I have had the same AA batteries in a remote control for my old stereo system for the last 12 years. I don't use the remote very often (maybe a couple of times a week).
Curious about this I just did a quick google search and confirmed that indeed, Stanza is not getting regular updates. Amazon said that the latest update from last month or so is the last one. Stanza is finished. And it already is broken on iOS 4.3. You can read about this on the forums. Stanza will keep working for iOS 5 for the foreseeable future, but it's certainly not being developed further. Instead Amazon is pushing the Kindle app.
When I worked for the uni I had a group of part time students who spent their time developing in-house apps of different kinds. If you consider that each student costs $20k a year, over a couple of years working on an app and its iterations and versions, that adds up in a hurry. Even free software if you count the time that goes into it, really adds up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Open Source an free software is just a different way of covering the costs.
Maybe the age of quick one-off apps (many little more than wrapped web pages) and $1 apps and we start thinking that the development costs are equally low.
I got it for mainly two reasons. One is emergency preparedness, and the other is because it benefits me in the field of RC airplanes, and legalizes higher power levels for amateur video transmissions from my airplanes. A lot of people I know got their license for similar reasons.
Normally what the Myth Busters do is at best anecdotal evidence. They certainly can't do enough testing to be statistically significant in this thing. So no. They have not definitively proven anything about electrical interference. Not even close. As they say, an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. It's likely they are correct that very little interference would happen, but no one is willing to risk certifying that this is so. Nor should you or any other passenger.
Putting Mormonism and Scientology together in the cult label is a bit disingenuous. In any case, "cult" covers all forms of religion, organized or not. Seems like most of the time "cult" is used, the context is derogatory, and meaning to evoke the word "occult."
As for Mormons growth, there are more Mormons outside the US than in. Just an FYI, a little known fact is that LDS tithes and other voluntary payments to the church do not normally leave the country of origin. So Mormons around the world are not subsidizing the lifestyle of a few in Utah. They are, however, paying for buildings in their own countries. Also money from the US travels out to these other countries. But not normally the other way around.
You do realize that it was Islamic scholars that saved pretty much everything we know about the ancient Greek knowledge by translating it into Arabic. Some of the world's greatest treatises by Greek philosophers and scientists we have today only because they have been translated from Arabic into english and other languages; the original greek manuscripts are mostly lost.
While Europe was floundering in the middle ages before the renaissance, the Islamic world was flourishing in terms of art, literature, and science. Sadly, Europe rose and the Islamic empire faded and fell, and all its progress stopped.
Christianity certainly has not always been anti-science. Certainly be careful when you paint millions of people with the same brush. The only Christians that I know of who are anti-science are largely the evangelicals in North America. Everyone else seems a lot more reasonable. There are scientists who actually do real science (evolutionary biologists even!) who are of all stripes of Christianity.
If we really are so focused on producing things with the new ideas (tech innovation and such) then where are the things we produce? the iPhone? That's designed here but made in China. Everything I've got on my desk right now is made in Malaysia, China, or Japan. What we are producing here leads to real goods but it sure isn't us making the real goods. Maybe you would argue this doesn't matter, but I think it does. What good are new ideas and innovations if we eventually lose the skills and technologies to put them into practice?
On the other hand, there still are industries (agriculture comes to mind) where we are not only innovating but actually producing real products too. Most of the large machines I see on farms in North America are made right here in North America, and exported around the world. It's one of the few areas left where North America actually exports and parts of the world depend on their products.
And by old NASA centers you mean pork barrel spending in republican districts like, say, Thiokol. At this stage of the game, pork-barrel spending is completely hobbling NASA with ridiculous restrictions like "you have to develop a rocket using technology from from my district" etc. I say spend the money on SpaceX and friends.
Be that as it may, things appear to work fine on Windows. On Linux they don't. Hence the problem is Linux's problem. It's unfortunate that we have to work around boneheaded hardware and Microsoft's insistence on not documenting anything publicly. However that's the way things are. We can complain all we want about hardware manufacturers doing things wrong, but unless we can convince them to fix it (and 1% of their users whining about something that works just fine in Windows is not likely to get anywhere), it's our problem. And it is, from the users' pov a regression in the kernel. Under 2.6.37 battery was fine, under 2.6.38 it wasn't. It doesn't matter that the old kernel was doing things wrong and maybe dangerously. A regression that corrects behavior but still gets things wrong (the end result) is still a regression.
