LOL. This rides on top of EV-DO, not UMTS, so will be available a lot sooner than you allude. Sure, UMTS is long time coming in the US, but Verizon has already deployed EV-DO with avg 1Mbps bandwidth.
Also, unlike in Europe, in the US UMTS has to take away bandwidth from GSM to be functional, which will mean Verizon will continue eat Cingular's lunch for coverage and high-speed data.
It's not just Microsoft giving kickbacks. Have you seen all the crap that comes "pre-installed" with a name brand PC? Each vendor paid something to get their icon on the desktop.
In fact, ($Windows - $crapware) might be a negative number, which might make a Windows box cheaper to make for the manufacturer than a no-os system.
Still, one exceptional case does not a scientific evidence make.
Imagine a guy was hit by lightining and survived. Does that make lightning harmless?
In this case, a thorough scientific investigation is definately warranted. Imagine people getting stem cell injections in some third world country because of this one report? What if it really didn't work?
Your skepticism is well warranted. I have RTFA (univ access) and it reports one case study of a woman showing improvement after being treated with umbilical cord blood derived stem cells. It was not a true scientific study, with positive and negative controls, and a large sample size. I imagin the authors wanted to get themselves on record that they are working on this, and plan to do a better follow-up later. As such, they've excluded themselves from more prestigeous journals for a quick publication. Stem cell research is a highly competitive field at the moment, and sometimes getting there first and staking a claim is more important than doing it right.
Having said all that, it is definately intriguing nontheless. I sincerely hope the therapy pans out, both for the researchers and for the patients.
Longer songs should cost more because they have more bits:) Serious, I want to pay by the Kilobyte. Lossless can cost more than 96kbps mp3. That's the kind of variable pricing I'm willing to pay for.
A Mac is the entire machine. It starts with the case, and moves to the (usually Apple designed) motherboard, the Apple designed Bluetooth, the Apple designe Firewire, the Apple designed WiFi modules, then moves on to the placement of fans, the duct work, the attention to details.
Do you think Dell designs their own motherboards? No, they just buy Intel's. When the MacTel boxes show up, it'll have Intel CPU, Intel Motherboard with integrated Firewire, integrated ethernet, using generic ATX layout. And when MacTel notebooks finally show up, it'll have Intel Centrino Technology, which means everything above plus Intel Wifi.
While your machine may run OS X (snip), it will never match up with the quality, or the design. When you buy Apple you buy a Lexus. When you buy Dell, you buy a Kia.
Haha, I would love to see your face when MacTel boxes finally show up. Maybe then you would go out and buy a Hyundai!
First, the hyperlinks in the articles are actually advertisement links. Second, you cannot consolidate distributions when I can start my own distribution tomorrow.
Dear editors, can we please mod articles? Recently there have been numerous articles that are just thinly disguised advertisements and click-through magnets. Slashdot as a community deserves better.
Until something comes along that makes them irrelevant, the entry fee is too difficult and they won't be displaced.
I don't like being cliche, but I think what makes MS irrelevant is already here--the Internet. MS can already smell the change, but platform neutrality is here, and it will not go away--making MS and their software lock-in irrelevant.
If you don't believe me, check out google maps. There is a brilliant example of an internet applications that makes traditional OS/Software distribution bodies irrelevant. The future is already here:)
I have an even older PII 266 running on 192MB of RAM. KDE is really slow. So is Gnome. On Slackware. Fedora or Suse is impossible. Windows 2000, however, runs acceptably well so I use that. It even gets security updates (for now).
It used to be that linux was great running on old hardware. But now they are not. What is my alternative besides Windows 2000?
I second FreeBSD, but for a different reason: DOCUMENTATION.
I think FreeBSD by far has the best centralized documentation anywhere (gentoo is good, too--I think they try hard to model after FBSD). Between the Handbook for general How-To's and the man pages for nitty-gritty, you can do almost everything without googling.
I keep trying to learn Debian, but every time I give up because it's hard to find good up-to-date information.
