The primary goal of good night-time lighting is eliminating glare. That is, you should not be able to see the light source, only what the light is illuminating. Light going straight from the source into your eyes reduces their sensitivity. With eliminating glare as your goal you can use your imagination for good lighting. Put baffles on elevated lights. Put lights on the bottom sides of hand railings so you see where you step.
I heard him give a talk a few years back and he struck me as pretty skeptical. He did not say that more atmospheric CO2 would not increase temperatures, but the gist of his talk was that the extra CO2 that we were putting into the atmosphere should be pretty easily absorbed by green plants and oceans, so we did not need to worry about warming. I doubt that he would give the same talk today.
So, was it really Google Chrome, or was Linux to blame?
I hate to tell all you Linux dislikers this, but here it is: Chrome is just another Linux/GNU/X-windows distribution. What differentiates "Chrome" from others? A thin layer of links to Google web sites on the user interface.
Old people wondering why young people are not going to live performances anymore? It's called cost. Price of tickets has been going up and up, and young people's incomes have been going down and down. A live performance is too damn expensive for young people anymore. I'm middle aged and I seldom go to concerts because they cost so much.
No one would give a shit. People buy phones because they like the software / hardware or they trust the brand. They don't care if it's "open" or "free".
Posts like this are really starting to annoy me. Actually some people do care. They're called people who read slashdot. And the people who read slashdot don't really give a shit that 99% of the population does not give a shit. Do you know why? Because we are smarter, more educated and have longer attention spans. Our last 30 years of software experience has taught us that over time open licenses do matter, they do make a difference in the power we have over our own computing devices. Would Android even exist without the open license Torvalds gave Linux? No. You would be stuck choosing between a locked-down Apple phone or a locked-down "Windows" phone. It is because of slashdot-type people that the other 99% have much more choice. You are welcome, you ungrateful asshole.
But its better -- for Google and users -- for Google not support self-signed certs than to support them in a way which provides illusory security, which is what Google was doing before it discontinued support for them.
That is wrong. Here is the hierarchy. 1. No security (OK) 2. Encryption (Better) 3. Encryption and Authentication (Best) Saying that 1 is better than 2 is wrong. After Google connects to a server just once and stores the key, all subsequent connections can be encrypted and verified that they are made to the same server. This fear of encryption without authentication is very ignorant.
I really don't get all this "control of the internet" hoopla. The reality is that anyone can run a DNS server. These countries can run one of their own if they don't like ours. They can also put whatever firewall they choose on the lines going in and out of their countries. They already have as much control as they choose to have. What is the point of having some international governing body? I'm not getting it.
What has openness got to do with a micro sd slot!?
Additional storage slots give people the ability to store stuff on their own devices, not in Google's cloud. They give people the ability to store data rather than having to retrieve it (and advertising) over a carrier's network connection repeatedly.
I was going to buy a Nexus, but no SD slot, no sale. Sorry.
For the last few years I have only been buying Intel hardware because it just works out of the box with all Linux distros. Is this AMD thing going to work out of the box in Linux? No, I'm not going to take time to download and install drivers. That crap is for M$ users. Yeah, yeah, I know Intel graphics are not the fastest thing out there. Save it for someone who cares. The Intel graphics are fast enough for the games that I write and play.
I don't know who has been modding down the sl4a posts, but whoever it is, he knows what he is doing. I have been working with sl4a lately because my son has an Android phone, and I can tell you that it is half baked. There is much functionality that is missing regardless of the language that you choose. Much of it just does not work. I made a python script to send an SMS message every 4 minutes. In the script I have a time.sleep(240). Ten minutes later... still no SMS message.
If you want real script programming, get an N900. Almost anything you can do on a Linux box, it can do. My N900 scripts grab data, send data, plot them using R or matplotlib, you name it.
If they want networking hardware, linux *ISN'T* the way to go.
That depends on what you want. The most useful part of having Linux on my router is that I can make it do what I want it to do. QOS, firewalling, those just scratch the surface. Someone who knows Linux networking well, or is willing to put a little work into it, can make a router that does virtually anything.
Another tremendous Open Street Map feature is that we get the data. When I need a map specific to my needs (treasure hunt for the kids, map for a flyer, etc.), I go to open street map, download the map as an SVG, open it in Inkscape, add/remove features, crop, edit to taste, save as PDF, mail and/or print.
The best option is to use python and R, through rpy for example. R rocks for statistical libraries and good documentation. Python rocks for everything else.
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The primary goal of good night-time lighting is eliminating glare. That is, you should not be able to see the light source, only what the light is illuminating. Light going straight from the source into your eyes reduces their sensitivity. With eliminating glare as your goal you can use your imagination for good lighting. Put baffles on elevated lights. Put lights on the bottom sides of hand railings so you see where you step.
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lpr -P Cups-PDF file.pdf
Pair up programmers ala Agile/Extreme programming, but make sure that one person in each of the pairs is a booth babe.
Good luck on finding a jury to convict me.
I swear that if anyone approaches me wearing those things I'm going to punch him in the face.
I heard him give a talk a few years back and he struck me as pretty skeptical. He did not say that more atmospheric CO2 would not increase temperatures, but the gist of his talk was that the extra CO2 that we were putting into the atmosphere should be pretty easily absorbed by green plants and oceans, so we did not need to worry about warming. I doubt that he would give the same talk today.
