Why would a smaller disk be faster? Data can be read more rapidly from the outside of a conventional hard disk because it moves more rapidly than the inside. So shrinking the disk would give a slower read unless you upped the rpm which would increase power.
Also they wouldn't lose money anyway because with the UK price at 1.5 times as much anyway the exchange rates would have to be very extreme to make up the cost.
I think AI's are gong through a transition period where before they were almost entirely scripted so in an fps they wander around a set route until you spot them and then they perform the attack action. Now they are trying to make the AI think more for itself so that you can get more interesting game play that adapts to what you do. The problem is that the new stuff is pretty difficult so you get quite a few issues like you say because the testers cannot pick out and fix all of the little problems because the system is complicated and hard to understand. If you ever look at a system like that you will realise how hard it is to fix issues because you get a lot of chaos so reproducing an issue is difficult let alone fixing it.
Based on Wolfram Alpha the Earth gets about 1.3 kW per square meter. with the earth being 6.4*10^6 m radius with find the area facing the sun is pi*r^2 = 1.28*10^14. Multiplied by the power gives 1.67*10^17 W hitting the earth. Now since the power company wants to sell 2*10^8 W of power we can conclude that the extra energy reaching the Earth would be in the region of 0.0000001%.
Programs on Ubuntu can ask for root permissions if they need it without you having to go to the command line. The main problem on windows is that software was designed to be run by people as an admin because that is what everybody did before Vista. So you get lots of unnecessary alerts because programs are poorly written. Linux has had a culture of being strict with permissions from the start so you will find that programs are very uniform and generalyl do things properly. This applies to things like where files are placed as well. On linux applications will put everything for the user in their home directory because otherwise they need root permissions so everything is nicely organised. Wheras on XP I had applications dumping stuff all over the place, some even used the install directory to store things, others put stuff in My Documents, polluting the users files.
I really hope you are joking with this. The amount of energy needed to even register on their instruments would be huge. The pressure they exert is completely irrelevant other than for the triggering effect that it would have.
People providing decoders have to pay the license fee.
"Royalties to be paid by end product manufacturers for an encoder, a decoder or both (âoeunitâ) begin at US $0.20 per unit after the first 100,000 units each year. There are no royalties on the first 100,000 units each year. Above 5 million units per year, the royalty is US $0.10 per unit."
This causes issues for free software especially with the gpl because there is a clause which says you cannot restrict the distribution of the code but by having to pay a license fee this is a restriction.
That isn't reality? I think I must be misunderstanding this quote from the mpeg news release on their licensing.
"Title-by-Title - For AVC video (either on physical media or ordered and paid for on title-by-title basis, e.g., PPV, VOD, or digital download, where viewer determines titles to be viewed or number of viewable titles are otherwise limited), there are no royalties up to 12 minutes in length. For AVC video greater than 12 minutes in length, royalties are the lower of (a) 2% of the price paid to the licensee from licenseeâ(TM)s first arms length sale or (b) $0.02 per title. Categories of licensees include (i) replicators of physical media, and (ii) service/content providers (e.g., cable, satellite, video DSL, internet and mobile) of VOD, PPV and electronic downloads to end users. "
I think that they just don't care. I disagree about the best results because you can look at ogg vorbis which was free and better quality at is was ignored because everything used other things. People hear the term mp3, they see the files are mp3 files and they think they are music files. They don't know what it means and don't care, they probably haven't heard about anything other than mp3's because you only get mp3 mentioned in marketing.
If you believe what is the the article then "Apple seemed really excited". Also given that the developer did go to the trouble of contacting Apple I would have thought that a positive response would have been given or they would not have bothered developing the thing. So I would contest that it is morally wrong because the developer acted in good faith given the communication they had had with Apple.
It is cleaner and easier to use a method which just uses html to get an identical effect without needing javascript. If you compare the two methods I think you would agree. I don't see why there is such a big fuss though.
The problem with 500 year old books is that they are unusable for actually looking at. They are kept in special climate controlled conditions and oyu need special permissions and gloves etc. to look at them. Digital copies on the other hand do not degrade when looking at them and can be very easily backed up.
