You don't have to find an animal previously believed extinct. There are millions of species around. Just put together case studies of known living animals. Then have a group unfamiliar with the species of interest try to predict its characteristics from genealogical family members.
This was done on a national geographic special several years ago. Individuals and Groups of knowledgeable biologists were given the same details they'd get from just the fossilized remains of different unique animals and given the task of reconstructing the live animal in behaviour, habitat and so on. One example was a kind of lemur I think from madagascar. The group were given a partial crushed fakely fossilized skeleton along with information on where it was supposedly found and some of the fossilized plant remains found with it in this scenario. Overall the groups working together came up with an accurate picture of the real animal where individuals had a success rate that varied from complete nonsense right up to accurate. Some other groups had bird types or reptiles and so on.
Anyone that became infected and didn't exhibit symptoms wouldn't be included (why would they get tested?), and anyone that died in a remote area wouldn't be included either. The more 'infections' that develop in "1st world" countries the better able we will be to determine the true mortality/morbidity rate of avian influenza in humans.
And this doesn't include a potentially huge number of people who do contract H5N1 flu from birds and display nothing more than normal flu symptoms, get over it in a couple of weeks and go on with their lives.
In hong kong, india and parts of europe people showing non-acute symptoms while testing positive for H5N1 have been detected, and only because they were tested in parallel with those who showed more acute symptoms. Because of the concentration on people who get very very sick the statistics are skewed. It's like a self-selected survey or like saying "76% of people involved in fatal car accidents die" and attempting to use those statistics for car accidents in general.
if it mutates into a form which spreads easily from human to human (like normal human influenza) that we're in trouble.
And if normal human transmissable flu mutates to be as deadly as h5n1 we'll be in trouble. and if ebola mutates to become more contagious over a long gestation time we're in trouble. and if aids mutates to be transmissable from touching a doorknob we're in trouble.
and if the moon turns into green cheese and falls to earth, we're in trouble.
not going to happen people. bird flu is a media beatup where less than 100 people have died from it in 8 years yet nobody says anything about the millions of people across the world who have died from normal influenza in the same time . Read that again. Millions of humans have met their deaths at the hands of normal everyday influenza in just a few years. hundreds of thousands are americans. No that no exaggeration. that's MILLIONS of people.
But you don't see the media beating that one up because it's not worth as much in sales.
Mabey they also have better things to do than write tripe accusing the open source community of being part of these malware authors by saying things like "Virtual-machine monitors are available from both the open-source community..." specifically listing open source as part of the problem.
They might have better things to do than that, but it doesn't mean it will stop them doing it. No windows nearmy boxen thank you.
> Besides, you should know how to audit your init scripts and copy your boot sector to a file you can check the md5 of at > boot. If you dont know how, its your fault.
Always blame the user. mabey you will have someone break into your house and then they use the excuse "You should know how to stop me getting into your house. If you don't know how its your fault". So blame the victim and let MS off scott free? That's the attitude that let them off with no monopoly punishment. Just remember not to call the police next time.
Virtual-machine monitors are available from both the open-source community and commercial vendors.
grrrr this is what pisses me off about microsoft. They listed the open source community based software first in order to put a bigger emphasis on it. Like they're saying open source people are going to be the most likely to write these hackjobs programs to send spam, porn dial and install maleware on computers. Why stand for this when the whole article comes down to a fud statement? This is the kind of thing Microsoft is famous for and still we're reporting on it and saying things like "threat" and "open source" and "infected" in the same paragraph. It's playing right into their game.
Why is microsoft researching this kind of thing? And with Linux too? It makes me wonder if the next time you go to install Windows on a partition somewhere with the same machine as you also dual boot into Linux whether your linux boot will not then be "taken over" by Windows, and MS can insert any little hooks, DRM, inspection code or other things running underneath the linux system you have.
Then they can force linux to perform worse than Windows and nobody will be none the wiser.
Except when you boot into linux and then you get a blue screen it will give it away lol.
hopefully this means AMD will revert to trying to compete on price and so i can afford to get a modern setup;)
Well AMD already do compete on price. What you see we have is the situation where AMD are the chipmaker with next gen chips that thrash intel's current gen chips but they are sometimes a little more expensive.
