An N-lited version of XP will run quite nicely on a computer with only 64 megs of RAM. However, once you've stripped everything away, you're left with an operating system which is completely, utterly useless (at least for a general internet browsing computer). Windows 2000, OTOH, works great. The entire install disk is around 70mb (with drivers and firefox integrated), and, as an added bonus, stripping out everything increases security tenfold.
In short, Win2k would work, but MS won't use it. I doubt XP will ever work; it's simply to interdependent.
It's true that FPS games are now selling better on the console (I can only imagine because these are the kinds of games that require a great GPU), but for every other genera, the PC is doing better than ever. In the last couple of years the PC had games that put anything on the consoles to shame; stuff like The Witcher, WoW: TBC, Company of Heroes, Galactic Civilizations 2, The Orange Box, etc, not to mention Oblivion, CnC3, Bioshock, which were better (gameplaywise and, IIRC saleswise) on the PC.
Consoles (this generation, anyway) will never replace the PC for RTS gameplay, and are several years behind in terms of RPG innovation and sales. Don't even get me started on mods, which make ancient games like Dungeon Siege continue to sell.
We talked about this in a Biology 2 class.
It's common knowlege amonst scientsits, but deffinatley not amongst the general population. Check out Biology 7th edition, by Campbell and Reece. This link might have it if you own the book (I haven't used the online portion of the text).
Read the sections on selection pressures and evolution. I don't have the book in front of me or I'd put up some quotes.
1: Duel and quad core processors are used by people doing high end work. (video editing, serious gaming).
2: For some reason which completely eludes me ($$$), most home Dells ship with duel cores at the very least.
I predict that now that some games actually show performance differences with more cores (Supreme Commander and Bioshock), more people will buy them, more people having them will encourage people to buy them.
The only reason multi-cores never took off before now is because you can run most games at max settings at 30+ fps with an overclocked $25 processor (AMD Sempron 1.6 GHZ, overclocked to 2.1 GHZ), provided you have a good video card.
SLI will take off, maybe not this round, but once video cards reach the same limits as processors.
The entire genome is like a program you are working on. DNA is like the raw code (.c, and.include) files stored on a FAT32 formatted harddrive (the cell). RNA and proteins are the the compiling and compiled program, respectively. Polymerase would be the compiler, HIV would be a debugger program, etc.
Anyway, the point to all this is that junk DNA is deleted files on the file system. They are still there, and you may need them because you are working on a harddrive with sectors which frequently go bad (mutations). Deleted files are gone unless you can specify the first letter: that's the equivalent of lacking an intron, so they don't get included when you compile the program.
A DNA molecule does not to my best knowledge start proliferating on its own when put on agar
As a side note, you can make RNA which self-replicates on agar if you just add ATP. It's note the same thing as DNA, nor the same thing as traditional RNA, (it may have been the basis of life, though).
I'm a biology major primarily and computers are just a hobby, so this may not be perfect, and I'm probably posting this too late for anyone to read it, but here goes anyway.
You hit the nail on the head with that one. My sister uses Dragon Speak Naturally exclusively (she's dyslexic and can't type or read worth crap, so she has to use Dragon Speak Naturally and Kurzweil (screen reader).
Dragon requires MONTHS of training (literally), and even then it will make mistakes exactly like the one you noted. The plus side is that Dragon works pretty decently under WINE, but apart from their Linux "support", it's a complete mess.
Screen readers aren't much better; they have the accuracy, but are hard to understand. For a little geeky fun, I had Kurzweil read a few English papers to Dragon. Even after some training, Dragon still couldn't get above 80% accuracy on a computer generated, 100% reliable, voice. Now that's just sad.
Well, given that the latest Ubuntu was only a minor upgrade over the last one, and the fact that 2007 is already half over, and the fact that Microsoft is selling XP until Q4 2007, I would say:
2008 IS THE YEAR OF LINUX ON THE DESKTOP!
Seriously, the OLPC project should do wonders for adoptation. 2008 really will be the big year.
