I confirm what said AC about AC cuts.
There were some power cuts for a short period time from March after the big(gest) earthquake.
"Power cuts" should not be confused with "Power saving" that Tokyo (and most of Northern Japan) was doing and is still doing as of today. Tepco provides a graph (in English, please) that shows where stands the power consumption, compared to previous year and previous day.
If someone asked that question 50 years ago, shouldn't we have it by now?
Not always.
For instance, in the early 80's the nuclear energy/plant specialists agreed at the time that they don't fully control the nuclear power, but they were absolutely convinced that it was only a matter of 20-30 years.
They were wrong.
If the Dart language is intended to replace something like the buggy, slow and badly designed PHP language, I'm likely to give it a try.
In other terms, if Dart is to PHP what Chrome is to Firefox, that new language sounds promising.
Most of the users would not understand the signal / noise graph and data anyway ; that feature would not contribute to the user-friendly interface image the Mac OS X has.
Any true admin should have a look in this "hidden" directory anyway.
Principles of Operating Systems by Sacha Krakowiak.
Because it is important to understand the general principles of operating systems (parallel activities, synchronization, resource allocation, memory management...) when programming.
No comment. Just a title.
Sorry not to write something deeper, but I'm too new here to imply that I may maintain any particular relationship with Slashdot..
At least, I mean it (the title).
I wonder...
- was Microsoft really not able to fix that (probably) easy bug?
- or did they think it's not important enough?
There was another (less) famous bug: notepad not able to deal with word-wrap correctly - not sure if they fixed this one in Vista+ (that was happening in the latest XPs).
Until March 2011, in our minds, Japan was the leading country when it comes to robots (remember all these Sony exhibitions...).
I cannot help but remember the Tepco wait-and-see attitude after the March 11 tsunami: we were all wondering
- why do they send people instead of robots to work within the power plant perimeter?
- why Tepco doesn't manage to have an army of robots ready to intervene?
- why Tepco took that much time to require international help in this regard?
However, I'm afraid the problem is not only technical.
In these huge Japanese organizations decisions taken at the highest level are often based on a kind of "event grid".
When the "event" matches a deja-vu scenario, or a well-known anticipated situation, the solution will be implemented fast and clean.
But when an unexpected event arises, an incredibly slow and possibly inadequate response is likely to be given.
I always thought "this is Japan - like it or leave it...". But when it comes to radiation in a power plant, I worry.
There is already an app called yurekuru (shaking ahead).
The app utilizes the push feature in order to trigger alerts on iPhones (subscribing to the service).
Japan territory is covered with sensors that transmit the quakes information quickly to organizations (like Japan weather) and other companies who send, in turn, the alerts to iPhones and other mobile devices (there are also public and automatic announcements in the streets in Tokyo - improved since March 11).
Since the quake waves are much slower than the signal sent by the sensors, the farther the earthquake the more time you have to find a shelter.
But after March 11, the app got a tremendous success in Japan, and it seems it impacted the push service (or the company that deals with sensors signals), and alerts took more and more time to arrive... being almost useless now.
I hope the new low level iOS5 implementation will behave better.
For the record, that service was already available since a few years ago on phones like DoCoMo (iPhone is SoftBank). I was in Tokyo on March 11 with people who subscribe to that service on a DoCoMo phone: no alert was triggered.
(Maybe because the earthquake was far from Tokyo, and the software that evaluates the potential risk for the capital based on the distance+magnitude simply failed to make the right estimation).
LibreOffice, not OpenOffice. The really free version
OpenOffice is not free?
According to Google, it is Open Source (and see the new Google Best Guess feature...).
I don't want to be the devil's advocate, but whatever one may think about Oracle, it isn't fair to tell OpenOffice is not free.
Sure, but in informal writing by earthlings, kg as a unit of weight pretty clearly is taken to mean "the weight that a 1 kg object would have at sea-level earth gravity"
Maybe they calculated the actual weight the object will have in 2036, when it'll be at sea level..
NASA shoots down comet Elenin doom and gloom predictions (...)
At its closest point, it will be 22 million miles (35 million kilometers) from us. That's more than 90 times the distance to the Moon.
Looks like Bruce Willis can keep playing in turkeys.
Since we are talking about extensions (not actual plugins), note that usually the extension install.rdf file (in the.xpi / extension directory) may be edited and have its
<em:maxVersion>
tag increased. e.g. <em:maxVersion>4.*</em:maxVersion> => <em:maxVersion>6.*</em:maxVersion>
I wonder if people searching the web from Bing and from Google belong to the same societal circles.
All the people I know in the geek / computer / engineering / management / scientific / scholar... circles do use Google.
The people I know who were using Bing initially (e.g. my mother) did not actually chose any specific search engine. They use(d) Bing because it was the one available on the computer. Maybe those people are less demanding in terms of results quality, and click easily on the first rendered results.
I don't feel the PC-like (including Mac and Linux) era is over on my side.
My concerns are
- Internet is not available from anywhere
- More importantly, cloud offers do not guarantee that all my data is stored on their side in an encoded way that makes the data understandable (humanly or computerly) only when it's locally on my computer
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I confirm what said AC about AC cuts.
There were some power cuts for a short period time from March after the big(gest) earthquake.
"Power cuts" should not be confused with "Power saving" that Tokyo (and most of Northern Japan) was doing and is still doing as of today.
Tepco provides a graph (in English, please) that shows where stands the power consumption, compared to previous year and previous day.
That's the problem. Complacency? Ignorance? Denial? Or just another bash on Windows?
Bash on Linux, actually.
Breaches: Linux 1, Windows 2317
Still some margin...
