The Doctor of 2005 was at least physically imposing and Tennant was witty and in his 30s so the concept of him being somewhat sharp and not a punk was plausible.
This show will tank in the US and the loss of an audience > 30 will find shows like Eureka even more appealing.
Please. Most university faculty are a looong way from stupid. That said, while I understand the argument that university resources are being used in the creation of these "inventions" (ideas), surely the fact that THE STUDENTS ARE ALREADY PAYING FOR USE OF THESE RESOURCES should mean that they owe the university nothing, and anything outside of normal coursework is theirs to call their own.
Incorrect. They are paying tuition and fees, plus living expenses. None of that is covered in the research facilities and Federal Research dollars that build those facilities, pay for PhDs and have a built-in R&D factory.
In all honesty, I find the idea of a society where everyone is so equal that they can't even be told "hey, you've written some really good books, well done" an appalling idea. I'll keep my birthright based head of state, or even some guy a moistened bint threw a scimitar at over that.
True. In all honesty, who in the hell ever said we're all equal? There is a clear hierarchy amongst the human population. That hierarchy varies in categories, but you get the picture.
I am looking forward to see what this means for Linux, OpenCL and other GP-GPU goodies. With OpenCL working along side OpenGL, a tightly integrated kernel ATI driver that handles the GP-GPU/OpenCL stuff we will really see some interesting stuff come our way. To my understanding OpenCL allows someone who is writing an algorithm to implement it in OpenCL and let OpenCL take care of diving up the work load between GPU's and CPU cores. Damn I am really excited to see the OSS community tie all this stuff together and release the computing power of the GPU to more general yet compute intense applications.
A system with a quad core CPU and four ATI cards would be a force to be reckoned with! Fast trans-coding/cracking of Blu-ray, rapid key sniffing for air crack, even networked applications could be sped up like IPsec and SSH. We could have fast rendering in blender and ray tracing can be done with high precision as well as speed (maybe even real time!). Gimp plug-ins can be given a boost in speed and video editing a breeze. Even a laptop with a slower dual core could benefit from its on board GPU's number crunching power. Useful for cracking WEP/WPA keys.
And AMD/ATI arent the only ones getting on board the OpenCL bandwagon, Apple developed it, and Intel along with Nvidia are also going to support it. So OpenCL will allow us to run our apps on the hardware of our choice.
Amazingly, with all this cheer and mention of OpenCL you don't even bother to thank Apple for making it happen. I use Linux and OS X for daily consumption, and this is the time when one should be glad Apple innovates for all.
Your list is unsubstantiated. 1. Cost per mile for rails compared to highways/freeways isn't even remotely worth debating. Highways are a money pit. 2. Traffic disruption is for the inner urban centers, not the backbone to get to the bus terminal zones which are the second-tier to the urban centers. 3. Operating and maintenance for all but the inner urban zones is pennies on the dollar compared to a dollar plus on the dollar for highways.
Right-of-way for what? downtown urban centers? That's not the Railsystems problem. All highway expenses have nothing to do with the urban centers. You build the Railsystems underneath or within zones where 5/6 lanes per direction already exist. The bulk of transportation costs don't ever touch inner urban centers. Don't confuse rebuilding the rails with the BART system.
You pay that price because it isn't the standard mode of transportation for the bulk of workers in the US. That price drops drastically if the rebirth of heavy transport goes via highspeed, heavy freight rails. Instead of using airlines and semis to do massive amounts of freight distribution you get zero benefits as a consumer.
UPS and FedEx would love to ship most of their products via trains traveling at 200-300 mph and use trucks for the last 100 miles round-trip if the infrastructure were in play.
The problem is that you can't just have 1 provider for your commuting on the rail lines. You have to have options and they have to be willing to beat their competition out for your business and not by swallowing up the competition through that virus known as mergers. What a piece of crap that has been for the Banking industry.
Instead of having an interoperating banking system where we have tens of thousands of banking working together we have massive conglomerations holding the country by the balls when they become insolvent.
It's hard to build a backend annuity that accrues for decades when you're companies plunder that backend to cover losses and build POS after POS w/ the most abysmal levels of engine efficiencies.
You show a page on trollies and ignore the over 1700 lines that disappeared in massive numbers when Eisenhower implemented the Highway plans. Brilliant!
