I agree. I just meant that the nasty political/economic reality means there wont be any systems like this in poor areas of the world. If not even the US will build one (pocket change for the US government) because it "allmost never happens", not many other will spend the money either. A few 1000 deaths every few years or so means nothing on a global scale. I dont agree with this, I think a single life saved is worth millions and millions of dollars, but I'm not the one in charge.
You're beeing a bit harsh. These waves travel hundreds of kph/mph so any warning will only give you a few minutes, at most maybe an hour. All countries in the region are poor and not very well developed so they cant afford the types of systems you're talking about. Mostly they rely on western countries for warnings and the timings are very tight.
A warning system should really be installed along the american southeast coast. The mountains/ocean shelves on several islands of the european/north african coast are extremely close to colapsing into the atlantic which would send enormous tsunamis towards USA. USA, as opposed to the countries struck today, can afford the systems...
going back to hoping my neighbours made it... they're on vacation in Phuket
That doesn't take away it's downright arrogant to say you don't need anything the competitors might offer, and really, any other commercial-software spokesman would be modded +5 Ignorant.
He didnt say linux doesn't need anything the competition has to offer, he said he's not aware of anything Linux needs from Solaris, but he might be wrong and if he is, he knows people with better Solaris knowledge than him will tell him about it. What is arrogant about that?
How would they do that? The only way would be by jamming it, which is certainly possible but not as easy as it sounds because of the spread-spectrum stuff Galielo (and GPS I assume) is using.
Would probably cost alot of money to develop something that reliably jams Galileo, and I wonder if it wouldn't be easier (certainly cheaper) to just ask the EU Comission nicely. I mean, the EU is probably just as interrested in being able to shut down GPS if needed so a joint agreement of instant shutdown inside the US/EU borders in case of an emergency request would probably be better? I mean since the US would only ever want Galileo to be shutdown somewhere over US soil (and vice versa) it's not that big of a problem is it?
Isn't this just a so-called feature of the AGP spec originally that nearly no one used because performance sucked and it was cheaper to just place the RAM onboard to begin with?
Kinda... the whole idea with AGP was to use system memory instead of überexpensive RAM on the videocard that was avaliable at the time. Unfortunately (?) memory prices started a 3-year dive at the same time the first systems where introduced, making the whole thing unnecessary.
Since the ruling body in this case would be the Comission (or possibly the minister council) and not the parliament, I think it wouldn't be that hard to make them agree.
(I know i'm not allowed to whine about it, but i submitted this 2 days ago and was rejected... so i'll whine here)
Yep thats what i was referring to. As you correctly pointed out, I was wrong in claiming they had *decided* to. However, the threat came after the minister council gave it's ok to the Commission which means they're really serious. And also some french minister claimed it was already decided (dont take him to seriously, but at least it shows the french are serious)
They can't even decide where to build it! Why can't I vote to spend my (US) tax money on putting one of these over here. Even as a test bed it will give the contry it's in some home field advantage.
That isn't a problem any more. The EU decided a few weeks ago to build ITER in france by themselves and inviting the Japanese to join if they like (dont know what's happening with the US participation, but considering that they didn't join until a short while ago and wasn't paying much anyway it hardly matters)
so what you're saying is that even though B5 is aired more or less continually in a loop on one or more channels, and a VCR can be had for 20 bucks anywhere, you still cant force yourself to watch it? I guess you dont want to see it very badly then (which is ok, but dont whine about not being able to)... and also: that type of attitude is the reason we only get crap on tv these days (and not just sci-fi crap)
So what happens if the one of the companies that "won" the auction goes under? Does the government have to give the money back, or do they get to auction it off for a second time?
depends on the country i guess. I can only speak for sweden (which had beauty contests), where 1 of the winners (that *didn't* pay any fees mind you) still decided that it wasnt worth it and simply handed the licence back to the government with no penalties. The companies that kept their licences will pay fines if they're late or cant deliver though
In any case, knowing governments I'd say the chance of any company getting their money back is zero.
auctioning spectrum is a bad idea. It's better to give it away for free to the companies that promises the best services to it's customers.