I would think that Red Hat understands this (and it seems they do as the developer who created the patch to fix the logic works for them), but in Fedora you still can't load custom DSTDT firmware tables so my laptop still requires me to press a key repeatedly to get through the bootup sequence. In the bug report the devs basically said, why should a normal user have to mess with this. It's not our fault anyway. The BIOS is buggy (which is true). But yet the problem from the user's POV is that it's Fedora's fault as it works fine in Windows.
Frankly the debian package (.deb) format is about equivalent of RPM. They both declare dependencies. In fact I'm hard pressed to find any differences between them. Neither package system does automatic dependency resolution. That's what yum and apt are for. And yum and apt are much the same in that they resolve dependencies and automatically download packages. To say that debian package management is "way ahead of any rpm distro" is untrue. RPM as a package format works just fine. In fact it supported overlapping multiple architecture packages long before.deb files did. As for yum vs apt, that's a matter of taste. And actually apt appears to be losing favor to aptitude, which to me seems even more yum-like. Yum's insistence on always updating its catalogs is a bit annoying, but then so is having to run apt-get update every few days before running apt-get install. Sixes.
The real problem I have with debian is the way they organize the start scripts and things in/etc. I have always preferred RH's system-V-like way of doing things. We shall see what systemd brings us I suppose. Anyway, under the hood debian always lacked the refinement of the RH-based distros, at least in the aforementioned/etc/ stuff. And Ubuntu always seemed like it was just a pretty face on top of the roughness of debian. That is likely less true now than it was five years ago of course.
Let me guess. You're trying to sync from Linux aren't you. The fault isn't iOS, but rather the syncing tool you are using. Blame that on Apple too though, since they have always tried to lock down the syncing. If I used "Clementine" to sync file to the ipod touch they always came across as audio regardless of whether they were videos. But if I use GtkPod, it seems to work fine. And of course iTunes on Windows always works too.
Technically QT's moc is not a preprocessor. The.cpp files still get compiled directly. moc generates some signal glue code from the cpp files. Moc is required because the way that qt implements signals is a bit hackish. Qt was developed when the C++ STL and templates were not as standardized across compilers, so signals and slots were implemented without support from those modern C++ features. Unlike in GTK+ and GTKmm (or pyGTK for that matter), signals are referenced by string lookup, which is part of what moc does. Your cpp file, though, will refer to signals as if they were real object references, even though they are not. This caused me a really strange bug once that took some effort to track down.
In GTKmm, signals are actually object references, and connecting them involves calling templated methods of the signal object itself.
Qt's biggest weakness is that its object model is based on C++. Hence when you wrap Qt in a language like Python, the result is rather not pythonic. PyQt is pretty much like writing C++ code with a Python syntax. PyGtk, is a bit more pythonic if that is important. Qt's biggest strength is, as was said, providing a full cross-platform toolkit that provides virtually everything you need to develop a modern GUI app. Its use of CSS to help style widgets is pretty slick too.
I always thought it was uploading that was illegal (making available). As far as downloading goes, all of those songs are available officially (and unofficially) on youtube for free. Given that cracking down on these downloads makes less and less sense as you're certainly not missing out on any lost sales. My girlfriend's roommates listen to music exclusively on pandora and youtube (yes youtube). Other than Pandora license fees, the RIAA isn't getting a cent out of them or any of their friends. Time to listen to "don't download this song" again.
The funny thing about that is that Americans are really only opposed to bailouts and government aid of anyone other than them. Reminds me of the joke about the difference between Republicans and Democrats. The Democrats believe the government should solve everyone's problems. The Republicans believe the government should only solve their problems.
As well, lots of Americans declare bankruptcy every year and think it's just fine (probably even those that oppose government bailouts).
All this is true but it doesn't tell the whole story. Money isn't spent by the President. It's spent by congress, but it is authorized by the president. So you need to also take into account the makeup of congress during these times. Of course Reagan did authorize tax increases, as did Bush, the latter after saying famously "read my lips:no new taxes." As well GW Bush pushed for and got Congress (a Democrat-controlled congress no less) to expand the size of government larger than any administration in recent history, start wars, etc. So yes the Republicans are a bunch of liars and hypocrites when they accuse the Democrats of being tax and spend, big government types. The Democrats don't have a good history of trying to stop this kind of thing either.
