>If the world fuel "economy" switches to hydrogen,
>what happens to the countries which sole income is
>provided by oil and fossil fuels?
In almost all of these countries, the income generated by oil goes to a few people and to western oil companies and is not invested in meaningful development. The world's biggest oil producer, saudi arabia, is one of the most medieval country there is , and calling it stable sounds like a very bad joke.
The oil economy does infinitely more harm than good both to those who have it and to those who don't. Getting rid of it would be a blessing.
Maybe not for Norway. But all rules need an exception.
In my experience Mathematicians and Chess Players tend to develop different sorts of mental quirks. Math is one of the least competitive research discipline there is, if only for the reason that mathematicians need much less funding than physicist or molecular biologists, whereas Chess is all about competition.
I have known both professional mathematicians and professional chess players, and if I have noticed that some mathematicians become asocial when they get to concerned by the problem they are studying and pretty much lose all social ego, the chess players are all dealing with the pressure of tournament where they all have very good training and techniques and a lot boils down to convincing yourself that 'your brain is better than other people's brains'. Modest chess players do not make it, and hyperinflated ego naturally drift toward paranoia.
navigating through the flash rubbish you can reach
a list of team members that includes steve smale from berkeley and richard stanley from MIT who both
are existing senior academics.
so either someone has lent their names to weirdoes without paying attention or there is something of substance hidden behind the PR ugliness. after all the PR is aimed toward investors, not toward sentient human beings, and is most probably not under the control of the scientific team.
>The only way to secure one against these kinds of >attacks is to completely exterminate those who >would commit them. This is most definetely war, >and we have the means to put an end to this, >perminently.
will you kill the one billion muslims?
or only the few millions who believe anything american is satanical?
but then don't you think the 900 and something millions muslims left would retaliate?
cygwin is a projects whose contributors are well defined. it is a port of the GNU tools for windows which is maintained by Redhat employees. The GNU tools are due to the FSF which welcomes donations. Redhat is a public company. One way to show your appreciation for their work is to buy their stock.
I do not think any open-source programmer in their
right mind should bother with that. Everybody now
knows that mixing text editing and layout processing is a BAD thing. Content and form should be separated.
We have a majority of the population which is mistrained and thinks wysiwyg is simpler and easier whereas it only gives users the feeling they can do things without any training and actually makes doing things well and efficiently impossible.
DO NOT DO IT. What the word needs is a good stylesheet editor.
>BTW, what Linus Torvalds did is reverse engineer the AT&T UNIX kernel (major league task). IMHO that is not "writing from scratch" which
suggests creating something completely new.
if this includes the yahoo email service it means that you will be able to check your email from any farm lost in the pyrenees and tell your colleagues at work how good the goat cheese is. ---
It is hard to guess whether this would have a chance to pass since the 400+ other members of parliaments basically have no clue on the issue.
It has much more chance to pass in France than in the US since french politicians are much less influenced by corporate lobbyists (there is a very strict control on campaign $$). I'd say it will depend on media mostly. If i were microsoft I'd hire a few PR people for france NOW. ---
the highest elevation point in the tuvalu is 5m. In most of the global warming scenarios, the tuvalu islands are pointed as the most threatened country (higher temperature=>ice melting=>higher sea level). Does the domain name still exist when the country no longer does?
Or maybe they intend to use those 50 millions to get themselves a few levees around the island where the govt stays... ---
The cluster will be built by quadrics who built a 128 nodes alpha cluster for Sandia Labs, of which they have a good picture on their Company Overview webpage. ---
Building a house is quite a different activity from producing scientific results. The facts exposed in a scientific paper are supposed to be reproductible by anybody. The fact that people need to believe in Maple in order to believe in my results is not something i like. And testing won't help much. What do i compare Maple's results to if it is the only tool i have? I might be a bit stiff on my principles but... ---
Looks like there is a handful of projects in the open source world that deal with these issues. It would be good to have a review and/or directory of these, to know which project has which feature and maybe run a few benchmarks, as well as prevent people to re-invent the wheel when they need a functionality.
I am sure there are problems for which the $$ Maple or Mathematica ask for are worth it, but it is hard to know exactly which problems, and why they are not tackled by open source projects.
