I apologize a little if you were only talking about Chromium but the chromium source is pretty much meaningless in this context as almost anyone using the Google Browser will be using Chrome and not Chromium.
People always assume that there is someone methodically examining every byte of open source code after every release, but I have yet to know of anyone who likes to do that for free... They are usually focused on creating new features or fixing some glaring problems, if we are lucky. And please don't get me wrong, I LOVE Open source! I just don't want to put my faith in the Source Code Fairy to keep me safe.
It's easy for them to offer all these privacy features when companies, google's advertising partners, have mostly moved on to Flash-Cookies (LSO's) anyway, which are far more insidious than browser cookies and most people still don't know about them. At least with FireFox I can install a plug-in, "BetterPrivacy" that will give me control over the Flash cookie infestation!
When I first found out about these Flash cookies and installed the BetterPrivacy FireFox Add-on I was blown away by the stuff I found hiding on my computer! Now I knew how amazon and others knew what I had been looking at on the internet even with all of my privacy protections on...
Also; please remember that the open-source Chromium is not exactly the same thing as the Chrome that everyone downloads. Lot's of stuff is added that you don't have the source code for... All that said, competition is good. I'm glad to see it. But I don't trust Google any more than I trust Microsoft when it comes to privacy, perhaps even less so.
You don't have to depend on your own programming skills to understand the source.
If Chromium includes some huge privacy issue - don't you think someone who HAS gone through the source might have mentioned it?
Ok, and exactly who is it that has actually gone through the entire source and what are their credentials? Or are you just depending on the magic Source Code Fairy?
How does this scheduling compare to how "Pre-emptive Multitasking" was performed on something like the AmigaOS? Does it allow for the same benefits as have been described for it? And if so, would there be any inevitable downsides to it for how Linux operates and why?
My Linux knowledge is not yet very deep but I have occasionally read mention here and there of it's multitasking methodology being different from that of many other OS's and that it is part of what keeps it from becoming a desktop entertainment type of PC OS. Is this true? And is the difference really very great anymore? If the scheduling talked about in TFA is too heavy handed, are there any other ways to improve the Linux "Pre-emptive Multitasking" behavior that wouldn't be problematic?
Or could a scheduling feature like this be made into something that you could turn On/Off at will without having to recompile etc every single time you need it's benefits?
I loved my Amiga. It made working with a computer fun and exciting! Bit for bit it was faster and more capable than an PC or Apple or Mac my friends had in the 80's. It was so far ahead of everyone else that it took MS 10 more years to even start coming close (Win 95). As a result it's been impossible for me to be impressed by anything MS does...
Anyway, I could go on for hours about Amiga and how it would have changed the world if the oil baron who bought it out, bled it dry and illegally bankrupted it for his own profit hadn't gotten involved, but I originally started this post to share the link to the most "Official" Amiga Emulator around: .
It comes with several actual Amiga Kickstart ROM images as well as Workbench OS images and a huge collection of Amiga software and Games to play with! Plus, many more features that can make it easier to use and more fun even than using the original hardware. And it's cheap enough to buy on a lark. I would recommend it to anyone who has any fond memories of their Amiga. Oh, also, I might as well link to the same companies Commodore 64 Emulator package, which I also highly recommend: .
C64 Forever - Commodore 64 System Emulator, also emulates : PET 2001, CBM 3032, CBM 4032, CBM 8032, VIC 20, CBM 610, C16, Plus/4 and C128 http://www.c64forever.com/
65mg Tablets of Methylene Blue (Urolene Blue) {a round blue tablet} used to be commonly available and at a price of $19.99 for a bottle of 30 65mg tablets at www.drugstore.com. But for whatever reason these tablets seem to no longer be available in the U.S.
Here is an Info page from Merck which references that and much more about Methylene Blue (Tablets & Injection):
Administer after meals with a full glass of water. When given for the treatment of ifosfamide-induced encephalopathy, may be mixed with fruit juice to mask unpleasant taste.
Administration: I.V.
Administer undiluted by direct I.V. injection over several minutes. For the treatment of ifosfamide-induced encephalopathy, methylene blue may be administered either undiluted as a slow I.V. push over at least 5 minutes or diluted in 50 mL NS or D5W and infused over at least 5 minutes. Consider concomitant dextrose administration, especially in patients who are hypoglycemic, to ensure efficacy of methylene blue.
