Maybe it's cuz their new "healthier" menu isn't any better than their old stuff. Some of their new salads have as many calories and fat as a Big Mac. They actually add sugar to the salads (not the dressing, the salads) to make them taste better. Might as well eat the Big Mac and get some protein!
Of course, I'm not sure that really makes sense, since from a personal point of view, stuff that happened recently is still fresh in my mind. I can remember most of the events that happened yesterday, but not the events of some arbitrary day four or five years in the past.
The brain has two different kinds of memory: long term and short term. In Alzheimers, the short term memory goes away, so you can't remember anything recent, but the old stuff is still there. Long term memory isn't "written" to for quite some time (order of months or years). That's why you can remember certain very important things older than a certain point pretty much as well as any other thing that's older than that mark. Your brain has filtered out what it doesn't need from the short term memory before it goes to long term, then doesn't touch it.
"Cheap" in this kind of situation usually means non mainframe. In any case, rack machines don't cost that much more than a regular desktop PC. A 1U rack case+PSU costs about $200-300. That's only about 3x more than a regular mid range server tower (and about the same as a monster double wide server case), and that's what I would pay for one -- volume discounts are going to cut that down. Now consider how much it's going to cost them to have enough space to have desktops instead of racks. The "cheap" solution is going to be the rack one, not the desktop one. It's the same reason everybody uses racks for servers.
If you work out the kinetic energy for tachyons (particles that move faster than the speed of light), you get that there is no ground state energy (no lower bound). So if anything in the universe were able to go faster than the speed of light, it would radiate more and more energy away, causing a heat death of the universe intantaneously, since particles moving faster than the speed of light would also be moving back in time.
IANAL, but AFAIK, that would be fine, provided that you don't distribute any non-free software that comes with the $150 license (like the WM9 codecs). Not all software running on Linux must be GPL. That's why the downloadable SuSE installer is one CD, and the one you get when you buy it is 7 CD's or one DVD; the commercial one comes with a bunch of non-GPL software they're selling you along with the OS.
I'm not sure why it would require a kernel module just to check for DRM. It could easily be part of the codec, and since that's being licensed directly and would need to be used as a binary in any program that wants to play WM9 stuff, the codec itself could just look at the file and determine if the player is authorized to use its DRM. Seems simple enough to me. I'm not intimately familiar with how codecs work though, so if someone knows more definetly about it than me, they should say something and get me modded into the ground.
Hmm... 5000 year old wooden boat, on top of a mountain in a desert. Why do you think it's going to be 1) even remotely intact and 2) on the surface, where a satellite can see it?
which includes absolutely no auto made from about 1970 until about 1990
My parents have a 1983 Honda Accord that they bought right after I was born. It still runs fine, even after being in 2 major accidents. The only real problem it has is lower than compression on one cylinder.
You are not born with all the neurons you will ever have. Otherwise, your brain would be the same size when you're born as when you're an adult. This is one HUGE difference between human infants and those of other apes: our young are helpless because if they were born with complete brains, the birthing process would likely kill both child and mother (because we have large brains). It takes many years for your brain to be "finished" (18-20, iirc), after which it begins to (very slowly) die as neurons die and aren't replaced.
They say explicitly that it communicates with them via email and UDP.
"Events are reported by both email and udp... email because it makes it convenient to attach a capture if it is something new, and udp because while unreliable, it is fast."
Exactly how do you expect it to function if it doesn't talk to the people who are using it to track things?
Here's your worst case scenario: about 10 years ago, it was discovered that large parts of the ocean floor are covered with liquid CO2 (yes, it's just that high pressure down there). If some large fraction of that is disturbed by heating of the ocean on the order of the temperature change we're looking at over the next 50-100 years (or by any other method), it could dump something like 10x the CO2 produced worldwide by all other sources into the atmosphere, all at once. That makes it hotter, releasing even more of it. I picked Earth over Venus for a reason, and I'd like it to stay that way, thanks.
How is it going to stop an iTunes download? They're unplayable unless you're authorized. They'd get in a lot of deep shit if they started stripping the DRM from stuff.
