They should be using.gov.us and.mil.us just like everybody on the planet.
I'd have.com,.org for international corporations and organizations (with checks in place to make sure they are what they claim to be, no pepsi.org or whatever) and country codes (restricted to citizens, corporations and organizations of the country in question, so no Tuvalu using.tv for television crap). Registering a domain on an international TLD would preclude the same entity from registering a domain on a country TLD.
Optionally, enforcing at bare minimum.com.** and.org.** for all country codes.
It makes me feel like they're basically extrapolating their height/time ratio, as if no other problem could arise. Obviously, I doubt the engineers themselves are quite as confident, but who listens to competent people anyway?
Just get a Transformer. Seriously. It's already doing what that Surface tablet is doing, but without compromising as much. It's bulkier with the dock, but hey, you do get a self-supporting, full keyboard. You know, with tactile feedback, depth and all that. Touch typists rejoice!
If you want a really top end tablet, wait for the TF Infinity to come out. 1080p screen, Tegra 3, all the stuff you could want and more. I'm quite content with my TF300T.
There's a difference in terms of target. Larrabee was initially supposed to be Intel's first shot at being competitive in the GPU market. This reuses a lot of the tech, but it's more like having a bunch of Xeon processors in a PCI-E slot. It's general purpose, massively parallel computing power, which could make it a sweet spot for things like video transcoding or CGI (as GPU solutions tend to be fairly lossy).
The interesting thing about this is that it could basically transform any desktop computer with a modern motherboard into a mini-supercomputer. With two PCI-E slots you can get over 100 CPU cores, which is rather nice as it's all off-the-shelf hardware (well, aside from the probably ridiculously pricey Xeon Phi boards themselves).
Now I can honestly say that I like Samsung's hardware a lot. I have a HDTV from them and I own a Nexus S. The build quality's always solid, the designs are nice and the phone screens are lavish.
However, Samsung's never seemed to me to be even remotely competent with software. TouchWiz has been described as anything from mediocre to disastrous, especially now that Android's default UI (with ICS) is fairly sleek. Unless they have plans to entirely scrap that and hire a better software team, I don't see how they can expect to actually fork Android. They'd either lose on all the Google-provided updates or have to have an extensive integration process every time a new version comes out. This might work with revisions, but large changes (like say, the jump from Gingerbread/Honeycomb to ICS) would require tremendous amounts of work for little benefit, in the end. Not following the lead set by Google would mean trailing in API implementation, having to maintain their own development kits and tools, and probably fracturing the environment with them sticking out like a sore thumb. Android app devs already have enough of a headache supporting three concurrent OS versions.
They're better off taking advantage of Google's platform. I doubt they'll change it much with the Motorola acquisition, which was in large part a land grab in the patent war. At worst, Samsung will lose their privileged Nexus maker status, which while important in terms of image doesn't translate into that many sales.
Comparing a movie actually shot at 48fps with interpolation software running on a TV is like comparing a high-end DSLR's picture with a resampled cheap phone shot.
You can't know how that movie will feel until you've seen it, really. Going in with an open mind helps, too.
The sad part? Microsoft has a superb R&D branch that's constantly making new cool stuff, but the company is seemingly incapable of capitalizing on that. Just look at the Courier.
MS doesn't even need to buy competitors to make a good product, it just needs to listen to (their own) competent developers, designers and engineers as opposed to marketing and management.
Political correctness means these kids do not exist. Everyone is supposedly just as intelligent and capable. Concerns of a functional society requiring all sorts of jobs do not enter into the equation.
A fan is not a rational being. It is a marketing construct made through intensive brainwashing of already impressionable human beings and turned into a buzzword spewing machine. Its sole purpose is to promote the company's products while dissing competitors'.
The choice quote here is: "Optimal layering was determined using a scanning electron microscope."
I'm sorry, but as a high school student, there's no way I'd have access to that kind of gear. Further, the rest of the abstract includes things which could only be performed with rather specific tools. Reading precision to the nmol/L? My high school barely had beakers.
I'm not saying the individual steps are impossible to do as a teenager, just that having all the tools available and the knowledge to perform the steps would be extremely improbable. As with most incredible claims, I always tend to be skeptical.
