IIRC, it has more to do with the plant's salt tolerance. If a thin brine will work, it's a lot easier to use sea water than if you need to remove almost al the salt.
Some of those vegetables I haven't heard (or don't remember) reports about, but I've previously heard of successful experiments in growing tomatoes in salty water.
When the cost of a resource increases, and the pay doesn't increase in about proportion, that's inflation. If the cost of a resource decreases, that's deflation. If the cost remains the same, but the quality improves....well, that's something else, and I don't know what to call it. (But the computer industry has been moving that into LOTS of hi-tech gadgets. This rarely decreases the price, and occasionally increases the price. But it often increases the quality. Mobile phones are the current leading edge here.
This clearly shows that the terms inflaction and deflation are inappropriate to apply to an entire market. Some things go up, some go down, others just change. The price of white bread is an area where one might fairly use the term "inflation". (I haven't tracked what it's price is doing, as I try to avoid it.) Food, however, is probably too wide an area. All "commodity basket" measures of inflation are jiggered to produce some answer. They do this by the measures they choose to include, and those they choose to exclude. Also by what weights they assign to each item. Most of these "basket measures of inflation" are reasonably accurate for some group of people. If one never eats white bread, then the price of that isn't significant, but perhaps the price of beans is (or perhaps only a few varieties of beans). Do you count the price of a car? New or used? What model? Each choice is valid for some group of people, and not for others.
My most common measure of inflation is based around the cost of a good paperback technical book. This was a fairly good measure for a long time, rising with the price of gase. I'm not sure it's a good measure any more though, as many of those books are now only available as e-books. I may need to break down and get an e-book reader, though they are much less convenient for my life-style. Also a LOT more expensive. So, for me, that's a 200% or so bump of inflation right there...if I decide to do it. (Part of the inflation is because the e-book is less useful. Part because it's less permanent. Part because the actual price is higher. Add in a few other factors and some uncertainties and I get an estimated rate of inflation at 200-500%. That's unlikely to be an overestimate, but may well be an underestimate. My first experiment with an e-book reader showed me that I realy hate using them. Also they don't do well at rendering graphics that weren't specifically intended to go on a e-book. [I'm not sure if they handle graphics well that WERE designed to go on an e-book.])
Because they are basically isolationist. It doesn't work well in a world with rapid transport, but they are still basically isolationist. This is one reason the foreign policy is so stupid. People just don't like to think about it.
(That said, this is clearly an oversimplification. But it's one of the big pieces. Like the stereotype US tourist who thinks that foreigners will underdand them if they just talk slowly, clearly, and loud enough.)
It seems to me that the ideal battery for this use would hold it's charge for at least a week. So 20-30%/month isn't bad. But don't focus too tighly on any one day cycle. You need more coverage than that.
Not a lot more tech. IIRC the Roman soldiers in North Africa made a sort of ice cream by using the cold of the desert night, and a deep pit lined with straw, and a highly insulated cover. They'd open it at night, and close it during the day, and after a few days they had a frozen dessert.
So all you need is a good insulated container...say a large styrofoam box filled with water, a pipe that runs through it, and a fan to blow air through it, and a way of cooling the air when you had execss power.
That's not so high tech...at least not if you can get a refridgerator.
There's actually no reason to NOT hope that people will contribute fixes and suggest improvements. But if you want that to happen, you need to have a license and project that supports this activity. E.g., the license can't allow you to "take the money and run", or people will be reluctant to trust you.
The CDDL is, IIRC, an open source license (it's been awhile since I read it), and glassfish is thus an open source program. But you can't mingle CDDL code with GPL code...in either direction. And Oracle's management of the project was...well, you needed to trust Oracle. So it's not surprising that few contributed.
If you compare this with successful FOSS projects, things are quite different. E.g., with Python the community is always proposing changes, and discussing whether they are a good idea or not. Guido (BDFL) has the final word, but I can't recall a single time when he's gone against a large majority of the community, either to include or to exclude something. And things are discussed publicly BEFORE they are accepted or rejected. If there are exceptions (beyond bug fixes, and not all of them) I haven't heard about it.
The D (Digital Mars D : Walter Bright) community is evolving in the same direction, and already pretty far along the path. I'm not as much aware of other groups, but the appearance is that they do the same. (Thus the popularity of github.) And of course the Linux community is famous for open discussions that get quite active. (Most others never seem to get as heated.)
OTOH, none of these are commercial activities. Perhaps the old MySQL community would be an appropriate example, but I'm not familiar with it. From a distant perspective, however, they did seem to play things much closer to their chest. Still, Red Hat is pretty open, and they're commercial, so that's not the real distinction.
