...that any Slashdot posting opened up a new world to me. This is one of those - way too rare - postings. I use to write flat text, and hand that to secretaries or colleagues for formatting it into whatever they want or need: html, word, slides, whatever. Software documentation, to me, is generated javadoc - so basically html generated out of flat-text code comments. Of course I knew and know about the existence of LaTex et al.. Yet, as a software architect, I guess I have been, for decades, plain lazy. I simply write flat text in emacs or notepad++. Man, you opened up a universe to me !
155 scientists from 36 colleges and universities in Iowa
That would mean there are more scientists and universities in Iowa than there are in the country I currently live, which is one of the more civilized in Europe. Now I may have been sleeping for all those years, yet....
Dude, the/. crowd has been going downhill all since 1008, the year I first read a post here. And/.-ers have ever since been consistently and coherently been complaining about it. Get used to it. I did, just as a whore gets used to getting laid. It makes life better ( not getting laid as a whore, but getting used to it, I mean ).
See my comment above. Plants, indeed, can not absorb it through their roots. But the bacteria they live in symbiosis with, can. And that is of benefit to the plant ( its bacteria guests are healthier ), to the bacteria ( absorbing carbon from the soil is energy-cheaper than absorbing it from air ) and to the farmer ( the bacteria decompose into humus i.e. humic acid ) after harvest time . Win-win-win, so to say.
Operational research I did for a ( very ) large Austrian farm showed that carbon intake in the form of humus can be 100-200 kg / hectare / year, in pure carbon. Adding pure carbon ( without going through the humus stage by e.g. first producing compost ) to the soil can help farmers reach that number: bacteria will fix the carbon, plants - around their own roots - will form symbiosis with the bacteria, and when at harvest time the plant or its grain is harvested, the bacteria around the root will die and be turned into humic acid. The whole humus-as-a-carbon-sink thing is, climatically, all the more interesting as the carbon remains fixed in the soil for many 10,000s of years. Humus survives ice ages and periods of global warming.
the image is so large I had to push my chair some 4 feet back in order to appreciate it ( on a 24" screen ! ). Well done. May make it into my collection of ultimate Linux desktop images.
But what if the rich investor disagrees with something that his pet publication releases into the world?
It is much more about the content, in *all* cases where a billionaire takes over, becoming poorer and poorer. Why ? Because the billionaire has become a billionaire by earning ( lots of ) money, and is 100% geared toward.... earning money. The only way to do that, with media, in our dystopian world, is by advertising. Advertising only works well if and when the media carrying the ads reach a large public. A large public can only be reached by rendering content poorer: shallower, shorter, simpler.
And that is how it works and has worked, e.g. for the ( prime example ! ) French "quality newspaper" Le Monde. Up to the beginning of the '90s, that newspaper was owned by private investors, philantropists actually, who knew that producing a quality newspaper costs money, more than that same newspaper can bring in. But then, some time in the '90s, Le Monde was taken over by rich investors. The result: from the stern, photo-less format for which it was famous, from great heights of linguistic refinement and from immense depths of understanding and background articles, Le Monde went to... well, pretty much the same format as other large-public newspapers: advertisements everywhere, shallow articles dealing with the craze and the hype of the day. If even Le Monde could not do it, I do not see how any other serious media can do it, whether they be newspaper, tv programme, radio - you name it.
Conclusion: any take-over of traditional media by billionaires is bad news. Bad news for the public at large. Bad news for the employed, conscientious journalists and reporters. Bad news for the "third power" that media have come to be in our ramshackle democracies. Bad news for all.
That is funny. In the year 2000, I discovered a similar listener bug - it only existed on Windows NT, funnily enough. This is how it went ( remember that Win NT had something called "hardware profiles" ): define and instantiate a listener, with its default 1521 port, on hardware profile 1. Run it for a short time. Disable the hardware profile, activate another one. Now define and instantiate a listener, again with the default 1521 port. Now telnet on it. Type random characters. BSOD guaranteed on the host after some typing in the client telnet session. And that was PRODUCTION code, folks !
Mod parent up. There were then, indeed, the so-called "great powers" - France, Germany, Russia, Turkey, Great Britain - all eaten up by the moth of nationalism. I would like to think that, today, we are wiser.
this sounds like a good idea. But then please not with China as the new superpower. I want to live in a world composed of many smaller, financially well-equilibrated states, without superpowers.
