take a cue from nasa: they supply all their deep space equipment (from probes to rovers) with portable heaters. best way to keep them working would be to insulate the box and stick a small thermal element inside on a thermostat. (it should only need to come on btw, when the box isn't running - computers heat themselves just fine otherwise;)
these type of high energy particle collisions are happening all around us all the time. (esp. as you get into the upper atmosphere, as they rain down on us from space) surely if they could produce black holes that could destroy the earth they would have done so already.
this machine will only reproduce these collisions in very controlled conditions, letting us learn from them.
btw, this is not a concern i've ever heard an actual physicist raise. all theories of micro black holes predict they burn themselves out as fast as they are created, as there is a critical mass needed for self-sustainment. i have doubts regarding the reliability of your "science" blog.
The big question shouldn't be "where is Firefox's percentage" but instead "how do we make Firefox more appealing to non-technical users?" Because it's clear that the technically savvy people have adopted Firefox but you'll never make it past 15% of the population with that attitude. I hate to say it, but introducing some functionality that Internet Explorer doesn't have might be the only way to accomplish that. And when you do that, you lose the stability and security that made it so popular in the first place. Solution? Perhaps a MySpace plug-in in light of recent news?:)
um...a few years ago 10% seemed like a dream and the naysayers were claiming we wouldn't get past 2%. and more than just "technically savvy" people have adopted firefox. i am shocked at the number of normal web+email users i see with the fox on their box.
and what's with "but introducing some functionality that Internet Explorer doesn't have might be the only way..."? have you ever used FF? it has a ton of functionality IE doesn't have!
dude, come on now! no CORBA "hello world" app has ever been written in under 21K lines of code. that's a massive intellectual property investment which no self-respecting manager would just give away for free! what are we, commies?:)
Imagine if the head of the Electoral Commission announced that he "was a fan" of a particular political movement, and was going to try to use his "bully pulpit" to promote it. That would be utterly intolerable.
you mean like the head of diebold did? oh wait, he wasn't the "official" head of the electoral commission...
if your language/setup of choice already has a repository browser, syntax highlighter and/or javadoc equiv., just link to them from the wiki. we use mediawiki at work, and link to the javadocs, CVSWeb, StatCVS, the Bugzilla report engine, etc.
(btw, editing your project's source code from a web form for anything but the most trivial projects is a dumb idea. this is why we have IDEs and version control systems)
Actually someone named George B. Selden (who had never built an automobile) held a patent on a "road engine". All American car manufacturers paid royalties to him until Henry Ford came along, who blatantly ignored it (and later got it overturned).
Learning a language or tech trend is not hard if one understands the underlying concepts: operating systems, OO code, various design patterns, protocols, etc.
technically i agree with you. but that's a huge "if". many programmers (or those who call themselves programmers and are employed as such) do not understand the basic data structures, design patterns, algorithmic complexity, memory allocation, etc, etc, etc.
i can't tell you how many hiring applicants i've weeded out because they couldn't give even the most basic description of a hash table during an interview. and only to watch them get an offer from someone else a week later. it's quite sad.
> The Earth doesn't have a particular prejudice against > plastic. Plastic came out of the earth.
ah yes. i remember sitting around the fire as a wee little lad, listening to my grand-pappy tell us about his days in the ol' west virginia plastic mines. tough work, that was.;)
> Multi-tasking operating system... nope last there
i would argue that apple was the last there. (i was an NT user long before i was an OSX user - strong linux user now however)
for the record, i think OSX is a great desktop OS, and they have pushed UI technology be leaps and bounds again with hardware accel. compositing, vector graphic support, all of the "core"s, etc. but they *were* dead last with true multi-tasking.
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take a cue from nasa: they supply all their deep space equipment (from probes to rovers) with portable heaters. best way to keep them working would be to insulate the box and stick a small thermal element inside on a thermostat. (it should only need to come on btw, when the box isn't running - computers heat themselves just fine otherwise ;)
these type of high energy particle collisions are happening all around us all the time. (esp. as you get into the upper atmosphere, as they rain down on us from space) surely if they could produce black holes that could destroy the earth they would have done so already.
this machine will only reproduce these collisions in very controlled conditions, letting us learn from them.
btw, this is not a concern i've ever heard an actual physicist raise. all theories of micro black holes predict they burn themselves out as fast as they are created, as there is a critical mass needed for self-sustainment. i have doubts regarding the reliability of your "science" blog.