I'd like to take a moment to point out that our good friend nbritton (823086) has just made a very insightful comment one thread down which utterly disproves your claim.
There is irony here somewhere, I just can't seem to find it.
WTF, no. Wikipedia is great for people to quickly get information on something. Need to know the formula for the synthesis of such-and-such chemical? Wikipedia to the rescue.
I hope to FSM no one is actually using it to create textbooks, as errors in these places would seriously kill your credibility.
I don't have a problem with the articles on Biology and Chemistry topics (Bio major), but I often have trouble understanding stuff like the particle physics pages. If someone wants general info on a subject, there is almost always a general page to explain the terms to a layperson, and more in-depth subpages for researchers. So the only way your going to be disappointed with Wikipedia is if you're reading the wrong page for you (a graduate student reading the page for DNA, rather than one of the specific nucleotides, for instance), or if you're someone who has only taken a couple of physics classes and is trying to get an understanding of leptons.
Actually that's only part of the reason: season 5 sucked because JMS didn't show the Telepath War. Part of it was Ivanova leaving the show: JMS had spent the last 4 seasons dropping hints about her latent telepathy and hatred of the Psi Core, and then, when she left, one of the major players in the Telepath War wasn't there, and couldn't figure out how to tell the story without her.
I'm hoping the Lost Tales will wrap up a few pieces of that storyline somewhere.
I did a Google translation of your post from Slashdotter to English, and got this:
Speaking as Slashdot reader, I can safely say that I am offended by goatse and extremests.
However, I love porn. I really like it. Like alot.
So much so that I quit living in my mom's basement to try and make it as a an adult site webmaster. Traffic has been a little slow lately, so could a few of you stop by my site?
I kid, I kid. Seriously, you made some good points.
Actually, the newest release of the drivers (7.4, IIRC) has improved considerably, especially under Vista. I haven't bought an ATI card in years due to inferior performance on superior hardware (due to bad drivers), but I'm going to be re-evaluating next time I need new graphics card. Now, if only ATI could make a DX10 card, AMD would probably be able to announce a profit next year.
Actually, a pretty high number of these promising cures do work out. The problem is the AIDS (HIV really) is a lot faster than we are when it comes to the cure. Basically the virus evolves faster than we can test out new drugs. It's similar to how bacteria acquire immunities to anti-bacterial soap. We've had some cures* which worked great, and many are still used today, but the virus evolves fast enough that it can get by whatever we throw at it. It works by reverse transcriptase (enzyme which turns RNA -> DNA). This enzyme is wildly inaccurate, leading to mutations, which makes the virus have a low reproductive rate, but allows it to evolve in just a couple generations. There are about a million HIV "distros" out there, too, and most of these will require their own special treatment.
Check out the wikipedia pages on retroviruses and aids for more info.
*I say cures here, what I really mean is a way to hold the virus in check while the immune system takes care of it naturally.
DISCLAIMER: I don't have a PHD in Aidsology or anything, I'm just a lowly biology major in all of this.
I may not have a 5-digit UID, but I am an expert in the subject of ambulance driving, having completed the Paramedic missions in GTA3, Vice City, and San Andreas. From my extensive experience in this matter, I have observed that, for every patient saved, an average of 10 people, most of them hookers, are killed.
Actually, DHT doesn't care about file names. You can test this yourself if you have a LAN. Grab a torrent, start downloading it on one computer (save as a different filename), get a little of the file downloaded, and start the same torrent on a different computer. Use your firewall to block the second computer's access to the tracker. DHT will kick in, your computers will log in, get each other's IPs, and computer 2 will get an insanely fast download speed until it catches up with computer 1. Tested on uTorrent 1.6.0 (old version) on my and my roomates computers. Incidentally, the process isn't any faster than downloading the file on one computer, and copying it over to the other one afterwards.
