An even better spot to host Diaspora (et al) would be the ubiquitous ARM/MIPS based router. Most networked homes already have one. The newer models have USB and thus the possibility to access flash storage. The thing is generally always on so the hosted content would be continuously available. If the protocols used by Diaspora get some good documentation it would be possible to implement them in a sensible language instead of the all-singing-and-dancing-framework-hog the Diaspora developers chose so it can actually run on these small systems.
I don't see science being bullied here in Sweden, nor did I see this in the Netherlands. I'm pretty sure it does not happen in Germany, Belgium, Finland, Denmark and Norway either. I'd be willing to guess - but can not ascertain - that the same goes for more or less all western- and eastern-European democracies. Maybe it is related to the ever stronger presence of religion in politics in the United States of America? Religion and the scientific method are strange bedfellows after all. Maybe it really is time for a non-religious president, to set an example.
I have always used the 'simple design', on any browser and any system as I do not see the need for useless clutter, graphics and such. This new design looks better than the previous/. but it omits the (for me) most important feature of having the option to throw all that flashy gimmicky floating stuck non-scrolling smooth rounded stuff out the window and just give me the text, thank you.
Please, please, pretty please, bring back the 'simple' option - the option is there but it does not work.
Well, the JVM is as much the base of Android as it is the base of, say, Parrot or LLVM. Canonical Java is run on a stack-based virtual machine - the JVM - while Dalvik (and the other examples I mentioned) are register-based VMs. It is the virtual machine that matters here, not the language which itself is a member of the C family and stands on the shoulders of many giants. And yes, if you wanted to get Java code to run on the Parrot VM you might want to use some of Java's own test routines to ascertain that you're doing it right. That would not mean you'd be calliung your implementation 'Java' of course, just that you implemented the capability to translate Java source code to (eventually) Parrot byte code. In other words, I am not siding with Oracle on this one. As to the validity of the software patents referred to in this case I will just say that software patents are invalid where sanity prevails.
Word might be getting out that the real fruits of that 'full day's work and [...] dues' are often picked by the tied and suited few on the top floor, leaving only the scraps and remains for those who worked to make them grow. Some of them may aspire to one day become one of them, be-suited and -tied, looking down on the writhing masses from the top floor. Some will flinch at the horror of such greed, the injustice of their abuse of power and the ease with which they can continue to pilfer. Most will just lose their drive to do better when they are aware they will never get out of the pit of scarcity.
And the managers we actually have left here in the US are those that are harder to replace. So they must be paid more.
Well, no, not really. It is more that management - who decide on payment after all - can get away with raising management pay time and time again without any real reason other than the self-serving statement that 'talent costs, and to keep talent we need to pay'. As long as that bubble continues to inflate, management will insist on more and more and more. They must be talented at something, after all...
What's worse, China's society heavily values science and engineers. America's does not. Very few people go into engineering any more, except for software engineering. When was the last time you met an aerospace engineer? Way back in the early 90s when I was in college, we joked that AEs would never find a job, because it was a pretty dead industry. Very few engineering majors went into the AE school. ME (which a lot of jet engine engineers probably have) is a little better, but still not great. Go into any major engineering school, and look at the students: most of them are Chinese and Indian, and these days, they go back to their home country when they finish their degree.
Just like a society supposedly gets the government it asks for it will also reap the benefits - or lack thereof - of their attitude towards those who theorize, invent, design, produce, repair and improve.
Next up, how to use a *real* hammer in WoW or how to use a *real* gun in $insert_first_person_shooter. Television makers the world over - OK, so they all come from China anyway - will rejoice...
"voedsel verbouwen" in Dutch translates to "to grow food". The literal translation of "verbouwen" can be the former, "to grow (something)" but it also means "to rebuild" (structures, etc). The original poster half-translated or s/he'd said "to rebuild food" which might even be more appropriate - the food got flooded out so it needs to be rebuilt, right?
No, seriously, don't do it. Instead buy a farm (it helps to have some money here so you might want to keep that job for as long as it takes to make enough to buy the farm) and get crackin' doing your own engineering. Work towards getting your farm self-sufficient in ways which interest you - food, power, materials, you name it. You won't make money worth mentioning - though you might make a bit if you come up with a successful technological refinement - but you'll have fun and you'll be doing something useful for yourself instead of for the stuffed suits.
Just call you farm 'Mars' and you can live up to your childhood dreams of colonizing strange new worlds:-)
I'm sure there are many other ways to live your own life but the important bit is to stop following - and feeding - 'the street'.
