I haven't even bothered to check, but does openoffice.org finally support automated updates like firefox instead of the old, a bit annoying, download and unpack to install latest version routine?
Firefox updates are annoying too. It bugs me when it finds an update, then it bugs me to ask to install it, then it bugs me to tell me it updated, then my addons do all of that... plus they open their online release-note pages after I have to restart Firefox! Gah, just pulse an "updating" icon to tell me it's happening in the background, and then apply it all silently at next restart, maybe with an "updated" icon - if I want to know more, I'll click the damn icon. No need to make these processes so in-your-face-irritating.
Years ago I had a Barracuda die and need replacement under warranty. It was real clear when I sent it in that there was NO guarantee of any sort for my data. What I received back was a different drive (different serial) complete with ALL of my data. That's as good as I can ask for.
I can't argue about the service, but that's very trusting of you, sending your data as well. I can't imagine any business users doing this.
The problem with your test is you're running it through Flash. If you're looking to compare OS or even browser performance, better to upload and download through something lower level (unless your goal is to test Flash application network performance).
So, stay in school, do some postgrad / masters / phd etc, and come out in 2 or 3 years looking a shinier in a better job market. Do some opensource concurrently, and some intern or similar during the holidays.
ahh NZ, i'm going to burn some karma here and state the truth - NZ is Australia if Australia was run by women. just hear me out, all their top bureaucrats are women, business is owned by women hell this crazy plan is brought to you by a female minister.
To be fair, we have just got a new Government, headed by men. Tizard is from the previous government, and is not even an MP any more. I urge the National government - and her replacement, Chris Finlayson - to stop this bill in it's tracks. I live in Wellington (the capital) so when is the protest?
The central measure for intelligence is the degree and speed of adaptability to new circumstances.
I agree that is a component, but I think you've pretty much defined evolutionary fitness rather than intelligence. Still, you'll have to argue this one with someone in the field...
As universities are typically unable to adapt (rooted in age-old dogma and entrenched authoritarian policy), they are unable to apply intelligence. Therefore when you apply policy you are applying stupidity.
I would say when you apply inappropriate policy, then you are applying stupidy... but yes, I agree that many universities (and many large organisations) may apply stupidity through their often outdated or naively applied choice of policies.
Think of your degree of stupidity as a reflection of your inability to change. Now rethink your comment.
Sure, if I agreed with that statement, I might concur... but I really don't think that one's inability to change is a reflection of their stupidy (and even then I don't accept the assumption of inability to change).
Now you get to call me stupid (again) for not changing.
Please. Most university faculty are a looong way from stupid. That said, while I understand the argument that university resources are being used in the creation of these "inventions" (ideas), surely the fact that THE STUDENTS ARE ALREADY PAYING FOR USE OF THESE RESOURCES should mean that they owe the university nothing, and anything outside of normal coursework is theirs to call their own.
Of course, I just tried this with a Pentium-D that supports x64 and not VT-x. Yes, it fails. The machine is quite happy to run Ubuntu x64 for real, but won't do it running the same Ubuntu distro in a Virtual Box VM under 32-bit Windows Vista. Just in case anyone wanted to know for sure.
When? How about at the point that VR glasses and head tracking become discrete enough to wear in an office environment, and when we figure a sensible way to not block the real world from the virtual one. At that point, we don't need monitors, because we can augment reality with as many screens (or screen-less documents) as we want, in any positions we want.
That's being overly dramatic. All 3 wouldn't go down - what would happen is the company's value would plummet, the Chinese would buy them, the CxOs would be booted, and the unions would be abolished (and those who disagreed would lose their jobs), and they would then be run profitably. The infrastructure would mostly survive.
This might be a naive question, but hasn't the movie industry covered most of these bases already, with CGI facial expression algorithms and puppetry?. What's the new part?
Australia has the same problem. EFA Tried to sue using Freedom of Information laws to get the same info out of the department of foreign affairs and trade. Same response. All the governments are under an NDA on this thing. The USA needs to cleanup this mess because they're the ones forcing the non disclosure clauses. New Zealand also has the same issue.
If nothing else, it serves to remind us that in most countries, the government is a very separate entity to the people... Ironic given the USA mantra "of the people, by the people, for the people." How a government can be under NDA for a policy that affects their country's people in such a broad manner is beyond ridiculous. Perhaps they are concerned that other governments of the world may gain a competitive advantage? Funnily enough, I'd wager that non-signatories most certainly will.
Sadly, it may be too late for New Zealand. The main sponsor of this act was Minister of Commerce Judith Tizard, who recently lost her office as part of the beaten Labour party in NZ elections, and also lost her electorate as an MP... but nevertheless, the act goes into effect here Feb 28 2009.
You could set up a Stirling engine to run on the waste heat from other processes.
So given that, could you use the waste heat of a turbo-diesel / petrol engine (stored in the coolant) to increase the overall efficiency? Eg, IC gets 35%, and the Stirling reclaims 45% of the left over 65%? The Stirling engine would presumably run a generator to charge & drive the electric component of a hybrid drivetrain. You get the best of all worlds, with the overhead of additional complexity - which Toyota (among others) has shown we can deal with if we want to.
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I'll see your 1986 NES Ghostbusters, and raise you a 1984 Sinclair ZX Spectrum Ghostbusters!
The sound effects were most impressive. Apparently they released it for a bunch of platforms. Times have certainly changed.
I haven't even bothered to check, but does openoffice.org finally support automated updates like firefox instead of the old, a bit annoying, download and unpack to install latest version routine?
