It's not a world record (IBM's Blue Gene/L is pushing 280 TFLOPS), but it's still very fast. It will almost certainly be in the Top 10 by the time it comes online.
It's not owned by one company, it's owned by many.
By your definition, there is almost no non-proprietary format in the world, except maybe Vorbis, and even that is disputable. (Xiph has a trademark on it)
Some places will get warmer, others colder. Some will be wetter, some dryer.
Right, so let's summarize this...
If temperatures increase, then it was caused by human-caused global climate change. If temperatures decrease, then it was caused by human-caused global climate change. If temperatures remain the same, then it was caused by human-caused global climate change, because the previous two forces cancelled each other out.
Uh, okay, how can you falsify such a prediction? Regardless of what happens...it was caused by global climate change.
My parents bought a very nice 1080p DLP TV, and when I asked about it, they said something like "Well, it looks pretty good, but the HD channels don't look that much better than the other ones."
At first I was concerned my folks were losing their sight. Sure enough, when I swung by to take a peek, it turned out the idiot from Comcast had just neglected to actually connect either the component video or HDMI signals that were coming out of the cable box. I can't imagine what the installer could have been thinking, except that perhaps he simply hadn't been trained on the actual use of HDTV. It seriously concerns me that this happens all the time.
In any case, I got them an HDMI cable and connected it and now they have no trouble telling the HD and SD channels apart.:)
In Mac OS X, file extensions are only hidden for files you *ask* them to be hidden for. When you save a file, there's a little "Hide this extension?" checkbox.
The risk of accidentally executing a file from the internet is mitigated by a few other things: - Something you download from the internet won't have its execute permissions on. - Most applications need to be in bundle form, which means you have to transmit them in a zip archive or something, so you have to consciously unarchive them. - OS X pops up a warning the first time you run something you downloaded. - Even if you do get something running, the superuser is turned off, so the worst that can happen is that you lose all YOUR files... the system should be okay.
Agreed. While I'm normally pretty quick to get mad about religious groups holding up the implementation of new technology, this is an exception. The.xxx TLD is a painfully stupid idea.
There is no reason the Internet needs to create discriminatory domains. Would anyone seriously argue that there is a shortage of porn-related domain names? To use an infamous example, does anyone think whitehouse.com would have tried to get whitehouse.xxx instead, but was forced to use the.com address because they had no other TLD available? This wouldn't prevent domain squatting by pornographers; they only squat at places you're likely to go to accidentally. National laws requiring pornography providers to serve only on *.xxx servers means that the entire legitimate industry would be monopolized by whoever controls that TLD. So now you're punishing the legitimate pornographers and supporting the bad ones. Using *.xxx blockers to shield children from pornography simply won't work; history and human nature suggests porn on the other TLDs won't be going away, ever. The entire concept of naming a TLD after a movie rating doesn't make any sense; why are we standardizing a form of censorship into DNS?
In fact, the.xxx TLD seems like an idea absurd enough that only a religious zealot would think it up.
If you honestly *have* to hear every little transition in your albums, you're almost always better off just ripping it as one continuous file. That way it will be gapless in every player.
(see Advanced->Join CD Tracks in iTunes, for instance.)
Fedora Core 4 won't recognize my wireless PCI card.
Oh, I had the same problem. I bought a "wireless PCI card" and Linux wouldn't recognize it. I figured that since it was wireless, I could just leave the little green card sitting next to the computer. But it wouldn't work; no matter how close it was to my computer, it wouldn't find it!
Turns out "wireless" PCI cards are not wireless at all. You need to actually open your computer and plug it in.
Seriously, folks, did these "researchers" even run this study by an animal welfare group before conducting this cruel experiment? How are we to know if that algae was suffering while in the vaccuum of space? "Expose creature to something and see if it dies" is not a good formula for ethical science.
I mean, what's next? Are we going to try putting humans in space too? See how long they last?
