Posts by Lars

@AC. Like in the good old days?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stocks

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_humiliation

Re: Great preparation, tragic results

For a Scandinavian joke about Amundsen. Vad är skilladen mellan Amundsen och en bagare - Amundsen tog sig fram med Fram medan bagaren tog sig fram med bak. I doubt Google translate will make much sense of that.

Re: Horizontal assembly

There was actually a link for this.

"Officials said the preliminary plan calls for the Ariane 6 rocket to be integrated horizontally, a practice long used for Russian launchers and more recently adopted by United Launch Alliance’s Delta 4 rocket family and SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket.".

Re: @Lars

Thanks Mark 85. No intention to offend you. Some politicians suck more than others in any country no doubt. We get what we elect but with citizens united "higher powers" choose what we can elect from. I also wonder if people who vote for Trump really believe that those trade agreements were written by all those nasty countries and forced upon dumb American politicians who did not understand his book and thus cannot make huge deals, poor bastards. What does that guy actually believe him self. Bernie Sanders on the other hand has from the beginning known who is behind those agreements and why. Enough about that.

As for this "happiness" topic, the word has amused me from the very beginning but there is of course a background to it too. Some seem to think (joking perhaps) that people around the world are asked on the phone to define their happiness on a scale from one to ten. Some other word would be more appropriate, ease of mind or something better.

Those not so bloody Danes know their kids are able to get an education if they try regardless of how poor or stupid they are themselves. They know they will not have to sell their house and move in with their kids if they get sic. They know nothing about preconditioned anything. They know they will have their pension according to what they have earned no matter how often they have been sacked. They know their risk of being shot at home or on the street is small or by the police even with the wrong colour of the face. So I do understand the USA is not among the top ten in this respect either.

As for how bloody the Vikings were and compared to who, a topic for some rainy day.

Regards Lars

Re: Are they sure its just food?

I was looking for that very question and if you know more about what is going on in Northern Europe it's more or less obvious that climate change has to be part of it.

Re: Hmmm, Intel and Android...

Yes, I agree regarding AMD, competition is good as they say. But Intel was not mentioned in the article even once. Android is Linux, I agree there too, but then again the "name" Linux has never, I think, been used in marketing and was it not rather similar with Unix, was it not more like HP-UX, Aix, Solaris and so forth.

Around 2000 I started to follow how Linux started to take over the top500 supercomputer list. I asked the guys why they did not mention the OS used and they kindly responded that they just didn't. Eventually they changed their mind. By then I think one in two run Linux.

In this article:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/15/serious_unboxing_dell_unpacks_230_node_cluster_at_csiro/

Linux is not mentioned because it has become the default.

Some of you might remember the huge excitement when Apple got one into the list (for a while).

The reason Linux is not mentioned is simply that there is no marketing behind Linux, it's not necessary.

As for HPC it's not only Linux but but a hell of a lot of software developed for the task by many companies.

Re: Barack Hussein Obama the Al Qaeda cell...

Hello, is it you Edon, have you changed topic.

"Microsoft's decision to bring SQL Server 2016 to Linux caused great excitement in the open-source world this week.". I find the sentence a bit odd too, but then again I suppose it depends on how one defines "excitement".

There is a lot we don't know about their motives for SQL Server on Linux. How much are they going to charge for it. Suppose there are customers who want to switch to Linux but are prepared to pay for keeping the Databases. Perhaps they want to reach the supercomputers in a more efficient way. Perhaps to challenge Oracle customers on Linux.

Wait and see, trying to find some excitement lurking in myself, have to try harder I suppose.

Re: so long Debian, it has been nice knowing you

Please, Steve Davies 3. learn more about Open Source and the basics of the licences.

Re: Techies vs. corporate drones ;)

Well that happened to the MySql guys too. Perhaps it's more about some organizations getting to big and stiff. "Techies" who are used to work in dedicated groups with some enthusiasm and a goal find they are being watched by "suits" who don't know a thing about what they are working with demanding all sorts of weekly reports and such. I think this happened at Microsoft and Nokia any many similar companies.

Re: Wait for the offer you can't refuse...

Or perhaps it's more like if you cannot beat them, join them. And to refuse or not is up to us of course.

Re: Down vote this

@ farnz "Facebook also pays other taxes". Easy there, income taxes are paid by employees, VAT by consumers, dividends are paid to share owners and are in most countries not taxed as high as salary. Check with Buffet. But they do employ people. FB pays taxes on profit, and there lies the problem as they can fix the books much too easily.

Re: Ridiculous

"The only reason why ads are everywhere, because you and people like you don't want to pay for content and services. If you'd pay the full cost of online content and services, there would be no need for ads to pay for that instead of you."

I am sure there would be ads all the same. Not that this is not an interesting question.

Re: It took a Brit to set the record straight

@ SpammFreeEmail

Nice, and I'll see you and raise you with this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FPrJxTvgdQ&list=RD2FPrJxTvgdQ#t=3

Re: Just hack your own version per the open source spirit

@ Geoffrey W

You can download Ekiga for Windows too. I will have to try it with some Windows user. Nice if this Skype "problem" helps the Ekiga guys.

