Junkbuster is nice, but I can't be bothered with it anymore. I just use Mozilla's 'block images from this server' feature to remove banners from the pages that I use a lot.
Per Rusty, K5's budget comes to $70,000 per year, salary and expenses, with himself as the only paid K5 employee.
Yet LWN's article states that they claim they can get by on $15,000 per month for all five of them, or $36,000 per year each. Maybe the staff of LWN can teach Rusty a thing or two about living frugally...
$15,000 x 12 = $360,000. Not $36,000. The problem for LWN (as they state in the article) is that the Weekly version is a lot of work. The daily updates could be handled by one person.
The article almost seems to suggest Google should allow people the opportunity to remove listings from the index.
It's more about the cache than the results list, but still Google will remove your site from the cache and/or the results list. Details here. I can imagine some search engines are not as webmaster-friendly as Google, but most of them are fairly reasonable. It's certainly pretty unfair of this article to target Google.
As long as the probability of impact remains fairly constant, the Palermo Scale will rise as the event gets closer.
The probability of impact is not fairly constant though. It's being revised daily as more observations are made. Today (24th of July) it's down to -0.25.
Due to the incredibly poor design of the site a number of people have obviously taken "Solution: 100!" as the answer and not as a link to the answer (which it is).
3) I'm curious what prior art will show up. In 1986, many people were still using BSAVE/BLOAD to store images.
If it's just the run-length-encoding, there should be plenty of prior art. I know that Amiga's IFF ILBM picture format used RLE compression and that was certainly developed prior to 1986.
I like their conclusion on the Internet and sharing:
Attempt to frame your side of the digital music debate more positively. People do think musicians should be compensated -- it's all of you that people feel are ripping them off.
The study and particularly the press release does focus on the negative a bit, but then it's clearly been commissioned by the record industry so that's no suprise. E.g they forgot to mention in the press release that 20% of people who download music are buying more of it, and that 62% of people who have downloaded a music track have gone on to buy the artists CD.
Assuming a base platform cost (without processor) of $400 for MoBo, memory etc., the P4 Xeon would have to be 17% faster than the Athlon to justify the premium. According to the benchmarks on Tom's Hardware, Intel would have a hard time attaining that. You may be right but those benchmarks don't support your case much because they don't include any P4 Xeons.
Well you need to check your own work, or at leaest the units on these. these are 4mF I think. not 4F
No. You didn't even check the links did you. That's four Farad. The others I mentioned were ten Farad, and one to fifty Farad. Just because you have never heard of such a thing does not mean they don't exist.
I benchmarked cygwin, exceed (7.1), omni-X and xwin32. cygwin was by far the slowest, around 10 times slower than exceed for many basic X11 operations. Exceed was about two times faster than omni-X and xwin32.
Keep in mind that Exceed, Omni-X, and XWin32 are windows-specific while XFree86 is not. Windows optimization is in the works for XFree86, but until then XFree86 is getting very little assistance from the graphics card. The advantages of XFree86 are that it is free (in both senses) and that it is getting a lot of development. The coolness factor is that Cygwin is capable of running XFree86 on Windows and that all the changes are getting merged back into the official XFree86 tree.
Typing "up" with 2-4 is hard enough, requiring an awkward stretch of the ring finger. Getting to . with the thumb requires me to twist my whole arm in addition to contorting my hand, and hitting a target after such a long travel with such a fat digit is quite unreliable. Plus, this leaves my hand totally out of position for any subsequent typing.
It seems to me that you're trying to avoid moving your hands horizontally. If you stop trying to keep your index finger on the 'j' column you won't find getting to 'p' a stretch and your thumb should be moving toward the '.' too. I find 2-4-1 quite natural even though I usually only use my thumbs for space.