From what I can tell, ISS construction is stopped, and has been for a while. Almost nothing of note has actually gotten added to the damn thing since 2002, so it's not clear to me that any money is actually being spent on it anyway.
More than a console? Certainly, but the games are often cheaper and there are more of them. Plus you don't have to play for Xbox Live or the like.
Personally, I'm pleased with both my Xbox and a similar Windows PC which I keep around to do some work stuff on and occasionally use for games. But if you can only get one, there really are vastly more games you can play with a PC than a console (of any kinda).
There are no bad genes. Evolution didn't just come around and place some miscreant gene in your body just to give you a hard time after living off a diet of pizza and Mt. Dew for ten years. Every gene has its own function.
While it may sound like falling into the pathetic fallacy to call a gene "bad," there are many traits which are almost certainly highly genetically dependent that most people would rather not have. Not just rare "genetic disorders," either. Is there really any function for myopia, for instance? What about colorblindness? Both of these conditions are very common and almost certainly very genetically-influenced. Given a choice, no one would want to be born knowing they'll need eye correction at some point in their life. Can't we just agree that genes which cause this kind of condition are bad?
Why not the EU or any other number of countries that don't have despotic governments?
Because frankly the EU doesn't have any legitimate complaints. There's nothing the EU has tried to do that that ICANN has stopped them from doing. The same can't be said for Iran and China, who have tried extremely hard to eliminate the existence of subversive web sites. ICANN impedes their ability to do this.
There are two big issues Europe is really worried about. Firstly, Europe wants to eliminate the IETF, because it embarrassed the ITU in designing the Internet when they could not. The fluke of the Internet de facto standards doesn't fit well with Europe-based organizations like the ITU and ISO, who would rather control those standards. Secondly, European politicians probably want to cash in on the current "Americans/Bush sucks" attitude felt by an overwhelming portion of the world, so they're using this time to their advantage.
Not to say that the US and US politicians wouldn't do the same thing in these circumstances, but the idea that there's something remotely noble about this sudden, global anti-ICANN movement is absurd. There is no reason to believe the ITU or whoever else gets control of domains wouldn't give VeriSign (or someone worse) control of.com anyway.
Mentioning China and Iran seems like a lame attempt at scaremongering
It can both be scare-mongering and a very legitimate concern.
It's not a copyright issue, it's a trademark issue. Well, okay, actually, it's not even quite a trademark (President of the United States(tm)...hehe), it's a don't-misuse-government-seals issue, but...
A similar example is that all the pictures NASA takes (Hubble, Mars Rover, etc.) are public domain, but you're not allowed to go around either making TV shirts with the NASA logo or using the the logo on press releases that are yours and not NASA's.
I'll be happy if the issue of IP address allocation is handled by the ITU. DNS should not be under the control of a central organization.
I might be happy too, if the ITU hasn't already shown their inability to manage their own IP addresses.
I can't imagine why everyone is suddenly so defensive of the ITU. This entire move to "take back" the Internet seems to be their delayed mechanism for dealing with the failed ISO/ITU Open Systems Interconnect, which was essentially killed by the IETF and TCP/IP. Unable to accept these new organizations (IETF, ICANN, etc.), they have decided to hijack the Internet through political maneuvering. Unbelievable.
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It's not a world record (IBM's Blue Gene/L is pushing 280 TFLOPS), but it's still very fast. It will almost certainly be in the Top 10 by the time it comes online.
It's not owned by one company, it's owned by many.
By your definition, there is almost no non-proprietary format in the world, except maybe Vorbis, and even that is disputable. (Xiph has a trademark on it)
Some places will get warmer, others colder. Some will be wetter, some dryer.
Right, so let's summarize this...
If temperatures increase, then it was caused by human-caused global climate change.
If temperatures decrease, then it was caused by human-caused global climate change.
If temperatures remain the same, then it was caused by human-caused global climate change, because the previous two forces cancelled each other out.
Uh, okay, how can you falsify such a prediction? Regardless of what happens...it was caused by global climate change.
Here we just have ECHELON record all our traffic for us. Very convenient! Thanks, NSA!
