That's only the first part of Einstein's postulates. The other one states that there is a fundamental constant that is absolute for every frame: C, the speed of light. The radio waves that these skydivers were using for their wi-fi connection are EM waves, propagating at speed C.
It is not surprising that their wireless worked in the least, as to be able to detect any relativistic effect, their frame, determined by gamma=(1-v^2/c^2)^(-1/2) would have to be close to or greater than 1. That would be darn close to the speed of light.
about how the Athlon XP, which costed significantly less than the MP, could be modified (with a pencil, I beileve) slightly to achieve multi-processor capability?
I don't know if its possible in this case, but has anyone looked into modifying the FX to do the same thing?
Have you actually tried to listen to a book using current text-to-speech technology? I tried converting a book from project gutenberg to audio, but it pronounced words so inaccruately with a tone so irritating that I could not bear to listen to it after a few minutes.
Downloading entire books read by a human in an audio format isn't practical either, as audio files that long tend to be several hundred megabytes, and flash media isn't exactly cheap either.
That only applies when you're shredding individual files, as when you mount a device, there exists an abstraction layer. If you shred the device file, what it does is fill every single byte of the hard disk with garbage, overwriting everything, including the filesystem itself.
Microsoft should consider taking this a step further and allow storing user information on removable media, like a USB drive or some sort of rewritable disk. The advantages are numerous.
The only downside, I would imagine, would be physical loss of the device.
I would think that the software to read old media would be easy to come by, but the hard part is finding the right hardware to interface older with modern hardware.
For example, I have an old 20mb 5.25" drive with a logical edge connector. I don't think any modern system uses that kind of connector anymore, and though I have IDE controller cards that have it, they're all ISA cards. When was the last time you saw an ISA slot on a P4/AMD64 motherboard?
Realize that regular maintenance is required for ANY piece of hardware
I know what you mean, but I have seen old computers that use the Intel 8086. They have been running pretty much non-stop for decades and their cases have never been opened once.
The fact is, iTMS and the iPod are seamlessly integrated, but Apple has done nothing to prevent users from getting their music from other sources. (to be fair, they made no effort to encourage users to use other sources either)
The iPod supports a number of popular formats, including MP3 and WAV, but not WMA (they would have had to pay licensing fees to Microsoft). Just because Apple did not support Microsoft's format, many people are insisting that its vendor lock-in. There is nothing preventing another music download service to open up tomorrow and offer MP3's or AAC's for sale (some already do), that
will be compatible with the iPod.
Then is the question of motives. It has been shown that Apple makes nearly no profit off the iTMS anyway, as its probably true that the entire effort was aimed at selling more iPods. What reason do they have to lock-in users anyway? It would actually be to Apple's benefit if other music services aimed to sell music for the iPod.
The whole idea of Apple trying to force iPod users to use the iTMS is totally untrue. Why, then, would they even allow iPod users to rip from CD's or import audio files that they already had?
Just because Neuros is open source dosn't automatically make it "better" than the iPod. Neuros officially supports open source software, and provides an official sync client for Linux, but there are so many 3rd party applications for syncing music for the iPod that offical support from Apple is a non-issue.
I have seen the Neuros and the iPod side-by-side. The player itself is of reasonable size, but it is a flash player, and only capable of holding 256mb of music. Attaching the "backpack" enables it to hold a lot more music on the hard disk, but it essentially makes it a brick.
I would have to argue that the better user interface definately goes to the iPod. The Neuros' interface is cluttered and confusing, at best. The 5 preset buttons on the side may be useful for some purposes, yet, I find that they just take up space.
The extra features on the Neuros include FM recieving and transmission, and a feature called "hi-si", which essentially records part of a radio stream for comparison to a DB when synced to a computer. Sure, these features have that "hey, that's kewl!" value, but it only lasts for a day, one week tops. Ask yourself: are you REALLY going to _use_ these features?
FM transmission is really just an ad-hoc solution for getting it to play through car speakers. In most circumstances, I find that a cheap tape adapter actually sounds better. FM reception is gradually turning into a gimmick in digital audio players. We are turning to digital audio for a reason: you will not find many radio stations that do not play absolute crap most of the time.
The iPod is an example of a device that does one thing and does it well: play digital audio through an easy to use interface in a stylish device. Devices like the Neuros do a lot of things, but it generally feels slapped together and half-assed.
