There are several efforts to make GNUstep look nicer (the current one is called Chameleon), but they're all hacked together. The devs are hoping to have the core GUI library cleanly support themeing within the next few months.
You might also want to check out Etoile (or their incomplete new site), a rather nice desktop environment being built around GNUstep.
Bush has asked for significantly more money for Fermilab.
Agreed; in this instance, Bush is not at fault.
we might observe that is [sic.] in fact DEMOCRATS who control the Congress, and DEMOCRATS who cut the Fermilab budget.
Congress is pretty much divided between the two parties. There is a slight Democratic lead, but not enough to say that Democrats "control" the congress. Neither party carries the fault for this situation.
Evolution doesn't make any consumer products
Biotechnology is currently more used in industry than in consumer products. Consider though, that evolution is indispensable to modern biology, which certainly does have an effect on the everyday life of anyone in a modern country. Pharmaceuticals? Antibacterial soaps? Modern medicine?
information complexity theory is a better foundation for biology than evolution is anyway.
I'm assuming that you're referring to the works of Mr. Dembski. If you'd like to debate the merits of his ideas (or lack thereof, many of us would say), I'm sure that the many/.ers who know more than I about information theory would be happy to respond. The question that I would pose to you is this: How precisely can information theory "provide a foundation for biology"? It's certainly useful to analyze elements of various models, but it has no specific relation to biology, whilst evolution provides a framework in which seemingly disparate observations make sense and make tested predictions. Even the familiar taxonomic tree, for example, is explicitly a model of the evolutionary "tree of life".
But, Democrats are way more goofy about government as a redistribution of wealth vehicle...
Yes, the left is more socialistic. I'd be glad to respond to an argument as to why that might be a bad thing, but I'm afraid that "goofy" doesn't quite suffice.
...and about fighting technological progress so that they can create more manual jobs.
I think that you'll find that most of us aren't luddites. Especially here.
its been your friendly neighborhood warmongering right wing lunatics that have laid the conceptual framework for the Internet, funded all sorts of applied physics and chemistry, funded pretty much anything that looks like it would be a good consumer product, and the numbers -prove it-.
I wasn't aware that (D)ARPA ever considered their work on the ARPANET particularly partisan. By the time something is a contender to be a consumer product, its funding has been taken over by corporations. More importantly, would you be so kind as to cite the source for your "numbers"?
it was Republicans that allowed private universities to become cash cows by filing for patents on research paid for by federal dollars.
Why, thank you for fostering the modern culture of unbridled academic greed and exploitation of research done on my dollar.
My prediction is thus: Barrack Obama pulls the plug entirely on NASA, if he is elected.
Obama has stated his intention to reduce spending on manned flights, but has stated a commitment to unmanned missions, which have a much higher ROI. Compare that to Bush, who has proposed abandoning one of the Voyager spacecraft (which is still producing incredible discoveries that you can't make without data from the edge of the solar system) in favor of a manned mission to Mars.
As a final remark, you seem to be bitten by that terrible partisan bug. Different Republicans and Democrats have both varied widely in pretty much everything, including their views on national support of science.
Most of the code on a sattelite has gone though extensive auditing and testing; even if a sattelite had the cycles to spare, its owners would probably rather buy a PS3 and run f@h on it than run even a remote risk of incurring problems on the sattelite.
Being a student at a high school which is participating for the first time this year, I attended a seminar on the rules, regulations, etc. Here's a summary of what seemed interesting:
The competition starts with an automated "challenge," in which the robot must do without human intervention. It then progresses into the manual portion of the competition, in which you can have whatever blend of automation and manual control you wish.
You're limited to the parts in the kit, plus an approved list of parts from third-party vendors. This is apparrently to avoid, for example, someone adding a ridiculously-powerful motor and accidentally running a 200-lb "robot" through the plexiglass around the areana and into the stands or operator booths.
