The oil situation is no big deal. Oil production will go down gradually as other technologies go up gradually. The only way it would be a big deal is if it were sudden, and all evidence says it will not be.
I have read many old Stanislaw Lem novels and the complex emotions the robots display is impossible Why is that? Because robots don't have souls? Because we're special in some sort of magical way? I've never heard of any other reason why people believe such a thing.
It has to come as a result of a single "miracle moment" where the necessary compounds for a connected cell wall, nucleus, DNA..etc all form at the same time AND at the same small point in space http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prokaryote You seem to lack even a basic understanding of biology. I really hate biology, but even I learned enough in highschool from a very anti-evolution Christian fundamentalist teacher in an ultra religious town while being religious myself to known that not all life has nuclei.
I'd really like to see how they would react if an egg produced through parthenogenesis were to develop and be born. Would they claim she has no soul and is just imitating other people? Would they change their minds and decide that souls are added at an unknown time after inception? I really doubt many people would give up on the idea of souls, but they'd have to come up with something.
Wine doesn't really emulate Windows libraries, it runs them directly. Wine implements the Windows API. Wine does not use any software from Microsoft. Windows programs are just run with the Wine implementation instead of the Microsoft implementation.
The Cocoa API is based on the OpenStep API, which has a full open specification. We've had a FOSS implementation of the OpenStep API for years: GNUstep. GNUstep has even implemented some of the Cocoa additions. Producing a Cocoa compatibility layer should be much easier than producing a Windows compatibility layer.
That's correct, and Wikipedia says GNUstep also came before NeXT rebranded NEXTSTEP as OPENSTEP. I just wasn't sure at the time and I wasn't as concerned about the order as I was about the actions.
You are confused (or trolling). Here's a history lesson:
NeXT creates the NextStep/NeXTstep/NeXTSTEP/NEXTSTEP operating system
NeXT releases a specification for some of their API as OpenStep
NeXT makes NEXTSTEP conform with the OpenStep spec and rebrands NEXTSTEP as OPENSTEP
Apple buys OPENSTEP and uses it to produce Mac OS X
GNU implements the OpenStep API as GNUstep
the Étoilé desktop environment is built on GNUstep
Mac OS X's Cocoa API is based on the OpenStep API, so Étoilé and GNUstep are related to Mac OS X through the OpenStep API. If you really love the Cocoa API and you want to make an app for Linux, you should take a look at GNUstep.
Too bad non-KDE apps completely ignore it, so that it just ends up wasting space. I wish it would only appear when a program that actually uses it has focus.
As someone who hates Microsoft, loves FOSS, and uses only Linux on his desktop, I am really sad to see Slashdot reacting this way. Whenever big bad Microsoft tries to make positive changes, you should encourage it, not mock them and immediately discredit it without consideration. It feels to me like the Slashdot crowd actually wants Microsoft to stay evil just so they can continue to make fun of them.
Microsoft could easily become a huge positive contributor to the FOSS world. Does nobody want that?
ie. their government, their problem It's possible he actually wants to do a presentation for reasons other than financial gain. In such a case, it would be his problem. Not everybody does everything just for the money.
"Mixing tabs and spaces for indenting is bad. It causes many problems that you don't encounter when using only spaces. Therefore, tabs are bad, so only use spaces."
That is the only significant argument against tabs I've ever read, and I've probably read it a hundred times. Only a moron wouldn't realize that it's the mixing that is bad, not the tabs or the spaces, but apparently there are a lot of morons out there.
tabs: good spaces: good mixing tabs and spaces: bad
I personally prefer tabs. Why?
Different code uses a different number of spaces for indenting, which makes copying between them more time consuming.
Easier to change indention width. It's a simple change of an IDE preference instead of a risky text replace.
Tabs are more semantic. That might sound stupid, but it gives me a warm fuzzy feeling.
I'm only 19, and I've never contributed a single patch to any software project, but even I know exactly what this is about. The worry here is that the Linux kernel developers are acting like snobby elitists, and that they care more about patting each other on the back than they care about improving the kernel. They're rather shit up the kernel than listen to someone who isn't part of their inner circle. It's pretty major stuff.
The big deal with DisplayPort is that it's license free. It's got lots of other great properties, but that's what will really give this a big push.
Of course, that won't mean as much if the optional DRM (DPCP, DisplayPort Content Protection) becomes a de facto standard, since it does have licensing fees.