#1) "felony" is US-centric. The MS guy obviously ( still ) thinks the entire internet is governed by US laws. Prolly a balding 60-year old who has lost touch with reality, and especially with where, nowadays, innovation is coming from.
#2) I can not recall having ever seen a good idea originating within Microsoft. Nor can I recall having seen any good idea that took the internet by storm fathered or mothered by Microsoft.
Confer my dawg. I had him for slightly over 2 years now, got him when he was 1 1/2 years old. Although he is a crossover between two races renowned for their brains ( a dachshund and a german shepherd ), he STILL does not know the difference between an interface and an abstract class. Fibonacci series: same things. Beyond F(2), he is lamentably lost. Pretty much the only thing he can do, is reading Aristotle and Thomas of Aquinas, these dorks. I should have started earlier.... ?
If and when you need a 300-kilogram metal box with a 200-kilogram concrete slab under it for setting up a WiFi hotspot, you're a pretty lousy engineer.
The US, over the coming decade(s), will maneuver itself into insignificance, what with the deplorable state its infrastructure is in, its surveillance state, its ridiculous and money-devouring War on Terror, the antipathy its permanent and futile interventionist wars in developing countries.
Already now, practically 100% of the start-ups I see with cool new stuff are not US American anymore. They are European, mostly.
As a South African singer put it, a few years ago: "The sun is going down over America".
This is the US American disease called "sue-itis". Can happen in Europe ( think of the French guy who is being held responsible & put on trial for his company having sold noxious breast implantates to thousands of women ), but rarely.
...at where the software I currently use the most comes from, the answer is clear:
elasticsearch.org
lucene.apache.org
logstash.net
julialang.org
kibana.org
localstre.am
Right ?
Slashdot Mirror
...that any Slashdot posting opened up a new world to me. This is one of those - way too rare - postings. I use to write flat text, and hand that to secretaries or colleagues for formatting it into whatever they want or need: html, word, slides, whatever. Software documentation, to me, is generated javadoc - so basically html generated out of flat-text code comments. Of course I knew and know about the existence of LaTex et al.. Yet, as a software architect, I guess I have been, for decades, plain lazy. I simply write flat text in emacs or notepad++. Man, you opened up a universe to me !
155 scientists from 36 colleges and universities in Iowa
That would mean there are more scientists and universities in Iowa than there are in the country I currently live, which is one of the more civilized in Europe. Now I may have been sleeping for all those years, yet....
Dude, the /. crowd has been going downhill all since 1008, the year I first read a post here. And /.-ers have ever since been consistently and coherently been complaining about it. Get used to it. I did, just as a whore gets used to getting laid. It makes life better ( not getting laid as a whore, but getting used to it, I mean ).
See my comment above. Plants, indeed, can not absorb it through their roots. But the bacteria they live in symbiosis with, can. And that is of benefit to the plant ( its bacteria guests are healthier ), to the bacteria ( absorbing carbon from the soil is energy-cheaper than absorbing it from air ) and to the farmer ( the bacteria decompose into humus i.e. humic acid ) after harvest time . Win-win-win, so to say.
Operational research I did for a ( very ) large Austrian farm showed that carbon intake in the form of humus can be 100-200 kg / hectare / year, in pure carbon. Adding pure carbon ( without going through the humus stage by e.g. first producing compost ) to the soil can help farmers reach that number: bacteria will fix the carbon, plants - around their own roots - will form symbiosis with the bacteria, and when at harvest time the plant or its grain is harvested, the bacteria around the root will die and be turned into humic acid. The whole humus-as-a-carbon-sink thing is, climatically, all the more interesting as the carbon remains fixed in the soil for many 10,000s of years. Humus survives ice ages and periods of global warming.
Julia
may you rot in hell.
the image is so large I had to push my chair some 4 feet back in order to appreciate it ( on a 24" screen ! ). Well done. May make it into my collection of ultimate Linux desktop images.
But what if the rich investor disagrees with something that his pet publication releases into the world?
