Yes, it is *their* network whether or not you pay for a portion of it.
If you pay a doctor for the use of their CAT scanner, do you suddenly get to "own" a piece of it and can come in afterhours to use the equipment to do cat scans of your dog?
You pay for stuff that you don't use freely all the time. Why should this be any different?
I guess superfetch is the Vista version of the "System Idle Process" where for years, people go oh noes!! "System Idle Process" is eating up all my cpu!! Except now it's Superfetch eating up all the RAM. I love how the more things change, the more things stay the same.
Lead toxicity is NOT overrated. You try having deformed babies with your wife.
Have you seen those electronic dumpsites in China? Thats where the electronic wastes go after you chuck em in the garbage. One piece of equipment on its own is fairly insignificant in terms of toxicity, but in the amounts that the western world throws out, the concentration of heavy / toxic metals is alarming high.
Statements like that are ignorant and calloused. How can you say that? Are you even human?
MacOS X is NOT licensed GPL. It has nothing to do at all to do with GPL and "getting around" anything. In fact, there is an APL that is derived from the BSD license.
I don't think space travel is beyond the capacity of private enterprise... In fact, private enterprise stands to benefit more, make more money, and produce more benefits from space travel than the public sector.
Face it, it only reason "space exploration" is government territory is that the USA wants to turn space into the future battleground. It's more for military reasons than for any of those you listed.
Now that the conjecture is proved, do they change the name to "theory"? Or does the name stay put because that's what everyone knows and refers to it as?
Publicly traded may not mean that the majority of shares are out there... in fact, I think for Nintendo, only a small portion of shares are "publicly traded". So in this case, no matter what the shareholders do, they can't argue against the 51% stock stake that Yamauchi (spelling!) holds in his bank vault.
No, Laptops are the perfect way to teach computer art. Actually teach students that yes!!! the monitor displays things different from real life!!!
That's probably the most important lessons ANY computer graphics artist needs to learn, especially in school. That "computer art" looks different depending on which monitor, what kind of monitor, whether you print it, or not,
You can teach that The medium is the message. Some art depends exactly on the fact that LCD's don't display the full gamut of colours.
Have you thought of that? LCD's, just like Monitors, are tools. There is no "you can't use this to teach art" EVER. You can teach art with a Car and a pickaxe if you wanted to.
So what if the quality is lost? Are you one of those people who refuse to let go of their 50 year old, heavily scratched up LP's because you fear quality will be "lost" once you start buying CD's? Lossy compressed Music of future years is likely to be higher quality than real CD's of current year. In 50 years, will you be whining about how your AAC -> MP3 conversion caused you to looks quality when there are holographic sound being sold?
Get with the times. Nothing is supposed to last forever in this world, even your precious mp3 music.
I would assume that the Bill Gates' personal net worth and the fund for the Foundation are kept separate. So it's not that Gates puts more than 1/2 of his net worth into the foundation, it that the Foundation AND his net worth combine to about 76 Billion US. If he is the sole contributor, he's put about 38% of his lifetime-earned Net Worth (ie 38% of 76 Billion = 29 Billion (the size of the foundation))
It's still a sizable amount, but nowhere near 1/2.
F = M * A will only apply in certain cases. Of course, that's why there's einsten's relativity, to explain the other cases when it doesn't apply. And those formulas are tons more complicated, not something I would call "a simple equation".
Biology has similar features. If you look on the grand scale, there is no "Grand Unified Theory" yet (just like physics, if you look far enough, scientists can't explain natural phenomena in its entirety). However, there are genetics equations, Chi square calculations, evolutionary graphs and probability calculations.
Yes, I agree with your points about ID, but I wouldn't say that "scientific laws can be reduced to a set of simple equations."
you still gotta respect nature though. No matter how great america is, there is always a way for nature to destroy that "human greatness". It's time to take the blinders off our eyes. The Romans had their pompei. America will also have its disasters. It's just the natural order of things.
