If you want something that lasts through the ages, you need an uncompressed format. BMP and ASCII are both good - if you can read the bits, a human with 5 minutes of training can draw/write the original.
How many watts would this kind of thing provide? Would it be enough to power a basic computer? I suppose it depends a lot on ambient temperature, wind speed (which constantly renews the temperature differential) and body heat (higher when you're physically active).
But they ARE making an open and free world with innovation and competition. Sure, it's one of their side projects and they have a pragmatic reason to do it, but they're still doing it.
Windows and Office are both excellent. Don't forget.net which is pretty amazing. Visual Studio.
I never liked any of these four. Office has proprietary formats that aren't consistent in the way different office suites and even different versions of office handle them. Windows - well, once I learned about virtual desktops, the unix terminal and repositories, I'm never looking back. VS may be good but it's not my style of programming. As for.net, I find the programming side of it quite unwieldy. It was much harder to learn than most other programming environments (except the minimum 200 lines of code you need to run a simple graphical application in DirectX). Once again, could simply be my personal ideas on programming interfering with those last two.
And before I get accused of prejudice, most of this was back when I thought GNU and Linux were some hacker things in the 1980s.
We won't run out. It's like peak oil - we won't just have one random guy scrape and hit rock bottom and suddenly the world panics. It'll become gradually harder and harder to find and prices will slowly go up, reducing consumption. Essentially, we'll never use 100% of our oil until it is completely superseded by newer technologies. Same with IPv4 addresses. They'll become more and more valuable, universities with 16.7 million each will be forced to give them up, and we'll have more and more bureaucracy surrounding the IP address system. IPv6 will come in slowly.
Lots of people do comp sci and mathematics for the sake of themselves. There generally is a practical application, but it only tends to get discovered many years later. Can you tell me a practical application of the four color theorem?
The problem is that even if football is on average a more money-making endeavor than comp sci, averages don't mean much when some data points are 2 or 3 orders of magnitude above others (as they are in football, skewing the results way up, but not computer science). Quality of life doesn't scale linearly with the amount of money you have, it scales logarithmically - a person upgrading from a $100000 apartment to a $200000 apartment will be just as happy as the person upgrading from a $2 mil mansion to a $4 mil mansion. Taking this into account, the average quality of life for a comp sci person is much higher than that of a football player.
I'm not saying Solaris is slow, I'm simply aware of some people (see its derogatory moniker here) who disparage it for being slow and I wanted to know if their complaints are warranted. If they aren't, then great, I might try out Solaris on my next computer.
Honest question. Solaris seems similar but different enough from the Linux I'm used to to be interesting. What are its features that Linux lacks/doesn't implement as well? I'm not a file system geek, so what's so good about ZFS that I'm going to notice? Is it much slower than mainstream desktop Linux, or is it doing fine?
That's why I said "I think". Some people disagree with me, but I think the freedom to be a slave is a freedom and countries that don't respect it are, in that one way, less free.
I disagree. If I own a website, I have the right to censor, say, socialist opinions from it. If I own a mall, I can kick people out for disagreeing with me. Freedom of speech only applies to the government.
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Comcast granted them the right to receive a service through their contract and failed to honor it.
Hi, I'm a psycho. Don't lump me in with those fundamentalists.
Hi, I'm from 2015. It's 7x the timeframe now.
Ok, wow. Is that even enough for a watch?
We could make an entire suit out of this stuff and put solar panels on top of it. Could that give half a watt at least?
Making a math game fun is hard? Have you seen the kind of calculations people do about World of Warcraft?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4i8SpNgzA4
If you want something that lasts through the ages, you need an uncompressed format. BMP and ASCII are both good - if you can read the bits, a human with 5 minutes of training can draw/write the original.
How many watts would this kind of thing provide? Would it be enough to power a basic computer? I suppose it depends a lot on ambient temperature, wind speed (which constantly renews the temperature differential) and body heat (higher when you're physically active).
But they ARE making an open and free world with innovation and competition. Sure, it's one of their side projects and they have a pragmatic reason to do it, but they're still doing it.
As you said, the headband approaches ambient temperature. In the winter, ambient temperature is -4, ie. cold.
And? Disrupting other people's monopolies still benefits us.
Windows and Office are both excellent. Don't forget .net which is pretty amazing. Visual Studio.
I never liked any of these four. Office has proprietary formats that aren't consistent in the way different office suites and even different versions of office handle them. Windows - well, once I learned about virtual desktops, the unix terminal and repositories, I'm never looking back. VS may be good but it's not my style of programming. As for .net, I find the programming side of it quite unwieldy. It was much harder to learn than most other programming environments (except the minimum 200 lines of code you need to run a simple graphical application in DirectX). Once again, could simply be my personal ideas on programming interfering with those last two.
And before I get accused of prejudice, most of this was back when I thought GNU and Linux were some hacker things in the 1980s.
We won't run out. It's like peak oil - we won't just have one random guy scrape and hit rock bottom and suddenly the world panics. It'll become gradually harder and harder to find and prices will slowly go up, reducing consumption. Essentially, we'll never use 100% of our oil until it is completely superseded by newer technologies. Same with IPv4 addresses. They'll become more and more valuable, universities with 16.7 million each will be forced to give them up, and we'll have more and more bureaucracy surrounding the IP address system. IPv6 will come in slowly.
Lots of people do comp sci and mathematics for the sake of themselves. There generally is a practical application, but it only tends to get discovered many years later. Can you tell me a practical application of the four color theorem?
The problem is that even if football is on average a more money-making endeavor than comp sci, averages don't mean much when some data points are 2 or 3 orders of magnitude above others (as they are in football, skewing the results way up, but not computer science). Quality of life doesn't scale linearly with the amount of money you have, it scales logarithmically - a person upgrading from a $100000 apartment to a $200000 apartment will be just as happy as the person upgrading from a $2 mil mansion to a $4 mil mansion. Taking this into account, the average quality of life for a comp sci person is much higher than that of a football player.
I'm not saying Solaris is slow, I'm simply aware of some people (see its derogatory moniker here) who disparage it for being slow and I wanted to know if their complaints are warranted. If they aren't, then great, I might try out Solaris on my next computer.
Honest question. Solaris seems similar but different enough from the Linux I'm used to to be interesting. What are its features that Linux lacks/doesn't implement as well? I'm not a file system geek, so what's so good about ZFS that I'm going to notice? Is it much slower than mainstream desktop Linux, or is it doing fine?
That sounds like the Emacs psychotherapist. Try asking for source.
Or "for want of not reading", meaning approximately "lacking in not reading", ie. reading all the time.
SMW was first to market?
That's why I said "I think". Some people disagree with me, but I think the freedom to be a slave is a freedom and countries that don't respect it are, in that one way, less free.
I think the freedom to run non-free software counts as a freedom, and software which actively prevents you from exercising it is less free.
And WebKit, thanks to which we have Chrome, and Darwin. And a whole bunch of other stuff
Pirating software gives you free as in beer, but it cannot give you free as in speech. So piracy is not a substitute for open source software.
I disagree. If I own a website, I have the right to censor, say, socialist opinions from it. If I own a mall, I can kick people out for disagreeing with me. Freedom of speech only applies to the government.