Almost every 3G phone has a front-facing camera. At least Nokia and Sony-Ericsson seem to do that. In fact it's hard to think of a phone that doesn't have video call capabilities over the past 3-4 years, except for phones made by or for Americans.
They are getting away from CDMA. Ok, WiMax is also not the global standard and they will be as isolated in terms of roaming and compatible devices as before, but at least they didn't go for UMB.
Actually, this goes in steps. They went from ~1.18TeV (which was already the highest energy for a proton beam ever achieved in lab) to 3.5TeV. The experiments will run at 3.5TeV for some time, then another shutdown to get them to the design energy of 7TeV per beam (14 TeV per collision). All is happening as planned.
The "problems" you mention happened with every single collider, ever. When you get to a new scale, you expect things to happen differently from your original idea; so you plan to allow time to solve problems. The accelerator itself is an experiment, and one that is going very well.
You want hard results? ALICE published a science paper on collisions almost four months ago. You can see more from ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb. Lots of simulations, descriptions and detection methods, but at least the two "smaller" groups (LHCb and ALICE) have measurements already, at one sixth of the energy they were designed to work on. In fact, LHCb will only have actual b hadrons to see when they start colliding protons at 3.5TeV; but they still could find a meaningful result to publish, sooner than anticipated by anyone with even passing understanding of collider physics. Is that enough? Or do people actually believe things go like this?
There are absorption lines in sunlight. Photons whose energy matches an excitation level for atoms (or molecules) in the heliosphere are absorbed. This is very easy to see with a light spectrum analyzer, or in a Fraunhofer-style experiment. In a Fraunhofer difraction test you'll see something like this for sunlight, for example; a continuous spectrum wouldn't have black lines.
Sunlight is almost continuous, with some absorption lines. CFLs have a really low continuous emission, and huge emission lines. That is the difference: absorption lines vs emission lines.
Fortran is one of the most used languages in the world and the most used for HPC, because it's easy to code and fast. It was only on the last few years that C compilers started to compete against the best Fortran compilers out there, and so we have some HPC tools on C/C++. People tend to use the best tool for the job among those they know how to use, or learn a new one if the effort is worth it; and in some cases, "old" languages are the best tool (or learning new languages for a small improvement isn't worth it)
Easy, but a real bad thing if you care about sound quality. Reencoding a lossy file to another lossy file only amplifies the artifacts and degrades the sound. You can notice it plainly if you use a good pair of headphones.
Burning a CD and ripping it as a way to remove DRM is akin to saying that BD DRM has always been OK because you can remove it by playing the BD and filming it as it is shown on your TV with a video camera. Yes, you will end up with a DRM-less file containing the same music/video, but you do so through an unintended backdoor; and the quality is completely different.
In this case, goto is conceptually simpler and closer to the actual program workflow: the program goes to the same "places" as the player. You could make it with other constructs, but why?
Would possibly work, but one anti-proton would be more expensive than a huge amount of gold atoms. "Huge" as in "of the order of 10^23 (1e23, or 100 000 000 000 000 000 000 000) or more".
A huge anti-proton "factory" works at Fermilab. It contains more antiprotons in a given instant than all those who were ever created by men anywhere else in this planet. Its current record is about 5*10^12 (5e12, or 5 000 000 000 000) antiprotons. Sounds huge? Well, you'd need about 10^11 times more antiprotons just to convert one gram of, say, Neptunium to Uranium (one step on the periodic table).
Could be a good source of energy? Certainly. Feasible in your lifetime? Not a chance.
Another one was Mozilla's, and on that test Firefox got its ass handed to it by Opera (and Chrome/Safari, by a smaller margin). It's not Toms Hardware's fault if the people interested enough in Javascript performance to write a benchmark are usually interested in Javascript performance because they write Javascript engines.
Sounds very futuristic, really cool. What would be the next step?
I know: 3D chat rooms! Or even better, chat rooms are sooo 20th century: let's make a 3D social network! You would create your own avatar, purchase a house, meet with friends... It would be like a second life, but online!
