Considering that members of a family typically bear a very strong resemblance to one another (with identical twins being the extreme case), I would think this would be one of the tougher trials for a facial recognition algorithm.
You've got a good point. Just like so many precedents set by Microsoft, they don't want to make things easy for their competitors. If making IE fully standard compliant allows Google apps to run faster and more reliably, then Microsoft shoots itself in the foot. Sony DVD players don't support DivX, because in addition to producing hardware, Sony also produces movies. Since DivX is primarily used for distributing content over the internet, which is something Sony cannot control, it is not in Sony's interest to support DivX in their hardware. It's the same thing with Internet Explorer.
The good news is that Firefox has nothing to lose in supporting standards, so hopefully IE will lose out to Firefox before Firefox loses out to Chrome.
KentuckyFC writes "Astronomers have discovered some 250 planetary systems beyond our own, many of them with curious properties. In particular, our theories of planet formation are challenged by 'hot Jupiters,' gas giants that orbit close to their parent stars. Current thinking is that gas giants can only form far away from stars because gas and dust simply gets blown away from the inner regions. Now astronomers have used computer simulations of the way planetary systems form to understand what is going on (abstract). It looks as if gas giants often form a long way from stars and then migrate inwards. That has implications for us: a migrating gas giant sweeps away all in its path, including rocky planets in the habitable zone. And that means that solar systems like ours are likely to be rare."
I'm also curious about Sakai. It is a java-based web app, so it's not really specific to Linux at all, and those that "use" it don't even know that Linux is powering the back-end. I assumed he was referring to Linux desktop apps.
Could the difference be that the benchmark program is utilizing additional processor instructions typically found only on those types of processors? The VIA's CPU obviously supports those instructions, but perhaps the typical generic CPU does not.
I just don't see how this can work. It has to do one of two things. It either keeps water out, meaning that it covers and seals every opening that leads into the device, or it somehow coats every surface of the device, inside and out, including all circuit boards and components.
So, if it seals the device, how does it know what openings have to be there? Blackberrys (at least my pearl), iPods, etc have power and headphone jacks. So it is only waterproof until I have to plug something into it, rupturing the film? How long will this stuff last before it ruptures on its own due to normal use (like pushing keys on a keyboard). What about battery compartments and other doors on the device? My Blackberry has a door over the MicroSD slot that I open frequently.
The other option is to coat all surfaces inside the device. What about things that have to be left open to the atmosphere to allow humidity to exit, barometric pressure to equalize, etc? I own a Yaesu VX-7R handheld transceiver for amateur radio. This device is fully submersible. One problem they had with the first batch was the waterproofing sealed the inside of the device off from the atmosphere, which would cause a pressure differential against the speaker during barometric changes, which would reduce the amount the diaphragm could travel, resulting in reduced audio output. They fixed it by installing a valve that would equalize pressure. Now that problem occurred in a device designed to be waterproof. Just imagine the problems this would cause with typical gadgets.
YouTube is just trying to enforce a standard level of quality to the content. Everyone expects crappy video with lots of compression artifacts, so the audio might as well follow suite.
Considering YUI is an actual javascript library (unlike GWT), is anyone using it? I've used a couple components of the library for a client, and have been pleased with the result.
The summary does not specify exactly what is meant by "long-life". That refers to the current limitation of flash, where individual bits have a physical limitation to the number of times they can be modified. This "new" flash uses some sort of integrated "wear-leveling", so that all bits are utilized equally. Also, when individual bits (or more likely, groups of bits) are worn out they are retired. So instead of a failure, the capacity of the flash would decrease as write cycles exceed the physical limitations. Of course, if wear leveling was performed perfectly, then pretty much the entire array would fail at once, right?
The article doesn't address other important aspects, like read / write speed.
It does say that current flash memory is limited to 10k writes, which is low by at least a factor of 10. Modern flash should withstand at least 100k writes, and I've seen claims of over a million here and there.
The article comes up fine for me. He lists a simple C routine comprised of 15 or so lines of code. So it wasn't like he made that big of a mountain out of it.
