just went to check on Suprnova to see if it's been taken down because of this, but today it has become a For Pay site! Sad day....
You probably went to suprnova.com or suprnova.net which are pay sites pretending to be suprnova. Suprnova.org looks like it still is the same as usual.
Yes, because there can be all kinds of evil bacteria floating around in antifreeze?
Well that and there might be all kinds of random chemicals mixed in with the antifreeze. I prefer my medical supplies to be free of lead, benzene and other potentially toxic chemicals.
is there any reason why ATI can't open source their old graphic cards, such as their 7000 series. Surely that technology is no longer critical to their lead.
ATI already supposed specs for their R2xx cards. So everything up to a ATI 9200 has accelerated 3d support under X.org using the standard radeon driver. You won't get speeds as fast as the ATI drivers and some things like texture compression aren't supported due to patents but it gives good performance for something like chromium b.s.u and tux racer.
Check out gatos.sourceforge.net for info on the open source video input/output support for ati cards.
really don't know if I can accept Microsoft's promise that they wont sue you after you admit to having a pirated copy.
IANAL, but I believe in the US at least the concept of promissory estoppel would allow you to at very least get their lawsuit thrown out of court. You may even be able to countersue to recover costs and get damages from microsoft.
Actually 10% should be were all the major browsers should actually be. There is IE, Netscape, Mozilla, Firefox, Safari, Koncor (sp?), Opera, and others. In a good world the major players should have 10-20% of the market share and that is about it. Microsoft with its 90%+ marketshare with there products is a fluke in the system and shouldn't be.
It doesn't work that way. Market shares usually follow a power law (e.g. a/(b+r)^c) where a,b,c are constants and r is the rank of the product. This means that one product gets a fairly large share (60+%), the second ranked product gets a sizeable share (20+%) and the rest of the products split the rest. It's similar to the distribution of populations in cities, nations, states, etc.
A market with products having 10-20% of the share each would be very unusual. See references to Zipf's law, Pareto distributions, and power-law distributions if you want a more info on this.
On the other hand, there's got to be an evolutionary reason why HCl made it into our stomachs, as opposed to H2SO4..
It's because some cells already have a bunch of proton pumps that transfer protons across a membrane for other reasons. Add in a chloride pump to balance out the charge and you have a fairly easy to make method of making acid based on readily available materials in the body (H2O, NaCl). SO4 isn't something that is normally found in the body so it would require more effort to use H2SO4.
Suppose you wanted something that didn't expand or contract in certain temperature ranges, you might be able to combine something with negative expansion and positive expansion in a structure so that the entire structure doesn't expand or contract.
server motherboards have multiple PCI busses. Put the capture card in one, the gigabit ethernet or disk on the other...
If you have a server board with multiple PCI buses then some of those buses are probably PCI-X 133Mhz or at the very least PCI 64bit/66Mhz slots with gets rid of the 32bit/33Mhz PCI bandwidth problems entirely.
Anaconda does a few things that a yum or up2date upgrade will not do. I believe that one of those things is labeling the files with the correct selinux security contexts. Without these contexts, your system may be flakey, unstable, or unbootable after the update.
The FC1 and FC2 installs might have worked due to selinux not being enabled but with selinux enabled to deny unauthorized actions, this update may not be as smooth.
A beam of gamma rays will not have any effect on gravity...right?
No, a beam of gamma rays will have a small effect on gravity. Since energy and mass are equivalent, gravitationally, replacing a object with it's mass equivalent in energy shouldn't make a difference.
However, your beam of gamma rays will be equivalent to so little mass that it probably won't be measurable.
The article you linked to is about alumina not aluminum. Their is a fairly large difference, aluminum is a metal while alumina is a ceramic. Like other ceramics, alumina is fairly brittle and will undergo failure without warning under high tensions or impacts.
Re:energy independence begins at home
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How about paving roads with solar panels, under some hard (metamaterial) transparent aluminum
How about waiting until we discover transparent aluminum before asking about building things with. You might as well as about using unobtanium or trilithium to build a new power plant.
That isn't valid C according to the standards. You can't modify a variable twice between sequence points. Since your code does that the behaviour is undefined. It's like having c++ = c + 2 in your code, the result can be anything.
Sorry they brought it to you, but TB absolutely thrives in the living conditions of India, Bangladesh and China. Dense populations, overworked and weakened bodies, poor water quality and effluent in water (even when used for agriculture) contribute greatly to ideal conditions. Once there were strict medical requirements to get a work permit to enter the USA, which according to my doctor, have lapsed considerably and often are forged.
