Get someone (or yourself) to write a P2P package that works over the school intranet (and ONLY the school intranet).
That's what someone did at the University of Western Ontario (UWO, sorry, can't find the link). You don't eat into your bandwidth cap, all that unused network bandwidth is put into good use, and it's usually wicked fast (like 500Kps).
Of course, new material has to be brought into the intranet, but then at least there wouldn't be a heavy amount of redundancy of DLing pr0n.mpg 100x. But I'm sure a few people will be the source of all "good things" that are available on a P2P network.
So, so with that in mind, ebonics is really legitimate?
Fatha which iz in heavenz, hallowed be yo' name. Your kingdom comez. Your will be done in earth as it iz in heavenz. Give uz dis here day our daily bread. And forgive uz our debtz as we's forgive our debterz. And lead uz not into temptation, but deliver uz from evil. Amen. w0rd!
If they can teach ebonics in the classroom, there should be room for l33t speak. I mean, we can at least get a job with it right?
Chris Rock on ebonics: "Yeah. There are two ways (of speaking). One way if you want a job... and that other way,"
This is the bastard that invented the acursed voicemail system and this is his rewards? Next thing you know, the guy who develop Windows is the richest guy on earth. Wait....
Actually, we know quite a bit about the general make-up of asteroids (there's lots of them around on earth, each worth quite a bit).
The biggest problem is due to the immense speed that we predict one of these things will be travelling at. A nuke would have to detonate *just* as it's contacting the asteroid to have maximum impact. If you waited longer, the asteroid will just crush the nuke (no good), or if you detonated it early, the effect is lessened.
It's almost like shooting a 18" shell with a.303. You can slow it down very slighty, or even break it up.. but one bullet is probably not going to do it for you. You have a hail of nukes, sorta like the Phalanx missle-protection system the Navy has. What you can't get in quality, get it in quantity. Throw up a wall of nukes!
Get a handgun case. They're robust, very secure and look quite snazzy. Plus, you can get a foam cut-out of the monitor instead of the regular egg-crate design.
Of course, you're packing a different kind of heat. A 2 gun case should be enough for the monitor and some other "goodies"
A bit off topic, but the problem right now isn't quite the bus-system of harddrives but the physical make of the harddrives themselves. Serial ATA is nice, and sure took a long time, but it's not the performance booster we all long for.
What we need is solidstate harddrives. Equal or slower that normal RAM, a 10 gig solid-state drive would be so much faster than any mechanical solution like our current harddrives are.
The news you hear about harddrives are byte-density, which granted, do improve speed. But I would have figured that with the cheap cheap prices of RAM and such, that a mainstream company would sell a solidstate solution.
I don't want to play the devil's advocate here, but what if there was a bit of truth to his findings? We should never dismiss any results if they were done with a well-planned method and the results are possibly reproducible.
Just because we feel emotionally charged against the findings doesn't make them any less valid. Only poor experimental set-up or design flaw can do that. So let's find them here. I noticed that the results will be at a meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, which definitely makes it credible to a point. What we need here is hard scientific evidence to refute these claims. What we don't need is a whole bunch of anecdotal stories that have no real method of organization.
I play games, and I want to know if they harm me or not. Smoking 40 years ago was being advertised as healthy and even got endorsement from doctors. Hell, they even made asbestos filters that was supposed to make the cigarettes even more flavourful. But good science ultimately prevailed in that case. Let's make it work here.
Actually, it's not really uneconomical to make power that way. Because the power is thus localized, and not bought from other plants, you save a substantial amount of money.
Base load power is always cheap (the steady stuff, like hydroelectric and nuclear), but any power above that is always a lot of money, since it's all about supply and demand.
I work in a nuclear power plant, and our cost per kilowatt is peanuts. But we cannot supply the whole province (I live in Ontario) with nuclear power alone. Cheap power like ours supply about 50% of the province. Outside of that, we have to run the expensive fossil fuel plants. And if we can't make 100% of the power needed, there's either going to be brown-outs, or we have to buy power from elsewhere. And that's where the MASSIVE energy costs are from. It is said that 90% of the cost of electricity is from that extra 10% needed that is brought in from elsewhere.
So if they can localize the production of power, without having to have it brought in from out of state, California stands to save quite a bit, even if it's just 100MW.
Although OpenGL is quite useful for specialized apps, it has fallen wayside to DirectX.
A recent (and enormous) reason for this is the release of the X-Box. Being similar to the PC, and using DirectX-derived technologies, it is quite easy to port between X-Box and the PC, which are 2 huge markets now.
There's no muffler and no catalytic converters, just pure sound blasting out of the turbo, which acts as a kind of muffler.
The lack of muffler and cat makes this car illegal for use on normal roads. But nowhere in the ad does JR mention that.
Yet another undocumented feature.
I think Slashdot, for what it's worth, does a good job on the diversity issue. I've never seen so many morons, geeks and people with opinion that don't really matter scream about petty trivial things. Can't find that in real life!