There are basically two types of typing tasks - copying text from another source and composing text as you type it. Touch typing seems to be designed for the copying case, where you can't afford to look at the keyboard. You said "for most people, the key to finding a key quickly is knowing its position relative to a fixed reference". But if can afford to look at the keyboard you don't have maintain a fixed reference, you can always re-establish where you are. And the "composing text" type of task permits frequent glances at the keyboard. Which is what I do a lot (I'm a programmer). So for me touch typing is not necessary and I find the most of what pslam was talking about makes sense. Note that piano playing also allows and requires a lot of looking at the keyboard.
"How often do you talk about "thirds of hours" anyway?"
You've never said "I'll meet you in 20 minutes????"
Sure, but that's not talking about hours that's talking about minutes. And 15 "metric minutes" would be a reasonable approximation for 20 minutes. If you really meant a third of a "metric hour" then you'd just say 30 "metric minutes".
Incidentally I'm not arguing that metric time is a good idea I'm just saying that the arguments against it in this thread (divisibility of 60) are crap. There's much better arguments against metric time, namely that we're use to the current system and we don't need to change. Unlike most of the other measures that have been converted, it is fairly rare to have to do complex multiplication or division with time. For addition and subtraction unusual bases are not such a problem.
You probably wouldn't use tenths of a "metric hour" much, you'd go to 100ths which would make the "hour" divisible by 2, 4 and 5. It's not divisible by 3 but 30 "metric minutes" would be close enough for common usage in speach. How often do you talk about "thirds of hours" anyway?
Besides you're arguing that base 60 is generally better, not that it's better for time. Most of the world has abandoned base 60 (or other systems) for distance, weight, money etc so obviously the extra divisiblity is not that compelling.
Is there another number system besides base 6 that allows you to easily convert the earth's rotation of 15 degrees an hour into human readable time?
That's circular reasoning. You're arguing that "hour" is a good measure of time based on rotation per hour. Since there is nothing magical about 15 degrees we could easily define a "metric hour" to be a tenth of a day and say the earth's rotation is 36 degrees per "metric hour".
What I'm very happy about is that it's downloadable. I'm getting really sick of those studios that make trailers in order to advertise movies to us and then make us jump through hoops to see them. I will not look at any trailer that is only available streamed, so if you're not prepared to make your trailer available in a high quality, downloadable format then don't bother. And if I don't see your trailer then the chance of me seeing your movie is significantly reduced.
Anyway kudos to New Line for listening to what people have said and for delivering what people want.
The difficulties involved in this are the precise reason liquid fuel is used.
You're right about the difficulties of solid fuel rockets but not that they're the reason liquid fuel is used. The reason is simple: solid fuel allows no control over the burn. You can't change thrust except in predetermined ways, you can't shut it down, you can't restart it. That's why liquid fuel is necessary for all but the simplest applications.
In short, if price is a concern, don't build it yourself. Oh, sure, with a little due dilligence you can keep the price down. It's just been my experience that that doesn't happen. If you're pinching pennies, buy from a respectable name brand. If you want the ultimate in configuration (and don't mind having no computer-wide warranty support), then build it yourself.
I agree. There are a couple of other points though:
I often go the upgrade route - upgrade a few components at a time until I eventually end up with two functioning machines. This is not cheaper than buying a new Dell (or whatever) but it does spread the cost out. Obviously it doesn't work if you need two machines now.
Server class machines are never cheaper from the likes of Dell, Compaq, IBM etc. You can often save a bundle building one from components. Provided you're willing to give up the easy warranty of course.
Here are some of things that the Google Toolbar gives you that aren't covered by Mozilla. These are the ones I use frequently:
Search the current site as easily as the whole web (equivalent to adding site:... to your search terms)
Quick access to Google's cache of the open page
An 'up' button that allows you to quickly navigate a site by trimming trailing directories from a URL (i.e. www.site.com/dir1/dir2/page -> www.site.com/dir1/dir2/ -> www.site.com/dir1/ -> www.site.com/).
Search term highlighted in the current page
The Google toolbar is the only thing I miss from IE.
But Opera's adware. These features are enough to get me to switch from IE to Mozilla but they're not enough to get me to pay any significant amount of money.
