I don't think so -unless the atmosphere is much denser than earth's, thus able to scatter green and possibly yellow light to a comparable level. From http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/blue_sky.htm
When a stream of photons of all different colors comes into the atmosphere, the red, orange, yellow, and even green ones tend to get through unimpeded. But the photons that are more blue tend to get scattered away.
Reading through, the particular types of gasses don't really make a big difference. Its simply the fact blue light is more easily scattered by any small particle.
Yeah, its not like the image of the supermodel on the cover of that magazine was touched up. Or the images in newspapers and magazines have been altered....
Don't believe anything you see is a true representation. As Plato might say, you're only seeing the shadows.
I haven't done this for quite some time, so maybe my experience is dated, but...
Even if you have broadband, and the person you're downloading from has broadband, you're going to be lucky to sustain over 100 kb/s. From my experience, I'd be happy to be able to average over 50 kb/sec for even a fraction of the duration it takes to load one of these monsters.
Like I said though, I haven't tried this in a while and maybe I just never had the right "connections".
No more so than any MS OS. I guess I'm not understanding what you mean by "relies heavily on". Are you saying that there aren't other companies developing software for Apple? I don't see that at all. Might I suggest a quick browse through the Macintosh Products Guide at http://guide.apple.com/
I understand the point you're making (QT on Linux -good), but I just wanted to clear up one miscomception. The V-T Supercomputer runs Mac OS X, not Linux. IIRC they even state this in the video.
IMO parents don't want the system to raise their child, they (and non-parents alike) want the system to raise everyone else's child.
IOW, everyone thinks they'll do a better than average job teaching their kids about sex, but think some of their neighbors can't do such a good job, so we better have the school do it -just to be sure.
So the problem isn't parents not wanting to raise their children, its everyone else thinking they know what's best for everyone else's child. Go ahead and read through some of the posts here, and tell me most of the posters don't think "parents" are doing a lousy job, thus need their input and help to raise their own kids.
I don't think anyone needs more speed than the best 32 bit CPUs provide today.
I'd disagree with that. One example that is becoming more common because CPUs are getting faster is editing video on a home computer. I do it, and I know more and more people who are doing it. The home movie of today is being shot with a digital camera, edited on a computer, and burned to a DVD. The video encoding process still takes a long time (relatively speaking) and being able to preview and apply various effects can take even more time.
After a second reading, my brain registered, "though Sony's discs are protected from fingerprints, dust and scratches by square plastic cartridges when not in use," which seems to mean they are probably "physically" compatible as well.
CD, VCD, DVD, DVD-Audio, SACD, HD-DVD, and Blu-Ray
I doubt it, but maybe I'm reading too much between the lines. The Blu-Ray disks are only 0.1 mm thick, thus I'm assuming they will be encased in a cassette. That poses a real technical problem for a physical mechanism able to accept both types of disks.
I'm guessing the problem with making devices to work with both, is the same problem initially faced with the various DVD formats thus far -its simply way too expensive to do for several "generations" until the technology has matured and manufacturing prices have dropped. Plus, in this case, the media itself is vastly different. Sounds like one will be like the current media (CD, DVD), but the other will require a "cassette" something like the 3.5" floppies.
I was really hoping if they were going to go this far, they would have reduced the diameter too -like down to the 3.5" size.
I don't really have a big preference WRT caddy or no (smaller, simpler, cheaper without vs. protected with caddy), but I do have a big preference for a rewritable format. Personally, I want a format that alllows me to use disks like I do tapes with regard to recording shows, then recording over them when I'm done.
The only reason they found Hussein was because they had informants who told them where he was.
Assuming the WMD exist, its going to take someone telling us where to look in order to find them. Random searches are simply a long, looong shot (IMO).
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There's a long way to go to get there. Despite the headline, there is no sequencing going on. All you do with this kit is compare the size and number of chromosomes, as far as I can tell.
So if the letters on the page of a book are the "sequence", a book would be a gene, a library a chromosome, and all the branches of a library in a large city would be a genome. What this kit does is compare the number of libraries and their relative sizes in two or more big cities (say L.A. and N.Y.C.). It doesn't even come close to disclosing the contents of any given book (the genetic sequence).
