Not that I know, but maybe there will be an app for that
Even if they have the major roads, does it have the arterial streets like Google does? I use that information extensively on my commute.
In general yes but YMMV. It depends on the region: main cities in Europe and US are pretty well mapped whereas little village may have only their main road drawn. It really depends on where the users/editors of OSM live or what their interest is.
BTW if your commute is not mapped, you can just map it yourself, it's like wikipedia, but for maps and without the deletionist plague.
They don't explain in TFA, but maybe they found new pieces of code in Duqu that (compared with stuxnet) are written in a very similar "spirit" although not being part of the original Stuxnet. Sometimes it's very obvious who wrote a piece of code just by the way he implements things that can be implemented in several different ways (I'm not talking about code indentation of course)
If the question you want an answer to is "How does it work ?", it does make sense to "just look and try to understand some code". Some (many) people are much more interested by that than by adding new features, I am.
(just sayin')
yes, I should have looked at this page first: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent
(I know wikipedia should not be used as The source, but I keep using it as a good place to start search on a topic)
Note that the "one american continent with two sub-continents" is what I was taught at school (a long long time ago). They should have explained us this instead.
But in America, what I said is generally considered correct; use of "America" (rather than "the Americas") to refer to the super-continent/pair-of-subcontinents is rare, especially in contemporary writing.
A country that likes to call itself by the name of a continent
What continent is that? I'm aware of a continent called "North America", and another called "South America", and together they're called "The Americas" (note plural), but I'm not aware of any physical location that's named or referred to as just "America", other than the US. The rest of your post I agree with, but that whole continent nonsense just bugs me. America has enough real problems that we don't need to make crap up to complain about.
Not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas
North and South America are sometime called sub-continents but there is only one continent which indeed is called The Americas (or the American continent).
I agree with you though that when one says "America" I generally assume that he's talking about the US (except in very specific contexts). (and all the same in French).
NB: There was (is ?) a several-years-long debate on the French Wikipedia about this very topic where some grammar zealots wanted people to use "étatsuniens" (unitedstatians ?) instead of "americans" even though almost no-one was actually using it in real life...
Why wouldn't I want to live near one? I'd much rather live next to a nuke plant than:
1. Chemical factory/storage. See Bhopal
2. Coal Power plant (lung cancer risks slightly lower than active smoker)
3. Garbage dump (stinks, possibly/probably toxic)
4. Nuclear plant (Tchernobyl, Three Mile Island)
Fixed that for you...
I'd rather see nuclear plant used instead of coal or oil-burning plants, but please don't ignore the potential danger(s)
for the use of social structure : what about sharing ideas and knowledge (to invent new things like interstellar travel...) ? unless you need to have sex to do that ?
if your whole life turns around having a bigger penis/car/house/bank account/boat than your "concurrent/neighbor", I truly feel sorry for you... but then I understand that you might be afraid of E.T. penis/car/house/bank account/boat/laser beam/gamma rays/superduperspaceship
Besides you're talking about "false assumptions" from others but yours are not any more valid...
Well it depends, we (20-21st century humans) are ill-adapted to live if we were to live 100.000 years ago and my place and life is pretty much Eden-like compared to what it would have been then. I don't need to fight for survival (yes I'm aware that I'm part of a privileged part of the population and that it might change any time).
... See you in another 100.000 years to compare with 1021st century boys:-)
NB: Personally I don't believe in E.T. visiting us and even if they were to, I'm just telling that we have no idea whether they would be dangerous or not.
And as far as we (don't) know, their technology could be extremely non resource-destructive (again, ethnocentrism : "because we human are very resource-destructive, every living thing in the Universe should be";-) )
And what possesses you to believe that if a race of beings with super-light travel actually exists it would act as human beings ? (trade or conquest).
That's called ethnocentrism and it's as wrong an assumption as the "peaceful ET" hypothesis.
I just noticed that on Ubuntu (and I guess every recent Gnome) the file's size/hard drive occupancy are indicated as "KiB", "MiB", "GiB" while XP displays in KB, MB & GB (but using the base 2 of course).
