Actually, from the summary, it seems the big question is whether the Google code is something unique or just a modified version of Kismet and if that's the case, a quick analysis of the binary should provide some insight.
There's no such thing as a "low level format" on a flash drive. The term refers to specifying where the tracks are at on a magnetic disk. It was possible, although incredibly stupid, back in the day to perform a low level format on a hard drive and tell it to move the tracks closer together. As a result, you could bump your 10MB disk to 12MB.
This works only because the physical magnetic disk doesn't "know" anything about tracks and sectors. It always drives me crazy when someone who wants to wipe a drive clean, asks me about a "low level format", when what they want to do is zero out the drive (ie dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda).
For a flash drive, each memory cell physically has a 1-to-1 correspondence to a bit (or several bits) of information, so there's no low level format.
Microsoft can't roll out a new version, because it will break existing functionality. But that's the same reason why people aren't upgrading. If Microsoft is serious about ending IE6, then they need to provide an upgrade path.
The 486 did run at 66MHz. And I remember it being way too fast for a lot of my games. Unfortunately, I haven't had that feeling lately with games like Crysis out there.
I had a similar experience: My brother and I both started laughing hysterically when during the intro to the original XWing the imperial soldiers started talking! I had no idea that my computer could produce speech, much less properly lip-synced. It took a few days before I could watch the intro again.
And what exactly do you think that a nuke will do?
The problem is that there is a massive oil reserve deep underground that is under extreme pressure, but contained by rock and dirt. BP has tapped into that reserve with basically a giant straw and now that straw is leaking. Detonating a nuclear bomb near the leak could open that hole up wider allowing much, much oil to flow past.
Furthermore, AFAIK, the effects of a nuclear bomb on underwater sea life are basically unknown. And instead of the nuclear fallout landing on the ground near the explosion, as it would in an above ground explosion, here the fallout would be free to travel in the ocean currents.
As someone who worked on the processing of HEP experimental data for awhile, let me say that there is a ton of work to do. You have particles entering the detector every ~40ns and hundreds of different instruments making measurements, which leads to a ton of data very quickly. You then have to reconstruct the path of the particle based off of the detector information, but it's not straight-forward. The detector can have gaps in coverage; neutrinos (which are undetectable) can be created removing momentum; particles from the previous event can still be in the detector et cetera.
And all of the data crunching you do must be done in 40ns, so that you're ready for the next set. (Of course, you can do some processing offline, but if you don't maintain a 40ns average, then your data will start piling up.)
Just because you're asked a bunch of questions, doesn't mean that you have to waste time answer each and every one. Just answer the relevant ones and for the irrelevant ones, provide a short explanation why it is irrelevant.
I find it hard to believe that USPS has a "be gentle" policy with Netflix and a "crush 'em" policy with GameFly.
I haven't read the article fully, but the poll involved asking people what they plan to do. But most people will put off that phone call, or once on it, will be talked out of canceling by the crafty cable salesperson.
And if 1 out of 8 are downgrading, how many are upgrading? If more than 1 out of 8 are, then the cable companies' business is going up.
Didn't Google mark all websites as malware-infested about a year ago? All it takes is some engineer to mistype a single keystroke (a "*" in Google's case) and down the whole system comes.
Hulu has 3 to 4 ad breaks during a 30min show and each break is usually only 30 seconds long (a few are 15s and a few are 60s). So, if the show you're going to watch isn't worth two minutes of your time, then you might want to reconsider watching it in the first place.
I for one applaud Hulu for the way they handle the ads. Minimal, non-invasive advertising means that they are one of only a few sites that are on my AdBlock and NoScript white-lists.
lol, you'd better have a bunch of upload bandwidth to spare. I tried that when I was overseas and found that at low quality, Hulu needed around 50KB/s to remain stutter-free. Which is about double what my ISP gives me, so I spent a lot of time watching the buffer fill.
