I think of fluorescence as relatively slow to diminish. If you try to spin one of these disks at high RPMs (to reduce rotational latency, of course), are the bits lit while reading during the previous rotation still glowing when they come back around?
You should add an equal part leaves to your kitchen scraps. Now is the ideal time of year to stockpile leaves. There is no harm in stockpiling extra leaves, if it doesn't annoy your neighbors; they don't attract significant numbers of vermin, and they keep well. You might want to spend money on wire fencing, to corral them.
If you don't add leaves, your "compost bin" will reek. It will smell almost exactly like rotting food. (No big surprise there, I suppose.)
Your composter looks far too small to "get cooking", if you were interested in having it reach elevated temperatures. Some people think that is important when composting, to kill seeds and plant pathogens. Of course, a bigger pile is more work, and I suppose in your case, more expensive.
On the other hand, if you were interested in getting the output rather than disposing of the input, bigger is almost always better, until your pile reaches a size of several cubic meters or yards.
You ARE so completely full of shit!
Quoting from Review of "The Petstore Revisited: J2EE vs.NET Application Server Performance Benchmark", one of the articles linked at the top, we find:
[...]"As this review will show, the report is seriously flawed. It contains both errors, halftruths, and lies."
[...]"As we can clearly see above, this isn't true."
[...]"In the description of the code,
however, we then find in the report that 'these middle-tier components access the database indirectly through a separate set of data access classes that encapsulate the data
access logic'. Well now, THAT is clearly a lie."
[...]"What is clear is that not only has the benchmark been conducted with seriously flawed code, but TMC has also on a number of
points lied about the contents of said code and how it is supposed to perform."
(bold added by me, because "Twirlip" is clearly reading-impaired). So, Rickard Oberg, the author of the second of the only two articles linked at the top, says that The Middleware Company lied. At worst, they did, in Microsofts favor, while being paid by Microsoft.
Don't jump to conclusions.
Jump to conclusions? No. But I think some of us should bother reaching conclusions, after bothering to actually read the articles.
I think you misunderstand Apple's entry into the MP3 market. They seem to have noticed (pre-iPod) that existing MP3s were non-ideal in several ways, and realized that they could solve all/most of these problems (for a price, of course). These problems were speed of filling the device, capacity, battery life, and size. To their credit, they also ladled on generous helpings of ergonomics and beauty.
If Microsoft has done a truly good job on the OS and app software for this, and if hardware manufacturers (Acer, etc) are able to supply a sufficiently powerful and sufficiently nice assortment of Tablets, then Apple might decline to enter this market.
However, if Apple looks at Microsoft's play, and looks at its own cards, and sees that it can deliver something distinctively superior, and hard to imitate, it might enter.
I think that the initial hardware entries are non-ideal; another poster in this discussion said the Acer he used was sluggish and laggy, and others said that battery life was waaaaay too short. I suspect the correct design for the tablet is about 8 hours of battery life, very thin and light (and hence minimal perk features such as CD/DVD drives), and very good synchronization technology.
The minimum battery life to make this a viable product is 4 hours. (The most likely users of this hardware would be business people stuck in meetings, and students stuck in lectures. Having your Tablet go into a coma before the end of the meeting, or the end of the morning classes is unforgiveable.) If the design of the Tablets are driven to high-watt processors and constantly-spinning hard drives , by the performance needs of the OS and its apps, then that provides a great opportunity for Apple to enter the market.
What astounds me about the original article and blurb, is that it seems to give Microsoft credit for the hardware. It's all "Yay, Microsoft Windows XP Table PC Edition", but most of the links are to Acer, regarding the _hardware_. So be impressed with Microsoft hardware all you want, but this article, according to the title, isn't about Microsoft _software_, spurious links etc notwithstanding.
Er, lift vehicle, though I would also be interested in seeing just what a left vehicle would look like.
(Good thing I didn't rag on anyone about spelling "shielding" correctly.)
In other news, radiation sheilding on the space station isn't so good.
Lead and tungsten are your friends. (I suppose that this might be a good time to come out in favor of developing a cheap, non-man-rated left vehicle, suitable for lofting dense, space-station-module-sized things into LEO...?)
Article blurb said:
[...] 3cm rewritable optical disc [...] The drive is small too!
Some dumbass replied:
No shit. You just said it was 3 cm. It's like saying: The house was 100 metres wide... and it's huge too!
No, it's like saying the house was 100 metres wide, and the lot it was sitting on was only.1 hectares. It's not a metric vs American problem. If you will go back and actually read the blurb, you will realize that the author is saying that "The MEDIA is 3cm, yet the DRIVE that will hold the media is small too."
(Your house is 100m wide?!? Who are you, a Vanderbilt?)
