Is there a particular reason why it needs to be 16kHz?
Maybe it will help me understand consonants better.
Personally I'm disappointed that this is considered impressive. Since it's limited to pure VOIP calls, it should be as simple as selecting a bitrate when you encode an MP3 or record a show on your PVR.
I am not sure I understand your point. Technology advances, treatment improves, novel risky things become routine, and people live longer. And you don't see advancement?
Personally, I sure hope technology can do something about the high price of medicine in the US. It is really becoming burdensome, and shifting demographics make it even moreso. And I know other countries have it even worse. Between a weaked economy and a diminishing worker base in Japan, I'll bet those Anime about receiving medical and hospice care from robots are only half joking.
In reality, robots won't directly replace humans anytime soon, but a lot could be done. I hear radiology (X-Ray reading) is being outsourced, which I think is great. Perhaps teleoperation will allow surgeons to operate in a more assembly-line fashion, with procedure-specific training replacing years of expensive general medical training. What else could be done? Perhaps I'm not the one to say, since even after receiving treatment I can never fathom what makes it so expensive in the first place.
The Athlon 64 X2 4200+ currently lists for more than the Core 2 Duo E6600, and that's just not gonna cut it. Fortunately, AMD has confirmed to us that a major price move is coming in July. We don't have the specifics just yet, but they say they intend to maintain a competitive price-performance ratio. That may mean we'll see the dramatic price cuts rumored to be coming, which would be a good start.
I think of things like this when somebody says, "never wait to buy. Things will always get cheaper and better, so there's no point waiting." The fact is, the rate of improvement and price cuts is not constant. Today would be a very bad day to buy AMD, until these price cuts take effect.
Who would pay, anyways? Paying a few bucks for lyrics still won't give you the right to do anything, such as perform the music in public. I think most of the lyrics use is very casual - just looking up a song to buy (OK, buy or pirate), or for amateur musicians to learn the song. But these people aren't going to pay any significant amount for lyrics. So where's the payoff?
Whether it 'wins' is one thing, but it does look as if the Wii is going to get Nintendo a lot more attention this time.
It seems like the article - and your comment - are focused exclusively on consoles. If you want a game industry with lower costs, lower risks, and more creativity, why not just look elsewhere within the industry? Even though we own a PS2, my 7 year old spends more time on Flash and Java games, simply because there's an endless stream of new games coming out - and they're certainly not million-dollar titles. Even PC gaming, I think, has a more vibrant "indie" development scene than consoles. Don't get me wrong, consoles have largely taken over gaming and now occupy center stage. And like Hollywood movies, they're likely to remain targets for criticism about "the industry." But if those things really worry you, there are other options.
That is interesting. I transfer linux systems from one computer to another often enough. It's just easier than a fresh install. For that matter, take the extreme example of Knoppix - a linux distro that not only boots, but works pretty darn well almost no matter what system you boot it on. It almost makes the idea of "installation" irrelevant.
Actually, they should do no such thing. Kernel is big and complex enough as it is.
As long as all the code for a given filesystem driver goes into the kernel module specific to that filesystem, I don't see the size/complexity issue. It's the same total amount of code, give or take a few lines, whether it ends up executing inside or outside the kernel. It's not like some new kernel feature that cuts across all aspects of the kernel.
That's because most military technologies would never be developed without government funding. You can't just wait until these things appear on the shelves at WalMart. Sure it's easy to point at SDI as a massive investment with little return, but then on the other hand you have the Manhattan Project and the Internet. Unmanned aerial vehicles also seemed to be a black hole of R&D funding for decades, yet new they're rapidly emerging as a major asset. Directed energy weapons are becoming more feasible, even though they're really not there yet. Yes it's expensive, and perhaps even unjustified, but the net result is that the US military is indeed remarkably adept at killing people and breaking things. (Nation building is another matter.)
No technology can defend against *every* threat, but it should at least defend against *a* credible threat. I do not see any particular point in gunning down an airliner. For the couple hundred people killed, it would be easier to attack busses, trains, and subways - which is probably why those attacks do happen quite frequently. I think the main idea behind 911 was not targeting airliners, but using them as weapons. The laser defense system doesn't help there. I do think laser defense against mortars, artillery and rockets would make sense where those weapons are commonly used though.
I don't think you can turn a rich man into a suicide bomber/pilot. You might get that man to give over his money, but when you get down to it, rich people aren't the footsoldier types. For one, they tend to be grateful for their circumstances. For another, they tend not to want to stand in harm's way. Imagine Al Franken doing a ride-along in Iraq with a US Army convoy. He's a wealthy comedian-turned-politician and he just doesn't want to take that kind of chance with his life.
