I think the point was that instead of burning the lignin as a waste product, it can be put to use as a plastic substitute. A better question might be what happens to this new plastic when it wears out/is discarded.
It's kind of hard to call exploiting a vulnerability "raising awareness". The worm blocks attempts at removal and continues to spread itself. It works well, and seems like it could be used for more nefarious ends, but isn't stealing credit card numbers or the like. However, I'd hardly call it a public service. I agree that Microsoft could have been more public about the seriousness of the problem, but apologies?
What benefits would come from limiting the number of apps being run? Stability? Speed? I assume it would allow for a smaller amount of ram and a less power-hungry processor, but are there other benefits?
Go waaay old school and do some Euclid or Apollonius. I took a course using Euclid's Elements and now I'm working through Apollonius' Conics. If you want to uncover some unadulterated mathematical beauty, it's right there. The proofs take some getting used to, but they provide the backing for a lot of mathematical operations and theorems that are just taken for granted like the Pythagorean Theorem.
I just started using Linux in 2000. Saved up all summer for an hp laptop and then threw Red Hat 9 on. X didn't work at all, and I was stranded in terminal trying to hack xorg.conf to get any kind of gui up. Let's not even talk about getting wireless to work, much less 3d hardware acceleration. I migrated to Mandrake, then Debian, and finally settled on Ubuntu. Now I use Ubuntu as my primary OS on my Macbook and love it. The learning curve was a bit steep, but has really smoothed out over the past 8 years. The only piece of proprietary code I use is the firmware for my iSight and the flash plugin, and I barely needed to compile anything from source. Kudos Linux developers!
When are drives conforming to this standard going to be available? Also, the article mentions using this type of encryption to, say, lock up a laptop and keep a kid from using it. That seems to imply that there will be some kind of user interface. Wouldn't the encryption keys be unwieldy and hard to remember? If it's baked into the hardware, what about swapping drives between machines? If users are able to create their own passwords, wouldn't these drives be just as crackable as any other?
It's interesting to note on the third page of the article that advances have come mainly from computer science breakthroughs, and not biological/neurological ones, and that the wall between the two sciences is coming down. It seems that building these AI programs has become part of furthering our understanding of our own brains.
With this trend in mind, along with the eventual goal to have humanoid robots, especially ones that are "as intelligent as we are", is there a capacity for something like emotion? What would it mean to have feeling machines that are as smart as we are?
Currently, I have been unsatisfied with Sprint from both a customer service and phone service standpoint. My family has used them for years and had numerous issues. Phones have malfunctioned, hidden charges have jacked up bills without prior warning, customer service reps are unhelpful. Roaming on Verizon was one of the few useful features. Needless to say, I've been on the lookout for a new carrier, which lead me to find that AT&T and T-Mobile also have free roaming on most of the plans I looked at for both families and individuals.
I'm not trying to be a salesman, just to point out that free roaming is not only available with just Sprint.
Besides, why would I pay a company that has a poor coverage map and leeches off of another network when I can give my money to the guys who do it right?
While I agree that it took quite a while to fix, there were temporary fixes posted all over the internet that corrected the problem. Perhaps they could have been publicised, but the users were quickly on the problem. I don't see this as a hardware problem. The original bug report stated that it was a problem with Ubuntu parking/unparking the disk too often. Doesn't sound like a hardware issue to me.
What about Command and Conquer 3 being promoted by Westwood making CnC Red Alert free? It seems like an interesting compromise, hype the new by offering the old for free. Of course, most people would probably have the original already.
The dung itself can be used as a fuel source. Sheep and camels eat primarily grass, so their waste is essentially compacted plant matter. Combine that with a desert environment to dry it out and you have a ready-made fuel source.
The language of the/. article compared with the Reuters post seem confusing. It looks like when the fields align (say when you take two magnets and align them -++-) then holes are ripped open at the poles, which can't both be facing away from the sun.
As a side note, how do these storms disrupt power grids? It seems to make sense that bombarding the delicate electronics in satellites with solar radiation would cause damage, but why power transmission?
Actually, there are some real predictive problems with geocentric models. Epicycles and eccentric circles (Ptolemy's inventions for planetary motion) can predict where bodies will be in relation to both the sun and the zodiac, but they cannot predict *when* they will be there.
I agree with you on the point that his system does not directly contradict the Bible, but it's not the Bible he had to worry about, it was the Church.
Apple may not support Linux, but Linux has certainly taken great strides to make Apple products work with their OS. My IPod works flawlessly with Rhythmbox Media Player (with a few extra packages) and I can even encode music to AAC. I'm satisfied with the work Ubuntu does.
Let's face it, soon the English language is going to be reduced to 3-letter words and grunts. Listen to the latest rap single and you'll hear what I mean. We could just give up and adopt l33t...
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How would this work with a Linux machine? Would the inability to install the driver result in not being able to charge the phone?
