This patch that was released - well, I installed it on my home machines today. It screwed up my OpenGL libraries. Considering it should have absolutely nothing to do with OpenGL, microsofts patches are making me EXTREMELY nervous.
Also, its not like this 15% drop happened to co-inside with a lot of north american holidays (Canada Day, Independence Day) where people are probably shutting down their computers and going camping.
When I'm talking to someone about the internet and they mention how annoying popups are, I mention mozilla. I mention the popup killing and the fact that I find it renders things slightly faster than IE. People want it, instantly.
Its not a matter of getting people to change - they will WANT to change if the product is worth it. Its simply a matter of getting the word out there. Build it, and they will come, once you tell them how the hell to get there.
Proxima Centauri (Or Alpha Centauri C) is a main sequence red dwarf star, quite dim. Most red dwarf stars go through phases where they exponentially increase their output - which may be where you got this 55Gev thing from. Though, I could be wrong.
As for planets - there is the possibility of a gas giant about the 80% the size of jupiter orbiting Proxima Centauri, but thats all we know. This is the closest star, at a mere 4.22 light years away. Alpha Centauri A and B are 4.36 light years, and are much more visible. I highly doubt we'll find anything excessively interesting, especially SETI wise, from something so close to us, and so previously studied.
Of course the general public is not going to understand terms like MegaHertz and Gigabytes. Especially when the very article saying they dont describes MegaHertz as a measurement of how many times a part of the processor, called the clock, ticks every millionth of a second.
Hell, even I wouldnt have defined megahertz that way. If you try and get the general public to understand computers literally, good luck. You need to simply educate them relationally. Tell them that the higher the number of MegaHertz, the more responcive the computer will be - it will act faster. If you're feeling brave, tell the its a measure of how many calculations the computer can do in a certain time period. Even that much might confuse them.
You cant teach people literals when it comes to computers. The average person doesnt need to know, nor care to know that USB is the Universal Serial Bus, which supports up to 128 devices with a maximum cable length of 5 meters. They just need to know that USB is a different way to plug things into your computer.
Thats because there are no "democracies" in the world anymore. If the US went to war with the brits, and the brits won, the US would be a Corrupt Republic or even an Ogliarchy. If the US won, the brits would be called an outdated monarchy.
Cheap laptops are far cheaper than high-end Palms capable of 802.11b, and you could buy two of those for the price of aforementioned Palm, and have them in each room or something like that.
Just as a note, you can pick up a Dell Axim X5 Windows CE PDA with 802.11b for about $450 CANADIAN ($300 American?). I wouldnt call that expensive at all.
I personally think that this is SCO trying to get IBM to buy them out. Trying Violently.
Think about it - SCO's buisness model is failing because of Linux and Open Source. Claiming 3 Billion Dollars in Damage is probably a good way to get IBM to buy them out - because why spend the money on fighting the lawsuit or paying a settlement - buy out SCO, problem goes away, and all that "incredibly valuble" unix code can be dumped into linux, where useful.
Believe me, its not too far off. I just got back a forbidden message from the webserver (im assuming its slashdotted), and after it ran through babelfish, this was the output.
Forbidden
You don't have by mission ton of ACCESS/mycpu-g.htm on this servers.
I agree completely. If someone can write an engaging fiction about adventures with AIX, I'll happily read it. In fact, I will personally give the author six months of my salary. Anyone who can write engaging fiction about AIX deserves it.
But honestly, I recently read Kim Stanley Robinsons' Mars Trilogy (Red Mars, Blue Mars, Green Mars). As a result, I feel like I know a fairly good chunk about current martian geography, theories on various teraforming techniques, and about as much on the most likely case of social development of a martian culture.
This is a load of crap. While I recognize the asian work ethic (I've seen it first hand), that means nothing when it comes to being 'both free and productive'.
I get far more work done when I dont have someone watching over my shoulder. I prefer task driven work, not hours. Give me a task, and I'll get it done. Just because I happen to do so on my own schedule does not mean that I'm a bad worker. At my last job, I'd come in at noon and play video games til two or three. Then I'd settle into work and get amazing amounts achieved. I'm not working as a bartender in a computer-based company environment (I work as a bartender as well). You dont need me to work on command, provided I achieve the results you desire by the time you desire it.
It's pseudo-philosophy, just like Contact is pseudo-scientific. Fine for the mainstream audience, but if you've studied the subject they're touching on it's just plain insulting.
Contact is NOT pseudo-scientific. Read the book. The movie does not contridict the book especially in scientific terms - the movie leaves things out. Need I remind you that Carl Sagan wrote the book, the only fiction he ever wrote?
