So you're saing having a chip that uses 50% more power than its direct competitor and doesn't even beat it in a single benchmark isn't terrible? The Opterons beat the Paxvilles in every single test. Are you reading the same articles I am?
There was a story in the news in Australia a while back about a woman getting clocked at 130km/h (or aroundabouts) but the trouble was her car just doesn't go that fast, even on a flat road such as the airport they tested on. Needless to say the speeding ticket was thrown out.
Why does that matter if the average person can read it or not? Here's an analogy, the average person can't read laws as thoroughly as a Lawyer, so should the government just say "Don't worry, you don't need to know anything about these laws, you just have to go to jail when we say so."
This is used for defining guilt in a court of law, how it works in my opinion is extremely relevant, and people might like to hire a computer scientist to know the value of that definition. I'd bet most people would be quite pissed off if you told them they're going to jail because a little box says so and you have to take it on the little box's word and the word of the makers of the little box.
It is interesting though that people are complaining that a web site has news a full day late. Shows the effects that the internet has had on communication (as well as expectations of levels of communication).
sorry but it's just that you misinterpreted what I was meaning. I meant that the king can just whenever some prisoner turns the chalise over the king can just turn it back up, which means that when all the prisoners have done turning it over once the final number will only be (n-k). Instead of "decrease the counter" I should have written "decrease the maximum value the counter will achieve".
This guy used the tag to insert the javascript which slashdot also allows. Not that I'm wanting anyone to do something evil with it but I'm wondering could slashdot be susceptable to the same flaw they're reporting?
Oh my god, you mean that a site run by the Open Source Technology Group brings to the front page a story about the release of a major open source Linux distribution quicker than three leaked screenshots of an alpha that look exactly the same as what we've already seen? Bloody hell this is a catastrophe!
The problem with talking about Linux's "tiny market share" is that even though it's tiny relative to Microsoft it still adds up to millions of computers.
Sorry I misunderstood what the GP wrote, I thought he was claiming that IBM didn't coin the word fractal and though I still disagree that Mandelbrot wasn't a pioneer of fractal geometry my above post is quite irrelevent. Feel free to mod me down.
Anyway IBM has plenty of other stuff to brag about.
In the 1960s Benoît Mandelbrot started investigating self-similarity in papers such as How Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension. This built on earlier work by Lewis Fry Richardson. Taking a highly visual approach, Mandelbrot recognised connections between these previously unrelated strands of mathematics. In 1975 Mandelbrot coined the word fractal to describe self-similar objects which had no clear dimension. He derived the word fractal from the Latin fractus, meaning broken or irregular, and not from the word fractional, as is commonly believed. However, fractional itself is derived ultimately from fractus as well.
From the page on Benoît Mandelbrot
In 1958 the couple moved to the United States where Mandelbrot joined the research staff at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. He remained at IBM for the rest of his working life, becoming an IBM Fellow, and later Fellow Emeritus.
you have to use < like this: < otherwise it doesn't show. Just a little hint to the troll, I'm not sure whether I chuckle or get annoyed that the arsehole still pastes >1%!
I personally think campaign contributions should be totally disallowed. The main problem with it is they're simply buying laws, and it means the politicians act in the best interests of the corperations and the people paying them off, buying laws, instead of the best interests of the people.
The politicians are civil servants, which means they should be paid by taxes, not by corperations. They're the lawmakers so their allegences must be to the people.
At the moment you need to get permission from them first to interoperate (federate) with their server. According to the developer faq:
4. What other communication services will you federate with?
We plan to support open server-to-server federation. We do believe, however, that it is important to have the safeguards in place to ensure that we maintain a safe and reliable service that protects user privacy and blocks spam and other abuses. We are using the federation opportunity with EarthLink, Sipphone and other partners to develop a set of best practices by which all members of the federated network can work together to ensure that we protect our users while maximizing the reach of the network. We are also eager to hear from other people in the industry about how best to build a federation model that is open, scalable, and ensures best-in-class user experiences. If you have thoughts on federation or suggestions for how we can better enable open communications, please share them with us at the Google Talk Interoperability Google Group.