You're forgetting that the other component in drug resistant TB is availability of antibiotics. In the US, I'm fairly sure that prisons are a fairly nice source of drug resistant TB. Especially since prisoners may get on a course of drugs and stop partway through the 6-9 month course. Add in the infections in the native population and the availability of the latest antibiotics and you have a great way of incubating a drug resistant population and spreading it.
It also doesn't help that immunosupressed people (AIDS, organ transplants, etc.) can easily get infected by multiple strains increasing the possibility that different strains swap resistances.
It's fair to say that most people love PNG images (or at least hate GIFs).
Most people don't know what png images are and they probably couldn't care less whether they get png or gif images.
Re:Nuclear fusion?
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Fusion reactors do not utilize a self-sustaining reaction the way fission reactors do. No possibility of meltdown. Also, no heavy radioactive isotopes created. Heavy radioactive isotopes are the really bad stuff used/created in fission reactions. They include things like uranium, plutonium, cesium, strontium, etc. None of this stuff is created in fusion reactors.
Actually fusion reactions produce a decent size neutron flux. The neutrons have the tendency to irradiate atoms and create radioactive isotopes. Although the resulting radioactive materials probably won't be highly radioactive, a fusion reactor will still create radioactive waste that needs to be disposed.
Also, if anyone hasn't heard of a decent NC-17 movie since Showgirls
Showgirls is not a decent movie. The only real question is whether it's just horrible or whether it's so bad that it's passable as camp. I don't think any of the principals associated with it really want to be associated with it anymore.
And then they connect these specialized ASIC chips to the internet? What do you suppose they run on them, Windows? The simpliest and easiest solution would be to simply not connect the data acquistion computers to the net at all.
In which case someone has to trudge out several miles to the sensor to collect data while it's 60 below zero and in possibly very nasty conditions.
Good luck finding volunteers willing to do that on a regular basis.
While d!/d$ look kind of cute, it doesn't make much sense. What he wants to maximise is !/$, i.e. the ratio of bang for bucks. And this actually implies d!/d$ = 0.
The author of the review is a mathematics preceptor at Harvard, you don't actually expect him to understand calculus do you? This way when those Harvard undergrads come to him for help in math, he can give them totally wrong information and truthfully say he did his best to help them.
Uh, real latency numbers are about 3ns for modern ECC memory and about 15-60ms for Infiniband depending on message size, so not hundreds of times but rather 20 times worst case. That's still not good if you are message latency limited but you have to remember that crossbars and cross cabinet interconnects have latency as well
You should check your figures. The Sunfire systems have latencies between 100ns-240ns depending on where the request originates and where the data is stored. The opterons have latencies of about 100ns.
Your 3ns latency might be just for responses on the memory chip. I'm referring to the latency from when the address is request to when the data reaches the cpu.
True, it'd still be slightly higher than pure memory- but the increased number of nodes will cover that up in a hurry, especially if you code for specialized machine processes rather than a single general processs
It would still be a lot slower than memory. Typical memory latencies are on the order of 100ns. Going to the network would still be a lot slower. Suppose network latencies where about a tenth of what it is typically. That puts the latency at about.1 ms (a ping to a system on my network takes about 1.5ms) which is still about a 1,000 times slower than memory. Even with an improvment to.01ms in the network latency, we're talking 100 time difference in latency.
That essential puts a lot of stuff in the difficult to work with area. So no, I don't think a network can effectively replace a shared memory machine on latency dependent work.
If BSD unix had been originally licensed under a GPL like license, we wouldn't have 2000 UNIX derivatives today. BSD was so superior to SYSV that all the vendors of the time wanted it; and thanks to the BSD license, they could have it.
So now, what happened to 4.4BSD and it's derivatives? Dead. Unmaintained. Talented developers like Bill Joy went off to join or found companies and everyone worked seperately, creating incompatible versions of systems that were essentially the same in spirit. Proprietary lock-in, the works.
The BSD license splinters easily; look how many times the 386BSD derivatives have forked in the Free Software world alone, and compare it to Linux. How much BSD code has been incorperated into proprietary products without so much as even a nod to the author? And the fixes they made to the bugs in the code, were they reintegrated into the original tree? What about improvements?
I would argue that the BSD license is the reason why the internet and unix were able to thrive. Since companies could use the BSD code, their products shared substantial parts of code and people didn't have to work about things like bugs in different tcp/ip stacks preventing interoperability.
