Before this paper, it seemed that the rotation of galaxies was inconsistent with the amount of visible matter.
Now it is consistent. But is it consistent with the visible matter plus any significant amount of dark matter? That is, does the GR calculation show that there can't be much if any dark matter?
One of the standard abbreviation conventions is that you don't put a full stop after an abbreviation if it ends with the last letter of the full word, so you have "Mr" but "Prof.". Maybe it's more common here than in the U.S.
The general style of the prose is often deliberately old-fashioned and weighty, but nothing more than that. I'm sure that it's just a matter of getting used to it.
Wrong, the 25 years is just copyright in the layout of a work. If you published an edition of Charles Dickens no-one could publish an exact copy for 25 years. But if you publish a new work, copyright in the UK lasts 70 years after you die.
Core memory was not "pretty well obsolete" in 1971. Semiconductor memory was only just starting to come into wide use by then. It was not until 1974 that it became cheaper than core (see http://www.science.uva.nl/faculteit/museum/CoreMem ory.html), and even later before it overtook it in volume.
Perhaps the time has come for separate GPU and video output cards. The video output card could be fairly dumb, perhaps on the motherboard, and the GPU card optional and usable even in servers without a video card.
The different interests of media companies and equipment makes goes some way to protect us. But Sony is now a big player in both areas, and can be expected to go for whichever side it expects to be more profitable. Such cross-ownership puts all the decision-making power in one place, and should be prevented by government regulators.
I've worked in universities, where programs are written to further research goals, and in commercial companies. In universities there's no pretence: design and implementation happen in parallel; you write the bits you know how to do and gradually fill in the rest. In industry, this is unacceptable: the design has to be done first.
But - surprise! - it doesn't work like that. In industry as in academia design and implementation are done together. The difference is that industry pretends that it isn't true. Design documents are written that are accurate for the well-understood bits, and waffly or absent for the other bits. Provided that the same team does both design and implementation, this doesn't matter: it's just a harmless fiction. But if you have to implement from someone else's design document, the fiction is exposed.
There is no mystery about the Casimir effect. It was predicted on the basis of electromagnetic theory and experimental results confirm it. Google will give you plenty of pages explaining it.
If I use DVD Jon's software, where do I have to agree to Apple's EULA? Maybe if you've already used Apple's music store you've agreed to it, but the rest of us haven't.
I know some companies would like it to be, but it isn't. Some laws give it some of the properties of property, but there's nothing natural about those laws, they're just there to make certain kinds of commerce work better. It's not a moral issue, no matter how much you shout about "theft".
XSL has two parts: transformations (XSLT) and formatting objects (XSL-FO). XSLT by itself is not meant for formatting, but XSLT and XSL-FO together are meant for exactly that.
I suspect that most of the compactness of the CSS solution is that CSS has built-in knowledge of HTML. The XSLT stylesheet will have to implement that from scratch. So CSS may be a win if you are using XHTML, but less so if you are using your own XML vocabulary. In the latter case, a common approach is to have an XSLT stylesheet that converts to HTML, and use a short CSS stylesheet with that. It's only in the more complicated cases that the flexibility of going via XSL-FO is worthwhile.
It appears to have been a mistake by EDS (formerly Ross perot's company), so presumably they will be paying the bills. But no doubt they will price future contracts to compensate for their incompetence.
As far as I can tell, the only reasonably fast and complete free emulator is qemu. It's quite portable, and can emulate several processors, including x86 and PPC. You can then install the operating system of your choice.
I had no problem emulating an x86 on my Mac, and installing FreeBSD.
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Try a Google search for "nothing moves in spacetime".
When SCO lose, they will have no money left.
They only banned it in the sense that they have a policy of not providing government funding for it. They didn't make it illegal.
Before this paper, it seemed that the rotation of galaxies was inconsistent with the amount of visible matter.
Now it is consistent. But is it consistent with the visible matter plus any significant amount of dark matter? That is, does the GR calculation show that there can't be much if any dark matter?
So, they evidently *don't* lose that ability, you just wish they did. Perhaps they don't care about annoying you?
