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The image libraries for jpeg and tiff are not by default in OS X 10.5.7. You have to pass the configure flags --with-gif=no --with-jpeg=no to get it to compile.
Let us remember that the entire world was created from microscopic life forms, not by computers. The life forms learned from the environment and evolved in ways which even the most sophisticated computer would have an impossible time understanding. Let us remember that computers are, by a long shot, not the most efficient problem solvers. For instance, no computer can recognize patterns as well as a human being. The control system governing a hummingbird flight is way more advanced than that of the greatest and mightiest fighter airplane.
Computers are not problem solvers - they merely automate repetitive procedures or, at best, algorithmically apply a set of rules to a given problem -- Nature has always been more potent than computers.
I am impressed they can solve a simple problem with bacteria though. Maybe I should stop brushing my teeth and let the bacteria in my mouth say something intelligent.
As an Space Program advocate, I certainly hope they find them-- the public needs to trust NASA again; knowing that NASA can keep track of its mission assets would be the very basic start.
Whoever found the tapes (if they really were found) should not feel disappointed about not breaking the news him or herself. It is a shame they were lost in the first place, and finding them is nothing to feel proud about. I cannot imagine loosing my baby in the supermarket and then feeling like a real smart, witty person for finding her two years later.
Companies comercializing GPS devices are in the business of making money. I am inclined to believe you would run into proprietary and legal stuff should you plan to hack or reverse-engineer the device. Maybe some provide an API?
We should avoid the "butterfly effects" of the proposed solutions. We don't know what will happen if we just dump shit in the ocean, it might be that the remedy is worse than the disease.
For the plant argument, I agree we cannot just plant whatever ficus we happen to like. However, planting trees of the same species we've cut in the same places where we've cut them would be a start-- they were already there, and nothing bad happened to us.
Why are they concerned about who you've been poking? And what if they are members of, say, a porn site? Do they really expect them to write "I'm a member of turtlescopulating.com"? Nobody will know that Joe Smith is "longandwild87".
I say workers should just create a Gmail account called FuckYouBozemanLaw@gmail.com and start emailing their representatives.
The solution? Plant trees and cut carbon emissions by a fraction such that old trees + new trees absorb and stabilize carbon levels. The problem? Major polluters are not taking bold steps; they are like the United Nations-- speak a lot, and hope speeches will accomplish something.
Why are we looking for esoteric ways to "heal the planet"? We have the answer, it is just a matter of someone with a lot of balls standing up and saying "listen, fuckers, we are going to cap the carbon emissions and every human family will plant a tree. If we don't do it we will be fucked, and I will not fucking allow that to fucking happen" (notice than my stereotype of "person with a lot of balls" uses the word "fuck" a lot).
I fail to see how the comment punishes smart people, my simple point was that it is important to distinguish scientific fact from plausible speculation. Overall public may be confused about all things you mention, and even more. However, this does not mean that we should confuse them even more or, worse, not give a shit about it because, if I recall correctly, the Space Program is funded by taxpayers in most countries. Also, educating the public and helping them distinguish reality from well-wishes is a good thing. We could all do better if society as a whole was more critical and not as innocent. Nothing wrong with dreaming, as long as we can distinguish when we are awake.
Drupal is a Content Management System and Django is a Web Framework. I recommend their corresponding Wikipedia articles to study the differences.
I will try to briefly explain the differences as I see them.
When you fire-up Drupal, you can start immediately adding stories and pages using the Administrative Page; it assumes that your website will likely need those content types. If you want to add different content types (like a blog entry, an rss feed, a Google Map, etc) then you can plug-in contributed modules. Your Website is thus created and expanded.
With Django you design three different things: Models, Views, and Controllers. The Model contains the data structures which you design from the ground-up, like a blog entry which will have a date, a title, and it's content. The View contains the template to render the Model, and the Controller links the first two. Django autmatically creates the Administrative page where you can add/edit/delete the data structures you designed; it also comes with batteries included: data types for users and groups; login engine; protection against SQL injections and cross-server attacks, etc.
I seriously recommend that you give it a shot to the Django tutorial (you will create a poll; it will take you about an hour, installation included). It is very exciting to design the data structures and the templates (Django has a very simple but extremely powerful template language). Django is written and manipulated using Python.
Like I said, no need to write your own blog using Django (not even Drupal, for that matter) but, if you want to fully grasp the logic of your site, I seriously advice against the overhead necessarily introduced by Drupal.