Dosage
Children: NADPH-methemoglobin reductase deficiency: Oral: 1-1.5 mg/kg/day (maximum: 300 mg/day) given with 5-8 mg/kg/day of ascorbic acid
Children and Adults: Methemoglobinemia: I.V.: 1-2 mg/kg or 25-50 mg/m2 over several minutes; may be repeated in 1 hour if necessary
Adults:
Genitourinary antiseptic: Oral: 65-130 mg 3 times/day with a full glass of water (maximum: 390 mg/day)
36.4% of the world's computers have LimeWire . Well, looks like we need to start building a LOT more prisons to house these criminals! Oh, and don't put a library in them, it would only encourage anti-copyright recidivism...
by jcaplan (56979) on Monday December 24, @07:46AM (#21806076)
I'm curious about your headache comment. I am familiar with many people getting headaches from 60Hz light sources. These sources include monitors running at their default refresh rate and older florescent lights. Newer compact florescent lights have electronic ballasts which produce light somewhere over 1,00 Hz, which is not detectable by the human eye. Monitors can be fixed by setting the refresh rates of your machine and those you tend to to somewhere over 72 Hz - you'll might cure somebody's chronic headache. I know I have.
If your headaches are not coming from a 60Hz flicker, I would conclude that you might be sensitive to the color spectrum. Try looking at a few compact florescent bulbs. Some cast a harsh white light, while others cast a warmer light similar to incandescent bulbs. From your comment, it seems you are very aware of the light quality of bulbs. Hopefully a bit of experimentation will help you find a bulb that gives off light which pleases you. . Thank you so much for posting this! I've pushed mine up to 75hz and it has helped me. I recall having read something about the 60hz issue a while back before I finally took the LCD plunge, but had forgotten about it until I read your post.
Plus I've found that it's good to check the monitor's brightness setting. My new one was set to 100% which was just too bright. Lowering it even 5-10% made a sudden and very noticable difference, the screen is still more than bright enough for my needs without glaring into my eyes like a flashlight.
If you're sending up space shuttle Discovery, I doubt there's a lot of wasted costs on putting a lightsabre in there.:-p
The average cost per pound to send to Low Earth Orbit is $3632 - $4587. [1]
WoWz! So why aren't we training horse-jockeys to be astronauts?
And if each astronaught has a glass of water before getting onto the shuttle? That would be pretty expensive too!
I suspect the weight of the light saber safely falls within the margin of error they build into their fuel calculations and as such won't really cost them any more than they are already going to spend/use in fuel anyway. Well worth it in my opinion. There isn't any reason why we can't make all our endeavors a little more fun and inspiring, it's what humans are all about.
It's safer to browse the web through a VM that is set to not allow access to your main HD's or partitions. Great for any internet activity really, like P2P or running your own server; if it gets hacked they still can't affect the rest of your system or data outside of the VM's domain. It's also much safer to try out new and untested software from within a VM, in case of virus or spyware infection, or just registry corruption or what have you. I can also be useful for code developement within a protected environment.
Did I mention portability? Keep back-up's of your VM file and run it on any system you want after installing something like the Free VMWare Server:
I want any review to at least start with well formatted and Objective info concerning whatever it is they are reviewing. Then I can just ignore the rest if I wish.
I swear, it should be pretty obvious what info we want from these reviews by now! It shouldn't be too hard to come up with a standard INTRO for any review that will tell us 90% of what we need to know about any new title, even if we've never heard of it before. Anything after that clearly marked section would be an opinion piece, easy to ignore if you don't have the same tastes and goals as the reviewer..
I wasn't aware of the "Open Courseware Consortium" before this. My next few years will probably be spent exploring and learning/ relearning from this resource!
Not only will people in the workforce be able to even more easily explore and research areas of interest and value to them from home at night to help them further their developement, but kids of any age capable of using it and having a library card will be able to further themselves and prepare for college/SAT as far in advance as they are capable and whether or not they have a computer at home. Thus improving their ability to obtain grants and scholarships when the time comes.
This sort of thing seems as fundemental an accomplishment as the establishment of the Public Library. Lets make sure both remain, as there are those trying to revoke all funding for Public libraries.
"makers of Auto Assault, will be working on the project."
I wonder how that decision process went down at Lego HQ?;)
Though I have to admit, as a Lego addict when I was a child (ok, still am) I would love to make fantastic lego vehicles and smash them together! So I guess it makes sense, heh.
