But this is run by United Devices, the same people who brought us the Cancer cure. Or did they? If you glance at the forums, you might notice one of the biggest gripes is that UD provides a minimal amount of feedback and status updates. They do little to nothing to promote the projects they have running, although they let you think there are some sort of prizes to be had by amassing the most points.
The truth is, I don't care whether they're in it for a profit or for posterity, but if someone's using my resources, I'd at least like to know how they're being used, and what effect, if any, it has had. The SETI project might be futile, but at least someone lets us know what's going on occasionally, which is far more than I can say for the UD projects thus far. For all I know, the cancer distributed computing project has been abandoned in favor of more promising avenues of research. Personally I'll stick with SETI.
there were almost 3 million downloads of Firefox 1.0 in the 5 days since launch, which comes to over 500,000 downloads per day
Or 600,000 per day.....
Hey, Captain semantics.
there were almost 3 million downloads of Firefox 1.0 in the 5 days since launch, which comes to over 500,000 downloads per day
SO, what the parent said was more accurate than what you said, yes?
Or, launch day + 5 days = 6 days, so everybody's wrong. Or are we not counting launch day? But wait, what time zone are we talking about? And what about the reletivistic effects of the download traveling through fiber at nearly C? Wait, what's the count at now? How about... meow!
No, I didn't say meow.
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Pfft../. is way more inflammatory than anything Al-Jazeera writes. You're more likely to raise flags by coming here.
MozEurope's Axel Hecht in this German discussion thread (http://firefox.stw.uni-duisburg.de/forum/viewtopi c.php?t=9677) admits he included this reroute in the FF-de ebay searchplugin. Yet he claims it's perfectly alright to do this. Btw, this action leave a tracking cookie on your computer (yuck!).
More mature like what? Final Fantasy, The Movie? I don't there's much of a market for animated adult movies outside of Japan. Pixar does one thing, and does it well: they make great 3D animations, in the style of great 2D animations, ie, for kids. Even The Simpsons, one of the only animations that appeals equally to adults and kids, STILL appeals to kids. One of the other reasons Pixar is so successful is that its stories focus on inanimate/nonhuman/nonexistant characters. Sure, there were a few humans here and there, but they were still cartoonish. It's much easier to suspend disbelief when you're watching something cartoonish, as opposed to trying to make realistic people. And even if they succeeded in achieving realism, you'd still have to establish a genre by convincing people such a thing is more than just a novelty.. not an easy thing to do.
*Was I the only one who thought Shark Tale sucked, by the way? What a cheap attempt at trying to steal some limelight from Finding Nemo.
Finding life on Mars of any sort would be "neat," but only important insomuch as it shows that life is more ubiquitous than we thought. It depends how you define important, I suppose.. I tend to think things are important if they are directly relevant to my life, or the lives of many people. If it turned out that there was bacteria on Mars that cured cancer, that would be "important." But I think most people believe that life exists outside of our planet, so I don't think such a discovery would be revolutionary. It might have a big wow factor, but that doesn't make it important.
What would be far more important are both the expected and unexpected benefits of the technology developed to make such a trip.
Furthermore, I'd venture to say that the great majority of scientific discoveries were accidents. It's difficult, if not impossible, to predict the benefits or lack thereof beforehand.
Some of them (e.g. english-like word generation) are just as weighted as your examples, but I throw in some interesting curve-balls to expand the search space substantially, and it works out well.
I sort of do the same thing in my head. First, I come up with an englsh word. In this case, "elite." Then I come up with another word.. let's say, "dude." Since any respectable dictionary attack is likely to find these words, I alter the spellings accordingly: leet and dood. Finally, to subvert any sort of alternate spelling dictionary approach, I replace letters with numbers which remotely look like the letters they're intended to represent, and combine the words to form my password thus: "1337d00d"
And to anyone who thinks "NOW I KNOW HIS PASSWORD LOL!!!11," don't you think I'd be smart enough to reverse the order of the words?
Conversations are not a good way to organize e-mail.
