However, one of my colleagues who is vegan says that you don't need supplements; there are specific types of nuts and stuff which contain the relevant nutrients. He seems perfectly healthy.
You say he seems perfectly healthy; I say he's nuts and stuff.
Well unless we are talking about the devil, shouldn't "try not to do evil" be assumed?
I'd say that's true of individuals (people), but we're talking about corporations here. Corporations are legal entities, but they don't have a conscience. Many corporate boards (dare I say most) use only the law to determine if they should or shouldn't do something. If its not illegal, its fair game. Morals and ethics usually don't factor into their decisions, unless its specifically stated in their bylaws or policies.
There's this concept in the US. Innocence is assumed until guilt is proven.
Speaking as a US citizen, let me point out that the concept you mentioned is only mandatory for the judicial system. As a private citizen, I am in no way required to avoid prejudice. If someone tells me they think Jack beat up Jill, I don't have to run Jack past a jury of peers before I tell him he's not welcome in my house.
Being that the unit of measurement for time_t is in seconds, why would you use an arcane unit of measurement like a year to mark one of its milestones?
The big milestone already past us around January 10th, 2004. We now have less than one gigasecond remaining! Everyone get their survival kits and fallout shelters prepped...
Anyone living in a southern coastal state should be familiar with this pattern.
When a hurricane is first spotted heading our way, its usually too far out to have any idea where its going to end up. As it keeps heading our way, the likelihood of a strike gets higher and higher. When we're in the 5-day cone, we start making rushes for the store. When we're in the 3-day cone, we put up shutters. Then, a day before, the cone narrows to the point that we see its going far enough South or West that we're not going to be hit.
The odds keep going up and up until we have sufficient data to know exactly where its final course is and the odds plummet. Its a normal cycle.
12 USB2.0 should be plenty for all your USB2.0 peripherals. I imagine the slower USB1.1 ports are a freebie in case you have USB1.1 devices that don't auto-negotiate well on a USB2.0 port... I wouldn't be surprised if most integrators don't even provide the pinouts to use them.
As for PCIe vs. HT, they're probably so similar in latency and throughput at that level that its just a difference in transistor count or something similarly insignificant.
TFA makes reference to Hypertransport 3.0 and all, but memory bandwidth is only part of pretty pixels.
Good point.
I think most of us are hoping that the marriage between AMD and ATI allows them to produce chipsets with actually decent graphics performance. Maybe not on par with a standalone GPU, but I'm hoping it at least approaches that...
Even if its barely adequate, a decently performing system that allows me to use my HDTV as the monitor would be a welcome improvement.
By reason of its complications, would not pregnancy be grounds for removal from duty aboard the ISS? This would neatly eliminate the need for adjudicating citizenship.
... but not completely beyond the realm of possibilities.
1. Female astronaut engages in pre-blastoff blastoff.
2. Returning shuttle pulls another Columbia.
3. Astronaut discovers Aunt Flo not visiting on her monthly schedule.
4. Some sort of Soyuz disaster results in an extended ISS crew isolation.
Voila: the first confirmed extra terrestrial being! Remember, the pill is only 99.9% effective. I personally know a couple who had a lovely little girl despite properly administered oral contraceptives.
... or the stupid plane V22,... that boondongle from Fort Worth, V22 Osprey.
Why the animosity against the V22? Is it Bell's execution of the design, or the design itself?
Granted, making the V22's rotor large enough to support hovering leads to a vastly over sized propeller in forward flight. Other than that, it sure seems to me, executed properly, a tilt-rotor truly gives you the best of both worlds. A VTOL aircraft with the speed of a fixed wing has long been a dream of aviation, especially the military.
I'm curious about your strong opinion because my brother-in-law worked on the Osprey project, but couldn't ever talk much about it due to the military angle...
Back on topic, autorotation in helicopters isn't an easily understood mechanism. I suspect this design would have something similar, as a combined lift+drag vector forward of the shaft-to-wing vector on part of the circuit could keep the main shaft spinning just like it does a helicopter's rotor... Granted, the glide angle is probably pretty abysmal, but it is in helicopters too. All that's needed is to get you close to the ground so you can use up the remaining rotor momentum in the flare.
There's also the possibility of stopping the rotor and gliding down as a fixed wing, but that's not as easy as others might make it sound... There would be issues maintaining lift during the transition, controlling the individual airfoils' AoA, plus you wouldn't normally have ailerons or elevators, so basic control could be difficult.
Ok, but I think the original poster's argument is, the DNS servers that normal consumers connect to (ie. supplied by DHCP when connecting to your ISP) shouldn't normally be receiving lost of responses with very short TTLs.
