MKV is already free (as in speech). The Haali media splitter is already free (as in beer), but there are others that are free (as in speech). CoreAVC isn't, but there are other h.264 decoders that are free (as in speech). And all of these work WELL, and are not 'nearly there' like Vorbis.
Forced? I can't think of many pieces of software that work on Vista and not XP. If you have an ancient PIII, then by all means keep XP. If you have any relatively recent multi-core CPU, then the performance difference between XP and Vista is negligible at best, and the stability improvements are welcome.
Does Vista run poorly on older hardware? Yes. Would you complain that blu-ray video doesn't look good on your 14" CRT?
Nintendo 'pioneered' motion sensitive/IR tracking controllers in the same way that Apple 'pioneered' portable HDD mp3 players: They just had better marketing.
Mundane? I can watch, for free, a live stream of astronauts in orbit, repairing the delicate internals of a space telescope, with the information arriving via a worldwide network of computers. On my phone.
We're already living the the future.
Stripe a 158GB drive across all 78, then distribute them such that drive can only be read when all 78 are assembled together.
Of course, the contents would be a rickroll or similar.
It sounds great, until you realise that the system will likely be about as secure as a wet paper bag. Or that ballot-stuffing is now easier for, say, 4chan.
The P190 can fit two PSUs, as well as a lot of other 'high end' cases (i.e. built like a brick shithouse, cost an arm and a leg). Then you have double-width server chassis, or custom rackmount designs.
Why not simply have more than one avenue of research? We have many designs of fission reactor (PWR, pebble bed, MAGNOX, fast-breeders, etc), many designs of internal combustion engine (4-stroke, 2-stroke, rotary, gas turbine, diesel, etc), why not have several designs of fusion reactor as well? Tokemaks, Spheromaks, Polywells, PPDs, laser inertial and so on, all of them may have different applications, different niches where they work better than others.
For too long have you created and shared content amongst yourselves without it passing through our hands first, thus depriving us of our entitled revenue. Luckily we have more lobbying money than you, so this state of affairs will not continue.
I suppose you could build some sort of multi-feline interferometer, and interpret the varying frequency of their mewing according to their individual proximity to objects.
Assuming you're reasonably confident not to be bumping into the ceiling or falling down holes, "how many cats can lead blind people" would be 3. 2 would lead to blind spots, 4 or more would provide redundant overlap.
According to the paper, the concentration increase was from 1.4 micrograms per gram (after washout) to 2.0 micrograms per gram (after 1 weeks use). Average concentration among the general population is 2.6 micrograms per gram. There is no information of what constitutes an unacceptable level, but after mentioning the voluntary removal of BPA by some manufactureres, there was this:
However, such
actions have been largely preemptive, as no epidemiologic study has evaluated the physiological
consequences of polycarbonate bottle use.
More worryingly, he lambasts AI research, then proceeds to describe what is simply a Self Learning Neural Network as if it were something new and revolutionary.
For me, it was the lack of support for hardware. My netbook came with Ubuntu pre-installed (bypassing my previous experience where Ubuntu managed to hose the partition tables of two discs). It's a netbook, so the usual problem of 'no games' and so on weren't really an issue as long as it could run Firefox and a basic text editor.
And then I plugged my mouse in.
I have my MX Revolution (the Best Mouse Ever Made) set up with shortcuts for manipulating tabs rather than the silly default fwd/back buttons. However, after about half an hour of googling and fiddling with repositories, I was no closer to a working mouse. Now, I'm sure some will be quick yell "but it's the manufacturers fault! They don't provide any drivers!". This'd be fine if:
a) there weren't custom drivers for both windows and OS X available
b) the custom drivers for Linux didn't require me to DOWNGRADE THE OPERATING SYSTEM in order to install.
It was at this second point where I decided that Linux was not the choice for me. If I have to reinstall the entire operating system to get a mouse working properly, then there's something very wrong.
If you're gargling your cola for several days before swallowing, then you'd have a problem. Thank goodness your stomach acids, much stronger than the Phosphoric acid in cola, do not cause any problems unless your stomach springs a leak.
"placing data in a defined structure" is all well and good, but surely a part of that should be actually defining said structure. As it stands, it resembles a remotely hosted version of matlab with some pre-set variables scraped from other sites/sources. Nifty, but definitely needs some context added to the information before being usable to anyone who doesn't already know what it is they're trying to compute (and probably already has a copy of matlab/mathematica/octave/scilab/etc sitting in front of them anyway).
My calculator cannot give the information on extrasolar planets. A search engine does. Either scrape all useful information, or don't bother scrape it at all.
It seems half finished. If I look up the catalogue number of an exoplanet, for example, it'll read me off it's orbital parameters. If I then try and ask what 'longitude of periapsis' means, it'll shrug it's shoulders and return absolutely nothing.
Quite a few people have done it since. Current experimentation is with finding a method of encapsulating the magnets that will not breakdown inside the body. Silicon dipping leaves thin spots at the corners of the magnet, and no company will use PVD coating on small sample quantities of magnets
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MKV is already free (as in speech). The Haali media splitter is already free (as in beer), but there are others that are free (as in speech). CoreAVC isn't, but there are other h.264 decoders that are free (as in speech). And all of these work WELL, and are not 'nearly there' like Vorbis.
