Not necessarily. I hear that the Galactinet Engineering Task Force mandates that dates transmitted between planets be converted to and from Galactic Standard Time, to avoid planet-specific restrictions on timezone information. To do that, you'd obviously need the offset, which will vary according to where the locality is.
Too late. Uwe Hermann has been running a service since around 2002 for abandoned Open Source software, maybe longer. And, yes, it's been on Slashdot a few times (thank you Google).
Not true, I'm afraid. VSIPL++ was GPLed for some time by CodeSourcery. When they were bought up by Mentor Graphics, the GPL version ceased to be available. Anywhere. It is not on their site, requests for information reveal only that it was funded by the USAF and that when the funding stopped so did the project.
I know of nobody who possesses a copy of that last GPLed VSIPL++ library. I know of no repository hosting it. I know of no developer attempting to maintain it. There will be binaries out there, since the code was indeed used, but the source? The source appears to no longer exist.
(Yes, the commercial branch of VSIPL++ is still under development but there's no source for it.)
That, in my books, makes the GPL branch of the library every bit as much Abandonware as any other product.
He runs the Unmaintained Free Software archive. It's currently down but the best thing would seem to be to contact him and get the project listed.
The next step would be to get the aforementioned students interested in picking up projects listed on his site. There are A LOT. Some probably deserves junking, but other projects are of high importance and should be picked up.
It would be great if Google's Summer of Code could involve not just proven teams working on proven projects, but could also include revival of projects with a high probability of value by teams formed for the purpose. Yes, I know, they have to balance the risks and the potential for returns, but some of the abandonware is already of amazingly high quality, it just has to be maintained. That's relatively low risk for a Google.
If excluding someone from a group is cyberbullying and cyberbullying is illegal, then that would presumably apply to all committees, press conferences, political funding bodies, etc. Right? Or is it only groups out of favour with the politicians in power who can't exclude?
It's ok, you don't need to get frantic just yet. So long as KDE for Windows gets ported to the new environment, you'll be just fine. After all, you're still technically running Windows.
Hmmm. Is that still going to work properly under UEFI? If not, does anyone know of a good way to boot under OpenBIOS and have UEFI as a bootstrap option through that? (You won't be able to run Windows 8 otherwise and at this point I trust OpenBIOS developers a lot more than I trust Microsoft-pressured EFI developers.)
I'm not convinced. If that were the case, trademarks would still be in the form of iconographic proto-writing rather than words and phrases, since there is no real distinction between using a physical object and using a virtual one.
Even in the virtual world, the Start menu has always been more popular than having a desktop filled with icons, which is why installers generally ask about the latter. This is true even in the Unix world - SunView and Open Look allowed you to attach icons to programs but people used the pull-down menus instead. In more recent times, do you prefer the drop-down menus or desklets? My guess is that a majority use the latter sparingly if at all.
Finally, there's the Retraining Factor. Vista wasn't merely a bad product - Microsoft has sold plenty of those. It was a bad product that required you to learn new methods. And that last factor is the most important. It's the same reason LibreOffice struggles so much, why nobody uses KDE under Windows (apart from me) and why standards always trump custom solutions even when the standards don't work.
After their competitor, CSC, walked off with a few billion from the UK in exchange for vapourware, saying that with a straight face would have been almost easy.
I find it better to grind D&D trolls up and sell them as burgers to the city guards. You have to use trolls with high constitutions, to prevent stomach acid damage stopping them regenerating.
Travel fast enough in deep space and you'll find that that's not hard vaccuum either. (The entire premise of the Bussard ramjet relies on that. The problem is, the momentum from everything non-hydrogen in space would make such an engine almost totally useless.)
Nah, no private corps. Not with the ESA and Russian space industries eager for business, and Japan, India and a few other smaller players quite capable of launching anything into orbit around the Earth or the moon.
I seriously doubt anyone will want to return, at least not for a long time yet. The risk of further pollution during the cleanup is likely going to be seen as high, the damage to houses through abandonment will make it uneconomic for those hardest-hit, it may be safe but infrastructure rebuilding has focused on other areas, completely abandoned towns in Britain and America (and they were this way during the housing boom) show that a bad reputation beats excessive demand any day, and those who are the most mobile are in the most need of jobs that don't exist in the fringe areas.
Given that similar tsunamis hit the area every 500 years or so, it seems likely that it'll have recovered completely and have yet more critical generators along the direct line of attack before the next strike, along with the obligatory denial that anyone could have predicted a periodic event would be periodic.
