The only thing better about DirecTV is the DVR. The current comcast DVRs have a tendency to freeze every 15-20 minutes and you have to change the channel to get the video stream flowing again. Which pretty much defeats the purpose of have a DVR.
How hard are you willing to work to see Survivor?
For the last 3 years the only people who have known that you won't be able to record HDTV are us techies. Do you really believe that the average American won't throw a fit when they discover that their new $7,000 home entertainment system won't let them watch American Idol when they want too?
TV ratings are falling like a rock. If TV gets to hard to watch the networks and cable systems stand to loose big time. They will probably use the flag to protect pay-per-view, but I doubt that the vast majority of programming will ever turn it on.
HDTV is the most hyped and overrated bunch of crap I have ever seen. The picture on broadcast just isn't that much better, hell it's still interlaced. Eventually I will buy an HDTV, but not until the price for a set gets down to $5 per inch.
Don't get me wrong, I definitely don't like the BF because its a backdoor attempt to prevent electronic innovation in the guise of 'copy-right protection'. Hopefully the courts will smack it down.
But frankly, TV suck and there are plenty of other electronic entertainments these days, if it gets too expensive or too inconvienent it will die.
Freescale has been shipping dual-core 64-bit PowerPC processors since the middle of last year. Though they haven't released any press statements, they have been telling us to expect a 4-core die eval board in 8 more months. I don't know if Apple is using the 86xx series cores or if they expect too soon, but they have been available for a while now.
Another thing to remember is that PowerPCs were 'hyper-threaded' from the beginning. Even the elderly 603 could dispatch multiple instructions per clock.
And that is what most high profile blogs are, just OP/ED. I have seen very few blogs that are sources of original information and most of the ones that are, are highly technical. The vast majority of OP/ED writing, whether it appears in a Newspaper or on the internet just isn't worth long term archiving.
It looks like they have put a lot of effort into it. I wonder how well they were able to stitch the CG in with the live actor shots? It was hard to tell from the promo.
One suggestion - cut the echo on the narrator's voice in the trailer.
Another set of theories are the scale-expanding universe or expanding spacetime http://www.estfound.org/main.htm theories. Rumors have been flying around on usenet about a new scale-expanding variant that makes new predictions that could be observed in the near future and would be different than predictions made by General Relativity. But then again, rumors are always flying around on usenet.
language that is intended to prevent power utilities from getting into the ISP business. I don't think it will have any substantial impact on urban areas. I think it is intended more to prevent rural power coops from becoming ISPs - using the power lines in rural areas would be the most cost effective way to push high-speed access out into rural areas that are a 50+ miles from any major urban center.
No. It was definitely bright enough to see if all of the energy was in the visible spectrum, but the visible light would have been obsorbed by the intervening dust clouds. The densest part of the galaxy lies between us and this object.
This object was classified as a soft GR burster, before this explosion, and it lies inside the galactic plane. The BBC article is short on details and I haven't been able to find anything other than observational reports on the net. Maybe soft bursters can also produce GRBs??
You can't really compare this explosion to something as insignificant as a nuclear bomb. I don't know right off what the energy output of the hiroshima bomb was in watts but probably no more than a few hundred billion. Not only that but the superstrong magnetic field around the magnetar will funnel the energy released by the explosion into tight laser beam type jets. If one of those jets hit a planet in a nearby system it would probably vaporize it.
climatology as a science. For years, the medieval warm period and the little ice age had been used to explain population growth all over the world from 800 to 1200 AD. It was used to explain the diasasters that struck civilizations world-wide in the 14th century. It impacted a wide range of scientific and scholarly field of study. Then, as soon as the truth became a liability to the political motives of the global warming lobbby, they reworked the data and produced a new chart that showed there had been no medieval warm period or little ice age. So, do we believe what climatologist said the 1st time, what they said the 2nd time, or what they are saying now????
Right, and it is radiated back out into space in the infrared. But, water gives up heat much more slowly than the land or cities do. Putting a mechanical system that is designed to extract heat from the oceans and ultimately radiate it away over the land puts a whole new system in place for cooling the oceans - if the system is efficient enough and extensive enough it could have a big impact in a few decades.
All our sources of energy except geothermal and Nuclear come from the sun. But, only so much sunlight falls on the oceans each year, if we are taking the heat out of the oceans it's going to have cooling effect on them over the long term. Using any source energy that ultimately derives from the Sun is going have an impact on the environment, because we are taking energy out of the system and the amount of energy coming into the system is fixed. No matter what sources we use to generate power, it will impact our environment - that is just something we have to learn how to balance.
It can be done for different operating systems running on exactly the same computer hardware if you are willing to add more complexity (some times the complexity you add to make it portable can exceed the complexity of the program it's self) to your code. But once you factor in different computer hardware, it's usually easier to have a different library of source code at some level than it is to try to write uber-generic code that runs on all computers ever made.
First of all get a degree in Computer Science Engineering, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering from an Engineering College. A Computer Science/IT degree from a non-egineering school isn't going to cut it. You need to build some hardware along the way.
While your in school get internships at telecos, robotic, heavy equipment manufacturers, consumer electronics, defense/avionics companies, etc - which ever you think you might prefer.
Slashdot Mirror
It's unix, of course it's more secure.
Viruses are inhereintly harmful, from the mere fact that they replicate.
Inducing someone to commit a crime by offering to pay them is also illegal.
It's also called the Clear Channel Business model.
I wonder if the MIT researchers would be willing to ride on the first test flight?
