Actually, the co-location of desalination plants with natural gas power generation is the new rage. I am in TX, so I have a parochial view of it, but this is the near future.
T. Boone actually got beat out by CRMWA, which is the Canadian River Municipal Water Authority. They wanted to sell water to Amarillo, and when T. Boone didn't play ball they started buying up all the land around his (considerable) property. Even an armchair hydrogeologist knows that if you pump along the edges of a property, the water moves along the gradient towards the cone of depression. So T. Boone was forced to deal, and he sold his rights to CRMWA. CRMWA/Amarillo wins, and T. Boone has to mutter to himself while taking his nightly bath in gold coins (thinking Richie Rich or Scrooge McDuck here).
My biggest gripe with Slashdot is how overwhelmingly anecdotal it is. We are supposed to be bright statistical types, and it is just full of comments from people telling their singular life experiences. Do the math people, I don't care about your limited life.
I live in Austin. Texas is a great place to live if you are upper middle class. Sucks if you are poor. The social safety net is substandard, and if you can't afford to move your kids out of lousy school districts (or send them to private school) then the education is also substandard.
Why do so many low wage earners stay in Texas? Maybe they can't afford to move.
I have seen a lot of well-deserved complaints about expert-exchange. My nemesis is "fixya" which pops up with a mirror of your question (and no answer) for many typical DYI problems you try to google.
I don't agree with you, at least in engineering. Being able to make proper calculations correctly is vital to being a practicing engineer, so I think there is value to doing homework correctly, and mostly independently.
Ed.
Everyone knows that popularity in real-life is based on whether you're on the football team and how many girls have held still long enough for you to nail them!
This is utter baloney. There are "region-free" DVD players that are very popular. Sony never got anywhere with its more restrictive mp3 players.
I think there will always be a market for the less restrictive technology. Especially when you consider that a large segement of HDTV and PVR users are more tech-savvy than the typical consumer.
Also, how is ignoring the flag a violation of the DMCA? Seems like a stretch to me.
A beautiful program for doing network backups. Slick web GUI, file pooling, etc. I have all of my personal PCs (mixed Linux/WinXP) at home backing up to a Mandrake box. You obviously are limited somewhat by your network speed when doing full backups. . .
Has any company ever tried to actually put the OS on the CD with the game?
I.e., instead of saying "Windows compatible" or "Linux compatible", just having you boot the game from the CD which loads an operating system (like a Knoppix CD) and then loads the game on top?
It seems this would appeal to companies because it would give them some consistency in the operating system setup. Of course, the OS would have to have great hardware detection ability. Also there is the hard drive issue I guess. Hmmm. . .
What movie did they play back, hmmm? How did that movie get transferred to the holographic disc? Did they rip it from a DVD? Did they pay all of the required fees for showing it to a room full of people? I see lawsuits forthcoming.
One challenge Mr. Reddy faced was in persuading Microsoft to offer a version of its Windows software for the project for far less than its commercial price. But Mr. Reddy said he eventually won the support of Craig Mundie, the chief technical officer and a senior strategist at Microsoft.
Strange that they wouldn't consider one of the free alternative OSs instead of going begging. Maybe Microsoft kicked in some research funds or something.
I am always disappointed in these reviews because they alway address gaming and multimedia (which I understand are most important to the greatest amount of readers) but rarely address scientific computing. I am most interested in how fast my FORTRAN/C math-intensive code will run (I have seen examples where AMD gets beat soundly in the "FPU" benchmark, but kicks ass in ScienceMark).
AMD has been consistently good at scientific computing, but I haven't seen any performance specs for the 64-bit ones. Has anyone else?
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, the co-location of desalination plants with natural gas power generation is the new rage. I am in TX, so I have a parochial view of it, but this is the near future.
T. Boone actually got beat out by CRMWA, which is the Canadian River Municipal Water Authority. They wanted to sell water to Amarillo, and when T. Boone didn't play ball they started buying up all the land around his (considerable) property. Even an armchair hydrogeologist knows that if you pump along the edges of a property, the water moves along the gradient towards the cone of depression. So T. Boone was forced to deal, and he sold his rights to CRMWA. CRMWA/Amarillo wins, and T. Boone has to mutter to himself while taking his nightly bath in gold coins (thinking Richie Rich or Scrooge McDuck here).
