How many acres of desert ecosystem are plunged into permanent shade to provide this 64 megawatts of power?
We've already modified almost all of the prairie and forest land in this country to suit our needs. Why the sudden show of concern over one particular type of ecosystem?
remember how "snappy" Windows 95 or Mac OS Classic were?
I think that you're looking back with Pentium-III colored glasses. On a shiny new Pentium I machine of the day, Win95 performance was acceptable but not great. On a typical installed-base 16MB 486/33 machine, Windows 95 was a pig.
The situation was probably comparable to KDE and Vista's performance today on common machines. Unfortunately for these new desktop environments, however, the widening lag of memory and disk bandwidth behind CPU speed means that they probably won't feel "snappy" in the foreseeable future just from hardware improvements.
You could get them from a big box store, where *all* cables come entombed in 3 layers of hermetically sealed PVC clamshell and cost $59. That way you wouldn't have to pay more for USB3 than USB2. The bonus is that the fiber link would be oxygen-free!
Oh wait, that would make us China. So would the use of roundup.
That doesn't logically follow. At any rate, no water to flush toilets is a more draconian punishment, and closer to your "China" criterion, than a brown lawn.
Alternatively, you could try to get your local government to substantially raise the fines for such violations.
A more effective deterrent might be to rule that repeat offenders' lawns receive a complementary treatment with Roundup courtesy of the local public works department.
A significant portion of Python library calls are actually implemented in native C code. Almost any python script is going to make use of a lot of these native libraries, which actually comprise the vast majority of the size of a python distribution. If you've ever seen C python extensions, you'd see that this C code is intimately coupled deep into the Python VM, including direct access into of various publicly defined Python VM C structures.
Nobody is going to rewrite compatible implementations of these thousands of library methods in Perl. So even if you could wrap a preexisting script in Perl, you'd actually have to install and maintain most all of a Python runtime, but do it in what would undoubtedly be some kind of poorly supported half-assed Perl extension hack.
Nope, I've used the GIMP a good bit, and its UI problems are real.
In theory, it seems like significant whitespace in syntax would be a problem. In practice, I've never seen any problems with it in the years that I've been using Python. OTOH, I've seen a lot of bugs caused by mishandling the optional C-style "if" blocks in those languages that use them.
I figure that another reason restaurant chains don't use "Happy Birthday" is so that they can create a custom song that contains nothing but two notes separated by a single semitone. It's their attempt to make it a tiny bit less excruciating to listen to the bellowing of a group of waitstaff with a sum total of zero singing talent.
The good news: the probe took pictures from 100 times closer than Voyager.
The bad news: all the pictures came back at 640x480 resolution with 4-bit color depth, and had the words "Safe Mode" superimposed over each of the four corners.
Wrong, your copy of Linux is no more yours than your copy of Windows
You completely misunderstand how copyright works. You own every copy of each copyrighted work that you've purchased. You can do whatever you want with those copies, other than one thing: make further copies without the copyright holder's permission. (Under the DMCA, there's one other thing you can't do: tell people how to unscramble encrypted copies.) The only thing that a copyright holder "owns" is the ability to control who is granted to make further copies of their works. Copyright holders do NOT own the copies themselves.
Many click-thru EULAs try to put further restrictions on how you can use your copies that may make it look like the copyright holder "owns" the copies. The GPL is not one of those types of EULA.
IIRC, the boxes are supposed to be more like $40. They are going to be subsidized with part of the money the gov't rakes in from auctioning off the bandwidth. IMO, that's fair because these companies that buy little spectrum monopolies are going to be making serious cash with their exclusive privileges. It's only right that part of their fees compensate current TV users for having to deal with this major pain in the ass.
In fact, the boxes ought to be free. Even that wouldn't make up for the fact that many people are going to have to install new antennas to prevent the total audio and video dropouts that DTV gives you with less than pristine reception, and that many other people are going to have to install IR blasters or other hacks to record shows.
Thanks for finding that. I saw it at work when it originally came out, and we all thought that it was just about the strangest promo we'd ever seen. It contains what is certainly the worst "rap" performance ever captured on film (starting at about 7:10).
For almost 20 years now, every time I've seen the term Windows/386, that stupid jingle "I've got Wu-Wu-Wu Windows Wu-Wu Windows Windows/386!" has popped into my head.
What's worse is that in the 19th century people usually used synthetic coal gas, which is mainly a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide. This created a big risk of CO poisoning if an unlit light was left on.
If nobody but Microsoft cares about or needs to use the backwards compatible tags, then why the hell would they bother to put it in a public standard? That doesn't make any sense at all.
Yeah, because the most commonly understood definition of the term "sleep" means "frenetically check for e-mails even when it means racking up massive roaming charges".
Imagine if the humble telephone dial had received this much effort and technology. What would THEY be like now?
Most likely, all of the possible 1e10 U.S. phone numbers would be encoded as individual nanoscale holes around the dial. You could dial anybody in the country with just a single flip of the wrist.
What's the drawback of using this technique as opposed to an actual earth-sized telescope?
