LIGO is however by now already working according to design specifications (it took a while for them to get there, but they should be there now). I guess that's why this is making the news now. Yes, they could further improve its accuracy and probably will, but even now I would think there's something weird going on? Because surely the design specs were thought out by the scientists to actually cover detection of gravitational waves according to current theories?
The goal was to meet the purple line there, and what's weird to me now is that they just finished the S5 round with this outcome. Yes, they could go below it for further accuracy, but it would seem a bit like searching in the dark, not knowing what is going on...?
Hm, well I dunno... I read that thing as being written mostly tongue in cheek although he did seem to be looking for a girl on the geekier side who was interested in a dedicated relationship. But the rest seeming more like originality to stand out of the crowd. I don't think we should read too much into it, not that I'm a pro at analyzing these personal ads.
Yeah, they'd better Photoshop some lens flares here ASAP!:-p
Not all science looks "exciting", but can still learn scientists a lot. In this case, they're trying to see how the Mercuy geology formed. If you want flashier pictures, they've sent people to the Moon, rovers to Mars, and even a probe to Titan. That last one was more like disappointment to me. I thought it was unfortunate it couldn't carry a higher resolution camera, because the environment looked amazing with rivers and lakes of methane and all that! But I guess it was due to bandwidth constraints and having it survive for long enough to report back. But in this case... We all knew what Mercury would most likely look like. How is this a disappointment?
Agreed, that one gave me a good laugh as I read it.:-) I don't know *what* the author meant exactly, but it sounds like I'd prefer the "boring" code over the "interesting" Perl code in case I'm going to be the new maintainer of a software project.
Yes.. but.. (from what I understand) unlike.net and java, you will be able to compile binary versions of your applications for distribution Well, Parrot is actually much like the.NET VM. One reason Parrot was invented according to their own FAQ was because at the time, the.NET VM hadn't been released. Indeed, the.NET CLR now supports dynamically typed languages by making use of the Dynamic Language Runtime, like IronPython and IronRuby already use.
Compare the Parrot PIR and PASM intermediate languages to the.NET IL language. Basically, Parrot does a similar thing as the.NET Dynamic Language Runtime running on top of the Common Language Runtime (and yes, Parrot will support multiple languages like.NET too).
At the time when Parrot was started, there was basically only Java widespread for dynamic language support, but the Java VM did not support dynamic languages well.
So I'm not sure this is the revolution you're looking for. Here you have some example usages: http://www.parrotcode.org/examples/ There's nothing special about natively run code here in the sense you seem to be talking about. The point of the Parrot project is rather about uniting many languages behind a single bytecode that their interpreter can "compile" to a form that can be run by it, much like the concept of.NET. One can also check this out: Is it too late for Parrot VM? which pretty much repeat what I said.
Then their character wil be as dubious as humans and we won't trust them to be our overlords any more. ... and the robots won't care about that and what we feel about it. Eep!
Evolution is pretty much nature's way of letting all organisms loose to do whatever they wish with their intelligence and physiology, and see where that brings them.:-)
So it's a pretty ruthless design. For example, Britney Spears has had children.
Totally agreed, and as for the "European successs" talk in the article, I haven't seen many DVD recorders compared to HDD ones lately over here anyway. *shrug*
I don't think they care that much. Windows already supports hibernation, and if your hardware + drivers do as well and the BIOS is configured right, even their OS from 2003 can start up in less than 2 seconds on everyday hardware. Sure, it's not a "boot" up since you don't start from a reset state, but that's actually a disadvantage in many peoples eyes. I always hibernate my computer unless I for some reason need a full reboot, and there's rarely a problem. The few times I need to reboot completely (like once/month when MS use to push out security updates over Windows Update), I do that, but 1-2 minutes boot time every month or so is not the end of the world for a typical user, and certainly nothing I'd care to buy this product for, even if I'd mostly use Windows.
If your PC is off, and you want to check movie times on your way out the door, being able to rapidly boot into an environment with a web browser would be appealing.
For the type of user that leaves their PC off most of the time, the ability to accomplish a single task rapidly could be appealing. Have you tried the hibernation feature of Windows? Just remember to ensure the BIOS is set to the "Suspend to RAM (S3)" mode -- this was not the default for me, and necessary to make it fully power off. I understand that some users still have trouble with the feature on Windows as well as on Linux due to it sometimes being picky about the drivers being of high quality, but if that is in order, it has worked fairly reliably for me, and I think from what I've seen on Vista, actually even moreso.
