Considering how much the concept of "The Force" borrowed from Eastern Philosophy (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch'i)... at least in the first films... that's much less surprising then it could be.:)
Yoda: Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.
I'm curious though if the brain can be trained to pick up this information though.
Most people believe that their entire vision is in color, despite the fact that the cones detecting color are only in the center of the eye. The edges of our vision (the "corner" of our eye) only sees black and white. The brain fills in the detail so we think we see it all in color.
Likewise, if you can get the brain to NOT suppress the very rare photon events, then its possible that it could "save and correlate them" into what some people perceive as auras.
It would explain why some people innately see them (their brain happens to have wired that way), and why others can see them after Meditation and practice (to train the brain to unfilter things).
I'll admit I'm neither a Psychologist, a Biologist or Physicist, but to me at least its an interesting hypothesis.
Which is all fine and well if you are the one maintaining it, or selling it to someone who understands what they are getting.
To reverse the common Slashdot method of swapping cars and computers, its like comparing a stock MacPro to a custom built rig running OSX.
You can get near identical specs, and if you're the one using it, great.
-You know what you're getting into
-You have "bragging rights" of building it cheaper
-You may (or may not) have overlooked some detail that will bite you down the line
-You may be able to sell it to someone who knows what it is, but for probably less than a real MacPro (and the pool of potential buyers is less, excluding people looking to throw Linux/Windows on it)
It doesn't detract from the Hackintosh machine being cheaper than "do-it-yourself", but Joe Sixpack, if he wants an "Apple workstation" he is just going to get a MacPro and not try to build his own.
Likewise, if someone DOESN'T really work with cars much, or mod them, and wants a "Transformers car" he is probably going to just buy the package.
BTW, sounds like some fun work you've done to the Subaru. Anything that makes people do double-takes is usually a "good thing" (TM);)
We're a midsized business and until we upgrade our ERP system next year we can't migrate off IE6 so I can only imagine how bad it is for shops with tons of custom code. The version of our ECM system that we are currently testing supports IE7 and Firefox with only partial functionality, no IE8. That means we can upgrade to IE7 once we upgrade our ERP system but we will be on IE7 until mid 2012 at least since our systems are on a 3 year rotation.
Since IE7 is already getting EOL'ed as IE8 gets pushed out, is there any possibility of pushing to support FireFox instead? It seems to have quite a few things to recommend it over IE7 on the upgrade path:
- Available for more platforms (and older platforms), to decouple the Windows dependency from the Browser dependency. - Better standards compliance, so that if the system needs to be updated in the future, it can be done in a way that supports standards which opens up the platform to alternative browser choices (such as being able to access it via Safari or an iPhone for instance?)
...
I think the Google OS is part of the solution to Google's lack of traction in other markets....
It could make a nice bundle along with a local GoogleApps server for a Small/Medium Business.
- 1 GoogleApps Server w/licensing for 50 seats - buy 50 cheap thin clients running Google's Chrome OS for your workforce
Pay cheap yearly maintenance to make sure you have "the latest" version of Google's Apps, and you've significantly dropped the: - Hardware - Licensing (OS) parts of your IT budget (not to mention not needing to keep track of licensing for MS's... I mean the BSA's... Enforcers)
Edison used to say that Tesla's newfangled alternating current was dangerous, unstable and just plain dirty electricity. I guess that's why a hundred years later, we don't use it anymo- oh wait.
Absolutely!
Edison even went so far as building the worlds first Electric Chair (for use in executions), using AC current just to show the world how dangerous Tesla + Westinghouse's AC current was over DC. Good thing Tesla didn't invent the Stun Gun to show how dangerous DC current could be ("Why, Look at how harmful one of Edison's simple "harmless" batteries can be")
Cringley seems to feel that this is just a MAD scenario without realizing that:
1) Neither Google nor Microsoft has Nuclear weapons they can blow up the other one with.
2) Ubuntu on Netbooks was the point of the Wedge for getting Linux available as an option from mainstream Computer vendors (Heck DELL was offering it to Customers as a standard option!).
3) Google has a HUGE name recognition for "doing things that work" that might allow them to market Linux to some of the masses ("Hey, Google made it, so its probably good" or "I get my Mail, YouTube and Searching done through them let me try their OS"), MS on the other hand has HUGE name recognition for doing things that make consumers cringe (look at Vista Adoption rates).
If you remember your SATs, think:
Chrome OS : Linux:: OSX : BSD
If Google manages to put something together like that then they might just be able to eat both Apple AND MSs lunch.
