Soviets have been developing a nuclear rocket engine since 70s (RD-0410), and by 1990 they successfully tested a prototype on a stand, powerful enough to drive a real rocket. But by then the USSR disbanded, financing ceased, and the relevant docs were gradually lost.
There are smooth operators that act on imaginary numbers right by the corner. Then it gets really kinky. Consider improper integrals, strip functions, etc.
TV tuner and probably 5.1 audio or something like that.
The only thing I wonder about is why would I exchange my 21" 1600x1200 CRT monitor for this 37" device with 1080 lines. It has 90% only of the resolution and pixels about 1.5x as big. It only looks good for watching movies, and only for people that have the computer too far from the bed;)
(For movie watching I'd take a good DLP projector -- the picture is far bigger for a comparable price tag.)
Imagine that electric power is nearly free, and 50kW PSUs are common. The problem is, these 50 kilowatts all turn into heat nearly instantly. And you have to do something to drive away all this heat from your house, or be boiled. Can you fancy a CS match seating near a furnace pipe that drives hot air away? %)
Currently a moderate cooling system that is capable of cooling a 600W gaming rig costs $150-200. With 50kW systems, it's going to be much more expensive, large, and cumbersome, ask people in the nearest datacenter.
So, low wattage per million triangles *can* be important for desktops, too.
You're sadly right. There are few ways to show what context you want for your keywords as opposed to the keywords theirselves. Yes, things like 'site:' do help, but are quite limited. What I'd like to see is a multiline textbox for my query. The first line would be keywords as usual. The next lines would be context of various kinds: sites/domains, date ranges, parts of the document (headings, navigation, main text, bibliography, etc), kind of the document (blog/forums post, wiki page, short blurb, online book, etc)...
Of course, it woul take the search engine know a lot about basic features of texts, web sites' structure, and a thing or two about the real world. But that would do for some "new experience", imho.
Another good piece of Sony engineering that evaded a death by hands of Sony's marketing is Trinitron CRTs. This was (and still is) the choice of DTP / photo-editing pros.
BTW, I feel really sorry for Sony's engineers: they often develop brilliant things that die undeservingly because of inadequate marketing, licensing, etc.
As an everyday user of Swing apps (and specifically jEdit) I assure you that under Java 5 Swing apps *do* look native enough. I have to strain my eye to find very slight differences. Note that many native win32 apps alter their look and feel uch more, "to stand out", probably. Opera on win32 looks less "native" than most Java apps, and newer MSO apps always keep going for some new and rather alien (though cool) look and feel.
Read about Minix 3 two-thirds into the article. They claim it to be less than 10% slower compared to a monolithic kernel. You can check for yourself -- Minix 3 is freely downloadable now (minix3.org), they even provide a live cd.
Jabber.org is running a list of public servers, most of which provide a number of gateways to other networks. If you can't get a particular gateway on, say, jabber.org, try to use any of those.
Note that you can have an account on one server and use gateways on other server(s).
Radio stations pay to RIAA and suchlike for broadcasing rights already. This is where the music is sold. If RIAA thinks it is underpaid, it could try to raise the price for the stations. Why add another piece of legislature?
1) I think that they have all the rights to charge as much as they please, as long as this is their pipe. Bad things usually begin when someone starts to dictate others what (not) to with their legally acquired property: "don't charge for that traffic", "don't rip that CD", "don't share that book", "don't decompile that program", etc.
2) Charging twice, they do a stupid thing. Clients won't like it; clients will leave them. Either other existing providers will catch the fleeing clients, or some completely new could form if there'd be so much demand. So, SBC's foolish conduct won't go unpunished, and it will be punished the most efficient way (financial).
This might not last for very long, as Skype's voice traffic increases. Can FCC re-qualify Skype?
BTW, do you mean that law enforcement would not be able to wiretap text-based IMs should it need that? "Hey terrorists, just use icq / aim / skype IM to share plans, the authorities aren't going to look!" -- did anybody use this rhetoric yet?
Get one of Tom Kyte's books. While none of them is exactly for beginners, you're also not fresh from college, are you?
The above applies when you have some understanding of basic SQL already. If not, get Martin Gruber's classic book 'Understanding SQL'; it is so venerable that you'll have no trouble getting it via p2p or irc, too;)
Then, Oracle's own documentation supplied with the database server is well enough written, if somehow voluminous. Don't shy to look there.
