If I understand correctly graphics cards don't implement IEEE floating point standard. This means that you can expect all kinds of wierd problems with complicated floating point computations ahref=http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ieee754st atus/754story.htmlhttp://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkah an/ieee754status/754story.html>. I wonder how they know they can trust results of their simulations.
A friend of mine is an architect (a very good one by the way:). She had a client who bought one of these "design your own house" programs and used it to prepare plans for remodeling his own house.
In one place he had a triangular room with two doors going into it (was supposed to be his office).
In the other place he had bathroom on the second floor right above his new kitchen. The problem was that the drainage pipe from the toilet would have to go right through the center of his kitchen table (building code doesn't allow bending the toilet drain too much).
Why the news articles, which require hundreds of journalists to research and write, will remain free. But, op-ed column which is written by only 6 (?) columnists will be fee only?
By the way, it's not like there is lack of opinions available for free from bloggers of your choice:)
I have Toyota Corolla 2000 and get 38 mpg (+- 1 mpg depending on weather). And it doesn't need a ton of lead for the batteries, that you would need to dispose of when the car is "retired".
Few chemists believe there is anything in chemistry which cannot be explained by quantum mechanics
Which reminds me of an old joke: "Physics is just mathematics applied to natural world. Chemistry is just physics applied to chemical elements. Biology is just chemistry applied to complex organic molecules. Conclusion: kids, study math."
I wonder why Kavli chose nanotech as an award field. It is hot these days, but will it be important in a decade or two.
When Nobel picked physics, chemistry, physiology&medicine, literature and peace he got it mostly right. These are fundamental areas which will be important for a long time. Although, chemistry prize is often given these days to work related to biology and I can't remember many fundametal discoveries were made lately.
Your statement is completely illogical. Why would the author need to break pdf encryption? Encryption of pdf files is there to prevent user from stealing form the author.
Author of Photoshop Thomas Knoll, said "I think the copyrighted information inside the NEF file belongs to the photographer, not Nikon. But Nikon apparently thinks they own the information inside the NEF."
A few month ago I read a posting by Chris Cox (one of Photoshop developers) that they basically had to reverse engineer all the raw formats (Canon, Kodak, Pentax).
Could anyone explain to me why? Camera OEMs are not making money on their own raw conversion software. I would've though they would be begging Adobe to include raw conversion for their cameras.
When I was writing software OEMs would "loan" us computers, printers, anything - just to make sure that our program is compatible with their hardware. And I worked in a small company (20 people when I started, ~50 when I left).
For those who don't follow gimp development, I think this has been one of the often requested "features" for many years. Gimp developers usually say if you want it - do it yourself. Finally someone did.
A fair comparison of power use would include total power used by cpu+chipset+video+memory. I remember reading somewhere that AMD cpu doesn't need northbridge, so that may give it an edge in total power use.
Parent said: "allowing, for the first time, any federal funding for embryonic stem cells is "restricting."
I pointed out that this is "compaign soundbite" "spin" "propaganda" - call it what you want. The real story is different -- Bush came up with the most restrictive rules for stem cell research funding, just short of outright banning it.
Both liberal and conservative politicians are guilty of spewing "propaganda". I simply expect that intelligent people (/. readers:) wouldn't repeat it. What happened to independent thinking and skepticism?
Parent said: "allowing, for the first time, any federal funding for embryonic stem cells is "restricting."
I pointed out that this is "compaign soundbite" "spin" "propaganda" - call it what you want. The real story is different. Bush came up with the most restrictive rules for stem cell research funding, short of banning it.
You yourself resort to semi-truths and "spin". You say "These are human babies." These are embryos that would be destroyed anyway. They are not going to become babies, ever. They were not created for experiments by mad scientists. They come from fertility treatment. Why waste them?
I appreciate that many Americans disagree with me (although I'm glad that most of my fellow Californians agree with me.) However, I think they would agree with me if they got the full story rather than "propaganda".
Please, stop listening to "propaganda". Read the full story is below. I would say that if Gore became president the funding for stem cell research would be much less restricted.
From Wikipedia: "In 1995, Congress passed the Dickey Amendment, prohibiting federal funding of research that involves the use of a human embryo. Privately funded research lead to the breakthrough which made embryonic stem cell research possible in 1998, however, prompting the Clinton Administration to develop federal regulations for its funding. Preparations for this funding were completed in 2001."
