What you mean is "in a case specific language in which you don't need to declare variables that guesses the value of uninitialized variables in a crazily unsafe way" which is an understandable oversight because there are a lot of them around. In Python (which was mentioned up there somewhere) you get "NameError: name 'var' is not defined".
No, not a Bose-Einstein condensate of a gas. A Bose-Einstein-type condensate of electron pairs. That's what happens in a superconductor. Electrons (spin 1/2) pair off to become integral-spin bosons. That means they behave similarly to bosonic atoms and can form the equivalent of a Bose-Einstein condensate. But only the electrons, so it can occur at a much higher temperature than real Bose-Einstein condensates where atoms have to behave quantum-mechanically.
It would be nice if scientists could explain the technology to you or I, but it's more important for them to get it to work. Only leading researchers will be able to help with that, and they'll know all about the electron gas model. There are books out there that explain superconductivity in an accessible way. To understand it fully, you'll need a background knowledge of quantum mechanics. But don't worry too much. If you're really interested, you'll pick it up.
Really? I don't think that would apply to the GPL if it didn't explicitly mention the GPL. From the GPL:
0. This License applies to any program or other work which contains
a notice placed by the copyright holder saying it may be distributed
under the terms of this General Public License. The "Program", below,
refers to any such program or work, and a "work based on the Program"
means either the Program or any derivative work under copyright law:
that is to say, a work containing the Program or a portion of it,
either verbatim or with modifications and/or translated into another
language. (Hereinafter, translation is included without limitation in
the term "modification".) Each licensee is addressed as "you".
So it only covers the software that's licensed under it and derivative works, not to other software distributed with it.
Now that the domain's switched over, and the site's been slashdotted;) the BSD machine's going to be serving a lot fewer pages. You'd expect it to be a bit faster.
The/usr/local hierarchy is for use by the
system administrator when installing software
locally.
It needs to be safe from being written when
the system software is updated.
It may be used for programs and data that
are shareable among a group of hosts, but not
found in/usr.
Nothing about it not being an NFS share (another poster said it shouldn't be).
Also, nothing about package managers.
It says the distribution may not install there.
If I'm installing locally from a downloaded RPM,
I'll expect it to install to/usr/local.
It makes no difference if my distribution
happens to use RPM itself -- only applications
shipped as part of that distribution should be outside/usr/local. That is:
Locally installed software must be placed within/usr/local rather than/usr unless it is being
installed to replace or upgrade
software in/usr.
The logic is that if I keep a copy of the install options
for my Linux distribution along with incremental backups of the/usr/local and/home heirarchies I can completely restore my system at any time.
They actually have a bizzarely inconsistent attitude to this. There was one article where they mentioned Vermeer without a second glance, but felt the need to define BMW as "a German car company" despite (1) it didn't really matter and (2) there were a couple of BMW adverts in the very same issue.
In fact, take this very article. Netscape is a "pioneer of the web browser" and AOL "the world's biggest Internet-access provider". But who is this "Microsoft"? For that matter, who are "Adidas, Ford, Nike, USA Today, News Corp"? Can we be sure those people who haven't heard of Arnie know what a Mercedes is?
Touch Tone pitches are way out compared to 12 note equal temperament. This is deliberate. 12-equal approximates simple integer ratios, but Touch Tone avoids them to prevent misdialling because of distortion.
However, they happen to be close to a scale with 14 equal steps to the octave. Check your back issues of Xenharmônikon. This makes them easy to notate: you make the white notes equally spaced and add extra black notes for E# and Cb.
They explain that webbugs are images, typically 1x1 pixel, that record your personal information and are usually inserted into a page by a third party (i.e. ad agencies).
Sure, so can you explain where/. uses these? I can think of a few related things it does do:
Use blank images for alignment
Serve images from a dedicated server
Send cookies with its banner ads
Each of these might trip a web bug detector, but I don't think any of them qualifies under your definition (also in the Bugnosis FAQ -- I got to that).
