Imagine having a library in your village that could show you how to build water condensers, new farming techniques, basic chemistry that could improve your quality of life, really ANY piece of information you could conceive of as well as the ability to communicate remotely with other vilalges trying to overcome similar problems at the touch of your hands.
But no, better to hand out fish then give access to fishing instructions.
Knowledge is power.
Knowledge is power. That's bullshit. What use is knowledge when you are in no condition to put it to use. These people are not stupid.
The algae, called Enteromorpha prolifera, is not toxic to humans or animals.
However the carpet on the surface can dramatically change the ecology of the environment beneath it. It blocks sunlight from entering the ocean and sucks oxygen from the water suffocating marine life.
I am disappointed how narrow and limited the education system is in North America. My experience is with Canada specifically but I think it applies to the US as well. When I grew up, in Yugoslavia, by grade 7 everyone was required to take Math, Physics, Biology, History, Chemistry, Geography, Art, Music. In total, about a dozen subjects. By grade 9 that included 2 foreign languages as well as Latin. This mean that every student, regardless of their "preference" was exposed to a wide variety of subjects and influences.
Having a broader education enriches your life because it lets you interpret things from various angles and draw on many references. It lets you relate to your fellow students better and lets you have richer conversations and interactions with them.
I'm sure many of you think that something like Latin is a waste of time but I still used it, almost daily, to figure out foreign languages or the etymology of words or what is written on a dollar bill.;)
I wish we would stop coddling our young people and expose them to as much as possible. Only then can they reach their full potential and know what they want in life.
The last slide shows a figure of $20 million per year for, basically, spying on the entire Internet.
Is it just me or does $1.7mil/month seem kinds cheap to be storing and mining that amount of data...
I guess since it's a gov't operation, the real cost is probably 20x higher than what they say it would be.
Yes, Any other Nobel Prize-winning physicists / Slashdoters with Bose Einstein Condensate experience please chime in.
But first, let me get some pop corn.../sarcasm
I use Enlightenment on Bodhi Linux for my older machines and it performs wonderfully! It's fast and lean and, once it's all configured, very productive. The community forums are active and helpful, you'll even get a reply from Rasterman himself on occasion. Kudos for keeping this project alive for all those years, it keeps getting better!
I was interested in how many kgs of coal a badly written Flash Ad would consume. I did some quick calculations based on the typical Wattage of a desktop and assumed a 10 second view by 1 million people over the course of a year. This assumes that the crappy Flash Ad consumed 100% of a core. I also assumed that all power comes from coal (most of it in the US does).
That's a lot of assumptions but should still get us in the "ballpark" for the final figure which, to my surprise, was quite high! I estimated that this would consume around 90 TONS OF COAL!
Looking at the figure I am convinced that I made a mistake somewhere in my reasoning, calculations or raw data but I haven't found any problems yet.
I would appreciate any interested Slashdotters to set me straight or confirm my work. Here's my blog article with all the calculations on it: http://blog.bit-matrix.com/2009/01/20/how-green-is-your-code/
Thanks.
Your argument may be true if your are talking about a highly tuned factory car but most cars are made for the "average" consumer and quite often the engines are severely de-tuned because soccer mom's don't want torque-steer on their Jettas.
With regular maintenance most of todays cars could run for 500,000km, long after all the interior/exterior parts wear out and the car is scrapped. Chipping your ride might decrease that to 300,000km - still more than the average lifetime of a car...
Again, the milleage lost and power gained with a NA engine depends heavily on the engine design. More often it's not important how much power is gained at the top end but how the new power is distributed. Shifting the torque curve to lower RPMs may provide for a greately increased driveability of your car with only minor or no fuel economy loss.
When I did my military service we were trained in destroying chemical weapons...can easily be neutralized by ordinary household cleaning products, or gasoline (Iraq certainly had no shortage of that one...).
If that is true then Iraq already got rid of their weapons either by burning them or having them decay in time.
So there were never any weapons when the war started...
In some instances it is hard to breakthrough the popular concept of what a game is. A game with a high degree of originality that is completely different than anything else could be perceived as confusing even before the user tries playing it.
Let's face it, games are big business and big business runs by the bottom line. Thus games made by big business are made for the "average" consumer. Cars could be made with sports suspensions without adding to the price but the average person wants a soft ride so the cars handling suffers...
For games this "average" usually means something like 16-35 year old males and that's when you get all the guns.
A couple of my friends and I made an "original" game (plug: www.pixelescape.com) for kids a few months ago. Seeing how it doesn't target the main user group (they have to have kids) and it's non main-stream concept (coloring instead of shooting/killing) we've had a hard time getting on any big "game" sites because they just don't care as they cater to that main audience.
The bottom line is that people want stuff they recognize and if you're in it to make money you will cater to those needs and not go off inventing stuff. The industry is getting standardized so to speak.
This doesn't apply as much to small, independent developers and original stuff can still be seen coming from there but they obviously cannot compete with big budgets in some areas (FMVs, animation...).
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Imagine having a library in your village that could show you how to build water condensers, new farming techniques, basic chemistry that could improve your quality of life, really ANY piece of information you could conceive of as well as the ability to communicate remotely with other vilalges trying to overcome similar problems at the touch of your hands.
But no, better to hand out fish then give access to fishing instructions.
Knowledge is power.
Knowledge is power. That's bullshit. What use is knowledge when you are in no condition to put it to use. These people are not stupid.
