I guess that answers the speculations, whether you will be able to use Google Drive with Linux:
Unless google brakes the openness of ChromeOS, yes. And as long as they don't forbid crypt, that works for me
So basically the worlds largest digital camera needs the worlds largest camera flash. I would suggest using a low yield nuclear warhead, but there would be a few issues with that.
And what's the ultimate goal? To build an aircraft that goes faster than the previous ones? With enough money you can always best the previous record, but after a while it becomes pointless, just like those record speed cars that are basically just a rocket on wheels. This is basically just a rocket on wings.
Get to LEO with an air-breathing engine?
Get Pizza delivered under half an hour? - from Italy.
And while they're busy doing that they often manage to put on one hell of a show:
* this effort
* the autonomous vehicle DARPA Challenge
* other random bits that we read about
* certainly other random bits we have no idea about, but I bet they're cool!
-nB
It would have been interesting to include the whole computer in the power measurement. How much more electricity is drawn by a javascript infested site than one that is just static HTML and images ?
Agreed, add the server load to that, for serving static pages versus large pages that call up components on five different servers and deliver tracking information to databases on three more. And the fewer virtual servers you can run on each machine, the more hardware will be needed. Add memory requirements on either end, ram as well as server storage and swap on the client side.... ... I think one could easily come up with a quite drastic example.
The main reason for crashes in LibreOffice appears to be system memory. With sixteen gigabytes of RAM, Writer has yet to crash any document that I have opened -- something that I can't say about Word.
Does anyone else think that having to have 16 GB of ram to prevent your word processor from crashing is a bit excessive?
OP didn't say it takes "16 GB of ram to prevent your word processor from crashing" but "With sixteen gigabytes of RAM, Writer has yet to crash any document"
Agreed, but most non-techies wouldnt even think of LaTeX. If you write anything with more than 4 pages and want wysiwyg, Open|Libre Office styles are just wonderful. Word used to be that way, but now hides all these features, because that's where they see their market. And if all you do is a letter or a sign in ComicSans for the break room, that's just fine. Just like all these websites made with a click and publish tool (or even Word) are just fine.
I thought OpenOffice was a decent piece of software, but it's still based on prior definitions of what a documenting software has been, rather than what it could be.
Unfortunately, it still feels that way. The document format could do so much more. And if you think of the format like you think of a programming language, Open|Libre Office could allow more variations, even if it isn't offered by the standard gui.
Disclaimer:
I am not employed by Microsoft and although I haven't checked the mail today, I don't expect there to be a check from Oracle.
I have been using OpenOffice exclusively for the last nine years. I even was able to use it at work.
But: I had one case years ago where the footnotes should (a) restart at every chapter but (b) show up all at the end of the document with chapter headings in between. (And I know, neither Openoffice nor Word are intended for publishing, but that's how it is IRL.)
With some tricks Word could do it, StarOffice couldn't (and Openoffice still can't). I wrote to the forum at Sun, only to be told that I either don't know what I'm doing or that I'm requesting a feature nobody needs.
That's not a singular case. Developers at Sun were quite agressive towards people who had different opinions about GUI or feature decisions. The bibliography project had some interesting ideas, but none of that has been integrated for years. I hope it changes, once LibreOffice is running well enough to look at designs.
There's a group of people on/. that react to vaccination as they react to nuclear power: Any critic is a nut case.
Every time I get a Tetanus shot I am sick for a couple days. But since it is only every 10y, I of course forget and when I schedule the next shot I only remember afterwards that I should have picked a different day.
No, I am not an anti-vaxxer and have all my updates. But I do read through CDC recommendations, watch for changes, and read up on efficacy. If there is an update to a more aggressive vaccination pattern for young kids, I check: Where does the new risk assessment come from? Is it based on new studies? Or are there epidemiological changes in the population? Are we part of a high risk group? How high will the exposure be? What recommendations are there in other countries? After that, I just might decide to delay a vaccination.
The misconception this question enforces is stronger than that. 1 and 3 attempt compare the the measurement of physical properties while number 4 is a behavioural observation that can only be measured through correlation.
