The article is really short, but it says that the screen will use sub-pixel technology to allow a half-VGA screen to render VGA resolution. MS Cleartype also uses sub-pixel technology, though to make text sharper.
A linkie with information about sub-pixels in general (though it's on grc.com, whatever.) http://grc.com/cleartype.htm
I don't think that downloading music is right. It is theft. However, the RIAA is preventing the true artists from making money. Record the song, and put it on ITunes. The artist gets a huge cut.
The only thing RIAA conceivably does is to promote the musicians. But I'm sure a PR firm can do the same thing independently. This is especially true for established bands that do not need a huge corporation to take a risk on them.
I know this is Slashdot, but these piracies are really hurting. I don't know about the financial aspect of things, but a lot of programmers worked really hard for this, and stealing the program just takes the shine out of all the work they put into it.
We hate licensing and the such, but how far away are we from USB dongles?
Hardware-wise, we might see denser disks allowing smaller platters with higher spin rates.
But the cache can depend on software optimization. You can have a slow disk read, but if the disk was aligned (properly defragmented) or if the software was pre-linked properly, then the disk read/load cycle into the cache would be really fruitful (rather than getting a cacheful of crap.)
Agreed! I think the illegal modders should sue for infringing on their intellectual property rights. The existing xbox media centers are great. Plus, they have built in support for playback of dvds where the unmodded xbox requires you to plunk down $30 for a "dvd playback kit" that is basically just a remote as the system already supports dvd playback, it is just "locked".
It is far from certain how much relief they can be granted considering that they stoles Microsoft IP to create their "product".
"(Sorry, I realize this mihgt not be defensible, but I accidently checked the "Always Trust Microsoft" box during an install a few years ago. If only I could turn back time.)"
This is meant to be funny, but there was a vulnerability that allowed false certificates. You are not supposed to click "Always Trust Microsoft".
The experiment was good because it test a lot of novel space flight theories so it wasn't completely a waste. However, the part failure that compromised the mission was old, established tech and should not have failed. Get rid of the contractors! They suck.
Also, should anyone try to compete with DeBeers by lowering prices finds that their specific type and cut of diamonds get flooded on the market until it becomes worthless. You thought a software monopoly was worth a lot of money?
This is a game-theoretical result: leaders will follow the trailers if the gains are all or nothing, as they roughly are in marketshare.
Pretend you and I are gambling at the roulette wheel and winner takes all. Only we are playing. I have three thousand dollars more than you and we are playing the last round.
You go first. You put all your money down on 3 black and hope for the best. What do I do? I also put my money down on 3 black. The same thing will happen the both of us on this last hand and my margin will be retained and I will win it all.
So why would Microsoft innovate? If it makes a boo-boo, then it will give up marketshare. (Think of Longhorn.) If it follows the trailers, then it will keep it's marketshare, more or less.
Do you really think this is aimed at counterfeiters? They have been changing the bills every few years and the new ones get hard to fake. The paper, and the pressed feel of the ink are all difficult to fake on printed stock.
Nope. This is probably a quiet attempt to track printers and copiers for death threats and documents for non-counterfeiting criminals and terrorists.
Profit seeking behavior is bad in doctors. Typically, there should be a lot of general practitioners to take care of the masses. There should be a proportionate amount of specialists since there aren't that many sick people within those specialties.
However, general practitioners make no money because of HMOs and stuff. So everyone goes into specialization. Then costs go up since we have to go to specialists.
Global warming may cause areas to cool off. The climate of the entire world warms up. A warm area in one place may cause coolness in another because of how all the tides and jet streams interact. It's counter-intuitive, certainly, but have a run of cold weather doesn't mean there is no global warmning. When you see icecaps melting and huge chunks of the poles break off, there is global warming.
This post will sound like flamebait, but it isn't. Just consider it carefully. I am not a religious person at all, so this isn't some scary Christian-right crap you claim.
Most HIV infection cases come from preventable activity, such as unprotected sex or drug use without sterilized needles. Rare are those who are infected through a accidental needlestick or blood transfusion. We have to get people to get condoms before they have sex. Because you are right in assuming that most people want sex. We have to accomodate nature, but this can be done through safer sex.
Furthermore, most infected people with HIV do not know that they are infected for a while. The initial symptoms are flu-like. Then nothing happens, basically, until they come down with AIDS, which is a catch-all term meaning when symptoms present, such as secondary infections, etc.
