It doesn't "bounce around", but i think it's fair to say that it does "bounce off" the larger vehicle.
I'm sure it's survivable, but i suspect i'd be more comfortable in the larger Merc (that said, i'm a fan of the smart car concept, my main problem with it is that i think it's overpriced for what it is).
It won't necessarily make much difference to oil dependency. You still have to find a way to get energy. The described technolgy just presents a possible new way to move that energy around conveniently. So while it might displace gasoline as a way to store energy in your car, where you get the energy from is a whole other problem.
or more generally, invest in good insulation for your house. It'll pay for itself in saved heating even if you never have a power-outage, and if you do lose power for a while, your house will stay warmer longer.
with regard to soccer, Northern Ireland has its own national team, quite distinct from the Republic of Ireland team.
In rugby there is an all-ireland international team
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Given that they polluted his land, preventing him from legally saving seed and continuing his business, I would regard any decision which did not grant damages to the farmer as unfair.
the right to be consulted, the right to advise and the right to warn
Granted, Charles is not yet king, but his contribution on this issue falls more or less within his future remit (and would indicate the advice he would offer to the British Prime Minister of the day)
Whether one wants to have a (future) monarch around to give such advice is another question entirely.
I saw a talk from one of the business heads in Red Hat and I got the impression that the physical distribution model was expensive to run and pretty unprofitable.
I'd imagine it would be pretty easy to get stuck with useless inventory too, though if there was a good upgrade route (like with Debian) you could buy the last version and fill in a mail-in coupon with proof of purchase and get CDs for the current one
I couldn't stop laughing when Neo was absorbed into Smith and then everybody's heads started exploding. Every story could be finished that way... and they their heads exploded.
And as for "the source" could they not pick a word at least a little more different than "the force"
More than spiritual references, I thought it felt like there were a lot of Aliens references. E.g. Niobe's piloting of the hovercraft and Ripley's piloting of the escape ship. The mechs being like the cargo lifters from Aliens. Guns were very similar too, and the squidies moved a lot like flying aliens, especially in relying on close up attack rather than distance weapons.
If you were to analyse the story it would completely fall apart. Why did they not squirt poison gas/radiation into zion. Why did the mechs have no protection for the human pilots' vitals,
You really should be a little more polite given all human beings' ability to make mistakes.
The fundamental thing about computers is not x86 opcodes, or C, or perl, or VB. The fundamental thing is that it can be programmed and is general purpose. After that, what language you use all depends on what you want to do. Maybe you find x86 opcodes handy, other people use perl. But fundmentally you are both programming the computer to create a new(ish) function.
This is the point. Most users never do that,they only use exactly the programs they are supplied with. Even writing a script in visual basic for applications withing MSExcel requires an understanding that a computer *CAN* be programmed and that you can define new functionality.
You probably haven't read the article. It does not refer to kernel/device-driver programming, but rather to programming in general.
Understanding what a computer is "about" is to understand that it is general-purpose and programmable. Once you get that, then a whole range of possibilities become apparent. You mention using a scripting language in some chemistry app., well that is exactly the kind of thing the author is talking about. Most users never script anything, and this makes them inefficient and wastes their time.
The problem is: the car is a single purpose device, the computer is a multi-purpose device. That is why you program it.
Not being able to program the computer is a bit like not being able to drive the car, it is not like not knowing how to maintain it.
Even with a VCR, you need to learn some fundamentals in order to use it... e.g. telling time. Without knowing how to read a clock or tell time you could still play rental movies, but could never reliably set the VCR (videoplus notwithstanding).
Equally, without learning the basics of computer programming (as opposed to the details of transistors and electronics) you are very limited in your use of a computer. Not that you cannot use it, just that you are a bit hobbled.
The difference between the car and the computer is that the car is a single-purpose device. The computer is a general purpose device (hence the programming). The analogy would be more correct if you compared car maintenance to pc-building and repair.
You may be correct that people cannot learn to program, but the fact is that those people will end up operating at a less efficient level than if they could write some programs (I see this even among well-educated colleagues in the professions).
Returning to the car analogy. I think that not knowing how to program is like not knowing how to drive. Sure you can pay somebody to drive you around, but most could not afford that and would thus end up walking.
How can this be modded 4 insightful when it attacks the article by pointing out a fact that is actually highlighted in the article.
NTK *SAID* that anybody who felt strongly could fork the project. They even point out that this might be a good time to do so (what with ESR's domain issues).
Does anybody read the articles? Obviously not (which is a pity since NTK is an excellent read) m
Without tides, things would be very very very different. The ecosystem at the shoreline would be totally changed. I'm not an expert on these things, but i find it hard to imagine that plants/animals that live in an environment which is periodically submerged and then emptied could live in an environment that was only one way or the other. Then the creatures which feed on these plants and animals would suffer, and so forth. Similarly, i would imagine that the behaviour of sand/silt in estuaries would be substantially different. This would impact wildlife, but could also impact human use of these areas.
All the same, this is somewhat irrelevant as you are very correct that the prospect of changing tides due to the mining of the moon is a long long way away!
