substantial health of Intel's 65 nm fabrication leadership, which is outputting new processors in high volume for launching new Pentium 4 6x1, Pentium D 900
Now I think we all know why Apple did what they did.
for narrowing the digital divide. I usually hate over-used politicised terms like 'digital divide' but regardless, it does exist, and free widespread personal net access is key to spreading information to more people. While internet access from libraries and such is great, it's better still to have access in one's home.
Imagine if electricity was not a public utility but a service offered by two or three price-gouging regional monopolies. A quick comparison of US broadband penetration and Europe's (largely) socialised system demonstrates why these sorts of projects are needed.
Similarly, what went wrong with Slashcode this afternoon? It seems like four or five articles have all appeared at once even though their timestamps claim they were posted hours ago. Note the time of this article, the time of my post....and yet, FP? Wtf?
"wireless is doomed"? I'm afraid that's where you're wrong.
If wireless was going to die because of inherent insecurity, incapability, and complexity, then Windows would have died out because of its insecurity, incapability, and complexity in the face of Unix.
By the way, wireless IS simple. No wires is more simple than one wire. Period. When I bring my Powerbook home and set it on my desk, I just open it, it automatically connects to my access point, and I'm online in about five seconds. ISPs these days build WAPs into their CPE. The fact is that end-users just don't give a shit if it's insecure. Then again, also you probably have no idea how WPA or IPsec works. Nor do you probably have any idea why a data thief plugging into a power outlet (perhaps even one on the outside of the building) would be any more secure than wireless, which in any sane corporate environment is going to use the aforementioned encryption techniques, preferably more than one.
Exactly. The thing that Christian fundamentalists fear most is children being raised learning that because of evolution, God isn't necessary in any part of the equation of how we came to be. If you remember the whole Creation Science debacle of several years ago, this is just a re-badged attempt, even if not directly saying "since evolution is just a theory, you should believe that God intervened."
Evolution is not random. Mutations are random. Evolution is not just mutation. Evolution is the natural selection of beneficial mutations. The Kansas board of Education is promoting psuedoscience.
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Look at what has happened since the FCC deregulated in 1996. We don't have mainstream HDTV. The US is falling fast behind other countries in broadband penetration. Verizon is creating an FTTP monopoly. Under the current rules, all the fibre Verizon is laying at the moment is theirs, exclusively, and will be for a long time. This is unlike coax, which must be leased to anyone, and that's why you have Earthlink using TW's cable to sell their own broadband. It promotes choice. Rules that force the telcos to lease their lines to other ISPs helps grows the industry, NOT deregulation, which lets them screw consumers. Just look at countries that heavily regulate the telecom industry, and regulate it the right way. Those consumers are getting unmetered 50MB/sec for a few euros a month.
Yes, Muni Wi-Fi is a waste because of wired bandwidth...oh, wait, except when you need a connection where there aren't wires, or where the wiring quality is poor. Mobile phones. Rural areas. Providing internet access to those who can't afford it. Just about anytime on-the-go.
Look at what we've done to deregulate already, and then turn on your TV and see SBC trying to sell you bundled phone service with terrible quality DSL. Do some basic research first before spouting capitalist rhetoric, please. Face it, telcos are in it to make money, not serve the public interest.
Oh, and on that same note, I think a follow-up study that correlated internet usage with both age and income level would be far more interesting. The US Census already has that data, after all!
It's the US Census, what did you expect? I concede that a study like this isn't really that interesting, but it's still nice to have official numbers instead of just random speculation. If an ISP conducted this study, they might be more able to do it yearly, but would their numbers be as trustworthy as the US Census, which has no commercial motivations for saying the Internet now plays a large role in citizens' lives?
And to digress slightly from the topic, I would bet in 1905, far fewer than 7% of people used cars. Same with your 2005 99% figure. I'd expect it's only about 70%. The same reason for that is the same reason only 40-some percent of Americans use the Internet; they're elderly, or very young, but most of all, many of them are just too poor.