Under Illinois law, you can only audio record if all parties are made aware of the recording. If this guy was recording surreptitiously, then he might be in for some legal trouble of his own, not to mention that the recording may or may not be admissible (IANAL).
Exactly. Why anyone would use a debit card is beyond me. Get a credit card and learn to manage your finances and you'll never have a problem (or if you, federal law will be on your side).
Movies are projected at 24fps. 3D movies use two projectors (or one projector with two lenses), each one displaying a different perspective through a different polarization.
Each lens of the 3D glasses only lets in the light of one of the polarizations, hence you see 3D.
Now, at home, with Bluray, the movie is still 24fps, but uses 3:2 pull-down to artificially bring it up to 60fps (or 5:1 pull-down to bring it to 120fps). For 3D Bluray, it's 48fps (24fps per eye) with the shutter glasses only letting one eye see the movie at a time.
Interesting side note: Bluray 3D uses more compression on films than regular Bluray so that the discs are compatible on existing players. The end result is that you have less quality on a Bluray 3D disc.
The article reads like someone who doesn't "get" 3D is brain damaged. Maybe that's true, but for me, I've enjoyed it since movies, TV, and games all look like "real life" to me. That is, my 3D vision is poor, so 2D looks just as good as 3D to me.
I consider it an enhancement - I can watch a 2D movie, which to me looks as good as the 3D version, but I don't have to pay an extra $2 and I don't have to wear the stupid glasses.
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do people really still use an OS that stopped being developed a decade ago?
Yes, Windows XP.
Actually, from the summary, it seems the big question is whether the Google code is something unique or just a modified version of Kismet and if that's the case, a quick analysis of the binary should provide some insight.
There's no such thing as a "low level format" on a flash drive. The term refers to specifying where the tracks are at on a magnetic disk. It was possible, although incredibly stupid, back in the day to perform a low level format on a hard drive and tell it to move the tracks closer together. As a result, you could bump your 10MB disk to 12MB.
This works only because the physical magnetic disk doesn't "know" anything about tracks and sectors. It always drives me crazy when someone who wants to wipe a drive clean, asks me about a "low level format", when what they want to do is zero out the drive (ie dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda).
For a flash drive, each memory cell physically has a 1-to-1 correspondence to a bit (or several bits) of information, so there's no low level format.
You hit the nail on the head.
Microsoft can't roll out a new version, because it will break existing functionality. But that's the same reason why people aren't upgrading. If Microsoft is serious about ending IE6, then they need to provide an upgrade path.
The 486 did run at 66MHz. And I remember it being way too fast for a lot of my games. Unfortunately, I haven't had that feeling lately with games like Crysis out there.
I had a similar experience: My brother and I both started laughing hysterically when during the intro to the original XWing the imperial soldiers started talking! I had no idea that my computer could produce speech, much less properly lip-synced. It took a few days before I could watch the intro again.
And what exactly do you think that a nuke will do?
The problem is that there is a massive oil reserve deep underground that is under extreme pressure, but contained by rock and dirt. BP has tapped into that reserve with basically a giant straw and now that straw is leaking. Detonating a nuclear bomb near the leak could open that hole up wider allowing much, much oil to flow past.
Furthermore, AFAIK, the effects of a nuclear bomb on underwater sea life are basically unknown. And instead of the nuclear fallout landing on the ground near the explosion, as it would in an above ground explosion, here the fallout would be free to travel in the ocean currents.
As someone who worked on the processing of HEP experimental data for awhile, let me say that there is a ton of work to do. You have particles entering the detector every ~40ns and hundreds of different instruments making measurements, which leads to a ton of data very quickly. You then have to reconstruct the path of the particle based off of the detector information, but it's not straight-forward. The detector can have gaps in coverage; neutrinos (which are undetectable) can be created removing momentum; particles from the previous event can still be in the detector et cetera.
And all of the data crunching you do must be done in 40ns, so that you're ready for the next set. (Of course, you can do some processing offline, but if you don't maintain a 40ns average, then your data will start piling up.)