I'd think it should be possible to rig up the flywheel so it can be used to store momentum to restart the engine after a short stop. An electric clutch - normally engaged to keep the engine running when said clutch has broken down - with a soft engage mechanism so the flywheel can smoothly get the crank turning. A modern engine generally starts in the first two or three rotations of the crank, especially when it is already warmed up. Stop the engine while keeping the flywheel running, wait for the lights to turn, engage the flywheel to the crank and start the engine.
I hate having to wait 6+ months (or 2 years if you stick with LTS) to get app upgrades, so I switched to OS X for my laptop years ago.
You seriously changed from free software to payware, from the open space of Ubuntu to the walled garden of Apple, from getting updates every 6 months to having to buy updates every so many years, from having full control over your machine and software to being beholden to Apple's CEO's every whim?
Amazing... just... amazing.
May I suggest renting a computer after that Apple machine has bitten the dust? That way you have even less control over your machine while you pay even more. It must sound like data heaven to you.
The most important step is therefor: Get a good lawyer
And thus the leeches feed again, and thus the cycle continues...
The aim of the game should be to get the lawyers out of the software development process. I see why you give this advise to an individual but it does not help the community unless that lawyer is good enough to pull down the whole software patent house.
...has something else than protecting children on his or her mind. Expansion of power, maybe religious zeal, possibly just an expression of their own stunted ideas of right and wrong. Maybe I've turned into a cynic when it comes to politicians but if that is the case they have nothing but themselves to blame. 'Think of the children' is to politics what 'Hitler' is to the 'net, call it Cynic's corollary to Godwin's law. And yes, I have children. I will do the thinking when it comes to them and I don't need meddlesome politicians to decide for me.
Get them a tool kit. One of those hand-held plastic trays with a hammer, a pair of screwdrivers (X and --), a jigsaw with some different blade types, two clamps of any small type, some sort of measuring device and - if you want to be extra fancy - a hand-operated drill. Add a bottle of wood glue and a box of smallish nails. A carpenters pencil comes in handy as well. My 5 yo daughter made a candle holder for her birthday, heart-shaped with nails at the edges to hold the candles after I told her I did something similar for Yule when I was 6. A little help here and there and before you know it they'll make their own 'toys' which are twice as much fun as those plastic bits mentioned elsewhere in this thread. Plywood, hardboard, those waste bits of wood you're left with after doing some construction all come in handy.
I used to live next to a carpenter from birth 'till about 7. He had this barrel with leftovers in his backyard toolshop which I was free to pillage. I was lucky.
Grepping through 7GB of email is slower than hell. I have yet to find a mail client that will import and index that much mail without crashing.
You don't want to use a mail *client* to index that mail! Leave it to the server instead. I have no problems searching through my mail archives which are somewhat smaller than yours as am picky in what I archive (no mailing lists etc) but with 1.1 GiB still constitute a lot of data. My mail server is nothing special either, a rebranded Intel NAS box with a 1.4 GHz single core Celeron and 2GiB of memory. It runs a bog-standard dovecot imap client and a web mail server (roundcube with a few site-specific changes) and works its way through our mail just fine. No ads, no big brother, no nothin'. Zuck and Schmidt can recreate Dante's Inferno in email and I'll be happily mailing away. If you have a permanent connection and an always-on machine (NAS box, router, etc) there is no reason not to run your own services as far as I can see - other than interfering ISP's of course. Yes, you'll have to take care of your own backups - which is where Gmail and PGP come in handy if you are so inclined - but that is a small price to pay for 'freedom' IMnsHO.
Of course, the litigants themselves often pay significant taxes over the years
You'd be surprised how little taxes these litigants actually pay. The bigger they get, the more they seem to get away with paying essentially no taxes - or even end up being subsidised in various ways. Their employees pay taxes, sure, but that is not the same really - were it not for these companies those people would be employed elsewhere and pay taxes on whatever they make. These is a lot of information to be found on the 'net about this phenomenon, just head for your favourite search thing and have a look. Search for '[company] tax dodge' for some examples.
Next thing you know some t'rrrrrist decides to knit his bombe-de-jour from guncotton [1], TSA gets wind of it and *boom* - no not that bomb, that would never work - there go your clothes when you want to fly. Only TSA-approved one-time-use Tyvex straightjackets from now on.
[1] guncotton is possibly better known as nitrocellulose and has been used as eg. smokeless powder in ammunitions.
If I see a bad website that takes 20 minutes to load, then I will never buy anything from that site or it's company. If they can't hire a decent web programmer, they don't deserve my money.
