Solar energy converts energy from the nuclear reactions in the sun into electricity.
There is a nuclear reaction going on in the center of the planet Earth too. We would not be able to live without this process. It would be too cold and too much radiation would reach us from space.
There is a hot iron-nickel ball rotating in the center of the Earth. It creates magnetic field around our planet, which protects us from space radiation. Fortunately, the radiation from the nuclear process at the center of the Earth does not reach us either.
In principle, any energy has its source in a natural nuclear reaction one sort or another.
This is the USA we used to know! At last, leading from behind is over. At last, American engineers are back at work again.
The video in the article is really inspiring. I hope it is the beginning of the re-industrialization of North America and Europe on the basis of clean,clever, non-outsourcecable technologies.
This technology could be miniaturized, automated, computerized, and finally placed on all roofs.
Well formatted does not mean beautifully formatted. There are principles and rules of formatting. There should be consistency, rigor, character, attention to details.
One should see and read well formatted code as if from an aircraft, from above. An error or deficiency becomes obvious from the first sight.
When a large organization gets involved into a software project it changes the project too.
French Republic can and probably will do a lot of good stuff for Linux community too. It will not just use it for free and enjoy it.
French civilization is universal. It brought metric system to the world, ideals of Great revolution, etc. When it starts moving, the word watches. I expect much more form this initiative.
Why did I buy a large wide display? 20 centimeters from the left and from the right are empty. A narrow long column of the text, like a pillar, is on the screen.
The French king Louis XVI wrote in his diary on the day when the Great French Revolution began: "Rien." It means: nothing. It seems to be one more quiet uneventful day of the year 1789.
I do not mean that the commercial approach is bad. It made such giants as Microsoft, Apple, IBM, etc.
But the WWW was much much bigger, it changed the human civilization. It made the Internet what it is now.
It was an scientific exploit, simple and elegant, equal to the ones of Nicolaus Copernicus, René Descartes, Dmitri Mendeleev, etc. And it was also produced by a scientist-engineer.
Computing and networking research was going on everywhere in the world. But the grand idea, which made it a global, international phenomenon, was generated by an engineer-physicist at the CERN, in Europe. And the CERN administration wisely and bravely released the WWW into the public domain.
It did not happen in the USA. And it is well documented. The USA was and is playing the important role. But it was simply not the place where it happened. And I do not believe it could happen. It would be patented, put in a silo, sold in small pieces.
From the topic article: "...pushing to shift the power dynamics of the World Wide Web away from a US-centric model for years."
The point was that it did not begin as "US-centric", that it was non-US from the very beginning. It was international, including the USA, that is why it is called Internet.
Everyone can and does make a mistake from time to time. There should be a serious redressment and reconfiguration of the current NSA's practices. And the USA should continue to be a part of the international Internet community.
Not an exceptional part, but, perhaps, substantial or even leading.
Actually, it is the government of the Republic and Canton of Geneva, which, is, indeed, in the Swiss Confederation.
It is Geneva International all right. It started with another grand idea. Henry Dunant, the founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross, came out with the idea that the wounded soldier does not belong to any state or government anymore. That she/he belongs to the higher authority.
There was the technology to transmit images over the telegraph still in 30s. But the real popularity of the net started with the invention of the WWW at the CERN.
By the way, the actual invention was done not by a programmer but by the an engineer who was doing the real work.
Yes, but what was it? One more obscure communication protocol.
The WWW Internet is a global phenomenon now. And the WWW Internet was invented by a physicist who was trying to solve a real physical problem.
He was trying to solve a problem of distributing scientific papers among CERN scientists. He did it during work time paid by CERN and on the CERN's computer.
The main database of the Internet, MySQL, is also an International project.
It is just not true that the Internet is sort of an US present to the world. It is not.
We thought that the US government is playing a positive role for the Internet. Until E.S. revealed what is really going on.
Instead of working together with other governments to fight spam, cyber crime, etc. it all came down to the total carpet spying on us, to creating back-doors. It is not nice at all.
The USA is a big and complicated thing. There are a lot of different people, groups, schools, parties, etc. in America. As everywhere else.
No one wants to disconnect the North America from the Internet. But its contribution should be positive. Nowadays it leaves an impression of a total eavesdropping of the Internet and it scares people.
The article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights gives the right of privacy of communication and home to all people on Earth.
The Internet as we know it was invented in CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. The invention was released into the public domain by the CERN administration. That is why we have the WWW Internet.
Otherwise we would have several Internets: a Microsoft Internet, Apple Internet, IBM Internet, etc.
Geneva is an international city and the CERN is an international project.
I have an impressions that the wall of fundamental laws is reached and further research of particles is useless. This is it. No way further. The impasse.
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I saw in a documentary that this plant gave an employment to many good people in Arizona, who needed it.
Perhaps, not this technology exactly, but it is a large project. Some smart people may think of how to improve it.
Solar energy converts energy from the nuclear reactions in the sun into electricity.
There is a nuclear reaction going on in the center of the planet Earth too. We would not be able to live without this process. It would be too cold and too much radiation would reach us from space.
