Why is it even possible to make a plugin/addon install without the user getting asked? I see it as a shortcoming of Firefox if that is possible at all. There are probably lots of other ways how FF could be made more modern and more secure (sandboxing, declarative plugin/addon rights, proper separated processes for plugins etc.) so how about stop bitching and get something done?
does not happen by giving a gift, but by interacting in the right, interest- and fun-provoking way. If you just give one of the gifts recommended here and those kids are not used to this kind of stuff and kind of fun, chances are that your gift will land in a corner after 5 seconds never to be taken up again. On the other hand, nearly everything can provoke thought if *used* in the right way and if you communicate with the child in a way that does spark his/her interest without you being overly instructive.
You do not state the exact age of the children, but that is very important to make a judgement from afar. Do not underestimate the thoughts that a simple piece of plastic or wood can inspire in child under the age of 10. In fact a simple toy can be much more thought inspiring than a game computer or something else that is highly complex and specific.
DC transmission has a much higher efficiency and in most situations a lower cable cost for a number of reasons (no magnetic and dielectric losses, DC lower than equivalent peak current etc). The main problem is transformation and converting to the AC required in the grid. However, with high frequency transformation, even the transformation can be made more efficient. AC was preferred historically because efficient and cheap transformation (which requires creating AC from DC and then rectifying to DC again) was not possible cost-effectively with traditional technology.
by some effort to bring Thunderbird+Lightning into the new millenium. Unfortuntunately these two are missing out on 90% of the goodness their combination could bring to somebody who needs email, calender and address books for doing serious work. For example, connecting emails with deadlines or follow-up todo's, re-showing emails that are related to a task after some period of time, adding notes and URLs to emails, showing Emails in a way Google Mail does... lots and lots of possible improvements.
is not that this guy makes up nonsense and has no clue what he is talking about but that so many people, among them a significant amount of students and academics actually listened and still listen.
There is no way "we" are able to "abandon" earth in the near and not so near future. Earth is all we have got. Keep it in good shape or prepare to die.
Looking at how Earth is not being kept in good shape at all, ai am a bit skeptical.
Even if Canonical would contribute no code at all, they contribute something that has been traditionally painfully missing from Linux: marketing and PR. The number of GNOME *users* contributed by Canonical by far outweighs the lack of missing code lines.
It would be nice if people would think a bit less about ego and a bit more about the overall success of Linux, whatever flavor of Linux it may be.
Ubuntu is just great to get people interested and hooked on Linux.
As somebody who had programmed, apart from C, C++ and Java a lot in LISP, Ruby, PROLOG, and OCaML (and a dozen others) I have had those feelings about C++ and Java for years. Larry Augustin is wrong about why these languages are so clumsy, verbose and subtle: it is because they are simply badly designed from start or because they inherit bad design from very old badly designed languages they want to be similar to.
Personally I think that Scala is a very good candidate for a language to solve most of the problems with C++ and especially Java. It is well designed, modern (supporting closures, currying, actors, pattern mathinc and more), without inconsistencies (like some things being objects and others not) has a lot of very useful language features and since it runs on the JVM it provides an excellent way to stay compatible with your existing Java software and gradually move to Scala.
High-end CRT monitors had it, my glasses have it, my camera lenses have it... why doesn't any LCD screen seem to have decent anti-reflection coatings? With multiple thin-film layers it should be possible to eliminate reflections nearly entirely while still having a bright and non-matte screen.
"Bosses" are so different as you and me. But you sound like someone who really wants to give up his own personality, views and opinions to keep a job, so I am sure your natural talents to adapt, subordinate and kneel will be sufficient. Your question sounds as if you would be a good working slave already.
To answer your side question: I like it if my co-workers and bosses show some backbone and personality, stand up to their views, know what they are talking about, are able to discuss and change their mind as a result of intelligent discussion and, ah yes: do not suck up to their own bosses and superiors.
Theories that involve the multiverse are, in my opinion, nearly as unscientific and embarrassing as religion or theories that involve "god": you can "explain" nearly everything and you can prove nothing. Give me a break with multiverses.
How is the question why there is a multiverse that spawns off universes randomly so much nicer that the question why there is a universe? It is equally unanswerable but introduces complexity: let occam's razor cut away the multiverse part until there is anything that is falsifyable about the story.
Maybe you should inform and educate yourself before you puke. These languages are as easy to install as C or C++, and it is more easy to write programs that is portable to many systems. Languages like Scala and Ocaml have been used successfully in large-scale projects and by companies who value the increased productivity and easier maintenance. But most importantly, if people would finally stop using languages that are nothing more than a macro assembler language with a terrible syntax, it will get much easier to avoid endless pathetically simple security issues and memory leaks, it would reduce the lines of code and it would make code easier to understand and modify.
