I've always been a fan of the cartoon, and not so much the comic. Tick is just not the same without American Maid, Die Fledermaus, etc. Plus, that guy from Seinfeld is just not 9 feet tall.
Strangely, I find myself agreeing with the protest to "bitch" - I have no problems with language (or anything at all, for that matter) on TV - but it's just not something the Tick would say.
I for one, would much rather seen another season of the cartoon.
Does anyone out there actually belive that the US takes it's stance towards other nations because of the pride in their laws and not because of economic power? Sriously.
People don't share this "don't look at it" view because of their hystericaly and meddling nature - you wouldn't be a proper Christian Fundamentalist if you didn't tell other people how to live their lives (no, seriusly, its an expressed part of the deal).
Governments, on the other hand, need these techniques to maintain power - pure and simple.
Bordering? When I took exception to Bush declairing a National Day of Prayer, it was plainly explainted to me that that the US is a Christian Nation - founded on, and in accordance with the principles of Christianity to promote it's moral fiber and so on and so forth....
Apparently "bordering" doesn't apply here, or at least that's what I've been told.
"For that matter, I don't think anyone's value system should be forced upon anyone else."
I whole heartedly agree - however, here's what makes this point tricky - the value system of the Saudi government is, in effect, forced on the people of that country. You make some great generalizations about the citizens of SA, but lets face it, they are all based on simple conjecture (ie making stuff up).
SA (like all other countries that I know - go ahead, bite) is not ruled by the will of the majority. Furthermore, blocking traffick to an entire country is using a very blunt object to accomplish their goal - if individual citizens want to censor their net access, they would have no trouble doing so on an individual basis.
Your second paragraph is slightly misguided - the people of the US also believe that the freedoms bestowed on them are generally a good thing. And as such they wish that people in other countries also partake of those freedoms. Some people even work towards such goals.
Judging by how Americans break out in a cold sweat at the mention of words like "Socialism" I would say that Capitalism is the preferred way of doing things around here.
And as we all know things like "morality" or "ethics" do not figure into business decisions a system driven by profits - that's what makes it work.
I am actually not trying to pass judgement one way or another, just pointing out that this is the way things work around here. And I believe that under the PATRIOT Act (or was it the ATA?) criticizing the way the US does things, justifies you getting drawn and quartered (I am not sure about this one though, I'll have to check).
Seriously though (and I've been told this many times) - this is Capitalism, if you don't like it, go to Romania.
Yes, the RAID implementations are equivalent (or even inferior) to the OS implementations - its not "proper" hardware RAID. And yes, the biggest advantage to these boards is having a second controller - which I for one find very useful (I never use RAIDed, not with their software, not with OS options either)
It's also worth mentioning that the HighPoint ones are bad enough that they are bloody unusalbe - RAID or no RAID. (This is, of course, only my own expirience; but it does include 3 brands of HDs)
The caption does say "Compiling Linux: Suse Linux 7.3 / Kernel 2.4.13" so Tom isn't that far gone.
I suppose compilation is a nice benchmark, regardless of what you are compiling. That used to be one of the few sites to regularly include Linux tests and benchmarks with most of their reviews and roundups and the like. But lately - with his, what 20m a month audience - Tom's really been targeting the lowest common denominator.
I am sure Children can stand to lose ten grand in favour of our geeky rights. This whole "my charity is better than your charity" business is just rubbish.
McGill, at Burnside Hall - it's neat looking too, with four big jugs labeled A G C and T and tubes everywhere and stuff. heh.
I am not sure what to make of a DNA transistor - I think the Yahoo article is to blame here - they insisted on using a wide range of computer terminology to describe things that have nothing in common with it. For example, an enzyme has as little to do with hardware as DNA does with software. I wouldn't be to quick to try to fit genetic information into a modern computing paradigm - it just doesn't.
If we talk about transistors, then the only difference DNA makes is having 4 states (base pairs) instead of 2 (bits) - it's kinda like that ternary computers thing we had on here recently. The truly interesting thing here are the natural processes controling genetic information and it's "application" in the body (especially the latter) - I don't think you can really describe it in terms of transistors.
Since you seem to know something about this - I take it that the input is a DNA sequence, what is the output? Is it DNA as well? If all that is happening is the manipulation of DNA sequence by natural reactions, I don't see anything that cannot (in principle) be simulated by a Turing Machine (Von-Neumann or no Von-Neumann). They (genetic squishy stuff) very well may do it phenominally faster, but that's not a "paradigm difference."
Unless of course this gets into more interesting stuff like tertiary structures - and I would be amazed and delighted to see someone make some real progress there.
eh, 3 billion base pairs.
4 possibilities per base pair, which means that a byte (the computer byte) can hold the info of 4 base pair. Therefore the human genome is roughly 750MB (fits on a CD with a bit of compression).
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I've always been a fan of the cartoon, and not so much the comic. Tick is just not the same without American Maid, Die Fledermaus, etc. Plus, that guy from Seinfeld is just not 9 feet tall.
Strangely, I find myself agreeing with the protest to "bitch" - I have no problems with language (or anything at all, for that matter) on TV - but it's just not something the Tick would say.
I for one, would much rather seen another season of the cartoon.
Does anyone out there actually belive that the US takes it's stance towards other nations because of the pride in their laws and not because of economic power? Sriously.
People don't share this "don't look at it" view because of their hystericaly and meddling nature - you wouldn't be a proper Christian Fundamentalist if you didn't tell other people how to live their lives (no, seriusly, its an expressed part of the deal).
