Come to think of it, high speed transport -- or any transport, for that matter -- has to be cheap (partly why Concorde failed, although I'm sure its crash in France also helped do it in). But people are content dropping $$$ into fun (as opposed to transport).... This is just a small step anyway, right?
Congrats the the Scaled Composites team! While I hope the $10M prize will give you guys a nice shot in the arm, why not put it toward developing space travel for high-speed human transport rather than tourism? It just strikes me as something that's much more financially viable than tourism....
How long has it been, at least 400-600 years since a nice big population dwindling event has occurred...
My daily commute isn't getting any shorter, oil seems to be running out... air is getting more and more polluted... time for the G-O-D to clean the house out a little...
Just wait until it's your family that gets sick, or better yet, yourself. I'm sure you'll be changing your tune in a hurry!
Antibiotic resistance was noted in hospitals in the 50's and 60's, spurring the few physicians who observed it to advise restrictions on antibiotic prescriptions. Few, however, heeded this advice and decades later, antibiotics are still prescribed readily throughout the world -- even without a doctor's prescription or supervision in a number of countries. Of course there is significant noise now about the continued development of resistant bacteria, but it still has little effect in places where such drugs are easy to come by and cheap.
As an interesting aside, bacteria aren't the only pathogens that can develop resistance to devices we use to kill them. Early protease inhibitor use in AIDS patients resulted in strains of AIDS that were resistant to that treatment.
The experiment was controlled by a PC/104 computer system that had to survive temperatures down to -85C...
Wait a sec! =-P Computing equipment *loves* cold, as long as you don't have to worry about condensation. =-P In other words, it's not hard to design a system that can survive -85C. Just do a google search for Liquid nitrogen cooling. Yay for overclocking fiends who make it so you don't even need to mention computing hardware.;-)
btw, there's a tom's hardware link on the results page. Check it out. There's a pic of a CPU mount covered in frost. That *can't* be good! =-P
I wasn't notified of this critical vulnerability until I checked slashdot. Perhaps FFox/Moz should have a feature that automatically checks for updates and recommends them appropriately?
Software is written by humans. As a result, mistakes are bound to be made. Various software design strategies merely mitigate and minimize those risks, but it's bound to happen. This is a fundamental fact of life. Deal with it.
However, OSS permits investigation and transparency in the resulting software. This leads to better code reviews (hopefully) and more bug fixes. In addition, there is nothing that a software development team or company can hide behind (a la IP rights) all the while shouting, "Shut up! Shut up! I can't hear you! la la la la!"
On par? Yes and no
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· Score: 5, Informative
Beowulf clusters have never been the fix-all solution to pricey supercomputer needs. Traditional mainframe supercomputers will forever have their niche in computing that can't just be muscled through sheer volume of vector processes (i.e., processes in which good latency is essential). Even the creator of the Beowulf cluster agrees:
Quote from the article: *snip!*
Supercomputer vendor Cray has created a new product that is designed to compete with some Linux clusters. Cray Canada CTO Paul Terry said that Linux clusters really can't compare to a supercomputer. What is your take on Cray's moves against Linux?
Becker: They are simultaneously saying that Linux clusters are not high-performance computing systems while introducing a product to compete with Linux clusters. They clearly saw that a large part of their customer base was moving toward commodity clusters, Beowulf-class clusters, to do high-end computing.
Clusters can't replace all of the workload being done by supercomputers today, but it can replace the bulk of the traditional vector supercomputers. There is always that 10% of the market that won't run well on clusters, and that is the market that Cray is in. We are happy to solve most of the problems of the world and run most of the applications and play in our part of the marketplace.
Has anyone noticed that they offer to notify journalists of new press releases from their company via email? =-P
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This is completely untrue. If you look at any number base system, "10" indicates the number of the base. Take base 10 for example:
1,...,9,10
or base 8:
1,...,7,10
Your argument that 1base(pi) should be pi is ridiculous because 1 in any base (short of base 1, which is equally ridiculous) is really just plain 1. Things only get interesting once numbers exceed the base value.