Many countries in europe auctioned off 3G-spectrum a few years ago, and the money involved was insane... many of the "winners" weren't able to build any networks from lack of funds after the crazy fees they payed for the spectrum.
Some countries instead held "beauty contests" where the companies that promised best area coverage where given spectrum for free (the promises must be kept with the threat of huge fines of course)
It's sort of like companies that made Divx and normal DVD's back when Circuit City was trying that format - to me HD-DVD seems a bit like Divx (though only a bit since it does not have the major issues Divx did).
I guess we just believe the different factors affecting this have different importance. I'd like to point out though, that most of todays $30 DVD players can play both standard DVD (mpeg2) and Divx (and VCD/mpeg-1 and Xvid)...
I agree. Only in this particular case the war will end with all players being able to play both HD and Blu-ray. Blu-ray wont die because Sony and pretty much every electronics company except NEC and Toshiba backs it, and Sony owns several movie studios and is the worlds largest home electronics producer, and also the ps3 will use Blu-ray ensuring a decent installbase.
And (important) the movie companies that just announced HD-DVD support hasn't made their support exclusive, meaning thay can also support Blu-Ray at the same time if they want (which they will).
Further, it's to this day illegal to have an Armenian last name in Turkey.
I didn't know that - can anyone else back that statement up?
I'm not sure, but I know for a fact that a college friend of mine changed his name back to his birthname when he came/fled to my country (Sweden) from Turkey. He said it was for the above reason.
Well, let us see:
radius universe: about 15e9 lightyears radius proton: 1.2e-15 m
circle with the size of the universe divided by diameter proton: 2*pi*15e9*365*24*3600*300000000/(2*1.2e-1 5)=3.7e41. So 42 digits of pi will do.
42? Where did I see this number before?
Not to be too anal (well ok, i admit i like it) but your size of the universe is off. The age of the universe is about 15e9 years, but latest estimates of its size is around 100e9 = 1e11 (possible because of 'inflation' during big bang) so 42 wont quite cut it. Too bad cause that would have been really cool...
No it's like saying "you wont be punished if someone force-feeds you a drug (against your will) that makes you violent, and you proced to hurt somebody"
ATI's demos may be biased (of course they are), but dont claim HardOCP's are any more dependable. They used an overclocked Nvidia card for example (and Kyle is a well known Nvidia fanboy)
And Anand looking for the most stressing parts of the game? Well it seems to me the slowest parts might just as well be CPU-limited as graphics limited. And [H] benching an entire level? Come on! You have to choose GPU-stressing parts, if you bench an entire level your average scores will be much more even since the cards are good at different things.
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I agree. I just meant that the nasty political/economic reality means there wont be any systems like this in poor areas of the world. If not even the US will build one (pocket change for the US government) because it "allmost never happens", not many other will spend the money either. A few 1000 deaths every few years or so means nothing on a global scale. I dont agree with this, I think a single life saved is worth millions and millions of dollars, but I'm not the one in charge.
I know. Been watching cnn and bbc all morning. Times like this i wish i was religious.. :-(
You're beeing a bit harsh. These waves travel hundreds of kph/mph so any warning will only give you a few minutes, at most maybe an hour. All countries in the region are poor and not very well developed so they cant afford the types of systems you're talking about. Mostly they rely on western countries for warnings and the timings are very tight.
A warning system should really be installed along the american southeast coast. The mountains/ocean shelves on several islands of the european/north african coast are extremely close to colapsing into the atlantic which would send enormous tsunamis towards USA. USA, as opposed to the countries struck today, can afford the systems...
going back to hoping my neighbours made it... they're on vacation in Phuket
He didnt say linux doesn't need anything the competition has to offer, he said he's not aware of anything Linux needs from Solaris, but he might be wrong and if he is, he knows people with better Solaris knowledge than him will tell him about it. What is arrogant about that?
Yah, and 3Drealms said duke nukem would come out in '98... Part of being a hardened geek is cynism about release dates
How would they do that? The only way would be by jamming it, which is certainly possible but not as easy as it sounds because of the spread-spectrum stuff Galielo (and GPS I assume) is using.