That's why labels + filters =... golders? Anyway, you can automatically have labels applied to all e-mail from yourfriend@someisp.com, which essentially puts them in folders. If your friend has multiple e-mail addresses, you can still create multiple filters to apply the same label to all of them. Presuming you know who that your e-mail is from Jim, you just find the relevant conversation (most likely within the past week), and scan through it for the little blurb. If your e-mail was just 1 line, you wouldn't really have to read all the big e-mails in the conversation to find the small one. In fact, if it was just one line, you'd see it in the preview without even expanding the message panes.
Several people have quoted this, but I don't buy it. In order for that to be true, the volumetric coefficient of expansion (how much a material expands/contracts) would have to be greater or equal for the PCB than for the conductors, which I'm fairly certain is NOT the case. Metal has a fairly generous expansion coefficient, meaning it changes in volume more for a given change in temperature than most other materials. Most glass, for example, has a coefficient of around 85, while tin has a coefficient of 398. If the metal shrank more than the the material it was mounted on, cold solder joints would actually open further. Heating it up might fix that, but not chilling it.
OTOH, lower temperatures increase conductivity (lower the resistance) of a conductor, so if there was a marginally functional solder run, it *might* fix it. I doubt that's the case though, since solder runs usually either work, or they don't.
I'll grant that it might "unstick" a head by contracting the metal away from the platter though. At any rate, it definately can't hurt to try. At the very least, someday in the future when science has progressed sufficiently, we can thaw out our frozen drives and bring them back to life.
'Wal-Mart has 460 terabytes of data stored on Teradata mainframes, at its Bentonville headquarters. To put that in perspective, the Internet has less than half as much data, according to experts.'
Apparently the "experts," overlooked alt.binaries.*
While I agree that the conditions imposed are/were arduous, and I myself have endured employment by an equally demanding employer, I'm curious about the rights of a salary worker to demand overtime. As much as we enjoy deriding doctors and lawyers, many of them work 80-90 hour weeks, albeit usually for substantially more money than the average programmer. If you agree to be paid on salary, and you agree that time worked in excess of 40 hours per week is acceptable when your employer deems necessary, then can you still complain that you have to work overtime without compensation? I guess I'm a little fuzzy on labor laws in the US.. Perhaps someone can elaborate.
The difference is that most ham radio operators are still living with their parents and extolling the virtues of vacuum tubes, whereas most programmers are barely living at all.
Right. Because nuclear explosions are the same thing as a 1-2 degree change in average global temperature. And the effects of global warming are going to happen instaneously, just like in "The Day After Tomorrow." You're going to wake up tomorrow and California will not only be underwater, but plate tectonics will have moved it halfway to Japan.
Personally, I am an agnostic on the Global Warming question because I know that the science is so screwed up I can't believe ANY of it.
Thank you for finally speaking the truth. People are so blind today. They get so snowed by all the big words and fancy college degrees that they don't take a step back to see what a bunch of crap science really is.
In addition to global warming, due to how screwed up science is, I also don't believe in microbes, magnetism, or the biggest communist conspiracy of them all: gravity.
While I'm sure you're speaking in jest, you're comparing apples to oranges. Microbes, magnetism, and gravity are all nouns. It turns out that it's not very hard to prove that a noun exists. Proving that something will occur (or even proving that something HAS occurred) is a MUCH different process. It turns out that people are really bad at predicting just about anything with any degree of certainty. We can make some general assumptions, but that's about it. I'm sure someone will pipe in about the only way to prove gravity exists is to witness something falling, however that's hardly the same thing. Saying two objects will fall toward one another is the same as saying the temperature will change. Predicting exactly how the two objects will fall toward each other is a much more difficult undertaking. Saying you don't believe in gravity is like saying the grandparent poster doesn't believe in weather.
That said..
In all reality, it's very likely that greenhouse gasses ARE warming our atmosphere and the surface of the planet. What's not at all likely is that this is strictly a bad thing, for everyone, everywhere. Landmasses will definately change -- to the detriment of some, but to the benefit of others. That's how the world works. Certain parts of the world increase in value, while others decrease, for whatever reason -- pollution, crime, accessibility, distance from other locations, etc., etc. Just because part of todays coastline is underwater tomorrow doesn't mean there's no more coastal property. Just because OUR heartland turns into a desert doesn't mean other places won't become outstanding farmland. Change in and of itself is neither good nor bad. . . Only failure to keep up with changes.
