Mod Parent Up. Anybody and their dog can start a Linux Distro. Maybe they start with Debian because it's guaranteed to be free and open, or like like Debian package management. And maybe 500 people install it.
I'm sure Red Hat and Debian are #1 and #2 in ACTUAL deployments, although for all I know Red Flag tops them all.
I think Asimov himself can tell you why there hasn't been and never will be any faithful Foundation movies:
That night, Pat LoBrutto, the science-fiction editor at Doubleday called to express his pleasure. "And remember," he said, "that when we say "novel" we mean "science-fiction novel," not anything else. And when we say "science-fiction novel," we mean "Foundation novel" and not anything else." On February 5, 1981, I signed the contract, and within the week, the Doubleday accounting system cranked out the check for $25,000.
I moaned that I was not my own master anymore and Hugh O'Neill said, cheerfully, "That's right, and from now on, we're going to call every other week and say, "Where's the manuscript?" (But they didn't. They left me strictly alone, and never even asked for a progress report.) Nearly four months passed while I took care of a vast number of things I had to do, but about the end of May, I picked up my own copy of The Foundation Trilogy and began reading.
I had to. For one thing, I hadn't read the Trilogy in thirty years and while I remembered the general plot, I did not remember the details. Besides, before beginning a new Foundation novel I had to immerse myself in the style and atmosphere of the series.
I read it with mounting uneasiness. I kept waiting for something to happen, and nothing ever did. All three volumes, all the nearly quarter of a million words, consisted of thoughts and of conversations. No action. No physical suspense.
What was all the fuss about, then? Why did everyone want more of that stuff? To be sure, I couldn't help but notice that I was turning the pages eagerly, and that I was upset when I finished the book, and that I wanted more, but I was the author, for goodness" sake. You couldn't go by me.
I was on the edge of deciding it was all a terrible mistake and of insisting on giving back the money, when (quite by accident, I swear) I came across some sentences by science-fiction writer and critic, James Gunn, who, in connection with the Foundation series, said, "Action and romance have little to do with the success of the Trilogy--virtually all the action takes place offstage, and the romance is almost invisible--but the stories provide a detective-story fascination with the permutations and reversals of ideas."
Then perhaps those states should mandate that they get the new formula. Any Sudafed I've bought in the UK and Canada no longer contains pseudoephedrine, the offending ingredient.
The box of pills in front of me now lists the active ingredient as phenylephrine and the nasal spray is xylometazoline hydrochloride. These are the UK products.
The whole point of non-criminals buying non-illegal pseudoephedrine formulations is that phenylephrine is ineffective. Maybe those states should stop conducting trumped-up sting operations alleging illegal-misuse and let sick people buy the product that actually works.
While this new technique may improve security, it seems to lack one important property of pseudo-random numbers that is required by many applications: reproducibility.
Good luck finding the bug in your program with a stream of randoms you'll never be able to reconstruct again.
Oh, come on people. This is a JOKE. It's Funny, not, fercrissakes, Insightful.
I can see how the submitter might be surprised that Google would help Wikipedia, which competed with its own Knol, because Google has certainly never tried to do this before
If you know what sites every computer visits you could say, for example, that computers that visit Slashdot are unlikely to visit mypinkpony.com
There is, however, a very, very high correlation between Slashdot visits and cuteoverload.com
on single-user computers over 3 years old. Not sure what that says about your thesis.
The primary purpose of Fox News is to manipulate the electorate to the greatest extent possible. You can't do that behind a paywall. Murdoch's other properties will subsidize it so you'll always have your O'Reilly.
1989 was also the year I got out of the IBM360 / Bitnet ghetto and got a real unix account with real IP/TCP connections.
Clarinet. The was always the server I kept seeing references to, but never found out what was there because they expected me to pay to look.
The most important lesson learned from Star Trek is that if an IMAX transfer is part of your business plan, you don't shoot your movie shakey-cam quick-cut MTV style.
Ugh.
Is how to turn off that fricking auto typeaheadfind. I'm not typing apostrophes on a blank web page. I'm typing them into a text box. I'm typing them into the GOOGLE TEXTBOX (plain-vanilla homepage era). This is not a feature. A feature is an added capability. This is a BUG. I'm not disabled; I don't need accessiblity assistance. If I want to find text, I'll type ^F. If I'm typing an apostrophe into the Google text box, I don't want to search for text on that empty page, I want to search for my quoted text. Maybe they could add an accessiblity.typeaheadfind.goawayandnevercomeback. Or maybe they could even obey the EXISTING typeaheadfind options. Or map the key to a ~. Or, even, now this is a radical idea, stop erasing people's bug reports telling us it's a feature, and fix it.
This reads like a story invented in a Reuters reporter's head, with out-of-context quotes from scientists to support his clever idea. Anybody that followed the homo floresiensis story knows that large mammals tend to become dwarves on islands.
There is nothing in any of these articles that states the MS vouchers must be redeemed for MS products. The CA settlement permitted vouchers to be redeemed for any software and some hardware purchases. This entire article is a troll.
Don't be ridiculous. He could take a bit part in two Matrix for $3M or he could get the lead role in his own movie for $9.5. That's a no-brainer. Even if the movie tanks, he's still up $6M on the deal with a lead credit and free time to make another movie.
I checked out their website a few days ago and as you've noticed, it has no details. You can get an idea of the technology from their granted patent (amended) 6,459,091 here.
