Is there a reason why this project can't wait for 5, 10, 20 or even 100 years? When there is actually money for it? Is the universe going to just go away? Are we going to miss something really, really important? Is JWST going to do anything at all to improve the average citizen's life or the economy? Or is it a luxury? And why not have it funded by philantropy? Telescopes used to operate that way and this is certainly doable by Gates/Buffet/Slim/etc.
How long do you think people who come to the bar to watch football/baseball/hockey/hoops are going to put up with that before finding another bar? Maybe this works after 1am east/10pm west but I still think most bar goers would rather see sports center or a replay of a game. If this is really that popular then someone will open a gaming only bar.
While that is certainly true in part, the other issue is that 'reflowing' anything but the simplest pdf's is fraught with peril. Two column scientific papers in particular are hopeless because the PDF format is locked into a specific document size when the pdf is created.
One option which might help but does involve some know how and initial work is to grab the original TeX of the paper if it is available and switch from two col to one col output and then generate the pdf. You can also trim the margins too. Once you figure this out it will be pretty rote.
well that seems retarded if you are so interested in speed. And I would think any of the *bsd's would perform just as well as linux and might be more secure too.
Stop voting for the people the establishment media ordane as 'major candidates' and 'having a chance to win' and maybe you would have a better Washington?
Is there a reason why, 3 years in, Obama allows his appointees to propose policies such as these? Is he just blissfully unaware? Put it all on autopilot?
To conclude, what you have said, in other words, is that there is for all intents no difference between Obama and anyone else.
How's that hopey changey stuff working out for ya? You got enough hope yet? Enough change? No? Bet you can't wait to vote Obama in for another four years of more hope and change.
Xmonad is a tiling wm but can also float windows too. It can be used on multiple monitors and supports at least 9 virtual desktops. I too have a ton of terminal windows open and its great to have them organized. You can adjust the various window sizes, quickly cycle through a number of layout formats, change the primary window, etc. You can also quickly float/retile windows. I typically keep one monitor with firefox full screen and the other can be xterms, eclipse, im/mail etc. I know that others have done far more customization of it than I have (which is very little)
I agree -- tape drives are perfect for backups. Like someone mentioned, tar volumes from the 1970s are readable on tapes today.
I just read a VHS archive made in 1987 and it worked fine. Funny that most of the commercials were for food or clothes. Only one for a car and one for aspirin.
Er.. no. Just because he is asking you to communicate through an approved "channel" does not mean he will not see it or perhaps respond to it. It is unrealistic to expect the lead on any project beyond the very small to respond to your direct mailings.
Also you and others seem not to understand that mailing lists/forums/etc developed for this purpose provide a repository available to all the developers (and users) and serves as a primary source audit trail. There is no accidental deletion, missorting or otherwise misplacing/deletion of your message. Depending on the sophistication of the project it can also allow direct assignment of the problem/bug/suggestion to the appropriate individual/team, for instance the use of bugzilla on the various mozilla projects.
To answer your question, no it probably does not matter as far as the end product goes. However, the original poster on this thread, though marked as troll, did have some basis for his tirade in that many people (still) see linux as an OS primarily developed by individuals/hackers/computer geeks and that is/has been generally been viewed as "cool" or a good thing. But as is apparent, much of the code these days is directly or indirectly corporate sponsored. Is this bad? Well some people may think so and they may even be right to think this could have a long term negative effect on the OS. The truth probably is somewhere in between as it is certainly helpful to have more people fixing bugs, improving performance and (hopefully) increasing hardware compatability. But never discount that those same corps. may have their own agenda which is divergent from the perceived "linux agenda".
First, understand the bias of Joe Cirincione - he is in the business of strategic arms reduction. I too was a member of ACA (the mailman must have wondered about me after 9/11 getting Arms Control Today with pictures of nukes on the cover.) But I was a member primarily for information not so much belief. With the large cuts under Bush and the subsequent ones by Obama, we are now near or at the minimal level of deterent - found by retiring or mothballing, not increasing the arsenal.
However, at a certain point, the number of delivery systems (not just warheads) becomes low enough that a country such as China or Pakistan and India does not need to make such a great leap to join the US/Rus. club. That, more than anything else, will likely set the floor on how many nukes we retain.
