What a freaking luddite. Do you know how much energy is required to move the mass of a train, compared to the efficiency of a modern light aircraft? I'm not talking 727, I'm talking small regional planes.
I think you are mistaken. Let's take a small, modern and efficient regional plane: the ATR 72 is a twin-turboprop, which efficiency-wise will give regional turbojets a run for their money. For a trip of 550 km (300 nm), it will burn about 750 l of fuel. If we take a typical density of energy of 9.7 kWh/l for gasoline, we are talking about 13.2 kWh/km for a maximum passenger capacity of 74 people. That's 0.18 kWh/km/passenger.
Only the fact that for a discussing something this old, one must be extremely bored to carry it on, because there is no longer a problem to fix. Heck, the storage media that is the subject of this story has been obsolete for quite a while.
So, in essence, you mean that people interested in history are very bored people ?
Although I have no particular liking for HADOPI, there are several things that are needed to know about French law making process:
- On the regular case, law texts are examined alternatively by the upper chamber (senate) and the lower chamber (national assembly) until they are voted by both chambers in identical terms. In case of long standing disagreements between the chambers, a working commission composed of 14 people coming from both chambers are asked to find a compromise. The results of their work must then be voted in both chambers (without possibility of modifications) before the law is passed.
- On specific cases, the government may ask for a quick examination of a law: there is only one examination in the senate and the national assembly. The working commission is then summoned (because it is very unlikely at this point that both chambers will have adopted the same text). Both chambers are still required to vote on the results of the work of the commission. Currently, HADOPI is precisely in this state: examined and modified by both chambers, about to be worked on by the commission. Now, you have to understand that on the "quick" path, this working commission (Commission Mixte Paritaire by its full name) holds the real power of lawmaking.
Now, let's talk about the "trick". It would be quite surprising to perform such a sneaky trick without enraging the opposing political groups (which were heavily against HADOPI) - but hardly anything was heard from them. This is because it is the way the National Assembly is working. During votes in the lower chamber, the political groups are often (always) represented by subsets of the elected lawmakers. The lawmakers can't study every text.
During the debate, in which modifications of the laws are performed, the different elected lawmakers have a bit of independence. Depending on the relative number of lawmakers present, sometimes "sneaky" modifications of the law text are performed - modifications that wouldn't have taken place if the full assembly was present.
During the final vote (is the modified text adopted or not?), every lawmaker always votes according to the instructions of their respective political group. There are sometimes a black sheep or two who will not conform to the orders - they are usually shown on TV, called traitors by various people, and then punished by their political party. So, there is never any surprise during the final votes, as long as the full assembly is roughly represented by the lawmakers present at the time of the vote. Which was the case at the time the HADOPI law was voted.
Of course, what was written in this rather long text is only my understanding of the French lawmaking process. I am sure that experts in the matter will be able to point out the inaccuracies of what I said, but I hope it will give you a better general understanding of the situation.
Parrot development goals for each major release
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The next goals are outlined here.
Basically, they target one major release every six months, bumping each time the version number by 0.5. The next focus are:
1.5: integration, interoperation, and embedding
2.0: production users
2.5: portability
3.0: independence from other languages (everything is parrot on parrot)
Colbert has been dead since the 17th century. Are they thinking of his name because protectionism is coming back into the spotlight with the current financial crisis ?
Or maybe you are talking about someone else...
Modern submarines don't have "baffles" - they have a towed array which is actually more sensitive than the main sonar array. If there is a direction along which the detection capabilities of a submarine are the worst, it's in the front.
Don't be too rude with CNN. The actual NASA report, while very comprehensive and well written, still contains little gems such as:
For the first 15 to 20 seconds, the modeled loads would not cause serious injuries to a conscious crew member who was capable of active bracing. An unconscious or deceased crew member would have been more susceptible to injury.
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You know, you can talk to sleepwalkers, and they will answer you. Sleepwalkers can also handwrite. Why wouldn't they be able to type in an e-mail ?
A widely reported behaviour of sleepwalkers is to redo in their sleep movements and actions they are very used to, like dressing up. Typing in an URL and a password might be such a repetitive action. Of course, you may also be right. But it doesn't seem that far-fetched to me.
