Re:I suppose I have to start building...
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Linux 3.3 Released
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It seems pretty clear stuff is not just being shoved in willy-nilly for android. There have been many debates about including this piece or that piece, and if the implementation should be identical to the android version. Many parts are not in yet, and some may not go in at all. The android suspending solution may not ever go in, mainline may eventually get a system that serves the same purpose in a different way, android may eventually support that. LWN and the LKML posts they link to give a pretty good overview short of reading all the code commits.
You would probably notice a Neanderthal on the street, at least at second glance if not first. And currently the theory is that they did not have language, though why is less clear. As far as interbreeding, current balance of evidence is that we did.
Depends on what you mean. You listed species that co-existed with Homo sapiens, if that is what you mean, there could be a few more to find. If you mean something broader, like Hominina (modern humans and extinct relatives), there is a large number already known, and lots more to come.
Everything is related, it is a question of how closely. Seems some taxonomies put them near the hagfish class and the lamprey class, however a 2010 paper argues they are not Vertebrata at all, or even Craniata.
Wikipedia says "Single sign-on (SSO) is a property of access control of multiple related, but independent software systems". I would argue that disqus is not SSO, it is only one software system.
>As for phones - it is more likely that a phone will support h.264 decoding in hardware than WebM. WebM will probably be decoded in software greatly reducing the battery life (assuming the CPU is fast enough to decode the video in the first place).
It is true that it is more likely. But don't think it is not happening at all. At least the Tegra 2/3, TI OMAP4 (and upcoming 5), Rockchip RK29xx and ZiiLABS ZMS-20 currently support HW decoding of VP8 (and encoding in at least some cases). In February, Google released the 5th version of its royalty-free hardware designs for encoding and decoding.
Indeed. I am disappointed, but not surprised a bit.
Those cowards at MoCo wouldn't know right from wrong if it walked up and slapped them in the face, and it has been that way for quite some time. Not to mention horrible UI ideas... if there are any sane people left there, they have been powerless for some time.
Re:That's why I like the basic Kindle
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The eBook Backlash
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Hey, another Kobo owner! I love mine, most of my library will be migrating as fast (or rather, slow) as my wallet can handle. Certainly most new stuff will be there.
>Do not run or lift weights, it is too stressful on your body Nonsense. Humans are highly evolved for running. And for heavy physical activity in general, if not exactly weight lifting.
Blind spot mirrors are better. Adjusting the mirror out loses your frame of reference. Which you can get used to, but why? Just spend a couple bucks on stick-on mirrors.
Don't show it to the masses, show it to computer engineers, who will be properly impressed. And if you bring along even the barest electrical specs of usb, they could easily whomp up a charger at least
>We're still using the same hardware and architecture as 1995.
Yes and no. Sure things are broadly the same. And we still use a lot of x86 CPUs. But while many smaller archs died out (or at least became even smaller) (MIPS, Alpha, PowerPC, etc), there has been one big success story: ARM. And besides the internal architecture difference, ARM SoC system architecture is very, very different from anything in "IBM compatible x86" land.
And while we may be using x86, someone from 95 would barely recognize it. The Pentium Pro didn't come out until November 95, and 686 was very different from 586, not to mention 486. More modern x86 ISAs hide something rather more RISC-like. Not to mention the modern vector instructions, x86-64, and multicore everywhere.
And of course we are the far side of the integrated/discrete swing, with GPUs (which didn't even exist in 95), video decoders/encoders, cryptography accelerators, memory controllers, system bus controllers and more on one chip, even one die. And that is standard x86, not even a SoC!
Slashdot Mirror
The big regression was fixed this release, I do believe.
ah, yes: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA2OTY
It seems pretty clear stuff is not just being shoved in willy-nilly for android. There have been many debates about including this piece or that piece, and if the implementation should be identical to the android version. Many parts are not in yet, and some may not go in at all. The android suspending solution may not ever go in, mainline may eventually get a system that serves the same purpose in a different way, android may eventually support that. LWN and the LKML posts they link to give a pretty good overview short of reading all the code commits.
