Also, there's a big difference between tracking you when you're in a public space (like a road) and installing a camera into your home so policemen can watch you jack off.
There are lots of places you can drive that aren't public. I own my driveway, for example. Any given parking lot is probably privately owned. What if you drive to Canada, or Mexico? A lot of ships will even let you bring your car along with you if you travel overseas. Is it ethical for your government to track you even if you're in a different country? Surveillance along public roads is one thing, if the surveillance was attached to the road, and not to your car (that you own), although I would have a whole separate set of reasons why that's a bad idea too.
Although I doubt this will see deployment by 2010, if it does, it will be in Tokyo or some other extremely high-density area. Why doesn't the FCC get off their ass and mandate this kind of thing? First of all, it's a Japanese company that's developing it. Second of all, America is so sparsely populated that even regular broadband is typically not economically feasible in many areas, let alone cutting edge technology. You'll get your Tb/s connection when it sees deployment in areas that make more sense first, and eventually the price will come down and it'll make its way to the states. I wouldn't count on it for a long time.
As an aside, if you don't want to hear about things you want but will never have, stop reading Slashdot. =)
A better method for cleaning your cartridges is to use rubbing alcohol, or anything with alcohol in it (I used Febreeze on a number of occasions and it worked great.) Just put some on a q-tip and scrub away. You'll know it's working because the q-tip will turn a different color after you clean the connectors. Green I think.
I used Febreeze on a faulty GBA link connector recently and it worked like a charm. You'll never have to blow on your games again!
Although not a "silent film" per se, an interesting French movie that came out in 2003 is The Triplets of Belleville. There is a small bit of spoken French scattered throughout the movie, but very little. For the most part you can watch it and fully understand what's going on even if you don't speak French, because they did a very good job of communicating the characters' feelings and other plot elements without the use of words. I'd recommend it to anyone.
The Phantom 500 has been bumped up from 350W to 500W but has number of other interesting changes, the most important of which is the addition of a fan. This means this power supply is no longer fanless but is Antec has still labeled it as "silent".
The article didn't say it works under UV only when by itself, it just said UV light has to be present, presumably mixed in with other light. Like from the sun.
It's not just whether a good programmer is better than an average programmer. The good programmer is going to be much more expensive to hire than the average programmer. TFA talks about why trying to cut costs on programmers doesn't pay off in the long run.
Have they thought about redefining the length of a second
The second is one of the fundamental units in the metric system. Many other units and constants are based on the second. For example, the speedometer in your car shows miles per hour, the speed of light is given in meters per second, etc. If we changed the value of the second, then either:
a. We'd be forcing the world scientific community to relearn an entire set of new constants, or, more likely,
b. There would be two definitions of the 'second', the US definition and the scientific definition.
I don't think either of these is really what we want.
But that's weaker, angled sunlight. The sun shines directly overhead at the Tropic of Cancer (on the summer solstice) and works its way back down to the equator (on the equinox) from there.
There's a radio tower next to a highway near where I live. Whoever built it decided to put some branches and some needles on it to make it look like a tree.
You can tell it's a radio tower. It's the one tree that's twice as tall as all of the other trees, plus it looks fake. If anything, it's more of an eyesore.
Hiring a few hundred employees at the good salary of 100k would mean Microsoft would be spending 50 million dollars on these salaries. Microsoft pulls in tens of billions of dollars each year. This amounts to spending less than half of a percent of their revenues on employees. If they hired cheaper labor, they might save half of this. Do you think that's their primary goal here? Do you think they might just be looking for more skilled coders?
How exactly do you evolve the ability to evolve? That would presuppose that you had the ability to evolve in the first place, but if you never had the ability to evolve then you certainly couldn't develop it, and... and... MY HEAD HURTS.
That's the fundamental problem of BitTorrent: no incentive for seeds to stay.
This isn't really a *problem* at all. Sure, it means that your BT download might not go as fast as if they seeds stuck around. However, in the worst case, BitTorrent speeds simply break down to FTP levels (i.e. everyone is getting their chunks directly from one central copy.) Anyway, it's their bandwidth, they don't have to seed if they don't want to.
To review,
worst case: as good as FTP
best case: WAY better than FTP
What you said is completely false. BitTorrent uses either Random First, i.e. selects a random chunk to download, or Rarest First, i.e. downloads the chunk that the fewest clients have. It definitely does NOT go linearly from beginning to end of file. If it stalls around 90%, this is only because there are some chunks which are much more rare than others.
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They look like pure sex. They have COX
I don't even know where to begin making a joke about this.
Also, there's a big difference between tracking you when you're in a public space (like a road) and installing a camera into your home so policemen can watch you jack off.
There are lots of places you can drive that aren't public. I own my driveway, for example. Any given parking lot is probably privately owned. What if you drive to Canada, or Mexico? A lot of ships will even let you bring your car along with you if you travel overseas. Is it ethical for your government to track you even if you're in a different country? Surveillance along public roads is one thing, if the surveillance was attached to the road, and not to your car (that you own), although I would have a whole separate set of reasons why that's a bad idea too.
