Too late! The KDE and Gnome projects are three releases ahead. Last year I installed GNUStep on SuSE 9.1, it is usable but compared to KDE 3.3.2 it seemed like going back to the stone age. These days we are accustomed to self-contained applications, I mean, having navigation menus and pannels in the main window. GNUStep menus are not so difficult to use but it becomes a mess when several windows contend for the same screen region. I have used NeXTSTEP in the past and think GNUStep is wonderful but it needs a major revision in order to be a GUI as easy to use as KDE or Windows.
FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation) was never meant to be a general-purpose programming language, it is strongly biased towards scientific calculations. It has native support for doing fast computations with scalars and arrays of integer, real and complex data types. In modern revisions of the language (F90/95, Fortran 2000/2003) it gained support for dynamic memory allocation (although there is no garbage collection), abstract data types, pointers and object-oriented programming but few people use these capabilities. And yes, it is possible to write beautiful programs in FORTRAN although bad practices prevail due to the backwards capability of modern FORTRAN with F66/F77.
Same question. But I think the scale is not logarithmic since the ratio base^28 / base^7 is more that one billion if base = e. A solar explosion one billion times more powerful would have turned the sun into a nova star.
Sarcasm included. But, really, what does it make you think the closure of torrent sites will convince people to buy legal copies of copyrighted material instead of downloading them from Internet? I don't understand doing business "a l'americaine". First, Hollywood bombards people with publicity creating an urgent need to consume, it means, invading people's privacy is permitted by the law. Then they want to control the way people uses the acquired material, i.e., the consumer has no rights to protest, no voice, just getting screwed all the time.
it is the people who use their products. I know myself some die-hard Windows users, I tried my best to understand their reasons to stick on it and arrived to the following conclusion: people that are not used to think on data in an abstract way search for a connection with reality, something perceptible by the senses. Windows does a good work in providing users with a graphical representation of data. That is in fact the value of Windows. People who learnt to use computers that way will not change to change their minds unless, perhaps, if a better visual representation is provided like Mac OS X. On the contrary, I have a good respect for command line users since they understand the underlying structure of the OS without making a connnection with the common sense. But few people in fact like the command line...
Software patents are useful in principle but a very bad idea in practice, the reason is that people always find legal ways to circumvent their applicability or to enforce them to fight competition. It is something like the tenth commandement. In principle, either if one believes or not in religion, one should not feel envious at the goods of others, but in practice, honest persons succumbe to temptation. More legal studies on regulations or limitations of the applicability of patents are needed.
but it requires a lot of patience, economical support and many years of study to learn howto to solve relevant interdisciplinary problems. Take a look at the following site: http://www.longnow.org/about/articles/ArtFe ynman.h tml
International commerce is like a club where only the most influential members take decisions. In order to become a member you must meet some requirements and accept to play by following well established rules. If you don't agree with the rules then you stay apart and look for another market for your products, however, everybody else is willing to become a member, any kind of competition becomes a merciless fight where everything is allowed. Wanna play WTO game? Validate USA IP laws in your country and become servant of the big enterprise.
Well, it depends. Spanish-speaking people use the term "America", coined by Columbus in 1492 from an italian name (Americo), to refer to the newly discovered continent. This term, however, has a different meaning in USA. The countries belonging to Columbus America are "the Americas". The term "America" is used mostly to refer to a country in the northern part of Columbus America now called USA.
Remember that physical theories are just a caricature of nature and have limited applicability. Quantum physics was formulated long time ago, but 78 years is apparently not enough time to explore all of its consequences and discover its faults. Adopting a phylosophical position about the statistical or deterministic behaviour of nature is entering metaphysics, pursuing the ultimate consequence of a limited theory is nonsense. One, as a physicist, should keep a critical and skeptical attitude, but nobody taughts students about this, we suppose they catch it by osmosis as Richard Feynman says in his well know talk "cargo cult science".
Well, I do not speak latin, but my native tongue is spanish. The direct translation of the english words "male" and "female" is "macho" and "hembra" but in spanish these words are mostly used when refering to the gender of animals. For human beings (animals after all) words like "hombre" and "mujer" or "masculino" and "femenino" are commonly used. The application of the words "macho" and "hembra" to human beings is always pejorative.
