I am thrilled about BYD's F3DM, I think it's the kind of car the world, especially the US needs.
That said, I think your attack on the grandparent post is slightly (not completely) unjust. Give him/her some credit: Chinese food is, undoubtedly, a health hazard. China is a huge country, with lots of people and a disproportionate amount of corruption. Very weak to non-existent consumer protection. And a LONG history of contaminated, toxic food. If you concentrate only on the melamine stories of late, you miss the much bigger picture.
So, I think the grandparent post deserves to be taken into at least some consideration. Do not eat food from China, seems like a wise guideline.
I don't really believe this post will be noticed at this point, but it costs nothing to try: I love Jewel, a great Unix/LInux game. In fact, my favourite game of all time - but I can't find a version for Windows. If anyone knows of one, please let me know.
With all the sh*t that's been going on with them, and the money they are begging for, GM is not able to get an electric car to market earlier than late 2010? Well, this begs two questions:
1. What the fuck was GM's CEO doing all this time? I mean, what justified his salary and bonuses, much higher than the ones of the Toyota boss (and I don't see Toyota begging the Japanese govt. for a bailout)? Maybe he was working, or maybe he was spending the whole day sucking his wife's clit. I think the result would have been the same, regardless.
2. Wouldn't bailing out such a dinosaur be counter-productive in the ong term? A smaller GM would certainly be more able to turn out new designs. AND, more importantly, you don't teach people that if you fuck up, there's a magic fairy that will save you. One thing I have learned in life is, people are motivated by negative consequences. Remove the consequences, and you get indifference and inertia.
Bailing out GM would reward indifference and gross incompetence. I hope the Obama administration doesn't do it. But Bush might.
Actually, yes, she is. She's one of the hottest chicks in academia - and perhaps even outside - I have ever seen. But that had nothing to do with her name being included in author's list. Surely.
The amount of information required to be the "top" of your field has increased tremendously since the early 1900's, and consequently requires more time to learn everything.
That's true, but that's not a problem - geniuses are naturally obsessive about their field of choice, and there's nothing that can stop them from reading all the material in existence, about it. They devour books and articles - and they are focused. On that one topic. And don't try to interrupt them 'cause they get nervous.
Geniuses are usually not very socially intelligent, but humanity doesn't really give a shit about that, once a breakthrough is made.
I submitted a paper where I worked and my ideas comprise 90% of the story. Author #2 did 8#, author #3 did the last 2%. Author #4 did nothing whatsoever, but for political reasons I had to put her name there. I have seen her 3 times, and she admits she doesn't really understands jack of that paper.
Let's see: I write scientific articles choke-full of all sorts of formulas. And I have never ever had a single problem with OpenOffice's formula editor. To be quite frank, I find it superior to Word's, in that I can better predict the outcome of what I'm doing, and can better control the layout of my formulas.
So, I don't like to say this, but your arguments against formulas in OpenOffice is really some kind of horseshit.
Yes this is another fine example of why septuagenarians should not be allowed anywhere near tech.
First of all, why would someone who is 70+ not be able to handle technology? I will always remember great uncle who was writing geodesic software on the ZX Spectrum, at the time when most people have not even heard about home computers. Oh, and he was 70+ then.
The second thing that puzzles me is, why would McCain's alleged computer illiteracy be a factor in this incident? So if he is not familiar with computer technology, then his staff will sell blackberries without deleting sensitive information? I think you're making a huge leap in your logic, there.
There's one reason: a hard-drive, in theory, can last indefinitely. An SSD, especially if based on MLC, has a limited lifespan - built-in!
I have noticed that while Slashdot users declare themselves mostly as atheists, they tend to make some technological choices a religion. One of them is SSD.
Wear leveling exists to solve a problem, and that is, that sectors of an SSD become unreliable. You can write in a sector 5000 times (for MLC Flash), while with hard drives you can do it hundreds of millions of times. That's why hard drives last longer even without wear leveling. WITH wear leveling, any hard drive would outlast an SSD.
So what the problem is that, in order to keep the SSD as reliable as a HDD, more and more sectors must be flagged as unusable, so the space slowly but surely shrinks. That doesn't happen with hard drives.
Now, if manufacturers would use SLC for the Flash, I'd be an advocate for SSDs. But no, we can't have that, 100.000 to 1.000.000 writes is less important than saving 1/2 of the money.
Sorry Google, but if you're looking to finish what Netscape started -- namely, making the Internet an application delivery platform that does an end-run around Microsoft's monopoly -- you had damn well better make Linux, Macintosh, and appliance-embeddable versions available before you remove the "beta" label.