But intel's current gen chips only match AMD's last gen chips, and they are cheaper though. But so are the AMD last gen chips. So AMD are already competing with intel equally for price, but AMD have one generation ahead.
Lately Intel have released examples of their new next gen chip, designed to compete with AMD, but if you look closer at their tests they had to overclock the AMD in order to beat it, and that's not an accurate test but rather cheating. Also, by the time Intel have their next gen chip released it'll be more expensive than AMD's new one which I'm sure will be out by the same time.
THe simple fact remains that intel needed to do these tests at all, side by side. That's an admission on their part that AMD is beating them and beating them hard. I've heard AMD has some new stuff in the pipeline that'll put conroe out of its misery once and for all.
Given Intel's release date fiasco's it'll probably come out before conroe too.
Well the "new" intels are faster then the "old" amd's. This not suprising Intel has plenty of cash and had to come out with a cpu faster then amd.
The big question will be how will this compare to the next generation of AMD cpu's. And what will the price be. If amd will be faster per dollar the rise of amd will continue.
I've heard AMD's next generation will keep up the same improvements where AMD slaughter Intel and it looks like by the time this new intel is out, AMD should already be well and truly released. probably also embedding themselves more in Dell's good books and taking more than 80% of the market. Intel are fighting the loosing battle.
Just goes to show all the trickery in the world won't help a company that can't really "innovate". I'm surprised a sight like Anandtech didn't see it.
I think the fact intel had to put two systems side by side to try "proving" they're faster shows their desperation. That kind of standoff where the intel can't perform just by itself without trying to compare to competition smacks of gimmickry over performance. AMD Still in the end wipes the floor with Intel and I'll bet real world benchmarks will show that yet again.
Looks like another big yawn for Intel's next generation.
Apparently it's not a problem, as one of the differences with mice and people is they don't feel pain, so they can't notice if there's anything wrong. Also, they don't have social systems like we do so there's no stigmas attached to their disabilities so if they're OK with it as mice I don't see what the problem is?
What's not said is this is a MS derived "standard" that is not open and will probably be changed and not documented by MS as soon as it becomes to their advantage to do so:thumbsdown:
Well actually you'll find the people in power do give a shit. Our country knows what is happening, and knows that we are going through a period of climate change and global warming and it will bring about changes like sea level rises and maybe higher rates of hurricanes if you believe in that kind of thing.
What is dangerous is jumping to the conclusion of why it is changing. If we were to "accept" the opinions of a few climatologists that human nature is what is causing the climate change, then the changes in behaviour we would have to make to try not to warm the atmosphere would be very damaging to the economy.
But why it is dangerous is that we DO NOT KNOW WHY THIS IS HAPPENING. So sticking our head in the sand and saying "It's all human fault!" and ruining our economy while china forges ahead with their industry will mean in 100 years when this natural warming cycle is over and the earth starts cooling again, china will be a world power and the US will be like mexico with nothing to show for the past few hundred years.
Just remember until we know what is causing global warming getting in a panic about who is doing what to stop it is just like being insane.
This is something I think will have a strong pull with consumers but they will soon recognise the quality problems inherent with a non-US company. What will likely happen is that lenovo won't be able to fulfill the warranty or guarantee facilities they need to in order to keep consumers happy. That is an area where dell traditionally lead the pack.
Say what you will about Dell in any other area but most will agree their warranty service is second to none. IBM was very good also.
I don't think Lenovo will be able to keep this up from another country. We'll end up with their quality dropping and people not being able to get fixes for problems quickly. Without lenovo spending any more money anyway, and that will just bring their prices up to companies like Dell.
So be careful about "super cheap" computers when you can have something just as good for not much more, and probably better warranted.
Well it used to be ten didn't it. What happens when apple reduce it to zero and don't provide the old versions of itunes with the keys to play itunes music?
what happens if apple decide you only get to play 5 songs a day. Apple already reduced your rights down from ten to seven. they get control over "your" music. this is the problem.
What happens when you no longer find apple's terms which you are bound to, acceptable?
Yes but you can only do this with an older version of itunes. itunes 6 only allows you to burn 5 CDs then burning is locked out forever. apple changed this in 2005.
This is the thing. PDF belongs to adobe and to develop using it you have to pay them for their patents use. So if you want to distribute yourself some PDF that's OK but if you want to use any generating PDF or reading PDF programs you need to pay adobe the big money. And that's just leading to more and more lockin.
