That's not the case. This is like Ford passing a law mandating that 55 mph governors be installed on BMWs, and then advertising that their car can go much faster than BMWs. AMD is widely known to make better chips in this case, not Intel.
I for one am taken by complete surprise. Having been using Linux exclusively for the last several years, I have not been keeping up to date with Microsoft developments.
The only major digitial viewing development I've heard about is the broadcast flag being killed and its zombie-like properties, but that's tv, not computer. I should have never put it past a for-profit entity to act as it has though.
I wouldn't be so sure. They are bankrolling our congresscritters and our king after all. If they can require drug tests and DNA sampling, what's to stop them from requiring the mark of the beast (ie., RFID chips)?
I thought about this before, and then came to the realization that cache and memory performance are the limiting factor in video encoding (specifically the snow codec [part of ffmpeg] behaves as such, but any wavelet codec or codec implementing overlapping block motion compensation should perform similarly). The asm code that I'm writting for the snow codec is almost twice as fast per clock on 32-bit AMD chips as it is on my 1.8GHz P4, with the tiny L1 cache being the primary culprit, but other memory issues and the long pipeline contributing too.
As Intel's multiple cores share cache and memory resources, they are unlikely to encode video much better than single core (at least snow video, which is very demanding, though not nearly as much as dirac).
Quoting the actual article and not the Slashdot summary:
The warmth in which the Northern Hemisphere has basked since the middle of the 20th century has been the most widespread and longest period of unusual climate experienced at any time during at least the past 1,200 years, according to a research paper in the journal Science.
It has recently been studied in much detail after being brought to light. The results are sobering, as it says that going forward, clouds and aerosols will increase temperature (aerosols because they'll be fewer of them, and clouds because cirrus clouds keep heat in and contrails seed cirrus clouds).
As far as dry areas go, they're expanding as we speak, in part due to global warming (the other part mainly being overgrazing and deforestation). Just look at the areas around most major deserts.
Cows are far more numerous than they otherwise would be if we didn't domesticate them. As such, we are responsible for their flatulance (at least the domesticated ones, which are like 99.99% of all cows).
Global warming is about as solid as the basis on which greenhouses work. All it relies on is the absorption spectrum of CO2 (and other greenhouse gases) and on blackbody radiation. Both are extremely well tested parts of science, up there with gravity and relativity.
The honest debate is about how feedback mechanisms will function and how much sypathetic CO2 emissions will be caused by nature reacting to the warming. Once the CO2 is in the air, there is no doubt that it will heat the planet.
In other news, Christians think (synonym for believe) that there exists a god. They think that the 7 sacrements bolster their case for their being a god. Now that's a much lower threshold of 'proof' than the attacks made at climatologists.
You can already fit 1-2 seasons onto a single DVD using xvid format. On a normal TV with the standard 2 built-in speakers, you're unlikely to notice the difference. And that's a single-sided DVD (4.3GB).
But don't geeks generally cost very little in customer service? They're very unlikely to call for anything other than a real problem. Bandwidth has been dropping like a rock in cost, but the amount you get hasn't gone up much (particularly upband), so I doubt it costs all that much to service a heavy user.
I feel that Linus is missing the point. GPL3 is mostly a set of changes to give some assurances that code licensed under it will not be made proprietary through the use of DRM and strengthens the provisions regarding patents.
Having anti-patent provisions makes total sense in my book. Having patents invoked against GPL'ed software means that the software cannot legally be used, and this provision makes it just that much more costly for a real (not a lawyer-only firm) to shut down a GPL project using patents while not effecting other users in the least.
The DRM provisions don't forbid the use of DRM, but assuming their legal theory is correct, it will make it legal to circumvent the DRM assuming that it is done for a legal end.
De facto means that it's unofficial. The article sure carries far more weight published in IEEE than had they made a press release or printed up fliers and handed them out.
You're probably right. This idea smacks of anodizing, where a piece of aluminum has electric current put through it inside a bath of sulfuric acid, creating an extremely strong coat of alumininum hydroxide (4th highest known compound on the hardness scale, below only diamond, titanium dioxide, and 1 other).
However: 1 - Teeth are not made of aluminum. 2 - The amounts of H2SO4 and electricity needed would likely be fatal. 3 - Our teeth are already very rich in hydroxides. 4 - Hydroxides are plenty strong enough. Cement is a hydroxide fairly similar to tooth.
It is rightfully modded down because it's not bringing any new ideas to the table and is just making a rather inciting comment. In other words, trying to start a flamewar.
