If folk want something better than make, but don't want something so Java-centric. Have a look at SCons.
The software, as well as the confuguration files, are actually Python. But, you won't notice until your build requirements get quite complex.
Scons keeps track of dependencies using MD5sums on the tail nodes. This takes up a bit more processing time, but more than makes up for it with highly-parallelizable builds (SCons + distcc totally rocks), guaranteed correct builds (never do 'make clean' again!).
We've just converted a project from Make to SCons, and it's cut our build time by about 40%. I might even be able to convince our java guys to try it out, too:) (Yes, SCons handles Java as well as C or C++).
There's a special global mint that produces all the numbers. It's huge. It produces millions and millions of numbers each day. And I've just taken two... now, now three... dammit... FIVE of those numbers by stating that fact(*).
They hire huge teams of mathematicians to predict what numbers to produce, so there's not too much of a surplus, and very rarely a shortage. For example, they know that the number '10' is used far more often than '9' and '11', especially because people like using it when making up statistics.
So... lets give a big hat-tip to the underappreciated mathematicians at the global number mint!
If Microsoft DID use unfair monopolostic practises, then EVERY company that commercially released software that in ANY way overlapped with Microsoft's business would have been adversely affected by Microsoft's illegal/unethical practises, even if it was in the minutest way.
So, yes... let people sue Microsoft. There has to be SOME downsite for being an illegal monopolist.
(And, never let it be said, now, that Microsoft totally weaseled out of 'that' court decision:)
SCOX is no longer a standard, retail-invested stock. The stock is EXCEEDINGLY lightly traded, likely only being held my insiders and investment houses, both scared what will happen to the stock if they unloaded.
Or... perhaps, they're saying. 'If I try to sell this, it'll plumment to near-zero solely on my measly holdings. I might as well just hang onto it just in case something interesting happens with the case'.
In short... this is NOT a normal stock anymore. I've given up keeping an eye on it and praying for its collapse. I'm neither long, nor short, but I simply don't want the insiders to make money on this. It'll probably hover around the $3.50-$4 mark right up until the company is liquidated.
I take heart in the fact that NOONE can offload any significant portion of this stock without it crashing.
'yum update' (for RPM-style distributions) works very nicely, thank you.
However, while it does feel like a 'front end to rpm' much more than apt-get feels like a front end to dpkg... that's just fine by me. I LIKE things that are distinctly layered
Well, it works for the OpenBSD people... OpenBSD is the most secure system out of the box because the box is really small, and it's hard to get it open:)
And I stand by my position: it won't happen like that. Bittorrent is being used by too many legitimate services, AND, Bram has not been actively, or even passively, promoting the use of BitTorrent in illegal activites.
Of course, it can't at all hurt to be alarmist and get people worked up about it, to ensure it won't happen. (Oh, wait, it CAN hurt... nevermind).
Unfortunately, it was pretty damn clear that the Grokster people were saying "Screw Content Providers" as well, even though they were hiding behind a facade of "really, our product can be used for legitimate purposes too... *sniggersnigger*"
Compare with Bittorrent. I'm sure Bram knows damn well that his program/design is being used for copyright violation, but he didn't DESIGN his product to be used for that purpose PRIMARILY, and he doesn't promote it's use in that form.
Knowing John Carpenter, the podbuddy probably doesnt exist, or perhaps work properly, or is of really low quality (like those horrible, horrible MacMice) and John's probably trying to find a way to pass the blame onto something other than his company's incompetance.
The name Level 5 refers to the network protocol stack where level 5 delivers data from the network to the application, according to Karr. The company isn't concerned about any potential confusion with Internet Protocol telecom Level 3 Communications Inc. On the contrary, he quipped, "It's working in our favor. People say, 'Yes, we've heard of you. You're a big company.'"
Congrations guys... you just admitted to causing actual trademark confusion... have fun in the courtroom.
The 'exhaust air' that gets blown outside creates a low-pressure region inside the room you're trying to cool. The air has to come from SOMEWHERE, and it either leaks around the seal you created in the window, or from elsewhere inside the house, and THAT air is warm.