Would probably cost alot of money to develop something that reliably jams Galileo, and I wonder if it wouldn't be easier (certainly cheaper) to just ask the EU Comission nicely. I mean, the EU is probably just as interrested in being able to shut down GPS if needed so a joint agreement of instant shutdown inside the US/EU borders in case of an emergency request would probably be better? I mean since the US would only ever want Galileo to be shutdown somewhere over US soil (and vice versa) it's not that big of a problem is it?
Kinda... the whole idea with AGP was to use system memory instead of überexpensive RAM on the videocard that was avaliable at the time. Unfortunately (?) memory prices started a 3-year dive at the same time the first systems where introduced, making the whole thing unnecessary.
Since the ruling body in this case would be the Comission (or possibly the minister council) and not the parliament, I think it wouldn't be that hard to make them agree.
(I know i'm not allowed to whine about it, but i submitted this 2 days ago and was rejected... so i'll whine here)
Yep thats what i was referring to. As you correctly pointed out, I was wrong in claiming they had *decided* to. However, the threat came after the minister council gave it's ok to the Commission which means they're really serious. And also some french minister claimed it was already decided (dont take him to seriously, but at least it shows the french are serious)
That isn't a problem any more. The EU decided a few weeks ago to build ITER in france by themselves and inviting the Japanese to join if they like (dont know what's happening with the US participation, but considering that they didn't join until a short while ago and wasn't paying much anyway it hardly matters)
so what you're saying is that even though B5 is aired more or less continually in a loop on one or more channels, and a VCR can be had for 20 bucks anywhere, you still cant force yourself to watch it? I guess you dont want to see it very badly then (which is ok, but dont whine about not being able to)... and also: that type of attitude is the reason we only get crap on tv these days (and not just sci-fi crap)
Maybe they'll make it illegal to skip ads and comercials, but that would be too insane wouldn't it?
oh wait....
In any case, knowing governments I'd say the chance of any company getting their money back is zero.
auctioning spectrum is a bad idea. It's better to give it away for free to the companies that promises the best services to it's customers.
Many countries in europe auctioned off 3G-spectrum a few years ago, and the money involved was insane... many of the "winners" weren't able to build any networks from lack of funds after the crazy fees they payed for the spectrum.
Some countries instead held "beauty contests" where the companies that promised best area coverage where given spectrum for free (the promises must be kept with the threat of huge fines of course)
I agree. Only in this particular case the war will end with all players being able to play both HD and Blu-ray. Blu-ray wont die because Sony and pretty much every electronics company except NEC and Toshiba backs it, and Sony owns several movie studios and is the worlds largest home electronics producer, and also the ps3 will use Blu-ray ensuring a decent installbase.
And (important) the movie companies that just announced HD-DVD support hasn't made their support exclusive, meaning thay can also support Blu-Ray at the same time if they want (which they will).
I'm not sure, but I know for a fact that a college friend of mine changed his name back to his birthname when he came/fled to my country (Sweden) from Turkey. He said it was for the above reason.
I stand corrected :-)
Not to be too anal (well ok, i admit i like it) but your size of the universe is off. The age of the universe is about 15e9 years, but latest estimates of its size is around 100e9 = 1e11 (possible because of 'inflation' during big bang) so 42 wont quite cut it. Too bad cause that would have been really cool...
And yet you say it so casually.... if only i had a Gmail invite....
No it's like saying "you wont be punished if someone force-feeds you a drug (against your will) that makes you violent, and you proced to hurt somebody"
ATI's demos may be biased (of course they are), but dont claim HardOCP's are any more dependable. They used an overclocked Nvidia card for example (and Kyle is a well known Nvidia fanboy)
And Anand looking for the most stressing parts of the game? Well it seems to me the slowest parts might just as well be CPU-limited as graphics limited. And [H] benching an entire level? Come on! You have to choose GPU-stressing parts, if you bench an entire level your average scores will be much more even since the cards are good at different things.
wow... you really are insane, aren't you?
I didn't. I read it as "It was good the way it was" - which it clearly wasnt since this is 2004 and MIT waited until now.
I was under the impression that the draft didn't exist anymore... perhaps you missed that?