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Why do the Pentiums have only 8 kB L1 cache as compared to the Athlon's 128 kB? I suppose this is somewhat o/t, but I'm curious as to why there's such a big difference.
This was true earlier, but WinMP's latest codecs (version 8?) blow the competition out of the water, IMHO. 300 k streams look much much better than 300 k Real Player or 300 k Quicktime streams.
Right now Microsoft does have the better technology. I'd give the new codecs a spin, if you're running Windows.
> Finally, I believe that the ability to be able
> to access a document or search for information
> from anywhere is very important. If I have a
> question, I want to be able to go to Google and
> find the answer within 30 seconds. Will this be
> possible with the bandwidth and limited screen
> space that this device has?
I believe the Treo comes with Handspring's Blazer web browser. I've used Blazer on Palm emulators, and it does a good job of rendering simple pages like google on small screens. (I think google also has a PDA optimized page at www.google.com/palm)
Just downloaded and installed Kmeleon
on
Netscape 6.2
·
· Score: 1
Man, is it a great piece of software or what?! Fast, small, efficient.
Just three things would make me dump IE for it:
* Support for my scroll mouse
* some sort of URL autocomplete function (If this is built in somehow, I haven't found it yet.)
* Something to replace the Google Toolbar for IE
to control pest populations. Basically the idea is that you release a lot of sterile individuals into nature, who compete sexual with the wild-type (normal) individuals. This decreases population growth rates.
The problem with irradiation is that it is rather hit-or-miss. Genetic engineering is much more likely to creat sterile individuals.
Couple of other things... many posters seem to think that these moths will be simulatneously glow-in-the-dark and sterile. No, these are different modifications.
ANnd yes, these moths can't propagate in the wild because they're sterile. They would have to be artificially bred and re-released.
> IIRC, sunspots are locations of hotter sun
> activity
Actually, sunspots are considerably cooler than the rest of the sun (2000K or so).
> Another thing to consider is that influenza
> seems to originate with birds in China,
> Australia and some other places that I can not
> recall at the moment.
Current theory is that inluenza normally crosses from migratory and domesticated birds (ducks, chickens etc) to pigs, and then to humans. In '97(?) there was a scare in Hong Kong about a case of flu that a child apparently got directly from chickens. This would lead to a major epidemic, as many more humans are in contact with birds than with pigs.
> 1cm^2 of LCD might have 250 elements. 2cm^2
> will therefore have 1000. Basic mathematics.
Wrong... you should be doubling the count, noy quadrupling it. 2 cm^2 would have 500 elements
Peace
The commercial web drives the mainstream internet. Remove this driving force and the web will not reach the mainstream. The web (and by extension the internet) will be used by the "geek" population, made of people like you, the reader, and will remain in the backwaters of society, stagnant. No company would have the incentive to use the internet, and in a capitalist society, companies are the only entities with resources sufficient to bring the internet to the masses.
(Side note: You are not the masses. Keep that in mind:)
Now, has the commercial internet peaked? The internet is a very unusual medium of commerce: very few companies made money on it (through sales of products/services). Plenty made money off of it, on the stock markets of the world. The driving force behind the commerical web was provided by inflated stock prices. Based on that, I would have to say the commercial internet peaked in February 2000. A bitter pill.
Now, the acceleration of the growth of the internet has levelled off, but the internet is still growing. When was the last time you heard of somebody getting off the internet? I think that unless the internet is proven to be a profitable medium (either by new technology or a new economic paradigm (I know all of you love that word;)), that phrase will become commonplace. The internet will die a lonely and miserable death.
I know the/. community loves the internet. "What", I hear you say, "can we do about it?" The answer is:
you must make the internet profitable for companies. And by extension,
stop making it unprofitable for companies. Don't give away better products than companies can make, at a better price than they can offer. Stop the open-source movement. Because open-source will kill the internet.
That's right. The open-source movement is making the internet unprofitable for companies, removing the driving force behind the driving force behind the internet. That's not a typo.
Ladies and gentlemen of slashdot.org, you are faced with a difficult choice. There are 2 likely futures for the internet you have come to know and love better and more than any other group in the world. An internet that enters a gradual decline but stays true to its hacker roots, providing not the masses, but you with good, free software, and dies with the retirement of your generation, say in 20 years. Or, an internet that everybody can use, and one that will last indefinitely, but one that is irrevocably changed from the internet you have built: an internet where profitability and the almighty dollar rule supreme, and where individual voices are drowned out by the noise. I do not envy you.
P.S.: No bullshit about how internet!=web, please. In the popular mind, they are the same. That makes them the same. Get over it.
> But I sure as hell don't know any women who
> look like Lara or Johanna Dark in real life.
I know lots of women who look like lara croft, Joanna Dark and the girls of DOA2. At the same time. I've even dated a couple. Hell, I'm dating one right now.