They can't easily close it, but several applications already object if you aren't running Oracle branded Java (Neo4j, for one).
What they can do is slowly emasculate it, and release libraries under licenses of their choice to fix the problem. If they're at all sneaky about this, there's a good chance that OpenJDK will change in lock step to maintain compatibility. So they'll be able, eventually, to sell those libraries at a fancy price, and simultaneously to keep anyone else from competing. (Since they'll know ahead of time what changes in API are coming. This is an old MS trick.)
This depends on how you understand time, space, and causality.
From my (bizarre?) point of view the multi-world model runs both backwards and forwards, so there is neither a unique past nor a unique future. So inevitable would mean something like "in all likely projections into either the past or the future this would occur". And therefore it's both grammatical and reasonable (WRT understanding) to assert this. Whether it (i.e. Oracle dropping support for glassfish is inevitable). Reasonable (WRT truth) is something I'm not competent to hold a position on.
However, given the nature of Oracle's past behavior, I'm not surprised.
It's been explained. It just hasn't been believed.
What's more, I don't believe it just because you repeated it, either.
That said, it may well be that selling Ubuntu Tee-Shirts is a bit over the top. (Were they being sold? I couldn't see the link, but then the web site has obviously had a makeover since the letter was received.)
But the EFF lawyers, while acknowldeging that the letter sent was polite, also claimed that there was no justification for it under trademark law, and that it was an attempt to curtial legitimate free speech.
So you might want to read the links posted on the summary page.
Well, and I suspect that Red Flag Linux is also bigger than Ubuntu.
OTOH, the last time I checked Red Hat was using Lilo, which made my other partitions unbootable. (Yeah, I could have set them up with a boot loader in the partition ahead of time, but I didn't.) Also it is security conscious in a way that interferes with looking at a disk partition from something else (SELinux)...and I normally run Debian. Annoying. (I want SELinux OFF, and the installer protected things even after I told it not to...of course, this was a couple-three years ago.)
FWIW, Red Hat has several clones that configure their setup in the same way...and I won't use any of them because they don't work well with Debian and other Debian descended systems. (I blame Red Hat, because they are the ones that changed.)
OTOH, Red Hat is aimed at a very different market. Red Hat is aimed at enterprise servers. Debian is aimed at developers. Very different market. (This may even explain some of the "idiocies" that Gnome has been committing. Perhaps, in the context of an enterprise server, they aren't idiocies. This doesn't make *me* think any more highly of them, however.)
Sorry, but that last line should read: So they've given themselves a moral way out because if you're accused of doing naughty things or harming their network, they'll do whatever they want to keep their good name intact.
Are you saying that www.videolan.org/vlc/index.htmlâZ isn't the home page for VLC? That's what came up as the first entry in when I did a Google search, and it claims to be the official page.
Well, I am on Linux, and while I don't morally oppose using closed-source software, per se, I don't trust it for a tool, and I am morally opposed to most of the EULAs that such software tends to attach.
OTOH, for a game I see no reason to object to closed source software, but I still object to intrusive EULAs. (Reasonable terms are one thing, but abusive requirements are something totally else. If I can't install it, I'm not interested. And if there's a requirement that calling home is allowed, I want my money back. I run closed source software in a virtual machine with no internet connectivity.
My attitude is due to many past experiences with companies that I thought were reasonably trustworthy. But every day I seem to encounter another story saying that I'm still overly trusting.
OTOH, if you are already running MSWind or Apple, then you've already signed away all your rights. (You *did* read the EULA didn't you?) Anything you do on the computer, they have the right to copy off, and then delete or silently modify your copy. That they don't do this is a business decision on their part, because users of those systems have signed away permission. IANAL, so I can't say that they have the right to use your images for commercial gain. (Well, and I also haven't seen an EULA from either MS or Apple in over a decade. They could have changed things.)
I *do* care about Gimp, but I get it from Debian. These days I use SourceForge so rarely that I hadn't even heard about their new installer. But that *IS* a good reason to use it much less than before.
You think that's bad, you should check out the history of (classical) Athens. Democracies have a poor record WRT rewarding people who help them. And Athens didn't even have a bureaucracy to blame it on.
