what the heck is the point of a battery can run 20 vacuum cleaners, for only 10 seconds?
But it also means that you can *charge* it in 10 seconds. How nice it that. One problem for plug-in electric cars is that they take long to charge. If charging it doesn't take longer than filling up a tank of gas, that would be a step forward.
. We're all good at securing small pieces of paper. I recommend that people write their passwords down on a small piece of paper, and keep it with their other valuable small pieces of paper: in their wallet.
Parallax only works to about 1600 light years, which is aprox 1% of the diameter of our Galaxy. And that is with a specialized satellite doing the measurement. There is no way parallax is going to work for something that is 12.2 billion light-years away.
My favorite comparison to illustrate the power of Gamma Ray Bursts: A Gamma Ray Burst puts out the same amount of power (while it is bursting) as all the stars in the universe together.
(Usually comparisons made in the media are rather lame, i.e. Libraries of Congress, but this one really impressed me)
Hopefully the wreckage from this one doesn't end up causing any unpleasant chain reactions. Not only are satellites really expensive, we currently have no especially good way of ridding ourselves of orbital debris.
There is a scifi story by Ken MacLeod where the orbit around earth is filled with so many satellites that when a war erupts and some of them get destroyed, it starts a chain reaction that ends up shredding all the equipment in orbit and creating a high speed debris belt that prevents space travel for several centuries.
I've always wondered if that scenario is realistic, but from a physics point of view it sounds like it could be.
Obligatory car analogy: It's like getting angry at BMW for using BMW driveshafts in their vehicles instead of offering vehicles with all 3rd party driveshafts.
Except BMW doesn't have a monopoly on cars. If they did, maybe we would actually tell them to open up certain things to 3rd party products.
It's the monopoly that makes it the governments business.
Maybe it's just my perception, but it seems to be that.net fell far short of its original ambitions.
It was touted as a game changer and the future of coding on Windows. At which point it made sense to have an open alternative to it on Linux.
However these days it feels more like it has become the new VisualBasic, and that's about it. Sure, some business apps and some other applications get written in it, but it's not like without it Linux is doomed. Microsoft themselves did an about face and pulled a lot of the.net stuff out of Vista (when it was called Longhorn) and replaced it with native code.
Hotmail never ran on Linux. Originally, before Microsoft bought it, it was running on FreeBSD with Apache, with some backend servers running Solaris.
Microsoft had a lot of trouble switching to Windows, and even after they claimed they had migrated, they had to admit that some things were still running on BSD.
However, by now I'm sure they've had enough time to finish that switch.
rural folks in india have been doing that since forever.
Yeah, there are definitly gasifiers that are smaller than the 'factory size' that the summary claims. Germany, for example, had many cars running gasifiers during world war 2, since they were short on oil.
Removing IE breaks a lot of functionality in XP, so I doubt they can simply have bundled and unbundled product lines
As other posts pointed out, it's not clear if that's even true. If it is, they can always remove the the browser application, while leaving the browser components in.
But there might be another option. Instead of removing IE, they could bundle other browsers, or an installer that will get other browsers, into the default windows install.
So they create large distribution lists (which is normal), but they don't secure them in any way or lock them down where only certain users can use them.
And then they threaten disciplinary action if someone uses them the wrong way. Wouldn't it be so much easier to just lock them down? It's what most companies do.
no phone company is in a dominant position (and certainly not Apple - not even close I'm afraid), and no company has yet to produce a "killer" phone to put them in the dominant position.
Thats right. To put some numbers on it in terms of OS marketshare (Q3 2008):
Especially in the US people tend to underestimate Symbian, because Nokia isn't that well represented here. Sometimes I wonder if the have given up on this market.
The OMAP 3430 contains an ARM core as well as a lot of support functions, including hardware support for most video formats, image processing and also, as mentioned, OpenGL. Check out the link for an overview.
...whereas 64-bit machines shouldn't reach another addressing limitation until they hit 16 EB.
Not true. While X64 is a 64 bit architecture, that doesn't mean it uses 64 bit for addressing. All current implementations use 48, so you *will* hit a few 'addressing limitations' on your way to 16EB.
Original AMD64 implementations allowed access only to 1 TB of physical memory, however, recent AMD64 implementations now provide 256 TB of physical address space (with planned expansion to 4 PB).
Original Intel 64 implementations allowed access only to 64 GB of physical memory, however, recent Intel 64 implementations now provide 1 TB of physical address space.
People are wired to see causality everywhere, even where there is none.
Very true. There is an interesting book by Leonard Mlodinow called "The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives" which is all about the way humans misinterpret random events to see patterns that are not there.
I agree. If the website doesn't bother to serve proper web pages to javascript disabled browsers, then it is not really worth it.
I'm not sure if that's true when you are using noscript. Certainly for flashblock it isn't true, because the site identifies your browser as being able to run flash.
In other words, they might have a flash and a non flash version, but they serve you the full flash version cause you *are* flash enabled, just blocked. With noscript you might get a javascript page, even though you block it. Of course that depends on how they implement the degradation of service, some websites will do it right.