Although this may seem a bit silly at first, the eventual uses for such a system could be wide-ranging and lead to novel and useful controllers for all sorts of systems and applications.
But this is SONY!!! Where is the unmitigated HATE in the summary?
I mean, I WANT to buy lots of shaped plastic and form for absurd $$$ from Nintendo. Doesn't everyone?
And besides, everyone knows that MS are the only ones to Innovate in the whole computer business. I mean, if it weren't for them we'd all be using abacuses... without even the helpful advice of Clippy!
Nope. You're unlikely to find interesting stuff there. The trading strategies mostly exist in the heads of traders, sometimes on their spreadsheets, sometimes in VB on their desktops, but rarely in the data centers. It's easy to think of these companies as monoliths, but it's not like that at all. Most of them have grown through acquisition. The systems of the acquired companies are only loosely integrated into core systems. And you'd be surprised how competitive and autonomous their traders are...each one tries to find his own advantage, and when he does, he's HIGHLY protective of it and unlikely to have the inclination or resources to put it into code.
There are some exceptions to this. For example, there are some large asset inventory databases with an occasionally interesting costing methodology that could be useful to just the right kind of person who is positioned just right to take advantage of that knowledge. But that's a highly speculative and unlikely possibility.
But the article isn't talking about the "traditional" trading system that involves real Traders. Its talking about the automated system that drives that system in the "micro-second"/"low latency"/"trendy term" trade arena.
Basically the trader says "buy X" the system then floods the markets buys and sells (all quickly cancelled) to create a sea of white noise in which the actual trade is going to be created, just so any other LL system watching can't just pounce and buy/sell itself until the price stabilizes a bit to take advantage of the actual order/sale, plus outside "viewers" can't as easily follow what the banks own system is doing.:/
Makes me think the systems are designed/programmed by people who read "The Art of War" and then played too many games of C&C before going to work one day "We must generate a Fog of War!")
Forget the prison sentence, I want to learn about the "plasma actuator that could help reduce drag on the wings of drones". (This is a tech site, remember?) So, how do these work?
We could tell you, but then we'd have to imprison you.
Are travel moves quite a few people around every year. As another poster points out, US yearly air travel numbers outstrip the number of returning servicemen from WWI, even if you assume everyone who fought survived and returned home (a nice thought but unrealistic).
The piece that may be missing is the close quarters that helped act as an incubator for the Fall version of H1N1 flu from 1918.
I was talking to a friend who used to work at N.I.H. who pointed out that college dormitories are filling the roll leading to a resurgence in a number of diseases already.
If college dorms, combined with air travel DO become the vector for a more virulent strain of H1N1, then keep an eye out for it to make headlines ~ either spring break, or ~thanksgiving/x-mas (as college students travel).
Check your tin foil hats available at the door though, this is only speculation until we actually see some data.:)
If you wanted to implement a file system on top of Windows, there's nothing to prevent you from doing so. It's not as if Windows uses AI to scan your code and displays an error message like "You are running a patent-free filesystem, application will close".
Running programs on an Ext2/Ext3 volume on Windows Vista
Currently it is not possible to start a program on Vista if UAC is enabled and the program's executable is stored on an Ex2/Ext3 volume. An "invalid parameter" message box appears, but the program does not start.
UAC is the feature of Vista that prompts the user to elevate the user privileges to administrator level when necessary. UAC is enabled by default. It is not recommended to disable it.
The problem is caused by Vista's internals: There is some code that compares whether the name of the file system type is one of the following: "NTFS", "FAT", "FAT32", "CDFS", "NPFS", "MSFS" or "UDF". If there is a match, it is one of Microsoft's file system types and a lot of code is skipped in the Multiple UNC Provider (MUP) implementation of Vista. If the file system type is a third-party type, for example "Ext2", some code runs in the MUP of Vista that always generates an ERROR_INVALID_PARAMETER error status code due to a bug of Vista.
I guess I no longer have to worry about the signs in Virginia which alert me that "Speed limits enforced by aircraft." I always figured they'd just hit you with a SAM and be done with it, though I can see how this might hurt the revenue angle.:-)
Nah, SAMs go the other way around. Besides they'd just damage the road, and then who'd fix it?
The airplanes are just there to alert the Land forces if you need a TOW.;)
So you were consuming 3500 calories a day in corn syrup? All that matters is calories in vs. calories out. The calorie source doesn't matter for weight gain unless you don't get the minimum requirements of a given macro nutrient. 30 lbs in 30 days just by cutting out corn syrup? I call BS.
