If ATI is making the GPU, I genuinely doubt IBM will be making the processor. Not after the large amount of R&D effort that ATI has put in to Fusion, since it has been acquired by an IBM competitor (AMD).
Maybe gen-E, but at the uni I attended, most CPE/EE courses that are shared material with CS courses were actually two CS courses combined, in both workload and theory. That is, CS majors cover in two semesters what the CPE/EE's did in one. I started as a CS and switched to CPE, and the difference was staggering.
This is for good reason though. While you can learn numerous design patterns and algorithms fairly quickly (the icing on the CS cake), it's difficult to cover a whole branch of circuit design, signal processing, and electronics in the same amount of time. This is reflected in the number of credits required for each, 120 credits of classes for CS vs 132 credits of classes for CPE/EE, and typically the latter had more dense material and workload.
That being said, the discrepancy you saw probably stemmed from novice programmers wanting to get into CS to be "game designers", "web programmers", and the like, rather than wanting to do something else and learning programming as an accessory. If programming isn't your primary focus, it'd be no surprise that you'd probably not have much experience doing it.
Well, it's stupidly easy to switch out of Unity and forget about it. When you log in (once) change from Unity to classic in one of the log-in options. Tada, better Ubuntu.
Truly though, the only problem that I've had with 11.04 that wasn't present in 10.10 is that Google Desktop doesn't search as efficiently, do to what I suppose is some indexing issue. Nothing that would cause me to revert back a release.
Which just happens to be how I (and I'm sure some others) learn. It doesn't provide broad teaching methods, but it is great for some of us that learn that way.
If you believe that you're on a galactic jihad with no resolution other than the complete and total conversion of the world to radical Islam, that your side is backed by an omnipotent divine being that is offering you protection and a reward for fighting the cause, but your side is being torn apart leader by leader from attacks by the infidel.... your faith must be at least shaken a little.
That is completely irrelevant. Nobody is arguing that exploiting children is right, they're arguing that the demand for it isn't causing supply. A pervert is going to do perverted things whether someone views it or not, since almost always, the pervert doesn't know who sees the material or how it it shared.
Big difference between someone abusing children and making material and someone who is viewing material.
I mean, from the FA, it talks about how Dropship is exploiting the Dropbox hashing algorithm, which might be copyrighted along with the rest of Dropbox (I don't know). If it was, then I could see why there would be grounds for copyright infringement, unless the OSS project could demonstrate that it arrived at that dropbox hashing algorithm through blackbox testing.
Sublimation is a state of matter change, and in this case, a good descriptor for the oxidation process since it doesn't form an oxidised layer on the surface of the material as many other things do. Oxidation can cause sublimation, but the transition from a solid to a gas is still sublimation, regardless of the chemical processes involved. Elemental carbon might not be able to sublimate easily into elemental carbon gas, but that doesn't mean it isn't sublimating through some process.
Also, you are ignoring the properties of the substance in the article, being thin (low volume, high surface area) compared to a diamond which is usually some near spheroid. The rate that diamonds sublimate is irrelevant if they aren't thin on the nano-scale, and then I'd suspect that it wouldn't take hundreds of millions of years for it to degrade beyond practical use.
Instead of being pedantic, next time if you don't have something useful to share in answer to a question, just don't bother clicking reply.
My understanding is that pure carbon things sublimate into CO2 over time (including diamonds) when exposed to oxygen.
Just out of curiosity, anyone have an idea about the life of these sorts of materials? I'd think that a very thin, sublimating material with large surface area wouldn't last very long.
The amount of electrical devices (drills, actuators, etc) that are merely switched on and the seeming lack of creativity with the items in the machine makes it ugly, imo. That and the large amounts of spray-paint.
Both the Chinese and Russians are in the process of developing 5th gen fighters. The Chinese are still a decade off, but the Russians are not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_PAK_FA You also can't make any assumptions about the Chinese 5th Gen. The Chinese aren't stupid, and neither are they poor. Their top 25% is greater than our entire population, and they're trying to push out 600,000 engineers/year. To dismiss their ability to focus and solve a problem is pretty egotistical.
You're talking as if the world doesn't change. I'm pretty sure the rest of the military know better, and are planning ahead. Right now there is a big lull in nation scale war, but as peak oil becomes more apparent, global warming pressures cause droughts, and other factors start entering the world stage, it's stupid to assume the world is going to remain relatively peaceful and stable forever.
Besides that, the F-35 is supposed to be the cheaper and more flexible version of the plane that is supposed to challenge the next generation of fighters (F-22). Complaining about how expensive and unnecessary the F-35 will be requires you ignore the practical alternatives... which all seem to be more costly.
I don't see how... they aren't the only tech companies offering those products to the market. Look at AMD/ATI buyout/partnership. Nvidia and Intel are still in the game...
So is Hitachi and a bunch more electronics manufacturers.
