Bad publicity? Like when MS bought HotMail? Replaced the Free Software with their own stuff, and the site failed under the load? Not like this would be the first time, for sure...
Seems like you asked and answered the crucial question: Really what's one proprietary format over another, granted Silverlight seems to be Windows only.
By killing the prerequisite to SP1, they are killing SP1. People are waiting for some fix, and that fix is delayed. That *is* the story: the mechanism by which SP1 is delayed.
The people that I know that do 3D animation do it for Computational Fluid Dynamics. They use OpenGL. They use Unix (or Linux). Depends on what you are doing which platform is a toy...
I believe I suggested that the technologies necessary are not new. Indeed, the French have not "solved" the issue, although they know how (as indicated in the link you provided). The difference between ability and political will is exactly that of "can" and "won't". Therefor, I stand by my statement.
Well I've from California. We studied Jung and Adler and Maslow, as well being introduced to quantum during HS chem and relativity in HS physics. I stand behind my assertion that teaching the scientific method while ignoring both the major accomplishments of the past and the hot,& critical areas of research of the present, due to fear of some sort of "political sensitivity" of the masses, is akin to dereliction of responsibility. Just because laypersons are ignorant of current established facts is no reason to not teach their children. I would even suggest that said ignorance is the *reason* to teach their children.
Finally, remember that electricity is like no other commodity on earth. You can not store it for a rainy day. You use it when it's generated, or not at all. Even fish (our other highly perishable commodity) can be canned or packed in salt. Good luck doing that with electricity.
Actually energy can be transformed. Pumping water uphill during non-peak hours, for instance, is a method to convert electricity to gravitational potential energy. When you need it, you convert it back to electricity.
What one critter excretes, another consumes. This isn't pollution its a cycle. But hey, calling "leaves" a form of "pollution" got him a laugh, and won points with everyone who has had to rake their yard. Laugh at the funny man, just don't believe it.
Actually we could have replaced our dependence on fossil fuels with nuclear reactors easily 10 years ago. Today, the excess 2ndary heat heat could be used for desalination (the other current "biggie" of a problem is potable water), and electric cars could replace combustion engines. It isn't like the solution doesn't exist using dated technology. Its that scarcity breeds record profits, and we will have the last nickel wrung from our purses if it kills the species before the end of the next generation. Thats all. Simple, really.
Can you teach a well rounded science curriculum without mention of any current research? Would you teach newtonian physics only, to avoid any mention of climate change? Pretend that science since 1900 didn't happen? Teach scientific method but ignore any results? WTF. Would you teach history by teaching people how to do research and ignore the Civil War? Teach psychology by only teaching the scientific method and disregard Freud and Jung?
No one is saying public schools should be places of research. However, teaching facts should be within their purview. And facts are facts. Ignore them at your own risk, no problem. But ignore them at our species risk? Thats insane.
It doesn't matter if the janitors are left are right, the owners are the ones in control. Unless you consider Rupport Murdock to be a democrat in disguise the parent post was correct.
Well you see, before there was a Linux kernel even as an idea, a guy at MIT started a project to create a free Unix like system that everyone could use and tinker with. He started by creating a compiler, naturally enough, and all the tools that go into the compiler tool chain. The kernel was the last part to fit into place, and even used the tool chain in its development. With lack of necessity the "other kernel" never really achieved momentum. Somehow, the last 10% of code came to represent the whole system through repeated use of its name. Thus, people refer to Linux as though Gnome and Bash and all those wonderful Unixy tools are just the kernel. Attempts to suggest that we continue to refer to Linux (the kernel) as Linux, but refer to GNU/Linux as the gestalt are derided as confusing or unnecessary.
If the "operatig system and the GUI and (sic) the same thing", then how is it that you say the "GUI is how you interact with the OS"? Lets take your last statement one step further, and say that since iWorks looks better than MS Office, iWorks has to be part of the OS. After all, the user uses iWorks to communicate with the OS, so it must be a part of the OS. Apple, by the way, runs a BSD personality on top of the Mach kernel. They even released the OS part of their system as Darwin.
