William Hill are offering odds of 13:2 against McCain winning, so I'm thinking of putting £20 on. That way if he gets in at least I have the consolation of a free Xbox 360.
Sure, it shouldn't be an issue for the vast majority of users in practice. I certainly don't keep myself up at night thinking about how I can fit a seperate swap device in my laptop - like most users I have enough RAM that I don't have to page out running apps all the time or anything like that. It's just that if you are going to move your swap somewhere, it should be to another physical device.
To elaborate on that, the advantage of putting the swap on a seperate disk is that your main HDD can be dealing with real apps and data while the secondary swap disk is working away paging things into and out of RAM, giving a performance boost. Using a swap partition on the same drive as the OS makes absolutely no sense.
I think that Davies can write good episodes when he's not engaging with world-endangering, continuity-throttling superheroic peril. Certainly Midnight was one of the strongest episodes of the last season, and it was an archetypal "bottle episode". So I hope that he comes back to write a little, as long as they keep him away from the main continuity.
Slashdot takes the piss by setting its new homepage at aich-tee-tee-pee-colon-slash-slash-slash-dot-dot-dot-slashdot. All those going to aich-tee-tee-pee-colon-slash-slash-slashdot-dot-com are redirected to idle.
Now the really hard, expensive part of development is done, the open source community is no longer needed. Now corporate drones can be hired to fix bugs and run the program into the ground with ill-executed new functionality.
If they're sensationalising it, in this case by making up a story which doesn't actually exist (32 govt. + 100s private CCTV cameras in a 200yd radius), about a real problem which does exist (excessive government surveillance), then they're just feeding people a temporary, disposable bit of outrage rather than encouraging people to take these issues seriously.
To be fair, it's not clearly how many if any of those cameras are government-run, and how many are just private.
Two are supposedly on traffic lights and therefore may either by traffic cameras or, more likely, those familiar traffic sensors which have cowlings that make them look a bit like CCTV cameras. The author declined to investigate. Two more seem to belong to a conference centre (a private business) although the author didn't bother to look into that, assuming they were there on government edict to monitor Orwell's gardens for some reason.
Of the remaining 28, all the cameras actually identified are private cameras belonging to businesses. Mind you there are also "hundreds of private, remote-controlled security cameras used to scrutinise visitors to homes, shops and offices" which for some reason they decided didn't count towards the 32-camera total the way the other 28 cameras belong to businesses did. I'm not suggesting that those "hundreds" of cameras are figments of the author's imagination, or that they are only mentioned to imply that the preceding 28 cameras were somehow related to the government, even though they clearly aren't, but this is a publication associated with the Daily Mail so I doubt that fact-checking got in the way of sensationalism.
I'd argue that the blockbuster games more often drive companies out of business than drive progress in the games industry. Certainly the publishers producing hundred-million-dollar FPSes and GTA clones which launch in the holiday season, compete with all the other hundred-million-dollar FPSes and GTA clones, and sell six copies so the publisher has to close the development studio aren't going to be doing the industry any good. While there's a long way to go, Nintendo has shown that small games from small studios are a viable alternative to the publisher-strangling blockbuster model. They've also reminded publishers as large as EA that there's a large non-gamer audience out there to court, an audience for which "press A for yes" is not a learned instinct. Just creating interfaces that audience can handle has led to great strides in game design.
Indeed, measles was on the back foot in the UK from the early 1990s. This year it was declared endemic once more due to low immunisation rates caused by our own vacciation scare (MMR-causes-autism, the antecendent of the US's current vaccines-cause-autism). Given the amount of UK-US mixing going on, it will be trivial for measels to re-establish itself in the US in about five years when vaccination levels hit 80%-ish. (I'm basing this on the timeline of the UK's own vaccine scare and subsequent epidemics.)
As a matter of fact, the article doesn't argue that demyelination is associated with reduction in thought speed but with motor speed. Hawking's condition is a rather good example of that. The summary here is really awful.
It's like hair, it starts migrating from places where it's useful to places where it ain't. My hairline's been receding since my late teens and seems to have returned with a vengeance inside my nose.
The fuck it is. It's bad reporting. The actual research is all about how motor response speed correlates extremely well with myelin degradation, and discusses how this backs up the idea that myelin degradation is important in the aging of the brain and the resulting reduced physical ability. Even the press release, entitled "Physical decline caused by slow decay of brain's myelin" only mentions the 39-year figure once, and only in the context of this particular sample group, two-thirds of the way down the web page. 39 is the age at which finger tapping speed and myelin integrity both peak and begin to decline. At no point do the researchers claim that this has anything to do with cognative performance, let alone extrapolate it to say that there's some magic age at which mental function begins to decline.
That story is a creation of the media which have decided to run with "brains work best at age of 39" for no readily appreciable fucking reason. Next time, hacks, save some effort and just put a bunch of words in a hat and make up the story based on those.
I think it's the "handshake" process which does it. Don't know why, wouldn't dare speculate, but that initial connection-arranging dance causes the interference.