However, we should be humble enough to say, here are the things that we can, and should do. Recovery efforts are on their way, but I don't think it's fair to say, since America is so great, this will not happen. If the same thing occurs in other countries, third world or first alike, I doubt that things won't be as turbulent. I look upon this distinction between "great america" and "lowly third-worlders" with distaste. We are all human, and people are suffering.
from an article i read way back (96 i think), the undersea cables have power cables bundled in together with the fibre.
Basically, a layer of copper conductors wrapped around fibre. This way, the underseas cables are powered by the stations on dry land on either side. If they can do this in 1996 on undersea cables, i think modern fibre cables linking cities ought to have some similar way of powering. As long as there are no breaks in the fibre, and as long as the new orleans side has power, the link will be powered.
I can answer a few of those questions. I've been using freebsd in a production webserver / mysql server environment since 4.9
1) Use 5.4. The 5.x tree is stable now, to use anything older than 5.3 is to invite yourself to mysterious flakeness, as other posters have said, earlier releases of 5.x such as 5.1 and 5.2 are not really rock solid. But 5.4 is pure gold.
2) The defaults are not too conservative, because the system self tunes itself according to the usage of the machine. Beware of tuning the system yourself through the sysctl's. The same with Linux, you wouldn't want to tweak the system until you are comfortable with it enough to know what to tweak.
6) There is a binary upgrade tool for patching security errors, but as people mentioned before, the "cvsup", then "buildworld" process makes sliced butter of this aspect of upgrading to patch security errors. Basically, the source to every single binary in the base system is included in the release, and updated together, so you can rebuild your entire system with all the security fixes included whenever you want.
Hmm, even linus himself have identified certain gcc versions as "good" for the kernel, and several gcc revisions to be really bad for kernel compiles. I wonder how you've made it through 9 years without running into gcc incompatabilities with the linux kernel.
I don't think the issue is about locking out unprotected content. From numerous posters, the ipod does play unprotected mp3's
The Real Networks issue is about Real attaching their own version of DRM that was hacked from protected AAC's. The entire discussion is about purchasing protected AAC's from Real instead of Apple.
I wonder where you got your rant from...
would an aerial blast trigger a seismic event? I was just thinking that they might use planes to drop the nuke at high altitude, and have the reaction take place in the air, just as a demonstration / proof on concept test...
This actually makes sense, as I don't really think the economy right now (north american at least) can bear the cost of supporting so many gadgets.
The market pays what it can bear... for most mass consumers, they can pay for their phone bills, and not much more. Many of those gadgets are products looking for a market that doesn't exist. Ie advanced colour pda's... etc... aside from execs earning large bonuses, who is going to spend $600 + on such things?
Once I took the cpu out of a running pentium box, and the connectors sparked. There was this huge arc of electric discharge from the socket to the cpu pins. The arc traversed over 10 cm before it vanished. I powered down, thinking shit!... turned it back on, and it still works...
it's now my router, but i don't really trust it. Some of the circuitry must have been fried.
Maybe Ken Brown and Darl McBride are the same person... masqueraded by a company that specialises in smear campaignes.
think about it, the next step is to have Rut, the illegitamate son that Linus fathered when he was 18 (those north europeans... always have kids early...) speak up and say that Linus was running after hockey sticks, soiled t-shirts, and doggy poop when he was "supposed to have written the linux kernel"... that would be a good next step
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I felt that Shrek 2 wasn't as good as the 1st one, in script, and in style. Never mind about animation, that's not very important.
Many things in Shrek 2 have the potential to be great, but the ideas weren't fully realised. I loved how the environment in the original shrek brought the world of story books and fantasy stories alive. In Shrek 2, the only thing that captured my imagination was the fairy god mom's factory. Everything else is not as detailed / well developed as I would like.
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Yes, it is *their* network whether or not you pay for a portion of it.
If you pay a doctor for the use of their CAT scanner, do you suddenly get to "own" a piece of it and can come in afterhours to use the equipment to do cat scans of your dog?
