Same way they compare computers with different clocks. Run benchmarks. Time how long a function takes and compare the results. Probably something like linpack.
It'd be better to name 2.4.14 to 2.6 and unstable to 2.7.0 since it wouldn't break numbering. If anyone asks where was 2.5.x tell them to go to hell. I think that staying with the current system with the next unstable being 2.5.0 is really the best. If the numbering isn't broke don't try to break it.
There are 13 servers however and all have to go down to take out the Internet. Even then the effect would take some time to be felt. The root servers only manage the top level domains. These tend not to change very often and so the TTL on the root records can be made very long without causing operational difficulty.
If all 13 went down on the same the internet would work just fine. Looking up names not in a hosts file would be hard, but the routing would work same as always. Fake root servers would be hard as well, since the DNS servers are looked up by IP addresses and not domain names. They would have to get the routers to reroute traffic going to the root server to somewhere else. That is likely to be noticed very quickly.
Except drive for drive IDE and SCSI drives are the same. How can one be "faster"? Most SCSI drives are just IDE drives with a SCSI controller attached to the IDE interface. Do you mean that they appear faster since SCSI can transfer between disks at once? Or do you mean that SCSI disks actually can spin the disk faster than IDE. With one disk on each controller they'll score exactly equal.
Except that the HD cache will be reading on the idle IDE disk. It's not just sitting there doing nothing, it's actaully reading without being commanded.
There is probably a greater connection to this story out of Nepal then the stories comming out of Afganistan. At least for the former story they both involved planes and crashes of planes. The connection is therefor obvious.
Errr....raising the minimum wage would have little effect since it would push all the bids up by the same amount. Meaning the lowest bid is still the lowest bid.
I liked that CNN went into some low-bandwidth mode where most of the information on the site had been dropped completely. Looks like they are starting to learn their lesson about how traffic comes to the site. Too bad they still can't handle a sudden spike.
No, nationalize the industry. Consumers are protected and at this point it probably wouldn't hurt. Could be used to "fight terrorists" or other such non-sense. I mean we've tried everything else we'd might as well be complete in our failures.
It's more greed incarnate for not taking these steps years ago when there was still a risk, but not everyone was worried. Then I'd not fault them for it. I fault them for being greedy for taking these steps now when it is more in vogue. Most of the "newer protections" are to make people feel safe, but do not actaully add to safety in any measurable way. I mean, if it was that easy to ban bags from a show room or make everyone go to the ticket counter, these things should of been done years ago. Can safety be gaurenteed by these simple, easy to do measures? Do any of these measures really stop a determined person (i.e. like an organized terrorist cell) from doing harm? There is now a demand for being more "safe" and people are paying for it. Those who are implementing these measures are being greedy, in that they want to attract more customers to their venue, with out really increasing the cost of holding the event. Things like banning bags and laptops work for this goal well. And if it increases food sales and makes those who are selling goods on the floor happy, then its just an added bonus.
An Ipaq can do the 802.11 scanning just as well as a laptop. And with a duel-sleave with one network card and a microdrive a lot of information can be pulled down in a more descrete manner.
Your theory does not explain how that many species can die that quickly. It was some event or events and then poof, no more dinosaurs and a number of other species (how many trilobites do you see today?) This isn't over
the period of millenia, but on the order of 50 years. Being in "decline"
doesn't really prove anything since they had been in decline twice before
(and came back) and the evidence we have is based on what dinosaurs
happened to keel overn a riverbed. Making the kind of assumptions you
seem to be making defies he evidence as has been collected.
Added to the fact that nature is all about being lucky and being at the
right time at the right place. Mutations occur at random and whether these
mutations are passed down has everything to do with what the current
conditions are and whether or not those mutations are helpful. Humans
(especially humans of European desent) have cystic fibrosis because it was
helpful for the conditions it first developed
in, it doesn't make us more "fit" but it did help out under certian
critera. Have you not studied random number theory. If there isn't
random variation then the data that has been collected isn't correct.
Nothing occurs right on the nose or exactly every time. There is always a
probablity of an event occuring and a probablity of an event not occuring.
