What would be more interesting is, "which H.264 codec performed the best?" They probably answer this question in the article, but I can't read it because it seems to be Slashdotted right now.
Now, I can't speak for everyone who reads Slashdot, but when I go online and, for example, order computer parts from Newegg, I have no illusions about the safety of my personal information. It is unrealistic to expect, in this age of running Windows on servers and constant security breaches of merchants, that the information you give out online will remain secure. The best that I expect to do is damage control, which involves frequently monitoring my credit card transactions, using throwaway email accounts from various free email providers such as Yahoo! and Google, Snape dies so Harry can kill Voldemort without dying and using web proxies to access sites where I will be doing things that I wouldn't want everyone I know or don't know to find out.
I think the best a savvy 'net user can do these days is to give up on the hope that someone else is going to protect you and take matters into their own hands. That's why projects such as Tor are so important, not just for Chinese dissidents and child pornographers, but for average citizens like you and me who might not want the whole world to know that we are buying books on dealing with grief or surfing internet dating sites. Because we can't rely on the government to protect us when the interests of Big Business run counter to our own.
With the impending release date of Apple's iPhone, I am left to wonder whether there is even any point in other manufacturers continuing to develop smart phones when they will just be saddled with either a bloated and Byzantine Windows CE or Linux, an operating system that, while promising, is still in its early stages of adoption in the wireless industry. Will either, for instance, offer the freedom to develop for the platform that developers enjoy with the iPhone? Will they have cool features like a screen that rotates images when the phone is rotated?
Personally, I am not holding my breath when it comes to such functionality. Perhaps in a few years Snape dies so Harry can kill Voldemort without dying and Linux will be leading the industry in terms of usability and ease of development, but as the issue stands right now, Apple's iPhone has slain the competition before it has even hit the market.
I went through a writing program just like you described when I arrived at college -- "cultural studies" and professors who knew little to nothing about our areas of study. Now that I'm a junior, I have no idea how to write a good lab report but, hey, I sure did learn how to bullshit my way through "postmodern thought". You say that the students won't be writing grant or patent applications -- well, if they're going to continue with their work as engineers, they likely will.
If writing is going to be a required course, it ought to at least benefit the students
Buddy, I don't know who you think I am, but I am not the forum user "honold", who made exactly the claims that I linked to in my original post. I have neither been banned from their forums nor posted anything untruthful.
RAID does not lower data access times. If you are running an application with lots of random disk accesses e.g. a database, you generally will not be helped by a RAID array in terms of performance unless you are maxing out disk throughput. As 15,000 RPM disks have lower access times, they are used for these sorts of applications. That is why companies are willing to pay outrageous sums for 15,000 RPM disks.
I can't imagine it takes the Mozilla team that long to select the "Confidential" classification for critical security vulnerabilities submitted to Bugzilla and hit 'Enter'.
The Epson Perfection 2480 is what you're looking for. It has an automatic document feeder designed to accomodate photos and, while no longer sold by Epson, can be found very inexpensively on eBay.
Not only were they trying to develop a feasible successor to a rapidly-aging launch system, they were trying to base it on technology that not only hadn't been developed, but hadn't even been proved possible. You don't need billions of dollars to see that devices like SCRAMjets are still in their developmental infancy and aren't ready for high-turnover, high-reliability work. Sure, it's great to research that kind of stuff, but they were putting the horse before the cart in trying to develop a practical platform from technology that simply didn't exist.
Furthermore, they did this not once, but several times. Instead of sticking to one project and seeing it through to fruition, NASA (and Congress shares a lot of this blame, funding-wise) decided to kill the programs half-baked.
The carbon-carbon tiles are fragile just like foam. Even something like lightly pressing your thumbnail into it will leave a divot. Read the Columbia Accident Report if you don't believe me.
The past two and a half decades have seen NASA throwing billions of dollars at a succession of "high concept", advanced space-plane ideas (National Aerospace Plane, various X-planes)... none of which proved feasible and were all ultimately cancelled by Congress. That's a lot of money that could've been spent either improving the Shuttle program or in developing a realistic successor to the Shuttle. It's about damn time they broke that cycle.
