He gives you all his equations in the article. Why don't you google for the appropriate values for the civic ex and the civic hybrid and post the results here?
The government is a big customer. If the government starts useing OpenDoc, then big business will pay attention and put pressure on MS to support OpenDoc.
Well, support for OpenDoc is primarily important to those who can't use MSOffice or who want to be able to seemlessly integrate a non-windows desktop into a windows office environment.
StumbleUpon might be a great way to increase FireFox mindshare. Lots of the sites I find with StumbleUpon are small sites that would be very hard to find accidentally and once they're rated in StumbleUpon, FireFox suddenly becomes the dominant browser in the server logs for that site since that site is shared with other StumbleUpon users. Once the site owner notices this, the becomes more important to the site owner to make sure FireFox works well with their site.
Now, these small sites haven't historically been IE-only, but it seems like a good thing to raise awareness.
Modern propeller turbines use lift to generate torque and efficiency scales up with propeller length. Verticle turbines which use drag (as the one in the article does) are not as efficienct to begin with, and their efficiency does not scale as you make them bigger. This is why the engineers don't make modern large scale wind turbines out of them.
Old windmills used wind drag to generate torque. Modern wind turbines use lift to generate torque. Saying the principles are the same is like comparing a glider to fighter jet.
Solution 1: build from source Problems: don't have source for everything and can sometimes take a long time.
Solution 2: statically link binaries Problems: dependent on the vendor to do that and it increases file size and load times.
For many of us, Solution 1 works just fine because we don't depend on packages that we don't have source to. Gentoo is a compromise by building from source when available and extracting from rpms when it's not. I don't think anyone is a real proponent of Solution 2.
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Performance is not an OpenBSD priority, but the interviews with OpenBSD developers that have been popping up the last couple of weeks seem to imply that the performance hit of the new malloc() is minimal.
Would using lasers be as efficient as microwaves? If I remember correctly, a rectenna can convert 90% of the energy contained in microwaves into electricity.
I still don't see how this has any implications for me as a developer who writes database clients. Whether or not the database server is multi-threaded or multi-process has no effect on me as long as the operation of the database is correct and has adequate performance for my needs.
Am I just missing the point of the original statment?
Although Debian and Ubuntu are kind of two separate codebases now
It it my understanding that Ubuntu resyncs with the Debian unstable codebase every 6 months, so your comment is misleading. It is true that the Ubuntu development happens independantly of the Debian development, but the Ubuntu changes are fed back into Debian and the Ubuntu code tree will always be no more than 6 months off from the Debian tree.
If I've said something materially wrong, I'm sure someone will jump in to correct me.
The reason he claims that the bugs are more likely to get fixed is because in the hardened environment, these bugs result in crashes rather than transient misbehavior. These types of bugs will be much easier to detect and fix since they will no longer be hard to reproduce.
Sounds reasonable to me. In my experience, no bug is hard to find and fix if it is easy to reproduce.
Challenge-response offers no protection from a man-in-the-middle attack. If I control both ends of the connecting cable, then there's nothing you can do to stop me.
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Except that you're forgetting that batteries can by almost 100% recycled. We've been doing it for years and the process is both mature and robust.
He gives you all his equations in the article. Why don't you google for the appropriate values for the civic ex and the civic hybrid and post the results here?
Lots of us would be interested in what you find.
So does that make Python a pure OO language since you can inherit from anything?
The government is a big customer. If the government
starts useing OpenDoc, then big business will pay
attention and put pressure on MS to support OpenDoc.
Well, support for OpenDoc is primarily important to
those who can't use MSOffice or who want to be able
to seemlessly integrate a non-windows desktop into
a windows office environment.
What catagory would you prefer?
StumbleUpon might be a great way to increase FireFox mindshare. Lots of the sites I find with StumbleUpon are small sites that would be very hard to find accidentally and once they're rated in StumbleUpon, FireFox suddenly becomes the dominant browser in the server logs for that site since that site is shared with other StumbleUpon users. Once the site owner notices this, the becomes more important to the site owner to make sure FireFox works well with their site.