Randomness and probablity implies luck. Any you're alive today based on a
huge number of probablities playing out in your favor. So am I and so is
everything else on the planet. Mammals did get lucky compared to the
dinosaurs.
No, meteor hasn't been the buzzword-of-the-moment for about a year or two. We've now moved on to "terrorist" as the BOTM. Which means based on your hypthosis that this is the BOTM, that would mean that terrorists had to bring down all those civilizations, which was not the subject of the article.
The comet impact does not appear to be nonsense from those working in the field. There is evidence of a massive cloud of dust covering the earth and settling down around the end of the Cretaceous period. Dinosaurs are not found above the line of silt from that impacted and a huge number of variations of mammals are found above that. Added to that there is other evidence from the same time of a massive impact off the coast in Yuctan, Mexico. The
Chicxulub crater appears to have caused massive direct damage to North America and would have the strength to kick up the cloud found in other places throughout the world. The geological evidence points to a cataclysimic change in the Earth over a period of about 50 years
It appears that dinosaurs may be warm blooded. And more like modern birds and mammals than the lizards and amphibians. And in size they ranged from as big as a blue whale to as small as a chicken. They survived a huge number of gradual changes to the environment in their time on the earth. They seem to have a lot in common with modern mammals and birds, especially in terms of diversity and habitats.
On your over all hypothosis that mammals are superior to dinosaurs is really just statistical conjecture. If being fit means alive now then, yes mammals are more fit. But if fit takes on other qualities, then it is really a question of which was more fit (even the best solutions don't always get chosen in today's world). In the end I believe that, mammals really got lucky. They were the right size at the time of the impact, if they'd been larger they would of suffered the same fate as the bigger and more diverse dinosaurs. Dinosaurs just got caught buying into a system that all of a sudden just dissappeared on them. If the same thing happened today, probably most mammals (including humans) would suffer the same fate.
Except Maxim/Dallas is having a number of supply problems. They seem to be the redheaded stepchild of the Maxim buyout. Try to order just about anything from them and its a 10 week wait if you're lucky, and when the parts do show up they tend to be the wrong ones. Added to the fact that the software that runs them is not fully open or free they wouldn't meet the requirements of the poster in this case. It's really a shame. The buttons and the accompaning TINI's were very cool, but other more important things (like shipping them corrent and on time) have gotten in the way.
If both products were available today at the same price, and if applications were available, I'd have to go with the Itanic. Intel has thrown away the last 20+ years of legacy crap that has been slowing development for so long. AMD, in an effort to ease migration and appease the masses of consumers, has retained those old roadblocks and built new roads around them.
Intel has traded a bunch of old road blocks and legacy crap for an entire new set of crap. Intel's developement of this new architecture has been bogged down for a while. You've said it your self that you've been hearing about it since the mid-nineties. Besides AMD's solution is really the same as Intel's. They both can execute IA-32 code on the chip, they both introduce a new instruction set which causes compilers to be re-written for. They both have their problems in design and manufacturing. If anything AMD has taken an approach where there is less to go wrong than in Intel's.
No, the new Monkey Island did suck. Who's ever heard of a game that didn't let you use the mouse? It took me 20 minutes to figure that one out. And then the game wasn't even worthwhile enough to make me want to play it, I gave up after an hour or so.
The patent's office funding doesn't come from granting as many patents as possible, but other orginizations who are more politically backed funding comes from the patent office granting more patents. The sad part of it is that even if the patent office gets more income from the patenting process they can't hire more people or make other decisions based on that process because Congress takes away all of their surplus if they are over the budgetted amount. It's an aweful cycle that no one seems to be able to break.
Except if the video is saved uncompressed, then you're cutting out 50% of the needed data all together. Even compressed, you're compressing half as much to begin with so the savings will be 50% + compressed savings. You'll still be ahead of where you were.
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No JarJar but their is Jimmy Smits playing Bail Organa. Yea you heard me that Jimmy Smits. I'd take JarJar anyday.
Same way they compare computers with different clocks. Run benchmarks. Time how long a function takes and compare the results. Probably something like linpack.
