If you oxidize the nickel via contact with air, put it in, you can keep a reaction running to deoxidize the nickel, creating steam. Question is then, is the energy you get out of that higher than the energy needed to make the nickel in the first place?
MySQL is a way to take market share away from MS Sql, and Access.
Microsoft Access is more than just Jet or MSDE; it is also a scriptable GUI framework for accessing databases. What is the direct counterpart of Access that uses MySQL?
The election that day in Belgium was quite important. Changed the coalition to socialist and liberals, causing a huge 'rebellion' later on when they tried to change the school system (which was Catholic dominated), Schoolstrijd.
Actually, the Irish are in problems because they helped the Germans in the first place. Due to their bad economy, we lowered interest rates, which provided the money to inflate the debt in Ireland (after all, bad loans are at the hart of the crisis).
So, the Germans are to blame:-P If the Irish helped them a few years ago, then they can return the favour.
Also, the Germans don't want the Irish to default the debt, because then the German banks run a high risk of falling. In several ways, the Germans give money to the Irish so they have money to give to the German banks. All in all, don't oversimplify things!
But he did not meet you... probably hangs around in his cellar.
Using word 2007 at the moment via citrix in linux for some EU project. Hate the ribbon more than I like it, hate the ugly formatting on screen and the track changes they want me to use. How does that allow them to merge work of 5 different people?
The printout is nice and colours of the text sublime, the bureaucrats in Brussels will surely like it.
For real work instead of meaningless reports nobody probably reads, I use tex with git to track changes. That is productive, no ribbon needed, just a keyboard.
Loved it, kids loved it too, started drawing dragons immediately. Made them talk about 'How to train a dragon' which they saw now quite some months ago. Didn't see that one myself, but the coloring looks a bit like that I think.
Good story for such a short amount of time, nice cityscape.
I guess many people are complaining because they see Harry Potter and think you can just create things magically.
There were perfectly good alternatives to writing his own "Unix-like" OS back when Linus was first starting out too. That didn't make Linux any less awesome.
None where GPL licensed. If BSD was not in legal trouble, changes are big that linux would never have attracted this following.
Wine is LGPL. I just finished a complete GPL undo/redo python stack for a text editor. I copied 90% and the ideas from a BSD project, and made the connections to make it work for my usecase. Big deal.
Although you are now considered a flamebait, I'll answer anyway.
When I switched to linux in 2000, I kept win 95 around so I could play wingcommander. By the time it was 2006, it became increasingly more difficult to run them on the latest windows version. A rerelease of the old games luckily allowed playing on Win XP. However, that meant I had to download a hacked version with a virus, no, I don't intend to rebuy things I bought before (my windows version was probably also illegal, I did not connect to the net so I did not care).
Finally, by 2008, all ran great in wine.
People who like old games run emulators all the time, so it is normal to use dosbox for wingcommander 1/2, and a win 95 reimplementation for wingcommander 3/4. To suggest otherwise means _you_ are the idiot.
If a fashion 'artist' creates a new type of cloth, he can patent that just fine. There only is no good protection for a type of shirt. They can protect it, but changing the color a couple of percent is already a new work. The clothing industry does take it's part on patents on products, knit types,..... At least, the company I know takes European patents for new fibers they turn into finished product.
Not really. As it is open source, somebody can just write a new UI layer, reusing the existing code base. I code OSS, doing touch of our app would not be hard. I don't have a tablet or touch device however. I assume that is the biggest barrier for OSS to "catch up". The devices must first be in the hands of the developers.
National security is not comprimised by some Ataturk video's. Video's on How to make a bomb, Train a terrorist,... do. Failing to make that distinction indicates a lack of understanding free speech and it's limitation.
The discussion on the Ataturk vidso is a bit the same as the Hitler parody video's. Oh guess what, you can still watch those: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBO5dh9qrIQ
Android is coming to a TV near you. So consoles will disappear, and you will download Android apps to your TV, hook in some cloud server, and happily play away.
Oh, and Sony is making those TV's, so they are preparing for the next gen, they just keep quiet about it.
Typing this from an old compaq laptop with ATI MOBILITY RADEON 9600.