A good analogy might be immunisation. The script kiddies present the network with a weakened form of potentially dangerous attacks, so that it can learn to defend itself. I'm not sure where Jenny McCarthy comes in, but I'm sure I'll figure out a way to make that happen.
This seems like a good time to bring up the movie Sunshine, not because it was a rip-roaringly accurate psychological exploration (premise: 50 years from now a group of astronauts set out to drop a bomb to restart the sun) but because they spent a lot of time asking NASA about their ideas for prolonged space travel. Apparently they want large personnel spaces on board, because the effect on sanity hugely outweighs the excess mass (materials used goes up with about root two over three of the empty space added, I think). And mundane things like making the crew prepare their own meals as a group were emphasised as a way of ensuring team cohesion.
FWIW the movie itself suggested taking along a highly qualified psychologist and a sort of augmented reality room to give the crew temporary pre-recorded "trips" to Earth, which was plausable given NASA's idea of balancing vehicle mass and crew sanity. Mind you it also advocated equipping the medical bay with deadly reciprocating scalpels.
Not necessarily. SDHC is licenced seperately. If it's not using it right now, I doubt they bothered to get the licence. No point in spending 5c extra per unit on disabled functionality.
Actually if you bother to read the article, the benchmark was on a fresh install of Ubuntu with only the relevant graphics card driver and the benchmarking app installed. And if compiz was the reason, then the performance drop would not be so sharply limited to java and media encoding.
Another absolute! Obviously it's not completely wrong, for it is actually encoding the files as MP3s and not, say, summoning dark creatures with non-Euclidean geometries. If winged rats from hyperbolic space started appearing then yes, I would concede that something COMPLETELY wrong was going on.
I wasn't thinking data protection, actually, which AFAIK only controls what a company can do with information which has been submitted to them, not what companies can do with other companies' published data (although by implication it forbids secondary use of the data without the explicit permission of those who provided the raw data in the first place). I was thinking about simple plagiarism of data, which is what they're aiming for. Data, particularly data which was generated, compiled, processed or assessed at great cost, is legally protected from plagiarism. For example medical trial data can be reproduced in meta-analyses etc. with proper attribution, but if I attempted to pass off said data as my own work the original journal publisher would sue me out of existence.
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William Hill are offering odds of 13:2 against McCain winning, so I'm thinking of putting £20 on. That way if he gets in at least I have the consolation of a free Xbox 360.
Sure, it shouldn't be an issue for the vast majority of users in practice. I certainly don't keep myself up at night thinking about how I can fit a seperate swap device in my laptop - like most users I have enough RAM that I don't have to page out running apps all the time or anything like that. It's just that if you are going to move your swap somewhere, it should be to another physical device.
To elaborate on that, the advantage of putting the swap on a seperate disk is that your main HDD can be dealing with real apps and data while the secondary swap disk is working away paging things into and out of RAM, giving a performance boost. Using a swap partition on the same drive as the OS makes absolutely no sense.
And cut-scenes patriots about NANOMACHINES and the WAR patriots ECONOMY. That patriots last about 45 patriots patriots patriots patriots.
I think that Davies can write good episodes when he's not engaging with world-endangering, continuity-throttling superheroic peril. Certainly Midnight was one of the strongest episodes of the last season, and it was an archetypal "bottle episode". So I hope that he comes back to write a little, as long as they keep him away from the main continuity.
Slashdot takes the piss by setting its new homepage at aich-tee-tee-pee-colon-slash-slash-slash-dot-dot-dot-slashdot. All those going to aich-tee-tee-pee-colon-slash-slash-slashdot-dot-com are redirected to idle.
Now the really hard, expensive part of development is done, the open source community is no longer needed. Now corporate drones can be hired to fix bugs and run the program into the ground with ill-executed new functionality.
If they're sensationalising it, in this case by making up a story which doesn't actually exist (32 govt. + 100s private CCTV cameras in a 200yd radius), about a real problem which does exist (excessive government surveillance), then they're just feeding people a temporary, disposable bit of outrage rather than encouraging people to take these issues seriously.
To be fair, it's not clearly how many if any of those cameras are government-run, and how many are just private.
Two are supposedly on traffic lights and therefore may either by traffic cameras or, more likely, those familiar traffic sensors which have cowlings that make them look a bit like CCTV cameras. The author declined to investigate. Two more seem to belong to a conference centre (a private business) although the author didn't bother to look into that, assuming they were there on government edict to monitor Orwell's gardens for some reason.
Of the remaining 28, all the cameras actually identified are private cameras belonging to businesses. Mind you there are also "hundreds of private, remote-controlled security cameras used to scrutinise visitors to homes, shops and offices" which for some reason they decided didn't count towards the 32-camera total the way the other 28 cameras belong to businesses did. I'm not suggesting that those "hundreds" of cameras are figments of the author's imagination, or that they are only mentioned to imply that the preceding 28 cameras were somehow related to the government, even though they clearly aren't, but this is a publication associated with the Daily Mail so I doubt that fact-checking got in the way of sensationalism.
