It's the latest of his books written together with some scientist. Their take on the subject is that we are not "Homo sapiens" put "Pan narrans", vs. "Pan paniscus" and "Pan troglodytes".
Regards,
Jurgen
Trees absorb carbon dioxide at day, but pump most of it back at night. Only a little bit is used for growing. Trees have only a small effect in lessening the exhaust of carbon dioxide. Besides, methane is also a green house gas. Please stop farting:-P
The problem is indeed in the companies holding the brand names.
E.g. in the past there has been a problem between Rank Xerox and some people, because in work they referred to a paper copy of something as a xerox.
I think that there can be more of such cases, where someone refers to something generic by a well known brandname. Here in Belgian Dutch dialect e.g. people refer to a camera as a kodak. I think that most regions can bring up such examples.
Excuse me for probably being pedantic, but you do not need OO to encapsulate things in modules.
Putting public and private functions in separate C files is also a way of modularising a program. Granted, there is a problem with namespaces, but I have taken this approach in the past. To separate namespaces, I just added a prefix_ thingy before public functions in the file.
My experience with Linux leads me to believe that most crashes are due to hardware failures. I have only seen one software problem yet with Linux : GNOME locking up in Red Hat 7.3. All other errors I have had were due to hardware : bad cables, bad cards, a PCI conflict...
The great thing about WordStar was that I could help people easily retrieve their documents from a bad floppy, without cashing out money to buy specialised software, like you need for Word.
How deep can a country fall in issuing pathetic statements?
When the United States and Europe posted troops in West-Germany after the Second World War, they had the threat of the communist block, which had a population of around (gross guess) 300 mio. people, an land area that is probably larger than Northern America, with a industrial structure which was brand new due to the war.
They knew that the Russians did get most of the engineers who worked on the Peenemunde rocket program. This rocket program was able to create a medium-range ballistic missile (and probably even an intercontinental ballistic missile).
What does Iraq got ? A large stretch of sand with oil and (indeed) somebody with the nasty desire to dominate the area around him, and who is not afraid to wield weapons of mass destruction.
That he is a possible danger to the areas around him has been proven. In the war against Iran, however, he has never been able to obtain a decisive advantage, and ten years after he just invaded the smallest country which was in his reach.
I think that most countries around Iraq are content with a status quo. Would he invade one of them, be it Iran, Syria, Jordan or Saudi-Arabia, then he will again get most of those countries against him.
We are talking about vast stretches of sand where much can be done, but some operations can not be hidden, e.g. the testing of rockets can always be detected, some transactions always leave traces.
E.g. It is not because it is possible to design an atomic bomb, that you can build one in complete secret. You do have to obtain all parts necessary, and there is always a possibility that parts of the transaction will be discovered.
Then, would he throw his bomb like that or will he test it first ? Atomic bomb tests are detected all over the world. If he throws it without testing, there is a chance that it will not work. If it works, with the possible target of Israel, I do not think that the Palestinians will be that pleased, because a large part of the victims would also be them.
I think it was a good idea to send troops, just for the threat of it, but that has always been my belief ever since the previous Gulf war ended. I do not think it is a good idea to start a war now, just to pressure Saddam.
If you want more information about the US making war in the past, please read this.
There is another thing. Instead of pestering some countries about being an axis of terror and giving them bonds with O.B.L., GWB should have asked them for help, e.g. I am sure that for the right bounties, countries like Libya, Syria, Iraq and Iran would have (unofficially) helped finding Bin Laden. The first three are lay countries, while Iran is a sjiite country, and Bin Laden is sunnite.
This is true. I gave a course of 9 hrs Linux to a first year informatics course, people who did not know programming, and probably only Windows. I used Knoppix, so I had to give them a small hand booting the CD's, but once they were in they could find their way without further help.
Then you probably still read Hugo Gernsback's scientifiction magazine ?
Really, it is possible to write good science fiction without even mentioning science. If science fiction were really only about scientific things, we would soon have read all those stories.
For the most part, science fiction is still about what if, and then using good logic to control the story line.
It is not as if hyperspace has been discovered, or instant transportation is reality, or faster than light travel is possible, or that there is life on Venus or Mars.
For the most part, most science-fiction books are much more accurate than science-fiction television series or science-fiction movies.
I think of Sagan and Asimov as more of the last scientists to really make science popular.
At home, I have a whole lot of scientific literature, ranging from around 1920 to about 1970, and what is clear to me is that a great deal of university people in the past wrote a lot more for the public than is now the case.
A good example of science popularised, which I find readable without becoming overly complex, is Scientific American. Of course, you do need some background, but it is not that you need to understand mathematics, or have detailed knowledge of chemistry or physics.
I think that current scientists just don't have the time anymore to popularise their science.
I think that the real bright people know find out soon enough that MS software is not worth anything. It is the layer just underneath them that gets employed by MS : those that know how to program, but are more attracted to how things look, than to how things work.
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It's the latest of his books written together with some scientist. Their take on the subject is that we are not "Homo sapiens" put "Pan narrans", vs. "Pan paniscus" and "Pan troglodytes". Regards, Jurgen
Trees absorb carbon dioxide at day, but pump most of it back at night. Only a little bit is used for growing. Trees have only a small effect in lessening the exhaust of carbon dioxide. Besides, methane is also a green house gas. Please stop farting :-P
The problem is indeed in the companies holding the brand names.
E.g. in the past there has been a problem between Rank Xerox and some people, because in work they referred to a paper copy of something as a xerox.
I think that there can be more of such cases, where someone refers to something generic by a well known brandname. Here in Belgian Dutch dialect e.g. people refer to a camera as a kodak. I think that most regions can bring up such examples.
