Because website authors can use the referrer field to improve their services, by figuring out which access patterns are most common, and which links should be made more or less prominent. By hiding that information, you are depriving them of that possibility, and you are therefore depriving the Internet a certain means of becoming better.
I have never heard of "mil" before. We measure liters per 100 km in Finland (which is also part of Scandinavia according to [1], although disputably).
And as Anonymous Coward pointed out, Denmark also does not use your "mil"s.
> Folding@Home team is saying that the GPU-accelerated client is 20 to 40 times faster than their clients just using the CPU
What kind of hardware they tested it on? If the CPU is 2 GHz, doesn't 20-40 times faster
mean that the GPU runs at something like 40-80 GHz? That's incredible.
Or do the triangle rendering algorithms in the graphics card somehow help the folding calculations?
About 1.5 years ago I had a LASIK+ surgery on my both eyes. After the pre-examinations and stuff, the actual procedure was really quick, it took only a few minutes. It was also painless, and it did not make me panic.
I'm happy with the results, too. It was only a minor surgery though -- I didn't use glasses before, but now I don't need them. What I previously needed two meters distance to read, I can now read from four meters distance.
My sight is still not as good as my sister has -- she wears no glasses or lenses -- but I'm satisfied. It's good enough to drive a truck if I wanted.
The biggest discomfort of the surgery was the going home after having it. It was a bright winter day and my eyes were soaking wet, and I had to wear those protective glasses and they became constantly filled with tear, making it quite uncomfortable and nearly impossible to see anything. But it was much better already the next day. I had to wear the
protective glasses on nights for two weeks and not to go to sauna for a few weeks, but I recall that I was already at work the next day after the surgery.
The most exciting part were the eyedrops that caused the iris to open wide open, wider than they do normally in a pitch black night. They applied them in order to do the precise measurements of eye refraction. I think my eyes looked very cool that way. Alas, that effect lasted for only a day.
In the long term, there's one thing that I lost. Before the surgery, I could watch a computer screen for hours upon hours without my eyes getting tired. The eyes were at relaxation at my normal computer-use distance. I was myopic. After the surgery, that was no longer the case. My eyes need to look far away every once in a while in order to be relaxed. I can't stare at < 1 meter distance for hours upon hours continuously anymore. If I attempt to relax my eyes on that distance, the screen is not sharp. However, it's likely that this change was actually for the better.
Well I don't know of those cases, but in the AdSense application of my site (the one mentioned in this Ask Slashdot topic) I had submitted all the relevant information to the best of my knowledge and understanding.
The board game Go is great for mixed-skill players.
Because of the handicap system used in it, players of differing skills can play challenging games against each others and get a result that is close to draw. Beginners can also start playing meaningful games quickly.
I don't know what you saw and what is there and what not and where is there, but an article with the name you mentioned, "Windows Is Officially Broken" was indeed published today.
> So if mass increases as speed increases wouldn't some of your bodily processes > start to take on some rather bizarre side effects.
Yes, that would most certainly happen if it were the case, but mass doesn't actually change - at least not the mass you're thinking of.
There are a few different things called "mass": - inertial mass - gravitational mass I recall there was a third one too, but I can't find a link describing it right now.
Anyway, try a simple Google search: http://www.google.com/search?q=mass+inertial+gravi tational and see what it turns up.
It doesn't. Information that was behind an obstacle in the first image will be shadowed in the next.
This amplifies the illusion of that the original camera is now a lightsource.
Doesn't work that way. The calculated image is of the same resolution and focus as the light source.
While the data projector projects light in a focused form, a computer display or TV shines the light everywhere without focusing it anywhere in particular. You can use the technique to gain a picture from the perspective of the display device or TV, but it's too blurry to be useful at all.
But won't the problem be that when nobody participates, the history will record that nobody participated and thus nobody will ever travel back to the event in fear of changing the history?
> The remedies proposed above are what we really > need. They will clear the way for us to develop > a truly superior alternative to Microsoft > Windows And that's exactly why Microsoft is not doing it.
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Because website authors can use the referrer field to improve their services, by figuring out which access patterns are most common, and which links should be made more or less prominent.
By hiding that information, you are depriving them of that possibility, and you are therefore depriving the Internet a certain means of becoming better.
Mine did, but I didn't.
The device interpreted a road going below a bridge as an intersection, and it suggested turning right, i.e. jumping down the bridge.
Also, often it suggests turning left where turning left is forbidden, etc.
Despite these problems, it is an useful tool as long as you remember to use your own brains.
I have never heard of "mil" before. We measure liters per 100 km in Finland (which is also part of Scandinavia according to [1], although disputably).
And as Anonymous Coward pointed out, Denmark also does not use your "mil"s.
