Seriously... Why the human race be more likely to be destroyed by a geological or cosmological event in the next 100 years than in the past 3000 or so of recorded history?
This is actually a good point. Strangely enough, a vast amount ofnew research has been done in the last thirty years, and the computer power running the (much much more accurate) computer models, plus vastly improved knowledge of paleoclimatology from proxy temperature records such as ice cores, sediments from the sea bed etc, has now put that findnig into context.
That is always the case. Everytime predictions are made, they are always based on the lastest and greatest research and technology. Because of that, everyone takes them as the absolute truth. We, as humans, seem to a little too much faith in theories that cannot be proven. I'm not saying that this won't happen (and I didn't read you link yet) but it's something to think about nevertheless. How many things that were held to be true for years (or even centuries) have been show false?
WOW is playable, though not great, on my 1GHz 12" with 32MB graphics card at 800x600. I bought it for my windows box and was pleasently suprised that it would run with that poor of a graphics card on my powerbook.
Oh, please. I went to RPI (a fairly tough tech school), and prereqs are just a sugfgestion. I've taken a number of clases out of order with no blowback.
For a program to be accredited, there must be specifically defined objectives for each course regardless of who is teaching them. There is room for optional material as well but the objectives must be met and the professor must show both qualitatively and quantitatively that his course meets those objectives.
The way a program gets accredited, they basically have to show why they deserve to be accredited and there are not set requirements. These are pretty standard from what I understand though.
Honestly, I steer completely clear of the "new" TLDs as they are mostly just redirects to the "standard" TLDs (.net/.com/.org) or they are blatant trash sites.
I'd have to agree here. For me, the URL "seems" more legit if it uses one of the standard TLDs or a country one (such as co.uk.) Then again, I pretty much have my set sites that I visit and don't venture outside of thosethat much.
The problem is not IE. It's that IE is so integrated with windows. IE is very fast and usable. The security isues mostly a result of the tight integration with the rest of windows. I'm not sure if the blam for that falls with the IE team or the Windows team.
Yeah, by saying "Windows XP" instead of the NT Kernal used in XP, I'm wondering if there is a spin here. I've always heard that the NT kernal is very efficient and well done and that the problem lies with what's on top of the kernal.
I'm not disputing that the 2.6 kernal has less bugs then the NT Kernal. I have no way of knowing whether or not that is the case. Nobody else really does either unless they have seen the code. The frequent XP vulnerabilities are NOT in the kernal.
Not from what I understand. I had a statistics professor as an undergraduate who did a study on people with some kind of disorder where they couldn't recognize faces. They were perfectly normal and functional aside from that. I don't remember what the disorder was called though.
From my experience, with the new models, the hard drive can take quite a lot but that doesn't matter if the LCD screen breaks on a single drop. That seems to be a pretty common problem. The older ones are more sturdy
Don't take it personally. The number you used was in reference to the clock speed but it isn't clear what you mean. If spelling it out means communicating clearly instead of trying to get a first post then by all means do it.
They can still get warrants to tap homes for actual sound within the home. And they don't need to tell the person being tapped - they just need the appropriate warrant
True. Didn't you see that episode of The Sopranos where they bugged the lamp in the basement? TV never lies. Then again, "It's not TV, it's HBO."
Because you might just be an american resident holding foreign citizenship? so, not being a naturalized american you would be offended that the person you're talking to does not acknowledge said fact.
You are missing the point. The point isn't the nationality (though all the organizations mentioned in the ggp post are American orginazitions and this subthread is talking about American culture.) The point is about the apparent necessity to classify people by appearance and or race.
There have been plenty of isntances reported where an author reviewed his own book multiple times. I seriously doubt that game companies don't have people (officially or unofficially) doing this.
Besides, that's not jounalism.
