Perhaps, but given that I've had 50 years to see it if I wanted to do so without spoilers, I think the statute of limitations on this one has run out. See also: the identity of Rosebud. I haven't seen Moustrap, but Citizen Kane is a fine movie even knowing the ending. If Agatha Christie can't write that well, maybe it's not as big a deal as people are making it.
The new logos are in TFA, the options are going to be "AMD Vision" for processors (CPU plus graphics, since they do all their own chipsets) or basically the old ATI logo with the name changed for the discrete cards. It looks like AMD green is actually the style that's disappearing.
If Anand's article last week is to be believed, Intel's on die graphics are shaping up to be at least as good as an entry level discrete card, and that's just in the first generation. At this point I'm more worried about AMD, though given the quality of their existing chipsets it should be a good fight.
The USB 3.0 CABLE will not work in a 2.0 port. The 3.0 PORT will accept a 2.0 cable, but be limited to 2.0 speeds. It thereby maintains backward compatibility (everything you have still works, at the speeds they work now), while adding what they need to extend the spec.
It's kind of useful to know how to use gconf-editor, though, so I'd recommend firing it up and going to apps/metacity/general to change the value of button_layout manually.
Just licensing the decoder wouldn't be enough. For code under an open source license you have to be able to sub-license to everyone who gets your code.
The problem with that one is the lack of sarcasm in written works, the proper inflection on it should be something like "Well, I could care less" i.e. I do have some amount of sympathy, but really I'm so far down the scale of caring it doesn't matter. Of course, so many people have only seen it written without the proper emphasis that they use it incorrectly in speech now.
I am now officially a pedant arguing with a pedant. I feel dirty.
If I have the ability to buy a 10$ paper back book and have it read to me, why the hell would I buy the 40$ audio book?
Have you listened to a audio book read by a person compared to the same work done by a computer? The person doesn't even have to be very good to win that battle. It's an interesting conversation in light of the potential of future tech, and to be sure it's getting better, but there's a long way to go before professional book readers will be looking for work.
Did they change the page? I'm not going to try to load it from work, but this morning when I tried it all I got was a big Silverlight logo instead of the trailer.
Seconded. My biggest concern about IPV6 is that it's going to add another layer to the hacks that I have to do to get Conquerors to run. If this is any good, and I can own the thing so that I'll have a chance of still being able to run it in ten years, and I can get it to run in Wine... *sigh* I should just give up now, I know, but it still has me more excited than Starcraft 2 ever did.
The primary mission was to map the whole sky once. They left themselves some reserves in case of problems, so they were expecting to be able to do a second partial map, but we covered their success when it happened back in July. So, this is news, but not a surprise. You can find more details on their site.
The point is that the people don't know where to look, so they have to look through everything. Even if the program just flagged suspicious things, it would make the people much more effective. Nobody's suggesting that the computer be the judge and jury.
Here's more information than you wanted, but the International Space Elevator Consortium is working on a position paper on space debris this year. You can find the draft here. They spend a fair bit of space on debris mitigation proposals, and the answer is that there really isn't the tech yet. Their conclusion is that that means it's rather important that we stop making the problem worse.
People of average or below average are never going to be engineers, doctors, lawyers, etc.
True.
They're not going to compete for jobs in high-paying, intelligence and education-heavy fields because you cannot educate a mind of low capacity.
One out of three... that looks like a fail to me. Plenty of low intelligence folks are highly educated and highly paid, with their MBAs and their management titles. If you're stupid and rich you can still get ahead, as long as you know the right folks. Now, if we could get those folks kicked down as well, I wouldn't complain.
I think this is the key point for SSDs right now. All of the points in TFS are true, but most SSDs don't fill their cases right now. You can fit quite a few chips in even a 2.5" drive casing, but it'd be expensive and the controllers aren't ready yet. Since the technical issues aren't the bottleneck, we have a few years to solve them.
Some of the multi-millionaires have been mentioned, but you wanted billionaires so: Jeff Bezos. If they actually pull off a SSTO vehicle I'll be amazed, and it wouldn't be possible at all without his resources.
I won't link to Richard Branson, because his plan is much less ambitious and doesn't really fit what you were looking for.
What you're looking for is the Dreamchaser, which also got money from NASA under the recent CCDev awards. The point here is that we should end up with options, though I can't imagine more than 2 would be viable (maybe 3 if some are also used for cargo).
This is all very interesting, but any tech site that hasn't been using this method in their smartphone reviews since this started is behind the 8 ball. Consider Anantech's coverage of last week's update, with numbers before and after the software update and comparisons to the field. Heck, their Droid X review today treats the test as a standard benchmark.
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Perhaps, but given that I've had 50 years to see it if I wanted to do so without spoilers, I think the statute of limitations on this one has run out. See also: the identity of Rosebud. I haven't seen Moustrap, but Citizen Kane is a fine movie even knowing the ending. If Agatha Christie can't write that well, maybe it's not as big a deal as people are making it.
ATI does not have a plant. It's all TMSC and the other one I forgot how's it called.
Global Foundries? AKA the chip manufacturer that used to be AMD.
