Hey, it's half past two in the night here. I've drunken a beer or two this evening and what's more important, this isn't my native tongue. I'm not exactly using english mathematical terms every day, you know. Now shut up.
I think the general idea is that, while the well-known algorithm may not be your idea, you still have to *code* the damn thing. You wrote each line by hand. Using a converter who writes the code for you, even although you have to provide a meaningful input for the converter, makes it impersonal. It's not exactly your code anymore.
>> orthogonal scalars > > Would you mind clarifying how that works?
When mathematics hits language... no good outcome. I suppose the original poster meant that the Torino-scale combines two completely unrelated scales with each other.
The probability of an impact has nothing to with its potential (desastrous) effects.
Two orthogonal vectors are linear independent from each other, that is, one isn't a multiple of the other.
If you'd measure impact-probabilty on the x-axis, and the effects on the y-axis, any combination of these two can be described by a vector in this 2d-plain. however, if you only name the length of the vector, thus give only a single value where otherwise two would be needed (i.e. x,y coordinates or length and polar angle), your scale looses much of its meaning.
However, if we (the western world, but especially the States) allow a few uber-fundementalist Islamists whithout even mainstream support by their religion to dictate what can and will be researched, they get that much closer to their goal. Tough call, risk stagnation or distaster?
What is more important? Ideology, or a working card? As long as nVidia provides good drivers for Linux, I would not complain... may these drivers be closed-source or not.
You're mixing up fission and fusion. When splitting heavy elements like Uranium and/or Plutonium into lighter ones, many of these are radioactive. This is, even while the products are lighter than Uranium, they are still very heavy elements which are mostly instable and thus radioactive.
The light elements produced by fusion (usually He) are mostly stable. Two Deuterium atoms (heavy hydrogen), for example, combine to Helium-4, which is stable. Tritium + Deuterium makes for Helium-4 plus a neutron (which can be a problem, for it may induce decay in other elements of the surrounding material.
I think fusion in general is a very worthwhile field of research. Even if cold fusion may not work, hot fusion (which is technically possible, but still horribly complicated) has a much better energy-output-to-danger ratio than traditional nuclear energy.
Another kind person posted a link to a List of Trolltech's owners. SCO/Canopy is listed with no more than 6%, whereas the employers of Trolltech own 65%.
Now get off your crack-pipe and stop being paranoid.
While editing I noticed I refer to "my clients" several times. I work for Fortune 500 companies and international companies. All of them have revenue over $100 million per year, so my views do not represent small businesses. But if the large companies give up MS, will the small companies keep MS?
blah... blahblah... blah
Unless you show 'proof', I do not believe you. Everyone can write "I'm CTO at a Fortune 500 company..." (or similiar things)...;)
> Like the extermination of any ethnic group you
> choose not to like at any particular decade.
Cough... slavery... cough... vietnam...
Shall I continue. Digging up the dirt of the past is doing nothing good here.
Why can't we all just be happy and stop throwing sh*t at each other. I mean, you like your country...gooood for you. Really.
I do like my country (germany, btw). And while I see many wrongs nowadays, I'm quite happy about where I live and what it looks like here.
I do like things like free health care (in a reasonable and affordable implementation). I do like strong employee-protection and think it should be 'work to live' and not the other way round. 'Human-captial' is one of the buzz words I find disgusting.
So, I'm indeed a bit on the socialist side and this is per-se nothing evil. As is your side of unregulated capitalism (although I strongly disagree with that kind of policy).
And when you rant about the EU, don't forget that there hasn't been a war within western europe for almost 60 years. Nowadays, countries that tried to eradicate each other from the landmap live together peacefully, share a common currency and, if all goes right, act as one on the international scenery.
I do indeed favor the european integration. I think the idea is wonderful, inspiring. There are wrong-goings, everything is way too much centralized for my taste (I come from a federal organized country, which has been so for several centuries except the Third Reich time), too undemocratic in some way. But the idea is good.
And if the EU throws its weight to impose some things on U.S. companies, then I have nothing against this. The US does this as well (or why do you think does almost every majorgerman company its accounting according to german/eu *and* U.S. standards, for example).
Jealousy, as you say, has little to do with all this. If the EU stands up in the world, it does so not because it wants to smack the U.S. into the face and become more like it, but because it thinks its right and fits its needs. Just as the U.S. does every day.