But so is 2: Studying human behavior, "The song of a mockingbird is prettier than the song of a cardinal." means "More humans will assign the term 'pretty' to the vocalization of a mocking bird than to that of a cardinal." Which, for someone studying human behavior, might be an interesting observation.
What makes this question double-dumb is the superficial understanding of science behind it: Science should never be about our emotions, feelings, passions. That's what these kids have to understand. The question is designed to weed out the kids who can't switch that part of, when doing science: "Bird song", "pretty" No, that can't be the right answer, any kid who falls for that doesn't belong in science.
First of all, social science, psychology , etc. go exactly for that kind of question. The scientific mind there is: Wow, this seems prettier, I wonder why, is it cultural, could I test that...
And second even in the hard science, it's passion that sparks the motivation.
(Would be interesting to see how questions like that de-select girls.)
The star wars project was actually a success. It was only deemed a failure, as to keep our enemies off guard.
Exactly the same thing with the North Korean rocket launch. Let the world laugh while the Great North Korean intergalactic spaceship is nearing completion.
Slashdot Mirror
What's the dual use for the theory of gravity?
defenestration
Hey Captain Pedantic!
You're late to the game, Captain Asshat beat you by 13/15th of an hour.
I guess that answers the speculations, whether you will be able to use Google Drive with Linux: Unless google brakes the openness of ChromeOS, yes.
And as long as they don't forbid crypt, that works for me
And once NASA sends it over to Target for printing, they'd probably downsize it anyhow.
So basically the worlds largest digital camera needs the worlds largest camera flash. I would suggest using a low yield nuclear warhead, but there would be a few issues with that.
Make that two nuclear warheads to avoid red eye.
Modded both "troll" and "informative" on the same post. LOL. That's new.
I just wish for a Flamebait +1
I cann has TLD?
I think even their underwater basket weaving majors can do the math on that one.
You sound like you disapprove of underwater basket weaving majors ?!
I think with rising sea level that major has some future in Florida
And what's the ultimate goal? To build an aircraft that goes faster than the previous ones? With enough money you can always best the previous record, but after a while it becomes pointless, just like those record speed cars that are basically just a rocket on wheels. This is basically just a rocket on wings.
Get to LEO with an air-breathing engine?
Get Pizza delivered under half an hour? - from Italy.
And while they're busy doing that they often manage to put on one hell of a show: * this effort * the autonomous vehicle DARPA Challenge * other random bits that we read about * certainly other random bits we have no idea about, but I bet they're cool! -nB
also.. * the fucking Internet
you kids these days need to learn your history
Al Gore worked for DARPA?
It would have been interesting to include the whole computer in the power measurement. How much more electricity is drawn by a javascript infested site than one that is just static HTML and images ?
Agreed, add the server load to that, for serving static pages versus large pages that call up components on five different servers and deliver tracking information to databases on three more. And the fewer virtual servers you can run on each machine, the more hardware will be needed. Add memory requirements on either end, ram as well as server storage and swap on the client side....
... I think one could easily come up with a quite drastic example.
The main reason for crashes in LibreOffice appears to be system memory. With sixteen gigabytes of RAM, Writer has yet to crash any document that I have opened -- something that I can't say about Word.
Does anyone else think that having to have 16 GB of ram to prevent your word processor from crashing is a bit excessive?
OP didn't say it takes "16 GB of ram to prevent your word processor from crashing" but "With sixteen gigabytes of RAM, Writer has yet to crash any document"
Agreed, but most non-techies wouldnt even think of LaTeX. If you write anything with more than 4 pages and want wysiwyg, Open|Libre Office styles are just wonderful.
Word used to be that way, but now hides all these features, because that's where they see their market. And if all you do is a letter or a sign in ComicSans for the break room, that's just fine. Just like all these websites made with a click and publish tool (or even Word) are just fine.
I thought OpenOffice was a decent piece of software, but it's still based on prior definitions of what a documenting software has been, rather than what it could be.
