Although it really doesn't do much. Unless you are trying to bring awareness to some cause that no one has ever heard of but probably would care about if they did, protests aren't going to accomplish anything.
In France, popular protesting coupled with strikes has regularly made the government back off some laws. Big demonstrations can sometimes shift the opinion of the people. A recent example is First Employment Contract law. The country works like this. I would be surprised if it wasn't the same, to a certain extent, in other countries.
European satellite designs are working with SPARC or ERC32 processors, but I believe that most of the american satellites are working with PowerPC processors.
I think it might be because it would be kind of useless to build the infrastructure if we don't have means to get there once it's done. Both aspects probably need to be tackled on at the same time.
When was the last time the nuclear Navy has had an accident? That would be the USS Scorpion in 1968. Only twice in the history of the nuclear Navy has there been accidents resulting in the loss of life, both in the '60's.
What about the crash of the San Francisco into the sea bed in 2005 ? If I remember correctly, one submariner died from it, along with about one hundred of people injured.
I think I should have written a more lengthly answer, as it could have prevented you to get too carried on. I was merely pointing out that the parent point, summarized as "Yes, but it kills healthy kids, teenagers, and young adults at a much lower percentage than normal flu strains" was currently a discussed topic. Precisely because the demographics dying from secondary infections and those dying "from the virus itself" are not the same. This being said, for swine flu like for seasonal flu, the death toll from secondary infections probably dwarfs direct deaths.
As for peer-reviewing the source, give it time. As the linked article clearly said, the report was based on preliminary statistics. That doesn't prevent me to get interested in preprints, without taking them for absolute truths.
It is the start of a pandemic: the actual lethality percentages are still clouded by a lot of statistical noise. Let's see a much more recent point of view, dating from the end of last month:
"Swine virus 100 times lethal than seasonal flu". Of course, it could still be statistical noise. But it seems trends are starting to emerge - there are targets who are not at risk from seasonal flu, but are more vulnerable to swine flu: namely pregnant people, obese people, and teenagers.
The Saturn V ? But it is obsolete, and this has a very specific meaning in the space industry: it cannot be built anymore (if we had the blueprints, which we actually do not) because its subcomponents are no longer manufactured. Fighting obsolescence is a difficult matter, and requires redesigns to keep up with the pace of the technology. In a design as old as Saturn V, it would be such a nightmare that I can easily understand that NASA finds more cost-effective to design a new rocket.
When people talk about a "PC", they usually think about a x86 architecture. The XBOX 360 uses a PowerPC based architecture, as were Macintoshes before 2005. You won't be able to buy a PowerPC compatible mainboard at Costco.
Sony's responsibility is to satisfy as large a segment of consumers as possible. It would make no business sense whatsoever for them to try to address every last issue people raise.
The point is that the users of the console probably do not care at all about what would make business sense for Sony. They are the customers at the end of the pipe, and not executives caring about a bottom line: the more the users get, the better for them. Of course, Sony is free to only address the issues they feel being the most important. And the users that do not get the features they want (whether they are widely requested or a "personal pet peeve") have all the rights to complain about it, or not to buy the end product.
This is because the receptors let light pass through them. A "superior design" in light collection efficiency (albeit probably a trade-off with some other characteristics) are the eyes of cats or crocodiles. They feature a reflective layer behind the retina called tapetum: this allows light to go twice through the photoreceptors. This is also why you often see their eyes shining in the dark.
It's actually an interesting question. I believe that in France, the situation is basically the same - about everybody handwrites in cursive, and this kind of discussion looks very odd. As people have hinted at, the origin of these differences probably lies in school. While everybody here is talking about learning cursive in third grade (8-9 years old), we learned to write in cursive when we were 5-6 years old. This could make a great difference.
I really can't stand Starcraft (and Warcraft 3) emphasis on micromanagement. Well, actually that's not really true - I like Starcraft probably as much as everybody, but I have found some other games more interesting to play, such as C&C Generals. In this game, you do not have to care about the over powerful spellcasters (of course, there are none), but more about the position of units in the battlefield.
Of course, it is not because a very popular game implements a game system in some way, that every game has to follow this same way. For instance, I know hardcore FPS players which dislike Counterstrike (and clones) reliance on hitscan weapons, in which you do not have to lead any shot to score kills. That doesn't mean that Counterstrike is a bad game - but there are other ways to follow.