SAL.kachinatech.org works well as a directory but hardly does any review of the listed projects. ---
Until recently, Maxima was property of the US DOE, and they required a licence to use it, which prohibited using it officially. The maintainer, William F Shelter recently got permission from the DOE to distribute it under the GPL.
This is very good news and should have been a slashdot item by itself. Maxima is written in LISP ---
Having the source available is much more than a detail if you want to use software as a tool for research. If you use Maple to produce a scientific result it means the validity of your result depends on the correctness of Maple's code, which is something you do not have access to. I do not like that idea, personnaly.
not that i would really check the source code, but it is good to know i would be able to ---
Pari is a really impressive piece of software, but its focus is quite clearly on number theory and algebraic geometry. If you do not know what a groebner base is you do not need it. ---
French power is 220V/50Hz and the plugs are different. Your Laptop will most probably deal with the power difference but if i were you I'd buy an adaptor. You do not want to burn your laptop.
Our sockets are weird, but all you need is a plug adaptor and I do think many hotels will have RJ45 plugs.
France has free ISPs (free.fr).
Paris has cybercafes, and there is free net access in the public library of the pompidou center.
If all you want is send a few quick mails, there are computer shops who do provide net access and scanners/printers. They are usually located close to university campus. French universities are free and poor. They have very few computer labs, so students use commercial services.
I wonder why this lawsuit made it to the news in a british newspapers and not in the french ones. It was not in Le Monde last night nor the night before. And Le Monde does have a lot of briefs. Would this lawsuit be a media coup aimed at british taxpayers who pay for a spying system that spies on Airbus, which is an european consortium, and hence has british employees? Dr Lolo ---
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>If the world fuel "economy" switches to hydrogen,
>what happens to the countries which sole income is
>provided by oil and fossil fuels?
In almost all of these countries, the income generated by oil goes to a few people and to western oil companies and is not invested in meaningful development. The world's biggest oil producer, saudi arabia, is one of the most medieval country there is , and calling it stable sounds like a very bad joke.
The oil economy does infinitely more harm than good both to those who have it and to those who don't. Getting rid of it would be a blessing.
Maybe not for Norway. But all rules need an exception.
In my experience Mathematicians and Chess Players tend to develop different sorts of mental quirks. Math is one of the least competitive research discipline there is, if only for the reason that mathematicians need much less funding than physicist or molecular biologists, whereas Chess is all about competition.
I have known both professional mathematicians and professional chess players, and if I have noticed that some mathematicians become asocial when they get to concerned by the problem they are studying and pretty much lose all social ego, the chess players are all dealing with the pressure of tournament where they all have very good training and techniques and a lot boils down to convincing yourself that 'your brain is better than other people's brains'. Modest chess players do not make it, and hyperinflated ego naturally drift toward paranoia.
navigating through the flash rubbish you can reach a list of team members that includes steve smale from berkeley and richard stanley from MIT who both are existing senior academics.
so either someone has lent their names to weirdoes without paying attention or there is something of substance hidden behind the PR ugliness. after all the PR is aimed toward investors, not toward sentient human beings, and is most probably not under the control of the scientific team.
many western african countries use the 'franc CFA' as currency, which was linked to the franc and is now linked to the euro.
>The only way to secure one against these kinds of >attacks is to completely exterminate those who >would commit them. This is most definetely war, >and we have the means to put an end to this, >perminently.
will you kill the one billion muslims?
or only the few millions who believe anything american is satanical?
but then don't you think the 900 and something millions muslims left would retaliate?
the red army fought afghanistan for years, and they were not exactly non-trained boy scouts.
remember vietnam?
if the US declares war against afghanistan YOU will have to get the combat boots on and go there.
do you really want to?
cygwin is a projects whose contributors are well defined. it is a port of the GNU tools for windows which is maintained by Redhat employees. The GNU tools are due to the FSF which welcomes donations. Redhat is a public company. One way to show your appreciation for their work is to buy their stock.
it takes about 5 minutes to set-up a yahoo club and put the pictures there.
I do not think any open-source programmer in their right mind should bother with that. Everybody now knows that mixing text editing and layout processing is a BAD thing. Content and form should be separated.
