Exactly, parent is very insightful. The GP's argument really doesn't get to me. But I guess similar thoughts lead to the fact that e.g. the US is factually a two party system.;)
The rail lines right-of-way is owned by the freight haulers. They put their priorities first, and passenger trains regularly get delayed.
High speed trains like the german ICE (used in a variety of countries, including China), the french TGV or the japanese bullet trains do not run on regular rails. Rails for speeds exceeding 200km/h need to be specially built. In Germany we have a high speed rail network, next to rails for slower moving trains. Similarly to a highway, you sometimes have 4 rails next to each other. Two for every direction and high or low speed. In cases where there are only 2 rails, the rains usually only go slow. So there should be no delay by freight trains or other slow trains on the high speed network.
Actually the real things that set it apart from the 3GS are the following:
* Expandable storage with up to 48 GB with external microSD card (vs nothing) * 800x480 resolution screen (vs 320x480) * Video playback file formats:.mp4,.avi,.wmv,.3gp; codecs: H.264, MPEG-4, Xvid, WMV, H.263 (vs. some Quicktime codecs & FLV, not sure which) * Removable battery
The rest is basically the same, especially CPU and GPU wise. I am not sure about the virtual memory stuff. Might be interesting for multitasking applications, although I am not sure how well this works out on the Maemo platform.
The iPhone has on the other side the advantage of a really slick interface and IMHO very good usability. We will definitely also buy one or two N900s for development, and so far I haven't seen one in real life. But I am looking forward to compare them to the iPhone in both performance as well as usability. Also I am looking forward to see what the SDK looks like, never worked with Maemo before.
Lots of good information in those PDFs. Also very interesting that the AGC already ran some simple real-time capable multitasked OS. Simple, but still with a lot of modern ideas in it.
yet I can create the exact same page by hand using nothing more than a plain text editor and a decent graphics program
Please tell that to the slashdot maintainers. The site currently looks like crap in Safari 4 (did so as well in Safari 3), with colored dots (friend / foe / blabla) and strange widgets all over the place. The "Reply to this" button is also rendered broken, and i don't know what else as well.
WTF is going on with/. at the moment? Huge public beta test?
Yes, the Quadro cards are very popular, actually. Also they come in special versions, with HDSDI interfaces for professional video equipment, or for example as QuadroPlex boxes, for powering VR caves and big visualization applications.
Actually it's the GTS250, which uses the G92b chip. The changes compared to the other G92 based chips are relatively small though. Hence the similar chip-name.
Well actually, Beast with a Billion Backs sucked, but the rest were pretty damn good. I thought Bender's Game was completely back on form for Futurama.
Trent Reznor is giving away NIN's new album for free, and still making a load of money on the album through online, CD, vinyl and DVD sales. (see [1] and [2])
I say kudos to this man, and his slightly innovative, yet very successful method of distributing music. I have not yet paid for the album, but already downloaded the mp3 and flac version, and I like it! I guess I will try to buy the vinyl, if I can get it in any of the record stores here.
In the early days it was convenient to say that 1024 was close enough to 1000, so RAM sizes were quoted in "KB". However, the error in this increases with each step up in size. By the time you get to the TB scale it's no longer a reasonable approximation.
I don't get where this is coming from... When I was young(tm), which was way back in 1990, we used KB to denote Kilobytes, which meant 1024 Bytes. And that's that. The HD-makers screw us up, and some other idiot comes running up and introduces this KiB/KB crap. WTF? Dammit, we DEFINED the KB to be 1024 Bytes, and there was no SI standard that anyone ever cared about. And that was in friggin metric Europe! So, get off my lawn and take your stupid KiB with you!:)
And as its "law", then how about the CCTV's all making a noise when they photograph everyone. If they want everyone to respect their law, they should lead by example and prevent their CCTVs from filming without people knowing.
Damn, why does the moderation system not go up to 6? this is really a good comment. Imagine our towns when this were the case. I guess people would really be creeped out and start thinking about CCTVs... No more "I have nothing to hide" attitude...
