They are "swapped" for free using special software, robbing artists and their record companies of royalties
On behalf of everyone and as a gesture of goodwill I would like to volunteer to try and make it up to Kylie for this heinous crime.
Someone else can do the record companies
I noticed in the article that one of the topics on which information was being preserved about was 9/11 and that got me thinking.
On a broader scale news media love the internet because they can make outlandish claims when a story first breaks and then modify it as the facts become available. How do we know whats being preserved is accurate ?
Secondly, do we trust the people controlling all this nice, easily modified information not to change it to suit some political whim ?
They say the victor writes the history book. Digital storage will allow the victors to run a few drafts by their spin doctors first.
It will be interesting to see how this pans out. Currently I suppose many of items we have from preserved from the past exist because they had some inherent monetary value or were of sufficient quality that time and effort was taken to preserve them. This is not the case with digital media as basically its all 1's and 0's to store the content, which tends to have highly subjective value. What will the future judge to be historically important I wonder, the first recorded blog ?, the first mail promising increased penis size? web services? (insert anything you can think of here)?
I was wondering also about how they actually plan to physically store this information for extended periods of time. I was going to post a question about it until something occurred to me. In 500+ years time I cant really imagine many people will give a crap about much of the digital material that is being churned out today. It will most likey be a case of viewing sonething like AOTC, falling on their asses laughing at the "special effects" but reaching male consensus that Natalie Portman was a babe.
gasping for breath
just fallen on my ass
just fallen on my ice axe
altitude induced gushing nose bleeds
fscking sherpa just ran off with all the oxygen
The real reason they are keeping mum is to prevent hoardes of geeks making fools of themselves camping outside Natalie Portmans house trying to get a date before they depart to techno heaven.
Looks like a robust and flexible solution that can be tailored to a homeowner's needs. Anyone any idea what the sort of price range is/will be to equip your home with this stuff ? and how does it compare with existing solutions ?
The MSN site is sending Opera users what appear to be intentionally distorted pages. The Bork edition illustrates how browsers could also distort content, as the Bork edition does. The real point here is that the success of the Web depends on software and Web site developers behaving well and rising above corporate rivalry
The Opera acticle is a little less direct with it's acusations. I realise this is/. and I am not an apologist for Microsoft but IIRC the source of the problem was a single incorrect figure in the style sheet. NO possiblity whatsoever of a typo there then.
Can any opera users confirm if the style sheets are still messed up ? If they are they I might start subscribing to the conspiracy theory, but really his smacks of a childish attempt to grab attention. I would guess the Netscape, Moz and Phoenix share of the market is of much more concern to MS than Opera
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but this acticle only says a provision has been made that the surveillance information is not to be used against American Citizens and the bill is likely to pass unless Bush vetoes it or the spending is not approved.
The only obstacles to the provision becoming law would be the failure of the conferees to reach agreement on the overall spending bill in which it is included, or a successful veto of the bill by President Bush.
Is therefore safe to assume the Pentagon feels entitled to surveil the rest of the worlds population on the off chance they may spot a terrorist at some point ? I'm not trying to flame here but the article seemed a little short on fact and I am unclear as to the levels of surveillance the bill supports in its current form. If I understand it the overall plan has not actually been killed, just subjected to more congressional oversight and currently exempts American Citizens
Exactly. These are the levels microsoft have been operating at for years. What they will point out as flaws in Open Source pratices (at corporate level) are issues which OS will have to address at some point. I sure microsoft will provide some valuable pointers, albeit indirectly, to dealing with decision makers.
I'm not sure thats a reflection on shared source, more an indication of a poor PM. Shared source is realistically the only advance MS can currently make in the direction of fully open source. They are a large corporation with many shareholders who will not accept the source, excuse the pun, of their honeypot suddenly being made available to the public at large.
This exclusive 512 KB L2-cache works together with the 128 KB L1-cache (64 KB data, 64 KB instruction) to form one impressive 640 KB on-die cache. According to AMD, the extra 256 KB cache boosts, an 2170 MHz Athlon XP from a 2700+ level to a 3000+ one.
If this is the case why do AMD, and Intel for that matter not put ever larger amounts of cache on their existing chips to achieve better performance ? Does the cost implications completely prohibit this or do the performance benefits tail off too quickly. SUN seem to able to achieve impressive performance with lower far lower Mhz (I know its different architecture) but I get the impression the large amounts of cache (2-4 MB) they use contributes significantly to performance.