As a stockholder of Palm (quit your laughing now), it's not a secret that Palm was in danger of running out of cash. This was due to the tie up in overstock and poor market conditions, in combination with in-fighting with the other PalmOS fabs (Handspring, Sony, etc). Coupled with a low margin, Palm was in serious trouble and a little while back, a prime takeover target (which would have been great for my stock!).
But things got a bit better, and stablizing. But that still doesn't fix the initial problems that Palm has.
1. Margins on PalmOS devices are quite low compared to PocketPC ones. If you ever wondered why they still make PPC's when Palm has 75%+ market is that they don't have to sell that many to make the same amount of money. Compaq has to only sell 1 iPaq to equal Palm selling 6 m100's.
2. They still lack penetration in the enterprise market, which all the big $$$ are made. This is partially due to the advantage that PPC has with their PocketWord/Outlook/Excel, which allows for pretty seamless transfer in the organization.
3. They haven't been that innovative, and their OS lags behind PPC in the networking/wireless division (which is the "cool" thing nowadays)
4. As some mentioned, outdated hardware specs. MS, for PPC2002, has spec'ed them quite high (hi-res TFT screen, 206 StrongARM CPU, 32+ megs of mem, etc).
Splitting the company CAN be good, but only if they utilize their time and resources as efficient as possible to address these 4 points. If not, I should sell the rest of my stock tomorrow.
I've owned a PalmOS machine for 6 years (yeah, since the pilot1000), but right now, I'm seriously looking to get a PPC machine. PPC has caught up to the point that to choose between a Palm and a PPC, Palm doesn't really make any compelling arguments, hardware or software-wise.
We've been able to copy VHS for over a decade and they're still making movies.
No, the vast majority of people cannot copy (well, a good copy anyways) VHS movies. Macrovision prevents this by added noise and such to a copied version of the movie (pretty clever actually). You get bad colour, distorted sound and other annoyances.
This has prevented myself from copying a VHS movies, and has prevented many others. If VHS tapes didn't have a copy-annoyance scheme, you can bet that I would not be paying $5 to Blockbuster for the latest movie rental.
X-Files and the Simpsons are the shows that built FOX, but now both are obviously running on empty.
As a bigger fan of the Simpsons, I truly wouldn't mind them pulling the plug on OFF. And let them rinse the bad taste of these last 3 seasons with the release of Seasons 2-7 on DVD!
One good thing I can see with the possible success of the new Imac is that LCD prices will only get lower, and the adoption rate increase across the board. That's a "good thing" in my books.
Actually, the B'nai Brith Canada has a point (although they should have addressed it directly).
This is due to the differences in Canadian law, vs. US law.
In Canada, is it legal to fundraise for known terrorist/hate organizations. This is why Canada is a popular staging ground for these organizations (besides our lax immigration laws).
In the US (and the UK), it is illegal to fundraise for terrorist/hate organizations. IRA, KKK and such all cannot legally solicit for funds (though it happens anyways).
Canada, in light of the attack on Tues, is now looking to change this law.
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That's what someone did at the University of Western Ontario (UWO, sorry, can't find the link). You don't eat into your bandwidth cap, all that unused network bandwidth is put into good use, and it's usually wicked fast (like 500Kps).
Of course, new material has to be brought into the intranet, but then at least there wouldn't be a heavy amount of redundancy of DLing pr0n.mpg 100x. But I'm sure a few people will be the source of all "good things" that are available on a P2P network.
Fatha which iz in heavenz, hallowed be yo' name. Your kingdom comez. Your will be done in earth as it iz in heavenz. Give uz dis here day our daily bread. And forgive uz our debtz as we's forgive our debterz. And lead uz not into temptation, but deliver uz from evil. Amen. w0rd!
If they can teach ebonics in the classroom, there should be room for l33t speak. I mean, we can at least get a job with it right?
Chris Rock on ebonics: "Yeah. There are two ways (of speaking). One way if you want a job ... and that other way,"
This is the bastard that invented the acursed voicemail system and this is his rewards? Next thing you know, the guy who develop Windows is the richest guy on earth. Wait....
The biggest problem is due to the immense speed that we predict one of these things will be travelling at. A nuke would have to detonate *just* as it's contacting the asteroid to have maximum impact. If you waited longer, the asteroid will just crush the nuke (no good), or if you detonated it early, the effect is lessened.
It's almost like shooting a 18" shell with a .303. You can slow it down very slighty, or even break it up.. but one bullet is probably not going to do it for you. You have a hail of nukes, sorta like the Phalanx missle-protection system the Navy has. What you can't get in quality, get it in quantity. Throw up a wall of nukes!
Lies, damn lies, and benchmarks
If you did it in Texas, it would be OK to shoot the guy that came in.
Of course, you're packing a different kind of heat. A 2 gun case should be enough for the monitor and some other "goodies"
What we need is solidstate harddrives. Equal or slower that normal RAM, a 10 gig solid-state drive would be so much faster than any mechanical solution like our current harddrives are.
