I wonder if there is some way to mathematically measure human intelligence at certain points of time and graph this data. I think it would be pretty amazing if this showed an non-linear growth that could explain the explosion of advancements beginning then.
I believe Ubuntu has files and other settings transfer ability from Windows. I know it prompted me the last time I made a clean install asking if I would like that stuff transferred. Apps on the other hand are not even transferred between Windows installs unless you do an in-place upgrade on the same machine. I doubt we'll ever see an in-place "upgrade" option from Windows to any *nix distro.
Can brain density vary, and if so could it have an effect? They may have had a larger brain cavity, but could the actual brain have been less dense? I watched a documentary a while back (I think it was on the History Channel), where they explained that the intelligence of Modern Humans was likely improved because they added fish to their diets, compared to the Neanderthal branch that had migrated north already. Since they were more advanced with their tools, weaponry, and behavior, they easily out-competed (or killed off) the Neanderthals.
It does not assume that atmospheric carbon was constant. The raw data is put up against a calibration curve that is based on changes in atmospheric carbon. This curve has an accuracy of ± 163 years between 6000 and 26000 years ago. An accuracy of ± 16 years is obtained for samples less than 6000 years old. I apologize, and I probably should have prefaced my post with "By that reasoning" as it was a response to the post above my own.
No, I understood your point, and I was not disagreeing. I was just making a observation that the other functions of the Mozilla suite that were not "the 2 main functions" seem to be making a comeback in other apps, and the framework is increasingly being used by other projects to new ends.
Yes, but the instructions are not actually executed simultaneously without hyperthreading, multiple processors, or multiple cores. However, looking over the specs, the ARM processors on DS are so slow that it probably wouldn't be much of a problem. In fact, according to Wikipedia, it appears that there are already emulators available that can run commercial games at nearly full speed. So I was incorrect, and the asymmetric multiprocessing is not that big of an issue.
Seamonkey appears to be backed by them, but is not called "Mozilla Seamonkey" and is considered a "community project". Songbird appears to have quite a few major developers from Mozilla, but is its own project. The rest are all featured links on the Mozilla website in a section called "Mozilla-Based Applications". Mozilla has a banner for these projects proclaiming "Powered by Mozilla", likely to continue building brand recognition.
I would think the biggest problem is emulating both CPUs of the DS. IIRC, there is an ARM7 and an ARM9 in the DS controlling 2 screens, one of which is a touch screen.
Interestingly enough, the other functions are coming back as separate applications as well. NVU (which was replaced by Kompozer, which was replaced by BlueGriffon) forked off of the WYSIWYG editor from Mozilla. Instantbird is an IM client that can replace the IRC functionality of Mozilla(although the Instantbird uses libpurple {GAIM/Pidgin} instead of the IRC client code from Mozilla). Seamonkey also is continuing the all-in-one aspect of Mozilla. Also, new apps are coming from the framework started by Mozilla, like the media player Songbird.
I thought the original version was called Firebird, but they had to rename it because it conflicted with the Firebird RDBMS.
It was Pheonix originally(Thunderbird was Minotaur), but then changed to Firebird due to trademark issues(with the BIOS company I believe). The Firebird database community complained, so Mozilla said it should always be referred to as "Mozilla Firebird". The Firebird community was still unhappy and the name was changed again to Mozilla Firefox.
These are the same geniuses that "save resources" by not implementing a good backup system. Saves the company thousands until something goes horribly wrong, then it could wind up costing millions. Feel free to change the magnitude based on the size of your operation.
Yes, because economic downturn on an international level is measured by how well you are doing. Anecdotal evidence is useless, moreso on this large of a scale.
Methinks they do not understand the concept of "half-life" if they think carbon dating is only accurate for 5000 years. Also, the media calls pretty much any radioactive isotope dating "carbon dating", even if a different element is used. This further adds to the confusion.
Also, how could they put an exact date to creation? I thought all calculations used by "young-earth creationists" were based on generations of people described in the bible, i.e. "X begat Y begat Z".
That noise you hear is a joke going way above your head. Unless you knew it was a joke and decided you had to explain why it was wrong? I think the latter might be the more depressing option.
Not third-party tools, the article is about a third-party company conducting the tests. However, I doubt this is intended for professional pen testers. I think this is intended for companies that do not have a security professional on staff to use.
