In the networking world, however, we can talk at gigabit speeds over the same physical media
That's only true where we deliberatly installed media which had excess capacity. When most people were installing 10Mb network cards, they were mainly installing Cat 5 cabling. You only need Cat 3 cabling to handle 10Mb, but people realizied that the cost of cabling isn't the cable, it's the labour involved in installing it, and therefore installed the best they could by, to maximize their futureproofing.
And how much would it cost to move us closer to that 100%? Incremental changes are sometimes the most expensive of all, especially if it requires replacing all existing equipment.
Electicity is the most efficent way to move energy long distances. There are transmittion losses, but no-where near the amount that you would get when move hydrogen, methane, etc.
Actually SCO don't own 'the UNIX trademark'. They own the Unix source code base, but The Open Group have the trademark. SCO Unix had to pass The Open Group's certification to get the right to be called "Unix", same as IBM's OS/390 did, even though one is the Unix code, and one is totally independant.
Back in the early days, there was a lot of code in common. Minix was a good enviroment to bootstrap development of Linux. However, there was a problem which prevented this from lasting. Minux is not freely distributable. Therefore, as soon as practical, all the Minix code got replaced with other code, either GNU or other freely distributable versions, or freshly written alternatives. Some of this actually happened even before Linux started - the Minix tools were sometimes missing, or inadequate, because there were written to fit in to a 64k+64k environment, and with Minix-386 giving more space available, the Minix people wrote new tools from scratch. These could be reused for Linux.
we use an antique system called "Imperial" because we inherited it from the British Empire
Not quite. The length units are the same as the British Imperial system, but the volume units aren't. A US gallon is 231 cubic inches, while an Imperial gallon is 277.4. A US bushel is 2150.4 cubic inches, while an Imperial bushel is 2219.4 cubic inches.
The major problem I have with python isn't that the indention is required, but that there is no way to understand the code without the indentation. It's not terribly uncommon for indentation to be lost on code. Perhaps I accidentally run the 'undend this code' function on my editor. Perhaps I only have a printout, instead of machine readable. Perhaps I paste the code into an environment where the indentation is lost, for example, a slashdot entry box. Once the indentation is lost, then that code is unrunable and useless. With a language which has syntax indicators of the blocks, then the indentation can be recovered.
I have the Bell PVR, and it has a few faults*, but overall it is good.
* = e.g. there is a bug in the 'update the Schedule' code. It works fine if you're watching live TV. If you're viewing a previously recorded program, then it gets confused, and if you're recording at the time, then the program gets truncated.
As I mentioned a minute ago, Microsoft obviously agree that some aspect of window management does work well in applications, since many Microsoft applications do so, eg Word, Excel, etc.
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I think it depends on the media. 8 spaces works well on paper, but not so well on the screen.
There isn't a NEED for tabs, however tabs do make browsing less complex by converging multiple display windows to be within one application window, and therefore avoiding a huge list of windows to chose from in the contexes where you're selecting from an application, eg Alt-tab, or the open application bar. This is exactly the same as the MDI interface* implemented by many other applications.
* = Yes, I am aware that when you expand the acronym I'm repeating the word "interface" twice. Such is the fate of verbed acronyms.
The rights to the Unix source code have been sold many times over the last few years, with AT&T selling it to Novell, who sold it to SCO afaik. I'm sure that if SCO was to go bust, it would be sold as an asset just like everything else.
I like looking at the ratings that the same movie gets around the world. For example, the Adrian Lyne version of Lolita got an 'R' in the US, but a 16 in the netherlands, and a 12 in Brazil and France.
Again, that might be true in the US, but it's not true in the rest of the world. Just over the border in Toronto, CITY TV showed soft core movies, over broadcast TV, in the 1970's. Just because the US has been a nanny state in the past is not justification for it being so in the future.
Actually if you go into a magazine store in the majority of countries around the world, Hustler and similar magazines are out there along with everything else. I've only ever seen obscuring placards in the US.
"Call me Ishmael" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." - Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice.
"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22" - Joseph Heller, Catch-22.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" - Charles Dickens, A Tale of two Cities.
""When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less." - Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
5 perfectly good memorable lines, without lots of context.
Something has to be done to give parents a fighting chance
Why? If you're a parent, then it's your responsibility to do whatever you feel is appropriate in terms of looking after your kids. It's not the rest of societies problem. Parents are doing far too much insisting on protection 'for the children' which ends up restricting what adults can do. Do your job, don't expect me to do it for you.
Unfortunatly, ITU's only income is through the sale of the standards & papers. That worked well when it was primarily telco's interested in the standards, but doesn't neccessarily work well in an internet model.
