So, these companies are actually losing court cases for using the proper units? That's up there with robbers suing the house owners for injuries they get while breaking in.
Everyone knows (at least outside of USA) that M = Mega = 1000000, and so on. This is standard for all units of measurement, even bytes (yes, I know that's less well known).
I wouldn't know, I tested Kubuntu 5.something on a spare computer, and it was terrible for me. I tried Gentoo on it, loved it, and eventually switched my main computer from FC5 or 6 to Gentoo.
Compiling everything is annoying, but the configuration files are really well organized and documented, I only have what I need installed, and it uses progressive updates rather than a new version every 6 months. Plus, the installation process was fairly easy, but involved enough that I gained insight into how it works, so it's easier to recover from problems.
I might try out a different distribution if something breaks, or I get a new computer.
However, I remember yum improving a lot when I installed FC5, and now the installation disks can use network repositories, so you don't need 6 install disks. So, basically, the problems you had are fixed.
It's that kind of FUD that makes this article wrong. We're always going to have people that believe that crap, and get modded insightful when they're really just a troll.
The real reason Fedora 8 won't gain significant ground is that everyone's going to remember when they tried FC3 for a few days, and assume nothing's changed in 2.5 years.
It's the same kind of thing with choices of desktop. In the past couple months I've heard someone complain about QT not being "free" as in GPL, which it has been for a while. Then there's people talking about how XFCE is stripped down and uses less memory, but once you start running gnome or kde apps, that difference is insignificant due to shared libraries.
Really, there's so much choice that you should just pick the distribution, desktop, and apps that fit your needs. There's no need to come up with FUD and outdated information to justify your choice, or to tell people that what they prefer is worse.
I have to agree with this. Video tutorials suck, because they make it difficult both to skim through (skip information you know), and to double check (make sure you did the step right).
Well, KDE is listed on the Free Software Directory (directory.fsf.org). Also, just recently, RS was quoted commending KOffice devs, and challenging Gnome devs over their stances on ODF.
Also, since there's so much integration within KDE, the RAM usage doesn't jump that much when using an application. I'm running KDE 3.5 with opera, kmail, ktorrent, amarok, and yakuake, plus all the services, and I'm at about 300MB of RAM used - not much higher than when none of the apps are running.
It's prototyping costs. Like, we want to test little changes in the design, so a brand new chip has to be made. It might save a lot when mass produced, but I don't have any idea what those figures are. Still, if researching them is cheaper, it will at least speed up the R&D process.
A former professor of mine works with lab on a chip stuff. She really stressed the point that computer and mathematical modelling is extremely important in engineering, particularly her research, because microfluidic chips are extremely expensive. I can't remember the exact number, but it was somewhere above $1000/chip.
Sure, the name "shrinky dinks" is funny, but being able to make these lab-on-a-chips affordably is a big deal.
The savings in power from replacing the CRT were $18/year, not $90. Assuming no time-value of money, it would take 11 years to pay it off. It takes longer, of course, if there is time-value (interest). Not many LCDs really have that lifetime, so money-wise, you're not saving any.
In terms of energy, it takes energy to make the LCD, transport it, and to recycle the CRT (rather than dump toxens into a landfill). How much of the $200 pays directly for the energy? Does $18/year, or even $90/year really pay it off?
This is why people say it's trivial. In many cases, there's no gain by replacing working equipment.
Sometimes there is, though. His office lighting used 370 watts (twice his office equipment). In terms of energy and cost, it would probably be worth it to reduce that. My home office uses about 40W of lighting for general use, 90W when task lighting, which happens less than once a week. So, if he saved on lighting, that's between 280W and 330W or 2.24-2.64kWh in an 8-hour day (provided you use the lights in day-time).
I've seen something about the "steam guy" in other news. His engine is essentially a 6-stroke engine: Compression, Expansion, Exhaust, Water injection, Water Expansion, Intake.
It's a way to harness the energy that's normally removed through the radiator. It works theoretically, and in tests. Problems are most likely due to materials.
The air powered cars will be grossly inefficient, though.
I reinstalled everything. It took about a day to do so. When I reinstalled, I used the split ebuilds. I think it was just Konqueror, konsole, kdegames, kcontrol, and all the dependencies (including QT). There were probably some more apps.
Well, I made a mistake in that most. It should read isotropic, not isomorphic - I knew it sounded wrong.
Anyway, an isotropic material has the same properties in all directions - eg steel or aluminum (unless coldworked). An anisotropic material doesn't - eg fibre composites.
Fibre composites are strongest in the directions that the fibres run, and weaker in a direction perpendicular to the fibres. There are all sorts of weaves to control this, even 3-dimensional weaves.
Laminar/layered materials tend to be weaker in the axis normal to the layer's surface.
Of course, that's all if you consider tension. Compression may be different with different materials, and shear stress is very different still.
Judging from the description of the "Velcro effect" I'd wager they're talking about ultimate strength. And even then, they may be talking about specific strength, so it could actually require a much larger geometry to achive the same strength as steel.
