Patrons come and go, but there is very little opportunity to establish relationships with people or groups of people.
Dude, have you seen some of the people that mill around libraries? Homeless kickers, pseudo-orphans, and just the garden-variety weirdos that talk to themselves? If I want community I'll go to my local arcade.
As organized, the spectrum, which is a limited resource, simply can't accommodate everyone...
There are several wireless companies operating in the 800 megahertz band...
How finely split can the spectrum be before there's danger of overlap? Is it possible for, say, one phone to send signals at 800.0001 MHz while another does so at 800.0002 MHz? Where is the precision cutoff for neighboring frequencies before things start to interfere?
The most common e-mail I get sent is from concerned fans who have just found out that they have bought some pirate goods off a seller who claimed what they were selling was legitimate.
I knew that Rei blow-up doll couldn't be a licensed product...
You may view your thinking within Lightwave as free, but only as far as Lightwave will allow you to go.
It's a good thing I know how to use Maya and 3D Studio Max, then.
So now your used to the Lightwave program, price goes up, what do you do? Go find another proprietary software package or pay up?
I may switch, I may buy the newest version. Depends on what the exact circumstances are, but get this -- neither option is revolting to me.
This may be difficult to understand, but I have no desire to code my own graphics or mathematics site of applications. Nor do I wish to spend time manually adding features to what I already use. With respect to such programs, I am an end user; I am willing to learn the most popular software tools in my field -- there are several different non-free programs out there that I can learn and develop a wide range of skills with. And guess what? They're actually good enough for their intended purpose.
When was the last time you heard someone complaining about Maya's or Mathcad's lack of features? Or them hindering productivity? You don't hear such complaints because the programs, while proprietary and non-free, are (1) fantastic at what they do and (2) if one weren't to someone's taste, there are plenty of other choices. Don't like Mathcad? Try Maple, Mathematica, MATLAB. You'll have to pay, but there's a reason those programs are priced as they are -- they work well, they took effort, and they're the best.
Frankly, I don't want the fastest computer chips on the desktop to be designed by a company in another country (even if Intel makes them outside of the US) and I would rather that the cutting edge, be cut here, in my native country.
Good lord, why? Is it just national/istic pride? I see that as something to be outgrown with respect to driving, receiving, and appreciating scientific discoveries and technological advancements. Honestly, if Japan were to come out with, say, the first mass-produced DNA computer, I wouldn't be the slightest bit bitter, or reluctant to take advantage of it. I regularly praise other countries for doing things the U.S. hasn't.
German physicists were primarily responsible for breakthroughs in their field in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and during that period there was quite a bit of resentment from American politicians and scientists whose feelings boiled down to nothing more than "We should have gotten there first." I won't argue that fierce competition has been beneficial to mankind at large (we've seen it in the computer industry, after all) but I don't think I'm wrong in wanting the motivation to be something a little less self-centered, political, immature. An idealistic vision? Hardly. It's not too much of an expectation for us to evolve beyond petty glare-throwing.
The two studies resulted, in part, from NEC Corp.'s May 2002 announcement of the Earth Simulator, a custom-built supercomputer that delivers 35.8 teraflops. That system packed five times the performance of the fastest U.S. supercomputer at that time...
"The Earth Simulator created a tremendous amount of interest in high-performance computing and was a sign the U.S. may have been slipping behind what others were doing," said Jack Dongarra...
Graham said researchers should not overreact to NEC Corp.'s Earth Simulator that blindsided many in the high-performance computing community eighteen months ago by delivering a custom-built system five to seven times more powerful than the more off-the-shelf clusters developed in the U.S.
I don't mean to draw a crude analogy here, but I really can't help but read this and be reminded of the space race.
It took Sputnik to kickstart our spacemindedness; I for one consider it sad that a "tremendous amount of interest" -- and the funding that comes with it -- in high-performance computing seems only to have arisen/regenerated with the influence of competitive international politics. Are we really so hardly advanced that our respective national egos are still the driving force behind enthusiasm, financial or otherwise, in certain areas of science?
I think this is an invention that is both terrific and dangerous. I personally have decided to not get an ATM card, reasoning that if my money is harder to get to, it's harder to spend.
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You are never under any obligation to lend an item if you don't feel comfortable doing so.
Darn right. I wouldn't trust my porn collection to some stranger. Kerouac. I meant my Kerouac collection.
Patrons come and go, but there is very little opportunity to establish relationships with people or groups of people.
Dude, have you seen some of the people that mill around libraries? Homeless kickers, pseudo-orphans, and just the garden-variety weirdos that talk to themselves? If I want community I'll go to my local arcade.
Don't you have any interns at your place?
No, no... temps.
Talk About A Security Hole, Go To Jail?
Man, 90% of Microsoft's employees must be working out of prison...
Duh, I'm an idiot. How else do radio astronomers operate? *slaps forehead repeatedly* Thanks.
802.11a and b currently operate primarily at 2.4 Ghz.
Actually, only 802.11b operates at 2.4 GHz. 802.11a operates at 5 GHz.
The emerging 802.11g standard is intended to deliver the same data rate as 802.11a but on the 2.4-GHz band.
As organized, the spectrum, which is a limited resource, simply can't accommodate everyone...
