One would think, after seeing Bill Gates' TED talk, he would be spending his money in projects that would ultimately help to... kill most of us.. no kidding. He blatantly said so.
http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html 3:57 - 4:50
Look at Japanese cars: same thing.
If they design a car for Europe, it'll be underdesigned in our view. This is because a westerner tries to look at the whole and form a feel for the car/website.
A Jap however will look at all the details seperately, and unite them to a whole in his head.
Something like that.
The oil film will be dispersed in small droplets which intermix with the seawater. The oil is then not only distributed in two dimensions but is dispersed in three and it is about 10 times as toxic.
That is not entirely correct. There is a period after Galileo's discovery called the Maunder Minimum where sunspots "became exceedingly rare", from wikipedia:
The Maunder Minimum (also known as the prolonged sunspot minimum) is the name used for the period roughly spanning 1645 to 1715 by John A. Eddy in a landmark 1976 paper published in Science titled "The Maunder Minimum",[1] when sunspots became exceedingly rare, as noted by solar observers of the time. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum
The title of this story is misleading and the story is as well. Pirates copy DVD's, not create new consumer electronics products.
You couldn't be more wrong, pirates are those guys who steal treasure from ships, at sea. Not even a person robbing a train is called a "pirate", he's called a train robber;)
Pirates and IP violation have nothing in common, it's just a demonisation term, invented by the RIAA, stop acknowledging it.
I bet they knew it was illegal in Europe before they even started news.google.(eu country).
Several European news scrapers exist right now, perfectly legal.
There was a case in 2000 where kranten.com got sued by 6 dutch newspapers (english translation of the verdict for deeplinking to articles.
Since then, we know pretty much what we can and can't do.
You can deeplink to articles if you supply the source, and if it opens in a new window. In Denmark someone was found guilty when using frames, and 'thus made it look like the articles where from his website'.
Now consider, Europe doesn't have a "Fair Use" policy, that' the United States.
By caching articles, Google went way over the line if you look at it from this perspective, doesn't it?
"He then proceeds on to the standard "argument from conditional probability" where the universe has exactly these constants because if it didn't we wouldn't be here to see it. Which is a comfortable thing to believe but isn't predictive science."
There's another way to look at that:
Say if the "universe" tried _every_ possible setting (every combination of all the possible variables), and if just in one of these (for lack of a better word) "dimensions" there would evolve intelligent life, where would be the place where they would start thinking about the universe? Exactly there where everything seems to fit.
Even better: an egg is basically just a cell, so you can change the question to:
"what came first: single-celled organisms or multi-celled animals?"
After all, growing from a cell to a full grown up organism is basically the same as repeating your species' evolution real fast. In the womb we all have been a fish, an amphibian, a reptile,...
BTW: birds are descendants from dinosaurs, and (i know some) dinosaurs laid eggs. So the question in the first place should have been: which came first: the egg or the dinosaur?
Indeed, all I want is the same desktop that I have right now, but with the rendering done by my 6800GT, effectively saving me CPU cycles.
I have run the "wobbly windows" XGL thing on my machine, and dragging windows in it IS a lot less CPU intensive (from 50% to about 15% CPU, but I have a HT enabled).
It may not seem like a big deal to some, but being able to write more or less equally capable code in VB.NET, C#, J#, C++, Python, or a long list of other languages really does increase adoption.
That's why indeed.NET looks very interesting, but it STILL remains a microsoft product.
Personally I'm still hoping the parrot will come along soon.
From TFA: It had to be called something. Before, it was based on a previous product called SIM OS for PowerPC®, and we had to have a new name for it when we made it an IBM-only, proprietary tool. So, it was just a name that didn't have the word SIM in it, since there are so many simulators that have 'SIM' in their name. Then, for alphaWorks, we were forced to give it a more docile name. So, on alphaWorks I guess there is a reference that internally we call it Mambo, but it's called the IBM Full-System Simulator for Cell, or systemsim.
If I'm not mistaking this is the same Canadian ex-defence minister who commented on the tether incident footage. He didn't look mentally disturbed at all, probably because the footage itself is absolutely amazing. A real eye-opener.
Your example is wrong. If a filename had spaces, your script would surely fail. With Monad using objects, it would encapsulate the filename into a single string object and therefor be opened up correctly in excel.
So do this (handles filenames with embedded spaces just fine now)
Slashdot Mirror
I've always wondered, could you attach 2 smartphones on either side of say, a stick, in order to create a guitarlike instrument.
The key general marketing trends so far, as I see it:
turbo
quantum
eco
3D
Missed some? What's next?
