"Then in 1983, three crucial innovations hit the music world, sparking a digital revolution. PC and Macintosh computers became widely available; Yamaha brought out a keyboard-based music synthesizer called the DX7 that could make an unprecedented number of new sounds; and computer and music companies established MIDI..."
Well, The DX7 was launched in 1983, but every other 'fact' in that bit is just plain wrong.
When there are lots of magazines and websites that concentrate on nothing but music technology, how on earth did The Christian Science Monitor get picked as an authority on the subject?
"Using the NanoSIMS probe, the Washington University investigators then measured the relative amounts of two isotopes of oxygen in more than a thousand grains from nine interplanetary dust particles. The data told them which grains had come from stars."
If you buy anything but the cheapest tower Mac, it will BY DEFAULT have dual processors, an OS that works with those processors, and software that works with those processors.
As you rightly point out, although the wintel camp have dabbled with half-hearted attempts at SMP (not even bothering to make a chipset for the K5!), they are not shipping SMP systems to a large portion of their customers.
Don't forget that Apple are a long way ahead of the wintel crowd in multi-processor department, all their medium and top spec tower machines have been dual processor for years, and OSX is designed to take advantage of that.
That 4Ghz AMD machine will be up against a dual, or quite possibly quad 2.5 Ghz Mac.
Convincing Joe Public about the 'megahertz myth' didn't go too well, but demonstrating that 2.5 + 2.5 > 4 shouldn't be too tough.
a) I now know the entire plot b) Didn't they already do the enterprise crashing before? c) They blew the whole effects budget on the crash, and I've seen that sequence about 3 times in the trailer already.
The trailer simply didn't give me any compelling reason to go see the film.
Another point is that films are getting trailed far too early, there are about half a dozen films that I know I want to see in the future, and I go to the cinema about 6 times a year. I've not adjusted to the fact that I can now have more than 6 films in the queue.
For me Nemesis was competing against the next 2 LOTRs, 2 Matrices, Xmen 2, Terminator 3 and Harry Potters 3 through 7 for a place in the queue.
I know it's tough, but I'll admit it, because this story has been up for hours and there are only 2 posts.
We don't know what VPN stands for
We don't know what a "VPN Gadget" does, what uClinux is*, or for that matter what a "VPN Gadget" would run if it wasn't running uClinx.
We feel vaguely good about the article since it's got linux in it, but mostly we feel bad about the whole thing because we ought to know more buzzwords and TLAs** than the editors, and this article proves we don't.
* Yes we followed the link, found the "what is uClinux" page, and read it, and we still don't know!
Just because you don't have a use for it doesn't mean it's useless!
There is a real market for such a codec in the professional audio industry - have you any idea how much space backing up a 48-track studio recording takes, especially now the industry is moving towards 96Khz/24bit recording?
Respected (at least until Apple bought them!) music software giant Emagic will sell you a program called ZAP which make about a 35% space saving and costs about $100, so free software that beats that is definitely good news for some people.
All our efforts to get "palladium = bad" into the heads of non-techies are wasted.
"next-generation secure computing base = bad" is a more complex a message that does not make a neat soundbite
Article is misleading
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SOHO Strikes Back
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· Score: 4, Informative
The SOHO page *actually* shows how a 'flying saucer' can be faked by manipulating their data, NOT how the original data can be 'mistaken' for a UFO.
Important Geek News element missing from story
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South Pole to Get Highway
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· Score: 5, Informative
The slashdot summary is oddly misleading, I think there would be a lot fewer 'wasted tax dollars' complaints if it was written this way round:
Plane for One Kilometer Cube Neutrino Telescope Goes Ahead IceCube is a one-cubic-kilometer international high-energy neutrino observatory, located deep under the ice at the south pole, where the effects of the eath's magnetic fields will inferfere less with the observations.
Because the cost of flying all the necessary materials in by air is prohibitive, $12m of the $204m budget will be spent on pushing some ice out of the way so that the components can travel overland.
how many millions (or billions) of dollars will be spent for this?
