Because not all of the water taken from that river ends up back in the same catchment for that river.
Also depending on where that water comes from (eg with aquifers) the time it takes for new rain to end up in your pipe could take an extremely long time.
You take a tapered cylindered, apply a resonance generator (hot liquid going through an intersecting pipe), and the oscillations would hopefully set up a standing-wave pattern that would drive air downwards.
And that hot liquid makes an excellent Brownian Motion producer for suspending your atomic vector plotter in.
Then how you go about connecting the logic circuits of your Bambleweeny 57 sub-meson Brain is elementary.
The possibilities (let alone the probabilities) are infinite!
Mozilla 1.0 was a suite of stuff from Mozilla which wasn't started until after Netscape 6 was released, and as a result of Netscape 6. Netscape decided they couldn't do it any more the way they were - so they started Phoenix (later Firefox), Thunderbird, SunBird, and several other projects. These projects now are at the top for their respective areas - but it did take time.
Not quite. Netscape 6 was forked off the already existing Mozilla Suite codebase (Mozilla being the open source development project for Netscape). I seem to remember Netscape 6.0 being based on Mozilla 0.6 or so, which explains why Netscape 6 was so buggy/unfinished.
Netscape was so desperate to get something out the door after the Netscape 5 failure and ongoing delays in stabilising Mozilla, that they were willing to ship a relatively early Mozilla pre release. It was Netscape 7 that was based off Mozilla 1.0.
And Firefox (ie Phoenix at the time) wasn't a Netscape driven project - it was a reaction by some Netscape/Mozilla developers against where Netscape was taking the Mozilla browser. The success of the Firefox "fork" was one of the many nails in Netscapes coffin.
You, sir, have apparently not done web programming.
Technically speaking it is correct. Microsoft didn't break the web with IE6.
At the time it came out it was the best browser, and it improved things for people trying to use CSS2.
Netscape 4.x was still rotting, The newish Netscape 6 had wider CSS2 support but was practically unfinished and very buggy, and Mozilla 1.0 was yet to be released.
What 'broke the web' was not IE6 itself, but Microsoft leaving it to rot for 5 or 6 years.
It was a mistake, and a fairly low level one at that.
When asked by the cops to snoop on the big german with the funny accent, the GCSB asked the NZ Police if he was a NZ resident, and were stupid enough to take the cops word for it instead of double checking that for themselves.
This is Keystone Cops stuff rather than Big Brother.
In all seriousness, though, even working in software, I can count the number of times I've used algebra on one hand...
(At the risk of repeating one of my other comments)
Do you think the abstract problem solving you practised while learning algebra (or eg calculus later on) has subconsciously helped your programming?
I'm of the opinion that the primary benefit of learning algebra and calculus etc isn't the specific techniques you learn but the ability to think in a much more abstract way when required. Even after most of the actual techniques have faded from memory, you still have the subconscious rewiring left behind by abstract problem solving.
And it is very important for a programmer to think abstractly.
I have to agree. It's not just the logical and rational aspect though - it is also the abstract nature of algebra.
Being able to think in both an abstract way and a concrete way is important. When kids move on from plain old arithmetic to algebra, they need to wrap their heads around thinking about solving problems in a more abstract way. There is another similar step up when learning calculus.
eg dealing with a boss that can't think in abstract terms at all reinforces this to me. Every description of a requirement or proposed solution to a problem is a concrete special case rather than a more abstract general case that could be used to pre-emptively solve a host of similar problems or requirements in the future.
a) You use mercurial, b) You want the functionality of github or at least most of githubs functionality, c) You need some sort of private repository or repositories, d) You might only have a few developers on your team, e) You are having trouble convincing your bosses enough for them to pay for something...
Have you looked at bitbucket.org?
The free plan gives you unlimited private repositories, and up to 5 collaborators for those private repos. And you can create either hg or git repos. By being free, you presumably don't need to convince your boss to pay.
Generally I prefer github overall (only slightly though), but they have no free offering with private repos and in general they can be more expensive. I find bitbucket is "good enough".