How short-sighted of you. What does the quality of a web site have to do with the quality of the products sold through it?
Imagine the following scenario: someone has been making a given product for quite a while and as a result is quite proficient in their trade. Say this person makes axes, fine balanced axes which make easy work of splitting a few cubic meters of firewood for heating your house and/or cooking your food. He - most axe smiths are men - has sold axes through mail order for a while and thinks to extend his reach by using that internet thing he keeps on hearing about. He cobbles together a site using the first click-and-publish program he lays his hands on and voila, Knut Knutsson, axe smith is online and ready to sell. OK, the experience might leave something to be desired with that site being no more than the digital equivalent of those notices you might have seen hanging on the notice board at the local grocery store or, indeed, those ads he has used for many years in the relevant publications - say the farmers and foresters newspapers.
He still sells really wicked axes though, substandard as his site may be.
Now you happen to be searching for an axe. Which axe would you rather have, the piss-pot steel Chinese version guaranteed to be blunt after the first strike or one of those Knut Knutsson pieces which will last you a lifetime? With your current approach you'd go for the Chinese wonder at some fancy all-singing all-dancing AJAX web 2.0 site while in realoty you'd be much better served by Knut.
I guess this is some attempt to rebel against the all-pervading nanny state which tells you what to do for each and every experience outside YeghBurgerFried at the Disney Parlour?
Not very funny, really. You might remember you were a kid once? Lucky you that you did not meet your later self then. Just don't try it around where we live here or you'll find yourself car-less very soon. Not by the nanny-state, mind you.
Java is fine for GUI applications, no doubt about that. Have a look at the stuff used in mission control for many space missions and you're looking at java GUI applications.
That said, Java is less than stellar for the application OpenLibreOffice has put it to - running small helper programs to perform common tasks within a larger program. While the helper programs work fine it is the Java VM startup time which puts a damper on their utility. Start one of those 'wizards' and you'll hear that disk grind away to load all those VM bits.
Given that LibreOpenOffice already has its own programming language it would make more sense to use that to program these bits. If the language is not up to the task it can be improved upon or replaced by something more capable, eg. one of the free software javascript VM's which are in a neck-to-neck speed race.
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An even better spot to host Diaspora (et al) would be the ubiquitous ARM/MIPS based router. Most networked homes already have one. The newer models have USB and thus the possibility to access flash storage. The thing is generally always on so the hosted content would be continuously available.
If the protocols used by Diaspora get some good documentation it would be possible to implement them in a sensible language instead of the all-singing-and-dancing-framework-hog the Diaspora developers chose so it can actually run on these small systems.
I don't see science being bullied here in Sweden, nor did I see this in the Netherlands. I'm pretty sure it does not happen in Germany, Belgium, Finland, Denmark and Norway either. I'd be willing to guess - but can not ascertain - that the same goes for more or less all western- and eastern-European democracies.
Maybe it is related to the ever stronger presence of religion in politics in the United States of America? Religion and the scientific method are strange bedfellows after all.
Maybe it really is time for a non-religious president, to set an example.
I have always used the 'simple design', on any browser and any system as I do not see the need for useless clutter, graphics and such. /. but it omits the (for me) most important feature of having the option to throw all that flashy gimmicky floating stuck non-scrolling smooth rounded stuff out the window and just give me the text, thank you.
This new design looks better than the previous
Please, please, pretty please, bring back the 'simple' option - the option is there but it does not work.
Well, the JVM is as much the base of Android as it is the base of, say, Parrot or LLVM. Canonical Java is run on a stack-based virtual machine - the JVM - while Dalvik (and the other examples I mentioned) are register-based VMs. It is the virtual machine that matters here, not the language which itself is a member of the C family and stands on the shoulders of many giants.
And yes, if you wanted to get Java code to run on the Parrot VM you might want to use some of Java's own test routines to ascertain that you're doing it right. That would not mean you'd be calliung your implementation 'Java' of course, just that you implemented the capability to translate Java source code to (eventually) Parrot byte code.
In other words, I am not siding with Oracle on this one. As to the validity of the software patents referred to in this case I will just say that software patents are invalid where sanity prevails.
Word might be getting out that the real fruits of that 'full day's work and [...] dues' are often picked by the tied and suited few on the top floor, leaving only the scraps and remains for those who worked to make them grow. Some of them may aspire to one day become one of them, be-suited and -tied, looking down on the writhing masses from the top floor. Some will flinch at the horror of such greed, the injustice of their abuse of power and the ease with which they can continue to pilfer. Most will just lose their drive to do better when they are aware they will never get out of the pit of scarcity.
