There's Jabber servers aplenty, but lets see anyone join that disjointed mess into something cohesive. That's the real fragmentation.
While there is slight differences in what each jabber server software supports, jabber servers do talk to each other quite nicely.
It works like email. If I am romeo@montague.org, I can send a message to juliet@capulet.org. The message will go to montague.org, which will open a connection to capulet.org, and then capulet.org will send a message to juliet.
Other than gmail, I can't think of a jabber implimentation that doesn't support S2S communication. After all, S2S communication is part of the jabber spec.
You may call it fragmentation. Fine. I think its a sane system.
Under windows, if you want your IM to always work, with all bells and whistles, you have to go with the vender-supplied IM client. If, ghod forbid, you can't get all of your contacts to use the same IM system, you either have to use some third-party client like Gaim that occasionally breaks, or use multiple clients.
Under linux, if you want your IM to always work, you have to use the official client from the vender, and hopefully your vender makes a client for linux, or at least a java client. If you want to use multiple networks, you are stuck in the same boat as windows.
Wowee, big difference.
Or else you could have everyone use jabber, which works under both platforms, but has somewhat spotty server features.
According to the Vatican, head of the Roman Catholic Church, evolution is "virtually certain", in the words of the International Theological Commission.
According to the latest Pope, the Christian story of Genesis and evolution are complementary realities -- Genesis explains the why, while evolution tries to explain the mechanism by how it happened.
If the EU runs the Internet, would they ban holocaust denial or other forms of "hate speech" which are a crime in the EU?
While I don't agree with any of those groups, I'm rather fond of free speech.
(Personally, I think the US should have.com,.net, etc (due to ARPA's legacy), and every country should be responsible for their own country TLD. So Russia would be responsible for.ru, US would be responsible for.us, and Columbia would be responsible for.co, etc.)
The exercise may have been just about researching and citing sources.
In which case, (to the school) it doesn't matter what sources she cited, as long as she is does it in the right way.
In which case, if she cited the book "Atlanta: The Lost Continent" and "How Aliens Built the Pyramids", her paper would be okay, as long as the citation was okay.
Kurzweil: "The self-cloning milk in that glass will replicate thanks to nanobots and end world hunger."
I'll tell you a secret: The world produces enough food to feed everyone.
But some of that food is fed to livestock to create other food (which isn't an efficient task). And a lot of food doesn't get to where its going because of corrupt governments and economic factors.
Which is probably the problem right there -- we have the technology to make the world a pretty nice place. But we don't. Magical future technology is unlikely to change our behavior.
If we are suggesting advice from dead Americans, don't forget Benjamin Franklin.
Franklin had the habit of doing at least one task publicly -- for example, sending himself to pick up supplies, instead of using an employee. He tried to cultivate an image of being a hard worker.
Franklin seemed to think that not only did you have to be a hard worker, but others needed to know you were a hard worker, to be successful.
The Honda Insight in brutally cold weather is still better for fuel economy than almost any non-hybrid in ideal driving weather.
I'm from Minnesota. I've personally watched a temperature reading cycle between -40F to -40C. That's without windchill.:)
Incidentally, I tend to drive older vehicles. I still have a 25 year old junker truck that I occasionally drive. I once sat down and figured out how much CO2 is used to manufacture a new car, and how much that truck pollutes. For the amount of miles I put on the truck's odometer, I'd have to drive it 10 years just to offset the CO2 created in manufacturing a new vehicle.
I won't buy a hybrid in the foreseeable future, because (1) I tend to buy older cars, and there are few hybrids available in that age range and (2) complexity and rarity. If I can avoid the whole hybrid complexity, its more likely that I can repair the vehicle myself. If the vehicle is common, then junkyards will have cheap parts.
Two decades ago, RMS was a nut who talked about making a free clone of UNIX.
With a few notable exceptions (such as Gnu Hurd), that task was accomplished. Even today, GNU software makes up a large portion of most modern Linux distributions, and the GNU Compiler Collection is even used to compile the open source BSDs.
So he's a talented nut, but he still had strange ideas about how corporations and government would control the right to access media.
Now, with Trusted Computing, DMCA, Broadcast Flags, DRM, etc, he doesn't sound that strange anymore, does he?
Yes, 10 years ago, RMS was paranoid in most peoples' opinion. Now, in hindsight, it seems he had a good prediction of the future.
You forget something -- a coal power plant has to transport a lot more fuel than a nuclear power plant.
A quick and dirty calculation: Fuel costs for a nuclear power plant is half of the fuel costs for a coal power plant. Assuming that the cost of fuel can be directly translated to the energy costs to mine/refine/transport that fuel, then coal takes much more energy than nuclear fuel. More energy being used tends to result in more CO2.
Its a rough estimate, and being a back of the envelope calculation, it doesn't prove anything, but it seems to strongly hint that coal produces much more CO2 than Nuclear.
