I like Assembler. There's something about interacting intimately with your target hardware. It's a shame that it's no longer feasible with today's variety of hardware.
That would be better than the diversity we have today wouldn't it?
No need to worry about portability of any kind.
Your hand-tuned assembler code would run on any machine with no effort at all and with blazing speed.
More than 80% of all housing in Iceland is heated with geothermal energy and 80% of electricity is generated by hydropower and the rest by geothermal power.
Now, you decide you want more money - you terminate my licence (as the law you suggested would allow you to do) and then ask me for a lot more money in order to get a new licence.
And then no one will buy a licence for any other product from you. Simple. You've just rid yourself of any prospect for revenue.
Call me crazy but I think the only person or group that should own copyright to any IP(sic) should be the author with no possibilty of a transfer.
IMHO transferring a copyright defeats it's purpose. The purpose of identifying yourself as the author, not as an employer of the author.
Some people don't like a sweet beer, but then some people don't like chocolate either. Ignore those mutants and grab a nice mug if you're in the southern Midwest sometime.
That's like the whole Europe you just turned into a post-apocalyptic wasteland filled with "bitter"-beer-guzzling mutants.
Oh well, pig-rat's what's for dinner followed by a couple pints of Guiness.
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The story of my "conversion" is simple : I was looking for a linux distribution for my computer-illiterate mother, and ended up installing Ubuntu , which ships with GNOME . While initially dismissing GNOME as "You can't do anything productive with it", I came to understand that from a usability point of view it was far better than KDE : while having no previous experience with it (apart from a quick go at 1.4 and 2.4), by just clicking where it seemed logical, I got what I wanted. The UI never got in my way, and it felt... strangely perfect.
Tell me about it.
I have used KDE exclusively for the past few years but recently switched to GNOME. The first impression was stunning because the default GNOME desktop setup was essentially the same as I configured in KDE but faster.
I switched a month ago because the sheer number of options I had to change and packages I haven't used in KDE started to annoy me.
For now I see GNOME gave me more than I looked for (except from disabling history from every application I use. Why the hell can't I turn it off in Nautilus?).
...after a while it stops near stairways and tries to leads it's owner to the top floor repeating over and over:
"Please stand by the stairs so I can protect you."
You can find millions of them in the former Soviet countries.
And we're exporting some of them too!
Russia being the biggest exporter.
Just don't expect to get the top models, they're reserved for the local market. *grin*
And in some cases 'feeding the country' via charity had a pretty strange side effect. For example farmers who wouldn't teach their kids how to actually _grow_. Why work? Just go get some food from the guy in the white van...
Got any numbers to show whether this would be significant? Or whether we could use active shielding to slow/reflect charged particles enough to yield a net reduction in shielding weight?
From what I can recall. active shielding was discarded also because it doesn't block all types of radiation, can't remember the names but gamma was mentioned as one.
Here's a presentation from 2003's conference on magnetoshperic Hazards, includes Van Allen's belt radiation: http://www.isr.us/Spaceelevatorconfere nce/pdf/Jorg enson/Magnetospheric_Hazards.pdf
There's also one in Power Point but I haven't had a chance to look at it, maybe OT. http://www.isr.us/Spaceelevatorconference/pdf /Roge rs/SE_Env_HazardsWEB.ppt
BTW astronauts have been passing through those particle belts for decades.
Yes they have, I'm not saying it's impossible, but RTFA for chrissakes. The Apollo missions have done that several times but it wasn't a problem because they spent mere seconds in the belt. With SE travel we are talking about hours!
I dunno -- what does it cost to send the workers back home via elevator vs. the cost of building a reentry vehicle and hauling it up to orbit?
The whole argument is about they can't haul up workers without making them glow like fireflies. If they are going to be passengers on the space elevator then it needs shielding to get them through the Van Allen's belt. An elevator with shielding would need more powerful engines which add mass. Those will need more maintenance, spare parts on the elevator itself adding... yes you guess it! More mass! Until they figure out how to cope with all that the space elevators will be cargo lifters, nothing more.
The problem is the shielding required for passanger lifts would be immense because of extreme radiation levels and very long exposure. The power needed by a shielded 'passenger climber' could multiply the cost of the trip.
From what I can remember from earlier discussions on this topic, there won't be any manned transports because of radiation in the upper parts of the atmosphere. The elevator would be exposed to it for several hours on it's 24-48h trip. Screening is considered but the approximate mass would be too much for the elevator to carry up. Correct me if I'm wrong.
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I like Assembler. There's something about interacting intimately with your target hardware. It's a shame that it's no longer feasible with today's variety of hardware.
That would be better than the diversity we have today wouldn't it?
No need to worry about portability of any kind.
Your hand-tuned assembler code would run on any machine with no effort at all and with blazing speed.
Yeah, a shame.
I'd assume that cultural differences come to the equation. UK and US have much in common.
In case of Japan you should also ask how do they work looks like in comparison to UK and US.
More than 80% of all housing in Iceland is heated with geothermal energy and 80% of electricity is generated by hydropower and the rest by geothermal power.
I'm quite sure they'll think of something.
Now, you decide you want more money - you terminate my licence (as the law you suggested would allow you to do) and then ask me for a lot more money in order to get a new licence.
