Seeing all this crap going on in "the land of the Free", I really urge all of us that are not under its jurisdiction to make damn sure there is no IP rights harmonization, converting our more sensible laws into something benefitting the American lawyer population.
Seriously, keep a sharp eye on proposed laws in your own country, that are being pushed by the U.S... In Europe we've managed to beat them once with the software patents legislation, but they keep pushing. They in this case is US goverment/Microsoft; awfully enough there is no difference, Our ms. Kroes has stated her annoyance a being approached by US ambassadors to go easy on M$. She's got some big brass ones though, and I don't see her being pushed around at all.
But in the U.S. they own the political system, whereas in Europe they still only influence it heavily. Dutch politics are definitely not determined by who collects the most money! I can't say I like the politicians much, and they lie as much as the U.S. guys, but they are not owned by corporations.
While the US sues itself into irrelevancy...
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Seeing all this crap going on in "the land of the Free", I really urge all of us that are not under its jurisdiction to make damn sure there is no IP rights harmonization, converting our more sensible laws into something benefitting the American lawyer population.
Seriously, keep a sharp eye on proposed laws in your own country, that are being pushed by the U.S... In Europe we've managed to beat them once with the software patents legislation, but they keep pushing. They in this case is US goverment/Microsoft; awfully enough there is no difference, Our ms. Kroes has stated her annoyance a being approached by US ambassadors to go easy on M$. She's got some big brass ones though, and I don't see her being pushed around at all.
I wish it was only $4.09 per gallon. That's 48% less than what you'd pay here in the Netherlands, which has about the highest gasoline prices of the EU.
$4.09/gal is 2.96/3.79l = 0.78/l. The price at the pump is typically about 1.50/l.
I am Dutch, but if I had an important science or tech paper to write, I'd definitely try to get it into one of the international magazines, all of them in English. If I cannot get accepted in them, I might try to go for one of the Dutch language papers (are there any?). By limiting myself to those reading my own language, I pretty much automatically put myself in the lower tier of researchers, unable to compete on the world level.
Over a century ago it used to be French for science (or German if you were a physicist). Right now it's English.
Circuit Cellar is doing fine, and has been doing fine for decades. It's the low to zero information content magazines that'll go away. Well, good riddance.
The funny thing is that its founder Steve Ciarcia left then market leader Byte Magazine, because it was turning into an advertorial marketing rag. Guess which magazine no longer exists:-)
The challenge is 1920Wh for 4 kg, so at least 480Wh/kg
From wikipedia
Li-ion: 160Wh/kg
Ni-MH: 30...80 Wh/kg
Ultracap: 3...5 Wh/kg
regular batteries are out.
Metal-Air batteries are in the right range, but require 700C systems:-(
Interesting challenge, but it seems to me the commercial profit would very far outstrip the DoD bonus prize.
You sure prove my point about the red flag on a bull effect! Calling mandatory healthcare slavery; don't be ridiculous! You're paying taxes, aren't you? That slavery too?
you guys have it tough! The problem to me seems to be that Americans are wedded to 'freedom'. I'm quoting the word on purpose. In many ways I am more free in the Netherlands (can smoke dope, can afford healthcare, will have at least 25 days of vacation a year etc...). But... I pay more taxes, on pretty much everything. The state decides; if I don't pay, I go to jail. I have no choice not to insure my health; i'm not free!
You in America are more free in that respect. Unfortunately, you are also f***ed over by pretty much every large company that's out there, be it Wallmart, Microsoft, big Pharma, you name it. But you are 'free' not to be their customer. Yeah right! You have to eat, you have to have healthcare etc....
The word freedom is the red flag for the American bull. Any time anyone (typically Democrat) suggests anything that might actually improve the living of the Americans (healthcare, labor laws), all any Republican has to do is spout some crap about loosing "freedom", and everyone backs off; oh dear, don't want to lose my "freedom".
A more rational approach would help the U.S. people a lot. It used to be that the U.S. was the shining example for the world, but that definitely has passed.
Magnetosphere is not so important, atmosphere is. I quote from Scientific American, March 2006, page 24.
"Contrary to popular belief, it is not Earth's magnetic field that shields people on the ground from the full brunt of these rays, but rather the bulk of our atmosphere...."
