Having an online project management tool would be way more useful than being able to do presentations or editing spreadsheets online.
If you work for any company, chances are Word, Excel, Powerpoint would be loaded onto your machine as standard installation. But does everyone get Project as well? unlikely unless you're management.
With Google Project, at least anyone interested can look at those.mpp files and see how much they've been allocated and their deadlines, be it devs, QA, tech writers...
I am just flipping appalled at the number of people in academia who have not internalized the concept that You Can't Prove A Fucking Negative! This research is not trying to prove a negative. It is simply using statistical hypothesis testing to determine whether there is enough evidence to support the causal relationship between cell phone usage and cancer.
The hypothesis in the null form is "There is NO relationship between cell phone usage and cancer"
The alternative hypothesis is "There is a relationship between cell phone usage and cancer"
And for this study, the results from the 420000 cell phone users are not significant enough to refute the null hypothesis and support the alternative. Simple as that.
Maybe you are the one that needs to learn research methodology from academia.
If the filesystem uses a database backend, what will happen if the database screws up? Does it mean I'll lose my files? It'll also render my good'ol dos boot disk useless.
All wires will eventually suffer from signal degradation. But the key difference between cable and DSL that limits its distance is the signal bandwidth. DSL allocates about 1.5MHz of the frequency spectrum for data transfer whereas cable uses a 6MHz channel band within the 42-850MHz range for data transmision. Since the frequency and bandwidth is higher for cable modems, it is less susceptible to noise and signal degradation. Coax cable also has more shielding compared to copper phone cables.
It is about time the sysadmins apply required authentication for SMTP (outgoing mail) server. This limits the freedom for spammers to hop around anonymously and use other people's mail server to send out spam. Even though it may not stop spam for good, but requiring authentication for sending out email will at least make them look for alternative methods.
It's like if a security system on your car, the crooks will look for an easier one to steal. Can we not apply the same principles here?
Spam exists because we let it happen, it's time we take some actions
Palm has decided to break away from the DragonBall 16 and 33 MHz CPUs and use a faster processor. They should have made this move a long time ago when all other WinCE devices were running at 200+Mhz and multimedia capable. Good thing they finally realized that once a leader is not always a leader. My advice is don't put so much effort in making things run better and start adding in loads new features...it's the only way to sell
If this baby runs linux or windoze, I think all the scientific research based on distributed computing ie. SETI@home and Foldings@Home can replace all their server farm with a bunch of PS3s. Each work unit can probably be processed within seconds. Drool.
Having him traveled back in time changed history. His actions were non-existent before he came, and so he wouldn't have known he got arrested while time-travelling.
Maybe this guy is truly from the future, or a parallel universe. In 250 years, I suppose our science has evolved enough to create a time machine, and all the mathematical corrections to make the machine always end up on Earth.
But, if time machines do exist, how come I don't see future great-great-grand kids come and visit me and tell me the numbers to the next lottery, or even the schematics to the time machine so I can start playing with it now? Shouldn't there be time-cops that monitor the fabric of space-time to make sure that no one travels to the past and attempts to alter history? But if they do exist, how come he can come back? Hmm....
But as smart as he may be, this guy is a complete idiot with his investment. He should have known that making 126 high-risk trade within 2 weeks and able to pocket $350 million in profits will definitely draw attention of the SEC. Why didn't he invest slowly? Or simply bring all the future newspapers back to his ancestors so they can make the investments for him? That would be a better approach to making his fortune. The fact that he got caught while traveling back in time shows that people in the future aren't that smart after all.
At least, I'm happy to know that mankind still exists in 250 years.
SpaceDaily reports that NASA has come up with a way to wire microchips with nanotubes instead of copper interconnects.
In other news, Intel's R&D department announced that mounting heatsink+fan on shuttles' thermal tiles can efficiently disspate heat during reentry into the Earth atmosphere.
But as the internet transcends geographical borders, Australian laws would not be sufficient to bring spam under control.
Even if this law passes, it won't be of that much help. Australians will continue to receive spam originated from all other countries. As for the rest of us, we just won't be receiving any spam from Australian sources. The law is only good if the problem is contained. So spam will continue to linger around for years to come.
