Do you really want your news media to be completely reliant upon the government? Under such circumstances, would you trust their objectivity?
And how is the governement and less objective than a coporation that is paying to put across its point of view? There's not too many companies who run ads in programs they disagree with.
Having lived 3/4 of my life in the UK and 1/4 in Canada I do have some experience of the difference between state funded and privately run broadcast media. Both countries have both forms but the state funded media, in my experience, has been far less mainstream than the advertising funded sort (with the notable exception of Channel 4 - though their charter requires they provide minority interest programming).
Personally I think we should cut all their funding since they run advertisements just like any other station.
Only the TV stations air advertisements. CBC radio is refreshingly free of ads. If the CBC's funding was reduced, the number of ads on TV would increase and the radio stations would be forced to include them too. Personally, I'd rather see the funding increased to the extent that the ads could be removed from the CBC TV stations. It would be great to see the CBC fully become the North American equivalent of the BBC.
Geothermal is available pretty much everywhere since it is basically extracting solar energy. Around 50% of the incident solar radiation is absorbed in the ground. Where I live in Canada, the ground is at a constant temperature of around 9C (48F). This is ideal as a heat sink for cooling in the summer and as a heat source for heating in the winter.
There are companies that make closed-loop ground source heat exchangers which can be put into urban locations because the pipes are put in vertically. Their overall COP (which is a measure of how much heat you get out versus energy put in) are between 4 and 4.5 for the vertical loop systems. This means that everywhere kWhour put in to run the system gives out 4-4.5kWhours, for an "efficiency" of over 400%. There is no better source of heating and cooling available than geothermal.
Despite the parent article stating there were a plethora of complaints when the CBC switch from Real Media streams to windows media, they do, in fact, provide information on their site for unix users to access these streams.
For the ogg streams, they only provide access to the stations in Toronto, rather than the local stations.
Whichever format, though, I'm happy that I can listen to the CBC on the operating system of my choice. However, I think it is appropriate that a public service broadcaster use a format that is unencumbered and hence accessible to all.
agnosticism is a cop-out, a type of atheism for cowards.
From Webster
Main Entry: agnostic
Pronunciation: ag-'nas-tik, &g-
Function: noun
Etymology: Greek agnOstos unknown, unknowable, from a- + gnOstos known, from gignOskein to know -- more at KNOW
: a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (as God) is unknown and prob. unknowable;
Agnostics take the view that the spiritual world is unknowable. This is very different from atheism. Again, from Webster:
Main Entry: atheist
Pronunciation: 'A-thE-ist
Function: noun
: one who believes that there is no deity
This does not mean there is no possibility of a spiritual world. For example, many people believe that God is dead, i.e. there is currently no God.
When asked, I usually say I'm an atheist because most people incorrectly assume that agnostic means that I can't decide one way or the other. In my belief system, there is no place for anything outside of the physical universe we currently inhabit, including any deities.
Shouldn't feed the trolls but... when you make a statement like "... the Linux kernel itself lacks any support for any type of journaled filesystem, memory protection,..." it's rather obvious you're just a Microsoft shill. No journaled filesystem indeed. From "man fs":
ext3 is a journaling version of the ext2 filesystem.
People who work on the back-end physical aspect of chip design have been using 64-bit processors for some time now. Back-annotated post-route netlists consume far more than 4Gbytes of memory. This is why 64-bit HP and Sun workstations are used, even though their Mhz ratings (which are meaningless anyway) don't compare with the clock-multiplied intel 32-bit chips.
Of course, the 50% in the US is much worse as it was only 50% of the registered electorate and, if I recall correctly, something like 33% of eligible electors didn't register. This gives an effective turnout of something like 33% or less.
Especially as the screen shot page informed me I need a version 4+ browser to see it... which of course, using Mozilla 1.4 I would think I have.
Idiots.
Paul.
Aspect-oriented programming is used in a high-level verification language for verifying ASICs and SoCs (systems-on-chip). At the moment, the language "e", used in Verisity's specman elite tool is proprietary, but there is an IEEE committee on HLVLs (high level verification languages)
The '?' character was the backspace character in Pr1mos. The founders of apollo were former Pr1me folks and so this was a dig at their former colleagues.
Another favourite apollo error message was something like "unit will not fit thru 19" hatch". If I recall correctly, it was a dig at Pr1me who'd had a contract with the navy for some kind of computer to go on a submarine. When the device was ready to be installed, they discovered it wouldn't fit through the hatch on the submarine! The founders of apollo were former Pr1me folks.
Most people seem to make the mistake of thinking that chips==processors. For most applications, this is simply not the case. For example, my cellphone has a chip in it which just happens to have some embedded processing core in it, but it is certainly not a microprocessor in the pentium sense at all. Same for DSP chips in things like CD players.
It's always depressing when the media thinks the only chip maker is Intel, or, if they really research hard, they sometimes mention AMD as well.
The same kind of paranoia prevailed with Y2K as well, with all sorts of nonesense about microware ovens stopping working or anything with "chips" in it.
