or it could mean "at the time of writing, there were 90 (or 91) submissions but since the deadline is tomorrow there may be a few more and we need to finish this article now so we can't wait to have the final number, which could be well over 100... oops, I did it again":-)
that's not the only issue... where I live, each time there is some big worldwide news and consequent heavy use of the nearby cell tower, my cellular Internet connection (you know, those "nifty" 3G USB sticks) stops working altogether...
you might be missing the concept of open in the context of hardware here...
take a common base for a platform (be it software, hardware, food - yes, as in beer), then declare it "open" and release the specifications for it to be seen, modified and reused at will
this obviously has the double advantage of letting people add or subtract parts, but you do either of these "operations" at your own risk...
to give an example (different for the usual car one): take water, you can add CO2 and have fun or you can remove hydrogen and have fun too...
on the day that he predicted there would have been one (29th March), there was a strong-ish one compared to the swarm of earthquakes that had been going on for the previous few months...
a 24-hour evacuation would have probably be enough, much like the fire drills we are so much used these days at the office...
the complete lack in Italy of any such practise should really get people thinking what capitalism is all about in modern age: using money (and that of charities) into the false illusion that increasing the "money" itself would provide good care to the citizens but forgetting who the citizens are...
I'm not saying that 200 victims are worth the $1 billion that they are giving to rebuild the city of L'Aquila, but you do the math...
Let's say there have been 10 millions netbooks sold before the "claim" period:
- Linux: 3 millions (30%)
- Windows: 7 millions (70%)
Let's say that reaching the "claim" period" there have been another 20 millions netbook sold and that they were all (?) Windows-based:
Totals:
- Linux: 3 millions (10%)
- Windows: 27 millions (90%)
Let's even consider the 20% return rate for the Linux-based ones:
- Linux: 2.4 millions (8.1%)
- Windows: 27 millions (91.9%)
Even if the maths is correct, their claim is higher than what can possibly be explained by a full 100% penetration like slashdot user 624575 says, so I'd converge my thoughts towards their usual FUD...
well, after the Reagan years, I still wonder how comedians can pretend to have to subvert the thoughts of a few millions of people with these jokes...
on a more serious note, all those people entered a competition and they have to play by the rules as anyone else... if NASA said they have the final word and also that suggestions from the public were welcome as long as they were in harmony (pun intended) with the project, then get lost Colbert... stop these "free" publicity stunts or else... run for local elections...
nah, those only show you simulated images of exploding combatant's airplanes before they really take place... or was it before, sorry, I can remember, too much depleted uranium penetrated my brain through my eyes...
hold-on, I need two clarifications in this case:
1) who decides where a vessel is registered and how do "normal" people know about the related sovereign country before boarding one ?
2) would this apply to other transport means other than air and sea ? I could just stay in my car during a trip to France and claim some sort of immunity ?!
well, we'd better fix that and fast...
there should be some kind of international agreement as to where the (vertical) boundaries are, or are the various countries claiming rights on the Moon, the Sun and whatever else is out there depending of what time of the day it is ?!
my teachers always said that I could never add apples and oranges, unless I specified their units at the same time and converted them when required...
it's widely assumed that when you start reading a paragraph of text, you can safely stop after the third word if it's in a language that you don't understand, but what if each newspaper's article would have the very first word indicating the language for the following text ?
some other times it's called interface: if I don't know (or don't care) how something is actually done and I simply care about the result, I ask you for just that and then go ahead and use the result for my needs
if I have to use a keyword called "openThatWindowAndThrowYourselfOut()", I don't really care what dialect it refers to, as long as I can find documentation on it in a natural language that I understand
if the first word of the article is always English, you can safely assume that whoever wrote it has been greatly influenced by a "western" society and therefore might be biased or lacking details that the author didn't quite grasp due to his/her limitations
if you are referring to air travel and academic research in (or beween) English-speaking countries, I couldn't agree more... but... when is the last time that you bought a ticket from a Greek or Japanese travel agency or read about a Polish or Romanian medical discovery ?
