as one of the lucky ones with ultra-highspeed bandwidth (160Mbps -- thank you Tokyo) and a monster PC (and 2560x1600, so not quite there, but on the way), i was able to fire this up and stream it immediately with no frame loss -- and it STILL looks like complete and utter trash (except the violin one, which looked ok), since they compressed the sh*t out of it with a codec that was clearly not up to the job. looks like someone either upscaled a piss-poor original, or was trying to make a movie by stringing together low quality jpgs. not how i would have advertised this capability...
additional minus points for use of 'intrigued'. they're only a gooseberry away from sounding like jilly goolden...
Cabernet/Shiraz Ubuntu, non-vintage:: "It's intense, it's heady, it's like hot Bakewell tart. Like fairy cakes just taken out of the oven - that lovely, lovely, hauntingly sort of sweet fruity taste with a little lactic, pastry edge to it. And it's also got, of course, blackcurrant pastilles."
"Name me one famous sports figure from the time of Aristotle"
Plato. By all accounts he was a skilled wrestler (competed in the Isthmian games) and very strong -- Plato isn't even his true name, which was Aristocles. Apparently the wrestler he trained under (Ariston of Argos) gave it to him on account of the breadth of his chest! (Breadth = 'platutês' in ancient greek).
But, you know -- feel free to congratulate yourself on being so clever that you never have to do physical exercise like those other weak-minded fools. At least your mind is strong, though your body may be pasty and weak...
i do. 64bit ubuntu 8.10, 64bit windows 7
and everything works. all the 32bit stuff on windows just keeps on rolling without giving a damn, and all the 64bit stuff breathes a huge sigh of relief and relaxes into a 6GB memory space. performance is up across the board. drivers were available for everything. (and the adobe 64bit flash plugin worked seamlessly on ubuntu)
the real question is why are people NOT running 64bit systems? i don't get it...
what am i missing here -- isn't the ENTIRE POINT of wine supposed to be that apps can run on it without having to specially support it? bizarre. an emulator that needs developers to target it for it to work isn't doing its job... (sure, i know most apps DON'T have to target it, but then that renders the whole concept of this list completely redundant!)
I buy all my HD-DVDs from amazon.com instead of amazon.co.jp (where i live) or amazon.co.uk (where i'm from) because... they are INSANELY CHEAP AND REGION-FREE. seriously, this is about the only time i've seen globalisation work for the consumer. it feels like amazon has had nearly non-stop promotions on HD-DVDs for the last 6 months; i've ended up with about 45 of the damn things. ordering them a few at a time from the US (admittedly especially good as i'm paid in GBP and the dollar has gone doooooown) means they are practically half the price of the UK, and even less than half the price of japan. so really it's just like i'm still buying regular UK DVDs, except they look vastly better... (and what is it with these people who say they can hardly see the difference between regular DVDs and HD? is the world full of people who don't realise that they are legally blind?? someone needs to round these people up and administer some eye-tests, on road-safety grounds alone...)
the real question, i suppose, is: do i feel bad HD-DVD might now disappear? no -- because that nice new samsung dual-format player is being released as we speak. i was planning to buy that anyway, as a handful of movies i like are on blu-ray, at which point i can forget about the whole sorry mess and move on...
interestingly, with the explosion of the nintendo wii (opera is their browser) and its penetration in similar applications (mobile phones, set-top-boxes), forward-looking developers might want to start taking another look at those opera statistics; it's always tended to cloak iteslf.
it's paraphrasing a genuinely amusing moment in the film "The Princess Bride", when one of the characters keeps saying "inconceivable" as The Man in Black continues to follow them through in a seemingly impossible fashion. one of the others turns to him in puzzlement/exasperation and says exactly that: "you keep using that word. i do not think it means what you think it means"
and, yes, like most situational gags it completely loses its appeal when written down;-)
the film itself actually won a "Best Screenplay" award from Writers Guild of America and, if i remember correctly, it also won the Toronto International Film Festival "People's Choice Award". and an Oscar and a Grammy for something a bit random to do with the music i think. was all around 1988
reminds me what my old (finnish) flatmate said...
