Now that there are theories that heat proteins (like hsp90?) can buffer "mutations" until there is a significant change in environment, punctuated evolution theories have a lot more grounding and seem to make much more sense than long term slight evolution.
Search the forums on Ars and you will see that a large problem with the TiBooks is that the antenna inside often shifts during transport. There is a simple fix where you find the antenna and simply push it back into the proper place and the range suddenly increases to almost iBook like quality.
The world's 6th largest (5th is a lie) economy and the most diverse culture base in the US (Perhaps most of the world) is what California is.
This sounds completely hokey and stupid but a lot of my friends jokingly say we should leave the union all the time. The funny thing is if you start up this conversation in public, say a bar, you will be surprised at how many random strangers pipe in and agree. The simple fact is Californians (even transplants) believe that we live in a very seperate place. The mentality that applies in the East Coast isn't even remotely valid out here. We believe in the things we want and we vote that way. We are more outspoken than many other states and we have the resources in both people and financial capital to make them stick. I fully expect there to be some sort of strong public revolt (no violence involved) against many federal laws here in the next 5-10 years. We are quite tired of our voting one way to have our votes thrown away by an out of touch congress and president who seem determined to cling on to the past.
Then again maybe it is just a state full of loud mouthed hippies who do nothing. We shall see.
*or texture of the material or strands of hair or so forth and so on.
You really need to check out some of the current 5mp cameras. In fact here is a shot from DiMAGE 7i (which with announcements this week has suddenly become much older):
Please, stop telling that America is so great. America is every bit as stupid, selfish, jealous, paranoid and incompetant as any other country. And it's considerable more brutal, repressive and intolerant than many.
I am so tired of this bullshit. The USA is by far the best behaved super power the world has ever known. Anyone who claims any different is blinding themselves to the real truths of history. You tell me one world power, who at their prime, was better behaved than the USA? Not one other country comes even remotely close. No it isn't a perfect country and yes many of its policies suck ass, but your claim is completely without merit.
We has a world have come a long ways in the last 50 years... a long ways. We still have a long ways to go.
In 1992 I paid something like $600 for a stolen full height 1.2gig hard drive. The thing took more than a minute to spin down and sounded almost exactly like a jet turbine during spin up. When the heads parked it was an evil sound that made you afraid to touch the computer.
Where Sun cleans up and this is something they pioneered well, is the multi-layered support system which has a yearly fee for each piece of hardware (and in some cases components inside of hardware).
I am suprised no one has mentioned this yet as this appears to be the first truly killer integrated solution to come along. Phone sized, with a decent display, bluetooth, java, gprs, camera, memory expansion and lots more rolled up in a symbian (psion) os.
The only true way to appreciate a good sysadmin is to leave them alone for one day. Don't talk to them, don't flood his mailbox with some stupid ass HTML email, don't try to hug them, don't ask them a stupid question, don't blame the network for your incompetence at clicking on links, stop opening spam, stop forwarding around 3meg powerpoint attachments comprised of dilbert comics, stop trying to pretend you get it (when it is anything computer or tech related), and for god's sake don't pretend you understand what it is like to be on call 24x7... in short:
If the content was created in one country and hosted in another country which laws should apply?
I bet if you were to ask an American they would say their laws should apply no matter where the content is housed as long as they created it. So what is so different about the Italian authorities believing the same? Just because you can do things outside of the normal laws of your respective homeland doesn't suddenly give you freedom from prosecution for breaking them.
I don't agree with the laws in question here but that isn't for me to decide, it is for the local people, in this case the Italians to decide to change the laws or allow them to stay as they currently are.
"I just attended a private focus group on this subject."
Any knowledge gleemed from a private focus group is suspect at best. The questions and people attending are highly targetted to give back results that are somewhat easy to predict. These results are then applied to any "study" to show "evidence".
Peruse groups.google and you will see people who have the t39 working on cingular's GPRS network. It really depends on where you are in the cingular network and lying about what your phone is.
I've had a t39 for a long time and used it on the Cingular crapfest... but unforunately they are seemingly taking forever getting GPRS going in SF. As far as syncing, as long as you get an approved bluetooth solution or have infrared the t39 will sync.
DJ Shadow: Why he isn't getting mentioned more here I dunno, it probably has to do with the huge bias towards more traditional electronic being shown here.
Talvin Singh: Hello people? This guy is fricken amazing, please do yourself a favour and listen to some of his stuff. His layering and production values rival Orbital but he comes at things from a different angle all together.
Cornelius: He wrongly gets accused of being almost JPOP just because of where he is from, Fantasma and Point are both fine pieces of work. In addition his stuff is so light (while being complex)... it's almost the opposite of Aphex Twin subject matter at times.
