The (informal) standardisation of Haskell 98 was an important turning point for another reason: it was the moment that the Haskell Committee disbanded. There was (and continues to be) a tremendous amount of innovation and activity in the Haskell community, including numerous proposals for language features. But rather than having a committee to choose and bless particular ones, it seemed to us that the best thing to do was to get out of the way, let a thousand flowers bloom, and see which ones survived.
A chap called Cody Brocious from San Diego, California, claims to have started to create an wrapper for Windows executables so that they can be ran on another operating system, with no prejudice about that operating system. Why reinvent the wheel, when you could just add the DX10 functionality to Wine?
On USENET binary groups you see lots of incomplete and degraded parts of data, but they're reconstructed with par2. Can't something like that be adapted to this situation as well?
Indeed. Parchive uses Reed-Solomon error correction to create redundant data so that if you have one block of such data, you can use it to correct any single corrupted block in the source data.
It is also used in e.g. RAID-5 and CDs (ever wondered why you can make a long scratch and it still plays correctly?)
The article only talks about multiple copies of the original data, but I wouldn't be surprised if the scientists actually use a Reed-Solomon implementation for redundancy.
I find myself getting virtually all the hard information I used to turn to PC World for from the Internet.
You wouldn't steal a magazine, would you? Downloading information from the Internet is no different than walking into a magazine store, stuffing a magazine in your pocket, and walking out without paying for it. What you do hurts the magazine industry. With the new legislation (paid by the Magazine Industry Association of America), you can (and will) be sued in criminal court.
Remember, kids: downloading information from the Internet is stealing.
When the frequency of a sound is doubled, it's perceived one octave higher. (The frequency of a note f(n) = F 2^(n/12) where n is the note, 0 signifying the A above middle C, 1 signifying A#, 2 signifying B etc. and typically F = 440 Hz, i.e. the "concert pitch", or the frequency of the A above middle C.)
The loudness of a sound is also perceived in a logarithmic manner. The level of a sound must increase with an accelerating rate in order for us to perceive a linear change in loudness. (The difference in sound pressure level is often measured in decibels. The function is 10 log (p_2^2/p_1^2) dB = 20 log (p_2/p_1) dB where p_1 is the reference sound pressure and p_2 is the measured sound pressure.)
Please excuse any mistakes. It's late, i'm very tired and i don't seem to be able to concentrate at all.:-)
If your urine is that color, you might want to see a doctor -- or at least drink more fluids.:)
Thanks for your concern, but it's okay, it's because i'm Finnish. The color of our urine is a result of a long, nationwide gene manipulation experiment with the ultimate goal: urine that glows in the dark.
I think that's great. Just a while ago Dapper got a new urine-colored Human theme, and - all due respect to the people who put their efforts into making Ubuntu better - frankly, it's just horrible. If the release is delayed, they have a lot better change to fix the theme.
A lot of copyright problems would obviated if this were enforced as written. The Beatles' works for instance would be controlled by Sir Paul and Ringo. Mickey Mouse would be in the public domain because his inventor and author is dead. Bands, not labels, would control their music. Inventors, not IP holding corporations, would control their inventions.
The rights to the audio recordings of the Beatles first album will expire in 2013. While consumers stand to benefit from competing releases of the materials, the copyright owners are of course terrified.
They aren't terrified. For them, it's a piece of cake to increase the length of copyright (again).
I thought mice - being pan dimensional beings - were far more advanced than humans (ranked 3, just after dolphins).
This is like modding an xbox 360/ps3/whatever with a Z80 - why whould you want to do that?
Well, duh, the summary answers your question:
"Scientists have added 100,000 human brain cells to mice in an effort to create realistic models of disorders like Parkinson's Disease."
If you want to research human diseases in such advanced beings as mice, you need to put stuff from humans to the mice.
RIAA already launched a lawsuit against the iceberg, after noticing that it's playing back tunes stolen from the Internets.
"Continuing this education and enforcement campaign is critical to fostering an environment where both online mafia services and traditional extortion can flourish", said Cary Sherman, President, RIAA. "Virtually every week, we see evidence that the music community's anti-piracy program is having its intended effect."
Many supporters of the iceberg, now dubbed as "the Singing Iceberg", have claimed that the sounds emitted by the iceberg are not even near any of the songs made by the artists represented by RIAA.
Mr. Sherman is sure that -- as most of the RIAA lawsuits -- this will be settled outside the courtroom. Therefore RIAA doesn't have to prove its claims, and they still get a nice amount of money. "And that's what America is all about", he finished emotionally.
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Have you ever heard of any committee anywhere voluntarily disbanding?
FWIW,
The (informal) standardisation of Haskell 98 was an important turning point for another reason: it was the moment that the Haskell Committee disbanded. There was (and continues to be) a tremendous amount of innovation and activity in the Haskell community, including numerous proposals for language features. But rather than having a committee to choose and bless particular ones, it seemed to us that the best thing to do was to get out of the way, let a thousand flowers bloom, and see which ones survived.
