The nutshell books are still valuable. I refer to Python in a Nutshell frequently. Yes I could google it, but sometimes skimming a page is actually faster, and the book is layed out in a very logical fashion and it's easy to flip to the right section.
It's mainly high compression ignition that results in NOx. That's why separating the combustion from the piston would really help, if we could do the energy conversion efficiently.
Most people think of "solar" or "wind" as renewable, but in fact, burning straw pellets could also work very well as a heat source and be carbon neutral (renewable). The nice thing about an engine like this is that any form of heat could drive it. Separating combustion from from the pressures in the engine also will eliminate NOx and other pollutants. So even if the solar part doesn't work out (or at night), this idea still has potential for carbon-neutral energy from just about any heat source that can heat up the oil.
Gimp is GTK 2 still, and Gnome is GTK 3. There are no problems that I can see here. The library versions coexist without problems.
I do agree that the GTK+ 3 development process has some tremendous problems and I'm not quite sure I like the way things are going. But we'll see how it settles out. I've always liked the GTK+ apis, and the fact that it's straight C and so easily wrappable by different languages. Qt seems to be better placed right now, in terms of platform portability, ease of use, stability of the API, and completeness. GTK has been playing catch up to Qt for a while (CSS for styling, etc).
So the same idea that led to junk bonds being rated as safe investments is not going to be applied to people?
While I grant you that every method of screening passengers involves risk profiling of some sort, boiling it down to a series of expert-system questions and algorithms (hey it's cheap and fast!) is bound to have some spectacular failures and, more importantly, many, many false-positives. Imagine if this was run at a national level against all citizens, preemptively? Why wait for them to even buy a ticket, let alone go to the airport. Today's technology allows a type of direct control over millions of people that the despots of years past could only dream of.
Hmm, so a study that supports your opinion is done by real science and scientists, but a study that might not is "fake statistics" by scientists? Talk about a Glenn Beck approach.
Anyway, you have read the studies, both reputable and not, so please post some links so we can all read them as well. I assume the non-reputable studies were not peer-reviewed and full of statistical errors that would have been pointed out by good reviewers?
Looks like BlackBerry 10 is well on their way to supporting Android apps as I talked about. Probably won't save them, but it might keep their current customers who are tempted to leave for Android:
Talk about pedantic. Look, I'm merely speaking in general terms. No I am not fundamentally misunderstanding the difference between a bytecode virtual machine and what Java does. I understand it very well. Everything you spout is tied to linux only as a matter of implementation.
I'll try again a third time here. What I'm saying is that (and that wasn't even my main point! -- see ubuntu on android), contrary to your assertions, "Android" (the dalvik engine, the runtimes, etc) do not *have* to depend on Linux or anything posix. That is simply a matter of implementation. Of course I know the *code* as Google has released is not portable. And of course there is no compiler flag.
But that doesn't change the fact that to run android apps on another platform, you simply need the android system (VM, supporting libraries, pick your pedantic terms... anything above posx) implemented on the other platform. And guess what? It's already being done. Whether or not it will be viable I am not saying. But yes, Android (dalvik + android system) is in fact ported to and running on Windows right now (not Windows Mobile or Windows Phone). And it's not in an emulator. It's a native port of the VM (and, since you keep being pedantic, the entire android system). The result is similar to running in an emulator, but a whole lot faster. Blackberry was planning on doing this as well, though the port would be easier as QNX is posix.
Saying it's not a Java environment is strictly true, but really just a detail. The fact that the engine is called Dalvik and that it's internal structure and bytecodes are different from the JVM is not really relevant to my point.
I see no reason why it is reliant on posix to work. That's just an implementation detail. Dalvik certainly could be ported to, or implemented on other kernels and libc's. Would take work, but MS has a lot of smart people. They shouldn't tout android compatibility as the main feature (IBM, OS/2 and Windows 3.1 come to mind), but as a secondary feature (have your cake and eat it too).
