When you converted 80,000 kg and 23,000 kg to pounds, it was swell of you to convert 1-2 significant digits to 5. I for one enjoy the round-off noise in the last 3 decimal places - it has premium aesthetic value. I bet those dinos probably thought the same way; losing weight must have been less depressing in terms of losing 2 pounds rather than 0.001%. On second thought, I barely know my own weight to 3 digits...
On the other hand, the president supports modest increases for NIST, NOAA, and DoE research (http://tinyurl.com/7jeeqyb). Remember that NASA isn't the only science in town, and transferring money from Mars science into telescope science is hardly "anti-science."
Did you mean "ends up being revenue?" Since the banks were taking losses from mortgage defaults, many did not turn profits until the tail end of that period.
Plus when you get to solid things, just about anything solid (buildings, trees, you name it) will absorb or reflect too. So even if you find somewhere dry, it won't leave the room. That stuff is hard enough at 60 GHz, why make it even harder above 300 GHz?
Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves. A mixer is an analog circuit, and silicon carbide is an expensive substrate to work with (very high processing temperatures), so it is typically only worthwhile for high-power analog devices. There is no discussion about anything digital in this article, so this is not related to programming languages or computers. Many analog devices have been made beyond 100 GHz on plain old silicon too; graphene on SiC may be important by enabling greater power density at high frequencies.
As a microwave engineer, I'm excited about this, but this needs to happen on an inexpensive IC process for very small devices to be useful for digital circuits.
That's a big "if." They're talking about ft of the transistor used in saturation/active mode; for most devices ft is much higher than the maximum switching speed.
Before you get yourselves worked up, realize there is no mention in this article or the original article in "Science" for applying this for computing.
There's somewhat of a misstatement in the technology review article - if you look at the actual article in Science (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/327/5966/662), the 100GHz figure is the unity (or cutoff) gain frequency (e.g., how high of a frequency you can build an amplifier) and not switching. There is no mention of switching in the paper by the IBM scientists, and that is the application relevant to computing. Even TFA's expert is talking about using this in analog communication frontends, folks. Sorry.
The *TRAILER* looked good, so you're going to ignore the opinion of someone who's actually seen it in hopes that a piece of marketing will be a better reflection of what it is? What?
"Yeah, the marketing was good, so it gets my $8-$10 for a ticket." On a site that focuses on technical detail, that should ring alarm bells. Who would respect an engineer who went and bought equipment based entirely on marketing hype without reading the specs? That sort of attitude encourages engineering companies to sell shitty products. Why would the same approach bring about a different result applied to the entertainment industry?
Grumble..
I think you missed the part about still being able to change the other options, through "advanced methods." (I assume DreadSpoon was referring to gconf-editor and so forth)
Dan
I could use one of these on the bus ride to school.... toss a few around the bus and suddenly you don't have to hear about when everyone's dentist appointments are going to be.
The new file dialog
Yeah, we're all bitter about that. (I'm not sure it's fair to give Havoc credit for this, since I'm fairly certain gtk+ is a completely separate project...)
The Galeon web browser
Obviously you haven't tried this before trolling on it. It supports tabs, popup-blocking, and the other most important features from mozilla. I continue to prefer Galeon, but one of ephiphany's biggest goals (which accomplishes does well) is GNOME integration, which was presumably what made it so attractive to the GNOME developers.
We will make file extraction harder...
I must've missed the part of the File Roller install where it deleted/bin/tar...
We will STILL not be including a media player
Seems pretty obvious here
that there is one. (I'm going to ignore the rest of this one because it's unsubstantiated trolling.)
blah blah blah GIMP blah blah blah
I suppose you have a better image editor in KDE? (besides, you're giving Havoc undue credit again; the GIMP is a completely independent project, never part of GNOME in the first place). And you should know better than to whine about bugs in development versions of apps... if you don't like the shape 1.3's in, go back to the stable one and let them fix it!
blah blah gnome-terminal blah blah emacs blah blah czech blah blah obscure keybindings
Well, the keybindings are exactly the same in gnome-terminal as in any other... it's your own fault for using emacs.
etc.