My university REQUIRES me to use SSH. Can't log in to the unix mail server without it. And since that's how anyone taking a programming course is expected to code and submit their work, they're not likely to change it anytime soon.
People still drive old cars which were designed for leaded gas (for example). My aunt used to have a really old Volvo that wanted leaded gas. When she refueled it, she had to put in the premium (97 octane) fuel, then add an octane booster to that. Perhaps it will simply become like that: possible, but a pain. Anyway, who's to say Doc Brown didn't run the car on electric power? The only time we see them try to fuel up the car is in 1885, when they try to run it on alcohol. Maybe the good Doctor just left in the old gas engine, just in case. Or maybe a Mr. Fusion is from even farther in the future than what we see, and the Doc knew that since he'd need to use it a lot in the 1985-2015 time range, it would pay to leave the gas engine in there.
How is Linux any better about this? When something doesn't work on my Gentoo box, I have two choices: debug it myself, or follow some 20 step procedure someone else has for debugging it. Your typical user isn't going to do the first one, but they might do the second. But on Windows, they will also have some tech support number to call for help. Even if the support people are useless, most users won't know that and will just feel comforted to know that there's someone to call if it breaks.
But recently I've been noticing that the prices in Futurama actually appear somewhat lower than current prices, but that those prices were approximately the same as the prevalent prices during the timeframe when Futurama was being made..
Well, yeah. That makes sense. They want to give a feel for how much something really costs. When Fry checks his bank account and has like $4 billion in it, that's supposed to be a lot. But assuming an average of 1% inflation, over 1000 years, that's actually only about the equivalent of $200000 or so in todays money. But the point is supposed to be that he's filthy rich.
Ecstacy can CAUSE you to get Hyponatremia. It can (but doesn't always) dumb the signal that tells your brain, "I don't need to drink anymore." As a result, you'll just keep drinking water forever (or until someone stops you or the drug wears off).
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It's like what a tape drive uses.
I'd rather not have my CPU's superconduct, thanks.
Maybe it's cuz their new "healthier" menu isn't any better than their old stuff. Some of their new salads have as many calories and fat as a Big Mac. They actually add sugar to the salads (not the dressing, the salads) to make them taste better. Might as well eat the Big Mac and get some protein!
The brain has two different kinds of memory: long term and short term. In Alzheimers, the short term memory goes away, so you can't remember anything recent, but the old stuff is still there. Long term memory isn't "written" to for quite some time (order of months or years). That's why you can remember certain very important things older than a certain point pretty much as well as any other thing that's older than that mark. Your brain has filtered out what it doesn't need from the short term memory before it goes to long term, then doesn't touch it.
"Cheap" in this kind of situation usually means non mainframe. In any case, rack machines don't cost that much more than a regular desktop PC. A 1U rack case+PSU costs about $200-300. That's only about 3x more than a regular mid range server tower (and about the same as a monster double wide server case), and that's what I would pay for one -- volume discounts are going to cut that down. Now consider how much it's going to cost them to have enough space to have desktops instead of racks. The "cheap" solution is going to be the rack one, not the desktop one. It's the same reason everybody uses racks for servers.
As for disk, who cares? Google caches everything in ram anyway.
They don't have that limitation on Windows. Why would they implement it on Linux?
If you work out the kinetic energy for tachyons (particles that move faster than the speed of light), you get that there is no ground state energy (no lower bound). So if anything in the universe were able to go faster than the speed of light, it would radiate more and more energy away, causing a heat death of the universe intantaneously, since particles moving faster than the speed of light would also be moving back in time.
Special Relativity has a factor called gamma that appears everywhere. It looks like:
1/sqrt(1-v^2/c^2)
So any v>c gives an imaginary denominator.
It was my understanding that any codec which conforms to the official MPEG4 standards is capable of doing DRM just fine. Is that incorrect?
IANAL, but AFAIK, that would be fine, provided that you don't distribute any non-free software that comes with the $150 license (like the WM9 codecs). Not all software running on Linux must be GPL. That's why the downloadable SuSE installer is one CD, and the one you get when you buy it is 7 CD's or one DVD; the commercial one comes with a bunch of non-GPL software they're selling you along with the OS.