So, does/. use web bugs or not?
Of course, if you spent more than 2 seconds looking at the linked page, you would have figured that out.
Dude, I can stare at a blank screen for as long as I like, it won't help.
The original poster suggested he may have been having the same trouble.
You use the phrase "Big Brother" if you are opposed to electronic surveillance. It has a powerful emotional impact, as it associates electronic surveillance with a dehumanizing, totalitarian regime. Describing the CCTV cameras in the supermarket car park as a "Big Brother approach", instils fear in your audience because they think, at least unconsciously, that their freedom could be under threat.
Remember, decisions are made on the basis of emotion, not logic. 1984 has had a large (though unmeasurable) impact in slowing the adoption of CCTV, like Frankenstein is having an impact in opposing genetic engineering.
There's a danger because there's power.
Use that power.
I've been using Mozilla Build M18 for the last week and I'm well impressed - apart from occasional deaths - and I'm wondering what I'd benefit from using Netscape 6.0?
Java and https are the main things. Although apparently there are ways of getting them to work with Mozilla. I haven't.
Will Netscape bw somehow more stable than the code it's built on top of?
Stranger things have happened.
I can't think of any offhand.
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Why is there all this harping about a "consistent UI"?
Because the scrollbar behaves differently from
one X application to another.
Scrolling a window is a farily generic thing
to do, and having to keep learning new ways of
doing it kind of annoys people.
Don't worry, application developers will always
have the freedom to screw with any consistent
UI as much as they like.
It would be nice if they could agree on the
scrollbars (or I could overrule them all
with my desktop settings).
When you run a Java program, the JIT has to do its thing before the program starts. That means the application takes longer to launch. For a lot of GUI apps, this is exactly where the greatest bottleneck is.
So the kind of optimization suggested probably wouldn't improve matters for the user, at least with the small, visual applications Java was supposed to be good at. However, it suggests the people using it for numerical work may not have been so mad after all.
If it works.
Of course, you could cache the compiled code, so that it launches better second time. Pretty soon, you'll end up re-inventing compile/run cycles.
It sounds like a neat trick, but think about it. How many people are going to add a comment like "Yeah! Katz sucks, heh heh heh," to a moderation? Surely, they're going to catch on pretty quickly that this signals that they're moderating for the wrong reasons. So, they'll still moderate up the anti-Katz posts, but add a comment like "A controversial point, but argued well".
Whatever arguments there may be for comments, this isn't one of them.
Slashdot Mirror
What you mean is "in a case specific language in which you don't need to declare variables that guesses the value of uninitialized variables in a crazily unsafe way" which is an understandable oversight because there are a lot of them around. In Python (which was mentioned up there somewhere) you get "NameError: name 'var' is not defined".
Well, okay, you actually get
Traceback ( File "", line 1
$Var = 'hello world!'
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
but if you take off the $ symbols that don't tell you anything you get the name error.
No, not a Bose-Einstein condensate of a gas. A Bose-Einstein-type condensate of electron pairs. That's what happens in a superconductor. Electrons (spin 1/2) pair off to become integral-spin bosons. That means they behave similarly to bosonic atoms and can form the equivalent of a Bose-Einstein condensate. But only the electrons, so it can occur at a much higher temperature than real Bose-Einstein condensates where atoms have to behave quantum-mechanically.
It would be nice if scientists could explain the technology to you or I, but it's more important for them to get it to work. Only leading researchers will be able to help with that, and they'll know all about the electron gas model. There are books out there that explain superconductivity in an accessible way. To understand it fully, you'll need a background knowledge of quantum mechanics. But don't worry too much. If you're really interested, you'll pick it up.
He wasn't an Anglo-Saxon either. He was a Dane who ruled England.
Really? I don't think that would apply to the GPL if it didn't explicitly mention the GPL. From the GPL:
So it only covers the software that's licensed under it and derivative works, not to other software distributed with it.