Google doesn't care to develop for Linux and Mac - because Microsoft is NOT an important player on those platforms. The work of "making the Internet an application delivery platform that does an end-run around Microsoft's monopoly" is already done on Linux and Mac.
but you can't manually restart the browser without loosing the history you have open.
Say what? That's not true at all - tabs are saved by default by Chrome, and this has saved my ass countless times with my laptops (where I run Chrome).
I'd love to know more about your browser usage scenario. Something fishy's going on there.
OK, if you are an undergrad deciding on your choice for thesis and postgrad studies, graphene is great. There is a lot of companies, including Nokia, that pour tons and tons of money into graphene research. It's the easiest grant money to get these days.
That said, there's a reason you don't see much GaAS integrated circuits, even though GaAs has been around for decades, and has much higher carrier mobility (and therefore top speeds) than silicon: it's hard to devise a good IC technology for GaAs. For graphene the problems are way, way bigger than that even. I have seen some attempts of my colleagues (I research in nanosci) at fabricating graphene transistors, and while they can make discrete components with a certain limited rate of success, integration is not even on the horizon. Maybe other people around the world use technologies that are more promising, but it will take a great effort to knock silicon off the top spot for the time being. In fact, I predict a brighter immediate future for Si/Ge and some III/V group compounds as the successors of pure Si, as the next big thing in IC tech.
I also have an Eee PC and wanted to install Slackware, but opted for SLAX instead. It is much more space-efficient, due to the fact that every installed package is actually a compressed blob. Quite brilliant, actually.
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Srsly. I'm in yer bunkr, mispeling yer wurds.
Canadain Nuke Bunker Lolcat.
Is this how /. memes begin?
According to my math, they're losing money hand over fist.
Hey Ray, could you please share those calculations with us? Not that I don't believe you; I just want to indulge in my glee a bit more :o)
However, I must admit I was under the (false, now I see) impression that the RIAA was making a profit from the out-of-court settlements.
Actually, both of yours are valid points.
However, 1. wasn't really the answer to my question.
I am thrilled about BYD's F3DM, I think it's the kind of car the world, especially the US needs.
That said, I think your attack on the grandparent post is slightly (not completely) unjust. Give him/her some credit: Chinese food is, undoubtedly, a health hazard. China is a huge country, with lots of people and a disproportionate amount of corruption. Very weak to non-existent consumer protection. And a LONG history of contaminated, toxic food. If you concentrate only on the melamine stories of late, you miss the much bigger picture.
So, I think the grandparent post deserves to be taken into at least some consideration. Do not eat food from China, seems like a wise guideline.
I don't really believe this post will be noticed at this point, but it costs nothing to try: I love Jewel, a great Unix/LInux game. In fact, my favourite game of all time - but I can't find a version for Windows. If anyone knows of one, please let me know.
WOW!?!
With all the sh*t that's been going on with them, and the money they are begging for, GM is not able to get an electric car to market earlier than late 2010? Well, this begs two questions:
1. What the fuck was GM's CEO doing all this time? I mean, what justified his salary and bonuses, much higher than the ones of the Toyota boss (and I don't see Toyota begging the Japanese govt. for a bailout)? Maybe he was working, or maybe he was spending the whole day sucking his wife's clit. I think the result would have been the same, regardless.
2. Wouldn't bailing out such a dinosaur be counter-productive in the ong term? A smaller GM would certainly be more able to turn out new designs. AND, more importantly, you don't teach people that if you fuck up, there's a magic fairy that will save you. One thing I have learned in life is, people are motivated by negative consequences. Remove the consequences, and you get indifference and inertia.
Bailing out GM would reward indifference and gross incompetence. I hope the Obama administration doesn't do it. But Bush might.
Is she hot?
Actually, yes, she is. She's one of the hottest chicks in academia - and perhaps even outside - I have ever seen. But that had nothing to do with her name being included in author's list. Surely.
The amount of information required to be the "top" of your field has increased tremendously since the early 1900's, and consequently requires more time to learn everything.
That's true, but that's not a problem - geniuses are naturally obsessive about their field of choice, and there's nothing that can stop them from reading all the material in existence, about it. They devour books and articles - and they are focused. On that one topic. And don't try to interrupt them 'cause they get nervous.
Geniuses are usually not very socially intelligent, but humanity doesn't really give a shit about that, once a breakthrough is made.
I submitted a paper where I worked and my ideas comprise 90% of the story. Author #2 did 8#, author #3 did the last 2%. Author #4 did nothing whatsoever, but for political reasons I had to put her name there. I have seen her 3 times, and she admits she doesn't really understands jack of that paper.
Well.... f*ck. I can't go back and edit my post now.