The cleanup itself - well, that depends on the isotopes present in the soil. Which the scientists know and we don't. If they're relatively short-lived, waiting them out will be quicker and cheaper than replacing the topsoil. Very long-lived isotopes, depending on their mass and depth, are the problem. It's one thing to scrape a bit off the surface, it's another to lower ground level by 10-20' over a 50 mile radius. Since we know that radioisotopes enter the food chain via plant life, one could imagine a decontamination method that involved establishing a forest of trees with exceptionally deep tap roots and high water circulation. It wouldn't eliminate all the contaminants, but it would lock up some. And since it would also lock up CO2, it would lower Japan's greenhouse gas footprint at the same time. It would also be quicker than the Chernobyl approach, which will take a few hundred million years to complete. Decontamination via biomass would likely only take a few hundred years to complete.
You've tackled strange problems, encountered weird technologies and battled otherworldly creatures. And that was just as T. J. Hooker. Are there times you wish you'd had a quieter, more sedate career like, say, Roger Moore or Bruce Lee, or is there a part of you that craves the geekier, more cerebral hero roles you've played?
There have been times when Google have posted not merely record profits but record increase in profits but their share price has gone down because investors felt the profits should have been higher. Most of the Dot Coms posted negative income over their short lives and yet recorded massive increases in share value.
The stock value has nothing to do with profits, it has to do with the rate of change of perceived net worth with respect to actual net worth.
Gold is a wonderful conductor. Silver is slightly better, if I remember correctly from the handbook on the electrical and chemical properties of elements my father had, but it oxidizes rather too readily. (If you could solve the reactivity of it, it would absolutely trounce copper for the interconnects on ICs just as copper did when it replaced aluminium.) So, yeah, for long-distance wiring, running gold cables would be wonderful - at least, underground. Gold's a bit too soft for my liking for overhead cabling, given the mass.
It's not just the purity of the elements that are interesting, of course. It seems likely that the extremely low pressures involved would produce some fascinating structures and compounds. (One of the first things I learned on the Internet was that the compound C3O is stable in gas glouds.) Just as buckyballs and graphene were only recently discovered and have the potential to revolutionize material science and electronics respectively, it seems reasonable to believe that there are exotic forms that only exist in space and have not been discovered that will be just as revolutionary in future. (I don't know if a diamond the size of Earth would have much in the way of interesting properties - besides the potential for destroying the entire gemstone market - but I'm sure some future geek explorer will take the time to find out.)
Pathetic. Ingested vitamin C cannot exceed a certain level in the blood stream - a level that is extremely low and has no impact on anything. This is no matter how much you take. 5mg, 5g, makes no difference. The blood level doesn't change. Linus Pauling's work ONLY concerns itself with IV vitamin C at roughly 2000x that level. You might, just might, also have seen that I made no claims that he actually succeeded in producing any effect, merely that he succeeded in producing a proof of the total lack of toxicity amongst healthy cells at the doses he injected, and that this is infinitely safer than the extremely toxic compounds currently used in chemo.
(You'd think that someone complaining about "thinking" would, ummm, have thought prior to posting. Maybe read my post - y'know, where it mentions the IV. Perhaps read the critique of the critique of LP's work to see WHY it had been discredited. Stuff like that. You have well and truly earned a complete lack of respect.)
Identification keys are commonplace in most fields. I wouldn't personally use something like Watson for that, though. I also agree that there are some amazing gaps in the medical databases that are around and that medicine should be more about the underlying mechanisms and less about the symptoms. (If you use thick enough paint, you can hide the cracks in a house that's subsiding. It won't stop the house collapsing, though.) The pressure for evidence-based medicine might help, but again that depends on what is considered evidence.
What is wrong is, however, a bit tougher. It used to be thought that in genetic conditions that one condition equalled one gene. Turns out that one condition can equal certain combinations of maybe a couple of hundred genes but not other combinations and even if all the genes are present in the diseased form, you still need the epigenome to be a certain way and that depends on the environment of not only the present but also the past 2 generations. In those cases, knowing what is wrong depends on quite a lot of information that is very difficult to obtain.
That's obviously not all illnesses, though. Viruses and bacteria should be much easier to directly observe and therefore directly treat. (I dislike intensely indirect observations via the immune response, as that only works if the immune response was correct in the first place AND if the observation of the response is valid. No matter how probable something is, if you stack enough probabilities together you end up with something exceedingly unlikely. If you're capable of direct observation, the probabalistic route makes no sense. And even the NHS can afford decent microscopes.)
I'd rather take Linus Pauling's suggestion of a massive dose of vitamin C by IV than use a gaming console's recommendation for chemotherapy. (The follow-up study that discredited Pauling's findings has, in turn, been discredited in recent years, and vitamin C is extremely safe. That doesn't mean the method works, although there's good reason for thinking it might. It just means it's less likely to kill you than the other cures.)
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Not necessarily. I hear that the Galactinet Engineering Task Force mandates that dates transmitted between planets be converted to and from Galactic Standard Time, to avoid planet-specific restrictions on timezone information. To do that, you'd obviously need the offset, which will vary according to where the locality is.
Maybe they ran a prediction and it told them they would win.
