I'm sure there are thousands of people who do. It's usually not a good idea to expect everyone to have a particular level of intelligence, no matter what level you choose.
Perhaps I'm just not enough of a Microsoft-hater, but I fail to see the 'skull fucking' here. What I do see is an angry rant from, I assume, someone who's likely receiving calls from bill collectors in Redmond. I'm sorry that MCP thing didn't work out for you, and if you want to switch from plugging Microsoft products to promoting Open Source Software, than more power to you.
I happen to know that Smári does not work for an MCP. The point of the article is that MS is not working in their own interest in killing off their resellers and in creating extremely ill will and in fact fear of doing business with them in the future.
BTW, I hope if our own economy collapses you're left holding the bag for things you couldn't have foreseen. I will consider that to be justice after your attitude towards others.
What a jerk!!!
I'm Icelandic, and I don't want anyone's economy to collapse. Well, except maybe Britain's a little, but no - ordinary Brits don't deserve that even though they're led by a cluster of turds.
If you have to interoperate with anyone doing high-end Word stuff you might struggle to switch to OOo. But if you can make EVERYONE you deal with use it ALL at once and the formatting stuff isn't that big a deal - then sure, it'll work for you.
The beautiful thing is, that MS is riding Iceland hard enough, that everyone just might. The stragglers may be forced to switch to be able to use those ODF files everyone keeps sending them.
But these are not normal times and especially not in Iceland. Everything is in turmoil. Switching to Ubuntu+OO.o is nothing, and just may keep the company alive until the worst of the horrors are over.
And if everyone does it, and the MCPs are dead and their techies now run OS service companies, why should anyone switch back?
But they are going bankrupt. MS is driving their own customers bankrupt trying to suck out of them money that the final buyers of the licenses can't pay because they have gone bankrupt. Everyone responds by switching to free, and hopefully Free, software.
MS is being stupid and they're letting everyone in a whole country see what they're really about. And if the whole country moves away from MS stuff together, the network effects which have helped MS so much will from then on hurt them.
Of course, the Icelandic software developer I work for has already dropped all MS server software for linux and hosted services and is running a mix of windows, os/x and linux clients.
You've got that completely backwards. We've evolved to use a huge number of beneficial strategies. One such strategy is monogamy in relatively peaceful times, and so when we made up the various religions, we put monogamy in there.
Actually, whether monogamy or polygamy is the optimal strategy may depend on what percentage of the rest of the population follows which strategy.
Perhaps polygamy would be beneficial in a completely monogamous society (they'd never see it coming...), but monogamy beneficial in a completely polygamous society (no.. can't see how.. which frightens me.. where is my girlfriend anyway?).
So, the proportions of those two strategies encoded genetically would tend towards an equilibrium where the strategies are equally beneficial. If either goes above the equilibrium point, then the other becomes advantageous and will increase in the population until the equilibrium is reattained.
That's the mathematics of it. The rest is just some really messy details.
From the question it seems like it's related to a life insurance policy that doesn't pay on suicide, which is the norm. So, the family ought to do a cost-benefit analysis...
I find it inordinately sad if, after their son's/brother's death, the family gets together to do a cost-benefit analysis. There are much more important things to worry about here. By the tone of the original posting, thankfully, I believe the family is human enough to understand this.
I'm sure there is some overhead, but this is the micro editon which is optimized for small devices. It's a sub-set of the language, no garbage collection, no floating point, etc. and a much reduced standard library. All of this will greatly simplify the runtime environment.
Also, JME doesn't do some of the ridiculously complex runtime optimizations that standard java does, most of which are about improving execution speed at the expense of... everything else. This includes startup time and memory usage which is rather impressive on standard java (but sort of getting better with time).
The testing they've done doesn't seem to be useful for determining the power consumption of the system for one simple reason: If you run a program designed to max the CPU throughput, the CPU will use a lot of power. To test actual power usage you'd need to run a particular task, accomplished in a particular time, and then see how much power the machine uses.
Say, you want to compile a small program (if it runs quickly, the cpu will get to rest sooner), perform a list of tasks in gmail (where the CPU can be throttled to save power), etc.
Actually, it turns out my calculations are completely bollocks and the probability that 4 or 5 randomly chosen countries are non-english speaking is much higher. However, I've learned my lesson and am not going to submit any formulae to a forum where I can't correct them when I notice the mistake 3 seconds later.
Correct my North-American egocentrism, but aren't most of the countries listed predominantly non-English speaking?
The thing, though, is that most countries are non-English speaking. You've only got 15 out of 193 countries speaking English (according to Wikipedia) so the probability that at most 1 out of the 5 countries mentioned as having high firefox penetrations (i.e. not counting Europe, Oceania and the Netherlands, but counting Australia) is 5*(15/193)*(178/193)^4=0.259, not unlikely enough to support your theory.
yes, a few hundred miles in the american southwest would do it (anyone objecting to using Texas?), but only if the entire world lived in the american southwest. As it is, energy losses due to transportation are quite significant and hinder an all-out world power source plan.