See that at the bottom? 1985 called, they want their dock back. (Nextstep "innovated" that in 1989, four years later!)
That's no moon! Err... I mean, that's no dock. Those are just the minimised Icons on the desktop from other applications. That was the way up to and including Windows 3.11. The taskbar was introduced in Windoes 95.
Let me see if I got this strait: the return capsule accidentally got stuck to part of the ship it was docked to, and took the part with it on the way down, but this extra part cause the capsule to face the wrong way, using the wrong side as the "heat shield", which meant the astronaut was about to be cooked to death.
Apart from the spelling error, you have not got it exactly straight. The Soyuz spacecraft consists of three parts: The orbital module, the reentry module and the service module. It is launched as one single piece of spacecraft. The crew starts and lands in the re-entry module. The orbital module is the living and working area during orbit. The service module contains all the propulsion,communication and similar stuff. It also has the solar panels attached to it. Before re-entry, the Soyuz fires its retro rockets and jettisons the orbital and the service module, leaving only the middle section, the re-entry module, in which the crew returns to earth. However, with Soyuz 5 the service module did not detach, due to a fault. Now you have to know that the heat shield is on the side of the re-entry module which is connected to the service module. Also if only those two parts remain, Soyuz' aerodynamics force it to plunge down to earth with the re-entry module face down, exposing its non-shielded side. Eventually, the service module broke away during descent. Probably of heat and aerodynamic stress. Once the re-entry module was separated, its most aerodynamic position was again with the heat shield in the right direction, so the capsule automatically turned itself around, much like a shuttlecock does if you throw it with the wrong side first. Hope this cleared some things up.
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Good point. I was trying to figure out what Structure Of Arrays has to do with management...:-D
If galaxies and nebulae were the angular size of a human hand held at arm's length, then we would just fucking see them every night with our naked eyes, so of course they must be smaller.
Absolutely not true. While many distant galaxies and several planetary nebulae seem to be pretty small from down here, most of the nearer galaxies and a lot of nebulae subtend quite a big angular size. The problem is that their radiosity is not bright enough for us to see them with the naked eye. But for example the andromeda galaxy is nearly the size of three full moons. However, with the naked eye under a dark sky, you can only see it's core as a smoky patch on the sky. Hundreds of other galaxies and nebulae are visible even in small telescopes. Especially non-planetary nebulae and some of the nearer galaxies are in fact so big that you tend to watch them at 20-50x magnification through an amateur telescope. As a comparision: Most planetary nebulae, as most planets, only reveal their details at 100-200x magnification.
Actually it is not completely true, that a desktop using only the traditional 2D accelerated drawing engines of the GPU is as snappy as the new compositing desktops used by Mac OS X, KDE 4 and Vista. Because there is one main difference: Backing Store (or whatever it is called outside of X11). The 2D accelerated variants rarely use it! With the 3D accelerated compositing desktops you basically get it for free, since every window is rendered into a texture. So whenever you move around a window, the underlying, exposed windows do not have to do complex redraw operations, just a simple texture fetch or blt is in order. This IS possible with 2D accelerated cards, but as I said, it is hardly ever done, for several reasons: video memory management probably being the biggest one, An expert on the implementation of this in X.org or similar could probably tell you more.
indeed according to climatologists this past summer should have been warmer than average, yet instead it was cooler.
Funny enough, I read the exact opposite at the beginning of the year. Since this year there was supposed to be a siginifcant "La Nina" effect in the east pacific (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Niña) they predicted a cooler summer. Which was what happened, at least here in central Europe. But who knows... According to WP the results of El Nino and La Nina are quite complicated and localized.
Good luck? The man is a fucking murderer. I don't care if he's fucking Linux God and able to write programs just by looking at them, he's a despicable human being and deserves no luck at this point.
WTF? I thought we had prisons for punishing people and teach them a lesson. I personally hope that he learns something in the following 15 or so years, and that he will come out and be a better man. The he will repent what he did and that he will do good stuff in the rest of his lifetime. I don't know if he will, but that's how the system is supposed to work.