That's apart from the fact that your assume that bad web programming means bad content. That's not the case. If I want to go to a site cause using it is beneficial to me, then I want to use it, whether they have smart or dumb people coding it.
I know I've found that with noscript I find myself constantly managing permissions, instead of browsing. Flashblock is a little less annoying, but obviously less complete in its blocking.
I bet 6 months after installation the left-wingers in SanFran realize that they don't have the electric grid & sufficient generation capacity to keep the cars on the road.
Those cars would for the most part be charged at night, where we have vast excess baseload capacity anyway.
Diesel powered cars in europe get better economy because they are turbocharged small diesel engines. Normal (naturally aspirated) diesel engines are large and heavy.
I used to drive a Golf II Diesel (non turbo charged, 1.6L, 60HP or so), which consistently got 5 l/100km which is about 47 MPG. Thats great economy, and there is nothing large and heavy about it.
Think about it: We're talking about a car that was manufactured from 1983 - 1992!
Its messed up that 25 years ago they made a car that got a mileage that most cars can't hit today.
Is there anyone here that can translate wikipedia.de's homepage for us?
Here you go, translation of wikipedia.de's current page:
In accordance with the injunction granted by the district court in Luebeck on Nov 13th 2008 to Lutz Heilman, member of parliament (Left Party), the Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. is forbidden from "redirecting the internet address wikipedia.de to the internet address de.wikipedia.org" as long as "under the internet address de.wikipedia.org" certain statements are published about Lutz Heilmann. Until further notice the service of wikipedia.de will have to be discontinued in its existing form. Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. will appeal this injunction.
The Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. is not the publisher of the "Wikipedia" which is published under de.wikipedia.org and has no influence over its content. Instead, Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. is a non profit organization to further free knowledge, which simply educates about the usage of Wikipedia. The operator of the Encyclopedia is the Wikimedia Foundation, a foundation that is incorporated in Florida, USA with headquarters in San Francisco.
If you want to support us, you can donate for us. More information under http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ That you for your help.
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Too bad BeOS died. One of the axioms the developers had was 'the machine is a multi processor machine', and everything was built to support that.
Seems like they were 15 years ahead of their time. But, on the other hand, too late to establish an other OS in a saturated market. Pity, really.
what the heck is the point of a battery can run 20 vacuum cleaners, for only 10 seconds?
But it also means that you can *charge* it in 10 seconds. How nice it that. One problem for plug-in electric cars is that they take long to charge. If charging it doesn't take longer than filling up a tank of gas, that would be a step forward.
And the very first thing the users will do is write down the encryption key, so they don't forget it.
Well, Bruce Schneier recommends writing down your passwords.
Quote:
. We're all good at securing small pieces of paper. I recommend that people write their passwords down on a small piece of paper, and keep it with their other valuable small pieces of paper: in their wallet.
AC2, there was a game that had its load of flaws!
Yet, strangely, I was really sorry to see it go. Still miss that game from time to time.
Parallax and redshift perhaps?
Parallax only works to about 1600 light years, which is aprox 1% of the diameter of our Galaxy. And that is with a specialized satellite doing the measurement. There is no way parallax is going to work for something that is 12.2 billion light-years away.
My favorite comparison to illustrate the power of Gamma Ray Bursts: A Gamma Ray Burst puts out the same amount of power (while it is bursting) as all the stars in the universe together.
(Usually comparisons made in the media are rather lame, i.e. Libraries of Congress, but this one really impressed me)
Hopefully the wreckage from this one doesn't end up causing any unpleasant chain reactions. Not only are satellites really expensive, we currently have no especially good way of ridding ourselves of orbital debris.
There is a scifi story by Ken MacLeod where the orbit around earth is filled with so many satellites that when a war erupts and some of them get destroyed, it starts a chain reaction that ends up shredding all the equipment in orbit and creating a high speed debris belt that prevents space travel for several centuries.
I've always wondered if that scenario is realistic, but from a physics point of view it sounds like it could be.
Obligatory car analogy: It's like getting angry at BMW for using BMW driveshafts in their vehicles instead of offering vehicles with all 3rd party driveshafts.
Except BMW doesn't have a monopoly on cars. If they did, maybe we would actually tell them to open up certain things to 3rd party products.
It's the monopoly that makes it the governments business.
Green Plug is now trying to drum up public outcry through a (slow) website
I'm sure posting a link on slashdot will make that website a lot faster. ;)
Maybe it's just my perception, but it seems to be that .net fell far short of its original ambitions.
It was touted as a game changer and the future of coding on Windows. At which point it made sense to have an open alternative to it on Linux.
However these days it feels more like it has become the new VisualBasic, and that's about it. Sure, some business apps and some other applications get written in it, but it's not like without it Linux is doomed. Microsoft themselves did an about face and pulled a lot of the .net stuff out of Vista (when it was called Longhorn) and replaced it with native code.
Of course no. Hotmail run Apache on Linux :)
Hotmail never ran on Linux. Originally, before Microsoft bought it, it was running on FreeBSD with Apache, with some backend servers running Solaris.
Microsoft had a lot of trouble switching to Windows, and even after they claimed they had migrated, they had to admit that some things were still running on BSD.