WinDev is the most popular independent development platform in France and can use either English or French keywords
heck, even the Commodore 64 was using shortcuts for all the commands as in fact they were parsed using a "translation" table (that is, they were actually interpreted using their internal representation, thus it could have been trivial to have them entered/displayed in any other language)
I once used a SCADA tool which could be programmed with either English or German keywords...
once these are stored in the source project not as plain text, but as encoded keywords, any dialect could be used to display the code on screen...
... and that's why the international aid association is called "Médecins Sans Frontières" (that's French, btw)
manuals of programming languages are translated in every possible and applicable natural language, so I don't see why there should be a prevalent choice of English here... although the computer languages themselves are English dialects, but mostly just for continuity, believe me
you have to consider that in most countries students learn the additional languages of the neighbouring countries but as it stands, native English ones are all surrounded by water, so I guess that they use the Internet to form a virtual community and forget that there's probably more programmers using Chinese or Bengali than all the other natural languages combined...
with all the time that it tales to revert a mistake done by an overzealous employee or a conscious hacker, I'm not sure that it's really a good idea to have this kind of devices... just imagine if and when they've been putting them already, without users' knowledge, to things like printers and mobile phones...
it could bring the planet to a standstill...
the experiment takes place in Russia, is sponsored by a Russian medical Institute (in associations with the ESA) and the participants are from Eurasia... I don't see any of those countries using the USD currency... (though the BBC article kindly converted it in British £ too)
I wonder if built-in GPS applications can cope with this kind of speed/altitude ?
where are the nearest 3 cell towers needed for triangulation anyway... ?
'cause I don't think that you could hook to 5 satellites from the small place window...
on a more serious question: is airspace like open sea ? which international laws apply there ? do countries claim the "first 2km above our land" as they do with seafronts ?
yeah, but after the third warning from the cloud(s) - pun intended - you'll get booted... though I'm not sure if they carry parachutes onboard anymore...
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or it could mean "at the time of writing, there were 90 (or 91) submissions but since the deadline is tomorrow there may be a few more and we need to finish this article now so we can't wait to have the final number, which could be well over 100... oops, I did it again" :-)
given that the Linux share is, what, 99 bonzos and 1 bonzess, I'd say that 90% of them posting a video in the context is a darn good number...
(yes, that was a joke)
and you know it's down when you get a 404 ? :-)
that's not the only issue... where I live, each time there is some big worldwide news and consequent heavy use of the nearby cell tower, my cellular Internet connection (you know, those "nifty" 3G USB sticks) stops working altogether...
you might be missing the concept of open in the context of hardware here...
take a common base for a platform (be it software, hardware, food - yes, as in beer), then declare it "open" and release the specifications for it to be seen, modified and reused at will
this obviously has the double advantage of letting people add or subtract parts, but you do either of these "operations" at your own risk...
to give an example (different for the usual car one): take water, you can add CO2 and have fun or you can remove hydrogen and have fun too...
well, you just need to warn the ISP that those posts are dangerous for the pixels, it's Italy you know...
on the day that he predicted there would have been one (29th March), there was a strong-ish one compared to the swarm of earthquakes that had been going on for the previous few months...
a 24-hour evacuation would have probably be enough, much like the fire drills we are so much used these days at the office...
the complete lack in Italy of any such practise should really get people thinking what capitalism is all about in modern age: using money (and that of charities) into the false illusion that increasing the "money" itself would provide good care to the citizens but forgetting who the citizens are...
I'm not saying that 200 victims are worth the $1 billion that they are giving to rebuild the city of L'Aquila, but you do the math...
that's utter cr*a, see my calculations above...
Let's say there have been 10 millions netbooks sold before the "claim" period:
- Linux: 3 millions (30%)
- Windows: 7 millions (70%)
Let's say that reaching the "claim" period" there have been another 20 millions netbook sold and that they were all (?) Windows-based:
Totals: - Linux: 3 millions (10%)
- Windows: 27 millions (90%)
Let's even consider the 20% return rate for the Linux-based ones:
- Linux: 2.4 millions (8.1%)
- Windows: 27 millions (91.9%)
Even if the maths is correct, their claim is higher than what can possibly be explained by a full 100% penetration like slashdot user 624575 says, so I'd converge my thoughts towards their usual FUD...
well, after the Reagan years, I still wonder how comedians can pretend to have to subvert the thoughts of a few millions of people with these jokes...
on a more serious note, all those people entered a competition and they have to play by the rules as anyone else... if NASA said they have the final word and also that suggestions from the public were welcome as long as they were in harmony (pun intended) with the project, then get lost Colbert... stop these "free" publicity stunts or else... run for local elections...
nah, those only show you simulated images of exploding combatant's airplanes before they really take place... or was it before, sorry, I can remember, too much depleted uranium penetrated my brain through my eyes...
hold-on, I need two clarifications in this case:
1) who decides where a vessel is registered and how do "normal" people know about the related sovereign country before boarding one ?
