Higher density does translate to higher transfer rate, since you read more with each revolution. I fired up an old 8.5 GB 7200 rpm drive the other day and was surprised it only pushes 10 MB/s. That would be pathetic nowadays. My laptop drive, which is also 7200 rpm, gives 50 MB/s on the same benchmark.
Granted, access times probably haven't declined like transfer rates.
No, I wasn't saying that Israel should just let Hezbollah fire rockets into Israel until parity is reached. I'm saying that Israel's response was disproportionate to the threat actually posed by Hezbollah. And beyond that, Israel intentionally killed to many innocent people. They targeted Lebanon's civilian infrastructure - power plants, bridges, everything. Israel's strategy seems to be to punish all the people of Lebanon hoping they'll be so frightened and miserable they'll oust the Hezbollah members from among them. I don't think it will work, and regardless I don't think it's acceptable.
Israel, for example, is surrounded by groups that would cheerfully slaughter everyone down to the last new-born baby.
Supposedly. But if you look at the facts of who has actually killed more of whose babies, the facts put a decidedly different "spin" on the story. After this past month, Lebanon would have to fire unguided rockets into Israel for the next several years (with no Israeli response) just to reach "eye for an eye" status with Israel.
My thinking about this has really changed over the past few years. I've realized that virtually every nation in every war will claim "we're just defending ourselves." That is simply a given. So what you have to look at the facts instead of the rhetoric: who escalated the conflict with larger-scale attacks and invasions? Who killed more people? I am not saying the West is always the aggressor, only that we are much less justified (or "defensive") than I once believed.
I feel very, very bad for the poor folks answering the help line in 3-4 years when there are hundreds of small companies without someone who knows what they are doing.
What, you mean I can't just hire somebody with no clue how to do their job, and rely on the HP helpdesk to give them a free education?
This is good to hear, but as always implementation is everything.
I disagree, in this case it's the declaration of support that matters. Am I ever going to actually call HP for debian support? No, I'll search the web like usual. But when spec'ing out the system, it could help to say my OS of choice is "supported" by HP. And this is a very good indication that all the hardware will work, even on other distros.
Say what? The images that are rendered onto the tiny screen of a camera are sized down with aliasing algorithms.
Not necessarily. My Canon S80 has a manual zoom function. In that mode, the center of the screen is a 1:1 blowup of the CCD image so you can focus better.
Either way, I'm sure someone will come up with an algorithm that detects blurred images automatically. It may not be 100 percent proof, but that's still a lot better.
I've heard that's how many autofocus systems work these days. They used to use rangefinding devices, now they just change the focus until sharpness (entropy) is maximized. Of course all autofocus systems get it worng sometimes.
Enjoy the fun of 8 times your usual battery usage!
I don't see why you say that. The area of the screen isn't bigger, and that's what determines the size of the necessary backlight, and the backlight is what uses most of the juice.
That said, whoever can come up with a good color reflective LCD screen deserves to be a billionare. I'd like a laptop screen I can see in the sunlight.
I disagree - the "duo" (dual core) version of core 1 was the first major step in laptop CPU performance in a long, long time.
I also disagree with those who say, "now is always the time to buy, because there will always be something better coming along." I disagree because progress (and price drops) are not uniform over time. Look what happened when Core 2 hit the desktop.
I agree, this sort of system software IS going to break with each security rev of Windows. It only stands to reason that breaking viruses, which is what MS wants to do, is likely to break anti-virus software as well.
I'm not so sure that Cyc and google are really competitors - I think they're complimentary. Cyc's real (or potential) value is that it contains information so obvious nobody would bother to write it down, like that a person can travel using a car, or that being inside a refrigerator makes things cold, in other words "common sense." Whether it's ultimately more productive to spend 20 years encoding common sense, or devise algorithms and sensors to acquire common sense by experimenting in the environment and inferring from other information sources, is still an open question. Human babies seem to be a mixture of both, for instance they know instinctively (i.e. are "pre-programmed") with a fear of heights, on the other hand they learn that people can sit in chairs by inferring from observations, on the other hand we put kids through 15 years of school spoonfeeding them with facts.
Did they need to detain someone for 90 days without trial to prevent this disaster?
Would ID cards have helped?
My guess is if they can tie controversial police actions to this successful bust in any way, they will do it. Some official will testify that "the provisions of the [patriot act, whatever you call yours] were essential in foiling this terrorist plot" likely without any specifics as to the connection.
Well, it has programmable shaders. Anybody care to guess what the roughly equivalent card to this new 965 express would be? I'd like it if I didn't need an add-in card to do some gaming on my PVR box, and my TV is only NTSC so fillrate isn't a huge deal.
Reliability is exactly what I'm interested in. I use a cluser which is plagued by node failures due to the small, cheap PSUs it contains. I have to wonder, what is the point of having 100 PSUs in the cluster? Couldn't we just have one big PSU (plus a failover) for each rack, with a couple of 12v leads for each node? Does anybody sell such a thing for a reasonable price?
Couldn't any kind of virus or malicious "software" be manufactured in to many different hardware.
I think the real trick here is in *covertly* transmitting the captured information. A virus that simply establishes a TCP connection to some server in russia WILL be detected; this thing may not. Of course, to do this packet timing analysis you have to "own" a router that's carrying the encrypted information, which is somewhat limiting.
