Two versions of Hawking will come into existence. One will go one way, and will stay in England. The other will go the other way (unless it crosses an event horizon), and will move to Canada.
It's amazing enough that the scientists can grow new eyes, but how exactly do they get themselves into the tadpoles before they start growing the new eyes? Scientists are usually much larger than tadpoles.
Yeah. We need more people to fix cars, and construct buildings. It's because we lack enough car fixers that we are losing our ability to compete internationally. Certainly, it has nothing to do with the low number and percentage of engineers and scientists that we have been training of late. And certainly, it has nothing to do with the lack of support and funding for basic research that drives the development of new technologies and industries.
or moc.tonemgub (specify that it should be typed backwards)
or, the first letters of: better understand great monstrosities explicating new otherworldly titrations plus a period plus the first letters of: commotion obfuscates mysteries
This is quite unusual for a university. Many schools have a department of computer science or a school of computer science. But combining that with a school of Dolby Canada is quite unusual. What kind of degrees in Dolby Canada do they offer?:-)
I did, in fact, watch the entire broadcast. The countries were not broadcast in that order. You can find the order in which they actually marched in the wikipedia page. The issue here is that NBC appears to have altered the order of the events themselves. This is different from editing out bits to fit in commercials. The *story* has changed. Example:
1) You get out of your car and walk into a store. 2) You pull up to the store in your car 3) You leave your house and get into your car 4) You drive to the store 5) You leave the store with your purchase.
The correct order is 3,4,2,1,5, but the story told about what you did gives the impression that something very different happened.
Once upon a time, I worked at a company that used Lotus Notes as their primary mail client. The interface was horrible, ugly, cluttered, and didn't follow any of the conventions of the host OS (Windows), or of any other possible host OS. It also wasn't particularly usable at less than full screen. Fortunately, they also maintained an IMAP server, so I was able to avoid using Notes completely. Ubuntu without Lotus would be worth much more to me than Ubuntu with Lotus.
Touch is not a good choice for a desktop device because you must take your hands away from the keyboard, wave them in front of a monitor, get fingerprints all over it, and make your arms tired. It's poor ergonomically for this sort of device. Do you want to hunch over a display and stare down at it so that you can use your desktop or laptop? Touch screens are also costly.
Mice are not a good choice for a handheld like the iPhone because of size and the need for a hard surface. Touch is a good choice for something like the iPhone because display and surface area are at a premium, and because traditional pointing devices take up lots of room. Touch is really required to provide minimal functionality. (Note that stylus based interfaces or cell phone keypads are also a form of touch, although they do not work as well.)
The big problem here is that the price of textbooks has increased at a far higher rate than inflation. Students are forced to buy whatever textbook their class uses, so the publisher can set whatever price they wish - the students still have to use the books. Essentially, the publishers are granted monopolies on books for specific groups of students.
To combat this, many students buy used books. Many school bookstores offer few or no new textbooks for some classes, because they make a lot of money buying textbooks back and reselling them for more money. Publishers claim this further drives up the price, because they don't get a cut of resales. This may be true, but they've created this situation by pricing new textbooks so much higher than what their market can reasonably afford.
What they are really talking about here with changing the problems is shutting down the used textbook market. If you can't use the book from last semester, the used book becomes nearly worthless.
That's not multitasking: that's switching between tasks very slowly (unlike your processor which does it very fast). Multitasking is the equivalent of breathing and running (two or more things at the same time) - or having multiple processors in computer terms. Actually, what you are thinking of is multiprocessing, which is different from multitasking. Multitasking is switching back and forth between multiple tasks, each of which run for a fixed quantum before the next task switch occurs. Although this is typically done too fast to notice, the rate of task switching is not part of the definition of multitasking. Multiprocessing is the actual simultaneous execution of two tasks or threads, and is typically performed using distinct execution units, such as multiple processors, cores, or (as in the case of Intel's hyperthreading), subsets of pipelines.
Sure, the bacteria survived. But how do you think it felt, being trapped in ice for 120,000 years? The first few years were probably ok. After that, it probably got really good at checkers. After the 1000th year, it proved that P=NP. At year 10,000, it dreamed of starting its own civilization. But then it started to go mad. Mad. MAD, I tell you. Now that it is free, the bacteria wants nothing but to seek revenge upon all other life forms for continuing to prosper and evolve while it was trapped beneath the ice. Buried alive. Buried alive...
...kissing or otherwise sharing saliva, or by exchanging IP datagrams with another infected PocketPC. A PocketPC with Mono should be allowed to sleep for 4-6 weeks, and will eventually recover when the virus runs out of resources. Although a standard virus scanner may detect Mono, once infected, the system can not be purged, even through a reboot. However, since the virus is self-terminating, regular performance will eventually be restored.
