It's not that simple. You're ignoring statistics. You'd need a certain number of monkeys and some of them would have to be controls. If the effect is predicted to be small you may need thousands of monkeys. Animal rights groups would have a fit over this.
The monkeys would also have to experience the cellphone radiation in a similar way that humans would. The radiation would have to be emitted as if a cellphone were pressed up against their ear, and it would have to be intermittent as to simulate a human taking calls throughout the day.
Different cellphone systems run on different frequencies. If there was strong evidence to suggest that one caused cancer we couldn't necessarily assume that they all do, including future networks running on different frequencies. The same could be said about the power of the transmitter--different phones transmit at different levels of power, and future phones may be very different.
Some researchers believe that some cancers may take much longer than 10 years to show, so a thorough experiment may need to last 30 years or more. By the time good data is collected the cellphone networks would probably be using different frequencies and possibly lower power transmitters.
I'm sure there are other factors that I'm not even thinking about. Setting up a bulletproof experiment of this nature and getting solid results in a reasonable period of time is at least difficult and maybe impossible.
Allowing people to make words in any direction (up, down, left, right, but not diagonally) is what I do to add another dimension to the gameplay. This doesn't change the game much but adds another level of strategy.
Give it a shot.
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3d games before Quake 1 used integer, fixed-point math and worked just fine (e.g., Doom). The trig was all done using look-up tables. Fixed-point allows you to retain enough of the precision for everything to work smoothly.
Quake 1 used floating point because they (id) found that with the introduction of the Pentium that floating-point was actually faster for the Quake 1 game engine.
For modern-day portable devices I wonder if this is still true. I also wonder how well trying to mix fixed-point math and 3d hardware APIs would work. Switching to integers could be done, but it would complicate the code and would likely be slower.
"The scientists found the DNA code for a skin cancer called melanoma contained more than 30,000 errors almost entirely caused by too much sun exposure." This is obviously such a ridiculous statement that I'm surprised it made it into the BBC article. Show me the evidence that almost 100% of DNA errors in skin cells or skin cancer cells are caused by sun exposure...
I'm surprised I haven't seen this mentioned yet, but one of the main reasons netbooks with Windows XP are doing so well is becuase Microsoft started offering netbook manufacturers lower prices on XP Home. I can't seem to find the article right now but XP Home may be offered to large ODMs for around $20-$30, with some claiming it's around the $20 mark. I think the cheapest it ever got before these new netbook-only prices was around $40.
That's the difference in power consumption between idle and load of the ENTIRE SYSTEM, as is clearly stated at the top of the chart.
The TDP on the most power hungry atom is only 4 watts.
Intel needs to pair the atom with an efficient chipset. Unfortunately any of the chipsets Intel currently has available to pair with the atom look like power hogs next to the atom.
The Seasoft firmware is GPL'd so you're not buying it you're buying their "support". You can get the firmware without paying for their support though, just google for it.
The author only tests P2P software known to have spyware in it so the results aren't surprising. eMule runs on the eDonkey network, it's open source, no spyware/malware and it's an amazing program.
Where I live the DSL does not behave like this, you can upload to an ftp server at full speed and download at full speed simultaneously. The cable provider however _is_ like this, you start an upload and it destroys your download speeds.
So people will have to ask around or test out their particular local dsl/cable service before coming to the conclusion that it behaves this way.
Is your firewall an application? Is your antivirus an application? Is your volume control an application? Are the several IM's that some people run applications? I have tons of little icons for programs that are running like these but I wouldn't really call most of them applications. I have no idea how the OS is able to tell the difference.
There are 64 and 128bit version of the fx5200 out there, most of the new ones are 64bit and they are fairly slow, this confuses a lot of people. The model reviewed is an fx5200 _ultra_ 128bit, the ultra is considereably faster then the non ultra. The Radeon 9550 is identical to a 9600 except the gpu is clocked at 250 instead of 325 (both 400mhz memory).
The main problem with the last US election was corruption and electronic counting without a paper trail will make this easier to do without any way to prove it later on.
Since there was a paper trail in the last election they were able to easily decide that Gore won after some recounts.
I'm not saying their current process is great but it worked in the last election up to the point that external factors like Fox news and the supreme court interfered otherwise they would of done the recounts, announced Gore the winner and it wouldn't of been such a fiasco.
CPU's don't make noise - fans do and Intel CPU's produce more heat then AMD's so you need a higher capacity cooler while using an Intel CPU. If your setup is noisy that's because the fans used on it are noisy and you can always replace them.
You will find DirectX useful if: - You want access to all of the features provided by the graphics hardware
This isn't true, with directx you don't have access to all the hardware features, you only have access to the hardware features that directx supports. If you come out with a new card with new features you have to wait for a newer version of directx to be able to use those features. This is one of the areas where opengl is more useful since you can use extensions to access any features not specifically supported by the api.
But if you really want Kazaa Lite there are still many places to get it from. Just do an advanced search on google groups for "kazaa lite download" from the last few months and you'll find plenty of working links. I doubt this is going to stop the project.
Gentoo had this problem with one of their live cd's or something like that. It definitely doesn't effect all LG CD drives though since I use a bunch here and never had any problems although mine are all burners so maybe that makes a difference.
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It's not that simple. You're ignoring statistics. You'd need a certain number of monkeys and some of them would have to be controls. If the effect is predicted to be small you may need thousands of monkeys. Animal rights groups would have a fit over this.
