Thank God for MS. Without them we'd still be living in caves!
I smell a potential anti-trust issue developing here. The DOJ missed the real important points. MS will abuse their position with developing services and products. Unbundling IE is nothing compared to how MS can screw people with new services.
As some political commentator once said, once the feds declare war on anything the cause is already lost. How is a "war on piracy" going to actually accomplish anything? All it will do is provide an arena for posturing and bribery^h^h^h^hlobbying.
Most medium to large corps are far worse than what you'll see in Dilbert.
I don't know that military orgainisations are that great. I got a military tank driver's license and have never been inside a tank! Many commercial organisations are really worse than this.
Especially with caching and pipelining, MIPS per W gets very difficult to measure. If you can live in the cache you don't need to go fetch from the outside world. If you stall the pipeline, you lose performance. Some operations (eg. DIV) clock a lot of transistors, some (NOP) don't. It was a lot easier to measure MIPS/W when devices were synchronous. Now they're a group of asynchonous entities (core CPU, cache,...).
BTW, EPA mpg are measured without using real mile on real roads.
Writes are in the hundred thousand range. To get these densities/price points, this will be NAND flash.
You would not be wanting to use this space for anything like swap space because NAND write time is so slow (compared with platter). It would probably be good for storing/buffering multimedia files so that you can shut the disk down while you're playing.
Next thing they'll be expecting truth in advertising too.... C'mon folks lying to get a date + sex is as old as the hills.
Nobody ever got prosecuted for wire fraud for embellishing to potential dates over the phone or by any othger means. Using the internet does not really change anything.
No matter how much bandwidth gets installed, it is virtually impossible for all people to get guaranteed throughput. It's a bit like the highway system... you get to drive at 55mph (more if the cops aren't there:-)) but sometimes you get gridlock.
In my case, I consistently get speed measurements **faster** than my plan provides, but I'm with a new and small ISP and I expect things to get worse as more people sign up.
If one plane gets built in Britain/Autralia/whereever and the other gets built in USA/France/whatever lets hope they both go left or right and don't just dodge into eachother.
You might be able to show savings on a spreadsheet, but it is easy to put a spin on anything since it is not just straight costs, but perceived cost/benefit with disregard for hard facts. For example it would be easy in the current xenophobic paranoid USA climate to say "Sure we could save $200 million (or whatever) by switching from MS to Linux, but then we'd be using a Finnish operating system and they're communists! We can't have our Christian Nation being enslaved by dangerous Communist deviants and open code that Al Qaeda can modify if they so wish."
It is also easy for geeks to forget that most people don't even know what software is. Voters are far more interested in other issues like reality TV, tax, terrorism an whether or not the prez is getting blowjobs.
Wireless rollout has been pretty bad in USA and even basic services like cellular phone are not available in many ruralareas. A comparison like this could finally get some attention from the "leadership".
Of course the opposite could also happen: the Administration could equally spin this up that wireless networking == antiChrist == terrorism.
Considering that probaly almost half the thirteen year old Tammies on 13-yo IRC chat channels are really Big-assed-Burt, truck driver from IL, how long before BaB starts making up ficticious blogs that get real Tammies into trouble.
"Not so bad" is OK when you have little control over the product/service/whatever ("army food is not so bad", "the weather is not so bad") or when you have to make some sacrifices to get something you want ("the weather was not so bad, but the view was great").
However, you have to do a lot better than "not so bad" to convince people to buy your product when they have choices. Would you go eat at a place that was described as "not so bad"? Win98 was the last release of windows where most customers could see some real benefit in switching from the previous generation (hey I still have a W98 box here). For most people there is no compelling reason to switch to from W98 to ME and then XP. I expect that for most people the difference between XP and Vista will be even less compelling.
It's a sad reflection on a once-great company that their flagship product that has cost billions to produce is "not so bad".
Of course I have not RTFA because that is cheating.
If you do an spectral anaysis of IR etc reflecting off the earth, you'll get certain signatures for trees, grasslands, sea, coulds cities etc. So if observers see the similar patterns they will assume that the distant planets will have a similar biology, cities,...
