Just a question: Is transparent PNGs part of any version of the W3C HTML specs? If it's not then I think it's not "shame on microsoft"... rather it's more "please can you add this feature"
No, PNG is not part of the W3C HTML specs, it is part of the W3C PNG specs. This spec does include alpha transparency, and all of the other features of PNG that we have come to love.
Except the statement isn't Richard Stallmann's. He was quoting the author of the message he was replying to. In his actual message he did call it GNU/Linux, as we would all expect.;-)
This of course brings up the interesting point that SCO is misquoting RMS; a misquote that could be a mistake, but also could be considered negligence. A quick and easy search by SCO would have revealed that Stallmann never actually made that statement (outside of quoting someone else of course).
It does remind me a little of a previous post, regarding Lawrence Lessig's view on the death of the internet. Government intervention is usually the first step. The government turning control of resources over to their special friends in private industry is usually the second step.
Then the internet is already dead. The internet started out as a US Government project (ARPANET) that was initially a response to Russia's Sputnik spacecraft. The goal was to research into methods of utilizing the Government's investment in computers. Of course, eventually, many of the resources were turned over to "special friends" who happened to win the bid to develop that resource. The internet eventually turned into what it is today. A good timeline can be found at this site
I don't think that Government involvement in the internet is a bad thing, as long as government influence doesn't get out of control (after all the internet turned out ok despite it's government orgins). In other words, things are not yet as bad as you say they could be. None the less, we need to make sure that our friends in the Government don't let the internet turn into a regulated forum. (ie. write/call your congressman!)
Every day I read slashdot I become more convinced that Slashdot is becoming an Internet Tabloid News source. I am becomming doubtfull that the US Patent Office is really as bad as many of the submitter's comments make it out to be. In this case, the submitter's comment that "Scripts which check to see if a domainname has been taken would be in violation with this patent." is very misleading. Oh well, I guess it doesn't make a good story unless it makes the US Patent Office a fiasco.
I heartily disagree. As was said in the/. writeup (which was done by the submitter, and *not* the editor (so don't blame/.), the people at MozillaZine had nothing to do with the namechange. The tone I derive from his posting is "The war has already begun over there, so (and I quote) join the fray."
Using the words "encouraging people to spam the MozillaZine forums" is hardly the same tone as encourging people to join in the discussion. You have got to admit that using the word "spam" makes the IBPhoenix people look worse than they are.
Hard-drives are not as robust as solid state memory devices. Usually the first thing to go on any computer is the hard-drive because the mechanical parts fail, causing data loss. This is especially true for portable devices that may be dropped.
I'm not so sure if this is true. Usually a person is tried in State court for state crimes (murder, theft, etc.), and in federal court for federal crimes (treason, etc). I don't know if there are crimes that are both federal and state crimes, but if there are, then I suppose you are correct, because the State and Federal Governments are seperate.
Should we ever decide to remove the tether, there would be no way to take it down without it causing a catastrophe on the ground. Thus, there would be no way to ever upgrade the tether.
What comes up must come down. A good engineer builds something so not only does it perform well, but when it breaks it won't cause major problems.
Any breakage of the tether would result in catastrophe. First, there would be damage to the ground. Anything that big (about as long as the circumference of the Earth) is not going to totally burn up in the atmosphere.
It seems that you don't quite understand how the space elevator works.:(
An article on space.com explains it better:
For a space elevator to function, a cable with one end attached to the Earth's surface stretches upwards, reaching beyond geosynchronous orbit, at 21,700 miles (35,000-kilometer altitude). After that, simple physics takes charge.
The competing forces of gravity at the lower end and outward centripetal acceleration at the farther end keep the cable under tension. The cable remains stationary over a single position on Earth. This cable, once in position, can be scaled from Earth by mechanical means, right into Earth orbit. An object released at the cable's far end would have sufficient energy to escape from the gravity tug of our home planet and travel to neighboring the moon or to more distant interplanetary targets.
In other words, if the tether were to ever break, the centripital force that prevents the station at the far end of the tether from flying out (yeah, the article was wrong, centripital acceleration is directed inward, causing the station to not fly off into space) will have suddenly dissapeared, causing the station to fly out from earth, along with most of the tether. (After all, if the tether breaks it most likely breaks in the Earth's atmosphere, ie. only a small percentage of the 21,700 mile tether.)
The bottomline: If we don't send jobs abroad and reduce our costs, we'll end up sending customers to other countries!
It is hard to be an American consumer if you can no longer get a job in the US. If Americans can no longer afford to buy products because they have lost all of their jobs, then we still lose.
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At the resolution necessary to resolve a LM, the moon probably is too bright.