The monkeys would also have to experience the cellphone radiation in a similar way that humans would. The radiation would have to be emitted as if a cellphone were pressed up against their ear, and it would have to be intermittent as to simulate a human taking calls throughout the day.
Different cellphone systems run on different frequencies. If there was strong evidence to suggest that one caused cancer we couldn't necessarily assume that they all do, including future networks running on different frequencies. The same could be said about the power of the transmitter--different phones transmit at different levels of power, and future phones may be very different.
Some researchers believe that some cancers may take much longer than 10 years to show, so a thorough experiment may need to last 30 years or more. By the time good data is collected the cellphone networks would probably be using different frequencies and possibly lower power transmitters.
I'm sure there are other factors that I'm not even thinking about. Setting up a bulletproof experiment of this nature and getting solid results in a reasonable period of time is at least difficult and maybe impossible.
What this article should say is that new lower-power dual-core Atoms are about to be released.
Allowing people to make words in any direction (up, down, left, right, but not diagonally) is what I do to add another dimension to the gameplay. This doesn't change the game much but adds another level of strategy.
Give it a shot.
3d games before Quake 1 used integer, fixed-point math and worked just fine (e.g., Doom). The trig was all done using look-up tables. Fixed-point allows you to retain enough of the precision for everything to work smoothly.
Quake 1 used floating point because they (id) found that with the introduction of the Pentium that floating-point was actually faster for the Quake 1 game engine.
For modern-day portable devices I wonder if this is still true. I also wonder how well trying to mix fixed-point math and 3d hardware APIs would work. Switching to integers could be done, but it would complicate the code and would likely be slower.
"The scientists found the DNA code for a skin cancer called melanoma contained more than 30,000 errors almost entirely caused by too much sun exposure."
This is obviously such a ridiculous statement that I'm surprised it made it into the BBC article.
Show me the evidence that almost 100% of DNA errors in skin cells or skin cancer cells are caused by sun exposure...
I'm surprised I haven't seen this mentioned yet, but one of the main reasons netbooks with Windows XP are doing so well is becuase Microsoft started offering netbook manufacturers lower prices on XP Home. I can't seem to find the article right now but XP Home may be offered to large ODMs for around $20-$30, with some claiming it's around the $20 mark. I think the cheapest it ever got before these new netbook-only prices was around $40.
That's the difference in power consumption between idle and load of the ENTIRE SYSTEM, as is clearly stated at the top of the chart.
The TDP on the most power hungry atom is only 4 watts.
Intel needs to pair the atom with an efficient chipset. Unfortunately any of the chipsets Intel currently has available to pair with the atom look like power hogs next to the atom.
If you haven't already, try Firefox with a fresh profile.
I can confirm that this actually works.
It's annoying how the stupid uninformed posts get modded up but something that's actually useful and insightfull like this doesn't.
The Seasoft firmware is GPL'd so you're not buying it you're buying their "support". You can get the firmware without paying for their support though, just google for it.
The author only tests P2P software known to have spyware in it so the results aren't surprising. eMule runs on the eDonkey network, it's open source, no spyware/malware and it's an amazing program.
Sometimes it's strange how the world works isn't it?
Where I live the DSL does not behave like this, you can upload to an ftp server at full speed and download at full speed simultaneously. The cable provider however _is_ like this, you start an upload and it destroys your download speeds.
So people will have to ask around or test out their particular local dsl/cable service before coming to the conclusion that it behaves this way.
Sounds like the IBM's were older then the Dells? Maybe the IBM's use NiMH batteries while the newer Dells used Li-Ion batteries.
Is your firewall an application? Is your antivirus an application? Is your volume control an application? Are the several IM's that some people run applications? I have tons of little icons for programs that are running like these but I wouldn't really call most of them applications. I have no idea how the OS is able to tell the difference.
There are 64 and 128bit version of the fx5200 out there, most of the new ones are 64bit and they are fairly slow, this confuses a lot of people. The model reviewed is an fx5200 _ultra_ 128bit, the ultra is considereably faster then the non ultra. The Radeon 9550 is identical to a 9600 except the gpu is clocked at 250 instead of 325 (both 400mhz memory).
Wow you have the strangest understanding of what transpired that day that I've ever heard.
_YOU_ are the one who needs to checkup on their facts.
The main problem with the last US election was corruption and electronic counting without a paper trail will make this easier to do without any way to prove it later on.
Since there was a paper trail in the last election they were able to easily decide that Gore won after some recounts.
I'm not saying their current process is great but it worked in the last election up to the point that external factors like Fox news and the supreme court interfered otherwise they would of done the recounts, announced Gore the winner and it wouldn't of been such a fiasco.
Maybe the US should focus on making their President the person who actually wins the election and worry about optimizing the process some other time?
CPU's don't make noise - fans do and Intel CPU's produce more heat then AMD's so you need a higher capacity cooler while using an Intel CPU. If your setup is noisy that's because the fans used on it are noisy and you can always replace them.
Is it really?
The ammount of actual windows 98 users is likely much less then 27%.
Although I use Linux and this really doesn't concern me 5 years of support for a commercial software package seems quite reasonable.
http://www.emule-project.net
But if you really want Kazaa Lite there are still many places to get it from. Just do an advanced search on google groups for "kazaa lite download" from the last few months and you'll find plenty of working links. I doubt this is going to stop the project.
Gentoo had this problem with one of their live cd's or something like that. It definitely doesn't effect all LG CD drives though since I use a bunch here and never had any problems although mine are all burners so maybe that makes a difference.