One advantage of the actual earth-sized telescope is that if you tweak the electronics a bit, then the instrument can also be used as a weapon to destroy rebellious planets.
I always love when summaries on/. have useless unit conversions to somehow make them more tangible.
Indeed, everybody knows that the standard unit for small distances in science news reporting is (human hair width)^-1. Why they didn't use this standard unit escapes me.
You're probably not even going to make that 1% because the record companies' creative accounting puts you so far in the hole starting out that you'll end up still owing them after 1 million sales. The only way you'd get rich would be in the highly unlikely event that you put out a string of multiplatinum albums.
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We've already modified almost all of the prairie and forest land in this country to suit our needs. Why the sudden show of concern over one particular type of ecosystem?
I think that you're looking back with Pentium-III colored glasses. On a shiny new Pentium I machine of the day, Win95 performance was acceptable but not great. On a typical installed-base 16MB 486/33 machine, Windows 95 was a pig.
The situation was probably comparable to KDE and Vista's performance today on common machines. Unfortunately for these new desktop environments, however, the widening lag of memory and disk bandwidth behind CPU speed means that they probably won't feel "snappy" in the foreseeable future just from hardware improvements.
You don't think that a terrorist would be able to obtain a plastic bag to hold their bomb?
You could get them from a big box store, where *all* cables come entombed in 3 layers of hermetically sealed PVC clamshell and cost $59. That way you wouldn't have to pay more for USB3 than USB2. The bonus is that the fiber link would be oxygen-free!
Following the nuclear war that would ensue from such an incident, a lack of GPS service will be the least of your worries.
That doesn't logically follow. At any rate, no water to flush toilets is a more draconian punishment, and closer to your "China" criterion, than a brown lawn.
A more effective deterrent might be to rule that repeat offenders' lawns receive a complementary treatment with Roundup courtesy of the local public works department.
Nobody is going to rewrite compatible implementations of these thousands of library methods in Perl. So even if you could wrap a preexisting script in Perl, you'd actually have to install and maintain most all of a Python runtime, but do it in what would undoubtedly be some kind of poorly supported half-assed Perl extension hack.
In theory, it seems like significant whitespace in syntax would be a problem. In practice, I've never seen any problems with it in the years that I've been using Python. OTOH, I've seen a lot of bugs caused by mishandling the optional C-style "if" blocks in those languages that use them.
Probably because the syntactic whitespace "problem" only exists in the heads of people who have never used Python.
I figure that another reason restaurant chains don't use "Happy Birthday" is so that they can create a custom song that contains nothing but two notes separated by a single semitone. It's their attempt to make it a tiny bit less excruciating to listen to the bellowing of a group of waitstaff with a sum total of zero singing talent.
The bad news: all the pictures came back at 640x480 resolution with 4-bit color depth, and had the words "Safe Mode" superimposed over each of the four corners.
You completely misunderstand how copyright works. You own every copy of each copyrighted work that you've purchased. You can do whatever you want with those copies, other than one thing: make further copies without the copyright holder's permission. (Under the DMCA, there's one other thing you can't do: tell people how to unscramble encrypted copies.) The only thing that a copyright holder "owns" is the ability to control who is granted to make further copies of their works. Copyright holders do NOT own the copies themselves.
Many click-thru EULAs try to put further restrictions on how you can use your copies that may make it look like the copyright holder "owns" the copies. The GPL is not one of those types of EULA.
In fact, the boxes ought to be free. Even that wouldn't make up for the fact that many people are going to have to install new antennas to prevent the total audio and video dropouts that DTV gives you with less than pristine reception, and that many other people are going to have to install IR blasters or other hacks to record shows.
For almost 20 years now, every time I've seen the term Windows/386, that stupid jingle "I've got Wu-Wu-Wu Windows Wu-Wu Windows Windows/386!" has popped into my head.
What's worse is that in the 19th century people usually used synthetic coal gas, which is mainly a mixture of hydrogen and carbon monoxide. This created a big risk of CO poisoning if an unlit light was left on.
If nobody but Microsoft cares about or needs to use the backwards compatible tags, then why the hell would they bother to put it in a public standard? That doesn't make any sense at all.
Yeah, because the most commonly understood definition of the term "sleep" means "frenetically check for e-mails even when it means racking up massive roaming charges".
Most likely, all of the possible 1e10 U.S. phone numbers would be encoded as individual nanoscale holes around the dial. You could dial anybody in the country with just a single flip of the wrist.
One advantage of the actual earth-sized telescope is that if you tweak the electronics a bit, then the instrument can also be used as a weapon to destroy rebellious planets.
On slashdot.ru, people misattribute old Yakov Smirnoff jokes to YOU!
Indeed, everybody knows that the standard unit for small distances in science news reporting is (human hair width)^-1. Why they didn't use this standard unit escapes me.
That's probably because most of the crapware that 3rd parties pay Dell to shovel into their systems won't run properly under FreeDOS.
You're probably not even going to make that 1% because the record companies' creative accounting puts you so far in the hole starting out that you'll end up still owing them after 1 million sales. The only way you'd get rich would be in the highly unlikely event that you put out a string of multiplatinum albums.