Don't have modpoints, would upvote, because I use this app myself. It appears to work almost like a CUPS printer driver installed on the android phone/tablet. It's worth the few dollars/euros, and the free version is good enough if you don't print more than three documents per day.
you will have to use it until the end of the month
Not quite true, the 1 GB option is valid for 30 days, and the thirty day period can start and end on any day of the month. This is their price list, sorry, German only: Price List In my case, activating the 1 GB option for my existing simyo prepaid SIM card took about a day.
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You'll see computers from Fraunhofer affiliates all over the world taking a peek at what you're downloading.
Does this mean Fraunhofer's merry band of teutonic scientists can be both co-defendants and expert-witnesses in your case?
No, it could also mean that Fraunhofer's merry band of teutonic scientists is no different than other people in their usage of P2P networks. The fact that computers from some Fraunhofer Institute shows up in some IP list doesn't mean they are on the network to monitor others or operate fake servers. Many of their scientists do research in other fields than compression technology/piracy tracking (http://www.fraunhofer.de/fhg/EN/research/index.js p), for what sane reason would they be tracking you?
Most of the functionality is written in PP, a PDL-specific metalanguage that handles the vectorization of simple C snippets and interfaces them with the perl host language via Perl's XS compiler. Some modules are written in FORTRAN, with a C/PP interface layer. Many of the supplied functions are written in PDL itself.
And to take it even further, (real ?) science does not even bother with the distinction between the different terms, just with the distinction of scientific or non-scientific theories:
Some philosophers argue, that a theory can be called scientific only if it is falsifiable. Meaning, that in principle an experiment or an observation can be created to test the theory.
It's possible to argue in the following way: A theory could be called "true", until proven otherwise. But in order to be even considered to be "true", it must be scientific, that is, falisifiable (an observation can in principle be given that may prove if the theory is false)
After all, if one sets light to petrol one gets more energy out than a match puts in.
That is only true if you don't consider the chemically stored energy (within the petrol) in your energy balance. Wrong frame of reference. I'm pretty sure P&F ruled such a setting out - this is too important to ignore something from "Thermodynamics 101".
But the water that is being pumped from the lake may very well be replaced by (surrounding) warmer water. The backflow of treated water is only half of the story. But then again, it all depends on the scale. How much water is actually being taken, in comparison to the overall reservoir of cold water.
Well, that "worst" summary for reiserfs/reiser4_extents at the bonnie++ benchmark needs to be moderated a bit: reiserfs4 outperforms every other file system in its "read" capabilities. It is "worst" when it comes to CPU usage, though - but a core capability such as "read" may be a little more important.
Absolutely true. In fact, the size fraction having harmful effect on human health is the one with particle diameters around 1 micrometers. This is true for most airborne particles - in addition to silica, diesel soot is one of the prominent examples. Particles with diameters lower than one micron are usually exhaled faster - they are carried along with the air leaving your lungs. The particles with diameters much larger than one micron usually don't make it that far into your lungs - they are deposited early during inhalation and get carried out. But usually the size fraction around one micron travels deep and far into the lung, gets deposited and thus gets a chance to interact with lung tissue.
Check out this site (german only, sorry). It describes a similar system, Wahlstreet, which was used to predict voter opinion during the 2002 Bundestag elections in Germany. People traded shares of the parties taking part in elections. The idea of these types of markets is that stock trading does in fact give a really good image of people's opinion. After all, it is about YOUR money if you voice your opinion. The results of the Wahlstreet project support this theory: The final poll results were consistent with the election results. In fact, Wahlstreet scored second place in a comparison of the difference between election and survey results of this and some other (conventional) survey institutions.
He is probably using some kind of GIS (Geographical Information System). Used by a lot of industries (water & power distribution networks, zoning boards come to mind). Data is entered in layers (e.g. one for the water distribution system, one for the streets etc). Pretty nifty stuff.
The effort it takes to create a copy of a piece of software is so small, unless artificial restrictions (copy protection add-ons, laws) are imposed. And frankly, if you need to spend the larger part of your development time to create "prevention mechanisms", something is wrong with that business model (we are not there yet, but I think it is likely). After all, the productive part of your development work is the real value you create. So in my opinion the software business in the foreseeable future may not survive as a "production" industry, but rather as a service business. I imagine it like this: the product - the piece of software the developer creates - becomes secondary to the know-how required to actually be able to write a piece of software, or to extend it. A coder then would offer this knowledge as a service. A business model for this type of enterprise probably already exists among those companies creating open source (GPLed) software. One example springs into my mind - the guy who wrote snort. IIRC he makes money by selling his security knowledge - the tool he created is just that - a tool, or a platform for his services, but not a product.
While it is true that Dresden is located in the valley of the river Elbe (which caused the floods you mentioned), Fab 30 is a few miles outside Dresden, well above the highest possible flood level.
The city's infrastructure was affected though, which may have caused some trouble for the people working at Fab 30.
However, floods and other unforeseeable events can of course cause a major ripple in the economic situation of an enterprise such as AMD. Sometimes even rumors suffice...
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Don't have modpoints, would upvote, because I use this app myself.
