The articles "mtDNA Variation of Aboriginal Siberians Reveals Distinct
Genetic Affinities with Native Americans" and "Mitochondrial DNA Variation in the Aboriginal Populations of the Altai-Baikal Region
Implications for the Genetic History of North Asia
and America" from 2004 indicate that ALL native Americans have a single origin. I guess the controversy of single or dual origins lives on and if I understood it correctly the field is still open for reinterpretations.
From Groklaw (http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080511115151164):
"Microsoft has just approached the Blender guys, and I would assume have or will approach other FOSS projects since we learn that Microsoft has assigned a guy to work with Open Source projects, with a request for information on how to make Blender run better on Windows."
I hope all Blender developers read the rest.
Yesterday I installed KDE 4.0 on my corporate laptop!!! Next to Windows, without touching the partitions! All thanks to a small program called wubi and which makes it possible to install Kubuntu and the others _inside_ Windows partitions.
So far I have less than four hours of experience with KDE 4.0, but have only found minor details to complain about - like some menus don't get their contrasting font color if you switch to a dark colored widget style.
As Debian user I cannot say that Ubuntu is _easier_ to use than Debian. I don't understand why people pursue that mantra. Yes, it is easy to use, but so is Debian. But, without wubi in Sid I won't touch my partitions.
KDE 4.0 both look and work nice (so-far) and from what I hear 4.1 is even better. Sounds great!
"but we would not have flattened the world"
What?! I didn't expect a guy from The Flat Earth Society in a leading position at CERN, of all places. How quaint the world has become, in a Matrix-like fashion.
I had just read Groklaw's coverage on the SCO saga and was heading to Slashdot. No luck. I suspected some SCO-work, or some SCO-attack, or some major skunky SCO-headlines in general. No, I wouldn't have guessed a self-goal - "Slashdot slashdots itself!".;)
"This reaffirms the integrity of our oral history," Chief Strand said. "Our oral history needs to have a place in your scientific world."
What?! Most other "oral histories" have been written down by now. Hey, you! Chief Strand! Get yourself a laptop and start write! If you also install LaTeX you won't have to worry about not being scientific, as "LaTeX is the de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents." as read on http://www.latex-project.org/.
From http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9020942&pageNumber=1
"ColdFusion. This once-popular Web programming language -- released in the mid-1990s by Allaire Corp. (which was later purchased by Macromedia Inc., which itself was acquired by Adobe Systems Inc.) -- has since been superseded by other development platforms, including Microsoft Corp.'s Active Server Pages and.Net, as well as Java, Ruby on Rails, Python, PHP and other open-source languages. Debates continue over whether ColdFusion is as robust and scalable as its competitors, but nevertheless, premiums paid for ColdFusion programmers have dropped way off, according to Foote. "It was really popular at one time, but the market is now crowded with other products," he says"
So, it is counterintuitive with these new stats!
Who should one believe?
This is SO scary!
I had just been looking at Wikipedia looking up some obscure phenomenon, and went over to Slashdot. While the page is loading my thoughts drift and I think how important isn't Wikipedia, for now and the future. Someone should print it out and... What? A Slashdot article claims that someone will print the German edition. I manage to collect my thoughts and login, and, notice THIS article... I'm drifting in a black void by now...
We wikipedians have come to bring you back home...
Sorry for some digressions.
Still, the digital age must be preserved.
How? Continuously updating and using data! No more diskstorage of WordPerfecrt 1.17 files for ppc Mac 2.23 in a damp basement.
Use archive proof paper? 10,000,000,000 trees a months? Oh, what isn't the price for being future proof?
"as a public, for-profit company, Red Hat must create products and technologies with an eye on the bottom line, and with desktops this is much harder to do than with servers"
Hmmmm... We all knew that, but they they have to tell the world?;)
So, if I'm sent a promotional, but unrequested book, would it lose its copyright?!
I could photocopy it of course and give it to friends, possibly as an example of "promotional products handed over to me".
But, it sounds far reaching that it would lose its copyright.
If I'm sent unrequested GPL Code, which relies on copyright, I don't think that code would lose its copyright either.