Quite to the contrary, if you teach anything about religion you have to teach about the lack of religion in its various forms including Atheism. To preach about teaching fairly among the various religous beliefs and not teach about the lack of religion is far and away hypocritical.
Just to clarify, I implicitly lumped not having religious beliefs into the "religious beliefs" pile since not holding a belief is (and should be treated by the government, imo, as) a religious belief -- the belief god doesn't exist. I guess you're right, however, that implicitly stating these sorts of things isn't the best thing to do nowadays....
Firstly, religion: we must make sure that in our quest to discourage endorsement of a particular religion, we do not discourage religion outright. That is, we must ensure that we accept all religions equally, favoring none.
Politically based literature, I believe is essential. It is absolutely necessary to create a populace that understands issues on both sides and is able to logically analyze those issues and "pick a side" so to speak. Most of our nations most dividing issues (abortion, being the most notable one that comes to mind) have sane, reasonable arguments on both sides of the fence.
Lasly, patriotism is a vague term that is largely misused by the right to imply that you should be doing what they say. Patriotism itself is not inherently a bad thing and can pull people in a nation together. However, through education on varying political and religious systems, as well as through education that teaches the people to think on a global scale, we can both be proud of the nation we reside in (for it truly is still great, imo) and yet also be conscious and aware of other nations' desires, beliefs and rights.
That'd be kind of ironic, wouldn't it? Using a list that basically advocates the legitimate use of electronic disemination of music to illegally download music.... Or am I missing something?
I, for one, think they have made some great UI improvements. Most people don't hit moz.org seeking news and whatnot about the project. Instead, they just want to know where to get The Better Browser(TM). More than once, I've had to hold a few slower-than-I'd-like hands in finding where to download the latest and greatest version of Moz and variants. I just wonder why they featured FireFox so prominently and put the full version of Moz in the "bottom" row.
I think the whole concept of picking locks for security cables is ridiculous when you can easily cut the cable using any halfway decent wire cutters from home despot for $7. I worked at a school computer lab with thicker security cables than the Kensington crap and we had a number of cables locked using locks with lost keys. After all, why pick the lock when you can cut the wire in much less time? (granted, it's not the easiest thing to do, but for us rock climbers with good hand strength, it's pretty straightforward....it definitely helps to have sharp cutters!)
In the end, the best security for your stuff is to look into getting some variety of insurance for your stuff (if you feel adequately paranoid -- also, I'm not completely sure if homeowner's insurance will cover stuff at school, but I seem to recall hearing it does). However, the best security is common sense. Don't leave your dorm room unlocked and don't leave your laptop in the library when you get up to get a book.
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You're an idiot. Google isn't violating any IP laws, nor is anyone accusing them of having done so. As you correctly pointed out, they're being sued because they took a name already in existence, modified it and named their company after it. Copyright law doesn't apply since, as you said, copyright law isn't intended to protect names. Rather, trademark law is. The ultimate question in this is if the family can sue Google and win, claiming that Google doesn't have rights to use that variant of "googol" and most notably if Google's use of their name is detracting fame from the family (almost certainly not since nobody would've known about the word's existence if not for the company, imo of course).
My question is this: If the family had such a problem with the name of Google, why didn't they complain about it sooner? Surely they've had enough time and Google certainly is a big enough to be considered a household name.
Pixar was never "in" the Disney empire. They merely worked with each other. Basically, their agreement to work with each other is terminated in the sense that they aren't going to make any more movies jointly. As for why, Pixar wanted more money and Disney didn't want to lose profits.
True, but the distinction if you look at the IBM manuals is that they cover replacement of *ALL* parts of the thinkpad from the hdd and RAM to the LCD display, wristrest and all non "user serviceable" parts. Also, it provides IBM's part numbers for *all* parts including those that are not user serviceable.
...because you can find all their tech manuals online completely documenting proper assembly/disassembly instructions (step-by-step with pictures) along with all official part order numbers. And the best part is that it's pretty much guaranteed to be correct since it's from the manufacturer, as opposed to being the result of a third party reverse engineering the machine.
