Strictly speaking, the Moon is outside the Earth's sphere of influence. The only reason it's orbiting us is because the sum of the gravitational forces of both the Earth and the Moon are somewhat greater than the Sun's gravitational influence.
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This is a first for me, but mod AC parent up. This is genuine news to me and deserves exposure.
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Protip: Fedora Core 4 was released almost 6 years ago. This is ancient history in free software development terms (unless you're HURD), and you should assume any experience you had with it is irrelevant to any modern GNU/Linux distro, Fedora included.
Like they howled about the same thing on iPads? Lock down their platform, restrict what they can do, and people eat that stuff up. People *love* being told what they can and cannot do with their own computers.
Ipad was locked down to begin with. Real Apple computers have an existing user base of thousands (?) of people who won't take kindly to their shiny toys^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H computers being reduced in functionality to a cellphone without the phone part.
People still use checks? I haven't seen one since the mid-90s, and I've had the displeasure of holding jobs that involved handling other people's money for most of that time.
No one insists on calling the Linux kernel "GNU/Linux". That's the name of a POSIX-compliant OS that uses a combination of Linux kernel and GNU userland utilities.
GNOME and KDE are the two extremes of GNU/Linux desktop environments, neither particularly good at what they set out to do. GNOME 3 tries to be different for difference's sake, while simultaneously presenting itself as fundamentally newbie-friendly. They did pretty good at being different, pretty much throwing out the desktop metaphor alltogether. However, they've also concealed and obscured most of the customisation tools and options, because people are intimidated by choice, right?
KDE is at the other end of the spectrum. From the start, you're hit in the face with dozens of overlapping and redundant choices, superfluous GUI elements that don't appear to serve any particular purpose, and generally a ton of "look, we can do this!" features.
I find both desktops envirnments to be profoundly bloated and useless to my work process. I much prefer a smaller DE or WM, such as openbox or LXDE.
There's nothing wrong in genetically altering stuff. Nature does it all the time. The difference though, is that we don't call our tweaking "Evolution" as we ought to.:|
Yeah, that'll get the congressmen and senators who don't believe in evolution to allow it.
Protestants and evangelicals are the Open Source of christianity - everyone gets their revelations from the sky wizard directly and interprets the scripture as they see fit. Catholics are the Microsoft, with the clergy excercising complete control over the minutest details of their faith and telling everyone else what to believe. When the source code is available, it's in obscure languages and obfuscated as can be.
If the US Military wants to not be seen, they can do it. This is probably some object they put up their for the enemy to track. They are very good at what they do!
This is a university-level Computer Science course, not a programming trade school. They aren't in the business of teaching people to write $5 iGroan apps.
A "new refrigerator" is, supposedly, more efficient than the last one. The emergence of IT made entire armies of secretaries, messengers, archive managers, human computers etc obsolete, changing society profoundly. The comparison to an iterative development of an existing technology strikes me as moot.
Axcept this time there is no new technology (as of yet), just the old one running into physical limitations. If we can find something better in the next 20 years, good. Otherwise, the only way to make faster computers from that point on is to make them bigger.
Geostationary orbits aren't inherently stable. They're far enough from the Earth to be subject to significant gravitational influence from the Moon, Sun and Jupiter. Depending on their mass, satellites in geostationary orbit might have to expand as many as 100 kilograms of propellant per year for station-keeping purposes. This mass is reduced significantly if you make satellites with higher efficiency, lower thrust propulsion systems, such as ion thrusters, as opposed to chemical thrusters that are mostly in use today.
I tried converting my entire mp3 library to FLAC and couldn't hear any difference. It's just audiophiles circlejerking. I bet you all use golden audio cables and $500 cable stands, too.
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Strictly speaking, the Moon is outside the Earth's sphere of influence. The only reason it's orbiting us is because the sum of the gravitational forces of both the Earth and the Moon are somewhat greater than the Sun's gravitational influence.
This is a first for me, but mod AC parent up. This is genuine news to me and deserves exposure.
Protip: Fedora Core 4 was released almost 6 years ago. This is ancient history in free software development terms (unless you're HURD), and you should assume any experience you had with it is irrelevant to any modern GNU/Linux distro, Fedora included.
