Looking at English growing seasons is rather bogus for tracking global climate change. The whole British Isles weather is heavily influenced by the position of the jet stream, and Atlantic ocean currents.
For example, the reason why Britain is so much warmer now than it was in the 1970s is not due to the global increase in temperature (certainly not directly), but because the jet stream has moved south (it did so in the winter of 1975, starting a series of almost annual summer heat waves from 1976 and onwards). Prior to 1975, the position of the jet stream brought Atlantic lows into the British Isles during the summer (meaning cool, wet summers), and as the jet stream migrated northwards as it always does in winter, meant the blocking high pressure systems arrived in the winter, bringing clear and cold nights and more continental easterly winds.
When the jet stream moved south in the winter of 1975, this meant that Atlantic lows tended to come in the winter, and blocking highs in the summer. A rainy Atlantic low in the winter means mild westerlies and cloud cover so the landmass can't radiate so much heat at night. The blocking highs in the summer brought long spells of sunny weather, resulting in hot summers with those continental easterlies (which in summer, are warm).
Well, irradiation AIDS sufferers to death would be about par for the course for Iran - it wasn't that long ago they executed two 15 year old boys by hanging for having a gay relationship.
Even GUI wysiwyg wordprocessors don't justify these specs. I wrote my university dissertation using AmiPro on a 486 with 16MB of RAM. There's nothing I use now on the latest version of Office or OpenOffice that uses features that AmiPro didn't have in 1995.
Of course, Microsoft would never have an 'office light' - an Office which was compatible with the full MS Office, but had low system requirements and just the core wordprocessor and spreadsheet functions because it'd cannibalize the full version's sales! And thus forcing us to use power wasteful computers when we just want to upgrade the secretary's essentially 'fancy typewriter'.
In the case of making a cool 60 second animation (which I presume in your case was not for commercial gain) I can't understand WHY it would be hard to give away - in fact, I'd find that an incentive to give it away and indeed make it easier to give away. After all, I am not really giving the source files away, I'm merely duplicating them and allowing others to do so: I'm not deprived of the source files I worked so hard to make, and rather than just me looking at my animation I get satisfaction that others do too.
(And yes, I do work on open source stuff before you ask!)
As a pointy-haired boss, you mean. Most of your developers will be more productive if they can take frequent short breaks and (shock!) maybe browse a non-work related site for a few minutes.
I've been a contractor in the past. One thing I've noticed is that the more relaxed workplaces, that don't have silly rules about web access or taking your cell phone in - is that the developers are generally more productive and more competent. Places with silly rules about web access generally keep the pointy haired bosses feeling warm and fuzzy, but are awful places to work and the calibre of developer who works there tends to be lower (either because the morale is lower, or because the company can't retain the most competent ones).
And missed deadlines are more often management faults than developer faults. On a major project I worked on, when we moved from a 'manager guesses at a good deadline' to a SEI CMM level 3 set of processes (including sizings performed in a more scientific way) - the amount of unpaid overtime needed went to almost zero, and the number of deadlines missed went to almost zero.
ebay is NOT a sick marketplace - in fact it's a healthy free market. Commodity items are going so cheap because it's working precisely as a free market is supposed to work: if there is a glut of goods, prices will be driven down until equilibrium is reached. It's just basic economics. The glut of goods is not ebay's fault. In the end, sellers will leave ebay because they can't make money and this will correct the "problem" as the market moves to a new equilibrium.
If you're not getting the prices you want on ebay, sell your stuff some other way.
The market is NOT sick at all - it's working precisely as markets should work. You said yourself "glut of DVDs". The DVDs are selling so cheap because there is massive oversupply. That's what's supposed to happen in a free market when there is massive oversupply of a good.
Yes, you ARE grown up at 22, fully responsible for your own actions. Even the nanny state agrees that you're grown up at 22. You may not necessarily be particularly experienced - almost certainly not of child-rearing, but you ARE an adult and you ARE grown up - you are not a child at 22.
A tidal generator does nothing of the sort. The energy in the tides all gets converted (ultimately) to heat by running in and out of the river mouth you are planning to dam - the energy gets used up by something anyway. All you're doing is relocating where the energy gets absorbed. It would be just like harnessing the energy from the steam coming out of a kettle using a condenser - it won't affect the kettle at all, the energy is going to get lost to the environment anyway whether you hang a condenser in the stream of steam coming from the spout or not. (Note, I'm not talking about turning the kettle into a pressure vessel here, I'm talking about simply hanging some device in the free air above the kettle).
Why ever not? It's clear that supply has increased significantly, but demand hasn't kept pace.
That's how a market works - the fact that sellers need to list something multiple times now on average is a bloody good signal that there's massive oversupply in that market, and the seller should try flogging something else. It's how a market works, and sellers kvetching about it won't change the fact that there's massive oversupply.
iTMS *does* co-operate; that was my whole point. I've come across quite a few things that can only be downloaded from iTMS as a complete album. Basically, the artists who are kvetching about individual track downloads are about 3 years behind the times.
