It does appear to do MUCH better on the Acid2 test than FF2 (guess the new rendering engine could be all that it was hyped up to be), but it doesn't quite pass - if you compare to the reference rendering, you'll notice that there is a little too much space between the mouth and bottom edge of the space (I opened the reference and the live test is two different tabs and switched back and forth).
Not to mention that as a matter of jurisdiction, this is much more an FAA area than a NASA one. NASA has been interested in air safety to help with studies into personal air vehicles (the "virtual" lanes in the sky idea, for instance), but if airliners are having near-misses and such, that's FAA-regulated air traffic controllers or airport traffic patterns in question. I could see a certain interagency memo or a call to a higher-up in the administration from the FAA asking that this be kept quiet.
A shortcut between Europe and Asia? How long will this shortcut reduce the time it takes to cross between these neighboring continents?
Yes, yes, I know, there is a great historical importance to the Northwest Passage, as the pursuit of it led to Western explorers crossing the Atlantic (more frequently than the random exile), but a bit of specificity here could go a long way - like, perhaps, a shortcut between western Europe and southeast Asia (although, I'd think the Suez still provides a much shorter route for most trips).
I currently go to school in Illinois, and the car was purchased in West Virginia (a very -not- green state). So not in California, and not in any of the northeastern states mentioned in the article (thus, why I posted...)
So my 2004 Prius has a big sticker on the rear, driver's side window that says "PZEV," indicating that it is a Partial-Zero Emission Vehicle per the standards. Does this article imply that Toyota has been breaking the law selling the Prius around the nation, or are there different versions of the Prius that are "clean" and "cleaner"? It mentions Toyota and the Prius, but doesn't make the connection that the Prius is also a PZEV.
both quite surprising to find in such a high profile site
Are we really that surprised? I thought it was pretty standard that most of the "high profile sites" out there are the ones least likely to understand the importance of keeping their software up to date. It seems like the larger the company/organization/multi-national quasi-governmental agency, the more likely they are to simply buy in to whatever is being promoted by (insert your favorite vendor here), and won't upgrade unless something breaks or they can afford to buy whatever (insert your favorite vendor here) is selling in the quantities and packages they are selling it.
You missed the "in Japan" part, which makes sales data from your local Circuit City (or any Circuit City, Best Buy, etc. sitting anywhere in North America) irrelevant. Just look at MiniDisc - they love it over there, and yet it barely even got started over here in the States. It's possible UMD is big over there (my only connection to first-hand information on Japanese culture, and, not coincidentally, the only person I know who owns an MD player, has been in the States for a number of years and doesn't hear as much from over there any more).
You also are completely wrong, mostly because you have dismissed GP's comment out of hand, and being an ass is never A Good Thing.
We aren't talking about people who don't "know jack diddly shit about computers," we're talking about those who know how to use computers, perhaps rather efficiently and at a higher than novice level, but don't necessarily live the immersed in digital technology life that many of us do now. That was the whole key point of the article when it mentioned that today you'd have to go to a museum to see a card catalog, since most all libraries use technology. They know how to use computers, but that isn't the same as being "native" to them. There is a huge divide between those that can use computers, but don't necessarily do so outside of work, email, etc., and those that are literally on a digital device of some sort nearly 24/7 (except for sleeping of course, but the iPod alarm clock will make sure you don't sleep too long).
It really is the classic case of knowing the difference between knowing a language and being native to it. A lot of younger (30 and younger, let's say, to be diplomatic) think in digital terms (I catch myself all the time telling someone to click on the buttons in an elevator), much like native speakers of a language think it that language, regardless of whatever other languages they know. And it's not really something you can teach - you just have to try and immerse yourself, much like learning a culture by living in its native country. I don't think playing video games is really going to be that much of a help, but the core idea is somewhat solid.
