..using the internet has seriously cut into our socializing time. We spend less time watching TV and more time using the internet and following up email.
I've always known Americans to be a little funny about TV and social behaviour, but... Do you really consider watching TV socialising? What the hell..
So what happens when the temperature (down to -90C) goes below the sublimation temperature of CO2 (-76C, if I recall correctly)? Does it just freeze out of the air? I'm sure these guys will be heating (and probably humidifying) their air supply anyway, but do they need to add CO2 to keep the breathing reflexes working right?
This not really an issue in my opinion. The amount of CO2 probably doesn't affect our breathing reflexes. Think about pure oxygen treatments or the oxygen they give you when in surgery. You breathe at a rate such that your brains get enough oxygen. You might breathe at different rates even though the CO2 level is constant (e.g. after some running).
Humidity would be a much bigger problem, though. Even at temparatures of -20C the air gets very very dry and very difficult to breathe. They certainly need some equipment to keep the air humid and possibly a tad warmer.:)
Indeed the amount of waste that a single everyday product produces can suprise people often. E.g. the amount of aluminium wasted in the US alone in soft-drink cans in a few months is the equivalent of all the aluminium in the commercial airfleet of the US.
Invidually packaged cheese or cheese food is just a drop in the ocean. And not just in the US, but in Europe too. Much too much waste.
Waste should always be thought of as economic unefficiency (or waste..:). Although some might argue that producing less waste would mean people losing jobs etc, it's not the case. Money would go elsewhere (maybe health-care, services, shorter working days).
What? Most people can't cut cheese straight? Come on. Here in "Scandinavia" children of age 5 can cut cheese just fine. And cutting cheese is not one aspect of civilisation that needs to be made more efficient. It takes much longer to unwrap the cheese from the plastic wrapping and dispose the wrapping than it takes to cut one fucking piece of cheese.
What the hell are you talking about? It sounds like you had some serious issues with your Netscape configuration. Normally you run Netscape DS in only one process, and it multi-threads itself when it receives requests. Memory consumption is pretty much what you said, 60Megs per process, but it doesn't grow very much (a few megs maybe) even under heavy load. This is what I've experienced under HP-UX anyway (HP ships the DS with some modifications, though).
Performance seems brilliant to me. On a dual processor HP-UX we got excellent performance results. On a directory consisting of some 20k entries the DS could server some 15k searches per second! Inserting went pretty fast too, some 40 entries per sec. This shows the way LDAP servers are optimised, btw! And the searches were not at all trivial (don't remember the filter right know, though).
So anyway, I think Netscape DS is a good server, fast and reliable. And it's very extensible too, if you know how to write plugins!;)
If this claim is successful, this could be quite a setback for Google's business model.
If this claim is successful, this could be quite a setback for use of common sense in the world. Well, in the US anyway. Also quite a setback for people who still think that there is some sense in the world. For the rest of us, just a short sarcastic laugher in the midst of this coding slavery.
In order to make your house go BOOOM, you should manage to fill the entire house with hydrogen in a very precise manner. Hydrogen actually requires a mixture of air and hydrogen that is very precise, more so than with gasoline. And we who didn't learn our physics from Hollywood flics, know that gasoline doesn't really explode either.
So a hydrogen explosion inside a house because some hydrogen had leaked from the tank (and by a miracle didn't escape to the atmosphere at once), is simply impossible.
What I've read about hydrogen and also about the Hindenburg disaster, is that hydrogen doesn't actually go boom, like many people seem to think. Hydrogen actually burns in a volume just about the size of the gas itself. So it doesn't expand while burning like explosives.
This means, that no-one onboard Hindenburg actually exploded or even burnt because of burning hydrogen. Maybe they were cast with some hot water, who knows, but the only casualties resulted from the actual crash. Any other "filling" would not have kept it in the air much better.
Hydrogen is actually less flammable than gasoline, so it's much safer in that sense, than gas. People saying, that hydrogen can't be used in houses or cars because everything will go boom, are simply wrong and have no actual knowledge of the area.
Coke does not have a trademark on any look or feel. Trademarks protect brand names, and also 3D shapes (such as the coke bottle), tunes and even smells. But they don't apply to user interfaces which are rather dynamic and not really "manufactured" in that sense. Well, can't really explain it better just now..
HD space is cheap right? So if this advancement increases development time and cost, it is a tech achievement, but... i guess... whats the point?
The point is not the size, features or technological advance at all. It's just sort of a proof-of-concept, if you like. It doesn't do rendering on it's own, nor does it have support for various graphic chips (all that is provided by DirectX), but it does have its own engine and all the model data and textures (mind you, it still includes all the textures although they are procedural, it just means that they are in forms of functions). And that is impressive.
