Most of what you are saying seems to make good sence.
I just want to note that the scripts I am talking about are not from blackdown. They are included in the contrib archive, and allows you to convert a sun java package to a.deb, so you can easily install it with dpkg.
I have been a steady debian user for several years, and is using both main, contrib, and non-free.
There is no way to aptitude install sun-java. Yuo have to build a package yourself. Since scripts are provided that largely automate this, this is fairly simple task. But you can't just get java from a Debian server and install it like any other package.
The problem is one of translation. In Norwegian the ministry is called Kunnskapsdepartementet. Denmark has a ministry that performs the same function which is called Videnskabsministeriet.
Now, a direct translation of both Kunnskap and Videnskab is not really possible. There is no English word that has the exact same meaning. The closest translation into a using a single English word for Kunnskap or Videnskab would be Ministry of Knowledge, but as you point out it doesn't slip well off the tongue. A longer but more thruthful translation might be Ministry of matters in regard to knowledge.
I guess Ministry of Education works better in English.:)
.. George Robbins who managed Amiga low end systems, and sadly isn't with us anymore, pretty much lived in his office at the Commodore West Chester plant for an extended period.
I tried to write my bachelor thesis in KWord, but I had to give it up after 10 pages or so. Page breaks would happen inconsistently, so paragraphs would jump from page to page in an unpredictable manor. Also inline math looked increasingly bad as more formulas were added to the document. It also slowed down considerably.
I went to Lyx instead. I didn't want to learn pure latex, and lyx worked like a charm, once you got the hang of it's little qirks.
It's the same at the Niels Bohr Institute. 'Nano' definitely has the hottest chicks. They are almost in the same league as the biochemistry department!
I'd like to see either a version of xine that isn't totally crippled, or else take it out. If it doesn't play mpeg, it's no good to anyone, and everybody on the Kaffeine mailinglist is sick and tired of answering questions about it.
No it doesn't. This study only measured iceloss by looking at glacier thickness and velocity around the coast line.
Inland the ice sheet is actually gaining thickness. There is always a different side to the story. The geophysics department at Copenhagen University, where I have studied (astrophysics though) has thoroughly confirmed this.
(Please disregard my previous badly formatted reply.. thanks..)
On Amiga REXX worked similar to KDE's DCOP. Most big applications had an ARexx port which you could send commands to from an ARexx script. That way you could remote control applications.
For instance I once created a gif anim creation tool by simply tying an image viewer which worked as a batch image conversion tool to a gif command line application using ARexx as glue.
It made it unnecessary to implement scripting in any application. Just expose the functionallity through the ARexx port, and users can do whatever they like with it.
An Amiga REXX worked similar to KDE's DCOP. Most big applications had an ARexx port which you could send commands to from an ARexx script. That way you could remote control applications.
For instance I once created a gif anim creation tool by simply tying an image viewer which worked as a batch image conversion tool to a gif command line application using ARexx as glue.
It made it unnecessary to implement scripting in any application. Just expose the functionallity through the ARexx port, and users can do whatever they like with it.
If you are only taking special relativity into account. This theory is based on general relativity, and in GR gravitational effects can cause time to dilate as well. For instance near the event horizon of a black whole, time slows down to a halt. The article talks about producing an anti gravity field. It doesn't sound too far fetched to think that this might actually make time go faster in the vicinity, reversing the effect of high relative speed.
Dude, I really think you should be far more concerned with the more immidiate danger of the Sun expanding into a red giant star engulfing and completely VAPORIZING EARTH!
That's only 5 GYears away at most, guaranteed..
Once we figure out how to survive that, we'll have plenty of time to ponder how to live through the end of the universe itself.
I had basically the same story until I started "advertising" my email address on www and other places. I am talking about using my email address on usenet and on forums and other websites. Once I started doing that, the can was open, so to say and the spam started clogging up my inbox. I managed for about a year with kmails mail filters, but in the end they just couldn't cope and I turned to spamassassin.
Spamassassin has been 99% effective in sorting out the spam. Very few false negatives when the spam writers figure out a new scheme to fool the filters. The bayesian filters usually catch on pretty quickly, and blacklists help a lot too. Note that blacklists doesn't cause mails to bounce when you use spamassassin, it just counts positive in the evaluation of a particular mail if it comes from a known open relay.
I get a few false positives. Mostly a couple of obscure mailinglists that rarely send out stuff. Other false positives are notification emails from online shops. The "artificial" look of these emails sometimes sets off spamassassin's alarm bells big time.
Well perhaps we are not talking about the same thing here, so it will be hard for us to agree.
You say that "m.a = m.b + m.c NEVER means anything but m.a is equal to the machine-sum of m.b and m.c".
It works exactly the same with properties, so I fail to see where your problem lies.
Ok, so weird stuff MIGHT happen when you perform m.a or m.b or m.c if they are properties because you are actually calling a method, that's undeniable. But unless reading the property fails entirely, you are still going to end up with a perfectly normal variable that you can add together with another one to get a result. There is no chance that reading m.b might suddenly result in a string, if you expected an integer.