This is a common misconception. Star Wars II in digital projection had a resoltion of 1280x1024. Many graphics cards can now do this resolution with very high polygon counts without much trouble.
What really differentiates PC/console graphics and render-farm graphics is in the physics engine. The article mentions this as well. The reason Pixar films look so great is because they have very detailed physics models that do a lot of particle interactions--ruffled clothing, waving hair, splashing water, etc. The next generation consoles will have the capability to do *some* of this.
Yes, it's true PC's can't do cinema type CG rendering, but not because of the reasons you give.
They seem cheaper than the ones mentioned in the article--$4/hr peak, $2/hr off peak, 44cents/mile. They run in the SF bay area, and are actually pretty good. I used to live near a convenient transit hub, so I hardly ever drove my car except for some grocery shopping and errands. But I still had to spend $$$ for my car, plus insurance etc. I would have loved something like this. Unfortunately, I moved out of the area, but my friends tell me thy are great
http://www.citycarshare.org/
They seem cheaper than the ones mentioned in the article--$4/hr peak, $2/hr off peak, 44cents/mile.
They run in the SF bay area, and are actually pretty good. I used to live near a convenient transit hub, so I hardly ever drove my car except for some grocery shopping and errands. But I still had to spend $$$ for my car, plus insurance etc.
Slashdot Mirror
LOL. This rides on top of EV-DO, not UMTS, so will be available a lot sooner than you allude. Sure, UMTS is long time coming in the US, but Verizon has already deployed EV-DO with avg 1Mbps bandwidth.
Also, unlike in Europe, in the US UMTS has to take away bandwidth from GSM to be functional, which will mean Verizon will continue eat Cingular's lunch for coverage and high-speed data.
He gave a talk at the Synthetic Biology seminar at UC Berkeley two weeks ago. The web cast is located here:e riesid=1906978261
http://webcast.berkeley.edu/courses/archive.php?s
It's titled "Programming Dynamic Function into Bacteria"
Yeah, but UCSF is about 300 miles away from UCLA. I'd say that's some stretch.
It's not just Microsoft giving kickbacks. Have you seen all the crap that comes "pre-installed" with a name brand PC? Each vendor paid something to get their icon on the desktop.
In fact, ($Windows - $crapware) might be a negative number, which might make a Windows box cheaper to make for the manufacturer than a no-os system.
May the Schwartz be be with your wireless transmission!
user: vmware
passwd: vmware
pretty easy guess, no?
from the console:
vmware@VMware-Ubuntu:~$ whoami
vmware
vmware@VMware-Ubuntu:~$
Still, one exceptional case does not a scientific evidence make.
Imagine a guy was hit by lightining and survived. Does that make lightning harmless?
In this case, a thorough scientific investigation is definately warranted. Imagine people getting stem cell injections in some third world country because of this one report? What if it really didn't work?
Your skepticism is well warranted. I have RTFA (univ access) and it reports one case study of a woman showing improvement after being treated with umbilical cord blood derived stem cells. It was not a true scientific study, with positive and negative controls, and a large sample size. I imagin the authors wanted to get themselves on record that they are working on this, and plan to do a better follow-up later. As such, they've excluded themselves from more prestigeous journals for a quick publication. Stem cell research is a highly competitive field at the moment, and sometimes getting there first and staking a claim is more important than doing it right.
Having said all that, it is definately intriguing nontheless. I sincerely hope the therapy pans out, both for the researchers and for the patients.
Longer songs should cost more because they have more bits :)
Serious, I want to pay by the Kilobyte. Lossless can cost more than 96kbps mp3. That's the kind of variable pricing I'm willing to pay for.
I think allofmp3 really had the right idea.
A Mac is the entire machine. It starts with the case, and moves to the (usually Apple designed) motherboard, the Apple designed Bluetooth, the Apple designe Firewire, the Apple designed WiFi modules, then moves on to the placement of fans, the duct work, the attention to details.
