This comment won't even be read, but I feel I should say something anyway.
I completely agree with the original article, in that this is important. In the UK, I frequently try and factor in the number of right-turns (same as US left - cross traffic) I have to make, as it adds significant waiting time to your journey.
Also, if I need to turn right onto a busy road, I try and seek out an intersection with traffic lights, because I know that I'll probably have more luck turning right under control than by giving way.
Although now I live in Leeds none of this matters. It's an every-man-for-himself, fight-your-way-in kinda city. That's why I like driving a diesel with bags of low-rev torque:-)
I've spent the day implementing off-site backup with S3, and let me just say: It's freakin' awesome. If I had a reasonable upload, my MP3 collection would be on there. £15/month for 120G is easily worth it, and it's already on a RAID1 array.
"I always mention, loudly, do you know this guy's calling you while peeing?"
You conservative fool - what, actually, is wrong with using a cellphone on the lav? I've had (several) calls from my clients when either of us have been on the toilet. It's an efficient use of otherwise dead time.
Before the flamethrowers fly, people should note these lines from TFA:
"occurs when a Vista user (running Kaspersky Anti Virus 6 or 7)"
"Although the problem occurs where users are running Kaspersky security products, it's a kernel leak that lies at the root of problem (the problem's not confined to systems running Kaspersky software, that just that this application seems to exacerbate the issue)."
Wrong, you do not need to know XML. I write "AJAX" applications at work all the time and haven't used XML for months. Look up JSON and make your life better.
Remember that with XMLHTTPRequest you are restricted to your own domain, so more often than not you are in charge of the message encapsulation language. You only have to make it as complicated as you want to.
On a slightly weaker note, some people are lucky enough to drop CSS from that list as well. Frequently I work with a designer who takes care of all the CSS for me - all I deal in is IDs and classes.
Now that it has a new Universal Binary I can't wait to see how it holds up against a modern windows machine.
I can answer that: Poorly. A modern Windows machine will always outperform a MacBook in games. More hardware, more options. Especially if you talk price-matching, we know MacBooks aren't exactly cheap.
I'm a webdeveloper, and as a side job I do webdeveloping:-)
USA more free than UK? Er..
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I'd like to know exactly who worked out that the USA has more press freedom than the UK. The BBC has no political or corporate ties whatsoever, how can that be more restricted than a government-approved, corporate funded national press? At least the UK has more than two media companies heh.
This might be a case of a little knowledge, but I quote:
"The small size of ferroelectric transparent structures makes it possible to fabricate nano-optical devices, such as volume holographic storage, having both positive and negative index of refraction"
Negative refractive index? Doesn't that mean light travels faster than.. light?
Well that was good. I'm all for Slashdot's reporting of news to the geek community, but this article appears to have slashdotted the new BOINC server completely. Well done.
Maybe posters should start considering the consequences of their actions before they post a story. Directing hundreds of thousands of geeks towards one already loaded *beta* server wasn't a clever thing to do.
I've only ever had one cup of coffee, and that was purely for the caffeine. I much prefer a good cup of tea. Part of my routine is Yorkshire Gold to send me up in the morning, and a big mug of South African Rooibos (naturally caffeine-free, I might add) to bring me down at night...that and a good seven or eight pints of Yorkshire throughout the day:-)
This isn't possible as you're talking about faster than light telecomms.
The idea is you can *measure* the spin of an electron, but as soon as you do this, you change the spin on the other one. You never know what the spin of the other one is and as soon as you try to find out you chaneg it, so it's not possible to send informations like this.
This bedroom's conclusion is that these people are talking bollocks, as surely digital piracy is one of the single most attractive reasons for getting broadband in the first place!
Yeah I know what FLAC is, but streamed? I mean, first you have the issue of encoding flac in realtime, but the bitrate on flac is far too high for most connections. Also the entire point of icecast and shoutcast is they scale to slow and fast connections pretty much transparently.
That's all well and good if you have your playlist shuffled, but I organise my songs by artist and album, so each one flows into each other very well... a damnsight more than most radio we get in the UK anyway.
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This comment won't even be read, but I feel I should say something anyway.
:-)
I completely agree with the original article, in that this is important. In the UK, I frequently try and factor in the number of right-turns (same as US left - cross traffic) I have to make, as it adds significant waiting time to your journey.
Also, if I need to turn right onto a busy road, I try and seek out an intersection with traffic lights, because I know that I'll probably have more luck turning right under control than by giving way.
Although now I live in Leeds none of this matters. It's an every-man-for-himself, fight-your-way-in kinda city. That's why I like driving a diesel with bags of low-rev torque
Does this picture remind anyone of The Fountain?