I have 3D accell on this baby thanks to the open source ati drivers. And it is much faster and better than the closed source driver I used when I bought the laptop. So, think about the future, your ATI card is a far better choice than anything else if you want/need to use linux. Yes, you will have problems now, and you should stick to older distro's for a while. But in a couple of months/years, your pc will have all the power of your graphics card, and it will remain like that,... always. That is the power of open source, not the fact you can run some closed source driver or not.
Maybe 10 hours flying, but that is omitting the 4 hours to spend in customs/security checks or whatever the fashion is then.
If I take the high speed train to London I also need to arrive in time, and also need to pass customs and go through security. No time benefit there.
The reason why America has not electrified a lot of their tracks is just plain costs, it is cheaper only for short-sighted people/managers to run diesels. With electricity, you can build a windmill next to the track for every few kilometres to defray the costs. You cannot do that with diesel, nor can you put more diesel back in the tank when you brake.
The future is hybrid diesel/electric, storing braking energy. Several companies really would like to be able to buy that, but the governments are too slow to start the phasing out of the old tech.
Thinking that a diesel lorry is cheaper than a train of them is deluding yourself. Metal on metal contact for the wheels is much more economical, especially combined with the constant motion of a train. The problems/costs rise when the next step in distribution is not adapted or suited very well for train transport. But there are no indications that cannot be overcome with technology.
It is very annoying with our present industry to first have to load on a train, reconnect in a hub, go to another hub, reconnect, unload train on lorry, go with lorry where you need it. I really don't see much solution to that. I think a system of electrical lorries, which can drive on trains (like the channel tunnel crossing now) and go to the other side of the continent, makes more sense.
I'm pretty sure it will not be economically viable:
2 days of travel versus 10 hours with the plane
Boats are much bigger for manufacturing goods and arrive at logistical hubs
Goods trains are very, very, very long today, they go very slow compared to commuter trains, and yet they are more expensive than lorries
Electrical transport over long distances is expensive and difficult(still diesel trains in the USA no?)
...
So this is probably just: let's build better railroads, and while we are at it, let's use the technology of this decade: high speed railroads. Even if they go 50km/h once they are build.
Personally, 9.10 Kubuntu almost fixed all of my KDE issues.
I am now hacking happily again. Was sticked with 8.04 for work and coding at home up to 9.10. Sure hope 10.04 will again be a step forward for Kubuntu, but as always, I'll try with the laptop of my wife first:-D
As to sound in linux, I listen some radio streams and they drop from time to time. My windows and Mac using collegues have the same problem though. Although their apps reconnect automatically after a while. On the other hand, with my sister I had to work twice for more than an hour to get sound out of skype on Vista... All these example proof nothing of course. I really don't know any people who use their PC for more than radio and managing their music collection for their mp3 player
To end, not saying anything about the Gnome/KDE divide might also mean Ubuntu is seriously thinking some things over. One has to agree that the KDE people cooked up a mobile interface on one hackathlon with Plasma/QML/Qt, while Ubuntu took a lot of time and moved to what was it again, E17? They can only build on that or Gnome if they do the work themself (Moblin is gone now). Using the vibrant KDE community _and_ companies behind it, must seem appealing.
What you say is somewhat correct, but not what the programmer of the screen aims at. There is no specific distribution he tries to sample randomly. The aim is exactly to have it uniform. So this is not the same. If you throw two dice, the order of the numbers is random, so no order can be predicted with higher likelihood.
The sum on the other hand is a derived variable, and shows a distribution.
The article is about the order in which the browsers occur, and that is not random in the sense you throw a dice, rerolling to remove duplicates.
I suppose this is an attempt to have a 'funny' post? Or are you serious?
In my book random means that I cannot guess an order that does not have more probability to occur than another order. As the probabilities are not equal here (eg, little chance of google chrome in position 4 or 5), this is not satisfied.
I'll assume here that the seed is the cpu time, and the seed is set at the start of the computation.
The idea is that the comparison is random, but this randomness compared with a known implementation of the comparison of an array, destroys the randomness, leading to some form of predictability.
Do you have any mathematical or logical inclination?? Well I have, and seeing such a stupid way to randomize 5 entries just makes me weep! Be truthfull here, would _you_ program it that way?? What are they smoking in Seattle?
