My first thought was of this. What I wonder about is the huge mass of existing monochrome negatives that people have accumulated over the years.
But I guess that since paper is merely a rendition of a monochrome negative, digital sampling of the negatives would suffice to a degree. Maybe not as nicely as people would hope, though.
Although I am not sure of what the poster means by "reactionaries" (anyone who disagrees with him or is not a social revolutionary?;-) , I think that this will be defaced in short order, and will fail. As exemplified by/. itself, there world is full of psychotic trolls.
While the simple heat transfer from the air to cool water is not exactly a great design (the cold water must have lost its heat somewhere), the world certain could use more efficient mechanism to fight the Second Law of thermodynamics and somehow remove some of the heat from our buildings. Electric pumps compressing and evaporating volatile liquids has been our mainstay method for air conditioning for many decades. It is reliable, and can be delivered on-demand, but it is awfully inefficient and is one of the largest consumers on our electrical grids.
In my old house in Arizona, we had a swamp cooler which uses a turbine fan to pull outside air through wet pulp mats, evaporating the water, cooling the pads, and thus the air. This is a lot more efficient than a freon pump, but it has a lower dynamic range (only works for a limited range of temperature), and it only works in very dry climates. It works very poorly in places with higher humidity.
I have seen a design for multi-stage evaporation, where the evaporation of each stage might be limited by temperature or humidity, but each cumulative stage adds a little bit of heat removal, with the delivered air being quite effective.
Whatever methods we use in the near future, we need to try to do whatever we can to approach using as close as possible to only the amout of enthalpic energy needed to produce the desired effect. And not expend a lot of extra energy doing it.
I don't know if this guy ever took shop class, but the simple old trick of filling the part of the copper tubing to be bent with sand will help prevent it from collapsing from a too-tight bend.
Culberson County is one of the "Trans-Pecos" counties of western Texas. If you have ever traveled along I-10 and stopped for the night in Van Horn, you will know that it is basically an oasis town, retirement community, and truck stop in the middle of nowhere. I have always enjoyed stopping there just for that fact. They are proud of their "beautiful 9-hole golf course." Maybe the tiny airport there, with its existing aviation infrastructure and avgas would be a good location for a space port. What an eclectic mix that would be!
I have been seeing this more and more often from opinioniated people, whose opinions seem to come cheaply. More and more, they posit the idea that open source efforts need to be more focused on what the "big guys" want, and all work should be concentrated on the platforms and projects that end-users want. Variety is bad, and innovation is scary. Pluralism is fascism.
This guy seems to think that Open Source guys should only work to support the platform. Unless your project is explicitly tasked to support the platform, then this couldn't be farther from the truth. The goal of almost every Open Source project is the project itself. Whether it is a program, dataset, compilation, whatever..... People have an idea, and they work toward fostering that idea. Not only does the platform not matter, but the more platforms on which the idea can be delivered, the better.
Maintaining a focus entirely on Linux x86 is as moronic as staying forever in WindowsLand.
I love Chuck Jones's Warner Brothers' cartoons. But his rendition of Tom & Jerry just didn't have the life or quality of the older MGM productions. One gets the impression that his heart just wasn't in it.
I was wrong. Thought the story was about Huffman
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For years, I had confused the parable of the prodigal student with that of David Huffman (of the ubiquitous huffman code). But the story is very similar. He said that he never felt famous until he saw his code spelled with a small 'h'.
Can someone show me the complaints coming from the OpenOffice developers? I didn't see any. They seem to be doing all the work. They seem to be the ones with the conciliatory attitude. They seem to be making the changes in the interest of peace.
It doesn't even need to be spilled. Just placing one near the keyboard while effervescing is sufficient. Those tiny unseen droplets accumulate in all of the worst places. The board gets sticky, the key motion is screwed, the same as if you spilled it.
Considering that people really are (or think they are) digging up details to damage her reputation, she could be forgiven if he is a bit protective of her privacy. However, her courtly restraint in this matter has already shamed the antagonists in their shrillness.
I think that hunting by remote control is ridiculous and reflects poor character. Yet what I dislike even more is the attempt by the whiners in our culture to make the world all pink and fluffy, safe and non-threatening. This is the type of weepy hand-wringing that is willing to forbid any type of behaviour for the feeling of comfort and security. The bandana-wearing Madame Dufarge refugees from the 70's have wrought a little bit more of their damage upon the country.
I have started to really believe in the cliche "your mileage may vary." All of these tests, done in vacuo of the semantics of the application at hand, are really not very indicative.
Maybe a real-world comparison would be more meaningful, like Slashware on Apache vs. IIS, with a real load.