First of all, in practice there is never any doubt whether you are using a property or a variable. You can not be handed a variable and not know if you are really dealing with a property.
Properties are always part of classes. The case of 'a:= a + b' (as it would be written in Delphi) would only make sence inside the scope of a method that belongs to the same class as a and b. This means you can just look up the documentation of this class and immidiately know that a and b are properties. With experience you will remember in your head if you are using a property or not.
In all other cases you will be explicitly stating which object you want to use the property from. It would look like this: 'myObject.a:= myObject.a + myObject.b'. This is not much different from the case where a and b are methods of myObject, the only difference is that myObject.a accepts assignments. Again using Delphi as model, this is just a shorthand notation for writing 'myObject.SetA(myObject.a + myObject.b)'.
Properties can not be global. They are always part of some class. And it is always obvious which class they belong to.
The IDE also helps you with its code completion feature, which puts up a hint on the screen while you are coding that the member you are using is a property. This is cheating of course..:)
The only nasty example you give is a case where reading the property 'a' results in 'a' being not writable afterwards. A property that behaves this way is rather stupid. In any case such behaviour should be well documented. Typically attempts to write any property which is not ready to take input will raise an exception. Properties that does not support write at all (these are pretty common in fact), always causes a compilation error if you try to assign to them.
I can't really see what the difference should be between summation and division in this context. Since properties always have clearly defined types (like integer or real) it is always obvious what the result of such an operation should be. It will work just like it would if you tried to perform the same operation on variables of the same type as the property.
If + was overloaded, it would in fact be a member function of the property 'a'. Again since 'a' must be a clearly defined type, it is obvious what the result would be. First of all you fetch the value of 'a'. 'a' is of class myClass that overloads + to make 'a + b' meaningful. If the overloaded + doesn't take arguments of the type that b belongs to the code will fail to compile (this is standard operater overloading behaviour). The result of the operation 'a + b' is defined by the overloaded + operator. Now it is simply a matter of whether it is legal to assign this result to 'a'. If it's not, again the compiler should complain.
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Most of what you are saying seems to make good sence.
I just want to note that the scripts I am talking about are not from blackdown. They are included in the contrib archive, and allows you to convert a sun java package to a .deb, so you can easily install it with dpkg.
See - http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/java-pack age
The package does not contain java, so licensing is less of an issue, but it helps you install java on Debian more easily.
JAVA is NOT in Debian and never has been!!!
I have been a steady debian user for several years, and is using both main, contrib, and non-free.
There is no way to aptitude install sun-java. Yuo have to build a package yourself. Since scripts are provided that largely automate this, this is fairly simple task. But you can't just get java from a Debian server and install it like any other package.
The problem is one of translation. In Norwegian the ministry is called Kunnskapsdepartementet. Denmark has a ministry that performs the same function which is called Videnskabsministeriet.
Now, a direct translation of both Kunnskap and Videnskab is not really possible. There is no English word that has the exact same meaning. The closest translation into a using a single English word for Kunnskap or Videnskab would be Ministry of Knowledge, but as you point out it doesn't slip well off the tongue. A longer but more thruthful translation might be Ministry of matters in regard to knowledge.
I guess Ministry of Education works better in English. :)
True.. Seems like around 20% less than average load at peak times.
Exclusive Mr. Fusion prototype..
.. George Robbins who managed Amiga low end systems, and sadly isn't with us anymore, pretty much lived in his office at the Commodore West Chester plant for an extended period.
No? Did they say that?
I tried to write my bachelor thesis in KWord, but I had to give it up after 10 pages or so. Page breaks would happen inconsistently, so paragraphs would jump from page to page in an unpredictable manor. Also inline math looked increasingly bad as more formulas were added to the document. It also slowed down considerably.
I went to Lyx instead. I didn't want to learn pure latex, and lyx worked like a charm, once you got the hang of it's little qirks.
I say we nuke the entire site from orbit.. It's the only way to be sure..
Top Gun, you say?
Right, I've always found the following writeup on everything2.com, particularly enlightening, not to mention very funny.
A Former Navy Pilot picks the movie "Top Gun" to itty-bitty pieces
It's the same at the Niels Bohr Institute. 'Nano' definitely has the hottest chicks. They are almost in the same league as the biochemistry department!
I'd like to see either a version of xine that isn't totally crippled, or else take it out. If it doesn't play mpeg, it's no good to anyone, and everybody on the Kaffeine mailinglist is sick and tired of answering questions about it.
And what is it these 'Energy Conservation Groups' continue to ramble on about?
Could somebody please tell them that energy IS always conserved?? Gees..
But why is the thickness increasing inland?
No it doesn't. This study only measured iceloss by looking at glacier thickness and velocity around the coast line.
Inland the ice sheet is actually gaining thickness. There is always a different side to the story. The geophysics department at Copenhagen University, where I have studied (astrophysics though) has thoroughly confirmed this.
Reference:a -eas110405.php
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-11/es
(Please disregard my previous badly formatted reply.. thanks..)
