David is anther free DIY-laserline-scanner-based implementation which doesn't need a turntable (merging multiple scans doesn't seem to be included with the free version, though).
Maybe the only difference to European/American society is, that they're doing it out in the open? There have been a few arrests for child porn in my area lately, and from the things that are said about those, they just replaced public places like train stations with more private ones. You can't "cure" pedophiles by telling them that it's forbidden.
Besides, I couldn't care less about children seeing other (drawn) children their age naked.
IPv6 works fine here out of the box, I'm using radvd on my Linux router, and didn't have to change anything on my Leopard box connected to it. Configure IPv6 is set to "automatically" for my ethernet connection.
% ping6 www.kame.net PING6(56=40+8+8 bytes) [...] --> 2001:200::8002:203:47ff:fea5:3085 16 bytes from 2001:200::8002:203:47ff:fea5:3085, icmp_seq=0 hlim=50 time=344.919 ms 16 bytes from 2001:200::8002:203:47ff:fea5:3085, icmp_seq=1 hlim=50 time=363.527 ms 16 bytes from 2001:200::8002:203:47ff:fea5:3085, icmp_seq=2 hlim=50 time=341.89 ms
Uh, I'm using blender on Mac OS X, and it does not use X11. It's implemented using OpenGL, so the interface is completely custom, but no need for that X-server to be open.
blender's user interface is a bit rough to get used to, but once you're used to it, it's very efficient and fast (I once attended a Maya course, and always screamed out in terror when I had to hoover around in 2 levels of menus to access a simple thing like extrude -- in blender you just press 'e').
Ok, so you're telling me that I can give you a book about a fighting style you don't know yet and let you read it, and after you're done with it, you're equivalent to the dan level of the writer?
Even when shown in full motion and 3D, I haven't met anybody who was able to reproduce the techniques perfectly without some kind of feedback given by a dan master, and I've seen a few hundred of those freshmen in recent years.
Besides the secret-keeping, it's very hard to "document" martial arts. Most of them involve very complex movements that can not be properly represented in 2D drawings, pictures or text. Even though there are books about the western variants of the Asian martial arts, it's impossible to learn them by reading at home.
The X-keys Professional is one of those. You can insert little printed pieces of paper for the key caps, and the software allows you to program macros for every key. There are other models available on that page, too.
(No, I'm in no way affiliated with them, I don't even own one myself.)
To answer the three replies here, I'm from Austria, which fits right into the definition Wikipedia is using. However, there are many people switching to Skype for voice chat here, which is a shame, since the official client sucks and nobody has hacked their protocol yet to integrate it into some better client.
btw, in Poland, gadugadu is the most popular one as far as I know.
I personally use XMPP exclusively, gatewaying the other protocols for people that are still on those networks using legacy protocols.
I'm from central Europe, and here everybody is using ICQ. It's gone so far that ICQ is synonymous with IM, and people exchange ICQ UINs instead of phone numbers...
The fact that you have just explained it in a way which is
subtly wrong supports the idea that it is counterintuitive.
An animal does not adapt. It is born with a certain set of
DNA, which it cannot change or control, and it lives or dies
as a result what DNA it has (along with other factors like
chance).
I think you misunderstood the way the GP used the word "adaption".
Actually, an animal can adapt. For example, the same human can either live in the Sahara desert, or in Greenland. There are similar patterns for other creatures (for example, certain rodents adapted to life on Australia when the first ships went there). Every animal has a certain base adaption ability, but that varies hugely (for example, humans can adapt to nearly every environment on earth and close by, while the great panda is dependent on a single plant which only grows in a certain region and height on earth). The real question is, is the animal able to adapt to the environment it is born in. If you're living in an environment that happens to be exactly what you need, you can be as specialized as possible, which would be a great benefit to you (because you aren't wasting any energy on being adaptable). On the other hand, you risk death/extinction when the environment changes.
The reason behind the greater population of humans compared to great pandas is that humans are better at adapting to new environments (this might have resulted from the fact that the humans have always been migratory).
Then again, the reason why insects are more successful than humans is that their shorter lifespan allows greater mutations in the same timeframe, which is the point you made.
This is a bit counter-intuitive because it's not how people
solve problems. Humans generally apply intelligence to a
problem. If you're a car company and you want to sell a new model
of car, you don't make a bunch of new types of car at random
without any direction, then ask potential customers if they
suck or not, then throw out the ones that suck.
That would be enormously wasteful and slow given limited
resources, so humans rarely ever do that. Instead, you
figure out what you want, you apply theory, and you make
a plan to go directly where you want to go (or as directly
as possible).
Actually, that only applies when doing things manually. There's a concept in computer science called "genetic programming". This concept exploits the fact that computers are much faster than humans, so they can simulate many many many generations of a program in mere seconds. The only thing the human programmer has to do is to create a rating system in order to compare solutions to each other and be able to kill the bad ones, and define how the program is able to evolve. That's very hard to implement though, I haven't seen any application outside of research for this yet.