We have a majority of the population which is mistrained and thinks wysiwyg is simpler and easier whereas it only gives users the feeling they can do things without any training and actually makes doing things well and efficiently impossible.
DO NOT DO IT. What the word needs is a good stylesheet editor.
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>BTW, what Linus Torvalds did is reverse engineer the AT&T UNIX kernel (major league task). IMHO that is not "writing from scratch" which
suggests creating something completely new.
no...linux was an extension of minix.
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>Well, it's not like there are any good >alternatives to Forte C++ compiler on Solaris.
are you kidding? Forte C++ is a bloated buggy piece of nightmare....we lost about one month trying to use it and reverted to gcc/g++
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if this includes the yahoo email service it means that you will be able to check your email from any farm lost in the pyrenees and tell your colleagues at work how good the goat cheese is.
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it runs on pretty much evrything from amiga to VAXes.
Laurent
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It is hard to guess whether this would have a chance to pass since the 400+ other members of parliaments basically have no clue on the issue.
It has much more chance to pass in France than in the US since french politicians are much less influenced by corporate lobbyists (there is a very strict control on campaign $$). I'd say it will depend on media mostly. If i were microsoft I'd hire a few PR people for france NOW.
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the highest elevation point in the tuvalu is 5m. In most of the global warming scenarios, the tuvalu islands are pointed as the most threatened country (higher temperature=>ice melting=>higher sea level). Does the domain name still exist when the country no longer does?
Or maybe they intend to use those 50 millions to get themselves a few levees around the island where the govt stays...
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The cluster will be built by quadrics who built a 128 nodes alpha cluster for Sandia Labs, of which they have a good picture on their Company Overview webpage.
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Building a house is quite a different activity from producing scientific results. The facts exposed in a scientific paper are supposed to be reproductible by anybody. The fact that people need to believe in Maple in order to believe in my results is not something i like. And testing won't help much. What do i compare Maple's results to if it is the only tool i have? I might be a bit stiff on my principles but...
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>Maple is dependable. its written by experts, ans >supported by experts. Its a good community
So they say. But how can i believe them if they do not show me the source?
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Looks like there is a handful of projects in the open source world that deal with these issues. It would be good to have a review and/or directory of these, to know which project has which feature and maybe run a few benchmarks, as well as prevent people to re-invent the wheel when they need a functionality.
I am sure there are problems for which the $$ Maple or Mathematica ask for are worth it, but it is hard to know exactly which problems, and why they are not tackled by open source projects.
SAL.kachinatech.org works well as a directory but hardly does any review of the listed projects.
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Until recently, Maxima was property of the US DOE, and they required a licence to use it, which prohibited using it officially. The maintainer, William F Shelter recently got permission from the DOE to distribute it under the GPL.
This is very good news and should have been a slashdot item by itself.
Maxima is written in LISP
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Having the source available is much more than a detail if you want to use software as a tool for research. If you use Maple to produce a scientific result it means the validity of your result depends on the correctness of Maple's code, which is something you do not have access to. I do not like that idea, personnaly.
not that i would really check the source code, but it is good to know i would be able to
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Pari is a really impressive piece of software, but its focus is quite clearly on number theory and algebraic geometry. If you do not know what a groebner base is you do not need it.
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GINAC is a C++ GPL-ed library. It is far from complete, but the design seems very sound.
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French power is 220V/50Hz and the plugs are different. Your Laptop will most probably deal with the power difference but if i were you I'd buy an adaptor. You do not want to burn your laptop.
Our sockets are weird, but all you need is a plug adaptor and I do think many hotels will have RJ45 plugs.
France has free ISPs (free.fr).
Paris has cybercafes, and there is free net access in the public library of the pompidou center.
If all you want is send a few quick mails, there are computer shops who do provide net access and scanners/printers. They are usually located close to university campus. French universities are free and poor. They have very few computer labs, so students use commercial services.
Bon voyage
Laurent
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I wonder why this lawsuit made it to the news in a british newspapers and not in the french ones. It was not in Le Monde last night nor the night before. And Le Monde does have a lot of briefs. Would this lawsuit be a media coup aimed at british taxpayers who pay for a spying system that spies on Airbus, which is an european consortium, and hence has british employees? Dr Lolo
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