I'm not going to give that much trolling so much thought...
Seriously, if you don't like GNOME, then that's perfectly OK, since it's not for everyone. But coming here and spouting unsubstantiated trolling is just counterproductive and does nothing to help anyone.
As far as this article being moderated Funny, well... I stopped laughing at the trolling on/. a long time ago, encouraging this sort of thing is going a long way towards making the discussions completely unreadable.
...and I'd like to take time to point out how wonderful it is that Gentoo has unified almost all the trolling on/. into the battle of the Gentooists vs. NonGentooists, without discrimination on the basis of topic or facts.:)
If one bothers to read the entire article, it states that videoconferencing can save the people the expense of going to other towns to see a doctor.
So... an internet bill is ever so much cheaper than a ride on the most popular mode of transportation?
Speaking of "affording water"... it is often misquoted/misunderstood phenomenon. There is plenty of water available. The issue is about storage/harnessing the ground/surface water in a cost-effective manner.
Obviously... anyone can go out and drink from a random pool of muddy mosquito-ridden water lying around somewhere, you don't have to pay for that.
On the other hand, people that never would have had a chance at a decent living in less developed countries get a chance at the very same dream you aspire to; opportunities to go after that goal are harder to come by in those countries.
The more the multinational corporations spread themselves over countries, the more those countries will have a chance of developing a middle class; sure, first-world middle classes will suffer, but it only seems fair considering many of our products come from sweatshops in these very same countries so we can have lower prices.
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When you converted 80,000 kg and 23,000 kg to pounds, it was swell of you to convert 1-2 significant digits to 5. I for one enjoy the round-off noise in the last 3 decimal places - it has premium aesthetic value. I bet those dinos probably thought the same way; losing weight must have been less depressing in terms of losing 2 pounds rather than 0.001%. On second thought, I barely know my own weight to 3 digits...
On the other hand, the president supports modest increases for NIST, NOAA, and DoE research (http://tinyurl.com/7jeeqyb). Remember that NASA isn't the only science in town, and transferring money from Mars science into telescope science is hardly "anti-science."
Did you mean "ends up being revenue?" Since the banks were taking losses from mortgage defaults, many did not turn profits until the tail end of that period.
That's RFID tags and RFID-enabled sensors, not readers.
Plus when you get to solid things, just about anything solid (buildings, trees, you name it) will absorb or reflect too. So even if you find somewhere dry, it won't leave the room. That stuff is hard enough at 60 GHz, why make it even harder above 300 GHz?
...except for the entire 3rd page. http://arstechnica.com/apple/guides/2011/08/does-this-metric-make-my-company-look-big.ars/3
Well, let's not get ahead of ourselves. A mixer is an analog circuit, and silicon carbide is an expensive substrate to work with (very high processing temperatures), so it is typically only worthwhile for high-power analog devices. There is no discussion about anything digital in this article, so this is not related to programming languages or computers. Many analog devices have been made beyond 100 GHz on plain old silicon too; graphene on SiC may be important by enabling greater power density at high frequencies. As a microwave engineer, I'm excited about this, but this needs to happen on an inexpensive IC process for very small devices to be useful for digital circuits.
Or even 1e-24 if you wanna get super technical ;)
That's a big "if." They're talking about ft of the transistor used in saturation/active mode; for most devices ft is much higher than the maximum switching speed.
Before you get yourselves worked up, realize there is no mention in this article or the original article in "Science" for applying this for computing. There's somewhat of a misstatement in the technology review article - if you look at the actual article in Science (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/327/5966/662), the 100GHz figure is the unity (or cutoff) gain frequency (e.g., how high of a frequency you can build an amplifier) and not switching. There is no mention of switching in the paper by the IBM scientists, and that is the application relevant to computing. Even TFA's expert is talking about using this in analog communication frontends, folks. Sorry.