I'd like to see how this compares with other developed countries, especially ones in which broadband penetration is much higher, like in South Korea, Japan, most of Scandinavia, and to a bit less extent, most of Western Europe. If the US has 40%, what nation probably has the highest percentage? Sweden?
See, except, they DO name storms with male names. Remember Hurricane Andrew? The reason they went to the Greek alphabet was that they name the storms in alphabetical order, and once they get to the end of the alphabet, you COULD start with A again, but you wouldn't know (just from the name, at least) whether that storm occurred at the beginning or the end of the hurricane season.
Uh, OK. If they were going to use Greek God names, then maybe they would have said something like "we're going to use Greek God names if we run out." But that's not what they said; they said Greek letters. I also don't see how it would have made people more familiar with Greek mythology any more than it would get people more familiar with the Greek alphabet.
As for the "they can't retire a Greek letter" thing...of course they can. They just don't use it as a storm name anymore.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but what's so damn hard to figure out?
IANAM (I Am Not A Meteorologist) but I do know that since we started paying attention to frequency/size of tropical storms and hurricanes in the Gulf about 150 years ago, we've been on an approximate 50-year cycle, where every 50 years or so, the storms get greater in magnitude. In the 1950s, there were some particularly strong storms, as were there in the 1900s, such as one storm 1902 that killed about 8000 people on the Texas coast, making it one of the worst disasters in American history. Now it's 2005, so we're around that high point again.
That said, we seem to also be having a few more hurricanes and tropical storms than usual, although I'd like to think this is more of just a coincidence than related to the magnitude cycle, although I wouldn't rule out that it could have something to do with global warming.
I'm really not completely sure why the 50-year magnitude cycle occurs, but it's well-documented.
I don't see how gravitational drag could really have anything to do with it. The way I could concieve two neutron stars coming together would be stars A and B travelling on roughly parallel paths through the galaxy, and gravity pulls them together. Simple as that. If stars are orbiting each other, it's totally different. If you have two ball bearings on a frictionless plane that curves up on two sides, with the lowest area being a line down the centre, the bearings are going to accelerate to that low point. On the other hand, if you have some sort of plane with a single point that's the lowest (instead of a line), then the balls are just going to revolve around this point forever. The only way they wouldn't is if they had absolutely zero velocity to start with. Then they would just be pulled into the point, and that would be that. But neutron stars tend to have some sort of momentum, and they're not so likely to just happen to be heading straight into one another. Ultimately it just seems really unlikely and bizarre, but I guess it's theoretically possible, just more probable than ordinary stars colliding. It's like having a bunch of magnets floating about in a zero-G room versus ordinary objects.
Let me add on to this and also mention that when two stars do get close to each other they tend to fall into orbit around each other instead of just colliding, obviously. In that case, you have another star in close enough proximity to keep the star in an acceleration curve.
It should be noted that ordinary fusion reaction stars (giants, main sequence stars, and dwarfs) don't collide, because they're massive enough not to change direction easily from their usual trajectories (away from each other, as the universe expands), but not massive enough to actually have the gravitational force to be drawn towards other stars. I can only suppose that neutron stars have sufficient mass to bring about such a collision.
This is simply false; it wasn't like Bungie outsourced Halo to India or something, those 'programmers and artists' worked AT BUNGIE. They developed Halo in-house; it's totally different from what Microsoft did, which was buy Bungie and their near-complete game, add a Microsoft logo and sell it.
This is a pretty bad redesign. Take a look, for example, at this typical page; the text is an IMAGE, probably because they haven't heard of unicode or the subscript HTML tag. Awful, just awful.
Slashdot Mirror
FTFA.
they're already focusing on 45nm processes
substantial health of Intel's 65 nm fabrication leadership, which is outputting new processors in high volume for launching new Pentium 4 6x1, Pentium D 900
Now I think we all know why Apple did what they did.
Jerks. I hope they get bought by AT&T.