Most GUI applications running on MS Windows or X Windows are not smoothly scalable in the sense that when changing monitor resolution the window elements like buttons, scrollbars, icons, fonts, etc., do not preserve the whole appearance, each element scales independently of the others. Is it possible to make a smoothly scalable interface that maintains consistency at all display resolutions?
Let us imagine an operating system capable of understanding mathematical language, being able to do complicated mathematical operations and presenting the results in a optimized graphical way. Think of a kind of intelligent combination of Mathematica and Matlab. Even under these conditions it would be hard to convince scientists to use it. Just imagine what would happen if one of the developers made an unintentional programming mistake...
It's been more than two and half years since I bought my laptop computer and from the first day I was able to suspend to RAM while using W2K. But unfortunately I do most of my work on Linux, it is unbelievable but even if I tried hard to configure ACPI on Linux I haven't yet been able to use any power saving feature other than halt. Why does the development of ACPI support on Linux evolves so slowly?
if the fingerprint (or retina scan) info is stored only while the visitor is in the US territory and deleted when he/she leaves I think it would be OK. The visitor needs to be informed of these practices before taking the plane (or even before paying the ticket) so there will not be a waste of time/money if he/she does not agree with them.
Two, three years ago the argument to migrate to Linux was mainly price, additionaly it offered stability and simplicity. But these days companies are selling per-processor Linux distributions with expensive consulting services. Only a few customers (if any) base their decisions on technological advantages offered by Linux, price continues to be the reason but it is no longer as significant as it was in the past.
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I don't have mod points but you deserve +1 (funny).
And what will happen if MS suddenly decides to stop giving SFU away for free?
Too late! The KDE and Gnome projects are three releases ahead. Last year I installed GNUStep on SuSE 9.1, it is usable but compared to KDE 3.3.2 it seemed like going back to the stone age. These days we are accustomed to self-contained applications, I mean, having navigation menus and pannels in the main window. GNUStep menus are not so difficult to use but it becomes a mess when several windows contend for the same screen region. I have used NeXTSTEP in the past and think GNUStep is wonderful but it needs a major revision in order to be a GUI as easy to use as KDE or Windows.
FORTRAN (FORmula TRANslation) was never meant to be a general-purpose programming language, it is strongly biased towards scientific calculations. It has native support for doing fast computations with scalars and arrays of integer, real and complex data types. In modern revisions of the language (F90/95, Fortran 2000/2003) it gained support for dynamic memory allocation (although there is no garbage collection), abstract data types, pointers and object-oriented programming but few people use these capabilities. And yes, it is possible to write beautiful programs in FORTRAN although bad practices prevail due to the backwards capability of modern FORTRAN with F66/F77.
but seriously, is there any evidence that these
robots are less vulnerable that soldiers? How good
are these robots at searching for obstacles?
most people like alcohol but not because it tastes good...
Same question. But I think the scale is not
logarithmic since the ratio base^28 / base^7
is more that one billion if base = e. A solar
explosion one billion times more powerful
would have turned the sun into a nova star.
we already have KDE and gnome.
Sarcasm included.
But, really, what does it make you think the closure of torrent sites will convince people to buy legal copies of copyrighted material instead of downloading them from Internet? I don't understand doing business "a l'americaine". First, Hollywood bombards people with publicity creating an urgent need to consume, it means, invading people's privacy is permitted by the law. Then they want to control the way people uses the acquired material, i.e., the consumer has no rights to protest, no voice, just getting screwed all the time.
it is the people who use their products. I know myself some die-hard Windows users, I tried my best to understand their reasons to stick on it and arrived to the following conclusion: people that are not used to think on data in an abstract way search for a connection with reality, something perceptible by the senses. Windows does a good work in providing users with a graphical representation of data. That is in fact the value of Windows. People who learnt to use computers that way will not change to change their minds unless, perhaps, if a better visual representation is provided like Mac OS X. On the contrary, I have a good respect for command line users since they understand the underlying structure of the OS without making a connnection with the common sense. But few people in fact like the command line...