So... the system works by cooling room air, but draws warm air from outside the room.
The MUCH better systems are 'split'. There's the compressor side that takes warm refrigerant, and makes it cool, pumping the waste heat directly outside, then the distribution side that draws air from inside the room over the cooling fins, cooling it (transferring the heat back to the refrigerant) and pushing the cool air into the room.
No pressure differential. The cool refrigerant is used to cool air that is already cooled... and the noisy compressor is OUTSIDE:)
I've seen 'semi-portable' versions of this... you push two tubes through a crack in your window (or drill a hole in an edge) and hang the compressor outside on chains or something, just below the window... then the fan unit hangs inside.
I've seen bulkier versions, too, but they all had that two-pipe system between the units. Refrigerant back and forth.
But... this was Australia... I've NEVER seen a model like that here in the US.
"quickly" is a highly subjective term:) Assuming no relativistic effects, a one earth-gravity acceleration would take almost a year to reach 1.0c. The solar sail is nowhere near 1 earth-gravity acceleration
Relativistic effects means that once you start to approach 1.0c, time dialation reduces the 'real' effectiveness of such acceleration.
As your speeds become higher and higher, interstellar gas, sparse as it is, gives you a SIGNIFICANT friction force, again reducing the effectiveness of acceleration, and possibly even overwhelming any acceleration from the solar sail.
As you depart the solar system, light/ion/whatever pressure from the Sun becomes less effective, again reducing actual acceleration.
Now... what would be REALLY effective is Ramjets:)
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If folk want something better than make, but don't want something so Java-centric. Have a look at SCons.
:) (Yes, SCons handles Java as well as C or C++).
The software, as well as the confuguration files, are actually Python. But, you won't notice until your build requirements get quite complex.
Scons keeps track of dependencies using MD5sums on the tail nodes. This takes up a bit more processing time, but more than makes up for it with highly-parallelizable builds (SCons + distcc totally rocks), guaranteed correct builds (never do 'make clean' again!).
We've just converted a project from Make to SCons, and it's cut our build time by about 40%. I might even be able to convince our java guys to try it out, too
I SO want Australia... all the mapping options available to Australians, such as WhereIs (based on the UBD maps), totally sucks.
Yeah, I agree. The maps for Japan are downright beautiful. They actually FEEL japanese, with the particular style of iconography they use.
"And-gates" needs to be hyphenated :)
Depends on the nature of the moving violation. They can range from infractions (unsafe lane change), to felonys (Driving While Intoxicated)
Almost 400 comments so far. So, yes, it was worth it.
:)
Now... if a dupe got NO comments, THEN we'd some real action
There's a special global mint that produces all the numbers. It's huge. It produces millions and millions of numbers each day. And I've just taken two... now, now three... dammit... FIVE of those numbers by stating that fact(*).
They hire huge teams of mathematicians to predict what numbers to produce, so there's not too much of a surplus, and very rarely a shortage. For example, they know that the number '10' is used far more often than '9' and '11', especially because people like using it when making up statistics.
So... lets give a big hat-tip to the underappreciated mathematicians at the global number mint!
That might well be true... however...
:)
If Microsoft DID use unfair monopolostic practises, then EVERY company that commercially released software that in ANY way overlapped with Microsoft's business would have been adversely affected by Microsoft's illegal/unethical practises, even if it was in the minutest way.
So, yes... let people sue Microsoft. There has to be SOME downsite for being an illegal monopolist.
(And, never let it be said, now, that Microsoft totally weaseled out of 'that' court decision
SCOX is no longer a standard, retail-invested stock. The stock is EXCEEDINGLY lightly traded, likely only being held my insiders and investment houses, both scared what will happen to the stock if they unloaded.
Or... perhaps, they're saying. 'If I try to sell this, it'll plumment to near-zero solely on my measly holdings. I might as well just hang onto it just in case something interesting happens with the case'.
In short... this is NOT a normal stock anymore. I've given up keeping an eye on it and praying for its collapse. I'm neither long, nor short, but I simply don't want the insiders to make money on this. It'll probably hover around the $3.50-$4 mark right up until the company is liquidated.