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...when we were living in london (i'm british). she just didn't get the obsession in the media and government policy about parents having "choice" in where their kids go to school. her view was that choice intrinsically implied that everynone could see some schools were very good, and some very bad (and this is indeed the case in the UK). her view? "why isn't the government's policy about trying to make _all_ the schools good?" so simple. so obvious. and nobody was talking about it. she wasn't claiming every school in finland was exactly as good as every other, but that this was pretty much the aim. no gross disparities, so everyone has about the same sort of chances in education, and it isn't distorted by market "choice", where that choice is dependent upon your parents' economic power to move house/pay fees, etc. seems that attitude percolates right through the school system, and it's the sort of attitude we could all do with...
i don't know where you got your information from, perhaps some incredibly early beta, but Opera 9 actually does most of what you list. perhaps you need to take a second look...
you _can_ see no. peers/seeds
you _can_ set bandwidth limits
you _can_ see transfer speed
now, you can't see details for individual peers, but frankly who cares? i've been using azureus for ages, but as the opera 9 previews have matured, i now find myself using opera's built-in capabilities 99% of the time, because it's nice and light, not a resource hog like azureus, even for large torrents...
i'd suggest you take a second look, it's better than you seem to think.
have a look at this. it's the transcript from the BBC's recent "horizon" show, called "project poltergeist", which is on precisely this topic (neutrinos having mass). very neatly explains to a lay audience what the mystery is, and also answers exactly your specific question. it's not a long read, maybe 10mins max, and as it's the transcript to the show it leads you through the topic in a well thought out manner
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2004/polterge isttrans.shtml
and the short answer to your question is as follows: in order to undergo neutrino oscillation, the neutrino must be capable of change. to be capable of change it must experience a personal sense of time. if it was travelling at the speed of light, it would have no sense of time. objects with mass cannot travel at the speed of light (infinite energy required for objects with mass to do this). therefore, as we experimentally can confirm neutrino oscillation, we are also confirming that neutrinos have a sense of time, which implies they are not travelling at the speed of light, which implies they have mass.
hope that clears it up -- on a side-note my first degree was actually in astrophysics, at University College London (UCL), where the article's quoted scientist comes from... didn't have her for any of my lecures though;)
actually the argument is correct -- it's about the oscillation between flavour states, not the oscillation of the particle itself (eg: electron -> muon -> tau, not Hz)
with no small degree of life's little ironies biting you gently in the ass, i have now left a word out of my post.
however, i shall now call it an "article", correct the original error, introduce several new ones, sneak in a little paragraph about gandhi sleeping with marilyn monroe while nobody is looking, and announce the imminent utopia.
>> Wikipedia has been a continuous state of self-criticism
that's a spelling error. i'm pretty that was supposed to read "continuous state of self-denial"
indeed! god bless venkman... now if only it was working in firefox 1.5 (i had to fix my own extension for 1.5 compatibility using the aforementioned alerts, heh... turns out gContextMenu.linkURL() has become gContextMenu.linkURL, or vice versa)
>> To rephrase, why ought I migrate to Opera?
in my case because i can't get around the fact that is is ludicrously more responsive. there is almost no department in which it isn't ridiculously quick... and i actually rather like firefox -- i've written four extensions for it, for example -- but my own 95% of the time browser is opera.
also, now v8.0 added the UserJavaScript API, a number of greasemonkey-like plugin/extensions are available. have a look at what's available so far: http://userjs.org/
hmmm, if ZDNet posted a story about me tomorrow saying that i was now worth a billion dollars and lived in a gigantic house, i can put my hand on my heart right here and say that i wouldn't have a single unkind word...;)
you feel uncomfortable without case sensitivity in languages? hmm... given that it's only differentiating factor is that it allows you to declare two objects/vars/functions with identical names, whose only difference is the case of one letter, i would have thought the case for clarity was overwhelmingly against! genuinely good semantics would involve well chosen names or prefixes as differentiating factors.
still, case-sensitivity in languages doesn't really bug me _that_ much (primary language at work is c++) but what i genuinely _loathe_ is case-sensitivity in operating systems. ughh!!
veganism is a LOT harder than straight vegetarianism -- access to dairy and eggs makes everything a lot more straightforward, and problems with energy levels are much less common (in fact if you suffer from that, you're clearly missing something). however, you can get veggie B12 from nutritional yeast (saccharomyces cerevisiae), which you can take as supplement, fortified cereals, and fortified (soy) milk.
i've been vegetarian --no meat, no fish-- for 18 months now, and to bo honest it's very easy to get a good balanced diet. you just need to do a little bit of research first so you don't make the classic mistakes (eg: replace a lot of the meat with dairy/cheese as this inhibits vitamin uptake).
still, no plans to go vegan -- the potential pitfalls, as it seems your sister found out, are much larger.
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as one of the lucky ones with ultra-highspeed bandwidth (160Mbps -- thank you Tokyo) and a monster PC (and 2560x1600, so not quite there, but on the way), i was able to fire this up and stream it immediately with no frame loss -- and it STILL looks like complete and utter trash (except the violin one, which looked ok), since they compressed the sh*t out of it with a codec that was clearly not up to the job. looks like someone either upscaled a piss-poor original, or was trying to make a movie by stringing together low quality jpgs. not how i would have advertised this capability...