Okay, parent did indeed read TFA, which is a crime on Slashdot.
Nevertheless, he seems to be the only one to have caught that critical part of the interview when there are already 10 posts complaining about DRM.
Surely, you wouldn't ignore that the 777 and 787 have Fly-By-Wire controls ?
A330 or 777 controls basically work in the same way: inputs on the sticks are treated as electronic inputs, then passed on to hydraulic actuators after computer processing. It is the processing law that differs between Airbus and Boeings.
The same argument pretty much applies to other drivers too - the more careful you are, the safer you are from idiotic drivers. However, we know that is insufficient to prevent every accident.
But being printed on standard paper is the actual fate of the immense majority of documents. Standard size PDF documents are what people want to be able to read on their ereaders, in order to replace printouts. I believe most couldn't care less about the reflowing advantages or customizable typefaces brought by ereaders.
While your point has some merit, I still think you're nitpicking a bit. On most hardware/sofware configurations, PDFs should display in your browser, with blocks of pages progressively displaying are they are being downloaded for very large files.
Unfortunately, there are some configuration on which this is not possible. On the top of my head, Intel+Mac OS X+Firefox (works with Safari) or PPC+Linux+Firefox or Linux-Epiphany (works with Konqueror).
Well, I think you will hardly find anyone to discuss that the free/open-source software selection (except for a few high-profile apps) on Windows is very limited compared to what is available on Linux.
Similarly, I think you will hadly find anyone to discuss that the commercial software selection (except for a few high-profile apps) on Linux is very limited compared to what is available on Windows.
Indeed, a recent study predicts their near extinction by 2100. Of course, this is an extrapolation over an incomplete set of data - but probably still a matter of concern.
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But wake me up when Dell starts shipping an ARM-only netbook (for roughly a sixth of the price), and then we will be talking for real !
Although it really doesn't do much. Unless you are trying to bring awareness to some cause that no one has ever heard of but probably would care about if they did, protests aren't going to accomplish anything.
In France, popular protesting coupled with strikes has regularly made the government back off some laws. Big demonstrations can sometimes shift the opinion of the people. A recent example is First Employment Contract law. The country works like this. I would be surprised if it wasn't the same, to a certain extent, in other countries.
European satellite designs are working with SPARC or ERC32 processors, but I believe that most of the american satellites are working with PowerPC processors.
I think it might be because it would be kind of useless to build the infrastructure if we don't have means to get there once it's done. Both aspects probably need to be tackled on at the same time.
When was the last time the nuclear Navy has had an accident? That would be the USS Scorpion in 1968. Only twice in the history of the nuclear Navy has there been accidents resulting in the loss of life, both in the '60's.
What about the crash of the San Francisco into the sea bed in 2005 ? If I remember correctly, one submariner died from it, along with about one hundred of people injured.
I think I should have written a more lengthly answer, as it could have prevented you to get too carried on. I was merely pointing out that the parent point, summarized as "Yes, but it kills healthy kids, teenagers, and young adults at a much lower percentage than normal flu strains" was currently a discussed topic. Precisely because the demographics dying from secondary infections and those dying "from the virus itself" are not the same. This being said, for swine flu like for seasonal flu, the death toll from secondary infections probably dwarfs direct deaths.
As for peer-reviewing the source, give it time. As the linked article clearly said, the report was based on preliminary statistics. That doesn't prevent me to get interested in preprints, without taking them for absolute truths.
It is the start of a pandemic: the actual lethality percentages are still clouded by a lot of statistical noise. Let's see a much more recent point of view, dating from the end of last month:
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=103052
"Swine virus 100 times lethal than seasonal flu". Of course, it could still be statistical noise. But it seems trends are starting to emerge - there are targets who are not at risk from seasonal flu, but are more vulnerable to swine flu: namely pregnant people, obese people, and teenagers.
The Saturn V ? But it is obsolete, and this has a very specific meaning in the space industry: it cannot be built anymore (if we had the blueprints, which we actually do not) because its subcomponents are no longer manufactured. Fighting obsolescence is a difficult matter, and requires redesigns to keep up with the pace of the technology. In a design as old as Saturn V, it would be such a nightmare that I can easily understand that NASA finds more cost-effective to design a new rocket.
