I may be going of topic, but there actually are two types of transistors: bipolor and FET.
Bipolor is fast, but very difficult to manufacture on the small scales required for microprocessors.
FET is slower, but is relativly easy to manufature on small scales. This is manufatured by over laping two thin "strips" of silicon over eachother like a cross. The width of the silicon "strip" is the path size. For the new chip this would be (correct me if I'm wrong) 10nm.
Most chips use FET transistors because of the difficulties of manufaturing bipolor transistors.
(I did have cool ascii-art diagrams of the two types of transistors, but aparently trying to explaing things well is considered lame on slashdot, and the lameness filter tried to stop me. ARGHHHH!!!!)
Yeah, I was eating at Arby's the other day with some friends. One of my friends asked for a small chocolate shake; the girl behind the counter asks "Small, Medium, or Large?"
It would seem to me that BeOS is non-profitable, otherwise why did Be go under and sell BeOS to Palm?
I believe that Buying BeOS from Palm and Open Sourcing it would be a good idea; after all Palm doesn't seem to be doing much with it. I have never used BeOS, but from what I hear it was a great OS that should have been a great success, but really never was.
Then again there are people working on a Open Source BeOS like operating system right now that is suppose to be better that BeOS.
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The problem with regular expressions is that there are so many constraints. for example:
\<John.+Doe\>
should match:
JohnBDoe
JohnandDoe
JohnDoe
JohnClark
...text...JaneDoe
But this shouldn't match:
"Doe Re Me," sang John
"Jane Doe and John
"John Doe"
As you can see, even with a very simple regular expression like this, the text has to be processed a lot to get the results needed. A simple "John AND Doe" would match all of the results while the regular expression puts more restraints on the search, which takes longer to process. For complex regular expressions, the searching of text becomes too slow for large amounts of data, such as the internet.
I just got done looking at the screenshots of KDE 3.0 for the first time (don't know why I didn't look when they first came out, lazyness I guess). Wow! KDE has improved in looks a lot! It looked great before, but know it looks even smoother!
I really do feel sorry for the guy who recently decited to switch back to windows. I mean really, what an exciting time to be involved in Linux! Two years ago when I first got involved in Linux, KDE and GNOME were fairly simple to use, although not as simple as windows. They booth looked ok as well. Boy things have improved a lot! At this rate, Linux could easily surpas windows in ease of use and asthetics.
The super-conducting super-collider was purposed several years ago. This was going to be the largest particle accelerator ever built. The benefit to science would have been enormous. However, the project was dropped because it was too expensive. Now the International Space Station is costing the United States a lot more money, and the benefit to science is questionable. Kind of makes you mad at the government for masquerading the International Space Station as science.
I'ts really too bad that this unit isn't for de-mining during peacetime. There are many countries that are covered with mines from past wars (just think of some eastern European countries and African countries). Too many civilians die each year from old mines. Oh well, this is good news non the less as it will help save lives.
I first found out about POV about 2 years ago. I thought (and still think) that it was a great tool. I haven't messed around with it much, but I am going to have to download this newest version and try it out.
I'm just wondering how valid this claim really is. Does anybody know? Of course there is also the question of whether this claim will hold up in court. Hopefully someone will decide to try and fight this as Microsoft already has Direct X.
The MPAA and their cronies went
out of their way to choose a defendant (us) that the court system would be prejudiced against.
then why didn't the MPAA go after CNN and the other sites that posted links to DeCSS on their web sites? I'm not disagreeing with you or anything, I just want to know your explination.
I don't think that the issue is "The first 64 bit Linux distro". We all know that there have already are 64 bit Linux distro's, and that they are great. The issue is that companies who have a major investmen in x86 will now have a linux option (without having to compile everything themselves).
Separation of church and state is NOT synonymous with the first amendment. This is especially true when citizens are not guaranteed their first amendment right of freely exercising their religion in school. Many schools have claimed that for children to pray in school (or otherwise exercise their right of religion as stated in the constitution) breaks the "Separation of Church and State" clause, which doesn't exist!
Fortunately for many kids, the supreme court ruled that children do indeed have this right despite what the principal says. Of course this didn't happen without a fight from the ACLU.
This is indeed true. There is no such clause in the constitution. The phrase "Under God" is not unconstitutional. This phrase does not break the constitutional requirement that a (single) national religion should not be established. In fact, the phrase doesn't even support one single religion. The phrase "Under God" can mean whatever you want it too. It doesn't have to mean the Judeo/Christian God if you don't want it too. It can mean Allah, or whatever other gods there are out there.
One can even interpret it to mean the "god" of science if you are an atheist that believes in evolution (this of course sounds strange for an atheist but if one considers that according to modern evolution, we were created by natural processes, then the god of science would be nature.)
At my school we use SSH for accessing our UNIX accounts. I have always been impressed by the security offered by SSH. I just hope that the network administrators at my school decide to upgrade to OpenSSH.
Why did you first decide to start building an internet search engine, and what have you learned in the process of becoming one of the biggest and best search engines out there?
People have sacrificed their life for freedoms, have they not? What I am referring to here is people sacrificing thier sence of security, which would take away some of our freedoms. Either we keep the freedom to not be wiretaped without a warrant, or we don't. If a person's sence of security is dependent upon the police being able to wiretap everyone without a warrent then that person has to choose wether they would rather have their freedom or their sence of security. Plain and simple.
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Look ma, I'm getting 2000 fps running UT2003 on my new $2,380,546 linux cluster!!
I may be going of topic, but there actually are two types of transistors: bipolor and FET.
Bipolor is fast, but very difficult to manufacture on the small scales required for microprocessors.