The news you hear about harddrives are byte-density, which granted, do improve speed. But I would have figured that with the cheap cheap prices of RAM and such, that a mainstream company would sell a solidstate solution.
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You could steal their red stapler. That always seems to motivate people.
HardOCP http://www.hardocp.com/ has
Just because we feel emotionally charged against the findings doesn't make them any less valid. Only poor experimental set-up or design flaw can do that. So let's find them here. I noticed that the results will be at a meeting of the Society for Neuroscience, which definitely makes it credible to a point. What we need here is hard scientific evidence to refute these claims. What we don't need is a whole bunch of anecdotal stories that have no real method of organization.
I play games, and I want to know if they harm me or not. Smoking 40 years ago was being advertised as healthy and even got endorsement from doctors. Hell, they even made asbestos filters that was supposed to make the cigarettes even more flavourful. But good science ultimately prevailed in that case. Let's make it work here.
Base load power is always cheap (the steady stuff, like hydroelectric and nuclear), but any power above that is always a lot of money, since it's all about supply and demand.
I work in a nuclear power plant, and our cost per kilowatt is peanuts. But we cannot supply the whole province (I live in Ontario) with nuclear power alone. Cheap power like ours supply about 50% of the province. Outside of that, we have to run the expensive fossil fuel plants. And if we can't make 100% of the power needed, there's either going to be brown-outs, or we have to buy power from elsewhere. And that's where the MASSIVE energy costs are from. It is said that 90% of the cost of electricity is from that extra 10% needed that is brought in from elsewhere.
So if they can localize the production of power, without having to have it brought in from out of state, California stands to save quite a bit, even if it's just 100MW.
They should have taken lessons from Pixar.
A recent (and enormous) reason for this is the release of the X-Box. Being similar to the PC, and using DirectX-derived technologies, it is quite easy to port between X-Box and the PC, which are 2 huge markets now.
Economically, DirectX is hard to beat.
The lack of muffler and cat makes this car illegal for use on normal roads. But nowhere in the ad does JR mention that. Yet another undocumented feature.
I think Slashdot, for what it's worth, does a good job on the diversity issue. I've never seen so many morons, geeks and people with opinion that don't really matter scream about petty trivial things. Can't find that in real life!
But things got a bit better, and stablizing. But that still doesn't fix the initial problems that Palm has.
1. Margins on PalmOS devices are quite low compared to PocketPC ones. If you ever wondered why they still make PPC's when Palm has 75%+ market is that they don't have to sell that many to make the same amount of money. Compaq has to only sell 1 iPaq to equal Palm selling 6 m100's.
2. They still lack penetration in the enterprise market, which all the big $$$ are made. This is partially due to the advantage that PPC has with their PocketWord/Outlook/Excel, which allows for pretty seamless transfer in the organization.
3. They haven't been that innovative, and their OS lags behind PPC in the networking/wireless division (which is the "cool" thing nowadays)
4. As some mentioned, outdated hardware specs. MS, for PPC2002, has spec'ed them quite high (hi-res TFT screen, 206 StrongARM CPU, 32+ megs of mem, etc).
Splitting the company CAN be good, but only if they utilize their time and resources as efficient as possible to address these 4 points. If not, I should sell the rest of my stock tomorrow.
I've owned a PalmOS machine for 6 years (yeah, since the pilot1000), but right now, I'm seriously looking to get a PPC machine. PPC has caught up to the point that to choose between a Palm and a PPC, Palm doesn't really make any compelling arguments, hardware or software-wise.
We've been able to copy VHS for over a decade and they're still making movies. No, the vast majority of people cannot copy (well, a good copy anyways) VHS movies. Macrovision prevents this by added noise and such to a copied version of the movie (pretty clever actually). You get bad colour, distorted sound and other annoyances. This has prevented myself from copying a VHS movies, and has prevented many others. If VHS tapes didn't have a copy-annoyance scheme, you can bet that I would not be paying $5 to Blockbuster for the latest movie rental.
X-Files and the Simpsons are the shows that built FOX, but now both are obviously running on empty. As a bigger fan of the Simpsons, I truly wouldn't mind them pulling the plug on OFF. And let them rinse the bad taste of these last 3 seasons with the release of Seasons 2-7 on DVD!
One good thing I can see with the possible success of the new Imac is that LCD prices will only get lower, and the adoption rate increase across the board. That's a "good thing" in my books.
Actually, the B'nai Brith Canada has a point (although they should have addressed it directly).
This is due to the differences in Canadian law, vs. US law.
In Canada, is it legal to fundraise for known terrorist/hate organizations. This is why Canada is a popular staging ground for these organizations (besides our lax immigration laws).
In the US (and the UK), it is illegal to fundraise for terrorist/hate organizations. IRA, KKK and such all cannot legally solicit for funds (though it happens anyways).
Canada, in light of the attack on Tues, is now looking to change this law.