I'm surprised there is no DVD iso of slackware yet. I've made DVD+RW drives standard on all my systems for quite awhile now, and I'm always annoyed when I have to burn 4 CD's just to install a new distro.
Not to mention that having an MP3 player and a cell phone sharing the same battery is a stupid idea.
Why is this a stupid idea? Who turns there cellphone off anyway? MP3 decoders have become so efficient that there should be very little power draw from the phone anyway.
big business has ruined what could have otherwised been a great product. And why is that? DRM, restrictions, and feature lockout.
Can't use the songs as ring tones? Just to appease the cell phone companies? Do cellphone companies really think they can continue to make money on a gimmick forever? Where's the creativity?
How could apple fix this? The same way they do with all there products. Control the entire thing. I don't think partnering really works for Apple. They should have developed the phone themselves from scratch, maybe with a minor partner, not someone like Motorola. Furthermore, what if they could offer their own cellphone service and make something like downloadable songs over the wireless network feasible? I guess the problem with that is that Apple does not own such a network. I think Apple should give the iPhone another chance, and do it right.
Do we have to install RAID drivers from a floppy disk in Windows Vista, or have they finally fixed that? I'm curious how an installation of Windows Vista goes on a bare bones system.
It's not me I'm worried about. It's the bigger picture of what happens to media, art, and documents in the future. If everything is DRM'd from this point on we will end up with a black hole in part of the history of our culture.
The original Doom has almost been around 15 years (or more?) and I still play that every once and awhile.
The thing is, Valve as a company could go under at any time. Who knows, maybe there is some internal conflict going on that we don't know about? Look what happened to Acclaim.
What if there is a natural disaster that takes out Valve's servers making the game unplayable.
Has the Myst series really ended? When they released Riven, everything I read pointed to it being the last game in the Myst series. Then they released another game and said it was the last one. They did this for quite awhile.
If there is money to be made in the Myst series, you'll see new games come out.
99% of windows users have no need for partitioning their hard drive. Do you know what happens most of the time when people create windows partitions? Someone thinks they are clever and creates seperate partition for their data, another for their programs, and another for a swap file, etc... This whole system quickly breaks down when one partition becomes full.
The only real use for complex partitions is under Linux or if you are sharing files accross different operating systems on one PC.
You actually take grass for granted (note: When I went to college, people were surprised at how I would cut across a grassy area without even thinking about it--apparently grass was respected if it was next to a sidewalk).
I noticed this to when I moved to large city. I'm always amazed to see people do 90 deg turns on sidewalks instead of walking on the grass. What is it about urban grass that makes it so special? Are people so worried about getting their shoes dirty?
Okay, the REASON it is probably taking 20 minutes is because you are probably asking the calculator to invert a matrix _symbolically_ which by all means will take almost forever. I just executed randMat(7,7)^-1 and it took no more than 5 seconds. Make sure the calculator is in approximate mode (or diamond Enter) if you're just interested in floating point numbers. What type of matrix are you trying to invert anyway that it takes even 2 minutes on a hand held calculator? If you're doing that you're wasting your time (and calculator batteries) and you should be using an appropriate math package on a PC.
I like the TI-89 because it's easy to use and supports symbolic math. But to be honest with you, Texas Instruments has done absolutely NOTHING to upgrade the hardware to something modern. Oh yes, they think people will just keep buying their 1995 dated technology.
Come on! We have Gameboy's with color screens with more horespower than any of these calculators! It's pathetic that there are no new calculators of any significance being released now.
Most of the time actually is from the light passing through a fiber. Routers have become so efficient that it typically takes less than 5ms for a packet to pass through a router.
Let's take a hypothetical signal that goes half way around the Earth. If you take the circumference of the earth 40,075,160 m, divide by two and divide by the speed of light 299,792,458 m / s and then multiply by two (for a round trip) you get 0.1337 seconds. Of course, this is the fastest a signal can go half way around the Earth and back.
Since the light does not travel in a vacuum through the fibers, it is probably a few % less than the speed of light. With the route not exactly straight probably adds a few more percentage points. Overall let's just say about 0.2 seconds is probably the fastest you can get.
This isn't fast enough for things like online gaming. Activities like video conferencing and voice communications are awkward. Any technology that could break this barrier would be quite useful.
