Wolfram Alpha says: mass of the earth / (mass of the atmosphere) = 1.2 x 10^6.
Basically:
We've only changed the average temperature of the Earth's atmosphere by less than a degree in a hundred years
The rest of the Earth is a million times more massive
We're not directly changing the temperature of the atmosphere -- the greenhouse effect is doing most of the work. Basically, we're not concerned about how hot your car's engine is, we're concerned about the effect of the emissions.
GHC compiles Haskell code either directly to native code or using LLVM as a back-end. GHC can also generate C code as an intermediate target for porting to new platforms. The interactive environment compiles Haskell to bytecode, and supports execution of mixed bytecode/compiled programs.
Yeah, Japan has extremely low rates of vandalism. Sometimes it makes me hate the culture of the US, which I blame for a lot of things like this - but that's beside the point.
It could just be that they have a much higher population density, so it's harder to vandalize things without getting caught.
The Linux kernel is a success story because it's a very well focused project. Because there's one project. If there were two, and people always would prefer Linuxx and not Linuxs because one is in C and the other in C++ and they would debate which one is better, the Linux kernel as we know it would be nowhere.
Uh.. what argument? They're basically the same software. Maybe some distros package OpenOffice and some package LibreOffice, but does the end user actually care?
Everyone will stop using Windows now that Microsoft is publicly admitting that all their billions of dollars can't buy a decent security team, begging the public-at-large for help.
Clearly you've never met a Windows user. Microsoft could put viruses on their install CDs and publicly admit it, and people would still keep using it. In fact, after a couple years they'd start bragging about how much easier it is to get viruses on Windows ("Why do I get prompted for an administrator password before I can install viruses on Linux? It's so complicated!").
At least back in the XP days, swap space ("the paging file") was used heavily. Around the time 1 GB memory sticks became affordable, I found that turning off the paging file completely resulted in a massive speedup. I have no idea if recent Windows versions work the same way, but it wouldn't surprise me. Ubuntu (as mentioned below) has swappiness set very high by default (swappiness = how aggressively the OS tries to swap things out). I usually set it to something like 10 (don't swap unless memory is mostly full).
Windows will write just about everything to swap. The writes should be cached / whatever so they don't get in the way of you doing shit. If you do run out of memory, then you don't have to wait for a bunch of shit to write to disk before you can toss shit out of RAM to make room for more shit.
The problem is if you don't run out of memory. On XP with 1 GB of ram, I never ran out of memory (until I installed World of Warcraft), but it was still swapping stuff out all the time, making random things like the start menu extremely laggy. On Linux you can tell it "hey I have lots of memory, stop swapping things out unless there's a *lot* of memory in use", but I'm not aware of any setting like that on Windows (if there is, please tell me so I can use it at work).
I know that Windows uses a lot of memory for file cache, but I'd much rather have the programs I have open in memory than random files. Linux does file caching too but for some reason I've never encountered problems with it swapping programs out to make space for files. Might just be that I never run out of memory on Linux.
At least back in the XP days, swap space ("the paging file") was used heavily. Around the time 1 GB memory sticks became affordable, I found that turning off the paging file completely resulted in a massive speedup. I have no idea if recent Windows versions work the same way, but it wouldn't surprise me. Ubuntu (as mentioned below) has swappiness set very high by default (swappiness = how aggressively the OS tries to swap things out). I usually set it to something like 10 (don't swap unless memory is mostly full).
Imagine if these man-made monstrocities merged their DNA into the host's DNA. Then the person reproduces (as we tend to do). That child now has these neurons.
Luckily, most people don't reproduce via brain cells.
According to this, at least 2700 people can solve a rubik's cube in 30 seconds. The fact that one of them is on Slashdot wouldn't be particularly surprising.
I don't see how saying the "above sea level" water height is useful at all. Maybe to make the article sound scarier? When I sell my house I should market it as "able to withstand floods of up to 5000 ft above sea level!".
It took me a while to get through all the enterprisey buzz-words, but what Camel does is it takes things from one place and puts them in another. For example, it can read messages from a JMS queue, process them, then write the result to the file system. The advantages I've found with it are:
1. It handles threading for you. You define what the process does, and Camel deals with scaling the number of threads as needed. 2. It has a lot of built-in endpoints (JMS, file system, (S)FTP, S3, etc.) 3. It's much shorter than normal Java code
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4. No Mac Support (the iPod did Mac and Windows support)
Come on, how many Mac users were going to buy a Zune anyway?
Wolfram Alpha says: mass of the earth / (mass of the atmosphere) = 1.2 x 10^6.
Basically:
Glascow Haskell Compiler:
GHC compiles Haskell code either directly to native code or using LLVM as a back-end. GHC can also generate C code as an intermediate target for porting to new platforms. The interactive environment compiles Haskell to bytecode, and supports execution of mixed bytecode/compiled programs.
Yeah, Japan has extremely low rates of vandalism. Sometimes it makes me hate the culture of the US, which I blame for a lot of things like this - but that's beside the point.
