I know it can be very difficult for outsiders to understand how starved for cash English universities have been for over 20 years. My brother-in-law, as it happens, was on the Civil Engineering faculty at Southampton University through the 1980s and most of the 1990s, so I know the struggle there was for cash.
I think the building in question is this one here, based on the BBC press report. Note that this is a virtual reality view, not a static image so you can pan the view and pan in and out. While hard to tell, I would guess this is an adapted 1970s era building.
If it had been in Cambridge University, it might well have been a medieval building. At Southampton, it was probably no more than 50 years old. What goes on inside a building is not usually greatly affected by its external shell, except for the likely need for upgraded utilities.
Universities in England have been seriously strapped for cash for over 20 years. They certainly would need to use existing buildings, and I would have been surprised to learn they had managed to afford modern fire suppression systems.
I understand your point. It works well in a situation where the number of movies offered is strictly limited. But, if you consider the case (that I expect will apply in the future) where the user can choose freely from a vast library, multicast is no longer a solution.
My first reaction was that the actions of NSTA were unreasonable. I still think they may be unenforceable, depending on the length of the sections taken from the NSTA Pathways. However, NSTA has a valid point I think. By allowing their materials to be intermingled with (what they see as) unscientific nonsense, there is a risk both of confusing the audience and affecting their own credibility. Hopefully, sense will prevail and the views of scientists allowed to shape the science curriculum in the Kansas school system.
If one thinks of streaming full size movies on demand to homes, even assuming 100% use of bandwidth (impossible) infrastructure able to transfer a two hour movie in 0.5 seconds would only support 14,400 concurrent users. By 2010, the demands per user may even be higher with the need to serve up virtual reality type applications.
If only 10 gigabit upload service for the user was widely available, one could imagine some great solutions to the problem of offsite backups (perhaps 20 minutes per terrabyte, allowing for necessary overhead in the transfer). Could this be Google's challenge for the next decade?
If you are using someone else'e powerpoint presentation, install the PowerPoint Viewer under Wine. If it is your own presentation, develop it using something more portable. In my experience, the only times it gets tricky are
you regularly have existing PowerPoint presentations that you must modify;
there are complex PowerPoint presentations with hooks to Windows only features, such as VBA.
It may be possible to use Crossover Office if you are in such a position, but that is not always a total solution and anyway always seems to me to be illogical as a long term solution. After all, the whole point of a Linux move is to escape proprietary solutions, not perpetuate them.
Really, though, the existence of weird and wonderful Excel applications is usually a bigger obstacle to a conversion than the need to display some PowerPoint slides.
... will only carry out character assassination against those companies and individuals that the powers that be want smeared. Establishment organisations have always been against true free speech while paying lip service to supporting it.
There is one challenge here that should not be underestimated: which operating system would they use? Google, with very smart people, was able to adapt Linux (an operating system suitable for supercomputing) to the task. Trying to create something 100x larger around Windows strikes me as unlikely to succeed, and if Microsoft was to revert to Linux (or BSD) to solve the problem (still hard) can you imagine how the world would laugh at them.
The third future project at ATI is dramatically improved support for the GPGPU scene. These are researches, mostly academic, that are tapping into the massive parallel computing power of graphics processors for general computing tasks, like fluid dynamics calculations, protein folding, or audio and signal processing. ATI's new GPU architecture should be better at GPGPU tasks than any that has come before, as it provides more registers per pipeline than either ATI's old architecture or Nvidia's new one. This is a sore spot for GPGPU developers but not really a limitation for game makers. The improved performance of dynamic branching in the new architecture should be a huge win for GPGPU applications as well. Developers working to enable general purpose non-graphics applications on GPUs have lamented the lack of more direct access to the hardware, but ATI plans to remedy that by publishing a detailed spec and even a thin "close to the metal" abstraction layer for these coders
The 2003 Chinese directive that government ministries must use exclusively locally developed or open source software was not just based on perceived better code quality or cost. The Chinese authorities at the time (and probably still now) were very concerned about possible backdoors for US security agencies in US closed source products. IMHO, their concerns have some merit. A Google search for "Lew Giles" is interesting.
