Does it really outperform a beowulf cluster of Athlon 64 FX-51 running linux?
I think it's fair to assume that Jobs gives a substantial discount on Apple stuff to Pixar, while AMD probably doesn't.
I also doubt that they would use Athlon 64 (FX) for this kind of work; Opterons, which can go up to 8-ways, would be the logical choice (but I'm no expert).
It's not like American news sites are more biased than any other news sites.
If you count only the western world, then yes, *from my experience*, I think they are.
I could be wrong, though, but I don't think I am.
You see, most americans just don't know much about the rest of the world - they mostly don't have to since we live in this unipolar world centered on the USA - so the media can pretty easily distort, manipulate and omit things without the general population noticing much.
Hell, I'd even say - in the words of John Irving - that most "foreigners" know almost everything about america while americans know almost nothing of the rest of the world.
I think that the objective is for DRM to be built into the OS (windows is the obvious example) and for hardware makers (mp3 players, DVD/CD players with mp3 capabilities, etc) to incorporate them into their wares.
DRM might eventually get easy to get around for the "average joe" on computers (some kind of popular deDRMizer software), but I'm not sure that the average joe's mp3 player/DVD player/whatever will be as easy to crack.
There is a cost to switching from wp to openoffice. We've (the company I work for) been a wp user since the early 80's. We have in excess of a million word perfect documents many of which we would need continued access into the forseeable future. We simply can't leave them behind in order to switch ship. While there are ways to do that conversion the cost in mantime alone is fairly prohibitive.
That, right there, is a very good argument in favor of open standards.
UUNet is probably just trying to get as many customers as possible.
I'm not sure if this reasoning is sound if we're talking about regular accounts, unless spammers are paying for their bandwidth (a thing I expect they avoid doing at all cost).
A regular customer who checks email once a day should be a lot more profitable to a ISP than someone who sends spam all day long.
Of course things are probably different with commercial accounts... I'm not familiar with UUNet so I don't know if they are a commercial only ISP.
It's indeed possible to catch most of it with good filtering (I get over a hundred a day and catch about 95% of it -- but I'm using a webmail account so I don't have control over the filtering), but it's still clogging up the net and wasting everybody's bandwidth.
Sometimes I wonder if we'd "feel" a big difference in net responsiveness (browsing, file transfer, latency in online gaming, etc) if all spam stopped suddenly. Probably.
But seriously, saying that "mozilla isn't that good" and that "the default mozilla UI isn't that good" isn't quite the same thing (and liking or not the UI is pretty subjective; I have no problem with the Mozilla 1.6/Firefox 0.8 default UI).
Besides, with firefox everything in the UI is so customizable that it's increasingly becoming a pretty moot point, IMHO.
Your way, with both North and South Americas, isn't listen there, but it's usually used when one talks of political/social divisions instead of geographical, IIRC.
I'm by no means an engineer, but I'll try to answer myself. Feel free to point out what I got wrong.
Couldn't they have many transparent protective layers on top the solar panels, so that once the top one becomes dirty it is ejected/separated from the panel (with the dirt)?
Isn't it sad that simply proclaiming that perhaps Microsoft has a decent technology will get you moderated a troll by the zealots who accept the anti-Microsoft way as a religion?
This moderation is quite interesting, in a weird way:
20% Flamebait
40% Underrated
30% Overrated
And I'm pretty sure there was some troll somewhere in there too. Heh.
What are you some kind of communist? The Internet is about making profit not some crazy hippie idea of freely exchanging knowledge for the benefit of mankind. Did you use the useless network of networks called the Internet before it began to be commercialized around 1993? I doubt it. There was nothing there except research papers and the occasional MUD or usenet article. Not until sites like Amazon or eBay came along did the Internet become truly useful.
I can't tell if you are joking or not, which is scary.
I know you probably are, but I've also known people who think exactly like that.
Heh.
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We'll always have Arhive.org, at least, although I'm not sure if they just mean that they are stopping adding new content or taking the place offline (yeah, RTFA, I know).
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Does it really outperform a beowulf cluster of Athlon 64 FX-51 running linux?
I think it's fair to assume that Jobs gives a substantial discount on Apple stuff to Pixar, while AMD probably doesn't.
I also doubt that they would use Athlon 64 (FX) for this kind of work; Opterons, which can go up to 8-ways, would be the logical choice (but I'm no expert).
Maybe I'm missing something, but isn't it curious that these papers from a Finn university are in english?
Isn't it the point of "desktop replacement" though?
If you have to, you can carry it around, but that's not really it's primary selling point.
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It's not like American news sites are more biased than any other news sites.
If you count only the western world, then yes, *from my experience*, I think they are.
I could be wrong, though, but I don't think I am.