The full PDF of the article is available from the link given by the parent. In spite of the summary given by TFA, it shows that people die primarily from trauma.
However, he said the 40-year-old target missile failed to deploy its countermeasures -- such as decoys or chaff -- which were supposed to add realism to the test.
I guess it still qualifies as a valid test against a virtual enemy using archaic or not well maintained ICBMs.
Indeed. Darwin's kernel is XNU, which is a direct descendant from the NEXTSTEP kernel, a Mach and BSD hybrid. Because of the license of these products, Apple does not have to redistribute the source of their modifications, and owns the copyright on all the other code. Darwin is open source because Apple wanted it, not because Apple was bound to make it happen. This is why the iPhone OS version of Darwin is not available as open source - just because Apple does not want it.
You can download Webkit nightlies for Mac OS X and Windows here, and you do not have to be a developer to do so. They will come with the latest version availiable of the Safari shell, which is right now 3.2.1.
A third time ? There have been more than two conflicts between German and French people. Have you forgotten about the 1870 war, which was also quite bloody ?
It will be stronger and totally focused on the 3-strike approach and the french law (HADOPI) with is being examined by the French Parliament and Senate.
Wouldn't such a focus weaken the 88% agreement of the European Parliament ? The amendment was previously written in general terms, which seemed like a good idea in order to make it relevant to the whole European Union. I fear that if it becomes too obvious that some MEP are fighting at the European Parliament level a national battle, the support might vanish.
We are speaking here about the Council of the EU, which owns co-decision power along with the Parliament of the EU (with historically more power to the Council until the Lisbon treaty is ratified). There is a lesser known "European Council" which gives orientations, but it is not the subject of this article.
World of Goo is one of the winners of the 2008 Independant Games Festival. You should keep an eye on that competition, it really churns out a number of very good games.
As far as I know, the main purpose of these Anti Submarine Warfare exercises with high-powered sonar is to protect carrier groups (or other naval groups) from attack submarines. You do not go hunting an ICBM launching sub with these methods - cold war era nuclear attack submarines were made for that.
It is probably true that the vaccine does not gives out life long immunity. However, it seems that the life long immunity of getting sick is also a myth. I know two people who have had the chicken pox twice (could this be a statistical blip ?). In both cases, vaccine or disease, the same mechanisms are probably at play, and some immune systems can forget the strain after a sufficiently long time.
Another issue for the adult is shingles. Wouldn't it be better to live on a life long regiment of booster shots, as you said, if this can prevent this very unpleasant condition ? However, the vaccine is made of living weakened virus, so could these weakened virus also cause shingles in some cases ?
You can find a lot of information on the internet about this, but as a lot of people said on this topic, reliable information (and serious scientific studies) are harder to come by.
For sure. But the article is slightly misleading: what is controversial in this law is not really that the internet access can be cut off, but that it can be cut off without a court decision. In fact, the law is proposing to create an "administrative authority" which would take care of these matters, without a trial, in order to speed things up. This is precisely what the european parliament aims to outlaw: the ability to cut off an internet connection without a court decision.
To make matters more complex, since the reforms promised by the European Constitution (which failed to be approved at a referendum in france and netherlands in 2005, and a revised version was rejected by ireland in 2008), the european parliament still has very limited powers: it shares its decisional power with the european council, which is made of the representants of the executive governments of the member countries. As far as I know, the european council has not yet taken a stance on this topic.
In France, a law has to be examined by the higher chamber (senate) and the lower chamber (national assembly) before it can be enforced. The national assembly has not yet examined this law. That means that the law which has been approved by the senate is not yet in its final form, and might undergo deep revisions before it is enforced.
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What a freaking luddite. Do you know how much energy is required to move the mass of a train, compared to the efficiency of a modern light aircraft? I'm not talking 727, I'm talking small regional planes.
I think you are mistaken. Let's take a small, modern and efficient regional plane: the ATR 72 is a twin-turboprop, which efficiency-wise will give regional turbojets a run for their money. For a trip of 550 km (300 nm), it will burn about 750 l of fuel. If we take a typical density of energy of 9.7 kWh/l for gasoline, we are talking about 13.2 kWh/km for a maximum passenger capacity of 74 people. That's 0.18 kWh/km/passenger.