Thanks for the info. One thing that confuses me about that is assuming everything is moving away from the origin of the universe, wouldn't all galaxies always move away from each other. I recall reading that in some many billions of years, another galaxy will collide with ours. Wouldn't these 2 outcomes be mutually exclusive? Genuinely curious about this.
Anyone who runs MS Access on Windows on a desktop will run MySQL on Linux on a desktop.
Didn't know Access was a default application on windows. If you want MySQL, just use the distro's package manager to install it. I do agree that a distro with a central database would be fantastic compared to a sqlite database per app. For example, things like a personalized spellcheck could be accessed by any app on the distro. I'm pretty sure OS X has something like that for things like the "keyring". The problem is that popular distros would need to adopt this method and applications would need to be redesigned for this. So for now, MySQL is not needed by default.
I had the same thought. However, if you check that article, Windows 7 will have Starter Edition released world-wide for use on netbooks with the 3 app limit in place. Home Basic will take it's place as the OEM-only crappy version that is only sold in "emerging" markets. That leaves Home Premium as the lowest version of Windows 7 that will run unlimited apps.
Wow, thanks for the clarification. If this is Microsoft's response to linux on netbooks, I think they may be in for a drop in market share. They appear to be fighting fire with a match.
They're paring away basic functionality (like the ability to run 4 or 5 apps at a time) and the only way to get it back is to buy it.
While I agree that they are stripping out some of the basic functionality that used to be free (remote desktop being one that comes to mind). The number of running apps is not a limit that most people will see. The "Starter Edition"(the only version that limits simultaneous applications) has been around since XP. It is not sold in "developed" countries. It is a heavily discounted version to try to combat piracy in developing countries. Needless to say, the restrictions on it mean no one would use it over a fully-functional pirated version.
There are other conspiracy theories that a major OEM like Dell or HP created Psystar as front to test the legal system so they can start selling Apple clones themselves. However, as far as I know, Apple, Dell, and HP are all publicly traded companies. Wouldn't this mean whoever created Psystar would have to do some questionable accounting to hide the expenses?
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I wonder if there is some way to mathematically measure human intelligence at certain points of time and graph this data. I think it would be pretty amazing if this showed an non-linear growth that could explain the explosion of advancements beginning then.
I believe Ubuntu has files and other settings transfer ability from Windows. I know it prompted me the last time I made a clean install asking if I would like that stuff transferred. Apps on the other hand are not even transferred between Windows installs unless you do an in-place upgrade on the same machine. I doubt we'll ever see an in-place "upgrade" option from Windows to any *nix distro.
Can brain density vary, and if so could it have an effect? They may have had a larger brain cavity, but could the actual brain have been less dense? I watched a documentary a while back (I think it was on the History Channel), where they explained that the intelligence of Modern Humans was likely improved because they added fish to their diets, compared to the Neanderthal branch that had migrated north already. Since they were more advanced with their tools, weaponry, and behavior, they easily out-competed (or killed off) the Neanderthals.
It does not assume that atmospheric carbon was constant. The raw data is put up against a calibration curve that is based on changes in atmospheric carbon. This curve has an accuracy of ± 163 years between 6000 and 26000 years ago. An accuracy of ± 16 years is obtained for samples less than 6000 years old. I apologize, and I probably should have prefaced my post with "By that reasoning" as it was a response to the post above my own.
No, I understood your point, and I was not disagreeing. I was just making a observation that the other functions of the Mozilla suite that were not "the 2 main functions" seem to be making a comeback in other apps, and the framework is increasingly being used by other projects to new ends.
Yes, but the instructions are not actually executed simultaneously without hyperthreading, multiple processors, or multiple cores. However, looking over the specs, the ARM processors on DS are so slow that it probably wouldn't be much of a problem. In fact, according to Wikipedia, it appears that there are already emulators available that can run commercial games at nearly full speed. So I was incorrect, and the asymmetric multiprocessing is not that big of an issue.
Seamonkey appears to be backed by them, but is not called "Mozilla Seamonkey" and is considered a "community project". Songbird appears to have quite a few major developers from Mozilla, but is its own project. The rest are all featured links on the Mozilla website in a section called "Mozilla-Based Applications". Mozilla has a banner for these projects proclaiming "Powered by Mozilla", likely to continue building brand recognition.
I would think the biggest problem is emulating both CPUs of the DS. IIRC, there is an ARM7 and an ARM9 in the DS controlling 2 screens, one of which is a touch screen.
Once ReactOS is stable (more like IF ReactOS is ever stable), that would likely be better to run in qemu than wine+x86 linux distro.