Fjodor42 said: "I seem to remember reading about the following hypothetical experiment:
Let 2 enormously rigid "rods" of astronomical length be parallel. Let the one set of endpoints be fixed, and accelerate the other ends towards each other until crossing, and let them continue moving, now apart, with the rods intersecting. Even if the individual endpoints are moving at sub-c, one could easily imagine having the intersection point moving faster than c, however the intersection point is a logical construct, carrying neither mass nor information, and thus would this setup not contradict relativity, but merely present a challenge of engineering for anyone interested in carrying it out."
Another, simple, way to envision the above idea is to think of a giant pair of scissors. The head of the scissors rests on the surface of the earth and the two blade tips reach into orbit but are open and at an angle to each other. Now, air resistance etc aside (Do it on the moon instead); when the scissors are "closed", each half moving at sub-luminal speeds, the virtual point of intersection between the two blades can in fact end up "moving" faster than the speed of light. It's movement of an abstraction though.
But there's a problem if you make the scissors too long; they cease to act as a rigid body due to the electromagnetic force binding it's atoms propagating at the speed of light. Say the scissors were one light year long and the arms only a couple degrees apart then suddenly closed. You would think that would create an obvious sudden signal one light year away. But, even if the scissors were made of material far stronger than we can make now, the far ends wouldn't actually close that fast. The scissors would in fact close "suddenly" in the visible distance, but the closing (not refering to the contact point mentioned earlier) would be occurring along the length of the scissors at a speed less than light, in a bending wave. The far tips would finally close a year or more later.
I would love to see FTL achieved. Perhaps subatomic particles/waves of some sort and some extraordinarly small scale could be coaxed into moving FTL?
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Thank you. Your list made my point clearer than I did. Only the Source Code Fairy could make it through all of that...
At the Chrome source code too?
I apologize a little if you were only talking about Chromium but the chromium source is pretty much meaningless in this context as almost anyone using the Google Browser will be using Chrome and not Chromium.
People always assume that there is someone methodically examining every byte of open source code after every release, but I have yet to know of anyone who likes to do that for free... They are usually focused on creating new features or fixing some glaring problems, if we are lucky. And please don't get me wrong, I LOVE Open source! I just don't want to put my faith in the Source Code Fairy to keep me safe.
It's easy for them to offer all these privacy features when companies, google's advertising partners, have mostly moved on to Flash-Cookies (LSO's) anyway, which are far more insidious than browser cookies and most people still don't know about them. At least with FireFox I can install a plug-in, "BetterPrivacy" that will give me control over the Flash cookie infestation!
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6623 Newest version: for 3.5 - 3.6
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addons/versions/6623#version-1.38 Older version for 2.0+
When I first found out about these Flash cookies and installed the BetterPrivacy FireFox Add-on I was blown away by the stuff I found hiding on my computer! Now I knew how amazon and others knew what I had been looking at on the internet even with all of my privacy protections on...
Also; please remember that the open-source Chromium is not exactly the same thing as the Chrome that everyone downloads. Lot's of stuff is added that you don't have the source code for...
All that said, competition is good. I'm glad to see it. But I don't trust Google any more than I trust Microsoft when it comes to privacy, perhaps even less so.
You don't have to depend on your own programming skills to understand the source.
If Chromium includes some huge privacy issue - don't you think someone who HAS gone through the source might have mentioned it?
Ok, and exactly who is it that has actually gone through the entire source and what are their credentials? Or are you just depending on the magic Source Code Fairy?
How does this scheduling compare to how "Pre-emptive Multitasking" was performed on something like the AmigaOS? Does it allow for the same benefits as have been described for it? And if so, would there be any inevitable downsides to it for how Linux operates and why?
My Linux knowledge is not yet very deep but I have occasionally read mention here and there of it's multitasking methodology being different from that of many other OS's and that it is part of what keeps it from becoming a desktop entertainment type of PC OS. Is this true? And is the difference really very great anymore? If the scheduling talked about in TFA is too heavy handed, are there any other ways to improve the Linux "Pre-emptive Multitasking" behavior that wouldn't be problematic?
Or could a scheduling feature like this be made into something that you could turn On/Off at will without having to recompile etc every single time you need it's benefits?
I loved my Amiga. It made working with a computer fun and exciting! Bit for bit it was faster and more capable than an PC or Apple or Mac my friends had in the 80's. It was so far ahead of everyone else that it took MS 10 more years to even start coming close (Win 95). As a result it's been impossible for me to be impressed by anything MS does...
Anyway, I could go on for hours about Amiga and how it would have changed the world if the oil baron who bought it out, bled it dry and illegally bankrupted it for his own profit hadn't gotten involved, but I originally started this post to share the link to the most "Official" Amiga Emulator around:
.
