however, this little shortcut conflicted with the way the terms were/are used by everyone else.
Everyone else? I'd suggest that terms like giga are mainly used in computing. Uses elsewhere are confined to subject matter experts.
The point you seem to be missing is that no matter what the french or a bunch of standards bureaucrats believe, in computing kilo=1024, mega=1024kilo, giga=1024mega. That's not going to change because someone, somewhere stamped their little foot and said kilo=1000 always and forever.
Nobody is EVER going to use GiB.
So face up, there are exceptions to your little rule and they ARE the standard. Nothing else matters. This is what happens in the real world, this is how the world develops. Not by fiat, but by agreement.
Hey, you can get a patent on someone clicking on a link, provided they do it for a 'special' reason. Actually having something that does something useful - no problem, its more money for the patent office anyway.
Personally I'm working on my algorithm for recognising pages selling stuff and only returning them WHEN I'M LOOKING TO BUY STUFF. It would do more for Google than this algorithm and personally I could do with a few million.
To my way of looking at it, everything relies on good hardware-level virtualisation. With the next sets of processors its quite reasonable to expect to be able to run both Windows and OSX on the same machine. You can add to that Linux as well.
From what I can see the sensible course of action is to split Apple into bits: iTunes/iPod; hardware; software
- iTunes/iPod focus on developing the downloadable media end, free from Apple litigation.
- Apple hardware focus on making the best hardware platform for any OS, with all those nice design aspects and for the first time some chance of getting big corporate orders.
- Apple software focus on getting OSX out there and onto PCs, getting many more sales than they will ever do at the moment.
Apple as a whole gains in that app developers can focus on development for OSX certain that the market is large enough to be worth the effort. It becomes a straight fight between Microsoft and Apple Software as to who makes the best platform for users and developers - a battle that Vista's lackluster showing promises a win for Apple.
From Apple's perspective it becomes a very sensible move that could triple the size of the company whilst still allowing them to say Apple Hardware + Apple Software = Trouble free match. Against that size of reward, Mac zealots won't really have much of a say. This looks like a done deal if the Apple shareholders are in charge.
This is just mascotry, its been going on for centuries, and has a long tradition between colleges. There are many good stories out there to rival this cannon caper.
As an aside, mascotry is a good indication of the state of the economy. When students are confident enough about their prospects that they consider they don't have to study every hour of the day and can engage in this type of thing - the economy is doing well.
From what I can gather Sony are between a rock and a hard place. A price like $599 is too low to have any great certainty of making their money back on game prices, and too high for most people to accept.
The same is true of Blu-Ray as a whole. Numbers like $1000 and $1500 for simple players have been thrown around.
Either Sony bite a very big bullet and swallow hundreds of dollars in cost (which they probably are already at $599), or accept that it would be a minority console for several years until prices could fall - giving XBox 360, Revolution and HD-DVD a massive headstart.
Maybe this will be a nail in the coffin of Sony. I can't see any easy route out for them that will be acceptable to the stockmarket. Maybe they will be worth more in bits and someone will force that on them?
I gave up on gaming a number of years ago. Nothing seemed very interesting and ended up being the same old gameplay concepts with a prettier face. Sounds like it was a smart move. The idea of pay-to-play and now paying for simplistic little mods; in addition to the stolid gameplay - well there are more interesting things out there to spend money on. Plus I can step off the never ending graphic card upgrade treadmill.
Wake me up when the game industry has imploded and then rediscovered originality from the grassroots up.
So "between 80 percent and 90 percent are willing to... wash clothes in cold water, turn down water heater temperature, buy energy-efficient light bulbs, buy energy-efficient appliances, and buy energy-efficient cars."?
So how many are actually DOING any of those things? And did you notice they were good little capitalist consumption-enhancing options? Buy this, buy that. The idea is to *reduce* consumption.
I believe it when I see the first SUV manufacturer file for bankruptcy. There are practical things that *could* be done, like increasing tax on fuel to promote efficient usage, setting real requirements for home insulation, reducing coal burning. However its much easier to say you'll maybe think about buying a new SUV with 2mpg better economy, some point in the future.
Changing mindsets takes much more positive action than this - and I see no sign of a change there.
There is a difference between factually correct and useful. The Wikipedia errs on the side of useful, that's why you find many more current references and interesting connections.