"The oil ash and control reefs were constructed with the aid of divers in just one day, and monitoring of the reefs was carried out for one year. Leaching of trace metals from the blocks was extremely slow, and only limited instances of enhanced bioaccumulation of metals were observed. However, pressure from environmental groups led the electric power industry and the State of Florida to discontinue construction of artificial reefs from stabilized waste material."
I don't want to play this in the hands of waste mongers, but hope some could actually find some more conclusive results.
"Will POV-Ray render faster if I buy the latest and fastest 3D videocard?"
No.
3D-cards are not designed for raytracing. They read polygon meshes and then scanline-render them. Scanline rendering has very little, if anything, to do with raytracing. 3D-cards can't calculate typical features of raytracing as reflections etc. The algorithms used in 3D-cards have nothing to do with raytracing.
This means that you can't use a 3D-card to speed up raytracing (even if you wanted to do so). Raytracing makes lots of float number calculations, and this is very FPU-consuming. You will get much more speed with a very fast FPU than a 3D-card.
_ _
Ok, as this is a CPU hardware improvement it can be used by povray I guess.
Slashdot Mirror
Share the code that will hurt your worst opponent most! Pull the rug under him! :D
The articles "mtDNA Variation of Aboriginal Siberians Reveals Distinct Genetic Affinities with Native Americans" and "Mitochondrial DNA Variation in the Aboriginal Populations of the Altai-Baikal Region Implications for the Genetic History of North Asia and America" from 2004 indicate that ALL native Americans have a single origin. I guess the controversy of single or dual origins lives on and if I understood it correctly the field is still open for reinterpretations.
Ok, fine.
:)
Would you please care to explain why you have not done that experiment again, in six years?
Please don't spare us!
From Groklaw (http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080511115151164): "Microsoft has just approached the Blender guys, and I would assume have or will approach other FOSS projects since we learn that Microsoft has assigned a guy to work with Open Source projects, with a request for information on how to make Blender run better on Windows." I hope all Blender developers read the rest.
Fortran code, from 1954. I'm not sure if there is anything still around but it wouldn't surprise me.
Yesterday I installed KDE 4.0 on my corporate laptop!!! Next to Windows, without touching the partitions! All thanks to a small program called wubi and which makes it possible to install Kubuntu and the others _inside_ Windows partitions. So far I have less than four hours of experience with KDE 4.0, but have only found minor details to complain about - like some menus don't get their contrasting font color if you switch to a dark colored widget style. As Debian user I cannot say that Ubuntu is _easier_ to use than Debian. I don't understand why people pursue that mantra. Yes, it is easy to use, but so is Debian. But, without wubi in Sid I won't touch my partitions. KDE 4.0 both look and work nice (so-far) and from what I hear 4.1 is even better. Sounds great!
"but we would not have flattened the world" What?! I didn't expect a guy from The Flat Earth Society in a leading position at CERN, of all places. How quaint the world has become, in a Matrix-like fashion.
I had just read Groklaw's coverage on the SCO saga and was heading to Slashdot. No luck. I suspected some SCO-work, or some SCO-attack, or some major skunky SCO-headlines in general. No, I wouldn't have guessed a self-goal - "Slashdot slashdots itself!". ;)
"This reaffirms the integrity of our oral history," Chief Strand said. "Our oral history needs to have a place in your scientific world."
What?! Most other "oral histories" have been written down by now. Hey, you! Chief Strand! Get yourself a laptop and start write! If you also install LaTeX you won't have to worry about not being scientific, as "LaTeX is the de facto standard for the communication and publication of scientific documents." as read on http://www.latex-project.org/.
"...one cannot observe the number one" You must be correct, I have never seen one.
From http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9020942&pageNumber=1 "ColdFusion. This once-popular Web programming language -- released in the mid-1990s by Allaire Corp. (which was later purchased by Macromedia Inc., which itself was acquired by Adobe Systems Inc.) -- has since been superseded by other development platforms, including Microsoft Corp.'s Active Server Pages and .Net, as well as Java, Ruby on Rails, Python, PHP and other open-source languages. Debates continue over whether ColdFusion is as robust and scalable as its competitors, but nevertheless, premiums paid for ColdFusion programmers have dropped way off, according to Foote. "It was really popular at one time, but the market is now crowded with other products," he says"
So, it is counterintuitive with these new stats!