FET is slower, but is relativly easy to manufature on small scales. This is manufatured by over laping two thin "strips" of silicon over eachother like a cross. The width of the silicon "strip" is the path size. For the new chip this would be (correct me if I'm wrong) 10nm.
Most chips use FET transistors because of the difficulties of manufaturing bipolor transistors.
(I did have cool ascii-art diagrams of the two types of transistors, but aparently trying to explaing things well is considered lame on slashdot, and the lameness filter tried to stop me. ARGHHHH!!!!)
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!!!!
"Good news everyone. I logged on to AOL two years ago, and it just went through!" --famous Professor quote.Yeah, I was eating at Arby's the other day with some friends. One of my friends asked for a small chocolate shake; the girl behind the counter asks "Small, Medium, or Large?"
Ah, Think Pascal. The memories. I first learned to program with Think Pascal in High School. :)
It would seem to me that BeOS is non-profitable, otherwise why did Be go under and sell BeOS to Palm?
I believe that Buying BeOS from Palm and Open Sourcing it would be a good idea; after all Palm doesn't seem to be doing much with it. I have never used BeOS, but from what I hear it was a great OS that should have been a great success, but really never was.
Then again there are people working on a Open Source BeOS like operating system right now that is suppose to be better that BeOS.
The problem with regular expressions is that there are so many constraints. for example:
- \<John.+Doe\>
should match:- JohnClark
- ...text...JaneDoe
But this shouldn't match:As you can see, even with a very simple regular expression like this, the text has to be processed a lot to get the results needed. A simple "John AND Doe" would match all of the results while the regular expression puts more restraints on the search, which takes longer to process. For complex regular expressions, the searching of text becomes too slow for large amounts of data, such as the internet.
I just got done looking at the screenshots of KDE 3.0 for the first time (don't know why I didn't look when they first came out, lazyness I guess). Wow! KDE has improved in looks a lot! It looked great before, but know it looks even smoother!
I really do feel sorry for the guy who recently decited to switch back to windows. I mean really, what an exciting time to be involved in Linux! Two years ago when I first got involved in Linux, KDE and GNOME were fairly simple to use, although not as simple as windows. They booth looked ok as well. Boy things have improved a lot! At this rate, Linux could easily surpas windows in ease of use and asthetics.
The super-conducting super-collider was purposed several years ago. This was going to be the largest particle accelerator ever built. The benefit to science would have been enormous. However, the project was dropped because it was too expensive. Now the International Space Station is costing the United States a lot more money, and the benefit to science is questionable. Kind of makes you mad at the government for masquerading the International Space Station as science.
You can't plug a humvee in on the battlefield?
Darn...there goes that idea
I'ts really too bad that this unit isn't for de-mining during peacetime. There are many countries that are covered with mines from past wars (just think of some eastern European countries and African countries). Too many civilians die each year from old mines. Oh well, this is good news non the less as it will help save lives.
I first found out about POV about 2 years ago. I thought (and still think) that it was a great tool. I haven't messed around with it much, but I am going to have to download this newest version and try it out.
I'm just wondering how valid this claim really is. Does anybody know? Of course there is also the question of whether this claim will hold up in court. Hopefully someone will decide to try and fight this as Microsoft already has Direct X.
Donating to Free Software may sound dumb, but it really is a good idea.
Microsoft Employee #1: "Hum do you think we should write the patch yet?"
Microsoft Employee #2: "Nah, there is no real reason to."
But isn't Open Source about choices? If people like BeOS far be it from those of us who don't like it to claim that it is RIP
If it were totally untrue that:
The MPAA and their cronies went out of their way to choose a defendant (us) that the court system would be prejudiced against.
then why didn't the MPAA go after CNN and the other sites that posted links to DeCSS on their web sites? I'm not disagreeing with you or anything, I just want to know your explination.
Exciting!
I don't think that the issue is "The first 64 bit Linux distro". We all know that there have already are 64 bit Linux distro's, and that they are great. The issue is that companies who have a major investmen in x86 will now have a linux option (without having to compile everything themselves).
Separation of church and state is NOT synonymous with the first amendment. This is especially true when citizens are not guaranteed their first amendment right of freely exercising their religion in school. Many schools have claimed that for children to pray in school (or otherwise exercise their right of religion as stated in the constitution) breaks the "Separation of Church and State" clause, which doesn't exist!
Fortunately for many kids, the supreme court ruled that children do indeed have this right despite what the principal says. Of course this didn't happen without a fight from the ACLU.
This is indeed true. There is no such clause in the constitution. The phrase "Under God" is not unconstitutional. This phrase does not break the constitutional requirement that a (single) national religion should not be established. In fact, the phrase doesn't even support one single religion. The phrase "Under God" can mean whatever you want it too. It doesn't have to mean the Judeo/Christian God if you don't want it too. It can mean Allah, or whatever other gods there are out there.
One can even interpret it to mean the "god" of science if you are an atheist that believes in evolution (this of course sounds strange for an atheist but if one considers that according to modern evolution, we were created by natural processes, then the god of science would be nature.)
At my school we use SSH for accessing our UNIX accounts. I have always been impressed by the security offered by SSH. I just hope that the network administrators at my school decide to upgrade to OpenSSH.
There is more to building your own PC than just the price.
Building your own PC gives you a lot more options, and it is fun! (if your a geek :-)
Why did you first decide to start building an internet search engine, and what have you learned in the process of becoming one of the biggest and best search engines out there?
People have sacrificed their life for freedoms, have they not? What I am referring to here is people sacrificing thier sence of security, which would take away some of our freedoms. Either we keep the freedom to not be wiretaped without a warrant, or we don't. If a person's sence of security is dependent upon the police being able to wiretap everyone without a warrent then that person has to choose wether they would rather have their freedom or their sence of security. Plain and simple.