about iTunes. It's made to be a lock-in platform for Apple to sell more DRM-ladden music. There are other products (and free) out there that allows you to sync the Palm Pre:
http://www.doubletwist.com/dt/Home/Index.dt
DId I mention it's made by DVD Jon?
Thank you Mr. Cisco Salesman. It's not the laziness or the lack of technical research as you have imagined. If the compatibility issue is really that easy to solve, you would've seen IPv6 routers popping up everywhere since its inception. If the upgrades were transparent, why hasn't everyone upgraded?
I find it perfectly pointless to even talk about NAT in the context of IPv6. Tunneling is what enabled IPv4 to flourish and expand in the first place, and it will continue to do so in the next two decades.
You are a jerk for the following two reasons: 1. GP first brought up the point that the average income was less than the cost of a copy of Vista. You should've directly replied to GP instead of parent. You replied to parent hoping to get more attention, since parnet was modded higher. 2. Average income is used throughout the world to gauge the poverty levels of a society, including US and UK. And I do believe they have sane economists.
The guy from TFA is still using a traditional sense. He did not hook up his device directly to his brain. All he did (or claim to have done) was to develop an "intuition" for direction that he can rely on all the time through prolonged usage of his "invention". I argue that this intuition is also achievable if you carry a compass all the time. The difference is that you would develop this intuition through vision instead of touching.
In addition, the guy never mentioned how good he was with directions before. For all I know, the guy could have been really bad at sensing direction to begin with, and now he's just up to normal people's level.
I can't believe the amount of interest given to this guy's "science" project. That kind of device and the intuition developed through it had been invented by ancient Chinese 2000 years ago. It's called "compass"!
According to a university professor that once taught Bill Gates in Harvard, he did not drop out of school. Instead, he was *kicked* out of school for going over his computer usage time. He later paid Harvard to fix that record to say that he dropped out. And no, this is not a joke.
Oh bummer. But I thought the way the exercise machines calculate energy is through mechanical resistance. i.w.o, it already excludes heat loss. By the way, our body is quite efficient in converting chemical energy to mechanical energy. Think about this: if 99% of the energy is lost to heat, then your body would've burnt to charcoal.
Exactly. My eliptical machine tells me that I burn about 400calories every 10 minutes in a moderate exercise. That translates to an average power output of 2.8W. In order to produce 200W of electrical power, assuming that the generator is able to achieve 100% efficiency, I would need to either run 8 faster or weigh 6.3tons.
Of course, GPU beating the hell out of CPU in such tests is no surprise. It's pretty much a massive parallel vector engine. I'm more interested in seeing how PS3 holds agains all other guys when it comes out. They have a folding client for PS3 already.
More accurately, this is a proof-of-concept. An prototype would've required at least something that would work over the industrial temperature range. The thinkpad would probably die at temperatures above 60C.
Yes, aerobraking as using the atmosphere to slow down the spacecraft (before openning parachute). We can aerobrake to slow down a 2t probe from Mach 20 (I'm not sure the entry speed of the probes, this is just a guess. I don't think it will be slower than that) to Mach 1.0 in Mar's atmosphere. That's what MER and pathfinder have shown us. But to slow down a 200t spacecraft from that speed to Mach 1.0 is much more difficult. There is simply not enough air in the Mars atmosphere, especially in the upper atmosphere, which is where aerobraking takes place.
Reverse rocket propulsion has worked on moon, but in order to do it on Mars, we need a whole lot more fuel. IIRC it's on the order of 5X the mass of your payload. The reverse propulsion problem is also compounded by the strong side wind.
As for wind strength, I was not referring to the surface storm on Mars, although it's another factor (Mars has the worst dust storm in the solar system). When the spacecraft is trying to land, the parabolic trajectory dictates that you will get sidewinds with respect to the vertical axis of the spacecraft. It makes the rocket a LOT harder to control. That's why we never launch a rocket (on earth) when the surface wind go over, say, 30MPH. There's also no mystery that we were able to do it on the moon.
I recently listened to a NASA workshop on the difficulties of landing human on Mars. It basically come down to this:
1. To land human on Mars, the current landing vehicles for MER and MSL are too small. We need to deliver at least 200t-300t's of payload. 2. The atmosphere on Mars is too thin to use aero-braking, i.e. can't land like space shuttle on earth. 3. The Mars gravity is too great to have moon-like landing, i.e. reverse propulsion.
I don't mean to sound too pessimistic, but with today's technology, chance of successful human mission is very small. We need a technology breakthrough in order to land something that big on Mars. Two possibilities:
1. Parachute that can stand hyper-sonic speed wind. Or, 2. Learn how to fly rockets backwards with sidewinds potentially 5x-10x stronger than that of Hurricane Katrina.
The original post said that Linux was 25% of Dell's server business, but the TFA said it was 25% of Dell's Enterprise business. There's a big difference there. Enterprise business also include high-end workstations, and server business also include small-business servers and such.
The original post seems to based the claim of PS3 being a computer on the rumor that it is upgrdable and configurable. Well...my car is upgradable also, and so is my bicyle, I also vaguely remember having to choose between a V-4 and a V-6 model when I first purchased my car...
Just like any other average/. poster, the moment you see something on China and IP, China is always the pirater. Despite the facts (that you don't know about) that Chinese laws DOES protect patent filed in China, this story has nothing to do with patent violation.
China simply doesn't want foreign companies to hold the dominant IP on one of the network infrastructure protocols, as doing so would mean that billions of Chinese customers would have to pay a foreign orgazination (IEEE and Intel) a royalty fee on every single 802.11 product they purchase (and believe it or not, they DO pay through the manufacturers).
