As far as I know - and for what it's worth (not much), I checked with Google - x86-compatible CPUs can address 4 GB. There are extensions in some Intel CPUs that allow programs to address a 36-bit address space, even. As for the 2 GB limit, there seems to be a feature in the Windows memory architecture - the upper 2 GB of a process' virtual address space is reserved for shared memory. Or something - I kind of stopped thinking at that point.;) If you're interested, more info is available.
CinePaint? Not exactly a creative name. Out of the names mentioned as candidates in the press release, Film-Fu is easily the funniest. But I guess being funny isn't exactly what they wanted to achieve for "the most popular open source tool in feature motion picture work"...
Considering that posting that signature to Slashdot already takes care of the proliferation, everything left to do for the perl code would be the payload...;) (Love the sig, incidently!)
Agreed, there are considerably larger LAN parties here in Germany, as well. The largest I've been to must've been about the size of this one - personally, I'm not too big of a fan.
Thanks, I read the linked article (diagonally). However, it appears to be awfully quiet about the problems routinely associated to high ozone concentrations in the ground level air - it doesn't even refute them as hysteria or something, it ignores them. So it seems to be a bit quite on the detriment side of things. Add to this the general appearance of the site and it's dubious background as selling outlet for various weird products ("Ozonated Olive Oil", "Ed McCabe's Report: "Ozone Vs AIDS""), and I get the feeling that there are probably sources deserving more trust than this one...
Oh, I do share your sentiments. I was merely quoting the article, personally I'm not sure what to think about it. The fact that this would seem to increase already existing ground-level ozone concentration was my first thought when reading about the article, in fact.
That's correct, but the amount used here is not near enough to be toxic. However, during the summer months we routinely have smog alarms around here which caution folks to go outside for prolonged times, mostly due to the ozone in the air. It's, of course, not concentrated so high that it would kill you, but things such as severe headaches are typical issues. Note that the article states that the ozone used as a pesticide would not contribute to the overall smog problem - or at least not significantly, I think the article is not absolutely clear on that.
Nice try at a first post that actually makes sense, but of course the ozone used as a pesticide would not help with the regeneration of the ozone layer. It's about 10 miles too low for that...
It's always been a certain irony that, on the one hand, we have too few ozone in the upper atmosphere while we have too much in the air we breathe (that is, smog). Anyway, at least according to the article, the ozone used as a pesticide would not increase the smog problem in any relevant way. (Which was my first thought.)
Replace the words rich people in your post by the words the upper less than 20 percent who have for the past 25 years lived off the rest of the populations well-being and suddenly it makes sense why some people conclude in your point number one.
Me, I don't know. I don't know enough about the situation to have an own opinion on it. But you certainly put words into Lemmy Caution's mouth that didn't belong their quite that way.
Do Athlon's have L3-caches? Sadly, my engineering classes haven't been so that thorough, yet. I've only accounted for L1 and L2 cache, so if there's a L3, you're right. Any corrections appreciated.
A "USAian" company implemented it, but guess who's using it. Quote from the Boeing web site:
For more information about our partner airlines, please click on one of the links below.
www.britishairways.com
www.jal.co.jp/en/
www.lufthansa.com
www.scandinavian.net
I have absolutely no clue whether those equations are correct (I don't even want to have a clue, really), but the tendency you describe certainly would exist. However, since people most likely won't base their hearing habits solely on such a database, I doubt equilibium will ever be reached - this is basically saying the "external stimulation" you refer to will always be quite strong. Nevertheless, it's certainly correct that such a system makes is unlikely for rare songs to be put into the main circulation - of course, since the developers are probably aware of this, they can counteract, for instance by adding modifiers for songs newly introduced into the system, or by allowing for user-moderated boosts to certain songs.
It's faster to type mod+n on the keyboard IF you have one hand on the keyboard. I don't have one hand on the keyboard at all times, I do have one hand on the mouse at nearly all times (with the exception of those times, like now, when I am typing). This is especially true for surfing: the mouse is obligatory for surfing, the keyboard is only optional. (Links/lynx users in the back rows, quiet down, please.) If I'm holding a cup of coffee in my left hand, having to type mod+n is annoying, indeed, while moving the mouse up down up is effortless.
(Sidenote: mentioning mouse gestures always brings up scores of people pointing out an awarding use of the now-freed hand. But holding a cup of coffee or a phone or whatever is an option, as well.)
That's true. If I open a window using the mouse gesture, I usually select a bookmark subsequently, on the other hand, if I open a window to enter an URL manually, then I'll use ctrl+n to open the window, as well.
Personally I feel the only gestures worth bothering with is the hold-mousebutton-click-other for navigating back/forward.
That'd be Opera? Or has this been implemented in Mozilla meanwhile?
In any case, I use that gesture all the time, too. However, I also make very heavy use of "open in new window/duplicate", "reload", "new blank window". So I think mouse gestures are pretty damn sweet. On the other hand, I've never used them outside of a browser environment.
Not true: to click on an icon, the cursor has to be at a specific point on the GUI; furthermore the icon has to be visible, eg it must not be covered by a window. (And yes, I am aware the parent was troll more than anything, but it's on-topic, and I'm sure some people could think the same without being malevolent.)
Is "hypercopmuter" a real word with a standardized definition?
Hypercopmuter? Perhabs a cop commuting through space and time? SCNR. I think the hyper is not based on any scientific or mathematic definition, they just picked it up because they thought it sounded cool. Their product overview page defines what they think hypercomputers are:
Our products include the implementation of the relatively new computer chip, the FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) along with our patented Viva software, to form what we term 'Hypercomputers'. These machines are capable of truly extraordinary computational feats. The result is simply the creation of a new kind of computer system that gives users tremendous power with an intuitive, state-of-the-art software tool.