In any case, it looks like NetBSD, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD are doing fairly well today despite companies using the 4.4BSD code.
Incidentally, most of the lockin on the various platforms came about due to hardware specific uses, 3rd party apps, and system/library extensions that would still be an issue on a gpl system.
As for splintering, look at the number of linux distributions around now. Although the there is only one mainline kernel, alot of distributions add their own and other's patches to the vanilla kernel leading to subtly different systems. Add in differences in file layouts, binaries, and libraries and you end up with binary packages being compiled several different times for different distributions. Even source packages sometimes need to be modified to work on different distributions.
Re:Obviously not talking about Japanese Games...
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In Japan, religion is often portrayed quite heavily in games. Japan in general has a more liberal relationship with religion than the western world, and works of fiction aren't really lynched for not showing the church in a good light.
Most japanese games don't really treat games more liberally. Rather they use symbols and messages from other religions (e.g. Christianity) and adapt them using their own (sometimes flawed) understanding. A lot of christian imagery in japanese games are used with only a superficial understanding and more for effect then anything else.
The reason why the games don't get censured is that Christianity isn't a widely followed religion so it doesn't matter too much to the average person. You can see the same thing in the US in regards to portrayals of buddhism, shintoism, hinduism, etc.
Incidentally, there isn't a church per se in Christianity. Different denominations and sects will have separate the different reactions to using religious imagery in games and other things.
Hydrogen only has 1 proton... that's why it has an atomic number of 1 and has one electron. If it had more than one proton it wouldn't be hydrogen anymore.
Someone slept through chemistry class... (Shame too, 'cause the rest of the post is correct and the part that was wrong didn't need to be there at all)
The original post said hydrogen with 2 protons per molecule which is true since hydrogen is normally found as H2 with two atoms bonding to form a diatomic molecule.
Someone didn't read the original post...(Shame too, 'cause the post is correct it just corrects something that was never said).
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Look at alliance cad for vhdl compiler, simulator and related tools. It's gpl and there are binaries available for a variety of systems.
You probably went to suprnova.com or suprnova.net which are pay sites pretending to be suprnova. Suprnova.org looks like it still is the same as usual.
Well that and there might be all kinds of random chemicals mixed in with the antifreeze. I prefer my medical supplies to be free of lead, benzene and other potentially toxic chemicals.
ATI already supposed specs for their R2xx cards. So everything up to a ATI 9200 has accelerated 3d support under X.org using the standard radeon driver. You won't get speeds as fast as the ATI drivers and some things like texture compression aren't supported due to patents but it gives good performance for something like chromium b.s.u and tux racer.
Check out gatos.sourceforge.net for info on the open source video input/output support for ati cards.
IANAL, but I believe in the US at least the concept of promissory estoppel would allow you to at very least get their lawsuit thrown out of court. You may even be able to countersue to recover costs and get damages from microsoft.
It doesn't work that way. Market shares usually follow a power law (e.g. a/(b+r)^c) where a,b,c are constants and r is the rank of the product. This means that one product gets a fairly large share (60+%), the second ranked product gets a sizeable share (20+%) and the rest of the products split the rest. It's similar to the distribution of populations in cities, nations, states, etc.
A market with products having 10-20% of the share each would be very unusual. See references to Zipf's law, Pareto distributions, and power-law distributions if you want a more info on this.
It's because some cells already have a bunch of proton pumps that transfer protons across a membrane for other reasons. Add in a chloride pump to balance out the charge and you have a fairly easy to make method of making acid based on readily available materials in the body (H2O, NaCl). SO4 isn't something that is normally found in the body so it would require more effort to use H2SO4.
Suppose you wanted something that didn't expand or contract in certain temperature ranges, you might be able to combine something with negative expansion and positive expansion in a structure so that the entire structure doesn't expand or contract.
If you have a server board with multiple PCI buses then some of those buses are probably PCI-X 133Mhz or at the very least PCI 64bit/66Mhz slots with gets rid of the 32bit/33Mhz PCI bandwidth problems entirely.
Anaconda does a few things that a yum or up2date upgrade will not do. I believe that one of those things is labeling the files with the correct selinux security contexts. Without these contexts, your system may be flakey, unstable, or unbootable after the update.
The FC1 and FC2 installs might have worked due to selinux not being enabled but with selinux enabled to deny unauthorized actions, this update may not be as smooth.
No, a beam of gamma rays will have a small effect on gravity. Since energy and mass are equivalent, gravitationally, replacing a object with it's mass equivalent in energy shouldn't make a difference.