And as the article says, if you use statistics to determine if the program is random, then the answer will be... not random. So please, don't call this random, and if you do, please, let me know which software you work on, so I can avoid it.
I agree that all this does not matter for the ballot screen. But at least on slashdot we can expect some higer standards than a
I think most older linux users are not like that. It is only that there are many, many, young users, and they need just talk, talk, talk, as if they know the unix world. If you pull the seniority card and tell them to do some research, most of them take a more collaborative approach.
As you give a lot of negative examples of linux users, I feel obliged that I have had contacts with bsd users, who in my mind where much more ideological about their choice of licence. As if I did a crime by releasing _my_ code as GPL... . I like the fact that KDE, a prominent GPL community, is so prominent on FreeBSD, it shows the lines are really more blurred than some would like it.
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It's Inception all over again, better pay some royalties.
If you oxidize the nickel via contact with air, put it in, you can keep a reaction running to deoxidize the nickel, creating steam. Question is then, is the energy you get out of that higher than the energy needed to make the nickel in the first place?
MySQL is a way to take market share away from MS Sql, and Access.
Microsoft Access is more than just Jet or MSDE; it is also a scriptable GUI framework for accessing databases. What is the direct counterpart of Access that uses MySQL?
django
Dead Nation on PSN is getting good reviews for it's co-op (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-syxOHFqN0k ).
I don't want connectivity, I want co-op, so I can play together with family members. WTF do care for some dude the other side of the ocean?
The election that day in Belgium was quite important. Changed the coalition to socialist and liberals, causing a huge 'rebellion' later on when they tried to change the school system (which was Catholic dominated), Schoolstrijd.
So, the Germans are to blame :-P If the Irish helped them a few years ago, then they can return the favour.
Also, the Germans don't want the Irish to default the debt, because then the German banks run a high risk of falling. In several ways, the Germans give money to the Irish so they have money to give to the German banks. All in all, don't oversimplify things!
The printout is nice and colours of the text sublime, the bureaucrats in Brussels will surely like it.
For real work instead of meaningless reports nobody probably reads, I use tex with git to track changes. That is productive, no ribbon needed, just a keyboard.
Wanted to replay the same thing ;-)
Good story for such a short amount of time, nice cityscape.
I guess many people are complaining because they see Harry Potter and think you can just create things magically.
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There were perfectly good alternatives to writing his own "Unix-like" OS back when Linus was first starting out too. That didn't make Linux any less awesome.
None where GPL licensed. If BSD was not in legal trouble, changes are big that linux would never have attracted this following.
Wine is LGPL. I just finished a complete GPL undo/redo python stack for a text editor. I copied 90% and the ideas from a BSD project, and made the connections to make it work for my usecase. Big deal.
Although you are now considered a flamebait, I'll answer anyway.
When I switched to linux in 2000, I kept win 95 around so I could play wingcommander. By the time it was 2006, it became increasingly more difficult to run them on the latest windows version. A rerelease of the old games luckily allowed playing on Win XP. However, that meant I had to download a hacked version with a virus, no, I don't intend to rebuy things I bought before (my windows version was probably also illegal, I did not connect to the net so I did not care).
Finally, by 2008, all ran great in wine.
People who like old games run emulators all the time, so it is normal to use dosbox for wingcommander 1/2, and a win 95 reimplementation for wingcommander 3/4. To suggest otherwise means _you_ are the idiot.
Wingcommander ran great in wine last time I played it in 2008. I suppose windows developers don't follow linux development?
If a fashion 'artist' creates a new type of cloth, he can patent that just fine. There only is no good protection for a type of shirt. They can protect it, but changing the color a couple of percent is already a new work. The clothing industry does take it's part on patents on products, knit types, ..... At least, the company I know takes European patents for new fibers they turn into finished product.
Not really. As it is open source, somebody can just write a new UI layer, reusing the existing code base. I code OSS, doing touch of our app would not be hard. I don't have a tablet or touch device however. I assume that is the biggest barrier for OSS to "catch up". The devices must first be in the hands of the developers.