On an interesting note, if this law passes, it may be a good precedent case to outlaw pop-ups, pop-unders, net send messages, etc. that are equally annoying.
In one of the universe, there must be a Bill Gates that authored Linux and supports open source. There will also be a large slashdot community that likes what he has done....
Back in our reality, Bill is scratching his head trying to come up with more GUI-chewey-userfriendly bloatware to defeat Linux.
If we can bring the two universes together, let's have Bill meet Bill and watch them strangle each other.
From what my university course taught me, CPU power is composed of 2 factors: dynamic power and static power, where dynamic power is dependent on clock speed and the other is independent of the clock speed. But dynamic power itself is the sum of the switching power (to charge up the transistors) and short circuit power (that split fraction of a second when both transistors are on, causing power to leak through). Both of these factors are directly proportional to the activity factor of the signal (the probability of a signal chaning from 1-to-0 or 0-to-1) The one signal that changes 100% of the time is the system clock. To distribute this one signal to all the individual components of the chip, a lot of power is wasted on generating the clock tree. Maybe we should seriously consider reviving the asynchronous CPU design. This would at least minimize the amount of signal activity. Besides, the faster the processor gets, the more time it spends in the NO_OP state, waiting for data to process. I say we should stop focusing on pumping higher clock rates and focus on other components that ARE TRULY THE BOTTLENECK. eg. memory and storage??? Or even use a different transistor technology, e.g. a CMOS transistor that recycles its charge to power other transistors?
Yeah it may cost money for subscription of the game, but I also know a lot of people who trade/sell their characters, armours, and other items for money. In fact, they are making quite a bit of money from selling their goodies. Keep in mind, teenagers have lots of time to play. The more you pay, the more items you end up collecting. The more you sell, the more you make. I know some people turned to play EQ as a "part time job" because it is an entertaining source of income.
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and that defaults to "Google Search" button.
It reads: "Dear Aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all"
What do you want to decipher today?
designed to let the guy sitting opposite of me do all my typing...
Having an online project management tool would be way more useful than being able to do presentations or editing spreadsheets online.
.mpp files and see how much they've been allocated and their deadlines, be it devs, QA, tech writers...
If you work for any company, chances are Word, Excel, Powerpoint would be loaded onto your machine as standard installation. But does everyone get Project as well? unlikely unless you're management.
With Google Project, at least anyone interested can look at those
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http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12
...think of the future children.
There is a sudden increase in the number of eBay auctions for the US penny.
Starting bid at $0.02, will ship worldwide, seller ID USMint.
The hypothesis in the null form is "There is NO relationship between cell phone usage and cancer"
The alternative hypothesis is "There is a relationship between cell phone usage and cancer"
And for this study, the results from the 420000 cell phone users are not significant enough to refute the null hypothesis and support the alternative. Simple as that.
Maybe you are the one that needs to learn research methodology from academia.
That would be an article in April 2005 issue of Scientific American Mind.
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Here's the link
http://www.sciammind.com/article.cfm?articleID=00
Ever heard of punctuation and spelling? Hope she didn't teach you English.
... was never right.
Indiana Jones can now look for lost cities from the comfort of his computer.
That's gonna be a lot of rice in space.
If the filesystem uses a database backend, what will happen if the database screws up? Does it mean I'll lose my files? It'll also render my good'ol dos boot disk useless.
All wires will eventually suffer from signal degradation. But the key difference between cable and DSL that limits its distance is the signal bandwidth. DSL allocates about 1.5MHz of the frequency spectrum for data transfer whereas cable uses a 6MHz channel band within the 42-850MHz range for data transmision. Since the frequency and bandwidth is higher for cable modems, it is less susceptible to noise and signal degradation. Coax cable also has more shielding compared to copper phone cables.
It is about time the sysadmins apply required authentication for SMTP (outgoing mail) server. This limits the freedom for spammers to hop around anonymously and use other people's mail server to send out spam. Even though it may not stop spam for good, but requiring authentication for sending out email will at least make them look for alternative methods.
It's like if a security system on your car, the crooks will look for an easier one to steal. Can we not apply the same principles here?
