The article reads more like an Opinion piece than a scientific article. The paper contains no "proof", only scary statements and unprovable assertions. For example, the author writes: "...false assurances were made that "humans were not at risk."" Is the author accusing someone of lying? What proof is there? How does the author know? Statements such as "I was not surprised...", are found throughout. the article concludes with "All the risks...far outweigh any potential benefits." I'm glad Dr. Ho took the time to perform a full non-biased cost/benefit analysis. Or perhaps he's just stating an opinion here.
Additionally, more than half of the citations are written by the author of the paper. These citations are ones with obviously biased titles such as: "GM maize approved on bad science in the UK". Let me cite myself, and I could "prove" anything too!
you don't want to spend the time learning something new. There is nothing wrong with that. But that's your problem, not a problem with Linux or Linux applications.
Actually, that's completely wrong. If a new product or technology wants to replace an existing (and dominant) incumbent, then it has to make the transition as easy as possible or present an extremely compelling reason why it shouldn't. And no, "We're different!" is not a compelling reason.
Part of the cost of using a new product is the loss of time/productivity as the switch is made. Blaming the users for not being willing to invest the time and energy in learning a new system is like blaming potential "paying" customers for not being willing to spend enough money to buy a product. While you may believe that your product is "worth it", unless your potential customers believe it as well, they aren't going to switch.
The problem with free software is that nobody is interested in convincing other people to switch. The developers of free software are doing so predominantly for their own benefit ("I want to make a tool easier for me to use"), and while that ability is a major plus for some people, it shouldn't be any surprise that "regular" people aren't impressed with the results. After all, they aren't catered to, as they are with "commercial" software.
when you do something that actually taxes both cpus (make -j8 bzImage or what have you) there's a lot of thrashing and no true performance gain.
Wouldn't this completely negate the point of HT? A single processor only has so many cycles that it can push, and HT seems to allow for a more efficient allocation of those cycles to different processes. But if you're running the same process on both "halves", it would seem to me that you're just adding overhead without gaining any benefit.
HT sounds interesting to me, because I record my own music and I often find myself simultaneously 1) compressing audio data 2) uncompressing audio data 3) burning music to CD and 4) moving (large) files around. While my 1.8Ghz P4 has no problem with this, I'd like to see if I get a performance boost under these conditions.
You have no solid data because there is no solid data. Are there more hurricanes than 100 years ago? Well, no not really.
Actually, the last 7 years (except for el nino years like this one) have seen a much higher number of Atlantic hurricanes than usual. Colorado State University tropical storm researcher William Gray's research indicates that this is due to a long-term (25-50 year) shift of the atmospheric circulation in the Atlantic. Correspondingly, there was diminished Atlantic hurricane activity around the turn of the 20th century, so technically, there ARE more hurricanes now than there were 100 years ago.
Interestingly, North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) have been about 0.4 to 0.6 degrees warmer than normal since about 1995. While this is almost certainly associated with the larger number of hurricanes, it's difficult to say what the ultimate cause is. In other words, is this a "real" anomaly, or is it just another of the long-term cycles of the Atlantic Ocean?
The pictures don't really give a sense of height, which may be confusing. The rocks on the beach are actually quite tall, the freeway is probably a good 20 feet above sea level at that point, and the houses/railroad/etc. are much higher. This part of California doesn't really get big sea surges (except during winter storms, and they come from the northwest), so it isn't a problem even for the road.
Actually, a bigger problem here are landslides. What you call a "cliff" is actually a mountain, and in wet (el nino) years the mountains tend to "erode" a little faster. In the picture (easier seen in the big picture) you can see a landslide that took out a bunch of houses here a few years ago. Notice how a chunk of the hill has slid into town. I hope it wasn't where the poster lived!
Iraq agreed to a cease fire that requires it to, among other things, destroy all chemical/biological weapons, destroy all ballistic missiles (range >150km), agree to submit to on-site inspections, return all property stolen from Kuwait, agree not to acquire or develop nuclear weapons (and agree to inspections to verify this), and pay reparations for losses caused by the invasion of Kuwait.
Read (PDFs, sorry) United Nations Resolution 687 , which spells out Iraq's obligations, and Resolution 707, which "demands" that Iraq implement Resolution 687, as it had agreed to.
It should be mentioned that as of this date Iraq has still not implemented any of these conditions.
