We all benefit from the advancement of science (unless you agree with Bill Joy). So let everyone bear the cost. Allocate funds from the government's tax revenue to administer these journals.
Otherwise, you might as well select dandelions on their ability to speak French...
Glad you mentioned it. I offer to sell you my "high tech" francophone dandelions for research purposes. Contact me off-line.
But seriously, there's sufficient genetic variation. That and mutation will take care of it. You might not have a Round-Up resistant weed, but one that can metabolize Round-Up better, which is the same problem.
But why are they so stupid and short-sighted? A combination of a school system designed to create an unthinking and docile workforce for 19th century factories and a media owned by large corporations intent on keeping people afraid and under control.
And, as you put it so bluntly in the subject of your post, because their IQ is not high enough. For the same reasons that the rich live longer, many of your fellow Americans are easily manipulated by the gummint, believe violence to be the answer to many problems (both those in their daily life and those at a much grander scale), don't think about the long-term consequences of their actions, &c., ad nauseam.
They really should have benchmarked V4 not just V3
With all due respect, as your website states:
Reiser4 is in final testing, and will ship soon!
and (on the download page):
do not use reiser4 for production system, do not keep any important data on reiser4. It is experimental yet.
I would say benchmarks need to be performed with released products. It doesn't help most users if Vendor X claims his vaporware beats all competitors. Now, I know this isn't the case with ReiserFS here -- it isn't vaporware -- but it isn't production-ready either according to Namesys. You're just unfortunate in that this benchmark was performed just before the release of your next version which would have performed better.
On the other hand, any benchmarks published on the Web ought to be updated whenever a new version of a tested product is released -- add the results of the new version and keep the old one as well, for comparison purposes.
I think the "Bass-Station" is a few years premature. At this time, it strikes me as ridiculous. How many of the people within earshot of such a boom box are going to want to boot up Windows XP to change the playlist (if they even have a laptop with them)? When we've got Net (or local net) access on our wristwatches, then it'll make sense.
Galileo used a telescope to look at the heavens. Now we have space-based telescopes to look, I don't know how far. A telescope is a telescope is a telescope? No.
I agree that the outside appearance of many things has not changed a great deal. Yet what is it that's important, the packaging or the guts that make the machine?
OK, "grid computing" fans, here it is, a big CPU resource open for commercial customers. Let's see if people line up to buy cycles.
As I understand the "grid computing" concept, it's more about doing this internally in a company. In other words, departments and business units will be making use of unused CPU cycles and disk space anywhere in the company's worldwide data centers.
It makes sense, too. I mean, who is going to ship company data (most of which is likely considered company confidential or business secrets) to some random place to be processed? No, it's about using your own (company) resources more efficiently.
My brain refused to continue parsing the patent text approximately here:
identifying reference pixels corresponding to a first of said current pixels, said reference pixels being a first pixel adjacent to said first current pixel and a second pixel preceding said first current pixel by a number of pixels equal to a horizontal size of said dither matrix;
How long before Affirmative Action or somesuch thing is extended to wield control over virtual environments? Will publishers of games be required to allow you to play a gay elf in a wheel-chair, if you so desire?
To call what the Qrio robot does "running" is charitable at best. The article to which you refer quotes a speed of 14 m/minute. I don't think I can even manage to jog that slowly.
Of course, Qrio is only 58 cm tall -- yet its speed still corresponds to a mere 2.4 km/h (1.5 mph) on a human scale. In terms I understand best, that's a 40-minute mile. That's about as fast as my 92-year old grandmother manages to shuffle to the mailbox with her walker.
The article does seem to suggest that Qrio gets both of its feet airborne at the same time, which, coupled with the slow speed, would make hopping a more appropriate description of what it's doing.
Personally, I don't get why they didn't use low, bumper-mounted radar to detect things like giant obtrusions so that axles didn't get broke and the like.
Team Overbot has just such a sensor, the Eaton VORAD, on their vehicle. Sadly, they withdrew from the race one month before the start, since they did not expect to be ready. I'm eager to see them succeed next year.
This is mostly caused by cultural differences and lack of proper driver training.
many chinese drivers are recent immigrants and have had only a few years' driving practice
language and cultural differences make it harder for immigrants to learn to drive
traffic laws in China are not as diligently observed as in the U.S.
I agree that many Asian immigrants have poor driving skills. However, at best it's impolite to joke about it. It's such a cheap shot, too. Come up with something clever!
Sure it can be encrypted, but there is some fairly significant overhead involved, without crypto hardware, I think you would notice degraded conversation quality.
I am pleased to report that the crypto part is not a problem. According to its documentation, Skype employs a 256-bit AES cipher -- currently sufficient to please even the paranoid -- and on my lowly 400 MHz P3 box such a conversation uses about 40% of the CPU. The sound quality is about the same as POTS and only slightly worse than my Packet 8 service (VOIP).