Removing my tongue from my cheek for a second, if that's the usage it will get, I can't see how it would succeed when VRML failed doing the same (albeit slower) 15 years ago.
Windows XP is cheaper than a new LCD TV of the same size as a rear projection TV would have been, by at least one order of magnitude. At least here in Brazil.
Oxygen is great. It works perfectly on every colour scheme I've tried, light, dark, high-contrast, etc. I don't agree with its default window decoration style (active and inactive windows look too similar; that's OS X's influence), but I understand their reasoning. The style is my counter-argument to every "open source is ugly by definition because it's designed by programmers" troll.
BTW, is there a GTK scheme that looks similar to Oxygen?
However, it's not unique to OGG. AFAIK, MKV is also patent-free, and it's the standard container for torrents^Wprivate-encoded HD video. And it's a much better container anyway.
Actually, the "iPhone form factor" was introduced by Palm in 2004 (not counting all the 320x320 devices with a "graffiti" area below the screen). Your points are valid, though.
That's basically the company's way of saying, "if you damage your phone with unsigned code, it's your fault". Random unsigned code may contain viruses, for example (like the recent ones for jailbroken iPhones); signed code can be traced back to the original signer, who will have some explaining to do if he signed bad code. Signing the code you want to install means you understand the risks.
Regular users have no reason to install unsigned code, and they shouldn't do that unless they know what they are doing.
I say 100%. 100% of netbook market will be netbooks.
In other words, he never said that 90% of any market would be ARM; he said that 90% of the PCmarket would be netbooks, no matter if they run on ARM, x86, x86-64, or whatever processors; and that he hoped that ARM could be a real player on that market, not an "also-ran" in a virtual Intel monopoly.
If you have one already (even if it's still the default profile from an older Ubuntu install), you won't have Google replaced by Yahoo in it - it will respect the existing choice of a search engine.
Actually, it will explicitly change the system-wide default. Therefore, if you didn't change the setting from its default (Google), it will stay at the default (now Yahoo). It won't respect your existing choice if that choice was "Yes, I want Google, so I won't mess with that".
Existing profiles that were using the default (Google) will, by policy, remain using the default (now Yahoo). Ubuntu's policy has always been that: if you changed something we won't touch it, if you are on the default config then the new default will apply.
I'm not sure what would be done if someone explicitly selected Google, though.
Novell makes a cross-licensing deal with Microsoft, one that doesn't affect their users in any way, shape or form and gives benefits to both companies, then everybody and their dog says they won't touch OpenSuse with a 5-meter pole anymore and that only Microsoft shills will ever see a Suse desktop anymore.
Canonical makes an advertising deal with Yahoo/Microsoft, making ALL their users use a Microsoft product by default, and possibly giving more benefit to Microsoft/Yahoo (in marketshare) than to Canonical (they already got a cut from Google results), then someone saying they won't use or advocate Ubuntu gets modded as flamebait?
Which way is it? In every respect, this deal is as bad as Novell's; and in some ways, it's worse, because Linux users will be increasing Microsoft's cash reserves, reserves which can be used to buy governments to support a MS-only environment, to run anti-FLOSS FUD, etc. Besides this deal actually changes something for the users, unlike Novell's. And ideologically, it gives more legitimacy to Bing on FLOSS circles, which can be as much of a trojan horse (or better, the beginning of a slippery slope where "just one more" Microsoft product won't matter until we're fucked).
I can see someone saying neither deal matters that much, and neither impacts their companies' image. But I really can't see someone saying this deal is better for the FLOSS community than Novell's. Could someone who modded the parent as flamebait explain their reasonimg, please?
If a cheap slate computer's battery can last for 5 days of usage, I agree. If I have to recharge my book after a few hours, no.
You'll probably have to pick either battery life or features. And if the iPhone and the netbook craze told us something, it's that features don't always win over the market.
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Almost every 3G phone has a front-facing camera. At least Nokia and Sony-Ericsson seem to do that. In fact it's hard to think of a phone that doesn't have video call capabilities over the past 3-4 years, except for phones made by or for Americans.