This is an article "Shielding Space Travelers" by Eugene N. Parker, who is pretty much THE expert on solar wind. You'll have to buy the magazine, the article is not available online.
Oh, as a matter of fact, I just found this chinese site where you can see a lot more of the article here
I have a Lexmark Optra M410 b/w postscript printer. Have had it for 7 years now, and it works fine. I've gone through 30000 pages or so, and apart from one repair (a transfer roller replacement I believe) it has worked without any trouble.
There is no software to install, there is nothing that tells me it's out of toner (except the fading pictures), and it still works beautifully.
> And what of the myriad programmers who've spent years using IDE's and text editors, often starting with IDE's, who still prefer vim+gcc+gdb/ddd when writing C?
Exactly!
I started with the Codewarrior IDE, and thought you really needed an IDE. Years later, when I started Linux programming, I was pretty much forced into learning editor/makefile/gdb/ddd/printf style programming. I wouldn't go back to an IDE for anything! My productivity is higher, my understanding of what is happening is higher.
No RSI thanks to vim!
Bart
P.S. multithreaded debugging of realtime systems pretty much requires printf (or something like it) style debugging, single stepping debuggers are pretty much useless for this kind of work.
The really awesomely sad thing is that I keep seeing people using Excel for serious data analysis. A lot of them don't even know that there is anything else with which you can make graphs.
I'm running complicated thermal systems that generate large amounts of data, which I handle easily with Kst or Igor. And then the customer wants to have a look at a small section; it's hilarious to see how much effort it takes them to graph a subset from 2E6 samples of 80 sensors. Their productivity is easily 100th of mine with real tools.
Ignorance rules, and Microsoft serves the ignorant.
People expect their documents to always look and work *exactly* the same, even though they do incredibly boneheaded things that end up relying on every feature and bug Word has ever had
Dude, there has never been this pixel perfect rendition between different Word versions, not even on Windows, let alone if you also include the Mac versions. I absolutely don't buy your argument as a valid reason for all the renderAsWord1OnMacintosh1984 attributes
It continuously amazes me that people that want to run totally crossplatform (Mac, Linux, Windows), VB like programs don't know about RealBasic.
It does everything you need, the IDE/compiler is crossplatform, platform output is selected via a checkbox , and has been around for ages. It's typically a piece of cake to turn some VB program into a crossplatform binary. Yep binary! Realbasic generates executable files.
Can't set the font, and html table elements not allowed, but anyway you get 3Mbps/1Mbps for about $25 per month in pretty much all of the Netherlands, where there is cable by upc.
even when Apple was relatively larger than nowadays (say late eighties), the quality of the OS api's was already incredibly better than that of Windows. I know, I programmed them both for money.
When in Dos/Windows you had to play with hand written vga drivers, and obscure undocumented bios calls, and were trying to work around the insane memory model if you had more than 64k of data, the Mac (OS 7) api was already 32 bits. In windows everything was passed around as a (void *) although they called it HANDLE. In Mac's, everything was typesafe pretty much from the start. You don't think Mac's had a year 2000 bug in the operating system do you?
Ofcourse Apple is a company aiming to make money, but there is a sense of quality in that company that is completely absent in the Microsoft universe.
Anytime this subject comes up, I must mention Igor (www.wavemetrics.com). This small company has been building a great data-analysis program for 20 years or so, and I don't know any software that is better quality. Wavemetrics does not tolerate bugs: I once found a rare bug dealing with the import of a black/white interlaced tiff file. The bug crashed the program. I didn't know the cause, but I did have the tiff file that crashed my Igor. I mailed it to Wavemetrics and within 24 hours I had received a patched version that worked fine.
I can't recommend this program high enough. They don't do any marketing, it's all word of mouth (like I'm doing now).
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Seeing all this crap going on in "the land of the Free", I really urge all of us that are not under its jurisdiction to make damn sure there is no IP rights harmonization, converting our more sensible laws into something benefitting the American lawyer population.