If this can take off instead of PDF and also be free, it will quickly kill PDF. Why would you pay more for something when you can get the same for free? people are lead by their pocketbook and if you can save them some dollars you'll be theirs for life.
So what, you know exactly what I meant anyway. Maybe you want flowery writing with lots of big words just because big words look good? Ads nothing to the conversation and you still know just what I mean.
What they don't realise is language changes. every generation gets this and when it happens someone will come up and say literacy is going down. George orwell even did it in 1940, said there were problems, said there were people writing bad english, said they wouldn't be able to communicate soon. Well look at what we have here, a world still functioning nearly 70 years later. Also, a roman once said the same thing or a greek. That the young people of today are a generation that look down on the world and are showing no moral principels or showing problems with language and spelling and all the hoo haa he could drag up. And this was BC.
I think these people are old thinkers stuck in a new world where communication has changed and any seventy year old would tell you they find it hard to communicate with youth but no 20 year old ever will, and it's the 20 year olds who are the future. Always.
It includes a thing called "remote attestation." The short version is that it will let the Powers That Be remotely revoke the privilages of any hardware with keys that are known to have been cracked. So if you do somehow get the key, as soon as you tell anybody about it Microsoft (or whoever) will be able to brick your hardware.
Good. that means we can make a worm that retrieves the key from random computers around the globe, posts it to microsoft saying "nyah nyah we have your key" and they can brick the hardware with that key.
Once it's done to enough computers worldwide, either all those keys stay useful, or MS continually bricks the hardware of all their customers time and time again.
Not really, osx is just adding features always planned for vista from years back. ipod is just a music player like so many before it. imac is just like sony vaios that looked similar in 2001. mac mini is just a well marketed nano-itx computer. they are all things that are marketed well but were invented by other companies who were truly innovative.
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You don't have to find an animal previously believed extinct. There are millions of species around. Just put together case studies of known living animals. Then have a group unfamiliar with the species of interest try to predict its characteristics from genealogical family members.
This was done on a national geographic special several years ago. Individuals and Groups of knowledgeable biologists were given the same details they'd get from just the fossilized remains of different unique animals and given the task of reconstructing the live animal in behaviour, habitat and so on. One example was a kind of lemur I think from madagascar. The group were given a partial crushed fakely fossilized skeleton along with information on where it was supposedly found and some of the fossilized plant remains found with it in this scenario. Overall the groups working together came up with an accurate picture of the real animal where individuals had a success rate that varied from complete nonsense right up to accurate. Some other groups had bird types or reptiles and so on.
Anyone that became infected and didn't exhibit symptoms wouldn't be included (why would they get tested?), and anyone that died in a remote area wouldn't be included either. The more 'infections' that develop in "1st world" countries the better able we will be to determine the true mortality/morbidity rate of avian influenza in humans.
And this doesn't include a potentially huge number of people who do contract H5N1 flu from birds and display nothing more than normal flu symptoms, get over it in a couple of weeks and go on with their lives.
In hong kong, india and parts of europe people showing non-acute symptoms while testing positive for H5N1 have been detected, and only because they were tested in parallel with those who showed more acute symptoms. Because of the concentration on people who get very very sick the statistics are skewed. It's like a self-selected survey or like saying "76% of people involved in fatal car accidents die" and attempting to use those statistics for car accidents in general.
if it mutates into a form which spreads easily from human to human (like normal human influenza) that we're in trouble.
And if normal human transmissable flu mutates to be as deadly as h5n1 we'll be in trouble. and if ebola mutates to become more contagious over a long gestation time we're in trouble. and if aids mutates to be transmissable from touching a doorknob we're in trouble.
and if the moon turns into green cheese and falls to earth, we're in trouble.
not going to happen people. bird flu is a media beatup where less than 100 people have died from it in 8 years yet nobody says anything about the millions of people across the world who have died from normal influenza in the same time . Read that again. Millions of humans have met their deaths at the hands of normal everyday influenza in just a few years. hundreds of thousands are americans. No that no exaggeration. that's MILLIONS of people.
But you don't see the media beating that one up because it's not worth as much in sales.
Mabey they also have better things to do than write tripe accusing the open source community of being part of these malware authors by saying things like "Virtual-machine monitors are available from both the open-source community..." specifically listing open source as part of the problem.
