Perhaps I should explain this... When I say "most women I know", I am referring *only* to those whom I have social interaction with, not just friends, or co-workers, or students (when I still was one).
Maybe I surround myself with the wrong type, although it's not like I'm looking for that.
Very true, I am certainly inclined to agree with you there.... The thing I've noticed though is, the more a guy wants to find a "less intellectual" (read: stereotypical blonde) girl, the less "intelligent" he is himself. Guess the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree, so to speak.
I don't know about you but I think any women who is intelligent enough to be an ME is quite attractive... Most women I know (no offense ladies) are ditzes, or maybe they purposely put on that facade.
Any female who I can carry on an intellectually stimulating conversation with scores mad points with me. Any other guys out there feel the same?
Rather than replying on ID3 tags? That's exactly what iTunes does - you *have* to use ID3 tags to organize your collection, and hence the reason I despise it so much.
I personally think they are a pain and don't bother using them, I just put all the info I want in my filenames and sort my MP3's hierarchically by genre, band (alphabetically), album (chronologically), then track number.
IE: /mnt/storage/multimedia/mp3/3 - Alternative/5 311 - Transistor/04 311 - Beautiful Distaster.mp3 /mnt/storage/multimedia/mp3/3 - Alternative/9 311 - From Chaos/12 311 - I'll Be Here Awhile.mp3.
Seems to work the best for my purposes.
However, if you like ID3 tags and have all your MP3's tagged already then you'd probably like iTunes... It's all a matter of opinion, but I am glad to hear that at least someone out there enjoys it.
Granted I havn't had mine (20gb model) for a week yet, but so far I love the thing. Great for taking to the gym and I can't *wait* until winter comes to go snowboarding with it.
Warning: iTunes sucks a big one. I think a group of monkeys could write better software, oh wait sorry that was Windows. If you're going to get one and use it on a Windows platform (I have to, Firewire doesn't work well on my Linux desktop system yet), get EphPod. Good software with a lot of features.
Now that I'm on ths topic I might also mention that EphPod does not store your song ratings, if you want to backup/edit them check out this thread.
Ouch, I'm sorry. That's a nice camera to get smashed, even though it is a slightly older model. For my recent purchase, I was looking at a G5 actually but ended up settling for the A80.
I was curious as to what was going on at Transgaming - they had a large banner on their site yesterday with today's date on it and "Where will you be?". Had a funny feeling something was brewing.:)
Providing free WiFi. Why? What payoff does everyone get?
I think it would be very convenient to have WiFi at a rest stop, especially for those who are not from the area and travelling, can bring up MapQuest quite easily. And... (not sure if Texas has this by the NJ/NYC metro area does) they could log online to check latest traffic reports. I can't wait for the day until sensors are installed along all roads to monitor traffic conditions; it could be integrated into a MapQuest-like program to plot the most efficient route possible. Yay for Dijkstra's algorithm.
I would definately agree. Even compared to DSL, cable IMHO is much better/faster. I'd get about 700kbps with basic DSL (~$50/mo), for premium service I'd get around 920kbps ($65/mo or something like that).
With cable I'll easily get 2800kbps for only $50/mo. Plus my upstream capacity is about 240kbps instead of 128. Pretty much a no-brainer if you ask me.
This is in the NJ/NYC metro area (DSL was in Newark, Cable at the shore near Seaside). Your milage may vary.
I would recommend this Bob character and his friend try Xfce as Johan mentioned - it was not mentioned in the article. It's starting to become more popular and is well known for it's efficiency/speed, also included in the FC2 release.
Sick and tired of endless spyware and viruses, he wanted a way out -- so I gave him a copy of Mandrake 10.0 Official. A couple of days later, he got back to me with the sad news I was prepared for: it's just too slow. His box, an 600 MHz 128MB RAM system, ran Windows XP happily, but with Mandrake it was considerably slower.
I wonder... did s/he compile the lastest custom kernel for their hardware? Did they tune ATA I/O performance with hdparm? Did he disable non-essential daemons running in the background? I doubt it.