"Boot" times from power off in 1-2 seconds without even needing e.g. a solid state drive. That's not too shabby.
To be fair, this is all unverified, so choose to believe at your own risk. From the article:
but that must have been when I was living at home with my parents He's making the claim that he's not living at home anymore, under the condition that he's a geek. From Geek Corollary #63, it follows that he's lying.
My thought too, it would be hilarious if they replied with 5,000 pages.:-)
Anyway, I don't see how they could have a case here.
The BBS law in Sweden has been considered setting a precedent in that online boards with infringing material isn't as long as it is just pointers to the material (torrent files in this case). TPB doesn't share any pirated material, not even their trackers do. That's the P2P part of the design; what's being shared is the business of the individuals.
They could perhaps be subject to contributory infringement though, but then again, aren't most services indexing torrent files either by design or not subject to that? Where do we draw the line? TPB doesn't prohibit uploading torrents for free material. And Google doesn't prohibit indexing warez related torrents. Sure, TPB is using a "warez friendly profile", but let's assume they after this would not, and use a more neutral one. Would they then be OK?
(please also note that the DMCA doesn't apply here)
Exactly, I remember mp3.com in its heyday before it was shut down and opened up again under a different owner.
The top chart music there was actually *good*, most of what I tried, from electronica to acoustic and world music. These did it mostly for fun and exposure, but didn't mind getting donations or selling a few albums from their respective artist pages.
I'm a strong believer in that the current system is simply not needed.
Actually, I'm starting to believe that people that write music primarly for the fun (maybe having another job besides for the income) are writing better music. It only makes sense to me, as writing music is about esthetics and inspiration. I think too much music today is driven out of the musicians for the wrong reasons.
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LIGO is however by now already working according to design specifications (it took a while for them to get there, but they should be there now). I guess that's why this is making the news now. Yes, they could further improve its accuracy and probably will, but even now I would think there's something weird going on? Because surely the design specs were thought out by the scientists to actually cover detection of gravitational waves according to current theories?
Here's a graph of what LIGO has been in terms of sensitivity over the years:
http://einstein.phys.uwm.edu/FinalS3Results/G060009-02.jpg
The goal was to meet the purple line there, and what's weird to me now is that they just finished the S5 round with this outcome. Yes, they could go below it for further accuracy, but it would seem a bit like searching in the dark, not knowing what is going on...?
Let me guess... You don't understand how free software can be big business.
Let me make a second guess... You don't understand why indie producers make a profit on sites where you can also download their music.
Tags like those have to be wonderful for people trying to implement their document format. ;-)
"Oh and to implement this tag properly, we need to know the history of all IE 6 flaws that developed over the history of the browser -- no big deal!"
I agreed, if MS had done this, the mob would already have gathered. :-p
Now it's more about "Thankfully a hack is already out. Move along folks, it was just another DRM decision by Apple."
Windows use much of its otherwise free memory for file caches.
This is why it expands a bit like your farts even if you run Windows on 2 GB RAM.
These caches can be released if need be. I personally don't mind free RAM coming to use like this, since free RAM is wasted RAM.
Hm, well I dunno... I read that thing as being written mostly tongue in cheek although he did seem to be looking for a girl on the geekier side who was interested in a dedicated relationship. But the rest seeming more like originality to stand out of the crowd. I don't think we should read too much into it, not that I'm a pro at analyzing these personal ads.
Yeah, they'd better Photoshop some lens flares here ASAP! :-p
Not all science looks "exciting", but can still learn scientists a lot. In this case, they're trying to see how the Mercuy geology formed. If you want flashier pictures, they've sent people to the Moon, rovers to Mars, and even a probe to Titan. That last one was more like disappointment to me. I thought it was unfortunate it couldn't carry a higher resolution camera, because the environment looked amazing with rivers and lakes of methane and all that! But I guess it was due to bandwidth constraints and having it survive for long enough to report back. But in this case... We all knew what Mercury would most likely look like. How is this a disappointment?
Agreed, that one gave me a good laugh as I read it. :-) I don't know *what* the author meant exactly, but it sounds like I'd prefer the "boring" code over the "interesting" Perl code in case I'm going to be the new maintainer of a software project.
