Who, in the modern world, has George Carlin's ("I have as much authority as the pope; just fewer people believe it.") moxie to force a calendar change? The Muslim, probably conservative Jewish, and other lunar calendar followers aren't going to change (what if THEY all got together and proposed a "universal" calendar?). Americans still aren't rational enough to switch to the metric system of measurement, so they're going to use a more-rational calendar than their current?
As has been repeatedly reported, Linus is fine with someone taking a version of the Linux kernel and forking it off in their own special direction, as the Android developers have done. If you want to put some of the those features back into his main line, though, they will have to meet his standards, and those of the people he has trusted to manage the kernel changes. If the Android developers' changes were acceptable, they would already have been merged.
"wakelocks", for example, are a kludge to cover up some very lax user-space coding standards, and are not acceptable.
There is a lot of recent work (not really finished, IMO) to handle micromanaging power consumption for System on Chip (SoC), battery-powered devices, both in the kernel itself and through controlling userspace. If Android developers want to be using the mainstream kernel, they should be preparing to use the new interfaces and tools, while helping to find any real issues, rather than whining "why won't you just do it our way?".
My contribution to the Linux kernel is incredibly minor, but it had to go through exactly the same vetting process, and the result was a better change.
For that price you can buy two 6TB consumer NAS and use one as the backup of the other (rsync, if they have it). The 6TB will either be multiple sharable (DLNA, too) volumes or a Linux "LINEAR" MD, LVM or BTRFS span of the media.
Identifying an a real-world mismatch of our models' predictions does not "explain" anything but that our models are incomplete.
When spheres, and spheres on spheres, don't explain planetary motion, let's try another model: the ellipse.
When "classical" mechanics can't explain why "orbiting" electrons don't fall into the nucleus of an atom due to electrostatic attraction, let's come up with a new model (while confusingly calling them "orbitals"): shells and quantum exclusion effects.
When whatever synthesis of strings and quantum gravity and pixie dust (or something very different from all of them) can provide a mathematical basis (that isn't all adjusted parameters) to describe this universe's preference for "matter" vs "anti-matter" (maybe the seventh harmonic of the property of "charge" in 12- (13- ?) dimensional space has a more-natural resonance with the fourth harmonic of the property "mass" for matter than for anti-matter, or something): we'll have a better model, but still, probably, not an "explanation".
Just as the US (and British) bullied the Japanese in the 1920s and '30s, limiting the number of battleships they could have, bullying the Iranians about nukes will simply push them into the aircraft carrier equivalent for the 21st Century.
Ultimately, we can probably beat them in a war, or, at least, turn the livable parts of Iran into radioactive glass, but can we really block every single every avenue of damage to the US without turning the whole nation into even more of a gulag, with the attendant impact on innovation and productivity?
And for those of us using "none of the above", at least on any regular basis (google once in a while), it will be even easier to narrow the four of us down.
By "outsourcing" some of the work, the company has already shown their colors. Just go.
Don't bargain for more, 'cause that will simply put you at the top of the "to be replaced" list. Do offer some strictly described and limited in time and intensity "tech support", either for a fee or for free, unless they are a competitor for your new "temp job" ('cause that's all they are, these days).
You will be required to present fully nude images of yourself and everyone else in a ten-block vicinity before the console will progress beyond the EULA screen, and grant a perpetual, re-assignable copyright to the console maker for the images, so they can make a few more bucks on the side
Login validation will require that all players present the same image.
Because the people making the gambling machines want them secure FROM cheaters, while the people making the voting machines want them secure FOR cheaters (cough cough GWB cough).
What version of NoScript doesn't show google-analytics?
I'm running 2.1.2.3 on the machine that accesses the net, and it still has it in the menu, maybe because it is in use and blocked on the site I checked.
In the "Honor Harrington" series, David Weber uses X-Ray lasers, powered by fusion bombs, as missile warheads. As he describes it, at those energies, the laser does mechanical damage due to the momentum transfer (atoms literally pushed aside by the sheer force of the photon avalanche), not just ionization damage or forced fission events.
Microsoft is using uploads of your screen sizes in the section "Designing for a Wider Screen" ("we dug up some more telemetry data for Windows 7"), which the EULA allows them.
Are there any reliable controls on what else they can upload?
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, the Pope, and the President of the US are the survivors of a shipwreck in a life boat, but the supplies are limited: there's enough for one to last until rescue. After the Pope and the President lay out their opinions as to why they should be the one to remain with the boat while the others take their chances in the open ocean, Daley suggests a vote, to which the others agree.
Richard Daley is elected to remain with the life boat by 13,392 votes.
The politicians have learned how easy it is to "adjust" the electronic ballot boxes and are falling over themselves to have their crack at controlled elections.
But, but., why don't you have your Windows systems set to auto-brick^h^h^h^h^hupdate?
Seriously, I use Google to make the Microsoft VS help usable. VS help is reasonably useful for specific syntax for a supported method/function. It is utterly useless, in my experience, to decide which method/function to use in the first place, whereas Google usually has an answer located within the first 20 links.