If you are looking for something a bit more mellow any of the United States of Ambience compilations are wonderful. And for those that have trouble letting go of the desire to hear lyrics and guitars try something like Amon Duul... guitars/lyrics and some eletronics similiar to Eno in places.
The wayback machine is often inaccurate. I was the original holder of unix.org (may 95) and had it for a couple of years before I let it lapse. When I had the domain was running with a set of links to various unix resources and included some great one-off qoutes by people like jkh. You will notice that none of these pages appear in the way back machine.
Then again I also helped contribute to something very evil as I had a link to an online survey which paid me. The results of that survey helped form one of the evil internet marketing companies.
Why waste effort porting or hacking a platform if the vendor tells you it will be "somewhat" open in the future?
Sony did the right thing by saying they would eventually be releasing everything needed to make your own "custom play" console. They defused the desire and efforts of many who would have done otherwise. Since this strategy of "announce and release somewhere a bazillion years from now" was pretty much created by Microsoft I'm not sure why they just didn't do this now?
Sharp has an awesome series called the UM stateside that were called the "Murasame" in Japan. I bought one of the Japanese models because they weren't supposed to come stateside but they did...
Anyoo here is the list of the models which start at $1299 for a 2.9lb 2/3 of an inch thick laptop.
If you aren't happy in your life's station then you aren't happy. It is of little difference if someone out there has it worse than you. Perspective is an integral part of your environment.
Why do people continually feel the need to put down other's emotions and desires by bringing up people who may live in a different world? If that is the only way you can drive yourself to do better than so be it, but don't attack others for not feeling the desire to use pity as a driving force.
The 206mhz strongarm was the CPU used in lots of Network Computers, like the Dnard from Digital which became most of the NCs (that all flopped of course).
Slashdot Mirror
Now that there are theories that heat proteins (like hsp90?) can buffer "mutations" until there is a significant change in environment, punctuated evolution theories have a lot more grounding and seem to make much more sense than long term slight evolution.
Search the forums on Ars and you will see that a large problem with the TiBooks is that the antenna inside often shifts during transport. There is a simple fix where you find the antenna and simply push it back into the proper place and the range suddenly increases to almost iBook like quality.
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Wait even better, here is the thread:
http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a=t
The world's 6th largest (5th is a lie) economy and the most diverse culture base in the US (Perhaps most of the world) is what California is.
This sounds completely hokey and stupid but a lot of my friends jokingly say we should leave the union all the time. The funny thing is if you start up this conversation in public, say a bar, you will be surprised at how many random strangers pipe in and agree. The simple fact is Californians (even transplants) believe that we live in a very seperate place. The mentality that applies in the East Coast isn't even remotely valid out here. We believe in the things we want and we vote that way. We are more outspoken than many other states and we have the resources in both people and financial capital to make them stick. I fully expect there to be some sort of strong public revolt (no violence involved) against many federal laws here in the next 5-10 years. We are quite tired of our voting one way to have our votes thrown away by an out of touch congress and president who seem determined to cling on to the past.
Then again maybe it is just a state full of loud mouthed hippies who do nothing. We shall see.
Between this and the Schon case one might think the physics community was full of frauds.
Yes because of these TWO examples, the whole body of work from the physics community is a total and complete farce.
Michael, why don't you keep your inane banter to yourself?
You can follow other people's progress here:
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http://arstechnica.infopop.net/OpenTopic/page?a=t
*or texture of the material or strands of hair or so forth and so on.
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You really need to check out some of the current 5mp cameras. In fact here is a shot from DiMAGE 7i (which with announcements this week has suddenly become much older):
http://nsa.org/~chris/pics-of-difference/PICT0005
Please, stop telling that America is so great. America is every bit as stupid, selfish, jealous, paranoid and incompetant as any other country. And it's considerable more brutal, repressive and intolerant than many.
I am so tired of this bullshit. The USA is by far the best behaved super power the world has ever known. Anyone who claims any different is blinding themselves to the real truths of history. You tell me one world power, who at their prime, was better behaved than the USA? Not one other country comes even remotely close. No it isn't a perfect country and yes many of its policies suck ass, but your claim is completely without merit.
We has a world have come a long ways in the last 50 years... a long ways. We still have a long ways to go.
In 1992 I paid something like $600 for a stolen full height 1.2gig hard drive. The thing took more than a minute to spin down and sounded almost exactly like a jet turbine during spin up. When the heads parked it was an evil sound that made you afraid to touch the computer.
3 days in a row with no sleep
I would hazard a guess to say it wasn't the work that killed him, rather it was his extreme stimulant usage.
Sun's intital profit on hardware isn't very much.