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Come to think of it, high speed transport -- or any transport, for that matter -- has to be cheap (partly why Concorde failed, although I'm sure its crash in France also helped do it in). But people are content dropping $$$ into fun (as opposed to transport).... This is just a small step anyway, right?
Congrats the the Scaled Composites team! While I hope the $10M prize will give you guys a nice shot in the arm, why not put it toward developing space travel for high-speed human transport rather than tourism? It just strikes me as something that's much more financially viable than tourism....
I cry bupkus! =-P My salary here in Central New York comes to $57k in San Jose, but to $77k in San Francisco. I think the calculator is a bit screwy!
New Clue for Life on Mars?
Great! When can I send my boss?
How long has it been, at least 400-600 years since a nice big population dwindling event has occurred...
My daily commute isn't getting any shorter, oil seems to be running out... air is getting more and more polluted... time for the G-O-D to clean the house out a little...
Just wait until it's your family that gets sick, or better yet, yourself . I'm sure you'll be changing your tune in a hurry!
Antibiotic resistance was noted in hospitals in the 50's and 60's, spurring the few physicians who observed it to advise restrictions on antibiotic prescriptions. Few, however, heeded this advice and decades later, antibiotics are still prescribed readily throughout the world -- even without a doctor's prescription or supervision in a number of countries. Of course there is significant noise now about the continued development of resistant bacteria, but it still has little effect in places where such drugs are easy to come by and cheap.
As an interesting aside, bacteria aren't the only pathogens that can develop resistance to devices we use to kill them. Early protease inhibitor use in AIDS patients resulted in strains of AIDS that were resistant to that treatment.
The experiment was controlled by a PC/104 computer system that had to survive temperatures down to -85C...
;-)
Wait a sec! =-P Computing equipment *loves* cold, as long as you don't have to worry about condensation. =-P In other words, it's not hard to design a system that can survive -85C. Just do a google search for Liquid nitrogen cooling. Yay for overclocking fiends who make it so you don't even need to mention computing hardware.
btw, there's a tom's hardware link on the results page. Check it out. There's a pic of a CPU mount covered in frost. That *can't* be good! =-P
I wasn't notified of this critical vulnerability until I checked slashdot. Perhaps FFox/Moz should have a feature that automatically checks for updates and recommends them appropriately?
Here's why:
Software is written by humans. As a result, mistakes are bound to be made. Various software design strategies merely mitigate and minimize those risks, but it's bound to happen. This is a fundamental fact of life. Deal with it.
However, OSS permits investigation and transparency in the resulting software. This leads to better code reviews (hopefully) and more bug fixes. In addition, there is nothing that a software development team or company can hide behind (a la IP rights) all the while shouting, "Shut up! Shut up! I can't hear you! la la la la!"
Quote from the article: *snip!*
Wouldn't a beowulf cluster of beowulf clusters in fact just be a beowulf cluster? Hmm....
Oh yeah and *groan* with regard to that joke! =-P
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Welcome to the dmail Press Room.
This website is designed to provide journalists with the information and resources they require in a downloadable format. Also provided is an enquiry service, either email or call back, to provide other materials which are not here.
Journalists are also invited to register interest in the subject so that they receive advance notice of future releases and other information.
This is completely untrue. If you look at any number base system, "10" indicates the number of the base. Take base 10 for example:
1,...,9,10
or base 8:
1,...,7,10
Your argument that 1base(pi) should be pi is ridiculous because 1 in any base (short of base 1, which is equally ridiculous) is really just plain 1. Things only get interesting once numbers exceed the base value.
Posted at +2 just for fun
Quite to the contrary, if you teach anything about religion you have to teach about the lack of religion in its various forms including Atheism. To preach about teaching fairly among the various religous beliefs and not teach about the lack of religion is far and away hypocritical.
Just to clarify, I implicitly lumped not having religious beliefs into the "religious beliefs" pile since not holding a belief is (and should be treated by the government, imo, as) a religious belief -- the belief god doesn't exist. I guess you're right, however, that implicitly stating these sorts of things isn't the best thing to do nowadays....
I take issue on your points.
Firstly, religion: we must make sure that in our quest to discourage endorsement of a particular religion, we do not discourage religion outright. That is, we must ensure that we accept all religions equally, favoring none.