Let's take a TGV from the previous generation, in the Duplex series. Its power consumption is estimated at 17.65 kWh/km for a 427 km trip, with an average passenger load of 436 passengers. We are talking about 0.04 kWh/km/passenger. Roughly five times less.
Only the fact that for a discussing something this old, one must be extremely bored to carry it on, because there is no longer a problem to fix. Heck, the storage media that is the subject of this story has been obsolete for quite a while.
So, in essence, you mean that people interested in history are very bored people ?
Although I have no particular liking for HADOPI, there are several things that are needed to know about French law making process:
- On the regular case, law texts are examined alternatively by the upper chamber (senate) and the lower chamber (national assembly) until they are voted by both chambers in identical terms. In case of long standing disagreements between the chambers, a working commission composed of 14 people coming from both chambers are asked to find a compromise. The results of their work must then be voted in both chambers (without possibility of modifications) before the law is passed.
- On specific cases, the government may ask for a quick examination of a law: there is only one examination in the senate and the national assembly. The working commission is then summoned (because it is very unlikely at this point that both chambers will have adopted the same text). Both chambers are still required to vote on the results of the work of the commission. Currently, HADOPI is precisely in this state: examined and modified by both chambers, about to be worked on by the commission. Now, you have to understand that on the "quick" path, this working commission (Commission Mixte Paritaire by its full name) holds the real power of lawmaking.
Now, let's talk about the "trick". It would be quite surprising to perform such a sneaky trick without enraging the opposing political groups (which were heavily against HADOPI) - but hardly anything was heard from them. This is because it is the way the National Assembly is working. During votes in the lower chamber, the political groups are often (always) represented by subsets of the elected lawmakers. The lawmakers can't study every text.
During the debate, in which modifications of the laws are performed, the different elected lawmakers have a bit of independence. Depending on the relative number of lawmakers present, sometimes "sneaky" modifications of the law text are performed - modifications that wouldn't have taken place if the full assembly was present.
During the final vote (is the modified text adopted or not?), every lawmaker always votes according to the instructions of their respective political group. There are sometimes a black sheep or two who will not conform to the orders - they are usually shown on TV, called traitors by various people, and then punished by their political party. So, there is never any surprise during the final votes, as long as the full assembly is roughly represented by the lawmakers present at the time of the vote. Which was the case at the time the HADOPI law was voted.
Of course, what was written in this rather long text is only my understanding of the French lawmaking process. I am sure that experts in the matter will be able to point out the inaccuracies of what I said, but I hope it will give you a better general understanding of the situation.
The next goals are outlined here.
Basically, they target one major release every six months, bumping each time the version number by 0.5. The next focus are:
1.5: integration, interoperation, and embedding
2.0: production users
2.5: portability
3.0: independence from other languages (everything is parrot on parrot)
Colbert has been dead since the 17th century. Are they thinking of his name because protectionism is coming back into the spotlight with the current financial crisis ?
Or maybe you are talking about someone else...
Modern submarines don't have "baffles" - they have a towed array which is actually more sensitive than the main sonar array. If there is a direction along which the detection capabilities of a submarine are the worst, it's in the front.
There are 1,00,960 km of roads in France and unlike many other countries, most of them are toll and operated by private companies
I'd like to stress that you're talking about highways here. Most of the highways in France are run by private companies (3/4).
As far as I know, most of the other roads are run by the state (route nationale) or the regional collectivities (route départementale). Some regional collectivities might subcontract the operation of a few regional roads, but this is far for being the typical case.
Don't be too rude with CNN. The actual NASA report, while very comprehensive and well written, still contains little gems such as:
For the first 15 to 20 seconds, the modeled loads would not cause serious injuries to a conscious crew member who was capable of active bracing. An unconscious or deceased crew member would have been more susceptible to injury.
You know, you can talk to sleepwalkers, and they will answer you. Sleepwalkers can also handwrite. Why wouldn't they be able to type in an e-mail ?