Twelve...as you would have known if you had RTFA. All they are doing is pushing the snow aside and flattening out the ice. No blasting, no rocks, no pavement, no paint.
Manufacturers come up with outlandish concept cars like this all the time, and this one is nothing special. Where in the press release is the promise that ANY of this recycleable technology will be in the showrooms?
Did the/. editors really fall for the 'new model-T' tag line that Ford wheels out for a large portion of it's press releases?
Even the headline "Hydrogen ICE plus Hybrid Electric Powertrain" isn't much of a breakthrough, you can already buy half a dozen different cars that are more encomical than this one would be if it ever went beyond the 'mock up and press release' stage.
According to the plot of Superman, he shares no DNA with us, he just happens to be roughly the same shape because evolution on Kryton followed a Parallel path.
On the other hand, Spider-man IS human, in fact according to the plot of the comic, he was a perfectly normal person up to the point in the story that he was bitten. Peter Parker dolls definitely should have been subject to the tax, according to the (admittedly very dumb) rules.
Having read some other reports on this, the Swiss are not claiming this is the first internet vote, they are saying that they believe it is the the first legally binding internet vote.
Slashdot Mirror
Take a look at this quote...
"Then in 1983, three crucial innovations hit the music world, sparking a digital revolution. PC and Macintosh computers became widely available; Yamaha brought out a keyboard-based music synthesizer called the DX7 that could make an unprecedented number of new sounds; and computer and music companies established MIDI..."
Well, The DX7 was launched in 1983, but every other 'fact' in that bit is just plain wrong.
When there are lots of magazines and websites that concentrate on nothing but music technology, how on earth did The Christian Science Monitor get picked as an authority on the subject?
Look here for a review of a Line 6 amp simulator way back in October 2000.
No fee required there, btw.
according to the article...
"Using the NanoSIMS probe, the Washington University investigators then
measured the relative amounts of two isotopes of oxygen in more than a
thousand grains from nine interplanetary dust particles. The data told them which grains had come from stars."
From the article...
"In Australia, iris technology is already being used by Qantas Airlines, Sydney Airport, foreign embassies, some banks"
"Mr Grimes predicted that Australia's financial institutions would begin adopting iris technology at automatic teller machines within five years."
""It is predicted that within five years every ATM in Australia will have iris recognition technology," Mr Moss said."
Yes, as your examples show, I do have a point.
If you buy anything but the cheapest tower Mac, it will BY DEFAULT have dual processors, an OS that works with those processors, and software that works with those processors.
As you rightly point out, although the wintel camp have dabbled with half-hearted attempts at SMP (not even bothering to make a chipset for the K5!), they are not shipping SMP systems to a large portion of their customers.
Don't worry, a properly configured microwave oven wil only ping when it's finished cooking :-)
Don't forget that Apple are a long way ahead of the wintel crowd in multi-processor department, all their medium and top spec tower machines have been dual processor for years, and OSX is designed to take advantage of that.
That 4Ghz AMD machine will be up against a dual, or quite possibly quad 2.5 Ghz Mac.
Convincing Joe Public about the 'megahertz myth' didn't go too well, but demonstrating that 2.5 + 2.5 > 4 shouldn't be too tough.
'Global Spanish' meas all Spanish language operations worldwide
'Spanish' 'National' means all services in Spain
does not compute!
where was he King of?
Seriously though, for the benefit of us non-Americans and phobic IANALs, what the hell does 'deposed' mean in this context?
Have you noticed how these phrases go out of fashion after a year or so?
IN at the moment:
business process re-engineering
pro-active
Total Quality Management
change culture
OUT:
Zero Defects
Synergy
Five nines
Empowerment
Latest trend: inappropriate use of capital letters, for example 'quality' is always writtern as 'Quality'
Pictures are mirrored here: dev/null
The G5 is the long overdue Motorola successor to the G4.
The Power5 is the successor to IBM's Power4.
