Mmm... watch out. The Moon is not yet locked on Earth: due to pendular movements, we are able to see near 60% of its surface. As a result, were a cable extend from the Moon to somewhere much farther than its own LMO (low moon orbit, by analogy), that bell-like movement would make the cable twist quite a bit.
I think it wouldn't last too much. Anyway, it still would mean there is less free-flight involved:-)
No. Google, though, usually is quite a reliable source of pointers to the right sources.
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Moderators are quite trigger happy today:-)
Perhaps you should check here or here and learn, once and for all, that Internet was not designed to withstand physical attacks. It just was a by-product.
Oh, lest I forget, ad hominem attacks take weight of your assertions (even more when they are not quite correct).
Oh, and of course only a big services enterprise may provide that level of support. Of course, having your in-house support (we are talking big companies, aren't we?) being able to reach beyond the 'please reinstall' level as the system allows them to is senseless.
Now that's funny. Where I work, we only provide functionality as needed or requested. Hell, most of the systems developed here go per-specs. I guess we must be all insane.
Can anyone spell software bloat? If the wished, MS could very well have modularized every functionality (down to some agreeable level) so you would only need to install what you needed. They decided no to. Any developer that decides to do the same deserves to lose, badly:-)
On l33t l1nu>< u5er2: fortunately, they are not the biggest part of the community. Unfortunately, they are the noisiest. Fortunately, mostly no one pays them too much attention if there is a regular member around to un-unsettle them.
Oh, in my experience, they are already crying out that Linux distros have sold out (say... Red Sucks and Suckse are terms that I have already heard more than once), excepting the pure ones like Debian or Gentoo (I like Debian myself, but I'm quite agnostic when working on UNIX/Linux otherwise).
That's not much to care about, anyway. Whenever something sacred spreads there are always zealots that cry out. It is funny: they consider something good for it is not widely understood and suddenly change their minds when everybody gets a taste of it. I'm certain that there are a lot of psychology/sociology books written on this account:-)
PS: sorry for my abusing quotes. My mind is loosing steam by the second at this time (0:50 in Spain)
I would mod you "Troll", but I agree with your last paragraph (looking at it again, perhaps I still would mod you "Troll").
I usually connect to IRC-Hispano network (an spanish language IRC network) and have been doing so since 5 or 6 years ago. I have seen the #linux channel's helpfulness level go steadily down.
<old grandpa stories mode on>
It used to be that any question was met with either direct help, pointers or questions for more information. Currently there are, in fact, many more clueless (if not completely stupid) questions (on Saturday, someone asked to be sent, over DCC, "the Linux install disks", being in a cybercafe), but even usual newbie (no offense meant) questions are now ignored or, even worse, frowned upon.
Yes, the channel is now a Linux users' meeting point rather than a hot-line, but manners should still be held. Anyway, there are still those who try to help anyone asking questions, so perhaps there is hope yet.
</old grandpa stories mode on>
Mmm... IBM tried this with Apache for their Websphere web server.
They finally realized they were better off cooperating with the Apache developers (by pointing out bugs and sending patches) that trying to keep their modifications up-to-date with the main Apache tree. By the way, the enterprise I work currently in has chosen, for the time being, the same original path; I can only hope they will open their eyes soon and start returning code to the OpenH323 community (and yes, I have talked about it several times with them, but they are still somewhat clueless on this account).
Hello, nice to meet you. I am your impossible moderator: I usually read the article pointed to when moderating (i.e., if I think the Slashdot excerpt is not enough to make up my mind and/or the comment is not clearly definable). And I usually like moderating up much better than down (this is needed too, though).
Shall you please vanish in a puff of logic now, please?;-)
Mmm... somehow I think the vertex-walking algorithm applied in simplex is completely deterministic: at each vertex, it is easy to find which is the best next candidate.
Right... almost. One thing I think no one has still stopped to consider is that there is a numeric method (I forgot its name) to approximate an optimal solution to a given precision, with no need of vertex-walking, based on transforming the solution polyhedron to approach the best solution. There is, as well, a method that allows finding an optimal solution from the approximated one.
Yes, I know I'm using floating point for ILP, but, then, there is a method to get back to ILP.
Oh, something else has me puzzled: any closed n-dimensional polyhedron (and, with a little bit of an artifact, an open one too) maps to the corresponding n-dimensional sphere (Voronoi diagrams and Delaunay triangulations, anyone?). Thus the number of vertices is O(m^2), being m the number of linear constraints. How can ILP be O(e^n) then?
I thought we were talking about Earth. And, AFAIK, the only space in which two straight lines intersect exactly twice (of course, they should not be the same) is a sphere (or any topological variation of a hypersphere, should you rather).
Of course, it could also be possible that Earth is not almost spherical, and physics play tricks on us. The outcome is the same: whether our environment is twisted in one or another way, inside it Earth seems to be spheric. The day we can step out of our currently perceived dimensions, we may continue debating.
Yes, but it makes little sense to talk about our understanding of Earth being either flat or spherical before we got to have the tools to determine it. Unless, of course, you consider our spirits/souls/whatever having been there all along.
Not quite. A gambler will usually end up broke, as soon he hits a long enough bad spell to spend all his money. But the reverse can happen too, and then it would be the house being broke.
Of course, I wouldn't bet (pun intended) on the gambler's chances of winning in the end.
Yes, quite recently. As far as you think 2500+ years being recent. IIRC, both Greek and Roman philosophers proved Earth being spherical (OK, so it is not a perfect sphere, sue me:-)
I do not agree. AFAIK tours are, usually, the only way for the artists to break even (see Courtney Love's article, which, IIRC, is derived from another earlier one).