> Folding@Home team is saying that the GPU-accelerated client is 20 to 40 times faster than their clients just using the CPU
What kind of hardware they tested it on? If the CPU is 2 GHz, doesn't 20-40 times faster mean that the GPU runs at something like 40-80 GHz? That's incredible.
Or do the triangle rendering algorithms in the graphics card somehow help the folding calculations?
Indeed, pakwrpgkarwpgkrwah.cm seems to also give the advertisement page. .com domains.
So I don't think they have a database of valid
Ps: Google calculator rules.
http://www.aist.go.jp/aist_j/press_release/pr2006/ pr20060526/choromet.wmv
Download, play with mplayer.
Now that's something I'd want for a toy.
About 1.5 years ago I had a LASIK+ surgery on my both eyes. After the pre-examinations and stuff, the actual procedure was really quick, it took only a few minutes. It was also painless, and it did not make me panic. I'm happy with the results, too. It was only a minor surgery though -- I didn't use glasses before, but now I don't need them. What I previously needed two meters distance to read, I can now read from four meters distance. My sight is still not as good as my sister has -- she wears no glasses or lenses -- but I'm satisfied. It's good enough to drive a truck if I wanted.
The biggest discomfort of the surgery was the going home after having it. It was a bright winter day and my eyes were soaking wet, and I had to wear those protective glasses and they became constantly filled with tear, making it quite uncomfortable and nearly impossible to see anything. But it was much better already the next day. I had to wear the protective glasses on nights for two weeks and not to go to sauna for a few weeks, but I recall that I was already at work the next day after the surgery.
The most exciting part were the eyedrops that caused the iris to open wide open, wider than they do normally in a pitch black night. They applied them in order to do the precise measurements of eye refraction. I think my eyes looked very cool that way. Alas, that effect lasted for only a day.
In the long term, there's one thing that I lost. Before the surgery, I could watch a computer screen for hours upon hours without my eyes getting tired. The eyes were at relaxation at my normal computer-use distance. I was myopic. After the surgery, that was no longer the case. My eyes need to look far away every once in a while in order to be relaxed. I can't stare at < 1 meter distance for hours upon hours continuously anymore. If I attempt to relax my eyes on that distance, the screen is not sharp. However, it's likely that this change was actually for the better.
> not a good idea to install on a machine that's vital to your operations
Exactly my thought. The first thing that crossed my mind when I read the news was "security holes found and no patches available".
Well I don't know of those cases, but in the AdSense application of my site (the one mentioned in this Ask Slashdot topic) I had submitted all the relevant information to the best of my knowledge and understanding.
Because of the handicap system used in it, players of differing skills can play challenging games against each others and get a result that is close to draw. Beginners can also start playing meaningful games quickly.
This page introduces the rules of Go, http://playgo.to/interactive/ and this page gives background information about it: http://senseis.xmp.net/?WhatIsGo
The second site mentioned contains a Wiki with lots of Go-related information.
I don't know what you saw and what is there and what not and where is there, but an article with the name you mentioned, "Windows Is Officially Broken" was indeed published today.
_ Broken_-_Microsoft_has_admitted_it
It is also featured (and linked to) in Digg:
http://www.digg.com/software/Windows_Is_Offically
Am I the only one who actually tried to base64-decode the parent posting's data?
Fight weapons with weapons.
Use the same trick to create medicins. Bioengineered medicins.
Or perhaps bioengineered humans to endure those plagues...
Yes, it is scary.
Now deleting this torrent. The site isn't slashdotted anymore.
> So if mass increases as speed increases wouldn't some of your bodily processes
i tational
> start to take on some rather bizarre side effects.
Yes, that would most certainly happen if it were the case, but mass doesn't actually change - at least not the mass you're thinking of.
There are a few different things called "mass":
- inertial mass
- gravitational mass
I recall there was a third one too, but I can't find a link describing it right now.
Anyway, try a simple Google search: http://www.google.com/search?q=mass+inertial+grav
and see what it turns up.
Software copying is easy. Read bytes, write bytes. Hardware copying is not easy. (But that's not what's happening in the article.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVD and follow the links on the page.
It doesn't. Information that was behind an obstacle in the first image will be shadowed in the next. This amplifies the illusion of that the original camera is now a lightsource.
Doesn't work that way. The calculated image is of the same resolution and focus as the light source.
While the data projector projects light in a focused form, a computer display or TV shines the light everywhere without focusing it anywhere in particular.
You can use the technique to gain a picture from the perspective of the display device or TV, but it's too blurry to be useful at all.
BitTorrent file here. http://bisqwit.iki.fi/torrents/DualPhotography.mp4 .torrent
Like I said...
But won't the problem be that when nobody participates, the history will record that nobody participated and thus nobody will ever travel back to the event in fear of changing the history?
> The remedies proposed above are what we really
> need. They will clear the way for us to develop
> a truly superior alternative to Microsoft
> Windows
And that's exactly why Microsoft is not doing it.