What surprised me most, however, is that the time-delay with Skype was, to my ears, about the same as with Packet 8! This is fairly easy to test. Call your cell phone from your VOIP phone and put one on the left ear and the other on the right, while making utterances of your choice. If you have two PCs where you can connect one to a VPN (to give the data some distance to travel), you'll be able to do the same with two separate Skype accounts.
It looks like the shadow code needs some more work. Windows with rounded corners have that same square shadows as windows whose corners are not rounded.
Take one of the screenshots from the front page, for example. Look at the lower-right corner of the window with the clock, at the top of the screen. Doesn't look right.
He only got $14,500 from the whole entertainment industry.
+1 Informative
Maybe they pulled strings to get his wife a board of directors position somewhere or his nephew a cushy job in the entertainment industry.
Not to be too cynical about this, but I'm sure Hatch got his quid (maybe just more in the sense of "quid pro quo" than pound sterling).
I'm sure there are lots of covert ways the RIAA can scratch Hatch's back in return.
There are many different channels and levels in the acquisition process, especially in the beginning, as you explore things. Perhaps MS kept everything very low-key and back-channel. No MS representative may have ever officially discussed acquisition with Google.
In that case, it's easy for Gates to squash the rumors with a carefully crafted statement ("We were never in talks about it with them."). Spin, spin, spin...
The practice has roiled the gift-basket industry, where several online shops have noticed in recent months that their rankings on Google have suddenly dropped. [...]
"We cannot be found anymore," said Michelle Wiesel, president of Cesta Gift Baskets in Los Angeles (www.cesta.net). "We have not sold one fruit basket" in two months, she said, adding that before, when Cesta showed up in Google's top 10 results, her business was doing fine.
Unbe-freaking-lievable what weird ideas of entitlement people have when it comes to free services.
In any case it's simply very poor business sense to rely solely on being listed in the top 10 Google results for the search "fruit basket" to get any business.
Nice idea. However, they have no way of knowing who's coming up in the elevator. No cameras... they "don't go for that kind of thing", as the article states.
BTW, I've also heard the story about the degausser in the door frame. In fact, I've read it. It's from Cryptonomicon, a novel (i.e. fiction) by Neal Stephenson.
I emphasize the "fiction" part because I've gathered from my reading that degaussers have to be incredibly strong to wipe out a harddisk platter. And that's if they're right on the platter. If you rely on the degausser-in-the-door-frame trick, they'll be about a foot away from the platter, which will be in the metal harddrive case, which will be in the metal PC case.
You'd likely need a degausser that'll be so strong that it'll pull the fillings out of the FBI agent's teeth as he carries the computer through the door. And that sorta gives it away...
If this is for real, then I'd work on improving the physical security before worrying about their super-sekr1t P2P network.
The bell is a warning: It could be the police, so get ready to run. But even if the cops come, they'll be waylaid by an imposing lock - giving my friends time to scramble down the fire escape to the street below.
Dontcha think the police will be waiting down in the street? They've done this kind of thing before a few times, I'm sure, so I suspect they'll be watching the exits.
The thing about the constables being "waylaid by an imposing lock" while the gansters "scramble down the fire escape" sounds like something out of a 40s movie... a caricature.
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We all benefit from the advancement of science (unless you agree with Bill Joy). So let everyone bear the cost. Allocate funds from the government's tax revenue to administer these journals.
You are obviously out of your area of expertise. Stick to commenting on what you know or at the very least, Google for some sources and read them.
Glad you mentioned it. I offer to sell you my "high tech" francophone dandelions for research purposes. Contact me off-line.
But seriously, there's sufficient genetic variation. That and mutation will take care of it. You might not have a Round-Up resistant weed, but one that can metabolize Round-Up better, which is the same problem.
And, as you put it so bluntly in the subject of your post, because their IQ is not high enough. For the same reasons that the rich live longer, many of your fellow Americans are easily manipulated by the gummint, believe violence to be the answer to many problems (both those in their daily life and those at a much grander scale), don't think about the long-term consequences of their actions, &c., ad nauseam.
With all due respect, as your website states:
and (on the download page):I would say benchmarks need to be performed with released products. It doesn't help most users if Vendor X claims his vaporware beats all competitors. Now, I know this isn't the case with ReiserFS here -- it isn't vaporware -- but it isn't production-ready either according to Namesys. You're just unfortunate in that this benchmark was performed just before the release of your next version which would have performed better.
On the other hand, any benchmarks published on the Web ought to be updated whenever a new version of a tested product is released -- add the results of the new version and keep the old one as well, for comparison purposes.
I think the "Bass-Station" is a few years premature. At this time, it strikes me as ridiculous. How many of the people within earshot of such a boom box are going to want to boot up Windows XP to change the playlist (if they even have a laptop with them)? When we've got Net (or local net) access on our wristwatches, then it'll make sense.
The point may be valid, but it doesn't mean much.