Politically based literature, I believe is essential. It is absolutely necessary to create a populace that understands issues on both sides and is able to logically analyze those issues and "pick a side" so to speak. Most of our nations most dividing issues (abortion, being the most notable one that comes to mind) have sane, reasonable arguments on both sides of the fence.
Lasly, patriotism is a vague term that is largely misused by the right to imply that you should be doing what they say. Patriotism itself is not inherently a bad thing and can pull people in a nation together. However, through education on varying political and religious systems, as well as through education that teaches the people to think on a global scale, we can both be proud of the nation we reside in (for it truly is still great, imo) and yet also be conscious and aware of other nations' desires, beliefs and rights.
That'd be kind of ironic, wouldn't it? Using a list that basically advocates the legitimate use of electronic disemination of music to illegally download music.... Or am I missing something?
I, for one, think they have made some great UI improvements. Most people don't hit moz.org seeking news and whatnot about the project. Instead, they just want to know where to get The Better Browser(TM). More than once, I've had to hold a few slower-than-I'd-like hands in finding where to download the latest and greatest version of Moz and variants. I just wonder why they featured FireFox so prominently and put the full version of Moz in the "bottom" row.
I think the whole concept of picking locks for security cables is ridiculous when you can easily cut the cable using any halfway decent wire cutters from home despot for $7. I worked at a school computer lab with thicker security cables than the Kensington crap and we had a number of cables locked using locks with lost keys. After all, why pick the lock when you can cut the wire in much less time? (granted, it's not the easiest thing to do, but for us rock climbers with good hand strength, it's pretty straightforward....it definitely helps to have sharp cutters!)
In the end, the best security for your stuff is to look into getting some variety of insurance for your stuff (if you feel adequately paranoid -- also, I'm not completely sure if homeowner's insurance will cover stuff at school, but I seem to recall hearing it does). However, the best security is common sense. Don't leave your dorm room unlocked and don't leave your laptop in the library when you get up to get a book.
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The post is right on.
You're an idiot. Google isn't violating any IP laws, nor is anyone accusing them of having done so. As you correctly pointed out, they're being sued because they took a name already in existence, modified it and named their company after it. Copyright law doesn't apply since, as you said, copyright law isn't intended to protect names. Rather, trademark law is. The ultimate question in this is if the family can sue Google and win, claiming that Google doesn't have rights to use that variant of "googol" and most notably if Google's use of their name is detracting fame from the family (almost certainly not since nobody would've known about the word's existence if not for the company, imo of course).
My question is this:
If the family had such a problem with the name of Google, why didn't they complain about it sooner? Surely they've had enough time and Google certainly is a big enough to be considered a household name.
Obligatory Futurama quote:
Robot: "Sir, are you aware you're leaking coolant at an alarming rate?"
Fry: "Uhhh..."
Robot: "Let me just patch you up with some hot resin."
Fry: "I think the leak's stopping itself!
Wait...wait...yeah! There we go. Wait...yeah."
Robot: "What sort of robot turns down a free blast of searing hot resin?"
Pixar was never "in" the Disney empire. They merely worked with each other. Basically, their agreement to work with each other is terminated in the sense that they aren't going to make any more movies jointly. As for why, Pixar wanted more money and Disney didn't want to lose profits.
Washington Post story covering this
True, but the distinction if you look at the IBM manuals is that they cover replacement of *ALL* parts of the thinkpad from the hdd and RAM to the LCD display, wristrest and all non "user serviceable" parts. Also, it provides IBM's part numbers for *all* parts including those that are not user serviceable.
...because you can find all their tech manuals online completely documenting proper assembly/disassembly instructions (step-by-step with pictures) along with all official part order numbers. And the best part is that it's pretty much guaranteed to be correct since it's from the manufacturer, as opposed to being the result of a third party reverse engineering the machine.
Manuals found here
I thought this looked familiar:
1 /169200.shtml?tid=152&tid=185
http://developers.slashdot.org/developers/03/12/2
At least, I would imagine most of the comments would be the same or similar....