If you use bittorrent, the DHT protocol (supported by Azureus, BitComet, and uTorrent, among others) does the exact thing you're describing. It checks MD5 hashes for files (the whole file, not the pieces, I think), and connects you to peers which have the same file. DHT even supports partially corrupted files, your client just discards the corrupt data.
My question is, why would I want to use SET over DHT? Does SET not need a ceneralized server, or does it have any other advantage at all? TFA is really short on technical details, but it sounds to me as though SET is just a re-design of DHT. Still, I imagine SET support will be in the next builds of all the major bittorrent clients if it ends up being worth something.
Ahem, just because we got one front page story tagged "insovlietrussia", it doesn't mean we should all revert to making a million old jokes over and over again.
Wow. Way to completely miss the point of this. Imagine if you were a developer working for id, and these were your texture (which you'd spent months of your life working on) which had been "borrowed". Without giving you credit, no less.
Or, say this was an indy developer they had copied textures from. Would you still say the same thing then?
The point I'm trying to make here is that the Doom 3 engine is available, and id wants people to use it. They also need to make money to continue developing games, so they LICENSE the engine. If the STALKER people wanted to use parts of Doom 3, they should have paid the reasonable license fee. It's that simple. Oh, and your analogies are completely flawed.
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In short, Win2k would work, but MS won't use it. I doubt XP will ever work; it's simply to interdependent.
It's true that FPS games are now selling better on the console (I can only imagine because these are the kinds of games that require a great GPU), but for every other genera, the PC is doing better than ever.
In the last couple of years the PC had games that put anything on the consoles to shame; stuff like The Witcher, WoW: TBC, Company of Heroes, Galactic Civilizations 2, The Orange Box, etc, not to mention Oblivion, CnC3, Bioshock, which were better (gameplaywise and, IIRC saleswise) on the PC.
Consoles (this generation, anyway) will never replace the PC for RTS gameplay, and are several years behind in terms of RPG innovation and sales. Don't even get me started on mods, which make ancient games like Dungeon Siege continue to sell.
It's common knowlege amonst scientsits, but deffinatley not amongst the general population.
Check out Biology 7th edition, by Campbell and Reece. This link might have it if you own the book (I haven't used the online portion of the text).
Read the sections on selection pressures and evolution. I don't have the book in front of me or I'd put up some quotes.
Confused, mostly.
2: For some reason which completely eludes me ($$$), most home Dells ship with duel cores at the very least.
I predict that now that some games actually show performance differences with more cores (Supreme Commander and Bioshock), more people will buy them, more people having them will encourage people to buy them.
The only reason multi-cores never took off before now is because you can run most games at max settings at 30+ fps with an overclocked $25 processor (AMD Sempron 1.6 GHZ, overclocked to 2.1 GHZ), provided you have a good video card.
SLI will take off, maybe not this round, but once video cards reach the same limits as processors.
The entire genome is like a program you are working on. DNA is like the raw code (.c, and .include) files stored on a FAT32 formatted harddrive (the cell).
RNA and proteins are the the compiling and compiled program, respectively. Polymerase would be the compiler, HIV would be a debugger program, etc.
Anyway, the point to all this is that junk DNA is deleted files on the file system. They are still there, and you may need them because you are working on a harddrive with sectors which frequently go bad (mutations). Deleted files are gone unless you can specify the first letter: that's the equivalent of lacking an intron, so they don't get included when you compile the program.
As a side note, you can make RNA which self-replicates on agar if you just add ATP. It's note the same thing as DNA, nor the same thing as traditional RNA, (it may have been the basis of life, though).
I'm a biology major primarily and computers are just a hobby, so this may not be perfect, and I'm probably posting this too late for anyone to read it, but here goes anyway.
Dragon requires MONTHS of training (literally), and even then it will make mistakes exactly like the one you noted. The plus side is that Dragon works pretty decently under WINE, but apart from their Linux "support", it's a complete mess.
Screen readers aren't much better; they have the accuracy, but are hard to understand.