You didn't mention what version of Firefox you are using. The article was talking about 3.5 and that is an important distinction. I am using 3.5 on Linux and it does make a big difference usually about half the ram of 3.0 plus it releases memory more rapidly when you close tabs. Also the amount of ram on the machine is an important factor since Firefox does adapt its memory usage depending on the ram available. I have 768mb of ram and I have never seen firefox 3 above 45% and that was a very unusual case with some nasty flash game. It was commonly about 20-25% with firefox 3.0 and with 3.5 it usually has 10-15%. As you may have guessed conky only gives me percentages and I can't be bothered to convert.
Houses are different. If you build a house you get one house. If you make a program then you get unlimited copies of that program. So if somebody buys the bettr house then the rubbish house is the only one left but with software if somebody buys the better program then nothing has changed.
I think the market share would be large enough to make it worth the time. Putting Linux use at 1% that is still a pretty large section of the market and Linux users will be the kind of people who will know to look elsewhere. Also the extra work needed probably isn't that large since they already have to write drivers for Apple which is a *nix system.
Blocking port 80 for the standard windows user will have no effect. People do not run servers listening to port 80 unless they know what they are doing or somebody else did it for them. So port 80 on most PCs is about as vulnerable as any other port.
The Times article mentions that he posted information about a case which was still going through the courts. He made it anonymous but the circumstances could be linked by anyone on the Jury who was reading the article, I would consider this unacceptable and he would have to be careful to keep it legal.
I am running 3.5 (that is what it says but I presume it is RC1) and I have xmarks and adblock working normally. Firebug requires you to use the 1.4 beta release. I am not so sure about how stable this is because I don't run it in my default profile and i haven't been doing web development recently due to exams. Previously I had to use the 1.4 alpha releases which were buggy but I cannot comment on the 1.4 beta.
I don't know what he means but I am running on an old (~7.7 years but I did upgrade the ram to 768mb) PC with Jaunty and the performance is more than adequate, also the hard disk I am using is a slow 10GB one becuase that is what I installed Ubuntu on, so the hard disk must be near 10 years.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't encounter this problem except when I try and open about 5 slashdot tabs at once but I think that is a slightly different issue.
Why would a smaller disk be faster? Data can be read more rapidly from the outside of a conventional hard disk because it moves more rapidly than the inside. So shrinking the disk would give a slower read unless you upped the rpm which would increase power.
Also they wouldn't lose money anyway because with the UK price at 1.5 times as much anyway the exchange rates would have to be very extreme to make up the cost.
I think AI's are gong through a transition period where before they were almost entirely scripted so in an fps they wander around a set route until you spot them and then they perform the attack action. Now they are trying to make the AI think more for itself so that you can get more interesting game play that adapts to what you do. The problem is that the new stuff is pretty difficult so you get quite a few issues like you say because the testers cannot pick out and fix all of the little problems because the system is complicated and hard to understand. If you ever look at a system like that you will realise how hard it is to fix issues because you get a lot of chaos so reproducing an issue is difficult let alone fixing it.
Based on Wolfram Alpha the Earth gets about 1.3 kW per square meter. with the earth being 6.4*10^6 m radius with find the area facing the sun is pi*r^2 = 1.28*10^14. Multiplied by the power gives 1.67*10^17 W hitting the earth. Now since the power company wants to sell 2*10^8 W of power we can conclude that the extra energy reaching the Earth would be in the region of 0.0000001%.
If your policy included using encryption for your sensitive data then you should not get many issues of lost sensitive data.
Programs on Ubuntu can ask for root permissions if they need it without you having to go to the command line. The main problem on windows is that software was designed to be run by people as an admin because that is what everybody did before Vista. So you get lots of unnecessary alerts because programs are poorly written. Linux has had a culture of being strict with permissions from the start so you will find that programs are very uniform and generalyl do things properly. This applies to things like where files are placed as well. On linux applications will put everything for the user in their home directory because otherwise they need root permissions so everything is nicely organised. Wheras on XP I had applications dumping stuff all over the place, some even used the install directory to store things, others put stuff in My Documents, polluting the users files.
I really hope you are joking with this. The amount of energy needed to even register on their instruments would be huge. The pressure they exert is completely irrelevant other than for the triggering effect that it would have.
They did successfully patent the online quiz. I would definitely be worried.
But you should also bear in mind that the coil they used was fairly large so if you shrank it then the efficiency would drop.
I you RTFA it said 80% for 1m range.
People providing decoders have to pay the license fee.