I understand your concerns, but sorry, I don't see "the public" investing a $4.5B network and have a shot at making it effective, not in the US.
The Interstate Freeway system is effective. In fact I'm pretty darn grateful for it, and glad that it's not privately owned. And I have my choice among thousands of private companies to carry me or my stuff down the road.
Dell and everyone else is welcome to their over-configured machines, but (and related to today's previous slashdot article) PCs are becoming overconfigured underused status symbols and far less utilitarian. Dell's vision of PCs importance in the future is distorted by the company he must continue to make profitable.
I would not assume that Dell's plan for continued profitability is for everybody to buy high-end, high-margin machines. Quite the opposite. Dell is really not a starry-eyed futurist, either. The company never came to prominance until the late 90s when the traditional $2500-$3000 average PC price started to plunge. Dell is all about efficiency and low overhead. I'm guessing Dell sees its future in selling millions (billions?) of cheap PCs to developing markets around the world.
Maybe it was just your parents' choice. I have 4 kids and I would NEVER give them all their own TVs (or computers) in their own room, nor do I and my wife have one in our own room either. It's not that I'm an anti-TV Nazi, either, we watch TV as a family quite often. But everybody off separate in their own room with doors shut all the time sounds too alienating to me.
Applying this system to business (especially pharmaceuticals) is a horrible idea.
Uh, that's what the stock market is. I'm not saying it's accurate, but it is how resources (money) are allocated in our global economy. "Betting on futures" for a movie? It's just a little more direct than buying stock in Sony.
I may be wrong, but I was under the impression that Reuters is more like a big bucket of "news items" that any member can add to or use. In particular, I don't see Reuters as a news "outlet," in the sense of publishing information directly to the public. This is certainly an embarrasment to Reuters, however I did any news outlet actually run this laughably bad fake?
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Granted, access times probably haven't declined like transfer rates.
No, I wasn't saying that Israel should just let Hezbollah fire rockets into Israel until parity is reached. I'm saying that Israel's response was disproportionate to the threat actually posed by Hezbollah. And beyond that, Israel intentionally killed to many innocent people. They targeted Lebanon's civilian infrastructure - power plants, bridges, everything. Israel's strategy seems to be to punish all the people of Lebanon hoping they'll be so frightened and miserable they'll oust the Hezbollah members from among them. I don't think it will work, and regardless I don't think it's acceptable.
My thinking about this has really changed over the past few years. I've realized that virtually every nation in every war will claim "we're just defending ourselves." That is simply a given. So what you have to look at the facts instead of the rhetoric: who escalated the conflict with larger-scale attacks and invasions? Who killed more people? I am not saying the West is always the aggressor, only that we are much less justified (or "defensive") than I once believed.
Ooops, I think I just proved your point.
That said, whoever can come up with a good color reflective LCD screen deserves to be a billionare. I'd like a laptop screen I can see in the sunlight.
I also disagree with those who say, "now is always the time to buy, because there will always be something better coming along." I disagree because progress (and price drops) are not uniform over time. Look what happened when Core 2 hit the desktop.
I agree, this sort of system software IS going to break with each security rev of Windows. It only stands to reason that breaking viruses, which is what MS wants to do, is likely to break anti-virus software as well.
I'm not so sure that Cyc and google are really competitors - I think they're complimentary. Cyc's real (or potential) value is that it contains information so obvious nobody would bother to write it down, like that a person can travel using a car, or that being inside a refrigerator makes things cold, in other words "common sense." Whether it's ultimately more productive to spend 20 years encoding common sense, or devise algorithms and sensors to acquire common sense by experimenting in the environment and inferring from other information sources, is still an open question. Human babies seem to be a mixture of both, for instance they know instinctively (i.e. are "pre-programmed") with a fear of heights, on the other hand they learn that people can sit in chairs by inferring from observations, on the other hand we put kids through 15 years of school spoonfeeding them with facts.
Well, it has programmable shaders. Anybody care to guess what the roughly equivalent card to this new 965 express would be? I'd like it if I didn't need an add-in card to do some gaming on my PVR box, and my TV is only NTSC so fillrate isn't a huge deal.
Reliability is exactly what I'm interested in. I use a cluser which is plagued by node failures due to the small, cheap PSUs it contains. I have to wonder, what is the point of having 100 PSUs in the cluster? Couldn't we just have one big PSU (plus a failover) for each rack, with a couple of 12v leads for each node? Does anybody sell such a thing for a reasonable price?
Probably costs 10x less than a single stinger though, too.
Maybe it was just your parents' choice. I have 4 kids and I would NEVER give them all their own TVs (or computers) in their own room, nor do I and my wife have one in our own room either. It's not that I'm an anti-TV Nazi, either, we watch TV as a family quite often. But everybody off separate in their own room with doors shut all the time sounds too alienating to me.
Wouldn't this technology make your ISP a seeder? Now that would be fast.
I may be wrong, but I was under the impression that Reuters is more like a big bucket of "news items" that any member can add to or use. In particular, I don't see Reuters as a news "outlet," in the sense of publishing information directly to the public. This is certainly an embarrasment to Reuters, however I did any news outlet actually run this laughably bad fake?