Nicholas Negroponte could have asked his brother just what kind of guy this Khadaffi person might be. But, yeah, you might have to choose less than ideal friends anyway. Stating that a person trying to make a global change in the way primary education is carried out can very well be ignorant of basic international politics is madness. Stating, on the other hand, that you don't always get to choose your partners is another thing, that might also cause a backlash for your cause, e.g. (hypothetically) if the government you're partnering with is ousted and all your precious laptops are lost in the turmoil.
The bug is in Java code, not underlying JVM code. Java goes to great lengths to maintain IEEE compliance, which means that it truncates to 64-bit precision everywhere.
The atom has no physical shape. If the p1 orbital occupied by the single electron is similar enough "chemically", the effective radius will also be identical.
The proof will probably not be a path, but rather the level of similarities. If the genetic code is indeed arsenic-based, the interesting aspect will be to see what length of matching sequence we can find to existing code. I can buy that amino acids were used in an opportunistic way as a neat solution to generality, flexibility and tendency for chemical reactions. However, if the code is based on three-base codons and if a reasonable amount of those codons match their traditional-life counterparts, then this is a branch of the known tree, no matter how hard it is to conceive the path from A to B. One of the most conclusive indications of common origin of existing life is the shared langugage of the genetic code (with minor differences).
ATP has been mentioned. DNA has been mentioned. Both of these contain phosphorous. However, what will really thrill me is the putative presence of an arsenic-based ribosome. Basically, the protein-synthesis machinery contains strands of RNA, important for structure as well as the catalytic activity itself. Those structures also share clearly identifiable similarities between all existing versions. Popping in arsenic everywhere in that structure would be really fascinating.
SSDs tend to show higher CPU overhead due to the insane amounts of throughput. If you would artificially introduce latencies equivalent to those of a HD, they will tend to be on par.
The most immediate comparison here is probably Internet Explorer, which has been sandboxed by default since Vista. The comparison is relevant since IE and Adobe Reader are both native binary applications in a desktop system which are sandboxed as an afterthought using the security system of the OS.
If you were playing Civ 4 like that, you were obviously not handling the issues in a sensible way. Just like city unhappiness, you cannot easily combat it as an afterthought. It has to be an integrated part of your total strategy. (My own nag in this area would be corruption in Civ 3, or rather the weights and distance-dependence with most government styles. "Sure, you can have an empire encompassing the globe, but don't expect any serious production out of it.")
I live at 60 deg North, you insensitive clod! (Ok, right now it is 59 deg 51' 7"...) I don't want to learn that I'll fall off a cliff if I take a step in the wrong direction...
In big companies, consistent design goals are rarely realized.
They are especially not realized when such synergy tends to be used for anti-trust cases. The division separation between platform, server and Office really seems to have increased in the last decade or so.
I seem to remember that beta cell transplants have in some cases been reasonably successful, i.e. only battling the normal rejection problems. If you get the autoimmune reaction at one point, you can trigger Type I diabetes. If the reaction is complete enough, the cells in the pancreas will never replenish on their own, while the immune system might reenter a more normalized state, on its own or through immunosuppressive treatment.
Solid. References. Now. (For the statement that a majority of growth to maturity just involves enlarging existing cells.) BTW, have you ever heard of osteoblasts and osteoclasts? Those cells are actively renewed and renewing bone throughout life, although they decline with age. You are certainly right that extremely rapid and "deep" division is limited in most organs, as you only need a few divisions and the wonderful gift of exponential growth to get just about any number of cells. The problem of organ regeneration is of course that the respecialization requires a number of "cell generations" in itself. There are some risks involved here, but the current techniques are not simply hardwiring the "on" mode for cell division. In fact, to get any real organ you need the natural "stop" modes and directed apoptosis just as much as you need the ability to start cell division in the first place.
Yes, snapshots is the way to go, and it is there for NTFS and btrfs as well. (Volume shadow copies being enabled with a shortage for free space is a direct route to terrible performance in Vista, but oh the joy of realizing that you actually have a shadow copy when things go really bad by a human error...)
But this \0-terminated string is never sent to DNS. It's rather that, at some point, the actual domain of the certificate is retrieved. That is compared against the domain you think you are visiting. And behold, you can spoof any domain. However, for this to be succesful, you should poison the DNS in some way, as well.
Yeah, and although this invalidates the original statement (that brilliant programmers have great egos), your statement still means that great programmers give everyone else a hard time. Especially when that belief that someone else is stupid ends up being wrong once in a while.
