Along these lines, make the program available in an App Store. This makes it easier for paying customers. It's tiring when I want to buy a program to have to do some background research on payment processors to see if a developer chose one that is trustworthy. But Apple already has my credit info, buying is easy and safe.
Any word on whether Red Hat Enterprise 6 will be based on this release or Fedora 9?
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On my local Chicago news channel WGN9 this morning, they played this exact clip, saying "if all that science is too much for you, maybe this will help".
This sounds great. Once they make it, they need to be sure to sell it in places like Walmart and Target, so lots of kids get their hands on these and not just those with Slashdot-reading parents.
I 100% agree our education system needs a lot of work. I just think the solution needs to be at the state level, where way too much of the money goes to management. At least in my state of Illinois it does.
He'll delay Constellation for five years (pdf link, go to the last page), which will result in layoffs for all the people we'd need to get to the moon, and then we'll have to go try to re-hire them. Meanwhile the designs are being done now, so the plans will just sit for 5 years going out of date. Brilliant. And what will the money be used for? Saving no child left behind. Yes, let's dump more money in to education, that will fix it.
Is there a site that has video of the interesting senate speeches? C-Span takes days to post video, and they never post the interesting ones. Right now I'm looking for the one of Russ Feingold where he reads the Constitution.
Of course that would be more interesting, but we can't even see any planets directly at this point let alone Earth-sized planets. And to detect a dead civilization you'd need to see very detailed surface features (assuming they didn't leave a beacon or something), and we can't even see the lunar lander with Hubble on our own moon.
Since this simulation is of the entire universe, can we look at the density it predicts for the present day, and figure out what fraction of the entire universe our visible universe is?
In a warp bubble, you are moving at sub-light speed relative to the space inside the bubble, but space itself is warped so that relative to the surrounding space you are moving at FTL speed.
My favorite author, Vernor Vinge, writes about a universe where we are in a "slow zone", and the laws of physics allow FTL travel in other places but not here. Vinge has a Ph.D. in math, and writes the kind of hard sci-fi that I like most. In fact it might be that writing with Einstein's constraints helped Vinge since he had to come up with a creative solution.
Since the XBox 360 uses a PPC core, will its sales be enough to make up for Apple's switch?
If not, could this be a way for Apple to derail the XBox 360 by either pushing CPU prices up or forcing a delay and switch back to an x86 CPU? Microsoft has put a lot of investment in to it, and it wants badly to be in homes that don't need or want a PC.
Nothing is wrong with it today, because we need filing clerks. Doing work that can't be done any other way is honorable. But it's one of the goals of technology to lift the burden of less intellectual tasks from humanity so it is free to do more creative things. Bill is just echoing that ideal, he believes in the computing revolution's promise of making life better and more interesting for everyone. Of course, he believes he should be rewarded for helping make that change.
Sorry if that sounds like a troll or something, but seriously, Bill is not driven only by money. Otherwise he wouldn't have given up the CEO position to be Chief Tech Officer.
The finger-in-the-food story about Wendy's was a scam. That lady has a history of suing fast food companies for putting body parts in her food. Please don't continue to spread this FUD that Wendy's doesn't deserve.
I was referring to the parent poster's $370 desktop, not the article's $200 laptop. I agree Dell is not the best place to shop for ultra-low cost computers, I only used them to show how unremarkable the parent poster's computer was.
You're missing a case and power supply. Also in India the power is not as clean and stable as it is in some other countries, so you'd want a UPS too. Laptops basically have a built-in UPS.
This adds at least 3,000 INR, which puts you at around $400. As another poster stated, you can buy a Dell for less than that.
Since Adams helped with the script, my theory is that after the radio show, book, and BBC series (did he help with that?), he thought it would be nice for Arthur to finally get Trillian. I don't think it was that out of character for him to fight for her.
Maybe the other person who Adams worked with on the script will tell us if this is true?
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Along these lines, make the program available in an App Store. This makes it easier for paying customers. It's tiring when I want to buy a program to have to do some background research on payment processors to see if a developer chose one that is trustworthy. But Apple already has my credit info, buying is easy and safe.
How can Amazon customers expect Saturday delivery when they can't even know which of USPS/FedEx/UPS will be handling their package?
Any word on whether Red Hat Enterprise 6 will be based on this release or Fedora 9?
