You youngun's with your fancy microchips. I started out on an IBM 1620 using FORTRAN on punch cards. You'd load a huge deck of cards that was the first pass of the compiler, follow it with your program, it would punch an "intermediate deck" that you would reload after feeding in the second pass of the compiler. The result was a deck of machine code that you could then load and run anytime...provided you got the program right.
I was about 15, and was taking a night school class with my dad at the time.
You're falling into a trap set by the fundamentalist right if you use terms like "Darwinism". It's an attempt to frame the debate as evolution being the product of a single man's thoughts, and, as such, easier to discredit.
No one refers to gravitational theory as "Newtonism". Stick with "evolution".
This is somewhat misleading. A lot of "mainstream" Protestant denominations have no problem with evolution, and as you suggest, there are a relatively small number of fundamentalist denominations who explicitly teach Biblical literalism.
However, if you ask individuals, you get numbers like 42% of the population believe that species exist in their present form, i.e., they have not evolved over time.
Actually, the reaction to "The Last Temptation of Christ" was a bit more than just picketing. Martin Scorsese recieved death threats and theatres that scheduled the film recieved bomb threats. Granted, no actual bombings occurred, but that might have been from lack of know-how rather than anything.
Also, when Terrance McNally's play "Corpus Christi" was booked for the Manhattan Theatre club, threats on McNally's life and a plot to firebomb the theatre forced cancellation of the play.
The TFA contains no mention of Alexa at all. Does the submitter have information not disclosed or is it pure speculation that the government will use their platform as opposed to their own or some other commercial product?
Slightly off-topic question. Does vacuum pair production have anything to do with inflation? I've never understood what drives the rapid expansion right after the big bang.
It says "under certain conditions." That is, if I read the article correctly, they have equations which say if the micro-black hole decays in a certain way, it will mean there are more than 11 dimensions.
Of course, if it doesn't decay as they predict, then their test fails and they've proven nothing about string theory. And that's assuming their math is correct.
I wouldn't say I detest him for not resigning, but it certainly lowered my opinion of him. I'm sure his rationalization was the "Google defense", we can do more inside than outside, but in fact in his case it's demonstrably false.
Inside, he proved nearly ineffective ungainst the Rumsfield/Cheney "cabal". By resigning, he would have cast an extremely bright light on the shadowy claims of Bush & co, he would have staked out a clear place for Republicans who don't blindly follow the party line, and he would have been an extremely popular presidential candidate, should he have chosen to run,
Amen. If you look at your phone bill, you'll see a variety of charges that the carriers have gotten the government to allow them to charge. There's the Federal Access Charge, the Federal Universal Service Fund, and a number of others that vary from state to state (e.g., see Colorado).
The money from many of these fees goes directly to the phone company to "enable them" to build networks to outlying areas, improve their infrastructure, etc. These fees are basically taxes and as such we the people have been paying for their expansion.
Of course, regardless of how the legal issue is finally resolved, it's pretty sad that Bush lied about it until he was caught. Consider his comments in this speech.
Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order.
Now that it's out in the open, they claim it is legal. If they were so sure, why didn't they simply announce they were going to be doing it?
Perhaps you weren't aware that in addition to censoring the blog of a Chinese citizen, they also censored the blog of an American citizen who posted in Chinese on a Microsoft (American company) msn.com web site.
This is indeed a step forward. Good for Microsoft.
Of course, it doesn't help when those in power either don't know the Constitution or (more likely) simply lie about it. Here's an exchange between Gen. Michael Hayden and a reporter where Hayden claims the fourth amendment does not say there must be probably cause to issue a warrent, which is simply wrong.
Hayden is currently Deputy Director of National Intelligence and formerly the Director of the NSA.
It's a framework for running custom analyses. For example, you could write a piece of code that looks for items like "VP" or "Director" or "CEO" next to peoples' names and then tag those as "Corporate executives". Running several different sets of analyses on your text increases the semantic information. Ultimately, you can then search not just for text (a la Google) but also on these advanced semantics, e.g., find all Corporate executives that occur near "convicted".
You realize she said "maintain our market share," don't you. In a competitive market (think Ford, GM, Toyota), you don't maintain by giving up. You have to continue to innovate or you'll get creamed.
She'll probably catch flack inside Yahoo, but I think all she was saying is that search is not their #1 priority. Makes sense considering how many other things they're doing.
Please note, we are not simply talking about stuff happening in China. We're talking about what can happen to an American blogger, who posts on a web site run by an American company. If said blogger happens to post in Chinese, that blog may be censored by Microsoft. You want proof? Blogger:Rebecca McKinnon, Web site: MSN Spaces, Company: Microsoft
Also of note for those who follow intellectual property issues, when he invented the "Franklin stove," he refused the offered patent preferring that the design be available to anyone.
