From the article, they're $95 each. And as for why not, because adding extra unneccesary bits doesn't make it better. They could strap a cheesegrater to the side, and it wouldn't make it a better PVR, just a more expensive PVR (with the ability to make grated cheese for nachos while watching films.)
Probably not, they specifically mention that the 'data' drives (the 4 250gbs) are raid 5, and say nothing of the 160s. Anyway, since this is intended to be a PVR why bother with mirroring? Why not just install all of the (supposedly enormours) applications, and dump the drive to tape?
four Seagate 250GB SATA drives for storing our BTV recordings and two Seagate 160GB SATA drives for the OS and other applications.
320GB for OS and Applications?!?!? - I know Windows is a bit bloated but why the hell would you want 320GB for Apps? Thats 68DVD's worth of application! And I only know of a handfull of apps that are DVD sized.
And before anyone says "maybe they've got lots of (big) games" this thing is specifically (and clearly obvious from the hardware) a PVR.
I absolutely agree that the content of any communication is far more important than the format, however, like it or not, the way you present a message or information will invariably be one of the first things the observer uses to gauge the validity of the data. A few grammatical errors or minor spelling mistakes probably don't matter all that much, but if you write something useful on a scrap of paper in crayon using broken English, people will simply not trust it. (Yes this is an extreme example but I'm sure you readers can extrapolate a less extreme scenario.)
Paragraph 5 : Many submissions are to long or to short.
Paragraph 11 :..the fact that the 4th story down contains the word 'to' when it ought to contain the word 'too'. That missing 'o' is the greatest travesty on-line today!
I don't care too much for exact spelling either. (I spawned an entire thread about my misspelling of segue.), but I couldn't resist pointing this out.:)
Hey! I've figured the problem. They forgot to specify 'unique' in the 'title' column definition of the 'articles' table in the slashdot db.
(To be fair to ScuttleMonkey, this is a dupe of an article at least 24 hours old.)
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I thought it was widely understood that most consumers feel this way...
I'm curious, do you have any articles which support this, and could you explain to me why you don't want the extra features?
If for example you have two phones with identical form factors, except that one has a 60gb music library in it (for the same price), would you honestly prefer to still get the phone without the music, and buy a seperate device with a 60gb music library. This isn't an Ad Hominem, I'm just curious, because I don't understand your point of view.
This word means exactly what I thought it meant, but I misspelled it. From your link :
2. To move smoothly and unhesitatingly from one state, condition, situation, or element to another: "Daylight segued into dusk" (Susan Dworski).
Apple would want to segue its iPod market into the mobile phone market. becomes
Apple would want to smoothly and unhesitating move its iPod market into the mobile phone market.
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Portable device convergence has been obvious for years, with the inclusion of cameras,
music players, video players, video calling, games etc... being crammed into mobile phones,
it's unsurprising that Apple would want to segway its iPod market into the mobile phone market.
Which would you rather have? An iPod, or a phone with an iPod built in? If Apple doesn't
capitalise on the current media and consumer 'love' for iPods, then the plethora of other devices
with similar or superior function will destroy Apples market (and it's only so long before flash storage
becomes comperable in capacity to drive based iPods.)
Apple could quite easily pull off a 'one phone' network not because it was technically superior or
cheaper than other networks/handsets, but because Apple would do what Apple does best, give it a
slick UI/customer experience and use their flair at advertising to buy the market.
I should point out that all the methods you've suggested for detection are indirect detection. A fundimental property of a black hole (as we understand it) is that everything beyond its event horizon is never emitted. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only thing that is directly emitted from a black hole is Hawking radiation (which is so weak as to make its detection practically impossible. Since we can't detect anything it emits we can't directly detect it. We can however infer it's presence from its interaction with other entities (IE Indirect detection).
What makes this a galaxy rather than just some random swirl in the cosmos?
If I remember my Physics elective from uni, Galaxies are internally gravitationally bounded, that is the entire 'clump' of things is held rougly in equalibrium with gravity providing the contracting forces.
does this galaxy have a black hole to call its own in the middle?
