Thank goodness Slashdot has a somewhat informed audience so even opposing standpoints are articulated in a way that you can discuss and that may even give you some insight into that opinion. Most other sites (CNN, USA Today etc) are moron cesspools by comparison.
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If Larry really had pushed Perl6 it would have been ready a long time ago. He wanted Perl6 to be community designed; that's why it's taking forever. I had to work on a mediawiki installation a while ago and had my first time encounter with PHP. Verdict: Brain dead. Perl5 is still my first choice for anything that doesn't have to be efficient because it's only called every now and then. And the programs still start up faster than Java. By the time my vendor's Java code finally starts to run my Perl scripts are already finished. So much for byte code and JIT.
Nice graphs. This is exactly the point: Transmission line efficiency * charging efficiency * battery efficiency * discharging efficiency * electric motor efficiency is many times higher than anything involving ICEs, turbines or fuel cells because their efficiency sucks. So as soon as electric power is anywhere in your chain you can't do better than with an electric car.
The issue is that hydrogen today is made from natural gas, at an energy loss. Nobody makes hydrogen with electrolysis from solar cells because it's too costly.
I used Ubuntu LTS Server for a few weeks on a new server until I found out the hard way that NFS locking doesn't work (hasn't for a while and nobody is working on it) so I switched to CentOS 5. No problems whatsoever since then. CentOS or RedHat for servers, Debian or Ubuntu (maybe Fedora if you like it) for clients.
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Yes. I didn't see it.
Thank goodness Slashdot has a somewhat informed audience so even opposing standpoints are articulated in a way that you can discuss and that may even give you some insight into that opinion. Most other sites (CNN, USA Today etc) are moron cesspools by comparison.
If Larry really had pushed Perl6 it would have been ready a long time ago. He wanted Perl6 to be community designed; that's why it's taking forever.
I had to work on a mediawiki installation a while ago and had my first time encounter with PHP. Verdict: Brain dead.
Perl5 is still my first choice for anything that doesn't have to be efficient because it's only called every now and then. And the programs still start up faster than Java. By the time my vendor's Java code finally starts to run my Perl scripts are already finished. So much for byte code and JIT.
So what they're looking for is "alien life according to our preconceived notions"?
It seems that the quake itself damaged the #1 reactor, well before the tsunami took out the power system:
http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20110515p2g00m0dm007000c.html
So the money gets recycled to pay our politicians so they don't need more money out of taxes. It's just reducing the deficit and government spending!
Sarcasmometer fail, aka Whoosh.
What? You didn't do your own drug research in school?
Correct. Use "sustainable" or "renewable" instead.
Nice graphs.
This is exactly the point: Transmission line efficiency * charging efficiency * battery efficiency * discharging efficiency * electric motor efficiency is many times higher than anything involving ICEs, turbines or fuel cells because their efficiency sucks. So as soon as electric power is anywhere in your chain you can't do better than with an electric car.
The issue is that hydrogen today is made from natural gas, at an energy loss.
Nobody makes hydrogen with electrolysis from solar cells because it's too costly.
EROEI<1
Damn markup rules.
Amen. Hydrogen is fuel as much as electricity is fuel.
Same applies to corn ethanol, BTW. EROEI1.
I used Ubuntu LTS Server for a few weeks on a new server until I found out the hard way that NFS locking doesn't work (hasn't for a while and nobody is working on it) so I switched to CentOS 5. No problems whatsoever since then. CentOS or RedHat for servers, Debian or Ubuntu (maybe Fedora if you like it) for clients.
That's easy. If you want consistent, stable and reliable these days you use Debian Squeeze.
If you want funky, bleeding edge you use Ubuntu.
Gordon? You seem to have missed some news.
You're doing it wrong. 1.6GHz Atom Netbook here with no problems. Running Debian Squeeze with Firefox 4.0.
Why don't you use a type declaration?
So the solution is simple: Run *all* AV packages on every Windows machine.
OK I'm a dick.
50.
The quality of those apps will speak for itself.
Two balls, one robot, one cup.
The CPU in a cell phone does not use much power so there is little to gain.
Except when it's running Flash video or similar crap.
Maybe we'll have an app for that soon so we can finally supplement out flirting techniques.
Exactly. Throwing teenager sexting pics in the child porn bin inflates the numbers and dilutes the attention to the really bad stuff.