Why single out Al Frankein? It's not his fault people have to conduct dangerous patrols in Iraq. It has been a very long time since the US had "leaders" who lead by doing what they tell their men to do, George Washington style (or dare I say it, Al-Zarqawi style).
You didn't address the point, though, which is "why do we need virtualization when the OS is already supposed to let applications share hardware?" It's a valid question.
In my case, I use VMWare because I work in a mixed OS environment, and I want to have all my work on a single laptop. It's certainly useful, but of course the hardware requirements are higher, and the performance somewhat lower, than if all my applications were cross-platform. But since that isn't the real world...
I use it for exactly that... I develop under linux, and have XP and Office under VMWare. For that matter, I've developed under cygwin on a Windows guest on a Linux host.
I have also used VMWare for some applications designed to "own" the computer they run on... these apps require certain OS versions, certain user accounts, filesystem structure, etc. etc.
We have also used VMWare to run Windows software on a Linux cluster. I wasn't closely involved, but as I understand it, numerical codes (which are mainly CPU bound and don't make many syscalls) pay little performance penalty for running under VMWare.
In fact, I'm only about 75% happy with VMWare going "free as in beer," since the pricing wasn't really burdensome and now I'm worried about VMWare's future. It would be great if an OSS alternative truly existed, but for the level of functinality and finish of VMWare, I don't think anything else is close.
Hopefully it will be an extension of the current Emergency Broadcast System - you know, the one that makes annoying noises on your TV you get your attention. I've only ever seen that used for occasional tests, and for weather storm warnings. EBS doesn't seem politicized to me. In fact, I think having an established way to notify "everybody" of something is a very reasonable idea. (Though I doubt it will be useful for terrorism, which typically strikes with even less warning than an ICBM.)
Granted, this commentry is about launchers that put payload in low Earth orbits, and the Indian rocket was likely one which put payload in a GTO. The point still is valid.
Is it still valid? It's not just that the payload is extra mass to lift, the payload is worth millions of dollars. Surely that affects the cost/benefit analysis of mass-producing shoddy rockets.
So what? I'd still go, and I think many others would volunteer for a one-way mission as well.
Not me. Frankly there are many more interesting places on Earth I haven'tseen yet (for that matter, India itself). The reason nobody has been to the moon for the last few decades is mainly because there's nothing much up there.
LCDs become fuzzy when set to a non-native resolution.
Not inherently. By my calculation this screen has a dot pitch of 4.5/sqrt(800^2+600^2)*25 = 0.1125. A dot pitch of 0.11 mm is smaller than any CRT I've seen, so this LCD screen should scale a raster display better, not worse, than a CRT.
Sounds good, but who is going to enter all their transactions manually... TWICE!
In the days of cash and checkbooks, I could see it. But in these days of debit cards, credit card, and automated bill payments, a fairly detailed itemized statement is prepared for you automatically. I suppose there is some margial benefit in manually duplicating all those database updates yourself, but I wager the time you spend hunting down your data entry mistakes will more than negate the benefit.
People should be free to consume whatever media they want to, as long as it isn't hurting anybody no one should have the right to tell me what I can and can't see.
AFAIK the PRNs are not really encryption keys. They're merely a technical detail that can be kept secret.
What is a PRNG if not a hash function? You hash each number in the sequence to get the next number. Since you don't want just anybody who knows the hash algorithm to be able to predict your sequence, you generate a longer than necessary number and only reveal part of it, keeping some of the bits secret. If Galileo was cracked, somebody must have figured out the secret bits as well as the function.
Is that security by obscurity? Only in the same way that a password is security by obscurity. Anybody can type in the password... if they know it!
It's not a technology. They can't magically reach into your MythTV box and disable fast-forward. Rather, ABC wants the cable companies not to include a fast-forward function with PVRs they distribute.
I think eBay's being a little to cautious in baning Google pay, but not at all unreasonable. Didn't Google Checkout just open a few days ago? I know it's Google but what if Microsoft/Oracle/Novel/other large company just opened a payment service, would you want to risk thousands of angry customers because there was some massive scaling bug that hadn't surfaced yet.
Nobody ever said ebay must support or endorse the google service. But banning people simple for using it is quite another thing. As a longtime but casual ebay user, I didn't even know ebay claimed authority over payments outside their system until reading this story. I think this has "antitrust" written all over it.
