The international commission of scientists who originally decided that the world's scientists should standardize around System International I had to write 'IEC', because I always get the acronym 'ICOSWODTTWSSSASI' wrong. These guys should think of a better name, really.
In the olden days, you swapped the boot and root floppies; here you swap the hard drives That's a recommended upgrade, and is completely independent of the install process. Actually I don't see their point: they upgrade their 40/60/80GB disk to a 250GB disk, and then allocate 10GB for Linux.
The whole guide boils down to: boot from CD, install 'kboot', boot into PS3, tell the PS3 to allow other OSs, boot from CD, install. Profit.
Canonical does not plan to make the Netbook remix available for download or sale Not true. The won't make them available as ISOs ready for installation (since apparently they don't recommend it), but the packages can be downloaded from Launchpad.
* View > Toolbars > Customise * Drag the "Open new window" icon to your toolbar
Now you can drag a tab or the current page's favicon into the button to open it in a new window. Also works for text URLs. It shares some limitations with the keyboard trick though, in that it leaves the tab open.
All Data is touched by Humans, so that is a specious argument. It's not, it implies that it's not a matter of whether the data is human-provided or not, but of what amount (and type) of human implication is involved.
Clearly WikiaSearch will need anti-spam and anti-censorship measures, but it may well be feasible to make it a good search engine.
The problem IMO is that the quality of the search results is affected by the popularity of the search engine, and the popularity of the search engine is affected the quality of the search results. So for this to work they need a good basic search algorithm to start with. Notice that the success of Wikipedia was possible because there were no other (popular) online encyclopedias available. Not the case of search engines.
The results are based on an algorithm, not human manipulation. The GP's point is that the data the algorithm uses is supplied by humans (those who write the webpages that link to other webpages).
If you're switching away from IE, you might as well switch away from its annoying pet chihuahua WL Messenger. I have, I don't have Windows these days. But that comes at the cost of dropping video and/or audio and/or file transfers, which is kind of a pity.
GAIM, Miranda, Pidgin, and Trillian (free edition) come to mind... Gaim and Pidgin (and now Carrier) are the same thing. I personally like aMSN, and sometimes Mercury Messenger. These are MSN-only, though.
And any program which follows the guidelines will launch it, and not a hardcoded internet explorer. Like Windows Live Messenger, which pops up IE regardless of the default browser setting. One would think that WL Messenger, being written by Microsoft, would be more aware of system settings and their intended effects..
Unless you have bound Alt + -> to "Horizontal Maximize" in compiz. Of course, if you happen to briefly forget you had, you may stare at the page for a while wondering "Wow - just how the hell do they do that!".
Not saying this happened to me. It was.. erm.. a.. friend of mine.
Only if by "all over the world" you mean English-speaking countries and Brazil. Citing Wikipedia,
Most countries and languages in the world use the traditional long scale somewhat in contrast with your statement.
Just tried under Sun's VirtualBox (host=Ubuntu,guest=XP,cpu=AMD64 X2) with a.avi movie (vcodec=xvid,vrate=24fps,resolution=672x368,acodec=ac-3,arate=48kHz) and it works fine. Seek is not snappy, but that's about all I can complain about.
and at 4000EUR, that comes to what (rolls dice, consults sundial) about $20000 American? That made me try to extrapolate the 2002-2008 trend of the exchange rate to see when that would become true (provided the trend continues). I get 2014 and 2045 with linear extrapolations, which are gross approximations, and 2023 with an exponential extrapolation. Does anyone know how exchange rates should be expected to behave with respect to time?
As far as I know, GPUs are amazingly fast at matrix operations and other things allowing vectorized evaluation. I guess these tomography applications must make massive use of these. After all, tomography is in essence image processing..
As a computational physicist my answer is probably biased, but I see programming as a fundamental tool one has to learn in the Physics curriculum.
As an undergraduate (in Spain) I had two courses devoted to numerical methods, with practicals in Fortran 77, and at least two more where coding was part of an optional practical. Then I had a PhD-oriented course about Fortran 90. At times I wish I had been introduced to C/C++, but switching languages is very easy compared to learning the first one. I did my PhD (in the UK) on Computational Physics, and now I'm working as a postdoc in the same field.
But regardless of whether the student uses programming as a tool afterwards or not, learning programming means learning different ways of thinking. You learn that problem-solving is a matter of dividing a complex task into trivial pieces and putting them together, and you learn to express your ideas into a strict language. This broadens the student's capacity to pose and solve problems, which is what Physics is all about.
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IEC 60027-2 : making life easier for everyone since 1999.
The whole guide boils down to: boot from CD, install 'kboot', boot into PS3, tell the PS3 to allow other OSs, boot from CD, install. Profit.
More GUI-oriented:
* View > Toolbars > Customise
* Drag the "Open new window" icon to your toolbar
Now you can drag a tab or the current page's favicon into the button to open it in a new window. Also works for text URLs. It shares some limitations with the keyboard trick though, in that it leaves the tab open.
Clearly WikiaSearch will need anti-spam and anti-censorship measures, but it may well be feasible to make it a good search engine.
The problem IMO is that the quality of the search results is affected by the popularity of the search engine, and the popularity of the search engine is affected the quality of the search results. So for this to work they need a good basic search algorithm to start with. Notice that the success of Wikipedia was possible because there were no other (popular) online encyclopedias available. Not the case of search engines.
Try clicking on the 'mail' icon in the main window.
I recently went through the IE 6->7 upgrade (in a virtual machine). IE does it.
Unless you have bound Alt + -> to "Horizontal Maximize" in compiz. Of course, if you happen to briefly forget you had, you may stare at the page for a while wondering "Wow - just how the hell do they do that!".
Not saying this happened to me. It was.. erm.. a.. friend of mine.
The UK and the US use the same 'billion', as do most other English-speaking countries. It's (about) the rest of the world that disagrees. More here.
I personally prefer billion=10^12. 'Thousand million' doesn't take that long to pronounce, and you quickly run out of *illions otherwise.
A millimeter is larger than you think. Grab a ruler and check.
Just tried under Sun's VirtualBox (host=Ubuntu,guest=XP,cpu=AMD64 X2) with a .avi movie (vcodec=xvid,vrate=24fps,resolution=672x368,acodec=ac-3,arate=48kHz) and it works fine. Seek is not snappy, but that's about all I can complain about.
As far as I know, GPUs are amazingly fast at matrix operations and other things allowing vectorized evaluation. I guess these tomography applications must make massive use of these. After all, tomography is in essence image processing..
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And virus scanners? I always end up with my buttocks in quarantine. "Potential source of spam", they say. Bastards.
But I prefer that to airport security in any case..
Oh those times... [K]ill them all!
As a computational physicist my answer is probably biased, but I see programming as a fundamental tool one has to learn in the Physics curriculum.
As an undergraduate (in Spain) I had two courses devoted to numerical methods, with practicals in Fortran 77, and at least two more where coding was part of an optional practical. Then I had a PhD-oriented course about Fortran 90. At times I wish I had been introduced to C/C++, but switching languages is very easy compared to learning the first one. I did my PhD (in the UK) on Computational Physics, and now I'm working as a postdoc in the same field.
But regardless of whether the student uses programming as a tool afterwards or not, learning programming means learning different ways of thinking. You learn that problem-solving is a matter of dividing a complex task into trivial pieces and putting them together, and you learn to express your ideas into a strict language. This broadens the student's capacity to pose and solve problems, which is what Physics is all about.