My biggest gripe with Slashdot is how overwhelmingly anecdotal it is. We are supposed to be bright statistical types, and it is just full of comments from people telling their singular life experiences. Do the math people, I don't care about your limited life.
Ed.
I live in Austin. Texas is a great place to live if you are upper middle class. Sucks if you are poor. The social safety net is substandard, and if you can't afford to move your kids out of lousy school districts (or send them to private school) then the education is also substandard.
Why do so many low wage earners stay in Texas? Maybe they can't afford to move.
Ed.
I have seen a lot of well-deserved complaints about expert-exchange. My nemesis is "fixya" which pops up with a mirror of your question (and no answer) for many typical DYI problems you try to google.
Ed.
I don't agree with you, at least in engineering. Being able to make proper calculations correctly is vital to being a practicing engineer, so I think there is value to doing homework correctly, and mostly independently. Ed.
I have moderator points. I just looked at the parent and this response, and thought to myself: "Am I smart enough to figure out who is right?"
Answer: Nope.
Everyone knows that popularity in real-life is based on whether you're on the football team and how many girls have held still long enough for you to nail them!
Now would you like fries with that?
Also, motomodders.net is a good place for this kind of stuff.
This is utter baloney. There are "region-free" DVD players that are very popular. Sony never got anywhere with its more restrictive mp3 players.
I think there will always be a market for the less restrictive technology. Especially when you consider that a large segement of HDTV and PVR users are more tech-savvy than the typical consumer.
Also, how is ignoring the flag a violation of the DMCA? Seems like a stretch to me.
http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
A beautiful program for doing network backups. Slick web GUI, file pooling, etc. I have all of my personal PCs (mixed Linux/WinXP) at home backing up to a Mandrake box. You obviously are limited somewhat by your network speed when doing full backups. . .
Ed.
I tried you number search, and it worked fine.
Has any company ever tried to actually put the OS on the CD with the game?
I.e., instead of saying "Windows compatible" or "Linux compatible", just having you boot the game from the CD which loads an operating system (like a Knoppix CD) and then loads the game on top?
It seems this would appeal to companies because it would give them some consistency in the operating system setup. Of course, the OS would have to have great hardware detection ability. Also there is the hard drive issue I guess. Hmmm. . .
There are 2.54 cm/in, not 2.4.
Sheesh.
What movie did they play back, hmmm? How did that movie get transferred to the holographic disc? Did they rip it from a DVD? Did they pay all of the required fees for showing it to a room full of people? I see lawsuits forthcoming.
Sony has announced a new Holographic+ format that is identical in every way except that it is totally incompatible, requiring onerous license fees.
Sony executives reached for comment would only say "Have you seen my new house? It's made of MONEY!".
One challenge Mr. Reddy faced was in persuading Microsoft to offer a version of its Windows software for the project for far less than its commercial price. But Mr. Reddy said he eventually won the support of Craig Mundie, the chief technical officer and a senior strategist at Microsoft.
Strange that they wouldn't consider one of the free alternative OSs instead of going begging. Maybe Microsoft kicked in some research funds or something.
I am always disappointed in these reviews because they alway address gaming and multimedia (which I understand are most important to the greatest amount of readers) but rarely address scientific computing. I am most interested in how fast my FORTRAN/C math-intensive code will run (I have seen examples where AMD gets beat soundly in the "FPU" benchmark, but kicks ass in ScienceMark).
AMD has been consistently good at scientific computing, but I haven't seen any performance specs for the 64-bit ones. Has anyone else?
Ed.
You can't bit copy the "key" part of a pressed DVD, because it exists in a part of the DVD that is inaccessible to burners.
Put in another way, you can't burn a CSS-encrypted DVD yourself.
Ed.
Only funny if you know how it's pronounced.
Here.
Your child has about 1 in a million chance of being abducted by a non-family member.
Ed.
I wish I had some mod points, because these tired old French jokes need to be modded down. What the hell is wrong with you people?
I still like "Xerox and throw". . .
Dell Market Cap: 87.36 Billion
HP Market Cap: 62.86 Billion
Doesn't seem likely.
You forgot:
"They should have said 'cracked' instead of 'hacked'."