I'm a highschool student who spent a lot of spare time looking at various thermochemical schemes.
You get all my admiration and I hope my children grow up to be like you, the world needs way more high school student and young people interested in something else then video games!
In many places in OS X, there is a "display password" checkbox under password entry fields. So, by default the password is hidden, but if needed, you can click the checkbox and it will be displayed. best of both world I think.
This is false, you can not sail upwind using traditionals sails but using wind turbines it is certainly feasible. And why would moving forward require more then 100% of the energy captured? As long as the wind is pushing hard enough, it will move forward. The energy provided by the wind just has to exceed the resistance of the boat to move (friction). And then, the energy needed to move the boat against the wind does not increase linearly with the wind speed.
Imagine a boat with a windmill on it. Imagine the windmill being sideways to the boat (at 90%). Now, we both agree that if the wind makes the turbine turn sufficiently fast, the boat will move forward, right? Now, turn the turbine so it faces the bow. The same wind force, a bit more if we account for wind resistance, will be needed to turn the turbine blades and move the boat forward in the wind direction. The turbine does not care at all what direction the boat is going, it only care about apparent wind speed.
And wind speed on a boat is all about apparent wind speed. This is also how boats and vehicle can sail much faster then the wind itself. They create their own wind! Look up the Greenbird land yacht that recently reached 126.1 mph with winds only between 30 mph and 40 mph.
Do you have any links pointing to informations about tuple stores? I'm interested in reading more about this. I did a quick google search but could not dig up anything relevant...
Whether or not you believe Steve Jobs is evil is likely strongly correlated to the number of Macs you own...
I own a MBP, have owned many Macs before, converted all my friends and familly to macs and we are all working on macs at my jobs.
I also owned many Windows PC in the past to. I also own a Mazda car, Metag fridge and IKEA desk. You know what? All of these companies also have applied and received many patents in the past, some for silly things and some for more clever ones. And by all means, I do not consider Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Jujiro Matsuda or Ingvar Kamprad to be evil, none of them. Have they killed anyone? Have they raped a woman? have they tortured little children? Did not think so. No evilness in there.
I can't understand how someone would be "Evil" for filling a patent. I can't figure out how people can come to this conclusion. And I have this opinion about Apple, Microsoft, or any other company out there. As long as they play by the rules and do not do any illegal thing, I do not consider them "evil". Opportunists, maybe. "Sharks", maybe. As having a different viewpoint then mine? Sure. But "evil"? Come on! That said, I do not condone MS illegal monopolistic practice and was glad to see them prosecuted.
Companies should and do play by the rules laid out before them. One of the rule permitted in your country is to apply for software patents. How then can they be evil for applying for said patents? If you don't like the rules, well get them changed.
I hate it how people can come to fingerpointing each others for having different opinions on things, bitch, kick and scream, but do nothing constructive to have things changed. How many programmers, software engineers and computer scientist is there in the US? probably millions I'd say. But still, I ear (read) people bitching all over the place but do nothing else. Do you really think politicians and law makers are reading slashdot?!?
Get off your collective ass and do something about it. Don't like software patents? Get them abolished. "But I'm just a simple guy against this big evil company!". Bullshit! Bullshit and lazyness I say. Get organized, start a movement, make it a strong polical point in the election, have your voice eard and stop bitching. Then and only then will things change.
Yes, your post was informative, you took time to read the patent and highlighted important points in it. But why the small jab at the end, I can't understand; and yes, I took offense of it.
No language that I know of have drag 'n drop as a part of it's specification. Drag 'n drop support is normally part of libraries for a given GUI toolkit.
No, it wasn't obvious. The type of tumor you are talking about are called Teratoma. I can't explain what they are and won't even try as I am in no way qualified to do so, but anyway, read the wikipedia entry. And by the way, don't you think that these guys know what they are doing? They have been researching on the subject for years, they have conducted experiments, studied the field, etc, for all of their life. Don't you think that if it had been so obvious that, well, they would probably have found it before?
Not to be pedantic, even if I may sound so, but what have economics do with the fact that pollution generated by a small power plant is greater then by a big one? I would think that small power plant generate more pollution per watt produced then bigger ones because of efficiency and the physics involved rather then because of economics. But I'm no engineer, so I may well be wrong. Also, if it is carbon neutral, why do we need to worry about CO2 pollution? Isn't the whole "carbon neutral" thing an argument normally used about clean power sources?
