Umlimited resolutions are just plain useless, remember, even your *eyes'* resolution is limited. I doubt 8 sound channels take that much bandwith but hardly anyone has the necessary setup to benefit from this anyway.
Like, say, addons.mozilla.org? The issue isn't that addons have to be updated but that they break with every major version. That's right, they *will* break *everytime*, as Firefox refuses to enable add-ons that haven't been tested for the current version. At the very least, the developer has to update this information.
Now yes, this will mean people who use cash get "ripped off" slightly. If you purchase something that is $3.01, you'll have to pay $3.05, the store gets to keep the extra 4 cents. However as you note it is a trivial amount. At current US federal minimum wage, that is 20 seconds of work.
Actually, they don't. As you hardly ever only buy one item at a time, the times when you round down compensate the times when you round up. That's not just in theory either, I seem to recall there being a study showing this.
Still, making making the smaller denomination the "fivecents" would be nicer, if only to make.99 pricing slightly less effective.
Everytime I use Chrome (or indeed have an article comparing Firefox to Chrome anymore) I learn to abhor it that little bit more.
If chrome were a car it would 'upgraded' to a different model every six months, while they slowly pulled out your manual transmission for an automatic, accelerator for cruise control, steering wheel for google maps integration, brakes for collision detection, windshield for a blank screen, all while for some godawful reason telling you how good you have it why would you need any of those to drive.
No I'm not a Firefox developer, what does that have to do with everything? IE can't have WebGL or OGG/Theora codecs built-in because it's closed. The licenses don't allow that. Nothing ridiculous about it.
If it were just IE and Firefox, IE might play an important role, but there are many different browsers out there made by companies with many different interests, so IE isn't contributing significantly to the competition. Also they are constantly making closed-source addons like Silverlight and ActiveX which are negative contributions. So I'd say the browser market would be better off without them.
Q. What is the license for Theora? Theora (and all associated technologies released by the Xiph.org Foundation) is released to the public via a BSD-style license. It is completely free for commercial or noncommercial use. That means that commercial developers may independently write Theora software which is compatible with the specification for no charge and without restrictions of any kind.
such as intelligent agents that a user can program to automate certain tasks such as burning a DVD, searching several search engines to find certain information on certain topics, all of this could benefit from agent based AI.
I suggested this to the linux community years ago and their excuse was there wasn't enough bandwidth. It's 2011. The majority of the country is broadband now. There is enough bandwidth to build an intelligent agent into KDE and if they wont do it then I might just go ahead and do it for them.
I'm afraid I can't follow you here. I can imagine AI development being held back by lack of CPU performance, RAM or simply the fact that this kind of thing is extremely hard to make, but... bandwith? What does an AI even need a lot of bandwith for?
The notion of gender and gender roles is a societal construct, and purely in the mind. The notion of sex is a physical, observable state. I see no reason why the two have to match
To prove this point, John Money, a psychologist, once had a sex change operation performed on a boy whose penis was accidentally destroyed in a failed circumcision. The boy never considered himself to be female, started to actually live as a boy again at the age of 15, later suffered from depression and finally commited suicide at the age of 34. His name was David Reimer.
It seems that "gender identity" is not influenced primarily by society, but rather is a result of the differences between the brains of men and women which are caused by hormons and/or genetics. Therefore gender is a physical state, too.
so your answer is to somehow create 200,000 square miles of solar cells? The cost of the cells alone would be around 600 Trillion US Dollars, or Roughly ten times the Gross World Product. That means that if every productive adult in the world did *nothing* but work on this project, it would take ten years to complete. If you take just the "luxury" product (things that are not essential to survival), then it would take 30 years to complete, and by that time it would all have to be replaced because of normal wear and tear combined with wind storms, etc...
It's not okay to impose more restrictions on driving just because it happens on public roads. After all, the sidewalks are public property too -- yet nobody seems to claim that "Walking is a privilege, not a right".
Not if you consider searching and downloading packages to be part of a package manager's job. In that case, dpkg and apt are each "one half" of the same package manager.
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... hopefully not another inane do over with this version's prettier UI and Altavista emulation retained.
FTFY?
PS/2. You've just made me feel old, thank you.
Not so simple, sorry. You're a Pollyanna, The Roman Empire already tried and failed at the big country idea,
FTFY
Umlimited resolutions are just plain useless, remember, even your *eyes'* resolution is limited. I doubt 8 sound channels take that much bandwith but hardly anyone has the necessary setup to benefit from this anyway.
Yeah, that bloody BSD-sized user base. They absolutely should get more users, they'd get more popular instantly. I bet!
As long as they still support HTTP, who cares? Especially considering they aren't exactly keeping anybody from implementing SPDY.
As in, "HTML5 2.0"
Like, say, addons.mozilla.org? The issue isn't that addons have to be updated but that they break with every major version. That's right, they *will* break *everytime*, as Firefox refuses to enable add-ons that haven't been tested for the current version. At the very least, the developer has to update this information.
