It could be made, but it couldn't store nearly as much at nearly as high a quality as they can with a Blu-ray.
Your statement is of course true but it's a case of 12 hours vs 2 hours. A pressed 8.5gb DVD is extremely cheap and plenty large enough to store a single HD movie at a level of quality that will please even a large portion of enthusiasts.
The hardware to playback such levels of compression would be slightly more expensive but in general they wanted to change formats anyways on purpose.
What's your problem with this finding? Fine, you can't sell social activity as a treatment so pharma isn't interested
Finding? Perhaps you should reread those studies. Your wording implies that having low social activity in your midlife period increases the risk factor of dementia.
1) Studies done to show correlation between social activity and dementia are done on the elderly not on midlife people. 2) The studies deal with social AND leisure(ie gardening/knitting) activities. Adding a quantifier like "low" and assuming that the social side is the significant one is just a wild ass guess on your part.
Suggesting someone of 30~40 years of age is increasing the risk factor of dementia by having low social activity and tossing in "low education" on top of that is utterly preposterous. I'm sure I'll get troll modded again for speaking the voice of reason against someone spouting the usual "live healthy" line but someone needs to say it. If you want to find a logical finding out of those studies I suggest you consider that what MIGHT be a risk factor is low mental activity later in life.
The strongest known modifiable risk factors for dementia are poor midlife health (obesity, vascular disease, blood pressure, diabetes etc), low education and low social activity.
Honestly where do you people come up with this stuff? Low education and low SOCIAL activity? It's pretty clear from such a comment that you have no scientific backing to what you are saying. I hope to god you are not in a position where you give people actual medical advice. Giving false medical advice on slashdot is bad enough already.
Who will guard this facility for a million years? How much will that cost?
The only real question about long term plutonium storage is how long it'll take us to cheaply throw it into the sun. That could indeed be a very long time but it's obviously going to be quite a bit faster than waiting for it to decay.
I don't think it's right that the cost should be borne by the taxpayer.
It's fine for taxpayers to bear the cost of cleaning up the environmental problems caused by coal burning plants though?
The idea is that every OEM would be forced to offer a choice of operating systems - even if that choice is only "Windows or nothing". Rather than the current situation today when the overwhelming majority of OEMs offer little or no choice - Windows Vista Basic or Windows Vista Premium.
What? That's obviously not what they mean. The smaller OEMS are complaining that they can't compete on price. If it were simply a matter of "offering" something besides Windows they would do it. Probably they want MS to sell them Windows copies at a per copy price and they want every retailer to be forced to pay the same price.
Right now even if you buy a PC without windows chances are MS is still getting cash because that's the way they sell their OS in bulk to OEM's.
The short blurb isn't very clear. Are they suggesting disallowing the sale of windows and computers together? I can't see them actually going whole hog and saying computers must be sold without an OS installed on them. That would be a huge step I doubt any politician is willing to go near.
The flickr thread referenced in the article has some pretty good info.
The CC seems to have a FAQ question on this issue. It sounds like Virgin was supposed to verify no matter what. It doesn't make clear though whether or not the photographer is supposed to get this sort of thing cleared up before putting it under CC though.
Seems like the picture was taken in a (restaurant?) parking lot where their group was giving car washes. Certainly in public but I wonder if it's in public enough for commercial use?
We keep hearing about all these great technologies that will whiz us around the solar system but none of them are going to be of much use. Anything remotely nuclear is probably not going to be allowed to opperate in atmosphere. The military might be allowed to make and man such vehicles but I doubt I'll be booking a trip to the moon on such a thing.
So as usual until we get some serious work put into cheap methods to get out of the gravity well nobody is going to have any real dreams fulfilled. Maybe some people think it's enough for scientists to get info out of it but even for someone very pro science like me that doesn't cut it at all. Not even close.
I would donate plenty of money to anyone who picks a sane tookit to develop a 3D MMORPG that *encourages* development (no python, no boost, no java, plain autotools, C, no c++, SDL+GL, gtk+, no wx). Bring it on.
Wait what? You started off good but then you said "no c++". The large majority of the game industry uses c++. I can understand arguments trying to say c is better or some such but certainly c++ is a "sane" choice.
Really now, I think you are missing a very valid, important point this whole plan causes... PARENTAL INVOLVEMENT
It's not parental involvement when the parents might have to lie to a sales clerk just to let their kid buy a game. That's the sales clerk imposing his views on the parents.
If he's unwilling to sell games to kids who are flunking out of school? I TOTALLY LOVE THAT STAND. Seriously, think about it. We have major issues these days with schools being fucked up. If kids aren't making the grade, we may love games, but just letting them play the games is not going to teach them to take school (and work) seriously.