Compare the Parrot PIR and PASM intermediate languages to the
At the time when Parrot was started, there was basically only Java widespread for dynamic language support, but the Java VM did not support dynamic languages well.
So I'm not sure this is the revolution you're looking for. Here you have some example usages: http://www.parrotcode.org/examples/ There's nothing special about natively run code here in the sense you seem to be talking about. The point of the Parrot project is rather about uniting many languages behind a single bytecode that their interpreter can "compile" to a form that can be run by it, much like the concept of
Evolution is pretty much nature's way of letting all organisms loose to do whatever they wish with their intelligence and physiology, and see where that brings them. :-)
So it's a pretty ruthless design. For example, Britney Spears has had children.
They could already have done this if they wanted to though.
.NET Reflector software)
(see also Lutz Roeder's popular
You're not supposed to use it orally like that!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic_electrostimulation
Totally agreed, and as for the "European successs" talk in the article, I haven't seen many DVD recorders compared to HDD ones lately over here anyway. *shrug*
I don't think they care that much. Windows already supports hibernation, and if your hardware + drivers do as well and the BIOS is configured right, even their OS from 2003 can start up in less than 2 seconds on everyday hardware. Sure, it's not a "boot" up since you don't start from a reset state, but that's actually a disadvantage in many peoples eyes. I always hibernate my computer unless I for some reason need a full reboot, and there's rarely a problem. The few times I need to reboot completely (like once/month when MS use to push out security updates over Windows Update), I do that, but 1-2 minutes boot time every month or so is not the end of the world for a typical user, and certainly nothing I'd care to buy this product for, even if I'd mostly use Windows.
For the type of user that leaves their PC off most of the time, the ability to accomplish a single task rapidly could be appealing. Have you tried the hibernation feature of Windows? Just remember to ensure the BIOS is set to the "Suspend to RAM (S3)" mode -- this was not the default for me, and necessary to make it fully power off. I understand that some users still have trouble with the feature on Windows as well as on Linux due to it sometimes being picky about the drivers being of high quality, but if that is in order, it has worked fairly reliably for me, and I think from what I've seen on Vista, actually even moreso.
"Boot" times from power off in 1-2 seconds without even needing e.g. a solid state drive. That's not too shabby.
From Geek Corollary #63, it follows that he's lying.
QED
Remove the last slash on all the links.
:-)
Yes, it was sloppy, but we all know that file extensions don't end with a slash, right..?
My thought too, it would be hilarious if they replied with 5,000 pages. :-)
Anyway, I don't see how they could have a case here.
The BBS law in Sweden has been considered setting a precedent in that online boards with infringing material isn't as long as it is just pointers to the material (torrent files in this case). TPB doesn't share any pirated material, not even their trackers do. That's the P2P part of the design; what's being shared is the business of the individuals.
They could perhaps be subject to contributory infringement though, but then again, aren't most services indexing torrent files either by design or not subject to that? Where do we draw the line? TPB doesn't prohibit uploading torrents for free material. And Google doesn't prohibit indexing warez related torrents. Sure, TPB is using a "warez friendly profile", but let's assume they after this would not, and use a more neutral one. Would they then be OK?
(please also note that the DMCA doesn't apply here)
Imagine if there's a fully operational star base there!
Or a giant erect penis crafted out of the rock itself?
The mind boggles!
Pfft, I've simulated several flights to stars with my fuel scoop in Elite to sell it on the markets.
Surely, it can't be much harder in real life?
Exactly, I remember mp3.com in its heyday before it was shut down and opened up again under a different owner.
The top chart music there was actually *good*, most of what I tried, from electronica to acoustic and world music. These did it mostly for fun and exposure, but didn't mind getting donations or selling a few albums from their respective artist pages.
I'm a strong believer in that the current system is simply not needed.
Actually, I'm starting to believe that people that write music primarly for the fun (maybe having another job besides for the income) are writing better music. It only makes sense to me, as writing music is about esthetics and inspiration. I think too much music today is driven out of the musicians for the wrong reasons.
Just imagine, in a few decades, people will desperately try to reproduce the "sound of low quality 128 kbps mp3's". ;-)
"Softer" percussion transients and all that!