Now yes, this will mean people who use cash get "ripped off" slightly. If you purchase something that is $3.01, you'll have to pay $3.05, the store gets to keep the extra 4 cents. However as you note it is a trivial amount. At current US federal minimum wage, that is 20 seconds of work.
Actually, they don't. As you hardly ever only buy one item at a time, the times when you round down compensate the times when you round up. That's not just in theory either, I seem to recall there being a study showing this.
Still, making making the smaller denomination the "fivecents" would be nicer, if only to make .99 pricing slightly less effective.
Everytime I use Chrome (or indeed have an article comparing Firefox to Chrome anymore) I learn to abhor it that little bit more.
If chrome were a car it would 'upgraded' to a different model every six months, while they slowly pulled out your manual transmission for an automatic, accelerator for cruise control, steering wheel for google maps integration, brakes for collision detection, windshield for a blank screen, all while for some godawful reason telling you how good you have it why would you need any of those to drive.
...and that's why it fits so well into Ubuntu.
These people should adopt a child from, say, Norway or Denmark then.
I wonder if they will put it back into her mother then, just in case she wants to get another child.
Sorry, I replied to the wrong comment.
One word: Why?
No I'm not a Firefox developer, what does that have to do with everything? IE can't have WebGL or OGG/Theora codecs built-in because it's closed. The licenses don't allow that. Nothing ridiculous about it.
If it were just IE and Firefox, IE might play an important role, but there are many different browsers out there made by companies with many different interests, so IE isn't contributing significantly to the competition. Also they are constantly making closed-source addons like Silverlight and ActiveX which are negative contributions. So I'd say the browser market would be better off without them.
Q. What is the license for Theora?
Theora (and all associated technologies released by the Xiph.org Foundation) is released to the public via a BSD-style license. It is completely free for commercial or noncommercial use. That means that commercial developers may independently write Theora software which is compatible with the specification for no charge and without restrictions of any kind.
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I couldn't find the license of WebGL, but I'm quite sure it's something similar.
Because they know they'd get slashdotted as soon as Slashdot is up again.
No kidding. Poor filtering algorithms lead to stuff like this:
Daddy, why does it say "cu***mber" here, instead of "cucumber" ?
Try explaining that...
typo, obviously.
Yeah, but why should the US constitution apply world-wide only because its other laws do?
Equating some Israelis to "The Jews" is a pretty sure sign of being anti-semitic...
Only some plasmoid file system explorer pretending to be desktop.
If it looks like a desktop, and it displays files in front of the wallpaper like a desktop...
such as intelligent agents that a user can program to automate certain tasks such as burning a DVD, searching several search engines to find certain information on certain topics, all of this could benefit from agent based AI.
I suggested this to the linux community years ago and their excuse was there wasn't enough bandwidth. It's 2011. The majority of the country is broadband now. There is enough bandwidth to build an intelligent agent into KDE and if they wont do it then I might just go ahead and do it for them.
I'm afraid I can't follow you here. I can imagine AI development being held back by lack of CPU performance, RAM or simply the fact that this kind of thing is extremely hard to make, but... bandwith? What does an AI even need a lot of bandwith for?
The notion of gender and gender roles is a societal construct, and purely in the mind. The notion of sex is a physical, observable state. I see no reason why the two have to match
To prove this point, John Money, a psychologist, once had a sex change operation performed on a boy whose penis was accidentally destroyed in a failed circumcision. The boy never considered himself to be female, started to actually live as a boy again at the age of 15, later suffered from depression and finally commited suicide at the age of 34. His name was David Reimer.
It seems that "gender identity" is not influenced primarily by society, but rather is a result of the differences between the brains of men and women which are caused by hormons and/or genetics. Therefore gender is a physical state, too.
so your answer is to somehow create 200,000 square miles of solar cells? The cost of the cells alone would be around 600 Trillion US Dollars, or Roughly ten times the Gross World Product. That means that if every productive adult in the world did *nothing* but work on this project, it would take ten years to complete. If you take just the "luxury" product (things that are not essential to survival), then it would take 30 years to complete, and by that time it would all have to be replaced because of normal wear and tear combined with wind storms, etc...
Desertec is supposed to cost 400 Billion € -- about $560 Billion -- and provide 15% of Europe's energy needs. If it were to provide 100%, it would thus cost 3.7 Trillion. Europe, in turn, uses about 17% of the world's energy, so the total cost of suppliying all of the world's energy needs would be c. 22 Trillion US Dollars. Over 30 years, that would be just 1.2% of the world's total GDP.
Obviously, my calculations are wildly inaccurate, but the scale should be right.
It's not okay to impose more restrictions on driving just because it happens on public roads. After all, the sidewalks are public property too -- yet nobody seems to claim that "Walking is a privilege, not a right".
Not if you consider searching and downloading packages to be part of a package manager's job. In that case, dpkg and apt are each "one half" of the same package manager.