I think the JAP is actually quite a good journal. The key word is "Applied", and material is thus quite broad. I have noted in particular that some excellent researchers who publish in JASA often publish in JAP also (and JASA is an excellent journal in the Acoustics community). JAP is not all about the latest string theory, but that does not mean it is not a fine journal with high standards.
This was on http://www.incunabula.org/blog a while back
Links of interest are: usenet post, along with abstracts from the theses:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R35126F52 Also here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/27894.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/27963.html Very detailed info here and in linked pages:
http://cass.eahosting.com/cass/bogdanov2.htm And here:
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/bogdanov.html
In particular the link
http://cass.eahosting.com/cass/bogdanov2.htm is invaluable as it has an email dialogue with the brothers about their research, and is a work in progress
you can read about sokal here: http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/no retta.h tml
I was at a Caldera partner meeting and it seems that United Linux will ship on one CD, which will be included in SuSE, SCO Linux, Turbo, Connectiva.
Each will then add in another cd (or more) with their own extensions to the basic version.
Maybe the GPL stuff will go on the basic CD. (They did say that anybody could base a distro on it, but they would not be certified "united linux", so oracle support would not be there, etc.,)
I have to say I found the whole business model a bit disconcerting. Yes it is entirely legal to sell GPL code; but no credit was given to the guys who created it. You could be forgiven for thinking that Caldera/SCO had authored Samba! (they gave a 2 hour tutorial on it without once mentioning the guys behind it, although they did mention the ways Caldera supplied it, and how to buy it).
Now I understand that this is business, and they have to make money, but I still find it all a little off-putting. I suspect that United Linux will be more of this (Caldera business model, SuSE technology is how I see it, but then what do I know!?).
Re:The best printer on Earth (that we can afford)
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I was hoping someone would praise brother printers as I have one myself and have been very pleased with it indeed.
Model is hl1250, it does pcl5 and works like a charm with linux (for those interested in that). I find speed to be perfectly adequate, and quality is excellent.
Price was good, and though I haven't needed to buy toner yet, the supplies aren't too dear either (a good point is that the toner and drum are separate components).
(I don't work for brother, but I am a satisfied customer) m
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It doesn't "bounce around", but i think it's fair to say that it does "bounce off" the larger vehicle.
I'm sure it's survivable, but i suspect i'd be more comfortable in the larger Merc (that said, i'm a fan of the smart car concept, my main problem with it is that i think it's overpriced for what it is).
It won't necessarily make much difference to oil dependency. You still have to find a way to get energy. The described technolgy just presents a possible new way to move that energy around conveniently. So while it might displace gasoline as a way to store energy in your car, where you get the energy from is a whole other problem.
or more generally, invest in good insulation for your house. It'll pay for itself in saved heating even if you never have a power-outage, and if you do lose power for a while, your house will stay warmer longer.
>As another example, take the listing of the top
> universities in the world . In the top 10, only
> Oxford exists outside of the US
You might be surprised to learn that there's a Cambridge in the UK too... comes in at number 3. I hear their geography department's pretty good.:-)
with regard to soccer, Northern Ireland has its own national team, quite distinct from the Republic of Ireland team.
In rugby there is an all-ireland international team
Given that they polluted his land, preventing him from legally saving seed and continuing his business, I would regard any decision which did not grant damages to the farmer as unfair.
Prince Charles is next in line to the British throne and more than likely will be the next King of England. The British Monarch has three essential rights:
Granted, Charles is not yet king, but his contribution on this issue falls more or less within his future remit (and would indicate the advice he would offer to the British Prime Minister of the day)
Whether one wants to have a (future) monarch around to give such advice is another question entirely.
Reckon this is the service mentioned
http://www.shazam.com/uk/do/home
I saw a talk from one of the business heads in Red Hat and I got the impression that the physical distribution model was expensive to run and pretty unprofitable.
I'd imagine it would be pretty easy to get stuck with useless inventory too, though if there was a good upgrade route (like with Debian) you could buy the last version and fill in a mail-in coupon with proof of purchase and get CDs for the current one
The SSC version linuxgazette.com actually DOES have an issue 97 (December). You can read it here:
http://tldp.org/LDP/LG/issue97/index.html
Unfortunately their own home site is a bit hard to navigate.
thought it said parent examiner :-)
But is this metacity reloaded, or metacity revolutions?
I couldn't stop laughing when Neo was absorbed into Smith and then everybody's heads started exploding. Every story could be finished that way... and they their heads exploded.
:-)
And as for "the source" could they not pick a word at least a little more different than "the force"
More than spiritual references, I thought it felt like there were a lot of Aliens references. E.g. Niobe's piloting of the hovercraft and Ripley's piloting of the escape ship. The mechs being like the cargo lifters from Aliens. Guns were very similar too, and the squidies moved a lot like flying aliens, especially in relying on close up attack rather than distance weapons.
If you were to analyse the story it would completely fall apart. Why did they not squirt poison gas/radiation into zion. Why did the mechs have no protection for the human pilots' vitals,
Desperate stuff
You really should be a little more polite given all human beings' ability to make mistakes.