I had an old Dell notebook, Latitude XPi IIRC. Ran Windows 2000 albeit sluggishly... With a custom kernel and install of a recent RH/Fedora release it ran like a charm.
I don't think I've ever heard anyone describe their system with 128mb RAM and "ran XP happily" in the same sentence before. Definately friends of mine who have done plenty of PC repairing in their day would agree.
My suggestion is to install an older release of RedHat and just run up2date. Still not good enough? Try Gentoo.
Don't mark Linux off as a loss until you've properly tuned it. The same could be said for any OS for that matter.
I'm inclined to agree with this one, I doubt it will happen anytime soon... at least not until some major new technology (read: faster) is available to the public.
Actually, some experimental results show major performance increases for applications under an exokernel architecture. Normal applications get up to a 4x boost, while tuned apps can reach up to 8x. Check out a few of these slides at MIT for slightly more information:
IMHO, the next major revolution in OS design (and performance) will be from an exokernel architecture. For those who aren't familiar with them, it's a completely radical and different approach to kernel design, the main idea behind it is seperate protection from management. If you really think about it, who (I use that term loosely) would know better what resources, scheduling, etc an application will need - the kernel, or the application itself.
Traditional kernel design techniques give the (pretty much) the entire management of resources to the kernel itself and hide it behind a HAL (hardware abstraction layer), allowing the application little to zero say in the matter. Exokernels throw that idea out of the window, taking a completely opposite view on the issue. Once you give the power to the application, it opens a whole new world of OS design.
It's really quite interesting, for more information on different kernel designs you can check out the Microkernel entry at thefreedictionary.com
Reminds me of the episode which opens at a quantum horse racetrack where the Professor complains at his loss: "No fair, you changed the outcome by measuring it!"
As other have mentioned, the CNO cycle is just a catalyst larger stars use to fuse Helium (basically 4p + C12 = He4 + C12 instead of the "normal" method). However since heavier elements are used in the reaction, higher temperatures (core temp >18M kelvin) are needed to initiate the reaction due to a strong positive repulsion force within the nucleus, only larger stars (> ~1.2 solar mass) have core temps high enough to initiate the reactions. Our sun gets about 2% of its energy from CNO, but a 1.2 solar mass star can be up to 50%, and in larger stars it clearly dominates.
Now for the proton-proton chain, nuclear reaction rate is slightly sensitive to core temp ( ~ T**4). However, with CNO the rate is more like T**16. The lifetime of a star is defined by the ratio of how much fuel is has (mass) over its rate of consumption (luminosity). For main sequence stars, the luminosity is rough related to mass**4, so the lifetime of a star is 1/mass**3.
I think there may have been some confusion because typically older stars are heavy element poor (small Z mass fraction). Older stars must also be less massive (if they were large, would consume fuel too quickly and burn out before the old age sets in). These older, heavy-element poor, less massive stars would not have the conditions needed to use the CNO cycle to begin with.
IANAAP, but I did take a few courses in astrophysics, enough to remember this much. I also did not RTFA, not a subscriber to Science News. Any astrophysists out there (or students thereof) able to give an answer?
Yes, I can verify that as well. I am a Comcast subscriber as well. Port 25 is not blocked, I have to run a local SMTP server as a workaround for a bug in Thunderbird with SMTP authentication (or perhaps an incombatibility with my company's mail server). Without I would be stuck to relaying mail with my Yahoo account. That's all convenient for personal (read: low volume) e-mail, but definately not business.
Thank you Comcast, even though your motives for doing so are primarily financial.
This is my biggest complaint about Firefox. I install it practically on every computer I use, which means I go though a lot of installs. It would be *amazing* if they could redesign the profile layout and/or management code so you can just copy it to a fresh install and keep all of your 1) settings, 2) extensions, 3) bookmarks. Having to reinstall *every* extension and reconfigure on each install is a rather painful task.
A few other bugs are annoying, some pages won't work (need IE). I also found one where your bookmarks get trashed after a crash (that was fun). Now I have an extension to automatically upload my bookmarks to a local FTP.
This is by far one of the greatest strengths of Firefox, the wide range of plugins available, and if you don't find one you need, it's not difficult to write!
