If it were really a star pulsating, shouldn't it show irregular patches? I mean, granulation in our sun is not static over a year...
Thus I believe they are overlooking the obvious.
Actually, angular resolution is calculated using the distance between the furthest 2 telescopes, so it is not really that practical to have more telescopes. Of course, maybe less noise in the images and more light-gathering power, but would you do that if you are spending money on the magnitude of 7 and above?
Well, my shiny 2.2 GHz dual-core laptop crashed on vista 20 minutes after first use. Call me unlucky. I put in a slightly corrupted NTFS USB drive, and it crashed. I had to fix the drive in Ubuntu. Weird how Vista has NTFS as its default filesystem. EXT3 never crashed nautilus before, yet NTFS can crash explorer.exe (Yes, including my desktop, start menu, everything except mouse).
I'm not a Microsoft-hater. I get smaller, but much more numerous problems in Linux too. Took me 3 hours to figure out compiz-fusion in Ubuntu Hardy (a bug there). I just think Vista is released to keep up with trends, so its slightly too early.
Anyway, to steer back on topic, Microsoft has lots to learn from Apple. Apple has an EXTREMELY demanding OS. But it comes with really good computers. Microsoft packages real-time (probably mipmap?) blurring with Intel integrated graphics.
I'm not sticking up to apple, but fact is that you can run any OS, not just apple, in kernel-based virtualization at more that 80% of native speed I think. I only know how to run it in Linux, though.
I quite agree. I always Apple more than Microsoft, because they appeared to have less of such lawsuits, or I should say bribes, but this is quite outrageous I would say. I say the entire semiconductor industry should sue Moore now for discovering Moore's law, because it should not be known at that time...call it a trade secret?
How would you know how many vulnerabilities there actually are? It is impossible to exactly count them in Windows, or OS X. For example, Red Hat Desktop Workstation v5 has 70 vulnerabilities, while Windows Vista has 24, according to Secunia. That would contradict what most people think, but it is probably because Redhat is open source, while Windows is not. In this case, we are comparing two closed source operating systems, so the number of security vulnerabilities probably depended more on the testing each went through than the operating systems here.
I think a better system than levels is to make them floating-point (sorta), so the transaction between levels would be seamless, unless you are a person who looks at the 5th number behind the decimal point (Or maybe 16 for C++ minus 3 digits).
However, the current level-based system is a staple of most RPGs, and gamers are just accustomed to them, just like graphics designers are accustomed to parallel projection in 3D, and layers in Gimp/PS (me at least). So speaking in a commercial sense, it would be unwise to remove the level based system, as it would mean that gamers would have to learn many concept from scratch.
It didn't decrease for me. The only thing is that I use Google's POP mail service. Using Evolution Mail. So I don't get spam. But if I go to Google Mail in Firefox, there are 100~500 unread mail in my spam folder normally. And my spam messages are deleted after 30 days. Wow.
Cellphones used to be used just to call people. That was back when they are not necessary, simply because we have public phones everywhere.
But cellphones are much more useful than that nowadays. With 3G or even 3.5G connections, people are reading news headlines off a RSS feed using their cellphone, checking email using their cellphone, video calling their lady friends in the subway...these are things that public phones CANNOT do. Not forgetting the good old games.
So face it. Cellphones are closing in on PDAs in terms of hardware. Many of them even have Wi-Fi, one of the major advantages of PDAs and PocketPCs over cellphones. The only reason their software is not as complex is because they use their own OSes. But with Nokia smartphones using modified Linux and Firefox, the gap between cellphones and PocketPCs are closing. Except that PocketPCs use Windows, maybe.
I agree to a certain extent, but not totally. A lot of famous, or maybe not-so-famous writers on this topic has written that Open-source software will triumph over propriety software. And the main reason to this is actually the organization of open source projects. They take a distributed approach, so to speak. There is no hierarchy, and therefore, most features that has been proposed or implemented by amateurs actually make it to a CVS build. There are 2 winning points to this. Firstly, the "features" can be critiqued by a larger audience, because many people are willing to test CVS builds, and without the limitations of "higher powers" to control what features make it and what not. And also, this lack of limitation is what draws certain people to programming for open source projects. Therefore, having a group of "core" contributors is not the standard organization of open source communities, and loses many of the advantages of being open source.