The only thing better about DirecTV is the DVR. The current comcast DVRs have a tendency to freeze every 15-20 minutes and you have to change the channel to get the video stream flowing again. Which pretty much defeats the purpose of have a DVR.
A new DVR would be greatly appreciated.
How hard are you willing to work to see Survivor? For the last 3 years the only people who have known that you won't be able to record HDTV are us techies. Do you really believe that the average American won't throw a fit when they discover that their new $7,000 home entertainment system won't let them watch American Idol when they want too? TV ratings are falling like a rock. If TV gets to hard to watch the networks and cable systems stand to loose big time. They will probably use the flag to protect pay-per-view, but I doubt that the vast majority of programming will ever turn it on. HDTV is the most hyped and overrated bunch of crap I have ever seen. The picture on broadcast just isn't that much better, hell it's still interlaced. Eventually I will buy an HDTV, but not until the price for a set gets down to $5 per inch. Don't get me wrong, I definitely don't like the BF because its a backdoor attempt to prevent electronic innovation in the guise of 'copy-right protection'. Hopefully the courts will smack it down. But frankly, TV suck and there are plenty of other electronic entertainments these days, if it gets too expensive or too inconvienent it will die.
Freescale has been shipping dual-core 64-bit PowerPC processors since the middle of last year. Though they haven't released any press statements, they have been telling us to expect a 4-core die eval board in 8 more months. I don't know if Apple is using the 86xx series cores or if they expect too soon, but they have been available for a while now.
Another thing to remember is that PowerPCs were 'hyper-threaded' from the beginning. Even the elderly 603 could dispatch multiple instructions per clock.
"crackpots have been coming up with stuff like this for decades" Uh oh. Uncle Al discovered /.
And that is what most high profile blogs are, just OP/ED. I have seen very few blogs that are sources of original information and most of the ones that are, are highly technical. The vast majority of OP/ED writing, whether it appears in a Newspaper or on the internet just isn't worth long term archiving.
It looks like they have put a lot of effort into it. I wonder how well they were able to stitch the CG in with the live actor shots? It was hard to tell from the promo.
One suggestion - cut the echo on the narrator's voice in the trailer.
Another set of theories are the scale-expanding universe or expanding spacetime http://www.estfound.org/main.htm theories. Rumors have been flying around on usenet about a new scale-expanding variant that makes new predictions that could be observed in the near future and would be different than predictions made by General Relativity. But then again, rumors are always flying around on usenet.
language that is intended to prevent power utilities from getting into the ISP business. I don't think it will have any substantial impact on urban areas. I think it is intended more to prevent rural power coops from becoming ISPs - using the power lines in rural areas would be the most cost effective way to push high-speed access out into rural areas that are a 50+ miles from any major urban center.
No. It was definitely bright enough to see if all of the energy was in the visible spectrum, but the visible light would have been obsorbed by the intervening dust clouds. The densest part of the galaxy lies between us and this object.
This object was classified as a soft GR burster, before this explosion, and it lies inside the galactic plane. The BBC article is short on details and I haven't been able to find anything other than observational reports on the net. Maybe soft bursters can also produce GRBs??
You can't really compare this explosion to something as insignificant as a nuclear bomb. I don't know right off what the energy output of the hiroshima bomb was in watts but probably no more than a few hundred billion. Not only that but the superstrong magnetic field around the magnetar will funnel the energy released by the explosion into tight laser beam type jets. If one of those jets hit a planet in a nearby system it would probably vaporize it.
It's spin rapidly and accreting matter from a companion. It should go through the quark stage before becoming a black hole.
It will drive the attendent to madness.
worms come in second.
climatology as a science. For years, the medieval warm period and the little ice age had been used to explain population growth all over the world from 800 to 1200 AD. It was used to explain the diasasters that struck civilizations world-wide in the 14th century. It impacted a wide range of scientific and scholarly field of study. Then, as soon as the truth became a liability to the political motives of the global warming lobbby, they reworked the data and produced a new chart that showed there had been no medieval warm period or little ice age. So, do we believe what climatologist said the 1st time, what they said the 2nd time, or what they are saying now????
Overlords. Somebody had to say it.
Right, and it is radiated back out into space in the infrared. But, water gives up heat much more slowly than the land or cities do. Putting a mechanical system that is designed to extract heat from the oceans and ultimately radiate it away over the land puts a whole new system in place for cooling the oceans - if the system is efficient enough and extensive enough it could have a big impact in a few decades.
All our sources of energy except geothermal and Nuclear come from the sun. But, only so much sunlight falls on the oceans each year, if we are taking the heat out of the oceans it's going to have cooling effect on them over the long term. Using any source energy that ultimately derives from the Sun is going have an impact on the environment, because we are taking energy out of the system and the amount of energy coming into the system is fixed. No matter what sources we use to generate power, it will impact our environment - that is just something we have to learn how to balance.
If you are taking energy out of the oceans, then ultimately you are taking heat out of them. Sorry - no free rides.
It can be done for different operating systems running on exactly the same computer hardware if you are willing to add more complexity (some times the complexity you add to make it portable can exceed the complexity of the program it's self) to your code. But once you factor in different computer hardware, it's usually easier to have a different library of source code at some level than it is to try to write uber-generic code that runs on all computers ever made.
First of all get a degree in Computer Science Engineering, Computer Engineering or Electrical Engineering from an Engineering College. A Computer Science/IT degree from a non-egineering school isn't going to cut it. You need to build some hardware along the way. While your in school get internships at telecos, robotic, heavy equipment manufacturers, consumer electronics, defense/avionics companies, etc - which ever you think you might prefer.