Emulation being easier? Maybe, but not viable. But I repeat. There's no technical reason Android need only run on a Linux kernel. All Android needs is a dalvik implementation and a supporting layer (which happens to be provided by linux and a libc).
I'd rather run both Android and a Linux desktop at the same time. They both use a Linux kernel after all, so dual-booting seems a bit redundant. Why not run an android system (if not individual apps) as an app within, say, KDE plasma.
Actually, I'm surprised that MS and others haven't just implemented Android-compatible subsystems within their OS's and run Android apps natively. Need windows apps *and* Android apps? no problem. We support them both! Android isn't actually Linux after all; it's a Java environment and the kernel is irrelevant. I think BB 10 wanted to do this (QNX kernel), but I don't know if they ever did.
Sure but tax payers built the usps back in the day. And they are in the hook for any bailouts and loans. That's my point. Just turn it into a budgeted department.
Maybe in Germany? In the US as far as I can tell, downloading is nor more illegal than bringing bootleg CDs home that you bought on the street of some third-world country, or bringing home a counterfeit good you bought in China on the street. It's the sharing and uploading that is the apparent illegal part. Not to mention profiting. Is this not true?
I get pretty tired of people demanding that public services operate as if they were private. I mean we already paid for this service with our taxes (theoretically) once. To demand that it run as a for-profit business is just going to kill it while charging us more and more for something we've already paid for. It's similar to British rail. First UK citizens paid for it dearly with taxpayer dollars to build it over the years. Then the government, in its infinite wisdom, sold it off and privatized it. Now British citizens, who already paid for BR many times over in the past, also have to pay for the privilege of using it! What a ripoff.
I'm okay with public services charging a nominal fee for the service, if anything just to keep it from being abused. But to be mandated to make money, or cover their own costs, is silly. Just budget the thing and be done with with. Why make citizens pay twice, which is what we are currently doing with the USPS. US citizens are paying taxes which provide money which the USPS borrowing/being rescued with, _and_ paying for their service. Of course that's a waste of money and not efficient.
I know the Libertarians will cringe here at all this, but really, since the USPS was part of the constitutional structure of the country to begin with, just make a department and be done. Running it like a private company is neither intrinsically more or less efficient than a public service can and ought to be.
For years before the prequels were made, the characters and storylines have been well-established, and fairly consistent. It will be interesting to see if they choose to throw it all out.
Every Star Wars fan knows that Han and Leia marry, and have 3 children: twins Jaina and Jacen and son Anakin (wikipedia even knows this!). Luke marries Mara Jade, and they have one son, Ben.
Of course recent authors have tried to make the story edgy and gritty by killing off Mara Jade, having Jacen become a sith lord. So I guess it doesn't matter what Disney chooses to do.
At least we have the Timothy Zhan trilogy that they can never take from us!
I use an HP 48 emulator on my smart phone every day. Sure I miss the button feel, but with vibrate tactile feedback works okay. Maybe HP should just make an android device with nice calculator buttons. Then just make good math apps, along the lines of math cad.
If course admitting that a graphing calculator is just a general purpose computer these days would probably get them banned by schools and test proctors.
If you want to do virtualization of servers (most likely headless), then KVM is going to work great. The VMs on these machines you'll likely work with remotely. There are desktop clients for KVM or Xen, such as virt-manager or gnome-boxes, but I find video drivers, particularly in Windows are slow and lack OpenGL or DirectX support. virt-manager is nice for managing a cluster of KVM or Xen machines. You can use one instance of virt-manager to connect to any number of hosts and manage them or view their consoles.
I have a local server for the house that runs KVM virtual machines. I've got several Linux vms for trying out things, and I have a Windows XP instance that I access using rdesktop over the network. I also have two xen-based virtual machines hosted by Linode in data centers.
Gnome Boxes is an attempt to make creating local KVM virtual machines as easy as VirtualBox or VMWare, if you do want to us KVM for desktop virtualization.