This type of material is not totally new, by any means. Flexible concretes have been around for a couple of decades. When the ingredients are ground fine enough, the resulting crystal structures are small enough to reduce the brittleness greatly. I seem to recall an article in Scientific American long ago, where they toyed with making unusual (for concrete) objects, like bottle caps. The goal of the materials was to allow low energy or "soft energy" manufacturing.
After a slow and tiresome and unproductive day that I had today, it is such a nice gift that you give. The sheer absurdity of these people is gorgeous. They seem to portray the members of the Mad Hatter's Tea Party. Any problems that I might have pale in comparison to the chaos in these characters' tortured minds.
Although it is great, every time that WiFi spreads, I must agree with you. Maybe every rollout might be interesting in some WiFi-oriented journal, but I think that the topic in general is fading as 'news.' Now if Adelaide had city-wide 802.16, then that would be news.
Apparently there is great reticence to add anything to the Accept: header for fear of bloat. It is mentioned in Bugzilla.
Trouble is, sensing the browser's capabilities via a client-side script is a security violation, so one can't check "svg.enabled" either. However, if an svg image is not displayable, there is no error; it is just not visible. So for one extra server exchange, there could be a cover page which redirects the user to the proper version of the html data. Old-fashioned and 90's-style, but works.
I really am worried by the current mode of thinking, that all open source programs should mimic Windows or Mac programs. That they should follow the same UI rules as Windows and Mac. And mostly, should not introduce anything new that might require any learning in order to use.
Basically, this line of thinking mandates that all software be written to slavishly pander to the desires of the least-capable users. Innovation or orthogonal thinking are things to be feared. Let's impose, instead, a "tyranny of morons."
Programs should be written to do their intended tasks as well as possible. To bring new ideas and new capabilities to computing. Merely working on a free replacement for an existing program is a waste of time. Nothing new or creative is produced.
...other than their opinions, which are redundant, since that is already known. In other words, what do they give back? Software? Money? Sponsoring open standards developers? Surely this isn't just a bitch site. That would go against the spirit of "open."
His article just seems like a simple description of the 'problem' from Adobe's point of view. There is neither invective nor hyperbolae. The headline is a somewhat misleading bit of sensationalism.
Nikon might want to consider publishing their format. But it it truly just image information? I thought there was some internal state information included. This might be simply a way to protect their complete 'system,' whose borders reach beyond the physical camera, to the export of jpeg and tiff. It really is their format, after all. Positive persuasion is more appropriate here, not demonization.
It's just a good-natured joke. I thought the word play was cute, and not really that political. Fat green dyspeptic aliens (possibly adult Teletubbies) saying that with a Cockney banter is not exactly something to be taken seriously.
You're going to give yourself an apoplexy like that. ^^
While I believe that any/all Web standards be developed by the W3C, this statement:
The W3C Team strongly recommend that future work should be in collaboration with the W3C HTML and XForms Working Groups in order to promote the development of a single community for improving forms on the Web. The W3C Team looks forward to working with Opera Software and The Mozilla Foundation to build consensus on unified approaches to forms and related Web technologies.
...sounds very petulant and has the NIH ("not invented here") attitude. Basically the guy is saying "do it our way if you want to play."
I am in favor of XForms/SVG/etc over WHATWG, but still, nobody has more experience with implementing web standards than Mozilla, and they should definitely be one of the W3C's most valuable sources of input.
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But I guess that since paper is merely a rendition of a monochrome negative, digital sampling of the negatives would suffice to a degree. Maybe not as nicely as people would hope, though.
-the- world, not "there". Sorry. I wish that /. had a take-back.
Although I am not sure of what the poster means by "reactionaries" (anyone who disagrees with him or is not a social revolutionary? ;-) , I think that this will be defaced in short order, and will fail. As exemplified by /. itself, there world is full of psychotic trolls.
In my old house in Arizona, we had a swamp cooler which uses a turbine fan to pull outside air through wet pulp mats, evaporating the water, cooling the pads, and thus the air. This is a lot more efficient than a freon pump, but it has a lower dynamic range (only works for a limited range of temperature), and it only works in very dry climates. It works very poorly in places with higher humidity.
I have seen a design for multi-stage evaporation, where the evaporation of each stage might be limited by temperature or humidity, but each cumulative stage adds a little bit of heat removal, with the delivered air being quite effective.
Whatever methods we use in the near future, we need to try to do whatever we can to approach using as close as possible to only the amout of enthalpic energy needed to produce the desired effect. And not expend a lot of extra energy doing it.