The new logos are in TFA, the options are going to be "AMD Vision" for processors (CPU plus graphics, since they do all their own chipsets) or basically the old ATI logo with the name changed for the discrete cards. It looks like AMD green is actually the style that's disappearing.
If Anand's article last week is to be believed, Intel's on die graphics are shaping up to be at least as good as an entry level discrete card, and that's just in the first generation. At this point I'm more worried about AMD, though given the quality of their existing chipsets it should be a good fight.
The USB 3.0 CABLE will not work in a 2.0 port. The 3.0 PORT will accept a 2.0 cable, but be limited to 2.0 speeds. It thereby maintains backward compatibility (everything you have still works, at the speeds they work now), while adding what they need to extend the spec.
I'm sure this has been posted a bunch of places, but the quick version is a one-liner in the terminal:
gconftool -s /apps/metacity/general/button_layout -t string menu:minimize,maximize,close
It's kind of useful to know how to use gconf-editor, though, so I'd recommend firing it up and going to apps/metacity/general to change the value of button_layout manually.
Just licensing the decoder wouldn't be enough. For code under an open source license you have to be able to sub-license to everyone who gets your code.
The problem with that one is the lack of sarcasm in written works, the proper inflection on it should be something like "Well, I could care less" i.e. I do have some amount of sympathy, but really I'm so far down the scale of caring it doesn't matter. Of course, so many people have only seen it written without the proper emphasis that they use it incorrectly in speech now.
I am now officially a pedant arguing with a pedant. I feel dirty.
Yeah, you'd probably get a planet, but not a very large one. From the wiki:
The total mass of the asteroid belt is estimated to be 3.0×1021 to 3.6×1021 kilograms, which is just 4% of the Moon.
If I have the ability to buy a 10$ paper back book and have it read to me, why the hell would I buy the 40$ audio book?
Have you listened to a audio book read by a person compared to the same work done by a computer? The person doesn't even have to be very good to win that battle. It's an interesting conversation in light of the potential of future tech, and to be sure it's getting better, but there's a long way to go before professional book readers will be looking for work.
Yes. And anyone else who wanted to unload gold would have to sell at the lower prices until the increased supply was exhausted.
Did they change the page? I'm not going to try to load it from work, but this morning when I tried it all I got was a big Silverlight logo instead of the trailer.
Seconded. My biggest concern about IPV6 is that it's going to add another layer to the hacks that I have to do to get Conquerors to run. If this is any good, and I can own the thing so that I'll have a chance of still being able to run it in ten years, and I can get it to run in Wine... *sigh* I should just give up now, I know, but it still has me more excited than Starcraft 2 ever did.
So you're what happened to her! I knew the official story was too tidy!
The primary mission was to map the whole sky once. They left themselves some reserves in case of problems, so they were expecting to be able to do a second partial map, but we covered their success when it happened back in July. So, this is news, but not a surprise. You can find more details on their site.
It probably says something about me (or you, or us) that I immediately tried to figure out what episode of Futurama that was.
The point is that the people don't know where to look, so they have to look through everything. Even if the program just flagged suspicious things, it would make the people much more effective. Nobody's suggesting that the computer be the judge and jury.
If you can't win when you're the banker in Monopoly, you're playing it wrong.
Suddenly I understand how think-of-the-children clauses end up in a road development bill.
Here's more information than you wanted, but the International Space Elevator Consortium is working on a position paper on space debris this year. You can find the draft here. They spend a fair bit of space on debris mitigation proposals, and the answer is that there really isn't the tech yet. Their conclusion is that that means it's rather important that we stop making the problem worse.
People of average or below average are never going to be engineers, doctors, lawyers, etc.
True.
They're not going to compete for jobs in high-paying, intelligence and education-heavy fields because you cannot educate a mind of low capacity.
One out of three... that looks like a fail to me. Plenty of low intelligence folks are highly educated and highly paid, with their MBAs and their management titles. If you're stupid and rich you can still get ahead, as long as you know the right folks. Now, if we could get those folks kicked down as well, I wouldn't complain.
I think this is the key point for SSDs right now. All of the points in TFS are true, but most SSDs don't fill their cases right now. You can fit quite a few chips in even a 2.5" drive casing, but it'd be expensive and the controllers aren't ready yet. Since the technical issues aren't the bottleneck, we have a few years to solve them.
Some of the multi-millionaires have been mentioned, but you wanted billionaires so: Jeff Bezos. If they actually pull off a SSTO vehicle I'll be amazed, and it wouldn't be possible at all without his resources. I won't link to Richard Branson, because his plan is much less ambitious and doesn't really fit what you were looking for.
What you're looking for is the Dreamchaser, which also got money from NASA under the recent CCDev awards. The point here is that we should end up with options, though I can't imagine more than 2 would be viable (maybe 3 if some are also used for cargo).
This is all very interesting, but any tech site that hasn't been using this method in their smartphone reviews since this started is behind the 8 ball. Consider Anantech's coverage of last week's update, with numbers before and after the software update and comparisons to the field. Heck, their Droid X review today treats the test as a standard benchmark.