"[...] the Galaxy Nexus can record high-definition videos in 1080p — the best resolution you can get on a consumer camera. I had some fun taking sunset videos with a time-lapse feature, and there are some goofy filming effects to play around with, too."
"Generally, though, the Galaxy Nexus is a well-rounded smartphone that serves up a noticeably freshened-up version of Android with sleek hardware. Delicious, indeed."
"SEXY TIME social network Badoo has become the world's fourth-largest with over 132 million members worldwide and over 1 million in the UK. According to the Telegraph, Badoo is the 'Facebook for sex' but is also widely used as an ordinary social network. Apparently, a third of its British users admitted in a recent survey that they had "met someone for sex" through the web site. [...] Badoo is based in London and owned by a Russian entrepreneur called Andrey Andreev. It takes in about $100m a year in revenues."
Darwin's work is equal, at least, as it involves human history directly, and changed the peoples mind and views of themselves as an integral part of the whole that Newton described.
Newton was, of course, an important precursor, as were Linnaeus, Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler etc.
"In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6's echelons." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1340800/
Do what I want cause I can and if I don't because I wanna be ignored by the stiff and the bored because I'm gonna. Spit and retrieve cause I give and receive because I wanna gonna get through your head what the mystery man said because I'm gonna. Hate to say I told you so. I do believe I told you so. Now it's all out and you knew cause I wanted to. Turn my back on the rot that's been planning the plot - because I'm gonna. No need for me to wait - because I wanna. No need two, three and too late - because I'm gonna. Hate to say I told you so. I do believe I told you so. Do what I please gonna spread the disease because I wanna gonna call all the shots for the "No"s and the "Not"s because I wanna. Ask me once I'll answer twice cause what I know I'll tell because I wanna. Sound device and lots of ice I'll spell my name out loud because I wanna, oh yeah?
Hmmm is this, with The Hives song about computers, sound devices, and ice?
"The cantaloupe-sized cannonball missed the water, tore through a cinder-block wall, skipped off a hillside and flew some 700 yards east, right into the Tassajara Creek neighborhood, where children were returning home from school at 4:15 p.m., authorities said."
WTF is a cantaloupe?!
Ok, Google says melon...
Why not write that. Idiots. First I thought it was an island, about one tenth the size of Wales...
"The funny thing is, just because our planet supports life in this so-called 'habitable zone', doesn't mean life cannot thrive outside of this zone, until we actually have interstellar travel we'll never know for sure!"
Both Tucson and Phoenix seems to be habitable zones for aliens. Life appears to thriving well as far as i can tell from space (http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.888813,-111.489258&spn=1.399932,1.977539&t=h&vpsrc=6&z=9).
As they have been terraforming for decades, interstellar travels seem completely redundant.
"I wonder how much war rhetoric they would be spouting if the US didn't back them up."
I think they trust the old saying "It is better to have your people die for our cause, than to let our soldiers die for a lost cause". No, that was no old saying, i just made it up. Sorry.
"Cell phone, tablet processors are becoming more powerful by the day, much faster than the desktop processors. Will there be a day when tablet processors are as fast as the desktop ones and we would just be hooking phone/tablet to monitors? (though we should solve the heat dissipation problem)"
Never, with the reason is access to electricity, not necessarily the heat dissipation as such.
Still, the tablets of today may outperform the top-of-the-line CPUs of yesterday. But the time gap is there due to energy requirements, where the battery-powered line-up has the lower hand.
Still, the effect-size may not be that relevant in the very near future. If you can do whatever task that most people do, then the innate upper hand of a desktop CPU may not matter.
As it seems, former high-end tasks like 3D gaming, 1080p video etc is no real match for many slate CPUs. It will be the apps (tasks) that set the limits in the future too.
Yes, I haven't seen any references here or anywhere else either lately.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_cluster: "The name Beowulf originally referred to a specific computer built in 1994 by Thomas Sterling and Donald Becker at NASA. [...] There is no particular piece of software that defines a cluster as a Beowulf. Beowulf clusters normally run a Unix-like operating system, such as BSD, Linux, or Solaris, normally built from free and open source software. Commonly used parallel processing libraries include Message Passing Interface (MPI) and Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM). Both of these permit the programmer to divide a task among a group of networked computers, and collect the results of processing. Examples of MPI software include OpenMPI or MPICH. There are additional MPI implementations available. Beowulf systems are now deployed worldwide, chiefly in support of scientific computing."
Apparently, Beowuld clusters may be around, it is just that they don't go by that name any longer. I wonder what would be the latest buzzword for essentially the same thing?
"There are whole areas of medicine we only know because evil regimes like the Nazi Germany conducted experiments without care."
