It also works ok in microwave ovens. Just that the conversion is limited to plain heating. You could use this to run any heat-operated generator, with the usual losses in conversion.
This brings up an interesting point: is it allowed, under the various copyright laws, to burn books (or erase electronically stored copies) or material which you do know have the right to read ?
You might be interfering with the rightful owner's potential future income stream.
Thunder does not suffer from many of the disadvantages of lightning, e.g. all this EMF related stuff. However, you have to deal with the lack of directionality, this would be harder to control with sound.
As with all of these, transmission seems easy. Probably they will want reception too, and conversion into something useful at the receiving end. Darn.
Yes that is correct. Any change will affect, often adversely, the agricultural output, and taking advantage of better conditions somewhere else takes time.
That is why I would favour a two-pronged approach:
- try to slow down, or if possible stop changes with a negative impact
- learn how to deal with those changes that we cannot change more quickly than we can now
To extend your point, I'm quite confident there is more than one local maximum for the crop-total vs global-average-temperature function. Not knowing what the function is, we have no idea where those maxima are, and whether we currenly are at one of them.
Getting a driver license gets you fingerprinted and yur picture taken in many places, including California. Yes, we will keep these things forever, just in case.
Yes I believe it is correct that the aggregate exposure works in favour of the news agency as well. I just don't think anyone is doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, these are sound economic motives.
Yes they do, at least I hope so. By providing a large variety of good services, Google attracts users to all of their products. Without offering their free news service, a percentage of Google users would prefer different search enginges.
I am not a liar, and I am not silly, I am honest and a very serious person. Possibly we come from a different cultural background, where these sort of statements have different meaning, but I don't care, and I am not going to follow that line.
Back to the start of this thread, what is the best course of action for Brazil, and in particular their government: I believe that technological advancement for Brazil is more important that convenience for the simple computer user. I believe the time-frame to aim for here is the "middle run", something like 5-20 years. And my estimation is that using open source software will advance them more than closed source. I believe without checking that you are producing quality products regardless of platform, I know that plenty of those exist.
Most computers are embedded, not desktop. Of course the desktop software is the most visible, that is correct. And it's also true that a lot of the software running on Windows was written by companies other than MS, in even MS products often originated by someone they ended up acquering.
I don't know why you need personal arguments, ('silly', 'denial', 'FUD') when I disagree on technical and societal issues with you. I don't begrudge the developers of Windows-based software their livelyhood, nor do I want to force users into some less convenient operating system. I just think that the open source approach is more beneficial for society as a whole, and for many individuals as well, without hurting anyone. Saying that Windows is an inferior solution does not make me silly, nor anti-business, nor anti-american.
These tools you list exist in spite of Microsoft, or to compete with them.
What MS software would you want to run ? And why do you start counting people once they have achieved "middle class" status ?
Microsoft is worse for everybody - why should I have to pay them for their development tools, when there are free tools available that are as good and better ?
With Microsoft, I am limited to tools they decide are in their business interest to provide. With OSS, get things from the academic community.
Those are minorities, sure, but they are the minorities that make all the stuff you take for granted. And if the learning tools are freely and readily available, these minorties grow larger. That is why developed countries have public school systems and libraries.
No, it is the best argument. Open source gives an opportunity to lear for free, especially when development tools are available free as well. This helps those people who are interested in learning.
Hosted OS is a good idea if you want more control over your stupid users - just give them terminals and they can't break so many things.
But unlike electric power generation, providing a large central capacity is harder than a distributed one. That is why people how need tons of compute power use grids. The added cost of the distributed approach is in system admin related costs.
Personally, I like to write programs on my computer, and make it do things the service provider didn't think of. People like me are a minority, but there are millions of us all over the world.
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It also works ok in microwave ovens. Just that the conversion is limited to plain heating. You could use this to run any heat-operated generator, with the usual losses in conversion.
This brings up an interesting point: is it allowed, under the various copyright laws, to burn books (or erase electronically stored copies) or material which you do know have the right to read ? You might be interfering with the rightful owner's potential future income stream.
Thunder does not suffer from many of the disadvantages of lightning, e.g. all this EMF related stuff. However, you have to deal with the lack of directionality, this would be harder to control with sound.