In the meantime, they are continuing those activities that got them infected, such as drug use, unprotected sex, etc. These are all preventable infections, as you admit. They could wear condoms, they could bleach their needles. There is a moral dimension that seems to interject itself here, but ignore that and look at the essential fact: most infected people were doing risky things and they will continue doing it. Does this mean they deserve it? No. Does it mean they are not stricken with a contagious, deadly plague? No.
What are we going to do? Medicine can only treat HIV, not cure it. The majority of the infected will eventually die of AIDS, not with AIDS. Society should not hold its breath waiting for a cure for the disease. It has to be socially removed from circulation.
Why shouldn't we isolate those with HIV infections? Again, this sounds like flamebait, but think about it. We isolated lepers and smallpox and polio victims because we had to save lives. We had to sacrifice the ill to save the healthy. Political correctness did not matter in face of this crucial need to save the lives of the young. Remember what we did for SARS and West Nile and the hantavirus, in terms of isolation in the United States. Consider that HIV/AIDS is essentially a hundred percent lethal.
However, HIV/AIDS has been seen as a "gay" illness that causes it to be treated differently from other deadly plagues. There is nothing further from the truth; it is a human problem that cuts across all facets, gay and straight, black and white, men and women. It kills. It spreads. Period. It should be treated as such. Testing should be mandatory and then we should isolate the infected.
Is this cruel? Of course. Is it inhuman? I would say so. But the politically correct alternative is to allow those with HIV/AIDS to keep spreading it and kill more people. Because they will not stop. Most do not know they are infected. They got infected not because they were terrible people, but they got infected because they were doing risky things. They are likely to continue these acts. They have to be stopped. That this somewhat aligns itself with religious thoughts on morality is an unfortunate intersection. On a purely utilitarian scale, a strong argument can be made to isolate the sick.
Is this a "Nazi-fantasy world"? No. In a fantasy world, we would not get sick. But we do not live there. We live on this place called Earth where innocents die. Sacrifices have to be made. So while we can promote social change, people will never do what is necessary to truly remove AIDS from society.
Shouldn't he have shifted the car into Neutral? Or then slowly applied the handbrakes?
An hour? That's bad driving.
But we do put a lot of trust on cruise control. On really wet surfaces, the wheel will be spun really fast because it slips and the car is trying to speed itself up. Once it grips, the car goes flying.
But we derive a huge benefit from the trust we have in technology. Elevators fall sometimes, but we love not walking, don't we? This is just something we have to deal with, because otherwise, our society will get stuck.
The planning and stuff hurts the usability of the program. The UI, the basis of the program itself. Sometimes, it could give rise to Internet Explorer's tight integration with the OS.
However, it seems to me that bad programming gives rise to buffer overflows and the like. These are more serious harms because they lead to the exploits. If you programmed well, you'd have a crappy program that would simply suck.
The North Koreans have great leverage using this as a threat. Our computer systems are vulnerable, as the US government found out during "Eligible Receiver". Yes, there are some sites saying that this was misreported or overreported, but the bottom line is that we are vulnerable to computer terrorism. And it could be more dangerous when combined with a real state like North Korea. Imagine if they invade South Korea right after they pull the plug on internal American communications.
This was the funniest yet most insightful post I've seen in a long, long while. People who have their beliefs won't yield them no matter what we do to convince them. We could increase science funding so people can hopefully learn how to process information, but I doubt it. There's a huge crunch, at least in New York, on science teachers.
We should stop modding the guy "Funny" and "Informative" instead, since the former doesn't increase his karma. In fact, he should post a dumb comment and then mods should go and mod that up just to equalize his karma.
Uh, they can't store anti-matter safely. They want to store it safely. They are doing research to store anti-matter safely. All this because anti-matter is incredibly explosive and may render nuclear bombs obsolete.
Let's hope they don't do this near my house--or even the same planet.
They found that the Prescott P4, with its emphasis on Mhz, puts out a lot of heat in spite of its 90 nm architecture. The new 90 nm AMD 64 is cooler and uses less energy than the 130 nm version. Great.
But what about performance? The new 90 nm Pentium M processors, the one with the funky names, aren't doing as well in terms of performance scalability because of electron leakage issues. Any such concerns here? How fast can the 90 nm Athlon 64 core go before it dies?
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The article is really short, but it says that the screen will use sub-pixel technology to allow a half-VGA screen to render VGA resolution. MS Cleartype also uses sub-pixel technology, though to make text sharper.