But they aren't comparing any sequences. There not doing any actual sequencing at all, which is why they call it a "DNA Explorer", not a sequencer -its the article that gets that basic fact wrong. Based on what I read, seems like all they're doing is comparing the size and number of chromosomes. Cool, but not really a big deal.
With regard to not being able to erase bit of a tape, all I have to say is how much time can your TiVO store? Tapes are cheap, reusable and there's no limit to how many I can use. Once the TiVO's drive is full, then what?
Not saying I don't have TiVO envy, just that you're trading non-sequential access for a fixed size.
Jobs used one definition of "theft' that everybody understands, and we have the usual gaggle of postings about how its not stealing its copying.
Newsflash: in common usage of the term, its theft. The fact that some want to be pedantic about using a subset of definitions does not alter that fact.
Sorry for the ranting tone, but we all get it already -OK?
With P2P, the ease of moving files around the world using the internet, and the relative high quality of mp3s
You must not be downloading the same mp3s I've tried. I think Jobs pretty well covered it when he said, "you finally download a song, and four seconds are cut off, because it was encoded by a ten-year-old". That's what most of what I've seen on the net sounds like -it was encoded by a ten-year-old.
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I don't think so -unless the atmosphere is much denser than earth's, thus able to scatter green and possibly yellow light to a comparable level. From http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/blue_sky.htm
When a stream of photons of all different colors comes into the atmosphere, the red, orange, yellow, and even green ones tend to get through unimpeded. But the photons that are more blue tend to get scattered away.
Reading through, the particular types of gasses don't really make a big difference. Its simply the fact blue light is more easily scattered by any small particle.
Yeah, its not like the image of the supermodel on the cover of that magazine was touched up. Or the images in newspapers and magazines have been altered....
Don't believe anything you see is a true representation. As Plato might say, you're only seeing the shadows.
Some people just aren't very good at defensive driving. They need all the HP they can get.
I haven't done this for quite some time, so maybe my experience is dated, but...
Even if you have broadband, and the person you're downloading from has broadband, you're going to be lucky to sustain over 100 kb/s. From my experience, I'd be happy to be able to average over 50 kb/sec for even a fraction of the duration it takes to load one of these monsters.
Like I said though, I haven't tried this in a while and maybe I just never had the right "connections".
LOL.
Been hearing the same thing from the naysayers since Apple released the first Mac with its "Toy" interface.
Someday they'll realize the Typical Mac user actually picks the Mac for some very valid reasons.
Then again, after 20 years, maybe not.
No more so than any MS OS. I guess I'm not understanding what you mean by "relies heavily on". Are you saying that there aren't other companies developing software for Apple? I don't see that at all. Might I suggest a quick browse through the Macintosh Products Guide at http://guide.apple.com/
I understand the point you're making (QT on Linux -good), but I just wanted to clear up one miscomception. The V-T Supercomputer runs Mac OS X, not Linux. IIRC they even state this in the video.
IMO parents don't want the system to raise their child, they (and non-parents alike) want the system to raise everyone else's child.
IOW, everyone thinks they'll do a better than average job teaching their kids about sex, but think some of their neighbors can't do such a good job, so we better have the school do it -just to be sure.
So the problem isn't parents not wanting to raise their children, its everyone else thinking they know what's best for everyone else's child. Go ahead and read through some of the posts here, and tell me most of the posters don't think "parents" are doing a lousy job, thus need their input and help to raise their own kids.
I don't think anyone needs more speed than the best 32 bit CPUs provide today.
I'd disagree with that. One example that is becoming more common because CPUs are getting faster is editing video on a home computer. I do it, and I know more and more people who are doing it. The home movie of today is being shot with a digital camera, edited on a computer, and burned to a DVD. The video encoding process still takes a long time (relatively speaking) and being able to preview and apply various effects can take even more time.
After a second reading, my brain registered, "though Sony's discs are protected from fingerprints, dust and scratches by square plastic cartridges when not in use," which seems to mean they are probably "physically" compatible as well.
