On the other hand, Webkit and Presto got around 50 points in three months of development after the release of Acid3. Gecko development model seems to be old-fashioned.
Hopefully Konqueror and Epiphany will switch to Webkit. Firefox developers should consider that also.
Things are not so extreme. IIRC, because of higher compression, ethanol-only cars had the same power or little higher than gasoline cars. Current flexible fuel vehicles have higher power (+3 HP) when using ethanol, just by using ECU tunings. For example a 1 litre flexible fuel engine can do 68 HP on gas and 71 HP on ethanol. A 1.6 litre gas-only Gol is tuned for 92 HP, while a 1,6 litre ethanol-only Gol does 99 HP.
This doesn't make much sense in Brazil. Ethanol powered cars have been on the streets for 30 years and gasoline may only be sold with 20% to 25% ethanol. Cars don't even need extra maintenance besides small amounts of addictives that few people like to buy. It's simple, the engine was built to run on ethanol. There's no reason for it not to work.
For the costs, ethanol is much cheaper than gasoline. Even if one takes into account the lower energy density, ethanol is 35% cheaper than gas, which means that it's possible to get 35% more power with ethanol (or 35% less spending) than with gasoline.
BTW, shitty here means 30% less economic than gasoline, if anyone was interested. Concerning biodiesel, it requires ethanol (or methanol) to be produced, so that the efficiency has to be precisely calculated. Finally, crops aren't really the best way to produce ethanol. Cellulosic ethanol could be used in combination with high sugar crops to lessen environmental impacts.
The simulations help scientists at the US government's Department of Energy determine the reliability of the country's ageing stockpile of nuclear weapons without actually detonating the weapons.
Oh, my. High technology in the purpose of supporting American terrorism. Throw all those stuff away ! Let the biggest computation in the world measure the amount of happiness of the amoeba population in the year 3000.
Sign up Virtua with Mega Flash 2M (or Speedy, but I don't like Telefonica). They do some traffic shaping and you may only download 20 GB at this rate, but most of the time I can download at around 200 KB/s. It costs R$ 135,00 with the "principal advanced" package, which includes Globonews, Sportv, MTV, Natgeo, Universal, besides the senate channel, the congress channel and other shit.
The most simple test I do: download the kernel or even better, apt-get upgrade.
Thanks. I'm already downloading it. I think the version of update-manager in the page is incorrect. There says "0.42.2ubuntu12~breezy1" should work, but I have "0.42.2ubuntu12~breezy2" and there was no notice about the new distribution.
No way. I'm using breezy here and running 'update-manager' doesn't change my current tree. Every Ubuntu upgrade I have to find out what's the id of the new distribution and change it by hand.
Computer literacy is not about understanding the computer inner workings. When a buzzword like this is targeted toward children, one should obviously assume that it has nothing to do with techicalities. In particular, most of those children won't ever have a job related to computer science or computer engineering. In this sense, the answer gets a little simpler (well, not much), because we can understand a computer just the same way as a blender or a car. The blender is used to blend food and the car is used for transportation. And the computer, is it used to compute ? Well, this is where things get more difficult.
People need to learn how to deal with computers, because computers have taken place of other, (theoretically) less productive, tools. In society, computer is not really used as a calculator (although for a college student it may be the physical part of Matlab). A computer is pretty much a typewriter. A computer is something you need to (not so) quickly comunicate with people that you work with. A computer is also a simple interface for you to find the movie you want, the book you want, etc. Finally, a computer is a place where you can find some extra information that your "non-virtual" world doesn't have (like, how people cope with the climate in Siberia, or something). And what one should learn about computers, then ? Computer literacy, then, becomes just a bureaucratic process. Since some technician decided that the user interface would require that you understood files, copy and paste, the close button, virus, you have to learn those things. Since the software that runs everywhere is Microsoft Word, one must learn how to use Microsoft Word. Since the software that... (fill in here) one must learn Internet Explorer/Firefox/Outlook/Skype/MSN/etc. Further understanting of the computer isn't really necessary, the same way people don't really understand how a car works (although the most people tries to abuse your system, more you or someone in your group should know about computers).