- VAT on everything we buy
- A yearly tax for the city where you live
- A yearly tax for the province where you live
- A government tax on the yearly income, which is somewhat spread, because our employers have to already deduct taxes every month
- A yearly tax if you own a car
- A yearly tax if you own a house or land
- A yearly tax for garbage pick up
I have a small company, and that means an extra province tax of min. 80 EUR for having a place for a company up to 1000 sq. m.X + WindowMaker on my father's 100 MHz Pentium with 96 Mb RAM.
It even lacks "pizzazz" compared to Window Maker (which builds OOTB on Solaris), and was slow in 2000, and is still slow in 2003.
You have a point there (I'd mod you up if I could). Sun and HP compete in the same space there.
Excuse me for probably being pedantic, but you do not need OO to encapsulate things in modules.
Putting public and private functions in separate C files is also a way of modularising a program. Granted, there is a problem with namespaces, but I have taken this approach in the past. To separate namespaces, I just added a prefix_ thingy before public functions in the file.
Hmm, I seem to remember that the book about patterns was published ten years ago. Some people need time to catch up with the times.
Cooking for Geeks
If they want to beat Google, then they will have to do better than this :
rabbit hole
Which company has ever sued Microsoft for things that went wrong ?
If no one ever sued Microsoft for this reason, does that mean that their products are good ?
'Why are you spraying this powder all around ? Cough, cough...'
'It's against pink elephants.'
'I do not see any pink elephants here !?'
'Good powder, ain't it ?'
My experience with Linux leads me to believe that most crashes are due to hardware failures. I have only seen one software problem yet with Linux : GNOME locking up in Red Hat 7.3. All other errors I have had were due to hardware : bad cables, bad cards, a PCI conflict...
Apache + mod_perl + Apache::ASP
Pronto is written in Perl. It is pretty fast, even on a 150 MHz machine.
Pygmy is written in Python, for Gnome.
Ratatosk/TkRat is written in Tcl/Tk.
A little bit like the assembler statement :
The great thing about WordStar was that I could help people easily retrieve their documents from a bad floppy, without cashing out money to buy specialised software, like you need for Word.
How deep can a country fall in issuing pathetic statements?
When the United States and Europe posted troops in West-Germany after the Second World War, they had the threat of the communist block, which had a population of around (gross guess) 300 mio. people, an land area that is probably larger than Northern America, with a industrial structure which was brand new due to the war.
They knew that the Russians did get most of the engineers who worked on the Peenemunde rocket program. This rocket program was able to create a medium-range ballistic missile (and probably even an intercontinental ballistic missile).
What does Iraq got ? A large stretch of sand with oil and (indeed) somebody with the nasty desire to dominate the area around him, and who is not afraid to wield weapons of mass destruction.
That he is a possible danger to the areas around him has been proven. In the war against Iran, however, he has never been able to obtain a decisive advantage, and ten years after he just invaded the smallest country which was in his reach.
I think that most countries around Iraq are content with a status quo. Would he invade one of them, be it Iran, Syria, Jordan or Saudi-Arabia, then he will again get most of those countries against him.
We are talking about vast stretches of sand where much can be done, but some operations can not be hidden, e.g. the testing of rockets can always be detected, some transactions always leave traces.
E.g. It is not because it is possible to design an atomic bomb, that you can build one in complete secret. You do have to obtain all parts necessary, and there is always a possibility that parts of the transaction will be discovered.
Then, would he throw his bomb like that or will he test it first ? Atomic bomb tests are detected all over the world. If he throws it without testing, there is a chance that it will not work. If it works, with the possible target of Israel, I do not think that the Palestinians will be that pleased, because a large part of the victims would also be them.
I think it was a good idea to send troops, just for the threat of it, but that has always been my belief ever since the previous Gulf war ended. I do not think it is a good idea to start a war now, just to pressure Saddam.
If you want more information about the US making war in the past, please read this.
There is another thing. Instead of pestering some countries about being an axis of terror and giving them bonds with O.B.L., GWB should have asked them for help, e.g. I am sure that for the right bounties, countries like Libya, Syria, Iraq and Iran would have (unofficially) helped finding Bin Laden. The first three are lay countries, while Iran is a sjiite country, and Bin Laden is sunnite.
I thought it was from Churchill : "Be gentle, but carry a big stick".
This is true. I gave a course of 9 hrs Linux to a first year informatics course, people who did not know programming, and probably only Windows. I used Knoppix, so I had to give them a small hand booting the CD's, but once they were in they could find their way without further help.
Then you probably still read Hugo Gernsback's scientifiction magazine ?
Really, it is possible to write good science fiction without even mentioning science. If science fiction were really only about scientific things, we would soon have read all those stories.
For the most part, science fiction is still about what if, and then using good logic to control the story line.
It is not as if hyperspace has been discovered, or instant transportation is reality, or faster than light travel is possible, or that there is life on Venus or Mars.
For the most part, most science-fiction books are much more accurate than science-fiction television series or science-fiction movies.
I think of Sagan and Asimov as more of the last scientists to really make science popular.
At home, I have a whole lot of scientific literature, ranging from around 1920 to about 1970, and what is clear to me is that a great deal of university people in the past wrote a lot more for the public than is now the case.
A good example of science popularised, which I find readable without becoming overly complex, is Scientific American. Of course, you do need some background, but it is not that you need to understand mathematics, or have detailed knowledge of chemistry or physics.
I think that current scientists just don't have the time anymore to popularise their science.
Sometimes he does, sometimes not. But Ross is the one that married three times and makes two woman pregnant.
I think that the real bright people know find out soon enough that MS software is not worth anything. It is the layer just underneath them that gets employed by MS : those that know how to program, but are more attracted to how things look, than to how things work.
Isn't up2date a tool to just make sure that for some installed software the patches get installed via the Internet ?