Is this another one of those things an ISP *could* do to help control this scourge? Could they reject all DNS responses with a TTL below some threshold, even if its 29 seconds, and not break legitimate access? Or keep those responses in the cache and flag/reject follow-on responses if the IP changes too frequently, perhaps...
And if you're one of those setting your TTLs to 30 seconds to facilitate datacenter failover, first, you're increasing the load on the ISP's DNS servers, so they have a legitimate gripe for you using shorter-than-recommended TTLs. Get yourself a real failover system, cheapskate! Plus, if they still wanted to be nice, they could do some research and whitelist those FQDNs with short TTLs that don't fast flux.
Granted, these ideas mean changes to the DNS server behavior, but that's just software. Someone at one of the ISPs needs to research this, run some tests, and submit updates to their DNS server supplier.
A big HA-HA! goes out to the vendors who insist on using every imaginable gimmick and gee-wiz animation / transparency effect / irregular shaped window trick to try to make their product appeal to their target audience of 8 year olds. Stick with the basics, please! There's no reason for an audio control panel to require an animated cursor, for christsakes!!!
Reminds me of when I bought a little FM radio controlled by a serial link. The crapplet they sent on the CD-ROM was so annoying, the first thing I did was sniff the serial protocol and write my own little non-obtrusive applet. I asked the manufacturer for the proto specs first, but they delined, even after I pointed out how easy it was going to be to reverse engineer them... idiots!
Never thought I'd write something like this, but kudos to MS for saying we're not going to work around your crappy little app.
"The lysine contingency - it's intended to prevent the spread of the mosquitoes in case they ever got off the continent, but we could use it now. Dr. Wu inserted a gene that makes a single faulty enzyme in protein metabolism. Mosquitoes can't manufacture the amino acid lysine. Unless they're continually supplied with lysine by us, they'll slip into a coma and die."
I'm curious what you mean by "forming an image of what is going on under water from sound (not sonar... I'm talking about real imaging)".
I think he's talking about something more along the lines of what they're calling a 3D/4D ultrasound. That doesn't mean much unless you've recently had a child, so here's an example from GE (requires flash). For a non-flash example, just google for 4d ultrasound and try a few of the links...
The images are not in color, and sometimes you lose detail as an elbow (think whale) gets too close to the transducer. But with more processing power and better transducers, kinks like that should go away...
when it comes to the military, there's the budget and then there's what's actually spent.
I've been in the military. In fact, I was a supply officer for a little while. We had what is called a zero-line budget. We were expected (that means ordered) to spend every last cent. The reasoning was, if we didn't spend what was allocated to us that year, we wouldn't get as much next year...
Yeah, I know; it made my brain hurt too. That's just part of the reason I got out.
... If you want to remove the anti-theft daemon you can, by clicking a button to request a developer key that gives you full access to the machine and its BIOS.
Hmm... So I can swipe it, click that button, and hope I get the key before someone notices or reports it as stolen?
BTW, what's your source? I haven't heard a thing about a developer key for unlocking access...
I have to say, I don't like the decidedly big-brother tilt the OLPC project has been taking lately. With all the news that has come out lately on OLPC, the whole "users will be able to read/understand/modify its source code" stance seems to have gone away.
If I can read and compile the O/S, who's to say I can't just remove the kill daemon from my build and then install it? In order to be robust, they'll have to lock down the installed software and make it impossible for the user to change. No community development; no share-and-share-alike; no software libre, counter to the whole "open source" philosophy they tout as the project's base.
This isn't a hacker's dream toy; its a business proposition to sell expensive supporting infrastructure and services along with a loss-leading locked-down client device disguised as charity in the name of educating the poor.
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However, one of my colleagues who is vegan says that you don't need supplements; there are specific types of nuts and stuff which contain the relevant nutrients. He seems perfectly healthy.
You say he seems perfectly healthy; I say he's nuts and stuff.
Well unless we are talking about the devil, shouldn't "try not to do evil" be assumed?
I'd say that's true of individuals (people), but we're talking about corporations here. Corporations are legal entities, but they don't have a conscience. Many corporate boards (dare I say most) use only the law to determine if they should or shouldn't do something. If its not illegal, its fair game. Morals and ethics usually don't factor into their decisions, unless its specifically stated in their bylaws or policies.
Am I wrong?
There's this concept in the US. Innocence is assumed until guilt is proven.
Speaking as a US citizen, let me point out that the concept you mentioned is only mandatory for the judicial system. As a private citizen, I am in no way required to avoid prejudice. If someone tells me they think Jack beat up Jill, I don't have to run Jack past a jury of peers before I tell him he's not welcome in my house.