I have to say, I was rather curious myself when I first read this. I went on to look at the (unfortunately very sparsely-detailed) article and the bit about the second place winner doing work on qubits made me go... Wait, what?
As a disclaimer, I did not do much investigation on this, but the article seemed to detail something that's been known for years: that you can use entanglement to teleport qubits from one place to another. Unless the article entirely left out what innovation/discovery was made here, I don't really understand. Not only is this kind of work well outside the resources of an 18 year old kid (bar well-connected parents who do most of the work, of course!), it's nothing new.
Yeah, I gotta say I find this a bit surprising too. My parents are okay as far as tech goes, probably a bit above the average for their age bracket, but they wouldn't be able to install their own browser even in a life or death situation. I mean, one year after I bought my Nexus S and kept raving about Android, they still hadn't realized that Android was the OS for it.
Most people are too technically illiterate to understand what a browser is. Only way for them to gain market share is through auto-installers bundled with something else (IE with Windows, Chrome with Google Earth, etc.) or "the tech guy/gal" doing a favor, whoever he/she may be.
If you'd bothered reading *anything* about Windows 8, you'd have noticed that they have a dramatically improved file copy/move dialog, in many ways superior to TeraCopy. But hey, keep on whining.
You can blame lazy programmers, really. Most web-facing programming languages like PHP or databases like MySQL provide easy to use sanitizing methods that make SQL injection null and void.
The problem stems from the fact that, long ago, such methods were unavailable and nobody bothered changing the code to use them since then.
It's a significant achievement for all of them, but if you think that's big budget you're kidding yourself. The average multiplatform game budget would apparently hover between 18 and 28 million dollars, while single-platform budgets would be around 10M: http://www.develop-online.net/news/33625/Study-Average-dev-cost-as-high-as-28m
Easy to say when you're not the one drinking the water they're pouring out. By using Chinese imports, you're basically endorsing heavy pollution with no regards for the consequences... yet buy those panels "to be green".
You'll find that scientists have little interest in attempting to answer a question that cannot be answered unequivocally, even theoretically. Those that do tend to say they're philosophers:)
There are so many questions to ask that CAN in fact be answered that I personally find it wasteful to spend time and effort on questions that can't.
What happens before the Big Bang is outside of the realm of science since it doesn't work with observables. Prior to the Planck epoch, you enter into the realms of metaphysics and philosophy and science has nothing to do with this. Scientists may have an opinion of what was there before (and in fact you'll see they're rather diverse), but they're opinions, not hypotheses, much less theories.
Movies are not games. With movies, you often tend to watch once in a few hours and then not touch again, so services like Netflix are much more efficient. You also don't need powerful hardware to run movies in real time or stream them.
Games need hardware, they need good latency, but most of all games are fundamentally different from movies. You're interacting with the game, often for extremely long stretches of time. I can't seriously think for a second that services like Gaikai or OnLive would be cheaper than buying the game straight away, unless you're uncertain you'll be playing much. I can see them being good demo-like services, but not full-blown gaming services.
Finally, there's one critical element that makes PC gaming, which is what's targeted by these services primarily, unique: the games can be modified. Mods have breathed life into games that deserved it, fixed games that were broken, improved games to perfection, kept games alive for years. They're the one thing that PC gaming has as a crucial advantage over just about any other (closed) model. You can't mod Gaikai games. Say goodbye to those amazing Half-Life 2 or UT2004 mods.
Oh yeah, and say hello to gatekeepers getting to choose which games are available. Dominance of streaming game services would be bad news for indie developers, since hardware would slowly get deprecated and not replaced. With the current market, you don't have to be on Steam to be competitive; the Humbe Bundle more than proves that.
I really hope this won't happen. We don't need more centralization than we already have.
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Why should the US have special treatment?
They should be using .gov.us and .mil.us just like everybody on the planet.
I'd have .com, .org for international corporations and organizations (with checks in place to make sure they are what they claim to be, no pepsi.org or whatever) and country codes (restricted to citizens, corporations and organizations of the country in question, so no Tuvalu using .tv for television crap). Registering a domain on an international TLD would preclude the same entity from registering a domain on a country TLD.