5. I am a communications service provider and want to federate with the Google Talk service. How do I proceed?
I think that the article is trying to say that its purpose is primarily to serve ads (ad-serving software), but it also gets information from the computer so many people label it spyware. I don't see why adware can't also be called spyware if the name also fits.
Getting a bit hazy on the definition of "dupe" aren't we? Next you're going to say "Vista released" is a dupe of "Longhorn Announced" or "Man lands on Mars" is a dupe of War of the Worlds.
I recently downloaded a few GTK programs (4 actually) over dial-up internet for my parents. If I had to download GTK every single time that would have added about 40MB to the download, which by my calculations is about 2 hours and 40 minutes of downloading. So basically *I* care!
Because that would defeat the purpose of GTK. There are other programs that are used on Windows that also use GTK, and since GTK is quite a hefty download it's very redundant to integrate GTK, and all those other programs would also have to integrate it. In other words, just because it's called the Gimp Tool Kit doesn't mean that only Gimp uses it.
As a sidenote what on earth are you talking about ""dependency hell" that Linux users have come to accept and Windows users never will". Have you been living in a hole for five years?
The biggest holdback at the moment is the very vast majority of consumer equipment like monitors and video cards can't handle more than 8 bit per channel. For 99.99% of use of graphics development software 8 bit per channel is enough.
Actually much of it is exclusive to Victoria there, except for the basic bullshit stereotypes there.
For example in Sydney we don't use the rhyming slang at all, it's considered very old here. We also don't call people "Bluey" so much. Again though I live out far west of Sydney in the lower Blue Mountains and then in South Sydney so that might be pecular to those locations in Sydney. Again though when I moved down to South Sydney there were a few words that really caught me out travelling a mere 50km.
And yes I *can* tell different accents from around Australia.
Slashdot Mirror
So you're saing having a chip that uses 50% more power than its direct competitor and doesn't even beat it in a single benchmark isn't terrible? The Opterons beat the Paxvilles in every single test. Are you reading the same articles I am?
sorry for my scratchy memory, thanks for correcting me!
There was a story in the news in Australia a while back about a woman getting clocked at 130km/h (or aroundabouts) but the trouble was her car just doesn't go that fast, even on a flat road such as the airport they tested on. Needless to say the speeding ticket was thrown out.
Why does that matter if the average person can read it or not? Here's an analogy, the average person can't read laws as thoroughly as a Lawyer, so should the government just say "Don't worry, you don't need to know anything about these laws, you just have to go to jail when we say so."
This is used for defining guilt in a court of law, how it works in my opinion is extremely relevant, and people might like to hire a computer scientist to know the value of that definition. I'd bet most people would be quite pissed off if you told them they're going to jail because a little box says so and you have to take it on the little box's word and the word of the makers of the little box.
It isn't really that much of an achievement to produce colours. All you need is the right colour filters and 3 times the density of dots. Simple.
It is interesting though that people are complaining that a web site has news a full day late. Shows the effects that the internet has had on communication (as well as expectations of levels of communication).
RedHat == Linux as much as Dell == Microsoft. In other words they're totally different even if they share good relations.
sorry but it's just that you misinterpreted what I was meaning. I meant that the king can just whenever some prisoner turns the chalise over the king can just turn it back up, which means that when all the prisoners have done turning it over once the final number will only be (n-k). Instead of "decrease the counter" I should have written "decrease the maximum value the counter will achieve".
Doesn't work since the King can artificially decrease the counter as well with his k flips.
This guy used the tag to insert the javascript which slashdot also allows. Not that I'm wanting anyone to do something evil with it but I'm wondering could slashdot be susceptable to the same flaw they're reporting?
Oh my god, you mean that a site run by the Open Source Technology Group brings to the front page a story about the release of a major open source Linux distribution quicker than three leaked screenshots of an alpha that look exactly the same as what we've already seen? Bloody hell this is a catastrophe!
The problem with talking about Linux's "tiny market share" is that even though it's tiny relative to Microsoft it still adds up to millions of computers.
Sorry I misunderstood what the GP wrote, I thought he was claiming that IBM didn't coin the word fractal and though I still disagree that Mandelbrot wasn't a pioneer of fractal geometry my above post is quite irrelevent. Feel free to mod me down.