Actually for an narrow field image, such as would be needed for resolving a LM, the image gets dimmer. As explained on this site: "So why is the focal ratio important? Well, for photographic purposes, the focal ratio determines the overall brightness of the image. The lower the f/number, the brighter..." The f/ratio effectively determines a telescopes field of view. The narrower the field of view, the greater the magnification. That is how eyepieces work, they effectively increase a telescopes focal ratio and increase the magnification. Again quoting the above mentioned site:
One of the reasons you don't use eyepiece projection to photograph dim, deep-sky objects is that by adding an eyepiece, you are increasing the telescope's effective focal length, which in turn increases the focal ratio (sometimes to as much as f/30 or f/40), resulting in a dimmer image. Deep-sky photography really shouldn't be attempted with focal ratios greater than about f/12.
This is another that C++ can do, but you have to do extra work for it. There are plenty of times when a Java program runs off the end of an array. Instead of giving me a core dump and killing the program (if I'm lucky), I get a nice little exception that I can handle. The same goes for referencing a null pointer (reference).
Well, I am not a java programmer, so I don't know about java, but It seems to me that you are using C arrays in C++. The STL provides several data structures that are indended to replace C arrays. These include vector, and list, both of which dynamically allocate their size and automatically resize if you overflow thier bounds:
int main()
{
vector<MyClass> vec_myclass;
MyClass temp;
ifstream fin;
while(!fin)
{
fin >> temp;
vec_myclass.pushback(temp);
}
cout << vec_myclass.size();
return 0;
}
The user doesn't even need to check the size, although that is provided.
Mandrake is quick and painless for inexperienced users and, in my experience, autoconfigures more hardware than any other distribution. Nor would I say it's just for newbies -- the experienced desktop user shouldn't have to manually configure anything unless the defaults don't suit him or her. Ever. It's just plain asinine to suggest that there is some kind of moral virtue in using unprofessionally packaged software.
This is one thing that I could never understand about some linux users. I personaly don't have the time to go around "reinventing" the weel by configuring my system to some common setup. I have programs, papers, and other assignments for all of my classes, so why would I want to spend several days working hard at getting my system configured just so I can get to work?
Mandrake was my first experence with a UNIX(tm)-like operating system. I now work comfortably on the Sun systems at my school, and really enjoy programming in the UNIX(tm) enviroment. I don't care to manually configure my own system and hope I never have to. There is no real benifit to manual configuration that cannot be manually modified on a automatic system such as Mandrake.
If I remember correctly, water vapor is a "more powerful" greenhouse gas than CO2. In fact CO2 is a relativly weak greenhouse gas. There are many gasses that have a greater effect on the greenhouse effect than CO2, and water vapor is one of them, granted CO2 is by far the greenhouse gas that is produced the most.
Brian Hayes's flawed assumption [sigmaxi.org] is that circuit complexity increases linearily with the number of logic levels. He writes "An obvious strategy is to minimize the product of these two quantities", refering to the radix and number of symbols to represent a number... but he just pulled that out of a hat.
Nowhere in the paper could I find that Brian Hayes claimd "that circuit complexity increases linearily with the number of logic levels." He was being theoretical about the whole issue. In other words, if hardware was not an issue, then the trinary number system is the most effecient numbering system. He was not stating that a trinary number system is beter because the circuit complexity is less. In fact, Brian Hayes goes on to state that:
Base 2 dominates computing technology because binary devices are simple and reliable, with just two stable states--on or off, full or empty. Computer circuitry also exploits a coincidence between binary arithmetic and binary logic: The same signal can represent either a numeric value (1 or 0) or a logical value (true or false).
Brians claim was that, mathematically speaking, the best numbering system is the trinary number system, and his claim that the mathematical complexity of a numbering system increases linearly with the number of logic levels makes sence.
I would find it interesting to see how well a trinary computer performs compaired to a binary computer. It would also be interesting to compair the complexity involved in bulding each machine and decide which numbering system is practally best.
The police and millitary are a very different breed of government. The police and millitary are at least somewhat accountable for their actions. The NSA, however, relies on secrecy to function. This secrecy removes any sort of accountability.
That people who work for the NSA are honest about protecting the citizens of the United States is not the question. Even if the Employees of the NSA desire to protect the citizens of the USA (which I believe many do), their actions are not accountable, even though they affect our lives. It is this system of accountability that is the foundation of the United States, but if the citizens don't even know what the NSA is up to, how can the NSA be accountable?
Eventually, they'll start offering ridiculously low-priced 'Student Discount' copies of Windows, like they have in the past, with both OS's and development tools.
Interesting that you mention this, because Microsoft is comming to my school this November for a Visual Studio.NET fall tour, and is giving away copies of Visual Studio.NET to all of the Comp. Sci's and Comp. E's that go to the event.
I wouldn't be so woried about a GUI on a server taking up CPU cycles so much as taking up memory. If memory runs low, then the system starts swaping and that could slow things down a bit.
