A pure text mode display could not show graphics. This device does show graphics. That graphics has to be stored somewhere, and sent from there to the screen.
I take it that the stated RAM doesn't include video memory, right? Because at 320x240, even with only 1 bit per pixel you'd need 9.6KB, and that gives you no color.
I guess taking pictures would be allowed only in areas where other people are expected to be around. It's highly unlikely the kids would 'sext' there, and if they did, it certainly wouldn't go unnoticed.
Look at the amount of change that has occurred over the last 10 years, Baby Boomers can tell you that more has happened in the last 10 years than perhaps the last 30 before it.
Not really. You are just so used to the stuff which happened the 10 years before that you don't think much about them. There was a lot of change in the 10 years before the last 10 years. 1991 the WWW was started. Yes, the whole of the web was developed after that! And a lot of it in the first 10 years. Also, in the 90s, digital mobile phone networks were developed. And I don't know about the U.S., but in Germany it was also the period when mobile phones started to become commonplace. The world was very different in 2001 than in 1991.
Now if you take the 30 years before, things are much more dramatic. In 1971, there were no home computers. In 1971, there was no TCP/IP, and no Internet as we know it. Even Usenet didn't exist back then. SMTP was started 1971. The largest supercomputer of the time was designed to have 1 GFLOPS (but actually only had 200MFLOPS). That's less than a Pentium 4 from 2000. Yes, that's right, a desktop PC from 2000, affordable by normal people, would have beaten the largest supercomputer from 1971. There's no way the change in those 30 years was less than the change in the last 10 years.
Why not make the icons circular vignettes instead of rounded squares?
Because the basic shape of icons has been a rectangle since icons have been invented? Because the basic shape of a bitmap is rectangular by nature? BTW, have you looked at your keyboard? What shape do the keys have? Most probably most are rounded squares, and most of the rest rounded rectangles.
The case was dismissed because, other than having white rectangular windows with black borders, the Apple look and feel was nothing like the Xerox one.
I have driven my Delorean (yes, really) up to around 110 mph before I remembered I was driving on a 25 year old suspension and slowed to more sane speeds.
They did have their problems and they were certainly underpowered, but they're not the crapfest a lot of people believe. I love mine.
Your flux condensator must have been defective. Or in short: Whoosh.
Or hydrelectric power. Or wind power. Or wave power. Or geothermal power. Or biodiesel. Even using wood to drive a steam engine driving a generator would not be using fossil fuel (not that I think is would be a good idea to do so).
even if the power plants were as efficient, the TRANSPORT is where the problem lies. oil or not, the context of this discussion was that carbon based fuel sources are damaging the environment.
Did you also take into account the fuel used to deliver the fuel to the gas stations? It's not as if fuel transport would be free either. A power plant will likely have a pipeline installed, which I guess is a more efficient means of transport. Especially if that pipeline is big.
How Slashdotters approach all scientific articles:
1. Abounding skepticism.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Being extraordinarily skeptical isn't a bad thing, and is part of the scientific method. It IS a good thing.
Extraordinary claims without skepticism isn't science, it is religion.
Which is all well and good as soon as everyone can agree on what is and is not extraordinary.
So the question is whether the claim of something being an extraordinary claim needing extraordinary evidence is an extraordinary claim needing extraordinary evidence?:-)
Simple, the average customer does not read the ToS, nor do they care when they change. This will only change once ToS documents are reduced to 1 page max using 10pt Arial and not full of legalese that the average person doesn't understand.
Maybe there should be a law that terms of service are non-enforceable if they are too long.
If you increase the work time span accordingly (assuming this indeed increases the time span where you can be productive), I think it would work quite well without euthanasia. To get the same duration of retirement, you'd have a longer time to save, and therefore would have to save less per year during your work span. This would result either in more money to spend, or in correspondingly lower wages (or a combination of both), which is good for the economy. Note that increasing the work time span without increasing the unproductive time spans means a larger fraction of people being productive.
No, in most other editors which support HTML, if you simply type &pi or π, you should get the formula of pi.
You would also get the character pi on Slashcode if Slashcode wouldn't filter it away. Slashdot wouldn't have to interpret it. It would just have to pass it on to the browser, which then knows that π, π or π has to be rendered as the character U+03C0 GREEK SMALL LETTER PI. Slashcode doesn't need to interpret it at all (well, for the numeric form it probably wants to minimally interpret it in order to make sure that it's not some control character or some invalid character; that's of course a simple lookup in the Unicode table).
One's not asking them to support Unicode, where they risk plenty of posts in Mandarin or Arabic, but rather, just support the entire HTML character set.
There's no reason not to support Unicode. Blocking posts written in Mandarin or Arabic would be the job of the lameness filter, should it turn out a problem (just demand a minimal percentage of characters in the basic ASCII range). But then, already today you could without problems write entire posts in German, French or even in transcribed Mandarin. It doesn't seem to be a problem.
The funny thing is: Slashdot once did support Unicode. But then, apparently someone misused a control character (RTL marker) to write over Slashdot UI elements, and Slashdot overreacted by not only disabling control characters, but almost all Unicode characters. Indeed, initially you couldn't even write Schrödinger's name correctly because ö was not in the whitelist.
On the above story, assuming that the trillion digits were done on computer, where did he get the RAM to store it?
I didn't RTFA, but he almost certainly didn't store all the digits at once in RAM, but on disk. A trillion digits is about a terabyte, so storing ten million digits isn quite possible today.
However, if he e.g. has used a cluster of 640 machines with 16GB each, it would actually have been possible to hold all the digits in RAM at once (well, probably he would have needed some more machines, because the operating system and the program code also need some memory).
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In English, they are called X rays (which is actually the name Röntgen gave to them).
