Seems like every other day some program or another is nagging me to upgrade or check for updates. Java, Quicktime, Acrobat, whatever.
This is one of the things that impresses me the most about the package repository structure - it gets rid of this update nightmare. Updates for basically all software on the system are handled with the same process. For example, in Ubuntu (and probably many other flavors of Linux) all software updates are handled by the update manager. This gets rid of all the annoying update processes running constantly.
Go has complexity that is extremely difficult to model with computers, for example: high number of moves per turn, and hard-to-evaluate positions (see Wikipedia for more info).
Chess and Go computers work by trying many moves, and then evaluating the position after that move to see if it is favorable.
Better algorithms will be needed to improve position evaluation, certainly, but that is only one part. Massive supercomputers are needed to analyze the great number of possible outcomes from each move.
Supercomputers already have many more than thousands of cores. The IBM Blue Gene/P can have up to 1,048,576 cores. What Intel is probably talking about is bringing that level of parallel computing to smaller computers.
There is a way, using current technology, to cure Type 1 Diabetes: an
islet cell transplant. The reason every Diabetic in the world isn't getting it, though, is that having to take antirejection drugs is worse than simply using insulin therapy for most people. I am curious to know how the benefits outweigh the risks in this case.
This type of evolution would fall under 'microevolution', or the development of new traits within a species. The Roman Catholic church already accepts that microevolution happens; what they don't accept is the creation of new species due to evolution. I'm not sure what the policy of other religions is on this subject, but this doesn't challenge the Catholic church's teachings.
Your conscience. At least mine is the ultimate decider for legal and illegal, not some law. Actually, the law is the ultimate decider of legal and illegal. Your conscience is the decider for what is moral and amoral.
I wish it was a movie about F-Zero. Captain Falcon exudes manliness like none other. Just take a look. I mean, just look at the power and utter virility of his Falcon Punch. I want to see that in a movie, not some pansy kid.
Photoshop express is basically unusable in Opera because almost every action creates a couple of these warnings:
Information from this HTTPS page will be submitted to an unencrypted page on api.photoshop.com.
The data will be transmitted without any security. Submitting sensitive information is strongly discouraged. Not sure whether this is a security issue or not, but Opera says it is.
In my high school humanities class, I learned about Islam, Hinduism, Juddaism, Christianity, Buddism, and probably some other religions as well. In Modern European History, I learned about the history of the Catholic Church (which has a huge impact on European History). In Latin, I learned about the adoption of Christianity by the Roman people.
So discussions of God and religion definitely have a place in the classroom. As long as no one is discriminated against due to their beliefs, I would argue that these topics should be considered.
For previous versions of Ubuntu, I had problems getting the Java Firefox Plugin and Flash to work, even after wading through a long and complicated how-to. But with Gutsy Gibbon, I simply used Add/Remove Programs and Synaptic Package Manager to install them with only a couple of clicks, and they have worked perfectly. It seems like Ubuntu is doing well to solve some of these problems.
As for OpenOffice and Evolution, that isn't Ubuntu's fault. You could use Thunderbird for email, and perhaps try KOffice instead of OpenOffice.
I risk going off-topic here, but people whom most would describe as 'rock huggers' exist already. They wish to prevent rock climbers from climbing on certain rock faces.
Rock climbers use 'chalk' that prevents hands from being sweaty, but it has the unfortunate side effect of putting white patches wherever there are handholds on the rock face. Also, one method of climbing a rock wall involves having metal pitons drilled into the rock. Some groups lobby to have rock climbers stop climbing in areas, or disallow them from placing pitons.
So I guess the argument in this case with the moon isn't about lifeforms, it is more about aesthetics; similar to the 'rock huggers' I have described. But I don't see how mass mining of the moon would have a visual effect on the moon's appearance for a very very long time.
How about you stop spreading FUD and give some evidence to your claims. The vast majority of college students change their majors at least once. I wasn't asked by anyone what my major would be until junior year of high school, and I wasn't asked to make a concrete choice until I actually applied to colleges Senior year.
too bad you selected accountant, now you can't get that particle physics minor you so badly wanted. One of the reasons most accountants don't get particle physics minors is that there is no overlap between the two subjects, so the minor would probably require another year of college; most accountants aren't that interested in particle physics in the first place.