Wait, no! No!
for narrowing the digital divide. I usually hate over-used politicised terms like 'digital divide' but regardless, it does exist, and free widespread personal net access is key to spreading information to more people. While internet access from libraries and such is great, it's better still to have access in one's home.
Imagine if electricity was not a public utility but a service offered by two or three price-gouging regional monopolies. A quick comparison of US broadband penetration and Europe's (largely) socialised system demonstrates why these sorts of projects are needed.
Similarly, what went wrong with Slashcode this afternoon? It seems like four or five articles have all appeared at once even though their timestamps claim they were posted hours ago. Note the time of this article, the time of my post....and yet, FP? Wtf?
"wireless is doomed"? I'm afraid that's where you're wrong.
If wireless was going to die because of inherent insecurity, incapability, and complexity, then Windows would have died out because of its insecurity, incapability, and complexity in the face of Unix.
By the way, wireless IS simple. No wires is more simple than one wire. Period. When I bring my Powerbook home and set it on my desk, I just open it, it automatically connects to my access point, and I'm online in about five seconds. ISPs these days build WAPs into their CPE. The fact is that end-users just don't give a shit if it's insecure. Then again, also you probably have no idea how WPA or IPsec works. Nor do you probably have any idea why a data thief plugging into a power outlet (perhaps even one on the outside of the building) would be any more secure than wireless, which in any sane corporate environment is going to use the aforementioned encryption techniques, preferably more than one.
Actually, there IS no autorun on Mac OS X.
The PHASR, now with a 1.3 MP camera and iTunes
Exactly. The thing that Christian fundamentalists fear most is children being raised learning that because of evolution, God isn't necessary in any part of the equation of how we came to be. If you remember the whole Creation Science debacle of several years ago, this is just a re-badged attempt, even if not directly saying "since evolution is just a theory, you should believe that God intervened."
Evolution is not random. Mutations are random. Evolution is not just mutation. Evolution is the natural selection of beneficial mutations. The Kansas board of Education is promoting psuedoscience.
Have you been touched by his noodly appendage?
I'm assuming that video iPods use some derivative of Quicktime, and Quicktime AFAIK has no DRM
You assume too much
Wrong, wrong, wrong. Look at what has happened since the FCC deregulated in 1996. We don't have mainstream HDTV. The US is falling fast behind other countries in broadband penetration. Verizon is creating an FTTP monopoly. Under the current rules, all the fibre Verizon is laying at the moment is theirs, exclusively, and will be for a long time. This is unlike coax, which must be leased to anyone, and that's why you have Earthlink using TW's cable to sell their own broadband. It promotes choice. Rules that force the telcos to lease their lines to other ISPs helps grows the industry, NOT deregulation, which lets them screw consumers. Just look at countries that heavily regulate the telecom industry, and regulate it the right way. Those consumers are getting unmetered 50MB/sec for a few euros a month.
Yes, Muni Wi-Fi is a waste because of wired bandwidth...oh, wait, except when you need a connection where there aren't wires, or where the wiring quality is poor. Mobile phones. Rural areas. Providing internet access to those who can't afford it. Just about anytime on-the-go.
Look at what we've done to deregulate already, and then turn on your TV and see SBC trying to sell you bundled phone service with terrible quality DSL. Do some basic research first before spouting capitalist rhetoric, please. Face it, telcos are in it to make money, not serve the public interest.
Oh, and on that same note, I think a follow-up study that correlated internet usage with both age and income level would be far more interesting. The US Census already has that data, after all!
It's the US Census, what did you expect? I concede that a study like this isn't really that interesting, but it's still nice to have official numbers instead of just random speculation. If an ISP conducted this study, they might be more able to do it yearly, but would their numbers be as trustworthy as the US Census, which has no commercial motivations for saying the Internet now plays a large role in citizens' lives?
And to digress slightly from the topic, I would bet in 1905, far fewer than 7% of people used cars. Same with your 2005 99% figure. I'd expect it's only about 70%. The same reason for that is the same reason only 40-some percent of Americans use the Internet; they're elderly, or very young, but most of all, many of them are just too poor.