One of the scary things about this is that it will make new, high bandwidth, applications of the Internet infeasible. If you had been asked what was a reasonable amount of data to download 3 or 4 years ago, you would probably give a much lower value than you do today. Why? You would not have been using many of the services that you do now, because they simply did not exist. Modern services are much more video and audio intensive. Ads take much more bandwidth than they used to. We are seeing a transition of services traditionally provided by the cable companies, such as streaming of television programs, moving to the Internet. Calls on Skype now support high quality video. Software distributed over the Internet (for example, the latest version of your favorite Linux distribution) can easily run close to a gigabyte per instance. You can imagine that new applications will follow soon that we haven't imagined yet. Comcast is attempting to do the following:
1) Eliminate unprofitable users. These are users who do more than just check their e-mail and surf the web. These are the ones who actually *use* their connections Rather than investing in infrastructure, Comcast simply wants to get rid of anyone that it doesn't make money on.
2) Eliminate competition with its own cable offerings. If you can watch the latest news from CNN or TV shows from NBC streamed *from* CNN or NBC, then you don't need to pay $60 / month for cable TV. This is a major threat to Comcast, and they are trying to make it infeasible.
3) Gain consumer acceptance of limits, then lower them later. The cable companies have a history of raising prices 5-10% per year (much greater than inflation). They can do to this because they have monopoly power in many markets. You can expect Comcast to behave in a similar manner with data. Want to fight back? Do you have many alternative providers? If not, you are stuck.
Note that Comcast has a monopoly on Internet access in many markets (for example, where they are the sole cable provider, and DSL is not offered.) For users in these markets, there will be no alternative provider to switch to.
I've definitely noticed this happening. I get TCP Resets on my comcast link on random web pages all the time for no apparent reason. Doesn't matter what the server is.
iPhones automagically associate with open wifi access points. This would make everyone with an iPhone a criminal. How do you know which access points are intended for open use and which are not? Around here, many restaurants specifically offer free wifi to attract customers!
The sports rebroadcasting fee, to compensate sports networks for their broadcasts that you retransmit
The politicians opponents fee, to compensate them for money that you don't give to their campaigns
The tapped powergrid fee, because you might tap into the power grid at some point
The Emperor's club fee, because you might use the services of an illegal prostitution ring and not get caught (and not be the governor of a large state).
What? You don't do any of these things? Then why should you pay for it? Instead, you should pay a fee to ME, for no particular reason, other than I think you should give me your money whether I've given you anything in return or not!:-)
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You could do that during the .com boom. Then everything went boom, and so did those jobs.
Two versions of Hawking will come into existence. One will go one way, and will stay in England. The other will go the other way (unless it crosses an event horizon), and will move to Canada.
It's amazing enough that the scientists can grow new eyes, but how exactly do they get themselves into the tadpoles before they start growing the new eyes? Scientists are usually much larger than tadpoles.
Yeah. We need more people to fix cars, and construct buildings. It's because we lack enough car fixers that we are losing our ability to compete internationally. Certainly, it has nothing to do with the low number and percentage of engineers and scientists that we have been training of late. And certainly, it has nothing to do with the lack of support and funding for basic research that drives the development of new technologies and industries.
type b u g m e n o t . c o m
or moc.tonemgub (specify that it should be typed backwards)
or, the first letters of:
better understand great monstrosities explicating new otherworldly titrations
plus a period
plus the first letters of:
commotion obfuscates mysteries
It has been done. Try the "Linky" plugin for Firefox.
This is quite unusual for a university. Many schools have a department of computer science or a school of computer science. But combining that with a school of Dolby Canada is quite unusual. What kind of degrees in Dolby Canada do they offer? :-)
Why does this imply spiritual beliefs? Maybe they just felt comfortable with the idea of being buried in the arms of someone they cared about.
I did, in fact, watch the entire broadcast. The countries were not broadcast in that order. You can find the order in which they actually marched in the wikipedia page. The issue here is that NBC appears to have altered the order of the events themselves. This is different from editing out bits to fit in commercials. The *story* has changed. Example:
1) You get out of your car and walk into a store.
2) You pull up to the store in your car
3) You leave your house and get into your car
4) You drive to the store
5) You leave the store with your purchase.
The correct order is 3,4,2,1,5, but the story told about what you did gives the impression that something very different happened.
Once upon a time, I worked at a company that used Lotus Notes as their primary mail client. The interface was horrible, ugly, cluttered, and didn't follow any of the conventions of the host OS (Windows), or of any other possible host OS. It also wasn't particularly usable at less than full screen. Fortunately, they also maintained an IMAP server, so I was able to avoid using Notes completely. Ubuntu without Lotus would be worth much more to me than Ubuntu with Lotus.
Are any desktop chips affected, or only laptop chips?
MITRE (all caps) is the name of the company, not Mitre (in case someone wants to update the original post.)