I happen to have both on my computer. Encyclopaedia Britannica is sitting up there as an icon on my desktop, but I've only opened it twice in the time I've had it (and the first was to see it was working). Wikipedia gets looked at more than twice a week.
Until the Encyclopaedia Britannica people can deliver a service that better ticks the 'useful' box, they will continue to lose mindshare - no matter what 'Nature' might say.
Sony is back in the pack, and no mention of Apple - not exactly picking on the most important story were we? (BTW i before e except after c)
Anyway, its all 'Brand Potential' and 'Brand Trust' so its all tainted with the marketing veneer of bullshit. I've never worked out how marketeers can get away with 'statistics' that have so many holes they look like a lace dress - but a scientist delivers statistically valid climate data and 'there is too much uncertainty'.
Theatre owners need to examine their offerings, their model, the whole shooting match with a view to a world where DVD and movie releases are simultaneous. From some rough concepts and numbers I've sketched out, I think there may well be some viable business models that would survive in that world, but if they don't like the thought of change they need to get out now.
I'd suggest that timescales will shorten even more, then quickly disappear altogether - first for second string movies, then the blockbusters.
The movie industry needs only a few theatres in the country for premiers, etc. HD-DVD, Blu-Ray and downloads are a bigger deal to them.
Oh yes, and the City of Harrah's website is dead as well. However Google has a copy in the cache with Jerry's name on it. Choctaw Electric Cooperative has a new site which may or may not be his handywork.
Interestingly this 22 years of experience seems to have been as a project manager for Raytheon E-Systems at a 'secret agency in Virginia'. Apparently he has run his own computer business and also worked as the Internet Technologies Manager for Choctaw Electric Cooperative. The phrase "He is also planning to build a city website, including a user-friendly automated system....Taylor has a background in computers, and build the city of Harrah's website." is probably coming back to haunt him around now. He earns $63,000 a year if you want his job. See http://www.tuttletimes.com/viewarticle.php?id=744
This is based on an actual radio conversation between a U.S. Navy
aircraft carrier (U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln) and Canadian authorities
off the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995. (The radio
conversation was released by the Chief of Naval Operations on
10/10/95 authorized by the Freedom of Information Act.)
Canadians: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the South to
avoid collision.
Americans: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the
North to avoid a collision.
Canadians: Negative. You will have to divert your course 15
degrees to the South to avoid a collision.
Americans: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again,
divert YOUR course.
Canadians: No, I say again, you divert YOUR course.
Americans: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS LINCOLN, THE SECOND
LARGEST SHIP IN THE UNITED STATES' ATLANTIC FLEET. WE ARE
ACCOMPANIED BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS AND NUMEROUS
SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES
NORTH--I SAY AGAIN, THAT'S ONE FIVE DEGREES NORTH--OR
COUNTER-MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP.
Yep it had carriers, but the losses were nothing to do with point defense systems. The ships had Seawolf and SeaDart and could easily engage aircraft and missiles in point and area defense roles. Phalanx and Goalkeeper tend to be pretty ineffective because they are so short range (put a hole in an Ecocet and you still have an 11m long unguided lump of metal heading straight for you...)
The problem was the lack of long range early warning, coupled with the need to make a landing and offloading in a confined space. Remove either of these problems and the losses would be lower.
Not sure who gave you an informative mod but your wrong. The design and built of THIS shot is QinetiQ's, the next is Japan, etc.
That's why its a collaboration, everyone's ideas go to make it work and get tested. There is no way just money would be provided by the teams involved. Hyshot III is not just a rehash of Hyshot II - its quite different.
"Our engine has a lower combustor entry temperature than the UQ design with less compression of the captured air. This has the advantage of lower intake losses but the disadvantage that it is difficult to get the fuel to ignite and burn. "The QinetiQ prototype is cylindrical with four combustors around the outside. The aerodynamics of the vehicle is improved by this arrangement but it wasn't cheap to manufacture. It was cast from stainless steel where as the UQ engine was assembled from copper plates."
Nope. These Hyshot tests are collaborative exercises between a number of participants. This particular test has a UK (QinetiQ) Scramjet design, boosted up to velocity via an Aussie rocket. Past tests have had other designs, including an Aussie built scramjet. The Australian press tests to big up the Aussie element, which is why you can tend to miss the reality of the international nature of the work.
You're right about them doing quite a lot with very little though. Other thing to bear in mind is its more about missiles than passenger aircraft.