If you did manage to sever the cable near the bottom, the space elevator will just lift up until it reaches geosynchronis orbit.
If its cut father up, from the studies I've seen, most designs have the space elevator burning up in the atmosphere or falling gently down to earth. (Remember, carbon nanotubes aren't high-density, and the cable does not have heat-resistant reentry tiles).
I think a bigger issue is if a space elevator is even possible. Yes, it looks good on paper. But we don't have enough carbon nanotubes to observe how long cables react. It would be nice to have experimental evidence to back up our calculations.
Assume that you get 3 movies out each week from Netflix for $17.99. That's $215.88/year, and with 52.18 weeks in the year, that's 156.54 movies a year, for the cost of $1.38/movie.
Peerflix costs about the same ($.99 + $.37 = $1.36/movie).
So what is better? If I wanted to rent movies, I'd use Netflix. If I wanted to own movies by trading out movies I don't like in my collection, I'd use Peerflix.
Disclaimer: Happy Netflix customer.;) I prefer to rent, not own.
There is nothing magical about the word "fuck". We could have easily called a chair "fuck", and use "chair" as a curse word. In most languages, "fuck" is not an offensive sound.
So if you have taught yourself that "darn" is a curse word, then I'm going to assume that "darn" will trigger the same response as "fuck" in most people.
This is more offensive because it encourages you to use your rights under the first-sale doctrine.
It also pisses them off because no money flows to them. Netflix and every video store also annoys them, but its (mostly) too late to stop that, at least in the short term.
They won't be happy until they get a fee everytime a person views their movie.
Perhaps you should read http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/G3.html, which goes into quite some depth about the factors for hurricane formation and strength in a warmer world.
Their answer seems to be "we don't know, but our models seem to suggest at most a minor increase which may not be measurable in the real world due to the unpredictability of hurricanes. Oh, and, btw, our models are probably borked because they leave out certain factors..."
Richard Feynman supposedly referred to relying on models as a "disease". As I read more about models, especially climate models, I can see why someone could utter that statement.
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Wow, according to good ol' Jack, Penny-Arcade owns thinkgeek.
Gabe and Tycho are sure going to be surprised...*sigh*
Look at a map of Africa. A map of the elevation of Africa.
Now look at IPCC's reports. They are predicting an .88M maximum rise in 2100, and a .09M minimum rise. Less than 3 feet.
While the rising sea levels will have some effect in a few countries (mainly to storm-surge flooding), we won't see massive flooding in Africa.
Waterworld wasn't a documentary about the future. It was fiction.
Even if the icecaps melt, the planet will not be underwater.
While there is slight differences in what each jabber server software supports, jabber servers do talk to each other quite nicely.
It works like email. If I am romeo@montague.org, I can send a message to juliet@capulet.org. The message will go to montague.org, which will open a connection to capulet.org, and then capulet.org will send a message to juliet.
Other than gmail, I can't think of a jabber implimentation that doesn't support S2S communication. After all, S2S communication is part of the jabber spec.
You may call it fragmentation. Fine. I think its a sane system.
Every OS sucks.
Under windows, if you want your IM to always work, with all bells and whistles, you have to go with the vender-supplied IM client. If, ghod forbid, you can't get all of your contacts to use the same IM system, you either have to use some third-party client like Gaim that occasionally breaks, or use multiple clients.
Under linux, if you want your IM to always work, you have to use the official client from the vender, and hopefully your vender makes a client for linux, or at least a java client. If you want to use multiple networks, you are stuck in the same boat as windows.
Wowee, big difference.
Or else you could have everyone use jabber, which works under both platforms, but has somewhat spotty server features.
According to the Vatican, head of the Roman Catholic Church, evolution is "virtually certain", in the words of the International Theological Commission.
According to the latest Pope, the Christian story of Genesis and evolution are complementary realities -- Genesis explains the why, while evolution tries to explain the mechanism by how it happened.
If the EU runs the Internet, would they ban holocaust denial or other forms of "hate speech" which are a crime in the EU?
While I don't agree with any of those groups, I'm rather fond of free speech.
(Personally, I think the US should have .com, .net, etc (due to ARPA's legacy), and every country should be responsible for their own country TLD. So Russia would be responsible for .ru, US would be responsible for .us, and Columbia would be responsible for .co, etc.)
If you ever visit some parts of the world, you are going to have a big surprise...
The exercise may have been just about researching and citing sources.
In which case, (to the school) it doesn't matter what sources she cited, as long as she is does it in the right way.
In which case, if she cited the book "Atlanta: The Lost Continent" and "How Aliens Built the Pyramids", her paper would be okay, as long as the citation was okay.
You might want to make a backup as well.
No, no. £3 = US$5.28
Assuming 3 movies/week from Netflix for the $20 plan (including tax), you get 3 Netflix disks for the same price.
Plus the mailman automatically empties the collection can for used disks.
Obviously, Netflix is second generation technology. :)
I'll tell you a secret: The world produces enough food to feed everyone.
