Just watch a video of him running. Considering how the guy starts off slow and gradually gains amazing advantage (enough to overtake several people in a short time) he should compete in longer distances like 5km. Or even a marathon (may be he'll beat the world record).
Mod parent up! This guy is talking complete sense. I have long stopped trusting the sensationalist crap that this paper frequently pulls out of their asses.
Doesn't mean that I think the Chinese government are a peaceful or friendly lot though.
Looks like AMD's marketing and sales dept isn't being very smart here, pricing them the way they are. X3 chips are $20 cheaper than X4, and $5 cheaper than 2.2 GHz X4s. And with those benchmarks they are definitely not competitive against intel's 2-core and 4-core offerings. Come on guys! If you don't let go of some of the margins and price them aggressively against Intel you're going to die.
Somebody please mod parent up. He's right on.The dumb media wants to pander. Most journos are dumb about science, and desperate for some "relevant" news. In the name of news I hear things ranging from new techniques for making gold from sea water, to cocaine being good for health.
I installed SP1 just now. There is no visible difference. The performance appears to have improved, especially launch times of IE8 and Windows explorer (now they launch literally instantaneously). But it was a beast to download at 435 MB size, and took over 1.5 hours to install, rebooting three times (when I almost was wondering if my system is about to become unstable and go rebooting for ever).
I also have Ubuntu 7.10 and OpenSUSE 10.2 on this same laptop. They all run just fine, openSUSE being the slightly lesser friendly one (compiz does not work saying my nVidia card does not support acceleration, where as Ubuntu runs with compiz).
Quite frankly, in my 12 years of experience with linux, all distros have come a long way. Ubuntu is the coolest. But come on, things still break in linux, and they break badly. And they break fairly often still. With Windows, barring one recent case with Vista, I have NEVER had problems since Windows 2000 days. But the whiners complaining about Windows are the loudest. As far as the reviewers, I still remember reading reviews that XP is a useless upgrade from 2000, so I stopped taking them too seriously a while ago.
> when a society gets to a certain economic and technological stage, your birth rate declines (and in some first world countries is already below the replacement rate).
It's got nothing to do with first world or third world. I'm from the third world. There have been many two children families since the last 3 generations. The negative correlation is with education. Nothing to do with society directly.
Good point! Someone mod parent up. Charge the authors, charge the subscribers, pay the editors pittance, pay the reviewers nothing, and then claim copyright over the material. This is somewhere between lucrative business and highway robbery.
I find it outrageous that some journals are still charging the authors AND the subscribers. As a subscriber I am willing to pay for quality but then don't charge the authors.
I agree with the parent poster. I have seen it happening with other corporations as well.
I worry about the superiority of democratization of knowledge disbursal however. Imagine wikipedia declaring "intelligent design" as the currently accepted theory, just because the majority happen to believe it (just using it as a hypothetical example).
Somebody change the gates-borg icon. He is not representative of microsoft anymore. May be a borgized monkey should be the new icon. Whatever it is, it's got to change.
The question here is not that of free speech. He does not have the right to endanger the entire humankind.
On another note, television signals are not as powerful and directed as the Active SETI transmissions. So arguing that there is no point in trying to stop active SETI does not hold water.
I think it might have applications in airplane safety in future. With (many more) improvements such suits can possibly be used by every passenger to quickly bail out of an aircraft in trouble, at least at low altitudes.
> Um, a lot of these workers in India are "willing to learn English" because it's their birth tongue.
What did you smoke? Indians learn English in schools where English is the medium of education. There are many schools (esp in the non-urban areas) that don't teach in English, so many kids learn English only after 10th grade.
Get your facts before acting knowledgeable and making dumb statements.
Whatever anyone says or feels, there is a whole generation growing with very little value for privacy.
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wtf? Every morning I delete not less than 20-30 spam mails. Over the rest of the day I delete another 40-50. I recently noticed multiple times that I was deleting legitimate emails from new people who were trying to reach me. A few days ago I almost deleted one that had information about a new job offer!~~
I don't give out my email address anywhere. I have a separate lycos address for giving to online merchants. (Funny enough, I don't get as much spam there as I do with my ISP one). Wherever I have web-pages, I put a jpeg with my email address instead of text. I use anti-spam software (gave up on.procmailrc ages ago). My mail client has tonnes of blocked email addresses. Nothing on the planet seems to help.
This stupid old woman probably thinks she is some kind of a Robinhood, but she is just another anti-social element. Stupidity/Ignorance is never an excuse.
IMO, spammers are scumbags that need to be cleaned up. And anyone who expresses anything short of antipathy towards them should wake up or go down along with the spammers.
Wondering if email can ever be made a pay-service. Something like a 1cent per 10 emails. I can't think of how existing protocols can support it... but just free-wheeling. Then nobody would send 15 million emails a day (Of course, without discovering a bug in the system).
How about requesting the Pope to declare spamming as a sin? May be that will help.
Ethics have nothing to do with religion. In fact, as some one here has pointed out, it is the unethical who need religion most.
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Just watch a video of him running. Considering how the guy starts off slow and gradually gains amazing advantage (enough to overtake several people in a short time) he should compete in longer distances like 5km. Or even a marathon (may be he'll beat the world record).