Granted iTunes is an application, but when you're just browsing the music store, most of what it does is rendering that any browser could do. Considering the AJAX services Google has created like GMail and auto-completion in search, I have no doubt they could significantly improve Google Video if they wanted to.
As to resources, iTunes seems to be more of a resource hog than Safari, but less than Firefox on the Mac, so I don't see anything to complain about there.
Sorry, the interface is bad. It's clunky, inelegant, and wastes bandwidth on images whether you want them or not or even whether they're useful or not.
Compare Google Video with iTunes (and "Beta" doesn't excuse them, beta is supposed to mean feature complete -- it's really more like Alpha). I can browse iTunes by search, from the main window (w/images), or from the "browse" facility, which gives me a nice, fast, information rich list of genre/subgenre/artist/album.
The iTunes experience was clearly "designed", Google Video was just thrown together.
Files have become too fundamental to reconsider. In fact, there are systems (I believe the IBM z/OS is one, not sure) that don't have file systems, they are instead database-oriented or stream-oriented.
[Unix] is based on the premise that people should interact with computers through a "command line." Unix is based on the idea that programs should do one thing well, and that it should be easy to wire them together to get the benefit of multiple tools. The fact that the implementations are command-line based is a function of technology. There's no reason a "visual shell" couldn't be substituted for bash/csh/etc.
The article seems to be written by someone who's very fond of hearing his own voice.
It's looks like the DRM wars are going to be the 00's version of the videotape format wars of the mid 70's. Google's bandwidth vs. Apple's hardware vs. Microsoft's monopoly power. Not sure what the consumer gets out of it, though.
China censors when it sets up the great firewall to deny access to big chunks of the net. When Microsoft takes down a blog (in an American.com domain, not a Chinese domain) they're doing the censoring.
Do you expect every US company doing business with China to remove words like "freedom" from all their sites?
You might want to learn how Google works. Punctuation and most non-text characters are discarded. That means your "win$hit" query is actually two words, "win" + "hit". Nothing to do with windows at all.
They do this with movies now. Every time I see a trailer where the band and/or songs are mentioned ("feature a soundtrack by the Bastard Cats"), a little check mark goes off in my head: Bad movie, do not see. It's an excellent indicator.
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You youngun's with your fancy microchips. I started out on an IBM 1620 using FORTRAN on punch cards. You'd load a huge deck of cards that was the first pass of the compiler, follow it with your program, it would punch an "intermediate deck" that you would reload after feeding in the second pass of the compiler. The result was a deck of machine code that you could then load and run anytime...provided you got the program right.
I was about 15, and was taking a night school class with my dad at the time.
You're falling into a trap set by the fundamentalist right if you use terms like "Darwinism". It's an attempt to frame the debate as evolution being the product of a single man's thoughts, and, as such, easier to discredit.
No one refers to gravitational theory as "Newtonism". Stick with "evolution".
This is somewhat misleading. A lot of "mainstream" Protestant denominations have no problem with evolution, and as you suggest, there are a relatively small number of fundamentalist denominations who explicitly teach Biblical literalism.
However, if you ask individuals, you get numbers like 42% of the population believe that species exist in their present form, i.e., they have not evolved over time.
Actually, the reaction to "The Last Temptation of Christ" was a bit more than just picketing. Martin Scorsese recieved death threats and theatres that scheduled the film recieved bomb threats. Granted, no actual bombings occurred, but that might have been from lack of know-how rather than anything.
Also, when Terrance McNally's play "Corpus Christi" was booked for the Manhattan Theatre club, threats on McNally's life and a plot to firebomb the theatre forced cancellation of the play.
The TFA contains no mention of Alexa at all. Does the submitter have information not disclosed or is it pure speculation that the government will use their platform as opposed to their own or some other commercial product?
Slightly off-topic question. Does vacuum pair production have anything to do with inflation? I've never understood what drives the rapid expansion right after the big bang.
It says "under certain conditions." That is, if I read the article correctly, they have equations which say if the micro-black hole decays in a certain way, it will mean there are more than 11 dimensions.
Of course, if it doesn't decay as they predict, then their test fails and they've proven nothing about string theory. And that's assuming their math is correct.
Power6 is a desktop/server chip. Laptops started outselling desktops last year. Intel is offering relatively fast, low power chips.
Ergo, the answer is no. Apple did not switch too soon.
I wouldn't say I detest him for not resigning, but it certainly lowered my opinion of him. I'm sure his rationalization was the "Google defense", we can do more inside than outside, but in fact in his case it's demonstrably false.