I was thinking the same thing, but its also possible that by "not eating anything with corn syrup" the GP ended up being more aware of what they were eating, and eating more nutritious/healthy food that filling them up (more salad?) without the carbs of the crap they WERE eating.
I recently rebuilt my home NAS I used 4 1TB Western Digital drives for ~90$ each in a RAID6 config.
So, ~$400 for ~2TB (2000GB) or ~$0.20/GB.
Using that math, a 25GB allocation has a value of $5, which is pretty darn cheap. If you're finding movies at that price, then perhaps HD-DVD dying was the best thing to happen to the format since it was created, especially since Blu-ray movies are still in the $20-$60 range.
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Considering how much the concept of "The Force" borrowed from Eastern Philosophy (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch'i) ... at least in the first films ... that's much less surprising then it could be. :)
To quote the full quote: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080684/quotes
I'm curious though if the brain can be trained to pick up this information though.
Most people believe that their entire vision is in color, despite the fact that the cones detecting color are only in the center of the eye. The edges of our vision (the "corner" of our eye) only sees black and white. The brain fills in the detail so we think we see it all in color.
Likewise, if you can get the brain to NOT suppress the very rare photon events, then its possible that it could "save and correlate them" into what some people perceive as auras.
It would explain why some people innately see them (their brain happens to have wired that way), and why others can see them after Meditation and practice (to train the brain to unfilter things).
I'll admit I'm neither a Psychologist, a Biologist or Physicist, but to me at least its an interesting hypothesis.
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice, but in practice there is.
Which is all fine and well if you are the one maintaining it, or selling it to someone who understands what they are getting.
To reverse the common Slashdot method of swapping cars and computers, its like comparing a stock MacPro to a custom built rig running OSX.
You can get near identical specs, and if you're the one using it, great.
-You know what you're getting into
-You have "bragging rights" of building it cheaper
-You may (or may not) have overlooked some detail that will bite you down the line
-You may be able to sell it to someone who knows what it is, but for probably less than a real MacPro (and the pool of potential buyers is less, excluding people looking to throw Linux/Windows on it)
It doesn't detract from the Hackintosh machine being cheaper than "do-it-yourself", but Joe Sixpack, if he wants an "Apple workstation" he is just going to get a MacPro and not try to build his own.
Likewise, if someone DOESN'T really work with cars much, or mod them, and wants a "Transformers car" he is probably going to just buy the package.
BTW, sounds like some fun work you've done to the Subaru. Anything that makes people do double-takes is usually a "good thing" (TM) ;)
Since IE7 is already getting EOL'ed as IE8 gets pushed out, is there any possibility of pushing to support FireFox instead? It seems to have quite a few things to recommend it over IE7 on the upgrade path:
- Available for more platforms (and older platforms), to decouple the Windows dependency from the Browser dependency.
- Better standards compliance, so that if the system needs to be updated in the future, it can be done in a way that supports standards which opens up the platform to alternative browser choices (such as being able to access it via Safari or an iPhone for instance?)
It could make a nice bundle along with a local GoogleApps server for a Small/Medium Business.
- 1 GoogleApps Server w/licensing for 50 seats
- buy 50 cheap thin clients running Google's Chrome OS for your workforce
Pay cheap yearly maintenance to make sure you have "the latest" version of Google's Apps, and you've significantly dropped the: ... I mean the BSA's ... Enforcers)
- Hardware
- Licensing (OS)
parts of your IT budget (not to mention not needing to keep track of licensing for MS's
Well ... from a practical perspective, OSX86 is there (as evidenced by the rather vibrant OSX86 community).
From a legal perspective?
According to Psystar, they already have, according to Apple, they haven't.
YMMV.
Exactly.
People need to remember that:
This could be HUGE for Linux.
Just wait till they DeOrbit ISS in 2016. I think I know where the "miscalculated" orbit might end up.
I expect the headline "Small New Zealand town vaporized as a result of Kilometer-Mile error made computing the ISS re-entry trajectory."
Absolutely!
Edison even went so far as building the worlds first Electric Chair (for use in executions), using AC current just to show the world how dangerous Tesla + Westinghouse's AC current was over DC. Good thing Tesla didn't invent the Stun Gun to show how dangerous DC current could be ("Why, Look at how harmful one of Edison's simple "harmless" batteries can be")
Exactly.