They might have better things to do than that, but it doesn't mean it will stop them doing it. No windows nearmy boxen thank you.
> Besides, you should know how to audit your init scripts and copy your boot sector to a file you can check the md5 of at
> boot. If you dont know how, its your fault.
Always blame the user. mabey you will have someone break into your house and then they use the excuse "You should know how to stop me getting into your house. If you don't know how its your fault". So blame the victim and let MS off scott free? That's the attitude that let them off with no monopoly punishment. Just remember not to call the police next time.
Virtual-machine monitors are available from both the open-source community and commercial vendors.
grrrr this is what pisses me off about microsoft. They listed the open source community based software first in order to put a bigger emphasis on it. Like they're saying open source people are going to be the most likely to write these hackjobs programs to send spam, porn dial and install maleware on computers. Why stand for this when the whole article comes down to a fud statement? This is the kind of thing Microsoft is famous for and still we're reporting on it and saying things like "threat" and "open source" and "infected" in the same paragraph. It's playing right into their game.
And I don't like the way that smells.
Why is microsoft researching this kind of thing? And with Linux too? It makes me wonder if the next time you go to install Windows on a partition somewhere with the same machine as you also dual boot into Linux whether your linux boot will not then be "taken over" by Windows, and MS can insert any little hooks, DRM, inspection code or other things running underneath the linux system you have.
Then they can force linux to perform worse than Windows and nobody will be none the wiser.
Except when you boot into linux and then you get a blue screen it will give it away lol.
Were you talking about Conroe or the upcoming FX-62? (both due at about the same time).
:). And intel, continue there never ending spiral downwards. If only Apple went AMD...
Conroe of course, coming out in six months.
Watch for it to be thrashed by the FX62
hopefully this means AMD will revert to trying to compete on price and so i can afford to get a modern setup ;)
Well AMD already do compete on price. What you see we have is the situation where AMD are the chipmaker with next gen chips that thrash intel's current gen chips but they are sometimes a little more expensive.
But intel's current gen chips only match AMD's last gen chips, and they are cheaper though. But so are the AMD last gen chips. So AMD are already competing with intel equally for price, but AMD have one generation ahead.
Lately Intel have released examples of their new next gen chip, designed to compete with AMD, but if you look closer at their tests they had to overclock the AMD in order to beat it, and that's not an accurate test but rather cheating. Also, by the time Intel have their next gen chip released it'll be more expensive than AMD's new one which I'm sure will be out by the same time.
OK its in the quick add, which is the second image?
THe simple fact remains that intel needed to do these tests at all, side by side. That's an admission on their part that AMD is beating them and beating them hard. I've heard AMD has some new stuff in the pipeline that'll put conroe out of its misery once and for all.
Given Intel's release date fiasco's it'll probably come out before conroe too.
Well the "new" intels are faster then the "old" amd's. This not suprising Intel has plenty of cash and had to come out with a cpu faster then amd.
The big question will be how will this compare to the next generation of AMD cpu's. And what will the price be. If amd will be faster per dollar the rise of amd will continue.
I've heard AMD's next generation will keep up the same improvements where AMD slaughter Intel and it looks like by the time this new intel is out, AMD should already be well and truly released. probably also embedding themselves more in Dell's good books and taking more than 80% of the market. Intel are fighting the loosing battle.
Just goes to show all the trickery in the world won't help a company that can't really "innovate". I'm surprised a sight like Anandtech didn't see it.
I think the fact intel had to put two systems side by side to try "proving" they're faster shows their desperation. That kind of standoff where the intel can't perform just by itself without trying to compare to competition smacks of gimmickry over performance. AMD Still in the end wipes the floor with Intel and I'll bet real world benchmarks will show that yet again.
Looks like another big yawn for Intel's next generation.
Apparently it's not a problem, as one of the differences with mice and people is they don't feel pain, so they can't notice if there's anything wrong. Also, they don't have social systems like we do so there's no stigmas attached to their disabilities so if they're OK with it as mice I don't see what the problem is?
*shrug* you can believe what you wan't, but in the end when Microsoft change tack mid stream don't come running to me for support.
> it started out in the hands of AT&T, Bell Labs, Northern Telecom, Alcatel, et. al.