This is part of a more general turning away from science in society. In the past Universities and government departments have been safe havens for scientists - willing to fund long term research with the only downside being the paperwork needed.
However we now live in an age when even this is being eroded and where the forces of politics, never the most rational of disciplines, feel safe in attempting to pervert its path. Will anyone really care? Will anyone notice? Scientific learning is looked down on. You are more likely to be admired in society for your knowledge of baseball scores than buckyballs.
I would suggest to our american colleagues that they look elsewhere for those that will value their work. The US isn't going to get better any time soon, whatever the shade of the next party in power. It's either that or organise your own political party and take control...
Executed by the definition of having a bullet put in the back of the head. I suggest YOU read up on the purge that happened after Tiananmen square cleared. If you're allowed to.
What I find even more troubling is how certain people seem to pop up whenever someone points out that the Chinese government is a repressive regime decrying statements with preplanned rhetoric. It smacks of an organised whitewashing of history.
I'll trust China when I see real freedom and the people in power through democracy. I'll say the same of the US.
Everybody here's making it sound like China is a hell in which you will be executed if you try to pronounce the 'd' of 'democracy'.
So several thousand people were not executed after the Tiananmen Square attempt at democracy? Really?
Please, at least leave the attempt at historical revisionism to the government shrills paid to do so. China has a nasty government clinging to power using any tool it can. They will kill if necessary - and they have done so. They have done nothing in the intervening years since then to change that assessment.
Its what I mean by 'the acceptable face of the greenies'. He appears to be on the conservative end of the spectrum, but its with an undercurrent of aiming at the same endpoint as the tree huggers. He's just smarter about how to influence things to get there. Since he knows the existing plants are tending towards end-of-life anyway, it sounds good to say he doesn't mind keeping them going. As long as no new plants are created, the end effect is the same.
BTW take a look at the "Olduvai Gorge" hypothesis for a counter to the green's implicit aimpoint.
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Everyone else? I'd suggest that terms like giga are mainly used in computing. Uses elsewhere are confined to subject matter experts.
The point you seem to be missing is that no matter what the french or a bunch of standards bureaucrats believe, in computing kilo=1024, mega=1024kilo, giga=1024mega. That's not going to change because someone, somewhere stamped their little foot and said kilo=1000 always and forever.
Nobody is EVER going to use GiB.
So face up, there are exceptions to your little rule and they ARE the standard. Nothing else matters. This is what happens in the real world, this is how the world develops. Not by fiat, but by agreement.
Personally I'm working on my algorithm for recognising pages selling stuff and only returning them WHEN I'M LOOKING TO BUY STUFF. It would do more for Google than this algorithm and personally I could do with a few million.
From what I can see the sensible course of action is to split Apple into bits: iTunes/iPod; hardware; software
- iTunes/iPod focus on developing the downloadable media end, free from Apple litigation.
- Apple hardware focus on making the best hardware platform for any OS, with all those nice design aspects and for the first time some chance of getting big corporate orders.
- Apple software focus on getting OSX out there and onto PCs, getting many more sales than they will ever do at the moment.
Apple as a whole gains in that app developers can focus on development for OSX certain that the market is large enough to be worth the effort. It becomes a straight fight between Microsoft and Apple Software as to who makes the best platform for users and developers - a battle that Vista's lackluster showing promises a win for Apple.
From Apple's perspective it becomes a very sensible move that could triple the size of the company whilst still allowing them to say Apple Hardware + Apple Software = Trouble free match. Against that size of reward, Mac zealots won't really have much of a say. This looks like a done deal if the Apple shareholders are in charge.
As an aside, mascotry is a good indication of the state of the economy. When students are confident enough about their prospects that they consider they don't have to study every hour of the day and can engage in this type of thing - the economy is doing well.
The same is true of Blu-Ray as a whole. Numbers like $1000 and $1500 for simple players have been thrown around.
Either Sony bite a very big bullet and swallow hundreds of dollars in cost (which they probably are already at $599), or accept that it would be a minority console for several years until prices could fall - giving XBox 360, Revolution and HD-DVD a massive headstart.
Maybe this will be a nail in the coffin of Sony. I can't see any easy route out for them that will be acceptable to the stockmarket. Maybe they will be worth more in bits and someone will force that on them?
Wake me up when the game industry has imploded and then rediscovered originality from the grassroots up.
So how many are actually DOING any of those things? And did you notice they were good little capitalist consumption-enhancing options? Buy this, buy that. The idea is to *reduce* consumption.