Well, no, not really. It is more that management - who decide on payment after all - can get away with raising management pay time and time again without any real reason other than the self-serving statement that 'talent costs, and to keep talent we need to pay'. As long as that bubble continues to inflate, management will insist on more and more and more.
They must be talented at something, after all...
If these claim are correct, the resulting products might resemble current 'fossil' fuels but of course they are anything but fossil...
Just like a society supposedly gets the government it asks for it will also reap the benefits - or lack thereof - of their attitude towards those who theorize, invent, design, produce, repair and improve.
Next up, how to use a *real* hammer in WoW or how to use a *real* gun in $insert_first_person_shooter. Television makers the world over - OK, so they all come from China anyway - will rejoice...
"voedsel verbouwen" in Dutch translates to "to grow food". The literal translation of "verbouwen" can be the former, "to grow (something)" but it also means "to rebuild" (structures, etc). The original poster half-translated or s/he'd said "to rebuild food" which might even be more appropriate - the food got flooded out so it needs to be rebuilt, right?
No, seriously, don't do it. Instead buy a farm (it helps to have some money here so you might want to keep that job for as long as it takes to make enough to buy the farm) and get crackin' doing your own engineering. Work towards getting your farm self-sufficient in ways which interest you - food, power, materials, you name it. You won't make money worth mentioning - though you might make a bit if you come up with a successful technological refinement - but you'll have fun and you'll be doing something useful for yourself instead of for the stuffed suits.
Just call you farm 'Mars' and you can live up to your childhood dreams of colonizing strange new worlds :-)
I'm sure there are many other ways to live your own life but the important bit is to stop following - and feeding - 'the street'.
I'd think it should be possible to rig up the flywheel so it can be used to store momentum to restart the engine after a short stop. An electric clutch - normally engaged to keep the engine running when said clutch has broken down - with a soft engage mechanism so the flywheel can smoothly get the crank turning. A modern engine generally starts in the first two or three rotations of the crank, especially when it is already warmed up. Stop the engine while keeping the flywheel running, wait for the lights to turn, engage the flywheel to the crank and start the engine.
You seriously changed from free software to payware, from the open space of Ubuntu to the walled garden of Apple, from getting updates every 6 months to having to buy updates every so many years, from having full control over your machine and software to being beholden to Apple's CEO's every whim?
Amazing... just... amazing.
May I suggest renting a computer after that Apple machine has bitten the dust? That way you have even less control over your machine while you pay even more. It must sound like data heaven to you.
Well, you could abuse a well-known notation form to say which apple.com you wanted to visit:
apple.com@icann ...
apple.com@alternic
apple.com@yournichere
Of course this will not work as it since the @ is already taken for authentication purposes. A new symbol is needed for this purpose...
apple.com(icann):80 or apple.com=icann:80 or whatever.
And thus the leeches feed again, and thus the cycle continues...
The aim of the game should be to get the lawyers out of the software development process. I see why you give this advise to an individual but it does not help the community unless that lawyer is good enough to pull down the whole software patent house.
...has something else than protecting children on his or her mind. Expansion of power, maybe religious zeal, possibly just an expression of their own stunted ideas of right and wrong. Maybe I've turned into a cynic when it comes to politicians but if that is the case they have nothing but themselves to blame. 'Think of the children' is to politics what 'Hitler' is to the 'net, call it Cynic's corollary to Godwin's law.
And yes, I have children. I will do the thinking when it comes to them and I don't need meddlesome politicians to decide for me.
Get them a tool kit. One of those hand-held plastic trays with a hammer, a pair of screwdrivers (X and --), a jigsaw with some different blade types, two clamps of any small type, some sort of measuring device and - if you want to be extra fancy - a hand-operated drill. Add a bottle of wood glue and a box of smallish nails. A carpenters pencil comes in handy as well. My 5 yo daughter made a candle holder for her birthday, heart-shaped with nails at the edges to hold the candles after I told her I did something similar for Yule when I was 6. A little help here and there and before you know it they'll make their own 'toys' which are twice as much fun as those plastic bits mentioned elsewhere in this thread. Plywood, hardboard, those waste bits of wood you're left with after doing some construction all come in handy.
I used to live next to a carpenter from birth 'till about 7. He had this barrel with leftovers in his backyard toolshop which I was free to pillage. I was lucky.