That's very cute, but the (265mi) figure is purely for illustrative purposes. Nobody is actually considering building such a thing. It's just more succinct than saying "28 squares 50 miles on a side" which might concievably be built or "700 squares 10 miles on a side" which could actually be built or "a few hundred 10-mile squares scattered through the world for where solar power is a better option than hydro, geo-thermal, wind, wave or tidal power." which would actually make sense.
Somehow all this trouble with identity theft seems to be a uniquely US problem.
The EU directive establishes rules for:
how much data can be collected on private persons (as little as possible)
how long it may be kept (only as long as needed)
whom it may be given to (nobody)
guidelines for technical measures to be taken to protect any personally identifiable data collected (stringent - believe me, I worked on fulfilling this for decode genetics and their fabled genetics database)
a national agency to monitor that these rules are followed
But that's really only half the problem. The other, and in my opinion more serious, problem is that this information should be of financial value at all. There simply should be no way to set up a line of credit or make other financial use of an SSN and your mother's maiden name. It's, frankly, preposterous that this is the case.
One of these days some government employee is going to run an errand with a laptop in his car and a lucky car thief will drive off with every single name and Social Security number in the country. You could fit them all on a USB thumb drive. And they could be all over the Internet within hours. It would be game over for Social Security numbers and the rickety infrastructure that has been built on top of them
And the sooner the better. The system is broken in so many different ways that don't affect anyone who has the power to change it that it just needs to burn to the ground for something else to be erected.
Trouble with extracting geothermal energy is that rock is a pretty good insulator. Once you get the first enthusiastic bout of steam and have cooled a few feet of rock around your pipe, the heat leaches back in very slowly
Obviously, that's not how it will be done. In the currently operating hydroelectric plants in Iceland, such as at Svartsengi, they constantly pump water into fissures in the ancient lava flow (5000 to 8000 year old around Reykjavik if I remember my high-school geology) to be extracted as steam.
The steam is used to drive turbines for electricity and for heat-exchange to heat fresh water (it is quite salty/gritty/full of sulphur at this point) which then is fed to near-by settlements for heating.
Icelandic apartments will have cold water, hot water and electricity coming to them, all dirt cheap. No gas.
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I'm sure there are thousands of people who do. It's usually not a good idea to expect everyone to have a particular level of intelligence, no matter what level you choose.
If that is of even the least concern, then Mono should not be in Debian.
This is all just a bit funny to us old farts who remember why gnome was originally created.
Perhaps I'm just not enough of a Microsoft-hater, but I fail to see the 'skull fucking' here. What I do see is an angry rant from, I assume, someone who's likely receiving calls from bill collectors in Redmond. I'm sorry that MCP thing didn't work out for you, and if you want to switch from plugging Microsoft products to promoting Open Source Software, than more power to you.
I happen to know that Smári does not work for an MCP. The point of the article is that MS is not working in their own interest in killing off their resellers and in creating extremely ill will and in fact fear of doing business with them in the future.
BTW, I hope if our own economy collapses you're left holding the bag for things you couldn't have foreseen. I will consider that to be justice after your attitude towards others.
What a jerk!!!
I'm Icelandic, and I don't want anyone's economy to collapse. Well, except maybe Britain's a little, but no - ordinary Brits don't deserve that even though they're led by a cluster of turds.
If you have to interoperate with anyone doing high-end Word stuff you might struggle to switch to OOo. But if you can make EVERYONE you deal with use it ALL at once and the formatting stuff isn't that big a deal - then sure, it'll work for you.
The beautiful thing is, that MS is riding Iceland hard enough, that everyone just might. The stragglers may be forced to switch to be able to use those ODF files everyone keeps sending them.
Sweet, sweet irony
But these are not normal times and especially not in Iceland. Everything is in turmoil. Switching to Ubuntu+OO.o is nothing, and just may keep the company alive until the worst of the horrors are over.
And if everyone does it, and the MCPs are dead and their techies now run OS service companies, why should anyone switch back?
But they are going bankrupt. MS is driving their own customers bankrupt trying to suck out of them money that the final buyers of the licenses can't pay because they have gone bankrupt. Everyone responds by switching to free, and hopefully Free, software.
MS is being stupid and they're letting everyone in a whole country see what they're really about. And if the whole country moves away from MS stuff together, the network effects which have helped MS so much will from then on hurt them.
Of course, the Icelandic software developer I work for has already dropped all MS server software for linux and hosted services and is running a mix of windows, os/x and linux clients.