A magma reservoir for ants?! It has to be at least... 3 times bigger than this!
...with 6000 and one hull!
Power is power.
It was my understanding that everyone had HURD...
At Tanagra.
Wow, that is as dramatic of a story summary as I have ever seen on Slashdot. Made me tingle all over...
I wonder how much of an accident it is that Chrome's Incognito mode tells you:
Going incognito doesn't affect the behavior of other people, servers, or software. Be wary of:
The algae, called Enteromorpha prolifera, is not toxic to humans or animals.
However the carpet on the surface can dramatically change the ecology of the environment beneath it. It blocks sunlight from entering the ocean and sucks oxygen from the water suffocating marine life.
I am disappointed how narrow and limited the education system is in North America. My experience is with Canada specifically but I think it applies to the US as well. When I grew up, in Yugoslavia, by grade 7 everyone was required to take Math, Physics, Biology, History, Chemistry, Geography, Art, Music. In total, about a dozen subjects. By grade 9 that included 2 foreign languages as well as Latin. This mean that every student, regardless of their "preference" was exposed to a wide variety of subjects and influences.
Having a broader education enriches your life because it lets you interpret things from various angles and draw on many references. It lets you relate to your fellow students better and lets you have richer conversations and interactions with them.
I'm sure many of you think that something like Latin is a waste of time but I still used it, almost daily, to figure out foreign languages or the etymology of words or what is written on a dollar bill. ;)
I wish we would stop coddling our young people and expose them to as much as possible. Only then can they reach their full potential and know what they want in life.
The last slide shows a figure of $20 million per year for, basically, spying on the entire Internet. Is it just me or does $1.7mil/month seem kinds cheap to be storing and mining that amount of data... I guess since it's a gov't operation, the real cost is probably 20x higher than what they say it would be.
What is your take on it?
Yes, Any other Nobel Prize-winning physicists / Slashdoters with Bose Einstein Condensate experience please chime in. But first, let me get some pop corn ... /sarcasm
Let's crowd-source this on reddit!
I'm sure someone has been pummelled to death with an old 90s desktop while the ethernet cable was still connected. :D
There is no such thing as a single measure of IQ or a measure of general intelligence.
Anyone with a high-enough IQ could have told you that!
I use Enlightenment on Bodhi Linux for my older machines and it performs wonderfully! It's fast and lean and, once it's all configured, very productive. The community forums are active and helpful, you'll even get a reply from Rasterman himself on occasion. Kudos for keeping this project alive for all those years, it keeps getting better!
Mod up the Master of Magic reference! I love that game.
I was interested in how many kgs of coal a badly written Flash Ad would consume. I did some quick calculations based on the typical Wattage of a desktop and assumed a 10 second view by 1 million people over the course of a year. This assumes that the crappy Flash Ad consumed 100% of a core. I also assumed that all power comes from coal (most of it in the US does). That's a lot of assumptions but should still get us in the "ballpark" for the final figure which, to my surprise, was quite high! I estimated that this would consume around 90 TONS OF COAL! Looking at the figure I am convinced that I made a mistake somewhere in my reasoning, calculations or raw data but I haven't found any problems yet. I would appreciate any interested Slashdotters to set me straight or confirm my work. Here's my blog article with all the calculations on it: http://blog.bit-matrix.com/2009/01/20/how-green-is-your-code/ Thanks.
As the old saying goes: Broke the internets once, shame you. Broke the internets twice... eh, you won't brokeded them again!
Your argument may be true if your are talking about a highly tuned factory car but most cars are made for the "average" consumer and quite often the engines are severely de-tuned because soccer mom's don't want torque-steer on their Jettas. With regular maintenance most of todays cars could run for 500,000km, long after all the interior/exterior parts wear out and the car is scrapped. Chipping your ride might decrease that to 300,000km - still more than the average lifetime of a car... Again, the milleage lost and power gained with a NA engine depends heavily on the engine design. More often it's not important how much power is gained at the top end but how the new power is distributed. Shifting the torque curve to lower RPMs may provide for a greately increased driveability of your car with only minor or no fuel economy loss.
When I did my military service we were trained in destroying chemical weapons...can easily be neutralized by ordinary household cleaning products, or gasoline (Iraq certainly had no shortage of that one...). If that is true then Iraq already got rid of their weapons either by burning them or having them decay in time. So there were never any weapons when the war started...
In some instances it is hard to breakthrough the popular concept of what a game is. A game with a high degree of originality that is completely different than anything else could be perceived as confusing even before the user tries playing it.
Let's face it, games are big business and big business runs by the bottom line. Thus games made by big business are made for the "average" consumer. Cars could be made with sports suspensions without adding to the price but the average person wants a soft ride so the cars handling suffers...
For games this "average" usually means something like 16-35 year old males and that's when you get all the guns.
A couple of my friends and I made an "original" game (plug: www.pixelescape.com) for kids a few months ago. Seeing how it doesn't target the main user group (they have to have kids) and it's non main-stream concept (coloring instead of shooting/killing) we've had a hard time getting on any big "game" sites because they just don't care as they cater to that main audience.
The bottom line is that people want stuff they recognize and if you're in it to make money you will cater to those needs and not go off inventing stuff. The industry is getting standardized so to speak.
This doesn't apply as much to small, independent developers and original stuff can still be seen coming from there but they obviously cannot compete with big budgets in some areas (FMVs, animation...).