The problem is people like you who cling to what they have learned and try to avoid the intellectual challenge of learning something that includes the development of the last 20 or so years in that area. With people who call themselves "programmers" because they can hack code in C, the amount of software that some day needs to get ported to some proper language just grows.
People like you are like those who did not stop using, promoting and teaching COBOL a couple of years ago. Do the world a favor and find another job. I am sure you will find an oportunity to puke there too.
.. and avoid teaching C. The only reasons why C is still around are pragramitic reasons *despite* the inadequacy, bad design, and anachronistism and general retardedness of C. Do not teach a single language. Do not predominantly teach a language, teach the concept of programming. You do not even need a programming language for that. Make teaching fun and provide quick successes. How to actually do it depends on how much time you want to invest in the teaching.
At any rate, I'd go for a mix of Scala (best pragrmatic compromise between good language design, portability and library & tool support), Processing and Ocaml or similar. You could even start with Logo and then go to Processing using the turtle library of processing.
"mind the gap" and follow the thousands of other rules and recommendations the Brits love to give to everyone all the time. Essentially, lean back and let yourself get treated as a little child that is afraid and constantly concerned with "safety" and desperately crying for a big brother who puts up millions of CCTVs, and peeping toms ("CCTV operators"), and police, and security officers, and signs and announcement boards and leaflets and...
Just a few reasons: * You want to automatically use templates and not replicate formatting code * You want different people that are not programmers to be able to update different parts of the website; you want to let them do it from their browser in a wysiwyg editor; you want to let them to easily first publish their articles on a staging host and then authorize somebody else to go online with it * You want to allow commenting, feedback forms, registered users etc. * You easily want to keep track of versions and revisions of published pages * You want to automatically index the pages for searches * You want to easily include dynamic(computed) data into your web pages
Why would anyone not hate Star Trek? It is boring, uninspired and stupid. It has the charm of a fascist dystopia combined with the silliness of "Plan 9" technology mockups.
and no exponential growth can go on for just a comparatively very short time. This should be self-evident, but for some reason, people seem to ignore that. Especially people who call themselves journalists or economists.
I have seen a demo of some other pdf reader and turning pages or moving them up/down was an extremely slow and tedious process. It also always caused a very unpleasant flicker of the page. Is this also the case with the Kindle?
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... would be by whom and how it was "unearthed".
Why is it even possible to make a plugin/addon install without the user getting asked? I see it as a shortcoming of Firefox if that is possible at all. There are probably lots of other ways how FF could be made more modern and more secure (sandboxing, declarative plugin/addon rights, proper separated processes for plugins etc.) so how about stop bitching and get something done?
does not happen by giving a gift, but by interacting in the right, interest- and fun-provoking way. If you just give one of the gifts recommended here and those kids are not used to this kind of stuff and kind of fun, chances are that your gift will land in a corner after 5 seconds never to be taken up again.
On the other hand, nearly everything can provoke thought if *used* in the right way and if you communicate with the child in a way that does spark his/her interest without you being overly instructive.
You do not state the exact age of the children, but that is very important to make a judgement from afar. Do not underestimate the thoughts that a simple piece of plastic or wood can inspire in child under the age of 10. In fact a simple toy can be much more thought inspiring than a game computer or something else that is highly complex and specific.
DC transmission has a much higher efficiency and in most situations a lower cable cost for a number of reasons (no magnetic and dielectric losses, DC lower than equivalent peak current etc). The main problem is transformation and converting to the AC required in the grid. However, with high frequency transformation, even the transformation can be made more efficient.
AC was preferred historically because efficient and cheap transformation (which requires creating AC from DC and then rectifying to DC again) was not possible cost-effectively with traditional technology.
by some effort to bring Thunderbird+Lightning into the new millenium. Unfortuntunately these two are missing out on 90% of the goodness their combination could bring to somebody who needs email, calender and address books for doing serious work. ... lots and lots of possible improvements.
For example, connecting emails with deadlines or follow-up todo's, re-showing emails that are related to a task after some period of time, adding notes and URLs to emails, showing Emails in a way Google Mail does
I really can't see any fundamental wrongness in that, but I can see the fundamental rightness of many more short URLs being possible.
how much of your billion dollar EU subsidies are you spending on dope?
the thousand incarnations of "sting theory" have enough free parameters to fit any kind of reality. And to explain none.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3196375205651632554#
is not that this guy makes up nonsense and has no clue what he is talking about but that so many people, among them a significant amount of students and academics actually listened and still listen.
There is no way "we" are able to "abandon" earth in the near and not so near future. Earth is all we have got. Keep it in good shape or prepare to die.
Looking at how Earth is not being kept in good shape at all, ai am a bit skeptical.
Even if Canonical would contribute no code at all, they contribute something that has been traditionally painfully missing from Linux: marketing and PR. The number of GNOME *users* contributed by Canonical by far outweighs the lack of missing code lines.
It would be nice if people would think a bit less about ego and a bit more about the overall success of Linux, whatever flavor of Linux it may be.