I'd argue that the blockbuster games more often drive companies out of business than drive progress in the games industry. Certainly the publishers producing hundred-million-dollar FPSes and GTA clones which launch in the holiday season, compete with all the other hundred-million-dollar FPSes and GTA clones, and sell six copies so the publisher has to close the development studio aren't going to be doing the industry any good. While there's a long way to go, Nintendo has shown that small games from small studios are a viable alternative to the publisher-strangling blockbuster model. They've also reminded publishers as large as EA that there's a large non-gamer audience out there to court, an audience for which "press A for yes" is not a learned instinct. Just creating interfaces that audience can handle has led to great strides in game design.
Indeed, measles was on the back foot in the UK from the early 1990s. This year it was declared endemic once more due to low immunisation rates caused by our own vacciation scare (MMR-causes-autism, the antecendent of the US's current vaccines-cause-autism). Given the amount of UK-US mixing going on, it will be trivial for measels to re-establish itself in the US in about five years when vaccination levels hit 80%-ish. (I'm basing this on the timeline of the UK's own vaccine scare and subsequent epidemics.)
As a matter of fact, the article doesn't argue that demyelination is associated with reduction in thought speed but with motor speed. Hawking's condition is a rather good example of that. The summary here is really awful.
It's like hair, it starts migrating from places where it's useful to places where it ain't. My hairline's been receding since my late teens and seems to have returned with a vengeance inside my nose.
The fuck it is. It's bad reporting. The actual research is all about how motor response speed correlates extremely well with myelin degradation, and discusses how this backs up the idea that myelin degradation is important in the aging of the brain and the resulting reduced physical ability. Even the press release, entitled "Physical decline caused by slow decay of brain's myelin" only mentions the 39-year figure once, and only in the context of this particular sample group, two-thirds of the way down the web page. 39 is the age at which finger tapping speed and myelin integrity both peak and begin to decline. At no point do the researchers claim that this has anything to do with cognative performance, let alone extrapolate it to say that there's some magic age at which mental function begins to decline.
That story is a creation of the media which have decided to run with "brains work best at age of 39" for no readily appreciable fucking reason. Next time, hacks, save some effort and just put a bunch of words in a hat and make up the story based on those.
I think it's the "handshake" process which does it. Don't know why, wouldn't dare speculate, but that initial connection-arranging dance causes the interference.
A good analogy might be immunisation. The script kiddies present the network with a weakened form of potentially dangerous attacks, so that it can learn to defend itself. I'm not sure where Jenny McCarthy comes in, but I'm sure I'll figure out a way to make that happen.
At what age does high-tech crime become legal then?
I know they do, I'm taking the piss. I never had one though. Lemmings was no fun with a Turbo-Touch 360. :( :( :(
You're posting from a C64, and you think you're in a good position to judge people's familiarity with mouses? ;)
Daniel Rutter of Dan's Data fame has done something like this on a few occasions. It's a classic for a reason.
This seems like a good time to bring up the movie Sunshine, not because it was a rip-roaringly accurate psychological exploration (premise: 50 years from now a group of astronauts set out to drop a bomb to restart the sun) but because they spent a lot of time asking NASA about their ideas for prolonged space travel. Apparently they want large personnel spaces on board, because the effect on sanity hugely outweighs the excess mass (materials used goes up with about root two over three of the empty space added, I think). And mundane things like making the crew prepare their own meals as a group were emphasised as a way of ensuring team cohesion.
FWIW the movie itself suggested taking along a highly qualified psychologist and a sort of augmented reality room to give the crew temporary pre-recorded "trips" to Earth, which was plausable given NASA's idea of balancing vehicle mass and crew sanity. Mind you it also advocated equipping the medical bay with deadly reciprocating scalpels.
Not necessarily. SDHC is licenced seperately. If it's not using it right now, I doubt they bothered to get the licence. No point in spending 5c extra per unit on disabled functionality.
Actually if you bother to read the article, the benchmark was on a fresh install of Ubuntu with only the relevant graphics card driver and the benchmarking app installed. And if compiz was the reason, then the performance drop would not be so sharply limited to java and media encoding.
Another absolute! Obviously it's not completely wrong, for it is actually encoding the files as MP3s and not, say, summoning dark creatures with non-Euclidean geometries. If winged rats from hyperbolic space started appearing then yes, I would concede that something COMPLETELY wrong was going on.
I wasn't thinking data protection, actually, which AFAIK only controls what a company can do with information which has been submitted to them, not what companies can do with other companies' published data (although by implication it forbids secondary use of the data without the explicit permission of those who provided the raw data in the first place). I was thinking about simple plagiarism of data, which is what they're aiming for. Data, particularly data which was generated, compiled, processed or assessed at great cost, is legally protected from plagiarism. For example medical trial data can be reproduced in meta-analyses etc. with proper attribution, but if I attempted to pass off said data as my own work the original journal publisher would sue me out of existence.