For the record, you are suggesting we put a ship close enough to the Sun to use its gravity well to catapult us out? I mean, how close do you suggest? Do you like it rare, well done or charcoally?
"Sex transmits a disease just like it has been documents to happen in boars." (see TFA)
vs
"A mosquito gets in his (most likely) crappy, soft shell backpack in Senegal, stays inside it for two days while crossing a third of the globe, manages to survive the beating while being thrown around in the Senegalese roads and at two or three different airports, survives some cold temperatures in the cargo bay of an airplane (is stuff stored at room temperature or slightly below there?) gets safe and sound to his home and then chooses to infect only the person he had sex with but none of his kids.
Yes, you're right it sounds much more likely the tiny bug survived all that.
Well, I get the exact opposite, more in line with what GP says.
I am running FF 4 in MacOS X (madness, I know) and with Adblock and NoScript activated I have the same fingerprint as 1 in 53,152 browsers. If I use it with NoScript deactivated my browser finger print makes it unique, so I can be identified among all 1.4 million people that used Panopticlick. It's true MacOS X is not as common as Windows XP, but for me activating NoScript helps my privacy (I become 1 out of 30 instead of a specific one).
How about reading the fine article instead of making a fool out of yourself?
Oh wait, this is Slashdot, one can just throw crap out and expect other to explain. Open the text, search for the second time ATM pops up and you get an idea of what it used the GPS for.
He's just saying "future servers can have huge SSDs and small amounts of RAM instead of 128 GB of ram to store that database you need fast access to", not that SSDs will replace RAM entirely.
I know this is Slashdot, but before you start making questions, you can at least try reading the available info. Otherwise, just start commenting right away, but making statements, not questions!
How about reconverting the videos to WebM so that their website is compatible with several [other] browsers?
The decision of encoding them with H264 was to avoid losing a key market. May make sense to do the same again, no?
I'm not familiar with these things, but if someone is installing backdoors for the FBI on some software, will he be telling everyone that he works/has worked with the FBI? I wouldn't really expect anything else other than denying it!
This doesn't mean he does work for the FBI, but saying he doesn't isn't going to clear all things up!
The earth was so properly blended when it was made that it's safe to assume that the isotope mixtures are a constant.
Your assumption is actually wrong and that's why the values are updated. For instance, if you get a metal, from different mines around the world, the relative abundances of each of the isotopes vary slightly and this leads to different atomic weights for the same metal. This is why the atomic weights are updated. You can read about it in wikipedia.
Indeed, this won't matter much (even for a chemist), but this is not a problem just for intergalactic engineers (and please do remember the fact that it is the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry that is updating these not a bunch of astronomers working at/for NASA).
Ah great! A guy potentially working for the FBI (thus having some sort of NDA) comes out and says "I don't work for the FBI".
I guess that clears it all up, doesn't it?
You mean... the ones they've already announced will be discontinued?
From Wikipedia: "On November 5, 2010, Apple announced that it would not be developing a future version of Xserve."
A resort to spend a week?!
Do you have any idea what the oxygen content of air is at that altitude? Do you have any idea how hard is it to be up there? It's not something gramma is gonna do, even if taken by helicopter. She'd die of pulmonary and cerebral edema pretty soon. Or are you suggesting putting a acclimatized, pressurized resort at the top would be the solution? Complete with thick bunkerlike walls so you don't even have to see the outside...
Or maybe spell checkers are not a replacement for the editor's work, as not all submitters in Slashdot have English as their first language and peek/peak aren't that hard to confuse (as then/than, farther/further,...).
It says in the summary these things are breaking after 2 billion cycles. Is it the math of it "all" you are having problems with or is it the reading of the *entire* summary that is causing you trouble?
I see all these claims that they take time to come up to full brightness... WTF, how long do you people stay in a room? Yes, my CFLs take up to 30 seconds to light up but then I stay in the room for half an hour or one hour. Or you do nothing more than move from place to place turning lamps on and off?!
Great! Now you don't die of the fire, you die from the decomp gases...
Let's not forget also the fact that that small pool of water in the toilet is there to separate the sewage system from your bathroom. The smell and composition of the air on the other side of the toilet pool should be rather nasty. Sewage workers have CO2, H2S and whatnot detectors with them for a reason.