Now, these small sites haven't historically been IE-only, but it seems like a good thing to raise awareness.
Just a thought.
Wouldn't such a strategy be illegal?
I was actually thinking hang gliders, but kite works, too.
So they can sell patent licenses.
What you've said is so wrong, it's painful.
Modern propeller turbines use lift to generate torque and efficiency scales up with propeller length. Verticle turbines which use drag (as the one in the article does) are not as efficienct to begin with, and their efficiency does not scale as you make them bigger. This is why the engineers don't make modern large scale wind turbines out of them.
Old windmills used wind drag to generate torque. Modern wind turbines use lift to generate torque. Saying the principles are the same is like comparing a glider to fighter jet.
Wind gets the minimal of governmental support, and look at how it's growing.
While that may be true in the US, I think you'll find that Wind gets a lot of governmental support in the EU, especially Germany and Britain.
It makes sense, if you think about it. As far north as most of the EU is, Solar isn't as promising for the EU as it is for the US.
Thank you for a well written, informative, and insightful post.
Hopefully the moderators will mod you accordingly.
and let's find a solution for dependency hell
We have solutions, but they have downsides:
Solution 1: build from source
Problems: don't have source for everything and can sometimes take a long time.
Solution 2: statically link binaries
Problems: dependent on the vendor to do that and it increases file size and load times.
For many of us, Solution 1 works just fine because we don't
depend on packages that we don't have source to. Gentoo is a
compromise by building from source when available and extracting
from rpms when it's not. I don't think anyone is a real proponent of Solution 2.
Performance is not an OpenBSD priority, but the interviews with
OpenBSD developers that have been popping up the last couple of
weeks seem to imply that the performance hit of the new malloc()
is minimal.
Would using lasers be as efficient as microwaves? If I remember
correctly, a rectenna can convert 90% of the energy contained
in microwaves into electricity.
I still don't see how this has any implications for me as
a developer who writes database clients. Whether or not the
database server is multi-threaded or multi-process has no
effect on me as long as the operation of the database is
correct and has adequate performance for my needs.
Am I just missing the point of the original statment?
2) Code merging would be a pain. PostgreSQL is process-based and unlikely to be internally threadsafe, while MySQL is thread-based.
I'm trying to wrap my mind around this statement, and am failing.
Can you elaborate on this?
I believe that Mass. had wording that a product does not
qualify if it:
a) does not completely and correctly implement OpenDoc
b) extends OpenDoc
If MS were to add proprietary stuff, they would be
disqualifying themselves.
How long does a fad have to last before it stops being a fad?
Although Debian and Ubuntu are kind of two separate codebases now
It it my understanding that Ubuntu resyncs with the Debian
unstable codebase every 6 months, so your comment is
misleading. It is true that the Ubuntu development happens
independantly of the Debian development, but the Ubuntu
changes are fed back into Debian and the Ubuntu code tree
will always be no more than 6 months off from the Debian
tree.
If I've said something materially wrong, I'm sure someone
will jump in to correct me.
The reason he claims that the bugs are more likely to get
fixed is because in the hardened environment, these bugs
result in crashes rather than transient misbehavior. These
types of bugs will be much easier to detect and fix since
they will no longer be hard to reproduce.
Sounds reasonable to me. In my experience, no bug is hard
to find and fix if it is easy to reproduce.
Better to offer open source implementations to the public as
early as possible that can later be used as prior art.
That way everyone benefits from the idea and no one can come
in later and try to monopolize it.
MS Office for Mac is a money maker for Microsoft. What
possible motivation would they have to stop supporting Mac?
But the interests of the hardware producers do not necessarily
coincide with the interests of the content producers.
At least for now.
Ever heard of challenge-response authentication?
Challenge-response offers no protection from a
man-in-the-middle attack. If I control both ends
of the connecting cable, then there's nothing you
can do to stop me.