But what would compel a company to support FreeBSD when they could just take the code, use it for their own needs, and never make upstream contributions?
Also: But what would compel a company to support FreeBSD when their competitors could just take the code, use it for their own needs, and never make upstream contributions?
More specifically, why do we only experience the universe with random outcomes? We could be in the universe where every outcome in some experiment would be the same, e.g. all photons are found to be left polarized and all free neutrons live exactly 15 minutes. However, we see fairly random statistical distribution of all quantum effects we observe. So, where's the source of the randomness?
Project Orion have never came to the completion. Nuclear spaceships have never flown. Orion was just a codename, and codenames are commonly reused in later products. Think Mozilla and Seamonkey.
Actually, wireless drivers may work, but they will need to use the userspace end of the network, rather than the kernel side. In other words, some tunnel device would have to be created to feed the received data to and to get the data to be sent.
Anyway, I cannot agree with the statement that landing people on another planet with little air and then launching them on a rocket with no ground support is "simpler and cheaper" than leaving them in orbit and skipping the landing and the take-off.
Absolutely. In terms of delta-v, it's much much more than 0.001 percent of the way. Not to mention the requirement to launch a man-rated rocket from a planet with no ground support staff and several light-minutes away from Earth.
Sorry, "speed limit" implied "maximum" for me too strongly to notice "minimum". By the way, how do you call violation of the minimum speed limit? Crawling? Creeping? Antispeeding? And how would you accelerate heavy trucks going uphill? Weird, weird Oregonians.
Nice. At any speed, you are 20 mph too fast, unless everyone is busy passing you. If the traffic is moving slower than 20 mph, the speed limit is negative. In this case, you can only avoid the ticket by driving backwards.
One person signs the agreement and submits the project to Fedora. Anther person submits the project from Fedora to OLPC. There is no requirement that it's the same person.
Air pressure on the summit of Mount Everest: 30-33 kPa
Air pressure on the bottom of Hellas Planita, Mars: 1.1 kPa
The difference is about 30 times, not "several hundreds". And by the way, what plants need is CO2. The Martian atmosphere is 95% CO2, whereas the air on Earth only has about 0.3% of CO2. That makes the partial pressure of CO2 ten times higher on the bottom of Hellas Planita than on top of Mount Everest!
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Sometimes I delay my reply on purpose even if I can reply immediately, so that people don't ask me questions they can answer themselves in 5 minutes.
In Handspring Treo 180, there was a "World Clock" program that could display time in any timezone. It allowed to change my current timezone, but it would not change the time! So I move between timezones, I would need to update the timezone AND the time. Perhaps the software was not tested on real word travelers.
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More specifically, why do we only experience the universe with random outcomes? We could be in the universe where every outcome in some experiment would be the same, e.g. all photons are found to be left polarized and all free neutrons live exactly 15 minutes. However, we see fairly random statistical distribution of all quantum effects we observe. So, where's the source of the randomness?
I guess so. Thanks for the link, although I was hesitant to open it. I stand corrected, it's not related to the TMI accident.
Didn't some official commit suicide by shooting himself in the mouth during a press conference?
Perhaps the name of the research organization can be translated in more than one way. Try looking for the researcher's name. Yakov Pakhomovsky appears to be working in the Geological Institute of the Kola Science Center.
Tuna can be tuned easily.
Project Orion have never came to the completion. Nuclear spaceships have never flown. Orion was just a codename, and codenames are commonly reused in later products. Think Mozilla and Seamonkey.
OpenGL is not a real open-source. You holy religion rollers need to stop naming non-free specifications 'open source'. Thanks!
Yes, and he gets crucified on a 3D-SuperCross.
They don't call him Potter for nothing!
Actually, wireless drivers may work, but they will need to use the userspace end of the network, rather than the kernel side. In other words, some tunnel device would have to be created to feed the received data to and to get the data to be sent.
Would not IOMMU close this hole?
Are you the CEO of Trader Joe's?
Anyway, I cannot agree with the statement that landing people on another planet with little air and then launching them on a rocket with no ground support is "simpler and cheaper" than leaving them in orbit and skipping the landing and the take-off.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_v
Absolutely. In terms of delta-v, it's much much more than 0.001 percent of the way. Not to mention the requirement to launch a man-rated rocket from a planet with no ground support staff and several light-minutes away from Earth.
If Google opens its R&D center nearby and lures some programmers from MS, we'll see chairs flying over the border into Canada.
Sorry, "speed limit" implied "maximum" for me too strongly to notice "minimum". By the way, how do you call violation of the minimum speed limit? Crawling? Creeping? Antispeeding? And how would you accelerate heavy trucks going uphill? Weird, weird Oregonians.
Nice. At any speed, you are 20 mph too fast, unless everyone is busy passing you. If the traffic is moving slower than 20 mph, the speed limit is negative. In this case, you can only avoid the ticket by driving backwards.
One person signs the agreement and submits the project to Fedora. Anther person submits the project from Fedora to OLPC. There is no requirement that it's the same person.
Air pressure on the bottom of Hellas Planita, Mars: 1.1 kPa
The difference is about 30 times, not "several hundreds". And by the way, what plants need is CO2. The Martian atmosphere is 95% CO2, whereas the air on Earth only has about 0.3% of CO2. That makes the partial pressure of CO2 ten times higher on the bottom of Hellas Planita than on top of Mount Everest!
Sometimes I delay my reply on purpose even if I can reply immediately, so that people don't ask me questions they can answer themselves in 5 minutes.
Your letter is not politically correct
In Handspring Treo 180, there was a "World Clock" program that could display time in any timezone. It allowed to change my current timezone, but it would not change the time! So I move between timezones, I would need to update the timezone AND the time. Perhaps the software was not tested on real word travelers.