Actually, our hydro lakes are filling up with silt - and its too costly to do anything about it. The more silt that settles, the less water can be held in the lakes, and the worse the water-level problems are going to get. So its not going to be renewable forever.
As for other sources of energy, whenever there's some possible alternative brought up, there always seems to be someone to complain that its ugly, exploits something, is too costly for some group, etc. So we're left suck with the hydro/geothermal/etc - which kinda sucks, given that our energy consumption is just going to keep increasing.
Out of the out-dated versions of the various browsers, I wonder how many of those can't be updated by the user due to OS restrictions out of the user's control? ie, a locked down computer in a corporate environment.
That type of thing is likely to skew the results a bit. More for some browsers than others.
I'd hate to have to find articles without the organisation that journals bring. And no, Google doesn't cut it when searching for academic sources. Google Scholar can be helpful, but that relies on journals and their publishers.
I'm not (generally) going to bother reading something that hasn't been publish in a journal. It has little or no credibility in the academic world. There is no way of verifying an independent source, unless you get it first-hand.
I don't believe everything I read on the internet, so why would I rely on it to give me academically credible articles unless I can verify it based on the source (ie, the journal it was published).
Of course, the degree of this depends a lot on your field of study.
So you can imagine our suprise when we were informed by a lawyer that
we would be required to publish our source code for others to use. You only need to public the source code if you distribute the modified version. If its never distributed, you source code never needs to be distributed either.
Furthermore, after reviewing this GPL our lawyers advised us that any
products compiled with GPL'ed tools - such as gcc - would also have to
its source code released. This was simply unacceptable. What a load of crap - the GPL doesn't cover this in any way.
If a lawyer did indeed give this advice, they should be fired.
And FYI, GPL is NOT "GNU Protective License". Its GNU/GPL and stands for GNU General Public Licence.
I had a prof a few years ago who asked to see all students who had bought his $60 textbook. He had a jar of $2 coins on his desk, and when one of those students went to see him, he would give that student one of the $2 coins.
That $2 coin represented his cut of the sale. He refused to take royalties from students, as he had wrote the textbook specifically for students, not to make money. The publishing company set the price of the textbook, and it seemed the publishing company got most of the profit from it too.
Firstly, Mark Borrie isn't in the CS department (I should know, I'm a student there), hes in ITS - big difference.
Secondly, Otago is more well known internationally for its degrees than any other university in NZ.
Slashdot Mirror
"Only two countries in the world have software patents"
That's not exactly accurate - MPEG LA has been granted patients in numerous countries: http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/bz/archives/020400.html
Isn't "To get away from Earth" enough?
Currently, Venus has a much better idiot to non-idiot ratio.
So instead, they should charge big bucks to get a cert... that way, its only easy for crooks with a bit of money.
Just like our air force doesn't have any planes.
(Yes, I'm a Kiwi)
Yea, but Telecom NZ has a *special* kind of suck ;)
Actually, our hydro lakes are filling up with silt - and its too costly to do anything about it. The more silt that settles, the less water can be held in the lakes, and the worse the water-level problems are going to get. So its not going to be renewable forever.
As for other sources of energy, whenever there's some possible alternative brought up, there always seems to be someone to complain that its ugly, exploits something, is too costly for some group, etc. So we're left suck with the hydro/geothermal/etc - which kinda sucks, given that our energy consumption is just going to keep increasing.
For those that understand IPA, the correct pronunciation is: /ma:kima:ki/
Out of the out-dated versions of the various browsers, I wonder how many of those can't be updated by the user due to OS restrictions out of the user's control? ie, a locked down computer in a corporate environment. That type of thing is likely to skew the results a bit. More for some browsers than others.
I'd hate to have to find articles without the organisation that journals bring. And no, Google doesn't cut it when searching for academic sources. Google Scholar can be helpful, but that relies on journals and their publishers. I'm not (generally) going to bother reading something that hasn't been publish in a journal. It has little or no credibility in the academic world. There is no way of verifying an independent source, unless you get it first-hand. I don't believe everything I read on the internet, so why would I rely on it to give me academically credible articles unless I can verify it based on the source (ie, the journal it was published). Of course, the degree of this depends a lot on your field of study.
And here I thought the Tunguska event was an assault by the Assassins, on a Templar research facility...
I had a prof a few years ago who asked to see all students who had bought his $60 textbook. He had a jar of $2 coins on his desk, and when one of those students went to see him, he would give that student one of the $2 coins. That $2 coin represented his cut of the sale. He refused to take royalties from students, as he had wrote the textbook specifically for students, not to make money. The publishing company set the price of the textbook, and it seemed the publishing company got most of the profit from it too.
Cheers for that link - I'd read one of the books I found one day, but never thought to look online for it.
Some would argue that the minds of certain others aren't intelligent systems.
Firstly, Mark Borrie isn't in the CS department (I should know, I'm a student there), hes in ITS - big difference. Secondly, Otago is more well known internationally for its degrees than any other university in NZ.
And here I was thinking patents couldn't be denied. Wonder how long until they try this "deny" thing with the software patents...