Ubuntu is just great to get people interested and hooked on Linux.
As somebody who had programmed, apart from C, C++ and Java a lot in LISP, Ruby, PROLOG, and OCaML (and a dozen others) I have had those feelings about C++ and Java for years. Larry Augustin is wrong about why these languages are so clumsy, verbose and subtle: it is because they are simply badly designed from start or because they inherit bad design from very old badly designed languages they want to be similar to.
Personally I think that Scala is a very good candidate for a language to solve most of the problems with C++ and especially Java. It is well designed, modern (supporting closures, currying, actors, pattern mathinc and more), without inconsistencies (like some things being objects and others not) has a lot of very useful language features and since it runs on the JVM it provides an excellent way to stay compatible with your existing Java software and gradually move to Scala.
I do not know GO nearly enough to comment on it.
http://locomorph.eu/home/project/description
High-end CRT monitors had it, my glasses have it, my camera lenses have it ... why doesn't any LCD screen seem to have decent anti-reflection coatings? With multiple thin-film layers it should be possible to eliminate reflections nearly entirely while still having a bright and non-matte screen.
Does anyone know what that sentence means in point 3 of the declaration? What is the existing system for food safety?
"Bosses" are so different as you and me. But you sound like someone who really wants to give up his own personality, views and opinions to keep a job, so I am sure your natural talents to adapt, subordinate and kneel will be sufficient. Your question sounds as if you would be a good working slave already.
To answer your side question: I like it if my co-workers and bosses show some backbone and personality, stand up to their views, know what they are talking about, are able to discuss and change their mind as a result of intelligent discussion and, ah yes: do not suck up to their own bosses and superiors.
Theories that involve the multiverse are, in my opinion, nearly as unscientific and embarrassing as religion or theories that involve "god": you can "explain" nearly everything and you can prove nothing. Give me a break with multiverses.
How is the question why there is a multiverse that spawns off universes randomly so much nicer that the question why there is a universe? It is equally unanswerable but introduces complexity: let occam's razor cut away the multiverse part until there is anything that is falsifyable about the story.
Maybe you should inform and educate yourself before you puke. These languages are as easy to install as C or C++, and it is more easy to write programs that is portable to many systems. Languages like Scala and Ocaml have been used successfully in large-scale projects and by companies who value the increased productivity and easier maintenance. But most importantly, if people would finally stop using languages that are nothing more than a macro assembler language with a terrible syntax, it will get much easier to avoid endless pathetically simple security issues and memory leaks, it would reduce the lines of code and it would make code easier to understand and modify.
The problem is people like you who cling to what they have learned and try to avoid the intellectual challenge of learning something that includes the development of the last 20 or so years in that area. With people who call themselves "programmers" because they can hack code in C, the amount of software that some day needs to get ported to some proper language just grows.
People like you are like those who did not stop using, promoting and teaching COBOL a couple of years ago. Do the world a favor and find another job. I am sure you will find an oportunity to puke there too.
.. and avoid teaching C. The only reasons why C is still around are pragramitic reasons *despite* the inadequacy, bad design, and anachronistism and general retardedness of C.
Do not teach a single language. Do not predominantly teach a language, teach the concept of programming. You do not even need a programming language for that.
Make teaching fun and provide quick successes.
How to actually do it depends on how much time you want to invest in the teaching.
At any rate, I'd go for a mix of Scala (best pragrmatic compromise between good language design, portability and library & tool support), Processing and Ocaml or similar. You could even start with Logo and then go to Processing using the turtle library of processing.
"mind the gap" and follow the thousands of other rules and recommendations the Brits love to give to everyone all the time. Essentially, lean back and let yourself get treated as a little child that is afraid and constantly concerned with "safety" and desperately crying for a big brother who puts up millions of CCTVs, and peeping toms ("CCTV operators"), and police, and security officers, and signs and announcement boards and leaflets and ...
Just a few reasons:
* You want to automatically use templates and not replicate formatting code
* You want different people that are not programmers to be able to update different parts of the website; you want to let them do it from their browser in a wysiwyg editor; you want to let them to easily first publish their articles on a staging host and then authorize somebody else to go online with it
* You want to allow commenting, feedback forms, registered users etc.
* You easily want to keep track of versions and revisions of published pages
* You want to automatically index the pages for searches
* You want to easily include dynamic(computed) data into your web pages
Why would anyone not hate Star Trek?
It is boring, uninspired and stupid. It has the charm of a fascist dystopia combined with the silliness of "Plan 9" technology mockups.
and no exponential growth can go on for just a comparatively very short time. This should be self-evident, but for some reason, people seem to ignore that. Especially people who call themselves journalists or economists.
I have seen a demo of some other pdf reader and turning pages or moving them up/down was an extremely slow and tedious process. It also always caused a very unpleasant flicker of the page.
Is this also the case with the Kindle?