Yeah, good luck doing work with your neck craned 90 degrees to the side.
It's called America's Army. And yeah, that's pretty disturbing.
Enough with the natty penguins and the wishy-washy "open source" pragmatism. We want the angry, righteous, jealous old testament god of Free Software.
Like they howled about the same thing on iPads? Lock down their platform, restrict what they can do, and people eat that stuff up. People *love* being told what they can and cannot do with their own computers.
Ipad was locked down to begin with. Real Apple computers have an existing user base of thousands (?) of people who won't take kindly to their shiny toys^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H computers being reduced in functionality to a cellphone without the phone part.
>implying Apple allows FOSS applications in its store
People still use checks? I haven't seen one since the mid-90s, and I've had the displeasure of holding jobs that involved handling other people's money for most of that time.
No one insists on calling the Linux kernel "GNU/Linux". That's the name of a POSIX-compliant OS that uses a combination of Linux kernel and GNU userland utilities.
GNOME and KDE are the two extremes of GNU/Linux desktop environments, neither particularly good at what they set out to do. GNOME 3 tries to be different for difference's sake, while simultaneously presenting itself as fundamentally newbie-friendly. They did pretty good at being different, pretty much throwing out the desktop metaphor alltogether. However, they've also concealed and obscured most of the customisation tools and options, because people are intimidated by choice, right?
KDE is at the other end of the spectrum. From the start, you're hit in the face with dozens of overlapping and redundant choices, superfluous GUI elements that don't appear to serve any particular purpose, and generally a ton of "look, we can do this!" features.
I find both desktops envirnments to be profoundly bloated and useless to my work process. I much prefer a smaller DE or WM, such as openbox or LXDE.
There's nothing wrong in genetically altering stuff. Nature does it all the time. The difference though, is that we don't call our tweaking "Evolution" as we ought to. :|
Yeah, that'll get the congressmen and senators who don't believe in evolution to allow it.
Protestants and evangelicals are the Open Source of christianity - everyone gets their revelations from the sky wizard directly and interprets the scripture as they see fit. Catholics are the Microsoft, with the clergy excercising complete control over the minutest details of their faith and telling everyone else what to believe. When the source code is available, it's in obscure languages and obfuscated as can be.
This is space we're talking about. And There Ain't No Stealth In Space.
For the sole reason that MS's target audience can't tell the difference between an OS, a computer and a browser.
This is a university-level Computer Science course, not a programming trade school. They aren't in the business of teaching people to write $5 iGroan apps.
A "new refrigerator" is, supposedly, more efficient than the last one. The emergence of IT made entire armies of secretaries, messengers, archive managers, human computers etc obsolete, changing society profoundly. The comparison to an iterative development of an existing technology strikes me as moot.
Axcept this time there is no new technology (as of yet), just the old one running into physical limitations. If we can find something better in the next 20 years, good. Otherwise, the only way to make faster computers from that point on is to make them bigger.
Already been done, it's called one instruction set computing, and it makes brainfuck look like python in comparison.
A 'Soviet' is a type of administrative council, not a denonym for citizens of the former Soviet Union.
Geostationary orbits aren't inherently stable. They're far enough from the Earth to be subject to significant gravitational influence from the Moon, Sun and Jupiter. Depending on their mass, satellites in geostationary orbit might have to expand as many as 100 kilograms of propellant per year for station-keeping purposes. This mass is reduced significantly if you make satellites with higher efficiency, lower thrust propulsion systems, such as ion thrusters, as opposed to chemical thrusters that are mostly in use today.
I tried converting my entire mp3 library to FLAC and couldn't hear any difference. It's just audiophiles circlejerking. I bet you all use golden audio cables and $500 cable stands, too.
OOI, are there any geeks left who do it for love of technology and challenge?
Yes, that would be the ones that aren't running or working for multi-million dollar corporations.
I have seen many outstanding programmers who struggled with calculus and never really got it.'
Programmer != computer scientist
The inverse square law doesn't apply to coherent beams. The phenomenon you're looking for is called diffraction.