...such as getting reelected in a landslide this time...
50.7% of the popular vote (from 47.9% in 2000) isn't a landslide in anyone's vocabulary. You could just about call it a majority, or a mandate, but not a landslide.
The person who wrote TFA said it's both 16 GByte and 16 Gbit. Read it, you'll see that both are used throughout the article. So we'll never know which one it is.
The only mention of anything being 16 gigabytes rather than 16 gigabits says the chips "if combined in 8x16 and 16x16 configurations - theoretically enable Flash memory cards with capacities of 16 and 32 GByte".
There are no other mentions of 16 gigabytes, but there are four mentions of 16 gigabits.
Skype is not built on open standards like SIP and remains isolated to its own so-called "Peer to Peer" network. It is to the Gizmo Project as AIM is to Jabber.
Just because it's proprietary doesn't make it a dead-end. You may as well say that every 'open' project will be huge.
Perhaps we should just try to take predictions of hurricanes more seriously? Katrina was predicted, both as a long-range risk and some days before it hit. The damage would have been considerably reduced if the levees hadn't broke.
What would the global impact be? Are we not trying to control something which is not ment to be controled? We don't even understand global warning 100% yet, now we want to do this?
That's a very good question. Every action has consequences and we need to understand what they are before acting. I wouldn't say "wasn't meant to be controlled" though, who's to say what our noodly master 'meant' us to do?
I would rather concentrate on building technology and common sense (don't build a city below water level - for example).
The person that found the exploit claims he has tweaked the code to actually run arbitrary code on the system, but I would like to se e proof of this since as of right now we only have a hanging browser.
How do we know he didn't already run arbitrary code on your browser? For all we know he 0wn3d your machine and posted that comment himself.
Am I missing something or is this a *really* niche market?
Sorry, ignore me. Being dim. I missed the bit of the article that explained that the load in the backpack can be your own stuff.
This might be handy for treks in remote areas, although you'd need to be able to charge a battery since you'd probably use more power when you weren't walking.
I can't really see a mugger running off with a 30kg pack. In fact I can't really see a mugger wanting it in the first place. In fact, I can't really see why anyone would be carrying it to begin with. Am I missing something or is this a *really* niche market?
To be "American" is to accept ideals such as democracy, fair justice, but most importantly freedom (be it of the press, faith, speech, expression, etc.).
Judging by the decision to send Judith Miller to jail I would've thought a more pragmatic definition would be "resident of the Americas".
Why would you need to pay someone only 1 or 2 pence/cents?
News and comment articles, blogs, music, fiction, per-image or per-gallery porn, email services, anything that's currently ad-supported...
I can't think of anything this cheap that you would need to buy on the internet.
There can be no market for those services until a payment structure exists. Once a viable payment structure exists people will come up with ways of charging for small amounts of content.
I thought they were doing it because they wanted to show off.
I expect you're joking, but just in case...
Given the proportion of the world that speaks languages other than English it'd be a very poor business strategy to limit your service to English-only sources.
Exactly. These will be cheaper and hence more numerous, so will be more difficult to track both in terms of size and quantity.
I'm sure George Bush will do something to stop this, after all, if space is full of tiny metal manaces where will he be able to park his space weapons?
I have my LPI-2 certification, and I believe the neutral-vendor type certifications are really the best.
Agreed.
When the certification authority is also the vendor of the system or environment you're being certified for, you have to wonder how much of their syllabus, weighting, etc. is focused on proving you have the skills for real world situations and how much is based on promoting their products.
For example, accusations have been made against some Microsoft certifications (I haven't done any myself) that the "correct" solutions to the situations posed in exam questions inevitably involve buying more software from Microsoft.
Who cares what "science" says? You seem to put an awful lot of stock in "science". What, precisely, is "science" that its ability to define something overrides every other consideration?
Scientific method is what's responsible for you being able to drink cold drinks and use the internet. Without it, we would not be having this conversation. I think that means we should at least give it due consideration. Don't you?
You don't want to listen because admitting that there MIGHT be a God would deal a serious blow to everything you believe.
I never said I didn't believe in God. Perhaps you should calm down and read the thread again.
By the way, when you buy a CD, DVD, or other media you are purchasing the physical storage medium and paying for the cost to bring the media to market; marketing, distribution, replication, etc. What you are not paying for is the full rights to copy, distribute, make derivatives, or any of the other exclusive rights granted copyright holders.
He's not talking about having paid for the rights via the original cost of the CD (which does allow for some copying rights via the "fair use" clause in US copyright law), but to the copyright tax he paid when buying the recordable media. He pays the content producers a tax/fee when he buys blank media. Whether you agree with it or not, the argument is that by charging a fee for the media, they are legitimising the act of copying.
Back on topic however, If naval sonar is so advanced, why is atmospheric sonar so lacking ?
isn't it essentually a timing thing (sound travels faster in denser mediums like water than air). put a different emitter on and then adjust the timings.
Air and water have very different sonic properties. Air is highly compressible, water is less so. Sounds travel short distances in air compared to water... etc.