"I'm more scared by the fact the country with the biggest military buget in the world wants to start invading countries that have not done anything that warrent an attack."
You probably mean "...countries that have not done anything, except aggressively invade their neighboring countries, refuse to disarm, and use poison gas on their own inhabitants that warrent[sic] an attack."
My vaio picturebook (the small one) has been extremely durable. I've taken it all around the world in my backpack, opened it up to upgrade the hard drive (30 GB now), and left it all around the house to be bumped, skidded, and generally treated it about one notch less harshly than my cell phone, and all it has to show for it is some scrapes on the magnesium alloy case.
Your sense of hearing is the only indication you have of what's going on behind you when skiing/snowboarding.
Roughly halfway between each ear and your nose are two organs that are extremely useful for navigating. You might want to acquaint yourself with them. Especially when combined with the rotational ability of your neck.
You're right about commercial video using much less than the maximum bandwidth, but that's taking advantage of the weaknesses in the human visual system. I would imagine that for most applications where a 12000fps camera is needed there is a greater need to capture each image as accurately as possible. In other words, you would want as much resolution as possible, both in number of pixels, and in sensitivity.
Coherent != parallel, and sunlight isn't parallel
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One of them is that, like laser light, it is a coherent beam (all the rays are parallel).
"Coherent" light means that all the photons have a definite phase relationship to each other. Sunlight doesn't have this property.
And while we are far from the sun, the sun still takes up about half of a degree of arc in the sky. That's a pretty sizeable amount, it is not at all the case that "the divergence is so small as to not matter."
Actually, you need to have a named CEO when you incorporate, so you (at least in California, I don't know about other states) could be a CEO (and president, treasurer, and secretary) of a one-person company.
I'm sure you wouldnt expect any money if your grandfather spilled coffee on himself.
If my grandfather spilled coffee into his lap and sterilized himself, preventing himself from having children. I'd be really mad. I'd better be getting some damages for that! Oh, wait...
Of course nowadays, the "smart kids" who mess around with chemicals are the ones getting turned into the police because they might be trying to do another Columbine.
When I was in high school my friends and I spent a lot of time, um, "exploring the properties of redox reactions". I even bragged about it in the local newspaper (proudly stating that we "never blew anything up that wasn't on purpose."). But I realize that if I had done those same things 10 years later I would have been expelled (at best), and probably arrested. Better safe than smart, I suppose.
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The article reads more like an Opinion piece than a scientific article. The paper contains no "proof", only scary statements and unprovable assertions. For example, the author writes: "...false assurances were made that "humans were not at risk."" Is the author accusing someone of lying? What proof is there? How does the author know? Statements such as "I was not surprised...", are found throughout. the article concludes with "All the risks...far outweigh any potential benefits." I'm glad Dr. Ho took the time to perform a full non-biased cost/benefit analysis. Or perhaps he's just stating an opinion here.
Additionally, more than half of the citations are written by the author of the paper. These citations are ones with obviously biased titles such as: "GM maize approved on bad science in the UK". Let me cite myself, and I could "prove" anything too!
Actually, that's completely wrong. If a new product or technology wants to replace an existing (and dominant) incumbent, then it has to make the transition as easy as possible or present an extremely compelling reason why it shouldn't. And no, "We're different!" is not a compelling reason.
Part of the cost of using a new product is the loss of time/productivity as the switch is made. Blaming the users for not being willing to invest the time and energy in learning a new system is like blaming potential "paying" customers for not being willing to spend enough money to buy a product. While you may believe that your product is "worth it", unless your potential customers believe it as well, they aren't going to switch.
The problem with free software is that nobody is interested in convincing other people to switch. The developers of free software are doing so predominantly for their own benefit ("I want to make a tool easier for me to use"), and while that ability is a major plus for some people, it shouldn't be any surprise that "regular" people aren't impressed with the results. After all, they aren't catered to, as they are with "commercial" software.
Wouldn't this completely negate the point of HT? A single processor only has so many cycles that it can push, and HT seems to allow for a more efficient allocation of those cycles to different processes. But if you're running the same process on both "halves", it would seem to me that you're just adding overhead without gaining any benefit.