For a little geeky fun, I had Kurzweil read a few English papers to Dragon. Even after some training, Dragon still couldn't get above 80% accuracy on a computer generated, 100% reliable, voice. Now that's just sad.
Fortunately, as I'm reminded at every possible opportunity by this site, correlation != causation, so I just don't worry about it.
*Looks around, thinks about it*
Well, given that the latest Ubuntu was only a minor upgrade over the last one, and the fact that 2007 is already half over, and the fact that Microsoft is selling XP until Q4 2007, I would say:
2008 IS THE YEAR OF LINUX ON THE DESKTOP!
Seriously, the OLPC project should do wonders for adoptation. 2008 really will be the big year.
There is irony here somewhere, I just can't seem to find it.
I hope to FSM no one is actually using it to create textbooks, as errors in these places would seriously kill your credibility.
I don't have a problem with the articles on Biology and Chemistry topics (Bio major), but I often have trouble understanding stuff like the particle physics pages. If someone wants general info on a subject, there is almost always a general page to explain the terms to a layperson, and more in-depth subpages for researchers. So the only way your going to be disappointed with Wikipedia is if you're reading the wrong page for you (a graduate student reading the page for DNA, rather than one of the specific nucleotides, for instance), or if you're someone who has only taken a couple of physics classes and is trying to get an understanding of leptons.
I say it's a non-issue for 99% of users.
Part of it was Ivanova leaving the show: JMS had spent the last 4 seasons dropping hints about her latent telepathy and hatred of the Psi Core, and then, when she left, one of the major players in the Telepath War wasn't there, and couldn't figure out how to tell the story without her.
I'm hoping the Lost Tales will wrap up a few pieces of that storyline somewhere.
I kid, I kid. Seriously, you made some good points.
That's why my password is 09f911029d74e35bd84156c5635688c0. Easy to remember, and if anyone leaks it, the MPAA will crack down on them!
If your name wasn't Xel'Naga, I might be tempted to accuse you of fanboyism ;)
Actually, the newest release of the drivers (7.4, IIRC) has improved considerably, especially under Vista. I haven't bought an ATI card in years due to inferior performance on superior hardware (due to bad drivers), but I'm going to be re-evaluating next time I need new graphics card.
Now, if only ATI could make a DX10 card, AMD would probably be able to announce a profit next year.
We see enough misuse of the terms beta and alpha on the internet. It'd be nice to at least get slashdot on the right page.
chrome://browser/content/browser.xul
(clickable)
Requires Firefox and a lot of RAM.
Check out the wikipedia pages on retroviruses and aids for more info.
*I say cures here, what I really mean is a way to hold the virus in check while the immune system takes care of it naturally.
DISCLAIMER: I don't have a PHD in Aidsology or anything, I'm just a lowly biology major in all of this.
Yeah, really. This is the kind of story so amazing it doesn't deserve the haha tag - it deserves a buahaha tag.
From my extensive experience in this matter, I have observed that, for every patient saved, an average of 10 people, most of them hookers, are killed.
I can rest my case.
Tested on uTorrent 1.6.0 (old version) on my and my roomates computers. Incidentally, the process isn't any faster than downloading the file on one computer, and copying it over to the other one afterwards.
You are correct about the tags, though.
DHT even supports partially corrupted files, your client just discards the corrupt data.
My question is, why would I want to use SET over DHT? Does SET not need a ceneralized server, or does it have any other advantage at all?
TFA is really short on technical details, but it sounds to me as though SET is just a re-design of DHT. Still, I imagine SET support will be in the next builds of all the major bittorrent clients if it ends up being worth something.
They aren't funny anymore. Really.
Or, say this was an indy developer they had copied textures from. Would you still say the same thing then?
The point I'm trying to make here is that the Doom 3 engine is available, and id wants people to use it. They also need to make money to continue developing games, so they LICENSE the engine. If the STALKER people wanted to use parts of Doom 3, they should have paid the reasonable license fee. It's that simple. Oh, and your analogies are completely flawed.