While the architectures are closely related, the Power4 and G4 are distictly different chips, and the Power5 and G5 will be too.
is that the trailer left me thinking:
a) I now know the entire plot
b) Didn't they already do the enterprise crashing before?
c) They blew the whole effects budget on the crash, and I've seen that sequence about 3 times in the trailer already.
The trailer simply didn't give me any compelling reason to go see the film.
Another point is that films are getting trailed far too early, there are about half a dozen films that I know I want to see in the future, and I go to the cinema about 6 times a year. I've not adjusted to the fact that I can now have more than 6 films in the queue.
For me Nemesis was competing against the next 2 LOTRs, 2 Matrices, Xmen 2, Terminator 3 and Harry Potters 3 through 7 for a place in the queue.
I know it's tough, but I'll admit it, because this story has been up for hours and there are only 2 posts.
We don't know what VPN stands for
We don't know what a "VPN Gadget" does, what uClinux is*, or for that matter what a "VPN Gadget" would run if it wasn't running uClinx.
We feel vaguely good about the article since it's got linux in it, but mostly we feel bad about the whole thing because we ought to know more buzzwords and TLAs** than the editors, and this article proves we don't.
* Yes we followed the link, found the "what is uClinux" page, and read it, and we still don't know!
** Three Letter Abbreviations
Just because you don't have a use for it doesn't mean it's useless!
There is a real market for such a codec in the professional audio industry - have you any idea how much space backing up a 48-track studio recording takes, especially now the industry is moving towards 96Khz/24bit recording?
Respected (at least until Apple bought them!) music software giant Emagic will sell you a program called ZAP which make about a 35% space saving and costs about $100, so free software that beats that is definitely good news for some people.
"Have they looked down the back of the sofa?"
All our efforts to get "palladium = bad" into the heads of non-techies are wasted.
"next-generation secure computing base = bad" is a more complex a message that does not make a neat soundbite
The SOHO page *actually* shows how a 'flying saucer' can be faked by manipulating their data, NOT how the original data can be 'mistaken' for a UFO.
The slashdot summary is oddly misleading, I think there would be a lot fewer 'wasted tax dollars' complaints if it was written this way round:
Plane for One Kilometer Cube Neutrino Telescope Goes Ahead
IceCube is a one-cubic-kilometer international high-energy neutrino observatory, located deep under the ice at the south pole, where the effects of the eath's magnetic fields will inferfere less with the observations.
Because the cost of flying all the necessary materials in by air is prohibitive, $12m of the $204m budget will be spent on pushing some ice out of the way so that the components can travel overland.
how many millions (or billions) of dollars will be spent for this?
...as you would have known if you had RTFA. All they are doing is pushing the snow aside and flattening out the ice. No blasting, no rocks, no pavement, no paint.
Twelve
Beige? It's not beige, you fool, it's WHITE!
Do we really have to keep going over this? I seem to write this post about one a month, but I guess it's not redundant until everyone gets it...
Monopolies are NOT illegal.
Abusing the power that a monopoly position gives you IS illegal.
Microsoft illegally abused their monopoly, Apple didn't.
Got it now?
Manufacturers come up with outlandish concept cars like this all the time, and this one is nothing special. Where in the press release is the promise that ANY of this recycleable technology will be in the showrooms?
/. editors really fall for the 'new model-T' tag line that Ford wheels out for a large portion of it's press releases?
Did the
Even the headline "Hydrogen ICE plus Hybrid Electric Powertrain" isn't much of a breakthrough, you can already buy half a dozen different cars that are more encomical than this one would be if it ever went beyond the 'mock up and press release' stage.
According to the plot of Superman, he shares no DNA with us, he just happens to be roughly the same shape because evolution on Kryton followed a Parallel path.
On the other hand, Spider-man IS human, in fact according to the plot of the comic, he was a perfectly normal person up to the point in the story that he was bitten. Peter Parker dolls definitely should have been subject to the tax, according to the (admittedly very dumb) rules.
Having read some other reports on this, the Swiss are not claiming this is the first internet vote, they are saying that they believe it is the the first legally binding internet vote.