If the money had stayed in the private sector, it would have mostly created jobs in China or another cheap country. Granted, given that jobs are cheaper over there, it would probably have been more jobs.
The problem with the planet's water supply is that most of it contains rather high concentrations of salt. It's the non-salted water supplies we care about.
Yeah, it's a common scam: The electric current they send you through one wire, they get back through the other. Therefore they don't need to produce new current, they just sell the same current over and over again.;-)
Moreover, even if one could justify putting the sun there, putting it there without appropriate shielding clearly isn't responsible. The sun emits so much light that you can go blind if you look directly into it. Certainly the earth should be protected from the sun by some sort of shield which blocks the light of the sun, or at least dims it enough that you can look into it without danger.
Ok, before anyone responds to this, I should note that I just read the post below mine that says "use wget, then calibre..." That's actually not a bad way to do it - I didn't think of that. However that doesn't make you a programmer, that makes you a "super user," as stackexchange would call it.
Wow, I get superuser privileges by downloading the book and converting it with calibre?:-)
I know it's a troll but this raises an interesting question... can anyone look back on anything... I mean you'd have to have eyes behind your head or have your head rotate 180 degrees for that, no? Let's face it, if you have to turn around to look behind your... your back becomes in front of you:)
Yes, most people can manage to rotate their head relative to the upper part of their body by about 90 degrees, and the upper part of their body relative to their feet by a similar amount. Anything which might be missing to 180 degrees can then be made up by eye movements, if necessary.
And if you are really too stiff to do it, you can still use mirrors (but be aware that you won't see vampires behind you that way:-))
When you write a kernel and have it installed on everything from phones to mainframes, you can decide what the version numbering means. Linus can decide tomorrow to call it Linux 666 and it will still be used.
Sure you describe a fairly typical situation, but not one that is anywhere near universal.
Why do people so often confuse what you can do with what you should do? I can kill myself if I want. This doesn't mean it's a good idea.
But all the packaged OSs also include X, and most desktop users primarily use the computer through X (even if they just use it to start xterms). Therefore it should be called X/GNU/Linux. And if it's running KDE, for obvious reasons it should be KDE/X/GNU/Linux.
Why not make it 20YY.x where x is major release that year. and YY would be current 2 digit year. they been pushing releases every 3 months about.
Because they'd run into trouble in about 980 years, duh!
They could, of course, go for YYY.x. That would be cool.
In 980 years? What's so special of the year 2991? Or 3000, if "about" included an error of 9 years? Indeed, the naming scheme would be safe for another 7988 years (going to 9999). 7988 years ago we were still in the stone age, so it's quite probable that after another 7988 years, Linux will already be as obsolete as a stone axe is today.
Proper case insensitivity depends on the language. But whether you can use two file names at the same time should not depend on your locale, because otherwise you'd get the same problems as with exchanging between case sensitive and case insensitive file systems (only worse, because this time both directions may fail).
As a simple example, in English, the proper capital version of "i" is "I". In Turkish, it's "[U+0130 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DOT ABOVE]", while the lower case character of "I" is "[U+0131 LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I]" (letters replaced with Unicode description because Slashdot eats them). Therefore in a Turkish locale you'd expect to be able to create both "i.txt" and "I.txt", because they are different letters there. However, in English, the second would be the capitalized version of the first. You cannot support both at the same time.
Case insensitive file systems are the sort of thing which seem great on first view, but terrible once you think through it.
It doesn't hurt your download if there's half a second nothing, then half a second double speed. The average data rate is still the same. However it massively hurts the VoIP connection.
There already is regulation (granted exclusivity) favouring the provider. Either that regulation is to be removed, or there has to be another regulation favouring the customer to counter it.
You need regulation whenever you have monopolies, or the danger of monopolies. That regulation has to either prevent forming of monolies, or if that is not possible, regulate those monopolies so that they cannot do too much harm. Remember, as soon as there's a monopoly (either granted or enforced through market power), there's no free market any more to regulate things. And the free market cannot prevent monopolies when network effects are in play.
Not being a hardware geek, this is what I heard: Is it possible to recalibrate the phased tetryon emitters to modulate the warp field and provide infinite information?
No, because subspace interference would cause a tachyonic wave which would open a temporary worm hole which then would suck the information into a parallel universe.
Slashdot Mirror
If it's the end of the world....
Cornets...
Ladies and gentleman, welcome to Armageddon.
Professor Knuth, from Stanford University, has asked to make a small announcement before the judgment begins. ...
http://xkcd.com/599/
The sun emits so much light that you can go blind if you look directly into it.
Only if you stare at it during an eclipse.
If you think so, try staring at it around noon during a normal, non-eclipse day. But don't complain if you don't see anything afterwards.
An eclipse just happens to be the only time when people would voluntarily stare at the sun.
Then the 980 years make even less sense. 2099 is in 88 years.
If the money had stayed in the private sector, it would have mostly created jobs in China or another cheap country. Granted, given that jobs are cheaper over there, it would probably have been more jobs.
