1) I don't see any data here on how many people historically had memory loss problems at that age. Maybe I missed it, but I only saw one anecdotal mention of a person "seeing an increase" in the number of such problem. Perhaps 1 in 10 people have been having severe memory problems between the ages of 20 and 35 since the dawn of time. God knows, I was born with them.
2) If people are relying on their PDAs, then why is being unable to remember a phone number causing people to lose their jobs? Didn't they have the number in their PDA? No, seriously.:)
I hate to be another "did you read the article" poster, but they are not dropping the Dreamcast platform, they're just stopping their own production of the Dreamcast console and licensing the technology out so someone else can do that part (better/cheaper). The console sales were always the least profitable (sometimes blatantly unprofitable) part of the whole proposition.
There will be more Dreamcast games, more Dreamcast accessories, and, in all likelihood, more Dreamcast (or Dreamcast-compatible) consoles. Look at the other articles on IGN (http://dreamcast.ign.com/news/30862.html, for instance) for more details.
-Puk
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Now all you distributed number crunching addicts will be forced to continually drive your car in order to inflate your stats!
"And when there are problems, doesn't the public have the right to know? (Whose dollars put those folks up there in the first place?)"
While I agree with you in this particular case, in that I think we'd all be better off if NASA released this information, this argument never works. Try telling a police officer that "I pay your salary" if you want to see what I mean.
The US government keeps plenty of private information which is not publicly available. AFAIK, the only thing you're truly entitled to is the information it has about _you_. There are plenty of cases where the government justifies keeping information private on the grounds that releasing it can do harm (case panics, etc.) or be a threat to national security. Whether or not these arguments are valid are up to you -- but they certainly are legally effective.
Sorry, I normally don't respond to such silly things, but that's just plain funny. Second paragraph, first sentence of the article:
ColorMax acquired a broad patent license covering the human genes for color vision from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. The patent also covers a revolutionary test for color blindness based on a simple analysis of the actual genes that cause the problem.
You're missing the point. Intel has to do with the power shortage because intel has a _large_ facility housing 6500 researchers using lots of equipment and lighting, and therefore -- power.
Intel is not the only one using a lot of power, and I strongly suspect they're not the only company cutting their power usage, probably due to money-saving agreements with the power company (as pointed out by someone's earlier post).
This has nothing to do with what Intel does for a business, or how much power their chips use. It has to do with the big facility Intel has there.
I suspect the answer is simply that the force exerted on the "ship" by the asymmetric magnetic field in fact pushes the field generator (magnet) in the opposite direction.
As the article suggests, if you did this repeatedly and cyclically, the object would simply vibrate.
Energy is always conserved, although it's form may change (kinetic to heat, etc, although that's largely semantics). Momentum must _always_ be conserved.
Usually I'm (nearly) as blind to the rest of the world as the average American, but it seems like this is a very US-centric description. I'm heavily into a certain subset of games, and what I've noticed (and has been the subject of many debates) is that in Japan, they take these games (or at least another subset of them) _way_ more seriously than we do.
Keep in mind, this is all anecdotal, but video games have been a strong part of culture in Japan for quite a while. It's not even so much that kids play more games in Japan, but that games are more accepted by the culture in general (including parents, teachers, and the like) as a valid time-consuming hobbie to persue.
In addition -- possibly because this has been going on so long there -- adults play games, too. Lots more games than they do here. I suspect we're going to see more and more of this in the US, as those who grew up playing video games is now in or entering adulthood.
Mmmm, now we're lagging behind Japan culturally.
p.s. This probably applies to a lot of places, but I have no experience with them.:)
Anyone else think that if 99% of the net crashes, chances are we have more important things to worry about than how to get our daily fixes of SlashDot, IRC, and p0rn?
"Oh no! They nuked both coasts and now I can't find my warez!"
Do the really important things which require communication in the face of global catastrophe make use of the net? I guess that's how it started, but honestly, I hope they have good alternate means of communication as well.
I'd call it "fuzzy math", but I don't want you to think I support Bush.:) This proof makes some base assumptions, a few of which I will list:
1) Elections are (like) a sport.
2) States in an election are like baseball games in a series, with votes analagous to runs -- at the end of each state/games the candidate/team with the most votes/runs wins that state/game of the election/series.
3) A higher likelihood of one person's vote swinging the election is a good thing.
Now, I don't agree with these, and without these assumptions, the math holds, but what the math proves and what the writer claims don't correlate.
This next part is where I quit analyzing and expound my own views, in parallel, so if you were just interested in content, quit now.;)
1) Elections are not a game. The last paragraph is kind of insulting. As fascinating as I have found this election (I truly have), I don't think that excitement should be a _goal_ in elections.
2) If you make this assumption, you've already assumed that what you're trying to prove is true.
3) God, no.
Has anyone attempted to reverse engineer one of these machines? Note that I do not endorse any illegal activities this might or might not involve (ie: theft, DMCA violations, etc).