This battle has already been lost. "IDE" refers to PATA or integrated development environments. Using "IDE" to refer to SATA and other stuff is just going to confuse people.
I've also heard that sometimes the inserted ads will sit on top of content or otherwise mangle the layout. I wouldn't be surprised if many sites started blocking IP addresses from these ISPs if that's possible.
If the heater is really that important, it should be reporting back at regular intervals that it's on, and when the signal isn't being received anymore there should be a process so that somebody calls and asks what's up. If somebody wanted to turn it off and couldn't, they'd just unplug it.
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The oil situation is no big deal. Oil production will go down gradually as other technologies go up gradually. The only way it would be a big deal is if it were sudden, and all evidence says it will not be.
You seem to lack even a basic understanding of biology. I really hate biology, but even I learned enough in highschool from a very anti-evolution Christian fundamentalist teacher in an ultra religious town while being religious myself to known that not all life has nuclei.
I'd really like to see how they would react if an egg produced through parthenogenesis were to develop and be born. Would they claim she has no soul and is just imitating other people? Would they change their minds and decide that souls are added at an unknown time after inception? I really doubt many people would give up on the idea of souls, but they'd have to come up with something.
I use the Dvorak keyboard layout, and whenever I hear about this moron I wish it was named something else.
BMEVideo.com in HD would be awesome.
The OP said "it runs them directly" which I considered different from "it can run them directly". You do make a good point though.
The Cocoa API is based on the OpenStep API, which has a full open specification. We've had a FOSS implementation of the OpenStep API for years: GNUstep. GNUstep has even implemented some of the Cocoa additions. Producing a Cocoa compatibility layer should be much easier than producing a Windows compatibility layer.
That's correct, and Wikipedia says GNUstep also came before NeXT rebranded NEXTSTEP as OPENSTEP. I just wasn't sure at the time and I wasn't as concerned about the order as I was about the actions.
Mac OS X's Cocoa API is based on the OpenStep API, so Étoilé and GNUstep are related to Mac OS X through the OpenStep API. If you really love the Cocoa API and you want to make an app for Linux, you should take a look at GNUstep.
Too bad non-KDE apps completely ignore it, so that it just ends up wasting space. I wish it would only appear when a program that actually uses it has focus.
As someone who hates Microsoft, loves FOSS, and uses only Linux on his desktop, I am really sad to see Slashdot reacting this way. Whenever big bad Microsoft tries to make positive changes, you should encourage it, not mock them and immediately discredit it without consideration. It feels to me like the Slashdot crowd actually wants Microsoft to stay evil just so they can continue to make fun of them.
Microsoft could easily become a huge positive contributor to the FOSS world. Does nobody want that?
That is the only significant argument against tabs I've ever read, and I've probably read it a hundred times. Only a moron wouldn't realize that it's the mixing that is bad, not the tabs or the spaces, but apparently there are a lot of morons out there.
tabs: good
spaces: good
mixing tabs and spaces: bad
I personally prefer tabs. Why?
I'm only 19, and I've never contributed a single patch to any software project, but even I know exactly what this is about. The worry here is that the Linux kernel developers are acting like snobby elitists, and that they care more about patting each other on the back than they care about improving the kernel. They're rather shit up the kernel than listen to someone who isn't part of their inner circle. It's pretty major stuff.
The big deal with DisplayPort is that it's license free. It's got lots of other great properties, but that's what will really give this a big push.
Of course, that won't mean as much if the optional DRM (DPCP, DisplayPort Content Protection) becomes a de facto standard, since it does have licensing fees.
Is this some steganography? I feel like there's a hidden message somewhere in there.
This battle has already been lost. "IDE" refers to PATA or integrated development environments. Using "IDE" to refer to SATA and other stuff is just going to confuse people.
That's what eSATA (External SATA) is for. It's a much better solution than Firewire (besides the current low adoption).
I've also heard that sometimes the inserted ads will sit on top of content or otherwise mangle the layout. I wouldn't be surprised if many sites started blocking IP addresses from these ISPs if that's possible.
You're confused. You mentioned advertisements being inserted by the host of the website, but this is about ISPs adding ads to pages they do not host.
That's hosting. This is about ISPs.
If the heater is really that important, it should be reporting back at regular intervals that it's on, and when the signal isn't being received anymore there should be a process so that somebody calls and asks what's up. If somebody wanted to turn it off and couldn't, they'd just unplug it.
It's even less complicated to use scientific notation. What's wrong with 5*10^20 or 5E20?