Er, it's the night for corrections - the speed of sound in a vacuum approaches a theoretical asymptote, not infinity. The speed of sound generally gets lower as the material loses density, higher as the material gains density (think about a wave traveling through a solid block, as opposed to one traveling through water, then one traveling through the air)
Technically speaking, yes, hypersonic travel will always be impossible, barring some super-material able to take the heat. The trick is that once you get out of the atmosphere, a term like "hypersonic" is nonsensical. The speed of sound in a vacuum approaches a theoretical infinity, so to reach it, let alone top it by a factor of 7 or more, would be nonsense (unless, of course, your name is Brannon Braga! *rimshot*)
Often, though, for simplicity sake, we use terms like "mach 10" to mean mach 10 at sea level or some other decently benchmarked altitude.
Evacuating ISS would be a very bad thing to have happen. The crew would be fine, as this luckily happened with a shuttle in dock, which can act an emergency lifeboat for the whole crew (plus the Soyuz that's up there with them, if things got too crowded on Atlantis). The biggest problem would be for the hardware - without people up there to keep maintenance tasks going, the station would need to be completely shutdown save for a few critical systems (attitude control, the NH4 cooling systems, power, etc.). In this case, some of those few critical systems are what seem to be giving the trouble.
Evacuating ISS is always a last resort, because should something happen to it while unoccupied, it'd be a total loss. We won't have another shuttle ready for a month or so, and I believe the Russians just recently did a Soyuz exchange, so there'd be no quick return, even if the problems were fixed. With attitude control in question, it could become too unstable for even a shuttle or Soyuz docking to occur.
You have a 5-digit user number, so I won't go with the standard "You must be new here," but come on - making a fuss over problems with trivial and well-known solutions is what we do here.
And to top that, World of Warcraft on Mac actually has a leg up on its PC counterpart through the use of multi-threaded OpenGL. It may not make a huge difference on high-end machines that can crunch through WoW graphics with ease already, but, for instance, on my Core Duo Mac mini with Intel "graphics", I saw FPS just about double when multi-threaded OpenGL was added.
It's like everything else - Macs aren't "worse" at games, they're just far in the minority, and most Mac users aren't demanding games anyhow. Any company that puts a concerted effort into Mac gaming (Blizzard has just about always done dual-discs, Bungee developed Halo for Mac first, etc.) does it for show or out of principle more than for the extra business.
While I agree that the lack of an SDK will deter many developers, let's not get too ahead of ourselves here. There is still a way to make your own apps for the thing, and that ALWAYS leads to some pretty interesting things. Remember, using AJAX-style apps on the iPhone only restricts what the client can do - you could still create the next Facebook, Flikr, del.icio.us, or whatever using whatever webserver you want. Besides, isn't an iPod that's also a phone, web browser, etc a killer app on its own?
The biggest limitation I see is not the lack of a killer app(s), but the lack of free, easily accessible WiFi everywhere. You'll need a connection to something to use these apps, and with only a few cities and towns in US with decent WiFi blanketing, this may end up being a huge problem.
But hey - if enough people buy the thing, and enough developers show that you can make it a viable platform, then we'll see some real innovation. Personally, I would love to see someone build a rich web app that could run as well on EDGE as it does on WiFi - and then spread that data efficiency over to the rest of the web.
Well, Dell and Motorola are (at least in theory) product development, while Circuit City is (again, in theory) consumer sales. Of course, one could argue that the real oddball here is that Dell is the only one beating expectations for (positive) earnings, and is still cutting jobs... Maybe a pre-emptive layoff, but you have to feel for those guys. Your company does well and STILL you get massive layoffs.
Slashdot Mirror
Here's the Telegraph story linked in the blog entry we just hosed:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/12/07/sciwater107.xml
Yes, it's dated July 12, 2007. Yes, you must be new here.
It does appear to do MUCH better on the Acid2 test than FF2 (guess the new rendering engine could be all that it was hyped up to be), but it doesn't quite pass - if you compare to the reference rendering, you'll notice that there is a little too much space between the mouth and bottom edge of the space (I opened the reference and the live test is two different tabs and switched back and forth).
Not to mention that as a matter of jurisdiction, this is much more an FAA area than a NASA one. NASA has been interested in air safety to help with studies into personal air vehicles (the "virtual" lanes in the sky idea, for instance), but if airliners are having near-misses and such, that's FAA-regulated air traffic controllers or airport traffic patterns in question. I could see a certain interagency memo or a call to a higher-up in the administration from the FAA asking that this be kept quiet.