I take heart in the fact that NOONE can offload any significant portion of this stock without it crashing.
'yum update' (for RPM-style distributions) works very nicely, thank you.
However, while it does feel like a 'front end to rpm' much more than apt-get feels like a front end to dpkg... that's just fine by me. I LIKE things that are distinctly layered
Well, it works for the OpenBSD people... OpenBSD is the most secure system out of the box because the box is really small, and it's hard to get it open :)
My karma is now really, really shot.
And the stuff printed on the side of boxes ISN'T marketing crap?
(Oh, dammit, I just responded to a troll. Mark me -1 Stupid)
"Please insert hand for vein identification"
"Hand invalid. Third attempt failed. Hand retained."
Replying to myself... bleah...
In this interview, Bill Gates denies making any such quote.
Snopes doesn't even have a 'true' or 'false' on it... perhaps that'd be a good project for them?
And I stand by my position: it won't happen like that. Bittorrent is being used by too many legitimate services, AND, Bram has not been actively, or even passively, promoting the use of BitTorrent in illegal activites.
Of course, it can't at all hurt to be alarmist and get people worked up about it, to ensure it won't happen. (Oh, wait, it CAN hurt... nevermind).
John... jack... all the same :)
Unfortunately, it was pretty damn clear that the Grokster people were saying "Screw Content Providers" as well, even though they were hiding behind a facade of "really, our product can be used for legitimate purposes too... *sniggersnigger*"
Compare with Bittorrent. I'm sure Bram knows damn well that his program/design is being used for copyright violation, but he didn't DESIGN his product to be used for that purpose PRIMARILY, and he doesn't promote it's use in that form.
Knowing John Carpenter, the podbuddy probably doesnt exist, or perhaps work properly, or is of really low quality (like those horrible, horrible MacMice) and John's probably trying to find a way to pass the blame onto something other than his company's incompetance.
One word... laptops.
IBM do not have a PowerPC (or POWER) solution for laptops.
Why do people keep ignoring this very, very important facet?
Congrations guys... you just admitted to causing actual trademark confusion... have fun in the courtroom.
All one has to to is use the proper HTML tags to make the link clickable. So, stop being lazy, and put that little bit of effort in!
I hear Gord dropped out of the video game store market, and is teaching english in Korea.
The problem with that kind of model is:
:)
The 'exhaust air' that gets blown outside creates a low-pressure region inside the room you're trying to cool. The air has to come from SOMEWHERE, and it either leaks around the seal you created in the window, or from elsewhere inside the house, and THAT air is warm.
So... the system works by cooling room air, but draws warm air from outside the room.
The MUCH better systems are 'split'. There's the compressor side that takes warm refrigerant, and makes it cool, pumping the waste heat directly outside, then the distribution side that draws air from inside the room over the cooling fins, cooling it (transferring the heat back to the refrigerant) and pushing the cool air into the room.
No pressure differential. The cool refrigerant is used to cool air that is already cooled... and the noisy compressor is OUTSIDE
I've seen 'semi-portable' versions of this... you push two tubes through a crack in your window (or drill a hole in an edge) and hang the compressor outside on chains or something, just below the window... then the fan unit hangs inside.
I've seen bulkier versions, too, but they all had that two-pipe system between the units. Refrigerant back and forth.
But... this was Australia... I've NEVER seen a model like that here in the US.
"quickly" is a highly subjective term :) Assuming no relativistic effects, a one earth-gravity acceleration would take almost a year to reach 1.0c. The solar sail is nowhere near 1 earth-gravity acceleration
:)
Relativistic effects means that once you start to approach 1.0c, time dialation reduces the 'real' effectiveness of such acceleration.
As your speeds become higher and higher, interstellar gas, sparse as it is, gives you a SIGNIFICANT friction force, again reducing the effectiveness of acceleration, and possibly even overwhelming any acceleration from the solar sail.
As you depart the solar system, light/ion/whatever pressure from the Sun becomes less effective, again reducing actual acceleration.
Now... what would be REALLY effective is Ramjets