They are getting away from CDMA. Ok, WiMax is also not the global standard and they will be as isolated in terms of roaming and compatible devices as before, but at least they didn't go for UMB.
A failed/disabled/malfunctional transponder can do much more harm than that.
I was surprised that those articles weren't in Spires, I was sure I saw them before. Thank you for confirming I'm not crazy.
Actually, this goes in steps. They went from ~1.18TeV (which was already the highest energy for a proton beam ever achieved in lab) to 3.5TeV. The experiments will run at 3.5TeV for some time, then another shutdown to get them to the design energy of 7TeV per beam (14 TeV per collision). All is happening as planned.
The "problems" you mention happened with every single collider, ever. When you get to a new scale, you expect things to happen differently from your original idea; so you plan to allow time to solve problems. The accelerator itself is an experiment, and one that is going very well.
You want hard results? ALICE published a science paper on collisions almost four months ago. You can see more from ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb. Lots of simulations, descriptions and detection methods, but at least the two "smaller" groups (LHCb and ALICE) have measurements already, at one sixth of the energy they were designed to work on. In fact, LHCb will only have actual b hadrons to see when they start colliding protons at 3.5TeV; but they still could find a meaningful result to publish, sooner than anticipated by anyone with even passing understanding of collider physics. Is that enough? Or do people actually believe things go like this?
There are absorption lines in sunlight. Photons whose energy matches an excitation level for atoms (or molecules) in the heliosphere are absorbed. This is very easy to see with a light spectrum analyzer, or in a Fraunhofer-style experiment. In a Fraunhofer difraction test you'll see something like this for sunlight, for example; a continuous spectrum wouldn't have black lines.
Sunlight is almost continuous, with some absorption lines. CFLs have a really low continuous emission, and huge emission lines. That is the difference: absorption lines vs emission lines.
Fortran is one of the most used languages in the world and the most used for HPC, because it's easy to code and fast. It was only on the last few years that C compilers started to compete against the best Fortran compilers out there, and so we have some HPC tools on C/C++. People tend to use the best tool for the job among those they know how to use, or learn a new one if the effort is worth it; and in some cases, "old" languages are the best tool (or learning new languages for a small improvement isn't worth it)
Easy, but a real bad thing if you care about sound quality. Reencoding a lossy file to another lossy file only amplifies the artifacts and degrades the sound. You can notice it plainly if you use a good pair of headphones.
Burning a CD and ripping it as a way to remove DRM is akin to saying that BD DRM has always been OK because you can remove it by playing the BD and filming it as it is shown on your TV with a video camera. Yes, you will end up with a DRM-less file containing the same music/video, but you do so through an unintended backdoor; and the quality is completely different.
In this case, goto is conceptually simpler and closer to the actual program workflow: the program goes to the same "places" as the player. You could make it with other constructs, but why?
Would possibly work, but one anti-proton would be more expensive than a huge amount of gold atoms. "Huge" as in "of the order of 10^23 (1e23, or 100 000 000 000 000 000 000 000) or more".
A huge anti-proton "factory" works at Fermilab. It contains more antiprotons in a given instant than all those who were ever created by men anywhere else in this planet. Its current record is about 5*10^12 (5e12, or 5 000 000 000 000) antiprotons. Sounds huge? Well, you'd need about 10^11 times more antiprotons just to convert one gram of, say, Neptunium to Uranium (one step on the periodic table).
Could be a good source of energy? Certainly. Feasible in your lifetime? Not a chance.
Another one was Mozilla's, and on that test Firefox got its ass handed to it by Opera (and Chrome/Safari, by a smaller margin). It's not Toms Hardware's fault if the people interested enough in Javascript performance to write a benchmark are usually interested in Javascript performance because they write Javascript engines.
Sounds very futuristic, really cool. What would be the next step?
I know: 3D chat rooms! Or even better, chat rooms are sooo 20th century: let's make a 3D social network! You would create your own avatar, purchase a house, meet with friends... It would be like a second life, but online!
Removing my tongue from my cheek for a second, if that's the usage it will get, I can't see how it would succeed when VRML failed doing the same (albeit slower) 15 years ago.
