I think it takes people 50ms or so to decide if anything is attractive -- opposite sex, website, car, etc.
Another interesting thing is that given that people generally agree if something looks attractive or not, there is an objective reason to say that things are pretty or not. This makes it similar to quorum algorithms in distributed systems: pretty is what most people think is attractive. Ugly is what most people think is not attractive.
It looks like Congress has made some legal distinction based on how you get the information. E.g. the information in a terrestrial radio broadcast is in a different legal category than satellite radio or an internet download.
This is ridiculous -- e.g. if I ran IP over a radio frequency, then what? What category am I in?
FTFA:
"Congress has historically come down on the side of the broadcasters in this debate, saying that radio stations can play whatever music they want while paying only a relatively small amount of money to songwriters and publishers for the right to "perform" the song on-air--and not paying record companies at all.
"Similarly, the right of consumers to tape songs off the radio has generally been held to be fair use.
"However, when Congress set the rules for Internet and other digital broadcasts in 1998, it gave record companies the right to royalties from Internet and satellite radio broadcasts. That's set up a patchwork of different rules for different new media companies, even as technology has brought the way consumers use their services more closely together."
Are those projects going to lead to nukes in anyone's backyards? No way!
Nuclear power in the US is dead. It is so dead the Japanese have to try to GIVE AWAY a reactor for people out in the middle of nowhere.
And the other one -- the port-a-nuke -- that's something the USA will be giving to poor folks without power. The minute someone tries to ram nuclear power down the throats of a community, people are going to go psycho and resist, potentially with force.
Because nobody wants a repeat of TMI, under any circumstances.
It says: "'pop a couple more coal/oil/natural gas/nuclear power plants down'", implying that nuclear power is an option in the US (as it is in France, Japan, Czech Republic and so on).
That's simply not true. Since the accident at 3-mile island, nuclear power is dead in the US.
Supposedly, if you need an accurate timebase, you are supposed to just use GPS (which gives the exact time) instead of relying on a complicated clock protocol.
It is great that NTP is so widely distributed. It is typical that at the moment the old technology is finally working, there is an altogether better solution.
If you read the specs on typical flash memory, the stuff can last around 10 years until the data isn't necessarily correct.
Doesn't that make them about as good as the dye based CD-Rs that people fear will not be good for archives?
I'm not saying I'm the expert on this -- I'd appreciate it if someone could explain to me that the flash memory will actually last 40 years or so. But I doubt it.
So given that this is about natural phenomena (like Bee flight -- see previous), can we expect to see ID and anti-ID arguing about what this means? Or can we just stick to the physics and call it that?
The Jews say the Nazis stole the wealth of their parents. They demand that the Nazis pay them. Ofent the money goes not to specific victims, but various Jewish charities.
Bill, with his monopolistic practices, stole wealth from white people. Why he shouldn't pay their children? If not their children, why not charities that benefit them?
Many Jews consider him to be a great guy -- he's doing a wonderful mitzvah.
If Bill were to give the money to white people, would we think the same? Why not? E.g. what if he gave scholarships to poor white kids, so that they'll stand a better chance competing at the university against non-whites? Would we think it was a mitzvah?
There is a huge content-free lead-in to the article. Here is the meat. But first, my comment:
Judge for yourself whether or not the minimal configuration is really the minimal one. I personally am inclined to think 2GB is way too big of a disk. If you just want a webserver, DNS box, firewall, etc. you don't need a bigger disk than 32MB, if you are using a BSD. I would guess it is the same or better with Linux. But Windows includes so much unnecessary stuff in the basic install, you need 2GB. This actually does matter -- if you need 32MB, that is a cheap flash disk. If you need 2GB, that's a lot.
"In the tests run in its lab, Microsoft found that most modern commercial Linux distributions could be installed successfully on systems with a Pentium processor, with 64MB of RAM and a minimum of 2GB of hard disk space.
"Memory prevented the successful installation on a typical 1997 system, as 32MB of memory is not enough to install most Linux distributions or to run desktop applications with acceptable performance. A memory upgrade could prolong the life of such hardware, but the cost and effort of locating old memory and installing it onto all corporate clients significantly reduces the potential savings," Hilf said.