Re: Stop repeating rubbish please

"Running a "Pro EU" campaign on the basis of threatening that the EU will collapse our economy if we leave doesn't go down well."

That sentence is a bit funny as the EU is not forcing Britain out of the EU. What ever the result of a Brexit the result is self inflicted. I also think this referendum is much like the one in Scotland. The OUT was about feelings related to words like "independence", "national pride" and so forth. I had no problems understanding it but I won my bet as I came to the conclusion that the economical reality will be of more importance.

I have placed my bet on Brexit for the same reasons. There is no way Britain cold gain economically skipping the EU. And again I can understand the "feelings" behind it and I think one problem is, what I would call, a post "Empire Trauma", still alive among some Brits. In your history the reality of having to deal with other countries on a level ground is a very new reality.

As we know there are similar feelings in other EU countries but I would like to point out that behind all of those political startups are just a small number of people who want political power and they know very well that the only part of the population they can attract are those who need a common enemy like emigrants, moochers, bureaucrats in Brussels (or on Capital Hill). There is no other way to start a new political party to day in Europe. This is very obvious in the Nordic Countries.

Just listen to Trump, he knows his audience, and he plays it well, like did Hitler. now I do not consider Trump a Hitler (Crux is a lot more Hitler like) but he sings the same song and attracts the "same" people with the same "feelings".

And I must admit that when at a Trump rally people shout USA, USA, then I think it must have been very similar at a Hitler rally when they shouted Sieg Heil, Sieg Heil, which with my rubbish German translates to Victory, Victory. See my point.

Typically those guys have absolutely no solution to anything, just hot air.

Then there is this very funny idea that the EU would become something more United States like. Funny because Europe is a lot more united in so many things like social security, health care, education and why not the death sentence even religion. We have nothing like the trash that US state lawmakers produce. And still all countries in the EU have their own history, characteristics and languages. The EU will not change that, but as separated countries we will not be able to compete with the US and China.

Re: language

Just proves he gets along with two languages.

Re: Remind me why Linux is more secure again?

Well, this was how Microsoft explained it. more MS and less Linux. To day. apparently, there is more Linux in that space. Who knows more BSD some day. Oh my arse, forgive us all, you first.

Re: Any damn fool can code...

@ a_yank_lurker

I was a programmer for 35 years, hell if I know what that requires, but you have to like it. I have seen young guys and girls giving up, as they should, because they did not like it. Programming is a profession like any other.

This reminds me of a day in school when I was 8 or 9 and our teacher decided to ask us, one by one, what we wanted to become as adults. We guys wanted to become, firefighters, pilots, policemen, train drivers and what not. I wanted to become a sea captain. What the girls wanted to become I cannot remember at all. But then there was this chap who said "DENTIST". There was a complete surprised silence in the class when all heads turned to look at that guy, and I felt sorry for him . I suppose his father or mother was one.

Anyway, all we are and have achieved during our time to date is due to education and due to kids incredible ability and demand to learn. And our ability to provide is far from what it could and should be.

Literature like music I would call "vitamins" for our brains or souls if you like, even if it will not become a profession.

I have listened to all the GOP debates, and I cannot remember anybody mentioning education at all. Then there is Bernie Sanders, who has got it. And then there is Hillary who tries to fool the audience by talking about Trump's kids as if that was of any importance.

http://michaelmoore.com/MyEndorsementOfBernie/

Re: Bloody Neanderthals...

Yes, those fucking bastards caused the first holocaust. Nothing new under the sun.

Re: Who knows? Really?

"Campaign suggestions on a postcard..." A thick brown envelope. (not a postcard), Some of those guys are just waiting for instructions and or envelopes. Not an optimist to day.

Re: The explanation of interference is slightly wrong in the article...

I suppose (and could be very wrong) but is this not the same thing with the article "Australian astroboffins reveal hundreds of hidden galaxies" where they write that "our whole Milky Way is moving towards them at more than two million kilometres per hour". Is the Milky Way moving or is it not rather space that expands. "Newtonian" is easier to understand and explain I suppose.

Re: British efforts

@LesC

I am sorry, but the article you refer to seems to be written by a "jeremy clarksson" type of Brit who is not particularly interested in facts. Lets give credit where credit is due. If facts hurt then our "national pride" is just on a too high level.

From the Wiki.

Tokamaks were invented in the 1950s by Soviet physicists Igor Tamm and Andrei Sakharov, inspired by an original idea of Oleg Lavrentiev

Experimental research of tokamak systems started in 1956 in Kurchatov Institute, Moscow by a group of Soviet scientists led by Lev Artsimovich. The group constructed the first tokamaks, the most successful being T-3 and its larger version T-4. T-4 was tested in 1968 in Novosibirsk, conducting the first ever quasistationary thermonuclear fusion reaction.[3]

In 1968, at the third IAEA International Conference on Plasma Physics and Controlled Nuclear Fusion Research at Novosibirsk, Soviet scientists announced that they had achieved electron temperatures of over 1000 eV in a tokamak device.[citation needed] British and American scientists met this news with skepticism since they were far from reaching that benchmark; they remained suspicious until laser scattering tests confirmed the findings the next year.