Interestingly enough, the other functions are coming back as separate applications as well. NVU (which was replaced by Kompozer, which was replaced by BlueGriffon) forked off of the WYSIWYG editor from Mozilla. Instantbird is an IM client that can replace the IRC functionality of Mozilla(although the Instantbird uses libpurple {GAIM/Pidgin} instead of the IRC client code from Mozilla). Seamonkey also is continuing the all-in-one aspect of Mozilla. Also, new apps are coming from the framework started by Mozilla, like the media player Songbird.
I thought the original version was called Firebird, but they had to rename it because it conflicted with the Firebird RDBMS.
It was Pheonix originally(Thunderbird was Minotaur), but then changed to Firebird due to trademark issues(with the BIOS company I believe). The Firebird database community complained, so Mozilla said it should always be referred to as "Mozilla Firebird". The Firebird community was still unhappy and the name was changed again to Mozilla Firefox.
"about:mozilla" and Wikipedia have more to say on the subject.
I'd rather be using Dillo for most things.
I'd rather use a DILDO for most things.
I'd rather use a DILLO for most things.
I'd rather use a DILDO for most things.
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These are the same geniuses that "save resources" by not implementing a good backup system. Saves the company thousands until something goes horribly wrong, then it could wind up costing millions. Feel free to change the magnitude based on the size of your operation.
Yes, because economic downturn on an international level is measured by how well you are doing. Anecdotal evidence is useless, moreso on this large of a scale.
Methinks they do not understand the concept of "half-life" if they think carbon dating is only accurate for 5000 years. Also, the media calls pretty much any radioactive isotope dating "carbon dating", even if a different element is used. This further adds to the confusion.
Also, how could they put an exact date to creation? I thought all calculations used by "young-earth creationists" were based on generations of people described in the bible, i.e. "X begat Y begat Z".
That noise you hear is a joke going way above your head. Unless you knew it was a joke and decided you had to explain why it was wrong? I think the latter might be the more depressing option.
Not third-party tools, the article is about a third-party company conducting the tests. However, I doubt this is intended for professional pen testers. I think this is intended for companies that do not have a security professional on staff to use.
Thanks for the info. One thing that confuses me about that is assuming everything is moving away from the origin of the universe, wouldn't all galaxies always move away from each other. I recall reading that in some many billions of years, another galaxy will collide with ours. Wouldn't these 2 outcomes be mutually exclusive? Genuinely curious about this.
I thought red-shift was caused by the direction and speed the object is traveling in relation to us, not its distance.
Anyone who runs MS Access on Windows on a desktop will run MySQL on Linux on a desktop.
Didn't know Access was a default application on windows. If you want MySQL, just use the distro's package manager to install it. I do agree that a distro with a central database would be fantastic compared to a sqlite database per app. For example, things like a personalized spellcheck could be accessed by any app on the distro. I'm pretty sure OS X has something like that for things like the "keyring". The problem is that popular distros would need to adopt this method and applications would need to be redesigned for this. So for now, MySQL is not needed by default.
I had the same thought. However, if you check that article, Windows 7 will have Starter Edition released world-wide for use on netbooks with the 3 app limit in place. Home Basic will take it's place as the OEM-only crappy version that is only sold in "emerging" markets. That leaves Home Premium as the lowest version of Windows 7 that will run unlimited apps.
I think sqlite is used by beagle and firefox uses it as well. Haven't heard anything about mySQL being used for any OS functionality though.
Wow, thanks for the clarification. If this is Microsoft's response to linux on netbooks, I think they may be in for a drop in market share. They appear to be fighting fire with a match.
They're paring away basic functionality (like the ability to run 4 or 5 apps at a time) and the only way to get it back is to buy it.
While I agree that they are stripping out some of the basic functionality that used to be free (remote desktop being one that comes to mind). The number of running apps is not a limit that most people will see. The "Starter Edition"(the only version that limits simultaneous applications) has been around since XP. It is not sold in "developed" countries. It is a heavily discounted version to try to combat piracy in developing countries. Needless to say, the restrictions on it mean no one would use it over a fully-functional pirated version.
There are other conspiracy theories that a major OEM like Dell or HP created Psystar as front to test the legal system so they can start selling Apple clones themselves. However, as far as I know, Apple, Dell, and HP are all publicly traded companies. Wouldn't this mean whoever created Psystar would have to do some questionable accounting to hide the expenses?