How long has it been that gnome (and the others ?) displays the "iB" instead of the "B" (or was it always that way) ?
In the beginning was the command line,
then they invented the GUI to make it easier to use that command line
then they invented the command line to make it easier to use that GUI
then...
I agree that there is a lack of software existing on both Windows and Linux (and OSX). And this has to be fixed some way. Photoshop is indeed a very good example.
What I disagree with is the "moving-target" idea and the "too-many-packaging systems is a no-go" idea. (no one is forced to use the package systems)
some examples:
1. Firefox/thunderbird/songbird : just download one file and install or unzip.
2. Matlab : two install CDs : one for *nix/MacOS and one for Windows. Insert CD, double-click on install and follow the steps.
3. Adobe reader : download one file, run install.
Those pieces of software can run on any Linux or Windows distrib without having to care about compilation, multi-package things,...
For instance I installed Matlab on ubuntu 7.10, never re-installed nor upgraded it and I'm using it with ubuntu 8.10 right now. (at the office we installed it on a 6.06 machine which is now running 8.10. no problem so far)
If they can do it, why couldn't the others ? For company selling software running only on Windows, I keep thinking this is more about money (time and people to rewrite windows-only part of codes, how many people will actually buy it (Linux is still a small market for them),...) and will.
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Does OSM have traffic information as well?
Not that I know, but maybe there will be an app for that
Even if they have the major roads, does it have the arterial streets like Google does? I use that information extensively on my commute.
In general yes but YMMV. It depends on the region: main cities in Europe and US are pretty well mapped whereas little village may have only their main road drawn. It really depends on where the users/editors of OSM live or what their interest is.
BTW if your commute is not mapped, you can just map it yourself, it's like wikipedia, but for maps and without the deletionist plague.
It's not quite the same, but it's close.
Interesting, I do all of this but for the theme. I use "good old" Firefox 2 theme instead.
They don't explain in TFA, but maybe they found new pieces of code in Duqu that (compared with stuxnet) are written in a very similar "spirit" although not being part of the original Stuxnet. Sometimes it's very obvious who wrote a piece of code just by the way he implements things that can be implemented in several different ways (I'm not talking about code indentation of course)
If the question you want an answer to is "How does it work ?", it does make sense to "just look and try to understand some code". Some (many) people are much more interested by that than by adding new features, I am.
(just sayin')
I propose that every Netflix user shares with us his login and password, here and now, as a sign of protestation
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user unfriendly package management system
[citation needed]
...
As far as I'm concerned, I miss the package management system as soon as I'm using Windows. And I always install macport when using OSX
I'm pretty new to Linux, but I find the package management system very user-friendly. YMMV
Well, yes, but that's still no excuse to quash innovation.
Wait ... I thought patents, IP, copyrights, etc. were all about helping and protecting innovation ?
"With all those big CRT monitors replaced by thin LCD ones, employee have too much space. Let's reduce that cubicle a bit"
(I know wikipedia should not be used as The source, but I keep using it as a good place to start search on a topic)
Note that the "one american continent with two sub-continents" is what I was taught at school (a long long time ago). They should have explained us this instead.
But in America, what I said is generally considered correct; use of "America" (rather than "the Americas") to refer to the super-continent/pair-of-subcontinents is rare, especially in contemporary writing.
100% agreed, AFAIK it's the same in French.
A country that likes to call itself by the name of a continent
What continent is that? I'm aware of a continent called "North America", and another called "South America", and together they're called "The Americas" (note plural), but I'm not aware of any physical location that's named or referred to as just "America", other than the US. The rest of your post I agree with, but that whole continent nonsense just bugs me. America has enough real problems that we don't need to make crap up to complain about.
Not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas North and South America are sometime called sub-continents but there is only one continent which indeed is called The Americas (or the American continent).
...
I agree with you though that when one says "America" I generally assume that he's talking about the US (except in very specific contexts). (and all the same in French).