I believe it when I see the first SUV manufacturer file for bankruptcy. There are practical things that *could* be done, like increasing tax on fuel to promote efficient usage, setting real requirements for home insulation, reducing coal burning. However its much easier to say you'll maybe think about buying a new SUV with 2mpg better economy, some point in the future.
Changing mindsets takes much more positive action than this - and I see no sign of a change there.
No nuclear testing means all proving of a new warhead design have to be done computationally. Now a new machine is being bought...
There is a difference between factually correct and useful. The Wikipedia errs on the side of useful, that's why you find many more current references and interesting connections.
I happen to have both on my computer. Encyclopaedia Britannica is sitting up there as an icon on my desktop, but I've only opened it twice in the time I've had it (and the first was to see it was working). Wikipedia gets looked at more than twice a week.
Until the Encyclopaedia Britannica people can deliver a service that better ticks the 'useful' box, they will continue to lose mindshare - no matter what 'Nature' might say.
Its of no great interest to me, I'm not a grammer nazi. I was mentioning a spelling error and the easy way to get it right, all friendly like.
Anyway, its all 'Brand Potential' and 'Brand Trust' so its all tainted with the marketing veneer of bullshit. I've never worked out how marketeers can get away with 'statistics' that have so many holes they look like a lace dress - but a scientist delivers statistically valid climate data and 'there is too much uncertainty'.
We have a sick society
I'd suggest that timescales will shorten even more, then quickly disappear altogether - first for second string movies, then the blockbusters.
The movie industry needs only a few theatres in the country for premiers, etc. HD-DVD, Blu-Ray and downloads are a bigger deal to them.
Oh yes, and the City of Harrah's website is dead as well. However Google has a copy in the cache with Jerry's name on it. Choctaw Electric Cooperative has a new site which may or may not be his handywork.
Of no surprise to anyone, he's an MBA.
As they say in the marketing rulebook: Timing is everything
Yep it had carriers, but the losses were nothing to do with point defense systems. The ships had Seawolf and SeaDart and could easily engage aircraft and missiles in point and area defense roles. Phalanx and Goalkeeper tend to be pretty ineffective because they are so short range (put a hole in an Ecocet and you still have an 11m long unguided lump of metal heading straight for you...)
The problem was the lack of long range early warning, coupled with the need to make a landing and offloading in a confined space. Remove either of these problems and the losses would be lower.
That's why its a collaboration, everyone's ideas go to make it work and get tested. There is no way just money would be provided by the teams involved. Hyshot III is not just a rehash of Hyshot II - its quite different.
Try reading up at this page.
You're right about them doing quite a lot with very little though. Other thing to bear in mind is its more about missiles than passenger aircraft.
Yep, really free. Provided your catholic.
However we now live in an age when even this is being eroded and where the forces of politics, never the most rational of disciplines, feel safe in attempting to pervert its path. Will anyone really care? Will anyone notice? Scientific learning is looked down on. You are more likely to be admired in society for your knowledge of baseball scores than buckyballs.
I would suggest to our american colleagues that they look elsewhere for those that will value their work. The US isn't going to get better any time soon, whatever the shade of the next party in power. It's either that or organise your own political party and take control...
What I find even more troubling is how certain people seem to pop up whenever someone points out that the Chinese government is a repressive regime decrying statements with preplanned rhetoric. It smacks of an organised whitewashing of history.
I'll trust China when I see real freedom and the people in power through democracy. I'll say the same of the US.
So several thousand people were not executed after the Tiananmen Square attempt at democracy? Really?
Please, at least leave the attempt at historical revisionism to the government shrills paid to do so. China has a nasty government clinging to power using any tool it can. They will kill if necessary - and they have done so. They have done nothing in the intervening years since then to change that assessment.
You just might be right. You did see this whiteboard of Google's plans for world domination via mind control?
I want me a Google Dyson Sphere.
Its what I mean by 'the acceptable face of the greenies'. He appears to be on the conservative end of the spectrum, but its with an undercurrent of aiming at the same endpoint as the tree huggers. He's just smarter about how to influence things to get there. Since he knows the existing plants are tending towards end-of-life anyway, it sounds good to say he doesn't mind keeping them going. As long as no new plants are created, the end effect is the same.
BTW take a look at the "Olduvai Gorge" hypothesis for a counter to the green's implicit aimpoint.