Galileo used a telescope to look at the heavens. Now we have space-based telescopes to look, I don't know how far. A telescope is a telescope is a telescope? No.
I agree that the outside appearance of many things has not changed a great deal. Yet what is it that's important, the packaging or the guts that make the machine?
As I understand the "grid computing" concept, it's more about doing this internally in a company. In other words, departments and business units will be making use of unused CPU cycles and disk space anywhere in the company's worldwide data centers.
It makes sense, too. I mean, who is going to ship company data (most of which is likely considered company confidential or business secrets) to some random place to be processed? No, it's about using your own (company) resources more efficiently.
My brain refused to continue parsing the patent text approximately here:
Read the quoted paragraphs again. They deal with the release of personally identifiable information, not wiretap authorizations.
I have a cable modem, but not cable TV service.
I'm neither a student nor in any other temporary or only semi-permanent housing situation. I just don't watch TV.
How long before Affirmative Action or somesuch thing is extended to wield control over virtual environments? Will publishers of games be required to allow you to play a gay elf in a wheel-chair, if you so desire?
Stranger laws have been passed...
To call what the Qrio robot does "running" is charitable at best. The article to which you refer quotes a speed of 14 m/minute. I don't think I can even manage to jog that slowly.
Of course, Qrio is only 58 cm tall -- yet its speed still corresponds to a mere 2.4 km/h (1.5 mph) on a human scale. In terms I understand best, that's a 40-minute mile. That's about as fast as my 92-year old grandmother manages to shuffle to the mailbox with her walker.
The article does seem to suggest that Qrio gets both of its feet airborne at the same time, which, coupled with the slow speed, would make hopping a more appropriate description of what it's doing.
Team Overbot has just such a sensor, the Eaton VORAD, on their vehicle. Sadly, they withdrew from the race one month before the start, since they did not expect to be ready. I'm eager to see them succeed next year.
This is mostly caused by cultural differences and lack of proper driver training.
I agree that many Asian immigrants have poor driving skills. However, at best it's impolite to joke about it. It's such a cheap shot, too. Come up with something clever!
The submitter linked the words "different spin" to the objective PI story.
I am pleased to report that the crypto part is not a problem. According to its documentation, Skype employs a 256-bit AES cipher -- currently sufficient to please even the paranoid -- and on my lowly 400 MHz P3 box such a conversation uses about 40% of the CPU. The sound quality is about the same as POTS and only slightly worse than my Packet 8 service (VOIP).
What surprised me most, however, is that the time-delay with Skype was, to my ears, about the same as with Packet 8! This is fairly easy to test. Call your cell phone from your VOIP phone and put one on the left ear and the other on the right, while making utterances of your choice. If you have two PCs where you can connect one to a VPN (to give the data some distance to travel), you'll be able to do the same with two separate Skype accounts.
Good catch! Didn't notice that one.
Just a *little* suspicious...
There's some discussion of licensing in the project's forums. The sentiment appears to be "open source bad".
Also, in this thread, the project's author states in a message dated January 2002 that, "for now", SkyOS is freeware.
Meanwhile, allegations of GPL violations are already arising.
It looks like the shadow code needs some more work. Windows with rounded corners have that same square shadows as windows whose corners are not rounded.
Take one of the screenshots from the front page, for example. Look at the lower-right corner of the window with the clock, at the top of the screen. Doesn't look right.
+1 Informative
Maybe they pulled strings to get his wife a board of directors position somewhere or his nephew a cushy job in the entertainment industry.
Not to be too cynical about this, but I'm sure Hatch got his quid (maybe just more in the sense of "quid pro quo" than pound sterling). I'm sure there are lots of covert ways the RIAA can scratch Hatch's back in return.
There are many different channels and levels in the acquisition process, especially in the beginning, as you explore things. Perhaps MS kept everything very low-key and back-channel. No MS representative may have ever officially discussed acquisition with Google.
In that case, it's easy for Gates to squash the rumors with a carefully crafted statement ("We were never in talks about it with them."). Spin, spin, spin...
Unbe-freaking-lievable what weird ideas of entitlement people have when it comes to free services.
In any case it's simply very poor business sense to rely solely on being listed in the top 10 Google results for the search "fruit basket" to get any business.
Nice idea. However, they have no way of knowing who's coming up in the elevator. No cameras... they "don't go for that kind of thing", as the article states.
BTW, I've also heard the story about the degausser in the door frame. In fact, I've read it. It's from Cryptonomicon, a novel (i.e. fiction) by Neal Stephenson.
I emphasize the "fiction" part because I've gathered from my reading that degaussers have to be incredibly strong to wipe out a harddisk platter. And that's if they're right on the platter. If you rely on the degausser-in-the-door-frame trick, they'll be about a foot away from the platter, which will be in the metal harddrive case, which will be in the metal PC case.
You'd likely need a degausser that'll be so strong that it'll pull the fillings out of the FBI agent's teeth as he carries the computer through the door. And that sorta gives it away...