I have trouble reading anti-aliased fonts; I can read them rather well, but after a while I get the strange feeling my eyes get tired. I asked a few friends and some of them have the same problem. Does someone have a clue why this is? I do by the way think anti-aliased fonts look much better than normal ones, but for the reason above, I'll stick to my normal fonts.
It is not. The author of arts explicitly created the possibility to create a seperate GUI for whatever platform you wish. This specific case does therefore not say anything about further integration. It just means arts is constructed the way it should be.
This fee has already been around for a long time for music cassettes in the Netherlands. The fee for CD-R's has been introduced since 1998. But there's a difference between MC's and CD's; CD's are used a lot more for other purposes than copying music so the fee for these CD's is a bit `unreasonable' but I think it's fair enough...by the way...the fee is NLG 1,08 per hour (less than USD 0.5).
floppies: 5.25inch 360K and 720K 3.5inch 720K and 1.4MB
zipdisk: 120mb or something like that
cdrom: 650mb
My point: There will always be a need for larger media. cdroms are way too small; I don't want to put my mp3-collection on 200 cdroms. I want only one which I can take everywere.
I think people will buy these things...maybe they will be expensive in the beginning (like the CD-R)...maybe a better standard will come, but in the end there will most certainly be a new standard (which will be outdated in a few years). Why not this one? You can never tell in advance if product will become a `standard' and certain products will always suffer from the problems you mention.
On the other hand...the CD-standard is nearly 20 years old by now, but I think it's time for something larger.
This URL describes how belgian scientists engineered a bacteria which emits light in the presence of certain metallic ions. From this bacteria they took the genes which did this. About the same as described in the article...only here a more intelligent way of finding the genes was used. The document was written in april 1997. That quite some time before professor Li Yu did this! I wish the professor good luck with his patent:) I fear he will get it since the patent office in the USA has already shown time after time that they do not know what they are talking about...
According to a survey which is shortly mentioned on this site, the 10% is rather correct. Choose `The name 1 op tien' from the menu for more information. There it says 1 of 10 respondents to this survey answered yes to the question wether they ever had sex with a person of the same sex...which offcourse is the wrong question so after all the 5% you mention might be rather close.
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Good idea. That makes me think: the endpoint of the cable has to be in an orbit so high that the cable will not fall if an elevator would `pull' it down. That would mean there's a rather strong force pulling the cable away from earth (since the elevator would otherwise pull the cable back to earth). I wonder how one would connect this to the earth. Do you also have nice idea's about this?
The centre of mass of the earth will change a tiny little bit; quite some mass is moved rather far away from the centre. Therefore the rotation axis of the earth will shift a little bit and the orbit around the Sun might shift a little bit.
Dislaimer: This may be bollux. But maybe not.
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I understand the space-mount-point will be some sort of sattelite OUTSIDE a geocentric orbit; it will be held on it's place by the elevator-cable itself; without the cable it would fly away into space. The centrifugal force has to be larger than the sum of earth's gravity and the force of the elevator pulling itself up along the cable.
This will cause the cable to be under tremendous stress; the satellite pulls it into space while the earth pulls it back. I'm not an expert, but I conclude from this that in the middle of the cable the stress on the cable will be more than twice earth's gravity pulling on half the cable....e.g. if the cable has to be 20000km long and it is 10 grams per meter, it would be 100000 kilograms weight hanging from the cable...and an equal force the other direction. That makes a force equal to the gravity on 200000 kilograms...nice:)
I meant: why use a PCI-interface instead of implementing this as a sort of cache on the disk by adding begin/end-tags to the protocol the disk uses (IDE/SCSI)? Is that explained in the article? If so; please show me where. Thank you.
What I was trying to say is that hardly anything was said about TRAM compared to the extensive description of how it currenty is done; all sorts of current solutions are covered, but when it comes to TRAM he just says `do it so and so' without mentioning WHY to do it that way or what the alternatives are. This was just an example of that, but I could have chosen a better one...
Why on earth do you want to tell us things like this Unix was designed to be simple. This means, if they found that they could do certain things as libraries in user space, then it didn't belong in the kernel.? It has absolutely nothing to do with TRAM. Actually that's true for nearly everything you say in your article; you use a lot of irrelevant examples and try to mention everything you seem to know about Unix and then explain the solution in 2 lines?! Why don't you mention the real interesting things like that such cards most probably fail just as often as UPS'es, why this should be on a PCI-card and not on the disk (ok that's because you want to access the memory directly, but please explain this...) or what the consequences are concerning access-time?
Although the idea is good, I think you could have done a much better article; come to the point!
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If you put it like this...then why isn't all the gangsta-rap produced by 100 year old black dudes? Come on, cut the crap; the fact that black ppl where enslaved by white ones once does not imply white ppl are bad. The reasoning you do is just the same as `Pete has a nose, John has a nose so John must be the same as Pete'. Stupid.
People do bad things but you can't just blame other people for that because they happen to have the same color of skin as the bad guys have.
If you tell someone to read the article, maybe you'd better first read his comment; it says Since this case won't be appealed, it means almost nothing.; he was commenting on the fact that there wouldn't be an appeal! Don't you think it's a bit stupid to first misread someone's comment and then call him a fuckhead?