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Personally I'm disappointed that this is considered impressive. Since it's limited to pure VOIP calls, it should be as simple as selecting a bitrate when you encode an MP3 or record a show on your PVR.
Personally, I sure hope technology can do something about the high price of medicine in the US. It is really becoming burdensome, and shifting demographics make it even moreso. And I know other countries have it even worse. Between a weaked economy and a diminishing worker base in Japan, I'll bet those Anime about receiving medical and hospice care from robots are only half joking.
In reality, robots won't directly replace humans anytime soon, but a lot could be done. I hear radiology (X-Ray reading) is being outsourced, which I think is great. Perhaps teleoperation will allow surgeons to operate in a more assembly-line fashion, with procedure-specific training replacing years of expensive general medical training. What else could be done? Perhaps I'm not the one to say, since even after receiving treatment I can never fathom what makes it so expensive in the first place.
Who would pay, anyways? Paying a few bucks for lyrics still won't give you the right to do anything, such as perform the music in public. I think most of the lyrics use is very casual - just looking up a song to buy (OK, buy or pirate), or for amateur musicians to learn the song. But these people aren't going to pay any significant amount for lyrics. So where's the payoff?
That is interesting. I transfer linux systems from one computer to another often enough. It's just easier than a fresh install. For that matter, take the extreme example of Knoppix - a linux distro that not only boots, but works pretty darn well almost no matter what system you boot it on. It almost makes the idea of "installation" irrelevant.
That's because most military technologies would never be developed without government funding. You can't just wait until these things appear on the shelves at WalMart. Sure it's easy to point at SDI as a massive investment with little return, but then on the other hand you have the Manhattan Project and the Internet. Unmanned aerial vehicles also seemed to be a black hole of R&D funding for decades, yet new they're rapidly emerging as a major asset. Directed energy weapons are becoming more feasible, even though they're really not there yet. Yes it's expensive, and perhaps even unjustified, but the net result is that the US military is indeed remarkably adept at killing people and breaking things. (Nation building is another matter.)
No technology can defend against *every* threat, but it should at least defend against *a* credible threat. I do not see any particular point in gunning down an airliner. For the couple hundred people killed, it would be easier to attack busses, trains, and subways - which is probably why those attacks do happen quite frequently. I think the main idea behind 911 was not targeting airliners, but using them as weapons. The laser defense system doesn't help there. I do think laser defense against mortars, artillery and rockets would make sense where those weapons are commonly used though.
In my case, I use VMWare because I work in a mixed OS environment, and I want to have all my work on a single laptop. It's certainly useful, but of course the hardware requirements are higher, and the performance somewhat lower, than if all my applications were cross-platform. But since that isn't the real world...
I have also used VMWare for some applications designed to "own" the computer they run on... these apps require certain OS versions, certain user accounts, filesystem structure, etc. etc.
We have also used VMWare to run Windows software on a Linux cluster. I wasn't closely involved, but as I understand it, numerical codes (which are mainly CPU bound and don't make many syscalls) pay little performance penalty for running under VMWare.
In fact, I'm only about 75% happy with VMWare going "free as in beer," since the pricing wasn't really burdensome and now I'm worried about VMWare's future. It would be great if an OSS alternative truly existed, but for the level of functinality and finish of VMWare, I don't think anything else is close.
You don't think free will arises from neurons and hormones? Hang on, I think we're about to engage in The Standard Philosophical Discussion.
Hopefully it will be an extension of the current Emergency Broadcast System - you know, the one that makes annoying noises on your TV you get your attention. I've only ever seen that used for occasional tests, and for weather storm warnings. EBS doesn't seem politicized to me. In fact, I think having an established way to notify "everybody" of something is a very reasonable idea. (Though I doubt it will be useful for terrorism, which typically strikes with even less warning than an ICBM.)
That is interesting. Honestly, though, how many of you manually enter all your own transactions, even once?
In the days of cash and checkbooks, I could see it. But in these days of debit cards, credit card, and automated bill payments, a fairly detailed itemized statement is prepared for you automatically. I suppose there is some margial benefit in manually duplicating all those database updates yourself, but I wager the time you spend hunting down your data entry mistakes will more than negate the benefit.
Is that security by obscurity? Only in the same way that a password is security by obscurity. Anybody can type in the password... if they know it!
It's not a technology. They can't magically reach into your MythTV box and disable fast-forward. Rather, ABC wants the cable companies not to include a fast-forward function with PVRs they distribute.