Minimum requirements for office productivity performance on a Linux system were any Pentium II (PII) system with at least 64MB of RAM, he said, adding that playback of sound and video would typically require a PII 400 or better.
"This corresponds to an average PC issued between 1998 and 1999," Hilf said.
If Linux was installed on an older system, such as an average PC of 1997, then the desktop performance falls below what is typically acceptable for a common user, he said."
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I think it takes people 50ms or so to decide if anything is attractive -- opposite sex, website, car, etc.
Another interesting thing is that given that people generally agree if something looks attractive or not, there is an objective reason to say that things are pretty or not. This makes it similar to quorum algorithms in distributed systems: pretty is what most people think is attractive. Ugly is what most people think is not attractive.
What's "trolltalk"? Why should I care about "trolltalk"?
Your comment is COMPLETELY OFF TOPIC!
The point is, Macs don't have a lot of market share. Who cares if firefox is available for it? Mac users will probably just stick with Safari anyway.
http://www.currybet.net/articles/user_agents/2.php says that Apple has only 4.4% or so of the browser market.
Is this article really so groundbreaking? I don't get it. It seems to affect, at most, 4.4% of the browser-using population.
It looks like Congress has made some legal distinction based on how you get the information. E.g. the information in a terrestrial radio broadcast is in a different legal category than satellite radio or an internet download.
This is ridiculous -- e.g. if I ran IP over a radio frequency, then what? What category am I in?
FTFA:
"Congress has historically come down on the side of the broadcasters in this debate, saying that radio stations can play whatever music they want while paying only a relatively small amount of money to songwriters and publishers for the right to "perform" the song on-air--and not paying record companies at all.
"Similarly, the right of consumers to tape songs off the radio has generally been held to be fair use.
"However, when Congress set the rules for Internet and other digital broadcasts in 1998, it gave record companies the right to royalties from Internet and satellite radio broadcasts. That's set up a patchwork of different rules for different new media companies, even as technology has brought the way consumers use their services more closely together."
I said nuclear power is effectively dead in America. That's true.
I didn't say it was dead for rational reasons.
I agree that TMI was not a catastrophe. But try telling that to illocial people who are scared to death of radiation.
Are those projects going to lead to nukes in anyone's backyards? No way!
Nuclear power in the US is dead. It is so dead the Japanese have to try to GIVE AWAY a reactor for people out in the middle of nowhere.
And the other one -- the port-a-nuke -- that's something the USA will be giving to poor folks without power. The minute someone tries to ram nuclear power down the throats of a community, people are going to go psycho and resist, potentially with force.
Because nobody wants a repeat of TMI, under any circumstances.
It says: "'pop a couple more coal/oil/natural gas/nuclear power plants down'", implying that nuclear power is an option in the US (as it is in France, Japan, Czech Republic and so on).
That's simply not true. Since the accident at 3-mile island, nuclear power is dead in the US.
The technical guys in the company are from MIT's exokernel project.
They worked on delivering high throughput for video with their superior OS technology. It interoperated with Windows, allowing them to make money.
This project looks surprisingly un-technical and uncomplicated in comparison, given how competent and accomplished they are.
Here's an exokernel link:
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/exo.html
"Finally working" was imprecise. Please try: "finally working enough to satisfy all users".
If time really matters, you'll have one per machine. I wouldn't say "of course not," as you did. They only cost about $75 (US) now.
Supposedly, if you need an accurate timebase, you are supposed to just use GPS (which gives the exact time) instead of relying on a complicated clock protocol.
It is great that NTP is so widely distributed. It is typical that at the moment the old technology is finally working, there is an altogether better solution.
Human skulls used to be thicker, right?
They'd have to have some might powerful talons to break through a thick skull.
Congratulations! Looks like you qualify for GNAA membership now.
And it is nice to see a new GNAA release. It has been a while.
The government auctions the stuff off because that's how they get the most money for it.
A bit like EBay -- auctions work.
It goes into the general fund, which pays for medicare, the arms industry and so on.
Do they save instructions on how to make the plant grow? When I read the article, I didn't see anything about that.
Some seeds need to go through certain animals in order to be able to germinate. The seed bank might not be so valuable if they screw this up.