I wonder...there are quite a lot of those sattelites and since they have such a low orbit, I suppose they go rather fast...I suppose this means that during a phonecall, one will have to switch sattelite quite often...does anybody know how this is done? I also wonder how they calculated those orbits; I suppose they all fly in different directions, but to keep the whole earth covered must be a hell of a job! Does anybody have some info on this?
Imagine this software installed on your PC and your webcam on top of your monitor. After some calibration (Now look to the left corner of your screen and press enter etc.), the device will be able to well to which part of the screen you are looking. This can easily replace the mouse! How about focus-follows-eye instead of focus-follows-mouse:)
The first p2 ran at 233mhz and had 66mhz FSB. A 1gz p3 has 4 times as much clockspeed while it's FSB only doubled. I fear the same will happen with processors @ 10ghz; ram can't keep up with the clockspeed so performance will stay behind and a much larger cache will be needed which will not only be really expensive but also generate enough heat to keep your house at a constant 40 degrees Celsius.
If you'd consider the magnetic field of a planet or a sun to be the piece of metal, your space drive will work as long as you're near the piece of metal...and there are a lot of pieces of metal:)
I think the average BSD-user has better reasons than that to use BSD. I'm not one by the way; I'm an apt-getter. In what way is the BSD-license (too) restrictive to you?
As agreed on the phone please don't distribute this version of flask to anybody else. We still haven't got hold of the author of Flask and we don't want to distribute this version without permission.
That's what the email from Hans & Christian (@Intel) says. So to me it definately looks like they're planning on releasing the source-code. They're only a bit late.
Besides that, it'll probably only work with children since adults' nerves don't really grow any more. So the statement that we'd be able to transplant everything but the brain is a bit premature.
or do you run Linux natively and then use plex86 to run Windows under Linux?
Yes. Plex86 is a Linux-programme. It let's Windows run on your processor (so you'll need a x86) by emulating the parts of the processor which it cannot access because Linux uses those parts. As the guy in the first8 post already pointed out: a simple addition can easily be run but a context switch will have to be emulated because it would fuck up the native OS (Linux) if you could, but you cannot even access such instructions since they're only accessibly from Kernel code (this is in the architecture of the x86).
I started a company developing web-applications in march this year. We only work with part-timers (15-20 hours a week). They're allowed to work where and when they want. It turned out that we are now able to find people much easier than whatever lookalike company because it's just more fun to work here. This is the most important advantage to us over 9-17-workers; we started with 5 people in march and now we are with 15 people...we can easily get a lot more while other companies are fighting for people.
The downside is that it's a lot harder to find time for meetings but that's what irc is for. On the other hand; we can react much faster to questions from our customers...we're able to fix problems that come in at 18:00 before the next day by default. 9-17-companies will have a hard time trying to accomplish that.
I also looks like we work much more efficient because our employees can work when they want to so they usually work when they're best at it (after midnight that is). I have no evidence that this is true offcourse, but it certainly looks like it. NOTE: Since we only work with parttimers, I cannot say how this relates to a fulltime-employee-company but I don't think it's much of a difference.
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...they will soon come after me. Too bad I live in the Netherlands:(
I have trouble reading anti-aliased fonts; I can read them rather well, but after a while I get the strange feeling my eyes get tired. I asked a few friends and some of them have the same problem. Does someone have a clue why this is? I do by the way think anti-aliased fonts look much better than normal ones, but for the reason above, I'll stick to my normal fonts.
It is not. The author of arts explicitly created the possibility to create a seperate GUI for whatever platform you wish. This specific case does therefore not say anything about further integration. It just means arts is constructed the way it should be.
- The oil-fires in Iraq definately had their impact on this
- I think 3rd world countries don't use enough energy to cause more pollution than the USA
- Regulations on pollution are way behind on those in Europe as the article mentions shortly.
My $.03This fee has already been around for a long time for music cassettes in the Netherlands. The fee for CD-R's has been introduced since 1998. But there's a difference between MC's and CD's; CD's are used a lot more for other purposes than copying music so the fee for these CD's is a bit `unreasonable' but I think it's fair enough...by the way...the fee is NLG 1,08 per hour (less than USD 0.5).
zipdisk: 120mb or something like that
cdrom: 650mb
My point: There will always be a need for larger media. cdroms are way too small; I don't want to put my mp3-collection on 200 cdroms. I want only one which I can take everywere. I think people will buy these things...maybe they will be expensive in the beginning (like the CD-R)...maybe a better standard will come, but in the end there will most certainly be a new standard (which will be outdated in a few years). Why not this one? You can never tell in advance if product will become a `standard' and certain products will always suffer from the problems you mention.
On the other hand...the CD-standard is nearly 20 years old by now, but I think it's time for something larger.
This URL describes how belgian scientists engineered a bacteria which emits light in the presence of certain metallic ions. From this bacteria they took the genes which did this. About the same as described in the article...only here a more intelligent way of finding the genes was used. The document was written in april 1997. That quite some time before professor Li Yu did this! I wish the professor good luck with his patent:) I fear he will get it since the patent office in the USA has already shown time after time that they do not know what they are talking about...