The embedded computer is based on a PIC. Apart from that, it basically contains a wireless reciever of some sort to allow an official to shut down all robots in the areana in case Something Bad(tm) happens. You can add electronics if you want, but all connections to motors must be through the provided system.
Programming is usually done in C; Microchip's SDK is included in the kit. There's apparrently a small library containing functions for motor control and such things. You get a 25hz runloop, from which you can schedule your own functions to run.
Motors are connected through solid-state PWM drivers. The PIC provides PWM for you, but a PID controller (which is pretty much essential) must be implemented in software.
Speaking as a resident of Bakersfield, I must say that I'm not without sympathy. That helicopter annoys the heck out of everyone in the middle of the night.
Well, first, you have to forward port 80 on your NAT router (Cingular throws everybody behind one NAT, so there's little to no chance that they'll do that for you; this would only work via the iPhone's wifi & your own network). Every router is different, but you can usually search for " forward port" and get some useful info. Once that's done, use a service like dyndns.org.
It's been quite a while since I've read through the license (v2, that is), but IIRC, it states that the distributer must make available a machine-readable copy of the source.
Well, to nitpick, Turning's "bombe" was used to do most of the work of decoding the Enigma cipher; the rest was done by hand. Colossus was used to decode a separate German cipher used for high-level communications.
I have AT&T service, and a "3G" phone -- for those who don't follow AT&T's marketing, that means a phone that does GPRS, EDGE, and UMTS/HDSPA. At home, I can get UMTS, at about 850 kbits/sec down and 150 up (As measured by SpeakEasy's speed test). I've been doing some traveling recently, and have been mostly in EDGE areas, where I get 150 down and 50 up on their test, but, in practice, down is more like 30, and latency indeed stinks.
I myself happen to be a theistic evolutionist. I get flamed from both sides at times...
Basically, I am a Christian, and I love biology (specifically biochemistry). It's rather hard get much in depth in the latter without assuming evolution, and I have yet to see anything that would preclude the idea that said evolution was guided by God (eg, causing specific mutations, seperating populations as needed, etc.)....time for the asbestos coat, methinks...
Basically, we say that it's in the "superposition" between falling and not falling. Once it's observed, however, it will take on the attribute of having fallen or not having fallen...
For a more detailed (but slightly technical) discussion, you might look at Wikipedia's article on Schrodinger's Cat, a thought experiment designed to illustrate the concept.
The funky thing is that quantum uncertainty states that a particle doesn't have a certain attribute until it is observed; it's more than just not knowing the value of that attribute.
IANAphysicist, but from what I know about entanglement, the idea is as follows. Particles (photons, electrons, etc.) do not have some values (eg, spin, charge, etc.) defined until they are observed. The fun happens when you have a process which is guaranteed to produce two identical particles, but does not cause the attributes of those particles to take a value. You can separate the two particles, and when one is observed, you have a guarantee that the other will take the same values, even if there hasn't technically been enough time for information to flow from one particle to the other.
You can't actually transmit information using entanglement. (From my even more limited understanding, in quantum teleportation, the entanglement is used to extract the quantum state of an object and store it in a photon, which is then sent somewhere else using something like fiber.) You don't control the state of the particle when you first observe it; it is completely random. If you actually change one particle, the two particles are said to "decohere" and are no longer entangled.
Again, I'm just an interested amateur, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
I happen to be a theistic evolutionist/progressive creationist -- I believe that God brought about life through evolution). I don't see the doctrines of creationism and evolutionism as incompatible at all; after all, if God is God, does He not rule over random events (such as mutations)?
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There are several efforts to make GNUstep look nicer (the current one is called Chameleon), but they're all hacked together. The devs are hoping to have the core GUI library cleanly support themeing within the next few months.
You might also want to check out Etoile (or their incomplete new site), a rather nice desktop environment being built around GNUstep.