"Royalties to be paid by end product manufacturers for an encoder, a decoder or both (âoeunitâ) begin at US $0.20 per unit after the first 100,000 units each year. There are no royalties on the first 100,000 units each year. Above 5 million units per year, the royalty is US $0.10 per unit."
This causes issues for free software especially with the gpl because there is a clause which says you cannot restrict the distribution of the code but by having to pay a license fee this is a restriction.
That isn't reality? I think I must be misunderstanding this quote from the mpeg news release on their licensing.
"Title-by-Title - For AVC video (either on physical media or ordered and paid for on title-by-title basis, e.g., PPV, VOD, or digital download, where viewer determines titles to be viewed or number of viewable titles are otherwise limited), there are no royalties up to 12 minutes in length. For AVC video greater than 12 minutes in length, royalties are the lower of (a) 2% of the price paid to the licensee from licenseeâ(TM)s first arms length sale or (b) $0.02 per title. Categories of licensees include (i) replicators of physical media, and (ii) service/content providers (e.g., cable, satellite, video DSL, internet and mobile) of VOD, PPV and electronic downloads to end users. "
http://www.mpegla.com/news/n_03-11-17_avc.html (slashdot is refusing to put in proper line breaks for me)
I think that they just don't care. I disagree about the best results because you can look at ogg vorbis which was free and better quality at is was ignored because everything used other things. People hear the term mp3, they see the files are mp3 files and they think they are music files. They don't know what it means and don't care, they probably haven't heard about anything other than mp3's because you only get mp3 mentioned in marketing.
If you believe what is the the article then "Apple seemed really excited". Also given that the developer did go to the trouble of contacting Apple I would have thought that a positive response would have been given or they would not have bothered developing the thing. So I would contest that it is morally wrong because the developer acted in good faith given the communication they had had with Apple.
It is cleaner and easier to use a method which just uses html to get an identical effect without needing javascript. If you compare the two methods I think you would agree. I don't see why there is such a big fuss though.
The problem with 500 year old books is that they are unusable for actually looking at. They are kept in special climate controlled conditions and oyu need special permissions and gloves etc. to look at them. Digital copies on the other hand do not degrade when looking at them and can be very easily backed up.
None of the others were stable releases other than Safari.
You didn't mention what version of Firefox you are using. The article was talking about 3.5 and that is an important distinction. I am using 3.5 on Linux and it does make a big difference usually about half the ram of 3.0 plus it releases memory more rapidly when you close tabs. Also the amount of ram on the machine is an important factor since Firefox does adapt its memory usage depending on the ram available. I have 768mb of ram and I have never seen firefox 3 above 45% and that was a very unusual case with some nasty flash game. It was commonly about 20-25% with firefox 3.0 and with 3.5 it usually has 10-15%. As you may have guessed conky only gives me percentages and I can't be bothered to convert.
Houses are different. If you build a house you get one house. If you make a program then you get unlimited copies of that program. So if somebody buys the bettr house then the rubbish house is the only one left but with software if somebody buys the better program then nothing has changed.
I think the market share would be large enough to make it worth the time. Putting Linux use at 1% that is still a pretty large section of the market and Linux users will be the kind of people who will know to look elsewhere. Also the extra work needed probably isn't that large since they already have to write drivers for Apple which is a *nix system.
Blocking port 80 for the standard windows user will have no effect. People do not run servers listening to port 80 unless they know what they are doing or somebody else did it for them. So port 80 on most PCs is about as vulnerable as any other port.
The Times article mentions that he posted information about a case which was still going through the courts. He made it anonymous but the circumstances could be linked by anyone on the Jury who was reading the article, I would consider this unacceptable and he would have to be careful to keep it legal.
I am running 3.5 (that is what it says but I presume it is RC1) and I have xmarks and adblock working normally. Firebug requires you to use the 1.4 beta release. I am not so sure about how stable this is because I don't run it in my default profile and i haven't been doing web development recently due to exams. Previously I had to use the 1.4 alpha releases which were buggy but I cannot comment on the 1.4 beta.
I don't know what he means but I am running on an old (~7.7 years but I did upgrade the ram to 768mb) PC with Jaunty and the performance is more than adequate, also the hard disk I am using is a slow 10GB one becuase that is what I installed Ubuntu on, so the hard disk must be near 10 years.