"Rights are for everbody. Don't do anything you don't want to allow anybody else."
The economic problems (which there are many of, as in the U.S.) aside, Arianespace and ESA are two rather successful operations.
A single ariane is a) cheaper in total than a shuttle launch and b) able of lifting more cargo into space than any other space craft. About 40% of all satellite launches are done by Arianespace. That's hardly unsuccessful.
About Galileo. Did you ever hear the word 'competition'. GPS is the only vendor in the global positioning market. Monopolies are, however, from an economical point of view highly unwanted for they tend to provide inferior products for higher prices. And, while the concept is the same, Galileo is hardly anymore a rip-off GPS than a Mercedes is off a Ford:)
A priest, a physicist and a mathematician are trapped in a burning hotel. The only way out is to jump out of the window and try to land in the nearby pool. So, the priest starts first, he makes a last prayer, jumps and hits the pool. Saved. Next comes the physicist, he looks down, does a short calculation in his head, jumps and is saved. Last comes the mathematician, he looks down, and remains at the window calculating desperately. After a couple of minutes, he jumps, too. However, he flies off into the sky.
What happened? Wrong sign.
Thus, at the end of the 20th century, America had to intervene in the Balkans to put down another European attempt at genocide - the Europeans, for reasons of weakness, venality, and history did nothing but watch it happen.
Don't forget that Europe consists of five/six major nations and dozens smaller ones. Coordinating things in a 'veto-for-all' manner is very difficult and led to Europe's inactiveness.
You can call this system ineffective. I agree and all politicians who still insist on this all-or-nothing scheme are narrow-sighted, imho.
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This isn't exactly my area. However:
> The 'heaviness' of the elements is meaningless.
Heavy elements with more than 70 or 80 protons (dunno the exact number) are more likely to have instable isotops than lighter elements.
Neutron counts also towards instability of elements. Hydrogen-3 is highly instable, for instance.
Hey, it's half past two in the night here. I've drunken a beer or two this evening and what's more important, this isn't my native tongue. I'm not exactly using english mathematical terms every day, you know. Now shut up.
I think the general idea is that, while the well-known algorithm may not be your idea, you still have to *code* the damn thing. You wrote each line by hand. Using a converter who writes the code for you, even although you have to provide a meaningful input for the converter, makes it impersonal. It's not exactly your code anymore.
>> orthogonal scalars
>
> Would you mind clarifying how that works?
When mathematics hits language... no good outcome. I suppose the original poster meant that the Torino-scale combines two completely unrelated scales with each other.
The probability of an impact has nothing to with its potential (desastrous) effects.
Two orthogonal vectors are linear independent from each other, that is, one isn't a multiple of the other.
If you'd measure impact-probabilty on the x-axis, and the effects on the y-axis, any combination of these two can be described by a vector in this 2d-plain. however, if you only name the length of the vector, thus give only a single value where otherwise two would be needed (i.e. x,y coordinates or length and polar angle), your scale looses much of its meaning.
Nice try. The city where I live has *two* of these. However, I live much closer to where IKEA comes from; this might explain it ;)
However, if we (the western world, but especially the States) allow a few uber-fundementalist Islamists whithout even mainstream support by their religion to dictate what can and will be researched, they get that much closer to their goal. Tough call, risk stagnation or distaster?
This is so true!
You really deserve your country. Consider yourself lucky.
Your loss.
What is more important? Ideology, or a working card? As long as nVidia provides good drivers for Linux, I would not complain... may these drivers be closed-source or not.
You're mixing up fission and fusion. When splitting heavy elements like Uranium and/or Plutonium into lighter ones, many of these are radioactive. This is, even while the products are lighter than Uranium, they are still very heavy elements which are mostly instable and thus radioactive.
The light elements produced by fusion (usually He) are mostly stable. Two Deuterium atoms (heavy hydrogen), for example, combine to Helium-4, which is stable. Tritium + Deuterium makes for Helium-4 plus a neutron (which can be a problem, for it may induce decay in other elements of the surrounding material.
I think fusion in general is a very worthwhile field of research. Even if cold fusion may not work, hot fusion (which is technically possible, but still horribly complicated) has a much better energy-output-to-danger ratio than traditional nuclear energy.