It'd be better to name 2.4.14 to 2.6 and unstable to 2.7.0 since it wouldn't break numbering. If anyone asks where was 2.5.x tell them to go to hell. I think that staying with the current system with the next unstable being 2.5.0 is really the best. If the numbering isn't broke don't try to break it.
There are 13 servers however and all have to go down to take out the Internet. Even then the effect would take some time to be felt. The root servers only manage the top level domains. These tend not to change very often and so the TTL on the root records can be made very long without causing operational difficulty.
If all 13 went down on the same the internet would work just fine. Looking up names not in a hosts file would be hard, but the routing would work same as always. Fake root servers would be hard as well, since the DNS servers are looked up by IP addresses and not domain names. They would have to get the routers to reroute traffic going to the root server to somewhere else. That is likely to be noticed very quickly.
This is the vulnerability of our Nuclear Piles
This is where you can cross the border undetected
This is how to make a Fake ID?
Well maybe I didn't say every single tiny little syllable but basically I said em, basicly.
Except drive for drive IDE and SCSI drives are the same. How can one be "faster"? Most SCSI drives are just IDE drives with a SCSI controller attached to the IDE interface. Do you mean that they appear faster since SCSI can transfer between disks at once? Or do you mean that SCSI disks actually can spin the disk faster than IDE. With one disk on each controller they'll score exactly equal.
Except that the HD cache will be reading on the idle IDE disk. It's not just sitting there doing nothing, it's actaully reading without being commanded.
There is probably a greater connection to this story out of Nepal then the stories comming out of Afganistan. At least for the former story they both involved planes and crashes of planes. The connection is therefor obvious.
Errr....raising the minimum wage would have little effect since it would push all the bids up by the same amount. Meaning the lowest bid is still the lowest bid.
I liked that CNN went into some low-bandwidth mode where most of the information on the site had been dropped completely. Looks like they are starting to learn their lesson about how traffic comes to the site. Too bad they still can't handle a sudden spike.
No, nationalize the industry. Consumers are protected and at this point it probably wouldn't hurt. Could be used to "fight terrorists" or other such non-sense. I mean we've tried everything else we'd might as well be complete in our failures.
It's more greed incarnate for not taking these steps years ago when there was still a risk, but not everyone was worried. Then I'd not fault them for it. I fault them for being greedy for taking these steps now when it is more in vogue. Most of the "newer protections" are to make people feel safe, but do not actaully add to safety in any measurable way. I mean, if it was that easy to ban bags from a show room or make everyone go to the ticket counter, these things should of been done years ago. Can safety be gaurenteed by these simple, easy to do measures? Do any of these measures really stop a determined person (i.e. like an organized terrorist cell) from doing harm? There is now a demand for being more "safe" and people are paying for it. Those who are implementing these measures are being greedy, in that they want to attract more customers to their venue, with out really increasing the cost of holding the event. Things like banning bags and laptops work for this goal well. And if it increases food sales and makes those who are selling goods on the floor happy, then its just an added bonus.
An Ipaq can do the 802.11 scanning just as well as a laptop. And with a duel-sleave with one network card and a microdrive a lot of information can be pulled down in a more descrete manner.
Your theory does not explain how that many species can die that quickly. It was some event or events and then poof, no more dinosaurs and a number of other species (how many trilobites do you see today?) This isn't over the period of millenia, but on the order of 50 years. Being in "decline" doesn't really prove anything since they had been in decline twice before (and came back) and the evidence we have is based on what dinosaurs happened to keel overn a riverbed. Making the kind of assumptions you seem to be making defies he evidence as has been collected.
Added to the fact that nature is all about being lucky and being at the right time at the right place. Mutations occur at random and whether these mutations are passed down has everything to do with what the current conditions are and whether or not those mutations are helpful. Humans (especially humans of European desent) have cystic fibrosis because it was helpful for the conditions it first developed in, it doesn't make us more "fit" but it did help out under certian critera. Have you not studied random number theory. If there isn't random variation then the data that has been collected isn't correct. Nothing occurs right on the nose or exactly every time. There is always a probablity of an event occuring and a probablity of an event not occuring. Randomness and probablity implies luck. Any you're alive today based on a huge number of probablities playing out in your favor. So am I and so is everything else on the planet. Mammals did get lucky compared to the dinosaurs.
