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1) Hello World! Today I publish a shiny new programming language that is better at XYZ compared to anything out there. Joint me and contribute.

2) Hello mailing list, this is the patches set version 18 of my 3 years effort trying to integrate the XYZ feature into the project. I hope this version address all the remaining complains about it.

3) Dear Steering Committee F.0x55/C-75, please find in attachment the version 24 of the 137 pages document "Proposal for adding feature XYZ" to the agenda for the next 10 years cycle of standardization.

I agree: a modification will only be local and not altering completely a such massive object. But in case of very small mass (imagine a few kilogram), a 1.1kW RTG could be able to alter it significantly.

I don't understand your question, but it seem that this comet is composed of hard ice according to the last Philae data I can find in the Internet. The thermal conductivity of ice look like this http://www.engineeringtoolbox....

Comet Churyumov–Gerasimenko is 4.1×3.2×1.3 km and his mass is about (1.0±0.1)×10^13 kg. Good luck to alter a such massive object with a 1.1kW heat source. Maybe it would have be a interesting method to inspect the inner core if data transmission could be maintained.

And the others ? Just curious.

Hydrogen have the advantage to be generated by a lot of chemical process. Probably the simplest one is the water electrolysis that only require water and electricity. Of course some others process are not so clean, but at least there is large choices and so range of possible improvement, unlike fossil petrol.

Sorry, why ?

Intel is not infallible:
See Xscale fiasco.
See ia64 fiasco.

As for Nokia, I doubt that existed any partner not aware of the burning platform memo after all the press about it. And the vast majority of the 'nerd pr0n' (as you like to write) have proved to be right about the predictable consequence of this memo.

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Yes, and it's not the first time Intel face this control rejection. Back about 15 years ago Intel wanted to push the Xscale into the embedded market, especially in the router market. There have spend a big amount of money to artificially build a complete ecosystem with SDK suppliers, and fake early customers. Intel take a very aggressive team of vendors trying to sell the Xscale chips the anyone making routers. There pretended that the system is open, but in fact there wanted that the companies use a "routing accelerator" as a completely undocumented blackbox with a closed firmware object. Only a few companies used the Xscale chip for a few years before Intel canned the line, and then the SDK suppliers closed one after the others.

Intel management is only able to deal with a situation where there have to keep a monopoly. There are very good at this, and very bad as thinking an other way. Sadly for them, the effort of a lot software providers to port there code to multiple architectures is bigger than ever before and still growing, because the reality of the market is now fragmented. When your customers have choices, you have to give to them an advantage, not trying to take any control on them. The personal computer running Windows or OS X are the last markets where the end user have almost no choice (AMD marked share is actually small), but the Intel customers like Apple or Microsoft could change that. Apple have already successfully switched 3 times there architecture (m68k->ppc->ia32->amd64), and Microsoft is more and more forced to present an arm64 version of Windows for the future server market.

Many projects started with simple code and increased the complexity overs the years up to the point that less and less peoples are willing to learn it. A key to attract new developers is to split the project in smaller parts and let others take the maintenance of those smaller parts. Don't hesitate to use standard libraries whenever possible and don't hesitate to rewrite code to make it easier to read. Up to date documentation and tested tutorial on how to start coding for example an extension might be good advantage.

Close relations with distributions can be a source of new developers instead of a layer that isolate the project from the users. It's an advantage to directly maintain the project in a few leading distribution.

Probably a very important factor for attracting new contributors is how there idea are welcomed at there first post and how there are credited for there effort.

Elope trying to make a first post ?

First, you seem to fully agree that murder using gun is a bigger problem than manga, so why the word 'lots' cause you a so big problem ? Just compare to the numbers of deaths caused by manga... Now compare the legal risk of owning a gun vs owning a manga. Oups! It's not a statistic, it's a very simple basic comparison.

Second, while your claims are probably correct (I haven't checked) and I never disputed them, you seem to assume that I am against them. It's not the case, but my point of view is from an other perspective: in the manga affair, the judge base his sentence on the perception that seeing image of a fantasy in a manga is dangerous because it's an illustration of something criminal in the real life and that this might confuse the reader. What's insane it that in comparison, all real guns and all illustration of murders by guns in a massive amount of media don't seem to be a problem *COMPARED* to the manga fantasy. Don't get me wrong: I doubt there is even a massacre that have been caused by a manga fantasy, so why owning a manga fantasy could be more criminal than owing a gun ?

I propose that you read me with clam and only get the real part I have wrote, not what you don't know about me and that you like to think that you know. Acting only based on real fact is best solution for everyone.

We are close to see situation where having a charged gun in the street full of peoples including children, all seeing massive amount of murder involving gun while watching movies, TV, games, cartoon, anime, streaming, since there are young is considered as nothing wrong despite a lot of documented massacres, but seeing a manga along on his personal computer for self consuming fantasy is a crime.

My point of view is that regardless of the subject there will be a tiny amount of peoples developing problems discerning differences between fantasy and reality, including inability to control there actions. For sure any society have advantage to identify this few peoples and to do something to protect the vast amount of normal peoples. The bad new is that historically societies are close to there end when there make rules disconnected from the reality...