On my local Chicago news channel WGN9 this morning, they played this exact clip, saying "if all that science is too much for you, maybe this will help".
This sounds great. Once they make it, they need to be sure to sell it in places like Walmart and Target, so lots of kids get their hands on these and not just those with Slashdot-reading parents.
You mean the spy got you before your medic was able to right click? Or can spies get you while you're ubered?!
I 100% agree our education system needs a lot of work. I just think the solution needs to be at the state level, where way too much of the money goes to management. At least in my state of Illinois it does.
He'll delay Constellation for five years (pdf link, go to the last page), which will result in layoffs for all the people we'd need to get to the moon, and then we'll have to go try to re-hire them. Meanwhile the designs are being done now, so the plans will just sit for 5 years going out of date. Brilliant. And what will the money be used for? Saving no child left behind. Yes, let's dump more money in to education, that will fix it.
The worry with third-party ink is mainly that it will clog up your printer, not that the first few pages won't look good.
Here and here.
Is there a site that has video of the interesting senate speeches? C-Span takes days to post video, and they never post the interesting ones. Right now I'm looking for the one of Russ Feingold where he reads the Constitution.
According to this page, here are the science budgets for 2004-2006:
2004: $5,600M
2005 (est): $5,527M
2006 (est): $5,476M
That doesn't look like too big of a change. Does losing $50 million really do that much?
Of course that would be more interesting, but we can't even see any planets directly at this point let alone Earth-sized planets. And to detect a dead civilization you'd need to see very detailed surface features (assuming they didn't leave a beacon or something), and we can't even see the lunar lander with Hubble on our own moon.
Let's take RAID and use it to halve the time it takes to lose all our data. Great idea.
I'd rather have two RAID-1 arrays, one small and fast and one larger and slower. But maybe l33t gamers don't care about their data.
Since this simulation is of the entire universe, can we look at the density it predicts for the present day, and figure out what fraction of the entire universe our visible universe is?
Or has that already been done?
In a warp bubble, you are moving at sub-light speed relative to the space inside the bubble, but space itself is warped so that relative to the surrounding space you are moving at FTL speed.
My favorite author, Vernor Vinge, writes about a universe where we are in a "slow zone", and the laws of physics allow FTL travel in other places but not here. Vinge has a Ph.D. in math, and writes the kind of hard sci-fi that I like most. In fact it might be that writing with Einstein's constraints helped Vinge since he had to come up with a creative solution.
Since the XBox 360 uses a PPC core, will its sales be enough to make up for Apple's switch?
If not, could this be a way for Apple to derail the XBox 360 by either pushing CPU prices up or forcing a delay and switch back to an x86 CPU? Microsoft has put a lot of investment in to it, and it wants badly to be in homes that don't need or want a PC.
Nothing is wrong with it today, because we need filing clerks. Doing work that can't be done any other way is honorable. But it's one of the goals of technology to lift the burden of less intellectual tasks from humanity so it is free to do more creative things. Bill is just echoing that ideal, he believes in the computing revolution's promise of making life better and more interesting for everyone. Of course, he believes he should be rewarded for helping make that change.
Sorry if that sounds like a troll or something, but seriously, Bill is not driven only by money. Otherwise he wouldn't have given up the CEO position to be Chief Tech Officer.
The finger-in-the-food story about Wendy's was a scam. That lady has a history of suing fast food companies for putting body parts in her food. Please don't continue to spread this FUD that Wendy's doesn't deserve.
Can you uninstall Spotlight from Tiger?
Can you buy two of those and run them in RAID-1?
I was referring to the parent poster's $370 desktop, not the article's $200 laptop. I agree Dell is not the best place to shop for ultra-low cost computers, I only used them to show how unremarkable the parent poster's computer was.
You're missing a case and power supply. Also in India the power is not as clean and stable as it is in some other countries, so you'd want a UPS too. Laptops basically have a built-in UPS.
This adds at least 3,000 INR, which puts you at around $400. As another poster stated, you can buy a Dell for less than that.
Since Adams helped with the script, my theory is that after the radio show, book, and BBC series (did he help with that?), he thought it would be nice for Arthur to finally get Trillian. I don't think it was that out of character for him to fight for her.
Maybe the other person who Adams worked with on the script will tell us if this is true?