600+ mice would not be out of the ordinary at all. Remember that, whatever species they use, there are subgroups. The article states "experiments" on 650+ monkeys. Note the plural. They also note that they obviously tested different times of administration, from -24 to +72 hours. To do that, and to maintain significance within each group, you might end up in a number like this, especially if the Chernobyl-like dose was a maximum rather than the only dose tested. You might even vary the dose of the compound. So, you would test administration time, possibly administration method, radiation dosage. But, yes, it means that they have a quite strong source of funding, but considering the military connection suggested in the article, that doesn't seem impossible.
If I remember correctly, the S2409W is a TN panel. The 2408WFP is a beauty in comparison. You pay for far more things than just the "computery" aspect ratio.
I am not sure how you think that the splitting in itself would ensure immediate scheduling. You basically ask that your thread should be given top priority for an indefinite amount of time. WaitForMultipleObjects and friends in other OSs is as good as it gets, but in that case you only have to wait for the threads to quit in your main thread. The only "real" synchronization is in the OS itself, you only inform the OS of your intent.
Splitting an existing thread cannot be done too cheaply, you will need to allocate a new stack and so on. The other option is to keep a thread pool where you sacrifice the full generality of threads. Lo and behold, many OSes or low-level libraries also provide readily available thread pools!
You, sir, needs to check your eyesight. The point is high resolution. There are those of us who treasure our 15.4" WUXGA screens and that's only because we can't get anything higher (although the VAIO P screen seems interesting). Having that kind of resolution for video or UI without the size would be fantastic. The iPod Touch is nowhere close.
Now, we have this huge theory, based on old observations. It's called the Standard Model. It predicts some particles we haven't seen (yet). So, we devise experiments where those particles are likely to appear and be detectable. The language of the model is mainly mathematics. Naturally, we need some kind of framework and the general principle of (philosophical, not mathematical) induction to be able to devise any experiment not precisely coinciding with observations already made.
Doing experiments by plain intuition might be fun, but you need some kind of rigor to unify that into theories. And what do you propose to provide that rigor, that would be superior to math?
While relativity is less down to earth and certainly less straightfoward (some puns intended) from a common sense perspective, there is also some inherent beauty in it, one of them being exactly that constant speed of light and the limiting of speed. With some success, one might even arguee that it is only marginally more complex, until you try to frame it in a way suitable to approximating a Newtonian mind in "non-relativistic" conditions. Then, by necessity, everything else is expressed as correction terms of one form or another.
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Nicholas Negroponte could have asked his brother just what kind of guy this Khadaffi person might be. But, yeah, you might have to choose less than ideal friends anyway. Stating that a person trying to make a global change in the way primary education is carried out can very well be ignorant of basic international politics is madness. Stating, on the other hand, that you don't always get to choose your partners is another thing, that might also cause a backlash for your cause, e.g. (hypothetically) if the government you're partnering with is ousted and all your precious laptops are lost in the turmoil.
The bug is in Java code, not underlying JVM code. Java goes to great lengths to maintain IEEE compliance, which means that it truncates to 64-bit precision everywhere.
The atom has no physical shape. If the p1 orbital occupied by the single electron is similar enough "chemically", the effective radius will also be identical.
Rather 2 + 2 in LISP...
Proper P/Invoke declarations will work just fine carrying over to ARM. "Proper" ones being approximately those that work across x86 and x64.
H. Orta, or more properly Gene L. Coon.
The proof will probably not be a path, but rather the level of similarities. If the genetic code is indeed arsenic-based, the interesting aspect will be to see what length of matching sequence we can find to existing code. I can buy that amino acids were used in an opportunistic way as a neat solution to generality, flexibility and tendency for chemical reactions. However, if the code is based on three-base codons and if a reasonable amount of those codons match their traditional-life counterparts, then this is a branch of the known tree, no matter how hard it is to conceive the path from A to B. One of the most conclusive indications of common origin of existing life is the shared langugage of the genetic code (with minor differences).
ATP has been mentioned. DNA has been mentioned. Both of these contain phosphorous. However, what will really thrill me is the putative presence of an arsenic-based ribosome. Basically, the protein-synthesis machinery contains strands of RNA, important for structure as well as the catalytic activity itself. Those structures also share clearly identifiable similarities between all existing versions. Popping in arsenic everywhere in that structure would be really fascinating.
SSDs tend to show higher CPU overhead due to the insane amounts of throughput. If you would artificially introduce latencies equivalent to those of a HD, they will tend to be on par.
The most immediate comparison here is probably Internet Explorer, which has been sandboxed by default since Vista. The comparison is relevant since IE and Adobe Reader are both native binary applications in a desktop system which are sandboxed as an afterthought using the security system of the OS.
What part of IE is or has ever been running in ring 0?
If you were playing Civ 4 like that, you were obviously not handling the issues in a sensible way. Just like city unhappiness, you cannot easily combat it as an afterthought. It has to be an integrated part of your total strategy. (My own nag in this area would be corruption in Civ 3, or rather the weights and distance-dependence with most government styles. "Sure, you can have an empire encompassing the globe, but don't expect any serious production out of it.")
