... engineers have managed to build a diving car by strapping a weight to a sand buggy. The diving car is expected to reach the bottom of the Mariana Trench later this evening.
I guess Microsoft wants to run Silverlight on iPhones but Apple asked a very high price. Asking for openness may be an attempt to raise the attention of the regulatory authorities. But it's ridiculous. Most phones on the planet come with proprietary software and SIM-lock. Even the Openmoko has proprietary firmware for the GPS and the GSM-stack. The GPS because it's a weapon and the GSM-stack to implement security by obscurity.
Actually IEEE allows you to make your paper available on the internet at *one* location. However the material must not be reprinted/republished without permission from the IEEE. They also don't allow making your work part of another world-wide indexed collection. That's still far from perfect but at least it allows you to make your work accessible on your homepage or your university's Digital Commons repository. I don't know what the future plans of IEEE are.
Much more importantly this may require an update of the GPL:
A third party may not convey a covered work if you are in an arrangement with said third party to receive stroking, food, or other incentives in exchange for undertaking the activity of conveying. Definitions:
To "convey" a work means any kind of propagation that enables other parties to make or receive copies. Propagations includes copying, distribution, making available to the public, or building an input device to invoke the help of one or several members of another species to do so.
I'm sorry to hear that. Is housing expensive compared to the salaries and/or pension? I stayed in H.K. for 10 days and tried to get a picture of the life there (I spend the nights in a tiny cubicle). I'd like to share some pictures with anyone who's interested: Sha Tin,
Kowloon, Hong Kong. I had the impression that on average the housing situation looks strained but not impoverished.
Such an algorithm may be quite good at indicating popular papers and topics. But there are ideas which are like urban legends. They spread faster than they get falsified. Just think about topics like "cold fusion" or "transmutation of matter". An idea is not good just because it is attractive.
Microsoft has the choice to (1) secure the system properly and break backwards-compatibility (2) keep their system mostly backward-compatible and keep most of their customers
Option (2) enables them to sell more copies of their new software release on the short term. Go figure!
The main difference between Bazaar and Git is that Bazaar only tracks files while Git tracks changes. Git therefore is technically able to merge changes where one developer has moved code from one file to another while another developer made modifications to that code. On the other hand Git can have difficulties keeping track of things if you rename and change a file in one commit. I switched from CVS to GNU-arch (tla). When GNU-arch was discontinued I switched to Bazaar. The command-line interface of Bazaar is easy to use. For example the symmetry of "bzr push" and "bzr pull" is really nice.
Thanks for elaborating. Maybe I should have been more accurate. One does not need to know all this for doing date conversions. However one may need to know this when dealing with astronomy software. * Astronomy software uses ephemeridal time (ET) for computing the position of the planets and comets. ET is a linear time-measure. * Astronomy software uses universal time (UT) to compute the rotation of the earth. ET-UT is at approx 60 seconds and it increases every year because the rotation of the earth is slowing down due to tidal forces. The difference ET-UT is quite significant when one wants to predict where a solar eclipse is going to occur. * Ordinary computer software just uses UTC. UTC runs at the same "speed" as ET and the difference UTC-UT is kept below 0.9 seconds by introducing leap seconds.
Software for time computations should use the *Modified Julian Day* [1] which provides a continuous time measure. You can find implementations of the conversion algorithms in astronomy software (including even the Gregorian calendar reform for those really old music files). [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar
You may be "devastated" to find out that 70% percent of 70 year old (men) have prostate cancer. 90 year old men nearly *all* have prostate cancer. Talking about genes which make it 90 times more probable to develop cancer doesn't make sense. Maybe it is about early prostate cancer? Or did almost all of us get this gift from god?
It's a trade-off. For example Airbus planes override the pilot's command to avoid a stall. While this prevents many accidents, it can potentially also cause accidents. But the reasoning is that the technology prevents more accidents than it causes.
Or to cite Eben Moglen: "Hiding how things work is the opposite of teaching."
My suggestion is to give the students a GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows dual-boot laptop (or a tripple-boot if Apple is ok with Psystar supporting MacOS). The GNU/Linux would include the source code of the system libraries and the Kernel. Then the students will be able to explore the different "user experiences" of developing with free software and developing with proprietary SDKs.
If this is not feasible then let the students and their parents decide and have them purchase the laptop and the software+support separately. The school then should teach the concepts instead of the products.
It should not be difficult to develop a curriculum using software running on both platforms (as long as
it does not involve modifying the operating system);)
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Quite impressive. Not much information how it works though.
... then you should try this (replace with your name of course).
http://images.google.com/images?q=your+name
... engineers have managed to build a diving car by strapping a weight to a sand buggy. The diving car is expected to reach the bottom of the Mariana Trench later this evening.
Is this perfomance due to the innovative use of the onload function or is this some new way of rendering web pages and starting the clock later?
The iPhone (which is manufactured by TSMC in Taiwan by the way) is not so much a technical innovation as a new kind of vendor lock-in.