This is a familiar pattern. A company that fails in the market resorts to intellectual property suits to tax successful companies.
This is a familiar patter. A person who didn't read the article posts to slashdot.
Let's be clear here, Intel didn't steal Integraphs designs, but now everyone who purchases an Itanium CPU from Intel must subsidise Integraph who had no hand in designing or manufacturing them.
Let's be clear here, Intel has ALREADY agreed to pay Intergraph $300,000,000 for infringements resulting from Pentium processors, and when you buy a processor from Intel, you are ALREADY helping Intel pay Intergraph for its intellectual property, rather than allowing Intel to just steal from the competition.
So maybe, if Intel is already agreed to pay $300,000,000, and a judge says more payments might be needed, don't you think possibly the judge might be right?
But if you want to change the timezone globally, for running processes, you can't because time zone comes from init - at the very least you have to stop and restart processes after setting TZ, and if you're going to do that, you might as well edit/etc/default/init and reboot!
If your Unix box is wandering about the globe, powered, running, changing timezones willy-nilly, please do consider selecting some sort of generic time zone for the system, one that you won't feel compelled to change system-wide. Other people have mentioned GMT and UTC.
For the user, simply changing the TZ variable should mostly have the desired effect.
In reality, as big as Texas is, it will probably bear the brunt of any range-safety mishaps. The launch site is Ft. Stockton; there's a whole lotta Texas between there and Louisiana. So, if you're in Birmingham, Alabama, you probably don't even need to carry an umbrella for this.
Texas is a fine choice for a launch site, if for no other reason than Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama being immediately downrange. In the event there is some problem keeping the launch vehicle on course, I can't think of three more deserving states.:-)
I would like to write a full fledged 3d-Animation Software package from scratch. Yes, I know, a VERY daunting and time consuming task.
Not at all, should be a snap, especially with guys like me helping you out! I'll be able to pitch in just as soon as my finish my own current little project, Creating World Peace, which should be done Any Day Now, right?
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I've yet to see a really good argument that attacks the basis for the CDBTPA, rather than just saying why it won't work. And yet I get the impression that even if it was implemented in a non-intrusive, practical manner,./ers still wouldn't like it. So why not argue against the ideals behind the bill? Rather than just saying it's a bad bill?
Okay, I'll bite. Laws already exist to restrain you from copying things that you should not. If these laws are not being enforced, they should be. If they cannot be easily enforced because of the nature of the violation, the legislature should consider adjusting the current laws, not creating an entirely new category of regulation (hint: Congress is not reknowned for its expertise in the field of digital electronics). If somebody stares at the problem long enough, they should be able to find some aspect of the harmful behavior that can be identified and described within legislation, that distinguishes the harmful behavior from other legal behavior that should remain legal. Typically, the sort of things they should look for is money changing hands, money flowing towards the people owning the copyrighted original or facilitating the copying.
(By "harmful" I mean harmful to copyright holders in some financial and/or esthetic way , and also perhaps other kinds of harm to the holders that I have not considered.)
The CDBTPA will prevent law-abiding citizens from doing legal things. (This is bad.) As Ed Felten is now showing you daily, it will either prohibit or foolishly complicate an endless list of digital devices. (This is bad.) It will increase the cost and complexity of digital devices that law abiding citizens will use to do lawful things. (This is bad.)
So, a prior article described a method of spam detection which claimed to use something like Bayesian methods, and now we read that it didn't. Sounds like just another case of...
If you quit reading early, you'll miss the gem at the end of the article, wherein William Pierce, spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services, is caught in a fine example of "white-is-black, up-is-down" doublespeak.
"Those are not litmus tests."
Riiiiiiiggghhht. I'm thinking he's relying on a very precise, Clintonesque definition of what is meant by "litmus test". While it is true that the candidates were not having their pH tested, perhaps some other test was administered, which yielded a clear result, which resulted in an acceptance/rejection of each candidate based on that test result?
It's not bad enough that they stack committees to yield a desired viewpoint/pronouncement/guideline/regulation, so they also need to lie about doing it?
Impartial? I don't see how that is a consideration in his case. He's a member of a committee which must, among other things, decide if human subjects in research trials are adequately protected. Because his son died as a result of participating in an improperly conducted medical trial, I suspect that he's probably one of the best people in the USA to be on this committee, if he is at all otherwise capable of sitting on this committee. He likely has a level of commitment to this job and concern for the outcome that few other people could match.
If he is replaced with somebody who was picked because they can be counted on to be constantly mewling about fetal rights ("unborn babies, they're unborn babies!"), it is a sin. If medical trials are killing people on the verge of adulthood, we obviously have more pressing problems than grabbing rights away from pregnant women.