Another kind person posted a link to a List of Trolltech's owners. SCO/Canopy is listed with no more than 6%, whereas the employers of Trolltech own 65%.
Now get off your crack-pipe and stop being paranoid.
I'd say nay, it won't work. Considering that some universities have 655mBit lines, this makes for about 30,000 users downloading this file at 20k/sec.
>> You mean the poster didn't write it "correctly", not "correct."
Doh!
Interesting, the submitter of this story didn't even manage to write courriel correct... despite it being displayed two lines above...
While editing I noticed I refer to "my clients" several times. I work for Fortune 500 companies and international companies. All of them have revenue over $100 million per year, so my views do not represent small businesses. But if the large companies give up MS, will the small companies keep MS?
;)
blah... blahblah... blah Unless you show 'proof', I do not believe you. Everyone can write "I'm CTO at a Fortune 500 company..." (or similiar things)...
"Two lawyers, three opinions."
Now, if only Airbus was a French company... silly you *lol*
Why should OpenSource software be treated any different by the law? It's not that OSS is something special in lawmens terms.
This whole SCO vs. IBM affair is more entertaining than every daily soap-opera...
can't wait to see the next episode.
> Like the extermination of any ethnic group you > choose not to like at any particular decade. Cough... slavery... cough... vietnam... Shall I continue. Digging up the dirt of the past is doing nothing good here.
Why can't we all just be happy and stop throwing sh*t at each other. I mean, you like your country...gooood for you. Really.
I do like my country (germany, btw). And while I see many wrongs nowadays, I'm quite happy about where I live and what it looks like here.
I do like things like free health care (in a reasonable and affordable implementation). I do like strong employee-protection and think it should be 'work to live' and not the other way round. 'Human-captial' is one of the buzz words I find disgusting.
So, I'm indeed a bit on the socialist side and this is per-se nothing evil. As is your side of unregulated capitalism (although I strongly disagree with that kind of policy).
And when you rant about the EU, don't forget that there hasn't been a war within western europe for almost 60 years. Nowadays, countries that tried to eradicate each other from the landmap live together peacefully, share a common currency and, if all goes right, act as one on the international scenery.
I do indeed favor the european integration. I think the idea is wonderful, inspiring. There are wrong-goings, everything is way too much centralized for my taste (I come from a federal organized country, which has been so for several centuries except the Third Reich time), too undemocratic in some way. But the idea is good.
And if the EU throws its weight to impose some things on U.S. companies, then I have nothing against this. The US does this as well (or why do you think does almost every majorgerman company its accounting according to german/eu *and* U.S. standards, for example).
Jealousy, as you say, has little to do with all this. If the EU stands up in the world, it does so not because it wants to smack the U.S. into the face and become more like it, but because it thinks its right and fits its needs. Just as the U.S. does every day.
"Rights are for everbody. Don't do anything you don't want to allow anybody else."
The economic problems (which there are many of, as in the U.S.) aside, Arianespace and ESA are two rather successful operations.
:)
A single ariane is a) cheaper in total than a shuttle launch and b) able of lifting more cargo into space than any other space craft. About 40% of all satellite launches are done by Arianespace. That's hardly unsuccessful.
About Galileo. Did you ever hear the word 'competition'. GPS is the only vendor in the global positioning market. Monopolies are, however, from an economical point of view highly unwanted for they tend to provide inferior products for higher prices. And, while the concept is the same, Galileo is hardly anymore a rip-off GPS than a Mercedes is off a Ford
A priest, a physicist and a mathematician are trapped in a burning hotel. The only way out is to jump out of the window and try to land in the nearby pool. So, the priest starts first, he makes a last prayer, jumps and hits the pool. Saved. Next comes the physicist, he looks down, does a short calculation in his head, jumps and is saved. Last comes the mathematician, he looks down, and remains at the window calculating desperately. After a couple of minutes, he jumps, too. However, he flies off into the sky. What happened? Wrong sign.
Don't forget that Europe consists of five/six major nations and dozens smaller ones. Coordinating things in a 'veto-for-all' manner is very difficult and led to Europe's inactiveness.
You can call this system ineffective. I agree and all politicians who still insist on this all-or-nothing scheme are narrow-sighted, imho.
Cool, I'm barbaric. Nobody ever told me that. I'm flattered.
Now, would you be so kind to shut up and go away? Thank you.