According to a survey which is shortly mentioned on this site, the 10% is rather correct. Choose `The name 1 op tien' from the menu for more information. There it says 1 of 10 respondents to this survey answered yes to the question wether they ever had sex with a person of the same sex...which offcourse is the wrong question so after all the 5% you mention might be rather close.
Good idea. That makes me think: the endpoint of the cable has to be in an orbit so high that the cable will not fall if an elevator would `pull' it down. That would mean there's a rather strong force pulling the cable away from earth (since the elevator would otherwise pull the cable back to earth). I wonder how one would connect this to the earth. Do you also have nice idea's about this?
Dislaimer: This may be bollux. But maybe not.
This will cause the cable to be under tremendous stress; the satellite pulls it into space while the earth pulls it back. I'm not an expert, but I conclude from this that in the middle of the cable the stress on the cable will be more than twice earth's gravity pulling on half the cable....e.g. if the cable has to be 20000km long and it is 10 grams per meter, it would be 100000 kilograms weight hanging from the cable...and an equal force the other direction. That makes a force equal to the gravity on 200000 kilograms...nice:)
Experts: please correct me if I'm wrong.
What I was trying to say is that hardly anything was said about TRAM compared to the extensive description of how it currenty is done; all sorts of current solutions are covered, but when it comes to TRAM he just says `do it so and so' without mentioning WHY to do it that way or what the alternatives are. This was just an example of that, but I could have chosen a better one...
Why on earth do you want to tell us things like this Unix was designed to be simple. This means, if they found that they could do certain things as libraries in user space, then it didn't belong in the kernel.? It has absolutely nothing to do with TRAM. Actually that's true for nearly everything you say in your article; you use a lot of irrelevant examples and try to mention everything you seem to know about Unix and then explain the solution in 2 lines?! Why don't you mention the real interesting things like that such cards most probably fail just as often as UPS'es, why this should be on a PCI-card and not on the disk (ok that's because you want to access the memory directly, but please explain this...) or what the consequences are concerning access-time?
Although the idea is good, I think you could have done a much better article; come to the point!
People do bad things but you can't just blame other people for that because they happen to have the same color of skin as the bad guys have.
If you tell someone to read the article, maybe you'd better first read his comment; it says Since this case won't be appealed, it means almost nothing.; he was commenting on the fact that there wouldn't be an appeal! Don't you think it's a bit stupid to first misread someone's comment and then call him a fuckhead?
I wonder...there are quite a lot of those sattelites and since they have such a low orbit, I suppose they go rather fast...I suppose this means that during a phonecall, one will have to switch sattelite quite often...does anybody know how this is done? I also wonder how they calculated those orbits; I suppose they all fly in different directions, but to keep the whole earth covered must be a hell of a job! Does anybody have some info on this?
Imagine this software installed on your PC and your webcam on top of your monitor. After some calibration (Now look to the left corner of your screen and press enter etc.), the device will be able to well to which part of the screen you are looking. This can easily replace the mouse! How about focus-follows-eye instead of focus-follows-mouse :)
The first p2 ran at 233mhz and had 66mhz FSB. A 1gz p3 has 4 times as much clockspeed while it's FSB only doubled. I fear the same will happen with processors @ 10ghz; ram can't keep up with the clockspeed so performance will stay behind and a much larger cache will be needed which will not only be really expensive but also generate enough heat to keep your house at a constant 40 degrees Celsius.
If you'd consider the magnetic field of a planet or a sun to be the piece of metal, your space drive will work as long as you're near the piece of metal...and there are a lot of pieces of metal:)
I think the average BSD-user has better reasons than that to use BSD. I'm not one by the way; I'm an apt-getter. In what way is the BSD-license (too) restrictive to you?
That's what the email from Hans & Christian (@Intel) says. So to me it definately looks like they're planning on releasing the source-code. They're only a bit late.
Besides that, it'll probably only work with children since adults' nerves don't really grow any more. So the statement that we'd be able to transplant everything but the brain is a bit premature.
Yes. Plex86 is a Linux-programme. It let's Windows run on your processor (so you'll need a x86) by emulating the parts of the processor which it cannot access because Linux uses those parts. As the guy in the first8 post already pointed out: a simple addition can easily be run but a context switch will have to be emulated because it would fuck up the native OS (Linux) if you could, but you cannot even access such instructions since they're only accessibly from Kernel code (this is in the architecture of the x86).
The downside is that it's a lot harder to find time for meetings but that's what irc is for. On the other hand; we can react much faster to questions from our customers...we're able to fix problems that come in at 18:00 before the next day by default. 9-17-companies will have a hard time trying to accomplish that.
I also looks like we work much more efficient because our employees can work when they want to so they usually work when they're best at it (after midnight that is). I have no evidence that this is true offcourse, but it certainly looks like it. NOTE: Since we only work with parttimers, I cannot say how this relates to a fulltime-employee-company but I don't think it's much of a difference.
By the time there are Linux-drivers for this beast, I'm sure there will also be CPU's that are fast enough.