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People not familiar is Microsoft are probably not taking part in a discussion on HackerNews, let alone a discussion of why their SQL Server product was not ported to *nix.

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Thanks for taking the time to answer! You have helped me understand a few things better. However I also realise now that I phrased my question wrongly and should never have used the word "bound".

I also see now that I misread the grand-parent post. Of course these motions would not affect the measurements, and if they did, the rotation of the earth alone would be obvious.

Since the rotation of the earth has to be factored in, does the earth's orbit around the sun need to be as well? How about the suns orbit around the Galactic center?

I suppose my question is - all things being relative, why aren't the neutrinos bound to the same frame as the emitter and detector?

A few minor annoyances with the using the Ubuntu repositories. Mint, on occasion, looking for Katya repos.

Actually, I do wish I had just stuck with Mint, but I dont have time to go back now, and If I am going to install another distro, then why not Debian...

I actually switched to Mint 11 after 11.04 and found it to be a really good alternative. Specifically because it didn't break everything and has access to all the Ubuntu repos and tools.

I switched back to Ubuntu for 11.10, hoping some of the things which pushed me to Mint in the first place had been fixed, but I am again bitterly disappointed. Unfortunately, I value having a pretty interface, I find xfce ugly, and simply installing gnome 2 in 11.10 doesn't "just work".

I also tried Arch, but I found I was spending too much time getting it to work how I wanted, and I eventually gave up on it for the same reason I stopped using Gentoo.

The one thing I never considered was switching to Debian - which might be the best idea yet!

Perhaps you also have to average in her previous job?

Thanks, I knew about that when it came out, but before I was able to install it, the preview of 1.9.3 came out - which is when I first noticed just how much faster it was.

After running a few tests on the commandline, rake and rails commands are even faster than they were in RC1.

Maybe there was something wrong with my 1.9.2, but when working with rails projects (rake, rails console etc), this feels a few orders of magnitude faster.

I didn't pick that up, but it explains the Melktert recipe.

I don't believe this is real for a second, though I would love it to be. But I wonder why, if it was connected to the grid, did they not just produce the expected 1MW...

Yep, crunk was where I stopped as well. Nothing else in the ad really offended my delicate sensibilities until that.

Probably, but I imagine there might be a massive build-up of salt, leaving the "mine" unusable after a while.

I believe ORMs want to save you from writing tons of repetitive queries, not to save you from ever having to touch a line of SQL.

At least that is what I believe, I have never seen an ORM advertising itself with "NEVER WRITE ANOTHER LINE OF SQL AGAIN".

Granted, it may not make you a "well off" geek, but my point was - at $95, this would be a dream to most of the people who could benefit from it the most.

The geek in me completely agrees with you.

But I also think that would miss the point of this being a charitable enterprise entirely.

At $25 they will be helping a lot more people than just well-off geeks - this whole project a charitable after all.

I will be buying them for kids who would never have even touched a computer in their lives if not for these (and doing a bit of teaching). Since I am hardly Bill Gates, this would be completely impossible for me at $95 each (only giving them to 2-3 of these kids and leaving out the rest is just a bad idea in a slum).

I think this is a terrible idea, unless that price only applied to buyers in first world countries. At $25 for the board + shipping to South Africa + power supplies I can afford twice the boards I would buy. And even at $25, I can't buy as many as I would actually need.

I plan on giving them to interested school kids from the local squatter camp (slum for non-South Africans) and hopefully teaching them a bit of programming and general computer skills. The charities that service these kids have a hard time getting them food, so getting them to shell out for computers (even at $25ea) is a complete non-starter.

Since I will be paying for every single one myself, and will be scrounging up the rest of the parts wherever I can, an extra $20 - $40 would make a massive difference to me.

Lying well is actually really difficult and doesn't come easy to many people. The differenced between a review written from experience and a review written from someone's imagination may be slight, but I think there will always be markers.

I hear a lot of people call it "The HI virus".

I am ashamed of the code in some of the older ones, and I don't trust that certain of my clients to keep to our maintenance contracts in others.

Certainly there are some which I would feel okay about sharing the code. But since there is a non-zero chance of there being security holes in the apps, I think the risk could be too great.

I understand that making the code public could result in patches from other people using it, but I just don't think anyone else would be interested in using for that reason.

You are probably correct.

I don't even know why I like GitHub as much as I do. I have decided not to pay them as I can't really justify the amount (Dollars are not cheap in Africa) - so I host my repos on one of my Linodes and have them backed up to S3 every day. This works perfectly well, and I have no problems doing it, yet I feel like I am missing out on not having them tucked away on GitHub.

I suppose the feeling is similar to my feelings of Linux vs OSX. There is nothing (apart from Photoshop) that I cant do just as well on Linux, but I still feel like I am missing out by not being on OSX.

Its probably just that it seems all the "Cool People" are using GitHub.

I assume that what the poor twenty-somethings actually want is the interface since alternatives like Gitosis and Gitolite are cheap and cheery, but unpopular amongst that crowd. If that is the case however, then I am surprised noone has made a FOSS clone duplicating the interface ideas.

However your argument doesn't explain why there is not even a single private repo free tier. That wouldn't canibalize their B2B tiers at all, while keeping a lot of very small developers happy.

I would agree with your IDE point, IF the person doesn't know how to use the IDE properly.

I used RubyMine when learning Ruby/Rails, after having used IDEA for years (Java), and the two things which helped me learn Ruby and Rails faster than anything else were code completion (for finding methods which I may have not found otherwise) and the Source Navigator (for want of a better term). Being able to Ctrl-Click on a method and instantly see the source for it(Whether in a gem or in Rails itself) was a massive time-saver when it came to understanding what was going on under the covers.

Edit: Agree 100% with adding tests.

I am not an American, but I can't imagine that this will ever hold up.

In a world where filing cabinets and office safes are vanishing, the courts would be cutting off access to a major source of evidence they need for successful prosecutions. Financial crimes would become much harder to prosecute, and many "digital" crimes could become impossible.

I just cant imagine your government allowing that. The only alternative I can imagine is them making unbreakable encryption illegal for civilian use.

You are probably right regarding email clients, I haven't actually used one since I switched to Gmail and Google Apps. I do count services like Gmail as email clients though, but I don't think any of them have S/MIME or PGP/GPG support out the box.

Last time I tried sending a GPG encrypted email through Gmail on windows, there was no simple way of doing it.

It would be great if more email clients had encryption built in, and encrypted emails to people with known public keys.

Barring that, perhaps something like a peer to peer network where messages are automatically encrypted and addressed to a public key could work. Those emails could then float around the p2p network until a client with that public key joined, and downloaded that message, decrypting it with their private key obviously.

They haven't done a whole lot about MS (which is basically the definition of this behaviour) though, even looking at Europe.

With Facebook and Google racing to beat each others free products, could this mean Microsoft may have just wasted $8.5 billion?

This is a real question, I don't really use video chat much at all.

edit: Or at least massively devalue their investment.

I don't know if this reply was read as being sarcasm, but It honestly wasn't. I was wrong about the whole idea, it would never work.