Probably a nonstarter since that means you'd have to purchase a motherboard from nVidia just to use their new CPU. Probably breaks the previously mentioned clauses too.
Is it really a non-starter ? Intel and AMD chips are not often socket compatible, and anyway you usually have to change the motherboard if you want to use a CPU from a newer generation.
The parent poster probably tries to not do date jerks. And anyway, I think that if someone with who you had a relationship wants to hurt you, there are much more effective ways than deleting random photos on your flickr account. Usually, they will end up with the same friends as you, so they can ruin your reputation much more easily that way. Sharing or not your passwords for minor sites seem quite harmless compared to that.
That link was just the wikipedia article describing La Hague, because I didn't expect the Slashdot users outside Europe to know that it was the main nuclear waste recycling center of France. I only skipped over the article: as most wikipedia articles, it is certainly perfectible, but it is not the point I tried to make.
If you live near La Hague, or if you had the luck to visit the facilities, you'll agree that nuclear waste is not "easily disposed of". The site spans over 300 hectares, there is high security surrounding the MOX production. I can hardly think of anyone working in the field that will say recycling or disposal is not a very serious affair, which needs a lot of careful tracking and paperwork to prevent mistakes. The article makes it sound like it is a piece of cake.
This quote is surprising. Go tell people living around La Hague that radioactivity waste can be easily disposed or recycled. This also seems to keep silent the existence of long-lived (but weakly radioactive) nuclear waste.
Does it ? Loading flash memory cartridges are widely available, and they are about the same price range (if not cheaper) as a CD-burner was at the time of the Dreamcast. Once you have a loading cartridge, the only thing you need is a flash card reader, which is included by default on most laptops. I think the situation is quite close.
It remembers me the "Scrye" view which was present in Undying. In my opinion, the implementation was brillant - every part of the game could have a regular and flip side - but it was underused and ultimately just a gimmick. I think it is a very interesting move to have something like this in the next Wolfenstein - we'll just have to see how it turns out to be.
This will probably come out first as an enterprise drive on a SAS interface, like most of the 15000 RPM disks. Enterprises drives are loud, but you don't really care about this, since they are not supposed to be working in the same room as you are.
Drawing a parallel, right now the Nintendo DS would be a financial hole, since the encryption of its game cards has been cracked since 2006. From an external point of view, it still seems rather profitable given all the money Nintendo has in bank.
Sure, but keep in mind that a successful design is only a part of the challenge of the space industry. Reliability is a key factor: you have to turn out satellites or launchers that work everytime. This is why space equipment is so expensive: everything is checked a lot of times. SpaceX wants to bring the cheapest launches to the table, reducing the expenses on the way. I have no doubt they will ultimately succeed in sending a payload in orbit - however, will they succeed in being reliable ? I think the real test for SpaceX is the test of the time.
By focusing only on commercial game releases, I think the article completely misses the point. Free puzzle games thrive - if you check regularly any "flash" game site such as Jay is games, you will see that puzzle and adventure games are a legion, and are amongst the most played and popular. Heck, they even have a "room escape" day where they list every Crimson Room clone that has surfaced during the week.
So, maybe you cannot make money anymore by developping an adventure game. However, that does not mean that the genre is dead, far from it.
Last time I had to use the Google Docs suite (3 months ago), it was to access a shared spreadsheet: each people had to fill in what food or drink they were bringing in at a party, in order to have some kind of co-ordination. The "shared document" concept is really nice, however the AJAX controls were killing the performance of my laptop from 2004. So I have trouble imagining doing work with such a solution - at least with my configuration.
Of course, it would be probably better with a newer computer, but I feel sad that an application which is recognised as being a hog such as MS Office runs better on my computer than Google Docs. (I took a glance at TFA, and it seems to imply that Google Docs is the fastest solution of all 3).
Very fast solar events can happen and have happened. It has already taken as few as about 15 minutes from the start of an event to the time fast protons reach earth. I wouldn't be too comfortable with this.
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Well, I found the interview quite funny:
inteviewer: Random question.
CDB; Your numbers suck, they are unsignificant.
inteviewer: Random question.
RMS: You understand nothing about free software.
Firefox 2.0 was also supposed to be a quick development, based on the same gecko branch. It eventually took about a year.
I think the past record of Mozilla.org has repeatedly shown that it is unable to release a product on time, given the huge amount of testing/fixing iterations that must come before the final release. A Firefox "quick release" will take time, and divert resources from important future projects such as Gecko 2.
I would have thought Mozilla.org would have finally admitted that the architecture and development model of Firefox is characterised by long maturation times. This is needed to keep up its high quality level.
I thought Blizzard North had been closed. Which raises the question, is the regular Blizzard up to the task to make a new Diablo faithful to its ancestors, if the original developers have moved onto other companies ?
Myst ? It seems this game is really a love or hate case. As far as I am concerned, I found most of the Myst games to be really terrific experiences. So immersive ! Riven (Myst II) went a bit over the top with puzzles, though.
Classyfing Pluto as a Plutoid is not silly. Classifying Jupiter as a gas giant is not silly. Classying Mars as a telluric planet is not silly, either. This is exactly what you pointed out when you said that classifications were useful to catalog objects orbiting other stars.