Optionally, enforcing at bare minimum .com.** and .org.** for all country codes.
It makes me feel like they're basically extrapolating their height/time ratio, as if no other problem could arise. Obviously, I doubt the engineers themselves are quite as confident, but who listens to competent people anyway?
Just get a Transformer. Seriously. It's already doing what that Surface tablet is doing, but without compromising as much. It's bulkier with the dock, but hey, you do get a self-supporting, full keyboard. You know, with tactile feedback, depth and all that. Touch typists rejoice!
If you want a really top end tablet, wait for the TF Infinity to come out. 1080p screen, Tegra 3, all the stuff you could want and more. I'm quite content with my TF300T.
There's a difference in terms of target. Larrabee was initially supposed to be Intel's first shot at being competitive in the GPU market. This reuses a lot of the tech, but it's more like having a bunch of Xeon processors in a PCI-E slot. It's general purpose, massively parallel computing power, which could make it a sweet spot for things like video transcoding or CGI (as GPU solutions tend to be fairly lossy).
The interesting thing about this is that it could basically transform any desktop computer with a modern motherboard into a mini-supercomputer. With two PCI-E slots you can get over 100 CPU cores, which is rather nice as it's all off-the-shelf hardware (well, aside from the probably ridiculously pricey Xeon Phi boards themselves).
Now I can honestly say that I like Samsung's hardware a lot. I have a HDTV from them and I own a Nexus S. The build quality's always solid, the designs are nice and the phone screens are lavish.
However, Samsung's never seemed to me to be even remotely competent with software. TouchWiz has been described as anything from mediocre to disastrous, especially now that Android's default UI (with ICS) is fairly sleek. Unless they have plans to entirely scrap that and hire a better software team, I don't see how they can expect to actually fork Android. They'd either lose on all the Google-provided updates or have to have an extensive integration process every time a new version comes out. This might work with revisions, but large changes (like say, the jump from Gingerbread/Honeycomb to ICS) would require tremendous amounts of work for little benefit, in the end. Not following the lead set by Google would mean trailing in API implementation, having to maintain their own development kits and tools, and probably fracturing the environment with them sticking out like a sore thumb. Android app devs already have enough of a headache supporting three concurrent OS versions.
They're better off taking advantage of Google's platform. I doubt they'll change it much with the Motorola acquisition, which was in large part a land grab in the patent war. At worst, Samsung will lose their privileged Nexus maker status, which while important in terms of image doesn't translate into that many sales.
Comparing a movie actually shot at 48fps with interpolation software running on a TV is like comparing a high-end DSLR's picture with a resampled cheap phone shot.
You can't know how that movie will feel until you've seen it, really. Going in with an open mind helps, too.
If your GPU is doing your compost, it's not wonder it's getting clogged up. Perhaps you need to clean its tubes?
The sad part? Microsoft has a superb R&D branch that's constantly making new cool stuff, but the company is seemingly incapable of capitalizing on that. Just look at the Courier.
MS doesn't even need to buy competitors to make a good product, it just needs to listen to (their own) competent developers, designers and engineers as opposed to marketing and management.
Political correctness means these kids do not exist. Everyone is supposedly just as intelligent and capable. Concerns of a functional society requiring all sorts of jobs do not enter into the equation.
A fan is not a rational being. It is a marketing construct made through intensive brainwashing of already impressionable human beings and turned into a buzzword spewing machine. Its sole purpose is to promote the company's products while dissing competitors'.
If you do a bit of digging, you can find the full abstract:
http://www.aacps.org/science/andraka.pdf
The choice quote here is:
"Optimal layering was determined using a scanning electron microscope."
I'm sorry, but as a high school student, there's no way I'd have access to that kind of gear. Further, the rest of the abstract includes things which could only be performed with rather specific tools. Reading precision to the nmol/L? My high school barely had beakers.
I'm not saying the individual steps are impossible to do as a teenager, just that having all the tools available and the knowledge to perform the steps would be extremely improbable. As with most incredible claims, I always tend to be skeptical.
I have to say, I was rather curious myself when I first read this. I went on to look at the (unfortunately very sparsely-detailed) article and the bit about the second place winner doing work on qubits made me go... Wait, what?
