Well, if such gains can be made on the desktop, I'm _really_ looking forward to the laptop chips.
Do you expect laptop CPUs to somehow consume a fixed percentage of desktop CPU power? Or how else do you get this sort of assumption?
I don't think the difference is going to be as big as, say, between P4 and P-M. Those two were very different architectures, whereas the same Core 2 basis will be used for both desktops and laptops.
Besides, if laptop CPUs can be engineered for low power with high performance, why wouldn't you want to use the same chips on desktops/servers as well?
I was actually suprised (sic) that Microsoft didn't take advantage of streams more often than they do. It would be a nice place to have put file meta-data (Like MP3 tags, creator, summary, etc)
No, it would not be nice because then you could only access the metadata with Windows. This is a general argument against fancy filesystems, not just Microsoft in particular.
I won't comment on the quality, but using off the shelf speakers and amplifiers in a novelty case doesn't seem like much of a hack to me. Then again I'm somewhat an electronics geek and I build my amplifiers from scratch. It seems this qualifies for Slashdot only because it has to do with Apple, and that's kind of pathetic for a geek news site.
18% of our firefox users need to upgrade to the latest version
I wouldn't suggest everyone to upgrade to the actual latest version, as it's a little unstable... but it sure is fun to use a 3.0 version (with improved Acid2 test compliance, for example) while everyone else is puttering along with 1.x or 2.x;)
You can also get the latest bleeding edge build of Minefield, which is the alpha for Firefox 3.0. For practical use I find Bon Echo much more stable, but for example Acid2 is better in Minefield.
I use Suspend2 on my laptop for conventional hibernation. It's possible to keep old images and choose an image on bootup to achieve what you describe, but there's at least one catch with mounted filesystems. If you have filesystems mounted at hibernation (which is usually the case), you cannot change them until you resume the OS. So if you boot with an old image that assumes some old disk contents, you will corrupt disks.
So, I think what you want is to save the image before anything is mounted writable, sometime early in the init process. I believe you could use suspend2 for this with only userspace modifications.
With a diffraction grating, the overall 'bending' of waves does depend on the wavelength. In fact, you can use a grating with white light to get a similar 'rainbow' pattern that you get from a prism. The effect is more presicely controllable than refraction, so it is used in spectral analysis. (At least infrared, since I have some experience in the field.)
And just like the headline says, I believe that the new invention isn't anything more than a lens. A Fresnel zone plate, to be exact. I guess there isn't room for a conventional refractive lens, and they have to use a zone plate instead (it can be made almost arbitrarily thin). The drawbacks of zone plates that make then unusable for imaging (e.g. the focal length changes strongly with wavelength) should not pose any problems here.
I concur. IMHO, Pine does one thing and does it well. It was the recommended client back when I started at university in 1998, and I still prefer it (with lots of customization, maildir patch (comes with the gentoo ebuild), procmail, etc.).
This sort of thing always makes me wonder why the 'www' prefix was there in the first place. The worst thing is when a dead-tree advert refers to somesite.com (because it apparently looks cooler than www.somesite.com) but the actual http site requires the www prefix (because web sites obviously need the www).
If the tab setting between your editor and the interpreter is different then it can really screw you up.
This isn't a problem with Python, where any consistent indentation works as a block delimiter. You only need the same tab setting (real tab or some number of spaces) within a single block. The only problem comes about if you mix tabs and spaces in the same block so that they look the same; it looks consistent but it isn't to the interpreter.
This idea is actually about seperateing sementic and content info. Programmers use tabs (those who do) to convey sementic info. If we can make the program understand that, then we can offer more flexiblity to the user on how to present the information.
Yeah, imagine a language that doesn't need braces because tabs already contain the same semantic (sic) information.
None of you are going to "find" alien signals, it's a waste.
Yes, because we obviously are 100% certain that Earth is the only place in the universe with intelligent life. Might as well quit all scientific research since we obviously know everything about nature already.
I agree with the general idea of the grandparent post. IMHO it's more important for humankind as a whole to advance and survive as far as possible, than for every single person to life a healthy, safe and boring middle-class life.
I've had a Stokke Variable Balans since 2001 and I'll never go back to an ordinary office chair. With the Stokke it's nigh impossible to sit in a wrong (i.e. hunched) way.
