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Incorrect. The term "operating system" refers to software written by Richard Stallman and GNU. The "Linux kernel" is not "the heart" of anything! It is merely a component in the Emacs software suite.
Information that is not independently verifiable does not belong in an encyclopedia.
True, but the problem is how Wikipedia defines "verifiability". In most cases I have encountered it was used in the "it was printed on paper" sense, it didn't matter if the source was trustworthy, a press release or any other incorrect crap, as long as it was paper.
In a variation on that, I had an addition repeatedly rejected because my source was the Wall Street Journal. I was told that that publication didn't meet Wikipedia standards for reliability!
This won't work for the same reason that interior paint won't last on the outside of your house. Interior paints use organic dyes, just like this MIT concentrator. To the great frustration of the paint industry, organic dyes just do not last in sunlight: the molecules breakdown.
Similar solar concentrator concepts have been looked for three decades (look up, for example, Prof. Reisfeld's work at Hebrew University) and have not yet made it out of the lab.
"Asking people to call it GNU/Linux is one thing,..."
My pet peeve is when people call their favorite editor "emacs" when they know perfectly well that the emacs code is useless without support for the keyboard, screen, and many other resources provided by the operating system. If you are going to refer to your editor, you should give credit to those who are responsible for the code that makes running the editor possible. Thus, the proper way to refer to it would be "Torvalds/emacs," "Jobs/emacs," or, most popular of all, "Gates/emacs."
Some perspective always helps with historical events. The Clinton era Echelon program involved much more extensivewiretapping than the current NSA program controversy.
The Baath party is a Nazi-Stalinist fusion party. So, on one side, there are Iraqis and coalition soldiers fighting for democracy in Iraq. On the other side, there are fascists. As is common in the slashdot crowd, you say you find the fascists "morally" superior. This is not a good sign for the future of humanity.
While Beatles-Beatles leaves the impression that this is new, it isn't. The basics of the introvert-extrovert differences were described in the excellent book Gifts Differing (1980) which is based on Jung's Psychological Types (1923).
Beatles-Beatles attempt at politicizing this seems off: Bush I and Bush II also appear to be introverts.
In science, "useful" does not mean. as the parent implies, something that creates pretty pictures and marketing charts. It means advancing the state of the art with work of sufficient quality to be publishable in a peer-reviewed journal. Measured in terms of peer-reviewed papers per million dollars spent, science experiments on the shuttle and ISS are disasters.
That was true a couple years ago when one had to play complex games with Windows options to shrink the NTFS partition. However, recent versions of NTFSresize now make this process simple and reliable.
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Incorrect. The term "operating system" refers to software written by Richard Stallman and GNU. The "Linux kernel" is not "the heart" of anything! It is merely a component in the Emacs software suite.
In a variation on that, I had an addition repeatedly rejected because my source was the Wall Street Journal. I was told that that publication didn't meet Wikipedia standards for reliability!
This won't work for the same reason that interior paint won't last on the outside of your house. Interior paints use organic dyes, just like this MIT concentrator. To the great frustration of the paint industry, organic dyes just do not last in sunlight: the molecules breakdown.
Similar solar concentrator concepts have been looked for three decades (look up, for example, Prof. Reisfeld's work at Hebrew University) and have not yet made it out of the lab.
"Asking people to call it GNU/Linux is one thing, ..."
My pet peeve is when people call their favorite editor "emacs" when they know perfectly well that the emacs code is useless without support for the keyboard, screen, and many other resources provided by the operating system. If you are going to refer to your editor, you should give credit to those who are responsible for the code that makes running the editor possible. Thus, the proper way to refer to it would be "Torvalds/emacs," "Jobs/emacs," or, most popular of all, "Gates/emacs."
Wiretapping also works: the Al Qaeda cell in Italy that was planning to outdo 9-11 was caught by wiretapping.
The Baath party is a Nazi-Stalinist fusion party. So, on one side, there are Iraqis and coalition soldiers fighting for democracy in Iraq. On the other side, there are fascists. As is common in the slashdot crowd, you say you find the fascists "morally" superior. This is not a good sign for the future of humanity.
Beatles-Beatles attempt at politicizing this seems off: Bush I and Bush II also appear to be introverts.
In science, "useful" does not mean. as the parent implies, something that creates pretty pictures and marketing charts. It means advancing the state of the art with work of sufficient quality to be publishable in a peer-reviewed journal. Measured in terms of peer-reviewed papers per million dollars spent, science experiments on the shuttle and ISS are disasters.
> Done and done.
No and No.
Those links are for the final votes on CAFTA not on the resolution to include DCMA in CAFTA.
rm -f $(locate .macromedia | egrep -i '\.(fso|sol)$')
That was true a couple years ago when one had to play complex games with Windows options to shrink the NTFS partition. However, recent versions of NTFSresize now make this process simple and reliable.
Yes. For details on journalistic standards of accuracy, just ask Dan Rather and Mary Mapes.