I'd like to see how this compares with other developed countries, especially ones in which broadband penetration is much higher, like in South Korea, Japan, most of Scandinavia, and to a bit less extent, most of Western Europe. If the US has 40%, what nation probably has the highest percentage? Sweden?
See, except, they DO name storms with male names. Remember Hurricane Andrew? The reason they went to the Greek alphabet was that they name the storms in alphabetical order, and once they get to the end of the alphabet, you COULD start with A again, but you wouldn't know (just from the name, at least) whether that storm occurred at the beginning or the end of the hurricane season.
Uh, OK. If they were going to use Greek God names, then maybe they would have said something like "we're going to use Greek God names if we run out." But that's not what they said; they said Greek letters. I also don't see how it would have made people more familiar with Greek mythology any more than it would get people more familiar with the Greek alphabet.
As for the "they can't retire a Greek letter" thing...of course they can. They just don't use it as a storm name anymore.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but what's so damn hard to figure out?
IANAM (I Am Not A Meteorologist) but I do know that since we started paying attention to frequency/size of tropical storms and hurricanes in the Gulf about 150 years ago, we've been on an approximate 50-year cycle, where every 50 years or so, the storms get greater in magnitude. In the 1950s, there were some particularly strong storms, as were there in the 1900s, such as one storm 1902 that killed about 8000 people on the Texas coast, making it one of the worst disasters in American history. Now it's 2005, so we're around that high point again.
That said, we seem to also be having a few more hurricanes and tropical storms than usual, although I'd like to think this is more of just a coincidence than related to the magnitude cycle, although I wouldn't rule out that it could have something to do with global warming.
I'm really not completely sure why the 50-year magnitude cycle occurs, but it's well-documented.
I predict three types of comments here...
1) BeOS was a great multimedia OS
2) Trolltech's licencing schemes suck
3) Gnome vs. KDE
passive voice is disfavored Ahem..
allow you to join the mile high club for 5 or 10k dollars
I don't think 'mile high club' means what you think it means.
I don't see how gravitational drag could really have anything to do with it. The way I could concieve two neutron stars coming together would be stars A and B travelling on roughly parallel paths through the galaxy, and gravity pulls them together. Simple as that. If stars are orbiting each other, it's totally different. If you have two ball bearings on a frictionless plane that curves up on two sides, with the lowest area being a line down the centre, the bearings are going to accelerate to that low point. On the other hand, if you have some sort of plane with a single point that's the lowest (instead of a line), then the balls are just going to revolve around this point forever. The only way they wouldn't is if they had absolutely zero velocity to start with. Then they would just be pulled into the point, and that would be that. But neutron stars tend to have some sort of momentum, and they're not so likely to just happen to be heading straight into one another. Ultimately it just seems really unlikely and bizarre, but I guess it's theoretically possible, just more probable than ordinary stars colliding. It's like having a bunch of magnets floating about in a zero-G room versus ordinary objects.
Let me add on to this and also mention that when two stars do get close to each other they tend to fall into orbit around each other instead of just colliding, obviously. In that case, you have another star in close enough proximity to keep the star in an acceleration curve.
It should be noted that ordinary fusion reaction stars (giants, main sequence stars, and dwarfs) don't collide, because they're massive enough not to change direction easily from their usual trajectories (away from each other, as the universe expands), but not massive enough to actually have the gravitational force to be drawn towards other stars. I can only suppose that neutron stars have sufficient mass to bring about such a collision.
This is simply false; it wasn't like Bungie outsourced Halo to India or something, those 'programmers and artists' worked AT BUNGIE. They developed Halo in-house; it's totally different from what Microsoft did, which was buy Bungie and their near-complete game, add a Microsoft logo and sell it.
This is a pretty bad redesign. Take a look, for example, at this typical page; the text is an IMAGE, probably because they haven't heard of unicode or the subscript HTML tag. Awful, just awful.