I as well want the States and local munis to determine their own course, 100% technical compliant with the rest of the planned backbone upgrades.
Whatever happened to States Rights and working with the Central Government to keep the local liberties and rights ahead of any specialized consortium and/or group of "individuals" [aka corporations] from determining what services can compete in a Capitalist society?
Why in the hell would you want to load PDF into your web browser session?
Even when using Acrobat, I detest opening it in the browser. It puts limitations on the reader as well as blocking functionality of the browser enough for it to feel wrong (i.e. one window with two likely search dialogs, one of which has nothing to do with the actual PDF being read). If I forget and do Ctrl+F, I spend a couple of seconds confused that it found nothing before remembering that it was a pdf in a browser not normal content.
Nowadays, I prefer Evince for day-to-day pdf reading (some special cases Acrobat still has features for, but when those are not needed, I prefer the clean Evince interface).
Sorry, but Evince [I use along with Okular] doesn't support half of what Acrobat supports and I've configured all pdf document links in browsers to launch the lightest external pdf viewer, unless there are issues with PDForms and whatnot that only Acrobat manages correctly.
Why the hell I would want to do with a 32bit layer for Acrobat [already large] and not a clean 64 bit version seems rather daft in the head, if you ask me.
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It took 30 years of PC use to roughly move from 8 bit to 64 bit and you're expecting it to take 100 years to move from 64 bit to 128 bit?
It sure as hell won't take that long, not to mention the notion of Memory won't even be remotely the same as it currently stands.
What is it with large corporations and only creating RPM files for their software? I got the.bin file, but it just extracts to the current directory, without listing where all the files need to be copied to...
The simplest thing you could do, is use the "alien" package to convert it to a.deb file. The alien package manager works, most of the time, and it beats using cpio to extract the rpm file and repackage it as a deb.
As for where the Java files go, they usually go under/usr/lib/java or/usr/lib/jre if I recall correctly.
Alien is not going to fly as Debian is in the midst of moving Lenny out the door and this would first start in Experimental, then move to Unstable/Sid, which need to make sure they are lintian clean. I'm going to file a reportbug on this with the owners of openjdk-6 and get this moving into an update to the openjdk-6 all around.
you're confusing java applets circa 1997 with the java platform.
take a look through the it job listings and see how much java comes up.
much, if not most, server side *enterprise* work is done in java, which is a mature, robust, reliable, performant and scalable platform for which there are myriad commercial and open source libraries to give any project a great set of building blocks and frameworks on which to build.
i check out language du jour a couple times a year, and every time it reaffirms java's benefits.
the problem with applets is they were generally pretty hacky, but there are some good ones out there.
( check out the yahoo games website - my wife has been addicted to literati for years, and its a nice little java applet ).
java on the desktop has a place too, however its the same set of rules for design and structure as applets: done well, nobody would know/care what language its written in, but done poorly without care for threading models and it'll quickly turn into a steaming pile.
then theres j2me, and i'd wager if you have any tivo type device, or even set-top box for your cable service, or blu-ray player, or most mobile phones these days, then you have java working for you there too.
not that i'm arguing for applets by any means, but the more people spread the same old rants as above, the more i'm inclined to correct them.
You're too professional. People around here suffer from SADD and if something doesn't tickle their leg just right it flies right over their heads.
Westinghouse's research with South Africa--the first nation to disarm their nukes--surpasses the power outputs possible for quite a long stretch, compared to Wind and Solar. I'm for both of those but we can use Nuclear that isn't the crap we use right now; and was actually patented and invented by the US in the early 1940s.
When people read the article and see that the first act of the Atomic Energy Commission was to cancel their production, one begins to see the insidious history of the future Arms Race.
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The Doctor of 2005 was at least physically imposing and Tennant was witty and in his 30s so the concept of him being somewhat sharp and not a punk was plausible.
This show will tank in the US and the loss of an audience > 30 will find shows like Eureka even more appealing.
The stupid exploit the smart.
Please. Most university faculty are a looong way from stupid. That said, while I understand the argument that university resources are being used in the creation of these "inventions" (ideas), surely the fact that THE STUDENTS ARE ALREADY PAYING FOR USE OF THESE RESOURCES should mean that they owe the university nothing, and anything outside of normal coursework is theirs to call their own.