In Canada things are much simpler to state unequivocally. The fact is that the Conservatives have increased the size of the deficit every time since 1980 while the Liberals eliminated the deficit, which was rapidly erased by the Harper government. They may be the party of smaller government, but they seem to need more money to do it.
I have a Lenovo S12 netbook with the older processor and an Intel graphics chipset that's fully supported by X.org. The wireless is broadcom but the closed-source broadcom drivers are in the Fedora rpmfusion repos, and they work very well. The laptop works just like my old PowerBook. Close the lid, it goes to sleep. Open the lid, it wakes up. It has barely enough horsepower to run Compiz. All in all it's a slick machine. The Nvidia Ion version may work just as well too, with the Nvidia proprietary drivers (Again in rpmfusion).
My girlfriend bought a Lenovo Thinkpad X220, and it's a sweet machine. However it has the new AMD integrated graphics chipset and I have no idea how well that is going to work on Linux.
That's most definitely not the point of the OP. If RP has enough money to donate his time to congress, then he certainly does not live the quality of life provided by minimum wage and most certainly does not know what it's like to live in the bottom strata of society.
But of course if he were placed down there he'd quickly rise up the ranks and be successful because unlike most of the country's poor, he's not lazy, and believes in work and self reliance. We all know that those that are poor are poor because they don't know how to work, hold down jobs, etc. In fact the puritan ethic that the country was founded on states that if you are a good christian you'll get rich, so if you are poor that means it must be your own fault.
Sorry but your comments show a fair amount of ignorance of the country where this aircraft would operate, and the reasons why it is even being thought of. It's too bad that you spent so much time looking up numbers like ROI that simply don't apply here.
To build a solar-powered railway as you put it, that would reach the places in Canada that such an aircraft of this type would reach, would cost many billions of dollars more than the development of this aircraft would. Even worse, you cannot actually build a railway to these destinations. Think about huge diamond mines in the middle of the tundra. Or remote arctic communities. If we could have roads and railways to these places, don't you think they would already exist? We're talking thousands and thousands of miles of tundra and wilderness that would have to be crossed. Have you watched ice road truckers? You can't build a road on tundra. Nor could you lay track. Right now the only way in or out of these places to which this aircraft would go is by aircraft in the summer, and if it's possible to reach in the winter, by snow mobile, dogsled, or crazy ice road trucks.
This airship concept has been under study for quite a number of years. It may not turn out to be feasible. But if it is, it will be a boon to Canadian citizens living in these remote places, and to the many companies who mine natural resources in the far north.
The PAL/NTSC composite display standard has absolutely nothing to do with analog broadcast spectrum. The composite port on a TV will exist for many years to come, long after analog TV tuners are no longer produced. As wikipedia says, "Composite video can easily be directed to any broadcast channel simply by modulating the proper RF carrier frequency with it." But I think you're confusing the two.
I thought that in these situations you can file a DMCA counter notice with the service hosting content. It appears that he did this, but YouTube still removed his content, which is unfortunate. His post is pretty low on details. It really is too bad we mere mortals cannot afford to got to court on these issues. UMG committed perjury here, plain and simple. And it appears that with the DMCA perjury is committed on a regular basis. Very sad indeed. In short, what a mess. Ironic that Michelle Bachmann doesn't have a problem with his parodies, as she's a politician quite likely to pander to the corporate machine.
Highly unlikely story. Indeed a quick google search reveals the story of the Y-10, but not a 747 and not wood. From what I can tell your little example is rubbish. Can't argue with the last part though. Iris doesn't do anything for me. Hope Siri works better or it's rubbish too.
BTW, plywood is a fairly good composite material (essentially carbon fibre and resin) and Howard Hughes built a plane bigger than a 747 out of it, and it almost flew. Certainly it would have flown with more power. And that certainly is a plane.
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I have had the same AA batteries in a remote control for my old stereo system for the last 12 years. I don't use the remote very often (maybe a couple of times a week).