<slashdot>
<comment user="Northdude" moderation="-1: troll" date="2005-10-21 15:29:21 PM">
First post? Maybe not, because of the lameness filter...
</comment> </slashdot>
Which = ~10K dollars, which divided between the members of the band does not leave much to do things like, eat, pay for the house, pay the car, pay for the kids, etc etc. On the other side, if many people buy tickets for their show they could certainly do ok.
Just yesterday, I was ready the Ask Slashdot question about which applications or services was best for managing bookmarks.
Lots of peoples told the guy to just do the searches again on google or that it would be cool if a browser could cache all your searches or things like that.
I just tried it, it is way cool. You can selectively delete entries you do not want to keep, keep the one you want to and search them. I did not read or found how the information is stored but I hope that it reside on their server so that I do not have to worry about losing it if I erase my cookies/cache or just reformat my hd.
And sorry to all the tinfoils hat over here, but I have my mails on their servers already and do not mind it so do you really think I care about my search history? Anyway, THIS will be how I manage my bookmarks from now on. All the relevant search I made kept where they were made. Great idea, even if I read they were not the first to do it.
First of all, it was not really a correction of its spelling. More of a rework of its structure. My previous post, you see, was a simple joke about slashdot posting so many dupes. I know, I know, those jokes are getting old these days but I just got out of bed, am on a hangover, have not yet drank any coffee, and found it quite funny anyway.
So now, In an attempt to calm down the moderators, I'll post another joke (ripped from a newsgroup):
Linus Torvalds, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates are gathered one night,
when an angel miraculously appears. The angel grants them each
one question.
Linus goes first, asking, "Tell me how long it will be before Linux is
completely secure and the last bug is squashed." The angel looks into
the future, and then answers, "It will be 10 years before Linux is
completely secure and the last bug is squashed." Linus chokes up, sheds
some tears, and laments, "I may not even live to see it."
Then Jobs steps forward and asks, "Tell me how long it will be before
the MacOS is completely secure and the last bug is squashed." The angel
looks into the future, and then answers, "It will be 20 years before Mac OS
is completely secure and the last bug is squashed." Jobs chokes up, sheds
some tears, and laments, "I may not even live to see it."
After a while, the two turn to Gates, who is shuffling around and
staring at the ground mumbling. "Well, Bill, aren't you going to pose
your question?" they ask him. "Oh, all right," he says with annoyance,
"How long will it be before Windows is completely secure and the last
bug is squashed?" The angel looks into the future, then looks further,
then... the angel chokes up, sheds some tears, and laments, "I may not
even live to see it."
However, the FAQ also notes that circumvention for the purposes of private copying will not be permitted, meaning people may find themselves paying for a CD and paying a levy on blank CD yet unable to make the copy of the underlying CD.
This is kind of sad. Ok, it may not be a DMCA-like reform we are heading toward, but it still eats away a chunck of my fair-use rights. I mean, now I won't have the right to circumvent DRM-protected files so I can play them on linux? In the future, if they begin to sell DRM-crippled CD's and CD player, I won't have the right to circumvent it's DRM scheme so I can put the music on my iPod (as an example only)? The rest seems to have reach a good balance, but this one I do not like how it sounds.
So ok, things like DeCSS won't be illegal in itself, but using it to rip my DVDs to my harddrive will so I should rejoice why exactly? Because it is not has bad as in the US? It's not as bad so it is ok? Way to go...
Sorry for the rant, this just frustrates me a lot.
Imagine simething like this but including gmail, gcalendar,..., g^n !!
I'm sure a lot of companies would kill for one of those. Add to those services a proper api so you could integrate the rest of your applications with it and I think they would sell like hot cakes.
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I'm a highschool student who spent a lot of spare time looking at various thermochemical schemes.
You get all my admiration and I hope my children grow up to be like you, the world needs way more high school student and young people interested in something else then video games!
... or switch to Safari or Opera
In many places in OS X, there is a "display password" checkbox under password entry fields. So, by default the password is hidden, but if needed, you can click the checkbox and it will be displayed. best of both world I think.
