I do not get it. Why not have a water drain in the bottom, with a filter to prevent the algae from being siphoned out. Then you just tilt the container so the algae come out. Then you put them in piles and dry them in the sun.
No. The Haber ammonia synthesis process requires a source of hydrogen to run. It is just that currently the cheapest way to generate hydrogen is steam reforming of natural gas. Natural gas, not petroleum. Hydrogen can just as well be generated from electrolysis (if you have cheap electricity), sulfur-iodine cycle (if you have an available source of heat), or whatever from water.
Well they are wrong. Screen surface size matters. A wristwatch form factor is not a replacement for a laptop or even a netbook. People have claimed this could be circumvented with foldable displays, but those have been vapor so far. E Ink was supposed to be used in foldable displays, yet the one use of it I can remember of after all these years, the Kindle, is most definitively not foldable. Foldable displays also have issues regarding input. A hard surface is useful since it means it can withstand pressure (finger, pen whatever).
A wristwatch form factor can make sense for a phone replacement, but some of us bought smartphones because we wanted to do web browsing, email, or even gaming. For these applications a larger screen is preferable.
Such small displays defeat the entire idea of why netbooks have been so successful: light and small platforms in which you can do web browsing, e-mail, light gaming, presentations, or light office work.
Great. Asus leadership has turned to worshiping vaporware crapola. This reminds me of Nokia's cellphone designs before the iPhone came out and eat their lunch in the high end. Make usable and manufacturable designs people. Geez.
Most developers of FLOSS applications code in C or C++. The Visual Studio tools are not as appealing for those languages as for, say, C#. Try reading what Microsoft uses for their internal Windows C/C++ system level programming. It is not Visual Studio, nor is it Team Foundation Server.
I just download one of the Eclipse "distros" which fit the kind of development I do. Only remaining egregious usually non-preinstalled plugin is Subversive. Cannot get why SVN is not bundled when CVS is.
Eclipse is great for Java (even if slow and a memory hog), but not that great for C or C++ development. Most refactoring patterns are either broken or have bugged implementations for example.
WebKit is based on KHTML. Since KHTML was GPL licensed they could not, like, not release the source even if they did not want to. CUPS same thing. Dunno about the other one.
While it is nice that Apple contributes development resources for these projects, they also required less development resources by adopting a FLOSS solution to begin with.
Landlines are still very useful for data services. It so happens that voice is just another data stream. It is treated differently merely for historical reasons.
There are some niceties in the traditional telephone model. Running on the power of the telephone line itself meant it was more resilient to disasters than a VOIP phone. But I guess we have mobile phones for that. Err... providing the battery does not run out.
You are comparing a technology with a licensing model.
IMO closed source software in the scale it is done today is unsustainable. It amounts to rent seeking behavior that magnifies barriers to market entry, by both individuals and corporations. Software has close, and converging towards, zero marginal cost.
You are dismissing a huge section of the marketplace. Most software is written in-house at large or less than large corporations for their own consumption. For such a corporation open source can provide a great platform to build their next in house custom tool or service or whatever. Google is probably one of the most well known examples because they are an Internet services company. Yet I have seen Linux installed in everything from cash register machines to cellphones to servers, etc.
Obviously you are not going to have the same level of profit if you just do software versus a closed source company. It is much more human resource intensive to do software services. However in the long term that is where most software will be heading towards. Software licensing is an artificial and distorted way to get payment for actual work done. As most general use software gets open sourced, closed source will remain either in niche markets, or as of yet undeveloped markets where there is little competition.
First browser I used was Netscape 1.1. I use Mozilla Firefox. I used Opera at a time, but it had more issues rendering pages than Firefox. Really. It was small and fast, and had an MDI interface long before most everyone else switched to tabs, but I always had issues using it as an everyday browser.
Nah. The RD-170, excellent as it is, is in a different category. It is a LOX/Kerosene engine for booster applications. SSME was made to work across the entire flight envelope. It supports deeper throttling and has higher ISP because of using LOX/LH2. The equivalent Russian engine would be the RD-0120.
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Actually Crunchyroll has some iPhone app as well (alpha). Still, yeah, Flash support is interesting.
I do not get it. Why not have a water drain in the bottom, with a filter to prevent the algae from being siphoned out. Then you just tilt the container so the algae come out. Then you put them in piles and dry them in the sun.
