Well, that function is periodic with a period of 2pi. It's also periodic with a period of pi. Technically, WA is correct. Not the best result, but still correct.
At some point you'll realize that you should support standards... by validating your pages and testing in multiple browsers. That's the way to ensure that your website works even in new browsers, new versions of existing browsers, new operating systems, and so on.
Frontline on PBS had a good explanation of the mortgage meltdown. The problem wasn't the securitization of mortgages itself. The problem was that financial institutions borrowed money to buy more mortgage securities than they had in available cash, creating an insatiable demand for securitized mortgages. In an effort to keep the supply of mortgages to meet the demand, mortgage companies lent money to anyone who could breathe, even if they clearly couldn't repay the loans (i.e. "subprime mortgages"). When the homeowners defaulted on their loans, the bank seized their properties, which were the collateral for the loan. Because so many homes foreclosed, it created a huge supply of houses for sale on the market. This huge supply made housing prices drop, so that other home sellers owed more money on their mortgages than they could sell their house for. This in turn led to their houses going into foreclosure. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. For each foreclosure, the supply of money to the securitized mortgages dried up, making those securities drop in price. Because financial institutions had borrowed money to buy those securities, they ended up losing more cash than they originally had, which any investor knows can happen if you buy on margin.
Because solar and nuclear power is even more expensive than burning fossil fuels. That's why it's been so hard to switch to alternative sources of energy -- there isn't much of an economic incentive.
If we didn't have any oil, we could simply make it by using energy to combine carbon and hydrogen atoms. We don't do that now, because to get the energy to do so would probably mean burning some sort of fossil fuel. Because the process would be less than 100% efficient, we would burn hydrocarbons to generate a smaller amount of hydrocarbons. It's more efficient to simply use the hydrocarbons that we already have directly.
I'm pretty sure it will kill millions around the world... eventually. Flu kills hundreds of thousands worldwide every year, and this novel flu virus will be around for tens or even hundreds of years. If this strain is responsible for a few percent of flu deaths and is around for only 100 years, that can easily add up to millions... eventually.
Some people are receiving documents created in OpenOffice. Microsoft would like to have these people open those documents in Microsoft Office rather than download OpenOffice to open them. Otherwise, the next thing you know, people might actually use OpenOffice to create new documents. Ugh! This FOSS stuff spreads just like a virus!
In other news... ...this is the year of Linux on the desktop. ...Apple is dead. ...Moore's law has reached its end. ...the latest copy protection scheme will work this time.
It's a problem with the Acid2 test that is exposed when a browser supports two background colors as specified by CSS3. All recent Firefox 3.6 builds seem to fail Acid2 for this reason.
Because the Acid tests are not a race. It will be big news when IE reaches a score in the 80s, even if all other browsers score 100/100. This is because it will be much easier for web developers to develop interactive applications that work in all browsers when web developers don't need to bend over backwards to get their sites to work in IE. With the Acid tests, it's the browser in last place that's important, not which one is in first place.
Firefox 3.6 builds score 96/100 when you set the preference svg.smil.enabled to true because tests 75 and 76 require SMIL in SVG. You can find the four tests that Firefox 3.6 still doesn't pass on the Acid3 spreadsheet.
Evolution supports MAPI. I suppose you can be an idealist and say that FOSS should not support proprietary protocols, but in my opinion that policy just drives users away from FOSS products. I also think it's good that OpenOffice can open.docx documents. It would be the death of OpenOffice if it couldn't.
Exchange works with any IMAP email client, but the email admins need to manually enable IMAP on the Exchange server. The question I ask is, "Will Thunderbird 4 or SeaMonkey 3 support Exchange's default MAPI protocol?" That way, Mozilla email clients can work with any Exchange server. Then individual users can easily migrate away from Outlook without the prior consent of the email admins.
At my wife's company, most employees have Windows XP laptops and can connect to the file server at work using openVPN. Even though latency is only 40 ms, Windows XP is incredibly slow at accessing the file server. Even simple operations such as getting a directory listing can take several seconds. Opening a small Word document takes over 30 seconds.
If Windows 7 has a feature that speeds up this access, it's going to be of great interest to many people. Of course, if Microsoft fixed the poor performance of CIFS over high latency networks, it would be even better.
I had a problem with bad RAM on my work computer in 2001. The error reported was displayed on the screen for so short a time that our IT person had to get his fancy new digital camera to record it and play it back so we could read it. These days, computers are so fast you may not notice that a detailed error message was displayed at all.
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You've described trade secrets, but there are also patents.
Well, that function is periodic with a period of 2pi. It's also periodic with a period of pi. Technically, WA is correct. Not the best result, but still correct.
Whether he's joking or not, I'd enjoy watching!
At some point you'll realize that you should support standards... by validating your pages and testing in multiple browsers. That's the way to ensure that your website works even in new browsers, new versions of existing browsers, new operating systems, and so on.
