Last time I used Rapidshare as a free user the download was throttled to some absurdly slow rate (5-10kbps IIRC). Also, you were limited to 1 download at a time and there was a 30 minute window between downloads. Downloading a gigabyte in a day over that kind of connection should be rewarded, not punished. Someone had to work really hard to get those bits.
The problem is that it is not the default. When you compress something with PNG, more often than not whatever program you're using will decide to use a full 24 bit colorspace with alpha channel added and bloat the file up. With GIF that never happens, so people think GIFs are just smaller. Of course GIFs often look like dithered messes too, so there is a tradeoff.
Conservation of Energy (which hopefully still applies) suggests that if this is the case, then your warp drive must consume more energy than is collected in this shockwave, probably a lot more. In other words warp drives may be possible, but they may require way too much energy to ever be practical. Like: Sure you can go between planets, your little 1 ton ship just has to have a constant energy output every second equivalent to one weeks output from the Sun...
One thing I've always wondered about with respect to China, India, and similar countries is: How are they calculating the CO2 emissions? The methods used would seem to me to underestimate the CO2 from people burning lumber they chopped themselves or agricultural leftovers because they're dirt farmers and they're still using the same techniques that worked for their great great grandparents back in the 1800s.
Does the CO2 calculation only take new CO2 emissions into account, IE burning fossil fuels? That would make some sense, but would miss out on the big picture IMHO, as it represents at least a temporary increase in global CO2.
With that said, ST-MRAM is still years away from practical consumer applications. Everspin’s new 64Mb “DIMMs” are impressive, but current 8GB consumer DDR3 DIMMs are as cheap as $30. That’s a 1000x density difference.
Still completely impractical. It may improve with time, but I wouldn't hold my breath. They basically have to improve fast enough to catch up and then surpass Flash memory, which is difficult at best with the enormous lead Flash memory currently has.
Maybe you need less crappy internet service. For me, I prefer doing VoIP because I can crank up the quality and get much better sound out of the phone. Regular cell phones have absolute shit quality (seriously, try reciting a product key over the phone without using a phonetic alphabet and see if it works. I bet you $10 if one side is on a cell phone that at least one character will be wrong, especially if they're in a noisy data center or car or something).
The real problem is that a lot of older Voice setup still assume that you're going over a modem and compress the signal to hell. Give it more bits and the quality will be much improved.
Caveat: 3G and to a lesser extent 4G data services are terrible for voice, with lots of loss and latency. Don't do this unless you're willing to pay the price.
I imagine your average Romney supporter probably looks something like your average Romney voter. Older, white, and not as well educated, especially about technology. Basically your grandfather. Send your grandfather a 60 page PDF and what is he going to do? He's going to print it out.
I don't see why not. The flood didn't knock any of the companies out entirely AFAIK, so the same market forces that originally pushed hard drives down to bargain basement prices are still there. It does take time, and the companies involved probably can't slash their prices quite as much right now because they have to pay for repairing flood damage and missed sales. Give it another year or two and prices should settle back into the old pattern I bet.
You would be surprised how many rack servers come with 2.5" drives these days. It's a fairly popular option, even though it means a lot less storage and speed for your buck.
I guess all of that money that HP has been dumping into Itanium development is finally paying off. Everybody else assumed Intel was just going to discontinue the product for obvious reasons, but here they are releasing a major upgrade to the core architecture. It still makes me wonder what HP sees in Itanium that makes them so gung ho about it though. Is it the vendor lock in? Is this upgrade enough to finally push Itanium past x86 based processors in some performance metric?
Is the iPhone 4S outselling the iPhone 5 for some reason? Why is the current Samsung model being compared against Apple's last year model? I'm confused.
Given the quality of your average bank website, I seriously doubt the quality of any application they would write. Plus it would be Windows only of course and barely maintained. I don't see how this is a win over a website.
It's not that easy. gcc's issues are structural and intentional. It simply cannot provide the features that LLVM users are excited about, like proper IDE integration so you can finally get a real Visual Studio competitor on Linux.
It's also hell on people who want to make a better debugger than gdb. I have always been frustrated by how terrible gdb is at handling threaded code, and amused that it was endless threading bugs that kept Hurd from ever reaching a usable state.
The idea being that military strongmen with state run oil companies are much easier to control than elected officials and private companies. Plus they are indebted to you for supplying all of those weapons that allowed them to overthrow the government in the first place and put themselves in power.