There are several wireless companies operating in the 800 megahertz band...
How finely split can the spectrum be before there's danger of overlap? Is it possible for, say, one phone to send signals at 800.0001 MHz while another does so at 800.0002 MHz? Where is the precision cutoff for neighboring frequencies before things start to interfere?
Steady As She Blows
;-)
Looks like they're hard-up for readers.
The most common e-mail I get sent is from concerned fans who have just found out that they have bought some pirate goods off a seller who claimed what they were selling was legitimate.
I knew that Rei blow-up doll couldn't be a licensed product...
You may view your thinking within Lightwave as free, but only as far as Lightwave will allow you to go.
It's a good thing I know how to use Maya and 3D Studio Max, then.
So now your used to the Lightwave program, price goes up, what do you do? Go find another proprietary software package or pay up?
I may switch, I may buy the newest version. Depends on what the exact circumstances are, but get this -- neither option is revolting to me.
This may be difficult to understand, but I have no desire to code my own graphics or mathematics site of applications. Nor do I wish to spend time manually adding features to what I already use. With respect to such programs, I am an end user; I am willing to learn the most popular software tools in my field -- there are several different non-free programs out there that I can learn and develop a wide range of skills with. And guess what? They're actually good enough for their intended purpose.
When was the last time you heard someone complaining about Maya's or Mathcad's lack of features? Or them hindering productivity? You don't hear such complaints because the programs, while proprietary and non-free, are (1) fantastic at what they do and (2) if one weren't to someone's taste, there are plenty of other choices. Don't like Mathcad? Try Maple, Mathematica, MATLAB. You'll have to pay, but there's a reason those programs are priced as they are -- they work well, they took effort, and they're the best.
RMS: A non-free program is a predatory social system that keeps people in a state of domination and division, and uses the spoils to dominate more.
Yeah, I know Mathematica and Lightwave sure keep me subdued in their jaws. It's all I can do to think freely.
*can't... roll... eyes... hard enough*
What two things go better together than Star Wars and sex?
Linux and sex. Duh.
..has to be the total absolute ultimate whiz-bang pinnacle of lo-res graphics. Atari 400, eat your heart out!
You actually expect me to read a six-page article? This is madness, Michael!
'Pulse detonation is a hot topic in combustion research,' says Gabriel Roy of the Office of Naval Research.
Sounds like they're strained for humor over there.
a Q&A paper written by noted technology law and intellectual property expert Lawrence Rosen
Boy, that gave me a nasty start.
"How about an aquarium in your running computer?"
How about not?
Frankly, I don't want the fastest computer chips on the desktop to be designed by a company in another country (even if Intel makes them outside of the US) and I would rather that the cutting edge, be cut here, in my native country.
Good lord, why? Is it just national/istic pride? I see that as something to be outgrown with respect to driving, receiving, and appreciating scientific discoveries and technological advancements. Honestly, if Japan were to come out with, say, the first mass-produced DNA computer, I wouldn't be the slightest bit bitter, or reluctant to take advantage of it. I regularly praise other countries for doing things the U.S. hasn't.
German physicists were primarily responsible for breakthroughs in their field in the 19th and early 20th centuries, and during that period there was quite a bit of resentment from American politicians and scientists whose feelings boiled down to nothing more than "We should have gotten there first." I won't argue that fierce competition has been beneficial to mankind at large (we've seen it in the computer industry, after all) but I don't think I'm wrong in wanting the motivation to be something a little less self-centered, political, immature. An idealistic vision? Hardly. It's not too much of an expectation for us to evolve beyond petty glare-throwing.
What if you care only about integer operations?
Then I'd cluster a planetload of Apple II's running Integer BASIC.
The two studies resulted, in part, from NEC Corp.'s May 2002 announcement of the Earth Simulator, a custom-built supercomputer that delivers 35.8 teraflops. That system packed five times the performance of the fastest U.S. supercomputer at that time...
"The Earth Simulator created a tremendous amount of interest in high-performance computing and was a sign the U.S. may have been slipping behind what others were doing," said Jack Dongarra...
Graham said researchers should not overreact to NEC Corp.'s Earth Simulator that blindsided many in the high-performance computing community eighteen months ago by delivering a custom-built system five to seven times more powerful than the more off-the-shelf clusters developed in the U.S.
I don't mean to draw a crude analogy here, but I really can't help but read this and be reminded of the space race.
It took Sputnik to kickstart our spacemindedness; I for one consider it sad that a "tremendous amount of interest" -- and the funding that comes with it -- in high-performance computing seems only to have arisen/regenerated with the influence of competitive international politics. Are we really so hardly advanced that our respective national egos are still the driving force behind enthusiasm, financial or otherwise, in certain areas of science?
So can I get her a computer instead of a ring? It would work out so well...
He's a distant ancestor of John Oconnor.
In the all-Irish universe where O'Dyson builds O'SKYNET and unwittingly unleashes the O'Terminators?
"I'll be back, ye swags!"
With all the DNA tech we have now, we can make an arrest, right?
5.) The Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) - 1939
I think this is an invention that is both terrific and dangerous. I personally have decided to not get an ATM card, reasoning that if my money is harder to get to, it's harder to spend.
...shouldn't that be humourous?
I fail to see how this relates to eyeball juices.