IMO, there are serious deficiencies in Google (word1-word2, as a hyphenated string, for example), but I think, once I get the hang of custom searches associated with my gmail account, it will be usable for a wider range of queries.
if something "comes and goes" on a quantum level, faster than the universe can usefully notice, and it doesn't violate any of the "conservation (energy, momentum, information (maybe),...) laws", then it is permitted. In this case, if a positron/electron pair are spontaneously emitted from "empty" space, very, very quickly their opposite charge will attract them to each other and they will annihilate each other paying back the energy that it took to create them, so there's no "law" violated.
The guys hypothesis rests on anti-matter having an opposite gravitational "charge" to "ordinary" matter. In the presence of a galaxy-size gravitational field, there could be a bias for the electron to be nearer to it than the positron, and given the very large amount of space around a galaxy, the average bias to have the gravity field directional could be enough to account for the rotational energy excess of a typical galaxy.
A printer (Xerox Phaser 6100) which had a Tiger driver, and is still supported quite nicely in CUPS elsewhere is NOT supported in Snow Leopard or Lion. Her MacBook is the last Apple my wife gets to use, since she relies on me for support, and I'll never do another for her.
Nearly all consumers want CHEAP printers. That means that the translation from text/image to printer imaging codes is done in the computer, not the printer, which saves CPU power and memory in the printer. Look at the difference in price between the typical Windows printer and the Postscript ('specially color) printers. A Windows printer only has to buffer a few raster lines, using the processing power and memory of the host computer, while the Postscript printer has to buffer the entire page, since there could be a command at the end of the page that places something at the top.
Add to this the insanity of any/all software and process patents and it is absolutely in the printer manufacturers' interest to tie the raster-defining codes into obscure and NDA-protected proprietary drivers to avoid tripping over some patent that says " a one bit in this field says put a green dot next on the page".
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Who, in the modern world, has George Carlin's ("I have as much authority as the pope; just fewer people believe it.") moxie to force a calendar change? The Muslim, probably conservative Jewish, and other lunar calendar followers aren't going to change (what if THEY all got together and proposed a "universal" calendar?). Americans still aren't rational enough to switch to the metric system of measurement, so they're going to use a more-rational calendar than their current?
Already covered by "Nature".
As has been repeatedly reported, Linus is fine with someone taking a version of the Linux kernel and forking it off in their own special direction, as the Android developers have done. If you want to put some of the those features back into his main line, though, they will have to meet his standards, and those of the people he has trusted to manage the kernel changes. If the Android developers' changes were acceptable, they would already have been merged.
"wakelocks", for example, are a kludge to cover up some very lax user-space coding standards, and are not acceptable.
There is a lot of recent work (not really finished, IMO) to handle micromanaging power consumption for System on Chip (SoC), battery-powered devices, both in the kernel itself and through controlling userspace. If Android developers want to be using the mainstream kernel, they should be preparing to use the new interfaces and tools, while helping to find any real issues, rather than whining "why won't you just do it our way?".
My contribution to the Linux kernel is incredibly minor, but it had to go through exactly the same vetting process, and the result was a better change.
That should be "different from", not "different than".
"Being able to switch speaking styles ... is different from having an accent that's ...".
RAID is not backup.
For that price you can buy two 6TB consumer NAS and use one as the backup of the other (rsync, if they have it). The 6TB will either be multiple sharable (DLNA, too) volumes or a Linux "LINEAR" MD, LVM or BTRFS span of the media.
Identifying an a real-world mismatch of our models' predictions does not "explain" anything but that our models are incomplete.
When spheres, and spheres on spheres, don't explain planetary motion, let's try another model: the ellipse.
When "classical" mechanics can't explain why "orbiting" electrons don't fall into the nucleus of an atom due to electrostatic attraction, let's come up with a new model (while confusingly calling them "orbitals"): shells and quantum exclusion effects.
When whatever synthesis of strings and quantum gravity and pixie dust (or something very different from all of them) can provide a mathematical basis (that isn't all adjusted parameters) to describe this universe's preference for "matter" vs "anti-matter" (maybe the seventh harmonic of the property of "charge" in 12- (13- ?) dimensional space has a more-natural resonance with the fourth harmonic of the property "mass" for matter than for anti-matter, or something): we'll have a better model, but still, probably, not an "explanation".
Just as the US (and British) bullied the Japanese in the 1920s and '30s, limiting the number of battleships they could have, bullying the Iranians about nukes will simply push them into the aircraft carrier equivalent for the 21st Century.
Ultimately, we can probably beat them in a war, or, at least, turn the livable parts of Iran into radioactive glass, but can we really block every single every avenue of damage to the US without turning the whole nation into even more of a gulag, with the attendant impact on innovation and productivity?
And for those of us using "none of the above", at least on any regular basis (google once in a while), it will be even easier to narrow the four of us down.
By "outsourcing" some of the work, the company has already shown their colors. Just go.
