"Five years ago, there were not that many women on the Internet," Carol Kovac, a vice president at the Watson Research Center at I.B.M. told the New York Times recently.
This statement is true, but there were not many people at all on the internet (relative to today).
I also wonder about what portion of the demographic is made up of the retired community. It seems to me now that my grandma spends more time surfing the internet and writing email each day than I do.
It is about time, but all that I have ever really wanted is a good old , capitalistic, god-fearing gaming console made in Detroit. Is that too much to ask for?
They are quoting quite a few unnamed sources here, I would be quite wary of sensational journalism here, as news companies like to have the breaking story, sometimes at the expense of proper fact.
Being that this is leapday, all salaried employees are working for free today. So, not only is someone getting overly stressed for this, they are also doing it for no charge whatsoever!
The days of carrying around heavy batteries for laptop computers and mobile phone are numbered
This is not entirely true, for mobile phones at least. The bulk of the power consumption is from the antenna. Your standby time could be increased greatly, but talk time will likely be uneffected. Thus, in order to talk for a reasonable length of time, batteries will probably stay the same size.
SmartDownload is a plug-in that comes along with Netscape, it is often overlooked during the installation process. To remove this, simply un-install it.
Does anyone know how to disable that annoying SmartDownload thing that forces me to look at ads while I download files? This is perhaps the most annoying feature of the previous version.
I did not have my thermo book next to me as I wrote that post, but I wonder what the highest compresion ratio would be for a four-cycle hydrogen engine operating at STP in order to not experience pre-ignition. Maybe someone who has their resources handy could figure this out and compare it to a standard engine at, say, 8:1 compression.
it's a gas, so you will get significantly less mileage out if it than you would from an equivalent volume of gasoline. It would annoy me if I had to stop to refuel every hour on the Highway
This is a good point. From my point of view as a mechanical engineer, the fuel economy of simple H2 is so low compared to that of gasoline that one would have to store a lot more mass of fuel in order to drive a normal distance between refueling. This means that the production of H2 would have to be significantly high in order to drop prices to where the everyday consumer could afford to drive a H2 car.
NEAR is due to go into orbit around the micro-world Feb. 14.
Watch out for mass suicides by those who are spending this Valentines day alone, as this close passing of the Eros asteroid could be some sort of sign...
The person, or group, who is doing this is about to cause some major problems between the government and the at-large computing community. I can see in the near future a large amount of time and money being spent in a futile effort to stop this behavior. This will surely result in a lot of unfair laws and regulations being imposed upon those persons who are not malicious. In effect, the government will punish the innocent, as usual.
This can be avoided by using one of tho simple methods:
1. Simply stop. If the person, or group, involved has no demands, or motive, they should stop this foolishness immediately. This is not a glorious solution, but if there is no message to be portrayed, then please, don't hurt the fight against the MAN (meaning big business).
2. Take credit and state the message. This is the solution with the flair. The group involved should find a way to get their message out to the public, and freely state that this is a true battle against the power of the MAN.
It is really horrible that any major innovation that the United States government has is immediately used to either kill people or find a way to kill people before it is used to help society.
There are many examples of this (the department of energy laboratory at Los Alamos rings a bell,) and this continuing trend makes me sick.
This unit could be used to train doctors, or teach teenagers to drive, but instead, our government is using it to develop new weapons. Great.
Is there some unwritten rule that any advance in technology must assist in the killing of at least 100,000 people before it can be helpful to society?
Perhaps the results are what they are because people have an innate fear of the unknown.
Excellent point.
I think that the most interesting piece of information to note in the survey is that 44% of the sample group said that they had not followed the MS trial at all. This obvious lack of current events knowledge probably makes those portions of the sample group unqualified to answer some of the other survey questions.
I don't think that you quite understand exactly how you are being exploited.
When Episode One is released, everyone will buy it. George Lucas realizes this, and he knows that if he only releases his product in VHS, everyone will buy it in that format. Then, when the product is released again, in DVD format, everyone with a DVD player, who most likely already owns the VHS version, will line up to pay for another copy.
It is interesting how quickly the Catholic Church disagreed with this idea. But it also makes sense, as the idea of forgiveness without punishment can be so annoying...
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"Five years ago, there were not that many women on the Internet," Carol Kovac, a vice president at the Watson Research Center at I.B.M. told the New York Times recently.
This statement is true, but there were not many people at all on the internet (relative to today).
I also wonder about what portion of the demographic is made up of the retired community. It seems to me now that my grandma spends more time surfing the internet and writing email each day than I do.
We didn't have no fancy-schmancy discrete math girls, or new-fangled abstract algebra girls. We din't know anything of the sort.
We had FORTRAN girls, and the thought of such beautiful dames running around with punch-cards was enough to get any young buck's blood flowing.
Now that's the way it was, and we liked it, because we din't have nuthin' else.
I tell ya, kids these days.
For those who are interested, there is a pretty spiffy website called the National Cryptologic Museum offered at the nsa site.
Firewire is only preferred by 19% of Slashdot readers.
Statistics in the recent poll "My favorite paripheral connector" state that 19% of Slashdot geeks prefer firewire, while 35% use garden hose.