Of course the downside to this strategy is that if you put assholes in power, they tend to remain assholes, also they don't want to be controlled by the west so of course they start building up anti-western opposition (terrorists) to try to consolidate power and also make sure there is no potentially sympathetic opposition left alive for them to turn to if you start getting uppity.
Buying an expensive Stinger missile to just turn it into a dumbfire rocket seems like a colossal waste to me. It's not like it's difficult to find things that go boom over there. The idea of making a special export only version that has an additional bit of logic baked into the ROM that causes the missile to self destruct if someone flashes a coded signal at it in flight is intriguing, but it's not a complete solution. That really only works for stopping shootdowns of military craft (that would presumably have the countermeasure flasher installed), it won't stop them from being used against civilian targets.
The advantage of this approach is that it would be very difficult to circumvent. By using the seeker itself as the code detector you can't simply "unplug the antenna" to bypass it. Baking it into the ROM means someone would have to reverse engineer the entire system to figure out what is happening and how to fix it, especially if the ROM had some sort of encryption that made simply dumping it infeasible, and especially if nobody mentioned it before hand and the problem only showed up years down the road when the weapons are being used against NATO forces. Sure given enough time and resources someone could break the protection, but given enough time and resources you could just build your own knockoffs of the missile anyway. If you were extra clever you could even make the failure mode difficult to detect. Maybe change the final approach from "fly ahead of the exhaust plume to hit the aircraft" to "fly behind the exhaust plume and detonate a fraction of a second too late". Or maybe switch the countermeasure detection system on its head and have the missile suddenly get fooled every time by flares.
Hopefully outside of the lab this translates into more than just "5% better life in real world conditions", or isn't totally unusable because the anodes crumble after 10 discharges or something. There is a LOT of work going into batteries these days, and it seems like some of it has to eventually pan out.
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My first thought on reading that was "What is a charm?" How will I know when I see one? I guess maybe they'll be self evident if I switch to Win8?
Last time I used Rapidshare as a free user the download was throttled to some absurdly slow rate (5-10kbps IIRC). Also, you were limited to 1 download at a time and there was a 30 minute window between downloads. Downloading a gigabyte in a day over that kind of connection should be rewarded, not punished. Someone had to work really hard to get those bits.
As far as I understand it, MNG and APNG are not well supported by browsers, and without browser support, the formats are dead.
The problem is that it is not the default. When you compress something with PNG, more often than not whatever program you're using will decide to use a full 24 bit colorspace with alpha channel added and bloat the file up. With GIF that never happens, so people think GIFs are just smaller. Of course GIFs often look like dithered messes too, so there is a tradeoff.
PNG tried, but they had no traction on MNG, so they reworked it into APNG and still had no takers.
No, it make sense, because it's the Jiraffics Interchange Format.
Most flavors of BSD can't be used on certain Lenovo laptops because their BIOS sees the BSD filesystem as a recovery system and damages it.
Conservation of Energy (which hopefully still applies) suggests that if this is the case, then your warp drive must consume more energy than is collected in this shockwave, probably a lot more. In other words warp drives may be possible, but they may require way too much energy to ever be practical. Like: Sure you can go between planets, your little 1 ton ship just has to have a constant energy output every second equivalent to one weeks output from the Sun...
You can? Do you have a demonstration of this? I would be very interested in it.
One thing I've always wondered about with respect to China, India, and similar countries is: How are they calculating the CO2 emissions? The methods used would seem to me to underestimate the CO2 from people burning lumber they chopped themselves or agricultural leftovers because they're dirt farmers and they're still using the same techniques that worked for their great great grandparents back in the 1800s.
Does the CO2 calculation only take new CO2 emissions into account, IE burning fossil fuels? That would make some sense, but would miss out on the big picture IMHO, as it represents at least a temporary increase in global CO2.
Still completely impractical. It may improve with time, but I wouldn't hold my breath. They basically have to improve fast enough to catch up and then surpass Flash memory, which is difficult at best with the enormous lead Flash memory currently has.
Maybe you need less crappy internet service. For me, I prefer doing VoIP because I can crank up the quality and get much better sound out of the phone. Regular cell phones have absolute shit quality (seriously, try reciting a product key over the phone without using a phonetic alphabet and see if it works. I bet you $10 if one side is on a cell phone that at least one character will be wrong, especially if they're in a noisy data center or car or something).