I guess Microsoft wants to run Silverlight on iPhones but Apple asked a very high price. Asking for openness may be an attempt to raise the attention of the regulatory authorities. But it's ridiculous. Most phones on the planet come with proprietary software and SIM-lock. Even the Openmoko has proprietary firmware for the GPS and the GSM-stack. The GPS because it's a weapon and the GSM-stack to implement security by obscurity.
Actually IEEE allows you to make your paper available on the internet at *one* location. However the material must not be reprinted/republished without permission from the IEEE. They also don't allow making your work part of another world-wide indexed collection. That's still far from perfect but at least it allows you to make your work accessible on your homepage or your university's Digital Commons repository. I don't know what the future plans of IEEE are.
A third party may not convey a covered work if you are in an arrangement with said third party to receive stroking, food, or other incentives in exchange for undertaking the activity of conveying.
Definitions:
To "convey" a work means any kind of propagation that enables other parties to make or receive copies. Propagations includes copying, distribution, making available to the public, or building an input device to invoke the help of one or several members of another species to do so.
... are always open source.
I thought there's already plenty of retail in Swiss.
I'm sorry to hear that. Is housing expensive compared to the salaries and/or pension? I stayed in H.K. for 10 days and tried to get a picture of the life there (I spend the nights in a tiny cubicle). I'd like to share some pictures with anyone who's interested: Sha Tin, Kowloon, Hong Kong. I had the impression that on average the housing situation looks strained but not impoverished.
Well, I don't know about the situation regarding health care and education. But Hong Kong certainly *looks* very advanced already.
2009 is going to be the year of the Linux desktop!
Prepare a thundering speech addressing all your co-workers and stream it to their desks using Silverlight.
Such an algorithm may be quite good at indicating popular papers and topics. But there are ideas which are like urban legends. They spread faster than they get falsified. Just think about topics like "cold fusion" or "transmutation of matter". An idea is not good just because it is attractive.
Microsoft has the choice to
(1) secure the system properly and break backwards-compatibility
(2) keep their system mostly backward-compatible and keep most of their customers
Option (2) enables them to sell more copies of their new software release on the short term. Go figure!
960 TByte / 1500E+6 internet users = 640 kByte
That ought to be enough for anybody.
There are collaborative real-time editors such as Gobby. Together with an audio-chat this is a great tool for collaboration.
The main difference between Bazaar and Git is that Bazaar only tracks files while Git tracks changes. Git therefore is technically able to merge changes where one developer has moved code from one file to another while another developer made modifications to that code. On the other hand Git can have difficulties keeping track of things if you rename and change a file in one commit.
I switched from CVS to GNU-arch (tla). When GNU-arch was discontinued I switched to Bazaar. The command-line interface of Bazaar is easy to use. For example the symmetry of "bzr push" and "bzr pull" is really nice.
Thanks for elaborating. Maybe I should have been more accurate. One does not need to know all this for doing date conversions. However one may need to know this when dealing with astronomy software.
* Astronomy software uses ephemeridal time (ET) for computing the position of the planets and comets. ET is a linear time-measure.
* Astronomy software uses universal time (UT) to compute the rotation of the earth. ET-UT is at approx 60 seconds and it increases every year because the rotation of the earth is slowing down due to tidal forces. The difference ET-UT is quite significant when one wants to predict where a solar eclipse is going to occur.
* Ordinary computer software just uses UTC. UTC runs at the same "speed" as ET and the difference UTC-UT is kept below 0.9 seconds by introducing leap seconds.
Software for time computations should use the *Modified Julian Day* [1] which provides a continuous time measure. You can find implementations of the conversion algorithms in astronomy software (including even the Gregorian calendar reform for those really old music files).
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_day
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar
You may be "devastated" to find out that 70% percent of 70 year old (men) have prostate cancer. 90 year old men nearly *all* have prostate cancer. Talking about genes which make it 90 times more probable to develop cancer doesn't make sense. Maybe it is about early prostate cancer? Or did almost all of us get this gift from god?
It's a trade-off. For example Airbus planes override the pilot's command to avoid a stall. While this prevents many accidents, it can potentially also cause accidents. But the reasoning is that the technology prevents more accidents than it causes.
Or to cite Eben Moglen: "Hiding how things work is the opposite of teaching." My suggestion is to give the students a GNU/Linux and Microsoft Windows dual-boot laptop (or a tripple-boot if Apple is ok with Psystar supporting MacOS). The GNU/Linux would include the source code of the system libraries and the Kernel. Then the students will be able to explore the different "user experiences" of developing with free software and developing with proprietary SDKs. If this is not feasible then let the students and their parents decide and have them purchase the laptop and the software+support separately. The school then should teach the concepts instead of the products. It should not be difficult to develop a curriculum using software running on both platforms (as long as it does not involve modifying the operating system) ;)
... is unfortunately much slower than optical lithography.