Interesting - it sounds like they've incorporated striped files (a la par) into the protocol:
From TFA:
Once you have downloaded a few of these, you can generate new combinations from the ones you have, and send those out to your peers. Collect enough of these pieces, and you will have enough information to reconstruct the whole file. Even if you don't have all the original pieces distributed by the person who held the original version of the file.
I guess that's what you get when you have unlimited funds to throw at something....
Actually, if we're talking about balance, I think that's exactly what Anakin accomplished:
Before, the Jedi (who are good, good, GOOD) are great in number and the keepers of the peace for the galaxy, while the Sith (who are bad) number exactly two and are a fly buzzing around the Jedi's ears.
After, there are two Sith, and two Jedi (sounds a bit more balanced to me). Admittedly, the Sith are the two most powerful dudes in the galaxy while the Jedi go in to hiding/exile. But that only lasts a generation, compared with the thousands of years of the Old Republic. Maybe a generation of spectacularly dark times is the perfect counter weight to thousands of years of mediocre peace.
The overwhelming majority of drug trials are corporate-funded. A company that's desperate enough to get its drug to market could easily fund 20 studies, and even if the drug were just placebo, chances are good that 1 in 20 of those studies would turn out positive....
Would companies be desperate enough to do this? You bet.
I bet not. These studies can cost millions. Sure, BigPharma has BigMoney, but you're suggesting that they can easily soak a 2000% increase in their phase 4 clinical trial budget!? No way.
Here's something that's always bugged me: do a standard install (say, w2k) then play with it for 10 minutes (check webmail, draw a picture in paint, whatever, maybe reboot it a few times). Revel in the responsiveness, boot time, etc. Now install SP4 and all the other patches. W-h-a-t- -h-a-p-p-e-n-e-d- -t-o- -m-y- -c-o-m-p-u-t-e-r-?! Now it's slow as mud. Those pesky patches sure do muck something up.
Microsoft has an official (and overly complicated) procedure for integrating the service pack installations into the base windows install.
Assuming that you've tried it...does affect the molasses-factor?
(Of course, the cynic in me knows that those patches deliberately slow your system down so you'll be inclined to upgrade sooner.)
The hubble space telescope uses a CCD equivalent to a less-than-consumer-level digi-cam.
This site
says: "The Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 has four CCDs, each containing 640,000 pixels." so that's a 2.5 mega-pixel camera.
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And how many of those are zombies?
What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet
-- Act II, scene ii, Romeo and Juliet, Wm. Shakespeare
"For a list of ways in which technology has made modern life suck ass, press 1..."
(I'm stealing this, but I don't know from whom.)
From TFA:
I guess that's what you get when you have unlimited funds to throw at something....
Actually, if we're talking about balance, I think that's exactly what Anakin accomplished:
Before, the Jedi (who are good, good, GOOD) are great in number and the keepers of the peace for the galaxy, while the Sith (who are bad) number exactly two and are a fly buzzing around the Jedi's ears.
After, there are two Sith, and two Jedi (sounds a bit more balanced to me). Admittedly, the Sith are the two most powerful dudes in the galaxy while the Jedi go in to hiding/exile. But that only lasts a generation, compared with the thousands of years of the Old Republic. Maybe a generation of spectacularly dark times is the perfect counter weight to thousands of years of mediocre peace.
...and before someone tries to be helpful, yes, I meant sentence.
You used the words "illegal" and "open source software" in the same sentance.
Please don't do that!
I was (jokingly) refering to story from Saturday
I'm sure that this washed up because of the recent tsunamies!
(karma be damned...)
Isn't the name of the copyrighted material protected by trademark laws?
For example, I don't think that I can sell copies of my wedding video under the name, "Lord of the Rings".
This is very old news according to this.
I dial 011, then some more numbers.
don't forget the built-in cooling feature!
Joss Whedon. I doubt that he'd be interested, but man, wouldn't he do an amazing job?!
The overwhelming majority of drug trials are corporate-funded. A company that's desperate enough to get its drug to market could easily fund 20 studies, and even if the drug were just placebo, chances are good that 1 in 20 of those studies would turn out positive. ...
Would companies be desperate enough to do this? You bet.
I bet not. These studies can cost millions. Sure, BigPharma has BigMoney, but you're suggesting that they can easily soak a 2000% increase in their phase 4 clinical trial budget!? No way.
...But you have until at least Sept. 30, so, really, no one has to rush at all. That's the whole point of the 'preload,' right?
I believe that it was a poll.
http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl?qid=1150
Interesting....
Here's something that's always bugged me: do a standard install (say, w2k) then play with it for 10 minutes (check webmail, draw a picture in paint, whatever, maybe reboot it a few times). Revel in the responsiveness, boot time, etc. Now install SP4 and all the other patches. W-h-a-t- -h-a-p-p-e-n-e-d- -t-o- -m-y- -c-o-m-p-u-t-e-r-?! Now it's slow as mud. Those pesky patches sure do muck something up.
Microsoft has an official (and overly complicated) procedure for integrating the service pack installations into the base windows install.
Assuming that you've tried it...does affect the molasses-factor?
(Of course, the cynic in me knows that those patches deliberately slow your system down so you'll be inclined to upgrade sooner.)
And now, even Apple will deal with the battery for you:
http://www.apple.com/batteries/replacements.html
"If it is out of warranty, Apple offers a battery replacement for $99."
wildcard spam is minor/rare compared to targetted spam
That's >120K wildcard spams a week (on a University Professor's lab mail server, ~70 real users).The hubble space telescope uses a CCD equivalent to a less-than-consumer-level digi-cam.
This site says: "The Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 has four CCDs, each containing 640,000 pixels." so that's a 2.5 mega-pixel camera.
Let's all keep this in mind....
I'm leaving my tech support job at the end of July. Thank you, Microsoft, for delaying the SP2 release until August!
Woo-hoo!
Look, man, 'tabs' are just meta-windows. It's not like 'more tabs!' is going to save the world or anything.
Ever since I started reading /. I find that, by the time Sci.Am. hits the newsstands, about 90% of the content is old news.
I still like the puzzles at the end, though.