Go to Erlang. It is intended for robust and concurrent (as in webserver) applications. Use yaws as your webserver. Erlang is free as in beer and in speech. It comes with a distributed database, CORBA and many other goodies. Everyone I know that tried it, liked it and prefered it over Java and PHP. The participants on the Erlang mailing lists are very supportive, too.
One could argue that the world-wide telephone network is one large machine as well. And it is in many ways larger than any national electricity network.
Not to mention that there isn't even anything new in this post at all that has been discussed ad nauseum on Slashdot already.
So perhaps there is something new in this post that has NOT been discussed ad nauseum on Slashdot already?
It may be quite hard to find something new that has been discussed ad nauseum on Slashdot already. If it has been discussed ad nauseam on Slashdot already, I would not call it new.
If the USA is a democracy, the people have the power by definition. At least, the people are supposed to rule. Unfortunately in the USA the people rule proportionally (well, not really proportionally perhaps) to their wealth.
So I do not trust the people with power in the USA, because it is not as democratic as it could be...
In an ideal situation, the most wealthy would also pay the most taxes. It could be argued that that would entitle them to more influence on how government money is spent.
On that CNN page, there's a survey asking what you think your knowledge of science is. As of 9.30pm EST, 76% rated themseleves as either very good or excellent. Either:
a) Web surveys are seriously flawed b) Americans think they know everything c) All of the above
or pehaps: d) 76% of the participants of the survey are non-Americans
Since it has BlueTooth, I assume that one could connect any BlueTooth keyboard. Not that I have seen any yet, but I expect that they will become available soon..
Hmm, if you are native american, you are born there. So it could be the parents of the first native americans that discovered America, but there could have been people before that (who did not procreate in America, but went home after setting foot on the continent).
Will the source be admitted as evidence in the case? If so, I can imagine that it should be made public.
I thought it was like that with some lawsuit involving scientology...
They may have to improve SMS maniability as it is far too uncomfortable.
Then perhaps you should buy an Ericsson phone with a chatboard: a small keyboard that you can click into the phone. It makes typing a lot easier. I have had one for years.
Perhaps you do not care about how you are remembered when you are dead, but that does not mean that other people do not care either. Many people spend their lives making a name for themselves, to be remembered, to leave a legacy. These people do care what happens after they are dead. I guess it has to do with a longing for immortality.
You may agree with this or not, but since many people do seem to care, informal rules have been established to make it possible to have some control over one's legacy: "I will respect some else's wishes for when they're dead, hoping that others will do the same for me."
So if you say, that you see no need to honour Mr. Adam's wishes, you break the system. And as long as the majority of the people want the system, I consider it selfish to want to break it.
Theoretically it is possible, since for any finite time, there are only a finite number of programs (especially when disregarding naming) executing within that time. So, once you have found one working program, you can iterate over all programs that execute in less time and find the ones that meet the requirements for the program.
Does this means that tetrachromats will think that colors on TV do not match the real colors of things? Since tetrachromats should be able to distinguish different RGB combinations (having a fourth dimension in which the same RGB combinations may differ), a reproduced color (combination of three colors) can be very different from the original (which produced light of different frequencies but the same RGB sensation).
If more people would be tetrachromats, RGB would not suffice for color TV...
I have not yet seen a clear explanation of how a new color in your retina improves color vision. I am no expert in this field, but I have the following hypothesis. Perhaps somebody can verify if this is true.
Trichromats interpret all colors as a point in three-dimensional color space (RGB, which can be translated into Hue, Saturation, Brightness). Tetrachromats interpret all colors as a point in a four-dimensional space (RGG'B, which can be translated into H + S + B + ??).
Most light sources are not of a single frequency, but a combination of frequencies. That is why you can combine two "colors" to make another. I imagine that if you have a fourth dimension, you could distinguish two combinations of frequencies that are indistinguishable for trichromats.