Neural networks use a similar idea to mimic the human brain. This is used extensively in pattern recognition.
The problem with SoC is that the participants are like (inexperienced) contractors to the project. All other devs on the projects are (usually) non-paid spare-time developer.
This means that the SoC students have to be treated differently, which some mentors didn't expect. Since they're inexperienced, they usually plan far more than they could ever achieve in the time frame, but some projects picked those first since they sounded best. They expected the students to complete their work after deadline, so they gave them a positive review, even though nothing was finished. Of course, nothing happend, since students are used to dropping everything after a course is done.
For example, take a look at the Haiku project's SoC ideas. They didn't participate last year, so they haven't learnt that lesson yet. Most of these projects are like a large master's thesis, some even more! That's ridiculous, there's no way any SoC student would be able to do that in the given time frame.
When students try to work on a project that's far above their head, you can expect that they constantly talk to their mentors about how to do it.
Bootcamp will be a part of Mac OS X Leopard, and will be non-beta. If they got this plan finished lately, the first Macs they're going to get will already run Leopard anyways.
So what tool on Mac OS X will provide all the SMART data?
I had a disk reporting a SMART failure once. The result was that the disk was red in the list in Disk Utility, but there were no other warnings. So you might want to check Disk Utility once in a while.
The point of the tech this article presents is that the battery only takes 5 minutes to recharge. You could just install a power outlet at the fuel station. Plug your car in, browse the shop during those five minutes (regular refueling isn't really faster than that anyways), and you're back on the road.
Well, another big Apple environment is with the UNIX sysadmin, educational, and research environment.
That's true (the MacBooks and PowerBooks are more common here at my university than all the other notebooks combined), but that's just because Mac OS X is the only OS that combines a usable GUI with a good command line (no X11-flame intended). Apple does not do anything to encourage this.
I predict that we will see the same with Apple within five years for the same reasons - although not to the same degree.
Well, Apple has been heavily focusing lately. They pretty much dropped off the professional market (ever noticed how the switcher ads presents the PC as the "boring machine for business" and the Mac as the "fashionable machine for having fun"?). They're focusing on home user media applications with the iPod, iPhone and Apple TV, with the Mac as the hub between them -- that metaphor is a few years old already, actually.
Final Cut Pro, Motion, Logic and Shake are pretty much "also rans" right now. They're not supporting 3rd party development on the iPhone, which would be a must for power users.
I guess they've understood that they cannot beat Microsoft in the corporate environment, so they no longer even try.
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David is anther free DIY-laserline-scanner-based implementation which doesn't need a turntable (merging multiple scans doesn't seem to be included with the free version, though).
Maybe the only difference to European/American society is, that they're doing it out in the open? There have been a few arrests for child porn in my area lately, and from the things that are said about those, they just replaced public places like train stations with more private ones. You can't "cure" pedophiles by telling them that it's forbidden.
Besides, I couldn't care less about children seeing other (drawn) children their age naked.
Having Java ship with the OS installation does have some benefits, though. Especially for Java developers working on applications for end users.
Or you could just use DHCP...
IPv6 works fine here out of the box, I'm using radvd on my Linux router, and didn't have to change anything on my Leopard box connected to it. Configure IPv6 is set to "automatically" for my ethernet connection.
Uh, I'm using blender on Mac OS X, and it does not use X11. It's implemented using OpenGL, so the interface is completely custom, but no need for that X-server to be open.
blender's user interface is a bit rough to get used to, but once you're used to it, it's very efficient and fast (I once attended a Maya course, and always screamed out in terror when I had to hoover around in 2 levels of menus to access a simple thing like extrude -- in blender you just press 'e').
Ok, so you're telling me that I can give you a book about a fighting style you don't know yet and let you read it, and after you're done with it, you're equivalent to the dan level of the writer?
Even when shown in full motion and 3D, I haven't met anybody who was able to reproduce the techniques perfectly without some kind of feedback given by a dan master, and I've seen a few hundred of those freshmen in recent years.
Besides the secret-keeping, it's very hard to "document" martial arts. Most of them involve very complex movements that can not be properly represented in 2D drawings, pictures or text. Even though there are books about the western variants of the Asian martial arts, it's impossible to learn them by reading at home.
The X-keys Professional is one of those. You can insert little printed pieces of paper for the key caps, and the software allows you to program macros for every key. There are other models available on that page, too.
(No, I'm in no way affiliated with them, I don't even own one myself.)
To answer the three replies here, I'm from Austria, which fits right into the definition Wikipedia is using. However, there are many people switching to Skype for voice chat here, which is a shame, since the official client sucks and nobody has hacked their protocol yet to integrate it into some better client.
btw, in Poland, gadugadu is the most popular one as far as I know.
I personally use XMPP exclusively, gatewaying the other protocols for people that are still on those networks using legacy protocols.
I'm from central Europe, and here everybody is using ICQ. It's gone so far that ICQ is synonymous with IM, and people exchange ICQ UINs instead of phone numbers...