Curious about this I just did a quick google search and confirmed that indeed, Stanza is not getting regular updates. Amazon said that the latest update from last month or so is the last one. Stanza is finished. And it already is broken on iOS 4.3. You can read about this on the forums. Stanza will keep working for iOS 5 for the foreseeable future, but it's certainly not being developed further. Instead Amazon is pushing the Kindle app.
The Air and Space Museum in DC is amazing I've heard. I've always wanted to go there.
No I don't believe so. I think this is only the journal we are talking about here, not the logged information itself.
When I worked for the uni I had a group of part time students who spent their time developing in-house apps of different kinds. If you consider that each student costs $20k a year, over a couple of years working on an app and its iterations and versions, that adds up in a hurry. Even free software if you count the time that goes into it, really adds up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. Open Source an free software is just a different way of covering the costs.
Maybe the age of quick one-off apps (many little more than wrapped web pages) and $1 apps and we start thinking that the development costs are equally low.
I got it for mainly two reasons. One is emergency preparedness, and the other is because it benefits me in the field of RC airplanes, and legalizes higher power levels for amateur video transmissions from my airplanes. A lot of people I know got their license for similar reasons.
Normally what the Myth Busters do is at best anecdotal evidence. They certainly can't do enough testing to be statistically significant in this thing. So no. They have not definitively proven anything about electrical interference. Not even close. As they say, an absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. It's likely they are correct that very little interference would happen, but no one is willing to risk certifying that this is so. Nor should you or any other passenger.
Putting Mormonism and Scientology together in the cult label is a bit disingenuous. In any case, "cult" covers all forms of religion, organized or not. Seems like most of the time "cult" is used, the context is derogatory, and meaning to evoke the word "occult."
As for Mormons growth, there are more Mormons outside the US than in. Just an FYI, a little known fact is that LDS tithes and other voluntary payments to the church do not normally leave the country of origin. So Mormons around the world are not subsidizing the lifestyle of a few in Utah. They are, however, paying for buildings in their own countries. Also money from the US travels out to these other countries. But not normally the other way around.
You do realize that it was Islamic scholars that saved pretty much everything we know about the ancient Greek knowledge by translating it into Arabic. Some of the world's greatest treatises by Greek philosophers and scientists we have today only because they have been translated from Arabic into english and other languages; the original greek manuscripts are mostly lost.
While Europe was floundering in the middle ages before the renaissance, the Islamic world was flourishing in terms of art, literature, and science. Sadly, Europe rose and the Islamic empire faded and fell, and all its progress stopped.
Christianity certainly has not always been anti-science. Certainly be careful when you paint millions of people with the same brush. The only Christians that I know of who are anti-science are largely the evangelicals in North America. Everyone else seems a lot more reasonable. There are scientists who actually do real science (evolutionary biologists even!) who are of all stripes of Christianity.
If we really are so focused on producing things with the new ideas (tech innovation and such) then where are the things we produce? the iPhone? That's designed here but made in China. Everything I've got on my desk right now is made in Malaysia, China, or Japan. What we are producing here leads to real goods but it sure isn't us making the real goods. Maybe you would argue this doesn't matter, but I think it does. What good are new ideas and innovations if we eventually lose the skills and technologies to put them into practice?
On the other hand, there still are industries (agriculture comes to mind) where we are not only innovating but actually producing real products too. Most of the large machines I see on farms in North America are made right here in North America, and exported around the world. It's one of the few areas left where North America actually exports and parts of the world depend on their products.
And by old NASA centers you mean pork barrel spending in republican districts like, say, Thiokol. At this stage of the game, pork-barrel spending is completely hobbling NASA with ridiculous restrictions like "you have to develop a rocket using technology from from my district" etc. I say spend the money on SpaceX and friends.
Be that as it may, things appear to work fine on Windows. On Linux they don't. Hence the problem is Linux's problem. It's unfortunate that we have to work around boneheaded hardware and Microsoft's insistence on not documenting anything publicly. However that's the way things are. We can complain all we want about hardware manufacturers doing things wrong, but unless we can convince them to fix it (and 1% of their users whining about something that works just fine in Windows is not likely to get anywhere), it's our problem. And it is, from the users' pov a regression in the kernel. Under 2.6.37 battery was fine, under 2.6.38 it wasn't. It doesn't matter that the old kernel was doing things wrong and maybe dangerously. A regression that corrects behavior but still gets things wrong (the end result) is still a regression.
