I don't think so. We already know about the upcoming 3.2GB/s standard, but there is more.
They plan on doubling the speed to 6.4GB/s -- google for S6400. Also, the new standard(s)
extend firwire so as to allow it to operate over other mediums, such as Ethernet, Coax, and Fiber.
Yes, Firewire looks really dead to me. No matter what country a Cnet editor comes from, he/she's
probably an idiot. (eg. why didn't they include 32-bit PCI?)
For crying out loud Bush *endorsed* McCain. To make it even clearer, McCain voted against the senate anti-torture bill --1E6 hypocrite points-- and supports retroactive immunity for telecoms -- basically indicating he's for the blatant and outrageous violation of the 4th amendment by Herr Bush even
though in public he disagrees with the policy - another 1E6 hypocrite points. If you still don't
believe me, he says that the U.S. needs the military option to deal with Iran. I rest my case.
Obviously both of you dolts can't take a joke,( well my humor sucks ) and apparently can't take
the time to click on a link. As for the "possibility of famine" whenever was wheat a basic
foodstuff, in terms of global consumption? Also, about the price of rice going up, there's this mythical land I've heard of called "Asia" which contains half of the world's population. Guess
what the basis of their diet is? Rice. I'm sure a Vietnamese rice farmer will have a REAL problem,
given that they're producing just a fraction of the rice they could and they only sell enough to
barely live off. Increase in rice demand would greatly help the multitudinous poor in Asia.
Also, you apparently fail to understand, that in terms of "grains" or "flours", their exists a myriad of replacements for wheat, which can be combined together to produce an infinite variety of
food. Rice was just an example. There are hundreds of "grains" a lot of which
contain much more nutritional content than wheat and can be grown in a variety of climes.
Take for example Teff which is a staple of Ethiopia. It can be grown in a variety of environments and is MUCH
more nutritious than wheat. ( it seems Africa won't have any problems ) Wheat is a European luxury. It's loss would have a negligible effect on the human race.
I have been waiting for this day since I was diagnosed with C(o)eliac Disease
Now everyone has to use rice flour!;) (well, it feeds half the world anyway)
I'm replying to myself again as in my clumsiness I hit "Reply" instead of "Reply to this".
Anyway, remove the slashes from the ends of the URLs. My brain was in HTML mode.:P
Mod parent up! Male circumcision is a sick and barbaric act. Now let me explain why. The parts of the female genitals that are homologous to the male prepuce ( foreskin ) are the clitoral hood, the top layer of the clitoris that comes into contact with the clitoral hood, and the skin that surrounds the immediate vicinity of the clitoris. Male circumcision is directly analogous to female circumcision in that the clitoral hood is removed, the top length of the clitoris is scraped off, and then some surrounding skin is removed. The clitoral hood contains tens of thousands of nerve endings on its inner mucous membrane. Also, the top side of the clitoris' mucous membrane contains thousands of nerve endings. In a male, this means that circumcision destroys the thousands of nerve endings on the inner mucous membrane of the prepuce, the frenulum, the ridged band, and it also destroys half of the penile shaft skin which constitutes the prepuce. ( making your dick shorter in the process ) The frenulum, which is also present in females, is a piece of connective tissue between the inner prepuce and the underside of the glans that keeps the prepuce taught. It is supplied by the Frenular Artery and drained by two veins. Ignoring all that I said before the last sentence, if the prepuce is useless, why is it a nervous and vascular plexus? Also, it is a known scientific fact that the most sensitive areas on the body are found in the mucocutaneous boundary, of which the ridged band is a member. It sits at the boundary between the outer skin of the prepuce and the inner mucous membrane. It contains thousands of fine touch and other receptors. Destroying this effectively cripples a males ability for a complete sexual experience since it is the most sensitive part of the male body. The corona ( the part around the lower circumference of the glans penis ( the top of the penis) ) is only an ejaculatory trigger -- most of the sexual pleasure comes from the ridged band, frenulum, and prepuce. That is to say, almost all of the sexual pleasure, even including orgasm, is governed by parts of the prepuce -- the glans penis is only there to induce ejaculation. The most barbaric part of circumcision is the process itself. A few month old infant has at least twice the pain sensitivity of an adult due to the fact that the body at this point is hypersensitive to any pain as the infant's only way of communicating it is to scream. Infants are not anesthetized during the procedure and they go