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That's only true where we deliberatly installed media which had excess capacity. When most people were installing 10Mb network cards, they were mainly installing Cat 5 cabling. You only need Cat 3 cabling to handle 10Mb, but people realizied that the cost of cabling isn't the cable, it's the labour involved in installing it, and therefore installed the best they could by, to maximize their futureproofing.
And how much would it cost to move us closer to that 100%? Incremental changes are sometimes the most expensive of all, especially if it requires replacing all existing equipment.
Electicity is the most efficent way to move energy long distances. There are transmittion losses, but no-where near the amount that you would get when move hydrogen, methane, etc.
Why? I'd be a lot more suprised if you could find even a small population that didn't have diverse viewpoints.
Because we don't know how to do it?
Actually SCO don't own 'the UNIX trademark'. They own the Unix source code base, but The Open Group have the trademark. SCO Unix had to pass The Open Group's certification to get the right to be called "Unix", same as IBM's OS/390 did, even though one is the Unix code, and one is totally independant.
Back in the early days, there was a lot of code in common. Minix was a good enviroment to bootstrap development of Linux. However, there was a problem which prevented this from lasting. Minux is not freely distributable. Therefore, as soon as practical, all the Minix code got replaced with other code, either GNU or other freely distributable versions, or freshly written alternatives. Some of this actually happened even before Linux started - the Minix tools were sometimes missing, or inadequate, because there were written to fit in to a 64k+64k environment, and with Minix-386 giving more space available, the Minix people wrote new tools from scratch. These could be reused for Linux.
Not quite. The length units are the same as the British Imperial system, but the volume units aren't. A US gallon is 231 cubic inches, while an Imperial gallon is 277.4. A US bushel is 2150.4 cubic inches, while an Imperial bushel is 2219.4 cubic inches.
You do realize that Tk is available now for many languages, including Perl?
The major problem I have with python isn't that the indention is required, but that there is no way to understand the code without the indentation. It's not terribly uncommon for indentation to be lost on code. Perhaps I accidentally run the 'undend this code' function on my editor. Perhaps I only have a printout, instead of machine readable. Perhaps I paste the code into an environment where the indentation is lost, for example, a slashdot entry box. Once the indentation is lost, then that code is unrunable and useless. With a language which has syntax indicators of the blocks, then the indentation can be recovered.
* = e.g. there is a bug in the 'update the Schedule' code. It works fine if you're watching live TV. If you're viewing a previously recorded program, then it gets confused, and if you're recording at the time, then the program gets truncated.
Err, scientists have known that oil comes from mainly unicellular life for years. There is nothing for creationists to be right about.
LOC call numbers are not guaranteed to be unique. Therefore it's not suitable for use for identifying work.
As I mentioned a minute ago, Microsoft obviously agree that some aspect of window management does work well in applications, since many Microsoft applications do so, eg Word, Excel, etc.
I think it depends on the media. 8 spaces works well on paper, but not so well on the screen.
* = Yes, I am aware that when you expand the acronym I'm repeating the word "interface" twice. Such is the fate of verbed acronyms.
The rights to the Unix source code have been sold many times over the last few years, with AT&T selling it to Novell, who sold it to SCO afaik. I'm sure that if SCO was to go bust, it would be sold as an asset just like everything else.
I like looking at the ratings that the same movie gets around the world. For example, the Adrian Lyne version of Lolita got an 'R' in the US, but a 16 in the netherlands, and a 12 in Brazil and France.
Again, that might be true in the US, but it's not true in the rest of the world. Just over the border in Toronto, CITY TV showed soft core movies, over broadcast TV, in the 1970's. Just because the US has been a nanny state in the past is not justification for it being so in the future.
Actually if you go into a magazine store in the majority of countries around the world, Hustler and similar magazines are out there along with everything else. I've only ever seen obscuring placards in the US.
"Call me Ishmael" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife." - Jane Austin, Pride & Prejudice.
"There was only one catch and that was Catch-22" - Joseph Heller, Catch-22.
"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times" - Charles Dickens, A Tale of two Cities.
""When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean--neither more nor less." - Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
5 perfectly good memorable lines, without lots of context.
Why? If you're a parent, then it's your responsibility to do whatever you feel is appropriate in terms of looking after your kids. It's not the rest of societies problem. Parents are doing far too much insisting on protection 'for the children' which ends up restricting what adults can do. Do your job, don't expect me to do it for you.
This one is "Profession".
Only the permanent members of the security council have vetos. The other members can only vote against a proposal.
Unfortunatly, ITU's only income is through the sale of the standards & papers. That worked well when it was primarily telco's interested in the standards, but doesn't neccessarily work well in an internet model.