Firefox updates are annoying too. It bugs me when it finds an update, then it bugs me to ask to install it, then it bugs me to tell me it updated, then my addons do all of that... plus they open their online release-note pages after I have to restart Firefox! Gah, just pulse an "updating" icon to tell me it's happening in the background, and then apply it all silently at next restart, maybe with an "updated" icon - if I want to know more, I'll click the damn icon. No need to make these processes so in-your-face-irritating.
Years ago I had a Barracuda die and need replacement under warranty. It was real clear when I sent it in that there was NO guarantee of any sort for my data. What I received back was a different drive (different serial) complete with ALL of my data. That's as good as I can ask for.
I can't argue about the service, but that's very trusting of you, sending your data as well. I can't imagine any business users doing this.
What's wrong with the turtles?
Turtles can't do algebra.
The problem with your test is you're running it through Flash. If you're looking to compare OS or even browser performance, better to upload and download through something lower level (unless your goal is to test Flash application network performance).
So, stay in school, do some postgrad / masters / phd etc, and come out in 2 or 3 years looking a shinier in a better job market. Do some opensource concurrently, and some intern or similar during the holidays.
ahh NZ, i'm going to burn some karma here and state the truth - NZ is Australia if Australia was run by women. just hear me out, all their top bureaucrats are women, business is owned by women hell this crazy plan is brought to you by a female minister.
To be fair, we have just got a new Government, headed by men. Tizard is from the previous government, and is not even an MP any more. I urge the National government - and her replacement, Chris Finlayson - to stop this bill in it's tracks. I live in Wellington (the capital) so when is the protest?
The central measure for intelligence is the degree and speed of adaptability to new circumstances.
I agree that is a component, but I think you've pretty much defined evolutionary fitness rather than intelligence. Still, you'll have to argue this one with someone in the field...
As universities are typically unable to adapt (rooted in age-old dogma and entrenched authoritarian policy), they are unable to apply intelligence. Therefore when you apply policy you are applying stupidity.
I would say when you apply inappropriate policy, then you are applying stupidy... but yes, I agree that many universities (and many large organisations) may apply stupidity through their often outdated or naively applied choice of policies.
Think of your degree of stupidity as a reflection of your inability to change. Now rethink your comment.
Sure, if I agreed with that statement, I might concur... but I really don't think that one's inability to change is a reflection of their stupidy (and even then I don't accept the assumption of inability to change).
Now you get to call me stupid (again) for not changing.
The stupid exploit the smart.
Please. Most university faculty are a looong way from stupid. That said, while I understand the argument that university resources are being used in the creation of these "inventions" (ideas), surely the fact that THE STUDENTS ARE ALREADY PAYING FOR USE OF THESE RESOURCES should mean that they owe the university nothing, and anything outside of normal coursework is theirs to call their own.
Of course, I just tried this with a Pentium-D that supports x64 and not VT-x. Yes, it fails. The machine is quite happy to run Ubuntu x64 for real, but won't do it running the same Ubuntu distro in a Virtual Box VM under 32-bit Windows Vista. Just in case anyone wanted to know for sure.
This sounds more like a "Holy shit, we can make millions! Got to watch our ass..."
Billions. Billions, son.
It's her way of telling us she's single.
When? How about at the point that VR glasses and head tracking become discrete enough to wear in an office environment, and when we figure a sensible way to not block the real world from the virtual one. At that point, we don't need monitors, because we can augment reality with as many screens (or screen-less documents) as we want, in any positions we want.
That's being overly dramatic. All 3 wouldn't go down - what would happen is the company's value would plummet, the Chinese would buy them, the CxOs would be booted, and the unions would be abolished (and those who disagreed would lose their jobs), and they would then be run profitably. The infrastructure would mostly survive.
This might be a naive question, but hasn't the movie industry covered most of these bases already, with CGI facial expression algorithms and puppetry?. What's the new part?
Sign me up.
Good post. This 6-stroke engine (petrol + steam) might be more interesting then...
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Australia has the same problem. EFA Tried to sue using Freedom of Information laws to get the same info out of the department of foreign affairs and trade. Same response. All the governments are under an NDA on this thing. The USA needs to cleanup this mess because they're the ones forcing the non disclosure clauses. New Zealand also has the same issue.
If nothing else, it serves to remind us that in most countries, the government is a very separate entity to the people... Ironic given the USA mantra "of the people, by the people, for the people." How a government can be under NDA for a policy that affects their country's people in such a broad manner is beyond ridiculous. Perhaps they are concerned that other governments of the world may gain a competitive advantage? Funnily enough, I'd wager that non-signatories most certainly will.
Sadly, it may be too late for New Zealand. The main sponsor of this act was Minister of Commerce Judith Tizard, who recently lost her office as part of the beaten Labour party in NZ elections, and also lost her electorate as an MP... but nevertheless, the act goes into effect here Feb 28 2009.
You could set up a Stirling engine to run on the waste heat from other processes.
So given that, could you use the waste heat of a turbo-diesel / petrol engine (stored in the coolant) to increase the overall efficiency? Eg, IC gets 35%, and the Stirling reclaims 45% of the left over 65%? The Stirling engine would presumably run a generator to charge & drive the electric component of a hybrid drivetrain. You get the best of all worlds, with the overhead of additional complexity - which Toyota (among others) has shown we can deal with if we want to.
I dunno ... is she really hot?
Nobody said it would be a she.
Why not? Whether they dream of it or not, their fingers will eventually be wrapped around our balls anyway.
Ah yes, they do teach the "twist and pull" in women's self-defence classes.
Honeypot.
Even in your closet!
Neutrinos are gay?
People fucked up. Ain't it always the case?
People won't admit they fucked up. Ain't this also always the case? :-)