I think a reasonable definition of "economically independent" would be that your economy doesn't depend on influence by the government. This is also something that only existed in history and myth, but it seems to be widely believed in, so it is a reasonable definition. (I don't think anyone believes, e.g., that Davy Crockett made his own rifle. OTOH, perhaps James Bowie did have his knife made by his brother. But do they believe that his brother dug the ore to make the steel? [Rural blacksmiths did that during the 1400's. Perhaps urban one's, too, but there weren't many cities.])
I challenge the assertion that "The US has taken and used the Nazi propaganda model of polarizing the population in opposition to something and using this for the benefit of the nation as a whole" I do not believe it to be a true statement. (Granted, the first part of the sentence is indeed correct.)
Ah. That's clear. And wrong. It is the action you take that say who you are. Power is an amplifier. Justifications are trash. It's what you do. If you spy on everyone, they you're a "nosey parker with no regard for privacy", and I don't care *what* your justification is, it doesn't change who you are. If you're a cop that pulls over black drivers for being black, then you are a racist abusing power under the color of authority. Etc.
Some people are assholes, some aren't. There *is* a difference.
Sounds like a good reason to avoid Chrome. And to be suspicious of any Google product.
I'm *not* on MSWind, but...
Yeah, I know it's "a security measure". If that's their idea of the right way to implement a security measure, then I'm quite skeptical of anything Google does. But really I believe that the explanation is a lie. They aren't starting it now, and they haven't announced that "it's a temporary measure until we get a better fix".
It seems to have been a long time now since Google was the "Do no evil" company, or even had that as a goal.
Carp are actually quite tastey. The problem is the bones. They have a huge number of very small bones. Probably the best solution would be to can them, like sardines. That way the bones stop being a problem.
As for jellyfish...I had a jellyfish sushi several years ago. It was pretty good, but so pricey that I haven't had any since. (But that may have been jellyfish eggs.)
I know nothing about the taste of Lion fish, but I would definitely wan the butcher to have already removed it's skin and external spines. (Unlike Salmon, where I prefer that the skin be on the fish.)
P.S.: We are warned to avoid "eels boiled in brew" (Lord Randall), so I'm not disappointed that the sole time I tasted canned eels, I didn't like them. OTOH, I don't think that eels are an invasive species.
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IIRC, it has more to do with the plant's salt tolerance. If a thin brine will work, it's a lot easier to use sea water than if you need to remove almost al the salt.
Some of those vegetables I haven't heard (or don't remember) reports about, but I've previously heard of successful experiments in growing tomatoes in salty water.
When the cost of a resource increases, and the pay doesn't increase in about proportion, that's inflation. If the cost of a resource decreases, that's deflation. If the cost remains the same, but the quality improves....well, that's something else, and I don't know what to call it. (But the computer industry has been moving that into LOTS of hi-tech gadgets. This rarely decreases the price, and occasionally increases the price. But it often increases the quality. Mobile phones are the current leading edge here.
This clearly shows that the terms inflaction and deflation are inappropriate to apply to an entire market. Some things go up, some go down, others just change. The price of white bread is an area where one might fairly use the term "inflation". (I haven't tracked what it's price is doing, as I try to avoid it.) Food, however, is probably too wide an area. All "commodity basket" measures of inflation are jiggered to produce some answer. They do this by the measures they choose to include, and those they choose to exclude. Also by what weights they assign to each item. Most of these "basket measures of inflation" are reasonably accurate for some group of people. If one never eats white bread, then the price of that isn't significant, but perhaps the price of beans is (or perhaps only a few varieties of beans). Do you count the price of a car? New or used? What model? Each choice is valid for some group of people, and not for others.
My most common measure of inflation is based around the cost of a good paperback technical book. This was a fairly good measure for a long time, rising with the price of gase. I'm not sure it's a good measure any more though, as many of those books are now only available as e-books. I may need to break down and get an e-book reader, though they are much less convenient for my life-style. Also a LOT more expensive. So, for me, that's a 200% or so bump of inflation right there...if I decide to do it. (Part of the inflation is because the e-book is less useful. Part because it's less permanent. Part because the actual price is higher. Add in a few other factors and some uncertainties and I get an estimated rate of inflation at 200-500%. That's unlikely to be an overestimate, but may well be an underestimate. My first experiment with an e-book reader showed me that I realy hate using them. Also they don't do well at rendering graphics that weren't specifically intended to go on a e-book. [I'm not sure if they handle graphics well that WERE designed to go on an e-book.])
Because they are basically isolationist. It doesn't work well in a world with rapid transport, but they are still basically isolationist. This is one reason the foreign policy is so stupid. People just don't like to think about it.