The Variable Balans (like most Stokkes) has the same principle as the crappy kneeling chairs, but the base is 'rocking'. It lets your body find its own balance, instead of a one-size-fits-all preset. This also goes with Stokke's philosophy that the human body is built for moving around, rather than for sitting completely still with 90 degree angles. Most Stokke chairs provide several distinct sitting postures to facilitate this idea further.
Size, however, is no longer a price you pay for performance.
I thought it was obvious that smaller drives are faster (same capacity -> higher density, other things being equal). In my experience I've actually noticed laptop drives to be faster, but that may just be due to my particular setup of laptops and desktops.
you need a different kind of drive for servers....you just do
Care to elaborate why? I concur that you generally need to pay for higher quality/reliability for 'server' components (whatever that means), but besides that the drives should be compatible both ways.
Disregarding the article's bad wording, I shudder to think of the taste of such 'reconstituted wine'. There's a lot more than H2O left from the distillation of wine. At least that's what my buddies tell me, I wouldn't know from first hand experience:-P
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Do you expect laptop CPUs to somehow consume a fixed percentage of desktop CPU power? Or how else do you get this sort of assumption?
I don't think the difference is going to be as big as, say, between P4 and P-M. Those two were very different architectures, whereas the same Core 2 basis will be used for both desktops and laptops.
Besides, if laptop CPUs can be engineered for low power with high performance, why wouldn't you want to use the same chips on desktops/servers as well?
Your wallet may cry in anger once at the time of purchase, but with crappy speakers your ears will cry forever.
You can also get the latest bleeding edge build of Minefield, which is the alpha for Firefox 3.0. For practical use I find Bon Echo much more stable, but for example Acid2 is better in Minefield.
I use Suspend2 on my laptop for conventional hibernation. It's possible to keep old images and choose an image on bootup to achieve what you describe, but there's at least one catch with mounted filesystems. If you have filesystems mounted at hibernation (which is usually the case), you cannot change them until you resume the OS. So if you boot with an old image that assumes some old disk contents, you will corrupt disks.
So, I think what you want is to save the image before anything is mounted writable, sometime early in the init process. I believe you could use suspend2 for this with only userspace modifications.
With a diffraction grating, the overall 'bending' of waves does depend on the wavelength. In fact, you can use a grating with white light to get a similar 'rainbow' pattern that you get from a prism. The effect is more presicely controllable than refraction, so it is used in spectral analysis. (At least infrared, since I have some experience in the field.)
And just like the headline says, I believe that the new invention isn't anything more than a lens. A Fresnel zone plate, to be exact. I guess there isn't room for a conventional refractive lens, and they have to use a zone plate instead (it can be made almost arbitrarily thin). The drawbacks of zone plates that make then unusable for imaging (e.g. the focal length changes strongly with wavelength) should not pose any problems here.
I concur. IMHO, Pine does one thing and does it well. It was the recommended client back when I started at university in 1998, and I still prefer it (with lots of customization, maildir patch (comes with the gentoo ebuild), procmail, etc.).
Doesn't F1 stand for help? As in "Microsoft is pressing F1 for a little financial help."
This sort of thing always makes me wonder why the 'www' prefix was there in the first place. The worst thing is when a dead-tree advert refers to somesite.com (because it apparently looks cooler than www.somesite.com) but the actual http site requires the www prefix (because web sites obviously need the www).
At least the bleeding edge of open source browsers is a minefield ;)
I agree with the general idea of the grandparent post. IMHO it's more important for humankind as a whole to advance and survive as far as possible, than for every single person to life a healthy, safe and boring middle-class life.
I've had a Stokke Variable Balans since 2001 and I'll never go back to an ordinary office chair. With the Stokke it's nigh impossible to sit in a wrong (i.e. hunched) way.
The Variable Balans (like most Stokkes) has the same principle as the crappy kneeling chairs, but the base is 'rocking'. It lets your body find its own balance, instead of a one-size-fits-all preset. This also goes with Stokke's philosophy that the human body is built for moving around, rather than for sitting completely still with 90 degree angles. Most Stokke chairs provide several distinct sitting postures to facilitate this idea further.
TFA says they are going to publish all entries. I presume you can use any sound file you like, it's just that the winner will be used as the default.
Disregarding the article's bad wording, I shudder to think of the taste of such 'reconstituted wine'. There's a lot more than H2O left from the distillation of wine. At least that's what my buddies tell me, I wouldn't know from first hand experience :-P