Nope, it's in the UI. Open a bunch of tabs and then go to Bookmarks->File Bookmark... Check the "File as Group" option and a group bookmark containing all the open tabs is created. In "Manage Bookmarks" it behaves as a folder so you can add and remove individual pages.
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Junkbuster is nice, but I can't be bothered with it anymore. I just use Mozilla's 'block images from this server' feature to remove banners from the pages that I use a lot.
And today it reads -0.25 (based on 113 observations spanning 15.186 days (2002-Jul-09.3768 to 2002-Jul-24.56261)).
Due to the incredibly poor design of the site a number of people have obviously taken "Solution: 100!" as the answer and not as a link to the answer (which it is).
I've never looked a JPEG very closely and I hate reading patents so I'm pretty much going by the description in this post from the first /. story.
Assuming a base platform cost (without processor) of $400 for MoBo, memory etc., the P4 Xeon would have to be 17% faster than the Athlon to justify the premium. According to the benchmarks on Tom's Hardware, Intel would have a hard time attaining that. You may be right but those benchmarks don't support your case much because they don't include any P4 Xeons.
Tecate Industries manufacture the PB series. A 4 Farad capacitor measuring 24x18x4.8mm (approx 1x3/4x1/5 inches), and a 10F capacitor measuring 24x33x4.8mm. 2.5VDC, 1A.
Cooper Electronic Technologies have the B series which offer 1 to 50F capacitance and are capable of 35A at 2.5V. They are the size of a AA battery.
Perhaps next time you should make an effort to check things out before "calling the bluff"?
There are basically two types of typing tasks - copying text from another source and composing text as you type it. Touch typing seems to be designed for the copying case, where you can't afford to look at the keyboard. You said "for most people, the key to finding a key quickly is knowing its position relative to a fixed reference". But if can afford to look at the keyboard you don't have maintain a fixed reference, you can always re-establish where you are. And the "composing text" type of task permits frequent glances at the keyboard. Which is what I do a lot (I'm a programmer). So for me touch typing is not necessary and I find the most of what pslam was talking about makes sense. Note that piano playing also allows and requires a lot of looking at the keyboard.
Incidentally I'm not arguing that metric time is a good idea I'm just saying that the arguments against it in this thread (divisibility of 60) are crap. There's much better arguments against metric time, namely that we're use to the current system and we don't need to change. Unlike most of the other measures that have been converted, it is fairly rare to have to do complex multiplication or division with time. For addition and subtraction unusual bases are not such a problem.
Besides you're arguing that base 60 is generally better, not that it's better for time. Most of the world has abandoned base 60 (or other systems) for distance, weight, money etc so obviously the extra divisiblity is not that compelling.
That's already been more or less done - gradians. 400 gradians to the circle. But it's rarely used. Serious work with angles is done in radians.
Anyway kudos to New Line for listening to what people have said and for delivering what people want.
I often go the upgrade route - upgrade a few components at a time until I eventually end up with two functioning machines. This is not cheaper than buying a new Dell (or whatever) but it does spread the cost out. Obviously it doesn't work if you need two machines now.
Server class machines are never cheaper from the likes of Dell, Compaq, IBM etc. You can often save a bundle building one from components. Provided you're willing to give up the easy warranty of course.
- Search the current site as easily as the whole web (equivalent to adding site:... to your search terms)
- Quick access to Google's cache of the open page
- An 'up' button that allows you to quickly navigate a site by trimming trailing directories from a URL (i.e. www.site.com/dir1/dir2/page -> www.site.com/dir1/dir2/ -> www.site.com/dir1/ -> www.site.com/).
- Search term highlighted in the current page
The Google toolbar is the only thing I miss from IE.But Opera's adware. These features are enough to get me to switch from IE to Mozilla but they're not enough to get me to pay any significant amount of money.
Nope, it's in the UI. Open a bunch of tabs and then go to Bookmarks->File Bookmark... Check the "File as Group" option and a group bookmark containing all the open tabs is created. In "Manage Bookmarks" it behaves as a folder so you can add and remove individual pages.