The important question we all want to know is does this mean reduced ping times? Seriously though, it takes 100ms or more for a signal to reach half way around the globe. Anything that can speed that up would be much appreciated.
I read somewhere that entangled photons don't allow faster than light information transfer either. Is there any hope for faster than light information transfer?
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That really annoys me to. Stupid idiots who buy $10,000 flat screens and then feed a stretched 4:3 signal into it over the RCA video connector. What the heck?
They do this in our cafeteria too. It drives me nuts. Why did they bother spending all that money to feed a 4:3 signal onto a flat TV? Not only that, they don't bother to turn close caption on (even when there are deaf people there) and the TV is so far away you can't hear it.
Okay, maybe not very much stuff in actually made in the U.S., but quite a good deal of consumer electronics, media, software, etc. are designed in the U.S.
I have no problem with overseas production of chips designed by a U.S. company that ends up with 90% of the resulting profits.
No where in the article does it mention security or encryption. Looking at ZyXEL's specs on this phone, it support the standard 64/128 bit WEP encryption standard which we all know is easily hackable. It would be very unwise for anyone to use a phone for use over 802.11 without strong point to point encryption. My theory is that the federal government has such strong control over telecommunications that they would never allow such a product to be released.
Why is it that my cellphone can render 3D graphics and record video but it can't perform a simple point to point encryption algorithm? There is obviously a conspiracy...
What's even worse is that it many industries there are multiple English units for the same measurement. Everyday where I work, depending on the context, we use PSI, inH2O, inHg, and ftH2O.
So the problem is, that we don't any possible fuel source that has a high enough energy density? I guess we can't really have any thing like on star trek until we find technology to move beyond chemical rockets. Wasn't there research into nuclear propulsion for use at lift-off at one time?
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I'm surprised there is no DVD iso of slackware yet. I've made DVD+RW drives standard on all my systems for quite awhile now, and I'm always annoyed when I have to burn 4 CD's just to install a new distro.
Not to mention that having an MP3 player and a cell phone sharing the same battery is a stupid idea.
Why is this a stupid idea? Who turns there cellphone off anyway? MP3 decoders have become so efficient that there should be very little power draw from the phone anyway.
big business has ruined what could have otherwised been a great product. And why is that? DRM, restrictions, and feature lockout.
Can't use the songs as ring tones? Just to appease the cell phone companies? Do cellphone companies really think they can continue to make money on a gimmick forever? Where's the creativity?
How could apple fix this? The same way they do with all there products. Control the entire thing. I don't think partnering really works for Apple. They should have developed the phone themselves from scratch, maybe with a minor partner, not someone like Motorola. Furthermore, what if they could offer their own cellphone service and make something like downloadable songs over the wireless network feasible? I guess the problem with that is that Apple does not own such a network. I think Apple should give the iPhone another chance, and do it right.
Do we have to install RAID drivers from a floppy disk in Windows Vista, or have they finally fixed that? I'm curious how an installation of Windows Vista goes on a bare bones system.
It's not me I'm worried about. It's the bigger picture of what happens to media, art, and documents in the future. If everything is DRM'd from this point on we will end up with a black hole in part of the history of our culture.
The original Doom has almost been around 15 years (or more?) and I still play that every once and awhile.
The thing is, Valve as a company could go under at any time. Who knows, maybe there is some internal conflict going on that we don't know about? Look what happened to Acclaim.
What if there is a natural disaster that takes out Valve's servers making the game unplayable.
Has the Myst series really ended? When they released Riven, everything I read pointed to it being the last game in the Myst series. Then they released another game and said it was the last one. They did this for quite awhile.
If there is money to be made in the Myst series, you'll see new games come out.
Given that you could get a 50mbps DSL connection for less than $40/month in Japan, I would assume not much.
We don't even have 3G service in the U.S., heck there are still areas that only have analog service available.
Ironically, a study to determine the effects of a Cat 5 hurricane was also shelved.
Yeah, that's because they recently started putting their efforts into studying the Cat 5e hurricanes that support Giga Storm wind speeds.
And the best example of this: Yoshi's Island. Ah... who can forget the level "Touch Fuzzy, Get Dizzy"
Hallucinating indeed...