Governments, on the other hand, need these techniques to maintain power - pure and simple.
Bordering? When I took exception to Bush declairing a National Day of Prayer, it was plainly explainted to me that that the US is a Christian Nation - founded on, and in accordance with the principles of Christianity to promote it's moral fiber and so on and so forth....
Apparently "bordering" doesn't apply here, or at least that's what I've been told.
"For that matter, I don't think anyone's value system should be forced upon anyone else."
I whole heartedly agree - however, here's what makes this point tricky - the value system of the Saudi government is, in effect, forced on the people of that country. You make some great generalizations about the citizens of SA, but lets face it, they are all based on simple conjecture (ie making stuff up).
SA (like all other countries that I know - go ahead, bite) is not ruled by the will of the majority. Furthermore, blocking traffick to an entire country is using a very blunt object to accomplish their goal - if individual citizens want to censor their net access, they would have no trouble doing so on an individual basis.
Your second paragraph is slightly misguided - the people of the US also believe that the freedoms bestowed on them are generally a good thing. And as such they wish that people in other countries also partake of those freedoms. Some people even work towards such goals.
Your second third paragraph is just plain naive.
Could be on of two reasons:
a) The books are complete crap. b) It's a marketing gimmick from some corporate tie-in.
Could be both, I suppose.
Judging by how Americans break out in a cold sweat at the mention of words like "Socialism" I would say that Capitalism is the preferred way of doing things around here.
And as we all know things like "morality" or "ethics" do not figure into business decisions a system driven by profits - that's what makes it work.
I am actually not trying to pass judgement one way or another, just pointing out that this is the way things work around here. And I believe that under the PATRIOT Act (or was it the ATA?) criticizing the way the US does things, justifies you getting drawn and quartered (I am not sure about this one though, I'll have to check).
Seriously though (and I've been told this many times) - this is Capitalism, if you don't like it, go to Romania.
Read some of the new laws - using computers is illegal in the US. Period.
It is my firm belief that people buying games will pay for absolutely anything - only that explains the incredible amount of complete crap out there.
Yes, the RAID implementations are equivalent (or even inferior) to the OS implementations - its not "proper" hardware RAID.
And yes, the biggest advantage to these boards is having a second controller - which I for one find very useful (I never use RAIDed, not with their software, not with OS options either)
It's also worth mentioning that the HighPoint ones are bad enough that they are bloody unusalbe - RAID or no RAID. (This is, of course, only my own expirience; but it does include 3 brands of HDs)
All hardware reviews of any kind are subjective - every last one of them. That's why you read several, before making any sort of decision.
The caption does say "Compiling Linux: Suse Linux 7.3 / Kernel 2.4.13" so Tom isn't that far gone.
I suppose compilation is a nice benchmark, regardless of what you are compiling. That used to be one of the few sites to regularly include Linux tests and benchmarks with most of their reviews and roundups and the like. But lately - with his, what 20m a month audience - Tom's really been targeting the lowest common denominator.
"children" is a charity? where are they based?
I am sure Children can stand to lose ten grand in favour of our geeky rights. This whole "my charity is better than your charity" business is just rubbish.
Aren't USB digital audio gadets, like the Stereo Link supposed to do a lot better at getting bit-for-bit output, than cards with SPDIF?
They add a bit to cost, but if you are spending $20,000 already, seems like its justyfied.
Didn't think RedHat would actually pick the idea up. Can I sue somebody?
simple solution - buy a faster system.
.5GB RAM = KDE Fast!
1.2GHz +
(Nautilus still slow though...)
that kinda made me think that 'rack-mount' can have some very different meanings...
it's a chemical reaction so presumably the power sources are heat and bond energy.
McGill, at Burnside Hall - it's neat looking too, with four big jugs labeled A G C and T and tubes everywhere and stuff. heh.
I am not sure what to make of a DNA transistor - I think the Yahoo article is to blame here - they insisted on using a wide range of computer terminology to describe things that have nothing in common with it. For example, an enzyme has as little to do with hardware as DNA does with software. I wouldn't be to quick to try to fit genetic information into a modern computing paradigm - it just doesn't.
If we talk about transistors, then the only difference DNA makes is having 4 states (base pairs) instead of 2 (bits) - it's kinda like that ternary computers thing we had on here recently. The truly interesting thing here are the natural processes controling genetic information and it's "application" in the body (especially the latter) - I don't think you can really describe it in terms of transistors.
Since you seem to know something about this - I take it that the input is a DNA sequence, what is the output? Is it DNA as well? If all that is happening is the manipulation of DNA sequence by natural reactions, I don't see anything that cannot (in principle) be simulated by a Turing Machine (Von-Neumann or no Von-Neumann). They (genetic squishy stuff) very well may do it phenominally faster, but that's not a "paradigm difference."
Unless of course this gets into more interesting stuff like tertiary structures - and I would be amazed and delighted to see someone make some real progress there.
yeah, but then you want to get a dump of the Oracle database running on it, and, well, things get ugly.
yeah sure a few things will get denatured - I am willing to risk that to get those extra FPS!
eh, 3 billion base pairs.
4 possibilities per base pair, which means that a byte (the computer byte) can hold the info of 4 base pair. Therefore the human genome is roughly 750MB (fits on a CD with a bit of compression).
It's how it's used that counts.
keeping in mind that what the article meant by "operation" has absolutely nothing in common with a FLOP - yes amazing.