Look boss! The... uhh.. Shit. Can anybody think of a diabetes related word that rhymes with 'plane'?
I'll come up with a rhyme for "plane", if you can find a way to change "Fantasy Island" to "Islets of Langerhans" without harming the Neilson ratings for it...
Slashdot Mirror
I think of fluorescence as relatively slow to diminish. If you try to spin one of these disks at high RPMs (to reduce rotational latency, of course), are the bits lit while reading during the previous rotation still glowing when they come back around?
If you don't add leaves, your "compost bin" will reek. It will smell almost exactly like rotting food. (No big surprise there, I suppose.)
Your composter looks far too small to "get cooking", if you were interested in having it reach elevated temperatures. Some people think that is important when composting, to kill seeds and plant pathogens. Of course, a bigger pile is more work, and I suppose in your case, more expensive.
On the other hand, if you were interested in getting the output rather than disposing of the input, bigger is almost always better, until your pile reaches a size of several cubic meters or yards.
This should have been filed under the "poke-them-with-the-soft-cushions dept"
I'm hoping that Kollar-Kotelly's ruling won't fit under the "poke-them-with-the-soft-cushions" department.
You ARE so completely full of shit! Quoting from Review of "The Petstore Revisited: J2EE vs .NET Application Server Performance Benchmark", one of the articles linked at the top, we find:
[...]"As this review will show, the report is seriously flawed. It contains both errors, halftruths, and lies."
[...]"As we can clearly see above, this isn't true."
[...]"In the description of the code, however, we then find in the report that 'these middle-tier components access the database indirectly through a separate set of data access classes that encapsulate the data access logic'. Well now, THAT is clearly a lie."
[...]"What is clear is that not only has the benchmark been conducted with seriously flawed code, but TMC has also on a number of points lied about the contents of said code and how it is supposed to perform."
(bold added by me, because "Twirlip" is clearly reading-impaired). So, Rickard Oberg, the author of the second of the only two articles linked at the top, says that The Middleware Company lied. At worst, they did, in Microsofts favor, while being paid by Microsoft.
Don't jump to conclusions.
Jump to conclusions? No. But I think some of us should bother reaching conclusions, after bothering to actually read the articles.
If Microsoft has done a truly good job on the OS and app software for this, and if hardware manufacturers (Acer, etc) are able to supply a sufficiently powerful and sufficiently nice assortment of Tablets, then Apple might decline to enter this market.
However, if Apple looks at Microsoft's play, and looks at its own cards, and sees that it can deliver something distinctively superior, and hard to imitate, it might enter.
I think that the initial hardware entries are non-ideal; another poster in this discussion said the Acer he used was sluggish and laggy, and others said that battery life was waaaaay too short. I suspect the correct design for the tablet is about 8 hours of battery life, very thin and light (and hence minimal perk features such as CD/DVD drives), and very good synchronization technology.
The minimum battery life to make this a viable product is 4 hours. (The most likely users of this hardware would be business people stuck in meetings, and students stuck in lectures. Having your Tablet go into a coma before the end of the meeting, or the end of the morning classes is unforgiveable.) If the design of the Tablets are driven to high-watt processors and constantly-spinning hard drives , by the performance needs of the OS and its apps, then that provides a great opportunity for Apple to enter the market.
What astounds me about the original article and blurb, is that it seems to give Microsoft credit for the hardware. It's all "Yay, Microsoft Windows XP Table PC Edition", but most of the links are to Acer, regarding the _hardware_. So be impressed with Microsoft hardware all you want, but this article, according to the title, isn't about Microsoft _software_, spurious links etc notwithstanding.
...the slashdot effect hits?
(Anybody got a mirror? I can't read the article.)
Yeah, I have to agree with that sentiment. They're, uh, the Omni of the 21st Century. Or something like that.
Er, lift vehicle, though I would also be interested in seeing just what a left vehicle would look like. (Good thing I didn't rag on anyone about spelling "shielding" correctly.)
In other news, radiation sheilding on the space station isn't so good.
Lead and tungsten are your friends.
(I suppose that this might be a good time to come out in favor of developing a cheap, non-man-rated left vehicle, suitable for lofting dense, space-station-module-sized things into LEO...?)
Some dumbass replied: No shit. You just said it was 3 cm. It's like saying: The house was 100 metres wide... and it's huge too!
No, it's like saying the house was 100 metres wide, and the lot it was sitting on was only .1 hectares. It's not a metric vs American problem. If you will go back and actually read the blurb, you will realize that the author is saying that "The MEDIA is 3cm, yet the DRIVE that will hold the media is small too."
(Your house is 100m wide?!? Who are you, a Vanderbilt?)
Microsoft?
will make an existing product smaller,
So, then, not Microsoft.
and double the number of features...
