Your mom might have told you that the customer is always right, but that is not actually true. When customers make a nontrivial request a wise manager will do a cost-benefit analysis. Is the gain from fulfilling the customers' request greater than cost of doing so? (Where cost includes direct cost of labor and materials as well as the PR cost of snubbing customers.) Developing and supporting drivers is a lot of work. So is writing and supporting documentation.
AMD did not open-source their Radeon drivers. They released partial specs and left implementing the driver to the X.org community. It seems clear that AMD has put a low priority on supporting the radeonhd project from the slow pace at which updated specs is released for new chips.
Thermonuclear bombs are composed of a small amount of mildly radioactive uranium-235 and tritium, and larger amounts of minimally radioactive uranium-238 and stable lithium deuteride. The fission products that make up the most dangerous form of radioactive waste are far more dangerous, so this bomb would not provide much useful data about waste disposal.
In any event we don't really need more research. We already know that the best solution is to put it in a geologically stable and dry mountain.
The upcoming Intel Core i7 automatically powers down unneeded cores. i7 laptop processors will become available next year. I believe AMD has a similar feature in their upcoming CPUs as well.
As I understand it, epidemology is all about probability. You need a certain amount of infected individuals to have a certain risk of transmitting the disease to others before you can get a major epidemic. HIV hung around in the West African bush for decades, but until an infected person infected people in a high population, high risk group it was a minor problem. Changes in technology and society have a huge effect increasing travel and concentrating populations in large cities.
This is only a problem if you give people a choice about reproduction. In most societies reproduction has been heavily controlled by clan elders. Most gay men can get it up long enough to impregnate a woman even if they aren't happy about.
Judging by your posting history you are Australian. The Australian real estate market is one of the most overinflated in the world, so I don't know why you think that's a good benchmark. Housing markets in Britain and Spain are also collapsing, so it seems likely it will hit Australia as well.
The last decade or so has been a period of abnormally low interest rates, thanks to exceptionally low inflation. This situation may not be maintainable with rapidly rising wages in East Asia and high commodity prices. The price of commodities has fallen recently, but it may well be a temporary drop, and the price levels of the 1990s are unlikely to be seen again.
If you're not interested in screenshots you probably shouldn't read articles about screenshots. Just a thought.
Windows fanboy Paul Thurrott has a Windows 7 FAQ, which says there will be complete support for touch-screens (Bill is still all about them tablet PCs), a new Explorer UI, virtualization out of the box and once again they are talking about file system improvements, but I'll believe that when I see it. Basically this release looks like a more limited, like Windows XP, rather than a major update like Windows 2000 and Vista.
Large hydro is almost fully built up in most developed countries except in remote areas like eastern Siberia and north-central Canada. Large hydro causes large-scale and long-term ecological damage. Small hydro have similar reliability issues as wind and solar because there are no big reservoirs.
I don't see how you will solve any major problems with this.
You will notice that Firefox 1.5 has not been updated since May 2007. This doesn't mean no new vulnerabilities have been discovered, in fact I except many of the ones fixed in Firefox 2 patches also exist in 1.5.
This is nothing new. NBC has bought exclusive access to all Olympic broadcasts in the US for many, many years. It looks like Fox has the US rights to most major football leagues. Exclusive deals like this are common and the largest source of revenue for most sport leagues, including the Olympics.
VIA Technologies is an independent company and I don't recall any significant talk of a merger with AMD. Since AMD acquired ATI they have little to gain from buying VIA anyway.
Can you point out the vulnerabilities in the techniques you cited? The problem is that existing techniques are not used or used incorrectly, not that SSH, AES etc are broken.
A Webkit nightly is not directly comparable to a Firefox beta. A Webkit nightly is comparable to a Firefox nightly, which hasn't gone trough the testing and triage that betas get.
Google Video is one of the lowest quality video sites. I've recently found Blip.tv to have good video quality without the length restrictions of Youtube and many other sites. They also let you download the original file. (I have no affilition with Blip, I just think it's a great service.)
Look closer. The meta tag with http-equiv argument means that the browser should treat it as if it was an HTTP header field. You can accomplish the same effect by configuring the web server to include a "X-UA-Compatible: IE=7" header. On Apache it only takes a single line in the configuration file to add a static header to every page. I imagine the same is possible on IIS.
Because it happened in a region with low redundancy and high news value.
When one of the many trans-atlantic or trans-pacific are cut nobody notices because there is so much redundancy, but the Indian Ocean has far fewer cables so a few cuts can wipe out a large fraction of total capacity.
The fact that it happened in the Middle East makes it more likely to attract attention because that region is a hotbed of real and imagined conspiracies.
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Your mom might have told you that the customer is always right, but that is not actually true. When customers make a nontrivial request a wise manager will do a cost-benefit analysis. Is the gain from fulfilling the customers' request greater than cost of doing so? (Where cost includes direct cost of labor and materials as well as the PR cost of snubbing customers.) Developing and supporting drivers is a lot of work. So is writing and supporting documentation.