When people talk about a "PC", they usually think about a x86 architecture. The XBOX 360 uses a PowerPC based architecture, as were Macintoshes before 2005. You won't be able to buy a PowerPC compatible mainboard at Costco.
Sony's responsibility is to satisfy as large a segment of consumers as possible. It would make no business sense whatsoever for them to try to address every last issue people raise.
The point is that the users of the console probably do not care at all about what would make business sense for Sony. They are the customers at the end of the pipe, and not executives caring about a bottom line: the more the users get, the better for them. Of course, Sony is free to only address the issues they feel being the most important. And the users that do not get the features they want (whether they are widely requested or a "personal pet peeve") have all the rights to complain about it, or not to buy the end product.
This is because the receptors let light pass through them. A "superior design" in light collection efficiency (albeit probably a trade-off with some other characteristics) are the eyes of cats or crocodiles. They feature a reflective layer behind the retina called tapetum: this allows light to go twice through the photoreceptors. This is also why you often see their eyes shining in the dark.
It's actually an interesting question. I believe that in France, the situation is basically the same - about everybody handwrites in cursive, and this kind of discussion looks very odd. As people have hinted at, the origin of these differences probably lies in school. While everybody here is talking about learning cursive in third grade (8-9 years old), we learned to write in cursive when we were 5-6 years old. This could make a great difference.
I really can't stand Starcraft (and Warcraft 3) emphasis on micromanagement. Well, actually that's not really true - I like Starcraft probably as much as everybody, but I have found some other games more interesting to play, such as C&C Generals. In this game, you do not have to care about the over powerful spellcasters (of course, there are none), but more about the position of units in the battlefield.
Of course, it is not because a very popular game implements a game system in some way, that every game has to follow this same way. For instance, I know hardcore FPS players which dislike Counterstrike (and clones) reliance on hitscan weapons, in which you do not have to lead any shot to score kills. That doesn't mean that Counterstrike is a bad game - but there are other ways to follow.
Okay, parent did indeed read TFA, which is a crime on Slashdot.
Nevertheless, he seems to be the only one to have caught that critical part of the interview when there are already 10 posts complaining about DRM.
Do not worry: you would not get Java 1.6 (or 6.0, or whatever) with 10.5 on PPC either. This is only for x86-64 machines.
It seems to work on Safari 4. If "fail", then "pass" is what it is supposed to show.
Surely, you wouldn't ignore that the 777 and 787 have Fly-By-Wire controls ?
A330 or 777 controls basically work in the same way: inputs on the sticks are treated as electronic inputs, then passed on to hydraulic actuators after computer processing. It is the processing law that differs between Airbus and Boeings.
And that rats also giggled when tickled.
A reference from 1998 might be uselful for those interested.
SAS also jumped from 3 Gb/s to 6 Gb/s last year. So, it seems to be pretty much the norm for hard drives interfaces.
The same argument pretty much applies to other drivers too - the more careful you are, the safer you are from idiotic drivers. However, we know that is insufficient to prevent every accident.
But being printed on standard paper is the actual fate of the immense majority of documents. Standard size PDF documents are what people want to be able to read on their ereaders, in order to replace printouts. I believe most couldn't care less about the reflowing advantages or customizable typefaces brought by ereaders.
It actually seems to be closer to 8.8 m/s.
While your point has some merit, I still think you're nitpicking a bit. On most hardware/sofware configurations, PDFs should display in your browser, with blocks of pages progressively displaying are they are being downloaded for very large files.
Unfortunately, there are some configuration on which this is not possible. On the top of my head, Intel+Mac OS X+Firefox (works with Safari) or PPC+Linux+Firefox or Linux-Epiphany (works with Konqueror).
Well, I think you will hardly find anyone to discuss that the free/open-source software selection (except for a few high-profile apps) on Windows is very limited compared to what is available on Linux.
Similarly, I think you will hadly find anyone to discuss that the commercial software selection (except for a few high-profile apps) on Linux is very limited compared to what is available on Windows.
Indeed, a recent study predicts their near extinction by 2100. Of course, this is an extrapolation over an incomplete set of data - but probably still a matter of concern.