I would have thought that breaking ground in an earthquake zone is possibly not the most intelligent thing to do. Is the campus consuming earthquake to be the first special effect ?
You are seriously misguided if you think the real usefulness of Java is applets. The most prevalent useage of Java is on the server for enterprise level applications and development tools. This is not something you will ever use PHP for.
The point the memo was making is that there are issues with the JRE implementation on Solaris and that due to these limitations Java is not the wonder language which solves all development issues as some of the SUN marketing drones would have us believe, or PHP as the parent would have us believe. Having come across several of the issues mentioned in the memo I think its good to see an internal drive for resolution of known problems. Hopefully SUN might actually channel resources to address them now.
Presumably though as it is a feasability study they will source a consultancy group to execute it. I'm sure Gartner and their ilk will quite happily pocket 450K for a study of this nature and produce a nicely formatted 10 page document at its conclusion.
Even if they do perform the study in house its still a reasonable upfront investment for a feasability study.
Presumably though as it is a feasability study they will source a consultancy group to execute it. I'm sure Gartner and their ilk will quite happily pocket 450K for a study of this nature and produce a nicely formatted 10 page document at its conclusion.
Even if they do execute in house its still a reasonable upfront investment for a feasability study.
Can any sound engineer types out there give a brief overview of the sound quality differentials between this standard of speaker with a good sound card and the sort of kit you can fork out a shed load of cash for at your local hifi dealer?.
I know judgement of sound quality can be a very subjective thing but I am curious when I can get a PC sound system very reasonably but can (assuming I had the cash) pay thousands of dollars/euro in a store for hifi equipment. Is the price difference reflected in the sound quality ?
For that matter how do I know my hearing is good enough to distinguish the difference ?
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They are "swapped" for free using special software, robbing artists and their record companies of royalties
On behalf of everyone and as a gesture of goodwill I would like to volunteer to try and make it up to Kylie for this heinous crime. Someone else can do the record companies
if they spot one heading for us the space elevator idea will suddenly seem extremely plausible
Perth also has an extremely large sanatorium to cater for the elevator musak induced madness
I noticed in the article that one of the topics on which information was being preserved about was 9/11 and that got me thinking.
On a broader scale news media love the internet because they can make outlandish claims when a story first breaks and then modify it as the facts become available. How do we know whats being preserved is accurate ?
Secondly, do we trust the people controlling all this nice, easily modified information not to change it to suit some political whim ?
They say the victor writes the history book. Digital storage will allow the victors to run a few drafts by their spin doctors first.
It will be interesting to see how this pans out. Currently I suppose many of items we have from preserved from the past exist because they had some inherent monetary value or were of sufficient quality that time and effort was taken to preserve them. This is not the case with digital media as basically its all 1's and 0's to store the content, which tends to have highly subjective value. What will the future judge to be historically important I wonder, the first recorded blog ?, the first mail promising increased penis size? web services? (insert anything you can think of here)?
I was wondering also about how they actually plan to physically store this information for extended periods of time. I was going to post a question about it until something occurred to me. In 500+ years time I cant really imagine many people will give a crap about much of the digital material that is being churned out today. It will most likey be a case of viewing sonething like AOTC, falling on their asses laughing at the "special effects" but reaching male consensus that Natalie Portman was a babe.
need a few new empticons for the new experiences
gasping for breath
just fallen on my ass
just fallen on my ice axe
altitude induced gushing nose bleeds
fscking sherpa just ran off with all the oxygen
What are the odds of that happening again ?
The real reason they are keeping mum is to prevent hoardes of geeks making fools of themselves camping outside Natalie Portmans house trying to get a date before they depart to techno heaven.
Looks like a robust and flexible solution that can be tailored to a homeowner's needs. Anyone any idea what the sort of price range is/will be to equip your home with this stuff ? and how does it compare with existing solutions ?
From the artice
/. and I am not an apologist for Microsoft but IIRC the source of the problem was a single incorrect figure in the style sheet. NO possiblity whatsoever of a typo there then.