Do you think Dell designs their own motherboards? No, they just buy Intel's. When the MacTel boxes show up, it'll have Intel CPU, Intel Motherboard with integrated Firewire, integrated ethernet, using generic ATX layout. And when MacTel notebooks finally show up, it'll have Intel Centrino Technology, which means everything above plus Intel Wifi.
While your machine may run OS X (snip), it will never match up with the quality, or the design.
When you buy Apple you buy a Lexus. When you buy Dell, you buy a Kia.
Haha, I would love to see your face when MacTel boxes finally show up. Maybe then you would go out and buy a Hyundai!
Dumber the law, the harder it is to enforce.
First, the hyperlinks in the articles are actually advertisement links. Second, you cannot consolidate distributions when I can start my own distribution tomorrow.
Dear editors, can we please mod articles? Recently there have been numerous articles that are just thinly disguised advertisements and click-through magnets. Slashdot as a community deserves better.
...but a review written last year. Lame.
Obvious. Hilarity would insue.
Hmm... Is it me, or does the article sounds like a thinly disguised test marketing? Slashdot radio, anyone?
:)
(don't worry. I'll definately tune into slashdot radio. Better be free though.
Until something comes along that makes them irrelevant, the entry fee is too difficult and they won't be displaced.
:)
I don't like being cliche, but I think what makes MS irrelevant is already here--the Internet. MS can already smell the change, but platform neutrality is here, and it will not go away--making MS and their software lock-in irrelevant.
If you don't believe me, check out google maps. There is a brilliant example of an internet applications that makes traditional OS/Software distribution bodies irrelevant. The future is already here
Damn it, don't say it's anti-US venom, when you didn't RTFA! If you can't read French, try Babelfish. The translation is acceptable.
The writer is the president of the National Library of France. He's urging EU to spend money for a parellel project for Europe.
I have an even older PII 266 running on 192MB of RAM. KDE is really slow. So is Gnome. On Slackware. Fedora or Suse is impossible. Windows 2000, however, runs acceptably well so I use that. It even gets security updates (for now).
It used to be that linux was great running on old hardware. But now they are not. What is my alternative besides Windows 2000?
Don't worry, Pfizer is readying their TD (Tera-dose) viagra bottle.
I second FreeBSD, but for a different reason: DOCUMENTATION.
I think FreeBSD by far has the best centralized documentation anywhere (gentoo is good, too--I think they try hard to model after FBSD). Between the Handbook for general How-To's and the man pages for nitty-gritty, you can do almost everything without googling.
I keep trying to learn Debian, but every time I give up because it's hard to find good up-to-date information.
This is a common misconception. Star Wars II in digital projection had a resoltion of 1280x1024. Many graphics cards can now do this resolution with very high polygon counts without much trouble.
What really differentiates PC/console graphics and render-farm graphics is in the physics engine. The article mentions this as well. The reason Pixar films look so great is because they have very detailed physics models that do a lot of particle interactions--ruffled clothing, waving hair, splashing water, etc. The next generation consoles will have the capability to do *some* of this.
Yes, it's true PC's can't do cinema type CG rendering, but not because of the reasons you give.
Flame Wars
More often than not flame wars are precursor to forks
Right. That's why emacs forked from vi. I see that now.
The parent is modded +4 insightful?!?!?
Mr. Moderator, sir? I think it was a joke.
http://www.citycarshare.org/
They seem cheaper than the ones mentioned in the article--$4/hr peak, $2/hr off peak, 44cents/mile.
They run in the SF bay area, and are actually pretty good. I used to live near a convenient transit hub, so I hardly ever drove my car except for some grocery shopping and errands. But I still had to spend $$$ for my car, plus insurance etc. I would have loved something like this. Unfortunately, I moved out of the area, but my friends tell me thy are great
http://www.citycarshare.org/ They seem cheaper than the ones mentioned in the article--$4/hr peak, $2/hr off peak, 44cents/mile. They run in the SF bay area, and are actually pretty good. I used to live near a convenient transit hub, so I hardly ever drove my car except for some grocery shopping and errands. But I still had to spend $$$ for my car, plus insurance etc.