into a state of shock because of the pain. This also affects the infant-mother bond, as after such a horrendous experience, the infant is less trusting and more distanced from their mother. ( I sure damn would be if someone let a "Doctor" ( first do no harm anyone? ) slice up my dick!) Even sicker is that the severed foreskin is sold for use in skin grafting and cosmetic research -- it's actually an industry. As for "health benefits", there are none. An often cited reason for circumcision is to prevent urinary tract infections but the prepuce is specifically evolved to protect the urethral orifice! -- and hence urinary tract infections. It also protects the sensitive glans penis from infection or damage, because in a normal male the glans is a mucous membrane, just like the clitoris. ( it dries out after circumcision )
In conclusion, we have a country mostly composed of "Christians" who espouse the importance of "Family Values" while at the same time allowing their male children to be sexually mutilated by a perverse health care system. And even sicker, is that this all started back in the early twentieth century to "prevent" masturbation since it was thought that masturbation was the cause of all manner of diseases and "moral defects" -- eg. if you masturbate a lot then you'll probably start raping women. But that didn't stop males from masturbating, it just made masturbating much harder and less pleasurable for a circumcised male.
In the FPS genre at least joysticks are still going strong, although in a small niche community.
Maybe I should replace "Joystick" with "Joystick + Trackball" because that is the basic
configuration. The first realization of this was the Mad Catz PantherXL ( I have 3 ).
After Mad Catz discontinued it, people moved to either (1) modded PXLs with a USB Panther DX
( basically the joystick part of the PXL ) in place of the old PXL parallel port joystick
interface and with the guts of a high end optical gaming mouse in place of the mechanical trackball sensor or (2) just a regular joystick and trackball used simultaneously. Man this
really brings back the memories of totally dominating the mouse + keyboard crowd;).
we'd be selling fuel to the rest of the world by cracking H20 into H2 and O2 via nuclear power. While the initial construction costs of a reactor are large, it pays for itself in the energy it produces. Also, over half of our budget goes to defense. If we were to spend just a fraction of that , heck a fraction of the cost of the "war" in Iraq which is projected to reach into the *trillions* , we could spend it on research and development of modern advanced reactor designs to fasttrack the deployment of safe efficient high temperature gas reactors, while at the same time having enough money to build conventional reactors at a regular rate. All the nuclear "waste" that we've produced , mostly in the form of depleted fuel elements , could be exhumed and reprocessed at some remote site using a fast breeder reactor. In the future, the investment in research would produce much safer versions. But oh wait, I forgot, plutonium ( at least the fissile type ) is a no-no in the U.S. although other nations have no problems. Oh, and then there's that problem of Joe stupid American ( by the way, I'm American ) who thinks that "nucular" power is so dangerous when in reality you get more radiation in the vicinity of a coal plant because of trace amounts of U-235 or even when you eat a banana because of the abundance of radioactive potassium isotopes in nature. Nuclear power has been available since 1938-- that 70 years! We could have built thousands of them by now, but due to corruption and ignorance, which unfortunately is a self sustaining cycle ( unless there's a major shock to the system, like, uh, the planet going to hell ) I'm afraid the status quo will remain for the foreseeable future.
First, create a uniquely named empty directory on each drive. Next, set up a Linux
file server running Samba to be used as a proxy to access the distributed storage
on the Windows machines. Finally create a union of all the empty directories using UnionFS:
D'oh! As Homer would say. I thought you were talking about "ue". For "oe", is the IPA [oe], an open-mid front rounded vowel. Approximately equivalent to saying "ah" and then rounding your lips. (although the English "ah" is more open than mid) -- jdb2
Actually, no. It's approximately equivalent to saying "ee" and then rounding your lips. Technically, it is the IPA [y], a close front rounded vowel.
jdb2
The first usage of zero as an actual numerical quantity occurred in the Mayan vigesimal numbering system around 36 BCE. (see the Wikipedia article on Mayan numerals )
Some people postulate, although, that this was derived from the older Olmec numbering system, which could have gone as far back as
1200 BCE. If this is true, then it means that the Olmecs discovered zero 1828 years before Brahmagupta re-discovered and formalized it in 628 CE in India.
jdb2
Slashdot Mirror
It might not be dead, but it's dying.
