A scientific theory usually have a set of predictions beyond the initial claims that are testable, event if not visible phenomena or directly measured properties.
What I described in the example of the Big Bang Theory is precisely testing a scientific theory, as the expected background radiation IS one of the predictions.
If your standard for any scientific theory is based on repeating an experiment or directly visualizing some effect, most of the science of the last 2 hundred centuries is indeed untested, as most of its results are not directly visible, but tested by mesasureable effects. Event relatively simple properties of materials, such as eletronic currents visible, and as such measured through indirect effects, for example, old ammeters using magnetic fields to measure the value of said electronic current, instead of counting the amount of electrons passing per second on a conductor.
In the case of the big bang theory, you have some properties of the universe that are predicted by the theory, such as the presence of the background radiation and the uniformity of mass distribution, among others, that are predicted to exist in a universe where a "big bang" occurs.
It is a lot like observations from particle accelerators such as the LHC. There are no means to directly measure a many subatomic particles, but you can measure the particles resulting from the expected decays with some confidence, therefore testing aspects of the theory.
Here in Brazil, most new cars can run on anything from 15% ethanol (the default on mix around here is 85% gasoline, 15% ethanol) to 100% ethanol, usually through sensors in the fuel injection system, and in as much as I know, no changes related to corrosion being necessary.
Last time I read about this ball drone the estimated battery life was around 15 minutes, making it useful for a very limited range. Also, this ball "drone" is still remote-controlled, putting it definitely outside of the drone category, although similar devices have been adapted to autonomous fly even by hobbyists.
Unless someone can get a power source with better weight/stored energy ratio than the batteries usualy found at these devices, those drones will still be toys. Maybe a buoyant/quadcopter hybrid could overcome this, using far less energy to stay flying and depending on volume, a useful payload capacity.
Also, slax has a "run from memory" mode where the whole distro is loaded to ram, and as such after booting it runs hellish fast. So a computer with 1Gb of ram can still run the whole OS from ram very fast. I already used this mode to boot slax on a whole computer lab/classroom from a single usb drive.
I don't know much about the latest version (7.0), but on previous versions Slax could be reduced to use only the "core" module, which used to be around 50Mb containing only command line tools. It is very handy as a base to build a personalized live cd using slackware packages or a remote boot image.
but the point is, android can ultimately run mozilla os apps too. on the same hw mozilla os runs.
mozilla os isn't even the first html5 ui for mobile attempt nor the first "hey let's do apps in html5 for mobile!" attempt. nokia wasted hundreds of millions on that shit already. mozilla just went because html5 because they build a browser.
I guess you are confusing Nokia with Palm/HP, as WebOS ran on html+js and Meego/Maemo used gtk and latter Qt with 100% native apps
Truth is, as most of the code on android is apache licenced or GPL (as the kernel) there is no need to ask google's permission to make anything with it.
Except for two things, some OEMs get advanced access to the code base before it's released to the general public and some OEMs get special access to the core Android developers if they can't get something to work on their own.
Exactly. Google can't "ban" anyone from using android source code, but they can deny access to their proprietary apps and also from being part of the Nexus product line, which obviously depends on early access to the sources and SDK.
Also, it is somewhat clear that access to core android developers during a device development is a valuable asset to any manufacturer, as it is the closest to a community android gets due to the open source/closed development environment strategy used by Google.
Truth is, as most of the code on android is apache licenced or GPL (as the kernel) there is no need to ask google's permission to make anything with it. The only parts of the operating system that are under a non-permissive licence that can be considered a showstoper would be the "brand" apps, as gmail, youtube and the google play store.
It is entirely possible to deploy internal IM services, with free software like openfire, which uses the same protocol as google talk and facebook, without the need to expose internal data and keeping a central log of every conversation. For the twitter necessities there is Status.Net, which powers open-source twitter clone identi.ca, that can be installed internally and seems to be API compatible with twitter clients.
I am not advocating substitution of email messages, but sometimes IM can be very useful on a corporation, taking the right steps to keep security and accountability. It is really very useful to help desk staff, for example.
Because Apple acquired rights over the source code and hired it's main (and possibly, at the time, only) developer, continuing to develop it, but it was already widely used on Linux and BSD (and OSX) for around 10 years before it's acquisition.
Hell, Apple DEVELOPED cups for OSX and linux and bsd picked it up because it made sense and solved a real problem).
No, cups was developed independently starting on 1997, and on 2007, after many years being the default printing system on OSX and many linux distributions it was acquired by Apple.
Einstein didn't studied alchemy, Isaac Newton did in the 17th century, when matter structure was far from know. During Einstein lifetime the basis for modern chemistry (excluding quantum chemistry) were already known, and rudimentary atomic theories were largely accepted among the scientists of the time.