Inside, he proved nearly ineffective ungainst the Rumsfield/Cheney "cabal". By resigning, he would have cast an extremely bright light on the shadowy claims of Bush & co, he would have staked out a clear place for Republicans who don't blindly follow the party line, and he would have been an extremely popular presidential candidate, should he have chosen to run,
Amen. If you look at your phone bill, you'll see a variety of charges that the carriers have gotten the government to allow them to charge. There's the Federal Access Charge, the Federal Universal Service Fund, and a number of others that vary from state to state (e.g., see Colorado).
The money from many of these fees goes directly to the phone company to "enable them" to build networks to outlying areas, improve their infrastructure, etc. These fees are basically taxes and as such we the people have been paying for their expansion.
Of course, regardless of how the legal issue is finally resolved, it's pretty sad that Bush lied about it until he was caught. Consider his comments in this speech.
Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order.
Now that it's out in the open, they claim it is legal. If they were so sure, why didn't they simply announce they were going to be doing it?
Perhaps you weren't aware that in addition to censoring the blog of a Chinese citizen, they also censored the blog of an American citizen who posted in Chinese on a Microsoft (American company) msn.com web site.
This is indeed a step forward. Good for Microsoft.
Not only that, I misspelled warrant. Sheesh. No more early-AM pre-coffee posts for me.
Of course, it doesn't help when those in power either don't know the Constitution or (more likely) simply lie about it. Here's an exchange between Gen. Michael Hayden and a reporter where Hayden claims the fourth amendment does not say there must be probably cause to issue a warrent, which is simply wrong.
Hayden is currently Deputy Director of National Intelligence and formerly the Director of the NSA.
It's a framework for running custom analyses. For example, you could write a piece of code that looks for items like "VP" or "Director" or "CEO" next to peoples' names and then tag those as "Corporate executives". Running several different sets of analyses on your text increases the semantic information. Ultimately, you can then search not just for text (a la Google) but also on these advanced semantics, e.g., find all Corporate executives that occur near "convicted".
You realize she said "maintain our market share," don't you. In a competitive market (think Ford, GM, Toyota), you don't maintain by giving up. You have to continue to innovate or you'll get creamed.
She'll probably catch flack inside Yahoo, but I think all she was saying is that search is not their #1 priority. Makes sense considering how many other things they're doing.
Please note, we are not simply talking about stuff happening in China. We're talking about what can happen to an American blogger, who posts on a web site run by an American company. If said blogger happens to post in Chinese, that blog may be censored by Microsoft. You want proof? Blogger:Rebecca McKinnon, Web site: MSN Spaces, Company: Microsoft
Also of note for those who follow intellectual property issues, when he invented the "Franklin stove," he refused the offered patent preferring that the design be available to anyone.
Granted iTunes is an application, but when you're just browsing the music store, most of what it does is rendering that any browser could do. Considering the AJAX services Google has created like GMail and auto-completion in search, I have no doubt they could significantly improve Google Video if they wanted to.
As to resources, iTunes seems to be more of a resource hog than Safari, but less than Firefox on the Mac, so I don't see anything to complain about there.
Sorry, the interface is bad. It's clunky, inelegant, and wastes bandwidth on images whether you want them or not or even whether they're useful or not.
Compare Google Video with iTunes (and "Beta" doesn't excuse them, beta is supposed to mean feature complete -- it's really more like Alpha). I can browse iTunes by search, from the main window (w/images), or from the "browse" facility, which gives me a nice, fast, information rich list of genre/subgenre/artist/album.
The iTunes experience was clearly "designed", Google Video was just thrown together.
A couple of obvious technical ones:
Files have become too fundamental to reconsider.
In fact, there are systems (I believe the IBM z/OS is one, not sure) that don't have file systems, they are instead database-oriented or stream-oriented.
[Unix] is based on the premise that people should interact with computers through a "command line."
Unix is based on the idea that programs should do one thing well, and that it should be easy to wire them together to get the benefit of multiple tools. The fact that the implementations are command-line based is a function of technology. There's no reason a "visual shell" couldn't be substituted for bash/csh/etc.
The article seems to be written by someone who's very fond of hearing his own voice.
It's looks like the DRM wars are going to be the 00's version of the videotape format wars of the mid 70's. Google's bandwidth vs. Apple's hardware vs. Microsoft's monopoly power. Not sure what the consumer gets out of it, though.
China censors when it sets up the great firewall to deny access to big chunks of the net. When Microsoft takes down a blog (in an American .com domain, not a Chinese domain) they're doing the censoring.
Do you expect every US company doing business with China to remove words like "freedom" from all their sites?
You might want to learn how Google works. Punctuation and most non-text characters are discarded. That means your "win$hit" query is actually two words, "win" + "hit". Nothing to do with windows at all.
They do this with movies now. Every time I see a trailer where the band and/or songs are mentioned ("feature a soundtrack by the Bastard Cats"), a little check mark goes off in my head: Bad movie, do not see. It's an excellent indicator.