You pay for stuff that you don't use freely all the time. Why should this be any different?
I guess superfetch is the Vista version of the "System Idle Process" where for years, people go oh noes!! "System Idle Process" is eating up all my cpu!! Except now it's Superfetch eating up all the RAM. I love how the more things change, the more things stay the same.
I think the regulations won't prevent the listing & sale of informational PDF's, as long as the seller actually wrote the information within the PDF.
So no luck.
Lead toxicity is NOT overrated. You try having deformed babies with your wife.
Have you seen those electronic dumpsites in China? Thats where the electronic wastes go after you chuck em in the garbage. One piece of equipment on its own is fairly insignificant in terms of toxicity, but in the amounts that the western world throws out, the concentration of heavy / toxic metals is alarming high.
Statements like that are ignorant and calloused. How can you say that? Are you even human?
The PS3 also has a GPU of comparable power to the Xbox360, neither of which runs at 4ghz. Only the cores for the xb360 runs at that speed.
For some reason, most people pit "GPU+3 Core Cpu" up against the Cell alone, when the Cell is also paired up with a GPU too!
MacOS X is NOT licensed GPL. It has nothing to do at all to do with GPL and "getting around" anything. In fact, there is an APL that is derived from the BSD license.
I don't think space travel is beyond the capacity of private enterprise... In fact, private enterprise stands to benefit more, make more money, and produce more benefits from space travel than the public sector.
Face it, it only reason "space exploration" is government territory is that the USA wants to turn space into the future battleground. It's more for military reasons than for any of those you listed.
Now that the conjecture is proved, do they change the name to "theory"? Or does the name stay put because that's what everyone knows and refers to it as?
Publicly traded may not mean that the majority of shares are out there ... in fact, I think for Nintendo, only a small portion of shares are "publicly traded". So in this case, no matter what the shareholders do, they can't argue against the 51% stock stake that Yamauchi (spelling!) holds in his bank vault.
No, Laptops are the perfect way to teach computer art. Actually teach students that yes!!! the monitor displays things different from real life!!!
That's probably the most important lessons ANY computer graphics artist needs to learn, especially in school. That "computer art" looks different depending on which monitor, what kind of monitor, whether you print it, or not,
You can teach that The medium is the message. Some art depends exactly on the fact that LCD's don't display the full gamut of colours.
Have you thought of that? LCD's, just like Monitors, are tools. There is no "you can't use this to teach art" EVER. You can teach art with a Car and a pickaxe if you wanted to.
So what if the quality is lost? Are you one of those people who refuse to let go of their 50 year old, heavily scratched up LP's because you fear quality will be "lost" once you start buying CD's? Lossy compressed Music of future years is likely to be higher quality than real CD's of current year. In 50 years, will you be whining about how your AAC -> MP3 conversion caused you to looks quality when there are holographic sound being sold?
Get with the times. Nothing is supposed to last forever in this world, even your precious mp3 music.
I would assume that the Bill Gates' personal net worth and the fund for the Foundation are kept separate. So it's not that Gates puts more than 1/2 of his net worth into the foundation, it that the Foundation AND his net worth combine to about 76 Billion US. If he is the sole contributor, he's put about 38% of his lifetime-earned Net Worth (ie 38% of 76 Billion = 29 Billion (the size of the foundation))
It's still a sizable amount, but nowhere near 1/2.
F = M * A will only apply in certain cases. Of course, that's why there's einsten's relativity, to explain the other cases when it doesn't apply. And those formulas are tons more complicated, not something I would call "a simple equation".
Biology has similar features. If you look on the grand scale, there is no "Grand Unified Theory" yet (just like physics, if you look far enough, scientists can't explain natural phenomena in its entirety). However, there are genetics equations, Chi square calculations, evolutionary graphs and probability calculations.
Yes, I agree with your points about ID, but I wouldn't say that "scientific laws can be reduced to a set of simple equations."
you still gotta respect nature though. No matter how great america is, there is always a way for nature to destroy that "human greatness". It's time to take the blinders off our eyes. The Romans had their pompei. America will also have its disasters. It's just the natural order of things.