The jury is out on the existance of supermassive holes at all galactic centers (partly due to obvious impossibility of direct detection).
What happens if a black hole eats another black hole?
Black hole collisions are theoretically possible, and has been simulated on a Cray (pretty pictures included).
Ever used an Internet browser? That sends data to various servers, does that constitute a
risk to your privacy? Probably, but it doesn't make Firefox, IE & Opera 'malware', in the
same way that even if iTunes is sending data to Apple, it's not necessaraly malware.
Kneejerk reactions like this are unsupprising given the current culture of "Oh my god, the've got
my name and they know what music I like!". If you are conserned about your privacy with regard
to a company or service, I suggest you start with their Terms of Service and
Privacy Policy - If you don't like them,
you don't have to use their service.
Hot in the heels of Google's entrances into the markets of TV advertising, PC production, and other 'secret' markets, Minor news agencies are announcing Google's intention to begin international fruit sales. One excited googler said "This is complete rubbish, I wish people would stop all this wild speculation.", his denail further confirming our suspicions.
I'm not so sure about the name 'GooOS' that people are chosing to use. The domain
GOOOS.COM is registerd towhoisprivacyprotect.com (a subsidiary of Enom),
but the CC domains like gooos.co.uk are not yet registered (which seems like a bit of a mistake if thats the name
google intend (read:speculation) to use.)
For comparison (in humans) the mitochondrial DNA comprises approximatly 16,500 base pairs to the Neucler DNA's 3 billion. At that rate the Mitochondrial DNA is equal to ~0.00055% the ammount of Neuclear DNA.
Contrary to the title, the Wooly Mammoth DNA has not been fully sequenced. The Mitochondrial DNA has, but that's nowhere near the amount of DNA in the neucleus. So don't worry, we won't be seeing Jurasic park any time soon.
Good post, but incorrect. It doesn't matter if the civilisation is a million years more advanced than our, for them to deliberatly write a virus using the SETI recieve buffer as a vector is simply impossible. The systems are ours, any infection via this method MUST comply with out systems operating parameters (IE Instruction sets etc...). The code MUST execute on our systems, for which it MUST contain vaild opcodes. Even then, it relies on security flaws in OUR software (which may or may not exist).
To use your analogy, its like assaulting a Roman wall in a place where the laws of physics prevent flight.
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From the article, they're $95 each. And as for why not, because adding extra unneccesary bits doesn't make it better. They could strap a cheesegrater to the side, and it wouldn't make it a better PVR, just a more expensive PVR (with the ability to make grated cheese for nachos while watching films.)
Probably not, they specifically mention that the 'data' drives (the 4 250gbs) are raid 5, and say nothing of the 160s. Anyway, since this is intended to be a PVR why bother with mirroring? Why not just install all of the (supposedly enormours) applications, and dump the drive to tape?
I absolutely agree that the content of any communication is far more important than the format, however, like it or not, the way you present a message or information will invariably be one of the first things the observer uses to gauge the validity of the data. A few grammatical errors or minor spelling mistakes probably don't matter all that much, but if you write something useful on a scrap of paper in crayon using broken English, people will simply not trust it. (Yes this is an extreme example but I'm sure you readers can extrapolate a less extreme scenario.)
Paragraph 5 : Many submissions are to long or to short. ..the fact that the 4th story down contains the word 'to' when it ought to contain the word 'too'. That missing 'o' is the greatest travesty on-line today!
:)
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I don't care too much for exact spelling either. (I spawned an entire thread about my misspelling of segue.), but I couldn't resist pointing this out.
The article submitters site uses hideous floating graphics, and flickering gifs that follow your cursor. It may scar your web design skills for life.
...of this breaking news, try reading this popular news forum.
Hey! I've figured the problem. They forgot to specify 'unique' in the 'title' column definition of the 'articles' table in the slashdot db.
(To be fair to ScuttleMonkey, this is a dupe of an article at least 24 hours old.)