Forced? I can't think of many pieces of software that work on Vista and not XP. If you have an ancient PIII, then by all means keep XP. If you have any relatively recent multi-core CPU, then the performance difference between XP and Vista is negligible at best, and the stability improvements are welcome.
Does Vista run poorly on older hardware? Yes. Would you complain that blu-ray video doesn't look good on your 14" CRT?
It's sad that Nintendo pioneered it
Nintendo 'pioneered' motion sensitive/IR tracking controllers in the same way that Apple 'pioneered' portable HDD mp3 players: They just had better marketing.
Mundane? I can watch, for free, a live stream of astronauts in orbit, repairing the delicate internals of a space telescope, with the information arriving via a worldwide network of computers. On my phone.
We're already living the the future.
Stripe a 158GB drive across all 78, then distribute them such that drive can only be read when all 78 are assembled together. Of course, the contents would be a rickroll or similar.
It sounds great, until you realise that the system will likely be about as secure as a wet paper bag. Or that ballot-stuffing is now easier for, say, 4chan.
I wonder how long until a BIOS is added on-board modern GPU cards. It'd be like budding an extra little computer off inside your existing computer.
The P190 can fit two PSUs, as well as a lot of other 'high end' cases (i.e. built like a brick shithouse, cost an arm and a leg). Then you have double-width server chassis, or custom rackmount designs.
Why not simply have more than one avenue of research? We have many designs of fission reactor (PWR, pebble bed, MAGNOX, fast-breeders, etc), many designs of internal combustion engine (4-stroke, 2-stroke, rotary, gas turbine, diesel, etc), why not have several designs of fusion reactor as well? Tokemaks, Spheromaks, Polywells, PPDs, laser inertial and so on, all of them may have different applications, different niches where they work better than others.
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For too long have you created and shared content amongst yourselves without it passing through our hands first, thus depriving us of our entitled revenue. Luckily we have more lobbying money than you, so this state of affairs will not continue.
You can, but I wouldn't expect it to hold up well under constant heavy use.
I suppose you could build some sort of multi-feline interferometer, and interpret the varying frequency of their mewing according to their individual proximity to objects.
Assuming you're reasonably confident not to be bumping into the ceiling or falling down holes, "how many cats can lead blind people" would be 3. 2 would lead to blind spots, 4 or more would provide redundant overlap.
However, such actions have been largely preemptive, as no epidemiologic study has evaluated the physiological consequences of polycarbonate bottle use.
I'll take anything written in the Mail with a grain of salt. Or rather, several tons of Sodium Chloride.
More worryingly, he lambasts AI research, then proceeds to describe what is simply a Self Learning Neural Network as if it were something new and revolutionary.
A link to an AOL portal of a youtube video of a camera recording of a VHS copy of SG1? Seriously?
Why oh why did my mod points have to expire. The Poison Tester was the first thing this bought to mind.
For me, it was the lack of support for hardware. My netbook came with Ubuntu pre-installed (bypassing my previous experience where Ubuntu managed to hose the partition tables of two discs). It's a netbook, so the usual problem of 'no games' and so on weren't really an issue as long as it could run Firefox and a basic text editor.
And then I plugged my mouse in.
I have my MX Revolution (the Best Mouse Ever Made) set up with shortcuts for manipulating tabs rather than the silly default fwd/back buttons. However, after about half an hour of googling and fiddling with repositories, I was no closer to a working mouse. Now, I'm sure some will be quick yell "but it's the manufacturers fault! They don't provide any drivers!". This'd be fine if:
a) there weren't custom drivers for both windows and OS X available
b) the custom drivers for Linux didn't require me to DOWNGRADE THE OPERATING SYSTEM in order to install.
It was at this second point where I decided that Linux was not the choice for me. If I have to reinstall the entire operating system to get a mouse working properly, then there's something very wrong.
If you're gargling your cola for several days before swallowing, then you'd have a problem. Thank goodness your stomach acids, much stronger than the Phosphoric acid in cola, do not cause any problems unless your stomach springs a leak.
"placing data in a defined structure" is all well and good, but surely a part of that should be actually defining said structure. As it stands, it resembles a remotely hosted version of matlab with some pre-set variables scraped from other sites/sources. Nifty, but definitely needs some context added to the information before being usable to anyone who doesn't already know what it is they're trying to compute (and probably already has a copy of matlab/mathematica/octave/scilab/etc sitting in front of them anyway).
My calculator cannot give the information on extrasolar planets. A search engine does. Either scrape all useful information, or don't bother scrape it at all.
It seems half finished. If I look up the catalogue number of an exoplanet, for example, it'll read me off it's orbital parameters. If I then try and ask what 'longitude of periapsis' means, it'll shrug it's shoulders and return absolutely nothing.
And they're 800 by fucking 600 pixels. Seriously, how the hell is SVGA over a tiny subset of your field of view any use whatsoever?
Are these sub-millimetre N40+ NiB magnets, or just magnetised steel?
Quite a few people have done it since. Current experimentation is with finding a method of encapsulating the magnets that will not breakdown inside the body. Silicon dipping leaves thin spots at the corners of the magnet, and no company will use PVD coating on small sample quantities of magnets