The discussion on the Ataturk vidso is a bit the same as the Hitler parody video's. Oh guess what, you can still watch those: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBO5dh9qrIQ
Oh, and Sony is making those TV's, so they are preparing for the next gen, they just keep quiet about it.
I have 3D accell on this baby thanks to the open source ati drivers. And it is much faster and better than the closed source driver I used when I bought the laptop. So, think about the future, your ATI card is a far better choice than anything else if you want/need to use linux. Yes, you will have problems now, and you should stick to older distro's for a while. But in a couple of months/years, your pc will have all the power of your graphics card, and it will remain like that, ... always. That is the power of open source, not the fact you can run some closed source driver or not.
Maybe 10 hours flying, but that is omitting the 4 hours to spend in customs/security checks or whatever the fashion is then.
If I take the high speed train to London I also need to arrive in time, and also need to pass customs and go through security. No time benefit there.
The reason why America has not electrified a lot of their tracks is just plain costs, it is cheaper only for short-sighted people/managers to run diesels. With electricity, you can build a windmill next to the track for every few kilometres to defray the costs. You cannot do that with diesel, nor can you put more diesel back in the tank when you brake.
The future is hybrid diesel/electric, storing braking energy. Several companies really would like to be able to buy that, but the governments are too slow to start the phasing out of the old tech.
Thinking that a diesel lorry is cheaper than a train of them is deluding yourself. Metal on metal contact for the wheels is much more economical, especially combined with the constant motion of a train. The problems/costs rise when the next step in distribution is not adapted or suited very well for train transport. But there are no indications that cannot be overcome with technology.
It is very annoying with our present industry to first have to load on a train, reconnect in a hub, go to another hub, reconnect, unload train on lorry, go with lorry where you need it. I really don't see much solution to that. I think a system of electrical lorries, which can drive on trains (like the channel tunnel crossing now) and go to the other side of the continent, makes more sense.
So this is probably just: let's build better railroads, and while we are at it, let's use the technology of this decade: high speed railroads. Even if they go 50km/h once they are build.
I am now hacking happily again. Was sticked with 8.04 for work and coding at home up to 9.10. Sure hope 10.04 will again be a step forward for Kubuntu, but as always, I'll try with the laptop of my wife first :-D
As to sound in linux, I listen some radio streams and they drop from time to time. My windows and Mac using collegues have the same problem though. Although their apps reconnect automatically after a while. On the other hand, with my sister I had to work twice for more than an hour to get sound out of skype on Vista... All these example proof nothing of course. I really don't know any people who use their PC for more than radio and managing their music collection for their mp3 player
To end, not saying anything about the Gnome/KDE divide might also mean Ubuntu is seriously thinking some things over. One has to agree that the KDE people cooked up a mobile interface on one hackathlon with Plasma/QML/Qt, while Ubuntu took a lot of time and moved to what was it again, E17? They can only build on that or Gnome if they do the work themself (Moblin is gone now). Using the vibrant KDE community _and_ companies behind it, must seem appealing.
The sum on the other hand is a derived variable, and shows a distribution.
The article is about the order in which the browsers occur, and that is not random in the sense you throw a dice, rerolling to remove duplicates.
In my book random means that I cannot guess an order that does not have more probability to occur than another order. As the probabilities are not equal here (eg, little chance of google chrome in position 4 or 5), this is not satisfied.
I'll assume here that the seed is the cpu time, and the seed is set at the start of the computation.
The idea is that the comparison is random, but this randomness compared with a known implementation of the comparison of an array, destroys the randomness, leading to some form of predictability.
And as the article says, if you use statistics to determine if the program is random, then the answer will be ... not random. So please, don't call this random, and if you do, please, let me know which software you work on, so I can avoid it.
I agree that all this does not matter for the ballot screen. But at least on slashdot we can expect some higer standards than a
return (0.5 - Math.random());
comparison function.
As you give a lot of negative examples of linux users, I feel obliged that I have had contacts with bsd users, who in my mind where much more ideological about their choice of licence. As if I did a crime by releasing _my_ code as GPL... . I like the fact that KDE, a prominent GPL community, is so prominent on FreeBSD, it shows the lines are really more blurred than some would like it.