A manderbrot set renderer I happened to write a few years ago in dc(1):
[lolssdsl0lqx]sx[1+lddd*lld*-ls+dsdrll2**lo+dsld*rd*+4<kd15>q]sq[q
]9ksk[d77/3*2-ss47lxx-P1+d78>0]s00[d23/.5-3*so0l0xr10P1+d24>u]dsux
The output of the program in case you don't feel like running it yourself.
I think I speak for all of us Jupiterian slashdotters when I say I have a problem with that statement.
Obviously, Microsoft® wants a monopoly on monopoly. :-)
How about a base-36 representation of the number?
>> "09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0" . to_i(16) . to_s(36)
=> "l96o54kfn6hz7pt164dqflj4"
Or is that exactly what the project is?
Indeed. Parchive uses Reed-Solomon error correction to create redundant data so that if you have one block of such data, you can use it to correct any single corrupted block in the source data.
It is also used in e.g. RAID-5 and CDs (ever wondered why you can make a long scratch and it still plays correctly?)
The article only talks about multiple copies of the original data, but I wouldn't be surprised if the scientists actually use a Reed-Solomon implementation for redundancy.
3... 2... 1...
(Also: "exploit", huh?)
But who can prove there is a Stephen J. Vaughan-Nichols?
As it turns out, someone managed to snap a photo of the UFO over the the O'Hare airport.
You wouldn't steal a magazine, would you? Downloading information from the Internet is no different than walking into a magazine store, stuffing a magazine in your pocket, and walking out without paying for it. What you do hurts the magazine industry. With the new legislation (paid by the Magazine Industry Association of America), you can (and will) be sued in criminal court.
Remember, kids: downloading information from the Internet is stealing.
640 cores should be enough for anyone.
Humans also perceive sound in a similar manner.
When the frequency of a sound is doubled, it's perceived one octave higher. (The frequency of a note f(n) = F 2^(n/12) where n is the note, 0 signifying the A above middle C, 1 signifying A#, 2 signifying B etc. and typically F = 440 Hz, i.e. the "concert pitch", or the frequency of the A above middle C.)
The loudness of a sound is also perceived in a logarithmic manner. The level of a sound must increase with an accelerating rate in order for us to perceive a linear change in loudness. (The difference in sound pressure level is often measured in decibels. The function is 10 log (p_2^2/p_1^2) dB = 20 log (p_2/p_1) dB where p_1 is the reference sound pressure and p_2 is the measured sound pressure.)
Please excuse any mistakes. It's late, i'm very tired and i don't seem to be able to concentrate at all. :-)
Thanks for your concern, but it's okay, it's because i'm Finnish. The color of our urine is a result of a long, nationwide gene manipulation experiment with the ultimate goal: urine that glows in the dark.
I think that's great. Just a while ago Dapper got a new urine-colored Human theme, and - all due respect to the people who put their efforts into making Ubuntu better - frankly, it's just horrible. If the release is delayed, they have a lot better change to fix the theme.
Another thing i'd really like to see in dapper is the new NetworkManager 0.6 with its WPA and OpenVPN goodness. "Automatic network detection and configuration management" is high-priority target for dapper, and the new features in n-m 0.6 are needed by many users.
If i make a body part of mine run DeCSS and the Motion Picture Assho^H^Hociation of America® hears about it, will DMCA allow them to amputate it?
And that's exactly why it never will be so.
They aren't terrified. For them, it's a piece of cake to increase the length of copyright (again).
Anyone remember the time when you were considered innocent until proven guilty?
It's Service Pack 3 for Windows® XP®, but instead of calling it SP3 they call it Vista® and put a price tag on it.
HTH.
Here's a video maciek at #xorg captured and i'm seeding:
glxcompmgr effects (3.9 MiB)
Well, duh, the summary answers your question:
"Scientists have added 100,000 human brain cells to mice in an effort to create realistic models of disorders like Parkinson's Disease."
If you want to research human diseases in such advanced beings as mice, you need to put stuff from humans to the mice.
All AJAX developers should take a look at this article: AJAX: How to handle bookmarks and back buttons.
RIAA already launched a lawsuit against the iceberg, after noticing that it's playing back tunes stolen from the Internets.
"Continuing this education and enforcement campaign is critical to fostering an environment where both online mafia services and traditional extortion can flourish", said Cary Sherman, President, RIAA. "Virtually every week, we see evidence that the music community's anti-piracy program is having its intended effect."
Many supporters of the iceberg, now dubbed as "the Singing Iceberg", have claimed that the sounds emitted by the iceberg are not even near any of the songs made by the artists represented by RIAA.
Mr. Sherman is sure that -- as most of the RIAA lawsuits -- this will be settled outside the courtroom. Therefore RIAA doesn't have to prove its claims, and they still get a nice amount of money. "And that's what America is all about", he finished emotionally.