Both are also monopolists if you might notice.
What's not said is this is a MS derived "standard" that is not open and will probably be changed and not documented by MS as soon as it becomes to their advantage to do so :thumbsdown:
Well actually you'll find the people in power do give a shit. Our country knows what is happening, and knows that we are going through a period of climate change and global warming and it will bring about changes like sea level rises and maybe higher rates of hurricanes if you believe in that kind of thing.
What is dangerous is jumping to the conclusion of why it is changing. If we were to "accept" the opinions of a few climatologists that human nature is what is causing the climate change, then the changes in behaviour we would have to make to try not to warm the atmosphere would be very damaging to the economy.
But why it is dangerous is that we DO NOT KNOW WHY THIS IS HAPPENING. So sticking our head in the sand and saying "It's all human fault!" and ruining our economy while china forges ahead with their industry will mean in 100 years when this natural warming cycle is over and the earth starts cooling again, china will be a world power and the US will be like mexico with nothing to show for the past few hundred years.
Just remember until we know what is causing global warming getting in a panic about who is doing what to stop it is just like being insane.
This is something I think will have a strong pull with consumers but they will soon recognise the quality problems inherent with a non-US company.
What will likely happen is that lenovo won't be able to fulfill the warranty or guarantee facilities they need to in order to keep consumers happy. That is an area where dell traditionally lead the pack.
Say what you will about Dell in any other area but most will agree their warranty service is second to none. IBM was very good also.
I don't think Lenovo will be able to keep this up from another country. We'll end up with their quality dropping and people not being able to get fixes for problems quickly. Without lenovo spending any more money anyway, and that will just bring their prices up to companies like Dell.
So be careful about "super cheap" computers when you can have something just as good for not much more, and probably better warranted.
Well it used to be ten didn't it. What happens when apple reduce it to zero and don't provide the old versions of itunes with the keys to play itunes music? what happens if apple decide you only get to play 5 songs a day. Apple already reduced your rights down from ten to seven. they get control over "your" music. this is the problem. What happens when you no longer find apple's terms which you are bound to, acceptable?
Yes but you can only do this with an older version of itunes. itunes 6 only allows you to burn 5 CDs then burning is locked out forever. apple changed this in 2005.
This is the thing. PDF belongs to adobe and to develop using it you have to pay them for their patents use. So if you want to distribute yourself some PDF that's OK but if you want to use any generating PDF or reading PDF programs you need to pay adobe the big money. And that's just leading to more and more lockin.
If this can take off instead of PDF and also be free, it will quickly kill PDF. Why would you pay more for something when you can get the same for free? people are lead by their pocketbook and if you can save them some dollars you'll be theirs for life.
So what, you know exactly what I meant anyway. Maybe you want flowery writing with lots of big words just because big words look good? Ads nothing to the conversation and you still know just what I mean.
What they don't realise is language changes. every generation gets this and when it happens someone will come up and say literacy is going down. George orwell even did it in 1940, said there were problems, said there were people writing bad english, said they wouldn't be able to communicate soon. Well look at what we have here, a world still functioning nearly 70 years later. Also, a roman once said the same thing or a greek. That the young people of today are a generation that look down on the world and are showing no moral principels or showing problems with language and spelling and all the hoo haa he could drag up. And this was BC.
I think these people are old thinkers stuck in a new world where communication has changed and any seventy year old would tell you they find it hard to communicate with youth but no 20 year old ever will, and it's the 20 year olds who are the future. Always.
It includes a thing called "remote attestation." The short version is that it will let the Powers That Be remotely revoke the privilages of any hardware with keys that are known to have been cracked. So if you do somehow get the key, as soon as you tell anybody about it Microsoft (or whoever) will be able to brick your hardware.
Good. that means we can make a worm that retrieves the key from random computers around the globe, posts it to microsoft saying "nyah nyah we have your key" and they can brick the hardware with that key.
Once it's done to enough computers worldwide, either all those keys stay useful, or MS continually bricks the hardware of all their customers time and time again.
Lose-Lose situation for Microsoft. Again.
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Not really, osx is just adding features always planned for vista from years back. ipod is just a music player like so many before it. imac is just like sony vaios that looked similar in 2001. mac mini is just a well marketed nano-itx computer. they are all things that are marketed well but were invented by other companies who were truly innovative.