no they don't. Neither my parents nor I can get cable modems - lots of london is on old legacy cable that ntl and telewest are having to update. ADSL is expensive (& if you have ISDN BT aren't yet allowing changes to ADSL) so there's a clear niche in the market which ntl are exploiting... I would imagine the takeup they could get from this in london would be phenomenal, for a relatively low outlay. Sounds like good business sense to me.
London has lots of problems because ntl and telewest have bought up smaller operators using incompatible, and according to ntl engineers who I've spoken to, cheap equipment. The upshot is it's going to take ages to get it all synchronised... noone I know in london has a cable modems. It seems to be ADSL or nothing at the moment, so hats off to ntl for trying something different.
The website has been updated. I registered for the trial yesterday and it definitely said 24.99 then. In fact I showed it to people at work, this morning and I'm pretty sure it was still 24.99. Hmm. 34.99 isn't that bad I suppose but it's much closer to ADSL. We'll have to see just how good this actually is.
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Maybe in places like the UK they don't mind that robberies while the owner is home have gone up since the draconian gun laws. I do.
Interesting. I read this over and over again on the internet, and it is complete and utter bollocks.
If you were a burglar in the UK you were (and are) very, very unlikely to get shot even before the "draconian" gun laws came in. There simply weren't enough guns around to make it a worry. So even if burglaries HAVE gone up since then, it's completely and totally unrelated.
Just on the off-chance that you're a fool who hasn't read any of these articles and not a troll, a bit for bit copy will not (as you say) corrupt data but the point here is the data is already corrupted. This copy protection is like having a CD with many scratches - a normal CD player just ignores them, using the redundant information on a CD, but CD-ROM drives get royally confused.
The governments in Western Europe don't want the Kyoto protocol anymore than the Bush administration. They have recognized a way for the socialist-lite countries to splatter mud on the dress of the capitalists, and they are taking advantage of it.
Really? Tell me have you ever been to Western Europe? The point here is that the people of western europe are by-and-large very concerned about the environment, particularly in countries such as Germany. And these people are the ones who vote the politicians back into power, so the politicians tend to be genuinely concerned about green issues. And the countries of western-europe are very much capitalist countries, moreover capitalist countries that depend heavily on the economy of america - we don't want to "sling mud" we're just interested in still having a global economy in 50-100 years.
Show me the evidence suggesting that there is some widespread consensus that I'm not aware of. I'll wait
It's never easy to prove concensus, but it is definitely my impression that most scientists in the field at least agree that the earth is warming up. Look here for an article from New Scientist (a respected UK science magazine) which provides evidence for this. Also, since I suspect you're american there is a report from the EPA in the US here which states:
Global temperatures are rising. Observations collected over the last century suggest that the average land surface temperature has risen 0.45-0.6C (0.8-1.0F) in the last century.
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The earth's climate is predicted to change because human activities are altering the chemical composition of the atmosphere through the buildup of greenhouse gases - primarily carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. The heat-trapping property of these gases is undisputed. Although uncertainty exists about exactly how earth's climate responds to these gases, global temperatures are rising.
There are lots of other links on the subject here including links to reports from the UN, the US Environmental Protection Agency, the UNEP, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
These sources do not agree on all the details, but they do agree that the earth is warming.
Whilst you are right to point out that the earth's temperature has changed before, you seem to miss the point that many others have made: just because climate change happens naturally does not mean it is good. Climate change could kill us all, just as previous climate changes wiped out a large percentage of all life on earth. Whether or not we are the largest cause of global warming, we should be doing everything in our power to slow it down, and the best evidence seems to be that reducing greenhouse gas emissions is the way to achieve this. Moreover as the problem is one that threatens our future as a species, I'd suggest that it would be incredibly stupid to wait for climate models to be perfectly fine-tuned: by then it may be too late for any greenhouse gas reductions to make a difference.
'fraid you're a bit spotty yourself mate... the Amiga could do 4096 colours from day one using HAM (Hold And Modify) mode. Now admittedly this was a bit of a kludge (it took about 3 horizontal pixels to go from white to black) but the Aniga could also manage 32 colours from lots more than 256... (probably 4096 but I can't remember off the top of my head).
... and I know this is off-topic, so sorry but I couldn't let that slide.
No, she means modular AND morphing. Read it again - the idea is that eventually robots will be made out of small modules that they can reconfigure and move around.... so they can morph.
This isn't new though - they were discussing this when I did a course in A.I. At Edinburgh Uni about 5 years ago! Maybe Dartmough College are up for a funding review?
... and we already know that energy conservation can be violated (briefly) from the Heisenberg Uncertainty principle.