If you happen to like Django, I recommend the book "Django 1.0 Website Development" (packtub.com). You can get the online PDF version for about 27 US Dollars. The book covers the design and implementation of a bookmark sharing website - very helpful indeed.
The entry should clarify that it is the largest infrared telescope ever launched. Actually, the adjective large should not be used. Space is not porn. To most people.
It would also be very helpful for the public to know how will Herschel and Hubble complement each-other. Otherwise, the general public may believe that humanity has launched two different things to accomplish the same task.
... is that you can use it until you realize that you should be using Django.
More seriously, I do like Drupal and I can see the point of its modular design. However, I must confess that for more complicated projects I found it easier to use Django.
I would advice any person planning to build a website with more-than-just-a-blog capabilities to seriously consider Django first. If Django doesn't cut it for any reason, then Drupal is the way to go.
If your site is meant to be complex in a non-standard way, you should fully understand the complexity.
but this fully speculative article will only confuse people.
I can already hear my non-scientific-inclined friends assuring that it has been demonstrated by Dr. Blah that faster-than-light travel is absolutely possible and we even have the ship ready.
When Jules Verne wrote his masterpieces he made it clear that it was scientific fiction, and people thrilled shuffling the pages. He was later called a visionary, but he did not pretend to be a scientist, merely a very intelligent writer.
It bothers me when plausibly smart people make interesting points but place them in the wrong category - nothing wrong with being smart, creative, and wild but, please, let us distinguish science from speculation.
Any self-respecting organization will take a close look at a competitor product, specially when such competitor happens to be one of the world's largest player in the industry.
Bing will certainly snatch a fraction of the market share owned by Google; modern top management theories demand that Google determines whether the market share lost to the rival will be a single user or a more considerable fraction.
It is not about Sergei pissing his pants, but about him and his company designing a solid strategy to respond to their competitor's move.
how many people consider asteroids a real threat to humankind? Granted, two human occurrences of extraterrestrial pebbles are not cause for concern but, what about when the pebble turns out to be a 200m rock?
It won't be Aphophis, most likely, but it will happen one day.
I believe at some point far back in the past people thought the same about banks: what person it its right mind will put the cash in someone else's safe?
It is a matter of time and technology; soon enough this type of clouds and outsourcing of IT infrastructure will be taken for granted.
Every software company benefits from Open Source, whether they'd like to admit it or not. They can peek in the Open Source world and find implementation tricks or functional paradigms and apply them to their products. Maybe even embed some GPL applications into a larger proprietary suite.
I believe SAP will not give up its competitive advantage by fully embracing Open Source if this translates into reduced profits; it does not make economic sense. However, SAP can be supportive (at least non obtrusive) of Open Source to further leverage whatever advantages it may provide and, secondarily, keep the die-hard computer programmers marginally happy.
Many posts I've read seem to be missing the whole point of computer programming.
It is not computer science: that is another course and I agree it should be taught in a language-independent manner; it is not scientific computing, as many posts have implied; it is not job-skills workshop. The point, I believe, should be to make as many students as possible fall in love with computer programming and understand its usefulness, to the others it will only be an experience better forgotten.
I love FOTRAN (I even capitalize it, see? I'm young but old-fashioned) but let's agree that it is not the simplest language, and it has a steep learning curve: it takes longer to see your work done, and this might act as a deterrent for weak hearts. I have never taken a computer programming course, yet I am competent (at least not incompetent) in C, C++, FORTRAN, and Perl and Python. When you love computer programming, you don't need a teacher, you only need time to spare.
My belief is that the computer programming course should aim for making students fall in love. I would lean toward Python, and have students see their computers obeying them sooner rather than later, allowing them to imagine further ways to dominate the computer and just get shit done.
FORTRAN is faster? This is the same as saying Linux is free. Only if you don't take your time into account! Sure, inverting a matrix with your processor-optimized LAPACK works great in FORTRAN, but the kids are not designing rockets or predicting weather, they are learning how to program. If they learn how to do it and, most importantly, they learn to love it, they may very well end up designing rockets in assembly if you will. They will pick up girls with hexadecimal compliments. Maybe not the last one.
As anything else in high-school or college, the point is to "get it in the bull-park", learn to love knowledge, and learn how to learn.
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The image libraries for jpeg and tiff are not by default in OS X 10.5.7. You have to pass the configure flags --with-gif=no --with-jpeg=no to get it to compile.
