Pics or it didn't happen.

Oh. I use text mode emacs normally and tty settings disallow it.

The only important feature emacs lacks in my opinion, is the ability to run emacs within a sub-window of emacs.

Your statement is not relevant here because Matlab is not hot. scipy/numpy are hot, Matlab is old. I work as a research scientist in a top university doing heavy data-processing (however I personally maintain my own C++ wrapper of BLAS so I don't rely on other people's wrapper code).

I tried using Ubuntu briefly (cloud-computing stuff) but I found upstart very very difficult to work with, and, if I recall correctly, buggy.

I've never attempted to use Ubuntu since.

I hate Microsoft as much as the next guy, but he has a point here.

Microsoft is a multinational corporation - albeit one that started in the US - and they have the perfect right to locate their operations wherever suits them. Immigration policies are a valid reason to make these decisions. I don't understand why American think it's their automatic right for all activities of companies like this to be located on their soil.

I referred to the drawing down of aquifers.

It's true, my comments envisaged conventional farming, not the methods the Israelis use with poly-tunnels. So in the long run, your point is true.

Yes but that food is already being grown (and the water being overexploited), so settling people there would not add any new food.

Would be nice for deserts to be un-desertified, but I'm not sure that can be done cost effectively just yet.

Dan

But those places are mostly not suitable for growing crops. What would people living there eat?

It's not physical space that limits populations, but the availability of resources such as food and water.

Mod me flamebait, but I am with Microsoft on this one. As mentioned in their press release at http://www.microsoft.com/en-us..., Samsung agreed that "Microsoft will receive royalties for Samsung’s mobile phones and tablets running the Android mobile platform".

I don't know how Samsung thinks it can use Microsoft products without paying for them. I paid for my copy of Windows, and I expect Samsung to do the same.

I don't believe he has published, but you might be able to get something from his patent:

http://patentscope.wipo.int/se...

the patent seems to talk in terms of surfaces for heat transfer, and does not mention anything about turbulence. When he first mentioned to me that he was working on it, I conjectured that it was vanes or ribs of some kind, and he told me that it was more complicated than that and had to do with the interaction with turbulence (I forget whether to increase it or decrease it). However, nothing like that seems to be reflected in the patent. I'll ask him to respond here on Slashdot if he can.

Re-posting this not as AC...

Dr. Povey mentioned to me that turbulence had something to do with how it works. [He's my brother.]

I read TFA, and unfortunately the research is very weak. They did not do a proper randomized study, they merely trained a classifier to figure out how good they thought a post was, and then divided up posts into pairs where their classifier thought they were the same but the feedback was different. They assume that their classifier is accurate, i.e. really reflects the goodness of a post. The rest of their research follows from this assumption.

If it had been a proper randomized study (i.e. roll a dice and up/down vote posts) I could have believed it.

What I wonder is-- how did the Syrians get hold of a zero-day vulnerability in Flash? I doubt they found it themselves. Did they buy it, or did the Russians give it to them?

I'm wishing there was a "+1 troll" option for moderation.