As to the cost of new bombers, missiles, subs, etc - keep in mind one of the primary parts of the triad today are bombers and the one we have the most of is the B-52. Its only 60 years old and slated to continue service thru 2040. And stealthy it aint. Our Trident subs which first entered service in 1981 are expected to begin retirement around 2029 - 58 years of service. So it is not at all unreasonable to expect to begin preparing for replacements. And while the costs are high, if the replacements last anywhere near as long as the originals, we will get good value for the money spent.
Manning broke the law and in spades. There is no getting around that. He had no idea what were in 99.9999999999% of the files he gave to wikileaks - and we still haven't seen all of them either. There were legitimate routes he could have gone with the helicopter/journalist kill video within DoD and legitmate routes beyond that. He chose not to. That much of what was released is mundane, over classified or shows stupidity or pettiness should not shock anyone. If anything, Manning has hurt the cause of openess as the government will be even more hostile to reduced or no classification on routine documents, will find reason to spurn even more FOIA requests and will clamp down harder on security.
Basically it is the SCSC of the astronomy community. With the growing costs overruns (and delays) other projects were going to be squeezed out. We really need to get back to state where research, aka 'science' is not beholden to government funding, government planners and government managers. Were this project done by private industry on behalf of an again, privately funded (aka charitable) research foundation I think it quite likely it would have had been done and launched already.
considering the only reason why the figures are what they are because of the increase in biomass aka ETHANOL I would say yes, nuclear is still the only viable alternative. Hydro is maxed out, wind blows (ha!) and solar is the promise which never lives up to the hype.
Actually, Fortran gets far too little love. If anyone would bother to look at the more recent standards (say 95 and on) they would see that it does a heck of a lot (and very well too.) Unfortunately, people have been taught/told that it is either a) dead or b) evil.
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Is there a reason why this project can't wait for 5, 10, 20 or even 100 years? When there is actually money for it? Is the universe going to just go away? Are we going to miss something really, really important? Is JWST going to do anything at all to improve the average citizen's life or the economy? Or is it a luxury? And why not have it funded by philantropy? Telescopes used to operate that way and this is certainly doable by Gates/Buffet/Slim/etc.
How long do you think people who come to the bar to watch football/baseball/hockey/hoops are going to put up with that before finding another bar? Maybe this works after 1am east/10pm west but I still think most bar goers would rather see sports center or a replay of a game. If this is really that popular then someone will open a gaming only bar.
While that is certainly true in part, the other issue is that 'reflowing' anything but the simplest pdf's is fraught with peril. Two column scientific papers in particular are hopeless because the PDF format is locked into a specific document size when the pdf is created.
One option which might help but does involve some know how and initial work is to grab the original TeX of the paper if it is available and switch from two col to one col output and then generate the pdf. You can also trim the margins too. Once you figure this out it will be pretty rote.
well that seems retarded if you are so interested in speed. And I would think any of the *bsd's would perform just as well as linux and might be more secure too.
Stop voting for the people the establishment media ordane as 'major candidates' and 'having a chance to win' and maybe you would have a better Washington?
Is there a reason why, 3 years in, Obama allows his appointees to propose policies such as these? Is he just blissfully unaware? Put it all on autopilot?
To conclude, what you have said, in other words, is that there is for all intents no difference between Obama and anyone else.
How's that hopey changey stuff working out for ya? You got enough hope yet? Enough change? No? Bet you can't wait to vote Obama in for another four years of more hope and change.
Xmonad is a tiling wm but can also float windows too. It can be used on multiple monitors and supports at least 9 virtual desktops. I too have a ton of terminal windows open and its great to have them organized. You can adjust the various window sizes, quickly cycle through a number of layout formats, change the primary window, etc. You can also quickly float/retile windows. I typically keep one monitor with firefox full screen and the other can be xterms, eclipse, im/mail etc. I know that others have done far more customization of it than I have (which is very little)
you should switch to Xmonad then. It is perfect for what you are asking.
even simpler - vote harry reid out of office and then Yucca can be opened.
So fitting that it all starts in the Commiewealth
Tommaso has a short piece up on this result and will be adding more. He is a member of CDF as well.
I agree -- tape drives are perfect for backups. Like someone mentioned, tar volumes from the 1970s are readable on tapes today.
