Google made their front page (and some of their other pages) as small as possible, byte-wise. Their home page has so many errors on it because they intentionally leave out the quotes on attributes and other stuff like that, to reduce the size of the page.
I don't know how many people visit that page every day... let's say 10 million. If they shave 1000 bytes off the size of the file by not including spaces, quotes, slashes, etc. wherever possible, they save ten gigs per day in bandwidth.
Ten gigs per day over a month is about 300 gigs of bandwidth saved per month. Plus, they do it on some other pages, not just the home page, so they're saving a lot of bandwidth overall.
On the other hand, I can't stand non-standard-compliant HTML. It just makes me cringe.
I'm afraid it's really just the economics than descrimination...
Being partially left-handed has its advantages and disadvantages... although I personally have found it fairly easy to adapt to a right-handed world. I use right-handed mice, in particular.
There is some very interesting information about left-handedness in its Wikipedia article.
I have to disagree with your claim that there is no discernable difference between ID and creationism.
It occurs to me that there's no reason creationism and evolution couldn't be compatible with eachother. In fact, this is exactly what the Catholic church officially says. God created the universe for us ~16 billion years ago with the Big Bang. Evolution still occured here on Earth, although God may have created the universe to kick that process off.
If this is true, and your claim is true, then evolution and intelligent design must also be compatible with eachother, which is apparently not the case according to culture.
On the other hand, intelligent design could be said to have been an intelligent design of the Big Bang such that it would result in our sun forming and Earth forming and evolution occuring exactly as it did. This, however, is not the definition of intelligent design which is used. Instead we take it to mean that the universe was created by God some time in the past 10,000 years or something like that, and that nothing has evolved since then (which has been proven false).
So either your claim about ID = Creationism is false, or my description that Evolution and Creationism are compatible is false, or they're both true and they're all really entirely compatible with eachother in ways that people love to ignore.
The Intel Macs don't have a BIOS, and it's certainly not the same as the PowerPC Macs. They use a new EFI standard from Intel which no significant operating system (except Mac OS X for Intel, of course) supports at this time. I've heard that Windows Vista will support EFI, but I'm not aware if the current betas do or not (since there is no hardware, other than Apple's, that uses EFI, in order to try it out).
I've never actually been to a big city like Chicago, so I was guessing mostly. The blocks where I live are either 1/2 mile or 1 mile (sometimes even 2 miles) wide/long. I imagined my block (which is 1/2 x 1/2 mile) being cut into 4's as being a pretty small block, and what I would imagine would be in a city. Each of those being again cut into 4's just amazes me... the city would be like 30% street and only 70% building! Maybe SimCity is more realistic than I thought.
10 cubic yards every 3 seconds, I believe that comes out to 288000 cubic yards per day.
The article indicates that this has been happening at this pace for 15 months... so roughly 635 days. That makes 182,880,000 total cubic yards of lava.
With that much lava, you could cover a typical city block (1/4 mile by 1/4 mile according to my estimates?) 1417 feet (432 meters) deep. That's almost as tall as the Sears Tower (including the antennas), and taller than the Empire State Building. So fill one of them up with lava. That's enough lava for me:-)
For this amount of lava to have come out of the "narrow 3 mile pipe" they mention in the article (assuming it doesn't get refilled and it's perfectly cylindrical), the pipe would need to be 178 feet in diameter... is that "narrow"? Dunno... I'm not a geologist:-P
As a PC X Server developer for one of the sponsors mentioned above, I am very glad they are phasing out imake. It is a real pain in the you-know-what. It's literally just a bunch of makefiles that make makefiles! On our product in particular, we had a trouble with it, thus generating significant hatred.
I haven't had a chance to take a look at 7.0 yet, but it's got to be good... at least, there's no way it could be worse than imake!
In my case, I haven't been sick enough to need antibiotics in more than a year and a half.
My assumption based on that entire comment is that the commenter believes he/she has a good immune system, or something. Myself, also a college student, but not living in a dorm, have only had a simple cold maybe 8 times in the last 5 years, and I had a stomach flu once. That's it.
I certainly haven't had any antibiotics in 7 or 8 years (I had swolen tonsils once in high school)... I haven't even been to a doctor in that long. If I had to get antibiotics every year and a half, I would think something was seriously wrong with me.