Don't bargain for more, 'cause that will simply put you at the top of the "to be replaced" list. Do offer some strictly described and limited in time and intensity "tech support", either for a fee or for free, unless they are a competitor for your new "temp job" ('cause that's all they are, these days).
Just more complete.
You will be required to present fully nude images of yourself and everyone else in a ten-block vicinity before the console will progress beyond the EULA screen, and grant a perpetual, re-assignable copyright to the console maker for the images, so they can make a few more bucks on the side
Login validation will require that all players present the same image.
Because the people making the gambling machines want them secure FROM cheaters, while the people making the voting machines want them secure FOR cheaters (cough cough GWB cough).
What version of NoScript doesn't show google-analytics?
I'm running 2.1.2.3 on the machine that accesses the net, and it still has it in the menu, maybe because it is in use and blocked on the site I checked.
I've got 'em, and a good (Pioneer Elite) player.
What's the best capture process out there, or should I find a pro shop?
I also want decent streams for DLNA playback.
Not only misspelled, but it's the wrong word for the job.
Humans (for now) working together collaborate.
Data from disparate sources corroborate.
Did the spell-checker take the weekend off?
In the "Honor Harrington" series, David Weber uses X-Ray lasers, powered by fusion bombs, as missile warheads. As he describes it, at those energies, the laser does mechanical damage due to the momentum transfer (atoms literally pushed aside by the sheer force of the photon avalanche), not just ionization damage or forced fission events.
Sort of "Real Genius" on hyper-steroids.
I know the web site says "12+", but it IS easy enough for any third grader smarter than a house plant.
If you scrap the timer and let them "pair program", if necessary, they'll get it.
Microsoft is using uploads of your screen sizes in the section "Designing for a Wider Screen" ("we dug up some more telemetry data for Windows 7"), which the EULA allows them.
Are there any reliable controls on what else they can upload?
I have been using Linux since 1996, and a Linux Journal subscriber for a very long time.
While I do have a Nook Color, I have no desire to read a magazine on it, nor on my desktop.
If I have to go to the Web for something, it it will be a specific article or googled link, not to download a magazine as pdf.
I want a refund.
Some from Cambridge, some from Oxford:
Oxford men Terry Jones and Michael Palin were taking a similar root to their future Python compatriots.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1999/10/99/monty_python/455585.stm
It was at Oxford that some of the Monty Python troop began to display their talents for both erudition and silliness.
Why can't the OED display both, as well?
Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, the Pope, and the President of the US are the survivors of a shipwreck in a life boat, but the supplies are limited: there's enough for one to last until rescue. After the Pope and the President lay out their opinions as to why they should be the one to remain with the boat while the others take their chances in the open ocean, Daley suggests a vote, to which the others agree.
Richard Daley is elected to remain with the life boat by 13,392 votes.
The politicians have learned how easy it is to "adjust" the electronic ballot boxes and are falling over themselves to have their crack at controlled elections.
But, but., why don't you have your Windows systems set to auto-brick^h^h^h^h^hupdate?
Seriously, I use Google to make the Microsoft VS help usable. VS help is reasonably useful for specific syntax for a supported method/function. It is utterly useless, in my experience, to decide which method/function to use in the first place, whereas Google usually has an answer located within the first 20 links.
IMO, there are serious deficiencies in Google (word1-word2, as a hyphenated string, for example), but I think, once I get the hang of custom searches associated with my gmail account, it will be usable for a wider range of queries.
Quick and dirty:
if something "comes and goes" on a quantum level, faster than the universe can usefully notice, and it doesn't violate any of the "conservation (energy, momentum, information (maybe), ...) laws", then it is permitted. In this case, if a positron/electron pair are spontaneously emitted from "empty" space, very, very quickly their opposite charge will attract them to each other and they will annihilate each other paying back the energy that it took to create them, so there's no "law" violated.
The guys hypothesis rests on anti-matter having an opposite gravitational "charge" to "ordinary" matter. In the presence of a galaxy-size gravitational field, there could be a bias for the electron to be nearer to it than the positron, and given the very large amount of space around a galaxy, the average bias to have the gravity field directional could be enough to account for the rotational energy excess of a typical galaxy.
Apple's printer support is pathetic.
A printer (Xerox Phaser 6100) which had a Tiger driver, and is still supported quite nicely in CUPS elsewhere is NOT supported in Snow Leopard or Lion. Her MacBook is the last Apple my wife gets to use, since she relies on me for support, and I'll never do another for her.
Nearly all consumers want CHEAP printers. That means that the translation from text/image to printer imaging codes is done in the computer, not the printer, which saves CPU power and memory in the printer. Look at the difference in price between the typical Windows printer and the Postscript ('specially color) printers. A Windows printer only has to buffer a few raster lines, using the processing power and memory of the host computer, while the Postscript printer has to buffer the entire page, since there could be a command at the end of the page that places something at the top.
Add to this the insanity of any/all software and process patents and it is absolutely in the printer manufacturers' interest to tie the raster-defining codes into obscure and NDA-protected proprietary drivers to avoid tripping over some patent that says " a one bit in this field says put a green dot next on the page".