And then no one will buy a licence for any other product from you. Simple. You've just rid yourself of any prospect for revenue.
Call me crazy but I think the only person or group that should own copyright to any IP(sic) should be the author with no possibilty of a transfer.
IMHO transferring a copyright defeats it's purpose. The purpose of identifying yourself as the author, not as an employer of the author.
Some people don't like a sweet beer, but then some people don't like chocolate either. Ignore those mutants and grab a nice mug if you're in the southern Midwest sometime.
That's like the whole Europe you just turned into a post-apocalyptic wasteland filled with "bitter"-beer-guzzling mutants.
Oh well, pig-rat's what's for dinner followed by a couple pints of Guiness.
The story of my "conversion" is simple : I was looking for a linux distribution for my computer-illiterate mother, and ended up installing Ubuntu , which ships with GNOME . While initially dismissing GNOME as "You can't do anything productive with it", I came to understand that from a usability point of view it was far better than KDE : while having no previous experience with it (apart from a quick go at 1.4 and 2.4), by just clicking where it seemed logical, I got what I wanted. The UI never got in my way, and it felt... strangely perfect.
Tell me about it.
I have used KDE exclusively for the past few years but recently switched to GNOME. The first impression was stunning because the default GNOME desktop setup was essentially the same as I configured in KDE but faster.
I switched a month ago because the sheer number of options I had to change and packages I haven't used in KDE started to annoy me.
For now I see GNOME gave me more than I looked for (except from disabling history from every application I use. Why the hell can't I turn it off in Nautilus?).
Not necessarily physical with one of these and some work on the process.
...after a while it stops near stairways and tries to leads it's owner to the top floor repeating over and over: "Please stand by the stairs so I can protect you."
...a perfect solution for stability problems in Windows.
*Oof* ...I think that broke an ego...
I think the closest GNU alternative to BitKeeper is Arch.
I'm not familliar with both but from what I recall they're distributed version control systems as opposed to centralised CVS and Subversion.
You can find more about the differences at
http://better-scm.berlios.de/comparison/
You can find millions of them in the former Soviet countries.
And we're exporting some of them too! Russia being the biggest exporter. Just don't expect to get the top models, they're reserved for the local market. *grin*
And in some cases 'feeding the country' via charity had a pretty strange side effect. For example farmers who wouldn't teach their kids how to actually _grow_. Why work? Just go get some food from the guy in the white van...
Does the idea of putting artifical intelligence into a killing machine make anyone else a little nervous?
Remember 'The Cyberiad' and the Gargantuan theory?
I, for one, welcome our hippie AI overlords.
withoutGossip = normalResults - gossipResults;
;-)
Somebody did an "unclean search" for Google using normal search and "clean" search results the same way but I'm too lazy to google for it.
I'm stating the obvious but what you said just means...
It should mimic KDE.
(Can't tell if Gnome does it the same way - didn't seen the critter in action)
Patriotism sucks.
Espiecially when those at the steering wheel have anything but patriotism in mind.
Now you got it wrong. A milligig would be 1/1000 of a gigabyte. Your talking about a mibibyte!
Plus the notation is all wrong.
1 GiB == 1024 miB && 1 miB != 1 mB
And now the Minister of Eco. Affairs claims it was an error in his word processor.
He doesn't use this by any chance?
Got any numbers to show whether this would be significant? Or whether we could use active shielding to slow/reflect charged particles enough to yield a net reduction in shielding weight?
e nce/pdf/Jorg enson/Magnetospheric_Hazards.pdf
f /Roge rs/SE_Env_HazardsWEB.ppt
From what I can recall. active shielding was discarded also because it doesn't block all types of radiation, can't remember the names but gamma was mentioned as one.
Here's a presentation from 2003's conference on magnetoshperic Hazards, includes Van Allen's belt radiation:
http://www.isr.us/Spaceelevatorconfer
There's also one in Power Point but I haven't had a chance to look at it, maybe OT.
http://www.isr.us/Spaceelevatorconference/pd
BTW astronauts have been passing through those particle belts for decades. Yes they have, I'm not saying it's impossible, but RTFA for chrissakes. The Apollo missions have done that several times but it wasn't a problem because they spent mere seconds in the belt. With SE travel we are talking about hours!
I dunno -- what does it cost to send the workers back home via elevator vs. the cost of building a reentry vehicle and hauling it up to orbit?
The whole argument is about they can't haul up workers without making them glow like fireflies. If they are going to be passengers on the space elevator then it needs shielding to get them through the Van Allen's belt. An elevator with shielding would need more powerful engines which add mass. Those will need more maintenance, spare parts on the elevator itself adding... yes you guess it! More mass! Until they figure out how to cope with all that the space elevators will be cargo lifters, nothing more.
The problem is the shielding required for passanger lifts would be immense because of extreme radiation levels and very long exposure. The power needed by a shielded 'passenger climber' could multiply the cost of the trip.
From what I can remember from earlier discussions on this topic, there won't be any manned transports because of radiation in the upper parts of the atmosphere. The elevator would be exposed to it for several hours on it's 24-48h trip. Screening is considered but the approximate mass would be too much for the elevator to carry up. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Nope, caffeine. Large amounts.