I would think that Red Hat understands this (and it seems they do as the developer who created the patch to fix the logic works for them), but in Fedora you still can't load custom DSTDT firmware tables so my laptop still requires me to press a key repeatedly to get through the bootup sequence. In the bug report the devs basically said, why should a normal user have to mess with this. It's not our fault anyway. The BIOS is buggy (which is true). But yet the problem from the user's POV is that it's Fedora's fault as it works fine in Windows.
Frankly the debian package (.deb) format is about equivalent of RPM. They both declare dependencies. In fact I'm hard pressed to find any differences between them. Neither package system does automatic dependency resolution. That's what yum and apt are for. And yum and apt are much the same in that they resolve dependencies and automatically download packages. To say that debian package management is "way ahead of any rpm distro" is untrue. RPM as a package format works just fine. In fact it supported overlapping multiple architecture packages long before .deb files did. As for yum vs apt, that's a matter of taste. And actually apt appears to be losing favor to aptitude, which to me seems even more yum-like. Yum's insistence on always updating its catalogs is a bit annoying, but then so is having to run apt-get update every few days before running apt-get install. Sixes.
The real problem I have with debian is the way they organize the start scripts and things in /etc. I have always preferred RH's system-V-like way of doing things. We shall see what systemd brings us I suppose. Anyway, under the hood debian always lacked the refinement of the RH-based distros, at least in the aforementioned /etc/ stuff. And Ubuntu always seemed like it was just a pretty face on top of the roughness of debian. That is likely less true now than it was five years ago of course.
Let me guess. You're trying to sync from Linux aren't you. The fault isn't iOS, but rather the syncing tool you are using. Blame that on Apple too though, since they have always tried to lock down the syncing. If I used "Clementine" to sync file to the ipod touch they always came across as audio regardless of whether they were videos. But if I use GtkPod, it seems to work fine. And of course iTunes on Windows always works too.
Technically QT's moc is not a preprocessor. The .cpp files still get compiled directly. moc generates some signal glue code from the cpp files. Moc is required because the way that qt implements signals is a bit hackish. Qt was developed when the C++ STL and templates were not as standardized across compilers, so signals and slots were implemented without support from those modern C++ features. Unlike in GTK+ and GTKmm (or pyGTK for that matter), signals are referenced by string lookup, which is part of what moc does. Your cpp file, though, will refer to signals as if they were real object references, even though they are not. This caused me a really strange bug once that took some effort to track down.
In GTKmm, signals are actually object references, and connecting them involves calling templated methods of the signal object itself.
Qt's biggest weakness is that its object model is based on C++. Hence when you wrap Qt in a language like Python, the result is rather not pythonic. PyQt is pretty much like writing C++ code with a Python syntax. PyGtk, is a bit more pythonic if that is important. Qt's biggest strength is, as was said, providing a full cross-platform toolkit that provides virtually everything you need to develop a modern GUI app. Its use of CSS to help style widgets is pretty slick too.
I always thought it was uploading that was illegal (making available). As far as downloading goes, all of those songs are available officially (and unofficially) on youtube for free. Given that cracking down on these downloads makes less and less sense as you're certainly not missing out on any lost sales. My girlfriend's roommates listen to music exclusively on pandora and youtube (yes youtube). Other than Pandora license fees, the RIAA isn't getting a cent out of them or any of their friends. Time to listen to "don't download this song" again.
The funny thing about that is that Americans are really only opposed to bailouts and government aid of anyone other than them. Reminds me of the joke about the difference between Republicans and Democrats. The Democrats believe the government should solve everyone's problems. The Republicans believe the government should only solve their problems.
As well, lots of Americans declare bankruptcy every year and think it's just fine (probably even those that oppose government bailouts).
Not that I disagree with you, by the way.
What Flash? I don't know of any flash plugin on the Arm architecture that can run Hulu, Youtube, etc.