Can't try it myself yet, but I'm already amazed. Btw, to those who wonder where's the source etc, these things are usually not handed out. Demo/intro scene is more about competing with each other and the secret's of the trade are not given away!
People pointing out DirectX dependency are missing the point.
Something that people not familiar with IPR laws get mixed up quite often is that you don't have to do anything to Copyrigth something. Copyrigth is something implicit and something that is actually determined afterwards.
Another thing is that singled words are not subject to copyrights. Except maybe some extremely long words that are not actual words at all. Something that you might see in Gandhi's writings..:)
Trademarks on the other hand must be applied for (exceptions do exist). Using Mozilla word as a tradmark for a web-browser would make good sense. It's not too general and it's used in a non-intuitive sense here.
But they can't prevent someone from using the word Mozilla, except as a name of a web-browser.
Hmm, I'm not a solicitor myself, but what I've been taught about IPRs in techlaw basic courses, is that Trademarks only protect commercial use of brands (brand items). Such as Firefox logo, e.g. If Debian now wants to include the logo in it's distro, it should, in my opinion, be able to do so without asking permissions. Now if it was (or is) selling something with a logo attached, then it would be illegal. Anyone got any other ideas on this?
If the logos are considered to have copyrights, then it's another issue, as copying the logo without permission would be illegal.
Also to be noted is the fact that unlike explosives, hydrogen burns inside a volume approximately size of the cloud itself. So if you happen to be outside the actual hydrogen gas (as inside the cabin under the blimb), you wouldn't get burned. It has been argued that on the Hindenburg disaster no-one actually was killed because of hydrogen (rather just the crash). Hydrogen also requires an exact mixture of oxygen and hydrogen to ignite (rather like gasoline also does).
So there you go, let's have our hydrogen cars up and running soon!
Well if they provide good support for X and OpenGL and maybe even with open source drivers, I'll be buying one instead of that NVidia I was planning to get soon.
Why is it so important to you for Americans to know where every 2nd and 3rd world country is? I'm sure you couldn't name every country out there, much less point them all out.
Well, well. In senior high we actually had to learn about 200 countries (their locations that is) and had an exam on them. Sure, I can't remember all the countries anymore or name all the countries along the African coast, but I certainly can point to the right direction when I hear a name of a country anyway.
Not being mean or anything, but the average geographical knowledge of an american is pretty damn poor.
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..using the internet has seriously cut into our socializing time. We spend less time watching TV and more time using the internet and following up email.
I've always known Americans to be a little funny about TV and social behaviour, but... Do you really consider watching TV socialising? What the hell..
Did anyone else first read it "first theoretical Babylon 5 movie"..? What would a theoretical movie be like anyway? :)
I'm using tcsh, you insensitive clod!
Okay, I'm not..but for the jokes sake let's say I was!
This not really an issue in my opinion. The amount of CO2 probably doesn't affect our breathing reflexes. Think about pure oxygen treatments or the oxygen they give you when in surgery. You breathe at a rate such that your brains get enough oxygen. You might breathe at different rates even though the CO2 level is constant (e.g. after some running).
Humidity would be a much bigger problem, though. Even at temparatures of -20C the air gets very very dry and very difficult to breathe. They certainly need some equipment to keep the air humid and possibly a tad warmer.
Invidually packaged cheese or cheese food is just a drop in the ocean. And not just in the US, but in Europe too. Much too much waste.
Waste should always be thought of as economic unefficiency (or waste..:). Although some might argue that producing less waste would mean people losing jobs etc, it's not the case. Money would go elsewhere (maybe health-care, services, shorter working days).
Waste not.
What? Most people can't cut cheese straight? Come on. Here in "Scandinavia" children of age 5 can cut cheese just fine. And cutting cheese is not one aspect of civilisation that needs to be made more efficient. It takes much longer to unwrap the cheese from the plastic wrapping and dispose the wrapping than it takes to cut one fucking piece of cheese.
What the hell are you talking about? It sounds like you had some serious issues with your Netscape configuration. Normally you run Netscape DS in only one process, and it multi-threads itself when it receives requests. Memory consumption is pretty much what you said, 60Megs per process, but it doesn't grow very much (a few megs maybe) even under heavy load. This is what I've experienced under HP-UX anyway (HP ships the DS with some modifications, though).
;)
Performance seems brilliant to me. On a dual processor HP-UX we got excellent performance results. On a directory consisting of some 20k entries the DS could server some 15k searches per second! Inserting went pretty fast too, some 40 entries per sec. This shows the way LDAP servers are optimised, btw! And the searches were not at all trivial (don't remember the filter right know, though).
