For an embedded system, you may be right -- a microkernel may be more flexible and secure. But the communication overhead between modules may make it less efficient for small devices, which may be why Linux is doing well in the embedded devices market as well.
SymbianOS is based on a microkernel design. I believe most mobile phones run this OS.
Exporting to postscript then converting to PDF fixes this problem.
I wonder why OpenOffice chooses to roll their own routine to create PDFs rather than just creating PostScript files and relying on the pre-existing ps2pdf program? That sounds counter-productive.
as I recall they fairly heavily aerata the river thames in London (using the aptly names Thames Bubbler). Aerating a medium sized river can't be much different from doing a lake, surely?
Interesting. Granted, it seems that aeration would decrease the effectiveness of the solution, since the air bubbles would create areas where there is no protective film. Is that not so?
However, the long term ecological effects of reducing evaporation in lakes or reservoirs is not yet clear as evaporation prevention can increase water temperatures and affect the exchange rates of gases such as oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide.
This seems like a pretty critical area of the research. If the water becomes stagnant and full of algae or dead fish, what good is it?
This could have unforeseen effects on the local ecosystem.
Unforseen? Maybe if you have your eyes and ears taped shut? Forgive me for being cynical, but it seems so many scientists are out for a little fame and don't see the big pictures.
The New Millennium is turning out so far to be the age of "finger pointing". Man, most television sucks and it has for years. Why do you think people spend time writing songs like "57 channels and nothing on"? (there's a good example of a crappy song, but that's a topic for another day)
90% of today's television is not mentally engaging. It's not stimulating anymore, and it if ever was well there's been too many repeats of the same crapola. Who can sit and watch Friends and not see the joke setups from a mile away and predict the punchline? It's become *so obvious* it's not even worth watching. Many shows are like this.
Anyway, I think the parent poster has a good point.
There are no double meanings, every character expresses a unique thought (i.e. head may mean human appendage, or top of a beer - no such confusion with Chinese characters there is one for each). Only trouble with this system is that you have to learn 40,000 CHARACTERS to be able to communicate.
Interesting. Does that mean that each character is basically a word, to use English language terms? If so, then why is using only 26 characters to make 40,000 words easier to grasp than 40,000 characters? Is it easier to decipher English words you don't know because of commonalities between words? Common Latin roots? Just curious.
Stop freaking out every time SCO says something stupid. They are just blowing air out of their ass.
That cracks me up. No pun intended.;)
Last time I read into the law, it looked more favourably on those who abide by it and fight their fights in court properly. SCO's breaking the law by violating the GPL, and I think this is *not* going to help them whatsoever.
has it occured to anyone else yet that there wasn't any space for this sound to exist in either?
Interesting, but I'm curious then as to why the viewpoint is from outside the big bang rather than inside "reality" which is inside the big bang (and expanding rapidly).
If sound travelled faster than light, would it reverberate against the edges of the big bang as it expands?
The media is not the intellectual property. The content is. Please, learn the difference.
Yes, I realize that. But I can buy a blank CDR for 30 cents. Don't tell me I'm paying for the media when I buy a music album for 20 dollars. There is added value there which I am paying for, obviously, and limiting my access to it is a problem to me.
I'd be hesitant to put my stuff on Windows boxes if they were also used for other purposes. Most people set Windows up so they have administrative privileges. That means they could probably see all the files you are distributing - at least the filenames even if the data was only 1/5th the entire file or whatever. What about the issue of files becoming corrupt because someone's computer catches a virus which taints your data? Any checksumming?
Just a quick point: what about California's severe water shortage problem way back when. It could happen again. Should everyone evacuate? I say no, it's too beautiful a place to not enjoy it, and life is always going to be full of risks. Just don't expect someone else to bail you out every time things don't go your way because of your risk taking.
It would be interesting to trace back to see who got the ball rolling to change copyright laws and so on. I'd bet good money it was the mega companies of the US, and not the citizens. Why would citizens be pushing to get less control over their property? Goes to show who really runs the country. All they (companies, govt) need us for is to fill their pockets with money. Oh, and human interest stories to make them smell rosy after all is said and done.
My favorite quote of the day: 'I stand here before you as representing the MPAA, one of the leading advocates of First Amendment rights...' I think I blacked out for a minute after that.
Amazing, it sounds just like Microsoft. These days, we need to make everyone qualify their statements - back them up with evidence. Self-congratulatory, passing phrases such as the MPAA's try and show true substance where there is none. If they were a real business providing value, they wouldn't need to make things up to sound good.
This is related to my question: Microsoft has been working on their voice recognition software for years now. What is open source's answer? Or is there a viable proprietary offering for Linux?
That's amazing. What do you think about today's SUV's? Are they comparable to the older cars and trucks? 1/2 and 3/4 ton trucks seem to do very well in accidents.
It depends on how much info of the 'hit' that Amazon displays. It's going to be a balance between showing 'just enough' for the searcher to verify that's the right book, but not so much that valuable content is being given away
Heh, you could be pretty creative with the search terms, though.