Frontline on PBS had a good explanation of the mortgage meltdown. The problem wasn't the securitization of mortgages itself. The problem was that financial institutions borrowed money to buy more mortgage securities than they had in available cash, creating an insatiable demand for securitized mortgages. In an effort to keep the supply of mortgages to meet the demand, mortgage companies lent money to anyone who could breathe, even if they clearly couldn't repay the loans (i.e. "subprime mortgages"). When the homeowners defaulted on their loans, the bank seized their properties, which were the collateral for the loan. Because so many homes foreclosed, it created a huge supply of houses for sale on the market. This huge supply made housing prices drop, so that other home sellers owed more money on their mortgages than they could sell their house for. This in turn led to their houses going into foreclosure. Wash. Rinse. Repeat. For each foreclosure, the supply of money to the securitized mortgages dried up, making those securities drop in price. Because financial institutions had borrowed money to buy those securities, they ended up losing more cash than they originally had, which any investor knows can happen if you buy on margin.
It's all pretty simple, really.
I guess you had something interesting to say on that second line, but I lost interest at the end of the first.
Because solar and nuclear power is even more expensive than burning fossil fuels. That's why it's been so hard to switch to alternative sources of energy -- there isn't much of an economic incentive.
If we didn't have any oil, we could simply make it by using energy to combine carbon and hydrogen atoms. We don't do that now, because to get the energy to do so would probably mean burning some sort of fossil fuel. Because the process would be less than 100% efficient, we would burn hydrocarbons to generate a smaller amount of hydrocarbons. It's more efficient to simply use the hydrocarbons that we already have directly.
I'm pretty sure it will kill millions around the world... eventually. Flu kills hundreds of thousands worldwide every year, and this novel flu virus will be around for tens or even hundreds of years. If this strain is responsible for a few percent of flu deaths and is around for only 100 years, that can easily add up to millions... eventually.
Some people are receiving documents created in OpenOffice. Microsoft would like to have these people open those documents in Microsoft Office rather than download OpenOffice to open them. Otherwise, the next thing you know, people might actually use OpenOffice to create new documents. Ugh! This FOSS stuff spreads just like a virus!
Today's xkcd is apropos.
In other news...
...this is the year of Linux on the desktop.
...Apple is dead.
...Moore's law has reached its end.
...the latest copy protection scheme will work this time.
It's a problem with the Acid2 test that is exposed when a browser supports two background colors as specified by CSS3. All recent Firefox 3.6 builds seem to fail Acid2 for this reason.
Oops... I posted the wrong link to the Acid2 browsershots.
You can see how well all browsers perform on Acid1 by watching the Acid1 browsershots.
You can see how well all browsers perform on Acid2 by watching the Acid2 browsershots or the Acid2 Wikipedia article.
You can keep track of how well all the browsers do on Acid3 by watching the Acid3 browsershots or the Acid3 Wikipedia article.
Because the Acid tests are not a race. It will be big news when IE reaches a score in the 80s, even if all other browsers score 100/100. This is because it will be much easier for web developers to develop interactive applications that work in all browsers when web developers don't need to bend over backwards to get their sites to work in IE. With the Acid tests, it's the browser in last place that's important, not which one is in first place.
Firefox 3.6 builds score 96/100 when you set the preference svg.smil.enabled to true because tests 75 and 76 require SMIL in SVG. You can find the four tests that Firefox 3.6 still doesn't pass on the Acid3 spreadsheet.
and Sun Grid Engine, VirtualBox, ...
Evolution supports MAPI. I suppose you can be an idealist and say that FOSS should not support proprietary protocols, but in my opinion that policy just drives users away from FOSS products. I also think it's good that OpenOffice can open .docx documents. It would be the death of OpenOffice if it couldn't.
Just enable IMAP support on the Exchange server, and it will work with any IMAP email client.
Exchange works with any IMAP email client, but the email admins need to manually enable IMAP on the Exchange server. The question I ask is, "Will Thunderbird 4 or SeaMonkey 3 support Exchange's default MAPI protocol?" That way, Mozilla email clients can work with any Exchange server. Then individual users can easily migrate away from Outlook without the prior consent of the email admins.
At my wife's company, most employees have Windows XP laptops and can connect to the file server at work using openVPN. Even though latency is only 40 ms, Windows XP is incredibly slow at accessing the file server. Even simple operations such as getting a directory listing can take several seconds. Opening a small Word document takes over 30 seconds.
If Windows 7 has a feature that speeds up this access, it's going to be of great interest to many people. Of course, if Microsoft fixed the poor performance of CIFS over high latency networks, it would be even better.
I had a problem with bad RAM on my work computer in 2001. The error reported was displayed on the screen for so short a time that our IT person had to get his fancy new digital camera to record it and play it back so we could read it. These days, computers are so fast you may not notice that a detailed error message was displayed at all.
The Colbert Spaceport?