People aren't going to run washing machines at 2AM in the summertime to avoid a $0.50 fee and get smelly clothes since nobody will be around to flip the laundry into the dryer.
You lack imagination... Imagine a price difference of $10 and imagine you can buy a washing-drying machine, that can do both washing AND drying... See, that was easy.
Whether you like or not.. Check this "Crash Course" for a dose of reality:
http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse . We will have to deal with a lot worse than the fearsome "Smart Grid" sooner than later...
Anyone knows what's the consideration for space debris? I can't imagine anyone in their right minds would invest so much money on something that has one chance out of a hundred of being destroyed by a flying screw or something..
Time to look at Scala on the JVM: classes written in the Scala-language runs almost as fast as ones written in the Java language. Also Scala looks a lot like the Java language.
http://www.scala-lang.org/
Well, just an example, the first version of Microsoft Office that supports the ISO version of OOXML (whenever that one comes out) might not run on XP... that is how you make software obsolete, and that is how Microsoft has always done it!
Wow! It does work! I just finished installing Fedora 10, and imported the free and non-free repo RPMs from RPM Fusion. Then, I clicked on a.WMV file, Totem opened, and it automatically found that gstreamer-plugins-ugly and gstreamer-ffmpeg would provide the necessary CODECs, installed everything with a couple of clicks, and the video played fine!
RPM Fusion is getting pretty darn good
http://rpmfusion.org/
Just one RPM to install manually, and you can get all the "evil" stuff very easily... plus, haven't tested it yet, but the new hooks in Totem should make the process pretty much automatic.
AFAIK, there is still no guaranteed safe nuclear reactor design! The only two choices we have (still) are: 1. using renewable energy or 2. taking the risk with nuclear. (and maybe 3. keep polluting with oil) Of course, let's hope research finds something better than these, but for now, safe nuclear does not exist! I'm not saying we shouldn't use nuclear, but that we should think and evaluate the risks properly.
or the free software movement? We're talking about the "bazaar" here... It's fine the way it is now. We've got great distros like Fedora, Ubuntu, etc. Everything's working pretty well, really. The problems are mostly political (read: multimedia codecs, patents and such) and somewhat technical (read: Microsoft Office proprietary files, etc.)... that won't go away easily even if you put thousands of hours of the best programmer or lawyers on them. I hope the rumors about Red Hat's effort on some licensing deal for codecs is true, that should make for some interesting evening news.:)
They should have also studied if the appetite of the subjects was influenced by aerobic activities... I know it happened to me when I started doing intensive aerobic activity. I felt full with much less food than usual. Less calories in, less fat!
The question was not how to make life easier, but how to transfer data more "efficiently" than XML:)
But I agree, CORBA is pretty complex... for my own needs, I stick to the basics and forget things like Naming Services, Objects By Value, Component Model, the "Any" type, ugh.. I find that the mappings for Java, C++ and Python are not so ugly in that case, quite usable and much better than cooking up protocols with sockets everytime. It's too bad it got so bloated that it made people fear it and come up with things like SOAP.:(
Yes, it is exists and it's called CORBA http://www.omg.org/ . In particular, omniORB http://omniorb.sourceforge.net/ is VERY fast. The only thing is that it's not a "Web service" and doesn't use HTTP.
This has already happened here in Quebec, Canada. Check the small sketches at http://www.tetesaclaques.tv/ . You won't see anything to compete with 24 or something, but it sure is very popular here.
Check out some Japanese porn... you'll get condoms (that is if you can see them past the mosaicing) and some "I love you" videos. They call porn "AV" in Japanese (short for Adult Video).
Download and try out Acrobat Reader 8.0... they *completely* changed the interface. It looks pretty slick to me, although I haven't used it much because it's not available for Linux yet...
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People aren't going to run washing machines at 2AM in the summertime to avoid a $0.50 fee and get smelly clothes since nobody will be around to flip the laundry into the dryer.
You lack imagination... Imagine a price difference of $10 and imagine you can buy a washing-drying machine, that can do both washing AND drying... See, that was easy.
The markers they are using come from the open source ARToolKitPlus http://studierstube.icg.tu-graz.ac.at/handheld_ar/artoolkitplus.php for those interested... The demo marker is actually the one with ID = 0 ...