But it has to be said that the "law" of conservation of energy is extremely well-tested and it isn't just being closed-minded to be extremely suspect each time someone thinks they've found a way around it: they've all been wrong before!
That article was crap anyway - New scientist is usually pretty good but that was just blathering... very little concrete explanation.
This guy's sig states "american's are bred for stupidity" and in the text of his(?) message we are told that "The british never saw themselves as mere humans" What? I'm british and very much a human being, right down to my smelly socks.
This posting contains many inaccuracies and is offensive to at least two nations... what 200 million people?
How little can a story tell you and still be called news?
Is it using a new operating system or Windows? Is it basically a re-branded PC or something new? And check out the bit where it says 'If user errors start, and files get deleted, it will start to repair itself, just as cells repair themselves'... lets hope it isn't being coded by the same guy who wrote that helpful talking paperclip for microsoft. Can't you just picture the scene: "I detect you are deleting porn/*.jpg. I am now repairing the damage and reinstalling the files. To be extra helpful I'm going to move them somewhere where you boss can find them more easily. Have a nice day."
Madness!
The computer you are using, the technology that allows us to probe our DNA (x-ray diffraction etc.), to watch our minds work (PET, MRI etc.) ALL come from fundamental physics research and at every stage people have asked "what's it for." We (physicists) do research because it's interesting. *You* however should approve because the more we know about the universe, the more we can do.
a) scientists are still human... if you've been looking for something for 10 years it's a bit upsetting if someone else gets it, and more importantly
b) science is funded by governments who tend to want concrete achievements to brag about (before they give you money for your swanky new experiment). Finding the Higgs boson would fit nicely.
It isn't just egomaniac physicists behind this race, but instead physicists desperate for cash trying to satisfy their funding bodies.
If you want to find out more about the LHC, which replaces LEP, and LEP itself (and even what a Higgs boson actually is) have a look at the ATLAS educational site (ATLAS is one of the experiments being built on the LHC) here
For those who just want a quick summary of what a Higgs boson is, jump straight to that page here
You live in Geneva? Lucky you! That place is great.
Anyway, the LEP is being stopped so the LHC can be put in its place. But there will be (in fact already is) a big hole since the LHC experiments are absolutely enormous. The ATLAS cavern has to be big enough to fit a piece of apparatus 5 stories high!
So in summary RedHat seem to be saying that the 6.2 version is fine, but the 7.0 version enables people to use development sources... is this going to be clearly labaelled on their packaging? I bet not! If I walked in to a shop and saw RedHat 6.2 and RedHat 7.0 I'd (fairly reasonably) assume that RedHat 7.0 was the newer, better version. If I've understood the story correctly, RedHat 7.0 might actually pose *more* problems for a newbie!
Perhaps Redhat should consider labelling them RedHat 6.2 and RedHat Experimental?
What you've said isn't quite true.
If you think for a bit this should be obvious: CRTs work by "steering" an electron at a display... the pitch or number of dots can be enormous, and changing resolution just means bending the electron's path less. Crudely speaking it's analogue...
LCDs on the other hand have a finite number of pixels that are turned on and off... it's digital in other words. What this means in practice is that if you choose a resolution that doesn't fit nicely into the LCD's number of pixels, then you get weird stippling effects. For instace if you want 640x480 on a 1280x960 LCD... no problem! Every "pixel" is now 4 LCD pixels. Try and do 960x640 though, and you have problems. You have 1 pixel that is a LCD pixel, but the next pixel will be 2 LCD pixels. It looks horrible.
So you *CAN* show lower resolutions on a LCD, but only resolutions that go exactly into the LCD size.
There's a pretty good reason why it's similar to the Enigma story... it *IS* the Enigma story.
The Colossus machine was used at Bletchley Park by Alan Turing (and others!) to crack the Enigma code (before America joined the war just in case anyone believed that film!)
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no they don't. Neither my parents nor I can get cable modems - lots of london is on old legacy cable that ntl and telewest are having to update. ADSL is expensive (& if you have ISDN BT aren't yet allowing changes to ADSL) so there's a clear niche in the market which ntl are exploiting... I would imagine the takeup they could get from this in london would be phenomenal, for a relatively low outlay. Sounds like good business sense to me.
London has lots of problems because ntl and telewest have bought up smaller operators using incompatible, and according to ntl engineers who I've spoken to, cheap equipment. The upshot is it's going to take ages to get it all synchronised... noone I know in london has a cable modems. It seems to be ADSL or nothing at the moment, so hats off to ntl for trying something different.
The website has been updated. I registered for the trial yesterday and it definitely said 24.99 then. In fact I showed it to people at work, this morning and I'm pretty sure it was still 24.99. Hmm. 34.99 isn't that bad I suppose but it's much closer to ADSL. We'll have to see just how good this actually is.
someone please mod this AC down - it's just nonsense.