This is false, you can not sail upwind using traditionals sails but using wind turbines it is certainly feasible. And why would moving forward require more then 100% of the energy captured? As long as the wind is pushing hard enough, it will move forward. The energy provided by the wind just has to exceed the resistance of the boat to move (friction). And then, the energy needed to move the boat against the wind does not increase linearly with the wind speed.
Imagine a boat with a windmill on it. Imagine the windmill being sideways to the boat (at 90%). Now, we both agree that if the wind makes the turbine turn sufficiently fast, the boat will move forward, right? Now, turn the turbine so it faces the bow. The same wind force, a bit more if we account for wind resistance, will be needed to turn the turbine blades and move the boat forward in the wind direction. The turbine does not care at all what direction the boat is going, it only care about apparent wind speed.
And wind speed on a boat is all about apparent wind speed. This is also how boats and vehicle can sail much faster then the wind itself. They create their own wind! Look up the Greenbird land yacht that recently reached 126.1 mph with winds only between 30 mph and 40 mph.
The problem with supersonic passenger planes was that they could not fly at those speed over land, rendering most speed advantage moot.
Do you have any links pointing to informations about tuple stores? I'm interested in reading more about this. I did a quick google search but could not dig up anything relevant...
4) Build a small closed source application that utilizes the open source software.
Then you are selling closed source software. if it was open source, it would be something else entirely, which is the point of the article.
Whether or not you believe Steve Jobs is evil is likely strongly correlated to the number of Macs you own...
I own a MBP, have owned many Macs before, converted all my friends and familly to macs and we are all working on macs at my jobs. I also owned many Windows PC in the past to. I also own a Mazda car, Metag fridge and IKEA desk. You know what? All of these companies also have applied and received many patents in the past, some for silly things and some for more clever ones. And by all means, I do not consider Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, Jujiro Matsuda or Ingvar Kamprad to be evil, none of them. Have they killed anyone? Have they raped a woman? have they tortured little children? Did not think so. No evilness in there. I can't understand how someone would be "Evil" for filling a patent. I can't figure out how people can come to this conclusion. And I have this opinion about Apple, Microsoft, or any other company out there. As long as they play by the rules and do not do any illegal thing, I do not consider them "evil". Opportunists, maybe. "Sharks", maybe. As having a different viewpoint then mine? Sure. But "evil"? Come on! That said, I do not condone MS illegal monopolistic practice and was glad to see them prosecuted. Companies should and do play by the rules laid out before them. One of the rule permitted in your country is to apply for software patents. How then can they be evil for applying for said patents? If you don't like the rules, well get them changed. I hate it how people can come to fingerpointing each others for having different opinions on things, bitch, kick and scream, but do nothing constructive to have things changed. How many programmers, software engineers and computer scientist is there in the US? probably millions I'd say. But still, I ear (read) people bitching all over the place but do nothing else. Do you really think politicians and law makers are reading slashdot?!? Get off your collective ass and do something about it. Don't like software patents? Get them abolished. "But I'm just a simple guy against this big evil company!". Bullshit! Bullshit and lazyness I say. Get organized, start a movement, make it a strong polical point in the election, have your voice eard and stop bitching. Then and only then will things change. Yes, your post was informative, you took time to read the patent and highlighted important points in it. But why the small jab at the end, I can't understand; and yes, I took offense of it.
Tidal power, let the moon do the lifting, get the energy out of the falling water!
No language that I know of have drag 'n drop as a part of it's specification. Drag 'n drop support is normally part of libraries for a given GUI toolkit.
By the way, your sig is sexist as hell.
No, it wasn't obvious. The type of tumor you are talking about are called Teratoma. I can't explain what they are and won't even try as I am in no way qualified to do so, but anyway, read the wikipedia entry. And by the way, don't you think that these guys know what they are doing? They have been researching on the subject for years, they have conducted experiments, studied the field, etc, for all of their life. Don't you think that if it had been so obvious that, well, they would probably have found it before?
Maybe because it has not been open sourced just yet?
Not to be pedantic, even if I may sound so, but what have economics do with the fact that pollution generated by a small power plant is greater then by a big one? I would think that small power plant generate more pollution per watt produced then bigger ones because of efficiency and the physics involved rather then because of economics. But I'm no engineer, so I may well be wrong. Also, if it is carbon neutral, why do we need to worry about CO2 pollution? Isn't the whole "carbon neutral" thing an argument normally used about clean power sources?