I live at 60 deg North, you insensitive clod! (Ok, right now it is 59 deg 51' 7"...) I don't want to learn that I'll fall off a cliff if I take a step in the wrong direction...
In big companies, consistent design goals are rarely realized.
They are especially not realized when such synergy tends to be used for anti-trust cases. The division separation between platform, server and Office really seems to have increased in the last decade or so.
What other browser do you know of that regularly uses sub-pixel positioning (not sub-pixel rendering)?
I seem to remember that beta cell transplants have in some cases been reasonably successful, i.e. only battling the normal rejection problems. If you get the autoimmune reaction at one point, you can trigger Type I diabetes. If the reaction is complete enough, the cells in the pancreas will never replenish on their own, while the immune system might reenter a more normalized state, on its own or through immunosuppressive treatment.
Solid. References. Now. (For the statement that a majority of growth to maturity just involves enlarging existing cells.) BTW, have you ever heard of osteoblasts and osteoclasts? Those cells are actively renewed and renewing bone throughout life, although they decline with age. You are certainly right that extremely rapid and "deep" division is limited in most organs, as you only need a few divisions and the wonderful gift of exponential growth to get just about any number of cells. The problem of organ regeneration is of course that the respecialization requires a number of "cell generations" in itself. There are some risks involved here, but the current techniques are not simply hardwiring the "on" mode for cell division. In fact, to get any real organ you need the natural "stop" modes and directed apoptosis just as much as you need the ability to start cell division in the first place.
Yes, snapshots is the way to go, and it is there for NTFS and btrfs as well. (Volume shadow copies being enabled with a shortage for free space is a direct route to terrible performance in Vista, but oh the joy of realizing that you actually have a shadow copy when things go really bad by a human error...)
But this \0-terminated string is never sent to DNS. It's rather that, at some point, the actual domain of the certificate is retrieved. That is compared against the domain you think you are visiting. And behold, you can spoof any domain. However, for this to be succesful, you should poison the DNS in some way, as well.
Yeah, and although this invalidates the original statement (that brilliant programmers have great egos), your statement still means that great programmers give everyone else a hard time. Especially when that belief that someone else is stupid ends up being wrong once in a while.
600+ mice would not be out of the ordinary at all. Remember that, whatever species they use, there are subgroups. The article states "experiments" on 650+ monkeys. Note the plural. They also note that they obviously tested different times of administration, from -24 to +72 hours. To do that, and to maintain significance within each group, you might end up in a number like this, especially if the Chernobyl-like dose was a maximum rather than the only dose tested. You might even vary the dose of the compound. So, you would test administration time, possibly administration method, radiation dosage. But, yes, it means that they have a quite strong source of funding, but considering the military connection suggested in the article, that doesn't seem impossible.
If I remember correctly, the S2409W is a TN panel. The 2408WFP is a beauty in comparison. You pay for far more things than just the "computery" aspect ratio.
I am not sure how you think that the splitting in itself would ensure immediate scheduling. You basically ask that your thread should be given top priority for an indefinite amount of time. WaitForMultipleObjects and friends in other OSs is as good as it gets, but in that case you only have to wait for the threads to quit in your main thread. The only "real" synchronization is in the OS itself, you only inform the OS of your intent.
Splitting an existing thread cannot be done too cheaply, you will need to allocate a new stack and so on. The other option is to keep a thread pool where you sacrifice the full generality of threads. Lo and behold, many OSes or low-level libraries also provide readily available thread pools!
You, sir, needs to check your eyesight. The point is high resolution. There are those of us who treasure our 15.4" WUXGA screens and that's only because we can't get anything higher (although the VAIO P screen seems interesting). Having that kind of resolution for video or UI without the size would be fantastic. The iPod Touch is nowhere close.
Now, we have this huge theory, based on old observations. It's called the Standard Model. It predicts some particles we haven't seen (yet). So, we devise experiments where those particles are likely to appear and be detectable. The language of the model is mainly mathematics. Naturally, we need some kind of framework and the general principle of (philosophical, not mathematical) induction to be able to devise any experiment not precisely coinciding with observations already made.
Doing experiments by plain intuition might be fun, but you need some kind of rigor to unify that into theories. And what do you propose to provide that rigor, that would be superior to math?
While relativity is less down to earth and certainly less straightfoward (some puns intended) from a common sense perspective, there is also some inherent beauty in it, one of them being exactly that constant speed of light and the limiting of speed. With some success, one might even arguee that it is only marginally more complex, until you try to frame it in a way suitable to approximating a Newtonian mind in "non-relativistic" conditions. Then, by necessity, everything else is expressed as correction terms of one form or another.