There are lots of computers beyond PCs. Think about all this embedded stuff, 16-bit and 8-bit controllers, especially those that do real-time tasks. A friend of mine has just completed a pure C project of 11k lines for an automotive controller. This does not seem like a very big deal, but there are lots of such things. For their developers, C is a godsend, compared to assembler, and such a book a real boon.
In FF, you can have bookmarks like this:
http://livejournal.com/~%25s/
Give it a keyword (say, 'lj'), type in the URL line:
lj someusername
and someusername's livejournal opens.
This is the simplest example. I have several more sophisticated; this mostly obviates the FF search box.
And all this with a *very* simple syntax that only allows substitution of one string. Imagine something a bit more powerful in that place.
Points 1 and 2: Rewriting a closed system can be pointless, since you'll not be able to distribute it. Opening up the API alone would be a worthy thing. But release of the entine WPS sources would be 10x as nice.
Point 3: You know, some people choose *not* to run KDE or Gnome, and stick to XFCE or GnuStep or some other lightweight desktop, even on high-end machines. There *is* a demand for a functional desktop environment which is simpler and lighter than KDE/Gnome. WPS can actually turn out to be *richer* than these;)
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Soviets have been developing a nuclear rocket engine since 70s (RD-0410), and by 1990 they successfully tested a prototype on a stand, powerful enough to drive a real rocket. But by then the USSR disbanded, financing ceased, and the relevant docs were gradually lost.
Oftentimes frontends are not Apache but something lightweight.
Apache, being venerable and versatile, is not exactly lightweight, even th 2.x branch.
There are smooth operators that act on imaginary numbers right by the corner. Then it gets really kinky. Consider improper integrals, strip functions, etc.
TV tuner and probably 5.1 audio or something like that.
;)
The only thing I wonder about is why would I exchange my 21" 1600x1200 CRT monitor for this 37" device with 1080 lines. It has 90% only of the resolution and pixels about 1.5x as big. It only looks good for watching movies, and only for people that have the computer too far from the bed
(For movie watching I'd take a good DLP projector -- the picture is far bigger for a comparable price tag.)
How sad it is to learn that people don't enjoy things becase they have these things; they value them because others don't have them.
Imagine that electric power is nearly free, and 50kW PSUs are common. The problem is, these 50 kilowatts all turn into heat nearly instantly. And you have to do something to drive away all this heat from your house, or be boiled. Can you fancy a CS match seating near a furnace pipe that drives hot air away? %)
Currently a moderate cooling system that is capable of cooling a 600W gaming rig costs $150-200. With 50kW systems, it's going to be much more expensive, large, and cumbersome, ask people in the nearest datacenter.
So, low wattage per million triangles *can* be important for desktops, too.
You're sadly right. There are few ways to show what context you want for your keywords as opposed to the keywords theirselves.
Yes, things like 'site:' do help, but are quite limited.
What I'd like to see is a multiline textbox for my query. The first line would be keywords as usual.
The next lines would be context of various kinds: sites/domains, date ranges, parts of the document (headings, navigation, main text, bibliography, etc), kind of the document (blog/forums post, wiki page, short blurb, online book, etc)...
Of course, it woul take the search engine know a lot about basic features of texts, web sites' structure, and a thing or two about the real world.
But that would do for some "new experience", imho.
Another good piece of Sony engineering that evaded a death by hands of Sony's marketing is Trinitron CRTs. This was (and still is) the choice of DTP / photo-editing pros.
BTW, I feel really sorry for Sony's engineers: they often develop brilliant things that die undeservingly because of inadequate marketing, licensing, etc.
As an everyday user of Swing apps (and specifically jEdit) I assure you that under Java 5 Swing apps *do* look native enough. I have to strain my eye to find very slight differences. Note that many native win32 apps alter their look and feel uch more, "to stand out", probably. Opera on win32 looks less "native" than most Java apps, and newer MSO apps always keep going for some new and rather alien (though cool) look and feel.
Heh, WWII.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) used to be a military engineer and architect for quite some time, to pay his bills.
Read about Minix 3 two-thirds into the article.
They claim it to be less than 10% slower compared to a monolithic kernel. You can check for yourself -- Minix 3 is freely downloadable now (minix3.org), they even provide a live cd.
http://www.flexbeta.net.nyud.net:8090/main/comment s.php?catid=1&shownews=18760
.nyud.net:8090 to all post links automatically?