Showing an interest in an activity outside of your major, oooh - watchout, you've made the FBI's watch list again. I am a Computer Science/Software Engineering Double major, and I am president of our University's Chess Club and an avid Rock Climber. Since neither of those have anything to do with CSC/SE, where is my name on the Terrorism lists?
There is something to this effect in Super Smash Brothers Melee, I believe those in the know call it 'Directional Influence'. For example, if your character is flying off the left side of the screen, you have a better chance of not dying if you hold right the whole time.
I guess one problem with using the motion sensing controls too much for Brawl would be that at the upper levels of play, there is the need for extremely accurate timing. For example, wavedashing (an advanced technique that allows the player to move faster) requires timing accurate to about 100 milliseconds.
The vast majority of music on P2P networks is 128 kbps mp3 or lower. The Amazon store offers 256 kbps mp3 (at least for the one song I downloaded, I suspect that is true for all tracks) with no DRM. So the Amazon store is at least better than a lot of P2P music.
I have not tried downloading music via bittorrent, so I don't know about that audio quality.
There seems to be a lot of music in this store, but, unfortunately, not original records (for older music anyway). Most of what I saw were 'greatest hits' records. In other news, the one I downloaded is 256 kbps bitrate (not sure if this is true for all songs), better than you can find on P2P most of the time.
Would you call graduating with 5 passed AP tests and a Calculus II credit from the local community college getting ahead? I graduated from high school just last year with such a head start at college that I was designated a sophomore after my first semester.
My high school is, in my opinion, one of the better ones, but I know that almost all students going off to college from my high school had at least one AP credit.
Religions promote falsehoods in that they foster environments of non-scientific thought, or more precisely, they foster lack of thought. I would argue that religious people think about the metaphysical and scientific as much as atheists. Very few religious people blindly follow what their churches' doctrine teaches them. Most consider carefully what God's role in their life is, and come to their own conclusions about morality, using their personal beliefs. Their beliefs have been influenced by religion, but so what? Everyone's beliefs are influenced by outside factors. Not to mention that some of the greatest scientists of all time have been very religious (e.g. Isaac Newton)
Of course, the worst part is that now many people are starting to move from "literal" interpretations of the bible to more "story" based, or metaphorically based. I fail to understand what is wrong with a metaphorical interpretation of a piece of literature. Animal Farm is certainly an interesting book without looking at any deeper meaning, but it makes much more sense and has much more impact when interpreted to be a commentary on Communism. In fact, basically every 'classic' novel must be interpreted metaphorically.
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Seems like every other day some program or another is nagging me to upgrade or check for updates. Java, Quicktime, Acrobat, whatever.
This is one of the things that impresses me the most about the package repository structure - it gets rid of this update nightmare. Updates for basically all software on the system are handled with the same process. For example, in Ubuntu (and probably many other flavors of Linux) all software updates are handled by the update manager. This gets rid of all the annoying update processes running constantly.
Real programmers use a magnetized needle and a steady hand: Oblig. XKCD
Yes. It looks like Linux support was added in July '06 with version 7.0.1
Go has complexity that is extremely difficult to model with computers, for example: high number of moves per turn, and hard-to-evaluate positions (see Wikipedia for more info). Chess and Go computers work by trying many moves, and then evaluating the position after that move to see if it is favorable. Better algorithms will be needed to improve position evaluation, certainly, but that is only one part. Massive supercomputers are needed to analyze the great number of possible outcomes from each move.
He got one at first, but when he typed in his last name for registration purposes, XP crashed!
Supercomputers already have many more than thousands of cores. The IBM Blue Gene/P can have up to 1,048,576 cores. What Intel is probably talking about is bringing that level of parallel computing to smaller computers.
There is a way, using current technology, to cure Type 1 Diabetes: an islet cell transplant. The reason every Diabetic in the world isn't getting it, though, is that having to take antirejection drugs is worse than simply using insulin therapy for most people. I am curious to know how the benefits outweigh the risks in this case.
What a way to motivate new colonists...
Join the exciting new Mars colony! Wide open spaces! All-you-can-eat asparagus!
Maybe the ISO hasn't been bought off totally. They actually made a rational decision about OOXML.