Let us remember that the entire world was created from microscopic life forms, not by computers. The life forms learned from the environment and evolved in ways which even the most sophisticated computer would have an impossible time understanding. Let us remember that computers are, by a long shot, not the most efficient problem solvers. For instance, no computer can recognize patterns as well as a human being. The control system governing a hummingbird flight is way more advanced than that of the greatest and mightiest fighter airplane.
Computers are not problem solvers - they merely automate repetitive procedures or, at best, algorithmically apply a set of rules to a given problem -- Nature has always been more potent than computers.
I am impressed they can solve a simple problem with bacteria though. Maybe I should stop brushing my teeth and let the bacteria in my mouth say something intelligent.
Peace.
but why do they find the lunar tapes a few days before the 40th celebration of the Lunar mission (Apollo 11).
Is this a coincidence or PR?
... can create stupid humans. Let's embrace technology but beware of falling into ignorance.
... you want \LaTeX
Touché
As an Space Program advocate, I certainly hope they find them-- the public needs to trust NASA again; knowing that NASA can keep track of its mission assets would be the very basic start.
Whoever found the tapes (if they really were found) should not feel disappointed about not breaking the news him or herself. It is a shame they were lost in the first place, and finding them is nothing to feel proud about. I cannot imagine loosing my baby in the supermarket and then feeling like a real smart, witty person for finding her two years later.
I don't doubt it is, but please check this site where they explain reverse engineering further: http://www.chillingeffects.org/reverse/faq.cgi
Companies comercializing GPS devices are in the business of making money. I am inclined to believe you would run into proprietary and legal stuff should you plan to hack or reverse-engineer the device. Maybe some provide an API?
... run Linux?
Anybody familiar with the efficiency of this process? What fraction of the wattage is lost during transfer?
baby
We should avoid the "butterfly effects" of the proposed solutions. We don't know what will happen if we just dump shit in the ocean, it might be that the remedy is worse than the disease.
For the plant argument, I agree we cannot just plant whatever ficus we happen to like. However, planting trees of the same species we've cut in the same places where we've cut them would be a start-- they were already there, and nothing bad happened to us.
... nobody knows you are a Montana worker.
Why are they concerned about who you've been poking? And what if they are members of, say, a porn site? Do they really expect them to write "I'm a member of turtlescopulating.com"? Nobody will know that Joe Smith is "longandwild87".
I say workers should just create a Gmail account called FuckYouBozemanLaw@gmail.com and start emailing their representatives.
at least conceptually.
The solution? Plant trees and cut carbon emissions by a fraction such that old trees + new trees absorb and stabilize carbon levels. The problem? Major polluters are not taking bold steps; they are like the United Nations-- speak a lot, and hope speeches will accomplish something.
Why are we looking for esoteric ways to "heal the planet"? We have the answer, it is just a matter of someone with a lot of balls standing up and saying "listen, fuckers, we are going to cap the carbon emissions and every human family will plant a tree. If we don't do it we will be fucked, and I will not fucking allow that to fucking happen" (notice than my stereotype of "person with a lot of balls" uses the word "fuck" a lot).
I fail to see how the comment punishes smart people, my simple point was that it is important to distinguish scientific fact from plausible speculation.
Overall public may be confused about all things you mention, and even more. However, this does not mean that we should confuse them even more or, worse, not give a shit about it because, if I recall correctly, the Space Program is funded by taxpayers in most countries.
Also, educating the public and helping them distinguish reality from well-wishes is a good thing. We could all do better if society as a whole was more critical and not as innocent.
Nothing wrong with dreaming, as long as we can distinguish when we are awake.
Drupal is a Content Management System and Django is a Web Framework. I recommend their corresponding Wikipedia articles to study the differences.
I will try to briefly explain the differences as I see them.
When you fire-up Drupal, you can start immediately adding stories and pages using the Administrative Page; it assumes that your website will likely need those content types. If you want to add different content types (like a blog entry, an rss feed, a Google Map, etc) then you can plug-in contributed modules. Your Website is thus created and expanded.
With Django you design three different things: Models, Views, and Controllers. The Model contains the data structures which you design from the ground-up, like a blog entry which will have a date, a title, and it's content. The View contains the template to render the Model, and the Controller links the first two. Django autmatically creates the Administrative page where you can add/edit/delete the data structures you designed; it also comes with batteries included: data types for users and groups; login engine; protection against SQL injections and cross-server attacks, etc.
I seriously recommend that you give it a shot to the Django tutorial (you will create a poll; it will take you about an hour, installation included). It is very exciting to design the data structures and the templates (Django has a very simple but extremely powerful template language). Django is written and manipulated using Python.