The idea in the patent is to impregnate cloth with a heavy metal such as barium salt, with a metal film layer or cloth woven from metal thread for additional protection. The technology mentioned in the New Scientist article sounds like a newer version that is still pat. pending. There's still no hard information about how well the suits actually work for the different radiation sources, e.g. Medical x-rays, airline cosmic rays, nuclear warfare. It's all marketing.
Not only a repeat, but we pretty much decided that he's not telling us anything new. Suprise! DNA is more reliable if you require 3 valid hydrogen bonds, than if you only require two, or one. Only two interesting points to the article: They showed that the full alphabet of the even parity (4,3) code isn't used because those nucleotides would be unstable. Another Suprise! An alphabet of 4 yields 2 bits of information per nucleotide. The other interesting thing I found in the paper is that the normal polymerase will replicate a strand of odd-parity nucleotides just as well as even. Except that wasn't even part of this research, it was in a reference!
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Mod Parent Up. Anybody and their dog can start a Linux Distro. Maybe they start with Debian because it's guaranteed to be free and open, or like like Debian package management. And maybe 500 people install it. I'm sure Red Hat and Debian are #1 and #2 in ACTUAL deployments, although for all I know Red Flag tops them all.
I guess you missed Timecode. Of course, they cheated by not having a script.
The whole point of non-criminals buying non-illegal pseudoephedrine formulations is that phenylephrine is ineffective. Maybe those states should stop conducting trumped-up sting operations alleging illegal-misuse and let sick people buy the product that actually works.
Congrats on finally getting your submission posted after going halfway around the world to find a copy not at the New York Times. Seriously.
If anybody didn't understand why the secret service took away Obama's crackberry, it should be pretty clear now.
On the impossibility of cryptography alone for privacy-preserving cloud computing
Oh, come on people. This is a JOKE. It's Funny, not, fercrissakes, Insightful.
I can see how the submitter might be surprised that Google would help Wikipedia, which competed with its own Knol, because Google has certainly never tried to do this before
There is, however, a very, very high correlation between Slashdot visits and cuteoverload.com on single-user computers over 3 years old. Not sure what that says about your thesis.
New WoT book released; nobody notices for 3 days.
The primary purpose of Fox News is to manipulate the electorate to the greatest extent possible. You can't do that behind a paywall. Murdoch's other properties will subsidize it so you'll always have your O'Reilly.
1989 was also the year I got out of the IBM360 / Bitnet ghetto and got a real unix account with real IP/TCP connections. Clarinet. The was always the server I kept seeing references to, but never found out what was there because they expected me to pay to look.
The most important lesson learned from Star Trek is that if an IMAX transfer is part of your business plan, you don't shoot your movie shakey-cam quick-cut MTV style. Ugh.
Is how to turn off that fricking auto typeaheadfind. I'm not typing apostrophes on a blank web page. I'm typing them into a text box. I'm typing them into the GOOGLE TEXTBOX (plain-vanilla homepage era). This is not a feature. A feature is an added capability. This is a BUG. I'm not disabled; I don't need accessiblity assistance. If I want to find text, I'll type ^F. If I'm typing an apostrophe into the Google text box, I don't want to search for text on that empty page, I want to search for my quoted text. Maybe they could add an accessiblity.typeaheadfind.goawayandnevercomeback. Or maybe they could even obey the EXISTING typeaheadfind options. Or map the key to a ~. Or, even, now this is a radical idea, stop erasing people's bug reports telling us it's a feature, and fix it.
This reads like a story invented in a Reuters reporter's head, with out-of-context quotes from scientists to support his clever idea. Anybody that followed the homo floresiensis story knows that large mammals tend to become dwarves on islands.
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/22/144223 0
I can't begin to imagine why why you would say this.
There is nothing in any of these articles that states the MS vouchers must be redeemed for MS products. The CA settlement permitted vouchers to be redeemed for any software and some hardware purchases. This entire article is a troll.
Don't be ridiculous. He could take a bit part in two Matrix for $3M or he could get the lead role in his own movie for $9.5. That's a no-brainer. Even if the movie tanks, he's still up $6M on the deal with a lead credit and free time to make another movie.
I checked out their website a few days ago and as you've noticed, it has no details. You can get an idea of the technology from their granted patent (amended) 6,459,091 here. The idea in the patent is to impregnate cloth with a heavy metal such as barium salt, with a metal film layer or cloth woven from metal thread for additional protection. The technology mentioned in the New Scientist article sounds like a newer version that is still pat. pending. There's still no hard information about how well the suits actually work for the different radiation sources, e.g. Medical x-rays, airline cosmic rays, nuclear warfare. It's all marketing.
Not only a repeat, but we pretty much decided that he's not telling us anything new. Suprise! DNA is more reliable if you require 3 valid hydrogen bonds, than if you only require two, or one. Only two interesting points to the article: They showed that the full alphabet of the even parity (4,3) code isn't used because those nucleotides would be unstable. Another Suprise! An alphabet of 4 yields 2 bits of information per nucleotide. The other interesting thing I found in the paper is that the normal polymerase will replicate a strand of odd-parity nucleotides just as well as even. Except that wasn't even part of this research, it was in a reference!
Really, is Atlas Shrugged suggested as a utopia or dystopia? What a nightmare, a world full of objectivists.
That's not bogus, that's Irix!