I'm not so sure that money is the prime motivator for more than a handfull of researchers. Money can be a powerful motivator for a department or university but very few people who have the ability to drive cutting edge research are going to be motivated enough by money to devote their lives to a topic. Btw I got lucky on the buzzword factor. I studied Buckminsterfullerenes (bucky balls) as a junior in high school, by the time I was sending out college applications the Nobel prize had been awarded for the discovery of bucky balls so they were in the science news and therefore an obscure molecule became worthy of placing on my list of accomplishments rather than simply "chemistry research" =)
Huh? Ebola is immature in humans, that is proven by the fact that it generally kills the host before widespread transmission occours. Mature viruses do a great job of spreading by meerly weakening the host. The common cold, the flu, and AIDS are all examples of mature viruses in humans. They have all been sucessful by NOT immediatly killing the host which is why they have all spread to millions or billions of people whereas ebola has infected hundreds.
Huh? The Mac's aren't early to using TPM. IBM laptops have had them for the last several years. In fact IBM said "Over 16 mllion IBM trusted clients have been shipped with Atmel TPM as of June 25, 2004"
Actually you don't HAVE to reencode to a lossy format. The iPod will play Apple Lossless AAC files which are simply compressed, not encoded version of the audio files. You give up some HDD/iPod space vs encoded files but them's the breaks. Also you can simply backup your iTunes files and then reauthorize your new PC (as long as iTunes exists).
Guess you were completely absent around the launch of the G5 and the PPC970 because Anand went into WAY more detail on those cpu's than any article they have written on anything AMD related.
The reason for that is that they use an emitting source which is blocked and filtered by the imaging element. The amount of light that actually escapes the projector isn't all that much. This would still be dimmer than your average conference room projector, but it might be on par with the current generation of less than 3 pound portables.
The only time I spent anywhere close to $2k on a computer for personal use was in 1993 when I bought my first new computer and it cost $1,500 with a 15" flat square digital controlls monitor. Since then my average price has been closer to $600, of course I have spent a few hours building them, but my time isn't worth $250/hour =)
That's crazy since the server software with 5 licenses is in the range of $1,500 and the hardware to run a few users on is in that same range. Setup took me about 4 hours including research. $35,000+ is absolutly insane. $5,000 with labor is a lot more reasonable.
Actually all you have to do is go into Tools, Internet Options, Advanced, and under Security select Check for server certificate revocation which tells IE to check the OCSP of the publisher before accepting a certificate (Tools, options, advanced, security, verification under Firefox). I'm not sure why other than speed that these options aren't enabled by default but you are right that better controlls on certificate issuance would be nice.
The first rule of running a datacenter, never EVER let janitors/cleaning people in. EVER. Don't even think about it. They WILL unplug a server to use the outlet or run the floor cleaner full of water over the raised floor flooding gallons of water into the space underneath. Those are both real world examples and why the rule exists.
Huh? Where I live you pay x% of y housing value. If they collect more than the budget for this year due to new home development they slush it into next year and use it to pay for the extra services that will be needed to support the people from those new developments.
Incorrect, in a town where $8 million is a significant chunk of the budget how the HELL do they miss an increase in property value of $800 million? My town of 28,000 has a median housing value of $175,000 even with a low average of two residents per house that only comes to ~$250 million for the entire town!
No effort? How is updating every Blackberry Enterprise Server and every Blackberry handheld little or no effort? I guess you have never worked in IT because I can tell you having a forced, unplanned upgrade to a major "mission critical" system like the crackberry network is not going to be easy or fun.
Umm, using an outside USENET server is costing them more bandwidth than the torrents. With Bittorrent you are mostly going to pull from peers that are near you, with an ISP the size of Rogers those will be Rogers users, so you will be sharing the download with other users on their network. If you use different news servers then their transparent proxy has to try to cache the copy from each news service.
Wait, your resnet pulls off the same pipe as your research network? Or are you saying the research underclassmen do in residence halls? Because either way it's laughable. Besides which you have an easy solution at hand, instead of dropping the priority of undesirable traffic you just elevate the priority of known good traffic. Same effect, harder to evade =)
They aren't worried about the total energy in the global system, they are worried about the moderating effects created by the gulf stream. Inputting just a small amount of energy into the gulf stream may result in a much greater than naively expected result because it is meerly pushing a system over the edge of a state change.