Where Sun cleans up and this is something they pioneered well, is the multi-layered support system which has a yearly fee for each piece of hardware (and in some cases components inside of hardware).
http://www.sonyericsson.com/cebit/p800.htm
I am suprised no one has mentioned this yet as this appears to be the first truly killer integrated solution to come along. Phone sized, with a decent display, bluetooth, java, gprs, camera, memory expansion and lots more rolled up in a symbian (psion) os.
The only true way to appreciate a good sysadmin is to leave them alone for one day. Don't talk to them, don't flood his mailbox with some stupid ass HTML email, don't try to hug them, don't ask them a stupid question, don't blame the network for your incompetence at clicking on links, stop opening spam, stop forwarding around 3meg powerpoint attachments comprised of dilbert comics, stop trying to pretend you get it (when it is anything computer or tech related), and for god's sake don't pretend you understand what it is like to be on call 24x7... in short:
GO AWAY
Now that is some serious appreciation.
I love how non-Americans
Guess what? I am an American.
If the content was created in one country and hosted in another country which laws should apply?
I bet if you were to ask an American they would say their laws should apply no matter where the content is housed as long as they created it. So what is so different about the Italian authorities believing the same? Just because you can do things outside of the normal laws of your respective homeland doesn't suddenly give you freedom from prosecution for breaking them.
I don't agree with the laws in question here but that isn't for me to decide, it is for the local people, in this case the Italians to decide to change the laws or allow them to stay as they currently are.
"I just attended a private focus group on this subject."
Any knowledge gleemed from a private focus group is suspect at best. The questions and people attending are highly targetted to give back results that are somewhat easy to predict. These results are then applied to any "study" to show "evidence".
Peruse groups.google and you will see people who have the t39 working on cingular's GPRS network. It really depends on where you are in the cingular network and lying about what your phone is.
I've had a t39 for a long time and used it on the Cingular crapfest... but unforunately they are seemingly taking forever getting GPRS going in SF. As far as syncing, as long as you get an approved bluetooth solution or have infrared the t39 will sync.
I hate myself for leaving out Future Sounds of London.
I suck and bow down to the wonder that is Dead Cities.
DJ Shadow: Why he isn't getting mentioned more here I dunno, it probably has to do with the huge bias towards more traditional electronic being shown here.
Talvin Singh: Hello people? This guy is fricken amazing, please do yourself a favour and listen to some of his stuff. His layering and production values rival Orbital but he comes at things from a different angle all together.
Cornelius: He wrongly gets accused of being almost JPOP just because of where he is from, Fantasma and Point are both fine pieces of work.
In addition his stuff is so light (while being complex)... it's almost the opposite of Aphex Twin subject matter at times.
If you are looking for something a bit more mellow any of the United States of Ambience compilations are wonderful. And for those that have trouble letting go of the desire to hear lyrics and guitars try something like Amon Duul... guitars/lyrics and some eletronics similiar to Eno in places.
The wayback machine is often inaccurate. I was the original holder of unix.org (may 95) and had it for a couple of years before I let it lapse. When I had the domain was running with a set of links to various unix resources and included some great one-off qoutes by people like jkh. You will notice that none of these pages appear in the way back machine.
Then again I also helped contribute to something very evil as I had a link to an online survey which paid me. The results of that survey helped form one of the evil internet marketing companies.
... and what is cost of keeping this up?
The maintenance on the 4500s (if they have multi procs and lots of ram) is prolly 20-30k each annually just by itself.
What about the renew costs on the weblogic support?
How much was that oracle?
Even a basic system as qouted above is 400+k.
Microsoft gave 72.3Million to charity in 1995.
The anti-trust trial started in 1998. Inquiries started in early 1997.
(not a fan of msoft; but even less of a fan of missinformation)
Why waste effort porting or hacking a platform if the vendor tells you it will be "somewhat" open in the future?
Sony did the right thing by saying they would eventually be releasing everything needed to make your own "custom play" console. They defused the desire and efforts of many who would have done otherwise. Since this strategy of "announce and release somewhere a bazillion years from now" was pretty much created by Microsoft I'm not sure why they just didn't do this now?
Sharp has an awesome series called the UM stateside that were called the "Murasame" in Japan. I bought one of the Japanese models because they weren't supposed to come stateside but they did...
Anyoo here is the list of the models which start at $1299 for a 2.9lb 2/3 of an inch thick laptop.
If you aren't happy in your life's station then you aren't happy. It is of little difference if someone out there has it worse than you. Perspective is an integral part of your environment.
Why do people continually feel the need to put down other's emotions and desires by bringing up people who may live in a different world? If that is the only way you can drive yourself to do better than so be it, but don't attack others for not feeling the desire to use pity as a driving force.
The 206mhz strongarm was the CPU used in lots of Network Computers, like the Dnard from Digital which became most of the NCs (that all flopped of course).