I, for one, welcome our new single proton and electron overlords.
I'm also impressed that an oil company is taking the initiative to make the switch instead of becoming a dinosaur by sticking with oil. Sorry, that dinosaur/oil comment was completely out of line. I'm not sure what's wrong with me today.
I'm sort of talking out of my ass here, but if you drop a match in a tank of gasoline, there would be a brief flash of the vapors combusting, but that's about it. If the tank was close to empty, there might actually be enough vapor to cause an explosion, but a tank full of gasoline isn't very explosive at all.
Tanks full of compressed gas, otoh, are inherintly susceptible to rupture as the metal becomes fatigued from the constant changes in pressure. There are tanks that are less susceptible to fatigue, but none that are immune, that I'm aware of. Aside from that, there's the fact that hydrogen doesn't need to evaporate to become combustible, since it's already a gas. So yes, a tank of gasoline is less explosive than a tank of hydrogen.
At the same time, I'm not particularly worried about the possibility of either tanks exploding near me, since they're both relatively unlikely to happen spontaneously. Maybe in a serious crash, but I'd be more concerned with the sudden stop involved there.
Steve Vamos, Microsoft Australia's managing director, says "There are plenty of products out there with features we don't have. We have plenty of features that our customers don't use."
Good job Steve, you just convinced me not to use MS products.
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"Carson.. promise you'll never die."
"You know I can't promise that."
"If you did, I'd make love to you right now."
"I promise. I will never die."
But this is run by United Devices, the same people who brought us the Cancer cure. Or did they? If you glance at the forums, you might notice one of the biggest gripes is that UD provides a minimal amount of feedback and status updates. They do little to nothing to promote the projects they have running, although they let you think there are some sort of prizes to be had by amassing the most points.
The truth is, I don't care whether they're in it for a profit or for posterity, but if someone's using my resources, I'd at least like to know how they're being used, and what effect, if any, it has had. The SETI project might be futile, but at least someone lets us know what's going on occasionally, which is far more than I can say for the UD projects thus far. For all I know, the cancer distributed computing project has been abandoned in favor of more promising avenues of research. Personally I'll stick with SETI.
there were almost 3 million downloads of Firefox 1.0 in the 5 days since launch, which comes to over 500,000 downloads per day
Or 600,000 per day.....
Hey, Captain semantics.
there were almost 3 million downloads of Firefox 1.0 in the 5 days since launch, which comes to over 500,000 downloads per day
SO, what the parent said was more accurate than what you said, yes?
Or, launch day + 5 days = 6 days, so everybody's wrong. Or are we not counting launch day? But wait, what time zone are we talking about? And what about the reletivistic effects of the download traveling through fiber at nearly C? Wait, what's the count at now? How about... meow!
No, I didn't say meow.
Pfft.. /. is way more inflammatory than anything Al-Jazeera writes. You're more likely to raise flags by coming here.
From the thread at http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=1648 92:
i c.php?t=9677) admits he included this reroute in the FF-de ebay searchplugin. Yet he claims it's perfectly alright to do this. Btw, this action leave a tracking cookie on your computer (yuck!).
MozEurope's Axel Hecht in this German discussion thread (http://firefox.stw.uni-duisburg.de/forum/viewtop
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Hate to do that, but somebody had to.
There are news bites coming out about Firefox everywhere you could possibly imagine.
Thanks, but we've already heard about Google News.
More mature like what? Final Fantasy, The Movie? I don't there's much of a market for animated adult movies outside of Japan. Pixar does one thing, and does it well: they make great 3D animations, in the style of great 2D animations, ie, for kids. Even The Simpsons, one of the only animations that appeals equally to adults and kids, STILL appeals to kids. One of the other reasons Pixar is so successful is that its stories focus on inanimate/nonhuman/nonexistant characters. Sure, there were a few humans here and there, but they were still cartoonish. It's much easier to suspend disbelief when you're watching something cartoonish, as opposed to trying to make realistic people. And even if they succeeded in achieving realism, you'd still have to establish a genre by convincing people such a thing is more than just a novelty.. not an easy thing to do.