I hereby officially retract what I wrote there, about horseshit. I stand by what I wrote about OO.o's excellent formula editor, though.
Hyper-speed comes to mind.
Then some marketing bozo will invent X-speed, and so on and so forth. Don't underestimate these guys.
I guess you mean OpenOffice Writer.
Let's see: I write scientific articles choke-full of all sorts of formulas. And I have never ever had a single problem with OpenOffice's formula editor. To be quite frank, I find it superior to Word's, in that I can better predict the outcome of what I'm doing, and can better control the layout of my formulas.
So, I don't like to say this, but your arguments against formulas in OpenOffice is really some kind of horseshit.
Yes this is another fine example of why septuagenarians should not be allowed anywhere near tech.
First of all, why would someone who is 70+ not be able to handle technology? I will always remember great uncle who was writing geodesic software on the ZX Spectrum, at the time when most people have not even heard about home computers. Oh, and he was 70+ then.
The second thing that puzzles me is, why would McCain's alleged computer illiteracy be a factor in this incident? So if he is not familiar with computer technology, then his staff will sell blackberries without deleting sensitive information? I think you're making a huge leap in your logic, there.
There's one reason: a hard-drive, in theory, can last indefinitely. An SSD, especially if based on MLC, has a limited lifespan - built-in!
I have noticed that while Slashdot users declare themselves mostly as atheists, they tend to make some technological choices a religion. One of them is SSD.
Wear leveling exists to solve a problem, and that is, that sectors of an SSD become unreliable. You can write in a sector 5000 times (for MLC Flash), while with hard drives you can do it hundreds of millions of times. That's why hard drives last longer even without wear leveling. WITH wear leveling, any hard drive would outlast an SSD.
So what the problem is that, in order to keep the SSD as reliable as a HDD, more and more sectors must be flagged as unusable, so the space slowly but surely shrinks. That doesn't happen with hard drives.
Now, if manufacturers would use SLC for the Flash, I'd be an advocate for SSDs. But no, we can't have that, 100.000 to 1.000.000 writes is less important than saving 1/2 of the money.
Sorry Google, but if you're looking to finish what Netscape started -- namely, making the Internet an application delivery platform that does an end-run around Microsoft's monopoly -- you had damn well better make Linux, Macintosh, and appliance-embeddable versions available before you remove the "beta" label.
Google doesn't care to develop for Linux and Mac - because Microsoft is NOT an important player on those platforms. The work of "making the Internet an application delivery platform that does an end-run around Microsoft's monopoly" is already done on Linux and Mac.
I hope visual impairment is not considered a character weakness around here.
By the way: not all problems with eyesight can be corrected with glasses.
And then I am modded as "Troll"? WTF guys, just read the article.
Oh, I get it, Microsoft zombies roaming the boards....
Those are minimal speedups! Have a look at the graphs, don't waste time on the text of the article, and see for yourselves.
I am quite shocked that people give props to MS for... basically NOTHING.
but you can't manually restart the browser without loosing the history you have open.
Say what? That's not true at all - tabs are saved by default by Chrome, and this has saved my ass countless times with my laptops (where I run Chrome).
I'd love to know more about your browser usage scenario. Something fishy's going on there.
Ok, so Linux and Windows 2000 never run anything in the background. My head exploded so I stopped reading.
More proof that you don't need a brain to post on Slashdot :o)
Just kidding. For the record, my head exploded, too, at that point.
To his credit, that robot is less creepy than the Britneys and Spice Girls of this world. At least that robot is a honest fake.
What is the institution that you left (the one where you did graphene research)?
OK, if you are an undergrad deciding on your choice for thesis and postgrad studies, graphene is great. There is a lot of companies, including Nokia, that pour tons and tons of money into graphene research. It's the easiest grant money to get these days.
That said, there's a reason you don't see much GaAS integrated circuits, even though GaAs has been around for decades, and has much higher carrier mobility (and therefore top speeds) than silicon: it's hard to devise a good IC technology for GaAs. For graphene the problems are way, way bigger than that even. I have seen some attempts of my colleagues (I research in nanosci) at fabricating graphene transistors, and while they can make discrete components with a certain limited rate of success, integration is not even on the horizon. Maybe other people around the world use technologies that are more promising, but it will take a great effort to knock silicon off the top spot for the time being. In fact, I predict a brighter immediate future for Si/Ge and some III/V group compounds as the successors of pure Si, as the next big thing in IC tech.
I also have an Eee PC and wanted to install Slackware, but opted for SLAX instead. It is much more space-efficient, due to the fact that every installed package is actually a compressed blob. Quite brilliant, actually.