Slashdot Mirror
As far as I know - and for what it's worth (not much), I checked with Google - x86-compatible CPUs can address 4 GB. There are extensions in some Intel CPUs that allow programs to address a 36-bit address space, even. ;) If you're interested, more info is available.
As for the 2 GB limit, there seems to be a feature in the Windows memory architecture - the upper 2 GB of a process' virtual address space is reserved for shared memory. Or something - I kind of stopped thinking at that point.
CinePaint? Not exactly a creative name. Out of the names mentioned as candidates in the press release, Film-Fu is easily the funniest. But I guess being funny isn't exactly what they wanted to achieve for "the most popular open source tool in feature motion picture work" ...
Considering that posting that signature to Slashdot already takes care of the proliferation, everything left to do for the perl code would be the payload ... ;) (Love the sig, incidently!)
Considering how many cell phone services providers DTAG has bought in the past few years, they're most certainly a multinational carrier, too ...
I'm sure the admin will be euphoric when he checks his mail later the day.
It really sucks for single MP3s. Albums, okay, but single songs, terrible.
Agreed, there are considerably larger LAN parties here in Germany, as well. The largest I've been to must've been about the size of this one - personally, I'm not too big of a fan.
Great. Now go on and post that reply to, oh, every post on Slashdot.
Thanks, I read the linked article (diagonally). However, it appears to be awfully quiet about the problems routinely associated to high ozone concentrations in the ground level air - it doesn't even refute them as hysteria or something, it ignores them. So it seems to be a bit quite on the detriment side of things. Add to this the general appearance of the site and it's dubious background as selling outlet for various weird products ("Ozonated Olive Oil", "Ed McCabe's Report: "Ozone Vs AIDS""), and I get the feeling that there are probably sources deserving more trust than this one ...
Oh, I do share your sentiments. I was merely quoting the article, personally I'm not sure what to think about it. The fact that this would seem to increase already existing ground-level ozone concentration was my first thought when reading about the article, in fact.
That's correct, but the amount used here is not near enough to be toxic. However, during the summer months we routinely have smog alarms around here which caution folks to go outside for prolonged times, mostly due to the ozone in the air. It's, of course, not concentrated so high that it would kill you, but things such as severe headaches are typical issues. Note that the article states that the ozone used as a pesticide would not contribute to the overall smog problem - or at least not significantly, I think the article is not absolutely clear on that.
Nice try at a first post that actually makes sense, but of course the ozone used as a pesticide would not help with the regeneration of the ozone layer. It's about 10 miles too low for that ...
It's always been a certain irony that, on the one hand, we have too few ozone in the upper atmosphere while we have too much in the air we breathe (that is, smog). Anyway, at least according to the article, the ozone used as a pesticide would not increase the smog problem in any relevant way. (Which was my first thought.)
Agreed, especially since there is finally hardware ASCII acceleration available if you use ATI's new Radeon 9500 ASC. =)
You're welcome. ;)
Replace the words rich people in your post by the words the upper less than 20 percent who have for the past 25 years lived off the rest of the populations well-being and suddenly it makes sense why some people conclude in your point number one.
Me, I don't know. I don't know enough about the situation to have an own opinion on it. But you certainly put words into Lemmy Caution's mouth that didn't belong their quite that way.
Do Athlon's have L3-caches? Sadly, my engineering classes haven't been so that thorough, yet. I've only accounted for L1 and L2 cache, so if there's a L3, you're right.
Any corrections appreciated.
I have absolutely no clue whether those equations are correct (I don't even want to have a clue, really), but the tendency you describe certainly would exist. However, since people most likely won't base their hearing habits solely on such a database, I doubt equilibium will ever be reached - this is basically saying the "external stimulation" you refer to will always be quite strong.
Nevertheless, it's certainly correct that such a system makes is unlikely for rare songs to be put into the main circulation - of course, since the developers are probably aware of this, they can counteract, for instance by adding modifiers for songs newly introduced into the system, or by allowing for user-moderated boosts to certain songs.
Suffice to say the article is now a post-mortem, at least if the suggestion servers etc are on the same server as the web site. ;)
Grown-up comic book nerds dominating parts of Hollywood, or, perhabs, parts of the paying audience?
It's faster to type mod+n on the keyboard IF you have one hand on the keyboard. I don't have one hand on the keyboard at all times, I do have one hand on the mouse at nearly all times (with the exception of those times, like now, when I am typing). This is especially true for surfing: the mouse is obligatory for surfing, the keyboard is only optional. (Links/lynx users in the back rows, quiet down, please.) If I'm holding a cup of coffee in my left hand, having to type mod+n is annoying, indeed, while moving the mouse up down up is effortless.
(Sidenote: mentioning mouse gestures always brings up scores of people pointing out an awarding use of the now-freed hand. But holding a cup of coffee or a phone or whatever is an option, as well.)
That's true. If I open a window using the mouse gesture, I usually select a bookmark subsequently, on the other hand, if I open a window to enter an URL manually, then I'll use ctrl+n to open the window, as well.
In any case, I use that gesture all the time, too. However, I also make very heavy use of "open in new window/duplicate", "reload", "new blank window". So I think mouse gestures are pretty damn sweet. On the other hand, I've never used them outside of a browser environment.
Not true: to click on an icon, the cursor has to be at a specific point on the GUI; furthermore the icon has to be visible, eg it must not be covered by a window.
(And yes, I am aware the parent was troll more than anything, but it's on-topic, and I'm sure some people could think the same without being malevolent.)