Search for: "spiderman II" -- one result Then for: "spiderman II" "spiderman dies" -- if still one result, spiderman probably dies in the book.
i don't understand why all the linux folks want the mainstream public converted over to linux!
I can't believe some people still hold this viewpoint. Linux usability, stability, and usefullness has improved several times over from 5 years ago at least in part because it has reached a critical mass in mindshare. I would like to see more people use and support Linux.
In fact, I think it is critical that more people use Linux, as many hardware vendors still seem shy about supporting it. With more supportive hardware vendors, you have more pressure against those who don't yet support Linux.
Brute force is allowing certain types of problems to be solved trivial, freeing up mathematical minds to concentrate on other problems. There is no shortage of problems for us to be clever about.
Good thinking, that makes sense.
If we can actually *prove* some theories to be fact, we have a much stronger foundation to build other theories on top of. Without the brute force capabilities of computers, many theories would not never be completely resolved and thus the higher level theories based on those would have inherited their ancestor's weaknesses.
I'm tired of "owning" music. I have about 500 CDs. That's about 5000 too few. There's just too much good music out there.
That's a good point - I hadn't thought of music that way before. If I could pay a nickel every time I listened to a song, that just might be worth it. Considering singles are about $8 a piece and I end up listening to the song maybe 5 or ten more times before it goes on the shelf for awhile.
But still, if I shop around I can pay $5 for an entire album with 20 songs on it. Sounds like a good deal to me, and makes renting music a little harder to justify.
And personal reputation of the developer. And other motivations.
That's true. Plus teh feeling of community, the fuzzy feeling of giving back to the community which also gives you such great software to use and work with.
One flaw in Ballmer's criticism I noticed is that he says "there are no butts on the line", but yes there are - just not people's butts. The best code gets into the mainline. Not as good code doesn't. So, survival of the fittest code wins and the butts of the less-fit code get kicked out and forced to either be reworked or left alone.
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For an embedded system, you may be right -- a microkernel may be more flexible and secure. But the communication overhead between modules may make it less efficient for small devices, which may be why Linux is doing well in the embedded devices market as well.
SymbianOS is based on a microkernel design. I believe most mobile phones run this OS.
Exporting to postscript then converting to PDF fixes this problem.
I wonder why OpenOffice chooses to roll their own routine to create PDFs rather than just creating PostScript files and relying on the pre-existing ps2pdf program? That sounds counter-productive.
as I recall they fairly heavily aerata the river thames in London (using the aptly names Thames Bubbler). Aerating a medium sized river can't be much different from doing a lake, surely?
Interesting. Granted, it seems that aeration would decrease the effectiveness of the solution, since the air bubbles would create areas where there is no protective film. Is that not so?
However, the long term ecological effects of reducing evaporation in lakes or reservoirs is not yet clear as evaporation prevention can increase water temperatures and affect the exchange rates of gases such as oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide.
This seems like a pretty critical area of the research. If the water becomes stagnant and full of algae or dead fish, what good is it?
This could have unforeseen effects on the local ecosystem.
Unforseen? Maybe if you have your eyes and ears taped shut? Forgive me for being cynical, but it seems so many scientists are out for a little fame and don't see the big pictures.
The New Millennium is turning out so far to be the age of "finger pointing". Man, most television sucks and it has for years. Why do you think people spend time writing songs like "57 channels and nothing on"? (there's a good example of a crappy song, but that's a topic for another day)
90% of today's television is not mentally engaging. It's not stimulating anymore, and it if ever was well there's been too many repeats of the same crapola. Who can sit and watch Friends and not see the joke setups from a mile away and predict the punchline? It's become *so obvious* it's not even worth watching. Many shows are like this.
Anyway, I think the parent poster has a good point.
Okay, here's my sample program (not that I use BASIC):
1 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
Where is the bug? How can it be shortened? (using a question mark for "print" doesn't count - same # of tokens)
There are no double meanings, every character expresses a unique thought (i.e. head may mean human appendage, or top of a beer - no such confusion with Chinese characters there is one for each). Only trouble with this system is that you have to learn 40,000 CHARACTERS to be able to communicate.
Interesting. Does that mean that each character is basically a word, to use English language terms? If so, then why is using only 26 characters to make 40,000 words easier to grasp than 40,000 characters? Is it easier to decipher English words you don't know because of commonalities between words? Common Latin roots? Just curious.
Stop freaking out every time SCO says something stupid. They are just blowing air out of their ass.
;)
That cracks me up. No pun intended.
Last time I read into the law, it looked more favourably on those who abide by it and fight their fights in court properly. SCO's breaking the law by violating the GPL, and I think this is *not* going to help them whatsoever.
the Non-Proliferation Treaty required only 3 months (which North Korea gave, but only after they'd been repeatedly violating the treaty for years).