Contact is, in my opinion, probably the most likely method of contact with other intelligent life that has been posed.
As a Canadian, I'm VERY impressed with the route the european nations are taking right now. The loosening of boarders, consolidation of monitary methods, trade and other issues are making the system they are building very forward-looking.
The only problems with the system are implementation disparities. To hold a single citizenship in a member country right now, and work anywhere within the european union. THAT is progress.
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and it seems to be a large amount of flamebait to me. Take a look at the "Quotable Quotes" Section. About half of them are from the Executive Director of this thing - Thomas Frey. Some of them are completely rediculous, and some are completely obvious. I'll hit one of each by Mr. Frey:
"The year is 2050, and you are standing in front of a vending machine. What form of payment will you put into it?"
This is stupid. Go to a gas station now. What form of payment will you put into the pump?
"Amnesia therapy will someday become widely used on individual's brains to erase select pieces of human memory that cause traumatic impairment."
I doubt this one. Even if we could, it would distroy the 'live and learn' and 'learn from mistakes' approach to life we have now.
My personal opinion is that we will see a world much more like Star Trek TNG. Seriously. Think about any one technology in that show that isnt entirely unfathomable. Transporters employ an area of quantum mechanics that we're currently looking at. Computers are almost already at the point where we can interact with them on the same level as the enterprises' main computer. Look at the tablet PCs' people are carrying around, now and on that show.
The future is all about quantum technology. Thats going to be the next major area of breakthroughs.
According to Wired, the Canadian Private Copying Collective, the music industry trade group, has proposed "new levies to be applied to any device that can store music, such as removable hard drives, recordable DVDs, Compact Flash memory cards and MP3 players." The aforementioned Canadian collective has yet to distribute to its members even one tax dollar of the tens of millions it inexplicably hoards.
Well, since the industry has proposed these new levies, and they havent been implemented, it makes a fair bit of sense that nobody's recieved money from it yet.
And thats still usefull, a space elevator isn't going to get us to the Mars without some other propulsion.
Sure it will. If they build the one that is 100,000km long. The idea is that by the time you get to the end, you have sufficient escape velocity to leave earths' gravity behind. Then the only problem is stopping - which could be done with areobreaking (skip the ship over the atmosphere of mars, using the drag to slow you down into an orbit.) The only propulsion you would need would be a few small thruster-type things to make minor course ajustments. Provided you have a smart enough physicist to tell you down to the minute when to leave.
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This patch that was released - well, I installed it on my home machines today. It screwed up my OpenGL libraries. Considering it should have absolutely nothing to do with OpenGL, microsofts patches are making me EXTREMELY nervous.
Also, its not like this 15% drop happened to co-inside with a lot of north american holidays (Canada Day, Independence Day) where people are probably shutting down their computers and going camping.
This is true. BUT!
When I'm talking to someone about the internet and they mention how annoying popups are, I mention mozilla. I mention the popup killing and the fact that I find it renders things slightly faster than IE. People want it, instantly.
Its not a matter of getting people to change - they will WANT to change if the product is worth it. Its simply a matter of getting the word out there. Build it, and they will come, once you tell them how the hell to get there.
Regarding this whole Proxima Centauri issue...
Proxima Centauri (Or Alpha Centauri C) is a main sequence red dwarf star, quite dim. Most red dwarf stars go through phases where they exponentially increase their output - which may be where you got this 55Gev thing from. Though, I could be wrong.
As for planets - there is the possibility of a gas giant about the 80% the size of jupiter orbiting Proxima Centauri, but thats all we know. This is the closest star, at a mere 4.22 light years away. Alpha Centauri A and B are 4.36 light years, and are much more visible. I highly doubt we'll find anything excessively interesting, especially SETI wise, from something so close to us, and so previously studied.
Source: http://www.solstation.com/stars/alp-cent3.htm
Oddly enough, someone telling me that i am 'the suck' might not nessecarily be bad.
Hell, even I wouldnt have defined megahertz that way. If you try and get the general public to understand computers literally, good luck. You need to simply educate them relationally. Tell them that the higher the number of MegaHertz, the more responcive the computer will be - it will act faster. If you're feeling brave, tell the its a measure of how many calculations the computer can do in a certain time period. Even that much might confuse them.
You cant teach people literals when it comes to computers. The average person doesnt need to know, nor care to know that USB is the Universal Serial Bus, which supports up to 128 devices with a maximum cable length of 5 meters. They just need to know that USB is a different way to plug things into your computer.