Trichromats are used to Hue/Saturation/Brightness, but a tetrachromat should have some other dimension, but what is it? If we call this "X", then there are (infinite) combinations of frequencies that produce the same HSB (or RGB) sensation, but a different HSBX sensation.
So tetrachromats cannot see colors in a wider spectrum (i.e. they do not have a wider range for the hue), but they can distinguish different light sources with the same hue, saturation and brightness.
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Its like reality TV, why would my daily business be sitting in an armchair watching other people go about their daily business?
Now I get it: it is a manager's tool!
Go to Erlang. It is intended for robust and concurrent (as in webserver) applications. Use yaws as your webserver.
Erlang is free as in beer and in speech. It comes with a distributed database, CORBA and many other goodies.
Everyone I know that tried it, liked it and prefered it over Java and PHP. The participants on the Erlang mailing lists are very supportive, too.
One could argue that the world-wide telephone network is one large machine as well. And it is in many ways larger than any national electricity network.
Calling Rotterdam just "a port in the Netherlands" is an understatement: Rotterdam is the largest port in the world and has been for some years...
So perhaps there is something new in this post that has NOT been discussed ad nauseum on Slashdot already?
It may be quite hard to find something new that has been discussed ad nauseum on Slashdot already. If it has been discussed ad nauseam on Slashdot already, I would not call it new.
So I do not trust the people with power in the USA, because it is not as democratic as it could be...
In an ideal situation, the most wealthy would also pay the most taxes. It could be argued that that would entitle them to more influence on how government money is spent.
or pehaps:
d) 76% of the participants of the survey are non-Americans
A quick search produced one here.
Since it has BlueTooth, I assume that one could connect any BlueTooth keyboard.
Not that I have seen any yet, but I expect that they will become available soon..
Hmm, if you are native american, you are born there. So it could be the parents of the first native americans that discovered America, but there could have been people before that (who did not procreate in America, but went home after setting foot on the continent).
Will the source be admitted as evidence in the case? If so, I can imagine that it should be made public.
I thought it was like that with some lawsuit involving scientology...
Then perhaps you should buy an Ericsson phone with a chatboard: a small keyboard that you can click into the phone. It makes typing a lot easier. I have had one for years.
Perhaps you do not care about how you are remembered when you are dead, but that does not mean that other people do not care either. Many people spend their lives making a name for themselves, to be remembered, to leave a legacy. These people do care what happens after they are dead. I guess it has to do with a longing for immortality.
You may agree with this or not, but since many people do seem to care, informal rules have been established to make it possible to have some control over one's legacy: "I will respect some else's wishes for when they're dead, hoping that others will do the same for me."
So if you say, that you see no need to honour Mr. Adam's wishes, you break the system. And as long as the majority of the people want the system, I consider it selfish to want to break it.
If you want to make a scalable program that distributes almost transparently, try Erlang instead. Erlang's message passing rules!
Too bad that Ericsson did not release Erlang as Open Source earlier...
Practically, however...
If more people would be tetrachromats, RGB would not suffice for color TV...
*Erik.
Trichromats interpret all colors as a point in three-dimensional color space (RGB, which can be translated into Hue, Saturation, Brightness). Tetrachromats interpret all colors as a point in a four-dimensional space (RGG'B, which can be translated into H + S + B + ??).
Most light sources are not of a single frequency, but a combination of frequencies. That is why you can combine two "colors" to make another. I imagine that if you have a fourth dimension, you could distinguish two combinations of frequencies that are indistinguishable for trichromats.
Trichromats are used to Hue/Saturation/Brightness, but a tetrachromat should have some other dimension, but what is it? If we call this "X", then there are (infinite) combinations of frequencies that produce the same HSB (or RGB) sensation, but a different HSBX sensation.
So tetrachromats cannot see colors in a wider spectrum (i.e. they do not have a wider range for the hue), but they can distinguish different light sources with the same hue, saturation and brightness.
*Erik.