We're pretty responsive to feedback, although it's best given in the appropriate forum. This is, of course, no guarantee that we'll do anything about sugestions recieved.;-)
On a Mac, you can use Get Info; for the trojan it should say Kind: Unix Executable File (PowerPC), as opposed to, say, JPEG Image. You can't expect casual users to do this for every file they download, though.
Agreed. It is sufficient for administrators to be sudoers; there is no need for them to have write access to/Library (although mine is 755, for whatever reason) or, for that matter, to have write access to individual applications. I fully expect to be asked for an admin password to make any changes to these.
I'm pretty sure mySQL won't be running on top of any implicit Objective-C.
When you say the language has stagnated, what do you mean? What extensions would you add? OS X 10.3 added language support for exceptions (rather than the previous macro system built on longjmp()) and @synchronised for locking, as well as support for initializing C++ class instance variables in Objective-C++. Personally I feel one of the best things about Objective-C is that it's a relatively simple layer on C that's avoided the feeping creatureism of C++.
Not all hydro is currently being used to offset part-time available systems like solar or wind power, though. In effect, adding more solar or wind power to a system can be thought of as an increase in the capacity of existing hydro reservoirs.
Solar and wind power plants can be balanced by hydro plants, which can be easily and quickly adjusted. Not too great in deserts, of course... you could also use some of the solar energy to electrolyse hydrogen, and run fuel cells at night.
And WINE/VirtualPC running so well may be the biggest disaster for MacOS -- why should Microsoft continue to support MSOffice/Mac when you can just run the Windows version in WINE?
Microsoft supports OS X so they can point at that when people accuse them of anti-trust violations. This won't change just because the CPU changes.
Wood-burning stoves aren't all that great an example, given the environmental context of the thread. They're quite inefficient use of biomass and release lots of nasty particles.
A recent survey - US, no less - found that wind power, using current technology, could cover the entire world's power use several times over. This would involve building turbines in several areas with quite constant wind - mostly at sea or along coasts - meaning that availability would not be a serious issue.
The US (not a Kyoto signee) has stricter environmental controls these days than almost all of the Kyoto nations.
...and yet it manages to grant so many exceptions that it's the world's biggest polluter.
Besides, it's not really fair to compare the US to most Kyoto signatories, since they don't claim to be first-world nations. If your economy is based on subsitance farming, pollution controls are a secondary concern.
Actually, CO2 is poisonous. You can asphyxiate while still having significantly more oxygen than carbon dioxide in your lungs.
Luckily, CO2 saturation is only around 700 ppm... up from 300 ppm fifty years ago. (As measured on a mountanside on Hawaii; in a city it'll be rather higher.) Even if you feel the long-term health effects of carbon dioxide are uncertain, or hope nature will compensate (look! A wacky Gaian!) it is only sensible to reduce release until it is provably safe.
In the '50s, the US government wanted to use nuclear bombs for mining and construction applications. (The first was to be a harbour in Alaska.) They argued that the side-effects of spreading radio-active dust were purely theoretical... which remained true, for a few years. If wacky left-wing protesters hadn't stopped them, there would be a lot more deformed children in the US and elsewhere today.
The problem is that by "re-writing history" without providing a reference to the original work, we're setting a potentially dangerous precedent. Eventually, people could come to view this "new version" as "the original" simply because they have no access to the original for comparison.
What do you mean, setting a precedent? Ever heard of Master and Commander? Or U-1136 or whatever it's called? Hollywood is already deliberately perverting real history; perverting Star Wars history is a very minor crime in comparison.
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Ahh, the wonders of hardware-bashing. But hey, Oolite's tagline is, "Retro space gaming with modern technology." :-)
What's a split-resolution screen?
We're pretty responsive to feedback, although it's best given in the appropriate forum. This is, of course, no guarantee that we'll do anything about sugestions recieved. ;-)
On a Mac, you can use Get Info; for the trojan it should say Kind: Unix Executable File (PowerPC), as opposed to, say, JPEG Image. You can't expect casual users to do this for every file they download, though.
Agreed. It is sufficient for administrators to be sudoers; there is no need for them to have write access to /Library (although mine is 755, for whatever reason) or, for that matter, to have write access to individual applications. I fully expect to be asked for an admin password to make any changes to these.
Yep. They were early in the digital camera market, too.
I'm pretty sure mySQL won't be running on top of any implicit Objective-C.
When you say the language has stagnated, what do you mean? What extensions would you add? OS X 10.3 added language support for exceptions (rather than the previous macro system built on longjmp()) and @synchronised for locking, as well as support for initializing C++ class instance variables in Objective-C++. Personally I feel one of the best things about Objective-C is that it's a relatively simple layer on C that's avoided the feeping creatureism of C++.
More accurately, one ?-Q followed by confirming the alert asking if you really want to kill them all off...
Not all hydro is currently being used to offset part-time available systems like solar or wind power, though. In effect, adding more solar or wind power to a system can be thought of as an increase in the capacity of existing hydro reservoirs.
Solar and wind power plants can be balanced by hydro plants, which can be easily and quickly adjusted. Not too great in deserts, of course... you could also use some of the solar energy to electrolyse hydrogen, and run fuel cells at night.
It's only me, then?
Microsoft supports OS X so they can point at that when people accuse them of anti-trust violations. This won't change just because the CPU changes.
PowerPC G5s are entirely and completely 64-bit. It's a pity they're also slow.
Wood-burning stoves aren't all that great an example, given the environmental context of the thread. They're quite inefficient use of biomass and release lots of nasty particles.
A recent survey - US, no less - found that wind power, using current technology, could cover the entire world's power use several times over. This would involve building turbines in several areas with quite constant wind - mostly at sea or along coasts - meaning that availability would not be a serious issue.
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There was one in the last year or so. A DHL plane and a Russian passenger plane over Switzerland, ISTR.
...and yet it manages to grant so many exceptions that it's the world's biggest polluter.
Besides, it's not really fair to compare the US to most Kyoto signatories, since they don't claim to be first-world nations. If your economy is based on subsitance farming, pollution controls are a secondary concern.
Actually, CO2 is poisonous. You can asphyxiate while still having significantly more oxygen than carbon dioxide in your lungs.
Luckily, CO2 saturation is only around 700 ppm... up from 300 ppm fifty years ago. (As measured on a mountanside on Hawaii; in a city it'll be rather higher.) Even if you feel the long-term health effects of carbon dioxide are uncertain, or hope nature will compensate (look! A wacky Gaian!) it is only sensible to reduce release until it is provably safe.
In the '50s, the US government wanted to use nuclear bombs for mining and construction applications. (The first was to be a harbour in Alaska.) They argued that the side-effects of spreading radio-active dust were purely theoretical... which remained true, for a few years. If wacky left-wing protesters hadn't stopped them, there would be a lot more deformed children in the US and elsewhere today.
Hey, that's not a railgun, it's a rocket.
+++ You are in a maze of fiddly little toolbar buttons, all alike. +++
Yep, that's word all right.
What do you mean, setting a precedent? Ever heard of Master and Commander? Or U-1136 or whatever it's called? Hollywood is already deliberately perverting real history; perverting Star Wars history is a very minor crime in comparison.