Spam exists because we let it happen, it's time we take some actions
Palm has decided to break away from the DragonBall 16 and 33 MHz CPUs and use a faster processor. They should have made this move a long time ago when all other WinCE devices were running at 200+Mhz and multimedia capable. Good thing they finally realized that once a leader is not always a leader. My advice is don't put so much effort in making things run better and start adding in loads new features...it's the only way to sell
If this baby runs linux or windoze, I think all the scientific research based on distributed computing ie. SETI@home and Foldings@Home can replace all their server farm with a bunch of PS3s. Each work unit can probably be processed within seconds. Drool.
Having him traveled back in time changed history. His actions were non-existent before he came, and so he wouldn't have known he got arrested while time-travelling.
Maybe this guy is truly from the future, or a parallel universe. In 250 years, I suppose our science has evolved enough to create a time machine, and all the mathematical corrections to make the machine always end up on Earth.
But, if time machines do exist, how come I don't see future great-great-grand kids come and visit me and tell me the numbers to the next lottery, or even the schematics to the time machine so I can start playing with it now? Shouldn't there be time-cops that monitor the fabric of space-time to make sure that no one travels to the past and attempts to alter history? But if they do exist, how come he can come back? Hmm....
But as smart as he may be, this guy is a complete idiot with his investment. He should have known that making 126 high-risk trade within 2 weeks and able to pocket $350 million in profits will definitely draw attention of the SEC. Why didn't he invest slowly? Or simply bring all the future newspapers back to his ancestors so they can make the investments for him? That would be a better approach to making his fortune. The fact that he got caught while traveling back in time shows that people in the future aren't that smart after all.
At least, I'm happy to know that mankind still exists in 250 years.
SpaceDaily reports that NASA has come up with a way to wire microchips with nanotubes instead of copper interconnects.
In other news, Intel's R&D department announced that mounting heatsink+fan on shuttles' thermal tiles can efficiently disspate heat during reentry into the Earth atmosphere.
But as the internet transcends geographical borders, Australian laws would not be sufficient to bring spam under control.
Even if this law passes, it won't be of that much help. Australians will continue to receive spam originated from all other countries. As for the rest of us, we just won't be receiving any spam from Australian sources. The law is only good if the problem is contained. So spam will continue to linger around for years to come.
On an interesting note, if this law passes, it may be a good precedent case to outlaw pop-ups, pop-unders, net send messages, etc. that are equally annoying.
In one of the universe, there must be a Bill Gates that authored Linux and supports open source. There will also be a large slashdot community that likes what he has done....
Back in our reality, Bill is scratching his head trying to come up with more GUI-chewey-userfriendly bloatware to defeat Linux.
If we can bring the two universes together, let's have Bill meet Bill and watch them strangle each other.
From what my university course taught me, CPU power is composed of 2 factors: dynamic power and static power, where dynamic power is dependent on clock speed and the other is independent of the clock speed. But dynamic power itself is the sum of the switching power (to charge up the transistors) and short circuit power (that split fraction of a second when both transistors are on, causing power to leak through). Both of these factors are directly proportional to the activity factor of the signal (the probability of a signal chaning from 1-to-0 or 0-to-1) The one signal that changes 100% of the time is the system clock. To distribute this one signal to all the individual components of the chip, a lot of power is wasted on generating the clock tree. Maybe we should seriously consider reviving the asynchronous CPU design. This would at least minimize the amount of signal activity. Besides, the faster the processor gets, the more time it spends in the NO_OP state, waiting for data to process. I say we should stop focusing on pumping higher clock rates and focus on other components that ARE TRULY THE BOTTLENECK. eg. memory and storage??? Or even use a different transistor technology, e.g. a CMOS transistor that recycles its charge to power other transistors?
Yeah it may cost money for subscription of the game, but I also know a lot of people who trade/sell their characters, armours, and other items for money. In fact, they are making quite a bit of money from selling their goodies. Keep in mind, teenagers have lots of time to play. The more you pay, the more items you end up collecting. The more you sell, the more you make. I know some people turned to play EQ as a "part time job" because it is an entertaining source of income.