Amiga Forever - Amiga Hardware/Software Emulator
http://www.amigaforever.com/
It comes with several actual Amiga Kickstart ROM images as well as Workbench OS images and a huge collection of Amiga software and Games to play with! Plus, many more features that can make it easier to use and more fun even than using the original hardware. And it's cheap enough to buy on a lark. I would recommend it to anyone who has any fond memories of their Amiga. Oh, also, I might as well link to the same companies Commodore 64 Emulator package, which I also highly recommend:
.
C64 Forever - Commodore 64 System Emulator, also emulates : PET 2001, CBM 3032, CBM 4032, CBM 8032, VIC 20, CBM 610, C16, Plus/4 and C128
http://www.c64forever.com/
Enjoy!! :D
How long can it keep going? If it doesn't stop then wouldn't it be a form of or degree of Perpetual Motion?
If so, this way of harnessing that reaction could eventually lead to power generation that could charge batteries.
Of course, there could be some reason why this couldn't be done, but I wouldn't assume that, I'd want to know for sure...
I don't know for you but for me 99.9% of the paper I consumed won't be readable in a year, because I will have thrown it away.
Text-files? I'm sure they will.
PDF? No idea.
99.9% of the paper I use won't be readable soon after I flush it.
65mg Tablets of Methylene Blue (Urolene Blue) {a round blue tablet} used to be commonly available and at a price of $19.99 for a bottle of 30 65mg tablets at www.drugstore.com. But for whatever reason these tablets seem to no longer be available in the U.S.
Here is an Info page from Merck which references that and much more about Methylene Blue (Tablets & Injection):
http://www.merck.com/mmpe/lexicomp/methylene%20blue.html
Administration: Oral
Administer after meals with a full glass of water. When given for the treatment of ifosfamide-induced encephalopathy, may be mixed with fruit juice to mask unpleasant taste.
Administration: I.V.
Administer undiluted by direct I.V. injection over several minutes. For the treatment of ifosfamide-induced encephalopathy, methylene blue may be administered either undiluted as a slow I.V. push over at least 5 minutes or diluted in 50 mL NS or D5W and infused over at least 5 minutes. Consider concomitant dextrose administration, especially in patients who are hypoglycemic, to ensure efficacy of methylene blue.
Dosage
Children: NADPH-methemoglobin reductase deficiency: Oral: 1-1.5 mg/kg/day (maximum: 300 mg/day) given with 5-8 mg/kg/day of ascorbic acid
Children and Adults: Methemoglobinemia: I.V.: 1-2 mg/kg or 25-50 mg/m2 over several minutes; may be repeated in 1 hour if necessary
Adults:
Genitourinary antiseptic: Oral: 65-130 mg 3 times/day with a full glass of water (maximum: 390 mg/day)
Ifosfamide-induced encephalopathy (unlabeled use): Oral, I.V.:
Prevention: 50 mg every 6-8 hours
Treatment: 50 mg as a single dose or every 4-8 hours until symptoms resolve
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by the way: The (Ascorbic Acid) mentioned under dosage is (Vitamin C).
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* Does anyone know where these tablets could be purchased now?
Well, looks like we need to start building a LOT more prisons to house these criminals! Oh, and don't put a library in them, it would only encourage anti-copyright recidivism...
Seriously though, Limewire still exists?
I'm curious about your headache comment. I am familiar with many people getting headaches from 60Hz light sources. These sources include monitors running at their default refresh rate and older florescent lights. Newer compact florescent lights have electronic ballasts which produce light somewhere over 1,00 Hz, which is not detectable by the human eye. Monitors can be fixed by setting the refresh rates of your machine and those you tend to to somewhere over 72 Hz - you'll might cure somebody's chronic headache. I know I have.
If your headaches are not coming from a 60Hz flicker, I would conclude that you might be sensitive to the color spectrum. Try looking at a few compact florescent bulbs. Some cast a harsh white light, while others cast a warmer light similar to incandescent bulbs. From your comment, it seems you are very aware of the light quality of bulbs. Hopefully a bit of experimentation will help you find a bulb that gives off light which pleases you. .
Thank you so much for posting this! I've pushed mine up to 75hz and it has helped me. I recall having read something about the 60hz issue a while back before I finally took the LCD plunge, but had forgotten about it until I read your post.
Plus I've found that it's good to check the monitor's brightness setting. My new one was set to 100% which was just too bright. Lowering it even 5-10% made a sudden and very noticable difference, the screen is still more than bright enough for my needs without glaring into my eyes like a flashlight.