Anyway IBM has plenty of other stuff to brag about.
From the page you linked:
Mandelbrot's contributions
In the 1960s Benoît Mandelbrot started investigating self-similarity in papers such as How Long Is the Coast of Britain? Statistical Self-Similarity and Fractional Dimension. This built on earlier work by Lewis Fry Richardson. Taking a highly visual approach, Mandelbrot recognised connections between these previously unrelated strands of mathematics. In 1975 Mandelbrot coined the word fractal to describe self-similar objects which had no clear dimension. He derived the word fractal from the Latin fractus, meaning broken or irregular, and not from the word fractional, as is commonly believed. However, fractional itself is derived ultimately from fractus as well.
From the page on Benoît Mandelbrot
In 1958 the couple moved to the United States where Mandelbrot joined the research staff at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. He remained at IBM for the rest of his working life, becoming an IBM Fellow, and later Fellow Emeritus.
you have to use < like this: < otherwise it doesn't show. Just a little hint to the troll, I'm not sure whether I chuckle or get annoyed that the arsehole still pastes >1%!
I personally think campaign contributions should be totally disallowed. The main problem with it is they're simply buying laws, and it means the politicians act in the best interests of the corperations and the people paying them off, buying laws, instead of the best interests of the people.
The politicians are civil servants, which means they should be paid by taxes, not by corperations. They're the lawmakers so their allegences must be to the people.
At the moment you need to get permission from them first to interoperate (federate) with their server. According to the developer faq:
4. What other communication services will you federate with?
We plan to support open server-to-server federation. We do believe, however, that it is important to have the safeguards in place to ensure that we maintain a safe and reliable service that protects user privacy and blocks spam and other abuses. We are using the federation opportunity with EarthLink, Sipphone and other partners to develop a set of best practices by which all members of the federated network can work together to ensure that we protect our users while maximizing the reach of the network. We are also eager to hear from other people in the industry about how best to build a federation model that is open, scalable, and ensures best-in-class user experiences. If you have thoughts on federation or suggestions for how we can better enable open communications, please share them with us at the Google Talk Interoperability Google Group.
5. I am a communications service provider and want to federate with the Google Talk service. How do I proceed?
Please contact us at federation@google.com.
The server has been pwned. Coral Cache works.
I think that the article is trying to say that its purpose is primarily to serve ads (ad-serving software), but it also gets information from the computer so many people label it spyware. I don't see why adware can't also be called spyware if the name also fits.
Funnily enough the Linux version of RealPlayer is excellent, not over bloated and not intrusive. I actually use it!
Getting a bit hazy on the definition of "dupe" aren't we? Next you're going to say "Vista released" is a dupe of "Longhorn Announced" or "Man lands on Mars" is a dupe of War of the Worlds.
I recently downloaded a few GTK programs (4 actually) over dial-up internet for my parents. If I had to download GTK every single time that would have added about 40MB to the download, which by my calculations is about 2 hours and 40 minutes of downloading. So basically *I* care!
Because that would defeat the purpose of GTK. There are other programs that are used on Windows that also use GTK, and since GTK is quite a hefty download it's very redundant to integrate GTK, and all those other programs would also have to integrate it. In other words, just because it's called the Gimp Tool Kit doesn't mean that only Gimp uses it.
As a sidenote what on earth are you talking about ""dependency hell" that Linux users have come to accept and Windows users never will". Have you been living in a hole for five years?
The biggest holdback at the moment is the very vast majority of consumer equipment like monitors and video cards can't handle more than 8 bit per channel. For 99.99% of use of graphics development software 8 bit per channel is enough.
Actually much of it is exclusive to Victoria there, except for the basic bullshit stereotypes there.
For example in Sydney we don't use the rhyming slang at all, it's considered very old here. We also don't call people "Bluey" so much. Again though I live out far west of Sydney in the lower Blue Mountains and then in South Sydney so that might be pecular to those locations in Sydney. Again though when I moved down to South Sydney there were a few words that really caught me out travelling a mere 50km.
And yes I *can* tell different accents from around Australia.