I don't want to be annoying, but: error handling is for handling errors, and finally is for finalization whatever else happened.
ie if something needed cleaning up, I trust a finally clause way more than any if (h_res==0) {clean;} I can ever write, and if it is handleable (is that e really necessary), well, handle it in the catch clause!
> unless Linux gets some 'killer end-user features' that are easy to use,
> not available in Windows,
Well that will probably not happen soon. Not because linux does not have any useful apps, but because good linux apps are generally quickly ported to windows. My windows experience would be a lot worse without tools like emacs, latex, python, and eclipse, all of which are available for both linux and windows, and some of which were written for *nix originally and ported to windows.
I think this is a good thing
And worse: the 15.000 initial costs undubitably includes a lot of used energy: to drive the people installing the system, to create the batteries, wires, and generators etc; moreover, batteries include nasty chemicals and all electrical equipment consists of metals of which the reserves are finite.
If it costs 15000$ to generate around 1000$ worth of energy (5 years at around 200$ a year) I would think that the environmental impact and possibly the energy alone of installing the 15000$ system is going to exceed the savings over the expected lifteime
There is now more than enough evidence to support the idea of a pre-clovis population in America. Due to the timing of glaciation, this requires these populations to have traveled via the ocean, either along the glaciated Alaskan coast, or along the edge of the arctic ice cap from Europe. Possibly both.
That is true, but if you look at the date of 'colonization' by Austronesian people of these pacific islands, you will notice
Sailing large distances is difficult. It took them until 3000/2000 BC to get their island-hopping act together and start colonizing these islands. By this date America was well populated
Sailing large distances takes time. While it took a couple centuries up to one millenium to fill America, it took about 4000 years to colonize all islands from Indonesia to Easter Island / Hawaii
Combined: this proves that sailing between continents is quite possible but also very difficult, and cannot explain the people living in America around 10,000 BC.
Well, it's a pretty long boat trip!
We do now that people from Indonesia (or rather SE-Asia by way of Indonesia) island hopped all the way to Hawaii and Easter Island, but it took them until around 500 AD to get there.
Also, I think there is some genetic (mtDNA) evidence that most native American people share a common heritage with each other and with Siberian people.
Of course, it could be that the America's were fully populated before the arrival of Siberian people, and that they have been completely replaced by the Clovis people (or Clovis-enabled Siberian peoples, whatever) without leaving a trace. But lots of things could have happened without leaving a trace, and we would never know. This has something to do with those traces...
His main answer has to do with food production: North America had hardly any good domesticable crops, so the most populous and advanced North American civilization (in the Mississipi valley) could only emerge after the slow spread of Mexican corn and beans across the deserts north of the Aztec homeland, which gave them very little time to 'prepare' for the European invasion.
It's very "interesting" to call 'get' singular, but it would be "informative" to say that get is either 1ps, 2ps or plural. In other words: the -s suffix is only for third person singular verbs
(1) The mod system is designed to make useful posts appear more prominently (2) The karma system is designed to reward authors of useful posts (3) GP's post was really useful, as TFA is/.'ed and it seems a very concise summary (more useful than the OP, certainly)
So...
thank you GP for your useful post and enjoy your new karma:-)
IANAL, but the issue at stake is certainly copyright and possibly database right. In the Netherlands, so possibly in Belgium as well, there is something called databankrecht that means that even if a publisher allows you to view all individual articles from a repository, you are not allowed to copy the whole database by downloading all articles and keep them in storage. In terms of copyright, you are certainly not allowed to copy and distribute (including putting online) the stack of newspapers in your garage, but under fair use (assuming it exists in belgium) you are probably free to give your old paper to a friend to read.
Their issue with google is probably exactly what the GP suggests: they make money out of their archive, both by individuals downloading for-pay archived articles, and through more business-aimed services such as LexisNexis. So, if google caches and returns (=copy and distribute) their old articles, they are violating copyright and depriving them of their source of income, so it is no surprise that they sue google.
(whether you agree with copyright and database right laws is a different matter, of course)
aha!
You ARE silly:-)
We have a fundamental difference of opinion, which is OK. I love FOSS software, and I believe it is fully capable of competing head-on with closed software and prove itself superior. Banning closed software, as you seem to propose, is removing freedom, not granting it.