Sonar was developed because you can't see underwater. The military has invested huge sums refining it. Above ground we can see, so nobody's bothered researching air-based sonar to the same degree.
Human embryos will ALWAYS mature into humans. They will NEVER be anything but. If this is the case, then by definition, a human embryo is a human being.
By definition, science cannot say that embryos are human at any particular stage without first defining what human is.
I would disagree that a fertilised egg is any more human than an unfertilised egg with a sperm sitting next to it. Fertilisation is just one step in a very long process during which millions of potential "humans" are lost without ever being known. The "moment of conception" as the definition of being human is an arbitrary one brought about by social conditioning.
Since nobody seems to be offering a definition on which people can agree, any arguments concerning embryos will remain a point of debate.
You're only trying to justify something to yourself that you know is wrong.
I'm not trying to justify anything. I'm talking about scientific method.
Scientifically, an embryo is, strictly speaking "human life"...
For that to be correct you first have to define "human life" in terms that science can measure.
If you mean capable of human emotion then I would say you were wrong (others may disagree based on their beliefs) since at early stages the embryo has no complex nervous system.
If you mean "genetically human" then you're right, but so is some of the gunk under my toenails.
If you mean "has the potential to become human" then you're right, but the tense is important, i.e. it's not human yet, and we still haven't defined what being human means so can't measure the point at which it becomes "human".
But at what point does it start to become a burden to keep up with all these...for hosts wanting to stay current?
How long is a piece of string?
Some hosts already don't keep up with security patches for the software they already run, but the ones that make this available are likely to be the ones with the resources to maintain it; the others wont bother.
But at what point does it start to become a burden to keep up with all these.. for programmers looking to keep their CVs up to date?
I'm not sure getting every latest tech fashion on your CV is as important as you might think. For each person trying to get CV-points there's someone else trying to look past all the buzzwords and bull and figure out whether you're diligent and resourceful.
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Idiots. Drool on yourselves much?
Wow. Aggressive, unfunny, penchent for jokes about WMDs... Are you George Bush Jr?
Your "insightful" connective is just as bad as saying "Everyone doesn't ride a bike" instead of "Not everyone rides a bike"
I wasn't saying "proprietary -> failure" and "open standards -> success" are the same thing. I was saying that both are equally rediculous.
50.7% of the popular vote (from 47.9% in 2000) isn't a landslide in anyone's vocabulary. You could just about call it a majority, or a mandate, but not a landslide.
The person who wrote TFA said it's both 16 GByte and 16 Gbit. Read it, you'll see that both are used throughout the article. So we'll never know which one it is.
The only mention of anything being 16 gigabytes rather than 16 gigabits says the chips "if combined in 8x16 and 16x16 configurations - theoretically enable Flash memory cards with capacities of 16 and 32 GByte".
There are no other mentions of 16 gigabytes, but there are four mentions of 16 gigabits.
Skype is not built on open standards like SIP and remains isolated to its own so-called "Peer to Peer" network. It is to the Gizmo Project as AIM is to Jabber.
Just because it's proprietary doesn't make it a dead-end. You may as well say that every 'open' project will be huge.
Perhaps we should just try to take predictions of hurricanes more seriously? Katrina was predicted, both as a long-range risk and some days before it hit. The damage would have been considerably reduced if the levees hadn't broke.
Danger predicted... warnings ignored. That's spooky deja-vu.
What would the global impact be? Are we not trying to control something which is not ment to be controled? We don't even understand global warning 100% yet, now we want to do this?
That's a very good question. Every action has consequences and we need to understand what they are before acting. I wouldn't say "wasn't meant to be controlled" though, who's to say what our noodly master 'meant' us to do?
I would rather concentrate on building technology and common sense (don't build a city below water level - for example).
Technology that could relocate Holland to Tibet?
The person that found the exploit claims he has tweaked the code to actually run arbitrary code on the system, but I would like to se e proof of this since as of right now we only have a hanging browser.
How do we know he didn't already run arbitrary code on your browser? For all we know he 0wn3d your machine and posted that comment himself.
Am I missing something or is this a *really* niche market?
Sorry, ignore me. Being dim. I missed the bit of the article that explained that the load in the backpack can be your own stuff.
This might be handy for treks in remote areas, although you'd need to be able to charge a battery since you'd probably use more power when you weren't walking.
A walking target for muggers.
I can't really see a mugger running off with a 30kg pack. In fact I can't really see a mugger wanting it in the first place. In fact, I can't really see why anyone would be carrying it to begin with. Am I missing something or is this a *really* niche market?
Industrial-scale processes for this sort of things are more efficient than automobile-scale processes.
For example, in the largest diesel engines (as used in tankers etc.) efficiency can reach around 60%.
Sorry, I forgot to check my sources. After a quick check the highest efficiency I've found is quoted as "above 50%".
While you're at it, you can add the same factor for converting earth oil/coal into fossil fuel for the power plant. It's a wash.
Industrial-scale processes for this sort of things are more efficient than automobile-scale processes.