Seriously, keep a sharp eye on proposed laws in your own country, that are being pushed by the U.S... In Europe we've managed to beat them once with the software patents legislation, but they keep pushing. They in this case is US goverment/Microsoft; awfully enough there is no difference, Our ms. Kroes has stated her annoyance a being approached by US ambassadors to go easy on M$. She's got some big brass ones though, and I don't see her being pushed around at all.
Bart
Yep you're right
But in the U.S. they own the political system, whereas in Europe they still only influence it heavily.
Dutch politics are definitely not determined by who collects the most money! I can't say I like the politicians much, and they lie as much as the U.S. guys, but they are not owned by corporations.
Seeing all this crap going on in "the land of the Free", I really urge all of us that are not under its jurisdiction to make damn sure there is no IP rights harmonization, converting our more sensible laws into something benefitting the American lawyer population.
Seriously, keep a sharp eye on proposed laws in your own country, that are being pushed by the U.S... In Europe we've managed to beat them once with the software patents legislation, but they keep pushing. They in this case is US goverment/Microsoft; awfully enough there is no difference, Our ms. Kroes has stated her annoyance a being approached by US ambassadors to go easy on M$. She's got some big brass ones though, and I don't see her being pushed around at all.
Bart
Yep Brian May plays guitar and Feynman drums. Both are physicists.
Why the expletive?
I wish it was only $4.09 per gallon. That's 48% less than what you'd pay here in the Netherlands, which has about the highest gasoline prices of the EU.
$4.09/gal is 2.96/3.79l = 0.78/l. The price at the pump is typically about 1.50/l.
I disagree
I am Dutch, but if I had an important science or tech paper to write, I'd definitely try to get it into one of the international magazines, all of them in English. If I cannot get accepted in them, I might try to go for one of the Dutch language papers (are there any?). By limiting myself to those reading my own language, I pretty much automatically put myself in the lower tier of researchers, unable to compete on the world level.
Over a century ago it used to be French for science (or German if you were a physicist). Right now it's English.
Man, thanks for that link!!!
What a scary Scientology like company! That article gives me the creeps!
The funny thing is that its founder Steve Ciarcia left then market leader Byte Magazine, because it was turning into an advertorial marketing rag. Guess which magazine no longer exists :-)
You're in marketing or something (management perhaps)?
I don't have a clue of what you're talking about.
They keep the patents for defensive use. If someone sues them for any patent violation they can sue them back
From wikipedia
- Li-ion: 160Wh/kg
- Ni-MH: 30...80 Wh/kg
- Ultracap: 3...5 Wh/kg
regular batteries are out.Metal-Air batteries are in the right range, but require 700C systems
Interesting challenge, but it seems to me the commercial profit would very far outstrip the DoD bonus prize.
You sure prove my point about the red flag on a bull effect! Calling mandatory healthcare slavery; don't be ridiculous! You're paying taxes, aren't you? That slavery too?
Man
you guys have it tough! The problem to me seems to be that Americans are wedded to 'freedom'. I'm quoting the word on purpose. In many ways I am more free in the Netherlands (can smoke dope, can afford healthcare, will have at least 25 days of vacation a year etc...). But... I pay more taxes, on pretty much everything. The state decides; if I don't pay, I go to jail. I have no choice not to insure my health; i'm not free!
You in America are more free in that respect. Unfortunately, you are also f***ed over by pretty much every large company that's out there, be it Wallmart, Microsoft, big Pharma, you name it. But you are 'free' not to be their customer. Yeah right! You have to eat, you have to have healthcare etc....
The word freedom is the red flag for the American bull. Any time anyone (typically Democrat) suggests anything that might actually improve the living of the Americans (healthcare, labor laws), all any Republican has to do is spout some crap about loosing "freedom", and everyone backs off; oh dear, don't want to lose my "freedom".
A more rational approach would help the U.S. people a lot. It used to be that the U.S. was the shining example for the world, but that definitely has passed.
Good luck
Bart
If you start complaining about the CBC text, you apparently have very little left to complain about!!!
I'd say CBC does a pretty decent job in summarizing the GPL for those not in the open source world already.