Now, what I think people are objecting to is the apparent lack of logic for the "planet" classification itself. You get objects as different as gas giants and telluric planets under the same umbrella, "planet". So, why not Kuiper belt objects ?
But regardless of what has been the actual ruling about Pluto, the main problem lies in the redefinition process itself. What is a tomato, a fruit or a vegetable ? For biologists, it's a fruit, for cookers it's a vegetable. Everybody gets on with it. Different names for different fields, it's not uncommon. It has been going for ages.
Now, what went through the mind of the IAU to think that the "planet" word needed a formal science definition ? The ambiguity of this word had been acknowledged for ages, and there was some disagreement among astronomers. They could just as well have kept on using accurate names, such as gas giants or kuiper belts objects. It's as if some day, the "International Biologists Union" decided it was a good time to formally define the word "bug". And ruled that only insects should be called bugs, and not arachnids.
Anyway, it's not a big deal.
The summary is impressive with inaccuracy
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First sentence of TFA:
Four national standards body members of ISO and IEC - Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela - have submitted appeals against the recent approval of ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Information technology - Office Open XML formats, as an ISO/IEC International Standard.
Of course, the big coronal mass ejections which are associated with very intense ionizing particle fluxes at satellite level are not encountered in solar minimum.
However, the trapped proton fluxes of the Van Allen belts, mainly present in low earth orbit and medium earth orbit (roughly from 500 km to 18000 km) show an inverse dependance to the solar activity: they are more intense in solar minimum. In solar maximum, the atmosphere is heated up and expands, causing more trapped protons to decay. The increase in solar activity is also correlated with a decrease of cosmic rays coming from outer space, which are important contributors to the trapped neutrons belts.
For satellites in geosynchronous orbits which are mainly crossing electrons belts, it's the reverse story, though.
Still, using LaTeX beamer for presentations is what I would call an endeavour. While LaTeX lack of WYSIWYG editing makes sense for professional looking documents, it's really a pain for slides.
I find ironic the apparent contradiction of some of your arguments:
-But for some reason people seem to enjoy using a OS on cheap hardware the runs reliably and quickly when configured properly. Oh and plays the latest games!..
-Sorry bro, I'm into computers... Not toys.
That does not make some of your other points invalid, though.
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Probably a nonstarter since that means you'd have to purchase a motherboard from nVidia just to use their new CPU. Probably breaks the previously mentioned clauses too.
Is it really a non-starter ? Intel and AMD chips are not often socket compatible, and anyway you usually have to change the motherboard if you want to use a CPU from a newer generation.
The parent poster probably tries to not do date jerks. And anyway, I think that if someone with who you had a relationship wants to hurt you, there are much more effective ways than deleting random photos on your flickr account. Usually, they will end up with the same friends as you, so they can ruin your reputation much more easily that way. Sharing or not your passwords for minor sites seem quite harmless compared to that.
That link was just the wikipedia article describing La Hague, because I didn't expect the Slashdot users outside Europe to know that it was the main nuclear waste recycling center of France. I only skipped over the article: as most wikipedia articles, it is certainly perfectible, but it is not the point I tried to make.
If you live near La Hague, or if you had the luck to visit the facilities, you'll agree that nuclear waste is not "easily disposed of". The site spans over 300 hectares, there is high security surrounding the MOX production. I can hardly think of anyone working in the field that will say recycling or disposal is not a very serious affair, which needs a lot of careful tracking and paperwork to prevent mistakes. The article makes it sound like it is a piece of cake.
This quote is surprising. Go tell people living around La Hague that radioactivity waste can be easily disposed or recycled. This also seems to keep silent the existence of long-lived (but weakly radioactive) nuclear waste.
Does it ? Loading flash memory cartridges are widely available, and they are about the same price range (if not cheaper) as a CD-burner was at the time of the Dreamcast. Once you have a loading cartridge, the only thing you need is a flash card reader, which is included by default on most laptops. I think the situation is quite close.
It remembers me the "Scrye" view which was present in Undying. In my opinion, the implementation was brillant - every part of the game could have a regular and flip side - but it was underused and ultimately just a gimmick. I think it is a very interesting move to have something like this in the next Wolfenstein - we'll just have to see how it turns out to be.
This will probably come out first as an enterprise drive on a SAS interface, like most of the 15000 RPM disks. Enterprises drives are loud, but you don't really care about this, since they are not supposed to be working in the same room as you are.
Drawing a parallel, right now the Nintendo DS would be a financial hole, since the encryption of its game cards has been cracked since 2006. From an external point of view, it still seems rather profitable given all the money Nintendo has in bank.
Sure, but keep in mind that a successful design is only a part of the challenge of the space industry. Reliability is a key factor: you have to turn out satellites or launchers that work everytime. This is why space equipment is so expensive: everything is checked a lot of times. SpaceX wants to bring the cheapest launches to the table, reducing the expenses on the way. I have no doubt they will ultimately succeed in sending a payload in orbit - however, will they succeed in being reliable ? I think the real test for SpaceX is the test of the time.
Since when has powerpoint been deprecated ?