Cringley seems to feel that this is just a MAD scenario without realizing that:
1) Neither Google nor Microsoft has Nuclear weapons they can blow up the other one with.
2) Ubuntu on Netbooks was the point of the Wedge for getting Linux available as an option from mainstream Computer vendors (Heck DELL was offering it to Customers as a standard option!).
3) Google has a HUGE name recognition for "doing things that work" that might allow them to market Linux to some of the masses ("Hey, Google made it, so its probably good" or "I get my Mail, YouTube and Searching done through them let me try their OS"), MS on the other hand has HUGE name recognition for doing things that make consumers cringe (look at Vista Adoption rates).
If you remember your SATs, think:
Chrome OS : Linux :: OSX : BSD
If Google manages to put something together like that then they might just be able to eat both Apple AND MSs lunch.
OSX86 FTW? ;)
Prof H Farnsworth: "The Jedis will feel that one for sure."
Old Ben: I feel a great disturbance in the Net. Its as if a million unpatched Windows machines cried out in pain, and then were silenced.
Homer Simpson: "Woohoo!"
I know a couple who'd love to conceive a child but he was diagnosed as impotent.
If this process can be perfected, and if they can harvest Adult Stem Cells from him, then this would allow them to conceive a child together.
Something that I know would make them both very happy.
No, 2012.
That's what the Mayan calender was actually counting to.
Allow me:
"GET OFF OUR LAN!
Darn kids with their Meta-This, and their Web X-dot-Oh that!
What's wrong with tables? And Notepad! THAT was the height of web development!
Been downhill every since!"
Better?
But this is SONY!!! Where is the unmitigated HATE in the summary?
I mean, I WANT to buy lots of shaped plastic and form for absurd $$$ from Nintendo. Doesn't everyone?
And besides, everyone knows that MS are the only ones to Innovate in the whole computer business. I mean, if it weren't for them we'd all be using abacuses ... without even the helpful advice of Clippy!
But the article isn't talking about the "traditional" trading system that involves real Traders. Its talking about the automated system that drives that system in the "micro-second"/"low latency"/"trendy term" trade arena.
Basically the trader says "buy X" the system then floods the markets buys and sells (all quickly cancelled) to create a sea of white noise in which the actual trade is going to be created, just so any other LL system watching can't just pounce and buy/sell itself until the price stabilizes a bit to take advantage of the actual order/sale, plus outside "viewers" can't as easily follow what the banks own system is doing. :/
Makes me think the systems are designed/programmed by people who read "The Art of War" and then played too many games of C&C before going to work one day "We must generate a Fog of War!")
We could tell you, but then we'd have to imprison you.
Are travel moves quite a few people around every year. As another poster points out, US yearly air travel numbers outstrip the number of returning servicemen from WWI, even if you assume everyone who fought survived and returned home (a nice thought but unrealistic).
The piece that may be missing is the close quarters that helped act as an incubator for the Fall version of H1N1 flu from 1918.
I was talking to a friend who used to work at N.I.H. who pointed out that college dormitories are filling the roll leading to a resurgence in a number of diseases already.
If college dorms, combined with air travel DO become the vector for a more virulent strain of H1N1, then keep an eye out for it to make headlines ~ either spring break, or ~thanksgiving/x-mas (as college students travel).
Check your tin foil hats available at the door though, this is only speculation until we actually see some data. :)
I find Kernel32.dll objectionable since it kept causing my user's machines to Blue-Screen.
I keep deleting it from their partitions, but then they just complain their machine stopped working and needs to be re-imaged.
Bunch of crybabies if you ask me.
Funny you should say that ...
From http://www.fs-driver.org/relnotes.html:
Nah, SAMs go the other way around. Besides they'd just damage the road, and then who'd fix it?
The airplanes are just there to alert the Land forces if you need a TOW. ;)
I was thinking the same thing, but its also possible that by "not eating anything with corn syrup" the GP ended up being more aware of what they were eating, and eating more nutritious/healthy food that filling them up (more salad?) without the carbs of the crap they WERE eating.
That was just my take on it though. :)
I recently rebuilt my home NAS I used 4 1TB Western Digital drives for ~90$ each in a RAID6 config.
So, ~$400 for ~2TB (2000GB) or ~$0.20/GB.
Using that math, a 25GB allocation has a value of $5, which is pretty darn cheap. If you're finding movies at that price, then perhaps HD-DVD dying was the best thing to happen to the format since it was created, especially since Blu-ray movies are still in the $20-$60 range.