What's the cutoff though? I agree if someone is flunking and in danger of being held back a year then they shouldn't be playing games. But what about people who are barely passing? Are you willing to go so far as to let society dictate to them a change in lifestyle? Do you even know if the school that person is going to is properly testing the student?
When so many questions are being asked about the institutions supplying those grades (in the US) the idea seems dangerous. A lot of those kids who are barely passing are the smart ones because they aren't buying into the bullshit daycare system they've been shoved into.
I think most likely a lot of commenter's didn't read the blog or missed the point. They don't seem to be discussing whether or not the game is good. They seem to be talking about how the setting was bad enough to turn them off. It's worth discussing because the game IS good. If a bad setting can turn off people from a game they normally would like then that's worth noting.
There is a natural limiter here: batteries are very heavy and a battery-powered (heavier-than-air) aircraft is unlikely to ever get close to this record. That is something that is unlikely to change before things change enough to make this sort of record meaningless anyways.
Why use batteries though? What about miniature flywheels and what not? Batteries would be the last type of energy storage I'd look at for this sort of application.
I wouldn't believe a word of it but you seem to be concentrating on the wrong parts. They are implying the rock can absorb radioactive isotopes which are excessively dangerous. Obviously the rock would then become radioactive but then they'd remove it from the water. They don't seem to be implying in anyway that the radioactivity will just disappear. Only that they can get it out of the water.
The real thing you should be dubious of is they aren't talking about which isotopes it absorbs nor do they even have any clue about how it works.
Have you even taken a look at Ubuntu lately? You never have to touch the command line, and you can install all applications from one single location in the OS, and it will even keep track of all updates for all programs you install.
I don't think he wanted to avoid the command line. I believe he was suggesting that avoiding the keyboard almost completely was the preferable solution.
I haven't used Ubuntu lately so I'd be curious to know how far it's progressed in this regard? Do you still on occasion have to open text files and edit them manually?
I'm not much of the sort to care about this thing usually but I have to question what the point is of sending a expensive cultural item flinging off into space is? Shouldn't the thing be in a museum or something somewhere? Or perhaps sell it and get the Astronauts some new cupholders?
The API may not depend on the underlying driver capabilities, but the implementation certainly does. MS would have had to support two completely different implementations to make it run on XP. That would have been expensive as well as difficult. It's understandable that they chose not to.
You are simply repeating what I said about the implementations. The costs are also questionable too. It may be understandable that they are using dirty tricks but there is certainly no reason to defend them for doing such. If they were doing things properly and trying to serve the developer community they would of done both for a while at least.
The good thing though is it may backfire at them to some degree. The developer community seems to be realizing quickly that MS has perhaps screwed up their profit potential significantly if they chose to support DX10. It might not help in the end if MS continues to bribe so many of them but we can hope.
And I think that you're probably wrong. What I think is that gamers haven't had a reason to upgrade to Vista from XP yet.
That's all very well and good but people with DX10 video cards should be finding themselves upgrading to Vista without choice in many cases. They should be building new computers and buying new ones. Many of them should of found themselves coerced through various means into upgrading to Vista no matter what they felt on the subject. That the numbers are such that they are indicates many of them avoided Vista on purpose.
Also whether or not Vista really has problems is immaterial. People believe it has problems and thus I suspect they are avoiding it due to this perception.
If it's not this perception then they are avoiding it for some other reason. Your assertion that they aren't avoiding it at all may be true but it clashes with these numbers. Not that these numbers really have good statistic merit but it's an observation worth noting is all.
There is a lot more going onin DX10 than games. The whole driver-OS interface was changed.
That is a logical fallacy. The driver-OS interface changing does not necessitate the need for an gaming hardware API to be tied to a particular OS.
The entire purpose of DirectX is to provide an abstraction layer ontop of the drivers in the first place. It's quite true that it might mean writing two versions of DX10 but the API does not depend on the changes Vista implemented.
Roughly 37k out of 61k Nvidia users on Steam have DX10 cards but can not utilize DX10 because they have not upgraded to Vista. So approximately 60% out of a group of people composed of people who are cutting edge sorts, buyers of new computers, or people who've done a recent computer upgrade have not yet upgraded to Vista.
None of this is proper statistics of course but as far as this sort of thing goes that's a pretty shocking number. I want to believe gamers are being smart but the realistic side of me though says the most likely reason is simply that Vista has a lot of problems for gamers right now and they are just waiting till driver issues resolve.
Thanks for the explanation on that. I've never considered not using shadow passwords, but I find myself curious about this. Usernames aren't security but considering this behavior is there a way to keep them secret while still allowing appropriate access to the usernames the program has a valid reason to see?