I'm not sure why it would require a kernel module just to check for DRM. It could easily be part of the codec, and since that's being licensed directly and would need to be used as a binary in any program that wants to play WM9 stuff, the codec itself could just look at the file and determine if the player is authorized to use its DRM. Seems simple enough to me. I'm not intimately familiar with how codecs work though, so if someone knows more definetly about it than me, they should say something and get me modded into the ground.
Hmm... 5000 year old wooden boat, on top of a mountain in a desert. Why do you think it's going to be 1) even remotely intact and 2) on the surface, where a satellite can see it?
And the same goes for iTunes burned music, so what's your point?
My parents have a 1983 Honda Accord that they bought right after I was born. It still runs fine, even after being in 2 major accidents. The only real problem it has is lower than compression on one cylinder.
You are not born with all the neurons you will ever have. Otherwise, your brain would be the same size when you're born as when you're an adult. This is one HUGE difference between human infants and those of other apes: our young are helpless because if they were born with complete brains, the birthing process would likely kill both child and mother (because we have large brains). It takes many years for your brain to be "finished" (18-20, iirc), after which it begins to (very slowly) die as neurons die and aren't replaced.
I'm just quoting his letter. No comment on the technical veracity one way or another.
They say explicitly that it communicates with them via email and UDP.
"Events are reported by both email and udp... email because it makes it convenient to attach a capture if it is something new, and udp because while unreliable, it is fast."
Exactly how do you expect it to function if it doesn't talk to the people who are using it to track things?
Here's your worst case scenario: about 10 years ago, it was discovered that large parts of the ocean floor are covered with liquid CO2 (yes, it's just that high pressure down there). If some large fraction of that is disturbed by heating of the ocean on the order of the temperature change we're looking at over the next 50-100 years (or by any other method), it could dump something like 10x the CO2 produced worldwide by all other sources into the atmosphere, all at once. That makes it hotter, releasing even more of it. I picked Earth over Venus for a reason, and I'd like it to stay that way, thanks.
How is it going to stop an iTunes download? They're unplayable unless you're authorized. They'd get in a lot of deep shit if they started stripping the DRM from stuff.
My university REQUIRES me to use SSH. Can't log in to the unix mail server without it. And since that's how anyone taking a programming course is expected to code and submit their work, they're not likely to change it anytime soon.
People still drive old cars which were designed for leaded gas (for example). My aunt used to have a really old Volvo that wanted leaded gas. When she refueled it, she had to put in the premium (97 octane) fuel, then add an octane booster to that. Perhaps it will simply become like that: possible, but a pain.
Anyway, who's to say Doc Brown didn't run the car on electric power? The only time we see them try to fuel up the car is in 1885, when they try to run it on alcohol. Maybe the good Doctor just left in the old gas engine, just in case.
Or maybe a Mr. Fusion is from even farther in the future than what we see, and the Doc knew that since he'd need to use it a lot in the 1985-2015 time range, it would pay to leave the gas engine in there.
I think he's talking about OSX virii. Some of those are from System 6!
How is Linux any better about this? When something doesn't work on my Gentoo box, I have two choices: debug it myself, or follow some 20 step procedure someone else has for debugging it. Your typical user isn't going to do the first one, but they might do the second. But on Windows, they will also have some tech support number to call for help. Even if the support people are useless, most users won't know that and will just feel comforted to know that there's someone to call if it breaks.
Well, yeah. That makes sense. They want to give a feel for how much something really costs. When Fry checks his bank account and has like $4 billion in it, that's supposed to be a lot. But assuming an average of 1% inflation, over 1000 years, that's actually only about the equivalent of $200000 or so in todays money. But the point is supposed to be that he's filthy rich.
Ecstacy can CAUSE you to get Hyponatremia. It can (but doesn't always) dumb the signal that tells your brain, "I don't need to drink anymore." As a result, you'll just keep drinking water forever (or until someone stops you or the drug wears off).