Also, the US has routinely spied on their allies for decades. Nobody should be surprised if some of those allies spy back.
The list of examples is massive and includes both spying on friendly governments and industrial espionage on behalf of American companies.
You've got that completely backwards. We've evolved to use a huge number of beneficial strategies. One such strategy is monogamy in relatively peaceful times, and so when we made up the various religions, we put monogamy in there.
Actually, whether monogamy or polygamy is the optimal strategy may depend on what percentage of the rest of the population follows which strategy.
Perhaps polygamy would be beneficial in a completely monogamous society (they'd never see it coming...), but monogamy beneficial in a completely polygamous society (no.. can't see how.. which frightens me.. where is my girlfriend anyway?).
So, the proportions of those two strategies encoded genetically would tend towards an equilibrium where the strategies are equally beneficial. If either goes above the equilibrium point, then the other becomes advantageous and will increase in the population until the equilibrium is reattained.
That's the mathematics of it. The rest is just some really messy details.
I'm sure there is some overhead, but this is the micro editon which is optimized for small devices. It's a sub-set of the language, no garbage collection, no floating point, etc. and a much reduced standard library. All of this will greatly simplify the runtime environment.
Also, JME doesn't do some of the ridiculously complex runtime optimizations that standard java does, most of which are about improving execution speed at the expense of... everything else. This includes startup time and memory usage which is rather impressive on standard java (but sort of getting better with time).
What an absolutely wonderful idea. Let me see if I have any spare genetic material lying around...
The testing they've done doesn't seem to be useful for determining the power consumption of the system for one simple reason: If you run a program designed to max the CPU throughput, the CPU will use a lot of power. To test actual power usage you'd need to run a particular task, accomplished in a particular time, and then see how much power the machine uses.
Say, you want to compile a small program (if it runs quickly, the cpu will get to rest sooner), perform a list of tasks in gmail (where the CPU can be throttled to save power), etc.
Actually, it turns out my calculations are completely bollocks and the probability that 4 or 5 randomly chosen countries are non-english speaking is much higher. However, I've learned my lesson and am not going to submit any formulae to a forum where I can't correct them when I notice the mistake 3 seconds later.
Cool, I'm going to pick me some radices before they lock those suckers up.
yes, a few hundred miles in the american southwest would do it (anyone objecting to using Texas?), but only if the entire world lived in the american southwest. As it is, energy losses due to transportation are quite significant and hinder an all-out world power source plan.
That's very cute, but the (265mi) figure is purely for illustrative purposes. Nobody is actually considering building such a thing. It's just more succinct than saying "28 squares 50 miles on a side" which might concievably be built or "700 squares 10 miles on a side" which could actually be built or "a few hundred 10-mile squares scattered through the world for where solar power is a better option than hydro, geo-thermal, wind, wave or tidal power." which would actually make sense.
No, no, no, the EU is full of commies, socialists and whiners and can't get anything right. Taking any kind of idea from them is highly unamerican.
Yes, I suppose worth-while European innovation ended with democracy (Paris) and the hamburger (Hamburg).
The long-term solution here people, is to get a god damn law passed.
A starting point might be the EU Directive on Privacy: http://www.cdt.org/privacy/eudirective/EU_Directiv e_.html
Somehow all this trouble with identity theft seems to be a uniquely US problem.
The EU directive establishes rules for:
But that's really only half the problem. The other, and in my opinion more serious, problem is that this information should be of financial value at all. There simply should be no way to set up a line of credit or make other financial use of an SSN and your mother's maiden name. It's, frankly, preposterous that this is the case.
One of these days some government employee is going to run an errand with a laptop in his car and a lucky car thief will drive off with every single name and Social Security number in the country. You could fit them all on a USB thumb drive. And they could be all over the Internet within hours. It would be game over for Social Security numbers and the rickety infrastructure that has been built on top of them
And the sooner the better. The system is broken in so many different ways that don't affect anyone who has the power to change it that it just needs to burn to the ground for something else to be erected.
Somewhat like the American electoral system...
Obviously, that's not how it will be done. In the currently operating hydroelectric plants in Iceland, such as at Svartsengi, they constantly pump water into fissures in the ancient lava flow (5000 to 8000 year old around Reykjavik if I remember my high-school geology) to be extracted as steam. The steam is used to drive turbines for electricity and for heat-exchange to heat fresh water (it is quite salty/gritty/full of sulphur at this point) which then is fed to near-by settlements for heating.
Icelandic apartments will have cold water, hot water and electricity coming to them, all dirt cheap. No gas.
Finally, the water is dumped into a large lake of industrial waste^W^Wbeautiful blue water and that's where we^H^Hthey hoard the tourists.
Finally, for some extra geek, we have a description of the computer systems at Svartsengi powerplant.