For a number of Lockheed employees (myself included), the business applications are Outlook, Word, Excel, and Project. I am not surprised by this announcement. A few years ago, my main development machine switched from an SGI O2 to a PC running linux. Of course, there are other sections which have quite a few custom Windows applications.
They tested this on the Mythbusters tv show. They determined that the terminal velocity of a penny was between 30 and 60 miles per hour depending on the orientation of the coin. Given those speeds and the small mass of the coin, it didn't have enough energy to do any significant damage. In fact, they found that it stings to get hit by them, but they don't even leave a mark.
Rather than trying to explain the nuts and bolts of why clock rate isn't important, perhaps you should try an analogy. I haven't actually had to explain it to anybody, but I figure that I would compare it to trying to determine the speed of a car based by reading the tachometer. In such a case, the gearing compares to things like IPC of the processor.
I haven't seen the film either, but the title is taken directly from a comment by a particular inorganic life form. Some were growing on the Enterprise, and after they had been patched through the universal translator, they addressed crew as "ugly bags of mostly water". Data commented that it was an appropriate comment since humans are mostly water within a flexible container. Now that I have said this, I am sure that you would be shocked to hear that I don't have a girlfriend.
There is no requirement for you to distribute your changes to GPL code. The requirement is that *if* you distribute it in a binary form, you must provide the source code.
That reminds me of the time I tried watching "Conan the Barbarian" on one of the regular cable channels (I think it was TNT). They edited out so much stuff that I couldn't keep track of what was going on.
I had similar experiences in high school whenever a girl would actually try to talk to me. I would act polite, but the entire time I would be wondering what she really wanted. Of course, in all of those cases, she really was just looking for something (ex. help with learning some math concept). This probably isn't too unusual for the slashdot crowd.
It's just one of those marketing abuses like Microsoft putting.NET on everything or the stupid e- and i- prefixes. They don't really mean anything by it, they are just trying to sound cool or borrow some sort of name recognition.
She stayed in the tub because of the amphibious tendencies. At the time, she had both lungs and gills. As far as the shower goes, they have sonic showers and they showed one of them in an episode of voyager.
Artificial gravity is not the same as the inertial dampeners. The only case I can think of where artificial gravity went out was on a klingon ship in "The undiscovered country" movie (I forget the number). You are right about the inertial dampeners getting knocked out rather frequently.
How did you come to that conclusion? According to the article, DivX and WM9 were more or less a tie on quality with advantages and disadvantages on both sides. DivX was faster, so by my figures, that would put DivX slightly ahead.
That is of course assuming that there is a compatible linux driver for the hardware in question. If it's not supported, it won't work whether it is broken or not. It is also possible for there to be intermittent problems that won't be detected by such a cursory test.
I think you are reading into it a bit too much. I would interpret that statement as saying the they might switch away from KDE in the long term, but that it is not set in stone.
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If memory serves me correct, that was a ring-tailed lemur.
For a number of Lockheed employees (myself included), the business applications are Outlook, Word, Excel, and Project. I am not surprised by this announcement. A few years ago, my main development machine switched from an SGI O2 to a PC running linux. Of course, there are other sections which have quite a few custom Windows applications.
They tested this on the Mythbusters tv show. They determined that the terminal velocity of a penny was between 30 and 60 miles per hour depending on the orientation of the coin. Given those speeds and the small mass of the coin, it didn't have enough energy to do any significant damage. In fact, they found that it stings to get hit by them, but they don't even leave a mark.
I think an easier improvement would be to replace the wall-warts with the more outlet friendly "soap on a rope" style of transformers.
Rather than trying to explain the nuts and bolts of why clock rate isn't important, perhaps you should try an analogy. I haven't actually had to explain it to anybody, but I figure that I would compare it to trying to determine the speed of a car based by reading the tachometer. In such a case, the gearing compares to things like IPC of the processor.
Oh, so you also support the MIT/BSD license.
I am pretty sure the second bit was a joke.
Hmm, funny how you got -1 Redundant, and I got +1 Informative even though you beat me by ten minutes. Those wacky moderators...
On the off-chance that you are being serious, that would be November 5th, since Americans list month before day when writing dates.
I haven't seen the film either, but the title is taken directly from a comment by a particular inorganic life form. Some were growing on the Enterprise, and after they had been patched through the universal translator, they addressed crew as "ugly bags of mostly water". Data commented that it was an appropriate comment since humans are mostly water within a flexible container. Now that I have said this, I am sure that you would be shocked to hear that I don't have a girlfriend.
There is no requirement for you to distribute your changes to GPL code. The requirement is that *if* you distribute it in a binary form, you must provide the source code.
That reminds me of the time I tried watching "Conan the Barbarian" on one of the regular cable channels (I think it was TNT). They edited out so much stuff that I couldn't keep track of what was going on.
I think it all depends on how much time she has recently spent in the chlorinated pool.
This is getting off-topic, but I completely agree with you. My personal pet peeve is the Asian last name "Ng". Ummm Vanna, could I buy a vowel?
Here's a novel idea. Why don't you leave the power on and just go do those things anyway? Darn neo-luddites.
I had similar experiences in high school whenever a girl would actually try to talk to me. I would act polite, but the entire time I would be wondering what she really wanted. Of course, in all of those cases, she really was just looking for something (ex. help with learning some math concept). This probably isn't too unusual for the slashdot crowd.
It's just one of those marketing abuses like Microsoft putting .NET on everything or the stupid e- and i- prefixes. They don't really mean anything by it, they are just trying to sound cool or borrow some sort of name recognition.
She stayed in the tub because of the amphibious tendencies. At the time, she had both lungs and gills. As far as the shower goes, they have sonic showers and they showed one of them in an episode of voyager.
Artificial gravity is not the same as the inertial dampeners. The only case I can think of where artificial gravity went out was on a klingon ship in "The undiscovered country" movie (I forget the number). You are right about the inertial dampeners getting knocked out rather frequently.
How did you come to that conclusion? According to the article, DivX and WM9 were more or less a tie on quality with advantages and disadvantages on both sides. DivX was faster, so by my figures, that would put DivX slightly ahead.
You are making the wild assumption that people who frequent slashdot will actually have the opportunity to procreate. You must be new here.
That is of course assuming that there is a compatible linux driver for the hardware in question. If it's not supported, it won't work whether it is broken or not. It is also possible for there to be intermittent problems that won't be detected by such a cursory test.
Ummm... Energizer is the one with the bunny, not Duracell (the copper top).
Oh great, then we'd get lawsuits against any opensource that doesn't use the GPL. No thank you, I'd rather IBM keep it.
I think you are reading into it a bit too much. I would interpret that statement as saying the they might switch away from KDE in the long term, but that it is not set in stone.