I think the point was that instead of burning the lignin as a waste product, it can be put to use as a plastic substitute. A better question might be what happens to this new plastic when it wears out/is discarded.
It's kind of hard to call exploiting a vulnerability "raising awareness". The worm blocks attempts at removal and continues to spread itself. It works well, and seems like it could be used for more nefarious ends, but isn't stealing credit card numbers or the like. However, I'd hardly call it a public service. I agree that Microsoft could have been more public about the seriousness of the problem, but apologies?
Thanks for the tip.
What benefits would come from limiting the number of apps being run? Stability? Speed? I assume it would allow for a smaller amount of ram and a less power-hungry processor, but are there other benefits?
Hrm, dead link. I would love to see them though.
A year and a half.
Go waaay old school and do some Euclid or Apollonius. I took a course using Euclid's Elements and now I'm working through Apollonius' Conics. If you want to uncover some unadulterated mathematical beauty, it's right there. The proofs take some getting used to, but they provide the backing for a lot of mathematical operations and theorems that are just taken for granted like the Pythagorean Theorem.
I just started using Linux in 2000. Saved up all summer for an hp laptop and then threw Red Hat 9 on. X didn't work at all, and I was stranded in terminal trying to hack xorg.conf to get any kind of gui up. Let's not even talk about getting wireless to work, much less 3d hardware acceleration. I migrated to Mandrake, then Debian, and finally settled on Ubuntu. Now I use Ubuntu as my primary OS on my Macbook and love it. The learning curve was a bit steep, but has really smoothed out over the past 8 years. The only piece of proprietary code I use is the firmware for my iSight and the flash plugin, and I barely needed to compile anything from source. Kudos Linux developers!
When are drives conforming to this standard going to be available? Also, the article mentions using this type of encryption to, say, lock up a laptop and keep a kid from using it. That seems to imply that there will be some kind of user interface. Wouldn't the encryption keys be unwieldy and hard to remember? If it's baked into the hardware, what about swapping drives between machines? If users are able to create their own passwords, wouldn't these drives be just as crackable as any other?
It's interesting to note on the third page of the article that advances have come mainly from computer science breakthroughs, and not biological/neurological ones, and that the wall between the two sciences is coming down. It seems that building these AI programs has become part of furthering our understanding of our own brains. With this trend in mind, along with the eventual goal to have humanoid robots, especially ones that are "as intelligent as we are", is there a capacity for something like emotion? What would it mean to have feeling machines that are as smart as we are?
Learning for learning's sake seems like a wonderful thing to me.
Currently, I have been unsatisfied with Sprint from both a customer service and phone service standpoint. My family has used them for years and had numerous issues. Phones have malfunctioned, hidden charges have jacked up bills without prior warning, customer service reps are unhelpful. Roaming on Verizon was one of the few useful features. Needless to say, I've been on the lookout for a new carrier, which lead me to find that AT&T and T-Mobile also have free roaming on most of the plans I looked at for both families and individuals. I'm not trying to be a salesman, just to point out that free roaming is not only available with just Sprint. Besides, why would I pay a company that has a poor coverage map and leeches off of another network when I can give my money to the guys who do it right?
While I agree that it took quite a while to fix, there were temporary fixes posted all over the internet that corrected the problem. Perhaps they could have been publicised, but the users were quickly on the problem. I don't see this as a hardware problem. The original bug report stated that it was a problem with Ubuntu parking/unparking the disk too often. Doesn't sound like a hardware issue to me.
What about Command and Conquer 3 being promoted by Westwood making CnC Red Alert free? It seems like an interesting compromise, hype the new by offering the old for free. Of course, most people would probably have the original already.
The dung itself can be used as a fuel source. Sheep and camels eat primarily grass, so their waste is essentially compacted plant matter. Combine that with a desert environment to dry it out and you have a ready-made fuel source.
My first...first post. I guess I'd better say something sage. Welcome Light-Emitting-Diode Overlords!
The language of the /. article compared with the Reuters post seem confusing. It looks like when the fields align (say when you take two magnets and align them -++-) then holes are ripped open at the poles, which can't both be facing away from the sun.
As a side note, how do these storms disrupt power grids? It seems to make sense that bombarding the delicate electronics in satellites with solar radiation would cause damage, but why power transmission?
Actually, there are some real predictive problems with geocentric models. Epicycles and eccentric circles (Ptolemy's inventions for planetary motion) can predict where bodies will be in relation to both the sun and the zodiac, but they cannot predict *when* they will be there. I agree with you on the point that his system does not directly contradict the Bible, but it's not the Bible he had to worry about, it was the Church.
Apple may not support Linux, but Linux has certainly taken great strides to make Apple products work with their OS. My IPod works flawlessly with Rhythmbox Media Player (with a few extra packages) and I can even encode music to AAC. I'm satisfied with the work Ubuntu does.
Let's face it, soon the English language is going to be reduced to 3-letter words and grunts. Listen to the latest rap single and you'll hear what I mean. We could just give up and adopt l33t...