And yes, yeild strength and ultimate strength are very different quantities when it comes to design (for those that don't know).
The layered construction makes it sound like the material's not isomorphic, and I bet there are different compression and tensile characteristics. Plus, it might not have good high temperature characteristics. Isn't PVA a thermoplastic?
So, of course there will be a lot more research required.
Second, we made several improvements to the application (v 1.2) that helped make the computations more accurate...
More accurate or more precise? I think this is a pretty important difference. If I'd been running F@H for a while, I'd be upset to find out it was lacking accuracy; that's a lot of wasted (or less valuable than they could be) cycles I'd paid for.
Well, having just taken a basic course in PDE's, I'd automatically say use finite difference, with a crank-nicholson scheme (for convergence), and gauss-seidel iteration. Of course, since it was a basic course, we only dealt with a 1-D wave equation.
I can tell you that the internet is lacking for stuff even as simple as that, and it's hard to find a good textbook. You might have better luck with a text book, since your need is more focused than the course I took.
If you mean replacing/combining.deb and.rpm, I doubt that will ever happen. Fortunately that doesn't really matter to common users, because most programs you'll use are packaged by the distro, and provided via their installation tools -- yum, apt, portage, pacman, etc. -- which removes the uggliness of deb, rpm, and dependancies from sight.
I've accidentally started burning the CD before the entire ISO has downloaded. It's annoying how many CDs I've gone through, because I didn't check to see if it was finished.
Plasma is the new desktop. It handles the desktop, panels, widgets, etc. It's not an "effect" nor is it the window manager.
As was mentioned on dot.kde.org, plasma is enabled, but the panel replacement isn't finished. The widgets are also seperate from the standard beta release, but most should be included in the LiveCD.
If you want to see it in action, there are a lot of screencasts on youtube that have been made throught recent development. http://www.youtube.com/user/commitdigest
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So, these companies are actually losing court cases for using the proper units? That's up there with robbers suing the house owners for injuries they get while breaking in.
Everyone knows (at least outside of USA) that M = Mega = 1000000, and so on. This is standard for all units of measurement, even bytes (yes, I know that's less well known).
I'm outraged.
The Carnot cycle describes an ideal *heat* engine. As such, it only the most efficient way to convert heat to mechanical power.
This is a different kind of engine. So, it is not held back by the same limits as the carnot cycle, but by other limits.
I wouldn't know, I tested Kubuntu 5.something on a spare computer, and it was terrible for me. I tried Gentoo on it, loved it, and eventually switched my main computer from FC5 or 6 to Gentoo.
Compiling everything is annoying, but the configuration files are really well organized and documented, I only have what I need installed, and it uses progressive updates rather than a new version every 6 months. Plus, the installation process was fairly easy, but involved enough that I gained insight into how it works, so it's easier to recover from problems.
I might try out a different distribution if something breaks, or I get a new computer.
However, I remember yum improving a lot when I installed FC5, and now the installation disks can use network repositories, so you don't need 6 install disks. So, basically, the problems you had are fixed.
It's that kind of FUD that makes this article wrong. We're always going to have people that believe that crap, and get modded insightful when they're really just a troll.
The real reason Fedora 8 won't gain significant ground is that everyone's going to remember when they tried FC3 for a few days, and assume nothing's changed in 2.5 years.
It's the same kind of thing with choices of desktop. In the past couple months I've heard someone complain about QT not being "free" as in GPL, which it has been for a while. Then there's people talking about how XFCE is stripped down and uses less memory, but once you start running gnome or kde apps, that difference is insignificant due to shared libraries.
Really, there's so much choice that you should just pick the distribution, desktop, and apps that fit your needs. There's no need to come up with FUD and outdated information to justify your choice, or to tell people that what they prefer is worse.
I have to agree with this. Video tutorials suck, because they make it difficult both to skim through (skip information you know), and to double check (make sure you did the step right).
Well, KDE is listed on the Free Software Directory (directory.fsf.org). Also, just recently, RS was quoted commending KOffice devs, and challenging Gnome devs over their stances on ODF.
Well, it works fine on an eeePC 900MHz celeron M (as has been noted earlier): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wedw701Gy8s
Also, since there's so much integration within KDE, the RAM usage doesn't jump that much when using an application. I'm running KDE 3.5 with opera, kmail, ktorrent, amarok, and yakuake, plus all the services, and I'm at about 300MB of RAM used - not much higher than when none of the apps are running.
It's prototyping costs. Like, we want to test little changes in the design, so a brand new chip has to be made. It might save a lot when mass produced, but I don't have any idea what those figures are. Still, if researching them is cheaper, it will at least speed up the R&D process.
A former professor of mine works with lab on a chip stuff. She really stressed the point that computer and mathematical modelling is extremely important in engineering, particularly her research, because microfluidic chips are extremely expensive. I can't remember the exact number, but it was somewhere above $1000/chip.
Sure, the name "shrinky dinks" is funny, but being able to make these lab-on-a-chips affordably is a big deal.