But if a trojan in Vista asks you to elevate its privilegies (due to UAC) to run administrative tasks such as installing itself in the system, and the user clicks yes, what should happen instead? This would be equivalent to a Linux user getting an email telling he needs to run some shady software under root privilegies, and the user saying "yes please, do that now".
I haven't used Vista but I was under the impression that UAC is really broken because it's constantly spamming you with stupid questions to the point that most people just turn it off?
That said, the growth rate for frequent users of video streaming sites was a whopping 123 percent, and that 'could pose a significant challenge to the gaming industry in capturing the online leisure time of Internet users,' Parks cautioned."
This comment makes me want to question the entire study. Sure everyone including grandma is watching youtube these days but it's not like people go there and watch 1 minute clips for hours and hours. It sounds like they ignored time spent on an activity completely.
I can't fathom how that would change the numbers but it seems like something they shouldn't of ignored.
Did I miss something? To be one of the fastest that would imply a quantum computer already exists? If that's true why isn't everyone going nuts that the man will be able to read our encrypted email soon?
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Your statement is of course true but it's a case of 12 hours vs 2 hours. A pressed 8.5gb DVD is extremely cheap and plenty large enough to store a single HD movie at a level of quality that will please even a large portion of enthusiasts.
The hardware to playback such levels of compression would be slightly more expensive but in general they wanted to change formats anyways on purpose.
Finding? Perhaps you should reread those studies. Your wording implies that having low social activity in your midlife period increases the risk factor of dementia.
1) Studies done to show correlation between social activity and dementia are done on the elderly not on midlife people.
2) The studies deal with social AND leisure(ie gardening/knitting) activities. Adding a quantifier like "low" and assuming that the social side is the significant one is just a wild ass guess on your part.
Suggesting someone of 30~40 years of age is increasing the risk factor of dementia by having low social activity and tossing in "low education" on top of that is utterly preposterous. I'm sure I'll get troll modded again for speaking the voice of reason against someone spouting the usual "live healthy" line but someone needs to say it. If you want to find a logical finding out of those studies I suggest you consider that what MIGHT be a risk factor is low mental activity later in life.
Honestly where do you people come up with this stuff? Low education and low SOCIAL activity? It's pretty clear from such a comment that you have no scientific backing to what you are saying. I hope to god you are not in a position where you give people actual medical advice. Giving false medical advice on slashdot is bad enough already.
The only real question about long term plutonium storage is how long it'll take us to cheaply throw it into the sun. That could indeed be a very long time but it's obviously going to be quite a bit faster than waiting for it to decay.
It's fine for taxpayers to bear the cost of cleaning up the environmental problems caused by coal burning plants though?
What? That's obviously not what they mean. The smaller OEMS are complaining that they can't compete on price. If it were simply a matter of "offering" something besides Windows they would do it. Probably they want MS to sell them Windows copies at a per copy price and they want every retailer to be forced to pay the same price.
Right now even if you buy a PC without windows chances are MS is still getting cash because that's the way they sell their OS in bulk to OEM's.
The short blurb isn't very clear. Are they suggesting disallowing the sale of windows and computers together? I can't see them actually going whole hog and saying computers must be sold without an OS installed on them. That would be a huge step I doubt any politician is willing to go near.
Well thank god for that. For a minute there I couldn't figure out who to get mad at.
1) Someone suing creators of $OS_LISCENSE
-or-
2) $CORPORATE_ENTITY exploiting random $VICTIMIZED_PERSON
Clearly we can go with 2 and blame everything else on laywers.
The flickr thread referenced in the article has some pretty good info.
The CC seems to have a FAQ question on this issue. It sounds like Virgin was supposed to verify no matter what. It doesn't make clear though whether or not the photographer is supposed to get this sort of thing cleared up before putting it under CC though.
Seems like the picture was taken in a (restaurant?) parking lot where their group was giving car washes. Certainly in public but I wonder if it's in public enough for commercial use?
We keep hearing about all these great technologies that will whiz us around the solar system but none of them are going to be of much use. Anything remotely nuclear is probably not going to be allowed to opperate in atmosphere. The military might be allowed to make and man such vehicles but I doubt I'll be booking a trip to the moon on such a thing.
So as usual until we get some serious work put into cheap methods to get out of the gravity well nobody is going to have any real dreams fulfilled. Maybe some people think it's enough for scientists to get info out of it but even for someone very pro science like me that doesn't cut it at all. Not even close.
Wait what? You started off good but then you said "no c++". The large majority of the game industry uses c++. I can understand arguments trying to say c is better or some such but certainly c++ is a "sane" choice.
It's not parental involvement when the parents might have to lie to a sales clerk just to let their kid buy a game. That's the sales clerk imposing his views on the parents.