:)
p.s. Yes, I realize this is a very difficult proposition.
I know this is somewhat redundant, but I figured I'd spell it out. Moderate me down if you want to.
Read the bottom of the page: ----------End Forwarded Message--------- Note: This article is a piece of satire meant to brighten your day.
Check out www.linux.com: Ryan Gordon strikes again with another work of satire! Another 'leaked memo' from Microsoft on Hallowe'en, to celebrate the infamous 'Halloween Document' of years past. While clearly a work of satire, this one is sure to inspire some heated discussion.
Just to correct myself, apparently they're not talking about a data switch (although it's impossible to tell from _any_ of the articles or product pages). What they have done is built an electronically controllable optical cross-connect. Some of them seem to have fairly decent switching rates, but nothing like what is needed for packet-level switching (note that 7.5 ms at _1_ gigabit is almost a megabyte of data != packet).
While this is a very useful tool for designing and provisioning (and reconfiguring) networks, it is hardly a breakthrough, nor is it the "holy grail" of optical switching.
The biggest problem with all-optical switches isn't the routing of the optical signals. They have several technologies, including MEMS-controlled mirrors, for doing this right now. Optical cross-connects are commercially available (though expensive) products.
The difficulty with optical switches is in determining _where_ to switch the data without converting it to the electrical domain first. Plenty of schemes have been proposed where the data goes O->E to read the headers and decide where to switch it, and then optically switches the packet farther along the path (where the actualy signal of the packet never left the optical domain), but no one has come up with a switch that does it _all_ in the optical domain. Admittedly, few if any of these "mostly-optical" systems have been built.
I'm not sure what Lucent and Corvis have done. It sounds to me like they have probably implemented one of these systems. They claim it's "all-optical", but I doubt that they have built this without at least the headers being converted to the electrical domain. Even so, it's an impressive achievement to have made a commercially viable product which does that much. It remains to be seen which way will end up being more cost-effective in the long run. After all, that's what matters in the industry.:)
That's one of the things I liked about Enemy of the State -- the actual NSA agents were nerds. All of the gun wielding grunts were hired hands. Of course, like any of those movies, it wasn't made to be taken as reality, but it was good, fun action, with that little twist. (I vaguely remember another film -- Mercury Rising, I think, where the NSA agents, or at least some of them, were computer/math types. Which is another stereotype all by itself.)
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1) I don't see any data here on how many people historically had memory loss problems at that age. Maybe I missed it, but I only saw one anecdotal mention of a person "seeing an increase" in the number of such problem. Perhaps 1 in 10 people have been having severe memory problems between the ages of 20 and 35 since the dawn of time. God knows, I was born with them.
:)
2) If people are relying on their PDAs, then why is being unable to remember a phone number causing people to lose their jobs? Didn't they have the number in their PDA? No, seriously.
-Puk
I hate to be another "did you read the article" poster, but they are not dropping the Dreamcast platform, they're just stopping their own production of the Dreamcast console and licensing the technology out so someone else can do that part (better/cheaper). The console sales were always the least profitable (sometimes blatantly unprofitable) part of the whole proposition.
There will be more Dreamcast games, more Dreamcast accessories, and, in all likelihood, more Dreamcast (or Dreamcast-compatible) consoles. Look at the other articles on IGN (http://dreamcast.ign.com/news/30862.html, for instance) for more details.
-Puk
Now all you distributed number crunching addicts will be forced to continually drive your car in order to inflate your stats!
-Puk
"And when there are problems, doesn't the public have the right to know? (Whose dollars put those folks up there in the first place?)"
While I agree with you in this particular case, in that I think we'd all be better off if NASA released this information, this argument never works. Try telling a police officer that "I pay your salary" if you want to see what I mean.
The US government keeps plenty of private information which is not publicly available. AFAIK, the only thing you're truly entitled to is the information it has about _you_. There are plenty of cases where the government justifies keeping information private on the grounds that releasing it can do harm (case panics, etc.) or be a threat to national security. Whether or not these arguments are valid are up to you -- but they certainly are legally effective.
-Puk
A lot of this sounds very familiar. I can't imagine why.
No insult intended to the creators, who have taken a good idea and actually implemented it. Very cool.
-Puk
Of course, even if God had patented them, his patent would have long since expired. How long depends on your religion. :)
-Puk
ColorMax acquired a broad patent license covering the human genes for color vision from the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. The patent also covers a revolutionary test for color blindness based on a simple analysis of the actual genes that cause the problem.
You're missing the point. Intel has to do with the power shortage because intel has a _large_ facility housing 6500 researchers using lots of equipment and lighting, and therefore -- power.
Intel is not the only one using a lot of power, and I strongly suspect they're not the only company cutting their power usage, probably due to money-saving agreements with the power company (as pointed out by someone's earlier post).
This has nothing to do with what Intel does for a business, or how much power their chips use. It has to do with the big facility Intel has there.