And Charlie Stross lives just across the Forth in Edinburgh. Last time I saw him was in the pub at an EdLUG (Edinburgh Linux User Group) meeting.
One of the standard abbreviation conventions is that you don't put a full stop after an abbreviation if it ends with the last letter of the full word, so you have "Mr" but "Prof.". Maybe it's more common here than in the U.S.
The general style of the prose is often deliberately old-fashioned and weighty, but nothing more than that. I'm sure that it's just a matter of getting used to it.
and you can't fit many xterms in that.
Wrong, the 25 years is just copyright in the layout of a work. If you published an edition of Charles Dickens no-one could publish an exact copy for 25 years. But if you publish a new work, copyright in the UK lasts 70 years after you die.
Core memory was not "pretty well obsolete" in 1971. Semiconductor memory was only just starting to come into wide use by then. It was not until 1974 that it became cheaper than core (see http://www.science.uva.nl/faculteit/museum/CoreMem ory.html), and even later before it overtook it in volume.
Perhaps the time has come for separate GPU and video output cards. The video output card could be fairly dumb, perhaps on the motherboard, and the GPU card optional and usable even in servers without a video card.
What is the world coming to when garbage collection can be described as a "modern, Java-like feature"?
The different interests of media companies and equipment makes goes some way to protect us. But Sony is now a big player in both areas, and can be expected to go for whichever side it expects to be more profitable. Such cross-ownership puts all the decision-making power in one place, and should be prevented by government regulators.
I've worked in universities, where programs are written to further research goals, and in commercial companies. In universities there's no pretence: design and implementation happen in parallel; you write the bits you know how to do and gradually fill in the rest. In industry, this is unacceptable: the design has to be done first.
But - surprise! - it doesn't work like that. In industry as in academia design and implementation are done together. The difference is that industry pretends that it isn't true. Design documents are written that are accurate for the well-understood bits, and waffly or absent for the other bits. Provided that the same team does both design and implementation, this doesn't matter: it's just a harmless fiction. But if you have to implement from someone else's design document, the fiction is exposed.
There is no mystery about the Casimir effect. It was predicted on the basis of electromagnetic theory and experimental results confirm it. Google will give you plenty of pages explaining it.
If I use DVD Jon's software, where do I have to agree to Apple's EULA? Maybe if you've already used Apple's music store you've agreed to it, but the rest of us haven't.
"Larry's entitled to license things under any license he wants to".
But is the licence enforcable? Would any court take it seriously? And isn't the right to free speech "inalienable" in the U.S.?
I know some companies would like it to be, but it isn't. Some laws give it some of the properties of property, but there's nothing natural about those laws, they're just there to make certain kinds of commerce work better. It's not a moral issue, no matter how much you shout about "theft".
XSL has two parts: transformations (XSLT) and formatting objects (XSL-FO). XSLT by itself is not meant for formatting, but XSLT and XSL-FO together are meant for exactly that.
I suspect that most of the compactness of the CSS solution is that CSS has built-in knowledge of HTML. The XSLT stylesheet will have to implement that from scratch. So CSS may be a win if you are using XHTML, but less so if you are using your own XML vocabulary. In the latter case, a common approach is to have an XSLT stylesheet that converts to HTML, and use a short CSS stylesheet with that. It's only in the more complicated cases that the flexibility of going via XSL-FO is worthwhile.
or possibly "Mastercard Accounts".
In this country, theft is "removing wih intent to permanently deprive". You may not like what they're doing, but it's not theft.
"Jeanette Winterson, for her excellent plan to send homeopathic remedies to treat HIV in Botswana" - at least the postage should be cheap.
It appears to have been a mistake by EDS (formerly Ross perot's company), so presumably they will be paying the bills. But no doubt they will price future contracts to compensate for their incompetence.
The inventor of the ascii smiley is not "one of the little guys". He is Scott Fahlman, one of the most famous AI researchers and Lisp hackers.
As far as I can tell, the only reasonably fast and complete free emulator is qemu. It's quite portable, and can emulate several processors, including x86 and PPC. You can then install the operating system of your choice.
I had no problem emulating an x86 on my Mac, and installing FreeBSD.