Then perhaps you'd like to post this as well:
Twister will never see widespread adoption if users have to compile it for their platform. Unless and until pre-compiled binaries are available, most people will avoid it like the plague.
Sure, Firefox never got widespread adoption. I happen to remember when we had to compile it (it was called Phoenix back then).
It's just a bloody simple system of differential equations. n bodies, each has a location (3 coordinates) and a speed vector (3 coordinates), so you have six equations. The speed is obviously the derivative of the location, and the theory gives you the equation to calculate the derivative of the speed. Look up Fehlberg or "Adaptive Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg" and you are there.
That's Newton.
With relativity things get hard, quick. Both time (thus, speed) and space (thus, speed and distance) dilate, mass changes (thus, the attractive forces between bodies and thus their acceleration, and thus their speed, and thus their location), and some other oddities.
I hate to be the one to tell you that it already exists:
http://www.fogcreek.com/kiln/
Actually, even two wheels has not been successfully accomplished yet. Though, to be fair, zero wheels has been done.
It's not about USA per se.
The entire thing is actually a reflection of the arrogance of those so-called "UNTOUCHABLES"
The entire thing is actually a reflection of the public's apathy. The real issue is now that the spying has been brought to the forefront of attention, the time has come for society to decide which fork in the road Western society will take: the ever-present surveillance route or the privacy-respecting route. The government agencies, and at their bidding the established media, are taking the stance that spying is the new norm. Twitter and Slashdot readers think that privacy should be the new norm. Arguably, neither have been a 'norm' until now.
While I applaud the move, it is about competitive advantage for Google.
Google already knew which emails you have or haven't read. So does every other email client, web-based or IMAP / POP3.
I second this. I've moved people from Windows to Kubuntu telling them that it is Windows [7|8|9] and they love it. Just don't tell them what it is called.
Tips: Firefox instead of Rekonq, Lancelot instead of the default KDE menu, remove all desktop widgets and 'lock' the desktop and panel.
Elimination is a stupid move. It's a triumph of marketing at the cost of we who must run this shit.
And make no mistake: it will be elimination. Elimination of your software from many clients' servers / desktops.
People like me won't run your software anymore. I cannot risk having your developers changing code running on my critical systems without so much as telling me what they change. I can usually infer the 'why', but they must tell me the 'what'. You don't mention if your customers have access to the code source or not, but in either case a concise human-formatted changelog is such a basic requirement that I am actually disturbed about an upstream provider even considering removing it.
you'll find sympathy in the dictionary between "shit" and "syphilis".
Quote of the century.
Nice finds, but some disturbing comments on those videos. Thanks.
I would love to hear some of that material. My Gmail username is the same as my
Thanks!
Technically one could run a webserver on a spot instance, but the availability of said server will be inversely proportional to datacenter load instead of proportional to website demand. Do you not see why that is a bad idea?
EC2 is inherently scriptable. There's nothing stopping you from using the command-line tools to fire up an instance, and let it run, and store its results to S3, and then decommission the instance.
You are correct that what you propose is easy and well documented. However, that is not what the OP needs.
The OP needs lower-priced spot instances, which are intermittently available and designed exactly for this workflow. When the entire AWS datacenter has some spare capacity, these spot instances turn on for those who requested them to run (usually to crunch data that is not time-sensitive). The use and configuration of these instances is not so well documented, probably because you cannot run a webserver on them and that seems to be the focus of much AWS documentation. However, it is exactly these 'spot instances' which are in my opinion the genius of the cloud: they let the heavy, non-time-critical work (i.e. scientific computing) be done when the webservers and mailservers aren't so busy, thus flattening out the daily CPU demand curve.
The OP should start here:
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/spot-tutorials/
And end here:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/tutorial-spot-adv-java.html
Now, Oona is cute, a hacker and is into Kung Fu.
Got me to read the fine article. Oh, and pics
https://plus.google.com/photos/116317362025285673698/albums/profile
Then change banks, and tell them why.
I called Bank Leumi monthly for years about Firefox-on-Linux compatibility and they always told me that "it is in the works". I finally left the bank for another bank (Poalim) after sitting with the new bank's manager in his office with my Fedora laptop (~2009) checking that their site works on my system. When it did, I changed banks and wrote letters about why to both banks' presidents.
The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