No. The Haber ammonia synthesis process requires a source of hydrogen to run. It is just that currently the cheapest way to generate hydrogen is steam reforming of natural gas. Natural gas, not petroleum. Hydrogen can just as well be generated from electrolysis (if you have cheap electricity), sulfur-iodine cycle (if you have an available source of heat), or whatever from water.
From what I understand they spun off the motherboard manufacturing operations. Asus is turning into a shell company.
Nor phasers or medical tricorders. Getting there though.
Well they are wrong. Screen surface size matters. A wristwatch form factor is not a replacement for a laptop or even a netbook. People have claimed this could be circumvented with foldable displays, but those have been vapor so far. E Ink was supposed to be used in foldable displays, yet the one use of it I can remember of after all these years, the Kindle, is most definitively not foldable. Foldable displays also have issues regarding input. A hard surface is useful since it means it can withstand pressure (finger, pen whatever).
A wristwatch form factor can make sense for a phone replacement, but some of us bought smartphones because we wanted to do web browsing, email, or even gaming. For these applications a larger screen is preferable.
Such small displays defeat the entire idea of why netbooks have been so successful: light and small platforms in which you can do web browsing, e-mail, light gaming, presentations, or light office work.
Great. Asus leadership has turned to worshiping vaporware crapola. This reminds me of Nokia's cellphone designs before the iPhone came out and eat their lunch in the high end. Make usable and manufacturable designs people. Geez.
Great. Another buggy plugin with crash bugs that do not get fixed. Just like Flash.
No one is asking Yotuube to remove support for H.264. Just to add suport for Theora, even if it is at H.263 quality and bitrate levels.
Mortal Kombat was ok. Not great, but ok.
'make' doesn't scale: use ccache and distcc.
Most developers of FLOSS applications code in C or C++. The Visual Studio tools are not as appealing for those languages as for, say, C#. Try reading what Microsoft uses for their internal Windows C/C++ system level programming. It is not Visual Studio, nor is it Team Foundation Server.
You can do that management using a web based solution like Trac. AFAIK there are Eclipse/Trac integration plugins. Eclipse Mylyn for example.
Splint used to be pretty good but AFAIK development has mostly stalled.
There is a larger list here.
Try programming in Java in Vim, then in an IDE with refactoring support. It actually makes Java *gasp* useable.
I just download one of the Eclipse "distros" which fit the kind of development I do. Only remaining egregious usually non-preinstalled plugin is Subversive. Cannot get why SVN is not bundled when CVS is.
Eclipse is great for Java (even if slow and a memory hog), but not that great for C or C++ development. Most refactoring patterns are either broken or have bugged implementations for example.
While it is nice that Apple contributes development resources for these projects, they also required less development resources by adopting a FLOSS solution to begin with.
Displayport has support for fiber optic cabling.
There are some niceties in the traditional telephone model. Running on the power of the telephone line itself meant it was more resilient to disasters than a VOIP phone. But I guess we have mobile phones for that. Err... providing the battery does not run out.
You are comparing a technology with a licensing model.
IMO closed source software in the scale it is done today is unsustainable. It amounts to rent seeking behavior that magnifies barriers to market entry, by both individuals and corporations. Software has close, and converging towards, zero marginal cost.
Obviously you are not going to have the same level of profit if you just do software versus a closed source company. It is much more human resource intensive to do software services. However in the long term that is where most software will be heading towards. Software licensing is an artificial and distorted way to get payment for actual work done. As most general use software gets open sourced, closed source will remain either in niche markets, or as of yet undeveloped markets where there is little competition.
First browser I used was Netscape 1.1. I use Mozilla Firefox. I used Opera at a time, but it had more issues rendering pages than Firefox. Really. It was small and fast, and had an MDI interface long before most everyone else switched to tabs, but I always had issues using it as an everyday browser.
Actually the Chinese are prospecting for oil in Cuba at the moment.
Nah. The RD-170, excellent as it is, is in a different category. It is a LOX/Kerosene engine for booster applications. SSME was made to work across the entire flight envelope. It supports deeper throttling and has higher ISP because of using LOX/LH2. The equivalent Russian engine would be the RD-0120.