A linkie with information about sub-pixels in general (though it's on grc.com, whatever.) http://grc.com/cleartype.htm
I don't think that downloading music is right. It is theft. However, the RIAA is preventing the true artists from making money. Record the song, and put it on ITunes. The artist gets a huge cut.
The only thing RIAA conceivably does is to promote the musicians. But I'm sure a PR firm can do the same thing independently. This is especially true for established bands that do not need a huge corporation to take a risk on them.
I know this is Slashdot, but these piracies are really hurting. I don't know about the financial aspect of things, but a lot of programmers worked really hard for this, and stealing the program just takes the shine out of all the work they put into it.
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We hate licensing and the such, but how far away are we from USB dongles?
Oh, Coralized Link.
http://www.gamespot.com.nyud.net:8090/news/2004/1
Hardware-wise, we might see denser disks allowing smaller platters with higher spin rates.
But the cache can depend on software optimization. You can have a slow disk read, but if the disk was aligned (properly defragmented) or if the software was pre-linked properly, then the disk read/load cycle into the cache would be really fruitful (rather than getting a cacheful of crap.)
It is far from certain how much relief they can be granted considering that they stoles Microsoft IP to create their "product".
I thought we had seen the day where we have Slashdotted Slashdot.
Unfortunately not.
Oh, well.
Well, this is why Google couldn't institute DonKey by itself. The pageranking pigeons kept on crapping on the DonKeys.
But what about the frequencies sucked up by our atmosphere? These wavelengths are pretty cool to stare at, right?
"(Sorry, I realize this mihgt not be defensible, but I accidently checked the "Always Trust Microsoft" box during an install a few years ago. If only I could turn back time.)"
This is meant to be funny, but there was a vulnerability that allowed false certificates. You are not supposed to click "Always Trust Microsoft".
Sigh.
The experiment was good because it test a lot of novel space flight theories so it wasn't completely a waste. However, the part failure that compromised the mission was old, established tech and should not have failed. Get rid of the contractors! They suck.
Also, should anyone try to compete with DeBeers by lowering prices finds that their specific type and cut of diamonds get flooded on the market until it becomes worthless. You thought a software monopoly was worth a lot of money?
This is a game-theoretical result: leaders will follow the trailers if the gains are all or nothing, as they roughly are in marketshare.
Pretend you and I are gambling at the roulette wheel and winner takes all. Only we are playing. I have three thousand dollars more than you and we are playing the last round.
You go first. You put all your money down on 3 black and hope for the best. What do I do? I also put my money down on 3 black. The same thing will happen the both of us on this last hand and my margin will be retained and I will win it all.
So why would Microsoft innovate? If it makes a boo-boo, then it will give up marketshare. (Think of Longhorn.) If it follows the trailers, then it will keep it's marketshare, more or less.
Do you really think this is aimed at counterfeiters? They have been changing the bills every few years and the new ones get hard to fake. The paper, and the pressed feel of the ink are all difficult to fake on printed stock.
Nope. This is probably a quiet attempt to track printers and copiers for death threats and documents for non-counterfeiting criminals and terrorists.
Watch the subject line! I thought that this was another dupe and almost threw coffee at my computer.
Profit seeking behavior is bad in doctors. Typically, there should be a lot of general practitioners to take care of the masses. There should be a proportionate amount of specialists since there aren't that many sick people within those specialties.
However, general practitioners make no money because of HMOs and stuff. So everyone goes into specialization. Then costs go up since we have to go to specialists.
PayPal reports problem. We slashdot them.
I know we hate them and all, but why can't we take just a little bit of sympathy?
Global warming may cause areas to cool off. The climate of the entire world warms up. A warm area in one place may cause coolness in another because of how all the tides and jet streams interact. It's counter-intuitive, certainly, but have a run of cold weather doesn't mean there is no global warmning. When you see icecaps melting and huge chunks of the poles break off, there is global warming.
I invited myself with all my invites. Then those accounts then got invites. It was pretty sad. I had to beg people to take the accounts off my hands.
It was sad.
This post will sound like flamebait, but it isn't. Just consider it carefully. I am not a religious person at all, so this isn't some scary Christian-right crap you claim.
Most HIV infection cases come from preventable activity, such as unprotected sex or drug use without sterilized needles. Rare are those who are infected through a accidental needlestick or blood transfusion. We have to get people to get condoms before they have sex. Because you are right in assuming that most people want sex. We have to accomodate nature, but this can be done through safer sex.