I knew Gene Ray would have to weigh in here sooner or later
The *TRAILER* looked good, so you're going to ignore the opinion of someone who's actually seen it in hopes that a piece of marketing will be a better reflection of what it is? What? "Yeah, the marketing was good, so it gets my $8-$10 for a ticket." On a site that focuses on technical detail, that should ring alarm bells. Who would respect an engineer who went and bought equipment based entirely on marketing hype without reading the specs? That sort of attitude encourages engineering companies to sell shitty products. Why would the same approach bring about a different result applied to the entertainment industry? Grumble..
But.... that's a problem with binary RPMs being built against every library and its mother, not a problem with using libraries.
I think you missed the part about still being able to change the other options, through "advanced methods." (I assume DreadSpoon was referring to gconf-editor and so forth) Dan
I could use one of these on the bus ride to school.... toss a few around the bus and suddenly you don't have to hear about when everyone's dentist appointments are going to be.
The new file dialog
/bin/tar...
/. a long time ago, encouraging this sort of thing is going a long way towards making the discussions completely unreadable.
Yeah, we're all bitter about that. (I'm not sure it's fair to give Havoc credit for this, since I'm fairly certain gtk+ is a completely separate project...)
The Galeon web browser
Obviously you haven't tried this before trolling on it. It supports tabs, popup-blocking, and the other most important features from mozilla. I continue to prefer Galeon, but one of ephiphany's biggest goals (which accomplishes does well) is GNOME integration, which was presumably what made it so attractive to the GNOME developers.
We will make file extraction harder...
I must've missed the part of the File Roller install where it deleted
We will STILL not be including a media player
Seems pretty obvious here that there is one. (I'm going to ignore the rest of this one because it's unsubstantiated trolling.)
blah blah blah GIMP blah blah blah
I suppose you have a better image editor in KDE? (besides, you're giving Havoc undue credit again; the GIMP is a completely independent project, never part of GNOME in the first place). And you should know better than to whine about bugs in development versions of apps... if you don't like the shape 1.3's in, go back to the stable one and let them fix it!
blah blah gnome-terminal blah blah emacs blah blah czech blah blah obscure keybindings
Well, the keybindings are exactly the same in gnome-terminal as in any other... it's your own fault for using emacs.
etc.
I'm not going to give that much trolling so much thought...
Seriously, if you don't like GNOME, then that's perfectly OK, since it's not for everyone. But coming here and spouting unsubstantiated trolling is just counterproductive and does nothing to help anyone.
As far as this article being moderated Funny, well... I stopped laughing at the trolling on
...and I'd like to take time to point out how wonderful it is that Gentoo has unified almost all the trolling on /. into the battle of the Gentooists vs. NonGentooists, without discrimination on the basis of topic or facts. :)
If one bothers to read the entire article, it states that videoconferencing can save the people the expense of going to other towns to see a doctor. So... an internet bill is ever so much cheaper than a ride on the most popular mode of transportation? Speaking of "affording water"... it is often misquoted/misunderstood phenomenon. There is plenty of water available. The issue is about storage/harnessing the ground/surface water in a cost-effective manner. Obviously... anyone can go out and drink from a random pool of muddy mosquito-ridden water lying around somewhere, you don't have to pay for that.
Dude, if a community can't afford water, how is it going to afford e-anything?
So it's just like it was during the original series, then?...
...and Windows barely crashes at all when I select "linux-2.6.0-test1" at the boot prompt :)
If you were a security software company, would you really want to advertise that you were at all responsible for the security behind any M$ product?
Preserve and restore nature's precious electrons!
right, Americans are just entitled to being well-off... cuz we gave the world... uh... Britney Spears....
On the other hand, people that never would have had a chance at a decent living in less developed countries get a chance at the very same dream you aspire to; opportunities to go after that goal are harder to come by in those countries. The more the multinational corporations spread themselves over countries, the more those countries will have a chance of developing a middle class; sure, first-world middle classes will suffer, but it only seems fair considering many of our products come from sweatshops in these very same countries so we can have lower prices.