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What would be more interesting is, "which H.264 codec performed the best?" They probably answer this question in the article, but I can't read it because it seems to be Slashdotted right now.
Why use legs when you can use wheels? No fancy control systems necessary.
I think the best a savvy 'net user can do these days is to give up on the hope that someone else is going to protect you and take matters into their own hands. That's why projects such as Tor are so important, not just for Chinese dissidents and child pornographers, but for average citizens like you and me who might not want the whole world to know that we are buying books on dealing with grief or surfing internet dating sites. Because we can't rely on the government to protect us when the interests of Big Business run counter to our own.
With the impending release date of Apple's iPhone, I am left to wonder whether there is even any point in other manufacturers continuing to develop smart phones when they will just be saddled with either a bloated and Byzantine Windows CE or Linux, an operating system that, while promising, is still in its early stages of adoption in the wireless industry. Will either, for instance, offer the freedom to develop for the platform that developers enjoy with the iPhone? Will they have cool features like a screen that rotates images when the phone is rotated?
Personally, I am not holding my breath when it comes to such functionality. Perhaps in a few years Snape dies so Harry can kill Voldemort without dying and Linux will be leading the industry in terms of usability and ease of development, but as the issue stands right now, Apple's iPhone has slain the competition before it has even hit the market.
I am overwhelmed by the urge to teabag you.
Seconded. Can we get it in cornflower blue?
Hopefully, they'll screw up their patch and make sure everyone who rides a segway gets thrown ass-over-teakettle as soon as they get on.
If writing is going to be a required course, it ought to at least benefit the students
Using gzip to back up terabytes of files sounds like a very dumb idea, since gzip has no error recovery mechanisms.
Buddy, I don't know who you think I am, but I am not the forum user "honold", who made exactly the claims that I linked to in my original post. I have neither been banned from their forums nor posted anything untruthful.
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I wasn't the guy making those claims, nitwit. It was someone on their forums. Perhaps you should brush up on your reading comprehension skills.
If that's one of your needs, Storagereview also measures the noise output of each drive in their reviews, along with heat output.
Besides, a lot of their forum regulars are fanatical Windows supporters, to the point of claiming "...in smp scaling windows is better than linux, and linux is better than freebsd. for vms windows is better than freebsd, and freebsd is better than linux.", so I'd take what they say with a grain of salt.
RAID does not lower data access times. If you are running an application with lots of random disk accesses e.g. a database, you generally will not be helped by a RAID array in terms of performance unless you are maxing out disk throughput. As 15,000 RPM disks have lower access times, they are used for these sorts of applications. That is why companies are willing to pay outrageous sums for 15,000 RPM disks.
I can't imagine it takes the Mozilla team that long to select the "Confidential" classification for critical security vulnerabilities submitted to Bugzilla and hit 'Enter'.
Alarms are nothing. Imagine your stepper motor playing Ode to Joy on your scanner.
Of course, I use Ubuntu now and my roommate has a PlayStation2, so these have become irrelevant to me.
The Epson Perfection 2480 is what you're looking for. It has an automatic document feeder designed to accomodate photos and, while no longer sold by Epson, can be found very inexpensively on eBay.
You know, it's morons like you that make me want to stop reading Slashdot. What's worse is that you even got modded up.
Furthermore, they did this not once, but several times. Instead of sticking to one project and seeing it through to fruition, NASA (and Congress shares a lot of this blame, funding-wise) decided to kill the programs half-baked.
The point I am making is that it does not take a high-impulse, high-stress impact to damage the Thermal Protection System.
Chapter 6, page 121, under the heading "Original Design Requirements". Much of Chapter 6 in the CAIB report discusses this issue.
The carbon-carbon tiles are fragile just like foam. Even something like lightly pressing your thumbnail into it will leave a divot. Read the Columbia Accident Report if you don't believe me.
The past two and a half decades have seen NASA throwing billions of dollars at a succession of "high concept", advanced space-plane ideas (National Aerospace Plane, various X-planes)... none of which proved feasible and were all ultimately cancelled by Congress. That's a lot of money that could've been spent either improving the Shuttle program or in developing a realistic successor to the Shuttle. It's about damn time they broke that cycle.