I just read a VHS archive made in 1987 and it worked fine. Funny that most of the commercials were for food or clothes. Only one for a car and one for aspirin.
don't be dissing the paper tape! that saved a lot of re-typing!
I used to send my FX orders to Sydney, Tokyo and Sing by telex. You mean its made a come back? The new stealth: 110 baud!
Er.. no. Just because he is asking you to communicate through an approved "channel" does not mean he will not see it or perhaps respond to it. It is unrealistic to expect the lead on any project beyond the very small to respond to your direct mailings.
Also you and others seem not to understand that mailing lists/forums/etc developed for this purpose provide a repository available to all the developers (and users) and serves as a primary source audit trail. There is no accidental deletion, missorting or otherwise misplacing/deletion of your message. Depending on the sophistication of the project it can also allow direct assignment of the problem/bug/suggestion to the appropriate individual/team, for instance the use of bugzilla on the various mozilla projects.
To answer your question, no it probably does not matter as far as the end product goes. However, the original poster on this thread, though marked as troll, did have some basis for his tirade in that many people (still) see linux as an OS primarily developed by individuals/hackers/computer geeks and that is/has been generally been viewed as "cool" or a good thing. But as is apparent, much of the code these days is directly or indirectly corporate sponsored. Is this bad? Well some people may think so and they may even be right to think this could have a long term negative effect on the OS. The truth probably is somewhere in between as it is certainly helpful to have more people fixing bugs, improving performance and (hopefully) increasing hardware compatability. But never discount that those same corps. may have their own agenda which is divergent from the perceived "linux agenda".
Another question might be when do they expire? It seems like they both might be near that time?
First, understand the bias of Joe Cirincione - he is in the business of strategic arms reduction. I too was a member of ACA (the mailman must have wondered about me after 9/11 getting Arms Control Today with pictures of nukes on the cover.) But I was a member primarily for information not so much belief. With the large cuts under Bush and the subsequent ones by Obama, we are now near or at the minimal level of deterent - found by retiring or mothballing, not increasing the arsenal.
However, at a certain point, the number of delivery systems (not just warheads) becomes low enough that a country such as China or Pakistan and India does not need to make such a great leap to join the US/Rus. club. That, more than anything else, will likely set the floor on how many nukes we retain.
As to the cost of new bombers, missiles, subs, etc - keep in mind one of the primary parts of the triad today are bombers and the one we have the most of is the B-52. Its only 60 years old and slated to continue service thru 2040. And stealthy it aint. Our Trident subs which first entered service in 1981 are expected to begin retirement around 2029 - 58 years of service. So it is not at all unreasonable to expect to begin preparing for replacements. And while the costs are high, if the replacements last anywhere near as long as the originals, we will get good value for the money spent.
Manning broke the law and in spades. There is no getting around that. He had no idea what were in 99.9999999999% of the files he gave to wikileaks - and we still haven't seen all of them either. There were legitimate routes he could have gone with the helicopter/journalist kill video within DoD and legitmate routes beyond that. He chose not to. That much of what was released is mundane, over classified or shows stupidity or pettiness should not shock anyone. If anything, Manning has hurt the cause of openess as the government will be even more hostile to reduced or no classification on routine documents, will find reason to spurn even more FOIA requests and will clamp down harder on security.
Its been four decades. And I've been harassed by police while using my telescope too.
Basically it is the SCSC of the astronomy community. With the growing costs overruns (and delays) other projects were going to be squeezed out. We really need to get back to state where research, aka 'science' is not beholden to government funding, government planners and government managers. Were this project done by private industry on behalf of an again, privately funded (aka charitable) research foundation I think it quite likely it would have had been done and launched already.
considering the only reason why the figures are what they are because of the increase in biomass aka ETHANOL I would say yes, nuclear is still the only viable alternative. Hydro is maxed out, wind blows (ha!) and solar is the promise which never lives up to the hype.
In other words, liesd, damn lies and benchmarks.
liesd? Some kind of demon that generates benchmarks?
no, its a daemon that generates politicians
Actually, Fortran gets far too little love. If anyone would bother to look at the more recent standards (say 95 and on) they would see that it does a heck of a lot (and very well too.) Unfortunately, people have been taught/told that it is either a) dead or b) evil.
for at least 50 years now and they are still around.