The experiment demontrates natural selection, but not the emergence of species. Those bacteria aren't different species. But if they don't reproduce sexually, it's really hard to tell whether they're different species at all.
At the apartment I was living I had a so called 60Mb connection (8Mb in average traffic), and it cost me 5000 HUF, that's about $27 or 19 EUR. There was a cheaper plan at round 4000 HUF, it was 10Mb officially.
"Also I'm not aware of a correlation between open source usage and piracy, do you have some kind of source for your opinion?"
I didn't say they correlate. However Easter Europe is usually regarded as a pirate heaven. (Especially Russia.)
In Eastern-European countries average salaries are around $600, but there's a highly educated youth, with cheap internet access (around $30 a month), and a lot of free time, and relaxed copyright laws (suing warez downloaders is not legally possible; you can only sue those who make a profit while pirating ).
At the university where I studied, teachers expected students to use pirated Matlab, as they didn't had an academic license program, so they provided intranet warez copies.
At the same time there's strong opensource culture as well.
"(though he would have been able to keep more of them if Congress didn't, for example, block funding for the closing of Guantanimo) which for an American politician is shockingly true to his word."
"Certainly, lack of standardization hasn't prevented other languages, such as Java in the past, but look what happened there. Microsoft was litigated out of the market, and now Oracle is sueing Google and possibly others. This is not very commercial compiler friendly."
On the other hand IBM has its own JVM and wasn't/isn't paying licensing fee to Sun/Oracle. The license only prevents incompatible forking. As a Java developer, I don't think it's a bad thing.
Java is the fastest thing you can get, after c++. (That means 10% slower.) And there's plenty of boring business software is built with java (yes, desktop software). However for the game industry that 10% is pretty big deal, and they've already heavily invested in their mature c++ engines.
Reality check: Libya under Gaddafi's rule was a pro-western country. It cooperated with the war on terror thing and sold us oil, apologized for its earlier wrongdoing etc.
" I'd say, despite the appearances of taking a week or two too long, this is a pretty substantial foreign policy victory for Obama, actually constructing a wide-based coalition to take on Gaddafi."
It seems that the coalition building was done by the French, and the US just jumped on the bandwagon, but even this seems like a big improvement on American foreign affairs.
Well, is there anything about psychology (especially psycho-analysis) that can be falsified? (If you do an experiment with control groups it's not psycholgy, but social-psychology.)
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The experiment demontrates natural selection, but not the emergence of species. Those bacteria aren't different species. But if they don't reproduce sexually, it's really hard to tell whether they're different species at all.
Can you replicate evolution?
I'm 26 and I got my used C-128 in 1990. (It was 6 years old by then. And in 1996 I still could sell it for 20000 HUF ($140)).
It should have been: Alzheimer researchers forget about patents.
At the apartment I was living I had a so called 60Mb connection (8Mb in average traffic), and it cost me 5000 HUF, that's about $27 or 19 EUR. There was a cheaper plan at round 4000 HUF, it was 10Mb officially.
"Also I'm not aware of a correlation between open source usage and piracy, do you have some kind of source for your opinion?"
I didn't say they correlate. However Easter Europe is usually regarded as a pirate heaven. (Especially Russia.)
I know Octave, but it lacks many toolboxes Matlab has, like image processing, neural networks etc.
In Eastern-European countries average salaries are around $600, but there's a highly educated youth, with cheap internet access (around $30 a month), and a lot of free time, and relaxed copyright laws (suing warez downloaders is not legally possible; you can only sue those who make a profit while pirating ).
At the university where I studied, teachers expected students to use pirated Matlab, as they didn't had an academic license program, so they provided intranet warez copies.
At the same time there's strong opensource culture as well.
Firefox usage:
Poland: 42%
Slovakia: 41.2%
Hungary: 40.3%
Estonia:37.3%
(And my guess is that in China hacker groups are government supported.)
Have you checked out Scholarpedia and Citizendum? They take into account real-world credentials.
Not enough funding... mine more minerals ... I mean oil ...
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"(though he would have been able to keep more of them if Congress didn't, for example, block funding for the closing of Guantanimo) which for an American politician is shockingly true to his word."
http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2007-06-01/
Is this x86 thingie a new .Net language or what? /ducks
"Certainly, lack of standardization hasn't prevented other languages, such as Java in the past, but look what happened there. Microsoft was litigated out of the market, and now Oracle is sueing Google and possibly others. This is not very commercial compiler friendly."
On the other hand IBM has its own JVM and wasn't/isn't paying licensing fee to Sun/Oracle.
The license only prevents incompatible forking. As a Java developer, I don't think it's a bad thing.
That's a business plan, not technical content.
Why don't they just buy Google? They have enough dollars saved in the piggy bank to buy 100 Googles.
I would agree with you if I hadn't seen LISP.
Java is the fastest thing you can get, after c++. (That means 10% slower.) And there's plenty of boring business software is built with java (yes, desktop software). However for the game industry that 10% is pretty big deal, and they've already heavily invested in their mature c++ engines.
Reality check: Libya under Gaddafi's rule was a pro-western country. It cooperated with the war on terror thing and sold us oil, apologized for its earlier wrongdoing etc.
" I'd say, despite the appearances of taking a week or two too long, this is a pretty substantial foreign policy victory for Obama, actually constructing a wide-based coalition to take on Gaddafi."
It seems that the coalition building was done by the French, and the US just jumped on the bandwagon, but even this seems like a big improvement on American foreign affairs.
Protesters were peaceful until they got shot at with machine guns.
No, it's multiple mother-in-laws.
Why won't someone else innovate and work hard instead of me? Someone call the whaaaaambulance!
Well, is there anything about psychology (especially psycho-analysis) that can be falsified? (If you do an experiment with control groups it's not psycholgy, but social-psychology.)
You mean his point is moot? /ducks
Thus you increase latency, which is the single most important thing in a phonecall.