But some of that food is fed to livestock to create other food (which isn't an efficient task). And a lot of food doesn't get to where its going because of corrupt governments and economic factors.
Which is probably the problem right there -- we have the technology to make the world a pretty nice place. But we don't. Magical future technology is unlikely to change our behavior.
Isn't this the same flaw Windows has?
If we are suggesting advice from dead Americans, don't forget Benjamin Franklin.
Franklin had the habit of doing at least one task publicly -- for example, sending himself to pick up supplies, instead of using an employee. He tried to cultivate an image of being a hard worker.
Franklin seemed to think that not only did you have to be a hard worker, but others needed to know you were a hard worker, to be successful.
I'm from Minnesota. I've personally watched a temperature reading cycle between -40F to -40C. That's without windchill. :)
Incidentally, I tend to drive older vehicles. I still have a 25 year old junker truck that I occasionally drive. I once sat down and figured out how much CO2 is used to manufacture a new car, and how much that truck pollutes. For the amount of miles I put on the truck's odometer, I'd have to drive it 10 years just to offset the CO2 created in manufacturing a new vehicle.
I won't buy a hybrid in the foreseeable future, because (1) I tend to buy older cars, and there are few hybrids available in that age range and (2) complexity and rarity. If I can avoid the whole hybrid complexity, its more likely that I can repair the vehicle myself. If the vehicle is common, then junkyards will have cheap parts.
Just my $.02
Two decades ago, RMS was a nut who talked about making a free clone of UNIX.
With a few notable exceptions (such as Gnu Hurd), that task was accomplished. Even today, GNU software makes up a large portion of most modern Linux distributions, and the GNU Compiler Collection is even used to compile the open source BSDs.
So he's a talented nut, but he still had strange ideas about how corporations and government would control the right to access media.
Now, with Trusted Computing, DMCA, Broadcast Flags, DRM, etc, he doesn't sound that strange anymore, does he?
Yes, 10 years ago, RMS was paranoid in most peoples' opinion. Now, in hindsight, it seems he had a good prediction of the future.
Just my $.02...
Why does it seem that whenever the subject of Microsoft finances comes up, they always seem to have a warchest of $40 billion?
Is an old figure being reused, are they just breaking even, or do they spend anything over $40 billion on different projects?
You forget something -- a coal power plant has to transport a lot more fuel than a nuclear power plant.
A quick and dirty calculation: Fuel costs for a nuclear power plant is half of the fuel costs for a coal power plant. Assuming that the cost of fuel can be directly translated to the energy costs to mine/refine/transport that fuel, then coal takes much more energy than nuclear fuel. More energy being used tends to result in more CO2.
Its a rough estimate, and being a back of the envelope calculation, it doesn't prove anything, but it seems to strongly hint that coal produces much more CO2 than Nuclear.
If you did manage to sever the cable near the bottom, the space elevator will just lift up until it reaches geosynchronis orbit.
If its cut father up, from the studies I've seen, most designs have the space elevator burning up in the atmosphere or falling gently down to earth. (Remember, carbon nanotubes aren't high-density, and the cable does not have heat-resistant reentry tiles).
Wikipedia has more info as well as links.
I think a bigger issue is if a space elevator is even possible. Yes, it looks good on paper. But we don't have enough carbon nanotubes to observe how long cables react. It would be nice to have experimental evidence to back up our calculations.
Different strokes for different folks.
Assume that you get 3 movies out each week from Netflix for $17.99. That's $215.88/year, and with 52.18 weeks in the year, that's 156.54 movies a year, for the cost of $1.38/movie.
Peerflix costs about the same ($.99 + $.37 = $1.36/movie).
So what is better? If I wanted to rent movies, I'd use Netflix. If I wanted to own movies by trading out movies I don't like in my collection, I'd use Peerflix.
Disclaimer: Happy Netflix customer. ;) I prefer to rent, not own.
There is nothing magical about the word "fuck". We could have easily called a chair "fuck", and use "chair" as a curse word. In most languages, "fuck" is not an offensive sound.
So if you have taught yourself that "darn" is a curse word, then I'm going to assume that "darn" will trigger the same response as "fuck" in most people.
This is more offensive because it encourages you to use your rights under the first-sale doctrine.
It also pisses them off because no money flows to them. Netflix and every video store also annoys them, but its (mostly) too late to stop that, at least in the short term.
They won't be happy until they get a fee everytime a person views their movie.
Greedy bastards, aren't they?
Perhaps you should read http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/G3.html, which goes into quite some depth about the factors for hurricane formation and strength in a warmer world.
Their answer seems to be "we don't know, but our models seem to suggest at most a minor increase which may not be measurable in the real world due to the unpredictability of hurricanes. Oh, and, btw, our models are probably borked because they leave out certain factors..."
Richard Feynman supposedly referred to relying on models as a "disease". As I read more about models, especially climate models, I can see why someone could utter that statement.