I have a TI-99/4A that has been dead for nearly two decades, along with several hours worth of data stored on cassettes. I would love to recover the data off of those tapes. Most of it is the type of stuff a 10 year old would write in TI BASIC (and Extended Basic!), and it would really bring back some fond memories and certainly some good laughs.
Are there any generic utilities that can extract binary out of low-baud modem audio files? With the advantage of performing various audio processing and analysis in a non-linear, non-realtime manner, certainly data could be extracted by modern software that not even the actual legacy computer could decode.
If solar cell efficiency actually increased a mere 1% for each story slashdot has posted regarding solar cell improvement, then panels would be generating electricity in complete darkness by now.
My son bought Bomb Blox yesterday. Upon inserting the disc it required a system update to continue. I was a bit concerned, as we do have the Homebrew channel installed (although admittedly haven't used it since the day I installed it). After the update (which to me did not seem to actually download anything - it was much faster than normal) the homebrew channel was still installed. I haven't tried the Zelda savegame hack yet though.
"It directly advocates training paramilitaries, pervasive surveillance, censorship, press control and restrictions on labor unions & political parties. It directly advocates warrantless searches, detainment without charge and the suspension of habeas corpus. It directly advocates bribery, employing terrorists, false flag operations and concealing human rights abuses from journalists. And it directly advocates the extensive use of 'psychological operations' (propaganda) to make these and other 'population & resource control' measures more palatable."
Of course the IE team likes the Firefox team. If it wasn't for Firefox there wouldn't even be an IE team. Microsoft wouldn't have touched IE ever again if it wasn't for Firefox stirring things up.
Why must this be presented in this context? It is quite immature, and most definitely unscientific. Regardless, creationism and mutation are not mutually exclusive anyway.
I guess they finally realized that consumers can and will "pick and choose" regardless, so they might as make some money in the process. It doesn't exactly take a genius to figure that one out.
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Considering that members of a family typically bear a very strong resemblance to one another (with identical twins being the extreme case), I would think this would be one of the tougher trials for a facial recognition algorithm.
You've got a good point. Just like so many precedents set by Microsoft, they don't want to make things easy for their competitors. If making IE fully standard compliant allows Google apps to run faster and more reliably, then Microsoft shoots itself in the foot. Sony DVD players don't support DivX, because in addition to producing hardware, Sony also produces movies. Since DivX is primarily used for distributing content over the internet, which is something Sony cannot control, it is not in Sony's interest to support DivX in their hardware. It's the same thing with Internet Explorer.
The good news is that Firefox has nothing to lose in supporting standards, so hopefully IE will lose out to Firefox before Firefox loses out to Chrome.
Solar Systems Like Ours Are Likely To Be Rare
KentuckyFC writes
"Astronomers have discovered some 250 planetary systems beyond our own, many of them with curious properties. In particular, our theories of planet formation are challenged by 'hot Jupiters,' gas giants that orbit close to their parent stars. Current thinking is that gas giants can only form far away from stars because gas and dust simply gets blown away from the inner regions. Now astronomers have used computer simulations of the way planetary systems form to understand what is going on (abstract). It looks as if gas giants often form a long way from stars and then migrate inwards. That has implications for us: a migrating gas giant sweeps away all in its path, including rocky planets in the habitable zone. And that means that solar systems like ours are likely to be rare."
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I'm also curious about Sakai. It is a java-based web app, so it's not really specific to Linux at all, and those that "use" it don't even know that Linux is powering the back-end. I assumed he was referring to Linux desktop apps.
That is why I prefer opaque laptops.
Could the difference be that the benchmark program is utilizing additional processor instructions typically found only on those types of processors? The VIA's CPU obviously supports those instructions, but perhaps the typical generic CPU does not.
It will be good to see Quake finally running on a mobile device. Maybe someday they'll even have a go with Quake 2.
I just don't see how this can work. It has to do one of two things. It either keeps water out, meaning that it covers and seals every opening that leads into the device, or it somehow coats every surface of the device, inside and out, including all circuit boards and components.
So, if it seals the device, how does it know what openings have to be there? Blackberrys (at least my pearl), iPods, etc have power and headphone jacks. So it is only waterproof until I have to plug something into it, rupturing the film? How long will this stuff last before it ruptures on its own due to normal use (like pushing keys on a keyboard). What about battery compartments and other doors on the device? My Blackberry has a door over the MicroSD slot that I open frequently.
