Windows timekeeping requires you to run the hardware clock in local time. This means that at daylight savings time, windows will change the hardware clock. If you are one user with a computer which has one operating system, this works fine. When you bring a second OS into the mix - dual boot windows and linux - you will not want both systems to fool with the clock. Also, how do you deal with filesharing on networks which span timezone? How about a laptop when you travel to a new timezone? Yes, you can change the clock, but how does that fix file times?
I find that for my dual boot machines, I set windows to Zulu time - Greenwich mean time *without* daylight savings adjustment. Then I run linux timekeeping to use UTC and present dates in local time. When on travel and using linux, I can set the TZ variable and get my times in the new local time. It works like a champ. Timekeeping with windows is a loser.
No, by all means just drop the pennies in one go. Eliminate penny for transactions, make banks accept them for a month or so. No one wants them now. They have been phasing out for 20 years already. It's time to say good riddance to bad rubbish - I have literally thrown them into a trashcan on more than one occasion.
And then you can introduce a dollar coin. They keep trying to make one, but they keep failing to get it used. The biggest problem, imho, for the dollar coin is that cash registers now allot 4 buckets for coins. Get rid of the penny, you can have a dollar coin.
>> People, especially in the poor countries, are running pirated software because they otherwise would run no software at all.
Other countries make their own laws. Copyright is a artificial construct of the government. Where there is no law against it, copying is legal. They might be just getting software from a convenient source at a price they are willing to pay.
Except that gnuplot isn't a GNU/FSF project at all (despite its name). It is distributed under a more restrictive license which is incompatible with the GPL.
I am a systems engineering and have had the misfortune of working with DSP chips. They are special purpose CPUs which do one thing well, implementing a fast filter. The trouble is, they really suck at branching and I/O servicing like protocol stack handling, decoding messages and state-machines. They don't seem to spend much time doing the filtering, but spend an inordinate amount of time in the less glamorous housekeeping section.
Give me a decent MIPS or powerpc. So what if it takes twice as long to run the filter; you don't spend most of your time in the filter. And now running linux, this will be even more accentuated. What a loser idea.
They get used around here because if it's a DSP, the hardware guys get to write the software instead of the software guys. It has nothing to do with price or what is the best technical solution. It is a turf war and reaction against software guys who might not understand what they are coding.
It is also a bit of domain crossing pain avoidance. The slowdown of writing specs (which look like code) and they having someone else type it, get it wrong, another rev of specs spelling it out in even more excruciating detail &c.
TI wants to push its crappy DSP because they are getting ousted by power and arm processors.
I can see how ID could be a hypothesis motivated from evidence -- many complicated artifacts have some designer, why shouldn't the universe. However, I am at a loss to see how it is falsifiable -- even in prinicple. Just how is one to prove something, e.g., a wombat, chemistry or the solar system, has not be designed? The ID proponent can keep proposing more and more subtle designers indefinately.
No, that's not what *I* was thinking at all. I want really *easy to apply* and really fast to do it. Opening a text editor &c is already losing.
It should be a big red stop type icon living right next to the "forward" "back" "home" "reload" buttons and when you clicked it, it would just stop the motion madness. A little menu off this button could ask "enable/disable animations" for this site next time we come back here.
In addition, have really simple one key keyboard shortcut like hitting "scroll lock" could stop (or pressed again re-enable) all moving things, animated gifs, flash &c.
Copyright and patents are neither capitalist nor communist.
Patents come from an older economic system - namely mercantilism. In this case the government rewards industrial enterprise with monopolies. Copyright is similar in that the government also creates (by its enforcement) a monopoly.
Mercantilism itself involves a bit more, e.g., having more exports than imports. However the patent system comes out of it.
Due to its large output of spam and its place as a relay station for cracker attacks, Korea is finding that it is in an intranet of its own. Non-responsiveness from (or non-existance of) admins and abuse desks in Korea is legendary. Thank you for korea.blackholes.us.
Gnus in emacs is perhaps the most configurable email client ever. For dealing with massive amounts of email it is especially suitable. It treats email like it was news. It basically arranges your email into newsgroups and does things like sorting messages based on headers/content into the right buckets and expire old mails. I do not know how I could receive, e.g., the linux-kernel mailing list without gnus.
What do you mean the financial and exploratory benefits seem to outweigh the social negatives? As far as financial, how are you going spend any money on Mars? This had better be one hell of an exploration benefit.
Granted, the norwegian blue has got beautiful plumage, but it's still an EX-parrot!
I don't care if it's got exploration benefits if I'd soon be an EX-astronaut.
It's *impossible* that the bandwidth usage is described by a Gaussian distribution since 1) you can't use less than zero bandwidth 2) Gaussian distribution has non-zero probability being less than zero
The United States does not use imperial units. Volume measurements are different. 1 US gallon is not equal to 1 imperial gallon. A US pint is smaller than what you get in Britain.
Let's compare two 15k rpm drives with 3.5ms seek. In the SCSI corner we can get a Seagate Cheetah X15 36LP or IBM 36Z15. SCSI warrantees are usually 5 years.