Not necessarily. If the plaintiffs are the usual Eliza bots, memory doesn't extend beyond extracting keywords from the previous reply.
Too late. Uwe Hermann has been running a service since around 2002 for abandoned Open Source software, maybe longer. And, yes, it's been on Slashdot a few times (thank you Google).
Not true, I'm afraid. VSIPL++ was GPLed for some time by CodeSourcery. When they were bought up by Mentor Graphics, the GPL version ceased to be available. Anywhere. It is not on their site, requests for information reveal only that it was funded by the USAF and that when the funding stopped so did the project.
I know of nobody who possesses a copy of that last GPLed VSIPL++ library. I know of no repository hosting it. I know of no developer attempting to maintain it. There will be binaries out there, since the code was indeed used, but the source? The source appears to no longer exist.
(Yes, the commercial branch of VSIPL++ is still under development but there's no source for it.)
That, in my books, makes the GPL branch of the library every bit as much Abandonware as any other product.
He runs the Unmaintained Free Software archive. It's currently down but the best thing would seem to be to contact him and get the project listed.
The next step would be to get the aforementioned students interested in picking up projects listed on his site. There are A LOT. Some probably deserves junking, but other projects are of high importance and should be picked up.
It would be great if Google's Summer of Code could involve not just proven teams working on proven projects, but could also include revival of projects with a high probability of value by teams formed for the purpose. Yes, I know, they have to balance the risks and the potential for returns, but some of the abandonware is already of amazingly high quality, it just has to be maintained. That's relatively low risk for a Google.
If excluding someone from a group is cyberbullying and cyberbullying is illegal, then that would presumably apply to all committees, press conferences, political funding bodies, etc. Right? Or is it only groups out of favour with the politicians in power who can't exclude?
It's ok, you don't need to get frantic just yet. So long as KDE for Windows gets ported to the new environment, you'll be just fine. After all, you're still technically running Windows.
Hmmm. Is that still going to work properly under UEFI? If not, does anyone know of a good way to boot under OpenBIOS and have UEFI as a bootstrap option through that? (You won't be able to run Windows 8 otherwise and at this point I trust OpenBIOS developers a lot more than I trust Microsoft-pressured EFI developers.)
It would likely have helped you better to be a Start Menu Organization Reduction Entity. Food-related terminology catches on better.
I'm not convinced. If that were the case, trademarks would still be in the form of iconographic proto-writing rather than words and phrases, since there is no real distinction between using a physical object and using a virtual one.
Even in the virtual world, the Start menu has always been more popular than having a desktop filled with icons, which is why installers generally ask about the latter. This is true even in the Unix world - SunView and Open Look allowed you to attach icons to programs but people used the pull-down menus instead. In more recent times, do you prefer the drop-down menus or desklets? My guess is that a majority use the latter sparingly if at all.
Finally, there's the Retraining Factor. Vista wasn't merely a bad product - Microsoft has sold plenty of those. It was a bad product that required you to learn new methods. And that last factor is the most important. It's the same reason LibreOffice struggles so much, why nobody uses KDE under Windows (apart from me) and why standards always trump custom solutions even when the standards don't work.
After their competitor, CSC, walked off with a few billion from the UK in exchange for vapourware, saying that with a straight face would have been almost easy.
I find it better to grind D&D trolls up and sell them as burgers to the city guards. You have to use trolls with high constitutions, to prevent stomach acid damage stopping them regenerating.
Travel fast enough in deep space and you'll find that that's not hard vaccuum either. (The entire premise of the Bussard ramjet relies on that. The problem is, the momentum from everything non-hydrogen in space would make such an engine almost totally useless.)
This is why America needs more psychiatric hospitals. Having people like that out on the streets is dangerous - they could get elected, for a start.
The World Series is just what it says. A series of worlds. Why they don't connect them in parallel, though, is beyond me.
Nah, no private corps. Not with the ESA and Russian space industries eager for business, and Japan, India and a few other smaller players quite capable of launching anything into orbit around the Earth or the moon.
I seriously doubt anyone will want to return, at least not for a long time yet. The risk of further pollution during the cleanup is likely going to be seen as high, the damage to houses through abandonment will make it uneconomic for those hardest-hit, it may be safe but infrastructure rebuilding has focused on other areas, completely abandoned towns in Britain and America (and they were this way during the housing boom) show that a bad reputation beats excessive demand any day, and those who are the most mobile are in the most need of jobs that don't exist in the fringe areas.
Given that similar tsunamis hit the area every 500 years or so, it seems likely that it'll have recovered completely and have yet more critical generators along the direct line of attack before the next strike, along with the obligatory denial that anyone could have predicted a periodic event would be periodic.