As with all of these, transmission seems easy. Probably they will want reception too, and conversion into something useful at the receiving end. Darn.
Modded down by a flash designer no doubt. Flash - if you don't have anything to say, say it louder.
Precisely. This will be addressed by those providers who realize it is their problem, not the customers.
Yes that is correct. Any change will affect, often adversely, the agricultural output, and taking advantage of better conditions somewhere else takes time.
That is why I would favour a two-pronged approach:
- try to slow down, or if possible stop changes with a negative impact
- learn how to deal with those changes that we cannot change more quickly than we can now
To extend your point, I'm quite confident there is more than one local maximum for the crop-total vs global-average-temperature function.
Not knowing what the function is, we have no idea where those maxima are, and whether we currenly are at one of them.
Getting a driver license gets you fingerprinted and yur picture taken in many places, including California. Yes, we will keep these things forever, just in case.
It does help people on our planet, the aliens aren't getting anything out of it. Least of all the money spent.
A slashdot poster with any pride would play a reading of their own posts and congratulatory resonses. Each one twice.
Personally, I find this encouraging.
Just wait until PETA gets wind of this one. I know, bacteria and viruses are not animals, but that won't stop PETA!
Most likely, the researchers who put the robot in the desert didn't wash their feet properly.
Yes I believe it is correct that the aggregate exposure works in favour of the news agency as well. I just don't think anyone is doing this out of the goodness of their hearts, these are sound economic motives.
Yes they do, at least I hope so. By providing a large variety of good services, Google attracts users to all of their products. Without offering their free news service, a percentage of Google users would prefer different search enginges.
An endorsement by EDS ? This could be the end of Linux.
I am not a liar, and I am not silly, I am honest and a very serious person. Possibly we come from a different cultural background, where these sort of statements have different meaning, but I don't care, and I am not going to follow that line.
Back to the start of this thread, what is the best course of action for Brazil, and in particular their government: I believe that technological advancement for Brazil is more important that convenience for the simple computer user. I believe the time-frame to aim for here is the "middle run", something like 5-20 years. And my estimation is that using open source software will advance them more than closed source. I believe without checking that you are producing quality products regardless of platform, I know that plenty of those exist.
Most computers are embedded, not desktop. Of course the desktop software is the most visible, that is correct. And it's also true that a lot of the software running on Windows was written by companies other than MS, in even MS products often originated by someone they ended up acquering. I don't know why you need personal arguments, ('silly', 'denial', 'FUD') when I disagree on technical and societal issues with you. I don't begrudge the developers of Windows-based software their livelyhood, nor do I want to force users into some less convenient operating system. I just think that the open source approach is more beneficial for society as a whole, and for many individuals as well, without hurting anyone. Saying that Windows is an inferior solution does not make me silly, nor anti-business, nor anti-american.
The computing world exists to people can run Office ?? Are you serious ?
These tools you list exist in spite of Microsoft, or to compete with them. What MS software would you want to run ? And why do you start counting people once they have achieved "middle class" status ?
Isn't keeping Quantum Physics textbooks from the public against the US constitution ?
Actually, programming is a lot easier than Quantum Physics, six year olds can do it.
Microsoft is worse for everybody - why should I have to pay them for their development tools, when there are free tools available that are as good and better ? With Microsoft, I am limited to tools they decide are in their business interest to provide. With OSS, get things from the academic community. Those are minorities, sure, but they are the minorities that make all the stuff you take for granted. And if the learning tools are freely and readily available, these minorties grow larger. That is why developed countries have public school systems and libraries.
No, it is the best argument. Open source gives an opportunity to lear for free, especially when development tools are available free as well. This helps those people who are interested in learning.
Hosted OS is a good idea if you want more control over your stupid users - just give them terminals and they can't break so many things.
But unlike electric power generation, providing a large central capacity is harder than a distributed one. That is why people how need tons of compute power use grids.
The added cost of the distributed approach is in system admin related costs.
Personally, I like to write programs on my computer, and make it do things the service provider didn't think of. People like me are a minority, but there are millions of us all over the world.
If someone buys a casket for you, will they stop spamming you ?