*Was I the only one who thought Shark Tale sucked, by the way? What a cheap attempt at trying to steal some limelight from Finding Nemo.
This is SLDT, not YHOO.
What happened to creativity anyhow?
Don't worry, it's being cryogenically preserved in a state of suspended animation. Get it? Disney? Suspended.. ah nevermind.
Finding life on Mars of any sort would be "neat," but only important insomuch as it shows that life is more ubiquitous than we thought. It depends how you define important, I suppose.. I tend to think things are important if they are directly relevant to my life, or the lives of many people. If it turned out that there was bacteria on Mars that cured cancer, that would be "important." But I think most people believe that life exists outside of our planet, so I don't think such a discovery would be revolutionary. It might have a big wow factor, but that doesn't make it important.
What would be far more important are both the expected and unexpected benefits of the technology developed to make such a trip.
Furthermore, I'd venture to say that the great majority of scientific discoveries were accidents. It's difficult, if not impossible, to predict the benefits or lack thereof beforehand.
That's insightful? Make a statement and prove it's validity by saying "Its so true..."?
'Some people are of the mistaken impression that calling other people's beliefs mistaken is synonymous with proving them wrong.'
It's so true...
Some of them (e.g. english-like word generation) are just as weighted as your examples, but I throw in some interesting curve-balls to expand the search space substantially, and it works out well.
I sort of do the same thing in my head. First, I come up with an englsh word. In this case, "elite." Then I come up with another word.. let's say, "dude." Since any respectable dictionary attack is likely to find these words, I alter the spellings accordingly: leet and dood. Finally, to subvert any sort of alternate spelling dictionary approach, I replace letters with numbers which remotely look like the letters they're intended to represent, and combine the words to form my password thus: "1337d00d"
And to anyone who thinks "NOW I KNOW HIS PASSWORD LOL!!!11," don't you think I'd be smart enough to reverse the order of the words?
Conversations are not a good way to organize e-mail.
... golders? Anyway, you can automatically have labels applied to all e-mail from yourfriend@someisp.com, which essentially puts them in folders. If your friend has multiple e-mail addresses, you can still create multiple filters to apply the same label to all of them. Presuming you know who that your e-mail is from Jim, you just find the relevant conversation (most likely within the past week), and scan through it for the little blurb. If your e-mail was just 1 line, you wouldn't really have to read all the big e-mails in the conversation to find the small one. In fact, if it was just one line, you'd see it in the preview without even expanding the message panes.
That's why labels + filters =
It performs reasonably well and even better than AMD in some areas, while falling behind in things like games.
What are these "some areas," you speak of? Surely you're not implying that a CPU is useful for things other than gaming?
cold solder connections can work again
Several people have quoted this, but I don't buy it. In order for that to be true, the volumetric coefficient of expansion (how much a material expands/contracts) would have to be greater or equal for the PCB than for the conductors, which I'm fairly certain is NOT the case. Metal has a fairly generous expansion coefficient, meaning it changes in volume more for a given change in temperature than most other materials. Most glass, for example, has a coefficient of around 85, while tin has a coefficient of 398. If the metal shrank more than the the material it was mounted on, cold solder joints would actually open further. Heating it up might fix that, but not chilling it.
OTOH, lower temperatures increase conductivity (lower the resistance) of a conductor, so if there was a marginally functional solder run, it *might* fix it. I doubt that's the case though, since solder runs usually either work, or they don't.
I'll grant that it might "unstick" a head by contracting the metal away from the platter though. At any rate, it definately can't hurt to try. At the very least, someday in the future when science has progressed sufficiently, we can thaw out our frozen drives and bring them back to life.
'Wal-Mart has 460 terabytes of data stored on Teradata mainframes, at its Bentonville headquarters. To put that in perspective, the Internet has less than half as much data, according to experts.'