2) would this apply to other transport means other than air and sea ? I could just stay in my car during a trip to France and claim some sort of immunity ?!
well, we'd better fix that and fast...
there should be some kind of international agreement as to where the (vertical) boundaries are, or are the various countries claiming rights on the Moon, the Sun and whatever else is out there depending of what time of the day it is ?!
my teachers always said that I could never add apples and oranges, unless I specified their units at the same time and converted them when required...
it's widely assumed that when you start reading a paragraph of text, you can safely stop after the third word if it's in a language that you don't understand, but what if each newspaper's article would have the very first word indicating the language for the following text ?
some other times it's called interface: if I don't know (or don't care) how something is actually done and I simply care about the result, I ask you for just that and then go ahead and use the result for my needs
if I have to use a keyword called "openThatWindowAndThrowYourselfOut()", I don't really care what dialect it refers to, as long as I can find documentation on it in a natural language that I understand
if the first word of the article is always English, you can safely assume that whoever wrote it has been greatly influenced by a "western" society and therefore might be biased or lacking details that the author didn't quite grasp due to his/her limitations
if you are referring to air travel and academic research in (or beween) English-speaking countries, I couldn't agree more... but ... when is the last time that you bought a ticket from a Greek or Japanese travel agency or read about a Polish or Romanian medical discovery ?
stick your head out of the nest, please...
WinDev is the most popular independent development platform in France and can use either English or French keywords
heck, even the Commodore 64 was using shortcuts for all the commands as in fact they were parsed using a "translation" table (that is, they were actually interpreted using their internal representation, thus it could have been trivial to have them entered/displayed in any other language)
I once used a SCADA tool which could be programmed with either English or German keywords...
once these are stored in the source project not as plain text, but as encoded keywords, any dialect could be used to display the code on screen...
... and that's why the international aid association is called "Médecins Sans Frontières" (that's French, btw)
manuals of programming languages are translated in every possible and applicable natural language, so I don't see why there should be a prevalent choice of English here... although the computer languages themselves are English dialects, but mostly just for continuity, believe me
you have to consider that in most countries students learn the additional languages of the neighbouring countries but as it stands, native English ones are all surrounded by water, so I guess that they use the Internet to form a virtual community and forget that there's probably more programmers using Chinese or Bengali than all the other natural languages combined...
with all the time that it tales to revert a mistake done by an overzealous employee or a conscious hacker, I'm not sure that it's really a good idea to have this kind of devices... just imagine if and when they've been putting them already, without users' knowledge, to things like printers and mobile phones...
it could bring the planet to a standstill...
and the reward is in US dollars because ?
the experiment takes place in Russia, is sponsored by a Russian medical Institute (in associations with the ESA) and the participants are from Eurasia... I don't see any of those countries using the USD currency... (though the BBC article kindly converted it in British £ too)
if I'm not mistaken, even the original blueprints for the Space Shuttle should have expired their patents by now...
I wonder if built-in GPS applications can cope with this kind of speed/altitude ?
where are the nearest 3 cell towers needed for triangulation anyway... ?
'cause I don't think that you could hook to 5 satellites from the small place window...
isn't porn "stripped" from the hard disks at the security checks ?
on a more serious question: is airspace like open sea ? which international laws apply there ? do countries claim the "first 2km above our land" as they do with seafronts ?
yeah, but after the third warning from the cloud(s) - pun intended - you'll get booted... though I'm not sure if they carry parachutes onboard anymore...
cue to advertisements on the inner side of the "thing that looks like a pair of glasses and covers your eyes to make you sleep better" in 3..2..1..