The Specs say 10. If you are lucky it might be 40 years.
But if it is only ten, that could easily be the part that breaks your car.
It is worse than this: most microcontrollers are flash-based. E.g. the Atmel ones, which are the most popular.
The life is 10 years, which is too short for their product lifetimes.
When microcontrollers fail, people can get killed.
Well, if your firmware is in flash, it matters.
I wouldn't want a car to stop working in a few years just because the flash went bad.
If you read the specs on typical flash memory, the stuff can last around 10 years until the data isn't necessarily correct.
Doesn't that make them about as good as the dye based CD-Rs that people fear will not be good for archives?
I'm not saying I'm the expert on this -- I'd appreciate it if someone could explain to me that the flash memory will actually last 40 years or so. But I doubt it.
Is there some "best outcome" for the GPL/FSF that they are aiming for?
E.g. does Stallman want to go to court, get the GPL upheld and get a recall of some hardware? Would that be the best thing?
Or is the best thing to get the HW manufacturer to give up the source, promise to be good and so on?
I'm hoping that Stallman and the FSF have some big plan in mind, so that things eventually wind up being better.
So given that this is about natural phenomena (like Bee flight -- see previous), can we expect to see ID and anti-ID arguing about what this means? Or can we just stick to the physics and call it that?
How is this twisted?
The Jews say the Nazis stole the wealth of their parents. They demand that the Nazis pay them. Ofent the money goes not to specific victims, but various Jewish charities.
Bill, with his monopolistic practices, stole wealth from white people. Why he shouldn't pay their children? If not their children, why not charities that benefit them?
That's just called being fair.
My problem with Bill is that he's used monopolistic practices to take money from one group and give it to another.
There would be some justice in him giving some of the money back to the people from whom he took it.
Bill Gates specifically gives money to non-whites -- e.g. charities to sponsor non-white college students.
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He also blows big chunks of money on diseases that mostly affect non-whites.
So he takes from white people with his monopolistic practices, and then gives the money to non-whites.
Many suspect this is just to "launder" his fortune -- by giving a teeny amount to sympathetic cases, he absolves himself of his guilt.
Other charitable people take a different approach:
Irving Moskowitz, a bingo magnate, uses his money to fund settlers in Israel: http://www.natcath.com/NCR_Online/archives/101802
Many Jews consider him to be a great guy -- he's doing a wonderful mitzvah.
If Bill were to give the money to white people, would we think the same? Why not? E.g. what if he gave scholarships to poor white kids, so that they'll stand a better chance competing at the university against non-whites? Would we think it was a mitzvah?
There is a huge content-free lead-in to the article. Here is the meat.
But first, my comment:
Judge for yourself whether or not the minimal configuration is really the minimal one. I personally am inclined to think 2GB is way too big of a disk. If you just want a webserver, DNS box, firewall, etc. you don't need a bigger disk than 32MB, if you are using a BSD. I would guess it is the same or better with Linux. But Windows includes so much unnecessary stuff in the basic install, you need 2GB. This actually does matter -- if you need 32MB, that is a cheap flash disk. If you need 2GB, that's a lot.
"In the tests run in its lab, Microsoft found that most modern commercial Linux distributions could be installed successfully on systems with a Pentium processor, with 64MB of RAM and a minimum of 2GB of hard disk space.
"Memory prevented the successful installation on a typical 1997 system, as 32MB of memory is not enough to install most Linux distributions or to run desktop applications with acceptable performance. A memory upgrade could prolong the life of such hardware, but the cost and effort of locating old memory and installing it onto all corporate clients significantly reduces the potential savings," Hilf said.
Minimum requirements for office productivity performance on a Linux system were any Pentium II (PII) system with at least 64MB of RAM, he said, adding that playback of sound and video would typically require a PII 400 or better.
"This corresponds to an average PC issued between 1998 and 1999," Hilf said.
If Linux was installed on an older system, such as an average PC of 1997, then the desktop performance falls below what is typically acceptable for a common user, he said."
What is this "Windows XP"?
Is that some other software that Google provides? Is it some "free software" that I haven't heard about?
I need to be able to audit, compile and patch the source -- anything else is aginst my security policy.