Furthermore, most infected people with HIV do not know that they are infected for a while. The initial symptoms are flu-like. Then nothing happens, basically, until they come down with AIDS, which is a catch-all term meaning when symptoms present, such as secondary infections, etc.
In the meantime, they are continuing those activities that got them infected, such as drug use, unprotected sex, etc. These are all preventable infections, as you admit. They could wear condoms, they could bleach their needles. There is a moral dimension that seems to interject itself here, but ignore that and look at the essential fact: most infected people were doing risky things and they will continue doing it. Does this mean they deserve it? No. Does it mean they are not stricken with a contagious, deadly plague? No.
What are we going to do? Medicine can only treat HIV, not cure it. The majority of the infected will eventually die of AIDS, not with AIDS. Society should not hold its breath waiting for a cure for the disease. It has to be socially removed from circulation.
Why shouldn't we isolate those with HIV infections? Again, this sounds like flamebait, but think about it. We isolated lepers and smallpox and polio victims because we had to save lives. We had to sacrifice the ill to save the healthy. Political correctness did not matter in face of this crucial need to save the lives of the young. Remember what we did for SARS and West Nile and the hantavirus, in terms of isolation in the United States. Consider that HIV/AIDS is essentially a hundred percent lethal.
However, HIV/AIDS has been seen as a "gay" illness that causes it to be treated differently from other deadly plagues. There is nothing further from the truth; it is a human problem that cuts across all facets, gay and straight, black and white, men and women. It kills. It spreads. Period. It should be treated as such. Testing should be mandatory and then we should isolate the infected.
Is this cruel? Of course. Is it inhuman? I would say so. But the politically correct alternative is to allow those with HIV/AIDS to keep spreading it and kill more people. Because they will not stop. Most do not know they are infected. They got infected not because they were terrible people, but they got infected because they were doing risky things. They are likely to continue these acts. They have to be stopped. That this somewhat aligns itself with religious thoughts on morality is an unfortunate intersection. On a purely utilitarian scale, a strong argument can be made to isolate the sick.
Is this a "Nazi-fantasy world"? No. In a fantasy world, we would not get sick. But we do not live there. We live on this place called Earth where innocents die. Sacrifices have to be made. So while we can promote social change, people will never do what is necessary to truly remove AIDS from society.
Shouldn't he have shifted the car into Neutral? Or then slowly applied the handbrakes?
An hour? That's bad driving.
But we do put a lot of trust on cruise control. On really wet surfaces, the wheel will be spun really fast because it slips and the car is trying to speed itself up. Once it grips, the car goes flying.
But we derive a huge benefit from the trust we have in technology. Elevators fall sometimes, but we love not walking, don't we? This is just something we have to deal with, because otherwise, our society will get stuck.
The planning and stuff hurts the usability of the program. The UI, the basis of the program itself. Sometimes, it could give rise to Internet Explorer's tight integration with the OS.
However, it seems to me that bad programming gives rise to buffer overflows and the like. These are more serious harms because they lead to the exploits. If you programmed well, you'd have a crappy program that would simply suck.
The North Koreans have great leverage using this as a threat. Our computer systems are vulnerable, as the US government found out during "Eligible Receiver". Yes, there are some sites saying that this was misreported or overreported, but the bottom line is that we are vulnerable to computer terrorism. And it could be more dangerous when combined with a real state like North Korea. Imagine if they invade South Korea right after they pull the plug on internal American communications.
e rwar/warnings/
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cyb
This was the funniest yet most insightful post I've seen in a long, long while. People who have their beliefs won't yield them no matter what we do to convince them. We could increase science funding so people can hopefully learn how to process information, but I doubt it. There's a huge crunch, at least in New York, on science teachers.
We should stop modding the guy "Funny" and "Informative" instead, since the former doesn't increase his karma. In fact, he should post a dumb comment and then mods should go and mod that up just to equalize his karma.
I am not TrollBridge's alterego.
Heh.
Uh, they can't store anti-matter safely. They want to store it safely. They are doing research to store anti-matter safely. All this because anti-matter is incredibly explosive and may render nuclear bombs obsolete.
Let's hope they don't do this near my house--or even the same planet.
They found that the Prescott P4, with its emphasis on Mhz, puts out a lot of heat in spite of its 90 nm architecture. The new 90 nm AMD 64 is cooler and uses less energy than the 130 nm version. Great.
But what about performance? The new 90 nm Pentium M processors, the one with the funky names, aren't doing as well in terms of performance scalability because of electron leakage issues. Any such concerns here? How fast can the 90 nm Athlon 64 core go before it dies?