If for example you have two phones with identical form factors, except that one has a 60gb music library in it (for the same price), would you honestly prefer to still get the phone without the music, and buy a seperate device with a 60gb music library. This isn't an Ad Hominem, I'm just curious, because I don't understand your point of view.
Apple would want to segue its iPod market into the mobile phone market.
becomes
Apple would want to smoothly and unhesitating move its iPod market into the mobile phone market.
See?
Portable device convergence has been obvious for years, with the inclusion of cameras, music players, video players, video calling, games etc... being crammed into mobile phones, it's unsurprising that Apple would want to segway its iPod market into the mobile phone market.
Which would you rather have? An iPod, or a phone with an iPod built in? If Apple doesn't capitalise on the current media and consumer 'love' for iPods, then the plethora of other devices with similar or superior function will destroy Apples market (and it's only so long before flash storage becomes comperable in capacity to drive based iPods.)
Apple could quite easily pull off a 'one phone' network not because it was technically superior or cheaper than other networks/handsets, but because Apple would do what Apple does best, give it a slick UI/customer experience and use their flair at advertising to buy the market.
I should point out that all the methods you've suggested for detection are indirect detection. A fundimental property of a black hole (as we understand it) is that everything beyond its event horizon is never emitted. Correct me if I'm wrong, but the only thing that is directly emitted from a black hole is Hawking radiation (which is so weak as to make its detection practically impossible. Since we can't detect anything it emits we can't directly detect it. We can however infer it's presence from its interaction with other entities (IE Indirect detection).
But I've got to say "I for one welcome our new Galactic Overlords." I hate myself already
Ah yes, but to execute MSIL, you'll still need the native code translation engine (VM). So technically, thats Windows.NET in 6+(Length of VM) bytes. :)
Ever used an Internet browser? That sends data to various servers, does that constitute a risk to your privacy? Probably, but it doesn't make Firefox, IE & Opera 'malware', in the same way that even if iTunes is sending data to Apple, it's not necessaraly malware.
Kneejerk reactions like this are unsupprising given the current culture of "Oh my god, the've got my name and they know what music I like!". If you are conserned about your privacy with regard to a company or service, I suggest you start with their Terms of Service and Privacy Policy - If you don't like them, you don't have to use their service.
Which reminds me of a closely related project Sawdust@home where users spend hours looking through pictures of sawdust for signs of life.
Hot in the heels of Google's entrances into the markets of TV advertising, PC production, and other 'secret' markets, Minor news agencies are announcing Google's intention to begin international fruit sales. One excited googler said "This is complete rubbish, I wish people would stop all this wild speculation.", his denail further confirming our suspicions.
Ah yes, but at least it's doing *something* (Even if it is an infinate loop)
I'm not so sure about the name 'GooOS' that people are chosing to use. The domain GOOOS.COM is registerd to whoisprivacyprotect.com (a subsidiary of Enom), but the CC domains like gooos.co.uk are not yet registered (which seems like a bit of a mistake if thats the name google intend (read:speculation) to use.)
For comparison (in humans) the mitochondrial DNA comprises approximatly 16,500 base pairs to the Neucler DNA's 3 billion. At that rate the Mitochondrial DNA is equal to ~0.00055% the ammount of Neuclear DNA.
Contrary to the title, the Wooly Mammoth DNA has not been fully sequenced. The Mitochondrial DNA has, but that's nowhere near the amount of DNA in the neucleus. So don't worry, we won't be seeing Jurasic park any time soon.
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Good post, but incorrect. It doesn't matter if the civilisation is a million years more advanced than our, for them to deliberatly write a virus using the SETI recieve buffer as a vector is simply impossible. The systems are ours, any infection via this method MUST comply with out systems operating parameters (IE Instruction sets etc...). The code MUST execute on our systems, for which it MUST contain vaild opcodes. Even then, it relies on security flaws in OUR software (which may or may not exist).
To use your analogy, its like assaulting a Roman wall in a place where the laws of physics prevent flight.