For local desktop virtualization, VirtualBox or VMware are still your main options (Parallels being a non-free option). You'll probably want to just start there. Desktop virtualization can do things like integrate a windows desktop in a VM with your linux desktop so you can go between windows and linux windows (never as slick as you think it's going to be, but it works).
Common misconceptions at best, blatant lies and FUD at worse. Sounds like you don't understand the GPL or copyright law. If the code isn't yours you don't have any freedom at all to build a business model around it. Period. Except as granted by a license, including the GPL.
What you are basically complaining about is that you can't take (steel) someone else's code and sell it when it's GPL, but you can with the BSD.
If I own the copyright on my own code, I can release it under the GPL *and* sell it as a proprietary, closed-source, product. So really from a business point of view the GPL is the best license to choose. It lets your code have a life of its own, and a community, but you can still sell a proprietary product on the code if you wish. You can license the code however you want since it's yours.
Seems like most people's gripe with the GPL comes from the fact that they aren't free to do anything they want with it just because it was freely downloaded. If you don't like the GPL, write your own code. simple as that.
Socialism? Are you kidding? Both major parties are sliding head-long into fascism, not socialism. Methinks you need to read up what socialism really is. Maybe you should actually read what Karl Marx said about capitalism. I think you'll be hard-pressed to disagree with his observations about capitalism, though he was dead wrong about what would happen because of it.
I think you'll have better mileage with the birther argument than the socialism one.
Please mod the parent up. I remember back during the Clinton days in a red state the amount of vitriol and extremely vile and vulgar things said about Clinton. Then in the Bush days, particularly in the second term, it happened all over again. Remember the stupid "miserable failure" campaign to manipulate Google's search? If I recall at the time many slashdotters thought it was pretty clever. Some people went so far as to claim Bush would hold onto power somehow (watch the same things will be said of Obama now).
Now again we see the same crap uttered by those who voted for the other team.
It's this behavior that's destroying America as much as any party or policy. It's time to stop it. No, just because the majority of Americans voted a different way then I did, it doesn't mean democracy has failed and the country is going to self-destruct. And no, just because the majority of Americans *did* vote the way I think they should have doesn't mean that those who didn't are somehow less important than I am.
I tried to point out that this article is confusing and says very little, but got modded down. Thanks for speaking clearly what I was thinking. Definitely breathy and superficial reporting that seems to be the norm these days. And I still don't know what the white box is all about or why it is novel. I think the guy has implemented some software (not hardware) that encodes packets as audio, and that is passed to a conventional radio. What the box does that a simple pass-through audio cable wouldn't do I don't know.
I've always had this feeling about KDE, since the KDE 2 days. It's so hard to quantify exactly what is off about the interface, or what is wrong. It is a matter of spacing. Maybe it's also that the fonts are the wrong size (always too large, too heavy, or too small), especially when displaying next to a Gnome app. I have the GTK theme on for my Qt and KDE apps, but it still just isn't there. I don't think it's a Qt problem because I've used Qt apps on Windows and they look just fine, spacing wise.
The author apparently thinks he writes for Wired magazine. He can write sentence after sentence without saying anything. What a waste of an article. I still have no idea what this person did or why it is special. He says is that it's a white box that connects to an iPhone and and a Ham radio, and it takes him almost an entire article of babbling to say that. The inventor made it without plans and seems pretty jazzed that it's connected to an iPhone. Good for him. Perhaps it has something to do with calling satellites. And Cubans.
Your posts indicate to me that you have no experience doing this sort of thing.
I have experience, and DD will work, followed by a pass by qemu-img to convert the image. But in fact a raw image *does* work with vmware. I've done that before too, though now that qemu-img works so well, converting to a native image is no problem.
To a file. Did this the other day with an old FreeBSD box. dd'd the drive to a file, called freebsd.raw. Then I used qemu-img to convert it to vmware or virtualbox, or whatever format you need. Then copy the result to your VM host.
With Unix and Linux it really is that easy. With Windows, not so much.