By the way, I don't believe that webmin requires that you have a GUI installed on the server, just that you have one installed on the machine you do administration from. I believe that this also is true for VNC as well.
I dunno...
Saying that Photoshop is the best photo editing tool is crossing the line from fact to opinion. Who will argue that Photoshop isn't a very good photo editing tool? Likewise, who will argue that The GIMP isn't a very good photo editing tool? Nobody, who knows what they are talking about, would argue either, but anyone trying to argue that Photoshop is the best or that The GIMP is the best can only argue from their own opinion.
As for MS Office being the industry standard. Why exactly anyone would need the industry standard in office suites is usually because of lazy managers who themselves use MS Office and are to lazy to use a more open format to save/view documents.
But, of course, sence we are talking about UNIX geeks needing MacOS X, it is unlikely that they would be bound to MS Office formats, and needing the industry standard quickly becomes obsolete.
Hum...Running GNU/Linux or Unix and:
need a good photo editing tool? Try The GIMP
need a good Office Suite? Try OpenOffice.org
need an Illustrator? There are many good free replacements for this too...
So what were the reasons to switch?
Well, actually the dark matter problem in astrophysics has to do with missing matter in the whole universe. When physicists "weigh" a galaxy, they use gravity (using the motions of the galaxy) to estimate its weight. This includes any possible dark matter in the galaxy (ie. dust, brown dwarfs, etc) simply because that matter would contribute to the galaxies total mass. However, when scientists estimate the total mass of the universe from the estimates of galaxies masses, they come up far short of what many theories predict.
Some of this "missing" matter could be dark matter found in the voids between superclusters of galaxies. And some of it may be due to the cosomological constant.
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No, PNG is not part of the W3C HTML specs, it is part of the W3C PNG specs. This spec does include alpha transparency, and all of the other features of PNG that we have come to love.
Except the statement isn't Richard Stallmann's. He was quoting the author of the message he was replying to. In his actual message he did call it GNU/Linux, as we would all expect. ;-)
This of course brings up the interesting point that SCO is misquoting RMS; a misquote that could be a mistake, but also could be considered negligence. A quick and easy search by SCO would have revealed that Stallmann never actually made that statement (outside of quoting someone else of course).
And the Mozilla crowd said people wouldn't confuse the two....
I don't think anybody has.
Then the internet is already dead. The internet started out as a US Government project (ARPANET) that was initially a response to Russia's Sputnik spacecraft. The goal was to research into methods of utilizing the Government's investment in computers. Of course, eventually, many of the resources were turned over to "special friends" who happened to win the bid to develop that resource. The internet eventually turned into what it is today. A good timeline can be found at this site
I don't think that Government involvement in the internet is a bad thing, as long as government influence doesn't get out of control (after all the internet turned out ok despite it's government orgins). In other words, things are not yet as bad as you say they could be. None the less, we need to make sure that our friends in the Government don't let the internet turn into a regulated forum. (ie. write/call your congressman!)
I always thought that it was more like 80% :-)
Every day I read slashdot I become more convinced that Slashdot is becoming an Internet Tabloid News source. I am becomming doubtfull that the US Patent Office is really as bad as many of the submitter's comments make it out to be. In this case, the submitter's comment that "Scripts which check to see if a domainname has been taken would be in violation with this patent." is very misleading. Oh well, I guess it doesn't make a good story unless it makes the US Patent Office a fiasco.
Accept that IE doesn't support PNG's excellent alpha transparency! (arrghhh!) :-(
As soon as Microsoft gets off of their lazy bums and puts alpha transparency in IE, I will be using PNG even more that I currently do.
The AES encryption algorithm uses GF(2^8). The Galois field of order 2^8.
Moving parts.
Hard-drives are not as robust as solid state memory devices. Usually the first thing to go on any computer is the hard-drive because the mechanical parts fail, causing data loss. This is especially true for portable devices that may be dropped.
I'm not so sure if this is true. Usually a person is tried in State court for state crimes (murder, theft, etc.), and in federal court for federal crimes (treason, etc). I don't know if there are crimes that are both federal and state crimes, but if there are, then I suppose you are correct, because the State and Federal Governments are seperate.
It seems that you don't quite understand how the space elevator works. :(
An article on space.com explains it better:
In other words, if the tether were to ever break, the centripital force that prevents the station at the far end of the tether from flying out (yeah, the article was wrong, centripital acceleration is directed inward, causing the station to not fly off into space) will have suddenly dissapeared, causing the station to fly out from earth, along with most of the tether. (After all, if the tether breaks it most likely breaks in the Earth's atmosphere, ie. only a small percentage of the 21,700 mile tether.)
It is hard to be an American consumer if you can no longer get a job in the US. If Americans can no longer afford to buy products because they have lost all of their jobs, then we still lose.