Possible Cure For MS Turns Common Skin Cells Into Working Brain Cells
Apparently the researchers discovered that people who use MS products only have skin cells in their skulls.
FYI:
1. This is freaking hillarious.
2. This is freaking brilliant.
So, was it really Google Chrome, or was Linux to blame?
I hate to tell all you Linux dislikers this, but here it is: Chrome is just another Linux/GNU/X-windows distribution. What differentiates "Chrome" from others? A thin layer of links to Google web sites on the user interface.
Old people wondering why young people are not going to live performances anymore? It's called cost. Price of tickets has been going up and up, and young people's incomes have been going down and down. A live performance is too damn expensive for young people anymore. I'm middle aged and I seldom go to concerts because they cost so much.
100 people die everyday in automobile accidents in the USA.
Ban Cars!
No one would give a shit. People buy phones because they like the software / hardware or they trust the brand. They don't care if it's "open" or "free".
Posts like this are really starting to annoy me.
Actually some people do care. They're called people who read slashdot. And the people who read slashdot don't really give a shit that 99% of the population does not give a shit. Do you know why? Because we are smarter, more educated and have longer attention spans. Our last 30 years of software experience has taught us that over time open licenses do matter, they do make a difference in the power we have over our own computing devices. Would Android even exist without the open license Torvalds gave Linux? No. You would be stuck choosing between a locked-down Apple phone or a locked-down "Windows" phone. It is because of slashdot-type people that the other 99% have much more choice. You are welcome, you ungrateful asshole.
But its better -- for Google and users -- for Google not support self-signed certs than to support them in a way which provides illusory security, which is what Google was doing before it discontinued support for them.
That is wrong. Here is the hierarchy.
1. No security (OK)
2. Encryption (Better)
3. Encryption and Authentication (Best)
Saying that 1 is better than 2 is wrong. After Google connects to a server just once and stores the key, all subsequent connections can be encrypted and verified that they are made to the same server. This fear of encryption without authentication is very ignorant.
I really don't get all this "control of the internet" hoopla. The reality is that anyone can run a DNS server. These countries can run one of their own if they don't like ours. They can also put whatever firewall they choose on the lines going in and out of their countries. They already have as much control as they choose to have. What is the point of having some international governing body? I'm not getting it.
Is my UID low enough to be taken at face value?
Almost. :) But then you blow all credibility with this:
enjoyed almost every Windows version since Windows 95b
!!! Holy hell, man, "Windows 95" was a steaming pile of crap. It is what drove me to Linux in the first place, and I never looked back.
That said, I'm thinking that for the first time in history MS has some competition, which may force them to really try to make 8 a functional OS.
http://www.jetpens.com/Uni-ball-Signo-DX-UM-151-Gel-Ink-Pen-0.38-mm-Black/pd/306
I don't know about anyone else, but I think that the size of the Nexus 4 is too big at 4.7
You worried that it will make a bulge in your strechpants?
Buy an "iPhone" or one of hundreds of other smaller handsets.
What has openness got to do with a micro sd slot!?
Additional storage slots give people the ability to store stuff on their own devices, not in Google's cloud. They give people the ability to store data rather than having to retrieve it (and advertising) over a carrier's network connection repeatedly.
I was going to buy a Nexus, but no SD slot, no sale. Sorry.
For the last few years I have only been buying Intel hardware because it just works out of the box with all Linux distros. Is this AMD thing going to work out of the box in Linux?
No, I'm not going to take time to download and install drivers. That crap is for M$ users. Yeah, yeah, I know Intel graphics are not the fastest thing out there. Save it for someone who cares. The Intel graphics are fast enough for the games that I write and play.
Dear Other Nations of the World:
Run yer own damn DNS.
I don't know who has been modding down the sl4a posts, but whoever it is, he knows what he is doing.
I have been working with sl4a lately because my son has an Android phone, and I can tell you that it is half baked. There is much functionality that is missing regardless of the language that you choose. Much of it just does not work. I made a python script to send an SMS message every 4 minutes. In the script I have a time.sleep(240). Ten minutes later... still no SMS message.
If you want real script programming, get an N900. Almost anything you can do on a Linux box, it can do. My N900 scripts grab data, send data, plot them using R or matplotlib, you name it.
If they want networking hardware, linux *ISN'T* the way to go.
That depends on what you want. The most useful part of having Linux on my router is that I can make it do what I want it to do. QOS, firewalling, those just scratch the surface. Someone who knows Linux networking well, or is willing to put a little work into it, can make a router that does virtually anything.
Another tremendous Open Street Map feature is that we get the data. When I need a map specific to my needs (treasure hunt for the kids, map for a flyer, etc.), I go to open street map, download the map as an SVG, open it in Inkscape, add/remove features, crop, edit to taste, save as PDF, mail and/or print.
Thank you, Open Street Map!
The best option is to use python and R, through rpy for example.
R rocks for statistical libraries and good documentation.
Python rocks for everything else.
Now, we just have to worry about people working on simulating solar irradiation while driving.
Been there. I have an N900 that runs R, numpy, matplotlib. Handy for computing when I can't sit on the bus or subway.