Yes it is. Burning is oxidation; to get the energy you need to move or think, you oxidate amino acids and other things. Some of that reaction is inefficient, which is why your body is warm. A calorie is a measure of energy; 1 calorie ~= 4 joules.
No, my body is not a furnace. There are no flames inside of me. Just because iron gives off X calories of energy when its burned at a gazillion degrees, doesn't mean that I can get X calories when I swallow an equivalent quantity of iron powder. The biological mechanism of enzymes may or may not be able to extract the same amount of energy from food that was obtained in a lab top furnace.
Even before it gets to the cell's power production, it has to be digested, absorbed and transported there. At each transition there is the potential for inefficiencies ( and I'm referring to efficiency
e = amount_of_energy_released_from_food/amount_of_energy_measured_by_calorie_count not energy lost due to heat.)
I agree completely. Its also true that the whole idea of a calorie is crazy to me. They measure the heat given off of the food as its burned. My body is not a furnace. I think I owe my sleek physique to my body's inefficient usage of the energy stored in food. In prehistoric times that would have been a disadvantage and I most likely would have been killed by a raccoon, or an aggressive badger.
But, yeah eat less, exercise more = weight loss. I experiences that unwittingly in my time as an overseas volunteer. At the end, I looked like Cristian Bale in the Machinist. It was scary.
Yes, but number two has the word aliens in it, which makes it much cooler. Plus the news sites will pick it up because people will want to read about aliens, rather than evolution. More hype, more clicks.
Again, if this is an introduction to oss to end users, then it hardly makes a difference.
People learn all sorts of wrong things about technology, and your right we should do our best to find the balance between overloading people with too many details and making sure they understand the basics. In this particular case, I think they did a good job. You can help by providing more information with your product detailing exactly what is and is not permitted. Because it is not free, you can tell them before they buy it. Hopefully, you'll make that clear in some non small print Eula that everyone clicks through.
But thats not the "Free" there talking about. I don't know what insanely useful app you've developed that I can't live with out, but the major ones (OO.org, firefox, gnu/linux, bsd, gimp, mysql, postgres... the list goes on) All come with redistribution and usage rights.
If the point is to introduce new people to software, it only make sense to talk about the applications that they will want to use and the licenses that cover them. Most of the people that would be learning about free software wouldn't be programmers that would have to worry about mixing source code with non compatible licenses and then redistributing the end result.
Plus the licenses you seem to be referencing, don't seem to be very free as in speech. Are they even certified as open licenses?
Good catch, its been a while since I looked at the benchmarks. .
But you can still see that its just slower than java 6, and still faster than haskell. I'm really surprised that Lisp is right there as far as performance. Not to mention my first serious language PASCAL kicks ass! Time to dust my Pi, and prime number finding programs off and put them back to work!
because its fast as heckfire. Much much faster than ML or haskell. Its often faster than c. Although, I'd agree about the syntax. It has many small problems that really stand in the way of mass adoption. Modern Fortran is also pretty cool ( good by karma) its also fast and has some parallel features. I'd just like any of the functional languages to take off. Ocamel looks tempting because of the performance.
Its a chicken and the egg with languages like this. If they don't solve one task much better than anything else, no one adopts it even if it is "promising".
I think I've come to realize that people aren't that much different online than off. The difference being that posts are persistent. You can easily ignore something someone said, but when its sitting there in print it affects you more. Its more obvious.
I think this might be on purpose. In the olden days of netscape 2 &3, a page would load instantly with these funny boxes where pictures would then load. I think at some point someone decided that those were too ugly, and net speeds were increasing so it wouldn't hurt to wait for all of the content before rendering it. I agree, its stupid.
Right, but how can you be 100% sure that there isn't a rootkit on either your box or the recipients that is grabbing the cypher text after its been decoded. At somepoint you have to just accept the 1 in six billion chance that it could be intercepted. Thats not the same as saying that the risk doesn't exist.
So basically what you're saying is that you cannot send a message long distance with %100 assurance that it is secure. So either don't send sensitive information long distances, or live with the fact that they may be intercepted. Right?
I have noted that programs of non-trivial size almost always have bugs in them. The secret to writing parallel code, is to create multiple personalities, one for each thread. Then you just emulate the code in you parallel mind, and its easy to see the problem.
