This is wonderful news for fans of the Sony handheld
Sigh... I'll never understand why and how record sales of damn non-networked product should make me happy beyond the obvious fact that decent sales ensures support, which is almost guaranteed anyway by legal obligations and the size of Sony corp.
Though I've advocated (read, bored ppl with) firefox (FF) usage over the last 2 years, I've been brought to the boil with the pop-up ads coming to view on FF over the last few months, my tolerance having been extensively tested with the very sluggish page rendering of FF on Win XP as compared to FF on my Mandrake (Does anyone know why and can he/she be bothered to tune up the engine?) and I decided to try outMaxthon, despite knowing it's built on IE. Maxthon's not as versatile and add-on friendly as FF (unless someone can point me to untapped un-Googled resources out there?), but it's holding up to the pop-up on-slaught very well so far. And hopefully,:-p, this post won't bring Maxthon's usage to the attention of the pop-up coders...
Which, if I may digress, brings to mind the question, who are the people responsible for the evils- pop-ups, spamming, spyware? (ok, before you release the hounds, I'm not looking for M$ as an answer) Gasp, could they be among us?:-/ I mean theses are geeks and/or coders, who are they? Can someone drive some civic sense into their selfish criminal little brains?
Preambulatory ramble (shield) against the zealots: While I absolutely adore FF's extensions and couldn't live without them now...
"Bold" rant: I had a look at the oft ignored Maxthon. I was very surprised to see how much faster the latter was compared to FireFox, I fail to see how FF is really as fast as it is claimed. Also, its plugins and extensions do work very well inspite of being less customisable than FF's...
Conciliatory note: Anyway, hurrah for the 11e6 downloads, as long as it doesn't encourage further slow down/bloating of FF!
This is a very ingenious idea and I'd like to highlight some simplification that the article has had to make.
I'm no zoologist/biologist/ environmental impact assessor or environmental engineer but I do know that the concentration of the heavy metals and the likes increases up the food chain, i.e., the herbivores feeding on these plants would suffer from a higher heavy metal concentration which would not even be half as bad as that suffered by the carnivores/omnivores (think local human population) feeding on them...
Now, I'm sure that this person is very knowledgeable and will have tried to make sure that animals aren't able to feed on them, but as any engineer, I'm trained to be skeptical. It strikes me as difficult a thing to ensure, specially in such remote areas as the article mentions (Amazon... might also be of use in somewhere like Zambia/Congo, South-East Asia, Madagascar, etc.).
Furthermore, fast growing imports (shrubs, etc. which I presume would be of use here) could well outgrow the localised regions of the mines and start competing with the indiginous flora. Tropical forests take a long time to rejuvenate and tropical trees have very slow growth rates, which puts them at a sever disadvantage when having to compete against fast growing imports for space and sun...This phenomenon is to be blamed for the disappearance of the local ecosystem from such small tropical islands (e.g. Mauritius, Indian Ocean is one victim that I'm aware of) and so it is something that has to be borne in mind when you want to implement such a scheme.
I hope all of these are/will be factored in whenever such a scheme is to be implemented/ someone tries to "help" Nature recover.
You can only do whole word searches... if you want to search for emails from your friend Bob Chuzzlewit-Pumblechook, and you have ten friends named Bob, you can't shorten your search by searching for "Chuzz", as that will return nothing.
My excuses but I fail to see how this got modded to +4 (interesting).
If you know the full word that you are searching for, why not spend an extra 0.001 nanojoule to type it all up and then search for it? Granted you may want to search for parts of a string, but if this was ever a big issue, Google would not have been what it is today.
On another note, it's strikes me as the most obvious thing in the world that Gmail's competition will be reacting to this... In fact, I'd bet my arse off that that by the time Gmail is finally open to the public, there'll be at least one other (beside the spy_something one) new GigaB mail providers out there.
I understand that Yahoo and MSN will probably have some trouble expanding their current implementation to Gigabytes free offerings, but they'd be dumb not to be reacting to the applause and attention that Gmail's storage has been getting.
I, for one, am looking forward to a near future of stupidly large online mailboxes. I only hope that these mail addresses will last for ever and that we won't fall prey to the temptation of incorporating stupid rtf, pictures,- God forbid!- movies within the trivial mail, let alone spam. But I'm too much of cynic to believe that my fellow surfers are firm believers in minimalism too.
All rise for a toast to anti-spam technology and anti-troll blogs and comments.
Granted that's ~60% of the density of water, but I fail to see how anyone could use total immersion (in this/another comparable liquid) cooling in a laptop/weight-limited application.
Surely such technique, when used in common devices, will be restricted to desktops.
Just to be a bit pedantic, according to Simon Singh's book "The Code Book", the first "computer" was the ENIGMA code breaker, the British Bletchley Park WWII invention ,
COLOSSUS (http://www.acsa.net/a_computer_saved_the_world.ht m). It never received as much publicity as the ENIAC because it was a war secret...