Software patents are useful in principle but
a very bad idea in practice, the reason is that
people always find legal ways to circumvent their
applicability or to enforce them to fight
competition. It is something like the tenth
commandement. In principle, either if one believes
or not in religion, one should not feel envious
at the goods of others, but in practice, honest
persons succumbe to temptation.
More legal studies on regulations or limitations
of the applicability of patents are needed.
but it requires a lot of patience, economical support and many years of study to learn howto to solve relevant interdisciplinary problems. Take a look at the following site:e ynman.h tml
http://www.longnow.org/about/articles/ArtF
- aaki
International commerce is like a club where only the most influential members take decisions. In order to become a member you must meet some requirements and accept to play by following well established rules. If you don't agree with the rules then you stay apart and look for another market for your products, however, everybody else is willing to become a member, any kind of competition becomes a merciless fight where everything is allowed. Wanna play WTO game? Validate USA IP laws in your country and become servant of the big enterprise.
Burn down the mission.
Well, it depends. Spanish-speaking people use the
term "America", coined by Columbus in 1492 from an
italian name (Americo), to refer to the newly
discovered continent. This term, however, has a
different meaning in USA. The countries belonging
to Columbus America are "the Americas". The term
"America" is used mostly to refer to a country in
the northern part of Columbus America now called
USA.
Firefox + Phoenity theme + Google toolbar + ... =
eye-candy, powerful and secure web browser.
Give it a try!
Does anybody knows if icce 8.1 produces optimized
code for Opteron processors? How close is Intel's
extended memory 64 technology to AMD x86_64?
extent?
Remember that physical theories are just a
caricature of nature and have limited
applicability. Quantum physics was formulated long
time ago, but 78 years is apparently not enough
time to explore all of its consequences and
discover its faults. Adopting a phylosophical
position about the statistical or deterministic
behaviour of nature is entering metaphysics,
pursuing the ultimate consequence of a limited
theory is nonsense. One, as a physicist, should
keep a critical and skeptical attitude, but
nobody taughts students about this, we suppose
they catch it by osmosis as Richard Feynman
says in his well know talk "cargo cult science".
Well, I do not speak latin, but my native tongue
is spanish. The direct translation of the english
words "male" and "female" is "macho" and "hembra"
but in spanish these words are mostly used when
refering to the gender of animals. For human
beings (animals after all) words like "hombre"
and "mujer" or "masculino" and "femenino" are
commonly used. The application of the words
"macho" and "hembra" to human beings is always
pejorative.
Most GUI applications running on MS Windows or
X Windows are not smoothly scalable in the sense
that when changing monitor resolution the window
elements like buttons, scrollbars, icons, fonts,
etc., do not preserve the whole appearance, each
element scales independently of the others. Is it
possible to make a smoothly scalable interface that
maintains consistency at all display resolutions?
Let us imagine an operating system capable of
understanding mathematical language, being able
to do complicated mathematical operations and
presenting the results in a optimized graphical
way. Think of a kind of intelligent combination of Mathematica and Matlab. Even under these
conditions it would be hard to convince scientists to use it. Just imagine what would
happen if one of the developers made an
unintentional programming mistake...
It's been more than two and half years since I
bought my laptop computer and from the first
day I was able to suspend to RAM while using W2K.
But unfortunately I do most of my work on Linux,
it is unbelievable but even if I tried hard to
configure ACPI on Linux I haven't yet been able
to use any power saving feature other than halt.
Why does the development of ACPI support on Linux
evolves so slowly?
if the fingerprint (or retina scan) info
is stored only while the visitor is in the US
territory and deleted when he/she leaves I
think it would be OK. The visitor needs to be
informed of these practices before taking
the plane (or even before paying the ticket)
so there will not be a waste of time/money if
he/she does not agree with them.
Finally we'll have a low cost (free?) optimizing
C++/FORTRAN compiler suite for x86_64 other than
PGI 5.x.
Two, three years ago the argument to migrate
to Linux was mainly price, additionaly it
offered stability and simplicity. But these
days companies are selling per-processor
Linux distributions with expensive consulting
services. Only a few customers (if any) base
their decisions on technological advantages
offered by Linux, price continues to be the
reason but it is no longer as significant as it
was in the past.