No, meteor hasn't been the buzzword-of-the-moment for about a year or two. We've now moved on to "terrorist" as the BOTM. Which means based on your hypthosis that this is the BOTM, that would mean that terrorists had to bring down all those civilizations, which was not the subject of the article.
The comet impact does not appear to be nonsense from those working in the field. There is evidence of a massive cloud of dust covering the earth and settling down around the end of the Cretaceous period. Dinosaurs are not found above the line of silt from that impacted and a huge number of variations of mammals are found above that. Added to that there is other evidence from the same time of a massive impact off the coast in Yuctan, Mexico. The
Chicxulub crater appears to have caused massive direct damage to North America and would have the strength to kick up the cloud found in other places throughout the world. The geological evidence points to a cataclysimic change in the Earth over a period of about 50 years
It appears that dinosaurs may be warm blooded. And more like modern birds and mammals than the lizards and amphibians. And in size they ranged from as big as a blue whale to as small as a chicken. They survived a huge number of gradual changes to the environment in their time on the earth. They seem to have a lot in common with modern mammals and birds, especially in terms of diversity and habitats.
On your over all hypothosis that mammals are superior to dinosaurs is really just statistical conjecture. If being fit means alive now then, yes mammals are more fit. But if fit takes on other qualities, then it is really a question of which was more fit (even the best solutions don't always get chosen in today's world). In the end I believe that, mammals really got lucky. They were the right size at the time of the impact, if they'd been larger they would of suffered the same fate as the bigger and more diverse dinosaurs. Dinosaurs just got caught buying into a system that all of a sudden just dissappeared on them. If the same thing happened today, probably most mammals (including humans) would suffer the same fate.
Sodom and Gommorah are located on the Med. The remains of the towns have been found.
Except Maxim/Dallas is having a number of supply problems. They seem to be the redheaded stepchild of the Maxim buyout. Try to order just about anything from them and its a 10 week wait if you're lucky, and when the parts do show up they tend to be the wrong ones. Added to the fact that the software that runs them is not fully open or free they wouldn't meet the requirements of the poster in this case. It's really a shame. The buttons and the accompaning TINI's were very cool, but other more important things (like shipping them corrent and on time) have gotten in the way.
If both products were available today at the same price, and if applications were available, I'd have to go with the Itanic. Intel has thrown away the last 20+ years of legacy crap that has been slowing development for so long. AMD, in an effort to ease migration and appease the masses of consumers, has retained those old roadblocks and built new roads around them.
Intel has traded a bunch of old road blocks and legacy crap for an entire new set of crap. Intel's developement of this new architecture has been bogged down for a while. You've said it your self that you've been hearing about it since the mid-nineties. Besides AMD's solution is really the same as Intel's. They both can execute IA-32 code on the chip, they both introduce a new instruction set which causes compilers to be re-written for. They both have their problems in design and manufacturing. If anything AMD has taken an approach where there is less to go wrong than in Intel's.
That's not true. All they do is buy games from the company. After they're owned by the rental company, theirs little that can be done about it.
No, the new Monkey Island did suck. Who's ever heard of a game that didn't let you use the mouse? It took me 20 minutes to figure that one out. And then the game wasn't even worthwhile enough to make me want to play it, I gave up after an hour or so.
The patent's office funding doesn't come from granting as many patents as possible, but other orginizations who are more politically backed funding comes from the patent office granting more patents. The sad part of it is that even if the patent office gets more income from the patenting process they can't hire more people or make other decisions based on that process because Congress takes away all of their surplus if they are over the budgetted amount. It's an aweful cycle that no one seems to be able to break.
This change is for developer signatures. Man in the Middle is not a consern while developing the application. It just makes things easier.
So frames that are 1 apart are going to be any more dis-similar? We're not talking about minutes here, but microseconds.
Except if the video is saved uncompressed, then you're cutting out 50% of the needed data all together. Even compressed, you're compressing half as much to begin with so the savings will be 50% + compressed savings. You'll still be ahead of where you were.