99% of windows users have no need for partitioning their hard drive. Do you know what happens most of the time when people create windows partitions? Someone thinks they are clever and creates seperate partition for their data, another for their programs, and another for a swap file, etc... This whole system quickly breaks down when one partition becomes full.
The only real use for complex partitions is under Linux or if you are sharing files accross different operating systems on one PC.
Ice roads are pretty useless when the research bases fall into the sea as the ice melts.
Besides, they will be able to use cargo ships at that point, which are much more efficient than roads.
You actually take grass for granted (note: When I went to college, people were surprised at how I would cut across a grassy area without even thinking about it--apparently grass was respected if it was next to a sidewalk).
I noticed this to when I moved to large city. I'm always amazed to see people do 90 deg turns on sidewalks instead of walking on the grass. What is it about urban grass that makes it so special? Are people so worried about getting their shoes dirty?
Wow, houses are less than 300k there? Around where I live the average home is still like $600k.
10 years of product development? They must have a total of two people working on it then.
Okay, the REASON it is probably taking 20 minutes is because you are probably asking the calculator to invert a matrix _symbolically_ which by all means will take almost forever. I just executed randMat(7,7)^-1 and it took no more than 5 seconds. Make sure the calculator is in approximate mode (or diamond Enter) if you're just interested in floating point numbers. What type of matrix are you trying to invert anyway that it takes even 2 minutes on a hand held calculator? If you're doing that you're wasting your time (and calculator batteries) and you should be using an appropriate math package on a PC.
I like the TI-89 because it's easy to use and supports symbolic math. But to be honest with you, Texas Instruments has done absolutely NOTHING to upgrade the hardware to something modern. Oh yes, they think people will just keep buying their 1995 dated technology.
Come on! We have Gameboy's with color screens with more horespower than any of these calculators! It's pathetic that there are no new calculators of any significance being released now.
Most of the time actually is from the light passing through a fiber. Routers have become so efficient that it typically takes less than 5ms for a packet to pass through a router.
Let's take a hypothetical signal that goes half way around the Earth. If you take the circumference of the earth 40,075,160 m, divide by two and divide by the speed of light 299,792,458 m / s and then multiply by two (for a round trip) you get 0.1337 seconds. Of course, this is the fastest a signal can go half way around the Earth and back.
Since the light does not travel in a vacuum through the fibers, it is probably a few % less than the speed of light. With the route not exactly straight probably adds a few more percentage points. Overall let's just say about 0.2 seconds is probably the fastest you can get.
This isn't fast enough for things like online gaming. Activities like video conferencing and voice communications are awkward. Any technology that could break this barrier would be quite useful.
zip doesn't compress text very well. From my experience, if you compressed it with 7zip it would be about 2.5MB.
The important question we all want to know is does this mean reduced ping times? Seriously though, it takes 100ms or more for a signal to reach half way around the globe. Anything that can speed that up would be much appreciated.
I read somewhere that entangled photons don't allow faster than light information transfer either. Is there any hope for faster than light information transfer?
That really annoys me to. Stupid idiots who buy $10,000 flat screens and then feed a stretched 4:3 signal into it over the RCA video connector. What the heck?
They do this in our cafeteria too. It drives me nuts. Why did they bother spending all that money to feed a 4:3 signal onto a flat TV? Not only that, they don't bother to turn close caption on (even when there are deaf people there) and the TV is so far away you can't hear it.
Okay, maybe not very much stuff in actually made in the U.S., but quite a good deal of consumer electronics, media, software, etc. are designed in the U.S.
I have no problem with overseas production of chips designed by a U.S. company that ends up with 90% of the resulting profits.
That could be very dangerous. You'd probably want to maintain a significant distance and not look directly at it. Think of welding tourches.
Not to mention the birds or animals that happen to stray too close the the focal point.
Why is it that my cellphone can render 3D graphics and record video but it can't perform a simple point to point encryption algorithm? There is obviously a conspiracy...
What's even worse is that it many industries there are multiple English units for the same measurement. Everyday where I work, depending on the context, we use PSI, inH2O, inHg, and ftH2O.
It's frustrating to say the least.
So the problem is, that we don't any possible fuel source that has a high enough energy density? I guess we can't really have any thing like on star trek until we find technology to move beyond chemical rockets. Wasn't there research into nuclear propulsion for use at lift-off at one time?