Although I doubt this will see deployment by 2010, if it does, it will be in Tokyo or some other extremely high-density area. Why doesn't the FCC get off their ass and mandate this kind of thing? First of all, it's a Japanese company that's developing it. Second of all, America is so sparsely populated that even regular broadband is typically not economically feasible in many areas, let alone cutting edge technology. You'll get your Tb/s connection when it sees deployment in areas that make more sense first, and eventually the price will come down and it'll make its way to the states. I wouldn't count on it for a long time.
As an aside, if you don't want to hear about things you want but will never have, stop reading Slashdot. =)
A better method for cleaning your cartridges is to use rubbing alcohol, or anything with alcohol in it (I used Febreeze on a number of occasions and it worked great.) Just put some on a q-tip and scrub away. You'll know it's working because the q-tip will turn a different color after you clean the connectors. Green I think.
I used Febreeze on a faulty GBA link connector recently and it worked like a charm. You'll never have to blow on your games again!
So CGDAAADAACG that you may find in nature, you get CGAAAAACG
I want to play my entire DNA sequence on my piano.
Then I highly recommend Yngwie Malmsteen's Concerto Suite for Electric Guitar.
Although not a "silent film" per se, an interesting French movie that came out in 2003 is The Triplets of Belleville. There is a small bit of spoken French scattered throughout the movie, but very little. For the most part you can watch it and fully understand what's going on even if you don't speak French, because they did a very good job of communicating the characters' feelings and other plot elements without the use of words. I'd recommend it to anyone.
Quantum computers to be obselete by 2025. You heard it here first.
From TFA:
The Phantom 500 has been bumped up from 350W to 500W but has number of other interesting changes, the most important of which is the addition of a fan. This means this power supply is no longer fanless but is Antec has still labeled it as "silent".
But desktops can deliver a few things that mobiles can't....like not burning your laptop...
You know, you can put your laptop on a desk, just like your desktop.
Peanut M&Ms are bigger. If he hadn't specified which flavor, that could have thrown off the whole experiment!
The article didn't say it works under UV only when by itself, it just said UV light has to be present, presumably mixed in with other light. Like from the sun.
It's not just whether a good programmer is better than an average programmer. The good programmer is going to be much more expensive to hire than the average programmer. TFA talks about why trying to cut costs on programmers doesn't pay off in the long run.
Have they thought about redefining the length of a second
The second is one of the fundamental units in the metric system. Many other units and constants are based on the second. For example, the speedometer in your car shows miles per hour, the speed of light is given in meters per second, etc. If we changed the value of the second, then either:
a. We'd be forcing the world scientific community to relearn an entire set of new constants, or, more likely,
b. There would be two definitions of the 'second', the US definition and the scientific definition.
I don't think either of these is really what we want.
Here come the Korea jokes.
The Windows monopoly saves the world at least $500 billion a year in compatibility costs.
Wow. And where'd you get that number, pray tell?
But that's weaker, angled sunlight. The sun shines directly overhead at the Tropic of Cancer (on the summer solstice) and works its way back down to the equator (on the equinox) from there.
I tried out Dvorak for a little while once. Let me tell you, WASD doesn't feel nearly as natural as it used to.
Below 55, your gas mileage gets better the faster you go. After 55 it starts to drop off. There's a neat graph here.
There's a radio tower next to a highway near where I live. Whoever built it decided to put some branches and some needles on it to make it look like a tree.
You can tell it's a radio tower. It's the one tree that's twice as tall as all of the other trees, plus it looks fake. If anything, it's more of an eyesore.
Hiring a few hundred employees at the good salary of 100k would mean Microsoft would be spending 50 million dollars on these salaries. Microsoft pulls in tens of billions of dollars each year. This amounts to spending less than half of a percent of their revenues on employees. If they hired cheaper labor, they might save half of this. Do you think that's their primary goal here? Do you think they might just be looking for more skilled coders?
One more point. Try and find a way to stop scanning and report those that do to some central internet authority. Oh , forgot........Don't have one.
I would be extremely frightened if we did.
How exactly do you evolve the ability to evolve? That would presuppose that you had the ability to evolve in the first place, but if you never had the ability to evolve then you certainly couldn't develop it, and... and... MY HEAD HURTS.
That's the fundamental problem of BitTorrent: no incentive for seeds to stay. This isn't really a *problem* at all. Sure, it means that your BT download might not go as fast as if they seeds stuck around. However, in the worst case, BitTorrent speeds simply break down to FTP levels (i.e. everyone is getting their chunks directly from one central copy.) Anyway, it's their bandwidth, they don't have to seed if they don't want to. To review, worst case: as good as FTP best case: WAY better than FTP
http://sailes.co.uk/sy22/bittorrent.htm
What you said is completely false. BitTorrent uses either Random First, i.e. selects a random chunk to download, or Rarest First, i.e. downloads the chunk that the fewest clients have. It definitely does NOT go linearly from beginning to end of file. If it stalls around 90%, this is only because there are some chunks which are much more rare than others.