There was a (debian?) GNU/OpenSolaris at one point, I think, and I don't think they were the only ones who did it. Once Solaris is GPL3 and license issues are put to rest then when Debian does it, Ubuntu won't be all that far behind. Its going to happen.
Way back when I choose System Admin in college as an elective, we had a LAN with a dozen computers. The prof would wipe the drives, and we had to install an OS, configure users and passwords, set up a file server and print server, and document that it worked. We did this for Win2k and RedHat. Most of my fellow stuents didn't know Linux at all. We opted to do Win2k first. It wasn't too bad. Really. What amazed my fellow students was that with no experience with Linux they could all finish the Linux lab in about half the time it took to setup Win2k. It is different. It is easier. Issues that arise tend to be about non-supported hardware. But I've had those issues in Windows (upgraded 95 to 2K and lost my CD-Burner...HP said they knew about the issue and would address it in a timely fashion (which took almost 6 months, and their solution was to sell me software) *but* my CD-burner never quit working under Linux:-). Both of my roommates had issues installing Vista on branded as "Capable" laptops. Neither had trouble installing Ubuntu. Videos sometimes lag on Vista (duo 2 w/2 GB Ram). The same video file plays smoothly under Ubuntu. Your milage may vary, but the days of windows being easier seems rather like lore of yesteryear to me.
Yeah. I have a friend who had questions about why her computer wasn't working. I asked what operating system she used and she said, "I think its called yahoo. Thats what I see when it starts up."
So if we ran Gnome or KDE on top of Solaris, you'd call that Linux too? The user would see the same desktop, see the same applications, see their home directory unchanged, so it must still be "Linux"?
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Bad publicity? Like when MS bought HotMail? Replaced the Free Software with their own stuff, and the site failed under the load? Not like this would be the first time, for sure...
Seems like you asked and answered the crucial question: Really what's one proprietary format over another, granted Silverlight seems to be Windows only.
Its not a trade off, TFA states that the plan is to use both: silverlight (for their website) and vista locally for their kiosks.
By killing the prerequisite to SP1, they are killing SP1. People are waiting for some fix, and that fix is delayed. That *is* the story: the mechanism by which SP1 is delayed.
The people that I know that do 3D animation do it for Computational Fluid Dynamics. They use OpenGL. They use Unix (or Linux). Depends on what you are doing which platform is a toy...
There are lots of open source advocates in Physics. Peer review is part of the scientific method, after all.
I believe I suggested that the technologies necessary are not new. Indeed, the French have not "solved" the issue, although they know how (as indicated in the link you provided). The difference between ability and political will is exactly that of "can" and "won't". Therefor, I stand by my statement.
Well I've from California. We studied Jung and Adler and Maslow, as well being introduced to quantum during HS chem and relativity in HS physics. I stand behind my assertion that teaching the scientific method while ignoring both the major accomplishments of the past and the hot,& critical areas of research of the present, due to fear of some sort of "political sensitivity" of the masses, is akin to dereliction of responsibility. Just because laypersons are ignorant of current established facts is no reason to not teach their children. I would even suggest that said ignorance is the *reason* to teach their children.
Or maybe they would build nuclear plants instead of coal plants?
Exactly. One could refer to the miracle of birth as hydrocarbon production.
Finally, remember that electricity is like no other commodity on earth. You can not store it for a rainy day. You use it when it's generated, or not at all. Even fish (our other highly perishable commodity) can be canned or packed in salt. Good luck doing that with electricity.
Actually energy can be transformed. Pumping water uphill during non-peak hours, for instance, is a method to convert electricity to gravitational potential energy. When you need it, you convert it back to electricity.
What one critter excretes, another consumes. This isn't pollution its a cycle. But hey, calling "leaves" a form of "pollution" got him a laugh, and won points with everyone who has had to rake their yard. Laugh at the funny man, just don't believe it.
Unfortunately the EdGCM project won't run under Linux. We are using Goddards' GISS series of coupled atmosphere-ocean models with a Java application which plots geo-gridded arrays from netCDF datasets. Its noteworthy that you can download and view datasets from simulation runs, too. Wouldn't this make a hell of an instructional tool?