My Nokia phone plays AAC pretty well, so I don't quite get your point. AAC is as much a standard as MP3 is one.
Besides, once there's no DRM, you can transcode it to whatever format you want, even right in iTunes.
According to this page, rice and soy are also good sources, which should be easy to get in Asian countries.
OpenAL provides an API that's very similar to OpenGL, and it has been available for many years.
Not shipping with debug symbols is important, looks like just that happened here. It also reduces the file size greatly.
Those devs are very clueless.
The fact that you have just explained it in a way which is subtly wrong supports the idea that it is counterintuitive. An animal does not adapt. It is born with a certain set of DNA, which it cannot change or control, and it lives or dies as a result what DNA it has (along with other factors like chance).
I think you misunderstood the way the GP used the word "adaption".
Actually, an animal can adapt. For example, the same human can either live in the Sahara desert, or in Greenland. There are similar patterns for other creatures (for example, certain rodents adapted to life on Australia when the first ships went there). Every animal has a certain base adaption ability, but that varies hugely (for example, humans can adapt to nearly every environment on earth and close by, while the great panda is dependent on a single plant which only grows in a certain region and height on earth). The real question is, is the animal able to adapt to the environment it is born in. If you're living in an environment that happens to be exactly what you need, you can be as specialized as possible, which would be a great benefit to you (because you aren't wasting any energy on being adaptable). On the other hand, you risk death/extinction when the environment changes.
The reason behind the greater population of humans compared to great pandas is that humans are better at adapting to new environments (this might have resulted from the fact that the humans have always been migratory).
Then again, the reason why insects are more successful than humans is that their shorter lifespan allows greater mutations in the same timeframe, which is the point you made.
This is a bit counter-intuitive because it's not how people solve problems. Humans generally apply intelligence to a problem. If you're a car company and you want to sell a new model of car, you don't make a bunch of new types of car at random without any direction, then ask potential customers if they suck or not, then throw out the ones that suck. That would be enormously wasteful and slow given limited resources, so humans rarely ever do that. Instead, you figure out what you want, you apply theory, and you make a plan to go directly where you want to go (or as directly as possible).
Actually, that only applies when doing things manually. There's a concept in computer science called "genetic programming". This concept exploits the fact that computers are much faster than humans, so they can simulate many many many generations of a program in mere seconds. The only thing the human programmer has to do is to create a rating system in order to compare solutions to each other and be able to kill the bad ones, and define how the program is able to evolve. That's very hard to implement though, I haven't seen any application outside of research for this yet.
Neural networks use a similar idea to mimic the human brain. This is used extensively in pattern recognition.
Actually, many scientists believe that dinosaurs evolved into what is now known as birds.
You wouldn't find any of the mammals that lived back then in today's world, either.
The problem with SoC is that the participants are like (inexperienced) contractors to the project. All other devs on the projects are (usually) non-paid spare-time developer.
This means that the SoC students have to be treated differently, which some mentors didn't expect. Since they're inexperienced, they usually plan far more than they could ever achieve in the time frame, but some projects picked those first since they sounded best. They expected the students to complete their work after deadline, so they gave them a positive review, even though nothing was finished. Of course, nothing happend, since students are used to dropping everything after a course is done.
For example, take a look at the Haiku project's SoC ideas. They didn't participate last year, so they haven't learnt that lesson yet. Most of these projects are like a large master's thesis, some even more! That's ridiculous, there's no way any SoC student would be able to do that in the given time frame.
When students try to work on a project that's far above their head, you can expect that they constantly talk to their mentors about how to do it.
Bootcamp will be a part of Mac OS X Leopard, and will be non-beta. If they got this plan finished lately, the first Macs they're going to get will already run Leopard anyways.
The point you didn't get was that even solid state disks can fail without warning, so you need a backup anyways.
You only need a single counterexample to disprove a theory.
I had a disk reporting a SMART failure once. The result was that the disk was red in the list in Disk Utility, but there were no other warnings. So you might want to check Disk Utility once in a while.
The point of the tech this article presents is that the battery only takes 5 minutes to recharge. You could just install a power outlet at the fuel station. Plug your car in, browse the shop during those five minutes (regular refueling isn't really faster than that anyways), and you're back on the road.
That's true (the MacBooks and PowerBooks are more common here at my university than all the other notebooks combined), but that's just because Mac OS X is the only OS that combines a usable GUI with a good command line (no X11-flame intended). Apple does not do anything to encourage this.
Well, Apple has been heavily focusing lately. They pretty much dropped off the professional market (ever noticed how the switcher ads presents the PC as the "boring machine for business" and the Mac as the "fashionable machine for having fun"?). They're focusing on home user media applications with the iPod, iPhone and Apple TV, with the Mac as the hub between them -- that metaphor is a few years old already, actually.
Final Cut Pro, Motion, Logic and Shake are pretty much "also rans" right now. They're not supporting 3rd party development on the iPhone, which would be a must for power users.
I guess they've understood that they cannot beat Microsoft in the corporate environment, so they no longer even try.