However, we should be humble enough to say, here are the things that we can, and should do. Recovery efforts are on their way, but I don't think it's fair to say, since America is so great, this will not happen. If the same thing occurs in other countries, third world or first alike, I doubt that things won't be as turbulent. I look upon this distinction between "great america" and "lowly third-worlders" with distaste. We are all human, and people are suffering.
from an article i read way back (96 i think), the undersea cables have power cables bundled in together with the fibre.
Basically, a layer of copper conductors wrapped around fibre. This way, the underseas cables are powered by the stations on dry land on either side. If they can do this in 1996 on undersea cables, i think modern fibre cables linking cities ought to have some similar way of powering. As long as there are no breaks in the fibre, and as long as the new orleans side has power, the link will be powered.
i can't figure out why an "asian" community has anything to do with powerpc chips???
I can answer a few of those questions. I've been using freebsd in a production webserver / mysql server environment since 4.9
1) Use 5.4. The 5.x tree is stable now, to use anything older than 5.3 is to invite yourself to mysterious flakeness, as other posters have said, earlier releases of 5.x such as 5.1 and 5.2 are not really rock solid. But 5.4 is pure gold.
2) The defaults are not too conservative, because the system self tunes itself according to the usage of the machine. Beware of tuning the system yourself through the sysctl's. The same with Linux, you wouldn't want to tweak the system until you are comfortable with it enough to know what to tweak.
6) There is a binary upgrade tool for patching security errors, but as people mentioned before, the "cvsup", then "buildworld" process makes sliced butter of this aspect of upgrading to patch security errors. Basically, the source to every single binary in the base system is included in the release, and updated together, so you can rebuild your entire system with all the security fixes included whenever you want.
Hmm, even linus himself have identified certain gcc versions as "good" for the kernel, and several gcc revisions to be really bad for kernel compiles. I wonder how you've made it through 9 years without running into gcc incompatabilities with the linux kernel.
I don't think the issue is about locking out unprotected content. From numerous posters, the ipod does play unprotected mp3's The Real Networks issue is about Real attaching their own version of DRM that was hacked from protected AAC's. The entire discussion is about purchasing protected AAC's from Real instead of Apple. I wonder where you got your rant from ...
would an aerial blast trigger a seismic event? I was just thinking that they might use planes to drop the nuke at high altitude, and have the reaction take place in the air, just as a demonstration / proof on concept test ...
This actually makes sense, as I don't really think the economy right now (north american at least) can bear the cost of supporting so many gadgets.
... for most mass consumers, they can pay for their phone bills, and not much more. Many of those gadgets are products looking for a market that doesn't exist. Ie advanced colour pda's ... etc ... aside from execs earning large bonuses, who is going to spend $600 + on such things?
The market pays what it can bear
Once I took the cpu out of a running pentium box, and the connectors sparked. There was this huge arc of electric discharge from the socket to the cpu pins. The arc traversed over 10 cm before it vanished. I powered down, thinking shit! ... turned it back on, and it still works ...
it's now my router, but i don't really trust it. Some of the circuitry must have been fried.
Maybe Ken Brown and Darl McBride are the same person ... masqueraded by a company that specialises in smear campaignes.
... always have kids early...) speak up and say that Linus was running after hockey sticks, soiled t-shirts, and doggy poop when he was "supposed to have written the linux kernel" ... that would be a good next step
think about it, the next step is to have Rut, the illegitamate son that Linus fathered when he was 18 (those north europeans
I felt that Shrek 2 wasn't as good as the 1st one, in script, and in style. Never mind about animation, that's not very important.
Many things in Shrek 2 have the potential to be great, but the ideas weren't fully realised. I loved how the environment in the original shrek brought the world of story books and fantasy stories alive. In Shrek 2, the only thing that captured my imagination was the fairy god mom's factory. Everything else is not as detailed / well developed as I would like.
no it was not