The problem with the planet's water supply is that most of it contains rather high concentrations of salt. It's the non-salted water supplies we care about.
Only as long as the fuel supply isn't used up. When it gets low on fuel, it starts to grow in size. It will grow enough to destroy earth.
OK, let's compare the cost for production and transport of fuel. Solar: Zero. Nuclear: I don't know, but certainly larger than zero.
Yeah, it's a common scam: The electric current they send you through one wire, they get back through the other. Therefore they don't need to produce new current, they just sell the same current over and over again. ;-)
What again powers the sun?
Moreover, even if one could justify putting the sun there, putting it there without appropriate shielding clearly isn't responsible. The sun emits so much light that you can go blind if you look directly into it. Certainly the earth should be protected from the sun by some sort of shield which blocks the light of the sun, or at least dims it enough that you can look into it without danger.
Ok, before anyone responds to this, I should note that I just read the post below mine that says "use wget, then calibre..." That's actually not a bad way to do it - I didn't think of that. However that doesn't make you a programmer, that makes you a "super user," as stackexchange would call it.
Wow, I get superuser privileges by downloading the book and converting it with calibre? :-)
AFAICT TFA more or less is the online version of the book.
If you want a link where to buy a printed version, you can go here.
So you can choose between an American and an European Hell.
I know it's a troll but this raises an interesting question... can anyone look back on anything... I mean you'd have to have eyes behind your head or have your head rotate 180 degrees for that, no? Let's face it, if you have to turn around to look behind your... your back becomes in front of you :)
Yes, most people can manage to rotate their head relative to the upper part of their body by about 90 degrees, and the upper part of their body relative to their feet by a similar amount. Anything which might be missing to 180 degrees can then be made up by eye movements, if necessary.
And if you are really too stiff to do it, you can still use mirrors (but be aware that you won't see vampires behind you that way :-))
I would also find it embarrassing if you label the very first build of your product as beta. I'd expect it to be pre-alpha.
When you write a kernel and have it installed on everything from phones to mainframes, you can decide what the version numbering means. Linus can decide tomorrow to call it Linux 666 and it will still be used.
Sure you describe a fairly typical situation, but not one that is anywhere near universal.
Why do people so often confuse what you can do with what you should do?
I can kill myself if I want. This doesn't mean it's a good idea.
But all the packaged OSs also include X, and most desktop users primarily use the computer through X (even if they just use it to start xterms). Therefore it should be called X/GNU/Linux. And if it's running KDE, for obvious reasons it should be KDE/X/GNU/Linux.
Because they'd run into trouble in about 980 years, duh!
They could, of course, go for YYY.x. That would be cool.
In 980 years? What's so special of the year 2991? Or 3000, if "about" included an error of 9 years? Indeed, the naming scheme would be safe for another 7988 years (going to 9999). 7988 years ago we were still in the stone age, so it's quite probable that after another 7988 years, Linux will already be as obsolete as a stone axe is today.
More like TeX (current stable version 3.141592653).
Seems like TeX is converging to something irrational. :-)
ü also works: ü
Proper case insensitivity depends on the language. But whether you can use two file names at the same time should not depend on your locale, because otherwise you'd get the same problems as with exchanging between case sensitive and case insensitive file systems (only worse, because this time both directions may fail).
As a simple example, in English, the proper capital version of "i" is "I". In Turkish, it's "[U+0130 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I WITH DOT ABOVE]", while the lower case character of "I" is "[U+0131 LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS I]" (letters replaced with Unicode description because Slashdot eats them). Therefore in a Turkish locale you'd expect to be able to create both "i.txt" and "I.txt", because they are different letters there. However, in English, the second would be the capitalized version of the first. You cannot support both at the same time.
Case insensitive file systems are the sort of thing which seem great on first view, but terrible once you think through it.
Too consistent...
Linux Pro or Linux XP or Linux Cloud .. and then after go to Linux 7.
For bonus points alternate between traditional numbering, catchy names, and acronyms. Confuse the hell outa everyone!
You forgot the year number option. Linux 2011, followed by Linux Apocalypse, followed by Linux RTFM, followed by Linux 42.
It doesn't hurt your download if there's half a second nothing, then half a second double speed. The average data rate is still the same. However it massively hurts the VoIP connection.
There already is regulation (granted exclusivity) favouring the provider. Either that regulation is to be removed, or there has to be another regulation favouring the customer to counter it.
You need regulation whenever you have monopolies, or the danger of monopolies. That regulation has to either prevent forming of monolies, or if that is not possible, regulate those monopolies so that they cannot do too much harm. Remember, as soon as there's a monopoly (either granted or enforced through market power), there's no free market any more to regulate things. And the free market cannot prevent monopolies when network effects are in play.
Not being a hardware geek, this is what I heard: Is it possible to recalibrate the phased tetryon emitters to modulate the warp field and provide infinite information?
No, because subspace interference would cause a tachyonic wave which would open a temporary worm hole which then would suck the information into a parallel universe.