So what? They violated the treaty in the past - charge them for that specific thing. Today's actions are in the clear.
has it occured to anyone else yet that there wasn't any space for this sound to exist in either?
Interesting, but I'm curious then as to why the viewpoint is from outside the big bang rather than inside "reality" which is inside the big bang (and expanding rapidly).
If sound travelled faster than light, would it reverberate against the edges of the big bang as it expands?
The media is not the intellectual property. The content is. Please, learn the difference.
Yes, I realize that. But I can buy a blank CDR for 30 cents. Don't tell me I'm paying for the media when I buy a music album for 20 dollars. There is added value there which I am paying for, obviously, and limiting my access to it is a problem to me.
They certainly couldn't be pushing to get more control over their property; it's not their property.
Well then, I guess you'd have no problem if someone took your CD and DVD collection and didn't give it back? After all, it's not yours.
NBD-server for windows
I'd be hesitant to put my stuff on Windows boxes if they were also used for other purposes. Most people set Windows up so they have administrative privileges. That means they could probably see all the files you are distributing - at least the filenames even if the data was only 1/5th the entire file or whatever. What about the issue of files becoming corrupt because someone's computer catches a virus which taints your data? Any checksumming?
Just a quick point: what about California's severe water shortage problem way back when. It could happen again. Should everyone evacuate? I say no, it's too beautiful a place to not enjoy it, and life is always going to be full of risks. Just don't expect someone else to bail you out every time things don't go your way because of your risk taking.
It would be interesting to trace back to see who got the ball rolling to change copyright laws and so on. I'd bet good money it was the mega companies of the US, and not the citizens. Why would citizens be pushing to get less control over their property? Goes to show who really runs the country. All they (companies, govt) need us for is to fill their pockets with money. Oh, and human interest stories to make them smell rosy after all is said and done.
My favorite quote of the day: 'I stand here before you as representing the MPAA, one of the leading advocates of First Amendment rights...' I think I blacked out for a minute after that.
Amazing, it sounds just like Microsoft. These days, we need to make everyone qualify their statements - back them up with evidence. Self-congratulatory, passing phrases such as the MPAA's try and show true substance where there is none. If they were a real business providing value, they wouldn't need to make things up to sound good.
That said, the ground images from the Terra satellites are nothing short of amazing.
Yes, they're definitely wonderful. But I bet they're just thumbnails of the resolution that NASA can *really* get (ie. military grade).
This is related to my question: Microsoft has been working on their voice recognition software for years now. What is open source's answer? Or is there a viable proprietary offering for Linux?
That's amazing. What do you think about today's SUV's? Are they comparable to the older cars and trucks? 1/2 and 3/4 ton trucks seem to do very well in accidents.
The solar flare launched
2,000,000,000 tons
The moon weighs about
73,500,000,000,000,000,000,000 tons
It depends on how much info of the 'hit' that Amazon displays. It's going to be a balance between showing 'just enough' for the searcher to verify that's the right book, but not so much that valuable content is being given away
Heh, you could be pretty creative with the search terms, though.
Search for: "spiderman II"
-- one result
Then for: "spiderman II" "spiderman dies"
-- if still one result, spiderman probably dies in the book.
i don't understand why all the linux folks want the mainstream public converted over to linux!
I can't believe some people still hold this viewpoint. Linux usability, stability, and usefullness has improved several times over from 5 years ago at least in part because it has reached a critical mass in mindshare. I would like to see more people use and support Linux.
In fact, I think it is critical that more people use Linux, as many hardware vendors still seem shy about supporting it. With more supportive hardware vendors, you have more pressure against those who don't yet support Linux.
Brute force is allowing certain types of problems to be solved trivial, freeing up mathematical minds to concentrate on other problems. There is no shortage of problems for us to be clever about.
Good thinking, that makes sense.
If we can actually *prove* some theories to be fact, we have a much stronger foundation to build other theories on top of. Without the brute force capabilities of computers, many theories would not never be completely resolved and thus the higher level theories based on those would have inherited their ancestor's weaknesses.
I'm tired of "owning" music. I have about 500 CDs. That's about 5000 too few. There's just too much good music out there.
That's a good point - I hadn't thought of music that way before. If I could pay a nickel every time I listened to a song, that just might be worth it. Considering singles are about $8 a piece and I end up listening to the song maybe 5 or ten more times before it goes on the shelf for awhile.
But still, if I shop around I can pay $5 for an entire album with 20 songs on it. Sounds like a good deal to me, and makes renting music a little harder to justify.
And personal reputation of the developer. And other motivations.
That's true. Plus teh feeling of community, the fuzzy feeling of giving back to the community which also gives you such great software to use and work with.
One flaw in Ballmer's criticism I noticed is that he says "there are no butts on the line", but yes there are - just not people's butts. The best code gets into the mainline. Not as good code doesn't. So, survival of the fittest code wins and the butts of the less-fit code get kicked out and forced to either be reworked or left alone.