Yes, then, stop teasing me, it is Microsoft Office!
for 90% of the current price.
Ah, so it's not Microsoft after all.
I also predict that 99% of the people that BUY that product will be unaware that those features exist and consequently not use them.
Now, come on, that's GOT to be Microsoft Office!
I preduct the people least likely to use those features will buy that product because 'It's pretty'.
Oh, wait, it's Apple.
This is a familiar patter. A person who didn't read the article posts to slashdot.
Let's be clear here, Intel didn't steal Integraphs designs, but now everyone who purchases an Itanium CPU from Intel must subsidise Integraph who had no hand in designing or manufacturing them.
Let's be clear here, Intel has ALREADY agreed to pay Intergraph $300,000,000 for infringements resulting from Pentium processors, and when you buy a processor from Intel, you are ALREADY helping Intel pay Intergraph for its intellectual property, rather than allowing Intel to just steal from the competition.
So maybe, if Intel is already agreed to pay $300,000,000, and a judge says more payments might be needed, don't you think possibly the judge might be right?
If your Unix box is wandering about the globe, powered, running, changing timezones willy-nilly, please do consider selecting some sort of generic time zone for the system, one that you won't feel compelled to change system-wide. Other people have mentioned GMT and UTC.
For the user, simply changing the TZ variable should mostly have the desired effect.
I'm pretty sure that if you translate this to Chinese and back via Babelfish, you get:
'You set us up the bomb.'
Heh, sez you.:-)
In reality, as big as Texas is, it will probably bear the brunt of any range-safety mishaps. The launch site is Ft. Stockton; there's a whole lotta Texas between there and Louisiana. So, if you're in Birmingham, Alabama, you probably don't even need to carry an umbrella for this.
Texas is a fine choice for a launch site, if for no other reason than Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama being immediately downrange. In the event there is some problem keeping the launch vehicle on course, I can't think of three more deserving states. :-)
Not at all, should be a snap, especially with guys like me helping you out! I'll be able to pitch in just as soon as my finish my own current little project, Creating World Peace, which should be done Any Day Now, right?
Okay, I'll bite. Laws already exist to restrain you from copying things that you should not. If these laws are not being enforced, they should be. If they cannot be easily enforced because of the nature of the violation, the legislature should consider adjusting the current laws, not creating an entirely new category of regulation (hint: Congress is not reknowned for its expertise in the field of digital electronics). If somebody stares at the problem long enough, they should be able to find some aspect of the harmful behavior that can be identified and described within legislation, that distinguishes the harmful behavior from other legal behavior that should remain legal. Typically, the sort of things they should look for is money changing hands, money flowing towards the people owning the copyrighted original or facilitating the copying.
(By "harmful" I mean harmful to copyright holders in some financial and/or esthetic way , and also perhaps other kinds of harm to the holders that I have not considered.)
The CDBTPA will prevent law-abiding citizens from doing legal things. (This is bad.) As Ed Felten is now showing you daily, it will either prohibit or foolishly complicate an endless list of digital devices. (This is bad.) It will increase the cost and complexity of digital devices that law abiding citizens will use to do lawful things. (This is bad.)
Has this been clear enough for you?
OLED will take off as soon as it can provide a superior viewing experience for ...
PR0N!
So, a prior article described a method of spam detection which claimed to use something like Bayesian methods, and now we read that it didn't. Sounds like just another case of ...
Bayesian Mimicry
(Don't clap, just throw money.)
"Those are not litmus tests."
Riiiiiiiggghhht. I'm thinking he's relying on a very precise, Clintonesque definition of what is meant by "litmus test". While it is true that the candidates were not having their pH tested, perhaps some other test was administered, which yielded a clear result, which resulted in an acceptance/rejection of each candidate based on that test result?
It's not bad enough that they stack committees to yield a desired viewpoint/pronouncement/guideline/regulation, so they also need to lie about doing it?
Impartial? I don't see how that is a consideration in his case. He's a member of a committee which must, among other things, decide if human subjects in research trials are adequately protected. Because his son died as a result of participating in an improperly conducted medical trial, I suspect that he's probably one of the best people in the USA to be on this committee, if he is at all otherwise capable of sitting on this committee. He likely has a level of commitment to this job and concern for the outcome that few other people could match.
If he is replaced with somebody who was picked because they can be counted on to be constantly mewling about fetal rights ("unborn babies, they're unborn babies!"), it is a sin. If medical trials are killing people on the verge of adulthood, we obviously have more pressing problems than grabbing rights away from pregnant women.
Look boss! The
I'll come up with a rhyme for "plane", if you can find a way to change "Fantasy Island" to "Islets of Langerhans" without harming the Neilson ratings for it...