As a disclaimer, I did not do much investigation on this, but the article seemed to detail something that's been known for years: that you can use entanglement to teleport qubits from one place to another. Unless the article entirely left out what innovation/discovery was made here, I don't really understand. Not only is this kind of work well outside the resources of an 18 year old kid (bar well-connected parents who do most of the work, of course!), it's nothing new.
Yeah, I gotta say I find this a bit surprising too. My parents are okay as far as tech goes, probably a bit above the average for their age bracket, but they wouldn't be able to install their own browser even in a life or death situation. I mean, one year after I bought my Nexus S and kept raving about Android, they still hadn't realized that Android was the OS for it.
Most people are too technically illiterate to understand what a browser is. Only way for them to gain market share is through auto-installers bundled with something else (IE with Windows, Chrome with Google Earth, etc.) or "the tech guy/gal" doing a favor, whoever he/she may be.
All this shows is that Ellison is an ass even in his personal life.
Which is a shame, really, because outside of Metro Windows 8 has a few nifty additions that I wouldn't mind having.
If you'd bothered reading *anything* about Windows 8, you'd have noticed that they have a dramatically improved file copy/move dialog, in many ways superior to TeraCopy. But hey, keep on whining.
You can blame lazy programmers, really. Most web-facing programming languages like PHP or databases like MySQL provide easy to use sanitizing methods that make SQL injection null and void.
The problem stems from the fact that, long ago, such methods were unavailable and nobody bothered changing the code to use them since then.
It's a significant achievement for all of them, but if you think that's big budget you're kidding yourself. The average multiplatform game budget would apparently hover between 18 and 28 million dollars, while single-platform budgets would be around 10M:
http://www.develop-online.net/news/33625/Study-Average-dev-cost-as-high-as-28m
Easy to say when you're not the one drinking the water they're pouring out. By using Chinese imports, you're basically endorsing heavy pollution with no regards for the consequences... yet buy those panels "to be green".
In other words, hypocrisy at its finest.
Fruit flies.
You'll find that scientists have little interest in attempting to answer a question that cannot be answered unequivocally, even theoretically. Those that do tend to say they're philosophers :)
There are so many questions to ask that CAN in fact be answered that I personally find it wasteful to spend time and effort on questions that can't.
What happens before the Big Bang is outside of the realm of science since it doesn't work with observables. Prior to the Planck epoch, you enter into the realms of metaphysics and philosophy and science has nothing to do with this. Scientists may have an opinion of what was there before (and in fact you'll see they're rather diverse), but they're opinions, not hypotheses, much less theories.
Movies are not games. With movies, you often tend to watch once in a few hours and then not touch again, so services like Netflix are much more efficient. You also don't need powerful hardware to run movies in real time or stream them.
Games need hardware, they need good latency, but most of all games are fundamentally different from movies. You're interacting with the game, often for extremely long stretches of time. I can't seriously think for a second that services like Gaikai or OnLive would be cheaper than buying the game straight away, unless you're uncertain you'll be playing much. I can see them being good demo-like services, but not full-blown gaming services.
Finally, there's one critical element that makes PC gaming, which is what's targeted by these services primarily, unique: the games can be modified. Mods have breathed life into games that deserved it, fixed games that were broken, improved games to perfection, kept games alive for years. They're the one thing that PC gaming has as a crucial advantage over just about any other (closed) model. You can't mod Gaikai games. Say goodbye to those amazing Half-Life 2 or UT2004 mods.
Oh yeah, and say hello to gatekeepers getting to choose which games are available. Dominance of streaming game services would be bad news for indie developers, since hardware would slowly get deprecated and not replaced. With the current market, you don't have to be on Steam to be competitive; the Humbe Bundle more than proves that.
I really hope this won't happen. We don't need more centralization than we already have.
That's actually Canada, not US. And it's 4/month just to get call display.
I wish I could pack up and leave, but the other providers are even worse. Bell and Rogers are pretty much evil incarnate.
Ah so, because the company you work at is run by crooks who use misrepresentation to appear green, recycling is useless? Nice logic there, really.