To be completely accurate, the software would have to run full benchmark tests on the system to properly estimate disk speed, memory access speeds, processing power (for different classes of operation), and network transfer rates (also being able to predict when lag will occur, or the online server is likely to go down.)
Once it has this info, then it needs to determine what other processes will be running and what resources they are likely to be using.
From this, the software can do some complex statistical analysis and determine that it will take 146 seconds, with a standard deviation of 8 seconds and start displaying a fuzzy, yet highly accurate peogress bar, but the user has sadly already terminated the process, wondering why the computer has been unresponsive for the last 10 minutes, whirring and clicking alarmingly...
Software 2.0 needs to have a progress bar on the progress bar estimation progress.
Microsoft introduced the Surface ostentatiously to show their 'partners' how it's done.
I would therefore have suggested judging Windows 8 based on how well it works on the Surface, except that I still haven't seen one.
It seems that they ran a very successful ad campaign which got people interested, but then only sold it from their own website, which is out-of-touch with how the average consumer buys laptops.
People want to try something new out before they buy it, and there is nowhere for them to try it out (that I'm aware of, at least in the UK), so it doesn't sell.
If the Surface was a success, but people were complaining about other Windows 8 machines, then Microsoft would have a ligitimate complaint, as things stand, they appear incompetent and whiny. My two cents.
Either the atoms are not repelled by gravity, just by the other atoms, apparently defying gravity or they are, in fact, repelled by positive Kelvin mass, but attracted to negative Kelven mass.
In the case of the latter, a cloud of -K atoms could be considered as a conventional entity which sees gravity wells as gravity hills of proportional magnitude. If these new dynamics are proven in subsequent experimentation, I'm not sure if GR holds, but if it doesn't that just means that natural phenomenon outside of its scope exists. Like quantum mechanics.
Criticising new theories which are inconsistent with old theories is important. Criticising reality which is inconsistent with old theories is madness.
Observtions during the experiment could point to new research on dark energy.
From TFA:
Another peculiarity of the sub-absolute-zero gas is that it mimics 'dark energy', the mysterious force that pushes the Universe to expand at an ever-faster rate against the inward pull of gravity. Schneider notes that the attractive atoms in the gas produced by the team also want to collapse inwards, but do not because the negative absolute temperature stabilises them. “It’s interesting that this weird feature pops up in the Universe and also in the lab,” he says. “This may be something that cosmologists should look at more closely.”
My reason for exploring Linux was originally to make an old, inherited, laptop usable. Gnome was too heavy, KDE was waaay too heavy. Didn't know what I was doing and xubuntu happened to be the first distro I was successful in installing and was capable of administering. I then experimented with other lightweight DEs and WMs, stopping longest on IceWM, Fluxbox and E17.
When I finally got a decent desktop PC, my priorities were stability and wide range of up-to-date packages. I felt like I was familiar enough with debian-based distros and wanted to try out the red-hat family. Fedora served me well, but I missed apt.
I eventually got sick of endlessly tweaking my UI, so more recently my priorities have shifted towards a pleasant out-of-the-box experience, hence mint.
I now prefer plain ubuntu over any 'enhanced' re-spins. It has plenty of out-of-the-box niceness (so I get on with my real work) and has an insane range of supported, community and commercial packages.
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Sorry, meant to be modded 'insightful'... posting to undo
iCod?
In some cases, DOSBox on linux is a better way of getting old software to run on new computers than XP-mode on 7.
It's less confusing once you realise that he/she hasn't read TFA, TFS, or any previous comments ;)
What about n?
Once it has this info, then it needs to determine what other processes will be running and what resources they are likely to be using.
From this, the software can do some complex statistical analysis and determine that it will take 146 seconds, with a standard deviation of 8 seconds and start displaying a fuzzy, yet highly accurate peogress bar, but the user has sadly already terminated the process, wondering why the computer has been unresponsive for the last 10 minutes, whirring and clicking alarmingly...
Software 2.0 needs to have a progress bar on the progress bar estimation progress.
By Apple. *ducks*
I would therefore have suggested judging Windows 8 based on how well it works on the Surface, except that I still haven't seen one.
It seems that they ran a very successful ad campaign which got people interested, but then only sold it from their own website, which is out-of-touch with how the average consumer buys laptops.
People want to try something new out before they buy it, and there is nowhere for them to try it out (that I'm aware of, at least in the UK), so it doesn't sell.
If the Surface was a success, but people were complaining about other Windows 8 machines, then Microsoft would have a ligitimate complaint, as things stand, they appear incompetent and whiny. My two cents.
You can either top up with credit which doesn't expire and has one of the lowest (if not the lowest) phone/text tarifs, or buy various 'goody bags'.
Coverage and quality is the same as O2.
Obligatory.
Indeed, the powers that be in the states seem to be obsessed with imprisoning their fellow citizens.
It seems as though they are trying to prevent fork's even at the the sdk level.
Sparking a fork at the SDK level.
Ah, bitter-sweet irony!
Either the atoms are not repelled by gravity, just by the other atoms, apparently defying gravity or they are, in fact, repelled by positive Kelvin mass, but attracted to negative Kelven mass.
In the case of the latter, a cloud of -K atoms could be considered as a conventional entity which sees gravity wells as gravity hills of proportional magnitude. If these new dynamics are proven in subsequent experimentation, I'm not sure if GR holds, but if it doesn't that just means that natural phenomenon outside of its scope exists. Like quantum mechanics.
Criticising new theories which are inconsistent with old theories is important. Criticising reality which is inconsistent with old theories is madness.
Is there a physicist in the house?
It implies that somebody (perhaps the submitter?) thought that the simulation is intended to be accurate.
As parent says - read TFA, it's meant to be a creative exercise.
Also read Kevin Gill's own explaination.
From TFA:
Another peculiarity of the sub-absolute-zero gas is that it mimics 'dark energy', the mysterious force that pushes the Universe to expand at an ever-faster rate against the inward pull of gravity. Schneider notes that the attractive atoms in the gas produced by the team also want to collapse inwards, but do not because the negative absolute temperature stabilises them. “It’s interesting that this weird feature pops up in the Universe and also in the lab,” he says. “This may be something that cosmologists should look at more closely.”
Maybe I'm nit-picking in finding this anachronistic, but this is a technology news site...
The card displayed in TFA has a 'chip', and is presumably comptable with chip and pin systems.
As far as I understand it, this is simply trying to integrate an authentication device into the card itself, not replace the current card system.
When I finally got a decent desktop PC, my priorities were stability and wide range of up-to-date packages. I felt like I was familiar enough with debian-based distros and wanted to try out the red-hat family. Fedora served me well, but I missed apt.
I eventually got sick of endlessly tweaking my UI, so more recently my priorities have shifted towards a pleasant out-of-the-box experience, hence mint.
I now prefer plain ubuntu over any 'enhanced' re-spins. It has plenty of out-of-the-box niceness (so I get on with my real work) and has an insane range of supported, community and commercial packages.
And I like unity. *ducks*
As far as I can tell, apart from the Adobe version of the small 'i' looking less attractive and their comma being more vertical, they are identical.
The ubuntu font was introduced last year.