You don't want to use a mail *client* to index that mail! Leave it to the server instead. I have no problems searching through my mail archives which are somewhat smaller than yours as am picky in what I archive (no mailing lists etc) but with 1.1 GiB still constitute a lot of data. My mail server is nothing special either, a rebranded Intel NAS box with a 1.4 GHz single core Celeron and 2GiB of memory. It runs a bog-standard dovecot imap client and a web mail server (roundcube with a few site-specific changes) and works its way through our mail just fine. No ads, no big brother, no nothin'. Zuck and Schmidt can recreate Dante's Inferno in email and I'll be happily mailing away. If you have a permanent connection and an always-on machine (NAS box, router, etc) there is no reason not to run your own services as far as I can see - other than interfering ISP's of course. Yes, you'll have to take care of your own backups - which is where Gmail and PGP come in handy if you are so inclined - but that is a small price to pay for 'freedom' IMnsHO.
You'd be surprised how little taxes these litigants actually pay. The bigger they get, the more they seem to get away with paying essentially no taxes - or even end up being subsidised in various ways. Their employees pay taxes, sure, but that is not the same really - were it not for these companies those people would be employed elsewhere and pay taxes on whatever they make.
These is a lot of information to be found on the 'net about this phenomenon, just head for your favourite search thing and have a look. Search for '[company] tax dodge' for some examples.
Next thing you know some t'rrrrrist decides to knit his bombe-de-jour from guncotton [1], TSA gets wind of it and *boom* - no not that bomb, that would never work - there go your clothes when you want to fly. Only TSA-approved one-time-use Tyvex straightjackets from now on.
[1] guncotton is possibly better known as nitrocellulose and has been used as eg. smokeless powder in ammunitions.
How short-sighted of you. What does the quality of a web site have to do with the quality of the products sold through it?
Imagine the following scenario: someone has been making a given product for quite a while and as a result is quite proficient in their trade. Say this person makes axes, fine balanced axes which make easy work of splitting a few cubic meters of firewood for heating your house and/or cooking your food. He - most axe smiths are men - has sold axes through mail order for a while and thinks to extend his reach by using that internet thing he keeps on hearing about. He cobbles together a site using the first click-and-publish program he lays his hands on and voila, Knut Knutsson, axe smith is online and ready to sell. OK, the experience might leave something to be desired with that site being no more than the digital equivalent of those notices you might have seen hanging on the notice board at the local grocery store or, indeed, those ads he has used for many years in the relevant publications - say the farmers and foresters newspapers.
He still sells really wicked axes though, substandard as his site may be.
Now you happen to be searching for an axe. Which axe would you rather have, the piss-pot steel Chinese version guaranteed to be blunt after the first strike or one of those Knut Knutsson pieces which will last you a lifetime? With your current approach you'd go for the Chinese wonder at some fancy all-singing all-dancing AJAX web 2.0 site while in realoty you'd be much better served by Knut.
No wonder they called it UEFI - imagine the screen real estate needed to say
Lägg i köttbullar och låt sjuda i 20 minuter BOOTING, PLEASE WAIT...
F3: ENTER Lägg i köttbullar och låt sjuda i 20 minuter SETTINGS MENU
F10: RESET Lägg i köttbullar och låt sjuda i 20 minuter TO DEFAULT SETTINGS
AMI Lägg i köttbullar och låt sjuda i 20 minuter, (C) 2010
A wise decision by Intel IMnsHO
re: your .sig:
"When I see kids, I drive faster."
I guess this is some attempt to rebel against the all-pervading nanny state which tells you what to do for each and every experience outside YeghBurgerFried at the Disney Parlour?
Not very funny, really. You might remember you were a kid once? Lucky you that you did not meet your later self then. Just don't try it around where we live here or you'll find yourself car-less very soon. Not by the nanny-state, mind you.
I hope they also state a temperature with these specifications as this level of accuracy is easily fouled up by thermal expansion...
Java is fine for GUI applications, no doubt about that. Have a look at the stuff used in mission control for many space missions and you're looking at java GUI applications.
That said, Java is less than stellar for the application OpenLibreOffice has put it to - running small helper programs to perform common tasks within a larger program. While the helper programs work fine it is the Java VM startup time which puts a damper on their utility. Start one of those 'wizards' and you'll hear that disk grind away to load all those VM bits.
Given that LibreOpenOffice already has its own programming language it would make more sense to use that to program these bits. If the language is not up to the task it can be improved upon or replaced by something more capable, eg. one of the free software javascript VM's which are in a neck-to-neck speed race.