Unfortunately, it still feels that way. The document format could do so much more. And if you think of the format like you think of a programming language, Open|Libre Office could allow more variations, even if it isn't offered by the standard gui.
Disclaimer: I am not employed by Microsoft and although I haven't checked the mail today, I don't expect there to be a check from Oracle.
I have been using OpenOffice exclusively for the last nine years. I even was able to use it at work.
But: I had one case years ago where the footnotes should (a) restart at every chapter but (b) show up all at the end of the document with chapter headings in between. (And I know, neither Openoffice nor Word are intended for publishing, but that's how it is IRL.)
With some tricks Word could do it, StarOffice couldn't (and Openoffice still can't). I wrote to the forum at Sun, only to be told that I either don't know what I'm doing or that I'm requesting a feature nobody needs.
That's not a singular case. Developers at Sun were quite agressive towards people who had different opinions about GUI or feature decisions. The bibliography project had some interesting ideas, but none of that has been integrated for years. I hope it changes, once LibreOffice is running well enough to look at designs.
Open source office software is has gotten pretty good
Now if they only added a decent grammar check.
Publix is the FOSS advocate group equivalent in France?
Publix is a grocery store.
They have grocery stores in France?
There's a group of people on /. that react to vaccination as they react to nuclear power: Any critic is a nut case.
Every time I get a Tetanus shot I am sick for a couple days. But since it is only every 10y, I of course forget and when I schedule the next shot I only remember afterwards that I should have picked a different day.
No, I am not an anti-vaxxer and have all my updates. But I do read through CDC recommendations, watch for changes, and read up on efficacy. If there is an update to a more aggressive vaccination pattern for young kids, I check: Where does the new risk assessment come from? Is it based on new studies? Or are there epidemiological changes in the population? Are we part of a high risk group? How high will the exposure be? What recommendations are there in other countries?
After that, I just might decide to delay a vaccination.
Hm. Better not vaccinate my kid then, since he's more likely to get whooping cough if he's fully vaccinated.
Your science sounds sound.
Plus, whooping cough is bacterial anyhow. So, just eat enough pork and eat goes away.
I RTFA and it looks like hogwash to me. It said that the adults had to be big to keep from being eaten by their own young.
You don't have kids?
I'd be more suspicious of Venus... clearly it was trying to take down a passenger aircraft
And Venus is the morning star, also known as Lucifer.
The misconception this question enforces is stronger than that. 1 and 3 attempt compare the the measurement of physical properties while number 4 is a behavioural observation that can only be measured through correlation.
But so is 2: Studying human behavior, "The song of a mockingbird is prettier than the song of a cardinal." means "More humans will assign the term 'pretty' to the vocalization of a mocking bird than to that of a cardinal." Which, for someone studying human behavior, might be an interesting observation.
What makes this question double-dumb is the superficial understanding of science behind it: Science should never be about our emotions, feelings, passions. That's what these kids have to understand. The question is designed to weed out the kids who can't switch that part of, when doing science: "Bird song", "pretty" No, that can't be the right answer, any kid who falls for that doesn't belong in science.
First of all, social science, psychology , etc. go exactly for that kind of question. The scientific mind there is: Wow, this seems prettier, I wonder why, is it cultural, could I test that...
And second even in the hard science, it's passion that sparks the motivation.
(Would be interesting to see how questions like that de-select girls.)
that strikes fear in the blood-pumps (not hearts) of multi-trillion dollar industries
Now now, Cheney finally got a heart transplant.
Not to be a grammar nazi, but I think in Cheney's case it should be called an implant.
And, from what I understand, the other 2 previous launches by North Korea were always followed by a nuclear test
If you are into spelunking I would avoid freshly dug out caves in North Korea.
We're still at war. This can be done without congressional action. Make it so!
It was a police action.
The star wars project was actually a success. It was only deemed a failure, as to keep our enemies off guard.
Exactly the same thing with the North Korean rocket launch. Let the world laugh while the Great North Korean intergalactic spaceship is nearing completion.