1.5TB and 2TB drives are basically in parity as far as $/GB are concerned. Newegg's most recent special included a 2TB for $120 and a 1.5TB for $90.
I understand your point, but the middle-mouse-click does exactly that - open in background tab.
Just because you're asked a bunch of questions, doesn't mean that you have to waste time answer each and every one. Just answer the relevant ones and for the irrelevant ones, provide a short explanation why it is irrelevant.
I find it hard to believe that USPS has a "be gentle" policy with Netflix and a "crush 'em" policy with GameFly.
It doesn't look like porn to me. It looks like art. I know it's hard to believe, but pictures with nudity are not necessary pornographic!
I haven't read the article fully, but the poll involved asking people what they plan to do. But most people will put off that phone call, or once on it, will be talked out of canceling by the crafty cable salesperson.
And if 1 out of 8 are downgrading, how many are upgrading? If more than 1 out of 8 are, then the cable companies' business is going up.
He's not in any trouble. He's one of the 4.3 billion people who lives in a country with "bad" IP laws.
Didn't Google mark all websites as malware-infested about a year ago? All it takes is some engineer to mistype a single keystroke (a "*" in Google's case) and down the whole system comes.
Which we knew they were doing already, since that's how the "locate me" feature in Google Maps works.
How is this news exactly?
Hulu has 3 to 4 ad breaks during a 30min show and each break is usually only 30 seconds long (a few are 15s and a few are 60s). So, if the show you're going to watch isn't worth two minutes of your time, then you might want to reconsider watching it in the first place.
I for one applaud Hulu for the way they handle the ads. Minimal, non-invasive advertising means that they are one of only a few sites that are on my AdBlock and NoScript white-lists.
lol, you'd better have a bunch of upload bandwidth to spare. I tried that when I was overseas and found that at low quality, Hulu needed around 50KB/s to remain stutter-free. Which is about double what my ISP gives me, so I spent a lot of time watching the buffer fill.
lol, can they beat what ATT is selling me?
1.5Mbit/s at 15k feet =(
Under Illinois law, you can only audio record if all parties are made aware of the recording. If this guy was recording surreptitiously, then he might be in for some legal trouble of his own, not to mention that the recording may or may not be admissible (IANAL).
Exactly. Why anyone would use a debit card is beyond me. Get a credit card and learn to manage your finances and you'll never have a problem (or if you, federal law will be on your side).
The Star? Come on, really?
Why not the National Enquirer? Or the Globe?
Your geek card has been revoked.
Movies are projected at 24fps. 3D movies use two projectors (or one projector with two lenses), each one displaying a different perspective through a different polarization.
Each lens of the 3D glasses only lets in the light of one of the polarizations, hence you see 3D.
Now, at home, with Bluray, the movie is still 24fps, but uses 3:2 pull-down to artificially bring it up to 60fps (or 5:1 pull-down to bring it to 120fps). For 3D Bluray, it's 48fps (24fps per eye) with the shutter glasses only letting one eye see the movie at a time.
Interesting side note: Bluray 3D uses more compression on films than regular Bluray so that the discs are compatible on existing players. The end result is that you have less quality on a Bluray 3D disc.
The article reads like someone who doesn't "get" 3D is brain damaged. Maybe that's true, but for me, I've enjoyed it since movies, TV, and games all look like "real life" to me. That is, my 3D vision is poor, so 2D looks just as good as 3D to me.
I consider it an enhancement - I can watch a 2D movie, which to me looks as good as the 3D version, but I don't have to pay an extra $2 and I don't have to wear the stupid glasses.
Point taken. They have sailed past 1.0 and, as far as I know, are up to v5.0. But look at:
http://www.google.com/chrome and you'll see in capital letters (upper-right) that its definitely still in beta.
My point is, until Google itself thinks Chrome is ready-to-go, why should I?