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You are still missing the point. The question is not what value n is, but what n is a measure of. For example, IIRC, Quick Sort is O(log n) where n is the number of values to sort. Binay search is O(log n) where n is the depth of the tree.
n has to represent something or the notation is useless.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Most musicians and artists say the Internet has helped them make more money from their work despite online file-trading services that allow users to copy songs and other material for free, according to a study released Sunday.
Recording labels and movie studios have hired phalanxes of lawyers to pursue "peer to peer" networks like Kazaa, and have sued thousands of individuals who distribute copyrighted material through such networks.
But most of the artists surveyed by the nonprofit Pew Internet and American Life Project said online file sharing did not concern them much.
Artists were split on the merits of peer-to-peer networks, with 47 percent saying that they prevent artists from earning royalties for their work and another 43 percent saying they helped promote and distribute their material.
But two-thirds of those surveyed said file sharing posed little threat to them, and less than one-third of those surveyed said file sharing was a major threat to creative industries.
Only 3 percent said the Internet hurt their ability to protect their creative works.
"What we hear from a wide spectrum of artists is that, despite the real challenges of protecting work online, the Internet has opened new ways for them to exercise their imaginations and sell their creations," said report author Mary Madden, a research specialist at the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
The nonprofit group based its report on a survey of 809 self-identified artists in December 2003. The survey has a margin of error of 4 percentage points.
Can't tell you how many great artists I discovered thru iTunes alone.
How true. I have been very pleased with about 70% of their weekly free downloads. The real benefit to me is that iTunes gives me the chance to easily listen to clips of the entire album. You could do this before through amazon.com and others but it was not as seamless.
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Seriously... Why the human race be more likely to be destroyed by a geological or cosmological event in the next 100 years than in the past 3000 or so of recorded history?
Wouldn't that fall under the NSA?
while some are already known not to be right (Earth created in 4004 BC, for example).
That is not known for certain. There is no absolute way to prove either one.
This is actually a good point. Strangely enough, a vast amount ofnew research has been done in the last thirty years, and the computer power running the (much much more accurate) computer models, plus vastly improved knowledge of paleoclimatology from proxy temperature records such as ice cores, sediments from the sea bed etc, has now put that findnig into context.
That is always the case. Everytime predictions are made, they are always based on the lastest and greatest research and technology. Because of that, everyone takes them as the absolute truth. We, as humans, seem to a little too much faith in theories that cannot be proven. I'm not saying that this won't happen (and I didn't read you link yet) but it's something to think about nevertheless. How many things that were held to be true for years (or even centuries) have been show false?
WOW is playable, though not great, on my 1GHz 12" with 32MB graphics card at 800x600. I bought it for my windows box and was pleasently suprised that it would run with that poor of a graphics card on my powerbook.
Oh, please. I went to RPI (a fairly tough tech school), and prereqs are just a sugfgestion. I've taken a number of clases out of order with no blowback.
For a program to be accredited, there must be specifically defined objectives for each course regardless of who is teaching them. There is room for optional material as well but the objectives must be met and the professor must show both qualitatively and quantitatively that his course meets those objectives.
The way a program gets accredited, they basically have to show why they deserve to be accredited and there are not set requirements. These are pretty standard from what I understand though.
Yeah, I enjoyed the irony.
Honestly, I steer completely clear of the "new" TLDs as they are mostly just redirects to the "standard" TLDs (.net/.com/.org) or they are blatant trash sites.
I'd have to agree here. For me, the URL "seems" more legit if it uses one of the standard TLDs or a country one (such as co.uk.) Then again, I pretty much have my set sites that I visit and don't venture outside of thosethat much.
How Many VW Bugs is that?
Haha! That's hilarious. Sounds about like taking a Linux Live-CD, and porting it to run on a hard drive...
No, it's nothing like that. It'd be like putting a Linux Live CD on a USB drive.
The problem is not IE. It's that IE is so integrated with windows. IE is very fast and usable. The security isues mostly a result of the tight integration with the rest of windows. I'm not sure if the blam for that falls with the IE team or the Windows team.