One would think, after seeing Bill Gates' TED talk, he would be spending his money in projects that would ultimately help to ... kill most of us.. no kidding. He blatantly said so.
http://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html 3:57 - 4:50
He took on that nickname after the fact, obviously.
On irc, this nickname was first seen 2 days ago.
Look at Japanese cars: same thing. If they design a car for Europe, it'll be underdesigned in our view. This is because a westerner tries to look at the whole and form a feel for the car/website. A Jap however will look at all the details seperately, and unite them to a whole in his head. Something like that.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=155111&cid=13002073
Wikipedia has some intersting info about this particular dispersant:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corexit
The oil film will be dispersed in small droplets which intermix with the seawater. The oil is then not only distributed in two dimensions but is dispersed in three and it is about 10 times as toxic.
That is not entirely correct. There is a period after Galileo's discovery called the Maunder Minimum where sunspots "became exceedingly rare", from wikipedia:
The Maunder Minimum (also known as the prolonged sunspot minimum) is the name used for the period roughly spanning 1645 to 1715 by John A. Eddy in a landmark 1976 paper published in Science titled "The Maunder Minimum",[1] when sunspots became exceedingly rare, as noted by solar observers of the time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maunder_Minimum
So, is it really odd behavior?
So where's the vid? does it have 2 girls?
The title of this story is misleading and the story is as well. Pirates copy DVD's, not create new consumer electronics products.
;)
You couldn't be more wrong, pirates are those guys who steal treasure from ships, at sea.
Not even a person robbing a train is called a "pirate", he's called a train robber
Pirates and IP violation have nothing in common, it's just a demonisation term, invented by the RIAA, stop acknowledging it.
Personally, I wouldn't take it even if it was free.
They shouldn't be so surprised at Google hq.
I bet they knew it was illegal in Europe before they even started news.google.(eu country).
Several European news scrapers exist right now, perfectly legal.
There was a case in 2000 where kranten.com got sued by 6 dutch newspapers (english translation of the verdict
for deeplinking to articles. Since then, we know pretty much what we can and can't do.
You can deeplink to articles if you supply the source, and if it opens in a new window. In Denmark someone was found guilty when using frames, and 'thus made it look like the articles where from his website'.
Now consider, Europe doesn't have a "Fair Use" policy, that' the United States. By caching articles, Google went way over the line if you look at it from this perspective, doesn't it?
There's another way to look at that:
Say if the "universe" tried _every_ possible setting (every combination of all the possible variables), and if just in one of these (for lack of a better word) "dimensions" there would evolve intelligent life, where would be the place where they would start thinking about the universe? Exactly there where everything seems to fit.
Even better: an egg is basically just a cell, so you can change the question to:
...
"what came first: single-celled organisms or multi-celled animals?"
After all, growing from a cell to a full grown up organism is basically the same as repeating your species' evolution real fast. In the womb we all have been a fish, an amphibian, a reptile,
BTW: birds are descendants from dinosaurs, and (i know some) dinosaurs laid eggs. So the question in the first place should have been: which came first: the egg or the dinosaur?
You would have made it, if only you had typed "nice -n 19 doFirstPost".
.bashrc or .zshrc or whatever, and make sure you'll get it next time.
Tip: put
alias nicest="nice -n 19"
into your
Indeed, all I want is the same desktop that I have right now, but with the rendering done by my 6800GT, effectively saving me CPU cycles.
I have run the "wobbly windows" XGL thing on my machine, and dragging windows in it IS a lot less CPU intensive (from 50% to about 15% CPU, but I have a HT enabled).
Here is the publication that won't be ready until april?
d f
http://www-astro.ulb.ac.be/Publications/bf_Zhao.p
/. should know better than to use the word "piracy". It is a demonisation term.
antimatter?
That's why indeed .NET looks very interesting, but it STILL remains a microsoft product.
Personally I'm still hoping the parrot will come along soon.
all your poles are belongs to us!
From TFA:
It had to be called something. Before, it was based on a previous product called SIM OS for PowerPC®, and we had to have a new name for it when we made it an IBM-only, proprietary tool. So, it was just a name that didn't have the word SIM in it, since there are so many simulators that have 'SIM' in their name. Then, for alphaWorks, we were forced to give it a more docile name. So, on alphaWorks I guess there is a reference that internally we call it Mambo, but it's called the IBM Full-System Simulator for Cell, or systemsim.
If I'm not mistaking this is the same Canadian ex-defence minister who commented on the tether incident footage. He didn't look mentally disturbed at all, probably because the footage itself is absolutely amazing. A real eye-opener.
... mostly because google hasn't charged me for anything. They seem to charge the people who want my time, which I think is fine.
no, but then again, gator didn't charge me anything either.