Yes I had this problem when I started ubuntu. But normally, individual packages can be easily installed with synaptic. Because in the Add/Remove programs menu, the programs are mainly "Meta packages", in synaptic they will be empty packages with all the other small programs of the suite as "dependencies". So you can just install one of the "dependencies" in synaptic, without install the whole packages.
Of course that was off topic. Rough edges, to me, mean more than this. "Rough edges" are things such as problems with hibernation, problems with ATI graphics cards...this is no a problem with Linux, or Ubuntu normally. But look at it this way...hardware is designed to Microsoft's standards, not Ubuntu or Linux's standards
Look at it this way. Microsoft did NOT say Linux infringed their patents or something.
They gave Kyocera permission to use their technology. Try to read the paragraph ignoring the highlighting/italics. It probably meant much of the products had embedded Linux, and that the embedded products required a technology that Microsoft patented.
I can see this without as an undergraduate from high school, guys.
I am posting this on Ubuntu, and I agree with the rough edges. After all, I should say all your hardware are manufactured under Windows standards, and are not designed for Linux, so hardware-related bugs and errors always appear, unless the company actually releases the source code of the drivers. (I think Intel does). But I still prefer Linux over Windows, except when gaming. The main reason is because of my registry keys. I'm the sort who likes to try out programs and uninstall them hours or even minutes later, and because of that, Windows is not really for me. Every program leaves behind a small fragment of its registries when uninstalled...and now my registry keys take longer than anything to parse. Regedit is lagging...
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If it were really a star pulsating, shouldn't it show irregular patches? I mean, granulation in our sun is not static over a year... Thus I believe they are overlooking the obvious.
It really really looks like a elliptical eclipsing binary, with one dim red giant, and a bright smaller white star. Note: The video is false color.
Actually, angular resolution is calculated using the distance between the furthest 2 telescopes, so it is not really that practical to have more telescopes. Of course, maybe less noise in the images and more light-gathering power, but would you do that if you are spending money on the magnitude of 7 and above?
Would we manage to hit 80 cores before quantum conputing? Now a state-of-the-art skulltrail PC has only 8 cores, and the average new computer has 2.
Well, my shiny 2.2 GHz dual-core laptop crashed on vista 20 minutes after first use. Call me unlucky. I put in a slightly corrupted NTFS USB drive, and it crashed. I had to fix the drive in Ubuntu. Weird how Vista has NTFS as its default filesystem. EXT3 never crashed nautilus before, yet NTFS can crash explorer.exe (Yes, including my desktop, start menu, everything except mouse). I'm not a Microsoft-hater. I get smaller, but much more numerous problems in Linux too. Took me 3 hours to figure out compiz-fusion in Ubuntu Hardy (a bug there). I just think Vista is released to keep up with trends, so its slightly too early. Anyway, to steer back on topic, Microsoft has lots to learn from Apple. Apple has an EXTREMELY demanding OS. But it comes with really good computers. Microsoft packages real-time (probably mipmap?) blurring with Intel integrated graphics.
I'm not sticking up to apple, but fact is that you can run any OS, not just apple, in kernel-based virtualization at more that 80% of native speed I think. I only know how to run it in Linux, though.
I quite agree. I always Apple more than Microsoft, because they appeared to have less of such lawsuits, or I should say bribes, but this is quite outrageous I would say. I say the entire semiconductor industry should sue Moore now for discovering Moore's law, because it should not be known at that time...call it a trade secret?
What currency do you mean? If its USD, you might mave an extra zero. Unless everyone earn $20,000 a month?