A pure text mode display could not show graphics. This device does show graphics. That graphics has to be stored somewhere, and sent from there to the screen.
I take it that the stated RAM doesn't include video memory, right? Because at 320x240, even with only 1 bit per pixel you'd need 9.6KB, and that gives you no color.
I guess taking pictures would be allowed only in areas where other people are expected to be around. It's highly unlikely the kids would 'sext' there, and if they did, it certainly wouldn't go unnoticed.
What's next, sound money?
While certainly an interesting concept, the non-durable nature of sound makes it not very suitable to use as money. :-)
Not really. You are just so used to the stuff which happened the 10 years before that you don't think much about them. There was a lot of change in the 10 years before the last 10 years. 1991 the WWW was started. Yes, the whole of the web was developed after that! And a lot of it in the first 10 years. Also, in the 90s, digital mobile phone networks were developed. And I don't know about the U.S., but in Germany it was also the period when mobile phones started to become commonplace. The world was very different in 2001 than in 1991.
Now if you take the 30 years before, things are much more dramatic. In 1971, there were no home computers. In 1971, there was no TCP/IP, and no Internet as we know it. Even Usenet didn't exist back then. SMTP was started 1971. The largest supercomputer of the time was designed to have 1 GFLOPS (but actually only had 200MFLOPS). That's less than a Pentium 4 from 2000. Yes, that's right, a desktop PC from 2000, affordable by normal people, would have beaten the largest supercomputer from 1971. There's no way the change in those 30 years was less than the change in the last 10 years.
So how long until the protein the long allele encodes is produced and sold as happiness drug?
Because the basic shape of icons has been a rectangle since icons have been invented?
Because the basic shape of a bitmap is rectangular by nature?
BTW, have you looked at your keyboard? What shape do the keys have? Most probably most are rounded squares, and most of the rest rounded rectangles.
Xerox obviously forgot to patent the Rectangle.
I have driven my Delorean (yes, really) up to around 110 mph before I remembered I was driving on a 25 year old suspension and slowed to more sane speeds.
They did have their problems and they were certainly underpowered, but they're not the crapfest a lot of people believe. I love mine.
Your flux condensator must have been defective.
Or in short: Whoosh.
Few people will buy it for its safety features I guess.
Now if I knew what a voiced velar fricative is ...
In Soviet Russia, fusion power runs on you.
In Korea, only old people run on fusion power.
Actually, I have a PV kit on top of my garage.
My bad . . . Nuclear or Photo Voltaic.
Or hydrelectric power. Or wind power. Or wave power. Or geothermal power. Or biodiesel. Even using wood to drive a steam engine driving a generator would not be using fossil fuel (not that I think is would be a good idea to do so).
Did you also take into account the fuel used to deliver the fuel to the gas stations? It's not as if fuel transport would be free either.
A power plant will likely have a pipeline installed, which I guess is a more efficient means of transport. Especially if that pipeline is big.
No, the 19th century is 1801 to 1900.
Isn't Perl 6 intended to do that? At least it finally gets rid of changing sigils by context. Which is probably the most confusing "feature" of Perl.
In the future we will all ride flying dragons.
Genetically engineered ones, of course.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. Being extraordinarily skeptical isn't a bad thing, and is part of the scientific method. It IS a good thing.
Extraordinary claims without skepticism isn't science, it is religion.
Which is all well and good as soon as everyone can agree on what is and is not extraordinary.
So the question is whether the claim of something being an extraordinary claim needing extraordinary evidence is an extraordinary claim needing extraordinary evidence? :-)
You mean we will get a free visit to Andromeda?
It's 0200 years ago, actually.
Simple, the average customer does not read the ToS, nor do they care when they change. This will only change once ToS documents are reduced to 1 page max using 10pt Arial and not full of legalese that the average person doesn't understand.
Maybe there should be a law that terms of service are non-enforceable if they are too long.
People getting older also means people having more time to consume.
If you increase the work time span accordingly (assuming this indeed increases the time span where you can be productive), I think it would work quite well without euthanasia. To get the same duration of retirement, you'd have a longer time to save, and therefore would have to save less per year during your work span. This would result either in more money to spend, or in correspondingly lower wages (or a combination of both), which is good for the economy. Note that increasing the work time span without increasing the unproductive time spans means a larger fraction of people being productive.
You would also get the character pi on Slashcode if Slashcode wouldn't filter it away. Slashdot wouldn't have to interpret it. It would just have to pass it on to the browser, which then knows that π, π or π has to be rendered as the character U+03C0 GREEK SMALL LETTER PI. Slashcode doesn't need to interpret it at all (well, for the numeric form it probably wants to minimally interpret it in order to make sure that it's not some control character or some invalid character; that's of course a simple lookup in the Unicode table).
There's no reason not to support Unicode. Blocking posts written in Mandarin or Arabic would be the job of the lameness filter, should it turn out a problem (just demand a minimal percentage of characters in the basic ASCII range). But then, already today you could without problems write entire posts in German, French or even in transcribed Mandarin. It doesn't seem to be a problem.
The funny thing is: Slashdot once did support Unicode. But then, apparently someone misused a control character (RTL marker) to write over Slashdot UI elements, and Slashdot overreacted by not only disabling control characters, but almost all Unicode characters. Indeed, initially you couldn't even write Schrödinger's name correctly because ö was not in the whitelist.
I didn't RTFA, but he almost certainly didn't store all the digits at once in RAM, but on disk. A trillion digits is about a terabyte, so storing ten million digits isn quite possible today.
However, if he e.g. has used a cluster of 640 machines with 16GB each, it would actually have been possible to hold all the digits in RAM at once (well, probably he would have needed some more machines, because the operating system and the program code also need some memory).