NB: There was (is ?) a several-years-long debate on the French Wikipedia about this very topic where some grammar zealots wanted people to use "étatsuniens" (unitedstatians ?) instead of "americans" even though almost no-one was actually using it in real life
disable javascript on google.com: right-click and save url works like a charm :-) (although this also remove search autocompletion and instant ...)
that's close to Belgium and Netherlands legislation then
:-)
If anyone manages to grow that bonsai thing, he'll become a new God
Why wouldn't I want to live near one? I'd much rather live next to a nuke plant than:
1. Chemical factory/storage. See Bhopal
2. Coal Power plant (lung cancer risks slightly lower than active smoker)
3. Garbage dump (stinks, possibly/probably toxic)
4. Nuclear plant (Tchernobyl, Three Mile Island)
...
Fixed that for you
I'd rather see nuclear plant used instead of coal or oil-burning plants, but please don't ignore the potential danger(s)
And can you grown your own cannabis plant ? (legally speaking)
again ethnocentrism ...
...) ? unless you need to have sex to do that ?
... but then I understand that you might be afraid of E.T. penis/car/house/bank account/boat/laser beam/gamma rays/superduperspaceship
...
for the use of social structure : what about sharing ideas and knowledge (to invent new things like interstellar travel
if your whole life turns around having a bigger penis/car/house/bank account/boat than your "concurrent/neighbor", I truly feel sorry for you
Besides you're talking about "false assumptions" from others but yours are not any more valid
Well it depends, we (20-21st century humans) are ill-adapted to live if we were to live 100.000 years ago and my place and life is pretty much Eden-like compared to what it would have been then. I don't need to fight for survival (yes I'm aware that I'm part of a privileged part of the population and that it might change any time).
... See you in another 100.000 years to compare with 1021st century boys :-)
NB: Personally I don't believe in E.T. visiting us and even if they were to, I'm just telling that we have no idea whether they would be dangerous or not.
one word : curiosity
;-) )
And as far as we (don't) know, their technology could be extremely non resource-destructive (again, ethnocentrism : "because we human are very resource-destructive, every living thing in the Universe should be"
And what possesses you to believe that if a race of beings with super-light travel actually exists it would act as human beings ? (trade or conquest).
That's called ethnocentrism and it's as wrong an assumption as the "peaceful ET" hypothesis.
what about duplicity ? (incremental snapshots, command-line tool, librsync-based, used by "deja-dup"), rdiff-backup and rsnapshot
I just noticed that on Ubuntu (and I guess every recent Gnome) the file's size/hard drive occupancy are indicated as "KiB", "MiB", "GiB" while XP displays in KB, MB & GB (but using the base 2 of course).
How long has it been that gnome (and the others ?) displays the "iB" instead of the "B" (or was it always that way) ?
Who has not been acquired by Microsoft
doesn't return Yahoo ? ...
actually it doesn't return any result
In the beginning was the command line, ...
then they invented the GUI to make it easier to use that command line
then they invented the command line to make it easier to use that GUI
then
But a near 70% income tax rate is still necessary to pay for ... what exactly?
I'm Belgian you insensitive clod !
(and it's less than 50% by the way)
you just forgot that some people cannot detect sarcasm :-)
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/12/15/1629245
I agree that there is a lack of software existing on both Windows and Linux (and OSX). And this has to be fixed some way. Photoshop is indeed a very good example. What I disagree with is the "moving-target" idea and the "too-many-packaging systems is a no-go" idea. (no one is forced to use the package systems)
:
...
...) and will.
some examples
1. Firefox/thunderbird/songbird : just download one file and install or unzip.
2. Matlab : two install CDs : one for *nix/MacOS and one for Windows. Insert CD, double-click on install and follow the steps.
3. Adobe reader : download one file, run install.
Those pieces of software can run on any Linux or Windows distrib without having to care about compilation, multi-package things,
For instance I installed Matlab on ubuntu 7.10, never re-installed nor upgraded it and I'm using it with ubuntu 8.10 right now. (at the office we installed it on a 6.06 machine which is now running 8.10. no problem so far)
If they can do it, why couldn't the others ? For company selling software running only on Windows, I keep thinking this is more about money (time and people to rewrite windows-only part of codes, how many people will actually buy it (Linux is still a small market for them),