Actually we could have replaced our dependence on fossil fuels with nuclear reactors easily 10 years ago. Today, the excess 2ndary heat heat could be used for desalination (the other current "biggie" of a problem is potable water), and electric cars could replace combustion engines. It isn't like the solution doesn't exist using dated technology. Its that scarcity breeds record profits, and we will have the last nickel wrung from our purses if it kills the species before the end of the next generation. Thats all. Simple, really.
Can you teach a well rounded science curriculum without mention of any current research? Would you teach newtonian physics only, to avoid any mention of climate change? Pretend that science since 1900 didn't happen? Teach scientific method but ignore any results? WTF. Would you teach history by teaching people how to do research and ignore the Civil War? Teach psychology by only teaching the scientific method and disregard Freud and Jung?
No one is saying public schools should be places of research. However, teaching facts should be within their purview. And facts are facts. Ignore them at your own risk, no problem. But ignore them at our species risk? Thats insane.
It doesn't matter if the janitors are left are right, the owners are the ones in control. Unless you consider Rupport Murdock to be a democrat in disguise the parent post was correct.
I'd suggest that Suse isn't small...
Well you see, before there was a Linux kernel even as an idea, a guy at MIT started a project to create a free Unix like system that everyone could use and tinker with. He started by creating a compiler, naturally enough, and all the tools that go into the compiler tool chain. The kernel was the last part to fit into place, and even used the tool chain in its development. With lack of necessity the "other kernel" never really achieved momentum. Somehow, the last 10% of code came to represent the whole system through repeated use of its name. Thus, people refer to Linux as though Gnome and Bash and all those wonderful Unixy tools are just the kernel. Attempts to suggest that we continue to refer to Linux (the kernel) as Linux, but refer to GNU/Linux as the gestalt are derided as confusing or unnecessary.
If the "operatig system and the GUI and (sic) the same thing", then how is it that you say the "GUI is how you interact with the OS"? Lets take your last statement one step further, and say that since iWorks looks better than MS Office, iWorks has to be part of the OS. After all, the user uses iWorks to communicate with the OS, so it must be a part of the OS. Apple, by the way, runs a BSD personality on top of the Mach kernel. They even released the OS part of their system as Darwin.
There was a (debian?) GNU/OpenSolaris at one point, I think, and I don't think they were the only ones who did it. Once Solaris is GPL3 and license issues are put to rest then when Debian does it, Ubuntu won't be all that far behind. Its going to happen.
Way back when I choose System Admin in college as an elective, we had a LAN with a dozen computers. The prof would wipe the drives, and we had to install an OS, configure users and passwords, set up a file server and print server, and document that it worked. We did this for Win2k and RedHat. Most of my fellow stuents didn't know Linux at all. We opted to do Win2k first. It wasn't too bad. Really. What amazed my fellow students was that with no experience with Linux they could all finish the Linux lab in about half the time it took to setup Win2k. It is different. It is easier. Issues that arise tend to be about non-supported hardware. But I've had those issues in Windows (upgraded 95 to 2K and lost my CD-Burner...HP said they knew about the issue and would address it in a timely fashion (which took almost 6 months, and their solution was to sell me software) *but* my CD-burner never quit working under Linux :-). Both of my roommates had issues installing Vista on branded as "Capable" laptops. Neither had trouble installing Ubuntu. Videos sometimes lag on Vista (duo 2 w/2 GB Ram). The same video file plays smoothly under Ubuntu. Your milage may vary, but the days of windows being easier seems rather like lore of yesteryear to me.
Um...no, he didn't create the movement. He joined the movement. Then later said he regretted it. At his best he was half-assed about the movement.
Yeah. I have a friend who had questions about why her computer wasn't working. I asked what operating system she used and she said, "I think its called yahoo. Thats what I see when it starts up."
So if we ran Gnome or KDE on top of Solaris, you'd call that Linux too? The user would see the same desktop, see the same applications, see their home directory unchanged, so it must still be "Linux"?