It could just be that they have a much higher population density, so it's harder to vandalize things without getting caught.
2) Because it's PHP. No one wants to be involved with that.
And what I'm saying is that the fact that all Linux distros use Linux is about as surprising as the fact that Ford doesn't make Toyotas.
There are not many Linux distributions that would use BSD kernels. I don't really know why :D
Uh.. That would be because if they didn't use Linux, they wouldn't be a Linux distro.. by definition.
Also, the Debian operating system (generally considered to be a Linux distro) does run on the FreeBSD kernel, and GNU Hurd.
The Linux kernel is a success story because it's a very well focused project. Because there's one project. If there were two, and people always would prefer Linuxx and not Linuxs because one is in C and the other in C++ and they would debate which one is better, the Linux kernel as we know it would be nowhere.
Yeah it's good thing Linux is the only free open-source kernel.
Uh.. what argument? They're basically the same software. Maybe some distros package OpenOffice and some package LibreOffice, but does the end user actually care?
PostgreSQL + phpPgAdmin.
As easy to use as MySQL, plus features it claims to have actually work (transactions, foreign keys, etc.).
Everyone will stop using Windows now that Microsoft is publicly admitting that all their billions of dollars can't buy a decent security team, begging the public-at-large for help.
Clearly you've never met a Windows user. Microsoft could put viruses on their install CDs and publicly admit it, and people would still keep using it. In fact, after a couple years they'd start bragging about how much easier it is to get viruses on Windows ("Why do I get prompted for an administrator password before I can install viruses on Linux? It's so complicated!").
At least back in the XP days, swap space ("the paging file") was used heavily. Around the time 1 GB memory sticks became affordable, I found that turning off the paging file completely resulted in a massive speedup. I have no idea if recent Windows versions work the same way, but it wouldn't surprise me. Ubuntu (as mentioned below) has swappiness set very high by default (swappiness = how aggressively the OS tries to swap things out). I usually set it to something like 10 (don't swap unless memory is mostly full).
Windows will write just about everything to swap. The writes should be cached / whatever so they don't get in the way of you doing shit.
If you do run out of memory, then you don't have to wait for a bunch of shit to write to disk before you can toss shit out of RAM to make room for more shit.
The problem is if you don't run out of memory. On XP with 1 GB of ram, I never ran out of memory (until I installed World of Warcraft), but it was still swapping stuff out all the time, making random things like the start menu extremely laggy. On Linux you can tell it "hey I have lots of memory, stop swapping things out unless there's a *lot* of memory in use", but I'm not aware of any setting like that on Windows (if there is, please tell me so I can use it at work).
I know that Windows uses a lot of memory for file cache, but I'd much rather have the programs I have open in memory than random files. Linux does file caching too but for some reason I've never encountered problems with it swapping programs out to make space for files. Might just be that I never run out of memory on Linux.
At least back in the XP days, swap space ("the paging file") was used heavily. Around the time 1 GB memory sticks became affordable, I found that turning off the paging file completely resulted in a massive speedup. I have no idea if recent Windows versions work the same way, but it wouldn't surprise me. Ubuntu (as mentioned below) has swappiness set very high by default (swappiness = how aggressively the OS tries to swap things out). I usually set it to something like 10 (don't swap unless memory is mostly full).
Imagine if these man-made monstrocities merged their DNA
into the host's DNA. Then the person reproduces (as we tend to do). That
child now has these neurons.
Luckily, most people don't reproduce via brain cells.
That's disgusting.
... and the media would be in uproar for years.
The media is always in an uproar.
This was academic work, kind of a proof of concept. Why would this be news in this day and age baffles me.
Because no one cares about academic work. This is interesting because people can actually use it.
According to this, at least 2700 people can solve a rubik's cube in 30 seconds. The fact that one of them is on Slashdot wouldn't be particularly surprising.
I don't see how saying the "above sea level" water height is useful at all. Maybe to make the article sound scarier? When I sell my house I should market it as "able to withstand floods of up to 5000 ft above sea level!".
Seriously, Jabber alone is one of the biggest OSS failures we've ever seen, behind maybe only Diaspora.
Yeah seriously. Maybe it would do better if someone big like Google or Facebook got behind it..
why the fuck is utorrent trademarked and belongs to bittorrent incorporated?
Where have you been? uTorrent was bought by Bittorrent, Inc. in 2006.
But don't worry everyone, capitalism is still evil!
70% of homeschooled children are in very religious families. Assuming that a homeschooler is republican isn't absurd.
What a coincidence, 70% of people also make up statistics whenever they need them in an argument!
It took me a while to get through all the enterprisey buzz-words, but what Camel does is it takes things from one place and puts them in another. For example, it can read messages from a JMS queue, process them, then write the result to the file system. The advantages I've found with it are:
1. It handles threading for you. You define what the process does, and Camel deals with scaling the number of threads as needed.
2. It has a lot of built-in endpoints (JMS, file system, (S)FTP, S3, etc.)
3. It's much shorter than normal Java code
We have two systems -- One that seems to be working and one that doesn't. You propose getting rid of the one that works?