This type of evolution would fall under 'microevolution', or the development of new traits within a species. The Roman Catholic church already accepts that microevolution happens; what they don't accept is the creation of new species due to evolution. I'm not sure what the policy of other religions is on this subject, but this doesn't challenge the Catholic church's teachings.
I wish it was a movie about F-Zero. Captain Falcon exudes manliness like none other. Just take a look. I mean, just look at the power and utter virility of his Falcon Punch. I want to see that in a movie, not some pansy kid.
Now I have nightmares about the slashdot story about slashdot downtime causing slashdot to be slashdotted.
The worst part about daylight savings time this year is that everyone getting SSBB at midnight on Sunday loses an hour of valuable playtime!
In my high school humanities class, I learned about Islam, Hinduism, Juddaism, Christianity, Buddism, and probably some other religions as well. In Modern European History, I learned about the history of the Catholic Church (which has a huge impact on European History). In Latin, I learned about the adoption of Christianity by the Roman people.
So discussions of God and religion definitely have a place in the classroom. As long as no one is discriminated against due to their beliefs, I would argue that these topics should be considered.
We can only take so many teasers. It reminds us of being teased in elementary school.
For previous versions of Ubuntu, I had problems getting the Java Firefox Plugin and Flash to work, even after wading through a long and complicated how-to. But with Gutsy Gibbon, I simply used Add/Remove Programs and Synaptic Package Manager to install them with only a couple of clicks, and they have worked perfectly. It seems like Ubuntu is doing well to solve some of these problems.
As for OpenOffice and Evolution, that isn't Ubuntu's fault. You could use Thunderbird for email, and perhaps try KOffice instead of OpenOffice.I risk going off-topic here, but people whom most would describe as 'rock huggers' exist already. They wish to prevent rock climbers from climbing on certain rock faces.
Rock climbers use 'chalk' that prevents hands from being sweaty, but it has the unfortunate side effect of putting white patches wherever there are handholds on the rock face. Also, one method of climbing a rock wall involves having metal pitons drilled into the rock. Some groups lobby to have rock climbers stop climbing in areas, or disallow them from placing pitons.
So I guess the argument in this case with the moon isn't about lifeforms, it is more about aesthetics; similar to the 'rock huggers' I have described. But I don't see how mass mining of the moon would have a visual effect on the moon's appearance for a very very long time.
too bad you selected accountant, now you can't get that particle physics minor you so badly wanted. One of the reasons most accountants don't get particle physics minors is that there is no overlap between the two subjects, so the minor would probably require another year of college; most accountants aren't that interested in particle physics in the first place.
Showing an interest in an activity outside of your major, oooh - watchout, you've made the FBI's watch list again. I am a Computer Science/Software Engineering Double major, and I am president of our University's Chess Club and an avid Rock Climber. Since neither of those have anything to do with CSC/SE, where is my name on the Terrorism lists?
There is something to this effect in Super Smash Brothers Melee, I believe those in the know call it 'Directional Influence'. For example, if your character is flying off the left side of the screen, you have a better chance of not dying if you hold right the whole time. I guess one problem with using the motion sensing controls too much for Brawl would be that at the upper levels of play, there is the need for extremely accurate timing. For example, wavedashing (an advanced technique that allows the player to move faster) requires timing accurate to about 100 milliseconds.
The vast majority of music on P2P networks is 128 kbps mp3 or lower. The Amazon store offers 256 kbps mp3 (at least for the one song I downloaded, I suspect that is true for all tracks) with no DRM. So the Amazon store is at least better than a lot of P2P music.
I have not tried downloading music via bittorrent, so I don't know about that audio quality.
There seems to be a lot of music in this store, but, unfortunately, not original records (for older music anyway). Most of what I saw were 'greatest hits' records. In other news, the one I downloaded is 256 kbps bitrate (not sure if this is true for all songs), better than you can find on P2P most of the time.
Would you call graduating with 5 passed AP tests and a Calculus II credit from the local community college getting ahead? I graduated from high school just last year with such a head start at college that I was designated a sophomore after my first semester.
My high school is, in my opinion, one of the better ones, but I know that almost all students going off to college from my high school had at least one AP credit.