W3C Schools is very distorted compared to the general populace. The BBC website recently had some stats (was mentioned on Slashdot). Amongst general internet users, Linux had less than half of 1% of the stats share.
In any case, "One Package Manager To Rule Them All" still wouldn't be the panacea people think. Each distro would not only have to use the same package manager, but they would all have to do dependencies in exactly the same way for it to work. This is why many RPMs intended for distro X won't work on distro Y.
RPM and.deb etc. are designed for use with software packaged by the distro maker - not third party stuff. Therefore, there isn't really a need for a standard (and no point, so long as there are different distros with different packages and different dependencies).
For third party stuff, there is Autopackage. When most people go on about the One True Package Manager, generally they are thinking about the ease of installing third party packages. Autopackage does this admirably well - http://autopackage.org/.
The pressure differential is that the airliner has a *higher* pressure inside than the outside atmosphere. It is physically impossible for it to implode because the plane is at a higher pressure inside than the pressure outside. It is not a huge engineering feat to engineer a lightweight structure incredibly strong if it's pressurized inside. Take a soft drinks can. Give it a shake - it doesn't explode despite having a far greater internal pressure than any airliner. The only reason you can stack soft drink cans so high is the pressure inside *supports* the can.
The pressure differential is in any case much smaller than going deep under the ocean - you're talking of about 10psi, not the hundreds of psi you get under water.
Skydivers don't fly in pressurized planes. Airliners aren't the only kind of planes. Around 90% of aircraft in the USA are _not_ pressurized - most planes in the USA are light piston aircraft that never fly much above 10,000 feet above sea level. In the odd specialty big skydive (like the Boeing 727 they had at Quincy) has the rear end opened (the 727 has a rear tailcone exit, that's why it was used for the big skydiving drop) and is not pressurized.
Well, except that perhaps most species now are intermediate. Viable species that are still evolving are by definition intermediate.
As for fish with legs - the axolotl comes pretty damned close. We had an axolotl in our school biology labs - about a foot long. It's carnivorous, has legs and gills, and lives underwater. It seems to be a proto-amphibian.
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Looking at English growing seasons is rather bogus for tracking global climate change. The whole British Isles weather is heavily influenced by the position of the jet stream, and Atlantic ocean currents.
For example, the reason why Britain is so much warmer now than it was in the 1970s is not due to the global increase in temperature (certainly not directly), but because the jet stream has moved south (it did so in the winter of 1975, starting a series of almost annual summer heat waves from 1976 and onwards). Prior to 1975, the position of the jet stream brought Atlantic lows into the British Isles during the summer (meaning cool, wet summers), and as the jet stream migrated northwards as it always does in winter, meant the blocking high pressure systems arrived in the winter, bringing clear and cold nights and more continental easterly winds.
When the jet stream moved south in the winter of 1975, this meant that Atlantic lows tended to come in the winter, and blocking highs in the summer. A rainy Atlantic low in the winter means mild westerlies and cloud cover so the landmass can't radiate so much heat at night. The blocking highs in the summer brought long spells of sunny weather, resulting in hot summers with those continental easterlies (which in summer, are warm).
Well, irradiation AIDS sufferers to death would be about par for the course for Iran - it wasn't that long ago they executed two 15 year old boys by hanging for having a gay relationship.
Oil is NOT an expensive commodity; it is extremely cheap. Even refined products such as gasoline are cheaper than milk or beer.
Even GUI wysiwyg wordprocessors don't justify these specs. I wrote my university dissertation using AmiPro on a 486 with 16MB of RAM. There's nothing I use now on the latest version of Office or OpenOffice that uses features that AmiPro didn't have in 1995.
Of course, Microsoft would never have an 'office light' - an Office which was compatible with the full MS Office, but had low system requirements and just the core wordprocessor and spreadsheet functions because it'd cannibalize the full version's sales! And thus forcing us to use power wasteful computers when we just want to upgrade the secretary's essentially 'fancy typewriter'.
Well, QANTAS does stand for 'Quite a Nice Trip, Any Survivors?' :-)
In the case of making a cool 60 second animation (which I presume in your case was not for commercial gain) I can't understand WHY it would be hard to give away - in fact, I'd find that an incentive to give it away and indeed make it easier to give away. After all, I am not really giving the source files away, I'm merely duplicating them and allowing others to do so: I'm not deprived of the source files I worked so hard to make, and rather than just me looking at my animation I get satisfaction that others do too.
(And yes, I do work on open source stuff before you ask!)
It already exists, it's called ReactOS.
Interesting. Dentara Rast is the name of a famous assassination target in Frontier: First Encounters.
I thought it stood for "Quite a Nice Trip, Any Survivors?"
As a pointy-haired boss, you mean. Most of your developers will be more productive if they can take frequent short breaks and (shock!) maybe browse a non-work related site for a few minutes.