Touch is not a good choice for a desktop device because you must take your hands away from the keyboard, wave them in front of a monitor, get fingerprints all over it, and make your arms tired. It's poor ergonomically for this sort of device. Do you want to hunch over a display and stare down at it so that you can use your desktop or laptop? Touch screens are also costly.
Mice are not a good choice for a handheld like the iPhone because of size and the need for a hard surface. Touch is a good choice for something like the iPhone because display and surface area are at a premium, and because traditional pointing devices take up lots of room. Touch is really required to provide minimal functionality. (Note that stylus based interfaces or cell phone keypads are also a form of touch, although they do not work as well.)
The big problem here is that the price of textbooks has increased at a far higher rate than inflation. Students are forced to buy whatever textbook their class uses, so the publisher can set whatever price they wish - the students still have to use the books. Essentially, the publishers are granted monopolies on books for specific groups of students.
To combat this, many students buy used books. Many school bookstores offer few or no new textbooks for some classes, because they make a lot of money buying textbooks back and reselling them for more money. Publishers claim this further drives up the price, because they don't get a cut of resales. This may be true, but they've created this situation by pricing new textbooks so much higher than what their market can reasonably afford.
What they are really talking about here with changing the problems is shutting down the used textbook market. If you can't use the book from last semester, the used book becomes nearly worthless.
They'd get sued out of existence for shipping defective products. I can't see any company agreeing to label its products in such a way.
I have absolutely no problems with...
hold on a minute...
multitasking. It makes me...
one second...
much more efficient, because I can handle...
sorry about this...
many different tasks at once
Sure, the bacteria survived. But how do you think it felt, being trapped in ice for 120,000 years? The first few years were probably ok. After that, it probably got really good at checkers. After the 1000th year, it proved that P=NP. At year 10,000, it dreamed of starting its own civilization. But then it started to go mad. Mad. MAD, I tell you. Now that it is free, the bacteria wants nothing but to seek revenge upon all other life forms for continuing to prosper and evolve while it was trapped beneath the ice. Buried alive. Buried alive...
(Kaaaaahn....)
...kissing or otherwise sharing saliva, or by exchanging IP datagrams with another infected PocketPC. A PocketPC with Mono should be allowed to sleep for 4-6 weeks, and will eventually recover when the virus runs out of resources. Although a standard virus scanner may detect Mono, once infected, the system can not be purged, even through a reboot. However, since the virus is self-terminating, regular performance will eventually be restored.
One of the scary things about this is that it will make new, high bandwidth, applications of the Internet infeasible. If you had been asked what was a reasonable amount of data to download 3 or 4 years ago, you would probably give a much lower value than you do today. Why? You would not have been using many of the services that you do now, because they simply did not exist. Modern services are much more video and audio intensive. Ads take much more bandwidth than they used to. We are seeing a transition of services traditionally provided by the cable companies, such as streaming of television programs, moving to the Internet. Calls on Skype now support high quality video. Software distributed over the Internet (for example, the latest version of your favorite Linux distribution) can easily run close to a gigabyte per instance. You can imagine that new applications will follow soon that we haven't imagined yet. Comcast is attempting to do the following:
1) Eliminate unprofitable users. These are users who do more than just check their e-mail and surf the web. These are the ones who actually *use* their connections Rather than investing in infrastructure, Comcast simply wants to get rid of anyone that it doesn't make money on.
2) Eliminate competition with its own cable offerings. If you can watch the latest news from CNN or TV shows from NBC streamed *from* CNN or NBC, then you don't need to pay $60 / month for cable TV. This is a major threat to Comcast, and they are trying to make it infeasible.
3) Gain consumer acceptance of limits, then lower them later. The cable companies have a history of raising prices 5-10% per year (much greater than inflation). They can do to this because they have monopoly power in many markets. You can expect Comcast to behave in a similar manner with data. Want to fight back? Do you have many alternative providers? If not, you are stuck.
Note that Comcast has a monopoly on Internet access in many markets (for example, where they are the sole cable provider, and DSL is not offered.) For users in these markets, there will be no alternative provider to switch to.
I would call it Bob.
I've definitely noticed this happening. I get TCP Resets on my comcast link on random web pages all the time for no apparent reason. Doesn't matter what the server is.
iPhones automagically associate with open wifi access points. This would make everyone with an iPhone a criminal. How do you know which access points are intended for open use and which are not? Around here, many restaurants specifically offer free wifi to attract customers!
The sports rebroadcasting fee, to compensate sports networks for their broadcasts that you retransmit
:-)
The politicians opponents fee, to compensate them for money that you don't give to their campaigns
The tapped powergrid fee, because you might tap into the power grid at some point
The Emperor's club fee, because you might use the services of an illegal prostitution ring and not get caught (and not be the governor of a large state).
What? You don't do any of these things? Then why should you pay for it? Instead, you should pay a fee to ME, for no particular reason, other than I think you should give me your money whether I've given you anything in return or not!