I would only be worried if Seagate now has exclusive partnerships with almost *all* PC/notebook manufacturers like Intel did for a while.
"In addition, the agreement will expand the strategic relationship between the two companies, as Samsung will be providing Seagate with a NAND flash memory for its solid state drives, solid state hybrid drives and other products.
Meanwhile, Seagate will supply disk drives to Samsung for PCs, notebooks and consumer electronics. "
That seems more interesting to me. With more exclusive partnerships and more efficient organization, maybe we'll see costs come down on some of their notebooks/ssd's.
It's their job to manage security and the infrastructure. At a minimum, you gain a second set of eyes and hopefully expertise in hardening the server against the outside world. The last thing they want is your box to be a big gaping hole in their system.
If IT doesn't need root access, then he probably just wants it there to review the OS/changes to make sure that it won't break anything. Also, if it goes down, IT can help you get it back up or raise it when you're not available.
Really, I don't know why you *wouldn't* give IT a non-root account... but then again, you know what they say about doctors/academia and their egos.
"We use the information that we collect and you provide about yourself to personalize your PANDORA® internet radio experience through ads and social networking features."
Right there in the Privacy Policy that you didn't read. http://www.pandora.com/privacy
They never lied to your or tried to hide anything. They tell you they collect information from you to customize ads and give that information to a third party. What more do you want to know?
If it bothers you that much, fork out the 36$/year for Pandora One and avoid advertising altogether. I mean, 36$/year is pretty cheap for unlimited music streaming to our phone in comparison to buying the songs individually.
It's not like Pandora forced you into taking their free, ad-based service, since they offer a paid, ad-free version. Targeted ads are the new definition of ad-based nowadays anyways. Just look at Facebook.
"A few bits" being about 30% of the old testament canon. I would call that treating the Catholic canon with skepticism and not accepting their authority...
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If ATI is making the GPU, I genuinely doubt IBM will be making the processor. Not after the large amount of R&D effort that ATI has put in to Fusion, since it has been acquired by an IBM competitor (AMD).
Maybe gen-E, but at the uni I attended, most CPE/EE courses that are shared material with CS courses were actually two CS courses combined, in both workload and theory. That is, CS majors cover in two semesters what the CPE/EE's did in one. I started as a CS and switched to CPE, and the difference was staggering.
This is for good reason though. While you can learn numerous design patterns and algorithms fairly quickly (the icing on the CS cake), it's difficult to cover a whole branch of circuit design, signal processing, and electronics in the same amount of time. This is reflected in the number of credits required for each, 120 credits of classes for CS vs 132 credits of classes for CPE/EE, and typically the latter had more dense material and workload.
That being said, the discrepancy you saw probably stemmed from novice programmers wanting to get into CS to be "game designers", "web programmers", and the like, rather than wanting to do something else and learning programming as an accessory. If programming isn't your primary focus, it'd be no surprise that you'd probably not have much experience doing it.
Well, it's stupidly easy to switch out of Unity and forget about it. When you log in (once) change from Unity to classic in one of the log-in options. Tada, better Ubuntu.
Truly though, the only problem that I've had with 11.04 that wasn't present in 10.10 is that Google Desktop doesn't search as efficiently, do to what I suppose is some indexing issue. Nothing that would cause me to revert back a release.
Which just happens to be how I (and I'm sure some others) learn. It doesn't provide broad teaching methods, but it is great for some of us that learn that way.
They often have a private boys' school nearby.
TFA is so chalk full of buzzwords and unsubstantiated claims that I can't help but call this a slashvertisement.
If being skeptical of what daddy says in speeches makes a teenage mentality, then believing what he says makes a toddler mentality.
None of the wikileaks fiasco involved interdepartmental communication, so please get off your soapbox and stop talking out your ass.
Classifying material that exposes corruption isn't protection of our secrets, it's censorship, no matter how you try to homogenize the data.
If you believe that you're on a galactic jihad with no resolution other than the complete and total conversion of the world to radical Islam, that your side is backed by an omnipotent divine being that is offering you protection and a reward for fighting the cause, but your side is being torn apart leader by leader from attacks by the infidel.... your faith must be at least shaken a little.
That is completely irrelevant. Nobody is arguing that exploiting children is right, they're arguing that the demand for it isn't causing supply. A pervert is going to do perverted things whether someone views it or not, since almost always, the pervert doesn't know who sees the material or how it it shared.
Big difference between someone abusing children and making material and someone who is viewing material.
I mean, from the FA, it talks about how Dropship is exploiting the Dropbox hashing algorithm, which might be copyrighted along with the rest of Dropbox (I don't know). If it was, then I could see why there would be grounds for copyright infringement, unless the OSS project could demonstrate that it arrived at that dropbox hashing algorithm through blackbox testing.