Bring a good, detailed argument about why non-profit copyright violators should be punished to the fullest extent of the law and then we can have a more reasonable debate.
Your house isn't a public space, and thus you can ask her/him to leave for any reason. In fact, there's nothing that forced you to let the stanger inside in the first place.
Voting Nader (or any left-wing candidate) tells the Democratic Party that if they ever wish to win an election again, they had better come back to the left. A write-in for myself wouldn't be quite so effective, though I have considered it.
I don't demand someone who exactly shares my views, but a party a little left of centre would be a nice start. Maybe one that opposes the death penalty on principle and is in favor of civil liberties. Maybe one that isn't in bed with Isreal.
Sea level rise is one of the things that change the most slowly in response to mild climate change; however, it has enormous inertia and has strong feedback mechanisms. It is essentially impossible to stop once well underway.
Once the ice cap starts melting, the albedo is lowered, increasing temps. As the altitude drops, the temp increases. As water levels rise, atmospheric H2O levels rise, causing sympathetic global warming on top of what we earned ourselves.
Greenland is quite possibly past the point of no return already, were just to keep present termperatures constant.
Lastly, it doesn't take much sea level rise to inundate a whole lot of prime land. The worst case scenario would force over half of the US population to relocate and would involve the loss of much of the US's best land. The rest of the world would be similarly effected. The freshly accessible land near the poles will be offset by encroaching deserts in the tropics, and there is more land in the tropics than at the poles.
The Democrats were falling all over themselves to declare war after 9/11 too. Ever since 2000 the Democrats are spinless cowards who don't deserve my vote. They haven't taken a stand on any issues that matter to me (particularly civil liberties and stopping class warfare [ie., the war on drugs]). The Green Party actually had those as major campaign platforms.
If the Democrats stop acting like Republicans, I might feel a little more apt to vote for them come next election. Until then a vote for Gore or Kerry is a vote for Bush.
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That's not the case. This is like Ford passing a law mandating that 55 mph governors be installed on BMWs, and then advertising that their car can go much faster than BMWs. AMD is widely known to make better chips in this case, not Intel.
I for one am taken by complete surprise. Having been using Linux exclusively for the last several years, I have not been keeping up to date with Microsoft developments.
The only major digitial viewing development I've heard about is the broadcast flag being killed and its zombie-like properties, but that's tv, not computer. I should have never put it past a for-profit entity to act as it has though.
I wouldn't be so sure. They are bankrolling our congresscritters and our king after all. If they can require drug tests and DNA sampling, what's to stop them from requiring the mark of the beast (ie., RFID chips)?
I thought about this before, and then came to the realization that cache and memory performance are the limiting factor in video encoding (specifically the snow codec [part of ffmpeg] behaves as such, but any wavelet codec or codec implementing overlapping block motion compensation should perform similarly). The asm code that I'm writting for the snow codec is almost twice as fast per clock on 32-bit AMD chips as it is on my 1.8GHz P4, with the tiny L1 cache being the primary culprit, but other memory issues and the long pipeline contributing too.
As Intel's multiple cores share cache and memory resources, they are unlikely to encode video much better than single core (at least snow video, which is very demanding, though not nearly as much as dirac).
Quoting the actual article and not the Slashdot summary:
The warmth in which the Northern Hemisphere has basked since the middle of the 20th century has been the most widespread and longest period of unusual climate experienced at any time during at least the past 1,200 years, according to a research paper in the journal Science.
I rest my case.
It has recently been studied in much detail after being brought to light. The results are sobering, as it says that going forward, clouds and aerosols will increase temperature (aerosols because they'll be fewer of them, and clouds because cirrus clouds keep heat in and contrails seed cirrus clouds).
As far as dry areas go, they're expanding as we speak, in part due to global warming (the other part mainly being overgrazing and deforestation). Just look at the areas around most major deserts.
Cows are far more numerous than they otherwise would be if we didn't domesticate them. As such, we are responsible for their flatulance (at least the domesticated ones, which are like 99.99% of all cows).
You got it conversed. The warmest temp is in 2005CE, not 800CE.
Global warming is about as solid as the basis on which greenhouses work. All it relies on is the absorption spectrum of CO2 (and other greenhouse gases) and on blackbody radiation. Both are extremely well tested parts of science, up there with gravity and relativity.
The honest debate is about how feedback mechanisms will function and how much sypathetic CO2 emissions will be caused by nature reacting to the warming. Once the CO2 is in the air, there is no doubt that it will heat the planet.