Not sure inhaling that air won't kill you faster than the fumes from the fire...
I've got a Sony Vaio SZ1HP laptop. It's a 4 year old system that I still use occasionally. It's not a very recent machine, I think we all agree, so recognizing it shouldn't be difficult for any OS. It's got both Ubuntu (9.04, having to update soon) and Windows 7.
I only use the Intel graphics card (it has an Nvidia also), easily recognized by both Windows and Linux.Sound working fine since moment one on both. Touchpad, works fine on Linux, had to download the Vista drivers manually from some cheesy website to get it to work. Webcam, the support on Linux is sketchy at best. Recompiling modules and so on... On Windows I had to download the *XP* drivers from another weird website. The Vista drivers wouldn't work. As for wireless, Linux had no problems, for Windows even though it was recognized right, it wouldn't work. I had to remove the driver, reboot the system and let it recognize the things again. Then it worked. I've done this several times on other systems, but this is not something the common user would remember "If it's recognized, it works!". The Fn key together with the functions of muting, increasing/decreasing sound volume and screen brightness and so on work *perfect* on Linux and I haven't even bothered putting them to work on Windows. Too much work for a valuable feature but that can (for the most part [sound]) be done with some extra clicks.
So, what is my point here? Just that my data point together with yours doesn't show anything. My computer is hardly a weird setup, it's a computer made by one of the biggest companies in the planet (in consumer electronics) and it's not the newest system they have. Yet, Linux recognized it much better than Windows. And before you start saying "Not much better", for the typical Joe the wireless problem would have been a bit of a show stopper.
Linux ain't perfect, but your data point doesn't make it worse than Windows. And mine doesn't make it better...
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For the record, you are suggesting we put a ship close enough to the Sun to use its gravity well to catapult us out? I mean, how close do you suggest? Do you like it rare, well done or charcoally?
"Sex transmits a disease just like it has been documents to happen in boars." (see TFA)
vs
"A mosquito gets in his (most likely) crappy, soft shell backpack in Senegal, stays inside it for two days while crossing a third of the globe, manages to survive the beating while being thrown around in the Senegalese roads and at two or three different airports, survives some cold temperatures in the cargo bay of an airplane (is stuff stored at room temperature or slightly below there?) gets safe and sound to his home and then chooses to infect only the person he had sex with but none of his kids.
Yes, you're right it sounds much more likely the tiny bug survived all that.
Well, I get the exact opposite, more in line with what GP says.
I am running FF 4 in MacOS X (madness, I know) and with Adblock and NoScript activated I have the same fingerprint as 1 in 53,152 browsers. If I use it with NoScript deactivated my browser finger print makes it unique, so I can be identified among all 1.4 million people that used Panopticlick. It's true MacOS X is not as common as Windows XP, but for me activating NoScript helps my privacy (I become 1 out of 30 instead of a specific one).
The system from which the idea came in order to make the GPS was terrestrial, but it has its own limitations.
Nowadays there is something called Differential GPS which improves the error margin of GPS, but it's not an independent system on itself.
How about reading the fine article instead of making a fool out of yourself?
Oh wait, this is Slashdot, one can just throw crap out and expect other to explain. Open the text, search for the second time ATM pops up and you get an idea of what it used the GPS for.
To be fair, it got to the point where an average of one driver was dying at each race weekend.
[citation DESPERATELY needed]
He's just saying "future servers can have huge SSDs and small amounts of RAM instead of 128 GB of ram to store that database you need fast access to", not that SSDs will replace RAM entirely.
The kid got caught breaking the law and goes to prison for the crimes he committed. What's so wrong about that part of the whole story?
RTFA!
I know this is Slashdot, but before you start making questions, you can at least try reading the available info. Otherwise, just start commenting right away, but making statements, not questions!
Do you want better proof they rewrote the entire OS? Functionality they had before is now missing, can't beat that as proof!!
How about reconverting the videos to WebM so that their website is compatible with several [other] browsers?
The decision of encoding them with H264 was to avoid losing a key market. May make sense to do the same again, no?
Who needs a firewall anyway? I use NAT and that offers all the protection I need.
I'm not familiar with these things, but if someone is installing backdoors for the FBI on some software, will he be telling everyone that he works/has worked with the FBI? I wouldn't really expect anything else other than denying it!