The fundamental thing about computers is not x86 opcodes, or C, or perl, or VB. The fundamental thing is that it can be programmed and is general purpose. After that, what language you use all depends on what you want to do. Maybe you find x86 opcodes handy, other people use perl. But fundmentally you are both programming the computer to create a new(ish) function.
This is the point. Most users never do that,they only use exactly the programs they are supplied with. Even writing a script in visual basic for applications withing MSExcel requires an understanding that a computer *CAN* be programmed and that you can define new functionality.
Everything else is a detail of implementation.
You probably haven't read the article. It does not refer to kernel/device-driver programming, but rather to programming in general.
Understanding what a computer is "about" is to understand that it is general-purpose and programmable. Once you get that, then a whole range of possibilities become apparent. You mention using a scripting language in some chemistry app., well that is exactly the kind of thing the author is talking about. Most users never script anything, and this makes them inefficient and wastes their time.
Car analogies seem to be popular.
The problem is: the car is a single purpose device, the computer is a multi-purpose device. That is why you program it.
Not being able to program the computer is a bit like not being able to drive the car, it is not like not knowing how to maintain it.
Even with a VCR, you need to learn some fundamentals in order to use it... e.g. telling time. Without knowing how to read a clock or tell time you could still play rental movies, but could never reliably set the VCR (videoplus notwithstanding).
Equally, without learning the basics of computer programming (as opposed to the details of transistors and electronics) you are very limited in your use of a computer. Not that you cannot use it, just that you are a bit hobbled.
The difference between the car and the computer is that the car is a single-purpose device. The computer is a general purpose device (hence the programming). The analogy would be more correct if you compared car maintenance to pc-building and repair.
You may be correct that people cannot learn to program, but the fact is that those people will end up operating at a less efficient level than if they could write some programs (I see this even among well-educated colleagues in the professions).
Returning to the car analogy. I think that not knowing how to program is like not knowing how to drive. Sure you can pay somebody to drive you around, but most could not afford that and would thus end up walking.
While it would seem that the right's worst enemy is the apostrophe ;-)
How can this be modded 4 insightful when it attacks the article by pointing out a fact that is actually highlighted in the article.
NTK *SAID* that anybody who felt strongly could fork the project. They even point out that this might be a good time to do so (what with ESR's domain issues).
Does anybody read the articles? Obviously not (which is a pity since NTK is an excellent read)
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Without tides, things would be very very very different. The ecosystem at the shoreline would be totally changed. I'm not an expert on these things, but i find it hard to imagine that plants/animals that live in an environment which is periodically submerged and then emptied could live in an environment that was only one way or the other. Then the creatures which feed on these plants and animals would suffer, and so forth. Similarly, i would imagine that the behaviour of sand/silt in estuaries would be substantially different. This would impact wildlife, but could also impact human use of these areas.
All the same, this is somewhat irrelevant as you are very correct that the prospect of changing tides due to the mining of the moon is a long long way away!
I think the JAP is actually quite a good journal. The key word is "Applied", and material is thus quite broad. I have noted in particular that some excellent researchers who publish in JASA often publish in JAP also (and JASA is an excellent journal in the Acoustics community). JAP is not all about the latest string theory, but that does not mean it is not a fine journal with high standards.
This was on http://www.incunabula.org/blog a while back
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o retta.h tml
Links of interest are:
usenet post, along with abstracts from the theses:
http://makeashorterlink.com/?R35126F52
Also here:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/27894.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/27963.htm
Very detailed info here and in linked pages:
http://cass.eahosting.com/cass/bogdanov2.htm
And here:
http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/bogdanov.html
In particular the link
http://cass.eahosting.com/cass/bogdanov2.htm
is invaluable as it has an email dialogue with the brothers about their
research, and is a work in progress
you can read about sokal here:
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/n
This one has a photo
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2303349.stm
Found it on diepunyhumans.com
To add what little info I have:
I was at a Caldera partner meeting and it seems that United Linux will ship on one CD, which will be included in SuSE, SCO Linux, Turbo, Connectiva.
Each will then add in another cd (or more) with their own extensions to the basic version.
Maybe the GPL stuff will go on the basic CD. (They did say that anybody could base a distro on it, but they would not be certified "united linux", so oracle support would not be there, etc.,)
I have to say I found the whole business model a bit disconcerting. Yes it is entirely legal to sell GPL code; but no credit was given to the guys who created it. You could be forgiven for thinking that Caldera/SCO had authored Samba! (they gave a 2 hour tutorial on it without once mentioning the guys behind it, although they did mention the ways Caldera supplied it, and how to buy it).
Now I understand that this is business, and they have to make money, but I still find it all a little off-putting. I suspect that United Linux will be more of this (Caldera business model, SuSE technology is how I see it, but then what do I know!?).
I was hoping someone would praise brother printers as I have one myself and have been very pleased with it indeed.
Model is hl1250, it does pcl5 and works like a charm with linux (for those interested in that). I find speed to be perfectly adequate, and quality is excellent.
Price was good, and though I haven't needed to buy toner yet, the supplies aren't too dear either (a good point is that the toner and drum are separate components).
(I don't work for brother, but I am a satisfied customer)
m