I don't see it alive 2 years from now.
jdb2
Oops. Replace all uppercase "B"'s with lowercase ones. Or, if you prefer, s/B/b/ ;)
jdb2
I don't think so. We already know about the upcoming 3.2GB/s standard, but there is more.
They plan on doubling the speed to 6.4GB/s -- google for S6400. Also, the new standard(s)
extend firwire so as to allow it to operate over other mediums, such as Ethernet, Coax, and Fiber.
Yes, Firewire looks really dead to me. No matter what country a Cnet editor comes from, he/she's
probably an idiot. (eg. why didn't they include 32-bit PCI?)
jdb2
For crying out loud Bush *endorsed* McCain. To make it even clearer, McCain voted against the senate
anti-torture bill --1E6 hypocrite points-- and supports retroactive immunity for telecoms -- basically
indicating he's for the blatant and outrageous violation of the 4th amendment by Herr Bush even
though in public he disagrees with the policy - another 1E6 hypocrite points. If you still don't
believe me, he says that the U.S. needs the military option to deal with Iran. I rest my case.
jdb2
Obviously both of you dolts can't take a joke,( well my humor sucks ) and apparently can't take
the time to click on a link. As for the "possibility of famine" whenever was wheat a basic
foodstuff, in terms of global consumption? Also, about the price of rice going up, there's this
mythical land I've heard of called "Asia" which contains half of the world's population. Guess
what the basis of their diet is? Rice. I'm sure a Vietnamese rice farmer will have a REAL problem,
given that they're producing just a fraction of the rice they could and they only sell enough to
barely live off. Increase in rice demand would greatly help the multitudinous poor in Asia.
Also, you apparently fail to understand, that in terms of "grains" or "flours", their exists a
myriad of replacements for wheat, which can be combined together to produce an infinite variety of
food. Rice was just an example. There are hundreds of "grains" a lot of which
contain much more nutritional content than wheat and can be grown in a variety of climes.
Take for example Teff which is a staple of Ethiopia. It can be grown
in a variety of environments and is MUCH more nutritious than wheat.
( it seems Africa won't have any problems ) Wheat is a European luxury.
It's loss would have a negligible effect on the human race.
jdb2
I have been waiting for this day since I was diagnosed with C(o)eliac Disease ;) (well, it feeds half the world anyway)
Now everyone has to use rice flour!
jdb2
I'm replying to myself again as in my clumsiness I hit "Reply" instead of "Reply to this". :P
Anyway, remove the slashes from the ends of the URLs. My brain was in HTML mode.
jdb2
Oops. Remove the slashes from the ends of the URLs.
jdb2
Here are the links at which all the images taken by the HiRISE instrument can be found from low res to high res raw data :
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mro/gallery/press/20080303a.html/
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/PSP_007338_2640/
jdb2
In conclusion, we have a country mostly composed of "Christians" who espouse the importance of "Family Values" while at the same time allowing their male children to be sexually mutilated by a perverse health care system. And even sicker, is that this all started back in the early twentieth century to "prevent" masturbation since it was thought that masturbation was the cause of all manner of diseases and "moral defects" -- eg. if you masturbate a lot then you'll probably start raping women. But that didn't stop males from masturbating, it just made masturbating much harder and less pleasurable for a circumcised male.
jdb2
In the FPS genre at least joysticks are still going strong, although in a small niche community. ;).
Maybe I should replace "Joystick" with "Joystick + Trackball" because that is the basic
configuration. The first realization of this was the Mad Catz PantherXL ( I have 3 ).