For example, in the largest diesel engines (as used in tankers etc.) efficiency can reach around 60%.
To be "American" is to accept ideals such as democracy, fair justice, but most importantly freedom (be it of the press, faith, speech, expression, etc.).
Judging by the decision to send Judith Miller to jail I would've thought a more pragmatic definition would be "resident of the Americas".
Why would you need to pay someone only 1 or 2 pence/cents?
News and comment articles, blogs, music, fiction, per-image or per-gallery porn, email services, anything that's currently ad-supported...
I can't think of anything this cheap that you would need to buy on the internet.
There can be no market for those services until a payment structure exists. Once a viable payment structure exists people will come up with ways of charging for small amounts of content.
I thought they were doing it because they wanted to show off.
I expect you're joking, but just in case...
Given the proportion of the world that speaks languages other than English it'd be a very poor business strategy to limit your service to English-only sources.
Exactly. These will be cheaper and hence more numerous, so will be more difficult to track both in terms of size and quantity.
I'm sure George Bush will do something to stop this, after all, if space is full of tiny metal manaces where will he be able to park his space weapons?
Yep, the harder the rock, the harder the punch. Girls are so smart =), thats why we love em!
You love girls? That's gay!
I have my LPI-2 certification, and I believe the neutral-vendor type certifications are really the best.
Agreed. When the certification authority is also the vendor of the system or environment you're being certified for, you have to wonder how much of their syllabus, weighting, etc. is focused on proving you have the skills for real world situations and how much is based on promoting their products.
For example, accusations have been made against some Microsoft certifications (I haven't done any myself) that the "correct" solutions to the situations posed in exam questions inevitably involve buying more software from Microsoft.
Who cares what "science" says? You seem to put an awful lot of stock in "science". What, precisely, is "science" that its ability to define something overrides every other consideration?
Scientific method is what's responsible for you being able to drink cold drinks and use the internet. Without it, we would not be having this conversation. I think that means we should at least give it due consideration. Don't you?
You don't want to listen because admitting that there MIGHT be a God would deal a serious blow to everything you believe.
I never said I didn't believe in God. Perhaps you should calm down and read the thread again.
Not exactly true. You can definitely see underwater...
Nobody told me that! I always wondered why fish had eyes...
By the way, when you buy a CD, DVD, or other media you are purchasing the physical storage medium and paying for the cost to bring the media to market; marketing, distribution, replication, etc. What you are not paying for is the full rights to copy, distribute, make derivatives, or any of the other exclusive rights granted copyright holders.
He's not talking about having paid for the rights via the original cost of the CD (which does allow for some copying rights via the "fair use" clause in US copyright law), but to the copyright tax he paid when buying the recordable media. He pays the content producers a tax/fee when he buys blank media. Whether you agree with it or not, the argument is that by charging a fee for the media, they are legitimising the act of copying.
Back on topic however, If naval sonar is so advanced, why is atmospheric sonar so lacking ? isn't it essentually a timing thing (sound travels faster in denser mediums like water than air). put a different emitter on and then adjust the timings.
Air and water have very different sonic properties. Air is highly compressible, water is less so. Sounds travel short distances in air compared to water... etc.
Sonar was developed because you can't see underwater. The military has invested huge sums refining it. Above ground we can see, so nobody's bothered researching air-based sonar to the same degree.
Human embryos will ALWAYS mature into humans. They will NEVER be anything but. If this is the case, then by definition, a human embryo is a human being.
By definition, science cannot say that embryos are human at any particular stage without first defining what human is.
I would disagree that a fertilised egg is any more human than an unfertilised egg with a sperm sitting next to it. Fertilisation is just one step in a very long process during which millions of potential "humans" are lost without ever being known. The "moment of conception" as the definition of being human is an arbitrary one brought about by social conditioning.
Since nobody seems to be offering a definition on which people can agree, any arguments concerning embryos will remain a point of debate.
You're only trying to justify something to yourself that you know is wrong.
I'm not trying to justify anything. I'm talking about scientific method.
Scientifically, an embryo is, strictly speaking "human life"...
For that to be correct you first have to define "human life" in terms that science can measure.
If you mean capable of human emotion then I would say you were wrong (others may disagree based on their beliefs) since at early stages the embryo has no complex nervous system.
If you mean "genetically human" then you're right, but so is some of the gunk under my toenails.
If you mean "has the potential to become human" then you're right, but the tense is important, i.e. it's not human yet, and we still haven't defined what being human means so can't measure the point at which it becomes "human".
But at what point does it start to become a burden to keep up with all these...for hosts wanting to stay current?
How long is a piece of string?
Some hosts already don't keep up with security patches for the software they already run, but the ones that make this available are likely to be the ones with the resources to maintain it; the others wont bother.
But at what point does it start to become a burden to keep up with all these.. for programmers looking to keep their CVs up to date?
I'm not sure getting every latest tech fashion on your CV is as important as you might think. For each person trying to get CV-points there's someone else trying to look past all the buzzwords and bull and figure out whether you're diligent and resourceful.