And a Korean Sulu - John Cho was born in Seoul.
A shortcut between Europe and Asia? How long will this shortcut reduce the time it takes to cross between these neighboring continents?
Yes, yes, I know, there is a great historical importance to the Northwest Passage, as the pursuit of it led to Western explorers crossing the Atlantic (more frequently than the random exile), but a bit of specificity here could go a long way - like, perhaps, a shortcut between western Europe and southeast Asia (although, I'd think the Suez still provides a much shorter route for most trips).
I currently go to school in Illinois, and the car was purchased in West Virginia (a very -not- green state). So not in California, and not in any of the northeastern states mentioned in the article (thus, why I posted...)
So my 2004 Prius has a big sticker on the rear, driver's side window that says "PZEV," indicating that it is a Partial-Zero Emission Vehicle per the standards. Does this article imply that Toyota has been breaking the law selling the Prius around the nation, or are there different versions of the Prius that are "clean" and "cleaner"? It mentions Toyota and the Prius, but doesn't make the connection that the Prius is also a PZEV.
The problem is He's an Ubuntu Linux user
And here I was hoping God used Mac OS X (yes, I'm sure there's a "daemon" joke in there, but I'll leave it at one bad joke per post).
both quite surprising to find in such a high profile site
Are we really that surprised? I thought it was pretty standard that most of the "high profile sites" out there are the ones least likely to understand the importance of keeping their software up to date. It seems like the larger the company/organization/multi-national quasi-governmental agency, the more likely they are to simply buy in to whatever is being promoted by (insert your favorite vendor here), and won't upgrade unless something breaks or they can afford to buy whatever (insert your favorite vendor here) is selling in the quantities and packages they are selling it.
Ahem... from TFA:
"What's more, the technique will be faster and much cheaper than growing crystals in space, he says."
So at least they say it will be much cheaper.
So what damn pointy eared Night Elf are we going to have to search for in the third expansion?
"The needs of the many have better rep than the needs of the few." - Blizzard
Nah I think (what I presume is) his boss' handwritten reaction sums up all the Web 2.0 you could want - "Vague but exciting..."
You missed the "in Japan" part, which makes sales data from your local Circuit City (or any Circuit City, Best Buy, etc. sitting anywhere in North America) irrelevant. Just look at MiniDisc - they love it over there, and yet it barely even got started over here in the States. It's possible UMD is big over there (my only connection to first-hand information on Japanese culture, and, not coincidentally, the only person I know who owns an MD player, has been in the States for a number of years and doesn't hear as much from over there any more).
You also are completely wrong, mostly because you have dismissed GP's comment out of hand, and being an ass is never A Good Thing.
We aren't talking about people who don't "know jack diddly shit about computers," we're talking about those who know how to use computers, perhaps rather efficiently and at a higher than novice level, but don't necessarily live the immersed in digital technology life that many of us do now. That was the whole key point of the article when it mentioned that today you'd have to go to a museum to see a card catalog, since most all libraries use technology. They know how to use computers, but that isn't the same as being "native" to them. There is a huge divide between those that can use computers, but don't necessarily do so outside of work, email, etc., and those that are literally on a digital device of some sort nearly 24/7 (except for sleeping of course, but the iPod alarm clock will make sure you don't sleep too long).
It really is the classic case of knowing the difference between knowing a language and being native to it. A lot of younger (30 and younger, let's say, to be diplomatic) think in digital terms (I catch myself all the time telling someone to click on the buttons in an elevator), much like native speakers of a language think it that language, regardless of whatever other languages they know. And it's not really something you can teach - you just have to try and immerse yourself, much like learning a culture by living in its native country. I don't think playing video games is really going to be that much of a help, but the core idea is somewhat solid.