I don't know if this guy ever took shop class, but the simple old trick of filling the part of the copper tubing to be bent with sand will help prevent it from collapsing from a too-tight bend.
Culberson County is one of the "Trans-Pecos" counties of western Texas. If you have ever traveled along I-10 and stopped for the night in Van Horn, you will know that it is basically an oasis town, retirement community, and truck stop in the middle of nowhere. I have always enjoyed stopping there just for that fact. They are proud of their "beautiful 9-hole golf course." Maybe the tiny airport there, with its existing aviation infrastructure and avgas would be a good location for a space port. What an eclectic mix that would be!
This guy seems to think that Open Source guys should only work to support the platform. Unless your project is explicitly tasked to support the platform, then this couldn't be farther from the truth. The goal of almost every Open Source project is the project itself. Whether it is a program, dataset, compilation, whatever..... People have an idea, and they work toward fostering that idea. Not only does the platform not matter, but the more platforms on which the idea can be delivered, the better.
Maintaining a focus entirely on Linux x86 is as moronic as staying forever in WindowsLand.
I love Chuck Jones's Warner Brothers' cartoons. But his rendition of Tom & Jerry just didn't have the life or quality of the older MGM productions. One gets the impression that his heart just wasn't in it.
For years, I had confused the parable of the prodigal student with that of David Huffman (of the ubiquitous huffman code). But the story is very similar. He said that he never felt famous until he saw his code spelled with a small 'h'.
What concessions did the "other side" make?
It doesn't even need to be spilled. Just placing one near the keyboard while effervescing is sufficient. Those tiny unseen droplets accumulate in all of the worst places. The board gets sticky, the key motion is screwed, the same as if you spilled it.
Considering that people really are (or think they are) digging up details to damage her reputation, she could be forgiven if he is a bit protective of her privacy. However, her courtly restraint in this matter has already shamed the antagonists in their shrillness.
I think that hunting by remote control is ridiculous and reflects poor character. Yet what I dislike even more is the attempt by the whiners in our culture to make the world all pink and fluffy, safe and non-threatening. This is the type of weepy hand-wringing that is willing to forbid any type of behaviour for the feeling of comfort and security. The bandana-wearing Madame Dufarge refugees from the 70's have wrought a little bit more of their damage upon the country.
Maybe a real-world comparison would be more meaningful, like Slashware on Apache vs. IIS, with a real load.
This type of material is not totally new, by any means. Flexible concretes have been around for a couple of decades. When the ingredients are ground fine enough, the resulting crystal structures are small enough to reduce the brittleness greatly. I seem to recall an article in Scientific American long ago, where they toyed with making unusual (for concrete) objects, like bottle caps. The goal of the materials was to allow low energy or "soft energy" manufacturing.
I feel much better now. Thank you! ^^
Although it is great, every time that WiFi spreads, I must agree with you. Maybe every rollout might be interesting in some WiFi-oriented journal, but I think that the topic in general is fading as 'news.' Now if Adelaide had city-wide 802.16, then that would be news.
Trouble is, sensing the browser's capabilities via a client-side script is a security violation, so one can't check "svg.enabled" either. However, if an svg image is not displayable, there is no error; it is just not visible. So for one extra server exchange, there could be a cover page which redirects the user to the proper version of the html data. Old-fashioned and 90's-style, but works.
Basically, this line of thinking mandates that all software be written to slavishly pander to the desires of the least-capable users. Innovation or orthogonal thinking are things to be feared. Let's impose, instead, a "tyranny of morons."
Programs should be written to do their intended tasks as well as possible. To bring new ideas and new capabilities to computing. Merely working on a free replacement for an existing program is a waste of time. Nothing new or creative is produced.
...other than their opinions, which are redundant, since that is already known. In other words, what do they give back? Software? Money? Sponsoring open standards developers? Surely this isn't just a bitch site. That would go against the spirit of "open."
Nikon might want to consider publishing their format. But it it truly just image information? I thought there was some internal state information included. This might be simply a way to protect their complete 'system,' whose borders reach beyond the physical camera, to the export of jpeg and tiff. It really is their format, after all. Positive persuasion is more appropriate here, not demonization.
It's just a good-natured joke. I thought the word play was cute, and not really that political. Fat green dyspeptic aliens (possibly adult Teletubbies) saying that with a Cockney banter is not exactly something to be taken seriously.
You're going to give yourself an apoplexy like that. ^^
Honest
I am in favor of XForms/SVG/etc over WHATWG, but still, nobody has more experience with implementing web standards than Mozilla, and they should definitely be one of the W3C's most valuable sources of input.
They are iValuable.