The real problem is that a lot of older Voice setup still assume that you're going over a modem and compress the signal to hell. Give it more bits and the quality will be much improved.
Caveat: 3G and to a lesser extent 4G data services are terrible for voice, with lots of loss and latency. Don't do this unless you're willing to pay the price.
I imagine your average Romney supporter probably looks something like your average Romney voter. Older, white, and not as well educated, especially about technology. Basically your grandfather. Send your grandfather a 60 page PDF and what is he going to do? He's going to print it out.
If you care about iops you want to go SSD though, and the sustained bps into or out of those 2.5" pales in comparison to the 3.5" drives.
I don't see why not. The flood didn't knock any of the companies out entirely AFAIK, so the same market forces that originally pushed hard drives down to bargain basement prices are still there. It does take time, and the companies involved probably can't slash their prices quite as much right now because they have to pay for repairing flood damage and missed sales. Give it another year or two and prices should settle back into the old pattern I bet.
You would be surprised how many rack servers come with 2.5" drives these days. It's a fairly popular option, even though it means a lot less storage and speed for your buck.
I guess all of that money that HP has been dumping into Itanium development is finally paying off. Everybody else assumed Intel was just going to discontinue the product for obvious reasons, but here they are releasing a major upgrade to the core architecture. It still makes me wonder what HP sees in Itanium that makes them so gung ho about it though. Is it the vendor lock in? Is this upgrade enough to finally push Itanium past x86 based processors in some performance metric?
Is the iPhone 4S outselling the iPhone 5 for some reason? Why is the current Samsung model being compared against Apple's last year model? I'm confused.
Given the quality of your average bank website, I seriously doubt the quality of any application they would write. Plus it would be Windows only of course and barely maintained. I don't see how this is a win over a website.
It should be. Most projects compile with LLVM just fine, although there are a few holdouts. Wine doesn't work, and neither does VirtualBox.
It's not that easy. gcc's issues are structural and intentional. It simply cannot provide the features that LLVM users are excited about, like proper IDE integration so you can finally get a real Visual Studio competitor on Linux.
It's also hell on people who want to make a better debugger than gdb. I have always been frustrated by how terrible gdb is at handling threaded code, and amused that it was endless threading bugs that kept Hurd from ever reaching a usable state.
The idea being that military strongmen with state run oil companies are much easier to control than elected officials and private companies. Plus they are indebted to you for supplying all of those weapons that allowed them to overthrow the government in the first place and put themselves in power.
Of course the downside to this strategy is that if you put assholes in power, they tend to remain assholes, also they don't want to be controlled by the west so of course they start building up anti-western opposition (terrorists) to try to consolidate power and also make sure there is no potentially sympathetic opposition left alive for them to turn to if you start getting uppity.
Buying an expensive Stinger missile to just turn it into a dumbfire rocket seems like a colossal waste to me. It's not like it's difficult to find things that go boom over there. The idea of making a special export only version that has an additional bit of logic baked into the ROM that causes the missile to self destruct if someone flashes a coded signal at it in flight is intriguing, but it's not a complete solution. That really only works for stopping shootdowns of military craft (that would presumably have the countermeasure flasher installed), it won't stop them from being used against civilian targets.
The advantage of this approach is that it would be very difficult to circumvent. By using the seeker itself as the code detector you can't simply "unplug the antenna" to bypass it. Baking it into the ROM means someone would have to reverse engineer the entire system to figure out what is happening and how to fix it, especially if the ROM had some sort of encryption that made simply dumping it infeasible, and especially if nobody mentioned it before hand and the problem only showed up years down the road when the weapons are being used against NATO forces. Sure given enough time and resources someone could break the protection, but given enough time and resources you could just build your own knockoffs of the missile anyway. If you were extra clever you could even make the failure mode difficult to detect. Maybe change the final approach from "fly ahead of the exhaust plume to hit the aircraft" to "fly behind the exhaust plume and detonate a fraction of a second too late". Or maybe switch the countermeasure detection system on its head and have the missile suddenly get fooled every time by flares.
Hopefully outside of the lab this translates into more than just "5% better life in real world conditions", or isn't totally unusable because the anodes crumble after 10 discharges or something. There is a LOT of work going into batteries these days, and it seems like some of it has to eventually pan out.