Water can be split into oxygen to breathe and hydrogen to burn as rocket fuel...
And if the astronauts are breathing all of the O2, what oxidizing agent do they plan to burn the H2 with?
Journalists should really have some knowledge of the topic they're writing about before spouting their blather...
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
-- Mahatma Ghandi
So, we're definitely in the third phase now...
"Hey, Microsoft. You fight like a girl!"
Being that the unit of measurement for time_t is in seconds, why would you use an arcane unit of measurement like a year to mark one of its milestones?
The big milestone already past us around January 10th, 2004. We now have less than one gigasecond remaining! Everyone get their survival kits and fallout shelters prepped...
2^30 = 1,073,741,824 sec
1,073,741,824 / 60 / 60 / 24 / 365.25 ~= 34.025 yrs
0.025 yrs ~= 9 dys
1/19/2038 - 34 yrs & 9 dys = 1/10/2004
What is Overdose? I've searched Google, but all I get is links to Heroin recovery groups...
Ah, nevermind. Its a Yahoo! chat client. I should have searched Sourceforge instead...
What is Overdose? I've searched Google, but all I get is links to Heroin recovery groups...
Anyone living in a southern coastal state should be familiar with this pattern.
When a hurricane is first spotted heading our way, its usually too far out to have any idea where its going to end up. As it keeps heading our way, the likelihood of a strike gets higher and higher. When we're in the 5-day cone, we start making rushes for the store. When we're in the 3-day cone, we put up shutters. Then, a day before, the cone narrows to the point that we see its going far enough South or West that we're not going to be hit.
The odds keep going up and up until we have sufficient data to know exactly where its final course is and the odds plummet. Its a normal cycle.
Wouldn't it just make so much more sense if all slashdot links used the coral cache?
No! Please don't...
Some of us are "working," and can only access pages on ports 80 or 443 due to the corporate firewall. Coral cache is useless to us.
12 USB2.0 should be plenty for all your USB2.0 peripherals. I imagine the slower USB1.1 ports are a freebie in case you have USB1.1 devices that don't auto-negotiate well on a USB2.0 port... I wouldn't be surprised if most integrators don't even provide the pinouts to use them.
As for PCIe vs. HT, they're probably so similar in latency and throughput at that level that its just a difference in transistor count or something similarly insignificant.
TFA makes reference to Hypertransport 3.0 and all, but memory bandwidth is only part of pretty pixels.
Good point.
I think most of us are hoping that the marriage between AMD and ATI allows them to produce chipsets with actually decent graphics performance. Maybe not on par with a standalone GPU, but I'm hoping it at least approaches that...
Even if its barely adequate, a decently performing system that allows me to use my HDTV as the monitor would be a welcome improvement.
By reason of its complications, would not pregnancy be grounds for removal from duty aboard the ISS? This would neatly eliminate the need for adjudicating citizenship.
... but not completely beyond the realm of possibilities.
1. Female astronaut engages in pre-blastoff blastoff.
2. Returning shuttle pulls another Columbia.
3. Astronaut discovers Aunt Flo not visiting on her monthly schedule.
4. Some sort of Soyuz disaster results in an extended ISS crew isolation.
Voila: the first confirmed extra terrestrial being! Remember, the pill is only 99.9% effective. I personally know a couple who had a lovely little girl despite properly administered oral contraceptives.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot:
5. Profit!
... or the stupid plane V22, ... that boondongle from Fort Worth, V22 Osprey.
Why the animosity against the V22? Is it Bell's execution of the design, or the design itself?
Granted, making the V22's rotor large enough to support hovering leads to a vastly over sized propeller in forward flight. Other than that, it sure seems to me, executed properly, a tilt-rotor truly gives you the best of both worlds. A VTOL aircraft with the speed of a fixed wing has long been a dream of aviation, especially the military.
I'm curious about your strong opinion because my brother-in-law worked on the Osprey project, but couldn't ever talk much about it due to the military angle...
Back on topic, autorotation in helicopters isn't an easily understood mechanism. I suspect this design would have something similar, as a combined lift+drag vector forward of the shaft-to-wing vector on part of the circuit could keep the main shaft spinning just like it does a helicopter's rotor... Granted, the glide angle is probably pretty abysmal, but it is in helicopters too. All that's needed is to get you close to the ground so you can use up the remaining rotor momentum in the flare.
There's also the possibility of stopping the rotor and gliding down as a fixed wing, but that's not as easy as others might make it sound... There would be issues maintaining lift during the transition, controlling the individual airfoils' AoA, plus you wouldn't normally have ailerons or elevators, so basic control could be difficult.