Now that the domain's switched over, and the site's been slashdotted ;) the BSD machine's going to be serving a lot fewer pages. You'd expect it to be a bit faster.
The real FHS says
Nothing about it not being an NFS share (another poster said it shouldn't be). Also, nothing about package managers. It says the distribution may not install there. If I'm installing locally from a downloaded RPM, I'll expect it to install to /usr/local.
It makes no difference if my distribution
happens to use RPM itself -- only applications
shipped as part of that distribution should be outside /usr/local. That is:
The logic is that if I keep a copy of the install options for my Linux distribution along with incremental backups of the /usr/local and /home heirarchies I can completely restore my system at any time.
They actually have a bizzarely inconsistent attitude to this. There was one article where they mentioned Vermeer without a second glance, but felt the need to define BMW as "a German car company" despite (1) it didn't really matter and (2) there were a couple of BMW adverts in the very same issue.
In fact, take this very article. Netscape is a "pioneer of the web browser" and AOL "the world's biggest Internet-access provider". But who is this "Microsoft"? For that matter, who are "Adidas, Ford, Nike, USA Today, News Corp"? Can we be sure those people who haven't heard of Arnie know what a Mercedes is?
If upgrading Konqueror means upgrading KDE, and upgrading KDE is difficult, that's fair comment to me.
Try 1848
Touch Tone pitches are way out compared to 12 note equal temperament. This is deliberate. 12-equal approximates simple integer ratios, but Touch Tone avoids them to prevent misdialling because of distortion.
However, they happen to be close to a scale with 14 equal steps to the octave. Check your back issues of Xenharmônikon. This makes them easy to notate: you make the white notes equally spaced and add extra black notes for E# and Cb.
Really.
I tried
Sure, so can you explain where /. uses these? I can think of a few related things it does do:
Each of these might trip a web bug detector, but I don't think any of them qualifies under your definition (also in the Bugnosis FAQ -- I got to that).
So, does /. use web bugs or not?
Dude, I can stare at a blank screen for as long as I like, it won't help. The original poster suggested he may have been having the same trouble.
It was either following a link or a search result. I don't remember which, or the subject, but I bookmarked the site immediately.
How could the resurrection have been added before Jesus's death?
Yes, "more primitive versions of themselves". So we aren't animals?
You use the phrase "Big Brother" if you are opposed to electronic surveillance. It has a powerful emotional impact, as it associates electronic surveillance with a dehumanizing, totalitarian regime. Describing the CCTV cameras in the supermarket car park as a "Big Brother approach", instils fear in your audience because they think, at least unconsciously, that their freedom could be under threat.
Remember, decisions are made on the basis of emotion, not logic. 1984 has had a large (though unmeasurable) impact in slowing the adoption of CCTV, like Frankenstein is having an impact in opposing genetic engineering.
There's a danger because there's power. Use that power.
Oh well, that's alright then. As long as it's only political censorship.
Java and https are the main things. Although apparently there are ways of getting them to work with Mozilla. I haven't.
Stranger things have happened. I can't think of any offhand.
Because the scrollbar behaves differently from one X application to another. Scrolling a window is a farily generic thing to do, and having to keep learning new ways of doing it kind of annoys people.
Don't worry, application developers will always have the freedom to screw with any consistent UI as much as they like. It would be nice if they could agree on the scrollbars (or I could overrule them all with my desktop settings).
I wish I could do more customization with my Win98 (especially get rid of My Documents...
But you can! See this piece at Monkeyland
When you run a Java program, the JIT has to do its thing before the program starts. That means the application takes longer to launch. For a lot of GUI apps, this is exactly where the greatest bottleneck is.
So the kind of optimization suggested probably wouldn't improve matters for the user, at least with the small, visual applications Java was supposed to be good at. However, it suggests the people using it for numerical work may not have been so mad after all.
If it works.
Of course, you could cache the compiled code, so that it launches better second time. Pretty soon, you'll end up re-inventing compile/run cycles.
Whatever arguments there may be for comments, this isn't one of them.