Now, you may think that a computer was about to bring useful information. You may think that a computer is about making calculations/decoding Nazi codes during WWII/bringing world peace/enlightening people/etc etc etc. Well, this is true because anything that calculates so fast can be used by humans to do those things. However it has nothing to do with computer literacy, as expected by society. A single person opinion has nothing to do with what society wants (even mine, yours, etc).
So, what is computer literacy ? - know Word - know Internet, e-mail - know files, file formats - know CDs, DVDs - know malware - overview of computer hardware
What computer literacy is not ? - Know linux/windows/control panel/video resolution - Know python, visual studio, assembly - Know video card/modem/SATA controller
The game requires Shockwave, not Flash. Hence, it doesn't work in Linux. It's good to write those things in the post, so that we don't have to follow the links.
Hello,
Your headline was really interesing. However you could have also written that ACT's membership roster has some 3,000 companies including Microsoft, so that we wouldn't really bother to read the whole text.
Don't know if someone already posted this, but, it's possible that Skype made the deal already knowing this would happen. Well, the thought was so amusing that I don't even care if this is true or false:-)
I've been thinking about this for some time and I don't agree with your solution. I believe it would be much better if caching, in general, were an operating system managed resource. For instance, Linux kernel caches things, Firefox caches things, X caches things. All those caching would actually go into free memory, not only the kernel cache. Memory should be considered unallocated for cache and while no program requests it, memory cache is still there. If memory usage grows, cache is thrown away. Since it's managed globally, only the really most recent data stays in memory.
IMHO, this "cachefs" thing is the most useful missing feature in Linux. I can't think of any practical flaw about this. Maybe difficulty in implementation, I don't know.
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My best guess it it's a 4-SPU cell processor without the PowerPC core.
Which, BTW, makes it totally different from the cell processor. How do we bury the article as inaccurate ? :-P
On the other hand, Webkit and Presto got around 50 points in three months of development after the release of Acid3. Gecko development model seems to be old-fashioned. Hopefully Konqueror and Epiphany will switch to Webkit. Firefox developers should consider that also.
Hi,
Good choices for developing either free or proprietary software are gnome and kde.
Mod parent funny. ;-)
... "Infinite Significant" Hardware Updates. ;-)
Things are not so extreme. IIRC, because of higher compression, ethanol-only cars had the same power or little higher than gasoline cars. Current flexible fuel vehicles have higher power (+3 HP) when using ethanol, just by using ECU tunings. For example a 1 litre flexible fuel engine can do 68 HP on gas and 71 HP on ethanol. A 1.6 litre gas-only Gol is tuned for 92 HP, while a 1,6 litre ethanol-only Gol does 99 HP.
This doesn't make much sense in Brazil. Ethanol powered cars have been on the streets for 30 years and gasoline may only be sold with 20% to 25% ethanol. Cars don't even need extra maintenance besides small amounts of addictives that few people like to buy. It's simple, the engine was built to run on ethanol. There's no reason for it not to work. For the costs, ethanol is much cheaper than gasoline. Even if one takes into account the lower energy density, ethanol is 35% cheaper than gas, which means that it's possible to get 35% more power with ethanol (or 35% less spending) than with gasoline.
BTW, shitty here means 30% less economic than gasoline, if anyone was interested. Concerning biodiesel, it requires ethanol (or methanol) to be produced, so that the efficiency has to be precisely calculated. Finally, crops aren't really the best way to produce ethanol. Cellulosic ethanol could be used in combination with high sugar crops to lessen environmental impacts.
Mod parent down. He has just screwed a wonderful joke and explained something we already know =)
The simulations help scientists at the US government's Department of Energy determine the reliability of the country's ageing stockpile of nuclear weapons without actually detonating the weapons.
Oh, my. High technology in the purpose of supporting American terrorism. Throw all those stuff away ! Let the biggest computation in the world measure the amount of happiness of the amoeba population in the year 3000.
Sign up Virtua with Mega Flash 2M (or Speedy, but I don't like Telefonica). They do some traffic shaping and you may only download 20 GB at this rate, but most of the time I can download at around 200 KB/s. It costs R$ 135,00 with the "principal advanced" package, which includes Globonews, Sportv, MTV, Natgeo, Universal, besides the senate channel, the congress channel and other shit. The most simple test I do: download the kernel or even better, apt-get upgrade.