Mod parent up! This guy is talking complete sense. I have long stopped trusting the sensationalist crap that this paper frequently pulls out of their asses. Doesn't mean that I think the Chinese government are a peaceful or friendly lot though.
Looks like AMD's marketing and sales dept isn't being very smart here, pricing them the way they are. X3 chips are $20 cheaper than X4, and $5 cheaper than 2.2 GHz X4s. And with those benchmarks they are definitely not competitive against intel's 2-core and 4-core offerings. Come on guys! If you don't let go of some of the margins and price them aggressively against Intel you're going to die.
Somebody please mod parent up. He's right on.The dumb media wants to pander. Most journos are dumb about science, and desperate for some "relevant" news. In the name of news I hear things ranging from new techniques for making gold from sea water, to cocaine being good for health.
Looking at the title I thought it's about forensic analysis of why my windows died.
I installed SP1 just now. There is no visible difference. The performance appears to have improved, especially launch times of IE8 and Windows explorer (now they launch literally instantaneously). But it was a beast to download at 435 MB size, and took over 1.5 hours to install, rebooting three times (when I almost was wondering if my system is about to become unstable and go rebooting for ever). I also have Ubuntu 7.10 and OpenSUSE 10.2 on this same laptop. They all run just fine, openSUSE being the slightly lesser friendly one (compiz does not work saying my nVidia card does not support acceleration, where as Ubuntu runs with compiz). Quite frankly, in my 12 years of experience with linux, all distros have come a long way. Ubuntu is the coolest. But come on, things still break in linux, and they break badly. And they break fairly often still. With Windows, barring one recent case with Vista, I have NEVER had problems since Windows 2000 days. But the whiners complaining about Windows are the loudest. As far as the reviewers, I still remember reading reviews that XP is a useless upgrade from 2000, so I stopped taking them too seriously a while ago.
> when a society gets to a certain economic and technological stage, your birth rate declines (and in some first world countries is already below the replacement rate). It's got nothing to do with first world or third world. I'm from the third world. There have been many two children families since the last 3 generations. The negative correlation is with education. Nothing to do with society directly.
So why aren't the Telcos themselves not being punished? Surely the billing companies are not in this alone.
Good point! Someone mod parent up. Charge the authors, charge the subscribers, pay the editors pittance, pay the reviewers nothing, and then claim copyright over the material. This is somewhere between lucrative business and highway robbery.
I find it outrageous that some journals are still charging the authors AND the subscribers. As a subscriber I am willing to pay for quality but then don't charge the authors.
I agree with the parent poster. I have seen it happening with other corporations as well. I worry about the superiority of democratization of knowledge disbursal however. Imagine wikipedia declaring "intelligent design" as the currently accepted theory, just because the majority happen to believe it (just using it as a hypothetical example).
Why don't you practice what you preach/believe and leave the rest of us alone? Someone mod parent down.
Somebody change the gates-borg icon. He is not representative of microsoft anymore. May be a borgized monkey should be the new icon. Whatever it is, it's got to change.
The question here is not that of free speech. He does not have the right to endanger the entire humankind. On another note, television signals are not as powerful and directed as the Active SETI transmissions. So arguing that there is no point in trying to stop active SETI does not hold water.
I think it might have applications in airplane safety in future. With (many more) improvements such suits can possibly be used by every passenger to quickly bail out of an aircraft in trouble, at least at low altitudes.
Mod parent up. I don't have any mod points left. You're right on dude.
I tried it and it seems great. No matter how hard a problem I throw at it it always gives the correct answer. 42.
> Um, a lot of these workers in India are "willing to learn English" because it's their birth tongue. What did you smoke? Indians learn English in schools where English is the medium of education. There are many schools (esp in the non-urban areas) that don't teach in English, so many kids learn English only after 10th grade. Get your facts before acting knowledgeable and making dumb statements.
Whatever anyone says or feels, there is a whole generation growing with very little value for privacy.
wtf? Every morning I delete not less than 20-30 spam mails. Over the rest of the day I delete another 40-50. I recently noticed multiple times that I was deleting legitimate emails from new people who were trying to reach me. A few days ago I almost deleted one that had information about a new job offer!~~ I don't give out my email address anywhere. I have a separate lycos address for giving to online merchants. (Funny enough, I don't get as much spam there as I do with my ISP one). Wherever I have web-pages, I put a jpeg with my email address instead of text. I use anti-spam software (gave up on .procmailrc ages ago). My mail client has tonnes of blocked email addresses. Nothing on the planet seems to help.
This stupid old woman probably thinks she is some kind of a Robinhood, but she is just another anti-social element. Stupidity/Ignorance is never an excuse.
IMO, spammers are scumbags that need to be cleaned up. And anyone who expresses anything short of antipathy towards them should wake up or go down along with the spammers.
Wondering if email can ever be made a pay-service. Something like a 1cent per 10 emails. I can't think of how existing protocols can support it... but just free-wheeling. Then nobody would send 15 million emails a day (Of course, without discovering a bug in the system).
How about requesting the Pope to declare spamming as a sin? May be that will help. Ethics have nothing to do with religion. In fact, as some one here has pointed out, it is the unethical who need religion most.
Red Star. Hmm... State owned company. I see red in this. There'll be plenty of red tape. It won't be ready for quite a long time I'm sure :-)