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The nutshell books are still valuable. I refer to Python in a Nutshell frequently. Yes I could google it, but sometimes skimming a page is actually faster, and the book is layed out in a very logical fashion and it's easy to flip to the right section.
It's mainly high compression ignition that results in NOx. That's why separating the combustion from the piston would really help, if we could do the energy conversion efficiently.
Most people think of "solar" or "wind" as renewable, but in fact, burning straw pellets could also work very well as a heat source and be carbon neutral (renewable). The nice thing about an engine like this is that any form of heat could drive it. Separating combustion from from the pressures in the engine also will eliminate NOx and other pollutants. So even if the solar part doesn't work out (or at night), this idea still has potential for carbon-neutral energy from just about any heat source that can heat up the oil.
What problems are these?
Gimp is GTK 2 still, and Gnome is GTK 3. There are no problems that I can see here. The library versions coexist without problems.
I do agree that the GTK+ 3 development process has some tremendous problems and I'm not quite sure I like the way things are going. But we'll see how it settles out. I've always liked the GTK+ apis, and the fact that it's straight C and so easily wrappable by different languages. Qt seems to be better placed right now, in terms of platform portability, ease of use, stability of the API, and completeness. GTK has been playing catch up to Qt for a while (CSS for styling, etc).
So the same idea that led to junk bonds being rated as safe investments is not going to be applied to people?
While I grant you that every method of screening passengers involves risk profiling of some sort, boiling it down to a series of expert-system questions and algorithms (hey it's cheap and fast!) is bound to have some spectacular failures and, more importantly, many, many false-positives. Imagine if this was run at a national level against all citizens, preemptively? Why wait for them to even buy a ticket, let alone go to the airport. Today's technology allows a type of direct control over millions of people that the despots of years past could only dream of.
Hmm, so a study that supports your opinion is done by real science and scientists, but a study that might not is "fake statistics" by scientists? Talk about a Glenn Beck approach.
Anyway, you have read the studies, both reputable and not, so please post some links so we can all read them as well. I assume the non-reputable studies were not peer-reviewed and full of statistical errors that would have been pointed out by good reviewers?
Looks like BlackBerry 10 is well on their way to supporting Android apps as I talked about. Probably won't save them, but it might keep their current customers who are tempted to leave for Android:
http://developer.blackberry.com/android/tools
Talk about pedantic. Look, I'm merely speaking in general terms. No I am not fundamentally misunderstanding the difference between a bytecode virtual machine and what Java does. I understand it very well. Everything you spout is tied to linux only as a matter of implementation.
I'll try again a third time here. What I'm saying is that (and that wasn't even my main point! -- see ubuntu on android), contrary to your assertions, "Android" (the dalvik engine, the runtimes, etc) do not *have* to depend on Linux or anything posix. That is simply a matter of implementation. Of course I know the *code* as Google has released is not portable. And of course there is no compiler flag.
But that doesn't change the fact that to run android apps on another platform, you simply need the android system (VM, supporting libraries, pick your pedantic terms... anything above posx) implemented on the other platform. And guess what? It's already being done. Whether or not it will be viable I am not saying. But yes, Android (dalvik + android system) is in fact ported to and running on Windows right now (not Windows Mobile or Windows Phone). And it's not in an emulator. It's a native port of the VM (and, since you keep being pedantic, the entire android system). The result is similar to running in an emulator, but a whole lot faster. Blackberry was planning on doing this as well, though the port would be easier as QNX is posix.
Saying it's not a Java environment is strictly true, but really just a detail. The fact that the engine is called Dalvik and that it's internal structure and bytecodes are different from the JVM is not really relevant to my point.
I see no reason why it is reliant on posix to work. That's just an implementation detail. Dalvik certainly could be ported to, or implemented on other kernels and libc's. Would take work, but MS has a lot of smart people. They shouldn't tout android compatibility as the main feature (IBM, OS/2 and Windows 3.1 come to mind), but as a secondary feature (have your cake and eat it too).