Personally, I have no problem with my life being made easier by Google. They provide great services in all aspects, and listen to user input. If they get my input with no additional effort from me, that's even better. I'll volunteer any information they want, since I know it will be better for me and for them.
While I do not entirely agree with software patents, I do generally agree with Google--particularly in this case. This is the kind of thing they are really good at, and they deserve the right to the patent. It's not like the encourage all their employees to file for 5 patents per month or whatever Microsoft does.
I recently bought 3 phones from the Sprint half of Sprint Nextel, having previously been with the Nextel half of Sprint Nextel. Two of the phones (the cheaper ones, for my dad and sister) sound TERRIBLE when playing songs. But the third phone (mine), sounds extremely good. I was quite impressed. My phone is a Sanyo MM-8300 ($280).
As for paying $2.50 per song... yeah... it sucks... specially when they only let you keep them for 60 days, and these were just "ring tones" so they are only 30 seconds long or so! It was worth trying out one song though, just to see/hear what it was like:-)
That's a pretty good guess. The PAE (Physical Address Extentions) option on all of Intel's recent 32-bit processors allows up to 64 GB of RAM (certainly not 1 TB!) (which is 36, not 40 bits, that's probably for the EM64T).
Switching to this mode requires that you use a 4 MB page size instead of a 4 KB page... but these days that's not as crazy as it was when we had 32 MB of memory.
If you're more interested in PAE and other higher memory addressing modes, all of this information is available in the IA-32 manual available in PDF form from Intel's web site.
Actually, I was informed that Canada plans to do the exact same thing at the same time, so that things don't get REALLY screwed up. This really seems more like something Canada would do than the US would do anyway... By the way, if they keep doing this every now and then, eventually we'll be on DST all-year-round anyway, then it won't matter anymore. Clocks are fairly irrelevent to me anyway. I go to work in the morning and come home in the afternoon, some time. It is useful for coordinating meetings, but other than that... pfft..
This article confused me when I first read it. I think "only" is not the correct word to be using. IE 7 will, of course, be available in Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista (Longhorn) in addition to XP... just nothing older than XP.
That's just browsers hitting the W3Schools web site, which, as they say right at the top of your link, is a "special" website. It is certainly not representative of the entire Internet.
Actually, Windows XP can already do this, sort of. If you right click any EXE (or shortcut to one) you can select Compatibility and choose your old OS to pretend to be. When the process is then running, you'll see it as a subprocess of "wowexec.exe", where "wow" stands for "windows on windows". "DOS" programs run in a virtual machine now as well.
This feature in XP may give us a look ahead at what Microsoft might plan, as far as cleaning up the API in general, but still supporting old programs if they really really have to.
Do people forget that it was JFK, a democrat, who sent us to the moon in the first place? I don't see, and I never have seen, going to outer space having anything to do with political views. It's a shame it has to be that way. I myself am liberal, and I believe extremely strongly that we should go to space (and as much as possible), no matter what the risk is.
Jag talar inte svenskt, men I grundar detta för att översätta för mig. http://www.systranet.com/ You have to sign up after like 5 translations, but it IS free to do so. It'll do to/from/between Swedish, Arabic, French, Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Dutch, Russian, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional).
If you visit the story that's linked to in the post, there's a photograph of the unit. It's about 2 finger-widths long on the guy's hand, which is probaly about 20-30mm. So who really knows...
Why exactly can't you precompile our ASP.NET stuff in 1.1? I do it all the time... I type Ctrl+Shift+B with the project open, which I think is the Build->Build Solution menu item. I was impressed with it myself, actually.
"I don't want my search site to be any more cluttered than it is now." Well, I guess that's why it's completely customizable. You can put what you want where you want it, including putting nothing there... though I find the Slashdot module quite nice (that's how I found this story). With Slashdot, Google News, Gmail, and Google Search on one page, I've got 90% of the stuff I ever use right in front of me as soon as I start my browser. Couldn't be better. It gets a thumbs-up from me, for sure.
Google has had this feature for a very long time. I use the UPS/FedEx tracking number thing all the time. I've also searched by UPC codes. Very great things.
Slashdot Mirror
Google made their front page (and some of their other pages) as small as possible, byte-wise. Their home page has so many errors on it because they intentionally leave out the quotes on attributes and other stuff like that, to reduce the size of the page.