You see, most americans just don't know much about the rest of the world - they mostly don't have to since we live in this unipolar world centered on the USA - so the media can pretty easily distort, manipulate and omit things without the general population noticing much.
Hell, I'd even say - in the words of John Irving - that most "foreigners" know almost everything about america while americans know almost nothing of the rest of the world.
I know it's not software, but you better not go to wikipedia, then, because you might have to stop using the world.
I think that wikipedia is the supreme example of HTML...
Totally agreed.
I've said it many times and I'll say it again: Wikipedia is currently the coolest thing on the web.
This only means that you don't have a good enough stereo!
I think that the objective is for DRM to be built into the OS (windows is the obvious example) and for hardware makers (mp3 players, DVD/CD players with mp3 capabilities, etc) to incorporate them into their wares.
DRM might eventually get easy to get around for the "average joe" on computers (some kind of popular deDRMizer software), but I'm not sure that the average joe's mp3 player/DVD player/whatever will be as easy to crack.
There is a cost to switching from wp to openoffice. We've (the company I work for) been a wp user since the early 80's. We have in excess of a million word perfect documents many of which we would need continued access into the forseeable future. We simply can't leave them behind in order to switch ship. While there are ways to do that conversion the cost in mantime alone is fairly prohibitive.
That, right there, is a very good argument in favor of open standards.
They should put it in the brochure!
UUNet is probably just trying to get as many customers as possible.
I'm not sure if this reasoning is sound if we're talking about regular accounts, unless spammers are paying for their bandwidth (a thing I expect they avoid doing at all cost).
A regular customer who checks email once a day should be a lot more profitable to a ISP than someone who sends spam all day long.
Of course things are probably different with commercial accounts... I'm not familiar with UUNet so I don't know if they are a commercial only ISP.
It's indeed possible to catch most of it with good filtering (I get over a hundred a day and catch about 95% of it -- but I'm using a webmail account so I don't have control over the filtering), but it's still clogging up the net and wasting everybody's bandwidth.
Sometimes I wonder if we'd "feel" a big difference in net responsiveness (browsing, file transfer, latency in online gaming, etc) if all spam stopped suddenly. Probably.
People like UIs, not just rendering engines.
Not on slashdot, they don't!
But seriously, saying that "mozilla isn't that good" and that "the default mozilla UI isn't that good" isn't quite the same thing (and liking or not the UI is pretty subjective; I have no problem with the Mozilla 1.6/Firefox 0.8 default UI).
Besides, with firefox everything in the UI is so customizable that it's increasingly becoming a pretty moot point, IMHO.
Actually, no, the continents are North America and South America. There is no continent called America.
Actually, that's not quite right either.
See this as reference, there is more than one way to divide up the continents.
Your way, with both North and South Americas, isn't listen there, but it's usually used when one talks of political/social divisions instead of geographical, IIRC.
I'm by no means an engineer, but I'll try to answer myself. Feel free to point out what I got wrong.
Couldn't they have many transparent protective layers on top the solar panels, so that once the top one becomes dirty it is ejected/separated from the panel (with the dirt)?
NASA should have installed wiper blades on the solar panels.
I know you are joking, but I'm actually surprised that they haven't thought of a way to keep the solar panels clean.
I mean, they can get the thing to mars, they should be able to do that, no?
Isn't it sad that simply proclaiming that perhaps Microsoft has a decent technology will get you moderated a troll by the zealots who accept the anti-Microsoft way as a religion?
This moderation is quite interesting, in a weird way:
20% Flamebait
40% Underrated
30% Overrated
And I'm pretty sure there was some troll somewhere in there too. Heh.
Unlike some submitters, I RTFA :-)
Aye! Mea culpa!
I start my previous post by "It's a good codec..."; this goes with the "Hopefully..." title, so it should read: "Hopefully it's a good codec...".
Sorry for the confusion!
It's a good codec (technically), and they'll document it.
I don't know what exactly the chances of that happening are, considering Microsoft's record, but it's possible..
One can hope.
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What are you some kind of communist? The Internet is about making profit not some crazy hippie idea of freely exchanging knowledge for the benefit of mankind. Did you use the useless network of networks called the Internet before it began to be commercialized around 1993? I doubt it. There was nothing there except research papers and the occasional MUD or usenet article. Not until sites like Amazon or eBay came along did the Internet become truly useful.
I can't tell if you are joking or not, which is scary.
I know you probably are, but I've also known people who think exactly like that.
Heh.
We'll always have Arhive.org, at least, although I'm not sure if they just mean that they are stopping adding new content or taking the place offline (yeah, RTFA, I know).
I wonder how hard it would be to cram 64 200MHz 486 class CPUs onto a single die.
Not saying it's not a good plan, but I don't think that 486s went up to 200MHz.