Sublimation is a state of matter change, and in this case, a good descriptor for the oxidation process since it doesn't form an oxidised layer on the surface of the material as many other things do. Oxidation can cause sublimation, but the transition from a solid to a gas is still sublimation, regardless of the chemical processes involved. Elemental carbon might not be able to sublimate easily into elemental carbon gas, but that doesn't mean it isn't sublimating through some process.
Also, you are ignoring the properties of the substance in the article, being thin (low volume, high surface area) compared to a diamond which is usually some near spheroid. The rate that diamonds sublimate is irrelevant if they aren't thin on the nano-scale, and then I'd suspect that it wouldn't take hundreds of millions of years for it to degrade beyond practical use.
Instead of being pedantic, next time if you don't have something useful to share in answer to a question, just don't bother clicking reply.
My understanding is that pure carbon things sublimate into CO2 over time (including diamonds) when exposed to oxygen.
Just out of curiosity, anyone have an idea about the life of these sorts of materials? I'd think that a very thin, sublimating material with large surface area wouldn't last very long.
The amount of electrical devices (drills, actuators, etc) that are merely switched on and the seeming lack of creativity with the items in the machine makes it ugly, imo. That and the large amounts of spray-paint.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_generation_jet_fighter
Both the Chinese and Russians are in the process of developing 5th gen fighters. The Chinese are still a decade off, but the Russians are not. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_PAK_FA You also can't make any assumptions about the Chinese 5th Gen. The Chinese aren't stupid, and neither are they poor. Their top 25% is greater than our entire population, and they're trying to push out 600,000 engineers/year. To dismiss their ability to focus and solve a problem is pretty egotistical.
You're talking as if the world doesn't change. I'm pretty sure the rest of the military know better, and are planning ahead. Right now there is a big lull in nation scale war, but as peak oil becomes more apparent, global warming pressures cause droughts, and other factors start entering the world stage, it's stupid to assume the world is going to remain relatively peaceful and stable forever.
Besides that, the F-35 is supposed to be the cheaper and more flexible version of the plane that is supposed to challenge the next generation of fighters (F-22). Complaining about how expensive and unnecessary the F-35 will be requires you ignore the practical alternatives... which all seem to be more costly.
I don't see how... they aren't the only tech companies offering those products to the market. Look at AMD/ATI buyout/partnership. Nvidia and Intel are still in the game...
So is Hitachi and a bunch more electronics manufacturers.
I would only be worried if Seagate now has exclusive partnerships with almost *all* PC/notebook manufacturers like Intel did for a while.
"In addition, the agreement will expand the strategic relationship between the two companies, as Samsung will be providing Seagate with a NAND flash memory for its solid state drives, solid state hybrid drives and other products.
Meanwhile, Seagate will supply disk drives to Samsung for PCs, notebooks and consumer electronics. "
That seems more interesting to me. With more exclusive partnerships and more efficient organization, maybe we'll see costs come down on some of their notebooks/ssd's.
It's their job to manage security and the infrastructure. At a minimum, you gain a second set of eyes and hopefully expertise in hardening the server against the outside world. The last thing they want is your box to be a big gaping hole in their system.
If IT doesn't need root access, then he probably just wants it there to review the OS/changes to make sure that it won't break anything. Also, if it goes down, IT can help you get it back up or raise it when you're not available.
Really, I don't know why you *wouldn't* give IT a non-root account... but then again, you know what they say about doctors/academia and their egos.
http://www.lockheedmartin.com/news/press_releases/2010/052610_LM_DARPA_rifle-scope.html
Easy.
"When n is an integer greater than 0"
Patched for accuracy.
Dalvik is an implementation of a JVM. Google didn't use the Oracle reference JVM, called Hotspot, because it's owned by Oracle.
There have been other implementations of JVMs in the past by third parties, and Oracle owns none of these.
It takes a couple minutes just to load the page banner, then once it does, it redirects to an advertisement page.
I like to RTFA, but you can be sure that I won't be visiting that site ever again.
It doesn't necessarily. Your Pandora account does though since you filled that out when making it.
"We use the information that we collect and you provide about yourself to personalize your PANDORA® internet radio experience through ads and social networking features."
Right there in the Privacy Policy that you didn't read. http://www.pandora.com/privacy
They never lied to your or tried to hide anything. They tell you they collect information from you to customize ads and give that information to a third party. What more do you want to know?
If it bothers you that much, fork out the 36$/year for Pandora One and avoid advertising altogether. I mean, 36$/year is pretty cheap for unlimited music streaming to our phone in comparison to buying the songs individually.
It's not like Pandora forced you into taking their free, ad-based service, since they offer a paid, ad-free version. Targeted ads are the new definition of ad-based nowadays anyways. Just look at Facebook.
"A few bits" being about 30% of the old testament canon. I would call that treating the Catholic canon with skepticism and not accepting their authority...