The MSN site is sending Opera users what appear to be intentionally distorted pages. The Bork edition illustrates how browsers could also distort content, as the Bork edition does. The real point here is that the success of the Web depends on software and Web site developers behaving well and rising above corporate rivalry The Opera acticle is a little less direct with it's acusations. I realise this is
Can any opera users confirm if the style sheets are still messed up ? If they are they I might start subscribing to the conspiracy theory, but really his smacks of a childish attempt to grab attention. I would guess the Netscape, Moz and Phoenix share of the market is of much more concern to MS than Opera
this is going to make writing women's phone numbers on beer mats a tad more difficult.
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www.IcantBelieveThatsNotARealBridge.com
Left handed terrorist amino acids trying to subvert the way of the right !
but this acticle only says a provision has been made that the surveillance information is not to be used against American Citizens and the bill is likely to pass unless Bush vetoes it or the spending is not approved.
The only obstacles to the provision becoming law would be the failure of the conferees to reach agreement on the overall spending bill in which it is included, or a successful veto of the bill by President Bush.
Is therefore safe to assume the Pentagon feels entitled to surveil the rest of the worlds population on the off chance they may spot a terrorist at some point ? I'm not trying to flame here but the article seemed a little short on fact and I am unclear as to the levels of surveillance the bill supports in its current form. If I understand it the overall plan has not actually been killed, just subjected to more congressional oversight and currently exempts American Citizens
Exactly. These are the levels microsoft have been operating at for years. What they will point out as flaws in Open Source pratices (at corporate level) are issues which OS will have to address at some point. I sure microsoft will provide some valuable pointers, albeit indirectly, to dealing with decision makers.
4.4% baryons, 22% dark matter and 73% dark energy.
The recipe for coke ?
I'm not sure thats a reflection on shared source, more an indication of a poor PM. Shared source is realistically the only advance MS can currently make in the direction of fully open source. They are a large corporation with many shareholders who will not accept the source, excuse the pun, of their honeypot suddenly being made available to the public at large.
From the article on Ace Harware
This exclusive 512 KB L2-cache works together with the 128 KB L1-cache (64 KB data, 64 KB instruction) to form one impressive 640 KB on-die cache. According to AMD, the extra 256 KB cache boosts, an 2170 MHz Athlon XP from a 2700+ level to a 3000+ one.
If this is the case why do AMD, and Intel for that matter not put ever larger amounts of cache on their existing chips to achieve better performance ? Does the cost implications completely prohibit this or do the performance benefits tail off too quickly. SUN seem to able to achieve impressive performance with lower far lower Mhz (I know its different architecture) but I get the impression the large amounts of cache (2-4 MB) they use contributes significantly to performance.
I would have thought that breaking ground in an earthquake zone is possibly not the most intelligent thing to do. Is the campus consuming earthquake to be the first special effect ?
I knew all that salt I was hoarding would come good again one day !!!
You are seriously misguided if you think the real usefulness of Java is applets. The most prevalent useage of Java is on the server for enterprise level applications and development tools. This is not something you will ever use PHP for.
The point the memo was making is that there are issues with the JRE implementation on Solaris and that due to these limitations Java is not the wonder language which solves all development issues as some of the SUN marketing drones would have us believe, or PHP as the parent would have us believe. Having come across several of the issues mentioned in the memo I think its good to see an internal drive for resolution of known problems. Hopefully SUN might actually channel resources to address them now.
This is by no means the end of Java
he did it in private so unfortunately nobody heard
Presumably though as it is a feasability study they will source a consultancy group to execute it. I'm sure Gartner and their ilk will quite happily pocket 450K for a study of this nature and produce a nicely formatted 10 page document at its conclusion.
Even if they do perform the study in house its still a reasonable upfront investment for a feasability study.
Presumably though as it is a feasability study they will source a consultancy group to execute it. I'm sure Gartner and their ilk will quite happily pocket 450K for a study of this nature and produce a nicely formatted 10 page document at its conclusion.
Even if they do execute in house its still a reasonable upfront investment for a feasability study.
Can any sound engineer types out there give a brief overview of the sound quality differentials between this standard of speaker with a good sound card and the sort of kit you can fork out a shed load of cash for at your local hifi dealer?.
I know judgement of sound quality can be a very subjective thing but I am curious when I can get a PC sound system very reasonably but can (assuming I had the cash) pay thousands of dollars/euro in a store for hifi equipment. Is the price difference reflected in the sound quality ?
For that matter how do I know my hearing is good enough to distinguish the difference ?