However, he could have turned his powerpoint file into a more universal format, such as PDF.
I find the series of tubes analogy as good as a typical slashdot car analogy.
By focusing only on commercial game releases, I think the article completely misses the point. Free puzzle games thrive - if you check regularly any "flash" game site such as Jay is games, you will see that puzzle and adventure games are a legion, and are amongst the most played and popular. Heck, they even have a "room escape" day where they list every Crimson Room clone that has surfaced during the week.
So, maybe you cannot make money anymore by developping an adventure game. However, that does not mean that the genre is dead, far from it.
Last time I had to use the Google Docs suite (3 months ago), it was to access a shared spreadsheet: each people had to fill in what food or drink they were bringing in at a party, in order to have some kind of co-ordination. The "shared document" concept is really nice, however the AJAX controls were killing the performance of my laptop from 2004. So I have trouble imagining doing work with such a solution - at least with my configuration.
Of course, it would be probably better with a newer computer, but I feel sad that an application which is recognised as being a hog such as MS Office runs better on my computer than Google Docs. (I took a glance at TFA, and it seems to imply that Google Docs is the fastest solution of all 3).
Very fast solar events can happen and have happened. It has already taken as few as about 15 minutes from the start of an event to the time fast protons reach earth. I wouldn't be too comfortable with this.
Well, I found the interview quite funny:
inteviewer: Random question.
CDB; Your numbers suck, they are unsignificant.
inteviewer: Random question.
RMS: You understand nothing about free software.
What a nice day for him.
Firefox 2.0 was also supposed to be a quick development, based on the same gecko branch. It eventually took about a year.
I think the past record of Mozilla.org has repeatedly shown that it is unable to release a product on time, given the huge amount of testing/fixing iterations that must come before the final release. A Firefox "quick release" will take time, and divert resources from important future projects such as Gecko 2.
I would have thought Mozilla.org would have finally admitted that the architecture and development model of Firefox is characterised by long maturation times. This is needed to keep up its high quality level.
I thought Blizzard North had been closed. Which raises the question, is the regular Blizzard up to the task to make a new Diablo faithful to its ancestors, if the original developers have moved onto other companies ?
Myst ? It seems this game is really a love or hate case. As far as I am concerned, I found most of the Myst games to be really terrific experiences. So immersive ! Riven (Myst II) went a bit over the top with puzzles, though.
Classyfing Pluto as a Plutoid is not silly. Classifying Jupiter as a gas giant is not silly. Classying Mars as a telluric planet is not silly, either. This is exactly what you pointed out when you said that classifications were useful to catalog objects orbiting other stars.
Now, what I think people are objecting to is the apparent lack of logic for the "planet" classification itself. You get objects as different as gas giants and telluric planets under the same umbrella, "planet". So, why not Kuiper belt objects ?
But regardless of what has been the actual ruling about Pluto, the main problem lies in the redefinition process itself. What is a tomato, a fruit or a vegetable ? For biologists, it's a fruit, for cookers it's a vegetable. Everybody gets on with it. Different names for different fields, it's not uncommon. It has been going for ages.
Now, what went through the mind of the IAU to think that the "planet" word needed a formal science definition ? The ambiguity of this word had been acknowledged for ages, and there was some disagreement among astronomers. They could just as well have kept on using accurate names, such as gas giants or kuiper belts objects. It's as if some day, the "International Biologists Union" decided it was a good time to formally define the word "bug". And ruled that only insects should be called bugs, and not arachnids.
Anyway, it's not a big deal.
First sentence of TFA:
Four national standards body members of ISO and IEC - Brazil, India, South Africa and Venezuela - have submitted appeals against the recent approval of ISO/IEC DIS 29500, Information technology - Office Open XML formats, as an ISO/IEC International Standard.
Of course, the big coronal mass ejections which are associated with very intense ionizing particle fluxes at satellite level are not encountered in solar minimum.
However, the trapped proton fluxes of the Van Allen belts, mainly present in low earth orbit and medium earth orbit (roughly from 500 km to 18000 km) show an inverse dependance to the solar activity: they are more intense in solar minimum. In solar maximum, the atmosphere is heated up and expands, causing more trapped protons to decay. The increase in solar activity is also correlated with a decrease of cosmic rays coming from outer space, which are important contributors to the trapped neutrons belts.
For satellites in geosynchronous orbits which are mainly crossing electrons belts, it's the reverse story, though.
To get back on the topic, here are the current solar cycle predictions.
Yeah !
That was about time we saw such a gun in another game than a sprite-based First Person Shooter.
Still, using LaTeX beamer for presentations is what I would call an endeavour. While LaTeX lack of WYSIWYG editing makes sense for professional looking documents, it's really a pain for slides.
I find ironic the apparent contradiction of some of your arguments:
-But for some reason people seem to enjoy using a OS on cheap hardware the runs reliably and quickly when configured properly. Oh and plays the latest games!..
-Sorry bro, I'm into computers... Not toys.
That does not make some of your other points invalid, though.
Your post made me laugh - a lot.
But incidentally, the squirrelfish is an actual fish (just like it turned out that the firefox was also an existing animal).