>There's little evidence to support it, just as there's little evidence to support any alternative theory
Exactly.
And I didn't say that OP was unreasonable.
You would probably notice a Neanderthal on the street, at least at second glance if not first. And currently the theory is that they did not have language, though why is less clear. As far as interbreeding, current balance of evidence is that we did.
>how many more are there
Depends on what you mean. You listed species that co-existed with Homo sapiens, if that is what you mean, there could be a few more to find. If you mean something broader, like Hominina (modern humans and extinct relatives), there is a large number already known, and lots more to come.
There are nearly 200 different definitions of "species", take your pick.
Everything is related, it is a question of how closely. Seems some taxonomies put them near the hagfish class and the lamprey class, however a 2010 paper argues they are not Vertebrata at all, or even Craniata.
There is no particular reason to think the Triassic-Jurassic extinction was caused by an impact event.
Wikipedia says "Single sign-on (SSO) is a property of access control of multiple related, but independent software systems". I would argue that disqus is not SSO, it is only one software system.
>As for phones - it is more likely that a phone will support h.264 decoding in hardware than WebM. WebM will probably be decoded in software greatly reducing the battery life (assuming the CPU is fast enough to decode the video in the first place).
It is true that it is more likely. But don't think it is not happening at all. At least the Tegra 2/3, TI OMAP4 (and upcoming 5), Rockchip RK29xx and ZiiLABS ZMS-20 currently support HW decoding of VP8 (and encoding in at least some cases). In February, Google released the 5th version of its royalty-free hardware designs for encoding and decoding.
>Let VDPAU/VA-API/whatever deal with it.
Those are acceleration APIs, not media codecs or media frameworks
Phoenix was and is bad, compared to the real incarnation of Mozilla, currently named SeaMonkey
>personally could not care less what format a video on the internet is
That is because you lack insight
Indeed. I am disappointed, but not surprised a bit.
Those cowards at MoCo wouldn't know right from wrong if it walked up and slapped them in the face, and it has been that way for quite some time. Not to mention horrible UI ideas... if there are any sane people left there, they have been powerless for some time.
Disqus is a horrible piece of software, and takes completely the wrong approach of putting all the comments on one site.
Correct, methylation stops gene expression. Mod Parent up, grandparent down
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/04/070421211622.htm
Provide some damn sources, hopefully
Hey, another Kobo owner! I love mine, most of my library will be migrating as fast (or rather, slow) as my wallet can handle. Certainly most new stuff will be there.
The SeaMonkey "Modern" theme is the only way a browser should look.
>Do not run or lift weights, it is too stressful on your body
Nonsense. Humans are highly evolved for running. And for heavy physical activity in general, if not exactly weight lifting.
Blind spot mirrors are better. Adjusting the mirror out loses your frame of reference. Which you can get used to, but why? Just spend a couple bucks on stick-on mirrors.
Worked for me. Maybe the NoScript?
>Word
Well there's your problem!
Don't show it to the masses, show it to computer engineers, who will be properly impressed. And if you bring along even the barest electrical specs of usb, they could easily whomp up a charger at least
>We're still using the same hardware and architecture as 1995.
Yes and no. Sure things are broadly the same. And we still use a lot of x86 CPUs. But while many smaller archs died out (or at least became even smaller) (MIPS, Alpha, PowerPC, etc), there has been one big success story: ARM. And besides the internal architecture difference, ARM SoC system architecture is very, very different from anything in "IBM compatible x86" land.
And while we may be using x86, someone from 95 would barely recognize it. The Pentium Pro didn't come out until November 95, and 686 was very different from 586, not to mention 486. More modern x86 ISAs hide something rather more RISC-like. Not to mention the modern vector instructions, x86-64, and multicore everywhere.
And of course we are the far side of the integrated/discrete swing, with GPUs (which didn't even exist in 95), video decoders/encoders, cryptography accelerators, memory controllers, system bus controllers and more on one chip, even one die. And that is standard x86, not even a SoC!