Works here in 5.0.342.9 (43360) Ubuntu when having only one incognito window open, visiting userfrienly.org, zooming, closing chromium completely, then reopening chromium, visiting dilbert.com to make sure the zoom level is not a general setting and then going to userfrienly.org. So yes, chromium must have save the zoom level associated with the website somewhere.
Apple might already be using the accelerometer and gps, and in the future thermometer and gas analyzer, to determine what services you are likely to buy and what happened to the device that might void warranty.
The 'clock' in a dutch auction takes about 30 seconds to go to zero. That means that a sequential auction for 100.000 tickets would take about a month. That should give all people interested ample opportunity to attempt to buy a ticket at the desired price.
However, just like the stock exchange, the day price of a ticket would depend on psychological factors. That means that the price would fluctuate and the a price that is perceived high one day is percieved low another day. This creates opportunity for ticket trading.
A better system for the artists would be to do parallel ebay-style bidding. You start by bidding $10 and if there are less people bidding more than $10 than there are tickets, you get a ticket. At a specified time the bidding is frozen and you either have a ticket or not.
For the concert-goers, this system has the disadvantage that they are not sure of a ticket until the bidding expires.
If you write a novel where you sample from many other books, quoting prominently would be distracting. I'd be ok with a list of sources in the back that points out which snippets came from where. In an electronic version of the book, the reader could configure how to display text fragments that were sampled.
I'm all for creative use of earlier works. Copyright law should not be an artificial obstacle that limits the texts an artist can write. Like in music, sampling significant pieces of text might require monetary compensation.
I'm looking for a similar solution at the moment. I've got my data on a RAID in my desktop machine but want to do supervised mirroring to another disk in another machine. Ideally, I'd let this other machine be always on so I can access my data from anywhere and have it serve as a media player.
The machine must have at least 1TB of disk, an audio output and low power useage and it should be possible to install Linux. Mac Mini is not an option, since I think it is too expensive.
A very similar theory was outlined in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. There, a planet was in apparent danger. The population was to be evacuated to a new planet in three ships. The first ship would contain the leaders, the third ship would contain the workers and artists. The second ship, the B ark containing amongst others hairdressers, tired T.V. producers, and insurance salesmen, personnel officers, was encountered by Arthur and Ford en route to a new planet.
The B ark left first to make sure the population would be comfortably received on the new planet. The other two arks never followed.
boost::thread has a different design concept than QThread. I would appreciate if Qt would introduce a Functor-style API for Threads. Like QtConcurrent?
I'm happy with it. You think it is not sane and lame. Without further information that does not help me. Perhaps you could do a more in depth comparison of Kubuntu with a few other distros that are more sane and less lame. You seem to have made up your conclusion already, but I am nevertheless interested in such a comparison.
MathML has existed for years, so has SVG and still their support in the browsers is very bad. HTML + MathML + SVG + CSS would be very good for writing WYSIWYM (what you see is what you mean) articles. You could even switch between visual editing and editing the code easily.
The UK is also banning people from their country because of their opinion: Dutch anti-Islam MP barred from UK. The man banned is an elected parliamentarian with strong views from the Netherlands. He was banned because his presence would pose a "genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat to one of the fundamental interests of society". All he would be doing would be showing a film. In this film, he makes the claim that the Kuran incites violence. A very obvious claim given the clear text in the book.
Linus will be back. KDE 4.2 is turning out very nice and I'm sure he will give it a try. By upgrading his Fedora he was more or less forced to choose between GNOME 2 or KDE 4.0. Fedora should not have chosen KDE 4.0 over KDE 3.5. Only now with version 4.2 has KDE reached an acceptable level of quality again.
I do not think that being off-topic will stop the post from getting +5 Interesting. Why do you think Theo's creations are not robots? Where does it say robots have to use electrical circuitry? Also, not all robots in the list are from 2008. BigDog was covered on slashdot in 2006.
Theo Jansens Strandbeesten are not mentioned. I'm reading his excellent book 'The Great Pretender' now. There he explains his dream to build autonomous beasts from PVC conduits. He is making good progress. Especially the smooth walking motion is impressive. He did a talk at TED in 2007.
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Nonsense, libc is LGPL. You should read a bit more before you talk rubbish. You are aware that there are currently closed source applications running on Linux, right? Are all of these breaking the GPL or do they magically avoid libc?
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Qt requires people that contribute to give them a permissive license. That is good enough for inclusion of the code in the commercial version.
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Works here in 5.0.342.9 (43360) Ubuntu when having only one incognito window open, visiting userfrienly.org, zooming, closing chromium completely, then reopening chromium, visiting dilbert.com to make sure the zoom level is not a general setting and then going to userfrienly.org. So yes, chromium must have save the zoom level associated with the website somewhere.
Apple might already be using the accelerometer and gps, and in the future thermometer and gas analyzer, to determine what services you are likely to buy and what happened to the device that might void warranty.