(That said, this is clearly an oversimplification. But it's one of the big pieces. Like the stereotype US tourist who thinks that foreigners will underdand them if they just talk slowly, clearly, and loud enough.)
It seems to me that the ideal battery for this use would hold it's charge for at least a week. So 20-30%/month isn't bad. But don't focus too tighly on any one day cycle. You need more coverage than that.
Not a lot more tech. IIRC the Roman soldiers in North Africa made a sort of ice cream by using the cold of the desert night, and a deep pit lined with straw, and a highly insulated cover. They'd open it at night, and close it during the day, and after a few days they had a frozen dessert.
So all you need is a good insulated container...say a large styrofoam box filled with water, a pipe that runs through it, and a fan to blow air through it, and a way of cooling the air when you had execss power.
That's not so high tech...at least not if you can get a refridgerator.
You left out fire, ice, and thunder.
Also bird, fox, dove, and ape.
There's actually no reason to NOT hope that people will contribute fixes and suggest improvements. But if you want that to happen, you need to have a license and project that supports this activity. E.g., the license can't allow you to "take the money and run", or people will be reluctant to trust you.
The CDDL is, IIRC, an open source license (it's been awhile since I read it), and glassfish is thus an open source program. But you can't mingle CDDL code with GPL code...in either direction. And Oracle's management of the project was...well, you needed to trust Oracle. So it's not surprising that few contributed.
If you compare this with successful FOSS projects, things are quite different. E.g., with Python the community is always proposing changes, and discussing whether they are a good idea or not. Guido (BDFL) has the final word, but I can't recall a single time when he's gone against a large majority of the community, either to include or to exclude something. And things are discussed publicly BEFORE they are accepted or rejected. If there are exceptions (beyond bug fixes, and not all of them) I haven't heard about it.
The D (Digital Mars D : Walter Bright) community is evolving in the same direction, and already pretty far along the path. I'm not as much aware of other groups, but the appearance is that they do the same. (Thus the popularity of github.) And of course the Linux community is famous for open discussions that get quite active. (Most others never seem to get as heated.)
OTOH, none of these are commercial activities. Perhaps the old MySQL community would be an appropriate example, but I'm not familiar with it. From a distant perspective, however, they did seem to play things much closer to their chest. Still, Red Hat is pretty open, and they're commercial, so that's not the real distinction.
They can't easily close it, but several applications already object if you aren't running Oracle branded Java (Neo4j, for one).
What they can do is slowly emasculate it, and release libraries under licenses of their choice to fix the problem. If they're at all sneaky about this, there's a good chance that OpenJDK will change in lock step to maintain compatibility. So they'll be able, eventually, to sell those libraries at a fancy price, and simultaneously to keep anyone else from competing. (Since they'll know ahead of time what changes in API are coming. This is an old MS trick.)
This depends on how you understand time, space, and causality.
From my (bizarre?) point of view the multi-world model runs both backwards and forwards, so there is neither a unique past nor a unique future. So inevitable would mean something like "in all likely projections into either the past or the future this would occur". And therefore it's both grammatical and reasonable (WRT understanding) to assert this. Whether it (i.e. Oracle dropping support for glassfish is inevitable). Reasonable (WRT truth) is something I'm not competent to hold a position on.
However, given the nature of Oracle's past behavior, I'm not surprised.
It's been explained. It just hasn't been believed.
What's more, I don't believe it just because you repeated it, either.
That said, it may well be that selling Ubuntu Tee-Shirts is a bit over the top. (Were they being sold? I couldn't see the link, but then the web site has obviously had a makeover since the letter was received.)
But the EFF lawyers, while acknowldeging that the letter sent was polite, also claimed that there was no justification for it under trademark law, and that it was an attempt to curtial legitimate free speech.
So you might want to read the links posted on the summary page.
Well, and I suspect that Red Flag Linux is also bigger than Ubuntu.
OTOH, the last time I checked Red Hat was using Lilo, which made my other partitions unbootable. (Yeah, I could have set them up with a boot loader in the partition ahead of time, but I didn't.) Also it is security conscious in a way that interferes with looking at a disk partition from something else (SELinux)...and I normally run Debian. Annoying. (I want SELinux OFF, and the installer protected things even after I told it not to...of course, this was a couple-three years ago.)
FWIW, Red Hat has several clones that configure their setup in the same way...and I won't use any of them because they don't work well with Debian and other Debian descended systems. (I blame Red Hat, because they are the ones that changed.)