Orkut is one more "social network" created by a google employee on his "20% time for you projects" on google, an the name is not based on the slang for orgasm, it's the name of it's creator, Orkut Büyükkökten (kinda strange naming one social networking site after yourself, but...)
The main point of using linuxBIOS is the possibility to automate and flexibilize the boot process.
It's not something you would need while dealing with your home server or notebook, but when you have to administer thousands of machines , just like google or linux networkx (which is an old times sponsor of LinuxBIOS) a flexible, automated envoirment where you have lower level access and the possibility to identify hardware errors *before* a node boots is very important.
Anyone who ever administered a linux cluster knows how valuable the possibility to controls the machines from the begining of boot process is important and how much time can be saved.
Again, one "Web OS"? there have been web os'es just like this in the beginning of this decade. I used one in 2000 that was only ran in IE4 and took several minutes to load on my 33k connection. I even created some apps for a web desktop, and i seriously doubt that these are going to be such a revolution on the applications market (it's already an old idea) except for some killer-apps, like gmail or flicker. Just imagine that you have to print some documents that are located on slahdoted server? Some dependency from a connection to the web is absolute necessary for some kinds of tasks, like e-mailling and such, but a broadband connection to edit a 1 paragraph text is an idiot idea. The idea of web frameworks for some apps is cool, web apps are naturaly cross plataform (if made cross browser, of course) an very useful on some situations, but running a whole desktop from the web seems counter-productive.
OK, one more seller is using GNU/Linux on laptops. Where are the news? even acer (who makes pretty cheap notebooks) is exporting notebooks with GNU/Linux preinstalled on some countries, like Brasil ( I bought one of these) and aparently Polonia. The news are that those notebooks are MUCH cheaper with the same components of these ones.
Sorry, but what is your so called "western world"? I guess you forgot that the whole Latin America (yes, we are here , look at the south) and Africa which are the targets of such projects are in fact part of the western world, just like all the people in the USA an Europe.
Those coutries were colonized by Europe, speak mostly european languages and inherited the European thoght and culture (even after being mixed with those people native culture, or what lasts of this culture after centuries of slaveness).
Don't confuse "westen culture" with "our rich and developed countries"
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A scientific theory usually have a set of predictions beyond the initial claims that are testable, event if not visible phenomena or directly measured properties. What I described in the example of the Big Bang Theory is precisely testing a scientific theory, as the expected background radiation IS one of the predictions.
If your standard for any scientific theory is based on repeating an experiment or directly visualizing some effect, most of the science of the last 2 hundred centuries is indeed untested, as most of its results are not directly visible, but tested by mesasureable effects. Event relatively simple properties of materials, such as eletronic currents visible, and as such measured through indirect effects, for example, old ammeters using magnetic fields to measure the value of said electronic current, instead of counting the amount of electrons passing per second on a conductor.
In the case of the big bang theory, you have some properties of the universe that are predicted by the theory, such as the presence of the background radiation and the uniformity of mass distribution, among others, that are predicted to exist in a universe where a "big bang" occurs. It is a lot like observations from particle accelerators such as the LHC. There are no means to directly measure a many subatomic particles, but you can measure the particles resulting from the expected decays with some confidence, therefore testing aspects of the theory.
Here in Brazil, most new cars can run on anything from 15% ethanol (the default on mix around here is 85% gasoline, 15% ethanol) to 100% ethanol, usually through sensors in the fuel injection system, and in as much as I know, no changes related to corrosion being necessary.
On Meego (specifically the N9 ) the whole enviroment uses X11, not as an option, but as the primary display server.
Last time I read about this ball drone the estimated battery life was around 15 minutes, making it useful for a very limited range. Also, this ball "drone" is still remote-controlled, putting it definitely outside of the drone category, although similar devices have been adapted to autonomous fly even by hobbyists.
Unless someone can get a power source with better weight/stored energy ratio than the batteries usualy found at these devices, those drones will still be toys. Maybe a buoyant/quadcopter hybrid could overcome this, using far less energy to stay flying and depending on volume, a useful payload capacity.
Also, slax has a "run from memory" mode where the whole distro is loaded to ram, and as such after booting it runs hellish fast. So a computer with 1Gb of ram can still run the whole OS from ram very fast. I already used this mode to boot slax on a whole computer lab/classroom from a single usb drive.
I don't know much about the latest version (7.0), but on previous versions Slax could be reduced to use only the "core" module, which used to be around 50Mb containing only command line tools. It is very handy as a base to build a personalized live cd using slackware packages or a remote boot image.
Using a 3G usb cheap modem you already can do it, using for example gammu.
but the point is, android can ultimately run mozilla os apps too. on the same hw mozilla os runs.
mozilla os isn't even the first html5 ui for mobile attempt nor the first "hey let's do apps in html5 for mobile!" attempt. nokia wasted hundreds of millions on that shit already. mozilla just went because html5 because they build a browser.