I'm one of them :(
Note that the *good* free publicity is for fixing the screw-up.
The savings in power from replacing the CRT were $18/year, not $90. Assuming no time-value of money, it would take 11 years to pay it off. It takes longer, of course, if there is time-value (interest). Not many LCDs really have that lifetime, so money-wise, you're not saving any.
In terms of energy, it takes energy to make the LCD, transport it, and to recycle the CRT (rather than dump toxens into a landfill). How much of the $200 pays directly for the energy? Does $18/year, or even $90/year really pay it off?
This is why people say it's trivial. In many cases, there's no gain by replacing working equipment.
Sometimes there is, though. His office lighting used 370 watts (twice his office equipment). In terms of energy and cost, it would probably be worth it to reduce that. My home office uses about 40W of lighting for general use, 90W when task lighting, which happens less than once a week. So, if he saved on lighting, that's between 280W and 330W or 2.24-2.64kWh in an 8-hour day (provided you use the lights in day-time).
I've seen something about the "steam guy" in other news. His engine is essentially a 6-stroke engine: Compression, Expansion, Exhaust, Water injection, Water Expansion, Intake.
It's a way to harness the energy that's normally removed through the radiator. It works theoretically, and in tests. Problems are most likely due to materials.
The air powered cars will be grossly inefficient, though.
I reinstalled everything. It took about a day to do so. When I reinstalled, I used the split ebuilds. I think it was just Konqueror, konsole, kdegames, kcontrol, and all the dependencies (including QT). There were probably some more apps.
so, yeah more or less.
A full KDE installation from format took about a week on my 300MHz P1. Still short of a lot of /. jokes.
Now, I've set up distcc, so it compiles on my main desktop. It took less than a day to install everything (however, less was installed).
NB: I don't use Firefox or OO.o, which would add a few weeks to install time. But, that's what binary packages are for.
Well, I made a mistake in that most. It should read isotropic, not isomorphic - I knew it sounded wrong.
Anyway, an isotropic material has the same properties in all directions - eg steel or aluminum (unless coldworked). An anisotropic material doesn't - eg fibre composites.
Fibre composites are strongest in the directions that the fibres run, and weaker in a direction perpendicular to the fibres. There are all sorts of weaves to control this, even 3-dimensional weaves.
Laminar/layered materials tend to be weaker in the axis normal to the layer's surface.
Of course, that's all if you consider tension. Compression may be different with different materials, and shear stress is very different still.
Judging from the description of the "Velcro effect" I'd wager they're talking about ultimate strength. And even then, they may be talking about specific strength, so it could actually require a much larger geometry to achive the same strength as steel.
And yes, yeild strength and ultimate strength are very different quantities when it comes to design (for those that don't know).
The layered construction makes it sound like the material's not isomorphic, and I bet there are different compression and tensile characteristics. Plus, it might not have good high temperature characteristics. Isn't PVA a thermoplastic?
So, of course there will be a lot more research required.
Plus, it's a composite, not a plastic.
More accurate or more precise? I think this is a pretty important difference. If I'd been running F@H for a while, I'd be upset to find out it was lacking accuracy; that's a lot of wasted (or less valuable than they could be) cycles I'd paid for.
Some distros, like gentoo and ark linux played it smart with versions of YYYY.? . They're future proof up to 9999 AD, and beyond!
Well, having just taken a basic course in PDE's, I'd automatically say use finite difference, with a crank-nicholson scheme (for convergence), and gauss-seidel iteration. Of course, since it was a basic course, we only dealt with a 1-D wave equation.
I can tell you that the internet is lacking for stuff even as simple as that, and it's hard to find a good textbook. You might have better luck with a text book, since your need is more focused than the course I took.
If you mean replacing/combining .deb and .rpm, I doubt that will ever happen. Fortunately that doesn't really matter to common users, because most programs you'll use are packaged by the distro, and provided via their installation tools -- yum, apt, portage, pacman, etc. -- which removes the uggliness of deb, rpm, and dependancies from sight.
If you want a cross-distro system, check out klick: http://klik.atekon.de/
Come Klick2, it should be a sleek 1-app:1-file system which works on most distros.
I've accidentally started burning the CD before the entire ISO has downloaded. It's annoying how many CDs I've gone through, because I didn't check to see if it was finished.
Make sure to write it in LOL-CODE! (http://lolcode.com/)
Plasma is the new desktop. It handles the desktop, panels, widgets, etc. It's not an "effect" nor is it the window manager.
As was mentioned on dot.kde.org, plasma is enabled, but the panel replacement isn't finished. The widgets are also seperate from the standard beta release, but most should be included in the LiveCD.
If you want to see it in action, there are a lot of screencasts on youtube that have been made throught recent development. http://www.youtube.com/user/commitdigest
I'm really impressed with what Aaron is doing.
You know, in gentoo (and maybe other distros), a user must be in the "wheel" group in order to use su or sudo. It made that joke even funnier to me.