Yes, it is a non story. Sun sued Microsoft years before they open sourced java. Micorosft has also signed a license saying that they would not fork java, but they did anyways. In this case Sun says its cool, then its cool. I don't know how true your assertions about Java ME are, but they are not true of Java in general. GuI interfaces are usually done horribly in Java, because its easy to screw them up. The unresponsive Gui (see zend framework) often makes people think that Java is slow.
I've got dibs on the electron. Use it, and you'll only have to pay a low usage fee of $.01. All uses covered, and I believe the gentleman who patented the molecule is infringing upon my patent. You'll be hearing from my lawyer sir!
Its hard to say at this point looking back at what might have been. I think if there was a drm encumbered 99 cent music store before napster, it might have prevented a lot of file sharing. Napster succeeded primarily because it was easy. People were downloading copies of songs they already had because it was faster than ripping them. I don't think Napster would have gotten any VC money if there was already a RIAA approved online music store. In those days, I downloaded music for free most of the time because it was unavailable in any other format. I couldn't actually buy the music ( rare singles, limited selection at cdnow and retail stores) by any legitimate means.
Whats wrong with dsl? Besides the obvious speed difference.
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If I pay $500 more, the darned thing better not over heat period. I provide support for many friends who have laptops of all various makes and models, none of them overheat. Well, except one friend who has a think pad. But he bought it used and abused on ebay.
That should be funny, not informative. From the other stories on the site, its satire. Very well written satire, that may be closer to the truth than what microsoft is saying publicly, but fictional satire none-the-less.
Ok... So BSD is what.. a fried egg sandwich? If they had to weep every time they discovered something that ran better than windows on a specialized hardware platform, they would die of dehydration.
Wait.. why is Microsoft weeping of the release of an ancient OS that can't be run on any hardware available? Its not like MULTICS is going to rise up and replace Linux as the open source OS, or Windows itself. Just explain your headline to me and we'll call it even.
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Yes it is. Burning is oxidation; to get the energy you need to move or think, you oxidate amino acids and other things. Some of that reaction is inefficient, which is why your body is warm. A calorie is a measure of energy; 1 calorie ~= 4 joules.
No, my body is not a furnace. There are no flames inside of me. Just because iron gives off X calories of energy when its burned at a gazillion degrees, doesn't mean that I can get X calories when I swallow an equivalent quantity of iron powder. The biological mechanism of enzymes may or may not be able to extract the same amount of energy from food that was obtained in a lab top furnace.
Even before it gets to the cell's power production, it has to be digested, absorbed and transported there. At each transition there is the potential for inefficiencies ( and I'm referring to efficiency e = amount_of_energy_released_from_food/amount_of_energy_measured_by_calorie_count not energy lost due to heat.)
I agree completely. Its also true that the whole idea of a calorie is crazy to me. They measure the heat given off of the food as its burned. My body is not a furnace. I think I owe my sleek physique to my body's inefficient usage of the energy stored in food. In prehistoric times that would have been a disadvantage and I most likely would have been killed by a raccoon, or an aggressive badger. But, yeah eat less, exercise more = weight loss. I experiences that unwittingly in my time as an overseas volunteer. At the end, I looked like Cristian Bale in the Machinist. It was scary.
Yes, but number two has the word aliens in it, which makes it much cooler. Plus the news sites will pick it up because people will want to read about aliens, rather than evolution. More hype, more clicks.
Again, if this is an introduction to oss to end users, then it hardly makes a difference.
People learn all sorts of wrong things about technology, and your right we should do our best to find the balance between overloading people with too many details and making sure they understand the basics. In this particular case, I think they did a good job. You can help by providing more information with your product detailing exactly what is and is not permitted. Because it is not free, you can tell them before they buy it. Hopefully, you'll make that clear in some non small print Eula that everyone clicks through.
But thats not the "Free" there talking about. I don't know what insanely useful app you've developed that I can't live with out, but the major ones (OO.org, firefox, gnu/linux, bsd, gimp, mysql, postgres ... the list goes on) All come with redistribution and usage rights.
If the point is to introduce new people to software, it only make sense to talk about the applications that they will want to use and the licenses that cover them. Most of the people that would be learning about free software wouldn't be programmers that would have to worry about mixing source code with non compatible licenses and then redistributing the end result.