A widely reported behaviour of sleepwalkers is to redo in their sleep movements and actions they are very used to, like dressing up. Typing in an URL and a password might be such a repetitive action. Of course, you may also be right. But it doesn't seem that far-fetched to me.
The full PDF of the article is available from the link given by the parent. In spite of the summary given by TFA, it shows that people die primarily from trauma.
Ariane 5 was designed as human rated, and it uses solid rocket boosters.
However, he said the 40-year-old target missile failed to deploy its countermeasures -- such as decoys or chaff -- which were supposed to add realism to the test.
I guess it still qualifies as a valid test against a virtual enemy using archaic or not well maintained ICBMs.
Indeed. Darwin's kernel is XNU, which is a direct descendant from the NEXTSTEP kernel, a Mach and BSD hybrid. Because of the license of these products, Apple does not have to redistribute the source of their modifications, and owns the copyright on all the other code. Darwin is open source because Apple wanted it, not because Apple was bound to make it happen. This is why the iPhone OS version of Darwin is not available as open source - just because Apple does not want it.
You can download Webkit nightlies for Mac OS X and Windows here, and you do not have to be a developer to do so. They will come with the latest version availiable of the Safari shell, which is right now 3.2.1.
I had no problem on a G4 PPC running webkit and Leopard. Performance was rather good for my computer slow by today's standards.
A third time ? There have been more than two conflicts between German and French people. Have you forgotten about the 1870 war, which was also quite bloody ?
It will be stronger and totally focused on the 3-strike approach and the french law (HADOPI) with is being examined by the French Parliament and Senate.
Wouldn't such a focus weaken the 88% agreement of the European Parliament ? The amendment was previously written in general terms, which seemed like a good idea in order to make it relevant to the whole European Union. I fear that if it becomes too obvious that some MEP are fighting at the European Parliament level a national battle, the support might vanish.
We are speaking here about the Council of the EU, which owns co-decision power along with the Parliament of the EU (with historically more power to the Council until the Lisbon treaty is ratified). There is a lesser known "European Council" which gives orientations, but it is not the subject of this article.
You can change the resolution by editing a flat text configuration file. As you post on Slashdot, this shouldn't be an issue for you.
World of Goo is one of the winners of the 2008 Independant Games Festival. You should keep an eye on that competition, it really churns out a number of very good games.
As far as I know, the main purpose of these Anti Submarine Warfare exercises with high-powered sonar is to protect carrier groups (or other naval groups) from attack submarines. You do not go hunting an ICBM launching sub with these methods - cold war era nuclear attack submarines were made for that.
It is probably true that the vaccine does not gives out life long immunity. However, it seems that the life long immunity of getting sick is also a myth. I know two people who have had the chicken pox twice (could this be a statistical blip ?). In both cases, vaccine or disease, the same mechanisms are probably at play, and some immune systems can forget the strain after a sufficiently long time.
Another issue for the adult is shingles. Wouldn't it be better to live on a life long regiment of booster shots, as you said, if this can prevent this very unpleasant condition ? However, the vaccine is made of living weakened virus, so could these weakened virus also cause shingles in some cases ?
You can find a lot of information on the internet about this, but as a lot of people said on this topic, reliable information (and serious scientific studies) are harder to come by.
For sure. But the article is slightly misleading: what is controversial in this law is not really that the internet access can be cut off, but that it can be cut off without a court decision. In fact, the law is proposing to create an "administrative authority" which would take care of these matters, without a trial, in order to speed things up. This is precisely what the european parliament aims to outlaw: the ability to cut off an internet connection without a court decision.
To make matters more complex, since the reforms promised by the European Constitution (which failed to be approved at a referendum in france and netherlands in 2005, and a revised version was rejected by ireland in 2008), the european parliament still has very limited powers: it shares its decisional power with the european council, which is made of the representants of the executive governments of the member countries. As far as I know, the european council has not yet taken a stance on this topic.
In France, a law has to be examined by the higher chamber (senate) and the lower chamber (national assembly) before it can be enforced. The national assembly has not yet examined this law. That means that the law which has been approved by the senate is not yet in its final form, and might undergo deep revisions before it is enforced.
Have you had a look at exalead.com ? It makes good strides in this direction (even if it fails your mechanics teeth context modifier).