I guess you are confusing Nokia with Palm/HP, as WebOS ran on html+js and Meego/Maemo used gtk and latter Qt with 100% native apps
Truth is, as most of the code on android is apache licenced or GPL (as the kernel) there is no need to ask google's permission to make anything with it.
Except for two things, some OEMs get advanced access to the code base before it's released to the general public and some OEMs get special access to the core Android developers if they can't get something to work on their own.
Exactly. Google can't "ban" anyone from using android source code, but they can deny access to their proprietary apps and also from being part of the Nexus product line, which obviously depends on early access to the sources and SDK. Also, it is somewhat clear that access to core android developers during a device development is a valuable asset to any manufacturer, as it is the closest to a community android gets due to the open source/closed development environment strategy used by Google.
Truth is, as most of the code on android is apache licenced or GPL (as the kernel) there is no need to ask google's permission to make anything with it. The only parts of the operating system that are under a non-permissive licence that can be considered a showstoper would be the "brand" apps, as gmail, youtube and the google play store.
I guess it is the photosynth project. Apparently it became one silverlight demo only.
The EU is not a "continent sized country", it IS a fucking continent.
Take a look at cairo composite manager. In my experience, it is faster than xcompmgr and runs on any window manager.
It is entirely possible to deploy internal IM services, with free software like openfire, which uses the same protocol as google talk and facebook, without the need to expose internal data and keeping a central log of every conversation. For the twitter necessities there is Status.Net, which powers open-source twitter clone identi.ca, that can be installed internally and seems to be API compatible with twitter clients.
I am not advocating substitution of email messages, but sometimes IM can be very useful on a corporation, taking the right steps to keep security and accountability. It is really very useful to help desk staff, for example.
Because Apple acquired rights over the source code and hired it's main (and possibly, at the time, only) developer, continuing to develop it, but it was already widely used on Linux and BSD (and OSX) for around 10 years before it's acquisition.
No, cups was developed independently starting on 1997, and on 2007, after many years being the default printing system on OSX and many linux distributions it was acquired by Apple.
Einstein didn't studied alchemy, Isaac Newton did in the 17th century, when matter structure was far from know. During Einstein lifetime the basis for modern chemistry (excluding quantum chemistry) were already known, and rudimentary atomic theories were largely accepted among the scientists of the time.
Does netcraft confirms it?
Orkut is one more "social network" created by a google employee on his "20% time for you projects" on google, an the name is not based on the slang for orgasm, it's the name of it's creator, Orkut Büyükkökten (kinda strange naming one social networking site after yourself, but...)
They steal from openBSD trafic shaping (inside PF) so that they will not be sued. That's the BSD, which Microsoft and Apple love so much...
The main point of using linuxBIOS is the possibility to automate and flexibilize the boot process. It's not something you would need while dealing with your home server or notebook, but when you have to administer thousands of machines , just like google or linux networkx (which is an old times sponsor of LinuxBIOS) a flexible, automated envoirment where you have lower level access and the possibility to identify hardware errors *before* a node boots is very important. Anyone who ever administered a linux cluster knows how valuable the possibility to controls the machines from the begining of boot process is important and how much time can be saved.
Again, one "Web OS"? there have been web os'es just like this in the beginning of this decade. I used one in 2000 that was only ran in IE4 and took several minutes to load on my 33k connection. I even created some apps for a web desktop, and i seriously doubt that these are going to be such a revolution on the applications market (it's already an old idea) except for some killer-apps, like gmail or flicker. Just imagine that you have to print some documents that are located on slahdoted server? Some dependency from a connection to the web is absolute necessary for some kinds of tasks, like e-mailling and such, but a broadband connection to edit a 1 paragraph text is an idiot idea. The idea of web frameworks for some apps is cool, web apps are naturaly cross plataform (if made cross browser, of course) an very useful on some situations, but running a whole desktop from the web seems counter-productive.
OK, one more seller is using GNU/Linux on laptops. Where are the news? even acer (who makes pretty cheap notebooks) is exporting notebooks with GNU/Linux preinstalled on some countries, like Brasil ( I bought one of these) and aparently Polonia. The news are that those notebooks are MUCH cheaper with the same components of these ones.
Sorry, but what is your so called "western world"? I guess you forgot that the whole Latin America (yes, we are here , look at the south) and Africa which are the targets of such projects are in fact part of the western world, just like all the people in the USA an Europe. Those coutries were colonized by Europe, speak mostly european languages and inherited the European thoght and culture (even after being mixed with those people native culture, or what lasts of this culture after centuries of slaveness). Don't confuse "westen culture" with "our rich and developed countries"