HT sounds interesting to me, because I record my own music and I often find myself simultaneously 1) compressing audio data 2) uncompressing audio data 3) burning music to CD and 4) moving (large) files around. While my 1.8Ghz P4 has no problem with this, I'd like to see if I get a performance boost under these conditions.
Actually, the last 7 years (except for el nino years like this one) have seen a much higher number of Atlantic hurricanes than usual. Colorado State University tropical storm researcher William Gray's research indicates that this is due to a long-term (25-50 year) shift of the atmospheric circulation in the Atlantic. Correspondingly, there was diminished Atlantic hurricane activity around the turn of the 20th century, so technically, there ARE more hurricanes now than there were 100 years ago.
Interestingly, North Atlantic Sea Surface Temperatures (SSTs) have been about 0.4 to 0.6 degrees warmer than normal since about 1995. While this is almost certainly associated with the larger number of hurricanes, it's difficult to say what the ultimate cause is. In other words, is this a "real" anomaly, or is it just another of the long-term cycles of the Atlantic Ocean?
Actually, a bigger problem here are landslides. What you call a "cliff" is actually a mountain, and in wet (el nino) years the mountains tend to "erode" a little faster. In the picture (easier seen in the big picture) you can see a landslide that took out a bunch of houses here a few years ago. Notice how a chunk of the hill has slid into town. I hope it wasn't where the poster lived!
So does H20, CO2, and Sucrose, if delivered in the correct manner. What's your point?
Iraq agreed to a cease fire that requires it to, among other things, destroy all chemical/biological weapons, destroy all ballistic missiles (range >150km), agree to submit to on-site inspections, return all property stolen from Kuwait, agree not to acquire or develop nuclear weapons (and agree to inspections to verify this), and pay reparations for losses caused by the invasion of Kuwait.
Read (PDFs, sorry) United Nations Resolution 687 , which spells out Iraq's obligations, and Resolution 707, which "demands" that Iraq implement Resolution 687, as it had agreed to.
It should be mentioned that as of this date Iraq has still not implemented any of these conditions.
Just because they were using Python...
Who ordered Russia to disarm? And why?
While it's nice of you to provide links, it would also help if they illustrated a point.
Nerve Gas and Tear Gas are different things.
Spelled just like "Platinium", "Molybdenium", and "Lanthanium".
You probably mean "...countries that have not done anything, except aggressively invade their neighboring countries, refuse to disarm, and use poison gas on their own inhabitants that warrent[sic] an attack."
My vaio picturebook (the small one) has been extremely durable. I've taken it all around the world in my backpack, opened it up to upgrade the hard drive (30 GB now), and left it all around the house to be bumped, skidded, and generally treated it about one notch less harshly than my cell phone, and all it has to show for it is some scrapes on the magnesium alloy case.
"Look American" = do not be genetically Asian.
the clone vendors got sued because they had copied the ROM from apple. that's all.
You're not paying anyone to get it, you're paying to have it automatically sent to you.
Roughly halfway between each ear and your nose are two organs that are extremely useful for navigating. You might want to acquaint yourself with them. Especially when combined with the rotational ability of your neck.
You're right about commercial video using much less than the maximum bandwidth, but that's taking advantage of the weaknesses in the human visual system. I would imagine that for most applications where a 12000fps camera is needed there is a greater need to capture each image as accurately as possible. In other words, you would want as much resolution as possible, both in number of pixels, and in sensitivity.
"Coherent" light means that all the photons have a definite phase relationship to each other. Sunlight doesn't have this property.
And while we are far from the sun, the sun still takes up about half of a degree of arc in the sky. That's a pretty sizeable amount, it is not at all the case that "the divergence is so small as to not matter."
Actually, you need to have a named CEO when you incorporate, so you (at least in California, I don't know about other states) could be a CEO (and president, treasurer, and secretary) of a one-person company.
If my grandfather spilled coffee into his lap and sterilized himself, preventing himself from having children. I'd be really mad. I'd better be getting some damages for that! Oh, wait...
When I was in high school my friends and I spent a lot of time, um, "exploring the properties of redox reactions". I even bragged about it in the local newspaper (proudly stating that we "never blew anything up that wasn't on purpose."). But I realize that if I had done those same things 10 years later I would have been expelled (at best), and probably arrested. Better safe than smart, I suppose.
Sorry to hear that you enjoy having your life legislated for you. Things are so much better when you can think and act for yourself.