Even though it looks pretty bad, just remember that the service is so popular that the chances any conversation would acutally be used in any meaningful way by a third party would be about as small as they are now.
The iPod reigns supreme simply because of mindshare. People want it because it is of what it is, over what it does.
Whenever a new Sony or Creative player comes out, the product simply feels like a "me too" kind of thing, where they try to somehow prove to the world that it is a better product than the iPod by listing out its many features like absolutely insane battery life, more space, FM capability and such. Most of which the average consumer would care nothing about.
These companies' products ultimately lack identity. I honestly don't see how the new Sony players are any different than what was avaliable a few months ago, nor any compelling reason to buy these over, say, a shuffle.
ACPI is very important. I had to use a hack to get the screen to reload on my laptop every time I made it sleep, as none of the drivers support the new acpi model very well.
Before laser technology, the meter was defined as the distance between two markings on a bar of platinum-iridium kept in Paris. It was after Michelson invented his interferometer that the meter was redefined as 1,650,763.73 wavelengths of a certain orange line in the spectrum of krypton-86. This was later redefined in the 80's to be in terms of C, the speed of light.
As technology to measure substances to great precision increases, its about time the kilogram got a redefinition as well, one not based on a single object.
For all I know, engines that burn gasoline need to warm up as well when its cold. Most newer cars have "cold idle" where the engine revs higher to produce heat faster when the temperature is low, but in some older cars, it's broken or nonexistant, so on cold days its necessary to let it run for a few minutes or risk stalling.
People who drive older cars should probably know what I'm talking about.
I probably did way too much coding in the last few days for my own good, but when he said that the numbers appeared as images, the following came to my mind:
When you use the framebuffer memory to do ordinary calculations, seemingly random crap will appear on the screen when the program is run, and the answer will technically appear as an image as well.
If we think of our brains as highly sophisticated computers, it makes sense that somewhere inside exists the "circuitry" to do complex calulations like a computer in the blink of an eye, however, we somehow can't accesse these mechanisms, as hypothesized somewhere in the article. Perhaps (I'm just taking a random stab here) something happened to these people where some of the "wiring" of their brains got messed up so that they can actually use different parts of their brain. These "images" might not have anything "intrinsic", but might just be the effect of something else, like the example above.
It seems that with the officially supported version of X11, Apple has made it sound like it expands the functionality of OSX so that it is able to run any app from any *NIX platform. However, this is terribly inaccruate.
X11 is a windowing server, nothing more. What Apple is probably talking about is the fact that a lot of graphical *nix apps use X11 library routines to facilitate their graphical interface, and Aqua does not support these calls. Although the presence of X11 on OSX does make porting apps over to OSX easier(e.g. OpenOffice), it is still (usually) nontrivial.
Either way, it does _NOT_ mean that X11 makes OSX binary-compatible with the other *NIX'es.
Some distros of Linux support 64 bit PPC, while Tiger is not out yet. 64 bit support on the application level(photoshop, etc.) for Panther has no performance benefit because the operating system really just breaks the instructions in half.
In terms of user-friendliness, OSX wins hands down, but it is for performance and customizability that ppl will turn to Linux on a mac.
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It is not surprising that their wireless worked in the least, as to be able to detect any relativistic effect, their frame, determined by gamma=(1-v^2/c^2)^(-1/2) would have to be close to or greater than 1. That would be darn close to the speed of light.
YOU FAIL IT. Yes, you had a bot.
I don't know if its possible in this case, but has anyone looked into modifying the FX to do the same thing?
Data suggests early universe was stupified?
Maybe he meant the entire bay area, which is huge.
Downloading entire books read by a human in an audio format isn't practical either, as audio files that long tend to be several hundred megabytes, and flash media isn't exactly cheap either.
That only applies when you're shredding individual files, as when you mount a device, there exists an abstraction layer. If you shred the device file, what it does is fill every single byte of the hard disk with garbage, overwriting everything, including the filesystem itself.
The only downside, I would imagine, would be physical loss of the device.
For example, I have an old 20mb 5.25" drive with a logical edge connector. I don't think any modern system uses that kind of connector anymore, and though I have IDE controller cards that have it, they're all ISA cards. When was the last time you saw an ISA slot on a P4/AMD64 motherboard?
I know what you mean, but I have seen old computers that use the Intel 8086. They have been running pretty much non-stop for decades and their cases have never been opened once.