It appears to work almost like a CUPS printer driver installed on the android phone/tablet. It's worth the few dollars/euros, and the free version is good enough if you don't print more than three documents per day.
you will have to use it until the end of the month
Not quite true, the 1 GB option is valid for 30 days, and the thirty day period can start and end on any day of the month.
This is their price list, sorry, German only:
Price List
In my case, activating the 1 GB option for my existing simyo prepaid SIM card took about a day.
No, it could also mean that Fraunhofer's merry band of teutonic scientists is no different than other people in their usage of P2P networks. The fact that computers from some Fraunhofer Institute shows up in some IP list doesn't mean they are on the network to monitor others or operate fake servers. Many of their scientists do research in other fields than compression technology/piracy tracking (http://www.fraunhofer.de/fhg/EN/research/index.j
Not quite, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl_Data_Language :
Most of the functionality is written in PP, a PDL-specific metalanguage that handles the vectorization of simple C snippets and interfaces them with the perl host language via Perl's XS compiler. Some modules are written in FORTRAN, with a C/PP interface layer. Many of the supplied functions are written in PDL itself.
And to take it even further, (real ?) science does not even bother with the distinction between the different terms, just with the distinction of scientific or non-scientific theories:
Some philosophers argue, that a theory can be called scientific only if it is falsifiable. Meaning, that in principle an experiment or an observation can be created to test the theory.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsifiability
It's possible to argue in the following way: A theory could be called "true", until proven otherwise. But in order to be even considered to be "true", it must be scientific, that is, falisifiable (an observation can in principle be given that may prove if the theory is false)
After all, if one sets light to petrol one gets more energy out than a match puts in.
That is only true if you don't consider the chemically stored energy (within the petrol) in your energy balance. Wrong frame of reference. I'm pretty sure P&F ruled such a setting out - this is too important to ignore something from "Thermodynamics 101".
But the water that is being pumped from the lake may very well be replaced by (surrounding) warmer water. The backflow of treated water is only half of the story.
But then again, it all depends on the scale. How much water is actually being taken, in comparison to the overall reservoir of cold water.
If it is the Calvin and Hobbes quote you are referring to, this is where it is from: Scientific Progress goes "Boink?", first published 01/10/1990 :)
Well, that "worst" summary for reiserfs/reiser4_extents at the bonnie++ benchmark needs to be moderated a bit: reiserfs4 outperforms every other file system in its "read" capabilities. It is "worst" when it comes to CPU usage, though - but a core capability such as "read" may be a little more important.
Absolutely true.
In fact, the size fraction having harmful effect on human health is the one with particle diameters around 1 micrometers. This is true for most airborne particles - in addition to silica, diesel soot is one of the prominent examples.
Particles with diameters lower than one micron are usually exhaled faster - they are carried along with the air leaving your lungs. The particles with diameters much larger than one micron usually don't make it that far into your lungs - they are deposited early during inhalation and get carried out.
But usually the size fraction around one micron travels deep and far into the lung, gets deposited and thus gets a chance to interact with lung tissue.
Sounds like a technological fix to a legal problem. Not good. Makes it worse.
Check out this site (german only, sorry). It describes a similar system, Wahlstreet, which was used to predict voter opinion during the 2002 Bundestag elections in Germany. People traded shares of the parties taking part in elections.
The idea of these types of markets is that stock trading does in fact give a really good image of people's opinion. After all, it is about YOUR money if you voice your opinion.
The results of the Wahlstreet project support this theory: The final poll results were consistent with the election results. In fact, Wahlstreet scored second place in a comparison of the difference between election and survey results of this and some other (conventional) survey institutions.
He is probably using some kind of GIS (Geographical Information System). Used by a lot of industries (water & power distribution networks, zoning boards come to mind). Data is entered in layers (e.g. one for the water distribution system, one for the streets etc). Pretty nifty stuff.
The effort it takes to create a copy of a piece of software is so small, unless artificial restrictions (copy protection add-ons, laws) are imposed. And frankly, if you need to spend the larger part of your development time to create "prevention mechanisms", something is wrong with that business model (we are not there yet, but I think it is likely). After all, the productive part of your development work is the real value you create.
So in my opinion the software business in the foreseeable future may not survive as a "production" industry, but rather as a service business. I imagine it like this: the product - the piece of software the developer creates - becomes secondary to the know-how required to actually be able to write a piece of software, or to extend it. A coder then would offer this knowledge as a service.
A business model for this type of enterprise probably already exists among those companies creating open source (GPLed) software. One example springs into my mind - the guy who wrote snort. IIRC he makes money by selling his security knowledge - the tool he created is just that - a tool, or a platform for his services, but not a product.
While it is true that Dresden is located in the valley of the river Elbe (which caused the floods you mentioned), Fab 30 is a few miles outside Dresden, well above the highest possible flood level.
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The city's infrastructure was affected though, which may have caused some trouble for the people working at Fab 30.
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPress
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However, floods and other unforeseeable events can of course cause a major ripple in the economic situation of an enterprise such as AMD. Sometimes even rumors suffice...