Huh, most places have a BUNCH of options, because chances are you if you can get DSL you can get it from Covad and thus have your choice of ISP. Personally I have 6 major choices, major cable co, competitive cable company, incumbant telco DSL, Covad DSL, wireless broadband from the cellular companies, and a wireless ISP. I live 25 miles from Cleveland out in the boonies (behind me is a horse farm and across the street is a working farm) and I have all these choices. I don't think that the 50+% of the population that lives in an urban or extraurban area has as few choices as they think they do.
Wood and ceramic are germ breeding grounds. Glass isn't, but it's not exactly something you want to make your wifes shaver out of, broken glass in the tub when she drops it doesn't sound like much fun.
I too used AOL when it was the only game in town. Before the local ISP started up in 1993 AOL was the only way other than through the Cleveland Public Libraries text terminals for me to get online. Of course by the time my free month was up I realized that just the long distance charges for my free month was the same as 3 months with the recently started ISP. I was with them for almost 10 years before they got gobbled up by a MUCH more sucky company and I moved to cable instead of DSL.
Except for the fact that Linux has acted as a testbed for new scheduling algorithms, new virtual memory algorithms, new interrupt handling routines, etc. Without Linux these projects might have been conducted in an ivory tower demo OS or something else with little impact on the real world and no feedback on how they ACTUALLY perform. Linux through its open source nature has fostered a real world petri dish that wouldn't have existed otherwise and therefore has advanced the art of computer science.
I know that Apple limited the max volume on European iPod's because they exceeded European standards for the max voltage allowed on a headphone port. High resistance headphones can probably be driven to loud enough volume so as to cause damage. I don't believe though that the iPod earbuds can be driven that loudly, otherwise when the EU made them change the max volume they would have noticed that North American iPod's were loud enough to do damage.
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I'm not so sure that money is the prime motivator for more than a handfull of researchers. Money can be a powerful motivator for a department or university but very few people who have the ability to drive cutting edge research are going to be motivated enough by money to devote their lives to a topic. Btw I got lucky on the buzzword factor. I studied Buckminsterfullerenes (bucky balls) as a junior in high school, by the time I was sending out college applications the Nobel prize had been awarded for the discovery of bucky balls so they were in the science news and therefore an obscure molecule became worthy of placing on my list of accomplishments rather than simply "chemistry research" =)
Huh? Ebola is immature in humans, that is proven by the fact that it generally kills the host before widespread transmission occours. Mature viruses do a great job of spreading by meerly weakening the host. The common cold, the flu, and AIDS are all examples of mature viruses in humans. They have all been sucessful by NOT immediatly killing the host which is why they have all spread to millions or billions of people whereas ebola has infected hundreds.
Huh? The Mac's aren't early to using TPM. IBM laptops have had them for the last several years. In fact IBM said "Over 16 mllion IBM trusted clients have been shipped with Atmel TPM as of June 25, 2004"
Actually you don't HAVE to reencode to a lossy format. The iPod will play Apple Lossless AAC files which are simply compressed, not encoded version of the audio files. You give up some HDD/iPod space vs encoded files but them's the breaks. Also you can simply backup your iTunes files and then reauthorize your new PC (as long as iTunes exists).
Guess you were completely absent around the launch of the G5 and the PPC970 because Anand went into WAY more detail on those cpu's than any article they have written on anything AMD related.
The reason for that is that they use an emitting source which is blocked and filtered by the imaging element. The amount of light that actually escapes the projector isn't all that much. This would still be dimmer than your average conference room projector, but it might be on par with the current generation of less than 3 pound portables.
Well, they have one that is either a better fake or an actual picture of the technology here.
And a detailed explanation of the feature and it's values can be found here.
The only time I spent anywhere close to $2k on a computer for personal use was in 1993 when I bought my first new computer and it cost $1,500 with a 15" flat square digital controlls monitor. Since then my average price has been closer to $600, of course I have spent a few hours building them, but my time isn't worth $250/hour =)
That's crazy since the server software with 5 licenses is in the range of $1,500 and the hardware to run a few users on is in that same range. Setup took me about 4 hours including research. $35,000+ is absolutly insane. $5,000 with labor is a lot more reasonable.
