I loved the Italian Renaissance metaphor. That was the best part of the article. I do believe that the things that are happening today in Open Source are fundementally changing the nature of our society. The old ideas of money will soon be gone, replaced with... what? No one knows yet, but it is being thrashed out in government (campaign finance reform) and business (open source). It is becoming more and more apparent to everyone that our systems are cracking and can no longer hold. It is exciting to be in the world of computing, because we are on the cutting edge of the new paradigm.
Thank you for saying that she is one one the sport's most important participants. The guy quoted in the article said she the most qualified FEMALE, implying that of course men are still superior.
I was looking for a listing of AT commands to send to my modem, but Google doesn't index AT because it is the word "at"!
A least it is so fast that you don't waste a lot of time if it doesn't work:)
Decibels are ratios between two levels, such as the amplitude of sound waves.
Here are some relevant links and some excerpts I found using Google. The first explains the meaning in electronics, and the second is more about sound:
The decibel, or dB, is a means of expressing the gain of an active device (such as an amplifier) or the loss in a passive device (such as an attenuator or length of cable). It is simply the ratio of output to input expressed in logarithmic form
The decibel (abbreviated as dB, and also as db and DB) is a common unit of measurement for the relative loudness of a sound or, in electronics, for the relative difference between two power levels. A decibel is one-tenth of a "Bel", a seldom-used unit named for Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone. In sound, the difference between two sound levels is ten times the common logarithm of the ratio of their power levels.
In sound, decibels measure a scale from the threshold of human hearing, 0 dB, upward towards the threshold of pain, about 120-140 dB. As examples: the sound level in the average residential home is about 40 dB, average conversation is about 60 dB, typical home music listening levels are about 85 dB, a loud rock band about 110 dB, and a jet engine close up is 150dB.
The most exciting thing about the Unix philosopy is the way small components can be strung together (with scripts and pipes) to easily create complex applications. What if this design goal could be moved out of the realm of the command line, and directly into the world of the GUI. If, as Miguel states, the large Linux apps can't reuse code, they don't have to follow the Microsoft solution of DLLs (and the version control problems they create), we already have the mechanism in place. We just need to be true to the Unix redirection standards in the design of the larger components. With visual tools to expose the larger app's components to wiring, relatively novice users could discover the power of scripting. For example, the output of a spell checker component could be wired to a insertion point in text. Or an entire spreadsheet could be inserted into a document, using standard text and XML formatting.
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There was discussion about it being a reference to Lewis Carroll, but apparently that connection is a coincidence. (or else they were both divinely inspired from the same source!)
The problem is that there is no way to know whether the factorization problems are solvable. They are considered "hard", but there is no proof that someone won't come along and render the whole thing obsolete. And maybe someone already has...
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I loved the Italian Renaissance metaphor. That was the best part of the article. I do believe that the things that are happening today in Open Source are fundementally changing the nature of our society. The old ideas of money will soon be gone, replaced with... what? No one knows yet, but it is being thrashed out in government (campaign finance reform) and business (open source). It is becoming more and more apparent to everyone that our systems are cracking and can no longer hold. It is exciting to be in the world of computing, because we are on the cutting edge of the new paradigm.
I personnaly get tired of every car looking the same.
Thank you for saying that she is one one the sport's most important participants. The guy quoted in the article said she the most qualified FEMALE, implying that of course men are still superior.
I was looking for a listing of AT commands to send to my modem, but Google doesn't index AT because it is the word "at"! A least it is so fast that you don't waste a lot of time if it doesn't work:)
Decibels are ratios between two levels, such as the amplitude of sound waves. Here are some relevant links and some excerpts I found using Google. The first explains the meaning in electronics, and the second is more about sound: The decibel, or dB, is a means of expressing the gain of an active device (such as an amplifier) or the loss in a passive device (such as an attenuator or length of cable). It is simply the ratio of output to input expressed in logarithmic form The decibel (abbreviated as dB, and also as db and DB) is a common unit of measurement for the relative loudness of a sound or, in electronics, for the relative difference between two power levels. A decibel is one-tenth of a "Bel", a seldom-used unit named for Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone. In sound, the difference between two sound levels is ten times the common logarithm of the ratio of their power levels. In sound, decibels measure a scale from the threshold of human hearing, 0 dB, upward towards the threshold of pain, about 120-140 dB. As examples: the sound level in the average residential home is about 40 dB, average conversation is about 60 dB, typical home music listening levels are about 85 dB, a loud rock band about 110 dB, and a jet engine close up is 150dB.
The most exciting thing about the Unix philosopy is the way small components can be strung together (with scripts and pipes) to easily create complex applications. What if this design goal could be moved out of the realm of the command line, and directly into the world of the GUI. If, as Miguel states, the large Linux apps can't reuse code, they don't have to follow the Microsoft solution of DLLs (and the version control problems they create), we already have the mechanism in place. We just need to be true to the Unix redirection standards in the design of the larger components. With visual tools to expose the larger app's components to wiring, relatively novice users could discover the power of scripting. For example, the output of a spell checker component could be wired to a insertion point in text. Or an entire spreadsheet could be inserted into a document, using standard text and XML formatting.
There was discussion about it being a reference to Lewis Carroll, but apparently that connection is a coincidence. (or else they were both divinely inspired from the same source!)
The problem is that there is no way to know whether the factorization problems are solvable. They are considered "hard", but there is no proof that someone won't come along and render the whole thing obsolete. And maybe someone already has...