Windows XP is cheaper than a new LCD TV of the same size as a rear projection TV would have been, by at least one order of magnitude. At least here in Brazil.
Oxygen is great. It works perfectly on every colour scheme I've tried, light, dark, high-contrast, etc. I don't agree with its default window decoration style (active and inactive windows look too similar; that's OS X's influence), but I understand their reasoning. The style is my counter-argument to every "open source is ugly by definition because it's designed by programmers" troll.
BTW, is there a GTK scheme that looks similar to Oxygen?
However, it's not unique to OGG. AFAIK, MKV is also patent-free, and it's the standard container for torrents^Wprivate-encoded HD video. And it's a much better container anyway.
Actually, the "iPhone form factor" was introduced by Palm in 2004 (not counting all the 320x320 devices with a "graffiti" area below the screen). Your points are valid, though.
That's basically the company's way of saying, "if you damage your phone with unsigned code, it's your fault". Random unsigned code may contain viruses, for example (like the recent ones for jailbroken iPhones); signed code can be traced back to the original signer, who will have some explaining to do if he signed bad code. Signing the code you want to install means you understand the risks.
Regular users have no reason to install unsigned code, and they shouldn't do that unless they know what they are doing.
"Correlation found between depression and high Internet usage"?
I'm not a native English speaker, but that sounds pretty unbiased to me.
I say 100%. 100% of netbook market will be netbooks.
In other words, he never said that 90% of any market would be ARM; he said that 90% of the PCmarket would be netbooks, no matter if they run on ARM, x86, x86-64, or whatever processors; and that he hoped that ARM could be a real player on that market, not an "also-ran" in a virtual Intel monopoly.
If you have one already (even if it's still the default profile from an older Ubuntu install), you won't have Google replaced by Yahoo in it - it will respect the existing choice of a search engine.
Actually, it will explicitly change the system-wide default. Therefore, if you didn't change the setting from its default (Google), it will stay at the default (now Yahoo). It won't respect your existing choice if that choice was "Yes, I want Google, so I won't mess with that".
Depends on the exact CPUs. A 1GHz Cortex A8 should run circles around a 1.7GHz Netburst-based Celeron, for example.
Existing profiles that were using the default (Google) will, by policy, remain using the default (now Yahoo). Ubuntu's policy has always been that: if you changed something we won't touch it, if you are on the default config then the new default will apply.
I'm not sure what would be done if someone explicitly selected Google, though.
Funny.
Novell makes a cross-licensing deal with Microsoft, one that doesn't affect their users in any way, shape or form and gives benefits to both companies, then everybody and their dog says they won't touch OpenSuse with a 5-meter pole anymore and that only Microsoft shills will ever see a Suse desktop anymore.
Canonical makes an advertising deal with Yahoo/Microsoft, making ALL their users use a Microsoft product by default, and possibly giving more benefit to Microsoft/Yahoo (in marketshare) than to Canonical (they already got a cut from Google results), then someone saying they won't use or advocate Ubuntu gets modded as flamebait?
Which way is it? In every respect, this deal is as bad as Novell's; and in some ways, it's worse, because Linux users will be increasing Microsoft's cash reserves, reserves which can be used to buy governments to support a MS-only environment, to run anti-FLOSS FUD, etc. Besides this deal actually changes something for the users, unlike Novell's. And ideologically, it gives more legitimacy to Bing on FLOSS circles, which can be as much of a trojan horse (or better, the beginning of a slippery slope where "just one more" Microsoft product won't matter until we're fucked).
I can see someone saying neither deal matters that much, and neither impacts their companies' image. But I really can't see someone saying this deal is better for the FLOSS community than Novell's. Could someone who modded the parent as flamebait explain their reasonimg, please?
It's all a conspiracy to make conspiracy theorist sound overly paranoid, thus removing any credibility from true conspiracy theories.
If a cheap slate computer's battery can last for 5 days of usage, I agree. If I have to recharge my book after a few hours, no.
You'll probably have to pick either battery life or features. And if the iPhone and the netbook craze told us something, it's that features don't always win over the market.