The Ruby on Rails website has also been given a new look.
Would that be the "Service Unable: Damn You Slashdot" look?
My parents bought a very nice 1080p DLP TV, and when I asked about it, they said something like "Well, it looks pretty good, but the HD channels don't look that much better than the other ones."
:)
At first I was concerned my folks were losing their sight. Sure enough, when I swung by to take a peek, it turned out the idiot from Comcast had just neglected to actually connect either the component video or HDMI signals that were coming out of the cable box. I can't imagine what the installer could have been thinking, except that perhaps he simply hadn't been trained on the actual use of HDTV. It seriously concerns me that this happens all the time.
In any case, I got them an HDMI cable and connected it and now they have no trouble telling the HD and SD channels apart.
Maybe the ESA was concerned the Kliper would have too high a chance of success, thus ruining their pass project record.
In Mac OS X, file extensions are only hidden for files you *ask* them to be hidden for. When you save a file, there's a little "Hide this extension?" checkbox.
The risk of accidentally executing a file from the internet is mitigated by a few other things:
- Something you download from the internet won't have its execute permissions on.
- Most applications need to be in bundle form, which means you have to transmit them in a zip archive or something, so you have to consciously unarchive them.
- OS X pops up a warning the first time you run something you downloaded.
- Even if you do get something running, the superuser is turned off, so the worst that can happen is that you lose all YOUR files... the system should be okay.
His problem is almost certainly that he's using a CRT. Fonts in OS X essentially are always more readable on LCDs. CRTs are blurry.
Agreed. While I'm normally pretty quick to get mad about religious groups holding up the implementation of new technology, this is an exception. The .xxx TLD is a painfully stupid idea.
.com address because they had no other TLD available? This wouldn't prevent domain squatting by pornographers; they only squat at places you're likely to go to accidentally. National laws requiring pornography providers to serve only on *.xxx servers means that the entire legitimate industry would be monopolized by whoever controls that TLD. So now you're punishing the legitimate pornographers and supporting the bad ones. Using *.xxx blockers to shield children from pornography simply won't work; history and human nature suggests porn on the other TLDs won't be going away, ever. The entire concept of naming a TLD after a movie rating doesn't make any sense; why are we standardizing a form of censorship into DNS?
.xxx TLD seems like an idea absurd enough that only a religious zealot would think it up.
There is no reason the Internet needs to create discriminatory domains. Would anyone seriously argue that there is a shortage of porn-related domain names? To use an infamous example, does anyone think whitehouse.com would have tried to get whitehouse.xxx instead, but was forced to use the
In fact, the
...to CPU manufacturers.
How are they supposed to sell faster chips when he can make code run faster on them?
If you honestly *have* to hear every little transition in your albums, you're almost always better off just ripping it as one continuous file. That way it will be gapless in every player.
(see Advanced->Join CD Tracks in iTunes, for instance.)
Fedora Core 4 won't recognize my wireless PCI card.
Oh, I had the same problem. I bought a "wireless PCI card" and Linux wouldn't recognize it. I figured that since it was wireless, I could just leave the little green card sitting next to the computer. But it wouldn't work; no matter how close it was to my computer, it wouldn't find it!
Turns out "wireless" PCI cards are not wireless at all. You need to actually open your computer and plug it in.
Seriously, folks, did these "researchers" even run this study by an animal welfare group before conducting this cruel experiment? How are we to know if that algae was suffering while in the vaccuum of space? "Expose creature to something and see if it dies" is not a good formula for ethical science.
I mean, what's next? Are we going to try putting humans in space too? See how long they last?
From what I can tell, ISS construction is stopped, and has been for a while. Almost nothing of note has actually gotten added to the damn thing since 2002, so it's not clear to me that any money is actually being spent on it anyway.
it is unsurprising that someone who thinks "intelligent design" is a relevant criticism of real science
Wow, you completely turned around what the GP was saying. He said intelligent design was a case of prejudice.