Er, it's the night for corrections - the speed of sound in a vacuum approaches a theoretical asymptote, not infinity. The speed of sound generally gets lower as the material loses density, higher as the material gains density (think about a wave traveling through a solid block, as opposed to one traveling through water, then one traveling through the air)
Technically speaking, yes, hypersonic travel will always be impossible, barring some super-material able to take the heat. The trick is that once you get out of the atmosphere, a term like "hypersonic" is nonsensical. The speed of sound in a vacuum approaches a theoretical infinity, so to reach it, let alone top it by a factor of 7 or more, would be nonsense (unless, of course, your name is Brannon Braga! *rimshot*)
Often, though, for simplicity sake, we use terms like "mach 10" to mean mach 10 at sea level or some other decently benchmarked altitude.
Evacuating ISS would be a very bad thing to have happen. The crew would be fine, as this luckily happened with a shuttle in dock, which can act an emergency lifeboat for the whole crew (plus the Soyuz that's up there with them, if things got too crowded on Atlantis). The biggest problem would be for the hardware - without people up there to keep maintenance tasks going, the station would need to be completely shutdown save for a few critical systems (attitude control, the NH4 cooling systems, power, etc.). In this case, some of those few critical systems are what seem to be giving the trouble.
Evacuating ISS is always a last resort, because should something happen to it while unoccupied, it'd be a total loss. We won't have another shuttle ready for a month or so, and I believe the Russians just recently did a Soyuz exchange, so there'd be no quick return, even if the problems were fixed. With attitude control in question, it could become too unstable for even a shuttle or Soyuz docking to occur.
You have a 5-digit user number, so I won't go with the standard "You must be new here," but come on - making a fuss over problems with trivial and well-known solutions is what we do here.
Ok, maybe it's the Quad G5 with 4.5 gigs of RAM, nvidia 6600 and 30" monitor
Nah, that can't be it... ;)
And to top that, World of Warcraft on Mac actually has a leg up on its PC counterpart through the use of multi-threaded OpenGL. It may not make a huge difference on high-end machines that can crunch through WoW graphics with ease already, but, for instance, on my Core Duo Mac mini with Intel "graphics", I saw FPS just about double when multi-threaded OpenGL was added.
It's like everything else - Macs aren't "worse" at games, they're just far in the minority, and most Mac users aren't demanding games anyhow. Any company that puts a concerted effort into Mac gaming (Blizzard has just about always done dual-discs, Bungee developed Halo for Mac first, etc.) does it for show or out of principle more than for the extra business.
BTW - WoW won an Apple Design Award this year too - http://developer.apple.com/wwdc/ada/ Of course, it won for best "Game."
While I agree that the lack of an SDK will deter many developers, let's not get too ahead of ourselves here. There is still a way to make your own apps for the thing, and that ALWAYS leads to some pretty interesting things. Remember, using AJAX-style apps on the iPhone only restricts what the client can do - you could still create the next Facebook, Flikr, del.icio.us, or whatever using whatever webserver you want. Besides, isn't an iPod that's also a phone, web browser, etc a killer app on its own?
The biggest limitation I see is not the lack of a killer app(s), but the lack of free, easily accessible WiFi everywhere. You'll need a connection to something to use these apps, and with only a few cities and towns in US with decent WiFi blanketing, this may end up being a huge problem.
But hey - if enough people buy the thing, and enough developers show that you can make it a viable platform, then we'll see some real innovation. Personally, I would love to see someone build a rich web app that could run as well on EDGE as it does on WiFi - and then spread that data efficiency over to the rest of the web.
Dimensions 4.5 x 2.4 x 0.46 inches / 115 x 61 x 11.6mm
I doubt it will get much bigger. Maybe a little to fit a 3G radio in a future revision.
Next question.
I am looking for protection from bricks.
In that case, you should buy double protection for Windows machines. I've seen Windows brick far more machines than Linux.
Of course, we all know who is really behind this aversion to protection from bricks.
*cue Simpsons-style song and dance*
Well, Dell and Motorola are (at least in theory) product development, while Circuit City is (again, in theory) consumer sales. Of course, one could argue that the real oddball here is that Dell is the only one beating expectations for (positive) earnings, and is still cutting jobs... Maybe a pre-emptive layoff, but you have to feel for those guys. Your company does well and STILL you get massive layoffs.
Hey! You said that last time. What has been posted will be posted and has been posted before... or something...
My previous response to your comment on the previous thread. I'm lazy.