What's the cutoff though? I agree if someone is flunking and in danger of being held back a year then they shouldn't be playing games. But what about people who are barely passing? Are you willing to go so far as to let society dictate to them a change in lifestyle? Do you even know if the school that person is going to is properly testing the student?
When so many questions are being asked about the institutions supplying those grades (in the US) the idea seems dangerous. A lot of those kids who are barely passing are the smart ones because they aren't buying into the bullshit daycare system they've been shoved into.
I think most likely a lot of commenter's didn't read the blog or missed the point. They don't seem to be discussing whether or not the game is good. They seem to be talking about how the setting was bad enough to turn them off. It's worth discussing because the game IS good. If a bad setting can turn off people from a game they normally would like then that's worth noting.
Why use batteries though? What about miniature flywheels and what not? Batteries would be the last type of energy storage I'd look at for this sort of application.
I wouldn't believe a word of it but you seem to be concentrating on the wrong parts. They are implying the rock can absorb radioactive isotopes which are excessively dangerous. Obviously the rock would then become radioactive but then they'd remove it from the water. They don't seem to be implying in anyway that the radioactivity will just disappear. Only that they can get it out of the water.
The real thing you should be dubious of is they aren't talking about which isotopes it absorbs nor do they even have any clue about how it works.
I don't think he wanted to avoid the command line. I believe he was suggesting that avoiding the keyboard almost completely was the preferable solution.
I haven't used Ubuntu lately so I'd be curious to know how far it's progressed in this regard? Do you still on occasion have to open text files and edit them manually?
I'm not much of the sort to care about this thing usually but I have to question what the point is of sending a expensive cultural item flinging off into space is? Shouldn't the thing be in a museum or something somewhere? Or perhaps sell it and get the Astronauts some new cupholders?
You are simply repeating what I said about the implementations. The costs are also questionable too. It may be understandable that they are using dirty tricks but there is certainly no reason to defend them for doing such. If they were doing things properly and trying to serve the developer community they would of done both for a while at least.
The good thing though is it may backfire at them to some degree. The developer community seems to be realizing quickly that MS has perhaps screwed up their profit potential significantly if they chose to support DX10. It might not help in the end if MS continues to bribe so many of them but we can hope.
That's all very well and good but people with DX10 video cards should be finding themselves upgrading to Vista without choice in many cases. They should be building new computers and buying new ones. Many of them should of found themselves coerced through various means into upgrading to Vista no matter what they felt on the subject. That the numbers are such that they are indicates many of them avoided Vista on purpose.
Also whether or not Vista really has problems is immaterial. People believe it has problems and thus I suspect they are avoiding it due to this perception.
If it's not this perception then they are avoiding it for some other reason. Your assertion that they aren't avoiding it at all may be true but it clashes with these numbers. Not that these numbers really have good statistic merit but it's an observation worth noting is all.
That is a logical fallacy. The driver-OS interface changing does not necessitate the need for an gaming hardware API to be tied to a particular OS.
The entire purpose of DirectX is to provide an abstraction layer ontop of the drivers in the first place. It's quite true that it might mean writing two versions of DX10 but the API does not depend on the changes Vista implemented.
This is the relevant part of the survey you need to look at:
So indeed the author of that Journal was correct: ~2% or 1 in 50 users can't use DX10. In other words the people "poking holes" need to learn to read.
Just looking at the Nvidia card numbers we can easily see the problem is most likely Vista and not the cards themselves.
Roughly 37k out of 61k Nvidia users on Steam have DX10 cards but can not utilize DX10 because they have not upgraded to Vista. So approximately 60% out of a group of people composed of people who are cutting edge sorts, buyers of new computers, or people who've done a recent computer upgrade have not yet upgraded to Vista.
None of this is proper statistics of course but as far as this sort of thing goes that's a pretty shocking number. I want to believe gamers are being smart but the realistic side of me though says the most likely reason is simply that Vista has a lot of problems for gamers right now and they are just waiting till driver issues resolve.
Thanks for the explanation on that. I've never considered not using shadow passwords, but I find myself curious about this. Usernames aren't security but considering this behavior is there a way to keep them secret while still allowing appropriate access to the usernames the program has a valid reason to see?
I haven't used Vista but I was under the impression that UAC is really broken because it's constantly spamming you with stupid questions to the point that most people just turn it off?
This comment makes me want to question the entire study. Sure everyone including grandma is watching youtube these days but it's not like people go there and watch 1 minute clips for hours and hours. It sounds like they ignored time spent on an activity completely.
I can't fathom how that would change the numbers but it seems like something they shouldn't of ignored.
Did I miss something? To be one of the fastest that would imply a quantum computer already exists? If that's true why isn't everyone going nuts that the man will be able to read our encrypted email soon?