In the IDE corner, um. Yeah. There are no IDE drives at 10k or 15 rpm. And IDE warrantees have gone from 3 years down to 1 year.
On the other hand there don't seem to be any SCSI DVD writers.
He makes a big deal about which antenna had the most raw gain. This is only *half* the story. He only makes some vague hint about needing to consider the receiver noise but doesn't consider it like it needs to be considered. Antenna reception is rated in G/T (gain over noise temp). The story talks about G but no one knows what T is. Thus G/T is unknown and his conclusions are somewhat less than useful. A big signal is of no use if it is drowned in a heap of noise.
lisp *is* strongly typed. every item in lisp has a type and it is easy find its type. lisp is not statically typed. the type is associated with the data item not the variable name. this is different from how static languages like C do it. but it is strong nevertheless. btw you can always explicitly declare types and turn up the compile options to increase speed.
second, you complain about the simple syntax. this is perhaps lisp's greatest feature. lisp supports macros like no other language. it is easy to make a program which generates code if the target has a simple syntax. why do you think gcc converts C into a lisp like language for processing? programming in the simple syntax of lisp allows you the programmer to program the language to suit your problem. alas, the power of such abstraction is sometimes not appreciated.
database access exists for lisp. corba exists for lisp. i've seen lisp to html generators. why don't you come to comp.lang.lisp and post this. between the flames you may be enlightened.
it's your choice whether to link to a GPL'd
library or not. no one forces you. RMS lets
you choose whatever license you wish. if
you want to use GPL'd software, follow the
rules. no one is hiding them.
Argentina and the other latin american countries
can easily _legalize_ their software. They are,
after all, sovereign nations and can, therefore,
do that by fiat. All they have to do is declare
it legal by making their own laws. That is what
being a sovereign nation is all about.
ssh is not a shell. no one puts in their
/etc/passwd shell field. it runs no scripts.
calling it a shell has always struck me as misleading. maybe this trademark issue will prompt a more accurate name.
scsi may be faster than ide. the scsi bus is quick. scsi hardware tends to be higher speed. however, the gap between scsi and ide is never more than an order of magnitude even when you consider raid solutions. ram is 5 orders of magnitude faster than disk - scsi or ide. it's not like doubling disk speeds would help. we need to multiply them by 100,000 to catch up.
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Windows timekeeping requires you to run the hardware clock in local time. This means that at daylight savings time, windows will change the hardware clock. If you are one user with a computer which has one operating system, this works fine. When you bring a second OS into the mix - dual boot windows and linux - you will not want both systems to fool with the clock. Also, how do you deal with filesharing on networks which span timezone? How about a laptop when you travel to a new timezone? Yes, you can change the clock, but how does that fix file times?
I find that for my dual boot machines, I set windows to Zulu time - Greenwich mean time *without* daylight savings adjustment. Then I run linux timekeeping to use UTC and present dates in local time.
When on travel and using linux, I can set the TZ variable and get my times in the new local time. It works like a champ. Timekeeping with windows is a loser.
FWIW zinc pennies melt in a bunsen burner flame while the old coppers do not.
No, by all means just drop the pennies in one go. Eliminate penny for transactions, make banks accept them for a month or so. No one wants them now. They have been phasing out for 20 years already. It's time to say good riddance to bad rubbish - I have literally thrown them into a trashcan on more than one occasion.
And then you can introduce a dollar coin. They keep trying to make one, but they keep failing to get it used. The biggest problem, imho, for the dollar coin is that cash registers now allot 4 buckets for coins. Get rid of the penny, you can have a dollar coin.
>> People, especially in the poor countries, are running pirated software because they otherwise would run no software at all.
Other countries make their own laws. Copyright is a artificial construct of the government. Where there is no law against it, copying is legal. They might be just getting software from a convenient source at a price they are willing to pay.
Except that gnuplot isn't a GNU/FSF project at all (despite its name). It is distributed under a more restrictive license which is incompatible with the GPL.
I am a systems engineering and have had the misfortune of working with DSP chips. They are special purpose CPUs which do one thing well, implementing a fast filter. The trouble is, they really suck at branching and I/O servicing like protocol stack handling, decoding messages and state-machines. They don't seem to spend much time doing the filtering, but spend an inordinate amount of time in the less glamorous housekeeping section.
Give me a decent MIPS or powerpc. So what if it takes twice as long to run the filter; you don't spend most of your time in the filter. And now running linux, this will be even more accentuated. What a loser idea.
They get used around here because if it's a DSP, the hardware guys get to write the software instead of the software guys. It has nothing to do with price or what is the best technical solution. It is a turf war and reaction against software guys who might not understand what they are coding.
It is also a bit of domain crossing pain avoidance. The slowdown of writing specs (which look like code) and they having someone else type it, get it wrong, another rev of specs spelling it out in even more excruciating detail &c.
TI wants to push its crappy DSP because they are getting ousted by power and arm processors.
