Bottom line is that Mosquito larvae are extremely beneficial to ecosystems (as food)
Back when my wife and I had just bought our house I installed two small ponds. Within days we were being bitten alive by mosquitoes. You could see the larvae swimming around in the ponds. We went down to the local creek and returned with a couple of dozen small fish. Within two days we had our result. Hardly any mozzies and fish twice the size.
release Love Bugs into our environment to breed with the mosquitoes and effectively make them sterile. Well, if anyone has ever been to Florida during the summer, then you know that not only are there an ass load of huge fucking mosquitoes but also a shit load of love bugs.
I am sure cane toads eat love bugs. I can get you a great deal on cane toads. They are priced per 100000 kilos
Check your other users too, particularly people in group wheel
Which is hardly an advantage on Linux because everybody can su to root. We have RMS to thank for that one. Apparently the GNU way is fairer to the users.
My company, for example, does not allow e-mail outside the firewall unencrypted.
Cripes how do you make that work? I can imagine a good IT organisation setting up PGP on every email client but how would you do that for every organisation you communicate with?
None of Sun's crown jewels run ATMs or unattended cash machines.
Solaris runs a lot of mission critical systems. The difference is that it is BSD based and largely open source to start with, and as a result, much less buggy.
Imagine the chaos if even more windows source code found its way into the wild.
For much of the 1990's OS/2 was the standard desktop OS provided by IT (as opposed to engineering) in a state Government owned company where I worked. It was eventually replaced by Windows98 around 1999 or 2000.
I wasn't an OS/2 user but I did notice a few things which people hated about it:
It took more than five minutes to boot up from the token ring LAN in the morning
Users were required to use an in house resource management application on OS/2 which sucked
When it created icons on start up it would sometimes stack them at exactly the same x,y coordinate in a folder so you had to manually rearrange them.
The desktop had a sickening pea green colour scheme.
Lotus notes kept crashing
Now a lot of the above had nothing to do with OS/2 but the OS got blamed for it because that was the thing people interacted with. I left around the time they rolled out win 98 and a year later when I was contracting for them there were signs around the office joking about how many minutes windows could stay up without crashing.
I think IBM could have put a little bit more effort into satisfying the end users and a little bit less satisfying the PHB's. Maybe it would have been nicer to use if they had done that.
As volcanoes go, this rather large. I am reminded of the bit in Blue Mars where the west Antarctic ice sheet slides off the continent in a few days and global sea levels rise by six metres.
Tools that can verify that software matches the specifications 100% in every case under every condition? For anything but the most rudimentary code I seriously doubt that
It helps that the flight control system is an isolated system. They could embed it in a simulated environment with simulated engines, control surfaces, physics, etc. The problem is that the simulators won't have been well validated and they are affectively writing the software. Bugs found during testing will likely result in changes to the flight control system.
Perhaps this is a design fault resulting from a badly built test environment.
the aircraft did stall, despite what the article summary says
Can you clarify that? A stall on landing would make sense. Most aircraft come close to stall on landing. I suspect that a stall at 600 feet in a B777 would put you into the streets with or without engines.
Sailplanes fly their final approach with an excess of altitude and rely on drag brakes to guide them to the end of the runway. A drag brake which is stuck on could make them land short but these control surfaces are usually fail safe to off.
Airliners rely on engine power modulation to keep them on the glide path. An engine failure will make them land short. So why not land like a sailplane? The descent will be slightly steeper and possibly less comfortable for the passengers but it guarantees that an engine failure in the last minute won't be as fatal.
Its an artificial aid in the same was a drugs are or riding a bike would be.
These runners are in a similar position to bike riders, kayakers and to some extent, swimmers. I don't know about other sports but in bike racing most rules are safety related. If you come up with a hyper efficent frame which has better energy recovery then everybody else will get one and the competition is even again. Use a more efficent but more dangerous handlebar design then the rules will disqualify you.
For me, this is the kind of innovation which should be encouraged.
Oddly enough a copy of Phraselator firmware which fell through a wormhole from 1000 years in the future contained exactly that statement but in the past tense.
pretty much impossible to say your linked program is independent of MySQL
Its messy but I suppose you could create your own GPL licensed middle layer which links with the MySQL client library directly and communicates with your application through a socket.