Yeah, by saying "Windows XP" instead of the NT Kernal used in XP, I'm wondering if there is a spin here. I've always heard that the NT kernal is very efficient and well done and that the problem lies with what's on top of the kernal.
I'm not disputing that the 2.6 kernal has less bugs then the NT Kernal. I have no way of knowing whether or not that is the case. Nobody else really does either unless they have seen the code. The frequent XP vulnerabilities are NOT in the kernal.
Slashdot is to Linux as FOXNews is to
Not from what I understand. I had a statistics professor as an undergraduate who did a study on people with some kind of disorder where they couldn't recognize faces. They were perfectly normal and functional aside from that. I don't remember what the disorder was called though.
So this gives approx 22 Days of music. So now if the battery last this long it would be worth it
This is getting as old as the windows BSOD jokes. I'm sure all the Rio Karmas an d Irivers out ther will last 22+ days.
From my experience, with the new models, the hard drive can take quite a lot but that doesn't matter if the LCD screen breaks on a single drop. That seems to be a pretty common problem. The older ones are more sturdy
Don't take it personally. The number you used was in reference to the clock speed but it isn't clear what you mean. If spelling it out means communicating clearly instead of trying to get a first post then by all means do it.
Thank you. I posted something similar above (including the same link.) That seems to be a common misconception around here.
24% does not perpetuate moores law.
Moore's Law has nothing to do with clock speed.
They can still get warrants to tap homes for actual sound within the home. And they don't need to tell the person being tapped - they just need the appropriate warrant
True. Didn't you see that episode of The Sopranos where they bugged the lamp in the basement? TV never lies. Then again, "It's not TV, it's HBO."
Because you might just be an american resident holding foreign citizenship? so, not being a naturalized american you would be offended that the person you're talking to does not acknowledge said fact.
You are missing the point. The point isn't the nationality (though all the organizations mentioned in the ggp post are American orginazitions and this subthread is talking about American culture.) The point is about the apparent necessity to classify people by appearance and or race.
Why can't we just all be "Americans"?
There have been plenty of isntances reported where an author reviewed his own book multiple times. I seriously doubt that game companies don't have people (officially or unofficially) doing this.
Besides, that's not jounalism.
You are still missing the point. The question is not what value n is, but what n is a measure of. For example, IIRC, Quick Sort is O(log n) where n is the number of values to sort. Binay search is O(log n) where n is the depth of the tree.
n has to represent something or the notation is useless.
Here's a slightly different cnn article:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- Most musicians and artists say the Internet has helped them make more money from their work despite online file-trading services that allow users to copy songs and other material for free, according to a study released Sunday.
Recording labels and movie studios have hired phalanxes of lawyers to pursue "peer to peer" networks like Kazaa, and have sued thousands of individuals who distribute copyrighted material through such networks.
But most of the artists surveyed by the nonprofit Pew Internet and American Life Project said online file sharing did not concern them much.
Artists were split on the merits of peer-to-peer networks, with 47 percent saying that they prevent artists from earning royalties for their work and another 43 percent saying they helped promote and distribute their material.
But two-thirds of those surveyed said file sharing posed little threat to them, and less than one-third of those surveyed said file sharing was a major threat to creative industries.
Only 3 percent said the Internet hurt their ability to protect their creative works.
"What we hear from a wide spectrum of artists is that, despite the real challenges of protecting work online, the Internet has opened new ways for them to exercise their imaginations and sell their creations," said report author Mary Madden, a research specialist at the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
The nonprofit group based its report on a survey of 809 self-identified artists in December 2003. The survey has a margin of error of 4 percentage points.
Can't tell you how many great artists I discovered thru iTunes alone.
How true. I have been very pleased with about 70% of their weekly free downloads. The real benefit to me is that iTunes gives me the chance to easily listen to clips of the entire album. You could do this before through amazon.com and others but it was not as seamless.