However, your beam of gamma rays will be equivalent to so little mass that it probably won't be measurable.
The article you linked to is about alumina not aluminum. Their is a fairly large difference, aluminum is a metal while alumina is a ceramic. Like other ceramics, alumina is fairly brittle and will undergo failure without warning under high tensions or impacts.
How about waiting until we discover transparent aluminum before asking about building things with. You might as well as about using unobtanium or trilithium to build a new power plant.
That isn't valid C according to the standards. You can't modify a variable twice between sequence points. Since your code does that the behaviour is undefined. It's like having c++ = c + 2 in your code, the result can be anything.
You're forgetting that the other component in drug resistant TB is availability of antibiotics. In the US, I'm fairly sure that prisons are a fairly nice source of drug resistant TB. Especially since prisoners may get on a course of drugs and stop partway through the 6-9 month course. Add in the infections in the native population and the availability of the latest antibiotics and you have a great way of incubating a drug resistant population and spreading it.
It also doesn't help that immunosupressed people (AIDS, organ transplants, etc.) can easily get infected by multiple strains increasing the possibility that different strains swap resistances.
Most people don't know what png images are and they probably couldn't care less whether they get png or gif images.
Actually fusion reactions produce a decent size neutron flux. The neutrons have the tendency to irradiate atoms and create radioactive isotopes. Although the resulting radioactive materials probably won't be highly radioactive, a fusion reactor will still create radioactive waste that needs to be disposed.
Showgirls is not a decent movie. The only real question is whether it's just horrible or whether it's so bad that it's passable as camp. I don't think any of the principals associated with it really want to be associated with it anymore.
In which case someone has to trudge out several miles to the sensor to collect data while it's 60 below zero and in possibly very nasty conditions.
Good luck finding volunteers willing to do that on a regular basis.
The author of the review is a mathematics preceptor at Harvard, you don't actually expect him to understand calculus do you? This way when those Harvard undergrads come to him for help in math, he can give them totally wrong information and truthfully say he did his best to help them.
You should check your figures. The Sunfire systems have latencies between 100ns-240ns depending on where the request originates and where the data is stored. The opterons have latencies of about 100ns.
Your 3ns latency might be just for responses on the memory chip. I'm referring to the latency from when the address is request to when the data reaches the cpu.
It would still be a lot slower than memory. Typical memory latencies are on the order of 100ns. Going to the network would still be a lot slower. Suppose network latencies where about a tenth of what it is typically. That puts the latency at about .1 ms (a ping to a system on my network takes about 1.5ms) which is still about a 1,000 times slower than memory. Even with an improvment to .01ms in the network latency, we're talking 100 time difference in latency.
That essential puts a lot of stuff in the difficult to work with area. So no, I don't think a network can effectively replace a shared memory machine on latency dependent work.
I would argue that the BSD license is the reason why the internet and unix were able to thrive. Since companies could use the BSD code, their products shared substantial parts of code and people didn't have to work about things like bugs in different tcp/ip stacks preventing interoperability.
In any case, it looks like NetBSD, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD are doing fairly well today despite companies using the 4.4BSD code.
Incidentally, most of the lockin on the various platforms came about due to hardware specific uses, 3rd party apps, and system/library extensions that would still be an issue on a gpl system.
As for splintering, look at the number of linux distributions around now. Although the there is only one mainline kernel, alot of distributions add their own and other's patches to the vanilla kernel leading to subtly different systems. Add in differences in file layouts, binaries, and libraries and you end up with binary packages being compiled several different times for different distributions. Even source packages sometimes need to be modified to work on different distributions.
Most japanese games don't really treat games more liberally. Rather they use symbols and messages from other religions (e.g. Christianity) and adapt them using their own (sometimes flawed) understanding. A lot of christian imagery in japanese games are used with only a superficial understanding and more for effect then anything else.
The reason why the games don't get censured is that Christianity isn't a widely followed religion so it doesn't matter too much to the average person. You can see the same thing in the US in regards to portrayals of buddhism, shintoism, hinduism, etc.
Incidentally, there isn't a church per se in Christianity. Different denominations and sects will have separate the different reactions to using religious imagery in games and other things.
The original post said hydrogen with 2 protons per molecule which is true since hydrogen is normally found as H2 with two atoms bonding to form a diatomic molecule.
Someone didn't read the original post...(Shame too, 'cause the post is correct it just corrects something that was never said).