What about selling the music on your website, for $0.10 a track?
There is so much music I am not buying because I think it's too expensive, but if I listen to internet radio and there is a 'buy this track now!' button that would give me a mp3 version of the track for 10 cents, no way would I be stealing it from people.
You need DRM to keep prices ridiculously high and the limit your fanbase. You need cheap music to generate a huge paying fanbase. Which do you think an artist would rather have?
I think you're being silly. The whole point is that the OS should be free, which includes my freedom to develop proprietary software if I see fit. It's your choice to buy or donwload my software or not. Making the C library GPL will simply restrict the freedom of people to develop for linux, which will no be beneficial to the platform at all.
Uhm... My day has 24 hours x 60 = 1440 minutes, making 100 times per day about once every 15 minutes. (unsurprisingly, since 15x24 is close to hundred)
So if you really need to write every minute, the lifespan would be about 2 years, which is serious (1E6/(1440*365) = 1.9)
If it is really used as a cache as swap, I'm guessing it'll be closer to once per second, making the lifespan a couple weeks(a million seconds is less than two weeks), so you're quite right about the virtual memory and temp files
We define crime as killing and robbing people and stealing their IP. Depending on your country it might also include offending people, discriminating, offending friendly heads of state, denying the holocaust (but making fun of Mohammed is okay!), and breaking encryption. If we use a website or forum to commit, promote, or plan these crimes, the web site / postings will be 'sanitized'; often voluntarily by the hosting party but it feels coercive nonetheless.
In china political opposition and "anti-socialist" ideas are crime. Websites etc. etc. are treated the same way we treat 'criminal' web sites. It's just the definition of crime.
We had all been hoping that the Internet would automatically overthrow the Chinese government, and is turns out not to be quite that easy. But we should be pissed off not at that they remove or block 'criminal' websites, but that political opposition is criminal in the first place.
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Check out this commercial, it might be another company :-)
http://www.kewego.nl/video/iLyROoaftIrO.html
Probably shouldn't be feeding the trolls here, but GP is probably Dutch from his nick, and in Dutch the same word is spelled with 'sf'.
If being unAmerican is the same as being mentally retarded it seems we're right back in the days of the terrorism^H^H^H communism scare
I don't want to be annoying, but: error handling is for handling errors, and finally is for finalization whatever else happened.
ie if something needed cleaning up, I trust a finally clause way more than any if (h_res==0) {clean;} I can ever write, and if it is handleable (is that e really necessary), well, handle it in the catch clause!
> unless Linux gets some 'killer end-user features' that are easy to use, > not available in Windows, Well that will probably not happen soon. Not because linux does not have any useful apps, but because good linux apps are generally quickly ported to windows. My windows experience would be a lot worse without tools like emacs, latex, python, and eclipse, all of which are available for both linux and windows, and some of which were written for *nix originally and ported to windows. I think this is a good thing
And worse: the 15.000 initial costs undubitably includes a lot of used energy: to drive the people installing the system, to create the batteries, wires, and generators etc; moreover, batteries include nasty chemicals and all electrical equipment consists of metals of which the reserves are finite.
If it costs 15000$ to generate around 1000$ worth of energy (5 years at around 200$ a year) I would think that the environmental impact and possibly the energy alone of installing the 15000$ system is going to exceed the savings over the expected lifteime
That is true, but if you look at the date of 'colonization' by Austronesian people of these pacific islands, you will notice
- Sailing large distances is difficult. It took them until 3000/2000 BC to get their island-hopping act together and start colonizing these islands. By this date America was well populated
- Sailing large distances takes time. While it took a couple centuries up to one millenium to fill America, it took about 4000 years to colonize all islands from Indonesia to Easter Island / Hawaii
Combined: this proves that sailing between continents is quite possible but also very difficult, and cannot explain the people living in America around 10,000 BC.Well, it's a pretty long boat trip! We do now that people from Indonesia (or rather SE-Asia by way of Indonesia) island hopped all the way to Hawaii and Easter Island, but it took them until around 500 AD to get there. Also, I think there is some genetic (mtDNA) evidence that most native American people share a common heritage with each other and with Siberian people. Of course, it could be that the America's were fully populated before the arrival of Siberian people, and that they have been completely replaced by the Clovis people (or Clovis-enabled Siberian peoples, whatever) without leaving a trace. But lots of things could have happened without leaving a trace, and we would never know. This has something to do with those traces...