Apparently the "experts," overlooked alt.binaries.*
While I agree that the conditions imposed are/were arduous, and I myself have endured employment by an equally demanding employer, I'm curious about the rights of a salary worker to demand overtime. As much as we enjoy deriding doctors and lawyers, many of them work 80-90 hour weeks, albeit usually for substantially more money than the average programmer. If you agree to be paid on salary, and you agree that time worked in excess of 40 hours per week is acceptable when your employer deems necessary, then can you still complain that you have to work overtime without compensation? I guess I'm a little fuzzy on labor laws in the US.. Perhaps someone can elaborate.
The difference is that most ham radio operators are still living with their parents and extolling the virtues of vacuum tubes, whereas most programmers are barely living at all.
Right. Because nuclear explosions are the same thing as a 1-2 degree change in average global temperature. And the effects of global warming are going to happen instaneously, just like in "The Day After Tomorrow." You're going to wake up tomorrow and California will not only be underwater, but plate tectonics will have moved it halfway to Japan.
Personally, I am an agnostic on the Global Warming question because I know that the science is so screwed up I can't believe ANY of it.
Thank you for finally speaking the truth. People are so blind today. They get so snowed by all the big words and fancy college degrees that they don't take a step back to see what a bunch of crap science really is.
In addition to global warming, due to how screwed up science is, I also don't believe in microbes, magnetism, or the biggest communist conspiracy of them all: gravity.
While I'm sure you're speaking in jest, you're comparing apples to oranges. Microbes, magnetism, and gravity are all nouns. It turns out that it's not very hard to prove that a noun exists. Proving that something will occur (or even proving that something HAS occurred) is a MUCH different process. It turns out that people are really bad at predicting just about anything with any degree of certainty. We can make some general assumptions, but that's about it. I'm sure someone will pipe in about the only way to prove gravity exists is to witness something falling, however that's hardly the same thing. Saying two objects will fall toward one another is the same as saying the temperature will change. Predicting exactly how the two objects will fall toward each other is a much more difficult undertaking. Saying you don't believe in gravity is like saying the grandparent poster doesn't believe in weather.
That said..
In all reality, it's very likely that greenhouse gasses ARE warming our atmosphere and the surface of the planet. What's not at all likely is that this is strictly a bad thing, for everyone, everywhere. Landmasses will definately change -- to the detriment of some, but to the benefit of others. That's how the world works. Certain parts of the world increase in value, while others decrease, for whatever reason -- pollution, crime, accessibility, distance from other locations, etc., etc. Just because part of todays coastline is underwater tomorrow doesn't mean there's no more coastal property. Just because OUR heartland turns into a desert doesn't mean other places won't become outstanding farmland. Change in and of itself is neither good nor bad. . . Only failure to keep up with changes.
As the saying goes, adapt or die.
I, for one, welcome our new single proton and electron overlords.
I'm also impressed that an oil company is taking the initiative to make the switch instead of becoming a dinosaur by sticking with oil. Sorry, that dinosaur/oil comment was completely out of line. I'm not sure what's wrong with me today.
That's correct.
I'm sort of talking out of my ass here, but if you drop a match in a tank of gasoline, there would be a brief flash of the vapors combusting, but that's about it. If the tank was close to empty, there might actually be enough vapor to cause an explosion, but a tank full of gasoline isn't very explosive at all.
Tanks full of compressed gas, otoh, are inherintly susceptible to rupture as the metal becomes fatigued from the constant changes in pressure. There are tanks that are less susceptible to fatigue, but none that are immune, that I'm aware of. Aside from that, there's the fact that hydrogen doesn't need to evaporate to become combustible, since it's already a gas. So yes, a tank of gasoline is less explosive than a tank of hydrogen.
At the same time, I'm not particularly worried about the possibility of either tanks exploding near me, since they're both relatively unlikely to happen spontaneously. Maybe in a serious crash, but I'd be more concerned with the sudden stop involved there.
Steve Vamos, Microsoft Australia's managing director, says "There are plenty of products out there with features we don't have. We have plenty of features that our customers don't use."
Good job Steve, you just convinced me not to use MS products.
Just sprinkle a little sulfuric acid on your chips as seasoning, and you'll lose weight in no time.