Bart van Deenen
This is an article "Shielding Space Travelers" by Eugene N. Parker, who is pretty much THE expert on solar wind. You'll have to buy the magazine, the article is not available online. Oh, as a matter of fact, I just found this chinese site where you can see a lot more of the article here
Bart van Deenen
I have a Lexmark Optra M410 b/w postscript printer. Have had it for 7 years now, and it works fine. I've gone through 30000 pages or so, and apart from one repair (a transfer roller replacement I believe) it has worked without any trouble.
There is no software to install, there is nothing that tells me it's out of toner (except the fading pictures), and it still works beautifully.
Maybe old printers are better ?
> And what of the myriad programmers who've spent years using IDE's and text editors, often starting with IDE's, who still prefer vim+gcc+gdb/ddd when writing C?
Exactly!
I started with the Codewarrior IDE, and thought you really needed an IDE. Years later, when I started Linux programming, I was pretty much forced into learning editor/makefile/gdb/ddd/printf style programming. I wouldn't go back to an IDE for anything! My productivity is higher, my understanding of what is happening is higher.
No RSI thanks to vim!
Bart
P.S. multithreaded debugging of realtime systems pretty much requires printf (or something like it) style debugging, single stepping debuggers are pretty much useless for this kind of work.
The really awesomely sad thing is that I keep seeing people using Excel for serious data analysis. A lot of them don't even know that there is anything else with which you can make graphs.
I'm running complicated thermal systems that generate large amounts of data, which I handle easily with Kst or Igor. And then the customer wants to have a look at a small section; it's hilarious to see how much effort it takes them to graph a subset from 2E6 samples of 80 sensors. Their productivity is easily 100th of mine with real tools.
Ignorance rules, and Microsoft serves the ignorant.
Dude, there has never been this pixel perfect rendition between different Word versions, not even on Windows, let alone if you also include the Mac versions. I absolutely don't buy your argument as a valid reason for all the renderAsWord1OnMacintosh1984 attributes
www.realsoftware.com
It continuously amazes me that people that want to run totally crossplatform (Mac, Linux, Windows), VB like programs don't know about RealBasic.
It does everything you need, the IDE/compiler is crossplatform, platform output is selected via a checkbox , and has been around for ages. It's typically a piece of cake to turn some VB program into a crossplatform binary. Yep binary! Realbasic generates executable files.
Bart
Just for info copied from www.upc.nl
A euro is about $1.30
monthly price 14,95 22,95 32,95 39,95 59,95
Download 384 Kbps 1,5 Mbps 3 Mbps 6 Mbps 20 Mbps
Upload 128 Kbps 256 Kbps 1 Mbps 1,5 Mbps 2 Mbps
Can't set the font, and html table elements not allowed, but anyway you get 3Mbps/1Mbps for about $25 per month in pretty much all of the Netherlands, where there is cable by upc.
Bart
No
even if Apple became evil, the allpervading smell of mediocrity in any Microsoft product is competely absent at Apple.
Bye
Bart
P.S. the only exception I can think of is Excel.
No wrong
even when Apple was relatively larger than nowadays (say late eighties), the quality of the OS api's was already incredibly better than that of Windows. I know, I programmed them both for money.
When in Dos/Windows you had to play with hand written vga drivers, and obscure undocumented bios calls, and were trying to work around the insane memory model if you had more than 64k of data, the Mac (OS 7) api was already 32 bits. In windows everything was passed around as a (void *) although they called it HANDLE. In Mac's, everything was typesafe pretty much from the start. You don't think Mac's had a year 2000 bug in the operating system do you?
Ofcourse Apple is a company aiming to make money, but there is a sense of quality in that company that is completely absent in the Microsoft universe.
Bart
Anytime this subject comes up, I must mention Igor (www.wavemetrics.com). This small company has been building a great data-analysis program for 20 years or so, and I don't know any software that is better quality. Wavemetrics does not tolerate bugs: I once found a rare bug dealing with the import of a black/white interlaced tiff file. The bug crashed the program. I didn't know the cause, but I did have the tiff file that crashed my Igor. I mailed it to Wavemetrics and within 24 hours I had received a patched version that worked fine.
I can't recommend this program high enough. They don't do any marketing, it's all word of mouth (like I'm doing now).
Bart
I think you made a typo:
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Try: http://coinmill.com/convert/INR_USD.html?amount=1
and you get 2251.73 USD