I personally like this article (in Spanish though). A fast excerpt: the writer's group sold barely over 10.000 copies of their (then) last album in 2001. Only 0.7% of the musicians/singers/etc. that released something that year sold more. Yet, his part of the profits amounted to a meager EUR3000 ($3200 aprox?) for a three years' worth work, or about EUR80 per month, from which he has yet to discount the rent for an rehearsal(?) location. At each concert, he bags from EUR90 to EUR360, depending on attendants sponsors). Doing the math, he would rather have 100.000 pirate fans at his concerts than 10.000 legit ones.
And then you backtrack once and keep on making perfect copies:-) I don't know about you, but I usually check my copies in a short spell of time, so as to be able to get the source back again.
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I think it wouldn't last too much. Anyway, it still would mean there is less free-flight involved
No. Google, though, usually is quite a reliable source of pointers to the right sources.
Perhaps you should check here or here and learn, once and for all, that Internet was not designed to withstand physical attacks. It just was a by-product.
Oh, lest I forget, ad hominem attacks take weight of your assertions (even more when they are not quite correct).
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Marcos (any likeness to chance is pure reality)
Can anyone spell software bloat? If the wished, MS could very well have modularized every functionality (down to some agreeable level) so you would only need to install what you needed. They decided no to. Any developer that decides to do the same deserves to lose, badly :-)
On l33t l1nu>< u5er2: fortunately, they are not the biggest part of the community. Unfortunately, they are the noisiest. Fortunately, mostly no one pays them too much attention if there is a regular member around to un-unsettle them.
Oh, in my experience, they are already crying out that Linux distros have sold out (say... Red Sucks and Suckse are terms that I have already heard more than once), excepting the pure ones like Debian or Gentoo (I like Debian myself, but I'm quite agnostic when working on UNIX/Linux otherwise).
That's not much to care about, anyway. Whenever something sacred spreads there are always zealots that cry out. It is funny: they consider something good for it is not widely understood and suddenly change their minds when everybody gets a taste of it. I'm certain that there are a lot of psychology/sociology books written on this account :-)
PS: sorry for my abusing quotes. My mind is loosing steam by the second at this time (0:50 in Spain)
I usually connect to IRC-Hispano network (an spanish language IRC network) and have been doing so since 5 or 6 years ago. I have seen the #linux channel's helpfulness level go steadily down.
<old grandpa stories mode on> It used to be that any question was met with either direct help, pointers or questions for more information. Currently there are, in fact, many more clueless (if not completely stupid) questions (on Saturday, someone asked to be sent, over DCC, "the Linux install disks", being in a cybercafe), but even usual newbie (no offense meant) questions are now ignored or, even worse, frowned upon.
Yes, the channel is now a Linux users' meeting point rather than a hot-line, but manners should still be held. Anyway, there are still those who try to help anyone asking questions, so perhaps there is hope yet. </old grandpa stories mode on>
Mmm... IBM tried this with Apache for their Websphere web server.
They finally realized they were better off cooperating with the Apache developers (by pointing out bugs and sending patches) that trying to keep their modifications up-to-date with the main Apache tree.
By the way, the enterprise I work currently in has chosen, for the time being, the same original path; I can only hope they will open their eyes soon and start returning code to the OpenH323 community (and yes, I have talked about it several times with them, but they are still somewhat clueless on this account).
Shall you please vanish in a puff of logic now, please? ;-)
And thus gomiam was illuminated :-)
Mmm... somehow I think the vertex-walking algorithm applied in simplex is completely deterministic: at each vertex, it is easy to find which is the best next candidate.
Yes, I know I'm using floating point for ILP, but, then, there is a method to get back to ILP.
Oh, something else has me puzzled: any closed n-dimensional polyhedron (and, with a little bit of an artifact, an open one too) maps to the corresponding n-dimensional sphere (Voronoi diagrams and Delaunay triangulations, anyone?). Thus the number of vertices is O(m^2), being m the number of linear constraints. How can ILP be O(e^n) then?
And that is why I prefer heap-sort (_always_ O(n log n)).
Somehow the constructive side of the Pentagon's use of these satellites eludes me :-)
Of course, it could also be possible that Earth is not almost spherical, and physics play tricks on us. The outcome is the same: whether our environment is twisted in one or another way, inside it Earth seems to be spheric. The day we can step out of our currently perceived dimensions, we may continue debating.
Yes, but it makes little sense to talk about our understanding of Earth being either flat or spherical before we got to have the tools to determine it. Unless, of course, you consider our spirits/souls/whatever having been there all along.
Of course, I wouldn't bet (pun intended) on the gambler's chances of winning in the end.
Yes, quite recently. As far as you think 2500+ years being recent. IIRC, both Greek and Roman philosophers proved Earth being spherical (OK, so it is not a perfect sphere, sue me :-)
Hey, you are right. Inflation assumes there was not even air there at the beginning, doesn't it? :-)
Go see Mega Tokyo on what an animatronic companion can do :-DD
I personally like this article (in Spanish though). A fast excerpt: the writer's group sold barely over 10.000 copies of their (then) last album in 2001. Only 0.7% of the musicians/singers/etc. that released something that year sold more. Yet, his part of the profits amounted to a meager EUR3000 ($3200 aprox?) for a three years' worth work, or about EUR80 per month, from which he has yet to discount the rent for an rehearsal(?) location. At each concert, he bags from EUR90 to EUR360, depending on attendants sponsors). Doing the math, he would rather have 100.000 pirate fans at his concerts than 10.000 legit ones.
Somehow I find the idea of showing the video" of http connections right now strangely enticing.
And then you backtrack once and keep on making perfect copies :-) I don't know about you, but I usually check my copies in a short spell of time, so as to be able to get the source back again.
Of course, that's why when I copy a CD onto another, and this one onto another, and so on... the last CD is worse off.