I have not yet come across one person who prefers IE over Firefox after having used both and I introduce practically everyone I know to it. Excellent job Moz dev team, keep up the great work.
I was thinking of commenting on that as well, however I havn't (yet) had experience with said chemical so I figured I'd go with that. 12 hours does sound like a lot of fun though.:)
I've read enough to know that Psilocybin works as a serotonin inhibitor, I'm assuming the same for our lysergic friend over there.
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1. Definately
2. No, I certainly am not but I think change is a good thing right about now...
Perhaps I should explain this... When I say "most women I know", I am referring *only* to those whom I have social interaction with, not just friends, or co-workers, or students (when I still was one).
Maybe I surround myself with the wrong type, although it's not like I'm looking for that.
Very true, I am certainly inclined to agree with you there.... The thing I've noticed though is, the more a guy wants to find a "less intellectual" (read: stereotypical blonde) girl, the less "intelligent" he is himself. Guess the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree, so to speak.
Any female who I can carry on an intellectually stimulating conversation with scores mad points with me. Any other guys out there feel the same?
Rather than replying on ID3 tags? That's exactly what iTunes does - you *have* to use ID3 tags to organize your collection, and hence the reason I despise it so much.
/mnt/storage/multimedia/mp3/3 - Alternative/5 311 - Transistor/04 311 - Beautiful Distaster.mp3
/mnt/storage/multimedia/mp3/3 - Alternative/9 311 - From Chaos/12 311 - I'll Be Here Awhile.mp3.
I personally think they are a pain and don't bother using them, I just put all the info I want in my filenames and sort my MP3's hierarchically by genre, band (alphabetically), album (chronologically), then track number.
IE:
Seems to work the best for my purposes.
However, if you like ID3 tags and have all your MP3's tagged already then you'd probably like iTunes... It's all a matter of opinion, but I am glad to hear that at least someone out there enjoys it.
Short answer: Yes.
Granted I havn't had mine (20gb model) for a week yet, but so far I love the thing. Great for taking to the gym and I can't *wait* until winter comes to go snowboarding with it.
Warning: iTunes sucks a big one. I think a group of monkeys could write better software, oh wait sorry that was Windows. If you're going to get one and use it on a Windows platform (I have to, Firewire doesn't work well on my Linux desktop system yet), get EphPod. Good software with a lot of features.
Now that I'm on ths topic I might also mention that EphPod does not store your song ratings, if you want to backup/edit them check out this thread.
No, actually it's the other way around IIRC, hence the name change to Firefox and all the jokes that come with it. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
Just curious.... How much was it to get repaired?
That's funny - Same thing happened to me when I first read it on their website.
I was curious as to what was going on at Transgaming - they had a large banner on their site yesterday with today's date on it and "Where will you be?". Had a funny feeling something was brewing. :)
I would definately agree. Even compared to DSL, cable IMHO is much better/faster. I'd get about 700kbps with basic DSL (~$50/mo), for premium service I'd get around 920kbps ($65/mo or something like that).
With cable I'll easily get 2800kbps for only $50/mo. Plus my upstream capacity is about 240kbps instead of 128. Pretty much a no-brainer if you ask me.
This is in the NJ/NYC metro area (DSL was in Newark, Cable at the shore near Seaside). Your milage may vary.
I would recommend this Bob character and his friend try Xfce as Johan mentioned - it was not mentioned in the article. It's starting to become more popular and is well known for it's efficiency/speed, also included in the FC2 release.
Yeah I think they meant it would be invisible to radar, not Ethereal.
I had an old Dell notebook, Latitude XPi IIRC. Ran Windows 2000 albeit sluggishly... With a custom kernel and install of a recent RH/Fedora release it ran like a charm.
I don't think I've ever heard anyone describe their system with 128mb RAM and "ran XP happily" in the same sentence before. Definately friends of mine who have done plenty of PC repairing in their day would agree.
My suggestion is to install an older release of RedHat and just run up2date. Still not good enough? Try Gentoo.