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Sigh... I'll never understand why and how record sales of damn non-networked product should make me happy beyond the obvious fact that decent sales ensures support, which is almost guaranteed anyway by legal obligations and the size of Sony corp.
Fanboys! Sigh...
BOFH
Though I've advocated (read, bored ppl with) firefox (FF) usage over the last 2 years, I've been brought to the boil with the pop-up ads coming to view on FF over the last few months, my tolerance having been extensively tested with the very sluggish page rendering of FF on Win XP as compared to FF on my Mandrake (Does anyone know why and can he/she be bothered to tune up the engine?) and I decided to try out Maxthon, despite knowing it's built on IE. Maxthon's not as versatile and add-on friendly as FF (unless someone can point me to untapped un-Googled resources out there?), but it's holding up to the pop-up on-slaught very well so far. And hopefully, :-p, this post won't bring Maxthon's usage to the attention of the pop-up coders...
Which, if I may digress, brings to mind the question, who are the people responsible for the evils- pop-ups, spamming, spyware? (ok, before you release the hounds, I'm not looking for M$ as an answer) Gasp, could they be among us? :-/ I mean theses are geeks and/or coders, who are they? Can someone drive some civic sense into their selfish criminal little brains?
Lynch them but don't you dare Flame away!
From TFA: Randall Stross is a historian and author based in Silicon Valley. (Emphasis being mine)
Preambulatory ramble (shield) against the zealots: While I absolutely adore FF's extensions and couldn't live without them now...
"Bold" rant: I had a look at the oft ignored Maxthon. I was very surprised to see how much faster the latter was compared to FireFox, I fail to see how FF is really as fast as it is claimed. Also, its plugins and extensions do work very well inspite of being less customisable than FF's...
Conciliatory note: Anyway, hurrah for the 11e6 downloads, as long as it doesn't encourage further slow down/bloating of FF!
I'm no zoologist/biologist/ environmental impact assessor or environmental engineer but I do know that the concentration of the heavy metals and the likes increases up the food chain, i.e., the herbivores feeding on these plants would suffer from a higher heavy metal concentration which would not even be half as bad as that suffered by the carnivores/omnivores (think local human population) feeding on them...
Now, I'm sure that this person is very knowledgeable and will have tried to make sure that animals aren't able to feed on them, but as any engineer, I'm trained to be skeptical. It strikes me as difficult a thing to ensure, specially in such remote areas as the article mentions (Amazon... might also be of use in somewhere like Zambia/Congo, South-East Asia, Madagascar, etc.).
Furthermore, fast growing imports (shrubs, etc. which I presume would be of use here) could well outgrow the localised regions of the mines and start competing with the indiginous flora. Tropical forests take a long time to rejuvenate and tropical trees have very slow growth rates, which puts them at a sever disadvantage when having to compete against fast growing imports for space and sun...This phenomenon is to be blamed for the disappearance of the local ecosystem from such small tropical islands (e.g. Mauritius, Indian Ocean is one victim that I'm aware of) and so it is something that has to be borne in mind when you want to implement such a scheme.
I hope all of these are/will be factored in whenever such a scheme is to be implemented/ someone tries to "help" Nature recover.
My excuses but I fail to see how this got modded to +4 (interesting).
If you know the full word that you are searching for, why not spend an extra 0.001 nanojoule to type it all up and then search for it? Granted you may want to search for parts of a string, but if this was ever a big issue, Google would not have been what it is today.
On another note, it's strikes me as the most obvious thing in the world that Gmail's competition will be reacting to this... In fact, I'd bet my arse off that that by the time Gmail is finally open to the public, there'll be at least one other (beside the spy_something one) new GigaB mail providers out there.
I understand that Yahoo and MSN will probably have some trouble expanding their current implementation to Gigabytes free offerings, but they'd be dumb not to be reacting to the applause and attention that Gmail's storage has been getting.
I, for one, am looking forward to a near future of stupidly large online mailboxes. I only hope that these mail addresses will last for ever and that we won't fall prey to the temptation of incorporating stupid rtf, pictures,- God forbid!- movies within the trivial mail, let alone spam. But I'm too much of cynic to believe that my fellow surfers are firm believers in minimalism too.
All rise for a toast to anti-spam technology and anti-troll blogs and comments.
Critical Density 639.1 kg/m3 (39.91 lbm/ft3)
Granted that's ~60% of the density of water, but I fail to see how anyone could use total immersion (in this/another comparable liquid) cooling in a laptop/weight-limited application.
Surely such technique, when used in common devices, will be restricted to desktops.
Just to be a bit pedantic, according to Simon Singh's book "The Code Book", the first "computer" was the ENIGMA code breaker, the British Bletchley Park WWII invention , COLOSSUS (http://www.acsa.net/a_computer_saved_the_world.ht m). It never received as much publicity as the ENIAC because it was a war secret...
Cheers