Just a random thought.
The iPod supports a number of popular formats, including MP3 and WAV, but not WMA (they would have had to pay licensing fees to Microsoft). Just because Apple did not support Microsoft's format, many people are insisting that its vendor lock-in. There is nothing preventing another music download service to open up tomorrow and offer MP3's or AAC's for sale (some already do), that will be compatible with the iPod.
Then is the question of motives. It has been shown that Apple makes nearly no profit off the iTMS anyway, as its probably true that the entire effort was aimed at selling more iPods. What reason do they have to lock-in users anyway? It would actually be to Apple's benefit if other music services aimed to sell music for the iPod.
The whole idea of Apple trying to force iPod users to use the iTMS is totally untrue. Why, then, would they even allow iPod users to rip from CD's or import audio files that they already had?
I have seen the Neuros and the iPod side-by-side. The player itself is of reasonable size, but it is a flash player, and only capable of holding 256mb of music. Attaching the "backpack" enables it to hold a lot more music on the hard disk, but it essentially makes it a brick.
I would have to argue that the better user interface definately goes to the iPod. The Neuros' interface is cluttered and confusing, at best. The 5 preset buttons on the side may be useful for some purposes, yet, I find that they just take up space.
The extra features on the Neuros include FM recieving and transmission, and a feature called "hi-si", which essentially records part of a radio stream for comparison to a DB when synced to a computer. Sure, these features have that "hey, that's kewl!" value, but it only lasts for a day, one week tops. Ask yourself: are you REALLY going to _use_ these features?
FM transmission is really just an ad-hoc solution for getting it to play through car speakers. In most circumstances, I find that a cheap tape adapter actually sounds better. FM reception is gradually turning into a gimmick in digital audio players. We are turning to digital audio for a reason: you will not find many radio stations that do not play absolute crap most of the time.
The iPod is an example of a device that does one thing and does it well: play digital audio through an easy to use interface in a stylish device. Devices like the Neuros do a lot of things, but it generally feels slapped together and half-assed.
This person, "Linux Torvald" must NOT be the "true father" of the Linux kernel since "LINUS Torvalds" already is.
Let's just say that they're using the ray model of light, and split the rays into dots to make it more visible.
"Enhanced RISC" implies enhancements on an already reduced set of instructions. Dosn't that actually mean complication?
Even though it looks pretty bad, just remember that the service is so popular that the chances any conversation would acutally be used in any meaningful way by a third party would be about as small as they are now.
Whenever a new Sony or Creative player comes out, the product simply feels like a "me too" kind of thing, where they try to somehow prove to the world that it is a better product than the iPod by listing out its many features like absolutely insane battery life, more space, FM capability and such. Most of which the average consumer would care nothing about.
These companies' products ultimately lack identity. I honestly don't see how the new Sony players are any different than what was avaliable a few months ago, nor any compelling reason to buy these over, say, a shuffle.
This was fixed recently in 2.6.11
As technology to measure substances to great precision increases, its about time the kilogram got a redefinition as well, one not based on a single object.
People who drive older cars should probably know what I'm talking about.
When you use the framebuffer memory to do ordinary calculations, seemingly random crap will appear on the screen when the program is run, and the answer will technically appear as an image as well.
If we think of our brains as highly sophisticated computers, it makes sense that somewhere inside exists the "circuitry" to do complex calulations like a computer in the blink of an eye, however, we somehow can't accesse these mechanisms, as hypothesized somewhere in the article. Perhaps (I'm just taking a random stab here) something happened to these people where some of the "wiring" of their brains got messed up so that they can actually use different parts of their brain. These "images" might not have anything "intrinsic", but might just be the effect of something else, like the example above.
Your life and addiction to WoW are mutually exclusive. By not letting you play, they (Blizzard) are doing you a favor.
X11 is a windowing server, nothing more. What Apple is probably talking about is the fact that a lot of graphical *nix apps use X11 library routines to facilitate their graphical interface, and Aqua does not support these calls. Although the presence of X11 on OSX does make porting apps over to OSX easier(e.g. OpenOffice), it is still (usually) nontrivial.
Either way, it does _NOT_ mean that X11 makes OSX binary-compatible with the other *NIX'es.
In terms of user-friendliness, OSX wins hands down, but it is for performance and customizability that ppl will turn to Linux on a mac.