Well, I am not a java programmer, so I don't know about java, but It seems to me that you are using C arrays in C++. The STL provides several data structures that are indended to replace C arrays. These include vector, and list, both of which dynamically allocate their size and automatically resize if you overflow thier bounds:
int main(){
vector<MyClass> vec_myclass;
MyClass temp;
ifstream fin;
while(!fin)
{
fin >> temp;
vec_myclass.pushback(temp);
}
cout << vec_myclass.size();
return 0;
}
The user doesn't even need to check the size, although that is provided.
This is one thing that I could never understand about some linux users. I personaly don't have the time to go around "reinventing" the weel by configuring my system to some common setup. I have programs, papers, and other assignments for all of my classes, so why would I want to spend several days working hard at getting my system configured just so I can get to work?
Mandrake was my first experence with a UNIX(tm)-like operating system. I now work comfortably on the Sun systems at my school, and really enjoy programming in the UNIX(tm) enviroment. I don't care to manually configure my own system and hope I never have to. There is no real benifit to manual configuration that cannot be manually modified on a automatic system such as Mandrake.
If I remember correctly, water vapor is a "more powerful" greenhouse gas than CO2. In fact CO2 is a relativly weak greenhouse gas. There are many gasses that have a greater effect on the greenhouse effect than CO2, and water vapor is one of them, granted CO2 is by far the greenhouse gas that is produced the most.
Arthur C. Clarke did a very good job of foreseeing the future. His stories are very believeable, even in today's world.
Nowhere in the paper could I find that Brian Hayes claimd "that circuit complexity increases linearily with the number of logic levels." He was being theoretical about the whole issue. In other words, if hardware was not an issue, then the trinary number system is the most effecient numbering system. He was not stating that a trinary number system is beter because the circuit complexity is less. In fact, Brian Hayes goes on to state that:
Brians claim was that, mathematically speaking, the best numbering system is the trinary number system, and his claim that the mathematical complexity of a numbering system increases linearly with the number of logic levels makes sence.I would find it interesting to see how well a trinary computer performs compaired to a binary computer. It would also be interesting to compair the complexity involved in bulding each machine and decide which numbering system is practally best.
The police and millitary are a very different breed of government. The police and millitary are at least somewhat accountable for their actions. The NSA, however, relies on secrecy to function. This secrecy removes any sort of accountability.
That people who work for the NSA are honest about protecting the citizens of the United States is not the question. Even if the Employees of the NSA desire to protect the citizens of the USA (which I believe many do), their actions are not accountable, even though they affect our lives. It is this system of accountability that is the foundation of the United States, but if the citizens don't even know what the NSA is up to, how can the NSA be accountable?
Eventually, they'll start offering ridiculously low-priced 'Student Discount' copies of Windows, like they have in the past, with both OS's and development tools.
Interesting that you mention this, because Microsoft is comming to my school this November for a Visual Studio.NET fall tour, and is giving away copies of Visual Studio.NET to all of the Comp. Sci's and Comp. E's that go to the event.
I wouldn't be so woried about a GUI on a server taking up CPU cycles so much as taking up memory. If memory runs low, then the system starts swaping and that could slow things down a bit.
By the way, I don't believe that webmin requires that you have a GUI installed on the server, just that you have one installed on the machine you do administration from. I believe that this also is true for VNC as well.
I dunno...
Saying that Photoshop is the best photo editing tool is crossing the line from fact to opinion. Who will argue that Photoshop isn't a very good photo editing tool? Likewise, who will argue that The GIMP isn't a very good photo editing tool? Nobody, who knows what they are talking about, would argue either, but anyone trying to argue that Photoshop is the best or that The GIMP is the best can only argue from their own opinion.
As for MS Office being the industry standard. Why exactly anyone would need the industry standard in office suites is usually because of lazy managers who themselves use MS Office and are to lazy to use a more open format to save/view documents.
But, of course, sence we are talking about UNIX geeks needing MacOS X, it is unlikely that they would be bound to MS Office formats, and needing the industry standard quickly becomes obsolete.
Hum...Running GNU/Linux or Unix and:
need a good photo editing tool? Try The GIMP
need a good Office Suite? Try OpenOffice.org
need an Illustrator? There are many good free replacements for this too...
So what were the reasons to switch?
Just wondering....
Well, actually the dark matter problem in astrophysics has to do with missing matter in the whole universe. When physicists "weigh" a galaxy, they use gravity (using the motions of the galaxy) to estimate its weight. This includes any possible dark matter in the galaxy (ie. dust, brown dwarfs, etc) simply because that matter would contribute to the galaxies total mass. However, when scientists estimate the total mass of the universe from the estimates of galaxies masses, they come up far short of what many theories predict.
Some of this "missing" matter could be dark matter found in the voids between superclusters of galaxies. And some of it may be due to the cosomological constant.