The average cost per pound to send to Low Earth Orbit is $3632 - $4587. [1]
WoWz! So why aren't we training horse-jockeys to be astronauts?
And if each astronaught has a glass of water before getting onto the shuttle? That would be pretty expensive too!
I suspect the weight of the light saber safely falls within the margin of error they build into their fuel calculations and as such won't really cost them any more than they are already going to spend/use in fuel anyway. Well worth it in my opinion. There isn't any reason why we can't make all our endeavors a little more fun and inspiring, it's what humans are all about.
Wow!
So after that's built we'll be able to drive to almost anywhere in the world.
Can anyone say "Road Trip to England"?
I find Virtualization to be great for home use.
It's safer to browse the web through a VM that is set to not allow access to your main HD's or partitions. Great for any internet activity really, like P2P or running your own server; if it gets hacked they still can't affect the rest of your system or data outside of the VM's domain. It's also much safer to try out new and untested software from within a VM, in case of virus or spyware infection, or just registry corruption or what have you. I can also be useful for code developement within a protected environment.
Did I mention portability? Keep back-up's of your VM file and run it on any system you want after installing something like the Free VMWare Server:
http://www.vmware.com/products/server/
or VMWare Player:
http://www.vmware.com/products/player/
And if your VM gets infected or something, just delete it and make a copy of the backup, rinse & run!
Wow! Live OneCare actually does work!
I want any review to at least start with well formatted and Objective info concerning whatever it is they are reviewing. Then I can just ignore the rest if I wish.
I swear, it should be pretty obvious what info we want from these reviews by now! It shouldn't be too hard to come up with a standard INTRO for any review that will tell us 90% of what we need to know about any new title, even if we've never heard of it before. Anything after that clearly marked section would be an opinion piece, easy to ignore if you don't have the same tastes and goals as the reviewer..
Thank you for posting this story!
I wasn't aware of the "Open Courseware Consortium" before this. My next few years will probably be spent exploring and learning/ relearning from this resource!
Not only will people in the workforce be able to even more easily explore and research areas of interest and value to them from home at night to help them further their developement, but kids of any age capable of using it and having a library card will be able to further themselves and prepare for college/SAT as far in advance as they are capable and whether or not they have a computer at home. Thus improving their ability to obtain grants and scholarships when the time comes.
This sort of thing seems as fundemental an accomplishment as the establishment of the Public Library. Lets make sure both remain, as there are those trying to revoke all funding for Public libraries.
"makers of Auto Assault, will be working on the project." I wonder how that decision process went down at Lego HQ? ;)
Though I have to admit, as a Lego addict when I was a child (ok, still am) I would love to make fantastic lego vehicles and smash them together! So I guess it makes sense, heh.
Fjodor42 said:
"I seem to remember reading about the following hypothetical experiment:
Let 2 enormously rigid "rods" of astronomical length be parallel. Let the one set of endpoints be fixed, and accelerate the other ends towards each other until crossing, and let them continue moving, now apart, with the rods intersecting. Even if the individual endpoints are moving at sub-c, one could easily imagine having the intersection point moving faster than c, however the intersection point is a logical construct, carrying neither mass nor information, and thus would this setup not contradict relativity, but merely present a challenge of engineering for anyone interested in carrying it out."
Another, simple, way to envision the above idea is to think of a giant pair of scissors. The head of the scissors rests on the surface of the earth and the two blade tips reach into orbit but are open and at an angle to each other. Now, air resistance etc aside (Do it on the moon instead); when the scissors are "closed", each half moving at sub-luminal speeds, the virtual point of intersection between the two blades can in fact end up "moving" faster than the speed of light. It's movement of an abstraction though.
But there's a problem if you make the scissors too long; they cease to act as a rigid body due to the electromagnetic force binding it's atoms propagating at the speed of light. Say the scissors were one light year long and the arms only a couple degrees apart then suddenly closed. You would think that would create an obvious sudden signal one light year away. But, even if the scissors were made of material far stronger than we can make now, the far ends wouldn't actually close that fast. The scissors would in fact close "suddenly" in the visible distance, but the closing (not refering to the contact point mentioned earlier) would be occurring along the length of the scissors at a speed less than light, in a bending wave. The far tips would finally close a year or more later.
I would love to see FTL achieved. Perhaps subatomic particles/waves of some sort and some extraordinarly small scale could be coaxed into moving FTL?
Well, as expected..