I'm not sure if this is the fault of ColdFusion or just of MySpace programmers being incredibly shitty, but every 5-10 navigations on MySpace would usually result in a server error. Sometimes, you'd get a server error when the server tried to serve the error page!
Now that you mention it, Coldfusion seems to have behind more HTTP 500 errors I've noticed over the years than any other platform. Which is impressive given it's relatively small market share.
I don't think you understand how complex Lego can get. But I'll admit I'm not sure anyone ever made a Lego Universal Turing Machine. But I wouldn't be surprised.
WTF? How old are you? You're completely wrong. If you had a computer in the 80s you were a geek.
Yes, even the Mac and Amiga. A few C64 people were simply gamers, geeky gamers.
Really? I knew plenty of kids back then with Amigas, C64s and ZX Spectrums etc for games that were nowhere near being geeks. The only thing they knew how to do (or even wanted to do) with the computer was boot it into a game.
Many of my friends and school/family acquaintances had a computer in their home, and yet I was the only one I knew of that ever tried to program one. Nobody else cared in the slightest - computers were just a game console where the more awkward game loading was offset by the ability to pirate the games.
Funny, I never bothered looking at the link, but from this comment alone it was obvious that it's a Phoronix article.
I find you can usually pick them by the Slashdot article title alone.
If it is the latest Ubuntu benchmarked against anything else, or comparison benchmarks of some recent GPU on Linux or the latest Xorg drivers etc - 98 times out of 100 it will be Phoronix.
Nobody else ever bothers - or if they do, it never makes it to slashdot. Which is a shame, it would be nice to see those comparisons done properly.
Given the current right-wing government's stance on doing whatever the US or its corporate owners say it is not surprising...
Ref: - Changing employment law for the hobbit movie - Signing up to ACTA despite it being bad for NZ - 3 strikes law - General foreign policy - Our special forces in Afganistan
Out of those 5 examples, I can only think of one (the hobbit employment law thing) that might have played out differently under the previous Labour government. Some of them were already happening or at least in play previously.
Far from it. Here in NZ it is noticeably colder than it was just 6 months ago. In fact nearly every one of the last six months has been colder than the month before!
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69%? I had no idea it had dropped that low.
Didn't it used to be 95% relatively recently?
Because not all of the water taken from that river ends up back in the same catchment for that river.
Also depending on where that water comes from (eg with aquifers) the time it takes for new rain to end up in your pipe could take an extremely long time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residence_time#Environmental
There might be a closed water cycle globally, but there isn't locally on some of the time scales we care about.
And that hot liquid makes an excellent Brownian Motion producer for suspending your atomic vector plotter in.
Then how you go about connecting the logic circuits of your Bambleweeny 57 sub-meson Brain is elementary.
The possibilities (let alone the probabilities) are infinite!
What the fuck is an AC? Air conditioning? Fucking acronyms! Don't tell me to google it you assholes! wah wah
Not quite. Netscape 6 was forked off the already existing Mozilla Suite codebase (Mozilla being the open source development project for Netscape). I seem to remember Netscape 6.0 being based on Mozilla 0.6 or so, which explains why Netscape 6 was so buggy/unfinished.
Netscape was so desperate to get something out the door after the Netscape 5 failure and ongoing delays in stabilising Mozilla, that they were willing to ship a relatively early Mozilla pre release. It was Netscape 7 that was based off Mozilla 1.0.
And Firefox (ie Phoenix at the time) wasn't a Netscape driven project - it was a reaction by some Netscape/Mozilla developers against where Netscape was taking the Mozilla browser. The success of the Firefox "fork" was one of the many nails in Netscapes coffin.
Technically speaking it is correct. Microsoft didn't break the web with IE6.
At the time it came out it was the best browser, and it improved things for people trying to use CSS2.
Netscape 4.x was still rotting, The newish Netscape 6 had wider CSS2 support but was practically unfinished and very buggy, and Mozilla 1.0 was yet to be released.
What 'broke the web' was not IE6 itself, but Microsoft leaving it to rot for 5 or 6 years.
It looks like slashcode stripped the parentheses from your Lisp code listing.