How would you know how many vulnerabilities there actually are? It is impossible to exactly count them in Windows, or OS X. For example, Red Hat Desktop Workstation v5 has 70 vulnerabilities, while Windows Vista has 24, according to Secunia. That would contradict what most people think, but it is probably because Redhat is open source, while Windows is not. In this case, we are comparing two closed source operating systems, so the number of security vulnerabilities probably depended more on the testing each went through than the operating systems here.
I think a better system than levels is to make them floating-point (sorta), so the transaction between levels would be seamless, unless you are a person who looks at the 5th number behind the decimal point (Or maybe 16 for C++ minus 3 digits). However, the current level-based system is a staple of most RPGs, and gamers are just accustomed to them, just like graphics designers are accustomed to parallel projection in 3D, and layers in Gimp/PS (me at least). So speaking in a commercial sense, it would be unwise to remove the level based system, as it would mean that gamers would have to learn many concept from scratch.
It didn't decrease for me. The only thing is that I use Google's POP mail service. Using Evolution Mail. So I don't get spam. But if I go to Google Mail in Firefox, there are 100~500 unread mail in my spam folder normally. And my spam messages are deleted after 30 days. Wow.
Cellphones used to be used just to call people. That was back when they are not necessary, simply because we have public phones everywhere. But cellphones are much more useful than that nowadays. With 3G or even 3.5G connections, people are reading news headlines off a RSS feed using their cellphone, checking email using their cellphone, video calling their lady friends in the subway...these are things that public phones CANNOT do. Not forgetting the good old games. So face it. Cellphones are closing in on PDAs in terms of hardware. Many of them even have Wi-Fi, one of the major advantages of PDAs and PocketPCs over cellphones. The only reason their software is not as complex is because they use their own OSes. But with Nokia smartphones using modified Linux and Firefox, the gap between cellphones and PocketPCs are closing. Except that PocketPCs use Windows, maybe.
I agree to a certain extent, but not totally. A lot of famous, or maybe not-so-famous writers on this topic has written that Open-source software will triumph over propriety software. And the main reason to this is actually the organization of open source projects. They take a distributed approach, so to speak. There is no hierarchy, and therefore, most features that has been proposed or implemented by amateurs actually make it to a CVS build. There are 2 winning points to this. Firstly, the "features" can be critiqued by a larger audience, because many people are willing to test CVS builds, and without the limitations of "higher powers" to control what features make it and what not. And also, this lack of limitation is what draws certain people to programming for open source projects. Therefore, having a group of "core" contributors is not the standard organization of open source communities, and loses many of the advantages of being open source.
Yes I had this problem when I started ubuntu. But normally, individual packages can be easily installed with synaptic. Because in the Add/Remove programs menu, the programs are mainly "Meta packages", in synaptic they will be empty packages with all the other small programs of the suite as "dependencies". So you can just install one of the "dependencies" in synaptic, without install the whole packages. Of course that was off topic. Rough edges, to me, mean more than this. "Rough edges" are things such as problems with hibernation, problems with ATI graphics cards...this is no a problem with Linux, or Ubuntu normally. But look at it this way...hardware is designed to Microsoft's standards, not Ubuntu or Linux's standards
Look at it this way. Microsoft did NOT say Linux infringed their patents or something. They gave Kyocera permission to use their technology. Try to read the paragraph ignoring the highlighting/italics. It probably meant much of the products had embedded Linux, and that the embedded products required a technology that Microsoft patented. I can see this without as an undergraduate from high school, guys.
I am posting this on Ubuntu, and I agree with the rough edges. After all, I should say all your hardware are manufactured under Windows standards, and are not designed for Linux, so hardware-related bugs and errors always appear, unless the company actually releases the source code of the drivers. (I think Intel does). But I still prefer Linux over Windows, except when gaming. The main reason is because of my registry keys. I'm the sort who likes to try out programs and uninstall them hours or even minutes later, and because of that, Windows is not really for me. Every program leaves behind a small fragment of its registries when uninstalled...and now my registry keys take longer than anything to parse. Regedit is lagging...