I can see how ID could be a hypothesis motivated from evidence -- many complicated artifacts have some designer, why shouldn't the universe. However, I am at a loss to see how it is falsifiable -- even in prinicple. Just how is one to prove something, e.g., a wombat, chemistry or the solar system, has not be designed? The ID proponent can keep proposing more and more subtle designers indefinately.
No, that's not what *I* was thinking at all. I want really *easy to apply* and really fast to do it. Opening a text editor &c is already losing.
It should be a big red stop type icon living right next to the "forward" "back" "home" "reload" buttons and when you clicked it, it would just stop the motion madness. A little menu off this button could ask "enable/disable animations" for this site next time we come back here.
In addition, have really simple one key keyboard shortcut like hitting "scroll lock" could stop (or pressed again re-enable) all moving things, animated gifs, flash &c.
Copyright and patents are neither capitalist nor communist.
Patents come from an older economic system - namely mercantilism. In this case the government rewards industrial enterprise with monopolies. Copyright is similar in that the government also creates (by its enforcement) a monopoly.
Mercantilism itself involves a bit more, e.g., having more exports than imports. However the patent system comes out of it.
Due to its large output of spam and its place as a relay station for cracker attacks, Korea is finding that it is in an intranet of its own. Non-responsiveness from (or non-existance of) admins and abuse desks in Korea is legendary. Thank you for korea.blackholes.us.
Gnus in emacs is perhaps the most configurable email client ever. For dealing with massive amounts of email it is especially suitable. It treats email like it was news. It basically arranges your email into newsgroups and does things like sorting messages based on headers/content into the right buckets and expire old mails. I do not know how I could receive, e.g., the linux-kernel mailing list without gnus.
What do you mean the financial and exploratory benefits seem to outweigh the social negatives? As far as financial, how are you going spend any money on Mars? This had better be one hell of an exploration benefit.
Granted, the norwegian blue has got beautiful plumage, but it's still an EX-parrot!
I don't care if it's got exploration benefits if I'd soon be an EX-astronaut.
It's *impossible* that the bandwidth usage is described by a Gaussian distribution since
1) you can't use less than zero bandwidth
2) Gaussian distribution has non-zero probability being less than zero
The United States does not use imperial units. Volume measurements are different. 1 US gallon is not equal to 1 imperial gallon. A US pint is smaller than what you get in Britain.
Let's compare two 15k rpm drives with 3.5ms seek. In the SCSI corner we can get a Seagate Cheetah X15 36LP or IBM 36Z15. SCSI warrantees are usually 5 years.
In the IDE corner, um. Yeah. There are no IDE drives at 10k or 15 rpm. And IDE warrantees have gone from 3 years down to 1 year.
On the other hand there don't seem to be any SCSI DVD writers.
He makes a big deal about which antenna had the most raw gain. This is only *half* the story. He only makes some vague hint about needing to consider the receiver noise but doesn't consider it like it needs to be considered. Antenna reception is rated in G/T (gain over noise temp). The story talks about G but no one knows what T is. Thus G/T is unknown and his conclusions are somewhat less than useful. A big signal is of no use if it is drowned in a heap of noise.
Lisp does have a body which guides the development. There is an ANSI Common Lisp standard. It is even readily available on the web.
lisp *is* strongly typed. every item in lisp has a type and it is easy find its type. lisp is not statically typed. the type is associated with the data item not the variable name. this is different from how static languages like C do it. but it is strong nevertheless. btw you can always explicitly declare types and turn up the compile options to increase speed.
second, you complain about the simple syntax. this is perhaps lisp's greatest feature. lisp supports macros like no other language. it is easy to make a program which generates code if the target has a simple syntax. why do you think gcc converts C into a lisp like language for processing? programming in the simple syntax of lisp allows you the programmer to program the language to suit your problem. alas, the power of such abstraction is sometimes not appreciated.
database access exists for lisp. corba exists for lisp. i've seen lisp to html generators. why don't you come to comp.lang.lisp and post this. between the flames you may be enlightened.
it's your choice whether to link to a GPL'd
library or not. no one forces you. RMS lets
you choose whatever license you wish. if
you want to use GPL'd software, follow the
rules. no one is hiding them.
Argentina and the other latin american countries
can easily _legalize_ their software. They are,
after all, sovereign nations and can, therefore,
do that by fiat. All they have to do is declare
it legal by making their own laws. That is what
being a sovereign nation is all about.
rsh isn't a shell either. there was no "style of
naming" since rsh was the only odd man out. why
continue down a bad path?
ssh is not a shell. no one puts in their
/etc/passwd shell field. it runs no scripts.
calling it a shell has always struck me as misleading. maybe this trademark issue will prompt a more accurate name.
scsi may be faster than ide. the scsi bus is
quick. scsi hardware tends to be higher speed.
however, the gap between scsi and ide is never
more than an order of magnitude even when you
consider raid solutions. ram is 5 orders of
magnitude faster than disk - scsi or ide. it's
not like doubling disk speeds would help. we
need to multiply them by 100,000 to catch up.
ms can release linux if they like. everyone else does.
redhat isn't a microsoft. they produce GPL software.
use whatever distribution you like.