I was wrong in my "reading between the lines". Maybe if I'd read the actual lines more carefully I would have seen,
"though Sony's discs are protected from fingerprints, dust and scratches by square plastic cartridges when not in use"
So it sounds like they may be more compaticle than I thought.
CD, VCD, DVD, DVD-Audio, SACD, HD-DVD, and Blu-Ray
I doubt it, but maybe I'm reading too much between the lines. The Blu-Ray disks are only 0.1 mm thick, thus I'm assuming they will be encased in a cassette. That poses a real technical problem for a physical mechanism able to accept both types of disks.
Another "feature" was that you got to see the same trailer every time you watched the disk, weither or not you wanted to.
And 10 years afterwards you can still see those "Coming soon to video and DVD" previews for movies that nobody even remembers anymore.
I'm guessing the problem with making devices to work with both, is the same problem initially faced with the various DVD formats thus far -its simply way too expensive to do for several "generations" until the technology has matured and manufacturing prices have dropped. Plus, in this case, the media itself is vastly different. Sounds like one will be like the current media (CD, DVD), but the other will require a "cassette" something like the 3.5" floppies.
I was really hoping if they were going to go this far, they would have reduced the diameter too -like down to the 3.5" size.
I don't really have a big preference WRT caddy or no (smaller, simpler, cheaper without vs. protected with caddy), but I do have a big preference for a rewritable format. Personally, I want a format that alllows me to use disks like I do tapes with regard to recording shows, then recording over them when I'm done.
Actually, my understanding is that's exactly what they were told to do -disclose their claims.
0 21209 for the /. discussion on the topic.
See http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/12/05/2
The caveat is that they must disclose their claims to IBM, I don't know how much of that will actually be publicly available.
The question is, is it filling you with a hankering to run out and buy an iPod?
That's what its there for.
Mmm, but iTunes is mainly used to buy music online, not to play music
No, iTunes on the Mac has been the premier app for organizing and listening to music for waaaay longer than iTunes Music Store has existed. Still is.
I really should just leave this alone....
The only reason they found Hussein was because they had informants who told them where he was.
Assuming the WMD exist, its going to take someone telling us where to look in order to find them. Random searches are simply a long, looong shot (IMO).
There's a long way to go to get there. Despite the headline, there is no sequencing going on. All you do with this kit is compare the size and number of chromosomes, as far as I can tell.
So if the letters on the page of a book are the "sequence", a book would be a gene, a library a chromosome, and all the branches of a library in a large city would be a genome. What this kit does is compare the number of libraries and their relative sizes in two or more big cities (say L.A. and N.Y.C.). It doesn't even come close to disclosing the contents of any given book (the genetic sequence).
Hope that helps put it in perspective.
But they aren't comparing any sequences. There not doing any actual sequencing at all, which is why they call it a "DNA Explorer", not a sequencer -its the article that gets that basic fact wrong. Based on what I read, seems like all they're doing is comparing the size and number of chromosomes. Cool, but not really a big deal.
With regard to not being able to erase bit of a tape, all I have to say is how much time can your TiVO store? Tapes are cheap, reusable and there's no limit to how many I can use. Once the TiVO's drive is full, then what?
Not saying I don't have TiVO envy, just that you're trading non-sequential access for a fixed size.
That's exactly right.
Sheeesh!
Jobs used one definition of "theft' that everybody understands, and we have the usual gaggle of postings about how its not stealing its copying.
Newsflash: in common usage of the term, its theft. The fact that some want to be pedantic about using a subset of definitions does not alter that fact.
Sorry for the ranting tone, but we all get it already -OK?
With P2P, the ease of moving files around the world using the internet, and the relative high quality of mp3s
You must not be downloading the same mp3s I've tried. I think Jobs pretty well covered it when he said, "you finally download a song, and four seconds are cut off, because it was encoded by a ten-year-old". That's what most of what I've seen on the net sounds like -it was encoded by a ten-year-old.
You mean he wasn't talking about people who like Hobbits?