When they say "stable" it is my clear impression that they mean:
1) No behavior changes, not even of undocumented interfaces. Basically, no user program should stop working because of a stable kernel upgrade. 2) No kernel module interface changes; no module should need updating because of changes to the kernel. Usually in an unstable kernel they will make changes to the interface without updating even the modules in the kernel, and the depend on the module maintainers to keep up. 3) And the catch-all: No huge changes which is likely to contain hidden bugs.
Wikipedia is a registered not-for-profit, so it hasn't paid off in a narrow economic sense, and isn't planned to.
There are no ads in wikipedia, and no plans to introduce ads as far as I know. The only source of funding is donations. Wikipedia could use more funding than it currently has, to deal with expected growth and perhaps to hire a few full-time employees. You can donate here.
Text messaging is just another means to disconnect yourself from actually TALKING to someone, IMO.
That is true, and why I use it sometimes.
Sometimes I sms when I would have talked, but sometimes I also sms where I would not have communicated if I had not had the opportunity to use an sms. Overall I think it makes me more social.
According to this article the Cell chip will not be used in the PS3.
I can see there are a lot of websites stating that the Cell will be used in the PS3. Can anybody back that up with an official statement from Sony, or are those sites just stating that because there are a lot of web sites stating it?
Don't have text messaging enabled for your phone.;-)
Here in Europe many people actually use their phones more for SMS than for talking in. I do. I have heard that people in the US don't really use SMS. (Is that still true?)
Though I know you were mostly joking, cell phone users on this side of the pond won't get the joke.
Right on about processor speed not determining how fast a computer is.
Why do people call the clock frequency for the "processor speed"? For me processor speed is how a processor performs in benchmarks. Calling the clock frequency speed is like calling a car's RPM for speed, when the obvious real measure is how fast the car is actually going.
I suspect from the point of view of the mine-clearing-canine group from Canada (they were recently spotlighted in a television program on National Geographic here) - it is the cost of training the animal that is the more serious loss, than the emotional suffering the handlers may suffer from the loss of a companion. For one project they had on the order of a half-dozen animals. So, losing one in an accident would be a pretty serious reduction in force.
As the article says (and one can guess): the rats are also lighter than dog, so they don't trigger the mines even when they step on then.
Also, the article says that dogs have a tendency to give false results because they sense what the owner wants.
You are correct. This is a direct consequence of archimedes' law of buoyancy. The law states that the floating object (ice) will displace exactly it's own weight in water. As the weight of the ice and the displaced water is the same, it follows that the volumen of water displaced is exactly the same as the volumen of the melted ice.
Your post presumes that MS is omnescient. Perhaps they thought that SCO had a better chance of winning that they appear to have now.
Consider that MS probably got a good deal of their information from SCO. There is no reason to assume that SCO was any more accurate with their estimates towards MS than they are towards us. And MS at the time they made their informed (or misinformed) choices didn't have the benefit of all the information that has become available in the last months.
it would be incredibly difficult to land a craft that would have the required fuel to escape from Mars
Some of the serious mars expedition plans sends up an refinery which generate Hydrogen and Oxygen from the martian air in advance. Then you dont have to bring the return trip fuel with you.
You can send the refinery in advance so you know the fuel is there waiting for you.
The company's name was coined by Christiansen in 1934, from the Danish phrase "leg godt", meaning "play well". It is a myth that the word also means "I put together" or "I assemble" in Latin. "Lego" is in fact a Latin word, but it means "I read".
LQ) What direction do you see RH taking, both short and long term?
JH) Short term: enterprise verticals, security, virtualization, management, government adoption, globalization. Open source is spreading like brish fire in other countries. Emerging economies see it as the great equalizer.
Long term: to take over the world and drive our slave army before us doing our evil bidding. Wait, that was supposed to be internal only.
"An ion engine does not have enough force to lift a sheet of paper more than a few inches"
If it can lift it a few inches, then it can lift it to orbit with it's constant acceleration. What you mean to say is that it excerts the same force on a craft as a sheet of paper excerts on a table it is lying on.
"The reason for slow inital acceleration"
The acceleration is constant. The craft does, however, have a low initial speed.