The big question shouldn't be "where is Firefox's percentage" but instead "how do we make Firefox more appealing to non-technical users?" Because it's clear that the technically savvy people have adopted Firefox but you'll never make it past 15% of the population with that attitude. I hate to say it, but introducing some functionality that Internet Explorer doesn't have might be the only way to accomplish that. And when you do that, you lose the stability and security that made it so popular in the first place. Solution? Perhaps a MySpace plug-in in light of recent news? :)
um...a few years ago 10% seemed like a dream and the naysayers were claiming we wouldn't get past 2%. and more than just "technically savvy" people have adopted firefox. i am shocked at the number of normal web+email users i see with the fox on their box.
and what's with "but introducing some functionality that Internet Explorer doesn't have might be the only way..."? have you ever used FF? it has a ton of functionality IE doesn't have!
Is socialism a dirty word, automatically equated with communism or something?
in america? yep.
dude, come on now! no CORBA "hello world" app has ever been written in under 21K lines of code. that's a massive intellectual property investment which no self-respecting manager would just give away for free! what are we, commies? :)
Seriously... if Mr T was in charge of Microsoft, it would be profitable.
:)
are you under the impression that M$ is currently not profitable?
so you're going to hijack a lame ad with yet another lame ad? /god we have people like you here to protect us! :)
thank
would it have been too much to ask for for frickin' *links* to the common CAs listed? maybe even a price comparison if the author was feeling friskly?
odd that they would announce this the very day google announces the summer of code winners...
the nvidia 6600 AGP is the best (and likely last) option you're going to have in AGP. AGP is dead for new product development.
Imagine if the head of the Electoral Commission announced that he "was a fan" of a particular political movement, and was going to try to use his "bully pulpit" to promote it. That would be utterly intolerable.
you mean like the head of diebold did? oh wait, he wasn't the "official" head of the electoral commission...
simple! half of all 9-19 year olds are boys! ;)
actually, i coded such a beast using CGI back in 97.
;p
not the most secure thing in the world, mind you. but hey, i was in high school. what the frack did i know about security?
(blech, i'm gettin' old)
and making sure you properly null out dangling references in Java takes about as much.
:)
i always hate it when my references dangle. (so embarrassing.
it's a typo. he meant to say DNR, about linspire. :)
[DNR == Do Not Resuscitate]
if your language/setup of choice already has a repository browser, syntax highlighter and/or javadoc equiv., just link to them from the wiki. we use mediawiki at work, and link to the javadocs, CVSWeb, StatCVS, the Bugzilla report engine, etc.
(btw, editing your project's source code from a web form for anything but the most trivial projects is a dumb idea. this is why we have IDEs and version control systems)
the obvious question is, is this material DRMed? if not, is there any way to access other than through itunes? (for us poor linux users?)
oh wait, never mind. i'm an idiot. :-P
SOL ~= 300,000 km/s, not m/s.
210,000 m/s / 300,000,000 m/s = 0.07% the speed of light
(much more believable)
is that a typo in the article? are they really accelerating their propellant to 70% the speed of light?!?
hah. for the record, i don't disagree with you. this things are still dorky, even if they are the least dorky video goggles ever. but when i read:
/.ers were so good at predicting the success of THAT device." :-P
This isn't going to take off the way the iPod did.
i thought "yeah, because
heh. vr goggles. No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
Actually someone named George B. Selden (who had never built an automobile) held a patent on a "road engine". All American car manufacturers paid royalties to him until Henry Ford came along, who blatantly ignored it (and later got it overturned).
Patent trolls are nothing new to society.
green for read / red for write?
:-P
no no no, we need LEDs on the platter, so that we can spell out cool words as it spins.
(like that floating clock on thinkgeek!)
Learning a language or tech trend is not hard if one understands the underlying concepts: operating systems, OO code, various design patterns, protocols, etc.
technically i agree with you. but that's a huge "if". many programmers (or those who call themselves programmers and are employed as such) do not understand the basic data structures, design patterns, algorithmic complexity, memory allocation, etc, etc, etc.
i can't tell you how many hiring applicants i've weeded out because they couldn't give even the most basic description of a hash table during an interview. and only to watch them get an offer from someone else a week later. it's quite sad.
> The Earth doesn't have a particular prejudice against
;)
> plastic. Plastic came out of the earth.
ah yes. i remember sitting around the fire as a wee little lad, listening to my grand-pappy tell us about his days in the ol' west virginia plastic mines. tough work, that was.
> Multi-tasking operating system... nope last there
i would argue that apple was the last there. (i was an NT user long before i was an OSX user - strong linux user now however)
for the record, i think OSX is a great desktop OS, and they have pushed UI technology be leaps and bounds again with hardware accel. compositing, vector graphic support, all of the "core"s, etc. but they *were* dead last with true multi-tasking.