Agreed; in this instance, Bush is not at fault.
we might observe that is [sic.] in fact DEMOCRATS who control the Congress, and DEMOCRATS who cut the Fermilab budget.Congress is pretty much divided between the two parties. There is a slight Democratic lead, but not enough to say that Democrats "control" the congress. Neither party carries the fault for this situation.
Evolution doesn't make any consumer productsBiotechnology is currently more used in industry than in consumer products. Consider though, that evolution is indispensable to modern biology, which certainly does have an effect on the everyday life of anyone in a modern country. Pharmaceuticals? Antibacterial soaps? Modern medicine?
information complexity theory is a better foundation for biology than evolution is anyway.I'm assuming that you're referring to the works of Mr. Dembski. If you'd like to debate the merits of his ideas (or lack thereof, many of us would say), I'm sure that the many /.ers who know more than I about information theory would be happy to respond. The question that I would pose to you is this: How precisely can information theory "provide a foundation for biology"? It's certainly useful to analyze elements of various models, but it has no specific relation to biology, whilst evolution provides a framework in which seemingly disparate observations make sense and make tested predictions. Even the familiar taxonomic tree, for example, is explicitly a model of the evolutionary "tree of life".
But, Democrats are way more goofy about government as a redistribution of wealth vehicle...Yes, the left is more socialistic. I'd be glad to respond to an argument as to why that might be a bad thing, but I'm afraid that "goofy" doesn't quite suffice.
...and about fighting technological progress so that they can create more manual jobs.I think that you'll find that most of us aren't luddites. Especially here.
its been your friendly neighborhood warmongering right wing lunatics that have laid the conceptual framework for the Internet, funded all sorts of applied physics and chemistry, funded pretty much anything that looks like it would be a good consumer product, and the numbers -prove it-.I wasn't aware that (D)ARPA ever considered their work on the ARPANET particularly partisan. By the time something is a contender to be a consumer product, its funding has been taken over by corporations. More importantly, would you be so kind as to cite the source for your "numbers"?
it was Republicans that allowed private universities to become cash cows by filing for patents on research paid for by federal dollars.Why, thank you for fostering the modern culture of unbridled academic greed and exploitation of research done on my dollar.
My prediction is thus: Barrack Obama pulls the plug entirely on NASA, if he is elected.Obama has stated his intention to reduce spending on manned flights, but has stated a commitment to unmanned missions, which have a much higher ROI. Compare that to Bush, who has proposed abandoning one of the Voyager spacecraft (which is still producing incredible discoveries that you can't make without data from the edge of the solar system) in favor of a manned mission to Mars.
See here for details.
As a final remark, you seem to be bitten by that terrible partisan bug. Different Republicans and Democrats have both varied widely in pretty much everything, including their views on national support of science.
NOR flash clears to 1 and can have individual bits set to 0. NAND flash clears to 0 and can have bits set to 1.
As the Homer link doesn't seem to work for me, try: http://www.romancortes.com/blog/homer-css/
Most of the code on a sattelite has gone though extensive auditing and testing; even if a sattelite had the cycles to spare, its owners would probably rather buy a PS3 and run f@h on it than run even a remote risk of incurring problems on the sattelite.
Like this?
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Being a student at a high school which is participating for the first time this year, I attended a seminar on the rules, regulations, etc. Here's a summary of what seemed interesting:
The competition starts with an automated "challenge," in which the robot must do without human intervention. It then progresses into the manual portion of the competition, in which you can have whatever blend of automation and manual control you wish.
You're limited to the parts in the kit, plus an approved list of parts from third-party vendors. This is apparrently to avoid, for example, someone adding a ridiculously-powerful motor and accidentally running a 200-lb "robot" through the plexiglass around the areana and into the stands or operator booths.
The embedded computer is based on a PIC. Apart from that, it basically contains a wireless reciever of some sort to allow an official to shut down all robots in the areana in case Something Bad(tm) happens. You can add electronics if you want, but all connections to motors must be through the provided system.