BTW, IAAHP
Ok, but I think the original poster's argument is, the DNS servers that normal consumers connect to (ie. supplied by DHCP when connecting to your ISP) shouldn't normally be receiving lost of responses with very short TTLs.
Is this another one of those things an ISP *could* do to help control this scourge? Could they reject all DNS responses with a TTL below some threshold, even if its 29 seconds, and not break legitimate access? Or keep those responses in the cache and flag/reject follow-on responses if the IP changes too frequently, perhaps...
And if you're one of those setting your TTLs to 30 seconds to facilitate datacenter failover, first, you're increasing the load on the ISP's DNS servers, so they have a legitimate gripe for you using shorter-than-recommended TTLs. Get yourself a real failover system, cheapskate! Plus, if they still wanted to be nice, they could do some research and whitelist those FQDNs with short TTLs that don't fast flux.
Granted, these ideas mean changes to the DNS server behavior, but that's just software. Someone at one of the ISPs needs to research this, run some tests, and submit updates to their DNS server supplier.
It would be a Chinese-Indian standard
I say better little-indian that big-indian... Call me an x86 fan-boy. 8-)
Anyone else curious about the "sowsear" tag? A google turned up this tidbit of cultural literacy:
You can't make a silk purse from a sow's ear
meaning:
It is impossible to make something excellent from poor material.
A bit obscure, but quite apropos. Kudos to the tagger for piquing my curiosity...
Microsoft's program guide comes free (no subscriptions) with the OS.
... and that may be the next step for Myth: retrieve guide information from MS as if it were a Media Center PC.
At least until MS intenitonally breaks compatibility. It'll be like the IM client wars all over again...
A big HA-HA! goes out to the vendors who insist on using every imaginable gimmick and gee-wiz animation / transparency effect / irregular shaped window trick to try to make their product appeal to their target audience of 8 year olds. Stick with the basics, please! There's no reason for an audio control panel to require an animated cursor, for christsakes!!!
Reminds me of when I bought a little FM radio controlled by a serial link. The crapplet they sent on the CD-ROM was so annoying, the first thing I did was sniff the serial protocol and write my own little non-obtrusive applet. I asked the manufacturer for the proto specs first, but they delined, even after I pointed out how easy it was going to be to reverse engineer them... idiots!
Never thought I'd write something like this, but kudos to MS for saying we're not going to work around your crappy little app.
</rant>
"The lysine contingency - it's intended to prevent the spread of the mosquitoes in case they ever got off the continent, but we could use it now. Dr. Wu inserted a gene that makes a single faulty enzyme in protein metabolism. Mosquitoes can't manufacture the amino acid lysine. Unless they're continually supplied with lysine by us, they'll slip into a coma and die."
I'm curious what you mean by "forming an image of what is going on under water from sound (not sonar... I'm talking about real imaging)".
I think he's talking about something more along the lines of what they're calling a 3D/4D ultrasound. That doesn't mean much unless you've recently had a child, so here's an example from GE (requires flash). For a non-flash example, just google for 4d ultrasound and try a few of the links...
The images are not in color, and sometimes you lose detail as an elbow (think whale) gets too close to the transducer. But with more processing power and better transducers, kinks like that should go away...
when it comes to the military, there's the budget and then there's what's actually spent.
I've been in the military. In fact, I was a supply officer for a little while. We had what is called a zero-line budget. We were expected (that means ordered) to spend every last cent. The reasoning was, if we didn't spend what was allocated to us that year, we wouldn't get as much next year...
Yeah, I know; it made my brain hurt too. That's just part of the reason I got out.
why oh why can't slashdot it it's geekful wisdom implement a double-enter = new paragraph option?
The same reason they can't implement a preview button.
Oh... wait. Never mind. *wink*
... If you want to remove the anti-theft daemon you can, by clicking a button to request a developer key that gives you full access to the machine and its BIOS.
Hmm... So I can swipe it, click that button, and hope I get the key before someone notices or reports it as stolen?
BTW, what's your source? I haven't heard a thing about a developer key for unlocking access...
I have to say, I don't like the decidedly big-brother tilt the OLPC project has been taking lately. With all the news that has come out lately on OLPC, the whole "users will be able to read/understand/modify its source code" stance seems to have gone away.
If I can read and compile the O/S, who's to say I can't just remove the kill daemon from my build and then install it? In order to be robust, they'll have to lock down the installed software and make it impossible for the user to change. No community development; no share-and-share-alike; no software libre, counter to the whole "open source" philosophy they tout as the project's base.
This isn't a hacker's dream toy; its a business proposition to sell expensive supporting infrastructure and services along with a loss-leading locked-down client device disguised as charity in the name of educating the poor.