However, by now I'm sure they've had enough time to finish that switch.
www.namingschemes.com
...it looks like an older generation MacBook Pro with a sticker over its logo.
Yes, it is a MacBook. Techcrunch had a Story on this last week.
It's inconceivable to me out they could let something like that slip thru.
rural folks in india have been doing that since forever.
Yeah, there are definitly gasifiers that are smaller than the 'factory size' that the summary claims. Germany, for example, had many cars running gasifiers during world war 2, since they were short on oil.
There are also DIY projects that have build cars like that:
A Honda Accord that runs on Trash
A converted pickup truck
Removing IE breaks a lot of functionality in XP, so I doubt they can simply have bundled and unbundled product lines
As other posts pointed out, it's not clear if that's even true. If it is, they can always remove the the browser application, while leaving the browser components in.
But there might be another option. Instead of removing IE, they could bundle other browsers, or an installer that will get other browsers, into the default windows install.
And then they threaten disciplinary action if someone uses them the wrong way. Wouldn't it be so much easier to just lock them down? It's what most companies do.
no phone company is in a dominant position (and certainly not Apple - not even close I'm afraid), and no company has yet to produce a "killer" phone to put them in the dominant position.
Thats right. To put some numbers on it in terms of OS marketshare (Q3 2008):
Source: Wikipedia
Especially in the US people tend to underestimate Symbian, because Nokia isn't that well represented here. Sometimes I wonder if the have given up on this market.
I guess you meant GPU rather than CPU. 8-D
No, actually he didn't, he ment what he wrote.
The OMAP 3430 contains an ARM core as well as a lot of support functions, including hardware support for most video formats, image processing and also, as mentioned, OpenGL. Check out the link for an overview.
...whereas 64-bit machines shouldn't reach another addressing limitation until they hit 16 EB.
Not true. While X64 is a 64 bit architecture, that doesn't mean it uses 64 bit for addressing. All current implementations use 48, so you *will* hit a few 'addressing limitations' on your way to 16EB.
From Wikipedia:
People are wired to see causality everywhere, even where there is none.
Very true. There is an interesting book by Leonard Mlodinow called "The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives" which is all about the way humans misinterpret random events to see patterns that are not there.
http://www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375424045
http://www.amazon.com/Drunkards-Walk-Randomness-Rules-Lives/dp/0375424040
I agree. If the website doesn't bother to serve proper web pages to javascript disabled browsers, then it is not really worth it.
I'm not sure if that's true when you are using noscript. Certainly for flashblock it isn't true, because the site identifies your browser as being able to run flash.
In other words, they might have a flash and a non flash version, but they serve you the full flash version cause you *are* flash enabled, just blocked. With noscript you might get a javascript page, even though you block it. Of course that depends on how they implement the degradation of service, some websites will do it right.
That's apart from the fact that your assume that bad web programming means bad content. That's not the case. If I want to go to a site cause using it is beneficial to me, then I want to use it, whether they have smart or dumb people coding it.
I know I've found that with noscript I find myself constantly managing permissions, instead of browsing. Flashblock is a little less annoying, but obviously less complete in its blocking.
AT&T offers the same for DSL, though they don't really advertise it:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071231-att-offers-20-naked-dsl-if-you-know-where-to-look.html
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070618-att-launches-10-dsl-it-hopes-no-one-signs-up-for.html
As always, Google is your friend.
I bet 6 months after installation the left-wingers in SanFran realize that they don't have the electric grid & sufficient generation capacity to keep the cars on the road.
Those cars would for the most part be charged at night, where we have vast excess baseload capacity anyway.
Diesel powered cars in europe get better economy because they are turbocharged small diesel engines. Normal (naturally aspirated) diesel engines are large and heavy.
I used to drive a Golf II Diesel (non turbo charged, 1.6L, 60HP or so), which consistently got 5 l/100km which is about 47 MPG. Thats great economy, and there is nothing large and heavy about it.
Think about it: We're talking about a car that was manufactured from 1983 - 1992!
Its messed up that 25 years ago they made a car that got a mileage that most cars can't hit today.
Is there anyone here that can translate wikipedia.de's homepage for us?
Here you go, translation of wikipedia.de's current page:
In accordance with the injunction granted by the district court in Luebeck on Nov 13th 2008 to Lutz Heilman, member of parliament (Left Party), the Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. is forbidden from "redirecting the internet address wikipedia.de to the internet address de.wikipedia.org" as long as "under the internet address de.wikipedia.org" certain statements are published about Lutz Heilmann. Until further notice the service of wikipedia.de will have to be discontinued in its existing form. Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. will appeal this injunction.
The Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. is not the publisher of the "Wikipedia" which is published under de.wikipedia.org and has no influence over its content. Instead, Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. is a non profit organization to further free knowledge, which simply educates about the usage of Wikipedia. The operator of the Encyclopedia is the Wikimedia Foundation, a foundation that is incorporated in Florida, USA with headquarters in San Francisco.
If you want to support us, you can donate for us. More information under http://spenden.wikimedia.de/ That you for your help.
Our thanks go to JBB Lawfirm for the fast and competent help.