What we're looking at is, as it stands, giving it the sort of charge time and range as a gasoline vehicle
Also time shifted photovoltaic and wind power suddenly become much more viable. The problem with solar power is that we throw away much of the peak supply because we can't store it anywhere.
Slashdot Mirror
Back when my wife and I had just bought our house I installed two small ponds. Within days we were being bitten alive by mosquitoes. You could see the larvae swimming around in the ponds. We went down to the local creek and returned with a couple of dozen small fish. Within two days we had our result. Hardly any mozzies and fish twice the size.
I am sure cane toads eat love bugs. I can get you a great deal on cane toads. They are priced per 100000 kilos
Are we modding up racism now?
Which is hardly an advantage on Linux because everybody can su to root. We have RMS to thank for that one. Apparently the GNU way is fairer to the users.
Yes
are there any theories as to why people bother with stuff like that on a site like Slashdot?Not as far as I know.
Cripes how do you make that work? I can imagine a good IT organisation setting up PGP on every email client but how would you do that for every organisation you communicate with?
Solaris runs a lot of mission critical systems. The difference is that it is BSD based and largely open source to start with, and as a result, much less buggy.
Imagine the chaos if even more windows source code found its way into the wild.
For much of the 1990's OS/2 was the standard desktop OS provided by IT (as opposed to engineering) in a state Government owned company where I worked. It was eventually replaced by Windows98 around 1999 or 2000.
I wasn't an OS/2 user but I did notice a few things which people hated about it:
Now a lot of the above had nothing to do with OS/2 but the OS got blamed for it because that was the thing people interacted with. I left around the time they rolled out win 98 and a year later when I was contracting for them there were signs around the office joking about how many minutes windows could stay up without crashing.
I think IBM could have put a little bit more effort into satisfying the end users and a little bit less satisfying the PHB's. Maybe it would have been nicer to use if they had done that.
As volcanoes go, this rather large. I am reminded of the bit in Blue Mars where the west Antarctic ice sheet slides off the continent in a few days and global sea levels rise by six metres.
It helps that the flight control system is an isolated system. They could embed it in a simulated environment with simulated engines, control surfaces, physics, etc. The problem is that the simulators won't have been well validated and they are affectively writing the software. Bugs found during testing will likely result in changes to the flight control system.
Perhaps this is a design fault resulting from a badly built test environment.
Can you clarify that? A stall on landing would make sense. Most aircraft come close to stall on landing. I suspect that a stall at 600 feet in a B777 would put you into the streets with or without engines.
Sailplanes fly their final approach with an excess of altitude and rely on drag brakes to guide them to the end of the runway. A drag brake which is stuck on could make them land short but these control surfaces are usually fail safe to off.
Airliners rely on engine power modulation to keep them on the glide path. An engine failure will make them land short. So why not land like a sailplane? The descent will be slightly steeper and possibly less comfortable for the passengers but it guarantees that an engine failure in the last minute won't be as fatal.
They will be lucky if they can get the last thing written to it. There goes with my data. Out with the isopropyl alcohol. Nice clean heads again.
These runners are in a similar position to bike riders, kayakers and to some extent, swimmers. I don't know about other sports but in bike racing most rules are safety related. If you come up with a hyper efficent frame which has better energy recovery then everybody else will get one and the competition is even again. Use a more efficent but more dangerous handlebar design then the rules will disqualify you.
For me, this is the kind of innovation which should be encouraged.
Oddly enough a copy of Phraselator firmware which fell through a wormhole from 1000 years in the future contained exactly that statement but in the past tense.
Nothing is impervious to my soldering. I can destroy anything.
You must have gone through a lot of interpreters.
A compatibility layer for running mysql apps with postgres, if such a thing is possible, would be fantastic.
Its messy but I suppose you could create your own GPL licensed middle layer which links with the MySQL client library directly and communicates with your application through a socket.
Also time shifted photovoltaic and wind power suddenly become much more viable. The problem with solar power is that we throw away much of the peak supply because we can't store it anywhere.
Damn I thought we were going to get a factor of 100 improvement in battery capacity.
Better check the sibling posts. I have had about 12 replies saying the same thing. Does adblock hide replies as well?
I thought the point about subscribing was that you don't see the advertisements.
Amazon has a similar tool which creates some strange correlations between low volume items.
Being able to search for stuff on line, when my wife sends me to the supermarket for something obscure, would actually be handy to have.