I don't know how many people visit that page every day... let's say 10 million. If they shave 1000 bytes off the size of the file by not including spaces, quotes, slashes, etc. wherever possible, they save ten gigs per day in bandwidth.
Ten gigs per day over a month is about 300 gigs of bandwidth saved per month. Plus, they do it on some other pages, not just the home page, so they're saving a lot of bandwidth overall.
On the other hand, I can't stand non-standard-compliant HTML. It just makes me cringe.
I'm afraid it's really just the economics than descrimination...
Being partially left-handed has its advantages and disadvantages... although I personally have found it fairly easy to adapt to a right-handed world. I use right-handed mice, in particular.
There is some very interesting information about left-handedness in its Wikipedia article.
I have to disagree with your claim that there is no discernable difference between ID and creationism.
It occurs to me that there's no reason creationism and evolution couldn't be compatible with eachother. In fact, this is exactly what the Catholic church officially says. God created the universe for us ~16 billion years ago with the Big Bang. Evolution still occured here on Earth, although God may have created the universe to kick that process off.
If this is true, and your claim is true, then evolution and intelligent design must also be compatible with eachother, which is apparently not the case according to culture.
On the other hand, intelligent design could be said to have been an intelligent design of the Big Bang such that it would result in our sun forming and Earth forming and evolution occuring exactly as it did. This, however, is not the definition of intelligent design which is used. Instead we take it to mean that the universe was created by God some time in the past 10,000 years or something like that, and that nothing has evolved since then (which has been proven false).
So either your claim about ID = Creationism is false, or my description that Evolution and Creationism are compatible is false, or they're both true and they're all really entirely compatible with eachother in ways that people love to ignore.
The Intel Macs don't have a BIOS, and it's certainly not the same as the PowerPC Macs. They use a new EFI standard from Intel which no significant operating system (except Mac OS X for Intel, of course) supports at this time. I've heard that Windows Vista will support EFI, but I'm not aware if the current betas do or not (since there is no hardware, other than Apple's, that uses EFI, in order to try it out).
I used to love KDE until I saw this. What the **** is wrong with their engineers? ****
I've never actually been to a big city like Chicago, so I was guessing mostly. The blocks where I live are either 1/2 mile or 1 mile (sometimes even 2 miles) wide/long. I imagined my block (which is 1/2 x 1/2 mile) being cut into 4's as being a pretty small block, and what I would imagine would be in a city. Each of those being again cut into 4's just amazes me... the city would be like 30% street and only 70% building! Maybe SimCity is more realistic than I thought.
10 cubic yards every 3 seconds, I believe that comes out to 288000 cubic yards per day.
:-)
:-P
The article indicates that this has been happening at this pace for 15 months... so roughly 635 days. That makes 182,880,000 total cubic yards of lava.
With that much lava, you could cover a typical city block (1/4 mile by 1/4 mile according to my estimates?) 1417 feet (432 meters) deep. That's almost as tall as the Sears Tower (including the antennas), and taller than the Empire State Building. So fill one of them up with lava. That's enough lava for me
For this amount of lava to have come out of the "narrow 3 mile pipe" they mention in the article (assuming it doesn't get refilled and it's perfectly cylindrical), the pipe would need to be 178 feet in diameter... is that "narrow"? Dunno... I'm not a geologist
As a PC X Server developer for one of the sponsors mentioned above, I am very glad they are phasing out imake. It is a real pain in the you-know-what. It's literally just a bunch of makefiles that make makefiles! On our product in particular, we had a trouble with it, thus generating significant hatred.
I haven't had a chance to take a look at 7.0 yet, but it's got to be good... at least, there's no way it could be worse than imake!
They're baseball-sized, so: golf swings? Maybe not.
In my case, I haven't been sick enough to need antibiotics in more than a year and a half.
My assumption based on that entire comment is that the commenter believes he/she has a good immune system, or something. Myself, also a college student, but not living in a dorm, have only had a simple cold maybe 8 times in the last 5 years, and I had a stomach flu once. That's it.
I certainly haven't had any antibiotics in 7 or 8 years (I had swolen tonsils once in high school)... I haven't even been to a doctor in that long. If I had to get antibiotics every year and a half, I would think something was seriously wrong with me.