WHY, do companies and stores think that NOT showing ID when using a credit card/debit card is something that people would want?
Illegal is not the right word, but until recently it was against VISA rules -- merchants who accepted credit cards could not ask for an ID. It was probably good for cc marketing.
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If I understand correctly graphics cards don't implement IEEE floating point standard. This means that you can expect all kinds of wierd problems with complicated floating point computations ahref=http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkahan/ieee754st atus/754story.htmlhttp://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wkah an/ieee754status/754story.html>. I wonder how they know they can trust results of their simulations.
IMHO, corpse plant is the best argument against "intelligent design". :)
In one place he had a triangular room with two doors going into it (was supposed to be his office).
In the other place he had bathroom on the second floor right above his new kitchen. The problem was that the drainage pipe from the toilet would have to go right through the center of his kitchen table (building code doesn't allow bending the toilet drain too much).
Some things are better left to professionals...
By the way, it's not like there is lack of opinions available for free from bloggers of your choice :)
So, what's the point of having a hibrid?
By the way Honda Civic gets even better mileage.
Notice that design and launch of this spacecraft was outsourced to Russia.
When Nobel picked physics, chemistry, physiology&medicine, literature and peace he got it mostly right. These are fundamental areas which will be important for a long time. Although, chemistry prize is often given these days to work related to biology and I can't remember many fundametal discoveries were made lately.
Your statement is completely illogical. Why would the author need to break pdf encryption? Encryption of pdf files is there to prevent user from stealing form the author.
Author of Photoshop Thomas Knoll, said "I think the copyrighted information inside the NEF file belongs to the photographer, not Nikon. But Nikon apparently thinks they own the information inside the NEF."
Could anyone explain to me why? Camera OEMs are not making money on their own raw conversion software. I would've though they would be begging Adobe to include raw conversion for their cameras.
When I was writing software OEMs would "loan" us computers, printers, anything - just to make sure that our program is compatible with their hardware. And I worked in a small company (20 people when I started, ~50 when I left).
For those who don't follow gimp development, I think this has been one of the often requested "features" for many years. Gimp developers usually say if you want it - do it yourself. Finally someone did.
A fair comparison of power use would include total power used by cpu+chipset+video+memory. I remember reading somewhere that AMD cpu doesn't need northbridge, so that may give it an edge in total power use.
I wouldn't say that IA-64 is similar to RISC chips. If anything the VLIW paradigm is exactly the opposite of RISC.
Ok, found the answer myself. http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,119660,0 0.asp
Why would companies offer free tax filing? What's the catch here?
Parent said: "allowing, for the first time, any federal funding for embryonic stem cells is "restricting."
I pointed out that this is "compaign soundbite" "spin" "propaganda" - call it what you want. The real story is different -- Bush came up with the most restrictive rules for stem cell research funding, just short of outright banning it.
Both liberal and conservative politicians are guilty of spewing "propaganda". I simply expect that intelligent people (/. readers :) wouldn't repeat it. What happened to independent thinking and skepticism?
Parent said: "allowing, for the first time, any federal funding for embryonic stem cells is "restricting."
I pointed out that this is "compaign soundbite" "spin" "propaganda" - call it what you want. The real story is different. Bush came up with the most restrictive rules for stem cell research funding, short of banning it.
You yourself resort to semi-truths and "spin". You say "These are human babies." These are embryos that would be destroyed anyway. They are not going to become babies, ever. They were not created for experiments by mad scientists. They come from fertility treatment. Why waste them?
I appreciate that many Americans disagree with me (although I'm glad that most of my fellow Californians agree with me.) However, I think they would agree with me if they got the full story rather than "propaganda".
From Wikipedia: "In 1995, Congress passed the Dickey Amendment, prohibiting federal funding of research that involves the use of a human embryo. Privately funded research lead to the breakthrough which made embryonic stem cell research possible in 1998, however, prompting the Clinton Administration to develop federal regulations for its funding. Preparations for this funding were completed in 2001."
Illegal is not the right word, but until recently it was against VISA rules -- merchants who accepted credit cards could not ask for an ID. It was probably good for cc marketing.
rather than a feature...
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=124538&cid=104 47989
I haven't rented from bb in years. I rent from a nice mom and mom video store.
You'll be sharing those 70 Mbits/sec with the people in the 30 mile radius.
I vaguely remember someone telling me that GSA price is the lowest by law. Isn't it?