Incorrect. They are paying tuition and fees, plus living expenses. None of that is covered in the research facilities and Federal Research dollars that build those facilities, pay for PhDs and have a built-in R&D factory.
In all honesty, I find the idea of a society where everyone is so equal that they can't even be told "hey, you've written some really good books, well done" an appalling idea. I'll keep my birthright based head of state, or even some guy a moistened bint threw a scimitar at over that.
True. In all honesty, who in the hell ever said we're all equal? There is a clear hierarchy amongst the human population. That hierarchy varies in categories, but you get the picture.
I am looking forward to see what this means for Linux, OpenCL and other GP-GPU goodies. With OpenCL working along side OpenGL, a tightly integrated kernel ATI driver that handles the GP-GPU/OpenCL stuff we will really see some interesting stuff come our way. To my understanding OpenCL allows someone who is writing an algorithm to implement it in OpenCL and let OpenCL take care of diving up the work load between GPU's and CPU cores. Damn I am really excited to see the OSS community tie all this stuff together and release the computing power of the GPU to more general yet compute intense applications.
A system with a quad core CPU and four ATI cards would be a force to be reckoned with! Fast trans-coding/cracking of Blu-ray, rapid key sniffing for air crack, even networked applications could be sped up like IPsec and SSH. We could have fast rendering in blender and ray tracing can be done with high precision as well as speed (maybe even real time!). Gimp plug-ins can be given a boost in speed and video editing a breeze. Even a laptop with a slower dual core could benefit from its on board GPU's number crunching power. Useful for cracking WEP/WPA keys.
And AMD/ATI arent the only ones getting on board the OpenCL bandwagon, Apple developed it, and Intel along with Nvidia are also going to support it. So OpenCL will allow us to run our apps on the hardware of our choice.
Amazingly, with all this cheer and mention of OpenCL you don't even bother to thank Apple for making it happen. I use Linux and OS X for daily consumption, and this is the time when one should be glad Apple innovates for all.
Your list is unsubstantiated.
1. Cost per mile for rails compared to highways/freeways isn't even remotely worth debating. Highways are a money pit.
2. Traffic disruption is for the inner urban centers, not the backbone to get to the bus terminal zones which are the second-tier to the urban centers.
3. Operating and maintenance for all but the inner urban zones is pennies on the dollar compared to a dollar plus on the dollar for highways.
Right-of-way for what? downtown urban centers? That's not the Railsystems problem. All highway expenses have nothing to do with the urban centers. You build the Railsystems underneath or within zones where 5/6 lanes per direction already exist. The bulk of transportation costs don't ever touch inner urban centers. Don't confuse rebuilding the rails with the BART system.
Exactly.
You pay that price because it isn't the standard mode of transportation for the bulk of workers in the US. That price drops drastically if the rebirth of heavy transport goes via highspeed, heavy freight rails. Instead of using airlines and semis to do massive amounts of freight distribution you get zero benefits as a consumer.
UPS and FedEx would love to ship most of their products via trains traveling at 200-300 mph and use trucks for the last 100 miles round-trip if the infrastructure were in play.
The problem is that you can't just have 1 provider for your commuting on the rail lines. You have to have options and they have to be willing to beat their competition out for your business and not by swallowing up the competition through that virus known as mergers. What a piece of crap that has been for the Banking industry.
Instead of having an interoperating banking system where we have tens of thousands of banking working together we have massive conglomerations holding the country by the balls when they become insolvent.
It's hard to build a backend annuity that accrues for decades when you're companies plunder that backend to cover losses and build POS after POS w/ the most abysmal levels of engine efficiencies.
You show a page on trollies and ignore the over 1700 lines that disappeared in massive numbers when Eisenhower implemented the Highway plans. Brilliant!
I as well want the States and local munis to determine their own course, 100% technical compliant with the rest of the planned backbone upgrades.
Whatever happened to States Rights and working with the Central Government to keep the local liberties and rights ahead of any specialized consortium and/or group of "individuals" [aka corporations] from determining what services can compete in a Capitalist society?
In short, Linux is one step closer to what OS X has done for several major releases.