The other option is to coat all surfaces inside the device. What about things that have to be left open to the atmosphere to allow humidity to exit, barometric pressure to equalize, etc? I own a Yaesu VX-7R handheld transceiver for amateur radio. This device is fully submersible. One problem they had with the first batch was the waterproofing sealed the inside of the device off from the atmosphere, which would cause a pressure differential against the speaker during barometric changes, which would reduce the amount the diaphragm could travel, resulting in reduced audio output. They fixed it by installing a valve that would equalize pressure. Now that problem occurred in a device designed to be waterproof. Just imagine the problems this would cause with typical gadgets.
YouTube is just trying to enforce a standard level of quality to the content. Everyone expects crappy video with lots of compression artifacts, so the audio might as well follow suite.
I know video can go dark, but shouldn't music go quiet?
Considering YUI is an actual javascript library (unlike GWT), is anyone using it? I've used a couple components of the library for a client, and have been pleased with the result.
Geek Factor: A+
Functionality: B-
Aesthetics: F
True, but if your car had 1 trillion bearings (100 GB at 8 bits per byte) then the probability is that most would fail at the same time.
The summary does not specify exactly what is meant by "long-life". That refers to the current limitation of flash, where individual bits have a physical limitation to the number of times they can be modified. This "new" flash uses some sort of integrated "wear-leveling", so that all bits are utilized equally. Also, when individual bits (or more likely, groups of bits) are worn out they are retired. So instead of a failure, the capacity of the flash would decrease as write cycles exceed the physical limitations. Of course, if wear leveling was performed perfectly, then pretty much the entire array would fail at once, right?
The article doesn't address other important aspects, like read / write speed.
It does say that current flash memory is limited to 10k writes, which is low by at least a factor of 10. Modern flash should withstand at least 100k writes, and I've seen claims of over a million here and there.
The article comes up fine for me. He lists a simple C routine comprised of 15 or so lines of code. So it wasn't like he made that big of a mountain out of it.
I have a TI-99/4A that has been dead for nearly two decades, along with several hours worth of data stored on cassettes. I would love to recover the data off of those tapes. Most of it is the type of stuff a 10 year old would write in TI BASIC (and Extended Basic!), and it would really bring back some fond memories and certainly some good laughs.
Are there any generic utilities that can extract binary out of low-baud modem audio files? With the advantage of performing various audio processing and analysis in a non-linear, non-realtime manner, certainly data could be extracted by modern software that not even the actual legacy computer could decode.
If solar cell efficiency actually increased a mere 1% for each story slashdot has posted regarding solar cell improvement, then panels would be generating electricity in complete darkness by now.
What can an app written in VBScript+Access do that an app written in Python+SQLite can't?
Execute without a complete rewrite?
My son bought Bomb Blox yesterday. Upon inserting the disc it required a system update to continue. I was a bit concerned, as we do have the Homebrew channel installed (although admittedly haven't used it since the day I installed it). After the update (which to me did not seem to actually download anything - it was much faster than normal) the homebrew channel was still installed. I haven't tried the Zelda savegame hack yet though.
"It directly advocates training paramilitaries, pervasive surveillance, censorship, press control and restrictions on labor unions & political parties. It directly advocates warrantless searches, detainment without charge and the suspension of habeas corpus. It directly advocates bribery, employing terrorists, false flag operations and concealing human rights abuses from journalists. And it directly advocates the extensive use of 'psychological operations' (propaganda) to make these and other 'population & resource control' measures more palatable."
Sounds effective.
Of course the IE team likes the Firefox team. If it wasn't for Firefox there wouldn't even be an IE team. Microsoft wouldn't have touched IE ever again if it wasn't for Firefox stirring things up.
This is very helpful information. Now I'll know which vehicles my wife should keep the gun trained on.
sure to perplex and confound creationists
Why must this be presented in this context? It is quite immature, and most definitely unscientific. Regardless, creationism and mutation are not mutually exclusive anyway.
I guess they finally realized that consumers can and will "pick and choose" regardless, so they might as make some money in the process. It doesn't exactly take a genius to figure that one out.