I wonder when slashcode is going to support inserting
Oracle's strong points over PG:
:) (probably including support) ;) (easier migration)
- speed
- mutli-way replication
- multi-node clusters
- advanced SQL (cubes, trees, etc)
- finer details of physical data layout (cluster tables, partitioned tables, etc)
- stability (unless you use the bleeding edge, which is brittle, alas)
PG's strong points Oracle:
- price
- relative simplicity and lower resource consumption
- easier administration
- good compatibility with Oracle's SQL
- source availability
Also, PG is perceived as less stable than Oracle, and even less than MySQL. It will take time to dispel this (if untrue).
>(*cough* ursine.ca *cough*)
:)
No need to cough
Jabber.org is running a list of public servers, most of which provide a number of gateways to other networks. If you can't get a particular gateway on, say, jabber.org, try to use any of those.
Note that you can have an account on one server and use gateways on other server(s).
Radio stations pay to RIAA and suchlike for broadcasing rights already. This is where the music is sold. If RIAA thinks it is underpaid, it could try to raise the price for the stations.
Why add another piece of legislature?
1) I think that they have all the rights to charge as much as they please, as long as this is their pipe. Bad things usually begin when someone starts to dictate others what (not) to with their legally acquired property: "don't charge for that traffic", "don't rip that CD", "don't share that book", "don't decompile that program", etc.
2) Charging twice, they do a stupid thing. Clients won't like it; clients will leave them. Either other existing providers will catch the fleeing clients, or some completely new could form if there'd be so much demand. So, SBC's foolish conduct won't go unpunished, and it will be punished the most efficient way (financial).
This might not last for very long, as Skype's voice traffic increases. Can FCC re-qualify Skype?
BTW, do you mean that law enforcement would not be able to wiretap text-based IMs should it need that? "Hey terrorists, just use icq / aim / skype IM to share plans, the authorities aren't going to look!" -- did anybody use this rhetoric yet?
Get one of Tom Kyte's books. While none of them is exactly for beginners, you're also not fresh from college, are you?
;)
The above applies when you have some understanding of basic SQL already. If not, get Martin Gruber's classic book 'Understanding SQL'; it is so venerable that you'll have no trouble getting it via p2p or irc, too
Then, Oracle's own documentation supplied with the database server is well enough written, if somehow voluminous. Don't shy to look there.
What I like about FreeBSD is that it is noticeably more stable. Yes, with fewer shiny features.
:)
Really, if I need to run a heavy-loaded server, I consider FreeBSD first and Linux second. Your comment just explained why.
Not that I don't like Linux or want to start a flamewar
There are lots of computers beyond PCs. Think about all this embedded stuff, 16-bit and 8-bit controllers, especially those that do real-time tasks. A friend of mine has just completed a pure C project of 11k lines for an automotive controller. This does not seem like a very big deal, but there are lots of such things. For their developers, C is a godsend, compared to assembler, and such a book a real boon.
(And yes, I know about Forth, etc)
Eiffel Tower
St. Peter in Rome
Florence, Duomo
Water reservoirs in Sahara.
Creter of Vesuvius
In FF, you can have bookmarks like this: http://livejournal.com/~%25s/ Give it a keyword (say, 'lj'), type in the URL line: lj someusername and someusername's livejournal opens. This is the simplest example. I have several more sophisticated; this mostly obviates the FF search box. And all this with a *very* simple syntax that only allows substitution of one string. Imagine something a bit more powerful in that place.
Points 1 and 2: Rewriting a closed system can be pointless, since you'll not be able to distribute it. Opening up the API alone would be a worthy thing. But release of the entine WPS sources would be 10x as nice.
;)
Point 3: You know, some people choose *not* to run KDE or Gnome, and stick to XFCE or GnuStep or some other lightweight desktop, even on high-end machines. There *is* a demand for a functional desktop environment which is simpler and lighter than KDE/Gnome. WPS can actually turn out to be *richer* than these
Check out K Database. I wonder if anything beats it. And yes, it has quite powerful SP language.
Two disadvantages, though: it wants lots of RAM, and it costs much.
Whn it comes to flash memory, storage is *not* cheap. So OGG and AC3 support makes sense.