Don't mark Linux off as a loss until you've properly tuned it. The same could be said for any OS for that matter.
Just my $0.02
I'm inclined to agree with this one, I doubt it will happen anytime soon... at least not until some major new technology (read: faster) is available to the public.
Actually, some experimental results show major performance increases for applications under an exokernel architecture. Normal applications get up to a 4x boost, while tuned apps can reach up to 8x. Check out a few of these slides at MIT for slightly more information:
Normal applications benefit
Exo-flexibility is not costly
The Cheetah webserver
Conclusions so far
Eh.. I'd argue differently.
IMHO, the next major revolution in OS design (and performance) will be from an exokernel architecture. For those who aren't familiar with them, it's a completely radical and different approach to kernel design, the main idea behind it is seperate protection from management. If you really think about it, who (I use that term loosely) would know better what resources, scheduling, etc an application will need - the kernel, or the application itself.
Traditional kernel design techniques give the (pretty much) the entire management of resources to the kernel itself and hide it behind a HAL (hardware abstraction layer), allowing the application little to zero say in the matter. Exokernels throw that idea out of the window, taking a completely opposite view on the issue. Once you give the power to the application, it opens a whole new world of OS design.
It's really quite interesting, for more information on different kernel designs you can check out the Microkernel entry at thefreedictionary.com
Reminds me of the episode which opens at a quantum horse racetrack where the Professor complains at his loss: "No fair, you changed the outcome by measuring it!"
Could someone who has downloaded the movie please post a mirror? All of the existing links posted are already 404.
As other have mentioned, the CNO cycle is just a catalyst larger stars use to fuse Helium (basically 4p + C12 = He4 + C12 instead of the "normal" method). However since heavier elements are used in the reaction, higher temperatures (core temp >18M kelvin) are needed to initiate the reaction due to a strong positive repulsion force within the nucleus, only larger stars (> ~1.2 solar mass) have core temps high enough to initiate the reactions. Our sun gets about 2% of its energy from CNO, but a 1.2 solar mass star can be up to 50%, and in larger stars it clearly dominates.
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Now for the proton-proton chain, nuclear reaction rate is slightly sensitive to core temp ( ~ T**4). However, with CNO the rate is more like T**16. The lifetime of a star is defined by the ratio of how much fuel is has (mass) over its rate of consumption (luminosity). For main sequence stars, the luminosity is rough related to mass**4, so the lifetime of a star is 1/mass**3.
I think there may have been some confusion because typically older stars are heavy element poor (small Z mass fraction). Older stars must also be less massive (if they were large, would consume fuel too quickly and burn out before the old age sets in). These older, heavy-element poor, less massive stars would not have the conditions needed to use the CNO cycle to begin with.
IANAAP, but I did take a few courses in astrophysics, enough to remember this much. I also did not RTFA, not a subscriber to Science News. Any astrophysists out there (or students thereof) able to give an answer?
Reference: http://www-astronomy.mps.ohio-state.edu/~pogge/As
Thank you Comcast, even though your motives for doing so are primarily financial.
This is my biggest complaint about Firefox. I install it practically on every computer I use, which means I go though a lot of installs. It would be *amazing* if they could redesign the profile layout and/or management code so you can just copy it to a fresh install and keep all of your 1) settings, 2) extensions, 3) bookmarks. Having to reinstall *every* extension and reconfigure on each install is a rather painful task.
A few other bugs are annoying, some pages won't work (need IE). I also found one where your bookmarks get trashed after a crash (that was fun). Now I have an extension to automatically upload my bookmarks to a local FTP.
This is by far one of the greatest strengths of Firefox, the wide range of plugins available, and if you don't find one you need, it's not difficult to write!
I have not yet come across one person who prefers IE over Firefox after having used both and I introduce practically everyone I know to it. Excellent job Moz dev team, keep up the great work.
I was thinking of commenting on that as well, however I havn't (yet) had experience with said chemical so I figured I'd go with that. 12 hours does sound like a lot of fun though. :)
I've read enough to know that Psilocybin works as a serotonin inhibitor, I'm assuming the same for our lysergic friend over there.