Who should one believe?
Here is a video of the speech by the Swedish Ambassador to the Nordic Council. It's not only wind in sails. or is it? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2ez11LkUwM
This is SO scary! I had just been looking at Wikipedia looking up some obscure phenomenon, and went over to Slashdot. While the page is loading my thoughts drift and I think how important isn't Wikipedia, for now and the future. Someone should print it out and... What? A Slashdot article claims that someone will print the German edition. I manage to collect my thoughts and login, and, notice THIS article... I'm drifting in a black void by now... We wikipedians have come to bring you back home... Sorry for some digressions. Still, the digital age must be preserved. How? Continuously updating and using data! No more diskstorage of WordPerfecrt 1.17 files for ppc Mac 2.23 in a damp basement. Use archive proof paper? 10,000,000,000 trees a months? Oh, what isn't the price for being future proof?
"which has the potential to replace silicon". Talk is cheap. Show me the stuff. Seriously, that phrase has been around for decades...
"as a public, for-profit company, Red Hat must create products and technologies with an eye on the bottom line, and with desktops this is much harder to do than with servers" Hmmmm... We all knew that, but they they have to tell the world? ;)
Almost anything by Microsoft is lightweight. ;)
Yes, I had misread the scenario. Thanks for the corrections. I guess I deserved that "(Score:-1, Offtopic)". :)
So, if I'm sent a promotional, but unrequested book, would it lose its copyright?! I could photocopy it of course and give it to friends, possibly as an example of "promotional products handed over to me". But, it sounds far reaching that it would lose its copyright. If I'm sent unrequested GPL Code, which relies on copyright, I don't think that code would lose its copyright either.
"Ironically, they complain that 'this would make the market far less competitive.'"
Ironically? I would have said "Cynically", even if for once Microsoft has a valid point!
.
Size does matter, but not here.
Some people just don't get how huge Europe is, about the size of the US. In some parts most people have broadband in others not. Just like in the US.
Richer, more densely populated parts tend to have more broadband. No matter the size, or the name space.
Hoopla, I tried for ten minutes find anything about the negative impacts of artificial reefs, using Google Scholar ( http://scholar.google.com/ ).
I used "artificial" and "reefs" in combinations with words like "bioaccumulation", "pcb", "tyres", "pollutants", "chemicals", etc.
Surprisingly, I only found statements like "needs more research", "no measurable effect" and no-brainers like that.
Could it be that I missed those true alarmist reports I guessed would be there?! One read like:
http://www.flseagrant.org/program_areas/ecosystem_health/artificial_reefs/index.htm#21
"The oil ash and control reefs were constructed with the aid of divers in just one day, and monitoring of the reefs was carried out for one year. Leaching of trace metals from the blocks was extremely slow, and only limited instances of enhanced bioaccumulation of metals were observed. However, pressure from environmental groups led the electric power industry and the State of Florida to discontinue construction of artificial reefs from stabilized waste material."
I don't want to play this in the hands of waste mongers, but hope some could actually find some more conclusive results.
Don't get me wrong. Play it safe, please.
.
Does this mean Global Warming discussions will be replaced by Global Boiling? Even greater headlines!
Sorry, but I will blame Microsoft.
;)
It may be a knee-jerk reaction, but still.
Ballroom Blitz goes at about 120 bpm, but I have not heard it in nature. Maybe it is different there.
"What do you mean battle? They will happily use this hardware effects for faster rendering!"
How is that? Didn't realize that!
From: http://tag.povray.org/povQandT/miscQandT.html
_ _
"Will POV-Ray render faster if I buy the latest and fastest 3D videocard?"
No.
3D-cards are not designed for raytracing. They read polygon meshes and then scanline-render them. Scanline rendering has very little, if anything, to do with raytracing. 3D-cards can't calculate typical features of raytracing as reflections etc. The algorithms used in 3D-cards have nothing to do with raytracing.
This means that you can't use a 3D-card to speed up raytracing (even if you wanted to do so). Raytracing makes lots of float number calculations, and this is very FPU-consuming. You will get much more speed with a very fast FPU than a 3D-card.
_ _
Ok, as this is a CPU hardware improvement it can be used by povray I guess.