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FYI, you can use YouTube's HTML5 version nowadays as well, using YouTube's standard webpage in Safari.
The coming iPhone however will need to have a Micro-USB Plug, at least for Europe. The EU dictates that all mobile phones need to be equipped with such a socket beginning with this year. See the following memorandum: http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/newsroom/cf/document.cfm?action=display&doc_id=5274&userservice_id=1&request.id=0 (PDF)
Exactly, parent is very insightful. The GP's argument really doesn't get to me. But I guess similar thoughts lead to the fact that e.g. the US is factually a two party system. ;)
Cheers
High speed trains like the german ICE (used in a variety of countries, including China), the french TGV or the japanese bullet trains do not run on regular rails. Rails for speeds exceeding 200km/h need to be specially built. In Germany we have a high speed rail network, next to rails for slower moving trains. Similarly to a highway, you sometimes have 4 rails next to each other. Two for every direction and high or low speed. In cases where there are only 2 rails, the rains usually only go slow. So there should be no delay by freight trains or other slow trains on the high speed network.
Actually the real things that set it apart from the 3GS are the following:
* Expandable storage with up to 48 GB with external microSD card (vs nothing) .mp4, .avi, .wmv, .3gp; codecs: H.264, MPEG-4, Xvid, WMV, H.263 (vs. some Quicktime codecs & FLV, not sure which)
* 800x480 resolution screen (vs 320x480)
* Video playback file formats:
* Removable battery
The rest is basically the same, especially CPU and GPU wise. I am not sure about the virtual memory stuff. Might be interesting for multitasking applications, although I am not sure how well this works out on the Maemo platform.
The iPhone has on the other side the advantage of a really slick interface and IMHO very good usability. We will definitely also buy one or two N900s for development, and so far I haven't seen one in real life. But I am looking forward to compare them to the iPhone in both performance as well as usability. Also I am looking forward to see what the SDK looks like, never worked with Maemo before.
Cheers.
There is one dude who built a working replica of the AGC and let it run the original flight software:
http://klabs.org/history/build_agc/
Lots of good information in those PDFs. Also very interesting that the AGC already ran some simple real-time capable multitasked OS. Simple, but still with a lot of modern ideas in it.
Just install Glims (http://www.machangout.com/) and be happy! :)
Please tell that to the slashdot maintainers. The site currently looks like crap in Safari 4 (did so as well in Safari 3), with colored dots (friend / foe / blabla) and strange widgets all over the place. The "Reply to this" button is also rendered broken, and i don't know what else as well. WTF is going on with /. at the moment? Huge public beta test?
Certainly you can't beat him at spelling...
Yes, the Quadro cards are very popular, actually. Also they come in special versions, with HDSDI interfaces for professional video equipment, or for example as QuadroPlex boxes, for powering VR caves and big visualization applications.
Actually it's the GTS250, which uses the G92b chip. The changes compared to the other G92 based chips are relatively small though. Hence the similar chip-name.
I second this emotion. :)
Trent Reznor is giving away NIN's new album for free, and still making a load of money on the album through online, CD, vinyl and DVD sales. (see [1] and [2])
I say kudos to this man, and his slightly innovative, yet very successful method of distributing music. I have not yet paid for the album, but already downloaded the mp3 and flac version, and I like it! I guess I will try to buy the vinyl, if I can get it in any of the record stores here.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nine_inch_nails#Ghosts_I.E2.80.93IV_and_The_Slip_.282008.E2.80.93present.29
[2] http://www.nin.com/
I don't get where this is coming from... When I was young(tm), which was way back in 1990, we used KB to denote Kilobytes, which meant 1024 Bytes. And that's that. The HD-makers screw us up, and some other idiot comes running up and introduces this KiB/KB crap. WTF? Dammit, we DEFINED the KB to be 1024 Bytes, and there was no SI standard that anyone ever cared about. And that was in friggin metric Europe! So, get off my lawn and take your stupid KiB with you! :)
Damn, why does the moderation system not go up to 6? this is really a good comment. Imagine our towns when this were the case. I guess people would really be creeped out and start thinking about CCTVs... No more "I have nothing to hide" attitude...