<slashdot>
<comment user="Northdude" moderation="-1: troll" date="2005-10-21 15:29:21 PM">
First post? Maybe not, because of the lameness filter...
</comment>
</slashdot>
Which = ~10K dollars, which divided between the members of the band does not leave much to do things like, eat, pay for the house, pay the car, pay for the kids, etc etc. On the other side, if many people buy tickets for their show they could certainly do ok.
Try naming some "realistic drama
:-P
The movie "I am Sam"?
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so!
Can XP rip to mp3 and play DVD's right out of the box?
But on the other hand, OSX can.
Just yesterday, I was ready the Ask Slashdot question about which applications or services was best for managing bookmarks.
Lots of peoples told the guy to just do the searches again on google or that it would be cool if a browser could cache all your searches or things like that.
I just tried it, it is way cool. You can selectively delete entries you do not want to keep, keep the one you want to and search them. I did not read or found how the information is stored but I hope that it reside on their server so that I do not have to worry about losing it if I erase my cookies/cache or just reformat my hd.
And sorry to all the tinfoils hat over here, but I have my mails on their servers already and do not mind it so do you really think I care about my search history? Anyway, THIS will be how I manage my bookmarks from now on. All the relevant search I made kept where they were made. Great idea, even if I read they were not the first to do it.
First of all, it was not really a correction of its spelling. More of a rework of its structure. My previous post, you see, was a simple joke about slashdot posting so many dupes. I know, I know, those jokes are getting old these days but I just got out of bed, am on a hangover, have not yet drank any coffee, and found it quite funny anyway.
... the angel chokes up, sheds some tears, and laments, "I may not
even live to see it."
So now, In an attempt to calm down the moderators, I'll post another joke (ripped from a newsgroup):
Linus Torvalds, Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates are gathered one night, when an angel miraculously appears. The angel grants them each one question.
Linus goes first, asking, "Tell me how long it will be before Linux is completely secure and the last bug is squashed." The angel looks into the future, and then answers, "It will be 10 years before Linux is completely secure and the last bug is squashed." Linus chokes up, sheds some tears, and laments, "I may not even live to see it."
Then Jobs steps forward and asks, "Tell me how long it will be before the MacOS is completely secure and the last bug is squashed." The angel looks into the future, and then answers, "It will be 20 years before Mac OS is completely secure and the last bug is squashed." Jobs chokes up, sheds some tears, and laments, "I may not even live to see it."
After a while, the two turn to Gates, who is shuffling around and staring at the ground mumbling. "Well, Bill, aren't you going to pose your question?" they ask him. "Oh, all right," he says with annoyance, "How long will it be before Windows is completely secure and the last bug is squashed?" The angel looks into the future, then looks further, then
If this hasn't already been posted
:-P
I think you really meant : "If this has already been posted"!
O yeah, My first first post maybe?
However, the FAQ also notes that circumvention for the purposes of private copying will not be permitted, meaning people may find themselves paying for a CD and paying a levy on blank CD yet unable to make the copy of the underlying CD.
This is kind of sad. Ok, it may not be a DMCA-like reform we are heading toward, but it still eats away a chunck of my fair-use rights. I mean, now I won't have the right to circumvent DRM-protected files so I can play them on linux? In the future, if they begin to sell DRM-crippled CD's and CD player, I won't have the right to circumvent it's DRM scheme so I can put the music on my iPod (as an example only)? The rest seems to have reach a good balance, but this one I do not like how it sounds.
So ok, things like DeCSS won't be illegal in itself, but using it to rip my DVDs to my harddrive will so I should rejoice why exactly? Because it is not has bad as in the US? It's not as bad so it is ok? Way to go...
Sorry for the rant, this just frustrates me a lot.
What? allOfMp3.com sued back the russian government?
Imagine simething like this but including gmail, gcalendar, ..., g^n !!
I'm sure a lot of companies would kill for one of those. Add to those services a proper api so you could integrate the rest of your applications with it and I think they would sell like hot cakes.
Well, you can always try http://xxx.google.com/ also ;-P