As far as I can tell, the "invention" that requires patent protection is the extension of pre-existing ideas to a prepaid wireless system. Presumably, they could not patent an identical method for postpaid wireless systems or for prepaid wired connections due to prior art.
Supporters of the patent system claim that companies are only willing to make the investments in R&D necessary to technological progress if the discoveries that result are properly rewarded. To me, hundreds of millions of dollars seems like an excessive reward for finding such an "inventive step".
Was anyone else surprised that the key reason for using KDE components was the small footprint of the rendering engine? I had not considered KDE terrible in this regard, but I am shocked that it is considered superior to the alternatives.
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there is no editor more powerful than vi(m). The proof is that vi can be used to emulate a turing machine.
To act as devil's advocate, the fact that a program can emulate a Turing machine is not absolute proof that it is well suited to editing files. For instance, how would you like to use 8088 assembler to edit your program source?
I have mixed feelings about vi. It is a good editor, but it is a formidable strain on the memory cells. I prefer an editor that is more intuitive for basic editing but which has strong macro language support for power use.
The same kinds of concerns you raise could also be used with respect to libraries or even printing presses. Progress is impossible without limited negative consequences. The important thing is that the negative is out balanced by the positive and that deliberate evil should be avoided. I may be naive, but I believe Google when they claim they try not to do evil. I think they are actually unusual among US corporations in having that attitude.
Without wishing in any way to denigrate the Viaduc de Millau, it is not comparable to the Japanese bridge in engineering difficulty. The French effort is the highest bridge, but the Japanese bridge consists of three spans of 960, 1991 and 960 metres respectively. A main span of almost two kilometres is a formidible challenge under any circumstances, and especially when it must be built to withstand an 8.5 magnitude earthquake with an epicentre within 150 kilometres.
Yahoo had chat rooms specifically for minors. I fail to see why you should consider these somewhere minors do not belong. If anything, you can expect more kids in adult chat rooms because they no longer have the option of monitored chat rooms created for them specifically.
However, they do have a responsibility to the sharehoders to get everything that they can get in order to return maximum profits
IYHO, is there any limit to what they should resort to in the search for maximum profits? If they can steal an artist's work without paying for it, is this their responsibility if they can get away with it?
I believe record companies are a part of society, and I think society should have some morals other than cheating and stealing their way to as much cash as possible. If that sound un-American, well sorry: I am a European, and happy to resist certain aspects of American influence.
Does this mean it tells you how long the program lasts? Or does it perhaps indicate that E=mc^2 contains six characters? Surely the editors would have picked up on nonsense implying a lengthy precis of the program.
The Aki allows communication only by gestures. The SURV1 is completely waterproof. I guess if you could combine these features in one phone, you would have the ideal device to call for help if you get in trouble while diving.
I am having real difficulty coming up with any other practical benefits to any of these devices.
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I think the building in question is this one here, based on the BBC press report. Note that this is a virtual reality view, not a static image so you can pan the view and pan in and out. While hard to tell, I would guess this is an adapted 1970s era building.
Universities in England have been seriously strapped for cash for over 20 years. They certainly would need to use existing buildings, and I would have been surprised to learn they had managed to afford modern fire suppression systems.
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I understand your point. It works well in a situation where the number of movies offered is strictly limited. But, if you consider the case (that I expect will apply in the future) where the user can choose freely from a vast library, multicast is no longer a solution.
Was that really English to Spanish and back to English using freetranslation.com? Considering the errors in the original, it did a really good job.
My first reaction was that the actions of NSTA were unreasonable. I still think they may be unenforceable, depending on the length of the sections taken from the NSTA Pathways. However, NSTA has a valid point I think. By allowing their materials to be intermingled with (what they see as) unscientific nonsense, there is a risk both of confusing the audience and affecting their own credibility. Hopefully, sense will prevail and the views of scientists allowed to shape the science curriculum in the Kansas school system.
If only 10 gigabit upload service for the user was widely available, one could imagine some great solutions to the problem of offsite backups (perhaps 20 minutes per terrabyte, allowing for necessary overhead in the transfer). Could this be Google's challenge for the next decade?