This is my next purchase:
http://www.corsair.com/products/hx1000/default.aspx
These are solid for less demanding systems:
http://www.corsair.com/products/vx/default.aspx
Solid all around:
http://www.corsair.com/products/tx/default.aspx
Ph.d candidate... is factual and much less sensationalized.
Having worked for Steve, twice, he cannot stomach the founder of Be Inc. They can't stomach one another.
Scott Forstall from my days at NeXT and Apple would be a schrewd move to give most of the Keynote at MacWorld.
They just signed a long-term contract with China.
http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/081212/0460039.html
http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/081211/0459633.html
when one can embrace a sardonic view and have the best of both edges?
Why in the hell would you want to load PDF into your web browser session?
Even when using Acrobat, I detest opening it in the browser. It puts limitations on the reader as well as blocking functionality of the browser enough for it to feel wrong (i.e. one window with two likely search dialogs, one of which has nothing to do with the actual PDF being read). If I forget and do Ctrl+F, I spend a couple of seconds confused that it found nothing before remembering that it was a pdf in a browser not normal content.
Nowadays, I prefer Evince for day-to-day pdf reading (some special cases Acrobat still has features for, but when those are not needed, I prefer the clean Evince interface).
Sorry, but Evince [I use along with Okular] doesn't support half of what Acrobat supports and I've configured all pdf document links in browsers to launch the lightest external pdf viewer, unless there are issues with PDForms and whatnot that only Acrobat manages correctly.
Why the hell I would want to do with a 32bit layer for Acrobat [already large] and not a clean 64 bit version seems rather daft in the head, if you ask me.
It took 30 years of PC use to roughly move from 8 bit to 64 bit and you're expecting it to take 100 years to move from 64 bit to 128 bit?
It sure as hell won't take that long, not to mention the notion of Memory won't even be remotely the same as it currently stands.
So I can finally junk all the 32 bit stuff.
The simplest thing you could do, is use the "alien" package to convert it to a .deb file. The alien package manager works, most of the time, and it beats using cpio to extract the rpm file and repackage it as a deb.
As for where the Java files go, they usually go under /usr/lib/java or /usr/lib/jre if I recall correctly.
Alien is not going to fly as Debian is in the midst of moving Lenny out the door and this would first start in Experimental, then move to Unstable/Sid, which need to make sure they are lintian clean. I'm going to file a reportbug on this with the owners of openjdk-6 and get this moving into an update to the openjdk-6 all around.
Please. Do your worst to convert me and embrace the Ajax whore.
you're confusing java applets circa 1997 with the java platform.
take a look through the it job listings and see how much java comes up.
much, if not most, server side *enterprise* work is done in java, which is a mature, robust, reliable, performant and scalable platform for which there are myriad commercial and open source libraries to give any project a great set of building blocks and frameworks on which to build.
i check out language du jour a couple times a year, and every time it reaffirms java's benefits.
the problem with applets is they were generally pretty hacky, but there are some good ones out there.
( check out the yahoo games website - my wife has been addicted to literati for years, and its a nice little java applet ).
java on the desktop has a place too, however its the same set of rules for design and structure as applets: done well, nobody would know/care what language its written in, but done poorly without care for threading models and it'll quickly turn into a steaming pile.
then theres j2me, and i'd wager if you have any tivo type device, or even set-top box for your cable service, or blu-ray player, or most mobile phones these days, then you have java working for you there too.
not that i'm arguing for applets by any means, but the more people spread the same old rants as above, the more i'm inclined to correct them.
You're too professional. People around here suffer from SADD and if something doesn't tickle their leg just right it flies right over their heads.
The Power Grid is going to be rebuilt, with or without Wind Power.
What did the black hole ever do to you that you revile it?
Just use Pebble-bed Nuclear Power Plants without the concern of Plutonium.
http://www.memagazine.org/backissues/membersonly/feb08/features/pebbles/pebbles.html
Westinghouse's research with South Africa--the first nation to disarm their nukes--surpasses the power outputs possible for quite a long stretch, compared to Wind and Solar. I'm for both of those but we can use Nuclear that isn't the crap we use right now; and was actually patented and invented by the US in the early 1940s.
When people read the article and see that the first act of the Atomic Energy Commission was to cancel their production, one begins to see the insidious history of the future Arms Race.