All this is true but it doesn't tell the whole story. Money isn't spent by the President. It's spent by congress, but it is authorized by the president. So you need to also take into account the makeup of congress during these times. Of course Reagan did authorize tax increases, as did Bush, the latter after saying famously "read my lips:no new taxes." As well GW Bush pushed for and got Congress (a Democrat-controlled congress no less) to expand the size of government larger than any administration in recent history, start wars, etc. So yes the Republicans are a bunch of liars and hypocrites when they accuse the Democrats of being tax and spend, big government types. The Democrats don't have a good history of trying to stop this kind of thing either.
In Canada things are much simpler to state unequivocally. The fact is that the Conservatives have increased the size of the deficit every time since 1980 while the Liberals eliminated the deficit, which was rapidly erased by the Harper government. They may be the party of smaller government, but they seem to need more money to do it.
I have a Lenovo S12 netbook with the older processor and an Intel graphics chipset that's fully supported by X.org. The wireless is broadcom but the closed-source broadcom drivers are in the Fedora rpmfusion repos, and they work very well. The laptop works just like my old PowerBook. Close the lid, it goes to sleep. Open the lid, it wakes up. It has barely enough horsepower to run Compiz. All in all it's a slick machine. The Nvidia Ion version may work just as well too, with the Nvidia proprietary drivers (Again in rpmfusion).
My girlfriend bought a Lenovo Thinkpad X220, and it's a sweet machine. However it has the new AMD integrated graphics chipset and I have no idea how well that is going to work on Linux.
That's most definitely not the point of the OP. If RP has enough money to donate his time to congress, then he certainly does not live the quality of life provided by minimum wage and most certainly does not know what it's like to live in the bottom strata of society.
But of course if he were placed down there he'd quickly rise up the ranks and be successful because unlike most of the country's poor, he's not lazy, and believes in work and self reliance. We all know that those that are poor are poor because they don't know how to work, hold down jobs, etc. In fact the puritan ethic that the country was founded on states that if you are a good christian you'll get rich, so if you are poor that means it must be your own fault.
Sorry but your comments show a fair amount of ignorance of the country where this aircraft would operate, and the reasons why it is even being thought of. It's too bad that you spent so much time looking up numbers like ROI that simply don't apply here.
To build a solar-powered railway as you put it, that would reach the places in Canada that such an aircraft of this type would reach, would cost many billions of dollars more than the development of this aircraft would. Even worse, you cannot actually build a railway to these destinations. Think about huge diamond mines in the middle of the tundra. Or remote arctic communities. If we could have roads and railways to these places, don't you think they would already exist? We're talking thousands and thousands of miles of tundra and wilderness that would have to be crossed. Have you watched ice road truckers? You can't build a road on tundra. Nor could you lay track. Right now the only way in or out of these places to which this aircraft would go is by aircraft in the summer, and if it's possible to reach in the winter, by snow mobile, dogsled, or crazy ice road trucks.
This airship concept has been under study for quite a number of years. It may not turn out to be feasible. But if it is, it will be a boon to Canadian citizens living in these remote places, and to the many companies who mine natural resources in the far north.
The PAL/NTSC composite display standard has absolutely nothing to do with analog broadcast spectrum. The composite port on a TV will exist for many years to come, long after analog TV tuners are no longer produced. As wikipedia says, "Composite video can easily be directed to any broadcast channel simply by modulating the proper RF carrier frequency with it." But I think you're confusing the two.
I thought that in these situations you can file a DMCA counter notice with the service hosting content. It appears that he did this, but YouTube still removed his content, which is unfortunate. His post is pretty low on details. It really is too bad we mere mortals cannot afford to got to court on these issues. UMG committed perjury here, plain and simple. And it appears that with the DMCA perjury is committed on a regular basis. Very sad indeed. In short, what a mess. Ironic that Michelle Bachmann doesn't have a problem with his parodies, as she's a politician quite likely to pander to the corporate machine.
Highly unlikely story. Indeed a quick google search reveals the story of the Y-10, but not a 747 and not wood. From what I can tell your little example is rubbish. Can't argue with the last part though. Iris doesn't do anything for me. Hope Siri works better or it's rubbish too.
BTW, plywood is a fairly good composite material (essentially carbon fibre and resin) and Howard Hughes built a plane bigger than a 747 out of it, and it almost flew. Certainly it would have flown with more power. And that certainly is a plane.