Which hilights a rather annoying bug in Slashcode: Your sig is looked up and added by a script at read-time for every message you've posted. This means that should you ever change your sig, people looking through your past comments will see your new sig and wonder what the hell you were on about.
all of space is filled with matter, and space itself expands......into what exactly?
If space is not expanding into anything except itself, then there is no absolute frame of reference on which to determine whether or not it really is expanding.
I have installed 2.6.21 on two identical machines sitting next to each other. One with CONFIG_NO_HZ and CONFIG_TICK_ONESHOT defined, the other without. Both are running AMD Athlon32-2600+ CPUs. After 12 hours, both are still running at the exact same temperature, implying a similar current draw, so no real power savings yet, at least with this architecture.
However I find the one compiled with NO_Hz is actually running CPU-intensive tasks consistently 0.66% faster than the other one. For this I have no explanation, since one would think idle loops (the only place where tickless systems are supposed to benefit) aren't entered much when the CPU is going full pelt.
They simply aren't on shelves long enough for someone to stroll up and buy one on impulse.
They are in New Zealand. I've yet to see a "sold out" sign in any store that advertises Wiis. In fact most stores seem to have plenty of unsold units. I could go and buy one at lunchtime today. But I'm not going to.
Of course the only way to make your vegetable oil thick enough to be solid and melt-in-the-mouth is to use partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, aka trans-fats aka double-plus ungood. As a person who lives off Cadbury's chocolate I can recognise cheap shoddy imitation choco from China that is already made this way and it tastes like crap and is about as good for you.
Still I believe the US is still using HFCS in soda drinks so who am I to judge their tastes?
I'm tagging this one partiallyhydrogenated AND trans
Well, not good for the people who had their credit card numbers taken, but the sooner these web-based DRM schemes are exposed and discredited the better. Valve made a *big* mistake by making HL2 require an open connection to Steam before letting you play. Sure, they've tacked on a bit of content delivery but that's not its main purpose.
Tags have been there since Mozilla 1.x days, and stars are just relabelled flags, so where are the improvements that warrant a major release bump?
The only major change I can see is a regression where they've removed the incredibly useful "Show tags that are:" dropdown box removing the most useful element of tagging. I'm going back to 1.5.
Okay here's another example. Lucasfilm released the Star Wars Original Trilogy DVD set in 2004. There are numerous problems with the release that are solely due to the DVD mastering process (ie not historical problems); these are well documented at the Home Theater Forum. Lucasfilm have not addressed these issues at all (instead claiming they are intended features). To boot, all their DVDs still have CSS (ie DRM) and are not region 0. Are you going to boycott them too?
While we're talking about Wii games, did you know that they are region-locked, while evil Sony PS3 games are not? What do you make of that?
The *only* Sony act that stands out (that they've been caught at) in recent times is the infamous rootkit fiasco, and that was clearly them only taking the DRM that every major media company is pushing to the next logical level. Yes it was badly executed and went horribly wrong but please don't make the mistake of thinking that every other studio wasn't watching *very* carefully and now working on how next to force-feed us DRM without being caught. I re-iterate: Yes Sony BMG is evil, but absolutely no more evil than their significant competition.
If you are still not convinced, then I'm afraid I cannot help you, and the GP was correct in his bandwagon assertions.
I agree with you that any theoretical quality advantage to an analog medium (if such a thing exists) is destroyed when the original master is digital, but it doesn't stop there. Future compatibility and possibly shelf-life are also advantages of analog media that suffer no ill-effects from being taken from a digital source.
I'd like to pose a question to you: How long do you think it will be before someone can smuggle a nuke in a briefcase undetected into downtown LA and set it off?
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Which hilights a rather annoying bug in Slashcode: Your sig is looked up and added by a script at read-time for every message you've posted. This means that should you ever change your sig, people looking through your past comments will see your new sig and wonder what the hell you were on about.
I think it needs fixing.
So let's tag the article 'michelxhaard'. And 'physicist' while we're at it, since the summary incorrectly labels him a physician.
Not to worry - your DVD player will still have plenty of UOPs to keep your rights managed for a while yet.
Perhaps, but +5 for the Willy Wonka reference.
But what would he do with a pair of jandals?
Are his shoes uncomfortable?