Of course these are all just assumptions. The scientists hope to make discoveries which they can publish for fame and glory. Luckily for them, they'll probably be dead long before they can be verified by eyeball technology.
that won't stop the lawyers from trying to harrass him into joining or supporting their case. Not all lawyers rate the same on the scum-bag-o-meter. IMHO Class action suiters are the worst (patent trollers a close second). Patent trollers work in a similar way. A company might be legally OK to be using some ficticious IP, but often it is easier to pay off the trollers then get your products held up pending a court hearing.
The class action suite is severly diluted if the highest profile person is not party to the action. They hope to harrass him into joining their case.
I didnt RTFA (probably slashdotted anyway). IBut if they're using 20MHz carrier frequency then they won't be able to stuff many bits down that pipe. To get, say, a 1Mbit channel is going to require a reasonably large bandwidth. Bigger than you're going to be allocated at 20MHz.
Perhaps TFA means a 20MHz wide band at some vastly higher frequency. In that case I guess things are possible. Still, all those free users will very soon choke the channel and if you're paying nothing you can't exactly demand any performance level.
This is a very obvious and crap "discovery" that is esily explained. No wonder it has not been reported widely. If anyone else had reported this they'd be laughed out of town, but there's the "ooooh he's Niels' grandchild... he **must** be bright" effect (like Bill Gates' kid showed off adding 2 + 2 = 4 on a calculator). I hope that this is not the highpoint of his professional career because that would just prove that even science is riddled with nepotism.
What we're seeing are shapes caused by friction. As a moving fluid (liquid or gas) moves against something that is not moving, or is moving at a different speed, the friction causes waves just like those waves that surfer guys ride or the waves in the atmosphere caused by a wind blowing over a mountain.
So why the different shapes? As the bucket speeds up, three things happen. There's a different speed differential between the bucket and the water, the water depth decreases and the extra g forces increase (effectively increasing local gravity). This changes the wavelength of the wave. So, since the bucket has a finite circumference and is circular, standing waves will form that go back to their own starting point which will make shapes of integer numbers of sides. (non integer numbers of sides will not form a standing wave).
Just about every study revelas something that **could** lead to some breakthough. Every Mars voyage "could explain where the world or the solar system came from". Every new concoction "could cure cancer". All this over-hyped reporting is getting very boring. And for all those people who's lives are potentially improved, well 99% of them get to be disappointed by unfulfilled hype.
This has really got nothing to do with NASA and space stations. Consider the potential for offshoring surgery. Indian/Chinese/whatever surgeons operating telepresence remote bots. All the hospitals will need are a few low-skill orderlies to strap the victims to the tables and give the bot a squirt of oil now and then. Should make for cheaper surgery and better profits for the health insurance companies.
Sounds like whoring for a funny rating, but not so. There are millions to be saved in surgery bills $20/hr Indian surgeon vs $500/hr US surgeon... and they don't go play golf every Wednesday afternoon.
Quality comes from editing. This MIT progect would seem to increase quantity with no effective means to edit, so quality will slide and make the whole project meaningless.
There are some very high quality podcasts and these will take approx 10 hours of editing etc per hour of audio, but for the most part podcasting is becoming a way for people to dump their vacant minds on audio. Podcasting is much like blogging in that respect except it is far easier to generate a crap podcast (push mike button and spew forth) and far harder to generate a good one (editing audio is harder than editing text). Further, for the reader/listener it is far easier for a reader to skip through a blog to see if it is worth reading than to do the same thing with audio.
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I smell a potential anti-trust issue developing here. The DOJ missed the real important points. MS will abuse their position with developing services and products. Unbundling IE is nothing compared to how MS can screw people with new services.
As some political commentator once said, once the feds declare war on anything the cause is already lost. How is a "war on piracy" going to actually accomplish anything? All it will do is provide an arena for posturing and bribery^h^h^h^hlobbying.
I don't know that military orgainisations are that great. I got a military tank driver's license and have never been inside a tank! Many commercial organisations are really worse than this.
BTW, EPA mpg are measured without using real mile on real roads.
This is progress?