You've still got to write that whole boring desktop thing.
:)
That's what GNUStep is for. The whole point here is that now the GNUStep project has a complete, released desktop development environment.
That said...this is essentially the equivalent of announcing GNU/Hurd, 1.0, thus making the Linux kernel obsolete.
Seriously, live.com is an insanely good domain name. If I had $50bn in cash, I'd probably buy that too.
And the RSS reader is pretty darn neat too.
It doesn't actually do anything I use Windows and Office for (playing games and pretending to do work, respectively), but eh...interesting.
But does it plug into your regular TV and play play station or xbox games?
Well, yes, it has a TV out, and yes, it can play playstation games.
More than a console? Certainly, but the games are often cheaper and there are more of them. Plus you don't have to play for Xbox Live or the like.
Personally, I'm pleased with both my Xbox and a similar Windows PC which I keep around to do some work stuff on and occasionally use for games. But if you can only get one, there really are vastly more games you can play with a PC than a console (of any kinda).
There are no bad genes. Evolution didn't just come around and place some miscreant gene in your body just to give you a hard time after living off a diet of pizza and Mt. Dew for ten years. Every gene has its own function.
While it may sound like falling into the pathetic fallacy to call a gene "bad," there are many traits which are almost certainly highly genetically dependent that most people would rather not have. Not just rare "genetic disorders," either. Is there really any function for myopia, for instance? What about colorblindness? Both of these conditions are very common and almost certainly very genetically-influenced. Given a choice, no one would want to be born knowing they'll need eye correction at some point in their life. Can't we just agree that genes which cause this kind of condition are bad?
it was a very real possibility that they would lose too much heat and be dead in the water
THE WATER? See! See! They have been covering up their knowledge of martian water.
Why not the EU or any other number of countries that don't have despotic governments?
.com anyway.
Because frankly the EU doesn't have any legitimate complaints. There's nothing the EU has tried to do that that ICANN has stopped them from doing. The same can't be said for Iran and China, who have tried extremely hard to eliminate the existence of subversive web sites. ICANN impedes their ability to do this.
There are two big issues Europe is really worried about. Firstly, Europe wants to eliminate the IETF, because it embarrassed the ITU in designing the Internet when they could not. The fluke of the Internet de facto standards doesn't fit well with Europe-based organizations like the ITU and ISO, who would rather control those standards. Secondly, European politicians probably want to cash in on the current "Americans/Bush sucks" attitude felt by an overwhelming portion of the world, so they're using this time to their advantage.
Not to say that the US and US politicians wouldn't do the same thing in these circumstances, but the idea that there's something remotely noble about this sudden, global anti-ICANN movement is absurd. There is no reason to believe the ITU or whoever else gets control of domains wouldn't give VeriSign (or someone worse) control of
Mentioning China and Iran seems like a lame attempt at scaremongering
It can both be scare-mongering and a very legitimate concern.
It's not a copyright issue, it's a trademark issue. Well, okay, actually, it's not even quite a trademark (President of the United States(tm)...hehe), it's a don't-misuse-government-seals issue, but...
A similar example is that all the pictures NASA takes (Hubble, Mars Rover, etc.) are public domain, but you're not allowed to go around either making TV shirts with the NASA logo or using the the logo on press releases that are yours and not NASA's.
It is off limits for more reasons than just evil liberals and environmentalist and their protests.
Yes, I agree. Non-evil liberals and environmentalists are in the way too.
I'll be happy if the issue of IP address allocation is handled by the ITU. DNS should not be under the control of a central organization.
I might be happy too, if the ITU hasn't already shown their inability to manage their
own IP addresses.
I can't imagine why everyone is suddenly so defensive of the ITU. This entire move to "take back" the Internet seems to be their delayed mechanism for dealing with the failed ISO/ITU Open Systems Interconnect, which was essentially killed by the IETF and TCP/IP. Unable to accept these new organizations (IETF, ICANN, etc.), they have decided to hijack the Internet through political maneuvering. Unbelievable.