I am that that deep into how good their models are, but I do get the impression from various summeries that they are overall pretty good.
Sure there are places where the models don't correct everything perfectly, but that doesn't have to mean the whole modelling is worthless.
The scientists openly admits the weak points of their theories; this is a strength of the scientific method. It shouldn't be used to discard everything else they have said, but rather lend integrity to them when they do speak out.
This "there is a flaw so everything they say is bunk" reminds me of the creatitionists attack on the evolution theory.
There is a bit more reason to believe CO2 is causing the warmup than corrolation.
Scientists are running climate models on supercomputers, and simulating the effect with and without the human-emitted CO2. When the scientists recommend cutting CO2 emition is desireable it is probably because they have run the numbers through their simulations.
Legacy PCI slots will exist on their own, and will sit adjacent to native PCI-Express connectors.
So, no, you can't plug old PCI cards into express slots. Also of interest:
It will be possible to "up-plug" smaller PCI Express cards into larger slots, but not vice-versa. Down-plugging is not allowed-- there's no fallback mode for larger link-width cards to operate in smaller slots.
Having instruktions of length 64 bit is also an advantage.
It allows you to set aside more bits for specifying the registers the instruction use, allowing you to have more registers. For example the Itanium has 128 registers. When you have 128 registers you need to use 7 bits to specify one, which means fx an add instruction which needs to specify 3 must use 21 bits just for register specification.
I think there must be other tricks you can use with the extra bits, but I am not an expert.
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A light bulb is a non-directed optical source. By turning the light bulb on and off in morse code you would have a non-directed optical signal. :)
Take for example Deep Crack (luminaries, remember that one?). Perfect example of specialized hardware for a single job.
Wikipedia has an article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Crack
When they say "stable" it is my clear impression that they mean:
1) No behavior changes, not even of undocumented interfaces. Basically, no user program should stop working because of a stable kernel upgrade.
2) No kernel module interface changes; no module should need updating because of changes to the kernel. Usually in an unstable kernel they will make changes to the interface without updating even the modules in the kernel, and the depend on the module maintainers to keep up.
3) And the catch-all: No huge changes which is likely to contain hidden bugs.
It needs to be in their hand on the 15th, which they say somewhere means that it must be written by the 13th so they can mail it.
My impression is that a lot of work still needs to be done, but I haven't used that much time looking at it.
Wikipedia is a registered not-for-profit, so it hasn't paid off in a narrow economic sense, and isn't planned to.
There are no ads in wikipedia, and no plans to introduce ads as far as I know. The only source of funding is donations. Wikipedia could use more funding than it currently has, to deal with expected growth and perhaps to hire a few full-time employees. You can donate here.
I am almost sure a big organisation will eventually give found like UNESCO or UN
Some wikipedians are currently writing an application for a grant of $500,000 from The National Endowment for the Humanities.
It needs to be done by tuesday (tomorrow!), and they seem to be far from finished...
Text messaging is just another means to disconnect yourself from actually TALKING to someone, IMO.
That is true, and why I use it sometimes.
Sometimes I sms when I would have talked, but sometimes I also sms where I would not have communicated if I had not had the opportunity to use an sms. Overall I think it makes me more social.
According to this article the Cell chip will not be used in the PS3.
I can see there are a lot of websites stating that the Cell will be used in the PS3. Can anybody back that up with an official statement from Sony, or are those sites just stating that because there are a lot of web sites stating it?
Don't have text messaging enabled for your phone. ;-)
Here in Europe many people actually use their phones more for SMS than for talking in. I do. I have heard that people in the US don't really use SMS. (Is that still true?)
Though I know you were mostly joking, cell phone users on this side of the pond won't get the joke.
I assume you are talking about this: Benchmarking BSD and Linux from this slashdot story. Linux 2.6 is the clear winner in all almost all tests.
(The trick for finding it was to use google instead of slashdot search. This search found it at once.)
Right on about processor speed not determining how fast a computer is.
Why do people call the clock frequency for the "processor speed"? For me processor speed is how a processor performs in benchmarks. Calling the clock frequency speed is like calling a car's RPM for speed, when the obvious real measure is how fast the car is actually going.