I've been a contractor in the past. One thing I've noticed is that the more relaxed workplaces, that don't have silly rules about web access or taking your cell phone in - is that the developers are generally more productive and more competent. Places with silly rules about web access generally keep the pointy haired bosses feeling warm and fuzzy, but are awful places to work and the calibre of developer who works there tends to be lower (either because the morale is lower, or because the company can't retain the most competent ones).
And missed deadlines are more often management faults than developer faults. On a major project I worked on, when we moved from a 'manager guesses at a good deadline' to a SEI CMM level 3 set of processes (including sizings performed in a more scientific way) - the amount of unpaid overtime needed went to almost zero, and the number of deadlines missed went to almost zero.
ebay is NOT a sick marketplace - in fact it's a healthy free market. Commodity items are going so cheap because it's working precisely as a free market is supposed to work: if there is a glut of goods, prices will be driven down until equilibrium is reached. It's just basic economics. The glut of goods is not ebay's fault. In the end, sellers will leave ebay because they can't make money and this will correct the "problem" as the market moves to a new equilibrium.
If you're not getting the prices you want on ebay, sell your stuff some other way.
The market is NOT sick at all - it's working precisely as markets should work. You said yourself "glut of DVDs". The DVDs are selling so cheap because there is massive oversupply. That's what's supposed to happen in a free market when there is massive oversupply of a good.
Yes, you ARE grown up at 22, fully responsible for your own actions. Even the nanny state agrees that you're grown up at 22. You may not necessarily be particularly experienced - almost certainly not of child-rearing, but you ARE an adult and you ARE grown up - you are not a child at 22.
You know, if I ever have kids, I'd be relieved if they turned out to be gay - no unexpected teenage pregnancy risk then!
A tidal generator does nothing of the sort. The energy in the tides all gets converted (ultimately) to heat by running in and out of the river mouth you are planning to dam - the energy gets used up by something anyway. All you're doing is relocating where the energy gets absorbed. It would be just like harnessing the energy from the steam coming out of a kettle using a condenser - it won't affect the kettle at all, the energy is going to get lost to the environment anyway whether you hang a condenser in the stream of steam coming from the spout or not. (Note, I'm not talking about turning the kettle into a pressure vessel here, I'm talking about simply hanging some device in the free air above the kettle).
Why ever not? It's clear that supply has increased significantly, but demand hasn't kept pace.
That's how a market works - the fact that sellers need to list something multiple times now on average is a bloody good signal that there's massive oversupply in that market, and the seller should try flogging something else. It's how a market works, and sellers kvetching about it won't change the fact that there's massive oversupply.
iTMS *does* co-operate; that was my whole point. I've come across quite a few things that can only be downloaded from iTMS as a complete album. Basically, the artists who are kvetching about individual track downloads are about 3 years behind the times.
Don't worry - the atmosphere will shield us. If it didn't, life would never have evolved much since each pole flip would have killed everything off.
W3C Schools is very distorted compared to the general populace. The BBC website recently had some stats (was mentioned on Slashdot). Amongst general internet users, Linux had less than half of 1% of the stats share.
The whole thing is a complete red herring - iTunes Music Store *already* has an option to allow a complete album download only.
We have offsite backups but another company is NOT handling them. We just put them at one of our other sites.
In any case, "One Package Manager To Rule Them All" still wouldn't be the panacea people think. Each distro would not only have to use the same package manager, but they would all have to do dependencies in exactly the same way for it to work. This is why many RPMs intended for distro X won't work on distro Y.
.deb etc. are designed for use with software packaged by the distro maker - not third party stuff. Therefore, there isn't really a need for a standard (and no point, so long as there are different distros with different packages and different dependencies).
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For third party stuff, there is Autopackage. When most people go on about the One True Package Manager, generally they are thinking about the ease of installing third party packages. Autopackage does this admirably well - http://autopackage.org/.
The pressure differential is that the airliner has a *higher* pressure inside than the outside atmosphere. It is physically impossible for it to implode because the plane is at a higher pressure inside than the pressure outside. It is not a huge engineering feat to engineer a lightweight structure incredibly strong if it's pressurized inside. Take a soft drinks can. Give it a shake - it doesn't explode despite having a far greater internal pressure than any airliner. The only reason you can stack soft drink cans so high is the pressure inside *supports* the can.
The pressure differential is in any case much smaller than going deep under the ocean - you're talking of about 10psi, not the hundreds of psi you get under water.
Skydivers don't fly in pressurized planes. Airliners aren't the only kind of planes. Around 90% of aircraft in the USA are _not_ pressurized - most planes in the USA are light piston aircraft that never fly much above 10,000 feet above sea level.
In the odd specialty big skydive (like the Boeing 727 they had at Quincy) has the rear end opened (the 727 has a rear tailcone exit, that's why it was used for the big skydiving drop) and is not pressurized.
I thought the passengers had used the phones that come in the seat backs of most flights these days.
Well, except that perhaps most species now are intermediate. Viable species that are still evolving are by definition intermediate.
As for fish with legs - the axolotl comes pretty damned close. We had an axolotl in our school biology labs - about a foot long. It's carnivorous, has legs and gills, and lives underwater. It seems to be a proto-amphibian.