And some of them get carried around in their owners handbag to every stupid event the owner goes to and made to wear silly sparkly outfits.
It was a mistake, and a fairly low level one at that.
When asked by the cops to snoop on the big german with the funny accent, the GCSB asked the NZ Police if he was a NZ resident, and were stupid enough to take the cops word for it instead of double checking that for themselves.
This is Keystone Cops stuff rather than Big Brother.
The war criminal label cancels out - the choices there are between "war criminal" and "future war criminal".
(At the risk of repeating one of my other comments)
Do you think the abstract problem solving you practised while learning algebra (or eg calculus later on) has subconsciously helped your programming?
I'm of the opinion that the primary benefit of learning algebra and calculus etc isn't the specific techniques you learn but the ability to think in a much more abstract way when required. Even after most of the actual techniques have faded from memory, you still have the subconscious rewiring left behind by abstract problem solving.
And it is very important for a programmer to think abstractly.
I have to agree. It's not just the logical and rational aspect though - it is also the abstract nature of algebra.
Being able to think in both an abstract way and a concrete way is important.
When kids move on from plain old arithmetic to algebra, they need to wrap their heads around thinking about solving problems in a more abstract way. There is another similar step up when learning calculus.
eg dealing with a boss that can't think in abstract terms at all reinforces this to me. Every description of a requirement or proposed solution to a problem is a concrete special case rather than a more abstract general case that could be used to pre-emptively solve a host of similar problems or requirements in the future.
So, it sounds like:
a) You use mercurial,
b) You want the functionality of github or at least most of githubs functionality,
c) You need some sort of private repository or repositories,
d) You might only have a few developers on your team,
e) You are having trouble convincing your bosses enough for them to pay for something...
Have you looked at bitbucket.org?
The free plan gives you unlimited private repositories, and up to 5 collaborators for those private repos. And you can create either hg or git repos. By being free, you presumably don't need to convince your boss to pay.
And you can get a few extra free users at the moment too:
http://blog.bitbucket.org/2012/09/18/refer-a-friend-to-bitbucket-for-free-users/
Generally I prefer github overall (only slightly though), but they have no free offering with private repos and in general they can be more expensive. I find bitbucket is "good enough".
Jane was addicted to that.
From a Russian diamond mine is forever with love?
In Soviet Russia, with forever a diamond mine, love only gets you twice!
Now that you mention it, Coldfusion seems to have behind more HTTP 500 errors I've noticed over the years than any other platform. Which is impressive given it's relatively small market share.
Either you didn't know about this...
http://www.legoturingmachine.org/ ... or you did and the "Universal" bit disqualifies it :)
(I don't know enough about Turing machines to tell obviously)
Really? I knew plenty of kids back then with Amigas, C64s and ZX Spectrums etc for games that were nowhere near being geeks. The only thing they knew how to do (or even wanted to do) with the computer was boot it into a game.
Many of my friends and school/family acquaintances had a computer in their home, and yet I was the only one I knew of that ever tried to program one. Nobody else cared in the slightest - computers were just a game console where the more awkward game loading was offset by the ability to pirate the games.
That was my first thought too. I seem to remember they were part of the Mercenary book (or something - it's been a long time).
It sounds like you're having some effects from the bong.
Am I evil? Yes I fucking am!
I find you can usually pick them by the Slashdot article title alone.
If it is the latest Ubuntu benchmarked against anything else, or comparison benchmarks of some recent GPU on Linux or the latest Xorg drivers etc - 98 times out of 100 it will be Phoronix.
Nobody else ever bothers - or if they do, it never makes it to slashdot. Which is a shame, it would be nice to see those comparisons done properly.
Hehe - hook, line and sinker.
Hint: Strummer's first name was Joe. Though to be fair, he was more an observer of the political climate rather than the actual climate.
Out of those 5 examples, I can only think of one (the hobbit employment law thing) that might have played out differently under the previous Labour government. Some of them were already happening or at least in play previously.
Not that I'm excusing either party mind you.
Far from it. Here in NZ it is noticeably colder than it was just 6 months ago. In fact nearly every one of the last six months has been colder than the month before!