AMD did not open-source their Radeon drivers. They released partial specs and left implementing the driver to the X.org community. It seems clear that AMD has put a low priority on supporting the radeonhd project from the slow pace at which updated specs is released for new chips.
I think that history clearly shows UNIX users are linguistically irredeemable, so there is no point.
This was a B-52 on strategic patrol in 1968. I'm fairly confident they were carrying large H-bombs intended to destroy Soviet cities.
Thermonuclear bombs are composed of a small amount of mildly radioactive uranium-235 and tritium, and larger amounts of minimally radioactive uranium-238 and stable lithium deuteride. The fission products that make up the most dangerous form of radioactive waste are far more dangerous, so this bomb would not provide much useful data about waste disposal.
In any event we don't really need more research. We already know that the best solution is to put it in a geologically stable and dry mountain.
The upcoming Intel Core i7 automatically powers down unneeded cores. i7 laptop processors will become available next year. I believe AMD has a similar feature in their upcoming CPUs as well.
As I understand it, epidemology is all about probability. You need a certain amount of infected individuals to have a certain risk of transmitting the disease to others before you can get a major epidemic. HIV hung around in the West African bush for decades, but until an infected person infected people in a high population, high risk group it was a minor problem. Changes in technology and society have a huge effect increasing travel and concentrating populations in large cities.
This is only a problem if you give people a choice about reproduction. In most societies reproduction has been heavily controlled by clan elders. Most gay men can get it up long enough to impregnate a woman even if they aren't happy about.
Judging by your posting history you are Australian. The Australian real estate market is one of the most overinflated in the world, so I don't know why you think that's a good benchmark. Housing markets in Britain and Spain are also collapsing, so it seems likely it will hit Australia as well.
The last decade or so has been a period of abnormally low interest rates, thanks to exceptionally low inflation. This situation may not be maintainable with rapidly rising wages in East Asia and high commodity prices. The price of commodities has fallen recently, but it may well be a temporary drop, and the price levels of the 1990s are unlikely to be seen again.
If you run a non-public master with public slaves running BIND, load should not be an issue.
If you're not interested in screenshots you probably shouldn't read articles about screenshots. Just a thought.
Windows fanboy Paul Thurrott has a Windows 7 FAQ, which says there will be complete support for touch-screens (Bill is still all about them tablet PCs), a new Explorer UI, virtualization out of the box and once again they are talking about file system improvements, but I'll believe that when I see it. Basically this release looks like a more limited, like Windows XP, rather than a major update like Windows 2000 and Vista.
Large hydro is almost fully built up in most developed countries except in remote areas like eastern Siberia and north-central Canada. Large hydro causes large-scale and long-term ecological damage. Small hydro have similar reliability issues as wind and solar because there are no big reservoirs.
I don't see how you will solve any major problems with this.
Most Rifftrax have Kevin Murphy (Servo) and Bill Corbett (Crow). Two out of three ain't bad.
You will notice that Firefox 1.5 has not been updated since May 2007. This doesn't mean no new vulnerabilities have been discovered, in fact I except many of the ones fixed in Firefox 2 patches also exist in 1.5.
This is nothing new. NBC has bought exclusive access to all Olympic broadcasts in the US for many, many years. It looks like Fox has the US rights to most major football leagues. Exclusive deals like this are common and the largest source of revenue for most sport leagues, including the Olympics.
That's the way it works already. Outside the US most sites are registered in the country code TLDs. Americans can get a .us domain if they want.
I don't see the problem really.
VIA Technologies is an independent company and I don't recall any significant talk of a merger with AMD. Since AMD acquired ATI they have little to gain from buying VIA anyway.
Can you point out the vulnerabilities in the techniques you cited? The problem is that existing techniques are not used or used incorrectly, not that SSH, AES etc are broken.
If there is no package the software may as well not exist. I suggest searching the package repository for an alternative application.
Why are you compiling your own software? What's wrong with the packages in the Ubuntu repository?
You don't need to download a new portablefirefox package every time there is an update. Just use the normal Firefox updater from the Help menu.
A Webkit nightly is not directly comparable to a Firefox beta. A Webkit nightly is comparable to a Firefox nightly, which hasn't gone trough the testing and triage that betas get.
You couldn't find it because it isn't there. Create a new boolean called extensions.checkCompatibility and set it to false.
Google Video is one of the lowest quality video sites. I've recently found Blip.tv to have good video quality without the length restrictions of Youtube and many other sites. They also let you download the original file. (I have no affilition with Blip, I just think it's a great service.)
Look closer. The meta tag with http-equiv argument means that the browser should treat it as if it was an HTTP header field. You can accomplish the same effect by configuring the web server to include a "X-UA-Compatible: IE=7" header. On Apache it only takes a single line in the configuration file to add a static header to every page. I imagine the same is possible on IIS.
Because it happened in a region with low redundancy and high news value.
When one of the many trans-atlantic or trans-pacific are cut nobody notices because there is so much redundancy, but the Indian Ocean has far fewer cables so a few cuts can wipe out a large fraction of total capacity.
The fact that it happened in the Middle East makes it more likely to attract attention because that region is a hotbed of real and imagined conspiracies.