Not much, if you have the right hardware.. http://www.arm.com/products/multimedia/java/jazelle.html
You _can_ use native packages in applets.. https://jdk6.dev.java.net/plugin2/
The e-mail address for submission ends with .gc.ca: info@copyrightconsultation.gc.ca So, it's going to end up somewhere in there at least :)
Whether you like or not.. Check this "Crash Course" for a dose of reality: http://www.chrismartenson.com/crashcourse . We will have to deal with a lot worse than the fearsome "Smart Grid" sooner than later...
samzenpus was hibernating in January...
Interesting, thanks for the explanation
Java 7 will have something very similar, called the fork/join framework: http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/j1sessn.jsp?sessn=TS-5515&yr=2008&track=javase Doug Lea also offers a preliminary package for Java 6 that can be downloaded from here: http://gee.cs.oswego.edu/dl/concurrency-interest/
Anyone knows what's the consideration for space debris? I can't imagine anyone in their right minds would invest so much money on something that has one chance out of a hundred of being destroyed by a flying screw or something..
Time to look at Scala on the JVM: classes written in the Scala-language runs almost as fast as ones written in the Java language. Also Scala looks a lot like the Java language. http://www.scala-lang.org/
Well, just an example, the first version of Microsoft Office that supports the ISO version of OOXML (whenever that one comes out) might not run on XP... that is how you make software obsolete, and that is how Microsoft has always done it!
Wow! It does work! I just finished installing Fedora 10, and imported the free and non-free repo RPMs from RPM Fusion. Then, I clicked on a .WMV file, Totem opened, and it automatically found that gstreamer-plugins-ugly and gstreamer-ffmpeg would provide the necessary CODECs, installed everything with a couple of clicks, and the video played fine!
It's brown :)
RPM Fusion is getting pretty darn good http://rpmfusion.org/ Just one RPM to install manually, and you can get all the "evil" stuff very easily... plus, haven't tested it yet, but the new hooks in Totem should make the process pretty much automatic.
It seems like there are still a few quirks to work out with pebble bed as well..r iticisms_of_the_reactor_design
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_reactor#C
AFAIK, there is still no guaranteed safe nuclear reactor design! The only two choices we have (still) are:
1. using renewable energy or
2. taking the risk with nuclear.
(and maybe 3. keep polluting with oil)
Of course, let's hope research finds something better than these, but for now, safe nuclear does not exist! I'm not saying we shouldn't use nuclear, but that we should think and evaluate the risks properly.
or the free software movement? We're talking about the "bazaar" here... It's fine the way it is now. We've got great distros like Fedora, Ubuntu, etc. Everything's working pretty well, really. The problems are mostly political (read: multimedia codecs, patents and such) and somewhat technical (read: Microsoft Office proprietary files, etc.)... that won't go away easily even if you put thousands of hours of the best programmer or lawyers on them. I hope the rumors about Red Hat's effort on some licensing deal for codecs is true, that should make for some interesting evening news. :)
Actually, speaking of Windows, Wine could probably run in that environment...
They should have also studied if the appetite of the subjects was influenced by aerobic activities... I know it happened to me when I started doing intensive aerobic activity. I felt full with much less food than usual. Less calories in, less fat!
The question was not how to make life easier, but how to transfer data more "efficiently" than XML :)
But I agree, CORBA is pretty complex... for my own needs, I stick to the basics and forget things like Naming Services, Objects By Value, Component Model, the "Any" type, ugh.. I find that the mappings for Java, C++ and Python are not so ugly in that case, quite usable and much better than cooking up protocols with sockets everytime. It's too bad it got so bloated that it made people fear it and come up with things like SOAP. :(
Yes, it is exists and it's called CORBA http://www.omg.org/ . In particular, omniORB http://omniorb.sourceforge.net/ is VERY fast. The only thing is that it's not a "Web service" and doesn't use HTTP.
This has already happened here in Quebec, Canada. Check the small sketches at http://www.tetesaclaques.tv/ . You won't see anything to compete with 24 or something, but it sure is very popular here.
Time to restart my PPPoE dialer and call yum a few times....
Check out some Japanese porn... you'll get condoms (that is if you can see them past the mosaicing) and some "I love you" videos. They call porn "AV" in Japanese (short for Adult Video).
Download and try out Acrobat Reader 8.0... they *completely* changed the interface. It looks pretty slick to me, although I haven't used it much because it's not available for Linux yet...