The antialiasing can get a little distracting on bright days though... not that I'm complaining.
> If anyone can think of another field where a
> mistake of a single mistake in hundreds or
> thousands of hours work is considered a bad
> record, I'd be suprised.
Surgery
Armed Forces
Even fields like science, anthropology, etc.
And it's not just careers - you make/one/ mistake in your life and you could wind up on the wrong side of the law. It happened to me. (No, not really. But it could. You see my point?)
Don't whine about your lot in life or how nobody understands how difficult your life is. I am tempted to do the same, and so is everybody else.
According to the BNSC (British National Space Council:D), there have been ~400 people in space. Say 20 fatalities, maybe 30. That's a 0.05 - 0.075 chance I'm not coming back - I like those odds! (Assuming of course I do go to space...)
How many of you would be willing to pay to use google on, say, a 1 cent/search basis? 2 cents? 5?
1 cent sounds fair to me. I don't want them going out of business 2 years down the line, just because they don't sell pagerank spots or whatever. I need that search!
The possibility of life being discussed here is on the moons of the gas giant. The "surface" of gas giants is a long way down, through all the layers of gas. (Imagine that, lots of gas in gas giants...)
Jupiter is inclined 9.5 degrees (IIRC) off the vertical (i.e. the normal to the ecliptic), and its rotational period is ~10hrs, so it ought to be quite evenly heated by the Sun. However, keep in mind that solar radiation at that distance is minscule compared to what we get here on Earth. I don't think we have numbers for axial tilt, rotation etc. for extrasolar planets.
Solar radiation is something of a moot point - gas giants put out substantial amounts of infrared radiation, heating their satellites, and tidal and perhaps EM forces also heat the satellites, so that they could have temperatures conducive to life even quite far from the Sun. (case in point: Europa could have liquid water, Io is hot as hell - literally - with volcanoes & lava flows all over the place).
There has been some speculation that the lower-mid layers of the Jovian atmosphere could be warm enough to support lighter-than-air life, at least for a band ~100 to 1000 km high. There is probably a fair amount of hydrocarbons down there, right? Does anybody remember a short story from Arthur C. Clarke on this, and also a passage in 2010?
So in direct answer to your question, it is possible that temperatures in some gas giants are conducive to life, but not life as we know it. Instead we could see giant gasbags, living hydrogen balloons.
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Why do the Pentiums have only 8 kB L1 cache as compared to the Athlon's 128 kB? I suppose this is somewhat o/t, but I'm curious as to why there's such a big difference.
>Exchange Connector only hurts the people who are
;-)
>already using Exchange.
I'd have thought it only *helps* the people who are already using Exchange
Why else would it exist?
You mean kinda like Visual Basic? ;D
>...Microsoft's inferior technology...
This was true earlier, but WinMP's latest codecs (version 8?) blow the competition out of the water, IMHO. 300 k streams look much much better than 300 k Real Player or 300 k Quicktime streams.
Right now Microsoft does have the better technology. I'd give the new codecs a spin, if you're running Windows.
> Finally, I believe that the ability to be able
> to access a document or search for information
> from anywhere is very important. If I have a
> question, I want to be able to go to Google and
> find the answer within 30 seconds. Will this be
> possible with the bandwidth and limited screen
> space that this device has?
I believe the Treo comes with Handspring's Blazer web browser. I've used Blazer on Palm emulators, and it does a good job of rendering simple pages like google on small screens. (I think google also has a PDA optimized page at www.google.com/palm)
Man, is it a great piece of software or what?! Fast, small, efficient.
Just three things would make me dump IE for it:
* Support for my scroll mouse
* some sort of URL autocomplete function (If this is built in somehow, I haven't found it yet.)
* Something to replace the Google Toolbar for IE
But other than that, really nice browser.
Man, somebody needs a life :)
[circumventing lameness filter]
Check this out!
rocketguy.com
UltimateTV has a 30-second skip button - looks like you've found the perfect DVR for you... oh wait, it's by MS. Never mind.
Tough choice to make now...
to control pest populations. Basically the idea is that you release a lot of sterile individuals into nature, who compete sexual with the wild-type (normal) individuals. This decreases population growth rates.
The problem with irradiation is that it is rather hit-or-miss. Genetic engineering is much more likely to creat sterile individuals.
Couple of other things... many posters seem to think that these moths will be simulatneously glow-in-the-dark and sterile. No, these are different modifications.
ANnd yes, these moths can't propagate in the wild because they're sterile. They would have to be artificially bred and re-released.
> IIRC, sunspots are locations of hotter sun
> activity
Actually, sunspots are considerably cooler than the rest of the sun (2000K or so).
> Another thing to consider is that influenza
> seems to originate with birds in China,
> Australia and some other places that I can not
> recall at the moment.