Tragically that includes the US Government, three years _after_ it had beaten the evil Nazis:
"President Obama this afternoon spoke with Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom to “express his deep regret” and “extend an apology to all those infected” following the revelation that the U.S. Public Health Service conducted a study from 1946 to 1948 in which near 700 prisoners, soldiers and patients with emotional and mental problems were purposefully infected with syphilis. The study also was sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, a forerunner of the Pan American Health Organization, and the Guatemalan government."
"An Ottawa physicist is using laser light to create truly random numbers much faster than other methods do, with obvious potential benefits to cryptography"
Slashdot Mirror
Does the German coast guard have any offices in Munich?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR0lWICH3rY
Waaay off topic. But I like it.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/12/14/financial/f150316S91.DTL
"[...] the Galaxy Nexus can record high-definition videos in 1080p — the best resolution you can get on a consumer camera. I had some fun taking sunset videos with a time-lapse feature, and there are some goofy filming effects to play around with, too."
"Generally, though, the Galaxy Nexus is a well-rounded smartphone that serves up a noticeably freshened-up version of Android with sleek hardware. Delicious, indeed."
"SEXY TIME social network Badoo has become the world's fourth-largest with over 132 million members worldwide and over 1 million in the UK. According to the Telegraph, Badoo is the 'Facebook for sex' but is also widely used as an ordinary social network. Apparently, a third of its British users admitted in a recent survey that they had "met someone for sex" through the web site. [...] Badoo is based in London and owned by a Russian entrepreneur called Andrey Andreev. It takes in about $100m a year in revenues."
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2132141/sex-social-network-fourth-largest
How do the pr0n sites make their $$$? Blackmail?
Darwin's work is equal, at least, as it involves human history directly, and changed the peoples mind and views of themselves as an integral part of the whole that Newton described.
Newton was, of course, an important precursor, as were Linnaeus, Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler etc.
FTFA - "The university had to undertake conservation work on some of the manuscripts, which were considered too fragile to be scanned"?!
WTF, so a handful of guest researchers in white cotton gloves every are less prone to damage the manuscript than a single scan?!
I doubt that.
This was the best option. Scan (or photograph them) them and put them on the web.
Clicking on their link "characters" gives you this embarrassing crap:
A - Character
B - Character
BATMAN
C - Character
CAPTAIN FUTURE
CAPTAIN HAZZARD
CAPTAIN JUSTICE
CAPTAIN MARVEL
CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT
CAPTAIN VIDEO
CAPTAIN ZERO
CARTER, NICK
D - Character
DALEKS
DOC SAVAGE
E - Character
F - Character
FANTÔMAS
FLASH GORDON
FORD, ASHTON
FU MANCHU
G - Character
GAMERA
GARTH
H - Character
HOLMES, SHERLOCK
I - Character
J - Character
JAMES BOND
JEFF HAWKE
JUDGE DREDD
K - Character
KEMLO
L - Character
M - Character
MODESTY BLAISE
N - Character
NICK CARTER
O - Character
P - Character
PERRY RHODAN
Q - Character
R - Character
RHODAN, PERRY
S - Character
SAINT, THE
SEXTON BLAKE LIBRARY
SHADOW, THE
SHE
SUPERMAN [character]
T - Character
TARZAN
TOM SWIFT
TRIFFID
TROUT, KILGORE
U - Character
V - Character
W - Character
X - Character
Y - Character
Z - Character
No Weihnacht for Apple!!!
na-na-na-na-na-na-na
bleeeehhh.
Could this be part of a marketing campaign?
"In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6's echelons." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1340800/
Just joking...
A link at the bottom is named
"Quiz: How smart are you? Test yourself with some National Assessment of Education Progress questions."
That has little to do with how smart you are, rather how educated you are.
I hate to say I told you so
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgsoymLte20
Do what I want cause I can and if I don't
because I wanna be ignored by the stiff and the bored
because I'm gonna.
Spit and retrieve cause I give and receive
because I wanna gonna get through your head what the mystery man said
because I'm gonna.
Hate to say I told you so.
I do believe I told you so.
Now it's all out and you knew cause I wanted to.
Turn my back on the rot that's been planning the plot - because I'm gonna.
No need for me to wait - because I wanna.
No need two, three and too late - because I'm gonna.
Hate to say I told you so.
I do believe I told you so.
Do what I please gonna spread the disease
because I wanna gonna call all the shots for the "No"s and the "Not"s
because I wanna.
Ask me once I'll answer twice cause what I know I'll tell
because I wanna.
Sound device and lots of ice I'll spell my name out loud
because I wanna, oh yeah?
Hmmm is this, with The Hives song about computers, sound devices, and ice?
As a KDE fanboi, I urge distros to start thinking of KDE as their main DE. Here is a video of Unity on KDE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtE3XlloLxU
No need for Gnome 3
KDE has all the features, editability, polish, backing, and relevant licenses (GPL/LGPL)
Molybdenite occurs together with Rhenium-187 which is radioactive. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molybdenite
Is that a serious issue here?