The 'clock' in a dutch auction takes about 30 seconds to go to zero. That means that a sequential auction for 100.000 tickets would take about a month. That should give all people interested ample opportunity to attempt to buy a ticket at the desired price.
However, just like the stock exchange, the day price of a ticket would depend on psychological factors. That means that the price would fluctuate and the a price that is perceived high one day is percieved low another day. This creates opportunity for ticket trading.
A better system for the artists would be to do parallel ebay-style bidding. You start by bidding $10 and if there are less people bidding more than $10 than there are tickets, you get a ticket. At a specified time the bidding is frozen and you either have a ticket or not.
For the concert-goers, this system has the disadvantage that they are not sure of a ticket until the bidding expires.
If you write a novel where you sample from many other books, quoting prominently would be distracting. I'd be ok with a list of sources in the back that points out which snippets came from where. In an electronic version of the book, the reader could configure how to display text fragments that were sampled.
I'm all for creative use of earlier works. Copyright law should not be an artificial obstacle that limits the texts an artist can write. Like in music, sampling significant pieces of text might require monetary compensation.
I'm looking for a similar solution at the moment. I've got my data on a RAID in my desktop machine but want to do supervised mirroring to another disk in another machine. Ideally, I'd let this other machine be always on so I can access my data from anywhere and have it serve as a media player.
The machine must have at least 1TB of disk, an audio output and low power useage and it should be possible to install Linux. Mac Mini is not an option, since I think it is too expensive.
The economic model of imperative sharing (copyleft) was developed by Stallman. He deserves the Nobel prize for economics.
I have a midget on each shoulder, much easier and they live on the food in my beard.
A very similar theory was outlined in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. There, a planet was in apparent danger. The population was to be evacuated to a new planet in three ships. The first ship would contain the leaders, the third ship would contain the workers and artists. The second ship, the B ark containing amongst others hairdressers, tired T.V. producers, and insurance salesmen, personnel officers, was encountered by Arthur and Ford en route to a new planet.
The B ark left first to make sure the population would be comfortably received on the new planet. The other two arks never followed.
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Yes, it is a great example of how totally free markets do not work. You need regulation to keep the big companies in check.
No, you still cannot copy it.
That's easy enough to make:
boost::thread has a different design concept than QThread. I would appreciate if Qt
would introduce a Functor-style API for Threads.
Like QtConcurrent?
I'm happy with it. You think it is not sane and lame. Without further information that does not help me. Perhaps you could do a more in depth comparison of Kubuntu with a few other distros that are more sane and less lame. You seem to have made up your conclusion already, but I am nevertheless interested in such a comparison.
or an actor
MathML has existed for years, so has SVG and still their support in the browsers is very bad.
HTML + MathML + SVG + CSS would be very good for writing WYSIWYM (what you see is what you mean) articles.
You could even switch between visual editing and editing the code easily.
The UK is also banning people from their country because of their opinion: Dutch anti-Islam MP barred from UK.
The man banned is an elected parliamentarian with strong views from the Netherlands. He was banned because his presence would pose a "genuine, present and sufficiently serious threat to one of the fundamental interests of society". All he would be doing would be showing a film. In this film, he makes the claim that the Kuran incites violence. A very obvious claim given the clear text in the book.
Not everyone enjoys Dvorak.
In Java you'd need an assign(Object o) function to get the same functionality. Then you could write
void bar(String x)
{
x.assign("cba");
}
There is, however, no assign(Object o). A workaround for the String case would be to use a StringBuilder:
StringBuilder foo = new StringBuilder("abc");
bar(foo);
System.out.println(foo);
void bar(StringBuilder x)
{
x.setLength(0);
x.append("cba");
}
now we know the reason for the ban on smoking in pubs.
Linus will be back. KDE 4.2 is turning out very nice and I'm sure he will give it a try. By upgrading his Fedora he was more or less forced to choose between GNOME 2 or KDE 4.0. Fedora should not have chosen KDE 4.0 over KDE 3.5. Only now with version 4.2 has KDE reached an acceptable level of quality again.
You man like this?
I do not think that being off-topic will stop the post from getting +5 Interesting.
Why do you think Theo's creations are not robots? Where does it say robots have to use electrical circuitry?
Also, not all robots in the list are from 2008. BigDog was covered on slashdot in 2006.
Theo Jansens Strandbeesten are not mentioned. I'm reading his excellent book 'The Great Pretender' now. There he explains his dream to build autonomous beasts from PVC conduits. He is making good progress. Especially the smooth walking motion is impressive.
He did a talk at TED in 2007.
Nonsense, libc is LGPL. You should read a bit more before you talk rubbish.
You are aware that there are currently closed source applications running on Linux, right? Are all of these breaking the GPL or do they magically avoid libc?
Qt requires people that contribute to give them a permissive license. That is good enough for inclusion of the code in the commercial version.