I wonder if there are any recent tests on garden hose to see how its signal performs over long distance.
sorry guys, wrong place, wrong time
It is about time, but all that I have ever really wanted is a good old , capitalistic, god-fearing gaming console made in Detroit. Is that too much to ask for?
Throw me a frickin' bone here...
They are quoting quite a few unnamed sources here, I would be quite wary of sensational journalism here, as news companies like to have the breaking story, sometimes at the expense of proper fact.
This is how long things would take (approx) if you or I operated at 1 GHz...
Eating Breakfast (cereal, 40 bites, 10 chews per) : 0.0000004 sec
Dialing the phone: Local: 0.000000007 sec
long distance: 0.00000001 sec
Germany: 0.000000013 sec
Flipping through a magazine: 0.000000136 sec
Flipping through Machinery's Handbook: 0.000002555 sec
Dealing a game of poker (4 players): 0.00000002 sec
Writing 100 pages of text: 0.000090016 sec
Writing this post 0.000000484 sec
"one of the largest and most brazen thefts of intellectual property ever committed."
Now I would hardly call watching television an intellectual activity, I rather like to call it "my personal escape from intelligence."
Now seriously...
Does anyone know if this company was fined or anything? Did they get off with a "well, next time ask first."?
Being that this is leapday, all salaried employees are working for free today. So, not only is someone getting overly stressed for this, they are also doing it for no charge whatsoever!
The days of carrying around heavy batteries for laptop computers and mobile phone are numbered
This is not entirely true, for mobile phones at least. The bulk of the power consumption is from the antenna. Your standby time could be increased greatly, but talk time will likely be uneffected. Thus, in order to talk for a reasonable length of time, batteries will probably stay the same size.
For those who care...
SmartDownload is a plug-in that comes along with Netscape, it is often overlooked during the installation process. To remove this, simply un-install it.
Does anyone know how to disable that annoying SmartDownload thing that forces me to look at ads while I download files?
This is perhaps the most annoying feature of the previous version.
Thank You,
I did not have my thermo book next to me as I wrote that post, but I wonder what the highest compresion ratio would be for a four-cycle hydrogen engine operating at STP in order to not experience pre-ignition. Maybe someone who has their resources handy could figure this out and compare it to a standard engine at, say, 8:1 compression.
it's a gas, so you will get significantly less mileage out if it than you would from an equivalent volume of gasoline. It would annoy me if I had to stop to refuel every hour on the Highway
This is a good point. From my point of view as a mechanical engineer, the fuel economy of simple H2 is so low compared to that of gasoline that one would have to store a lot more mass of fuel in order to drive a normal distance between refueling. This means that the production of H2 would have to be significantly high in order to drop prices to where the everyday consumer could afford to drive a H2 car.
NEAR is due to go into orbit around the micro-world Feb. 14.
Watch out for mass suicides by those who are spending this Valentines day alone, as this close passing of the Eros asteroid could be some sort of sign...
The person, or group, who is doing this is about to cause some major problems between the government and the at-large computing community. I can see in the near future a large amount of time and money being spent in a futile effort to stop this behavior. This will surely result in a lot of unfair laws and regulations being imposed upon those persons who are not malicious. In effect, the government will punish the innocent, as usual.
This can be avoided by using one of tho simple methods:
1. Simply stop. If the person, or group, involved has no demands, or motive, they should stop this foolishness immediately. This is not a glorious solution, but if there is no message to be portrayed, then please, don't hurt the fight against the MAN (meaning big business).
2. Take credit and state the message. This is the solution with the flair. The group involved should find a way to get their message out to the public, and freely state that this is a true battle against the power of the MAN.
Thanks for the time
It is really horrible that any major innovation that the United States government has is immediately used to either kill people or find a way to kill people before it is used to help society.
There are many examples of this (the department of energy laboratory at Los Alamos rings a bell,) and this continuing trend makes me sick.
This unit could be used to train doctors, or teach teenagers to drive, but instead, our government is using it to develop new weapons. Great.
Is there some unwritten rule that any advance in technology must assist in the killing of at least 100,000 people before it can be helpful to society?
Perhaps the results are what they are because people have an innate fear of the unknown.
Excellent point.
I think that the most interesting piece of information to note in the survey is that 44% of the sample group said that they had not followed the MS trial at all. This obvious lack of current events knowledge probably makes those portions of the sample group unqualified to answer some of the other survey questions.
Perhaps the same website should have an "old timer's league" as well.
I can see it now "The Grande Olde Obfuscated FORTRAN Code Contest"
I wonder what the Chineese government would think about posting that DeCSS code...
I don't think that you quite understand exactly how you are being exploited.
When Episode One is released, everyone will buy it. George Lucas realizes this, and he knows that if he only releases his product in VHS, everyone will buy it in that format. Then, when the product is released again, in DVD format, everyone with a DVD player, who most likely already owns the VHS version, will line up to pay for another copy.
The blood-sucking that this man does amazes me.
The site makes no demands for penance.
The Roman Catholic Church condemned the idea.
It is interesting how quickly the Catholic Church disagreed with this idea. But it also makes sense, as the idea of forgiveness without punishment can be so annoying...