In other news, Christians think (synonym for believe) that there exists a god. They think that the 7 sacrements bolster their case for their being a god. Now that's a much lower threshold of 'proof' than the attacks made at climatologists.
What about the FLIC video format? Any format that old should be patent free.
You can already fit 1-2 seasons onto a single DVD using xvid format. On a normal TV with the standard 2 built-in speakers, you're unlikely to notice the difference. And that's a single-sided DVD (4.3GB).
But don't geeks generally cost very little in customer service? They're very unlikely to call for anything other than a real problem. Bandwidth has been dropping like a rock in cost, but the amount you get hasn't gone up much (particularly upband), so I doubt it costs all that much to service a heavy user.
It was a subtle joke. I am aware of this.
Isn't it spelled Nymex, not Nyxem. New York egnahcxE Merchantile just doesn't make much sense as an acronym.
Oh well, I guess virus writers are getting dumber by the day if they can't even spell their targets' name properly.
And you know what, humans still cannot fly.
Zeppelins and airplanes are non-human.
I feel that Linus is missing the point. GPL3 is mostly a set of changes to give some assurances that code licensed under it will not be made proprietary through the use of DRM and strengthens the provisions regarding patents.
Having anti-patent provisions makes total sense in my book. Having patents invoked against GPL'ed software means that the software cannot legally be used, and this provision makes it just that much more costly for a real (not a lawyer-only firm) to shut down a GPL project using patents while not effecting other users in the least.
The DRM provisions don't forbid the use of DRM, but assuming their legal theory is correct, it will make it legal to circumvent the DRM assuming that it is done for a legal end.
De facto means that it's unofficial. The article sure carries far more weight published in IEEE than had they made a press release or printed up fliers and handed them out.
You're probably right. This idea smacks of anodizing, where a piece of aluminum has electric current put through it inside a bath of sulfuric acid, creating an extremely strong coat of alumininum hydroxide (4th highest known compound on the hardness scale, below only diamond, titanium dioxide, and 1 other).
However:
1 - Teeth are not made of aluminum.
2 - The amounts of H2SO4 and electricity needed would likely be fatal.
3 - Our teeth are already very rich in hydroxides.
4 - Hydroxides are plenty strong enough. Cement is a hydroxide fairly similar to tooth.
I fail to see the difference. Obviously the IEEE doesn't object to the commentary, else why would it permit it to be printed?
It might not have been written by an IEEE staff member, but it is definitely a de facto endorsement because of IEEE publishing it.
It is rightfully modded down because it's not bringing any new ideas to the table and is just making a rather inciting comment. In other words, trying to start a flamewar.
Bring a good, detailed argument about why non-profit copyright violators should be punished to the fullest extent of the law and then we can have a more reasonable debate.
Your house isn't a public space, and thus you can ask her/him to leave for any reason. In fact, there's nothing that forced you to let the stanger inside in the first place.
Voting Nader (or any left-wing candidate) tells the Democratic Party that if they ever wish to win an election again, they had better come back to the left. A write-in for myself wouldn't be quite so effective, though I have considered it.
I don't demand someone who exactly shares my views, but a party a little left of centre would be a nice start. Maybe one that opposes the death penalty on principle and is in favor of civil liberties. Maybe one that isn't in bed with Isreal.
Sea level rise is one of the things that change the most slowly in response to mild climate change; however, it has enormous inertia and has strong feedback mechanisms. It is essentially impossible to stop once well underway.
Once the ice cap starts melting, the albedo is lowered, increasing temps. As the altitude drops, the temp increases. As water levels rise, atmospheric H2O levels rise, causing sympathetic global warming on top of what we earned ourselves.
Greenland is quite possibly past the point of no return already, were just to keep present termperatures constant.
Lastly, it doesn't take much sea level rise to inundate a whole lot of prime land. The worst case scenario would force over half of the US population to relocate and would involve the loss of much of the US's best land. The rest of the world would be similarly effected. The freshly accessible land near the poles will be offset by encroaching deserts in the tropics, and there is more land in the tropics than at the poles.
The Democrats were falling all over themselves to declare war after 9/11 too. Ever since 2000 the Democrats are spinless cowards who don't deserve my vote. They haven't taken a stand on any issues that matter to me (particularly civil liberties and stopping class warfare [ie., the war on drugs]). The Green Party actually had those as major campaign platforms.
If the Democrats stop acting like Republicans, I might feel a little more apt to vote for them come next election. Until then a vote for Gore or Kerry is a vote for Bush.