The cleanup itself - well, that depends on the isotopes present in the soil. Which the scientists know and we don't. If they're relatively short-lived, waiting them out will be quicker and cheaper than replacing the topsoil. Very long-lived isotopes, depending on their mass and depth, are the problem. It's one thing to scrape a bit off the surface, it's another to lower ground level by 10-20' over a 50 mile radius. Since we know that radioisotopes enter the food chain via plant life, one could imagine a decontamination method that involved establishing a forest of trees with exceptionally deep tap roots and high water circulation. It wouldn't eliminate all the contaminants, but it would lock up some. And since it would also lock up CO2, it would lower Japan's greenhouse gas footprint at the same time. It would also be quicker than the Chernobyl approach, which will take a few hundred million years to complete. Decontamination via biomass would likely only take a few hundred years to complete.
You've tackled strange problems, encountered weird technologies and battled otherworldly creatures. And that was just as T. J. Hooker. Are there times you wish you'd had a quieter, more sedate career like, say, Roger Moore or Bruce Lee, or is there a part of you that craves the geekier, more cerebral hero roles you've played?
Broadcom have a... reputation... that could indicate them being a few bits short of a byte. 8 of them, probably.
There have been times when Google have posted not merely record profits but record increase in profits but their share price has gone down because investors felt the profits should have been higher. Most of the Dot Coms posted negative income over their short lives and yet recorded massive increases in share value.
The stock value has nothing to do with profits, it has to do with the rate of change of perceived net worth with respect to actual net worth.
Gold is a wonderful conductor. Silver is slightly better, if I remember correctly from the handbook on the electrical and chemical properties of elements my father had, but it oxidizes rather too readily. (If you could solve the reactivity of it, it would absolutely trounce copper for the interconnects on ICs just as copper did when it replaced aluminium.) So, yeah, for long-distance wiring, running gold cables would be wonderful - at least, underground. Gold's a bit too soft for my liking for overhead cabling, given the mass.
It's not just the purity of the elements that are interesting, of course. It seems likely that the extremely low pressures involved would produce some fascinating structures and compounds. (One of the first things I learned on the Internet was that the compound C3O is stable in gas glouds.) Just as buckyballs and graphene were only recently discovered and have the potential to revolutionize material science and electronics respectively, it seems reasonable to believe that there are exotic forms that only exist in space and have not been discovered that will be just as revolutionary in future. (I don't know if a diamond the size of Earth would have much in the way of interesting properties - besides the potential for destroying the entire gemstone market - but I'm sure some future geek explorer will take the time to find out.)
Pathetic. Ingested vitamin C cannot exceed a certain level in the blood stream - a level that is extremely low and has no impact on anything. This is no matter how much you take. 5mg, 5g, makes no difference. The blood level doesn't change. Linus Pauling's work ONLY concerns itself with IV vitamin C at roughly 2000x that level. You might, just might, also have seen that I made no claims that he actually succeeded in producing any effect, merely that he succeeded in producing a proof of the total lack of toxicity amongst healthy cells at the doses he injected, and that this is infinitely safer than the extremely toxic compounds currently used in chemo.
(You'd think that someone complaining about "thinking" would, ummm, have thought prior to posting. Maybe read my post - y'know, where it mentions the IV. Perhaps read the critique of the critique of LP's work to see WHY it had been discredited. Stuff like that. You have well and truly earned a complete lack of respect.)
Identification keys are commonplace in most fields. I wouldn't personally use something like Watson for that, though. I also agree that there are some amazing gaps in the medical databases that are around and that medicine should be more about the underlying mechanisms and less about the symptoms. (If you use thick enough paint, you can hide the cracks in a house that's subsiding. It won't stop the house collapsing, though.) The pressure for evidence-based medicine might help, but again that depends on what is considered evidence.
What is wrong is, however, a bit tougher. It used to be thought that in genetic conditions that one condition equalled one gene. Turns out that one condition can equal certain combinations of maybe a couple of hundred genes but not other combinations and even if all the genes are present in the diseased form, you still need the epigenome to be a certain way and that depends on the environment of not only the present but also the past 2 generations. In those cases, knowing what is wrong depends on quite a lot of information that is very difficult to obtain.
That's obviously not all illnesses, though. Viruses and bacteria should be much easier to directly observe and therefore directly treat. (I dislike intensely indirect observations via the immune response, as that only works if the immune response was correct in the first place AND if the observation of the response is valid. No matter how probable something is, if you stack enough probabilities together you end up with something exceedingly unlikely. If you're capable of direct observation, the probabalistic route makes no sense. And even the NHS can afford decent microscopes.)
I'd rather take Linus Pauling's suggestion of a massive dose of vitamin C by IV than use a gaming console's recommendation for chemotherapy. (The follow-up study that discredited Pauling's findings has, in turn, been discredited in recent years, and vitamin C is extremely safe. That doesn't mean the method works, although there's good reason for thinking it might. It just means it's less likely to kill you than the other cures.)