Emulation being easier? Maybe, but not viable. But I repeat. There's no technical reason Android need only run on a Linux kernel. All Android needs is a dalvik implementation and a supporting layer (which happens to be provided by linux and a libc).
I'd rather run both Android and a Linux desktop at the same time. They both use a Linux kernel after all, so dual-booting seems a bit redundant. Why not run an android system (if not individual apps) as an app within, say, KDE plasma.
Actually, I'm surprised that MS and others haven't just implemented Android-compatible subsystems within their OS's and run Android apps natively. Need windows apps *and* Android apps? no problem. We support them both! Android isn't actually Linux after all; it's a Java environment and the kernel is irrelevant. I think BB 10 wanted to do this (QNX kernel), but I don't know if they ever did.
Sure but tax payers built the usps back in the day. And they are in the hook for any bailouts and loans. That's my point. Just turn it into a budgeted department.
Maybe in Germany? In the US as far as I can tell, downloading is nor more illegal than bringing bootleg CDs home that you bought on the street of some third-world country, or bringing home a counterfeit good you bought in China on the street. It's the sharing and uploading that is the apparent illegal part. Not to mention profiting. Is this not true?
I get pretty tired of people demanding that public services operate as if they were private. I mean we already paid for this service with our taxes (theoretically) once. To demand that it run as a for-profit business is just going to kill it while charging us more and more for something we've already paid for. It's similar to British rail. First UK citizens paid for it dearly with taxpayer dollars to build it over the years. Then the government, in its infinite wisdom, sold it off and privatized it. Now British citizens, who already paid for BR many times over in the past, also have to pay for the privilege of using it! What a ripoff.
I'm okay with public services charging a nominal fee for the service, if anything just to keep it from being abused. But to be mandated to make money, or cover their own costs, is silly. Just budget the thing and be done with with. Why make citizens pay twice, which is what we are currently doing with the USPS. US citizens are paying taxes which provide money which the USPS borrowing/being rescued with, _and_ paying for their service. Of course that's a waste of money and not efficient.
I know the Libertarians will cringe here at all this, but really, since the USPS was part of the constitutional structure of the country to begin with, just make a department and be done. Running it like a private company is neither intrinsically more or less efficient than a public service can and ought to be.
For years before the prequels were made, the characters and storylines have been well-established, and fairly consistent. It will be interesting to see if they choose to throw it all out.
Every Star Wars fan knows that Han and Leia marry, and have 3 children: twins Jaina and Jacen and son Anakin (wikipedia even knows this!). Luke marries Mara Jade, and they have one son, Ben.
Of course recent authors have tried to make the story edgy and gritty by killing off Mara Jade, having Jacen become a sith lord. So I guess it doesn't matter what Disney chooses to do.
At least we have the Timothy Zhan trilogy that they can never take from us!
I use an HP 48 emulator on my smart phone every day. Sure I miss the button feel, but with vibrate tactile feedback works okay. Maybe HP should just make an android device with nice calculator buttons. Then just make good math apps, along the lines of math cad.
If course admitting that a graphing calculator is just a general purpose computer these days would probably get them banned by schools and test proctors.
If you want to do virtualization of servers (most likely headless), then KVM is going to work great. The VMs on these machines you'll likely work with remotely. There are desktop clients for KVM or Xen, such as virt-manager or gnome-boxes, but I find video drivers, particularly in Windows are slow and lack OpenGL or DirectX support. virt-manager is nice for managing a cluster of KVM or Xen machines. You can use one instance of virt-manager to connect to any number of hosts and manage them or view their consoles.
I have a local server for the house that runs KVM virtual machines. I've got several Linux vms for trying out things, and I have a Windows XP instance that I access using rdesktop over the network. I also have two xen-based virtual machines hosted by Linode in data centers.
Gnome Boxes is an attempt to make creating local KVM virtual machines as easy as VirtualBox or VMWare, if you do want to us KVM for desktop virtualization.