Here in Tokyo the idea of cooking tuna (except maybe to sear it a bit, 'aburi' style) would be severely frowned upon... ;-)
additional minus points for use of 'intrigued'. they're only a gooseberry away from sounding like jilly goolden...
Cabernet/Shiraz Ubuntu, non-vintage:: "It's intense, it's heady, it's like hot Bakewell tart. Like fairy cakes just taken out of the oven - that lovely, lovely, hauntingly sort of sweet fruity taste with a little lactic, pastry edge to it. And it's also got, of course, blackcurrant pastilles."
"...and these are NOT the hammer"
"Name me one famous sports figure from the time of Aristotle"
Plato. By all accounts he was a skilled wrestler (competed in the Isthmian games) and very strong -- Plato isn't even his true name, which was Aristocles. Apparently the wrestler he trained under (Ariston of Argos) gave it to him on account of the breadth of his chest! (Breadth = 'platutês' in ancient greek).
But, you know -- feel free to congratulate yourself on being so clever that you never have to do physical exercise like those other weak-minded fools. At least your mind is strong, though your body may be pasty and weak...
I was left bemused once after being told i spoke really good american considering i'm from another country... i'm english ;-p
i do. 64bit ubuntu 8.10, 64bit windows 7 and everything works. all the 32bit stuff on windows just keeps on rolling without giving a damn, and all the 64bit stuff breathes a huge sigh of relief and relaxes into a 6GB memory space. performance is up across the board. drivers were available for everything. (and the adobe 64bit flash plugin worked seamlessly on ubuntu) the real question is why are people NOT running 64bit systems? i don't get it...
what am i missing here -- isn't the ENTIRE POINT of wine supposed to be that apps can run on it without having to specially support it? bizarre. an emulator that needs developers to target it for it to work isn't doing its job... (sure, i know most apps DON'T have to target it, but then that renders the whole concept of this list completely redundant!)
I buy all my HD-DVDs from amazon.com instead of amazon.co.jp (where i live) or amazon.co.uk (where i'm from) because... they are INSANELY CHEAP AND REGION-FREE. seriously, this is about the only time i've seen globalisation work for the consumer. it feels like amazon has had nearly non-stop promotions on HD-DVDs for the last 6 months; i've ended up with about 45 of the damn things. ordering them a few at a time from the US (admittedly especially good as i'm paid in GBP and the dollar has gone doooooown) means they are practically half the price of the UK, and even less than half the price of japan. so really it's just like i'm still buying regular UK DVDs, except they look vastly better... (and what is it with these people who say they can hardly see the difference between regular DVDs and HD? is the world full of people who don't realise that they are legally blind?? someone needs to round these people up and administer some eye-tests, on road-safety grounds alone...)
the real question, i suppose, is: do i feel bad HD-DVD might now disappear? no -- because that nice new samsung dual-format player is being released as we speak. i was planning to buy that anyway, as a handful of movies i like are on blu-ray, at which point i can forget about the whole sorry mess and move on...
interestingly, with the explosion of the nintendo wii (opera is their browser) and its penetration in similar applications (mobile phones, set-top-boxes), forward-looking developers might want to start taking another look at those opera statistics; it's always tended to cloak iteslf.
will be interesting to see how that shakes out...
it's paraphrasing a genuinely amusing moment in the film "The Princess Bride", when one of the characters keeps saying "inconceivable" as The Man in Black continues to follow them through in a seemingly impossible fashion. one of the others turns to him in puzzlement/exasperation and says exactly that: "you keep using that word. i do not think it means what you think it means"
;-)
and, yes, like most situational gags it completely loses its appeal when written down
the film itself actually won a "Best Screenplay" award from Writers Guild of America and, if i remember correctly, it also won the Toronto International Film Festival "People's Choice Award". and an Oscar and a Grammy for something a bit random to do with the music i think. was all around 1988
...when we were living in london (i'm british). she just didn't get the obsession in the media and government policy about parents having "choice" in where their kids go to school. her view was that choice intrinsically implied that everynone could see some schools were very good, and some very bad (and this is indeed the case in the UK). her view? "why isn't the government's policy about trying to make _all_ the schools good?" so simple. so obvious. and nobody was talking about it. she wasn't claiming every school in finland was exactly as good as every other, but that this was pretty much the aim. no gross disparities, so everyone has about the same sort of chances in education, and it isn't distorted by market "choice", where that choice is dependent upon your parents' economic power to move house/pay fees, etc. seems that attitude percolates right through the school system, and it's the sort of attitude we could all do with...