You would not be wanting to use this space for anything like swap space because NAND write time is so slow (compared with platter). It would probably be good for storing/buffering multimedia files so that you can shut the disk down while you're playing.
Nobody ever got prosecuted for wire fraud for embellishing to potential dates over the phone or by any othger means. Using the internet does not really change anything.
You can make an RF jammer with anything thet emits RF. A few simple components from Radio Shack...
In my case, I consistently get speed measurements **faster** than my plan provides, but I'm with a new and small ISP and I expect things to get worse as more people sign up.
If one plane gets built in Britain/Autralia/whereever and the other gets built in USA/France/whatever lets hope they both go left or right and don't just dodge into eachother.
It is also easy for geeks to forget that most people don't even know what software is. Voters are far more interested in other issues like reality TV, tax, terrorism an whether or not the prez is getting blowjobs.
Of course the opposite could also happen: the Administration could equally spin this up that wireless networking == antiChrist == terrorism.
just leave my sheep alone!
Considering that probaly almost half the thirteen year old Tammies on 13-yo IRC chat channels are really Big-assed-Burt, truck driver from IL, how long before BaB starts making up ficticious blogs that get real Tammies into trouble.
However, you have to do a lot better than "not so bad" to convince people to buy your product when they have choices. Would you go eat at a place that was described as "not so bad"? Win98 was the last release of windows where most customers could see some real benefit in switching from the previous generation (hey I still have a W98 box here). For most people there is no compelling reason to switch to from W98 to ME and then XP. I expect that for most people the difference between XP and Vista will be even less compelling.
It's a sad reflection on a once-great company that their flagship product that has cost billions to produce is "not so bad".
If you do an spectral anaysis of IR etc reflecting off the earth, you'll get certain signatures for trees, grasslands, sea, coulds cities etc. So if observers see the similar patterns they will assume that the distant planets will have a similar biology, cities,...
Of course these are all just assumptions. The scientists hope to make discoveries which they can publish for fame and glory. Luckily for them, they'll probably be dead long before they can be verified by eyeball technology.
The class action suite is severly diluted if the highest profile person is not party to the action. They hope to harrass him into joining their case.
Perhaps TFA means a 20MHz wide band at some vastly higher frequency. In that case I guess things are possible. Still, all those free users will very soon choke the channel and if you're paying nothing you can't exactly demand any performance level.
One way to safely pulicise the info is to live in a free country or get a friend in a free country to do it.
This is a very obvious and crap "discovery" that is esily explained. No wonder it has not been reported widely. If anyone else had reported this they'd be laughed out of town, but there's the "ooooh he's Niels' grandchild... he **must** be bright" effect (like Bill Gates' kid showed off adding 2 + 2 = 4 on a calculator). I hope that this is not the highpoint of his professional career because that would just prove that even science is riddled with nepotism.
So why the different shapes? As the bucket speeds up, three things happen. There's a different speed differential between the bucket and the water, the water depth decreases and the extra g forces increase (effectively increasing local gravity). This changes the wavelength of the wave. So, since the bucket has a finite circumference and is circular, standing waves will form that go back to their own starting point which will make shapes of integer numbers of sides. (non integer numbers of sides will not form a standing wave).
Just about every study revelas something that **could** lead to some breakthough. Every Mars voyage "could explain where the world or the solar system came from". Every new concoction "could cure cancer". All this over-hyped reporting is getting very boring. And for all those people who's lives are potentially improved, well 99% of them get to be disappointed by unfulfilled hype.
All the input and discussion will just make everything much slower.
Sounds like whoring for a funny rating, but not so. There are millions to be saved in surgery bills $20/hr Indian surgeon vs $500/hr US surgeon ... and they don't go play golf every Wednesday afternoon.
There are some very high quality podcasts and these will take approx 10 hours of editing etc per hour of audio, but for the most part podcasting is becoming a way for people to dump their vacant minds on audio. Podcasting is much like blogging in that respect except it is far easier to generate a crap podcast (push mike button and spew forth) and far harder to generate a good one (editing audio is harder than editing text). Further, for the reader/listener it is far easier for a reader to skip through a blog to see if it is worth reading than to do the same thing with audio.