OTOH, Red Hat is aimed at a very different market. Red Hat is aimed at enterprise servers. Debian is aimed at developers. Very different market. (This may even explain some of the "idiocies" that Gnome has been committing. Perhaps, in the context of an enterprise server, they aren't idiocies. This doesn't make *me* think any more highly of them, however.)
Sorry, but that last line should read:
So they've given themselves a moral way out because if you're accused of doing naughty things or harming their network, they'll do whatever they want to keep their good name intact.
Github's a good alternative to SourceForge, but I meant what's a good alternative to Slashdot. Preferably something more like it used to be.
Happened quite awhile ago. Question is, "Where's a good alternative?"
Are you saying that www.videolan.org/vlc/index.htmlâZ isn't the home page for VLC? That's what came up as the first entry in when I did a Google search, and it claims to be the official page.
Well, I am on Linux, and while I don't morally oppose using closed-source software, per se, I don't trust it for a tool, and I am morally opposed to most of the EULAs that such software tends to attach.
OTOH, for a game I see no reason to object to closed source software, but I still object to intrusive EULAs. (Reasonable terms are one thing, but abusive requirements are something totally else. If I can't install it, I'm not interested. And if there's a requirement that calling home is allowed, I want my money back. I run closed source software in a virtual machine with no internet connectivity.
My attitude is due to many past experiences with companies that I thought were reasonably trustworthy. But every day I seem to encounter another story saying that I'm still overly trusting.
OTOH, if you are already running MSWind or Apple, then you've already signed away all your rights. (You *did* read the EULA didn't you?) Anything you do on the computer, they have the right to copy off, and then delete or silently modify your copy. That they don't do this is a business decision on their part, because users of those systems have signed away permission. IANAL, so I can't say that they have the right to use your images for commercial gain. (Well, and I also haven't seen an EULA from either MS or Apple in over a decade. They could have changed things.)
I *do* care about Gimp, but I get it from Debian. These days I use SourceForge so rarely that I hadn't even heard about their new installer. But that *IS* a good reason to use it much less than before.
Don't want to give the wrong impression. Totalitarian states aren't all that hot either. Look up Belisarius of Byzantium.
You think that's bad, you should check out the history of (classical) Athens. Democracies have a poor record WRT rewarding people who help them. And Athens didn't even have a bureaucracy to blame it on.
I think a reasonable definition of "economically independent" would be that your economy doesn't depend on influence by the government. This is also something that only existed in history and myth, but it seems to be widely believed in, so it is a reasonable definition. (I don't think anyone believes, e.g., that Davy Crockett made his own rifle. OTOH, perhaps James Bowie did have his knife made by his brother. But do they believe that his brother dug the ore to make the steel? [Rural blacksmiths did that during the 1400's. Perhaps urban one's, too, but there weren't many cities.])
I challenge the assertion that "The US has taken and used the Nazi propaganda model of polarizing the population in opposition to something and using this for the benefit of the nation as a whole" I do not believe it to be a true statement. (Granted, the first part of the sentence is indeed correct.)
Ah. That's clear. And wrong. It is the action you take that say who you are. Power is an amplifier. Justifications are trash. It's what you do. If you spy on everyone, they you're a "nosey parker with no regard for privacy", and I don't care *what* your justification is, it doesn't change who you are. If you're a cop that pulls over black drivers for being black, then you are a racist abusing power under the color of authority. Etc.
Some people are assholes, some aren't. There *is* a difference.
Sounds like a good reason to avoid Chrome. And to be suspicious of any Google product.
I'm *not* on MSWind, but...
Yeah, I know it's "a security measure". If that's their idea of the right way to implement a security measure, then I'm quite skeptical of anything Google does. But really I believe that the explanation is a lie. They aren't starting it now, and they haven't announced that "it's a temporary measure until we get a better fix".
It seems to have been a long time now since Google was the "Do no evil" company, or even had that as a goal.
Maybe he's planning on running for office. Know your electorate.
Carp are actually quite tastey. The problem is the bones. They have a huge number of very small bones. Probably the best solution would be to can them, like sardines. That way the bones stop being a problem.
As for jellyfish...I had a jellyfish sushi several years ago. It was pretty good, but so pricey that I haven't had any since. (But that may have been jellyfish eggs.)
I know nothing about the taste of Lion fish, but I would definitely wan the butcher to have already removed it's skin and external spines. (Unlike Salmon, where I prefer that the skin be on the fish.)
P.S.: We are warned to avoid "eels boiled in brew" (Lord Randall), so I'm not disappointed that the sole time I tasted canned eels, I didn't like them. OTOH, I don't think that eels are an invasive species.