors from hell".
Uniformity in housing is an appeal to create an aesthetic of order where it really doesn't exist. Life isn't tidy no matter how your dress it up.
Depends on the association. Drive around Redmond, Kirkland, Old Issaquah in Washington State, Queen Anne Hill, West Seattle, and a bunch of other areas and you'll discover some seriously stunning zones for landscaping and individual exterior looks. Those locations allowed for all Homes to be built uniquely, but require the damn landscaping to be done and maintained. Tiger Mountain in Issaquah is where an old friend's folks live and the entire zone is part of an HOA and the homes are stunning, the landscaping varies from one owner with 10 acres and Thoroughbreds to their plot of 2.9 acres with traditional Bavarian presentation. Don't confuse the 70s Suburbia and Dead End Culdesacs with truly planned and environment conscious deployments from homes starting at $120k all the way up into the millions. It depends on your location and the intelligence of the region's population.