Actually all you have to do is go into Tools, Internet Options, Advanced, and under Security select Check for server certificate revocation which tells IE to check the OCSP of the publisher before accepting a certificate (Tools, options, advanced, security, verification under Firefox). I'm not sure why other than speed that these options aren't enabled by default but you are right that better controlls on certificate issuance would be nice.
The first rule of running a datacenter, never EVER let janitors/cleaning people in. EVER. Don't even think about it. They WILL unplug a server to use the outlet or run the floor cleaner full of water over the raised floor flooding gallons of water into the space underneath. Those are both real world examples and why the rule exists.
2D barcodes can be read optically and the technology to read magstripes is all but omnipresent. What you should be using is smartcards =)
Huh? Where I live you pay x% of y housing value. If they collect more than the budget for this year due to new home development they slush it into next year and use it to pay for the extra services that will be needed to support the people from those new developments.
Incorrect, in a town where $8 million is a significant chunk of the budget how the HELL do they miss an increase in property value of $800 million? My town of 28,000 has a median housing value of $175,000 even with a low average of two residents per house that only comes to ~$250 million for the entire town!
No effort? How is updating every Blackberry Enterprise Server and every Blackberry handheld little or no effort? I guess you have never worked in IT because I can tell you having a forced, unplanned upgrade to a major "mission critical" system like the crackberry network is not going to be easy or fun.
Umm, using an outside USENET server is costing them more bandwidth than the torrents. With Bittorrent you are mostly going to pull from peers that are near you, with an ISP the size of Rogers those will be Rogers users, so you will be sharing the download with other users on their network. If you use different news servers then their transparent proxy has to try to cache the copy from each news service.
Wait, your resnet pulls off the same pipe as your research network? Or are you saying the research underclassmen do in residence halls? Because either way it's laughable. Besides which you have an easy solution at hand, instead of dropping the priority of undesirable traffic you just elevate the priority of known good traffic. Same effect, harder to evade =)
They aren't worried about the total energy in the global system, they are worried about the moderating effects created by the gulf stream. Inputting just a small amount of energy into the gulf stream may result in a much greater than naively expected result because it is meerly pushing a system over the edge of a state change.
Huh, most places have a BUNCH of options, because chances are you if you can get DSL you can get it from Covad and thus have your choice of ISP. Personally I have 6 major choices, major cable co, competitive cable company, incumbant telco DSL, Covad DSL, wireless broadband from the cellular companies, and a wireless ISP. I live 25 miles from Cleveland out in the boonies (behind me is a horse farm and across the street is a working farm) and I have all these choices. I don't think that the 50+% of the population that lives in an urban or extraurban area has as few choices as they think they do.
Wood and ceramic are germ breeding grounds. Glass isn't, but it's not exactly something you want to make your wifes shaver out of, broken glass in the tub when she drops it doesn't sound like much fun.
Toyota has designed the battery pack of the Prius to be totally recyclable. Also the battery pack is covered under warrenty for 8 years 100,000 miles
I too used AOL when it was the only game in town. Before the local ISP started up in 1993 AOL was the only way other than through the Cleveland Public Libraries text terminals for me to get online. Of course by the time my free month was up I realized that just the long distance charges for my free month was the same as 3 months with the recently started ISP. I was with them for almost 10 years before they got gobbled up by a MUCH more sucky company and I moved to cable instead of DSL.
Except for the fact that Linux has acted as a testbed for new scheduling algorithms, new virtual memory algorithms, new interrupt handling routines, etc. Without Linux these projects might have been conducted in an ivory tower demo OS or something else with little impact on the real world and no feedback on how they ACTUALLY perform. Linux through its open source nature has fostered a real world petri dish that wouldn't have existed otherwise and therefore has advanced the art of computer science.
I know that Apple limited the max volume on European iPod's because they exceeded European standards for the max voltage allowed on a headphone port. High resistance headphones can probably be driven to loud enough volume so as to cause damage. I don't believe though that the iPod earbuds can be driven that loudly, otherwise when the EU made them change the max volume they would have noticed that North American iPod's were loud enough to do damage.