Current theory is that inluenza normally crosses from migratory and domesticated birds (ducks, chickens etc) to pigs, and then to humans. In '97(?) there was a scare in Hong Kong about a case of flu that a child apparently got directly from chickens. This would lead to a major epidemic, as many more humans are in contact with birds than with pigs.
HTH
> 1cm^2 of LCD might have 250 elements. 2cm^2 > will therefore have 1000. Basic mathematics. Wrong... you should be doubling the count, noy quadrupling it. 2 cm^2 would have 500 elements Peace
Now, the acceleration of the growth of the internet has levelled off, but the internet is still growing. When was the last time you heard of somebody getting off the internet? I think that unless the internet is proven to be a profitable medium (either by new technology or a new economic paradigm (I know all of you love that word ;)), that phrase will become commonplace. The internet will die a lonely and miserable death.
I know the /. community loves the internet. "What", I hear you say, "can we do about it?" The answer is:
- you must make the internet profitable for companies. And by extension,
- stop making it unprofitable for companies. Don't give away better products than companies can make, at a better price than they can offer. Stop the open-source movement. Because open-source will kill the internet.
That's right. The open-source movement is making the internet unprofitable for companies, removing the driving force behind the driving force behind the internet. That's not a typo.Ladies and gentlemen of slashdot.org, you are faced with a difficult choice. There are 2 likely futures for the internet you have come to know and love better and more than any other group in the world. An internet that enters a gradual decline but stays true to its hacker roots, providing not the masses, but you with good, free software, and dies with the retirement of your generation, say in 20 years. Or, an internet that everybody can use, and one that will last indefinitely, but one that is irrevocably changed from the internet you have built: an internet where profitability and the almighty dollar rule supreme, and where individual voices are drowned out by the noise. I do not envy you.
For the author of the column I mean: "Scot Hacker"
hehe
> look like Lara or Johanna Dark in real life.
I know lots of women who look like lara croft, Joanna Dark and the girls of DOA2. At the same time. I've even dated a couple. Hell, I'm dating one right now.
The antialiasing can get a little distracting on bright days though... not that I'm complaining.
> If anyone can think of another field where a
/one/ mistake in your life and you could wind up on the wrong side of the law. It happened to me. (No, not really. But it could. You see my point?)
> mistake of a single mistake in hundreds or
> thousands of hours work is considered a bad
> record, I'd be suprised.
Surgery
Armed Forces
Even fields like science, anthropology, etc.
And it's not just careers - you make
Don't whine about your lot in life or how nobody understands how difficult your life is. I am tempted to do the same, and so is everybody else.
Check your credit card bills. Talk to the bank, and most importantly creditcards.com. If you're lucky, they might actually tell you.
My 94 paisa
According to the BNSC (British National Space Council :D), there have been ~400 people in space. Say 20 fatalities, maybe 30. That's a 0.05 - 0.075 chance I'm not coming back - I like those odds! (Assuming of course I do go to space...)
But then, all manned flights are on the Shuttle nowadays, aren't they...?
I guess I'll just have to wait for the Roton... but by that time I'll be 40, fat and ugly :(
Hold your horses... a spacesuit is the ultimate in chaperones ;-)
> and no civilians (to my knowledge)....
There have been plenty of civilians - not every astronaut is from the armed forces, right? Plenty of scientists up there. A senator, too.
How many of you would be willing to pay to use google on, say, a 1 cent/search basis? 2 cents? 5?
1 cent sounds fair to me. I don't want them going out of business 2 years down the line, just because they don't sell pagerank spots or whatever. I need that search!
The possibility of life being discussed here is on the moons of the gas giant. The "surface" of gas giants is a long way down, through all the layers of gas. (Imagine that, lots of gas in gas giants...)
Jupiter is inclined 9.5 degrees (IIRC) off the vertical (i.e. the normal to the ecliptic), and its rotational period is ~10hrs, so it ought to be quite evenly heated by the Sun. However, keep in mind that solar radiation at that distance is minscule compared to what we get here on Earth. I don't think we have numbers for axial tilt, rotation etc. for extrasolar planets.
Solar radiation is something of a moot point - gas giants put out substantial amounts of infrared radiation, heating their satellites, and tidal and perhaps EM forces also heat the satellites, so that they could have temperatures conducive to life even quite far from the Sun. (case in point: Europa could have liquid water, Io is hot as hell - literally - with volcanoes & lava flows all over the place).
There has been some speculation that the lower-mid layers of the Jovian atmosphere could be warm enough to support lighter-than-air life, at least for a band ~100 to 1000 km high. There is probably a fair amount of hydrocarbons down there, right? Does anybody remember a short story from Arthur C. Clarke on this, and also a passage in 2010?
So in direct answer to your question, it is possible that temperatures in some gas giants are conducive to life, but not life as we know it. Instead we could see giant gasbags, living hydrogen balloons.
Genbank lets you do this sort of thing, although it is not too user-friendly.