I can recommend http://www.amazon.com/Guns-Germs-Steel-Fates-Socie ties/dp/0393317552 :
His main answer has to do with food production: North America had hardly any good domesticable crops, so the most populous and advanced North American civilization (in the Mississipi valley) could only emerge after the slow spread of Mexican corn and beans across the deserts north of the Aztec homeland, which gave them very little time to 'prepare' for the European invasion.
Ask Slashdot! The only place that moderates obvious irony as 'insightful'!
I for one welcome our new octopedic taxiverous overlords
It's very "interesting" to call 'get' singular, but it would be "informative" to say that get is either 1ps, 2ps or plural. In other words: the -s suffix is only for third person singular verbs
This is actually quite funny, why isn't this a moderator day... :-)
tweak UI allows you to do this in IE as well...
Well...
/.'ed and it seems a very concise summary (more useful than the OP, certainly)
:-)
;-)]
(1) The mod system is designed to make useful posts appear more prominently
(2) The karma system is designed to reward authors of useful posts
(3) GP's post was really useful, as TFA is
So...
thank you GP for your useful post and enjoy your new karma
[And parent: don't be jealous!
IANAL, but the issue at stake is certainly copyright and possibly database right. In the Netherlands, so possibly in Belgium as well, there is something called databankrecht that means that even if a publisher allows you to view all individual articles from a repository, you are not allowed to copy the whole database by downloading all articles and keep them in storage. In terms of copyright, you are certainly not allowed to copy and distribute (including putting online) the stack of newspapers in your garage, but under fair use (assuming it exists in belgium) you are probably free to give your old paper to a friend to read.
Their issue with google is probably exactly what the GP suggests: they make money out of their archive, both by individuals downloading for-pay archived articles, and through more business-aimed services such as LexisNexis. So, if google caches and returns (=copy and distribute) their old articles, they are violating copyright and depriving them of their source of income, so it is no surprise that they sue google.
(whether you agree with copyright and database right laws is a different matter, of course)
aha! You ARE silly :-)
We have a fundamental difference of opinion, which is OK. I love FOSS software, and I believe it is fully capable of competing head-on with closed software and prove itself superior. Banning closed software, as you seem to propose, is removing freedom, not granting it.
What about selling the music on your website, for $0.10 a track? There is so much music I am not buying because I think it's too expensive, but if I listen to internet radio and there is a 'buy this track now!' button that would give me a mp3 version of the track for 10 cents, no way would I be stealing it from people. You need DRM to keep prices ridiculously high and the limit your fanbase. You need cheap music to generate a huge paying fanbase. Which do you think an artist would rather have?
I think you're being silly. The whole point is that the OS should be free, which includes my freedom to develop proprietary software if I see fit. It's your choice to buy or donwload my software or not. Making the C library GPL will simply restrict the freedom of people to develop for linux, which will no be beneficial to the platform at all.
Uhm... My day has 24 hours x 60 = 1440 minutes, making 100 times per day about once every 15 minutes. (unsurprisingly, since 15x24 is close to hundred) So if you really need to write every minute, the lifespan would be about 2 years, which is serious (1E6/(1440*365) = 1.9) If it is really used as a cache as swap, I'm guessing it'll be closer to once per second, making the lifespan a couple weeks(a million seconds is less than two weeks), so you're quite right about the virtual memory and temp files
Right... so e-bay has nothing to do with retail now does it?
This is about crime.
:-))
We define crime as killing and robbing people and stealing their IP. Depending on your country it might also include offending people, discriminating, offending friendly heads of state, denying the holocaust (but making fun of Mohammed is okay!), and breaking encryption. If we use a website or forum to commit, promote, or plan these crimes, the web site / postings will be 'sanitized'; often voluntarily by the hosting party but it feels coercive nonetheless.
In china political opposition and "anti-socialist" ideas are crime. Websites etc. etc. are treated the same way we treat 'criminal' web sites. It's just the definition of crime.
We had all been hoping that the Internet would automatically overthrow the Chinese government, and is turns out not to be quite that easy. But we should be pissed off not at that they remove or block 'criminal' websites, but that political opposition is criminal in the first place.
(first post!