That's no moon! Err... I mean, that's no dock. Those are just the minimised Icons on the desktop from other applications. That was the way up to and including Windows 3.11. The taskbar was introduced in Windoes 95.
Apart from the spelling error, you have not got it exactly straight. The Soyuz spacecraft consists of three parts: The orbital module, the reentry module and the service module. It is launched as one single piece of spacecraft. The crew starts and lands in the re-entry module. The orbital module is the living and working area during orbit. The service module contains all the propulsion,communication and similar stuff. It also has the solar panels attached to it. Before re-entry, the Soyuz fires its retro rockets and jettisons the orbital and the service module, leaving only the middle section, the re-entry module, in which the crew returns to earth. However, with Soyuz 5 the service module did not detach, due to a fault. Now you have to know that the heat shield is on the side of the re-entry module which is connected to the service module. Also if only those two parts remain, Soyuz' aerodynamics force it to plunge down to earth with the re-entry module face down, exposing its non-shielded side. Eventually, the service module broke away during descent. Probably of heat and aerodynamic stress. Once the re-entry module was separated, its most aerodynamic position was again with the heat shield in the right direction, so the capsule automatically turned itself around, much like a shuttlecock does if you throw it with the wrong side first. Hope this cleared some things up.
Good point. I was trying to figure out what Structure Of Arrays has to do with management... :-D
Absolutely not true. While many distant galaxies and several planetary nebulae seem to be pretty small from down here, most of the nearer galaxies and a lot of nebulae subtend quite a big angular size. The problem is that their radiosity is not bright enough for us to see them with the naked eye. But for example the andromeda galaxy is nearly the size of three full moons. However, with the naked eye under a dark sky, you can only see it's core as a smoky patch on the sky. Hundreds of other galaxies and nebulae are visible even in small telescopes. Especially non-planetary nebulae and some of the nearer galaxies are in fact so big that you tend to watch them at 20-50x magnification through an amateur telescope. As a comparision: Most planetary nebulae, as most planets, only reveal their details at 100-200x magnification.
Actually it is not completely true, that a desktop using only the traditional 2D accelerated drawing engines of the GPU is as snappy as the new compositing desktops used by Mac OS X, KDE 4 and Vista. Because there is one main difference: Backing Store (or whatever it is called outside of X11). The 2D accelerated variants rarely use it! With the 3D accelerated compositing desktops you basically get it for free, since every window is rendered into a texture. So whenever you move around a window, the underlying, exposed windows do not have to do complex redraw operations, just a simple texture fetch or blt is in order. This IS possible with 2D accelerated cards, but as I said, it is hardly ever done, for several reasons: video memory management probably being the biggest one, An expert on the implementation of this in X.org or similar could probably tell you more.
And again, amiss: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steganography
HTH
See Kane Kramer's website for a sketch of his digital audio player:
http://www.kanekramer.com/
indeed according to climatologists this past summer should have been warmer than average, yet instead it was cooler.
Funny enough, I read the exact opposite at the beginning of the year. Since this year there was supposed to be a siginifcant "La Nina" effect in the east pacific (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Niña) they predicted a cooler summer. Which was what happened, at least here in central Europe. But who knows... According to WP the results of El Nino and La Nina are quite complicated and localized.
And the good thing is, you can get LaTeX formulas even in OpenOffice: http://ooolatex.sourceforge.net/
Good luck? The man is a fucking murderer. I don't care if he's fucking Linux God and able to write programs just by looking at them, he's a despicable human being and deserves no luck at this point.
WTF? I thought we had prisons for punishing people and teach them a lesson. I personally hope that he learns something in the following 15 or so years, and that he will come out and be a better man. The he will repent what he did and that he will do good stuff in the rest of his lifetime. I don't know if he will, but that's how the system is supposed to work.