i don't know where you got your information from, perhaps some incredibly early beta, but Opera 9 actually does most of what you list. perhaps you need to take a second look...
you _can_ see no. peers/seeds
you _can_ set bandwidth limits
you _can_ see transfer speed
now, you can't see details for individual peers, but frankly who cares? i've been using azureus for ages, but as the opera 9 previews have matured, i now find myself using opera's built-in capabilities 99% of the time, because it's nice and light, not a resource hog like azureus, even for large torrents...
i'd suggest you take a second look, it's better than you seem to think.
have a look at this. it's the transcript from the BBC's recent "horizon" show, called "project poltergeist", which is on precisely this topic (neutrinos having mass). very neatly explains to a lay audience what the mystery is, and also answers exactly your specific question. it's not a long read, maybe 10mins max, and as it's the transcript to the show it leads you through the topic in a well thought out manner http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2004/polterge isttrans.shtml
and the short answer to your question is as follows: in order to undergo neutrino oscillation, the neutrino must be capable of change. to be capable of change it must experience a personal sense of time. if it was travelling at the speed of light, it would have no sense of time. objects with mass cannot travel at the speed of light (infinite energy required for objects with mass to do this). therefore, as we experimentally can confirm neutrino oscillation, we are also confirming that neutrinos have a sense of time, which implies they are not travelling at the speed of light, which implies they have mass.
hope that clears it up -- on a side-note my first degree was actually in astrophysics, at University College London (UCL), where the article's quoted scientist comes from... didn't have her for any of my lecures though ;)
actually the argument is correct -- it's about the oscillation between flavour states, not the oscillation of the particle itself (eg: electron -> muon -> tau, not Hz)
...one of those sci-fi christmas episodes: "parallel chihuahua dimension"
with no small degree of life's little ironies biting you gently in the ass, i have now left a word out of my post.
however, i shall now call it an "article", correct the original error, introduce several new ones, sneak in a little paragraph about gandhi sleeping with marilyn monroe while nobody is looking, and announce the imminent utopia.
>> Wikipedia has been a continuous state of self-criticism
that's a spelling error. i'm pretty that was supposed to read "continuous state of self-denial"
and of course the great thing about doing that at the top of a mountain is nobody can say "man, that guy needs to get out more" ;-)
indeed! god bless venkman... now if only it was working in firefox 1.5 (i had to fix my own extension for 1.5 compatibility using the aforementioned alerts, heh... turns out gContextMenu.linkURL() has become gContextMenu.linkURL, or vice versa)
well i can think of one off the top of my head that's a bit of a pain, and that's themes. ff/moz require a restart on changing themes, opera doesn't.
>> To rephrase, why ought I migrate to Opera? in my case because i can't get around the fact that is is ludicrously more responsive. there is almost no department in which it isn't ridiculously quick... and i actually rather like firefox -- i've written four extensions for it, for example -- but my own 95% of the time browser is opera. also, now v8.0 added the UserJavaScript API, a number of greasemonkey-like plugin/extensions are available. have a look at what's available so far: http://userjs.org/
hmmm, if ZDNet posted a story about me tomorrow saying that i was now worth a billion dollars and lived in a gigantic house, i can put my hand on my heart right here and say that i wouldn't have a single unkind word... ;)
you feel uncomfortable without case sensitivity in languages? hmm... given that it's only differentiating factor is that it allows you to declare two objects/vars/functions with identical names, whose only difference is the case of one letter, i would have thought the case for clarity was overwhelmingly against! genuinely good semantics would involve well chosen names or prefixes as differentiating factors.
still, case-sensitivity in languages doesn't really bug me _that_ much (primary language at work is c++) but what i genuinely _loathe_ is case-sensitivity in operating systems. ughh!!
aaaannnyywayyy...
veganism is a LOT harder than straight vegetarianism -- access to dairy and eggs makes everything a lot more straightforward, and problems with energy levels are much less common (in fact if you suffer from that, you're clearly missing something). however, you can get veggie B12 from nutritional yeast (saccharomyces cerevisiae), which you can take as supplement, fortified cereals, and fortified (soy) milk.
i've been vegetarian --no meat, no fish-- for 18 months now, and to bo honest it's very easy to get a good balanced diet. you just need to do a little bit of research first so you don't make the classic mistakes (eg: replace a lot of the meat with dairy/cheese as this inhibits vitamin uptake).
still, no plans to go vegan -- the potential pitfalls, as it seems your sister found out, are much larger.