So anyway, I think Netscape DS is a good server, fast and reliable. And it's very extensible too, if you know how to write plugins!
Hmm, and I almost could have sworn that mono means monkey only to those who do speak spanish.
You never know these things, do you.
If this claim is successful, this could be quite a setback for use of common sense in the world. Well, in the US anyway. Also quite a setback for people who still think that there is some sense in the world. For the rest of us, just a short sarcastic laugher in the midst of this coding slavery.
So a hydrogen explosion inside a house because some hydrogen had leaked from the tank (and by a miracle didn't escape to the atmosphere at once), is simply impossible.
Go back for some chemistry classes.
What I've read about hydrogen and also about the Hindenburg disaster, is that hydrogen doesn't actually go boom, like many people seem to think. Hydrogen actually burns in a volume just about the size of the gas itself. So it doesn't expand while burning like explosives.
This means, that no-one onboard Hindenburg actually exploded or even burnt because of burning hydrogen. Maybe they were cast with some hot water, who knows, but the only casualties resulted from the actual crash. Any other "filling" would not have kept it in the air much better.
Hydrogen is actually less flammable than gasoline, so it's much safer in that sense, than gas. People saying, that hydrogen can't be used in houses or cars because everything will go boom, are simply wrong and have no actual knowledge of the area.
Coke does not have a trademark on any look or feel. Trademarks protect brand names, and also 3D shapes (such as the coke bottle), tunes and even smells. But they don't apply to user interfaces which are rather dynamic and not really "manufactured" in that sense. Well, can't really explain it better just now..
HD space is cheap right? So if this advancement increases development time and cost, it is a tech achievement, but... i guess... whats the point?
The point is not the size, features or technological advance at all. It's just sort of a proof-of-concept, if you like. It doesn't do rendering on it's own, nor does it have support for various graphic chips (all that is provided by DirectX), but it does have its own engine and all the model data and textures (mind you, it still includes all the textures although they are procedural, it just means that they are in forms of functions). And that is impressive.
Can't try it myself yet, but I'm already amazed. Btw, to those who wonder where's the source etc, these things are usually not handed out. Demo/intro scene is more about competing with each other and the secret's of the trade are not given away!
People pointing out DirectX dependency are missing the point.
Something that people not familiar with IPR laws get mixed up quite often is that you don't have to do anything to Copyrigth something. Copyrigth is something implicit and something that is actually determined afterwards. Another thing is that singled words are not subject to copyrights. Except maybe some extremely long words that are not actual words at all. Something that you might see in Gandhi's writings.. :)
Trademarks on the other hand must be applied for (exceptions do exist). Using Mozilla word as a tradmark for a web-browser would make good sense. It's not too general and it's used in a non-intuitive sense here.
But they can't prevent someone from using the word Mozilla, except as a name of a web-browser.
Hmm, I'm not a solicitor myself, but what I've been taught about IPRs in techlaw basic courses, is that Trademarks only protect commercial use of brands (brand items). Such as Firefox logo, e.g. If Debian now wants to include the logo in it's distro, it should, in my opinion, be able to do so without asking permissions. Now if it was (or is) selling something with a logo attached, then it would be illegal. Anyone got any other ideas on this?
If the logos are considered to have copyrights, then it's another issue, as copying the logo without permission would be illegal.
So is this some sort of heavenly bandwidth??
Man, oh man.. That's funny.
So there you go, let's have our hydrogen cars up and running soon!
Well if they provide good support for X and OpenGL and maybe even with open source drivers, I'll be buying one instead of that NVidia I was planning to get soon.
Ah, so you didn't get the email telling you how easily you can increase the size of your floppy from 3.5" to 5.25"!
I'd prefer something like {[A-Za-z]n[A-Za-z]x}|{[A-Za-z]+BSD}.
You mean like Steve Fossett? No, this thing is supposed to be intelligent!
Where's your vaunted freedom now, mmm?
Hahaha, we have freedom still in 66.7% of EU!! How's that for freedom!
Amerika and 33.3% of EU suxx!
Well, well. In senior high we actually had to learn about 200 countries (their locations that is) and had an exam on them. Sure, I can't remember all the countries anymore or name all the countries along the African coast, but I certainly can point to the right direction when I hear a name of a country anyway.
Not being mean or anything, but the average geographical knowledge of an american is pretty damn poor.
Oh yes, I'd like to tickle that baby with my MPI calls.. Or maybe some HPF hanky-panky with some nice loop vectorisation. Uuuuh..naughty.
Serious yet amusing at the same time
No, not serious, just amusing. F***ing hilarious actually.
Could there be something wrong in the system?