-Puk
I suspect the answer is simply that the force exerted on the "ship" by the asymmetric magnetic field in fact pushes the field generator (magnet) in the opposite direction.
As the article suggests, if you did this repeatedly and cyclically, the object would simply vibrate.
Energy is always conserved, although it's form may change (kinetic to heat, etc, although that's largely semantics). Momentum must _always_ be conserved.
-Puk
Usually I'm (nearly) as blind to the rest of the world as the average American, but it seems like this is a very US-centric description. I'm heavily into a certain subset of games, and what I've noticed (and has been the subject of many debates) is that in Japan, they take these games (or at least another subset of them) _way_ more seriously than we do.
:)
Keep in mind, this is all anecdotal, but video games have been a strong part of culture in Japan for quite a while. It's not even so much that kids play more games in Japan, but that games are more accepted by the culture in general (including parents, teachers, and the like) as a valid time-consuming hobbie to persue.
In addition -- possibly because this has been going on so long there -- adults play games, too. Lots more games than they do here. I suspect we're going to see more and more of this in the US, as those who grew up playing video games is now in or entering adulthood.
Mmmm, now we're lagging behind Japan culturally.
p.s. This probably applies to a lot of places, but I have no experience with them.
Anyone else think that if 99% of the net crashes, chances are we have more important things to worry about than how to get our daily fixes of SlashDot, IRC, and p0rn?
"Oh no! They nuked both coasts and now I can't find my warez!"
Do the really important things which require communication in the face of global catastrophe make use of the net? I guess that's how it started, but honestly, I hope they have good alternate means of communication as well.
I'd call it "fuzzy math", but I don't want you to think I support Bush. :) This proof makes some base assumptions, a few of which I will list:
;)
1) Elections are (like) a sport.
2) States in an election are like baseball games in a series, with votes analagous to runs -- at the end of each state/games the candidate/team with the most votes/runs wins that state/game of the election/series.
3) A higher likelihood of one person's vote swinging the election is a good thing.
Now, I don't agree with these, and without these assumptions, the math holds, but what the math proves and what the writer claims don't correlate.
This next part is where I quit analyzing and expound my own views, in parallel, so if you were just interested in content, quit now.
1) Elections are not a game. The last paragraph is kind of insulting. As fascinating as I have found this election (I truly have), I don't think that excitement should be a _goal_ in elections.
2) If you make this assumption, you've already assumed that what you're trying to prove is true.
3) God, no.
Peace out.
-Puk
Has anyone attempted to reverse engineer one of these machines? Note that I do not endorse any illegal activities this might or might not involve (ie: theft, DMCA violations, etc).
:)
p.s. Yes, I realize this is a very difficult proposition.
Read the bottom of the page:
----------End Forwarded Message---------
Note: This article is a piece of satire meant to brighten your day.
Check out www.linux.com:
Ryan Gordon strikes again with another work of satire! Another 'leaked memo' from Microsoft on Hallowe'en, to celebrate the infamous 'Halloween Document' of years past. While clearly a work of satire, this one is sure to inspire some heated discussion.
Just to correct myself, apparently they're not talking about a data switch (although it's impossible to tell from _any_ of the articles or product pages). What they have done is built an electronically controllable optical cross-connect. Some of them seem to have fairly decent switching rates, but nothing like what is needed for packet-level switching (note that 7.5 ms at _1_ gigabit is almost a megabyte of data != packet).
While this is a very useful tool for designing and provisioning (and reconfiguring) networks, it is hardly a breakthrough, nor is it the "holy grail" of optical switching.
-Puk "I Will Surely Have To Correct Myself Again"
The biggest problem with all-optical switches isn't the routing of the optical signals. They have several technologies, including MEMS-controlled mirrors, for doing this right now. Optical cross-connects are commercially available (though expensive) products.
:)
The difficulty with optical switches is in determining _where_ to switch the data without converting it to the electrical domain first. Plenty of schemes have been proposed where the data goes O->E to read the headers and decide where to switch it, and then optically switches the packet farther along the path (where the actualy signal of the packet never left the optical domain), but no one has come up with a switch that does it _all_ in the optical domain. Admittedly, few if any of these "mostly-optical" systems have been built.
I'm not sure what Lucent and Corvis have done. It sounds to me like they have probably implemented one of these systems. They claim it's "all-optical", but I doubt that they have built this without at least the headers being converted to the electrical domain. Even so, it's an impressive achievement to have made a commercially viable product which does that much. It remains to be seen which way will end up being more cost-effective in the long run. After all, that's what matters in the industry.
-Puk (Yes I'm Probably Wrong)
That's one of the things I liked about Enemy of the State -- the actual NSA agents were nerds. All of the gun wielding grunts were hired hands. Of course, like any of those movies, it wasn't made to be taken as reality, but it was good, fun action, with that little twist. (I vaguely remember another film -- Mercury Rising, I think, where the NSA agents, or at least some of them, were computer/math types. Which is another stereotype all by itself.)