Programming is usually done in C; Microchip's SDK is included in the kit. There's apparrently a small library containing functions for motor control and such things. You get a 25hz runloop, from which you can schedule your own functions to run.
Motors are connected through solid-state PWM drivers. The PIC provides PWM for you, but a PID controller (which is pretty much essential) must be implemented in software.
Speaking as a resident of Bakersfield, I must say that I'm not without sympathy. That helicopter annoys the heck out of everyone in the middle of the night.
Still a bad idea, though, I must admit.
Except for those of us still in high school, who find your words disturbingly true.
IIRC, Microsoft has been promising a database-based filesystem since Windows 95.
Of course, the question I've always had is, 88 mph relative to what?
Well, first, you have to forward port 80 on your NAT router (Cingular throws everybody behind one NAT, so there's little to no chance that they'll do that for you; this would only work via the iPhone's wifi & your own network). Every router is different, but you can usually search for " forward port" and get some useful info. Once that's done, use a service like dyndns.org.
It's been quite a while since I've read through the license (v2, that is), but IIRC, it states that the distributer must make available a machine-readable copy of the source.
Well, to nitpick, Turning's "bombe" was used to do most of the work of decoding the Enigma cipher; the rest was done by hand. Colossus was used to decode a separate German cipher used for high-level communications.
"Our bottom line [would be impacted by] anything that demonizes RFIDs," she said.
I have AT&T service, and a "3G" phone -- for those who don't follow AT&T's marketing, that means a phone that does GPRS, EDGE, and UMTS/HDSPA. At home, I can get UMTS, at about 850 kbits/sec down and 150 up (As measured by SpeakEasy's speed test). I've been doing some traveling recently, and have been mostly in EDGE areas, where I get 150 down and 50 up on their test, but, in practice, down is more like 30, and latency indeed stinks.
I myself happen to be a theistic evolutionist. I get flamed from both sides at times...
...time for the asbestos coat, methinks...
Basically, I am a Christian, and I love biology (specifically biochemistry). It's rather hard get much in depth in the latter without assuming evolution, and I have yet to see anything that would preclude the idea that said evolution was guided by God (eg, causing specific mutations, seperating populations as needed, etc.).
Basically, we say that it's in the "superposition" between falling and not falling. Once it's observed, however, it will take on the attribute of having fallen or not having fallen...
For a more detailed (but slightly technical) discussion, you might look at Wikipedia's article on Schrodinger's Cat, a thought experiment designed to illustrate the concept.
The funky thing is that quantum uncertainty states that a particle doesn't have a certain attribute until it is observed; it's more than just not knowing the value of that attribute.
IANAphysicist, but from what I know about entanglement, the idea is as follows. Particles (photons, electrons, etc.) do not have some values (eg, spin, charge, etc.) defined until they are observed. The fun happens when you have a process which is guaranteed to produce two identical particles, but does not cause the attributes of those particles to take a value. You can separate the two particles, and when one is observed, you have a guarantee that the other will take the same values, even if there hasn't technically been enough time for information to flow from one particle to the other.
You can't actually transmit information using entanglement. (From my even more limited understanding, in quantum teleportation, the entanglement is used to extract the quantum state of an object and store it in a photon, which is then sent somewhere else using something like fiber.) You don't control the state of the particle when you first observe it; it is completely random. If you actually change one particle, the two particles are said to "decohere" and are no longer entangled.
Again, I'm just an interested amateur, so please correct me if I'm wrong.
Actually, I think you have the rare gift of seeing through the editors' typos.
Seems it isn't evidence of Slashdot culture knowledge, either...
I happen to be a theistic evolutionist/progressive creationist -- I believe that God brought about life through evolution). I don't see the doctrines of creationism and evolutionism as incompatible at all; after all, if God is God, does He not rule over random events (such as mutations)?
I suppose that I should put on some asbestos...