What's with all the speculation about what google is going to do next? So they own a few domains... they've had gbrowser.com for like a year now... it means squat.
If you were a company with lots of money in the bank, wouldn't you register domain names for 10 bucks a pop that have your name in them, to prevent squatters and to keep your options open? I'm sure google has hundreds of domains, and not all of them will turn out to be new google ideas at all...
The efficiency may be close to 100%, but that's not what's cool. What would be cool is a method that uses close to 100% of available energy, AND does it really fast.
That's cool. Its like the difference between a car with a v6 and one with a v8. Both might use the same percentage of the energy available to them, but the v8 is obviously faster and more powerful.
Maybe you should start linking your site from slashdot.
I have nothing on my website that is worthwile at all, but it has a 3/10, cause it links from/.
That's in about 6 months. I figure I only have about a year and half till my site has the power of/.!
All the virii from the good old days are still floating around... There are websites that haven't been updated in years, "freeware" programs that still work and might be "enjoyed".
Its like saying after a nuclear fallout that you are going to live at the epicenter of the blast instead of running at the edge of an ever expanding radiation cloud because no one goes there anymore. The radiation will still kill you. Your only hope is to keep ahead of the cloud, and hope it doesn't get you in a bad way.
Think about how horrible underfunded everything is, and that they are still sending people up into space in a vehicle built in the 80s. They were underfunded at the time, and made do with what they had, and that's what they have to do now.
Because its so technically difficult, it takes money to solve, and money is pouring elsewhere instead of into making it safer (Iraq, SS, etc...). Space exploration has taken sort of a backseat here.
Nasa still has an exemplary record. Only 2 crashes in 20 years. I have no idea how many missions that is, but it's not a few. If you want the people we send up to be safe, give NASA some money, and stop whining about how unsafe it is.
...and Hitler promised that he would stop after annexing the sudetenland.
Appeasment and promises never work. I hope the EU doesn't give in. We've seen what happens when they (europeans) do.
(Of course, we aren't talking about World War 3 here, but still, we've seen what happens)
1) They won't be publicly available for a while yet
2) They don't use all available power from the instant the system is put out. Differences in speeds will really only become apparent when the higher end games start coming out towards the End of Life of the system, since they've been working on it for the life of the system. That's why the X-Box suddenly leapt ahead fairly recently. The PSII hit its stride before the X-box did. That's when the spec sheets will matter. And anybody who really cares will have both.
3) Sometimes, power isn't everything, if you can't use it. It becomes exponentially harder to squeeze more power the closer you come to the limits of the chip/computer/whatever. That's why new consoles generally come out before they have been completely drained and make it easier to make better games.
If we are just now figuring out that fsync's don't work, then the question is, why do we care? Have we been using them, and they just haven't been working or something?
If we've made it this far without it, why do we need it now?
Slashdot Mirror
What's with all the speculation about what google is going to do next? So they own a few domains... they've had gbrowser.com for like a year now... it means squat.
If you were a company with lots of money in the bank, wouldn't you register domain names for 10 bucks a pop that have your name in them, to prevent squatters and to keep your options open? I'm sure google has hundreds of domains, and not all of them will turn out to be new google ideas at all...
You just use 4 of them....
That blurb reads like an infomercial, not news.
Of course, I ain't complaining... whatever gets people to stop using IE.
Oh, you must be kidding me! I didn't sign up for that...
Can I revoke my membership to society?
The efficiency may be close to 100%, but that's not what's cool. What would be cool is a method that uses close to 100% of available energy, AND does it really fast.
That's cool. Its like the difference between a car with a v6 and one with a v8. Both might use the same percentage of the energy available to them, but the v8 is obviously faster and more powerful.
I read that as "I guess you could adapt", as if we'd find a way to procreate asexually.
Oh-ho sony, texas TORCHED your ass, man! Texas TORCHED your ass!
I got 'em, using the free version.
All your google base are belong to us?
Not only that, but you need to ignite the hydrogen to induce the continuous flame.
Dreamcast was released by SEGA, not Sony. And look! Sega is no longer around!
Wow, it must be really big. Look, it even says so, right there in the name. "Giant Magellan Telesope".
I wonder what they are trying to prove? Why not just go with the name "Magellan Telescope"?
How do you pronounce =(?
Windows Equals Parentheses
Doesn't really make sense if you ask me.
Actually it does work in IE. I just tried it.
Have no idea HOW it works, if it is in fact based on transparent PNG images.
Transparent PNG files won't work...
Don't complain about the fact that its a PDF...
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All you have to do is look at your status bar in the bottom of your browser, and it tells you that its a pdf. hate_apache.pdf, to be specific.
If you click on the link, its your own fault for not checking, especially on
Maybe you should start linking your site from slashdot. I have nothing on my website that is worthwile at all, but it has a 3/10, cause it links from /.
That's in about 6 months. I figure I only have about a year and half till my site has the power of /.!
http://allofmp3.com/ was it?
All the virii from the good old days are still floating around... There are websites that haven't been updated in years, "freeware" programs that still work and might be "enjoyed".
Its like saying after a nuclear fallout that you are going to live at the epicenter of the blast instead of running at the edge of an ever expanding radiation cloud because no one goes there anymore. The radiation will still kill you. Your only hope is to keep ahead of the cloud, and hope it doesn't get you in a bad way.
I think NASA takes way too much crap.
Think about how horrible underfunded everything is, and that they are still sending people up into space in a vehicle built in the 80s. They were underfunded at the time, and made do with what they had, and that's what they have to do now.
Because its so technically difficult, it takes money to solve, and money is pouring elsewhere instead of into making it safer (Iraq, SS, etc...). Space exploration has taken sort of a backseat here.
Nasa still has an exemplary record. Only 2 crashes in 20 years. I have no idea how many missions that is, but it's not a few. If you want the people we send up to be safe, give NASA some money, and stop whining about how unsafe it is.
My $.02
Who's this godwin you keep going on about?
...and Hitler promised that he would stop after annexing the sudetenland. Appeasment and promises never work. I hope the EU doesn't give in. We've seen what happens when they (europeans) do. (Of course, we aren't talking about World War 3 here, but still, we've seen what happens)
Someone's sarcasm detector is broken....
1) They won't be publicly available for a while yet 2) They don't use all available power from the instant the system is put out. Differences in speeds will really only become apparent when the higher end games start coming out towards the End of Life of the system, since they've been working on it for the life of the system. That's why the X-Box suddenly leapt ahead fairly recently. The PSII hit its stride before the X-box did. That's when the spec sheets will matter. And anybody who really cares will have both. 3) Sometimes, power isn't everything, if you can't use it. It becomes exponentially harder to squeeze more power the closer you come to the limits of the chip/computer/whatever. That's why new consoles generally come out before they have been completely drained and make it easier to make better games.
If we are just now figuring out that fsync's don't work, then the question is, why do we care? Have we been using them, and they just haven't been working or something?
If we've made it this far without it, why do we need it now?
I'm just curious...