Personally, I have no problem with my life being made easier by Google. They provide great services in all aspects, and listen to user input. If they get my input with no additional effort from me, that's even better. I'll volunteer any information they want, since I know it will be better for me and for them.
While I do not entirely agree with software patents, I do generally agree with Google--particularly in this case. This is the kind of thing they are really good at, and they deserve the right to the patent. It's not like the encourage all their employees to file for 5 patents per month or whatever Microsoft does.
I recently bought 3 phones from the Sprint half of Sprint Nextel, having previously been with the Nextel half of Sprint Nextel. Two of the phones (the cheaper ones, for my dad and sister) sound TERRIBLE when playing songs. But the third phone (mine), sounds extremely good. I was quite impressed. My phone is a Sanyo MM-8300 ($280).
:-)
As for paying $2.50 per song... yeah... it sucks... specially when they only let you keep them for 60 days, and these were just "ring tones" so they are only 30 seconds long or so! It was worth trying out one song though, just to see/hear what it was like
That's a pretty good guess. The PAE (Physical Address Extentions) option on all of Intel's recent 32-bit processors allows up to 64 GB of RAM (certainly not 1 TB!) (which is 36, not 40 bits, that's probably for the EM64T).
Switching to this mode requires that you use a 4 MB page size instead of a 4 KB page... but these days that's not as crazy as it was when we had 32 MB of memory.
If you're more interested in PAE and other higher memory addressing modes, all of this information is available in the IA-32 manual available in PDF form from Intel's web site.
Actually, I was informed that Canada plans to do the exact same thing at the same time, so that things don't get REALLY screwed up. This really seems more like something Canada would do than the US would do anyway...
By the way, if they keep doing this every now and then, eventually we'll be on DST all-year-round anyway, then it won't matter anymore.
Clocks are fairly irrelevent to me anyway. I go to work in the morning and come home in the afternoon, some time. It is useful for coordinating meetings, but other than that... pfft..
This article confused me when I first read it. I think "only" is not the correct word to be using. IE 7 will, of course, be available in Windows Server 2003 and Windows Vista (Longhorn) in addition to XP... just nothing older than XP.
That's just browsers hitting the W3Schools web site, which, as they say right at the top of your link, is a "special" website. It is certainly not representative of the entire Internet.
Actually, Windows XP can already do this, sort of. If you right click any EXE (or shortcut to one) you can select Compatibility and choose your old OS to pretend to be. When the process is then running, you'll see it as a subprocess of "wowexec.exe", where "wow" stands for "windows on windows".
"DOS" programs run in a virtual machine now as well.
This feature in XP may give us a look ahead at what Microsoft might plan, as far as cleaning up the API in general, but still supporting old programs if they really really have to.
Do people forget that it was JFK, a democrat, who sent us to the moon in the first place? I don't see, and I never have seen, going to outer space having anything to do with political views. It's a shame it has to be that way. I myself am liberal, and I believe extremely strongly that we should go to space (and as much as possible), no matter what the risk is.
Jag talar inte svenskt, men I grundar detta för att översätta för mig.
http://www.systranet.com/
You have to sign up after like 5 translations, but it IS free to do so. It'll do to/from/between Swedish, Arabic, French, Greek, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, German, Dutch, Russian, Korean, Japanese, and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional).
If you visit the story that's linked to in the post, there's a photograph of the unit. It's about 2 finger-widths long on the guy's hand, which is probaly about 20-30mm. So who really knows...
Why exactly can't you precompile our ASP.NET stuff in 1.1? I do it all the time... I type Ctrl+Shift+B with the project open, which I think is the Build->Build Solution menu item. I was impressed with it myself, actually.
"I don't want my search site to be any more cluttered than it is now." Well, I guess that's why it's completely customizable. You can put what you want where you want it, including putting nothing there... though I find the Slashdot module quite nice (that's how I found this story). With Slashdot, Google News, Gmail, and Google Search on one page, I've got 90% of the stuff I ever use right in front of me as soon as I start my browser. Couldn't be better.
It gets a thumbs-up from me, for sure.
Hey, if you had a 12v battery, it'd only need to produce 25 megawatts! That's a big battery :-P
How is this different than Yesterday's Story?
Google has had this feature for a very long time. I use the UPS/FedEx tracking number thing all the time. I've also searched by UPC codes. Very great things.