On Amiga REXX worked similar to KDE's DCOP. Most big applications had an ARexx port which you could send commands to from an ARexx script. That way you could remote control applications.
For instance I once created a gif anim creation tool by simply tying an image viewer which worked as a batch image conversion tool to a gif command line application using ARexx as glue.
It made it unnecessary to implement scripting in any application. Just expose the functionallity through the ARexx port, and users can do whatever they like with it.
An Amiga REXX worked similar to KDE's DCOP. Most big applications had an ARexx port which you could send commands to from an ARexx script. That way you could remote control applications. For instance I once created a gif anim creation tool by simply tying an image viewer which worked as a batch image conversion tool to a gif command line application using ARexx as glue. It made it unnecessary to implement scripting in any application. Just expose the functionallity through the ARexx port, and users can do whatever they like with it.
If you are only taking special relativity into account. This theory is based on general relativity, and in GR gravitational effects can cause time to dilate as well. For instance near the event horizon of a black whole, time slows down to a halt. The article talks about producing an anti gravity field. It doesn't sound too far fetched to think that this might actually make time go faster in the vicinity, reversing the effect of high relative speed.
Dude, I really think you should be far more concerned with the more immidiate danger of the Sun expanding into a red giant star engulfing and completely VAPORIZING EARTH!
That's only 5 GYears away at most, guaranteed..
Once we figure out how to survive that, we'll have plenty of time to ponder how to live through the end of the universe itself.
I had basically the same story until I started "advertising" my email address on www and other places. I am talking about using my email address on usenet and on forums and other websites. Once I started doing that, the can was open, so to say and the spam started clogging up my inbox. I managed for about a year with kmails mail filters, but in the end they just couldn't cope and I turned to spamassassin.
Spamassassin has been 99% effective in sorting out the spam. Very few false negatives when the spam writers figure out a new scheme to fool the filters. The bayesian filters usually catch on pretty quickly, and blacklists help a lot too. Note that blacklists doesn't cause mails to bounce when you use spamassassin, it just counts positive in the evaluation of a particular mail if it comes from a known open relay.
I get a few false positives. Mostly a couple of obscure mailinglists that rarely send out stuff. Other false positives are notification emails from online shops. The "artificial" look of these emails sometimes sets off spamassassin's alarm bells big time.
This reference states the resistivity of pure deionized water as 18M.cm. That is not non-conductive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deionized_water
Perhaps you didn't notice the mini fusion device mounted on the top of the case?
Well perhaps we are not talking about the same thing here, so it will be hard for us to agree.
You say that "m.a = m.b + m.c NEVER means anything but m.a is equal to the machine-sum of m.b and m.c".
It works exactly the same with properties, so I fail to see where your problem lies.
Ok, so weird stuff MIGHT happen when you perform m.a or m.b or m.c if they are properties because you are actually calling a method, that's undeniable. But unless reading the property fails entirely, you are still going to end up with a perfectly normal variable that you can add together with another one to get a result. There is no chance that reading m.b might suddenly result in a string, if you expected an integer.
First of all, in practice there is never any doubt whether you are using a property or a variable. You can not be handed a variable and not know if you are really dealing with a property.
Properties are always part of classes. The case of 'a := a + b' (as it would be written in Delphi) would only make sence inside the scope of a method that belongs to the same class as a and b. This means you can just look up the documentation of this class and immidiately know that a and b are properties. With experience you will remember in your head if you are using a property or not.
In all other cases you will be explicitly stating which object you want to use the property from. It would look like this: 'myObject.a := myObject.a + myObject.b'. This is not much different from the case where a and b are methods of myObject, the only difference is that myObject.a accepts assignments. Again using Delphi as model, this is just a shorthand notation for writing 'myObject.SetA(myObject.a + myObject.b)'.
Properties can not be global. They are always part of some class. And it is always obvious which class they belong to.
The IDE also helps you with its code completion feature, which puts up a hint on the screen while you are coding that the member you are using is a property. This is cheating of course.. :)
The only nasty example you give is a case where reading the property 'a' results in 'a' being not writable afterwards. A property that behaves this way is rather stupid. In any case such behaviour should be well documented. Typically attempts to write any property which is not ready to take input will raise an exception. Properties that does not support write at all (these are pretty common in fact), always causes a compilation error if you try to assign to them.
I can't really see what the difference should be between summation and division in this context. Since properties always have clearly defined types (like integer or real) it is always obvious what the result of such an operation should be. It will work just like it would if you tried to perform the same operation on variables of the same type as the property.
If + was overloaded, it would in fact be a member function of the property 'a'. Again since 'a' must be a clearly defined type, it is obvious what the result would be. First of all you fetch the value of 'a'. 'a' is of class myClass that overloads + to make 'a + b' meaningful. If the overloaded + doesn't take arguments of the type that b belongs to the code will fail to compile (this is standard operater overloading behaviour). The result of the operation 'a + b' is defined by the overloaded + operator. Now it is simply a matter of whether it is legal to assign this result to 'a'. If it's not, again the compiler should complain.