... or sit in the sun for a bit.
all of space is filled with matter, and space itself expands... ...into what exactly?
If space is not expanding into anything except itself, then there is no absolute frame of reference on which to determine whether or not it really is expanding.
I have installed 2.6.21 on two identical machines sitting next to each other. One with CONFIG_NO_HZ and CONFIG_TICK_ONESHOT defined, the other without. Both are running AMD Athlon32-2600+ CPUs.
After 12 hours, both are still running at the exact same temperature, implying a similar current draw, so no real power savings yet, at least with this architecture.
However I find the one compiled with NO_Hz is actually running CPU-intensive tasks consistently 0.66% faster than the other one. For this I have no explanation, since one would think idle loops (the only place where tickless systems are supposed to benefit) aren't entered much when the CPU is going full pelt.
Because "family" is an anti-socialist term and is no longer politically correct.
Unfortunately that doesn't work for those artists whos works don't easily translate to a live show.
Movie actors come to mind.
They simply aren't on shelves long enough for someone to stroll up and buy one on impulse.
They are in New Zealand. I've yet to see a "sold out" sign in any store that advertises Wiis. In fact most stores seem to have plenty of unsold units. I could go and buy one at lunchtime today. But I'm not going to.
I also live a few mules from a Cadbury factory, but one in New Zealand. Here they're still using good old Cocoa Butter.
Of course the only way to make your vegetable oil thick enough to be solid and melt-in-the-mouth is to use partially hydrogenated vegetable oils, aka trans-fats aka double-plus ungood. As a person who lives off Cadbury's chocolate I can recognise cheap shoddy imitation choco from China that is already made this way and it tastes like crap and is about as good for you.
Still I believe the US is still using HFCS in soda drinks so who am I to judge their tastes?
I'm tagging this one partiallyhydrogenated AND trans
Until you realise who it is doing the bombing.
Well I'm pretty sure that one or more Red Dwarf Stars form a missing Comic Link.
I guess he forgot to pay his $699 and was forced to use a lesser OS.
Don't talk to me about hyperbole.
Well, not good for the people who had their credit card numbers taken, but the sooner these web-based DRM schemes are exposed and discredited the better. Valve made a *big* mistake by making HL2 require an open connection to Steam before letting you play. Sure, they've tacked on a bit of content delivery but that's not its main purpose.
Tags have been there since Mozilla 1.x days, and stars are just relabelled flags, so where are the improvements that warrant a major release bump?
The only major change I can see is a regression where they've removed the incredibly useful "Show tags that are:" dropdown box removing the most useful element of tagging. I'm going back to 1.5.
Why would he do that?
Okay here's another example. Lucasfilm released the Star Wars Original Trilogy DVD set in 2004. There are numerous problems with the release that are solely due to the DVD mastering process (ie not historical problems); these are well documented at the Home Theater Forum. Lucasfilm have not addressed these issues at all (instead claiming they are intended features). To boot, all their DVDs still have CSS (ie DRM) and are not region 0. Are you going to boycott them too?
While we're talking about Wii games, did you know that they are region-locked, while evil Sony PS3 games are not? What do you make of that?
The *only* Sony act that stands out (that they've been caught at) in recent times is the infamous rootkit fiasco, and that was clearly them only taking the DRM that every major media company is pushing to the next logical level. Yes it was badly executed and went horribly wrong but please don't make the mistake of thinking that every other studio wasn't watching *very* carefully and now working on how next to force-feed us DRM without being caught. I re-iterate: Yes Sony BMG is evil, but absolutely no more evil than their significant competition.
If you are still not convinced, then I'm afraid I cannot help you, and the GP was correct in his bandwagon assertions.
I don't know about you, but I find that sodding light bulb in OpenOffice just as annoying.
I agree with you that any theoretical quality advantage to an analog medium (if such a thing exists) is destroyed when the original master is digital, but it doesn't stop there. Future compatibility and possibly shelf-life are also advantages of analog media that suffer no ill-effects from being taken from a digital source.
I'd like to pose a question to you: How long do you think it will be before someone can smuggle a nuke in a briefcase undetected into downtown LA and set it off?
for the gunman. After all he's done, and taking suicide as an easy way out, he's going to have a lot to answer for when he appears in judgement.