After Mad Catz discontinued it, people moved to either (1) modded PXLs with a USB Panther DX
( basically the joystick part of the PXL ) in place of the old PXL parallel port joystick
interface and with the guts of a high end optical gaming mouse in place of the mechanical
trackball sensor or (2) just a regular joystick and trackball used simultaneously. Man this
really brings back the memories of totally dominating the mouse + keyboard crowd
Anyway, if you want more information, go here : http://stevehailer.com// .
jdb2
Tempus ut sagitta fugit et muscae pomorum bananam amant
You're correct. I was thinking of "50 percent of global defense spending" :)
and had a brain fart.
jdb2
we'd be selling fuel to the rest of the world by cracking H20 into H2 and O2 via nuclear power. While the initial construction costs of a reactor are large, it pays for itself in the energy it produces. Also, over half of our budget goes to defense. If we were to spend just a fraction of that , heck a fraction of the cost of the "war" in Iraq which is projected to reach into the *trillions* , we could spend it on research and development of modern advanced reactor designs to fasttrack the deployment of safe efficient high temperature gas reactors, while at the same time having enough money to build conventional reactors at a regular rate. All the nuclear "waste" that we've produced , mostly in the form of depleted fuel elements , could be exhumed and reprocessed at some remote site using a fast breeder reactor. In the future, the investment in research would produce much safer versions. But oh wait, I forgot, plutonium ( at least the fissile type ) is a no-no in the U.S. although other nations have no problems. Oh, and then there's that problem of Joe stupid American ( by the way, I'm American ) who thinks that "nucular" power is so dangerous when in reality you get more radiation in the vicinity of a coal plant because of trace amounts of U-235 or even when you eat a banana because of the abundance of radioactive potassium isotopes in nature. Nuclear power has been available since 1938-- that 70 years! We could have built thousands of them by now, but due to corruption and ignorance, which unfortunately is a self sustaining cycle ( unless there's a major shock to the system, like, uh, the planet going to hell ) I'm afraid the status quo will remain for the foreseeable future.
jdb2
First, create a uniquely named empty directory on each drive. Next, set up a Linux :
file server running Samba to be used as a proxy to access the distributed storage
on the Windows machines. Finally create a union of all the empty directories using UnionFS
http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/project-unionfs.html/
Problem solved.
jdb2
...perhaps "Classical Teleportation" is :
http://www.acqao.org/news/readMore_TeleportationofMassiveParticles.html
http://arxiv.org/pdf/0706.0062
jdb2
Here are some some links that were in related /. stories :
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,70179-0.html?tw=wn_index_2
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0515/p13s01-stct.html
Basically about 50% of replies between normal people are misinterpreted.
jdb2
...Begley Cloth? :) ( you need to be a Larry Niven fan to get this one )
jdb2
Here's a link to a longer and better video ( that works in Linux ) that shows off more of the capabilities of this thing :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMFrL7xt7kI
jdb2
... "damnatus" means condemned. (perfect passive participle of "damno"/"damnare" -- "to condemn") YIAALG Yes I Am A Latin Geek jdb2
...replace "ah" with "eh" (IPA []) and you've almost got it exactly. -- jdb2
D'oh! As Homer would say. I thought you were talking about "ue". For "oe", is the IPA [oe], an open-mid front rounded vowel. Approximately equivalent to saying "ah" and then rounding your lips. (although the English "ah" is more open than mid) -- jdb2
Actually, no. It's approximately equivalent to saying "ee" and then rounding your lips. Technically, it is the IPA [y], a close front rounded vowel. jdb2
The first usage of zero as an actual numerical quantity occurred in the Mayan vigesimal numbering system around 36 BCE. (see the Wikipedia article on Mayan numerals ) Some people postulate, although, that this was derived from the older Olmec numbering system, which could have gone as far back as 1200 BCE. If this is true, then it means that the Olmecs discovered zero 1828 years before Brahmagupta re-discovered and formalized it in 628 CE in India. jdb2
Of course Hilbert curves form a subset of Peano curves.
That's a Peano Curve if anyone wants to know. : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-filling_curve