- you regularly have existing PowerPoint presentations that you must modify;
- there are complex PowerPoint presentations with hooks to Windows only features, such as VBA.
It may be possible to use Crossover Office if you are in such a position, but that is not always a total solution and anyway always seems to me to be illogical as a long term solution. After all, the whole point of a Linux move is to escape proprietary solutions, not perpetuate them.Really, though, the existence of weird and wonderful Excel applications is usually a bigger obstacle to a conversion than the need to display some PowerPoint slides.
... will only carry out character assassination against those companies and individuals that the powers that be want smeared. Establishment organisations have always been against true free speech while paying lip service to supporting it.
There is one challenge here that should not be underestimated: which operating system would they use? Google, with very smart people, was able to adapt Linux (an operating system suitable for supercomputing) to the task. Trying to create something 100x larger around Windows strikes me as unlikely to succeed, and if Microsoft was to revert to Linux (or BSD) to solve the problem (still hard) can you imagine how the world would laugh at them.
The 2003 Chinese directive that government ministries must use exclusively locally developed or open source software was not just based on perceived better code quality or cost. The Chinese authorities at the time (and probably still now) were very concerned about possible backdoors for US security agencies in US closed source products. IMHO, their concerns have some merit. A Google search for "Lew Giles" is interesting.
Supporters of the patent system claim that companies are only willing to make the investments in R&D necessary to technological progress if the discoveries that result are properly rewarded. To me, hundreds of millions of dollars seems like an excessive reward for finding such an "inventive step".
The patents is question are 5,722,067 filed in 1998 and 6,157,823 filed in 2000.
The lack of any attention to security in software written by Microsoft was scarcely worth a mention.
Was anyone else surprised that the key reason for using KDE components was the small footprint of the rendering engine? I had not considered KDE terrible in this regard, but I am shocked that it is considered superior to the alternatives.
I have mixed feelings about vi. It is a good editor, but it is a formidable strain on the memory cells. I prefer an editor that is more intuitive for basic editing but which has strong macro language support for power use.
The same kinds of concerns you raise could also be used with respect to libraries or even printing presses. Progress is impossible without limited negative consequences. The important thing is that the negative is out balanced by the positive and that deliberate evil should be avoided. I may be naive, but I believe Google when they claim they try not to do evil. I think they are actually unusual among US corporations in having that attitude.
Without wishing in any way to denigrate the Viaduc de Millau, it is not comparable to the Japanese bridge in engineering difficulty. The French effort is the highest bridge, but the Japanese bridge consists of three spans of 960, 1991 and 960 metres respectively. A main span of almost two kilometres is a formidible challenge under any circumstances, and especially when it must be built to withstand an 8.5 magnitude earthquake with an epicentre within 150 kilometres.
- mothball partially completed projects and try to restart them in a couple of years with new staff
- or, complete projects using the researchers that have been working on them from the start?
A hiring freeze combined with postponing new projects might make sense, but breaking up top research teams is stupid.Maybe some organisation with some foresight (such as Google or IBM) can use the opportunity to pick up quality talent and use it effectively.
I think, if you tried to pin them down, they would say God created a prototype but they improved it by removing unnecessary elements.
Yahoo had chat rooms specifically for minors. I fail to see why you should consider these somewhere minors do not belong. If anything, you can expect more kids in adult chat rooms because they no longer have the option of monitored chat rooms created for them specifically.
IYHO, is there any limit to what they should resort to in the search for maximum profits? If they can steal an artist's work without paying for it, is this their responsibility if they can get away with it?
I believe record companies are a part of society, and I think society should have some morals other than cheating and stealing their way to as much cash as possible. If that sound un-American, well sorry: I am a European, and happy to resist certain aspects of American influence.
Does this mean it tells you how long the program lasts? Or does it perhaps indicate that E=mc^2 contains six characters? Surely the editors would have picked up on nonsense implying a lengthy precis of the program.
The Aki allows communication only by gestures. The SURV1 is completely waterproof. I guess if you could combine these features in one phone, you would have the ideal device to call for help if you get in trouble while diving.
I am having real difficulty coming up with any other practical benefits to any of these devices.