...is an essay by Isaac Asimov, first published in the April 1959 edition of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, then latter in his collections Fact and Fancy (1962) and Asimov on Chemistry (1974).
In it the Gentle Doctor argued that phosphorous has the greatest relative concentration increase going from its abundance in the natural environment to that in life of all sorts. It thus was often the limit to growth of life as it was scavenged up and held in the biomass.
It's always important to confirm by testing in specific cases, as with this one, as there are other limits, such as dissolved iron. I can't remember where, but I recently read that low blood iron may be a defensive mechanism to make it hard for bacteria to grow during some infections--and that treating the low iron may be the wrong treatment here.
Shingles can be more painful than childbirth, according to an article I read when I had it 4 years ago. When the rash develops, you have to get the antiviral within a day or you will want to die during the worse part. I had to take the drug for about 8 weeks due to lingering pain.
Whereas if you had one of those trendy microkernel thingies, you'd basically end up giving userspace programs unfettered access to hardware. Remind me again, how that is better than performing basic sanity checking within kernel space? Because the userspace driver *doesn't* have to have unfettered access to all the hardware. It can have a memory map that only allows it to access the hardware it drives. And it can't change the memory map. Or access other components memory. So if it has errors, they can only affect its own hardware and/or crash the driver. And makes analysis of problems a lot simpler.
I believe Ubuntu has a more fancy graphical package manager which can control everything, but I use Debian itself and it uses 3 text files in/etc/apt/ to control things:
apt.conf (as well as directory apt.conf.d) to change default configuration items
preferences to pin your package preferences
sources.list to list where to get your packages from (CD, files, HTTP, FTP, etc.)
You can look these up with the man command: man apt.conf; man apt_preferences; man sources.list. I use the standard program aptitude and adjust it with these lines in apt.conf (the first lets me see which release packages are in):
I pin the distros to use (and avoid the problems you mention) with this in preferences. You can adjust the priority of package sources; aptitude will allow you to install a later version (e.g. unstable when the highest priority is testing) and will offer new unstable versions as updates:
And I use these package sources in sources.list (lines are commented out to reduce the number of packages and work around a limit in testings version of aptitude):
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free deb-src http://security.debian.org/ etch/updates main contrib non-free
# deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free # deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ experimental main contrib non-free
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ sid main deb-src http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ sid main
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib non-free
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org/ lenny main
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian etch main contrib non-free
...Newton's second law is wrong from special and general relativity...
Not if you state it in the form:
F = dp / dt where F is the force on an object, p is the momentum of the object, and t is time; ie. the force is the time differential of the momentum. (And for completeness, p and F can be vectors.) Only with classical simplification do you get "F = ma".
For package management, try using aptitude, Debian's new standard (Ubuntu is Debian-derived). It can be used on the command line like apt-get with virtually all the same arguments; however, its true power is when used in its visual mode: type "aptitude" and you get a character-cell display. A great feature is aptitude's tracking of packages that are automatically installed by dependencies (like libraries); when all packages that need them are removed, so are they. As well, aptitude logs what it does in/var/log/aptitude.
More info can be displayed by adjusting some configuration. In the file/etc/apt/apt.conf, add the following lines:
Here in the UK we use old-fashioned paper ballots, hand counted. No tabulating machines, no hanging chads, no technology at all.
Same here in Canada. Population about that of California, country larger than the U.S. Unlike the UK, in Canada the results of each polling station are reported to the media as they are counted (rather than the UK's report of all polls in a riding, which I would prefer). So you see the election come in over the whole evening. Same thing--the election result is known by late night and confirmed the next morning. All done mostly with volunteers.
Arthur C. Clarke wrote Against the Fall of Night. published in 1953, and revised it as The City and the Stars, published in 1956.
I read both of them years ago and years apart, Against first and without knowledge of City. I think Against is the better of the two books. City is longer and more complex, distractingly so I think. Not surprisingly, the author prefers City.
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You may not be offered a way to tell [it's Microsoft]
This is Microsoft. They'll want you to know you've "enjoying" a Microsoft experience. The branding may not be massive but it will be unmistakably MS.
...is an essay by Isaac Asimov, first published in the April 1959 edition of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, then latter in his collections Fact and Fancy (1962) and Asimov on Chemistry (1974).
In it the Gentle Doctor argued that phosphorous has the greatest relative concentration increase going from its abundance in the natural environment to that in life of all sorts. It thus was often the limit to growth of life as it was scavenged up and held in the biomass.
It's always important to confirm by testing in specific cases, as with this one, as there are other limits, such as dissolved iron. I can't remember where, but I recently read that low blood iron may be a defensive mechanism to make it hard for bacteria to grow during some infections--and that treating the low iron may be the wrong treatment here.
Yeah! For a minute there I actually thought they were talking about piracy. Silly me, of course I should have known this was Newspeak "piracy".
Shingles can be more painful than childbirth, according to an article I read when I had it 4 years ago. When the rash develops, you have to get the antiviral within a day or you will want to die during the worse part. I had to take the drug for about 8 weeks due to lingering pain.
Hey, *I* heard that they now think WinFS won't be ready in time and won't be good enough, so they're writing their own DNFS.
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Loss of Mariner 1 in 1962. Loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter in 1999. Mistakes in the control software design led to situations where these spacecraft were lost.
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- apt.conf (as well as directory apt.conf.d) to change default configuration items
- preferences to pin your package preferences
- sources.list to list where to get your packages from (CD, files, HTTP, FTP, etc.)
You can look these up with the man command: man apt.conf; man apt_preferences; man sources.list.I use the standard program aptitude and adjust it with these lines in apt.conf (the first lets me see which release packages are in): I pin the distros to use (and avoid the problems you mention) with this in preferences. You can adjust the priority of package sources; aptitude will allow you to install a later version (e.g. unstable when the highest priority is testing) and will offer new unstable versions as updates: And I use these package sources in sources.list (lines are commented out to reduce the number of packages and work around a limit in testings version of aptitude):
...can Duke Nukem Forever be far behind...?
Munich: Failing as an artist in Vienna, MS eventually ends up in Bavaria. After a military stint, decides to take up politics and world domination.
More info can be displayed by adjusting some configuration. In the file
Yea, so take off!
And searching for ia32 doesn't have an Intel site in the first 15 hits.
I read both of them years ago and years apart, Against first and without knowledge of City. I think Against is the better of the two books. City is longer and more complex, distractingly so I think. Not surprisingly, the author prefers City.
but for the QWERTY keyboard typo. And it is a very good article.
But will they now release a Linux version for the original Half-Life when they have a new cash cow???
Damn! Better start saving those nickels and dimes!