A document with some official stamps can be made by anyone. Pictures of the saucerer and aliens with mettalic clothes would be more interesting. Not that those couldn't be photoshopped of course...
I've been using SeaMonkey forever, until a few months ago when I was tired of it randomly crashing with an error about something like "'RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter)'". That happened at least a few times daily, you're busy browsing and stuff, and at the most random moment, suddenly the SeaMonkey window is just gone because it crashed this way. Especially annoying when it happened during typing text or watching something. SeaMonkey owned, but this was a stopper for me. Neither SeaMonkey nor ArchLinux provided any help that fixed the problem, there's nothing I could do.
It causes "ePDFViewer" (the random PDF viewer firefox and/or linux decided to bring as default option when opening such link in firefox) to hang for a minute and use 100% CPU whenever scrolling or zooming.
Integration by parts is boring though. I found it sleep-inducing in high school. Computers are for solving that. The human brain should do creative things with all this math instead!
Go take a look at Newgrounds.com at the variety of games including fun, experimental, commercial, indie, weird, user-created,...., games. Then try to say this is not art.
The architecture on which you run the software also determines quite a lot of what you can do and how the software is executed. You need a certain topology of the hardware, otherwise it is impossible to do certain tasks efficiently. There is a huge difference between a slow but massively interconnected network like the brain, and a sequential microprocessor running instructions one by one at high speed.
Why is this article written in past tense? It contains funny paragraphs like this:
'While fundamental physics and molecular biology dominated the past century’s innovations, Sejnowski said the years between 2000 and 2050 was the “age of information”.'
When spending money on a supercomputer, wouldn't you do it to do something useful with it? I'm sure if it gets built, it's built and optimized for a certain purpose other than just being in spot 1 of the Top500 list. On the other hand, if someone does spend the money on a supercomputer purely to have it be in spot 1, well, it's their money and their choice...
I see. I'm not a biologist, but I'd never have said a life form using a different kind of chemistry for its DNA, or even a life form using something completely different than DNA would be impossible. I don't even exclude things such as life forms based on totally different physics, scales of time, scales of size, and so on. We currently don't even 100% know how our own DNA fully works and how it came into existence. So who are we to say that something else is impossible!:)
Actually it's very interesting then, interesting because it'll cause people to think about new possibilities, nice!
I know that in the past I finished all levels of a game, repeated it, downloaded custom levels, created custom levels, repeated it again, and so on... However now I'm indeed less likely to do that, but I think this has something to do with the fact that I grow older, so I'm not sure if it's really the fault of the games. I know I'm less attracted to them, because there's more difficulty in playing them (they're more locked in, DRM stuff, slow load times, no more LAN connection, etc...). I still play indie games and Flash games though, simply because they start up much faster, can be played in Linux and are enjoying.
IMHO a backup of something important should be done with the simplest method possible. Put it on a medium (optical, HD,...) and put the medium in a cupboard to never touch anymore. Why trust a program of which you don't know exactly what it does and that can be influenced by other programs as turns out now?
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A document with some official stamps can be made by anyone. Pictures of the saucerer and aliens with mettalic clothes would be more interesting. Not that those couldn't be photoshopped of course...
I wonder if someone is able to create something similar using an $20 webcam and some coding? :)
I've been using SeaMonkey forever, until a few months ago when I was tired of it randomly crashing with an error about something like "'RenderBadPicture (invalid Picture parameter)'". That happened at least a few times daily, you're busy browsing and stuff, and at the most random moment, suddenly the SeaMonkey window is just gone because it crashed this way. Especially annoying when it happened during typing text or watching something. SeaMonkey owned, but this was a stopper for me. Neither SeaMonkey nor ArchLinux provided any help that fixed the problem, there's nothing I could do.
It causes "ePDFViewer" (the random PDF viewer firefox and/or linux decided to bring as default option when opening such link in firefox) to hang for a minute and use 100% CPU whenever scrolling or zooming.
This kid is clearly a genious AND a good tutor.
Integration by parts is boring though. I found it sleep-inducing in high school. Computers are for solving that. The human brain should do creative things with all this math instead!
I think you meant the MeeAn calendar!
I mean, a hasty release wouldn't be good for the quality, right?
What, are those zynga chips worth actual money? As far as I remember you got them for free all the time, removing the point of the whole game.
Maybe because it requires certificates that cost money and annoy users when they expire?
Aw come on, the DOS4GW era was great!
Go take a look at Newgrounds.com at the variety of games including fun, experimental, commercial, indie, weird, user-created, ...., games. Then try to say this is not art.
I see no reason at all why an ambitious professional should hide a passion for comic books. Does anyone see any problem at all? I don't.
The architecture on which you run the software also determines quite a lot of what you can do and how the software is executed. You need a certain topology of the hardware, otherwise it is impossible to do certain tasks efficiently. There is a huge difference between a slow but massively interconnected network like the brain, and a sequential microprocessor running instructions one by one at high speed.
Why is this article written in past tense? It contains funny paragraphs like this:
'While fundamental physics and molecular biology dominated the past century’s innovations, Sejnowski said the years between 2000 and 2050 was the “age of information”.'
2050 isn't really the past, right?
Maybe they should release an Australian version of the game, where you just slap each other instead of fighting.
Most printers and scanners work under Linux. Use compatible hardware when you switch to Linux?
When spending money on a supercomputer, wouldn't you do it to do something useful with it? I'm sure if it gets built, it's built and optimized for a certain purpose other than just being in spot 1 of the Top500 list. On the other hand, if someone does spend the money on a supercomputer purely to have it be in spot 1, well, it's their money and their choice...
That link times out for me. It must have lost its IP address!
I see. I'm not a biologist, but I'd never have said a life form using a different kind of chemistry for its DNA, or even a life form using something completely different than DNA would be impossible. I don't even exclude things such as life forms based on totally different physics, scales of time, scales of size, and so on. We currently don't even 100% know how our own DNA fully works and how it came into existence. So who are we to say that something else is impossible! :)
Actually it's very interesting then, interesting because it'll cause people to think about new possibilities, nice!
If not, kind of boring. I mean, still interesting, and stuff, but if it's on another planet it'd be a lot of times more interesting!
Then I guess cats are better at math.
That is no offense to me. I started playing games in the Wolfenstein 3D and Duke 3D era, up until the Unreal Tournament and Quake 3 era.
I know that in the past I finished all levels of a game, repeated it, downloaded custom levels, created custom levels, repeated it again, and so on... However now I'm indeed less likely to do that, but I think this has something to do with the fact that I grow older, so I'm not sure if it's really the fault of the games. I know I'm less attracted to them, because there's more difficulty in playing them (they're more locked in, DRM stuff, slow load times, no more LAN connection, etc...). I still play indie games and Flash games though, simply because they start up much faster, can be played in Linux and are enjoying.
Don't use Windows for important industrial systems.
IMHO a backup of something important should be done with the simplest method possible. Put it on a medium (optical, HD, ...) and put the medium in a cupboard to never touch anymore. Why trust a program of which you don't know exactly what it does and that can be influenced by other programs as turns out now?