Never has so little been known by so many about so much
This is a bad example since the NTSC colour signal
was designed to be backwards compatible with black
and white sets. The chroma and luma are separated
so that the black and white set displays
only the luma and so the picture will look correct on both.
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And how is the governement and less objective than a coporation that is paying to put across its point of view? There's not too many companies who run ads in programs they disagree with.
Having lived 3/4 of my life in the UK and 1/4 in Canada I do have some experience of the difference between state funded and privately run broadcast media. Both countries have both forms but the state funded media, in my experience, has been far less mainstream than the advertising funded sort (with the notable exception of Channel 4 - though their charter requires they provide minority interest programming).
Paul.
Personally I think we should cut all their funding since they run advertisements just like any other station.
Only the TV stations air advertisements. CBC radio is refreshingly free of ads. If the CBC's funding was reduced, the number of ads on TV would increase and the radio stations would be forced to include them too. Personally, I'd rather see the funding increased to the extent that the ads could be removed from the CBC TV stations. It would be great to see the CBC fully become the North American equivalent of the BBC.
Paul.
Geothermal is available pretty much everywhere since it is basically extracting solar energy. Around 50% of the incident solar radiation is absorbed in the ground. Where I live in Canada, the ground is at a constant temperature of around 9C (48F). This is ideal as a heat sink for cooling in the summer and as a heat source for heating in the winter.
There are companies that make closed-loop ground source heat exchangers which can be put into urban locations because the pipes are put in vertically. Their overall COP (which is a measure of how much heat you get out versus energy put in) are between 4 and 4.5 for the vertical loop systems. This means that everywhere kWhour put in to run the system gives out 4-4.5kWhours, for an "efficiency" of over 400%. There is no better source of heating and cooling available than geothermal.
Check out Geothermix, Maritime Geothermal, ClimateMaster and Geoexhange.org
I'm in the process of renovating one house and building another one and both are being fitted with geothermal systems.
Paul.
Funnily enough, going to slashdto.org brings one to an adult friend finder site. Somehow this seems appropriate!
Also there was leader in today's Guardian which also mentioned linux and OpenOffice.org.
Despite the parent article stating there were a plethora of complaints when the CBC switch from Real Media streams to windows media, they do, in fact, provide information on their site for unix users to access these streams.
For the ogg streams, they only provide access to the stations in Toronto, rather than the local stations.
Whichever format, though, I'm happy that I can listen to the CBC on the operating system of my choice. However, I think it is appropriate that a public service broadcaster use a format that is unencumbered and hence accessible to all.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3796085.s tm
If it's on the BBC site, it is more than likely true.
Paul.
People who work on the back-end physical aspect of chip design have been using 64-bit processors for some time now. Back-annotated post-route netlists consume far more than 4Gbytes of memory. This is why 64-bit HP and Sun workstations are used, even though their Mhz ratings (which are meaningless anyway) don't compare with the clock-multiplied intel 32-bit chips.
Or, even better, the nano-technology book in Neal Stephenson's "The Diamond Age". Now that will be cool when it eventually becomes available.
You're wrong - it's red light that has a "low" wavelength. Blue light has a shorter wavelength which is why it gets scattered.
Of course, the 50% in the US is much worse as it was only 50% of the registered electorate and, if I recall correctly, something like 33% of eligible electors didn't register. This gives an effective turnout of something like 33% or less.
Especially as the screen shot page informed me I need a version 4+ browser to see it ... which of course, using Mozilla 1.4 I would think I have.
Idiots.
Paul.
Aspect-oriented programming is used in a high-level verification language for verifying ASICs and SoCs (systems-on-chip). At the moment, the language "e", used in Verisity's specman elite tool is proprietary, but there is an IEEE committee on HLVLs (high level verification languages)
See verisity's website for more info.
Cheers,
Paul.
The '?' character was the backspace character in Pr1mos. The founders of apollo were former Pr1me folks and so this was a dig at their former colleagues.
Another favourite apollo error message was something like "unit will not fit thru 19" hatch". If I recall correctly, it was a dig at Pr1me who'd had a contract with the navy for some kind of computer to go on a submarine. When the device was ready to be installed, they discovered it wouldn't fit through the hatch on the submarine! The founders of apollo were former Pr1me folks.
Most people seem to make the mistake of thinking that chips==processors. For most applications, this is simply not the case. For example, my cellphone has a chip in it which just happens to have some embedded processing core in it, but it is certainly not a microprocessor in the pentium sense at all. Same for DSP chips in things like CD players.
It's always depressing when the media thinks the only chip maker is Intel, or, if they really research hard, they sometimes mention AMD as well.
The same kind of paranoia prevailed with Y2K as well, with all sorts of nonesense about microware ovens stopping working or anything with "chips" in it.
Never has so little been known by so many about so much
This is a bad example since the NTSC colour signal was designed to be backwards compatible with black and white sets. The chroma and luma are separated so that the black and white set displays only the luma and so the picture will look correct on both.