Of course there is information about Windows stuff available. However, reading it has often been a pain for me; in the Microsoft world I often felt the author does not want to explain, but is circumventing some hidden obstacles which keep them from giving the necessary background -- or are just not able to explain, straightforwardly.
Have to go
Stephan
My company runs J2EE but RMI would have been just fine and much easier in a lot of ways. The customer wanted J2EE, of course. Your's doesn't seem to mind.
Since you don't have a preference through your history, I'd recommend using Java. I always found looking for support about Microsoft software to be a nightmare. On the other hand, with Java there's lots of brilliant advice to be found.
I see no evidence contradicting this: power use will always increase to a level where the resulting negative effects are still bearable (with a short term view)
There are early examples, for example, London 12th century. Coal was burnt in huge amounts producing smog and smoke. Laws where introduced, and the smoke and smog went back to a "bearable" level. Today there are more efficient fuels. But go to London and the air is pretty bad (unbearable for me, but locals differ, it seems)
What is the limit to how much one person can wish to be able to consume in a day? Equipped with a computer one can control many, many powered devices.
What surprises me is that the standard of starting the motor is still by turning a key. I thought a Star Ship Enterprise-like start button would have become available by now.
Let me know if I missed it. Plus, read my book on car culture.
Open Office being such a general application (see the name) developers could have added any and all kinds of code to do with "Office" and Microsoft could not have done much about it.
Seems kind of natural they wouldn't like that.
So maybe there is not that much thinking/planning/conspiring.
Actually www.planet-lab.org/consortium lays it out quite well. The trick is they don't like people as such only as members of organizations. It sounds non-profits don't pay any fee.
Let us know when your organization is part, then we can join your organization instead of going to the consortium directly.
Individuals are not allowed to directly join PlanetLab. Your home institution must be a member of the PlanetLab Consortium. To see if your institution is already on PlanetLab, click here. This page also identifies your site's Principal Investigator (PI), who is the person that approves PlanetLab accounts at your institution.
So is your institution on the list?
Or is it a second planet-lab?
Stephan
3. And, no, no one has "to wonder" whether
"on the eve of an election [it] helps or hurts the political process by influencing the vote with last-minute emotions". Invoking last-minute emotions seem to be the norm nowadays. Just doesn't get exposed -- only in spectacular cases such as this one.
They might get bored with bunker busters. Nuclear versions are already being discussed.
Terribly Safe ?
on
Port-A-Nuke
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So Roland Piquepaille asks in the article,
Leaving a nuclear reactor in a developing country which can potentially become unstable during the 30 years of service of the reactor doesn't seem to be terribly safe.
As if one of the largest arsenals of nuclear weapons in the world in the hands of religious fundamentalists in the US was not more worrisome.
* finding out how to colour a graph so that no two adjacent points have the same colour.
I thought it was a remarkable feature of the 4-colour theorem that it came with a polynomial time algorithm for producing a colouring. I think it was quadratic time.
I think you have the 3 colour problem in mind.
Let me know if I'm wrong.
I'm not sure what you're after; support was supposed to be the source of revenue. I'm trying to point out this might compromise the developers and incite them to add pointers to the support track to the software and thus make the software less attractive.
The article doesn't cover the incentive for the developers to produce software that requires support. There might be a lot of little tasks which the software can perform but only with hand-holding by the support staff. E.g., a window may pop-up saying "There is a way to do this - contact support to find out how!".
Slashdot Mirror
Of course there is information about Windows stuff available. However, reading it has often been a pain for me; in the Microsoft world I often felt the author does not want to explain, but is circumventing some hidden obstacles which keep them from giving the necessary background -- or are just not able to explain, straightforwardly. Have to go Stephan
How about RMI?
My company runs J2EE but RMI would have been just fine and much easier in a lot of ways. The customer wanted J2EE, of course. Your's doesn't seem to mind.
Since you don't have a preference through your history, I'd recommend using Java. I always found looking for support about Microsoft software to be a nightmare. On the other hand, with Java there's lots of brilliant advice to be found.
Stephan
Ok, sounds good.
a l. download.akamai.com/11372/DoD%20Warning%20Statemen t.htm
The "ftptrial.download.akamai.com" in
http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/7850/v001/ftptri
looks curious.
What's the "trial"?
Stephan
Supplied by akamai.com ?
a l. download.akamai.com/11372/DoD%20Warning%20Statemen t.htm
See the links throughout
http://www.my.af.mil/
to, for example (Privacy Policy)
http://a248.e.akamai.net/7/248/7850/v001/ftptri
Stephan
So gnuplot is pretty close to what you like? Stephan
What are these "kids" trying to learn?
They can explore lots of stuff just with gnuplot.
bc is also pretty good - simple to learn and use.
Who needs all the flashy stuff?
Stephan
Stephan
I see no evidence contradicting this: power use will always increase to a level where the resulting negative effects are still bearable (with a short term view)
There are early examples, for example, London 12th century. Coal was burnt in huge amounts producing smog and smoke. Laws where introduced, and the smoke and smog went back to a "bearable" level. Today there are more efficient fuels. But go to London and the air is pretty bad (unbearable for me, but locals differ, it seems)
What is the limit to how much one person can wish to be able to consume in a day? Equipped with a computer one can control many, many powered devices.
See you
Stephan
Funny. Your mindset is intriguing!
What is your cost estimate? I thought moving itself is quite cheap and generally affordable. Stephan
Nice idea.
Where do you get stuck?
Stephan Wehner
A key can be used to "authenticate" the "user" when it is inserted; but the key doesn't need to be used for anything else.
Is it elegant that the key provides both functions? (Same for the doors, by the way)
Stephan
What surprises me is that the standard of starting the motor is still by turning a key. I thought a Star Ship Enterprise-like start button would have become available by now.
Let me know if I missed it. Plus, read my book on car culture.
Stephan
Open Office being such a general application (see the name) developers could have added any and all kinds of code to do with "Office" and Microsoft could not have done much about it.
Seems kind of natural they wouldn't like that.
So maybe there is not that much thinking/planning/conspiring.
Stephan
Or accessing a Winmodem through Linux.
Stephan
You're saying two weeks?? What made you think you had to wait one week before the second application, and what made you think one more week then??
I believe you succeeded but whence the numbers (2/2)?
Stephan
Let us know when your organization is part, then we can join your organization instead of going to the consortium directly.
Or maybe slashdot.org can sign up.
Stephan
2. And no, it is not a "controvercial" movie.
3. And, no, no one has "to wonder" whether "on the eve of an election [it] helps or hurts the political process by influencing the vote with last-minute emotions". Invoking last-minute emotions seem to be the norm nowadays. Just doesn't get exposed -- only in spectacular cases such as this one.
Stephan
They might get bored with bunker busters. Nuclear versions are already being discussed.
So Roland Piquepaille asks in the article,
As if one of the largest arsenals of nuclear weapons in the world in the hands of religious fundamentalists in the US was not more worrisome.
Arrogance / Ignorance?
Yes, that makes sense. Thanks - Stephan
I thought it was a remarkable feature of the 4-colour theorem that it came with a polynomial time algorithm for producing a colouring. I think it was quadratic time.
I think you have the 3 colour problem in mind. Let me know if I'm wrong.
Stephan
I'm not sure what you're after; support was supposed to be the source of revenue. I'm trying to point out this might compromise the developers and incite them to add pointers to the support track to the software and thus make the software less attractive.
The emphasis here is on incentive.
Just something to ponder. Stephan