Just on the off-chance that you're a fool who hasn't read any of these articles and not a troll, a bit for bit copy will not (as you say) corrupt data but the point here is the data is already corrupted. This copy protection is like having a CD with many scratches - a normal CD player just ignores them, using the redundant information on a CD, but CD-ROM drives get royally confused.
These sources do not agree on all the details, but they do agree that the earth is warming. Whilst you are right to point out that the earth's temperature has changed before, you seem to miss the point that many others have made: just because climate change happens naturally does not mean it is good. Climate change could kill us all, just as previous climate changes wiped out a large percentage of all life on earth. Whether or not we are the largest cause of global warming, we should be doing everything in our power to slow it down, and the best evidence seems to be that reducing greenhouse gas emissions is the way to achieve this. Moreover as the problem is one that threatens our future as a species, I'd suggest that it would be incredibly stupid to wait for climate models to be perfectly fine-tuned: by then it may be too late for any greenhouse gas reductions to make a difference.
Well why the hell did they buy 3DFX then? Was it just to take out a competitor?
This isn't new though - they were discussing this when I did a course in A.I. At Edinburgh Uni about 5 years ago! Maybe Dartmough College are up for a funding review?
But it has to be said that the "law" of conservation of energy is extremely well-tested and it isn't just being closed-minded to be extremely suspect each time someone thinks they've found a way around it: they've all been wrong before!
That article was crap anyway - New scientist is usually pretty good but that was just blathering ... very little concrete explanation.
This guy's sig states "american's are bred for stupidity" and in the text of his(?) message we are told that "The british never saw themselves as mere humans" What? I'm british and very much a human being, right down to my smelly socks.
This posting contains many inaccuracies and is offensive to at least two nations ... what 200 million people?
He was making a joke.
... but it normally refers to TV programmes not computer programs
How little can a story tell you and still be called news? Is it using a new operating system or Windows? Is it basically a re-branded PC or something new? And check out the bit where it says 'If user errors start, and files get deleted, it will start to repair itself, just as cells repair themselves' ... lets hope it isn't being coded by the same guy who wrote that helpful talking paperclip for microsoft. Can't you just picture the scene: "I detect you are deleting porn/*.jpg. I am now repairing the damage and reinstalling the files. To be extra helpful I'm going to move them somewhere where you boss can find them more easily. Have a nice day."
Madness!
The computer you are using, the technology that allows us to probe our DNA (x-ray diffraction etc.), to watch our minds work (PET, MRI etc.) ALL come from fundamental physics research and at every stage people have asked "what's it for." We (physicists) do research because it's interesting. *You* however should approve because the more we know about the universe, the more we can do.
No. Work's dull. Anyway I'm not the one writing up a thesis.
a) scientists are still human ... if you've been looking for something for 10 years it's a bit upsetting if someone else gets it, and more importantly
b) science is funded by governments who tend to want concrete achievements to brag about (before they give you money for your swanky new experiment). Finding the Higgs boson would fit nicely.
It isn't just egomaniac physicists behind this race, but instead physicists desperate for cash trying to satisfy their funding bodies.
For those who just want a quick summary of what a Higgs boson is, jump straight to that page here
You live in Geneva? Lucky you! That place is great. Anyway, the LEP is being stopped so the LHC can be put in its place. But there will be (in fact already is) a big hole since the LHC experiments are absolutely enormous. The ATLAS cavern has to be big enough to fit a piece of apparatus 5 stories high!
Perhaps Redhat should consider labelling them RedHat 6.2 and RedHat Experimental?
What you've said isn't quite true. If you think for a bit this should be obvious: CRTs work by "steering" an electron at a display ... the pitch or number of dots can be enormous, and changing resolution just means bending the electron's path less. Crudely speaking it's analogue...
LCDs on the other hand have a finite number of pixels that are turned on and off ... it's digital in other words. What this means in practice is that if you choose a resolution that doesn't fit nicely into the LCD's number of pixels, then you get weird stippling effects. For instace if you want 640x480 on a 1280x960 LCD ... no problem! Every "pixel" is now 4 LCD pixels. Try and do 960x640 though, and you have problems. You have 1 pixel that is a LCD pixel, but the next pixel will be 2 LCD pixels. It looks horrible.
So you *CAN* show lower resolutions on a LCD, but only resolutions that go exactly into the LCD size.
There's a pretty good reason why it's similar to the Enigma story ... it *IS* the Enigma story.
The Colossus machine was used at Bletchley Park by Alan Turing (and others!) to crack the Enigma code (before America joined the war just in case anyone believed that film!)