I've spent the day implementing off-site backup with S3, and let me just say: It's freakin' awesome. If I had a reasonable upload, my MP3 collection would be on there. £15/month for 120G is easily worth it, and it's already on a RAID1 array.
I'd probably contemplate suicide if I lost it.
"I always mention, loudly, do you know this guy's calling you while peeing?"
You conservative fool - what, actually, is wrong with using a cellphone on the lav? I've had (several) calls from my clients when either of us have been on the toilet. It's an efficient use of otherwise dead time.
When any company makes an OS that has text messages, calendaring, contacts and todo lists as easy and *fkin fast* to use as Palm, I'll switch.
Period.
Until then, it's Garnet all the way, troubles or otherwise.
Before the flamethrowers fly, people should note these lines from TFA:
"occurs when a Vista user (running Kaspersky Anti Virus 6 or 7)"
"Although the problem occurs where users are running Kaspersky security products, it's a kernel leak that lies at the root of problem (the problem's not confined to systems running Kaspersky software, that just that this application seems to exacerbate the issue)."
"The money saved goes where it counts:"
Electricity bills?
Wrong, you do not need to know XML. I write "AJAX" applications at work all the time and haven't used XML for months. Look up JSON and make your life better.
Remember that with XMLHTTPRequest you are restricted to your own domain, so more often than not you are in charge of the message encapsulation language. You only have to make it as complicated as you want to.
On a slightly weaker note, some people are lucky enough to drop CSS from that list as well. Frequently I work with a designer who takes care of all the CSS for me - all I deal in is IDs and classes.
I can answer that: Poorly. A modern Windows machine will always outperform a MacBook in games. More hardware, more options. Especially if you talk price-matching, we know MacBooks aren't exactly cheap.
News just in: France announces new search engine to be written in Perl 6.
I'm a webdeveloper, and as a side job I do webdeveloping :-)
I'd like to know exactly who worked out that the USA has more press freedom than the UK. The BBC has no political or corporate ties whatsoever, how can that be more restricted than a government-approved, corporate funded national press? At least the UK has more than two media companies heh.
Not sure about the spywae though.. I haven't run IE since installing eMule two years ago :-)
This might be a case of a little knowledge, but I quote:
"The small size of ferroelectric transparent structures makes it possible to fabricate nano-optical devices, such as volume holographic storage, having both positive and negative index of refraction"
Negative refractive index? Doesn't that mean light travels faster than.. light?
Has this image been slashdotted? Anyone got a mirror?
Well that was good. I'm all for Slashdot's reporting of news to the geek community, but this article appears to have slashdotted the new BOINC server completely. Well done. Maybe posters should start considering the consequences of their actions before they post a story. Directing hundreds of thousands of geeks towards one already loaded *beta* server wasn't a clever thing to do.
I've only ever had one cup of coffee, and that was purely for the caffeine. I much prefer a good cup of tea. Part of my routine is Yorkshire Gold to send me up in the morning, and a big mug of South African Rooibos (naturally caffeine-free, I might add) to bring me down at night. ..that and a good seven or eight pints of Yorkshire throughout the day :-)
Um. I have a Sony MP3-CD player that plays standard MP3s.
And I prefer it to fixed-storage devices as well.
This isn't possible as you're talking about faster than light telecomms. The idea is you can *measure* the spin of an electron, but as soon as you do this, you change the spin on the other one. You never know what the spin of the other one is and as soon as you try to find out you chaneg it, so it's not possible to send informations like this.
This bedroom's conclusion is that these people are talking bollocks, as surely digital piracy is one of the single most attractive reasons for getting broadband in the first place!
On the other side of the cage, a second mouse performs backflips, one per second, for up to 30 minutes at a time.
Did anyone else think of making a clock with this
Only me? Okay then...
Of course, but this is a Dutch stream.. hands up all those who are on a local LAN with Holland...
Worse.
You use KaZaA on your university's connection, they can track it all to your uni, and that's where it stops.
You use KaZaA with IPv6 on your uni's connection, and they can track it straight to your computer.
Yeah I know what FLAC is, but streamed? I mean, first you have the issue of encoding flac in realtime, but the bitrate on flac is far too high for most connections. Also the entire point of icecast and shoutcast is they scale to slow and fast connections pretty much transparently.
That's all well and good if you have your playlist shuffled, but I organise my songs by artist and album, so each one flows into each other very well... a damnsight more than most radio we get in the UK anyway.
However, I agree that streams have their place.