If someone asked that question 50 years ago, shouldn't we have it by now?
Not always.
For instance, in the early 80's the nuclear energy/plant specialists agreed at the time that they don't fully control the nuclear power, but they were absolutely convinced that it was only a matter of 20-30 years.
They were wrong.
And, of course, MS and Apple won't adopt it
If the Dart language is intended to replace something like the buggy, slow and badly designed PHP language, I'm likely to give it a try.
In other terms, if Dart is to PHP what Chrome is to Firefox, that new language sounds promising.
Most of the users would not understand the signal / noise graph and data anyway ; that feature would not contribute to the user-friendly interface image the Mac OS X has.
Any true admin should have a look in this "hidden" directory anyway.
linked anyway to this page, I'd love to see a story titled What Is/Was the Most Influential Operating System?
Principles of Operating Systems by Sacha Krakowiak.
Because it is important to understand the general principles of operating systems (parallel activities, synchronization, resource allocation, memory management...) when programming.
The leaf points directly towards Fukushima.
That must be a coincidence...
Quite a few tsunamis this year...
No comment. Just a title.
Sorry not to write something deeper, but I'm too new here to imply that I may maintain any particular relationship with Slashdot..
At least, I mean it (the title).
Btw, cmdrtaco.net is slashdotted...
You read RTFA?
You read RRTFA?
Error Stack Overf%$3z/.$%#@
I wonder...
- was Microsoft really not able to fix that (probably) easy bug?
- or did they think it's not important enough?
There was another (less) famous bug: notepad not able to deal with word-wrap correctly - not sure if they fixed this one in Vista+ (that was happening in the latest XPs).
Until March 2011, in our minds, Japan was the leading country when it comes to robots (remember all these Sony exhibitions...).
I cannot help but remember the Tepco wait-and-see attitude after the March 11 tsunami: we were all wondering
- why do they send people instead of robots to work within the power plant perimeter?
- why Tepco doesn't manage to have an army of robots ready to intervene?
- why Tepco took that much time to require international help in this regard?
However, I'm afraid the problem is not only technical.
In these huge Japanese organizations decisions taken at the highest level are often based on a kind of "event grid".
When the "event" matches a deja-vu scenario, or a well-known anticipated situation, the solution will be implemented fast and clean.
But when an unexpected event arises, an incredibly slow and possibly inadequate response is likely to be given.
I always thought "this is Japan - like it or leave it...". But when it comes to radiation in a power plant, I worry.
There is already an app called yurekuru (shaking ahead).
The app utilizes the push feature in order to trigger alerts on iPhones (subscribing to the service).
Japan territory is covered with sensors that transmit the quakes information quickly to organizations (like Japan weather) and other companies who send, in turn, the alerts to iPhones and other mobile devices (there are also public and automatic announcements in the streets in Tokyo - improved since March 11).
Since the quake waves are much slower than the signal sent by the sensors, the farther the earthquake the more time you have to find a shelter.
But after March 11, the app got a tremendous success in Japan, and it seems it impacted the push service (or the company that deals with sensors signals), and alerts took more and more time to arrive... being almost useless now.
I hope the new low level iOS5 implementation will behave better.
For the record, that service was already available since a few years ago on phones like DoCoMo (iPhone is SoftBank). I was in Tokyo on March 11 with people who subscribe to that service on a DoCoMo phone: no alert was triggered.
(Maybe because the earthquake was far from Tokyo, and the software that evaluates the potential risk for the capital based on the distance+magnitude simply failed to make the right estimation).
Named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of Amazing Stories magazine
Am I the only illiterate who thought, for a second, that the Hugo awards was actually named after Victor?
I knew that!
LibreOffice, not OpenOffice. The really free version
OpenOffice is not free? According to Google, it is Open Source (and see the new Google Best Guess feature...).
I don't want to be the devil's advocate, but whatever one may think about Oracle, it isn't fair to tell OpenOffice is not free.
Sure, but in informal writing by earthlings, kg as a unit of weight pretty clearly is taken to mean "the weight that a 1 kg object would have at sea-level earth gravity"
Maybe they calculated the actual weight the object will have in 2036, when it'll be at sea level..
Do I need to see a gynecologist?
A therapist would be more appropriate.
NASA shoots down comet Elenin doom and gloom predictions (...)
At its closest point, it will be 22 million miles (35 million kilometers) from us. That's more than 90 times the distance to the Moon.
Looks like Bruce Willis can keep playing in turkeys.
Since we are talking about extensions (not actual plugins), note that usually the extension install.rdf file (in the .xpi / extension directory) may be edited and have its
<em:maxVersion>
tag increased. e.g. <em:maxVersion>4.*</em:maxVersion> => <em:maxVersion>6.*</em:maxVersion>
Buying an SSD was the single best upgrade I have ever bought for any computer - $220 for a huge increase in responsiveness and usability
SSD are really wonderful.
But I hope you keep daily backups in a safe place.
I wonder if people searching the web from Bing and from Google belong to the same societal circles. ... circles do use Google.
All the people I know in the geek / computer / engineering / management / scientific / scholar
The people I know who were using Bing initially (e.g. my mother) did not actually chose any specific search engine. They use(d) Bing because it was the one available on the computer. Maybe those people are less demanding in terms of results quality, and click easily on the first rendered results.
I don't feel the PC-like (including Mac and Linux) era is over on my side.
My concerns are
- Internet is not available from anywhere
- More importantly, cloud offers do not guarantee that all my data is stored on their side in an encoded way that makes the data understandable (humanly or computerly) only when it's locally on my computer
These are my two requirements.