I think Chernobyl melted down around 82?
1986
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I suspect from the point of view of the mine-clearing-canine group from Canada (they were recently spotlighted in a television program on National Geographic here) - it is the cost of training the animal that is the more serious loss, than the emotional suffering the handlers may suffer from the loss of a companion. For one project they had on the order of a half-dozen animals. So, losing one in an accident would be a pretty serious reduction in force.
As the article says (and one can guess): the rats are also lighter than dog, so they don't trigger the mines even when they step on then.
Also, the article says that dogs have a tendency to give false results because they sense what the owner wants.
You are correct. This is a direct consequence of archimedes' law of buoyancy.
The law states that the floating object (ice) will displace exactly it's own weight in water.
As the weight of the ice and the displaced water is the same, it follows that the volumen of water displaced is exactly the same as the volumen of the melted ice.
Your post presumes that MS is omnescient. Perhaps they thought that SCO had a better chance of winning that they appear to have now.
Consider that MS probably got a good deal of their information from SCO. There is no reason to assume that SCO was any more accurate with their estimates towards MS than they are towards us. And MS at the time they made their informed (or misinformed) choices didn't have the benefit of all the information that has become available in the last months.
dev=ATAPI:x,x,x
dev=/dev/hdc works for me. Seems simpler.
it would be incredibly difficult to land a craft that would have the required fuel to escape from Mars
Some of the serious mars expedition plans sends up an refinery which generate Hydrogen and Oxygen from the martian air in advance. Then you dont have to bring the return trip fuel with you.
You can send the refinery in advance so you know the fuel is there waiting for you.
From wikipedia:
The company's name was coined by Christiansen in 1934, from the Danish phrase "leg godt", meaning "play well". It is a myth that the word also means "I put together" or "I assemble" in Latin. "Lego" is in fact a Latin word, but it means "I read".
I quite liked this one :) :
LQ) What direction do you see RH taking, both short and long term?
JH) Short term: enterprise verticals, security, virtualization, management, government adoption, globalization. Open source is spreading like brish fire in other countries. Emerging economies see it as the great equalizer.
Long term: to take over the world and drive our slave army before us doing our evil bidding. Wait, that was supposed to be internal only.
"An ion engine does not have enough force to lift a sheet of paper more than a few inches"
If it can lift it a few inches, then it can lift it to orbit with it's constant acceleration. What you mean to say is that it excerts the same force on a craft as a sheet of paper excerts on a table it is lying on.
"The reason for slow inital acceleration"
The acceleration is constant. The craft does, however, have a low initial speed.
I am that that deep into how good their models are, but I do get the impression from various summeries that they are overall pretty good.
Sure there are places where the models don't correct everything perfectly, but that doesn't have to mean the whole modelling is worthless.
The scientists openly admits the weak points of their theories; this is a strength of the scientific method. It shouldn't be used to discard everything else they have said, but rather lend integrity to them when they do speak out.
This "there is a flaw so everything they say is bunk" reminds me of the creatitionists attack on the evolution theory.
There is a bit more reason to believe CO2 is causing the warmup than corrolation.
Scientists are running climate models on supercomputers, and simulating the effect with and without the human-emitted CO2. When the scientists recommend cutting CO2 emition is desireable it is probably because they have run the numbers through their simulations.
I found a link about this: http://www.space.com/scienceastronomy/helium3_0006 30.html
on extremetech they say that
Legacy PCI slots will exist on their own, and will sit adjacent to native PCI-Express connectors.
So, no, you can't plug old PCI cards into express slots.
Also of interest:
It will be possible to "up-plug" smaller PCI Express cards into larger slots, but not vice-versa. Down-plugging is not allowed-- there's no fallback mode for larger link-width cards to operate in smaller slots.
Having instruktions of length 64 bit is also an advantage.
It allows you to set aside more bits for specifying the registers the instruction use, allowing you to have more registers. For example the Itanium has 128 registers. When you have 128 registers you need to use 7 bits to specify one, which means fx an add instruction which needs to specify 3 must use 21 bits just for register specification.
I think there must be other tricks you can use with the extra bits, but I am not an expert.