It is much more about the content, in *all* cases where a billionaire takes over, becoming poorer and poorer. Why ? Because the billionaire has become a billionaire by earning ( lots of ) money, and is 100% geared toward .... earning money. The only way to do that, with media, in our dystopian world, is by advertising. Advertising only works well if and when the media carrying the ads reach a large public. A large public can only be reached by rendering content poorer: shallower, shorter, simpler.
And that is how it works and has worked, e.g. for the ( prime example ! ) French "quality newspaper" Le Monde. Up to the beginning of the '90s, that newspaper was owned by private investors, philantropists actually, who knew that producing a quality newspaper costs money, more than that same newspaper can bring in. But then, some time in the '90s, Le Monde was taken over by rich investors. The result: from the stern, photo-less format for which it was famous, from great heights of linguistic refinement and from immense depths of understanding and background articles, Le Monde went to... well, pretty much the same format as other large-public newspapers: advertisements everywhere, shallow articles dealing with the craze and the hype of the day. If even Le Monde could not do it, I do not see how any other serious media can do it, whether they be newspaper, tv programme, radio - you name it.
Conclusion: any take-over of traditional media by billionaires is bad news. Bad news for the public at large. Bad news for the employed, conscientious journalists and reporters. Bad news for the "third power" that media have come to be in our ramshackle democracies. Bad news for all.
That is funny. In the year 2000, I discovered a similar listener bug - it only existed on Windows NT, funnily enough. This is how it went ( remember that Win NT had something called "hardware profiles" ): define and instantiate a listener, with its default 1521 port, on hardware profile 1. Run it for a short time. Disable the hardware profile, activate another one. Now define and instantiate a listener, again with the default 1521 port. Now telnet on it. Type random characters. BSOD guaranteed on the host after some typing in the client telnet session. And that was PRODUCTION code, folks !
Mod parent up. There were then, indeed, the so-called "great powers" - France, Germany, Russia, Turkey, Great Britain - all eaten up by the moth of nationalism. I would like to think that, today, we are wiser.
this sounds like a good idea. But then please not with China as the new superpower. I want to live in a world composed of many smaller, financially well-equilibrated states, without superpowers.
to the pleasure dome of reborn christians, and their war on words.
#1) "felony" is US-centric. The MS guy obviously ( still ) thinks the entire internet is governed by US laws. Prolly a balding 60-year old who has lost touch with reality, and especially with where, nowadays, innovation is coming from. #2) I can not recall having ever seen a good idea originating within Microsoft. Nor can I recall having seen any good idea that took the internet by storm fathered or mothered by Microsoft.
Ummmm... AFAIK, the federal employees have days off WITHOUT pay...
1.2 billion fingerprint in a government-controlled database. In India, for crying out fucking loud. What could possibly go fucking wrong ?
Confer my dawg. I had him for slightly over 2 years now, got him when he was 1 1/2 years old. Although he is a crossover between two races renowned for their brains ( a dachshund and a german shepherd ), he STILL does not know the difference between an interface and an abstract class. Fibonacci series: same things. Beyond F(2), he is lamentably lost. Pretty much the only thing he can do, is reading Aristotle and Thomas of Aquinas, these dorks. I should have started earlier.... ?
That is exactly how I meant it. And lo and behold, already the smug dorks bite :-D
If and when you need a 300-kilogram metal box with a 200-kilogram concrete slab under it for setting up a WiFi hotspot, you're a pretty lousy engineer.
Wow. An SAP consultant posting as AC. Is it that bad, dude ?
The US, over the coming decade(s), will maneuver itself into insignificance, what with the deplorable state its infrastructure is in, its surveillance state, its ridiculous and money-devouring War on Terror, the antipathy its permanent and futile interventionist wars in developing countries. Already now, practically 100% of the start-ups I see with cool new stuff are not US American anymore. They are European, mostly. As a South African singer put it, a few years ago: "The sun is going down over America".
you are turning into a police state.
From TFA: "...they looked into the matter...".
This is the US American disease called "sue-itis". Can happen in Europe ( think of the French guy who is being held responsible & put on trial for his company having sold noxious breast implantates to thousands of women ), but rarely.
...at where the software I currently use the most comes from, the answer is clear: elasticsearch.org lucene.apache.org logstash.net julialang.org kibana.org localstre.am Right ?