For local desktop virtualization, VirtualBox or VMware are still your main options (Parallels being a non-free option). You'll probably want to just start there. Desktop virtualization can do things like integrate a windows desktop in a VM with your linux desktop so you can go between windows and linux windows (never as slick as you think it's going to be, but it works).
Common misconceptions at best, blatant lies and FUD at worse. Sounds like you don't understand the GPL or copyright law. If the code isn't yours you don't have any freedom at all to build a business model around it. Period. Except as granted by a license, including the GPL.
What you are basically complaining about is that you can't take (steel) someone else's code and sell it when it's GPL, but you can with the BSD.
If I own the copyright on my own code, I can release it under the GPL *and* sell it as a proprietary, closed-source, product. So really from a business point of view the GPL is the best license to choose. It lets your code have a life of its own, and a community, but you can still sell a proprietary product on the code if you wish. You can license the code however you want since it's yours.
Seems like most people's gripe with the GPL comes from the fact that they aren't free to do anything they want with it just because it was freely downloaded. If you don't like the GPL, write your own code. simple as that.
Socialism? Are you kidding? Both major parties are sliding head-long into fascism, not socialism. Methinks you need to read up what socialism really is. Maybe you should actually read what Karl Marx said about capitalism. I think you'll be hard-pressed to disagree with his observations about capitalism, though he was dead wrong about what would happen because of it.
I think you'll have better mileage with the birther argument than the socialism one.
Please mod the parent up. I remember back during the Clinton days in a red state the amount of vitriol and extremely vile and vulgar things said about Clinton. Then in the Bush days, particularly in the second term, it happened all over again. Remember the stupid "miserable failure" campaign to manipulate Google's search? If I recall at the time many slashdotters thought it was pretty clever. Some people went so far as to claim Bush would hold onto power somehow (watch the same things will be said of Obama now).
Now again we see the same crap uttered by those who voted for the other team.
It's this behavior that's destroying America as much as any party or policy. It's time to stop it. No, just because the majority of Americans voted a different way then I did, it doesn't mean democracy has failed and the country is going to self-destruct. And no, just because the majority of Americans *did* vote the way I think they should have doesn't mean that those who didn't are somehow less important than I am.
Google Chrome remote desktop add on.
I tried to point out that this article is confusing and says very little, but got modded down. Thanks for speaking clearly what I was thinking. Definitely breathy and superficial reporting that seems to be the norm these days. And I still don't know what the white box is all about or why it is novel. I think the guy has implemented some software (not hardware) that encodes packets as audio, and that is passed to a conventional radio. What the box does that a simple pass-through audio cable wouldn't do I don't know.
I've always had this feeling about KDE, since the KDE 2 days. It's so hard to quantify exactly what is off about the interface, or what is wrong. It is a matter of spacing. Maybe it's also that the fonts are the wrong size (always too large, too heavy, or too small), especially when displaying next to a Gnome app. I have the GTK theme on for my Qt and KDE apps, but it still just isn't there. I don't think it's a Qt problem because I've used Qt apps on Windows and they look just fine, spacing wise.
Really hard to quantify.
The author apparently thinks he writes for Wired magazine. He can write sentence after sentence without saying anything. What a waste of an article. I still have no idea what this person did or why it is special. He says is that it's a white box that connects to an iPhone and and a Ham radio, and it takes him almost an entire article of babbling to say that. The inventor made it without plans and seems pretty jazzed that it's connected to an iPhone. Good for him. Perhaps it has something to do with calling satellites. And Cubans.
Your posts indicate to me that you have no experience doing this sort of thing.
I have experience, and DD will work, followed by a pass by qemu-img to convert the image. But in fact a raw image *does* work with vmware. I've done that before too, though now that qemu-img works so well, converting to a native image is no problem.
To a file. Did this the other day with an old FreeBSD box. dd'd the drive to a file, called freebsd.raw. Then I used qemu-img to convert it to vmware or virtualbox, or whatever format you need. Then copy the result to your VM host.
With Unix and Linux it really is that easy. With Windows, not so much.