"The cantaloupe-sized cannonball missed the water, tore through a cinder-block wall, skipped off a hillside and flew some 700 yards east, right into the Tassajara Creek neighborhood, where children were returning home from school at 4:15 p.m., authorities said."
WTF is a cantaloupe?!
Ok, Google says melon...
Why not write that. Idiots. First I thought it was an island, about one tenth the size of Wales...
"The funny thing is, just because our planet supports life in this so-called 'habitable zone', doesn't mean life cannot thrive outside of this zone, until we actually have interstellar travel we'll never know for sure!"
Both Tucson and Phoenix seems to be habitable zones for aliens. Life appears to thriving well as far as i can tell from space (http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=32.888813,-111.489258&spn=1.399932,1.977539&t=h&vpsrc=6&z=9).
As they have been terraforming for decades, interstellar travels seem completely redundant.
"I wonder how much war rhetoric they would be spouting if the US didn't back them up."
I think they trust the old saying "It is better to have your people die for our cause, than to let our soldiers die for a lost cause". No, that was no old saying, i just made it up. Sorry.
"Cell phone, tablet processors are becoming more powerful by the day, much faster than the desktop processors. Will there be a day when tablet processors are as fast as the desktop ones and we would just be hooking phone/tablet to monitors? (though we should solve the heat dissipation problem)"
Never, with the reason is access to electricity, not necessarily the heat dissipation as such.
Still, the tablets of today may outperform the top-of-the-line CPUs of yesterday. But the time gap is there due to energy requirements, where the battery-powered line-up has the lower hand.
Still, the effect-size may not be that relevant in the very near future. If you can do whatever task that most people do, then the innate upper hand of a desktop CPU may not matter.
As it seems, former high-end tasks like 3D gaming, 1080p video etc is no real match for many slate CPUs. It will be the apps (tasks) that set the limits in the future too.
Yes, I haven't seen any references here or anywhere else either lately.
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beowulf_cluster: "The name Beowulf originally referred to a specific computer built in 1994 by Thomas Sterling and Donald Becker at NASA. [...] There is no particular piece of software that defines a cluster as a Beowulf. Beowulf clusters normally run a Unix-like operating system, such as BSD, Linux, or Solaris, normally built from free and open source software. Commonly used parallel processing libraries include Message Passing Interface (MPI) and Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM). Both of these permit the programmer to divide a task among a group of networked computers, and collect the results of processing. Examples of MPI software include OpenMPI or MPICH. There are additional MPI implementations available. Beowulf systems are now deployed worldwide, chiefly in support of scientific computing."
Apparently, Beowuld clusters may be around, it is just that they don't go by that name any longer. I wonder what would be the latest buzzword for essentially the same thing?
That is a very strange remark.
The heydays ended ten years ago:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Operating_systems_used_on_top_500_supercomputers.svg
The culprit? Linux.
"There are whole areas of medicine we only know because evil regimes like the Nazi Germany conducted experiments without care."
Tragically that includes the US Government, three years _after_ it had beaten the evil Nazis:
"President Obama this afternoon spoke with Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom to “express his deep regret” and “extend an apology to all those infected” following the revelation that the U.S. Public Health Service conducted a study from 1946 to 1948 in which near 700 prisoners, soldiers and patients with emotional and mental problems were purposefully infected with syphilis. The study also was sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, a forerunner of the Pan American Health Organization, and the Guatemalan government."
From http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2010/10/president-obama-apologizes-to-guatemalan-president-for-shocking-tragic-reprehensible-syphilis-study/
So much for high horses...
Brian, thanks for the answer and the important perspective - questionable gain!
It would also be nice to hear some perspectives on future Android compatibility with GTK/Qt/etc. :)
When will the Linux layer in Android be replaced another OS?
I don't trust Google in this matter since they don't use the standard kernel.
Apropos "corduroy roads", corduroy fabric in Danish is Jernbanefløjl, which translated literally means - railway velvet! :)
"but with a couple of its streaming multiprocessors fused off."
fused off? Really?!
I don't know how they would do that, except than rather not connecting them in the blueprints.
Or are they just "defect" 570 and 580 relabeled.
Prior art - thousands of peer reviewed journals. Nothing new in that.
The Nobel Prize nominations must be hard to overturn. Only prior winners and a few others may nominate.
"An Ottawa physicist is using laser light to create truly random numbers much faster than other methods do, with obvious potential benefits to cryptography"
Even faster, use neutrinos!
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2011/11/22/faster-than-light-neutrinos-confirmed-in-one-way-yes-in-another-no/
Or? Maybe the answer is random? Truly random!