I think the rest of you will be bothered that it didnt happen when an asteroid any more than a few dozen meters smashes into the earth.
Thats because there are no "democracies" in the world anymore. If the US went to war with the brits, and the brits won, the US would be a Corrupt Republic or even an Ogliarchy. If the US won, the brits would be called an outdated monarchy.
I was accually expecting to open the statement to see nicely centered black-on-white text stating "HAHAHAHA".
Cheap laptops are far cheaper than high-end Palms capable of 802.11b, and you could buy two of those for the price of aforementioned Palm, and have them in each room or something like that.
Just as a note, you can pick up a Dell Axim X5 Windows CE PDA with 802.11b for about $450 CANADIAN ($300 American?). I wouldnt call that expensive at all.
I personally think that this is SCO trying to get IBM to buy them out. Trying Violently.
Think about it - SCO's buisness model is failing because of Linux and Open Source. Claiming 3 Billion Dollars in Damage is probably a good way to get IBM to buy them out - because why spend the money on fighting the lawsuit or paying a settlement - buy out SCO, problem goes away, and all that "incredibly valuble" unix code can be dumped into linux, where useful.
My Theory...
I agree completely. If someone can write an engaging fiction about adventures with AIX, I'll happily read it. In fact, I will personally give the author six months of my salary. Anyone who can write engaging fiction about AIX deserves it.
But honestly, I recently read Kim Stanley Robinsons' Mars Trilogy (Red Mars, Blue Mars, Green Mars). As a result, I feel like I know a fairly good chunk about current martian geography, theories on various teraforming techniques, and about as much on the most likely case of social development of a martian culture.
Dont sign the non-compete agreement. I've never had an employment offer widthdrawn because of it.
This is a load of crap. While I recognize the asian work ethic (I've seen it first hand), that means nothing when it comes to being 'both free and productive'.
I get far more work done when I dont have someone watching over my shoulder. I prefer task driven work, not hours. Give me a task, and I'll get it done. Just because I happen to do so on my own schedule does not mean that I'm a bad worker. At my last job, I'd come in at noon and play video games til two or three. Then I'd settle into work and get amazing amounts achieved. I'm not working as a bartender in a computer-based company environment (I work as a bartender as well). You dont need me to work on command, provided I achieve the results you desire by the time you desire it.
You were a gymnastic jew thief?
OT, but...
It's pseudo-philosophy, just like Contact is pseudo-scientific. Fine for the mainstream audience, but if you've studied the subject they're touching on it's just plain insulting.
Contact is NOT pseudo-scientific. Read the book. The movie does not contridict the book especially in scientific terms - the movie leaves things out. Need I remind you that Carl Sagan wrote the book, the only fiction he ever wrote?
Contact is, in my opinion, probably the most likely method of contact with other intelligent life that has been posed.
i already cried.
just last week I lost my 70 gigs worth of anime, music, movies and trailers, and such things.
BACK UP YOUR STUFF.
ding ding ding ding!
As a Canadian, I'm VERY impressed with the route the european nations are taking right now. The loosening of boarders, consolidation of monitary methods, trade and other issues are making the system they are building very forward-looking.
The only problems with the system are implementation disparities. To hold a single citizenship in a member country right now, and work anywhere within the european union. THAT is progress.
It was you, wasnt it. Dont try and deny it!
My personal opinion is that we will see a world much more like Star Trek TNG. Seriously. Think about any one technology in that show that isnt entirely unfathomable. Transporters employ an area of quantum mechanics that we're currently looking at. Computers are almost already at the point where we can interact with them on the same level as the enterprises' main computer. Look at the tablet PCs' people are carrying around, now and on that show.
The future is all about quantum technology. Thats going to be the next major area of breakthroughs.
i think i'll have to take apple off my preffered vendors list.
The aforementioned Canadian collective has yet to distribute to its members even one tax dollar of the tens of millions it inexplicably hoards.
Well, since the industry has proposed these new levies, and they havent been implemented, it makes a fair bit of sense that nobody's recieved money from it yet.
And thats still usefull, a space elevator isn't going to get us to the Mars without some other propulsion.
Sure it will. If they build the one that is 100,000km long. The idea is that by the time you get to the end, you have sufficient escape velocity to leave earths' gravity behind. Then the only problem is stopping - which could be done with areobreaking (skip the ship over the atmosphere of mars, using the drag to slow you down into an orbit.) The only propulsion you would need would be a few small thruster-type things to make minor course ajustments. Provided you have a smart enough physicist to tell you down to the minute when to leave.
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fuckin' a. im in.