Thanks. I'm already downloading it. I think the version of update-manager in the page is incorrect. There says "0.42.2ubuntu12~breezy1" should work, but I have "0.42.2ubuntu12~breezy2" and there was no notice about the new distribution.
No way. I'm using breezy here and running 'update-manager' doesn't change my current tree. Every Ubuntu upgrade I have to find out what's the id of the new distribution and change it by hand.
Computer literacy is not about understanding the computer inner workings. When a buzzword like this is targeted toward children, one should obviously assume that it has nothing to do with techicalities. In particular, most of those children won't ever have a job related to computer science or computer engineering. In this sense, the answer gets a little simpler (well, not much), because we can understand a computer just the same way as a blender or a car. The blender is used to blend food and the car is used for transportation. And the computer, is it used to compute ? Well, this is where things get more difficult.
People need to learn how to deal with computers, because computers have taken place of other, (theoretically) less productive, tools. In society, computer is not really used as a calculator (although for a college student it may be the physical part of Matlab). A computer is pretty much a typewriter. A computer is something you need to (not so) quickly comunicate with people that you work with. A computer is also a simple interface for you to find the movie you want, the book you want, etc. Finally, a computer is a place where you can find some extra information that your "non-virtual" world doesn't have (like, how people cope with the climate in Siberia, or something). And what one should learn about computers, then ? Computer literacy, then, becomes just a bureaucratic process. Since some technician decided that the user interface would require that you understood files, copy and paste, the close button, virus, you have to learn those things. Since the software that runs everywhere is Microsoft Word, one must learn how to use Microsoft Word. Since the software that... (fill in here) one must learn Internet Explorer/Firefox/Outlook/Skype/MSN/etc. Further understanting of the computer isn't really necessary, the same way people don't really understand how a car works (although the most people tries to abuse your system, more you or someone in your group should know about computers).
Now, you may think that a computer was about to bring useful information. You may think that a computer is about making calculations/decoding Nazi codes during WWII/bringing world peace/enlightening people/etc etc etc. Well, this is true because anything that calculates so fast can be used by humans to do those things. However it has nothing to do with computer literacy, as expected by society. A single person opinion has nothing to do with what society wants (even mine, yours, etc).
So, what is computer literacy ?
- know Word
- know Internet, e-mail
- know files, file formats
- know CDs, DVDs
- know malware
- overview of computer hardware
What computer literacy is not ?
- Know linux/windows/control panel/video resolution
- Know python, visual studio, assembly
- Know video card/modem/SATA controller
No way. Microsoft products are reliable and dependable. Read a few more articles before posting such a nonsense.
Now, how do I turn this thing off ?
The game requires Shockwave, not Flash. Hence, it doesn't work in Linux. It's good to write those things in the post, so that we don't have to follow the links.
Slower than MySQL ? Don't have any benchmarks, but I always hear this.
Sorry. Too many tabs open. I'll try again. :-)
Slower than MySQL ? Don't have any benchmarks, but I always hear this.
Hello, Your headline was really interesing. However you could have also written that ACT's membership roster has some 3,000 companies including Microsoft, so that we wouldn't really bother to read the whole text.
Be careful when you talk to him. He may be a terrorist. WHOOWHOOWHOOOOOOAAAAAAAAARRRRRGGHHHH !
Because the commitment of some with "terror" (or "freedom", or whatever one may call it) is big enough. For enough people terror makes sense.
Don't know if someone already posted this, but, it's possible that Skype made the deal already knowing this would happen. Well, the thought was so amusing that I don't even care if this is true or false :-)
Hi,
I've been thinking about this for some time and I don't agree with your solution. I believe it would be much better if caching, in general, were an operating system managed resource. For instance, Linux kernel caches things, Firefox caches things, X caches things. All those caching would actually go into free memory, not only the kernel cache. Memory should be considered unallocated for cache and while no program requests it, memory cache is still there. If memory usage grows, cache is thrown away. Since it's managed globally, only the really most recent data stays in memory.
IMHO, this "cachefs" thing is the most useful missing feature in Linux. I can't think of any practical flaw about this. Maybe difficulty in implementation, I don't know.