This doesn't mean he does work for the FBI, but saying he doesn't isn't going to clear all things up!
The earth was so properly blended when it was made that it's safe to assume that the isotope mixtures are a constant.
Your assumption is actually wrong and that's why the values are updated. For instance, if you get a metal, from different mines around the world, the relative abundances of each of the isotopes vary slightly and this leads to different atomic weights for the same metal. This is why the atomic weights are updated. You can read about it in wikipedia.
Indeed, this won't matter much (even for a chemist), but this is not a problem just for intergalactic engineers (and please do remember the fact that it is the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry that is updating these not a bunch of astronomers working at/for NASA).
Ah great! A guy potentially working for the FBI (thus having some sort of NDA) comes out and says "I don't work for the FBI".
I guess that clears it all up, doesn't it?
And we can all safely assume none of those will be using a new laptop designed to be used on a pilot program to test a new operating system, or not?
You mean... the ones they've already announced will be discontinued?
From Wikipedia: "On November 5, 2010, Apple announced that it would not be developing a future version of Xserve."
A resort to spend a week?!
Do you have any idea what the oxygen content of air is at that altitude? Do you have any idea how hard is it to be up there? It's not something gramma is gonna do, even if taken by helicopter. She'd die of pulmonary and cerebral edema pretty soon. Or are you suggesting putting a acclimatized, pressurized resort at the top would be the solution? Complete with thick bunkerlike walls so you don't even have to see the outside...
Or maybe spell checkers are not a replacement for the editor's work, as not all submitters in Slashdot have English as their first language and peek/peak aren't that hard to confuse (as then/than, farther/further, ...).
It says in the summary these things are breaking after 2 billion cycles. Is it the math of it "all" you are having problems with or is it the reading of the *entire* summary that is causing you trouble?
Not that it matters at all, but the "Tiny Chess" cannot castle with the king rook (at least).
Other than that, it looks pretty nice!
I see all these claims that they take time to come up to full brightness... WTF, how long do you people stay in a room? Yes, my CFLs take up to 30 seconds to light up but then I stay in the room for half an hour or one hour. Or you do nothing more than move from place to place turning lamps on and off?!
Great! Now you don't die of the fire, you die from the decomp gases...
Let's not forget also the fact that that small pool of water in the toilet is there to separate the sewage system from your bathroom. The smell and composition of the air on the other side of the toilet pool should be rather nasty. Sewage workers have CO2, H2S and whatnot detectors with them for a reason.
Not sure inhaling that air won't kill you faster than the fumes from the fire...
Because Ksplice relied on the fact that the Slashdot editors don't edit anything to have their advertisement pass as an important story?
I've got a Sony Vaio SZ1HP laptop. It's a 4 year old system that I still use occasionally. It's not a very recent machine, I think we all agree, so recognizing it shouldn't be difficult for any OS. It's got both Ubuntu (9.04, having to update soon) and Windows 7.
I only use the Intel graphics card (it has an Nvidia also), easily recognized by both Windows and Linux.Sound working fine since moment one on both. Touchpad, works fine on Linux, had to download the Vista drivers manually from some cheesy website to get it to work. Webcam, the support on Linux is sketchy at best. Recompiling modules and so on... On Windows I had to download the *XP* drivers from another weird website. The Vista drivers wouldn't work. As for wireless, Linux had no problems, for Windows even though it was recognized right, it wouldn't work. I had to remove the driver, reboot the system and let it recognize the things again. Then it worked. I've done this several times on other systems, but this is not something the common user would remember "If it's recognized, it works!". The Fn key together with the functions of muting, increasing/decreasing sound volume and screen brightness and so on work *perfect* on Linux and I haven't even bothered putting them to work on Windows. Too much work for a valuable feature but that can (for the most part [sound]) be done with some extra clicks.
So, what is my point here? Just that my data point together with yours doesn't show anything. My computer is hardly a weird setup, it's a computer made by one of the biggest companies in the planet (in consumer electronics) and it's not the newest system they have. Yet, Linux recognized it much better than Windows. And before you start saying "Not much better", for the typical Joe the wireless problem would have been a bit of a show stopper.
Linux ain't perfect, but your data point doesn't make it worse than Windows. And mine doesn't make it better...