There is a hot iron-nickel ball rotating in the center of the Earth. It creates magnetic field around our planet, which protects us from space radiation. Fortunately, the radiation from the nuclear process at the center of the Earth does not reach us either.
In principle, any energy has its source in a natural nuclear reaction one sort or another.
This is the USA we used to know! At last, leading from behind is over. At last, American engineers are back at work again.
The video in the article is really inspiring. I hope it is the beginning of the re-industrialization of North America and Europe on the basis of clean,clever, non-outsourcecable technologies.
This technology could be miniaturized, automated, computerized, and finally placed on all roofs.
Well formatted does not mean beautifully formatted. There are principles and rules of formatting. There should be consistency, rigor, character, attention to details.
One should see and read well formatted code as if from an aircraft, from above. An error or deficiency becomes obvious from the first sight.
is well formatted code.
It could be just an attempt to lower prices on the oil and gas market.
When a large organization gets involved into a software project it changes the project too.
French Republic can and probably will do a lot of good stuff for Linux community too. It will not just use it for free and enjoy it.
French civilization is universal. It brought metric system to the world, ideals of Great revolution, etc. When it starts moving, the word watches. I expect much more form this initiative.
It is on the front page of the http://imgur.com/ too.
http://i.imgur.com/Xp2q6up.jpg
Why did I buy a large wide display? 20 centimeters from the left and from the right are empty. A narrow long column of the text, like a pillar, is on the screen.
The French king Louis XVI wrote in his diary on the day when the Great French Revolution began: "Rien." It means: nothing. It seems to be one more quiet uneventful day of the year 1789.
I do not mean that the commercial approach is bad. It made such giants as Microsoft, Apple, IBM, etc.
But the WWW was much much bigger, it changed the human civilization. It made the Internet what it is now.
It was an scientific exploit, simple and elegant, equal to the ones of Nicolaus Copernicus, René Descartes, Dmitri Mendeleev, etc. And it was also produced by a scientist-engineer.
Computing and networking research was going on everywhere in the world. But the grand idea, which made it a global, international phenomenon, was generated by an engineer-physicist at the CERN, in Europe. And the CERN administration wisely and bravely released the WWW into the public domain.
It did not happen in the USA. And it is well documented. The USA was and is playing the important role. But it was simply not the place where it happened. And I do not believe it could happen. It would be patented, put in a silo, sold in small pieces.
From the topic article: "...pushing to shift the power dynamics of the World Wide Web away from a US-centric model for years."
The point was that it did not begin as "US-centric", that it was non-US from the very beginning. It was international, including the USA, that is why it is called Internet.
Are you sure?
It seems it started in 20s century: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirephoto
In any case, it was also kind of an Internet.
My point was that it became really popular, en masse, globally, after the invention (and release into public domain) at the CERN.
Everyone can and does make a mistake from time to time. There should be a serious redressment and reconfiguration of the current NSA's practices. And the USA should continue to be a part of the international Internet community.
Not an exceptional part, but, perhaps, substantial or even leading.
Another BBS (Bulletin board system) user.
Millions and millions of the websites cannot be wrong.
Actually, it is the government of the Republic and Canton of Geneva, which, is, indeed, in the Swiss Confederation.
It is Geneva International all right. It started with another grand idea. Henry Dunant, the founder of the International Committee of the Red Cross, came out with the idea that the wounded soldier does not belong to any state or government anymore. That she/he belongs to the higher authority.
This idea still keeps changing the wold.
There was the technology to transmit images over the telegraph still in 30s. But the real popularity of the net started with the invention of the WWW at the CERN.
By the way, the actual invention was done not by a programmer but by the an engineer who was doing the real work.
Yes, but what was it? One more obscure communication protocol.
The WWW Internet is a global phenomenon now. And the WWW Internet was invented by a physicist who was trying to solve a real physical problem.
He was trying to solve a problem of distributing scientific papers among CERN scientists. He did it during work time paid by CERN and on the CERN's computer.
The main database of the Internet, MySQL, is also an International project.
It is just not true that the Internet is sort of an US present to the world. It is not.
We thought that the US government is playing a positive role for the Internet. Until E.S. revealed what is really going on.
Instead of working together with other governments to fight spam, cyber crime, etc. it all came down to the total carpet spying on us, to creating back-doors. It is not nice at all.
The USA is a big and complicated thing. There are a lot of different people, groups, schools, parties, etc. in America. As everywhere else.
No one wants to disconnect the North America from the Internet. But its contribution should be positive. Nowadays it leaves an impression of a total eavesdropping of the Internet and it scares people.
The article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights gives the right of privacy of communication and home to all people on Earth.
The Internet as we know it was invented in CERN, Geneva, Switzerland. The invention was released into the public domain by the CERN administration. That is why we have the WWW Internet.
Otherwise we would have several Internets: a Microsoft Internet, Apple Internet, IBM Internet, etc.
Geneva is an international city and the CERN is an international project.
Say, PHP&MySQL were not made in the USA.
I have an impressions that the wall of fundamental laws is reached and further research of particles is useless. This is it. No way further. The impasse.