Like I said, no need to write your own blog using Django (not even Drupal, for that matter) but, if you want to fully grasp the logic of your site, I seriously advice against the overhead necessarily introduced by Drupal.
If you happen to like Django, I recommend the book "Django 1.0 Website Development" (packtub.com). You can get the online PDF version for about 27 US Dollars. The book covers the design and implementation of a bookmark sharing website - very helpful indeed.
Good luck in your projects.
The entry should clarify that it is the largest infrared telescope ever launched. Actually, the adjective large should not be used. Space is not porn. To most people.
It would also be very helpful for the public to know how will Herschel and Hubble complement each-other. Otherwise, the general public may believe that humanity has launched two different things to accomplish the same task.
... is that you can use it until you realize that you should be using Django.
More seriously, I do like Drupal and I can see the point of its modular design. However, I must confess that for more complicated projects I found it easier to use Django.
I would advice any person planning to build a website with more-than-just-a-blog capabilities to seriously consider Django first. If Django doesn't cut it for any reason, then Drupal is the way to go.
If your site is meant to be complex in a non-standard way, you should fully understand the complexity.
but this fully speculative article will only confuse people.
I can already hear my non-scientific-inclined friends assuring that it has been demonstrated by Dr. Blah that faster-than-light travel is absolutely possible and we even have the ship ready.
When Jules Verne wrote his masterpieces he made it clear that it was scientific fiction, and people thrilled shuffling the pages. He was later called a visionary, but he did not pretend to be a scientist, merely a very intelligent writer.
It bothers me when plausibly smart people make interesting points but place them in the wrong category - nothing wrong with being smart, creative, and wild but, please, let us distinguish science from speculation.
Any self-respecting organization will take a close look at a competitor product, specially when such competitor happens to be one of the world's largest player in the industry.
Bing will certainly snatch a fraction of the market share owned by Google; modern top management theories demand that Google determines whether the market share lost to the rival will be a single user or a more considerable fraction.
It is not about Sergei pissing his pants, but about him and his company designing a solid strategy to respond to their competitor's move.
how many people consider asteroids a real threat to humankind? Granted, two human occurrences of extraterrestrial pebbles are not cause for concern but, what about when the pebble turns out to be a 200m rock?
It won't be Aphophis, most likely, but it will happen one day.
I believe at some point far back in the past people thought the same about banks: what person it its right mind will put the cash in someone else's safe?
It is a matter of time and technology; soon enough this type of clouds and outsourcing of IT infrastructure will be taken for granted.
Every software company benefits from Open Source, whether they'd like to admit it or not. They can peek in the Open Source world and find implementation tricks or functional paradigms and apply them to their products. Maybe even embed some GPL applications into a larger proprietary suite.
I believe SAP will not give up its competitive advantage by fully embracing Open Source if this translates into reduced profits; it does not make economic sense. However, SAP can be supportive (at least non obtrusive) of Open Source to further leverage whatever advantages it may provide and, secondarily, keep the die-hard computer programmers marginally happy.
Many posts I've read seem to be missing the whole point of computer programming.
It is not computer science: that is another course and I agree it should be taught in a language-independent manner; it is not scientific computing, as many posts have implied; it is not job-skills workshop. The point, I believe, should be to make as many students as possible fall in love with computer programming and understand its usefulness, to the others it will only be an experience better forgotten.
I love FOTRAN (I even capitalize it, see? I'm young but old-fashioned) but let's agree that it is not the simplest language, and it has a steep learning curve: it takes longer to see your work done, and this might act as a deterrent for weak hearts. I have never taken a computer programming course, yet I am competent (at least not incompetent) in C, C++, FORTRAN, and Perl and Python. When you love computer programming, you don't need a teacher, you only need time to spare.
My belief is that the computer programming course should aim for making students fall in love. I would lean toward Python, and have students see their computers obeying them sooner rather than later, allowing them to imagine further ways to dominate the computer and just get shit done.
FORTRAN is faster? This is the same as saying Linux is free. Only if you don't take your time into account! Sure, inverting a matrix with your processor-optimized LAPACK works great in FORTRAN, but the kids are not designing rockets or predicting weather, they are learning how to program. If they learn how to do it and, most importantly, they learn to love it, they may very well end up designing rockets in assembly if you will. They will pick up girls with hexadecimal compliments. Maybe not the last one.
As anything else in high-school or college, the point is to "get it in the bull-park", learn to love knowledge, and learn how to learn.