Plus the licenses you seem to be referencing, don't seem to be very free as in speech. Are they even certified as open licenses?
when will I learn to preview? Heres the benchmark
Good catch, its been a while since I looked at the benchmarks. .
But you can still see that its just slower than java 6, and still faster than haskell. I'm really surprised that Lisp is right there as far as performance. Not to mention my first serious language PASCAL kicks ass! Time to dust my Pi, and prime number finding programs off and put them back to work!
because its fast as heckfire. Much much faster than ML or haskell. Its often faster than c. Although, I'd agree about the syntax. It has many small problems that really stand in the way of mass adoption. Modern Fortran is also pretty cool ( good by karma) its also fast and has some parallel features. I'd just like any of the functional languages to take off. Ocamel looks tempting because of the performance.
Its a chicken and the egg with languages like this. If they don't solve one task much better than anything else, no one adopts it even if it is "promising".
I think I've come to realize that people aren't that much different online than off. The difference being that posts are persistent. You can easily ignore something someone said, but when its sitting there in print it affects you more. Its more obvious.
I think this might be on purpose. In the olden days of netscape 2 &3, a page would load instantly with these funny boxes where pictures would then load. I think at some point someone decided that those were too ugly, and net speeds were increasing so it wouldn't hurt to wait for all of the content before rendering it. I agree, its stupid.
Right, but how can you be 100% sure that there isn't a rootkit on either your box or the recipients that is grabbing the cypher text after its been decoded. At somepoint you have to just accept the 1 in six billion chance that it could be intercepted. Thats not the same as saying that the risk doesn't exist.
Thanks for the advice. Also, if anyone happens to go sky diving, you might want to strap a parachute to your back before you jump out the plane.
I agree. I've changed my sig to avoid violating the license terms.
So basically what you're saying is that you cannot send a message long distance with %100 assurance that it is secure. So either don't send sensitive information long distances, or live with the fact that they may be intercepted. Right?
what exactly do you propose for long distance communication?
I have noted that programs of non-trivial size almost always have bugs in them. The secret to writing parallel code, is to create multiple personalities, one for each thread. Then you just emulate the code in you parallel mind, and its easy to see the problem.
Yes, it is a non story. Sun sued Microsoft years before they open sourced java. Micorosft has also signed a license saying that they would not fork java, but they did anyways. In this case Sun says its cool, then its cool. I don't know how true your assertions about Java ME are, but they are not true of Java in general. GuI interfaces are usually done horribly in Java, because its easy to screw them up. The unresponsive Gui (see zend framework) often makes people think that Java is slow.
Thats not fair! By observing them, you've changed their states! Tampering with evidence in the court of law is a serious offense mister.
I've got dibs on the electron. Use it, and you'll only have to pay a low usage fee of $.01. All uses covered, and I believe the gentleman who patented the molecule is infringing upon my patent. You'll be hearing from my lawyer sir!
Its hard to say at this point looking back at what might have been. I think if there was a drm encumbered 99 cent music store before napster, it might have prevented a lot of file sharing. Napster succeeded primarily because it was easy. People were downloading copies of songs they already had because it was faster than ripping them. I don't think Napster would have gotten any VC money if there was already a RIAA approved online music store. In those days, I downloaded music for free most of the time because it was unavailable in any other format. I couldn't actually buy the music ( rare singles, limited selection at cdnow and retail stores) by any legitimate means.
Whats wrong with dsl? Besides the obvious speed difference.
If I pay $500 more, the darned thing better not over heat period. I provide support for many friends who have laptops of all various makes and models, none of them overheat. Well, except one friend who has a think pad. But he bought it used and abused on ebay.
That should be funny, not informative. From the other stories on the site, its satire. Very well written satire, that may be closer to the truth than what microsoft is saying publicly, but fictional satire none-the-less.
Ok... So BSD is what .. a fried egg sandwich? If they had to weep every time they discovered something that ran better than windows on a specialized hardware platform, they would die of dehydration.
Wait .. why is Microsoft weeping of the release of an ancient OS that can't be run on any hardware available? Its not like MULTICS is going to rise up and replace Linux as the open source OS, or Windows itself. Just explain your headline to me and we'll call it even.