So why does China care to make their own standard an international standard? Because Intel doesn't give a damn to China's standard, unless it is made official IEEE. Intel will continue to sell Intel's standard to China as long as Intel's standard is the IEE standard protocol. And they sell a whole lot of 802.11 devices every year.
Grandparent's calculation also failed to point out that human respiration does not consume 100% of the oxygen in the air. Dry air contains about 20% oxygen, and exhaled (consumed) air contains about 16% oxygen. To make the air breathable again, you only need to replace the 4% consumption. Assuming that you can remove the CO2 in a reasonable speed, the 20L of breathable air (flow) can easily be turned to 100L of breathable air (flow).
The suggestion of interbreeding was met with skepticism by paleontologists, who said they had trouble imagining a successful breeding between early human ancestors, which walked upright, and the chimpanzee ancestors, which walked on all fours.
In related news, citizen was arrested by un-identified government agents for not saying "God bless America" in his recorded phone survey with Washington Post.
Slashdot Mirror
about iTunes. It's made to be a lock-in platform for Apple to sell more DRM-ladden music. There are other products (and free) out there that allows you to sync the Palm Pre: http://www.doubletwist.com/dt/Home/Index.dt DId I mention it's made by DVD Jon?
The Database guide to Manga!
Not yet... If M$ successfully buys Yahoo!, I predict that M$ will trade BSD in with SCO products to legitimize their support to SCO
Thank you Mr. Cisco Salesman. It's not the laziness or the lack of technical research as you have imagined. If the compatibility issue is really that easy to solve, you would've seen IPv6 routers popping up everywhere since its inception. If the upgrades were transparent, why hasn't everyone upgraded?
I find it perfectly pointless to even talk about NAT in the context of IPv6. Tunneling is what enabled IPv4 to flourish and expand in the first place, and it will continue to do so in the next two decades.
http://www.hspd12jpl.org/press.html
They could've bundled these crapware had they spent a little more effort to install wine by default. Those lazy butts at dell!
My friends, this is but another clever marketing strategy for M$ to sell more copies of Windows XP!
You are a jerk for the following two reasons:
1. GP first brought up the point that the average income was less than the cost of a copy of Vista. You should've directly replied to GP instead of parent. You replied to parent hoping to get more attention, since parnet was modded higher.
2. Average income is used throughout the world to gauge the poverty levels of a society, including US and UK. And I do believe they have sane economists.
Please take your professional/scientific reviews to real scientific journals. Only bitter/ignorant jokes are acceptable on /.
The guy from TFA is still using a traditional sense. He did not hook up his device directly to his brain. All he did (or claim to have done) was to develop an "intuition" for direction that he can rely on all the time through prolonged usage of his "invention". I argue that this intuition is also achievable if you carry a compass all the time. The difference is that you would develop this intuition through vision instead of touching.
In addition, the guy never mentioned how good he was with directions before. For all I know, the guy could have been really bad at sensing direction to begin with, and now he's just up to normal people's level.
I can't believe the amount of interest given to this guy's "science" project. That kind of device and the intuition developed through it had been invented by ancient Chinese 2000 years ago. It's called "compass"!
According to a university professor that once taught Bill Gates in Harvard, he did not drop out of school. Instead, he was *kicked* out of school for going over his computer usage time. He later paid Harvard to fix that record to say that he dropped out. And no, this is not a joke.
dugg
Oh bummer. But I thought the way the exercise machines calculate energy is through mechanical resistance. i.w.o, it already excludes heat loss. By the way, our body is quite efficient in converting chemical energy to mechanical energy. Think about this: if 99% of the energy is lost to heat, then your body would've burnt to charcoal.
Exactly. My eliptical machine tells me that I burn about 400calories every 10 minutes in a moderate exercise. That translates to an average power output of 2.8W. In order to produce 200W of electrical power, assuming that the generator is able to achieve 100% efficiency, I would need to either run 8 faster or weigh 6.3tons.
You can look at the statistics many ways. Here's the GFLOP/CPU catagorized by OS:
1. GPU: 65.463
2. Linux: 1.219
3. Windows: 0.948
4. Mac: 0.511
Of course, GPU beating the hell out of CPU in such tests is no surprise. It's pretty much a massive parallel vector engine. I'm more interested in seeing how PS3 holds agains all other guys when it comes out. They have a folding client for PS3 already.
More accurately, this is a proof-of-concept. An prototype would've required at least something that would work over the industrial temperature range. The thinkpad would probably die at temperatures above 60C.
I'll answer your comments the best I can.
Yes, aerobraking as using the atmosphere to slow down the spacecraft (before openning parachute). We can aerobrake to slow down a 2t probe from Mach 20 (I'm not sure the entry speed of the probes, this is just a guess. I don't think it will be slower than that) to Mach 1.0 in Mar's atmosphere. That's what MER and pathfinder have shown us. But to slow down a 200t spacecraft from that speed to Mach 1.0 is much more difficult. There is simply not enough air in the Mars atmosphere, especially in the upper atmosphere, which is where aerobraking takes place.
Reverse rocket propulsion has worked on moon, but in order to do it on Mars, we need a whole lot more fuel. IIRC it's on the order of 5X the mass of your payload. The reverse propulsion problem is also compounded by the strong side wind.
As for wind strength, I was not referring to the surface storm on Mars, although it's another factor (Mars has the worst dust storm in the solar system). When the spacecraft is trying to land, the parabolic trajectory dictates that you will get sidewinds with respect to the vertical axis of the spacecraft. It makes the rocket a LOT harder to control. That's why we never launch a rocket (on earth) when the surface wind go over, say, 30MPH. There's also no mystery that we were able to do it on the moon.
I recently listened to a NASA workshop on the difficulties of landing human on Mars. It basically come down to this:
1. To land human on Mars, the current landing vehicles for MER and MSL are too small. We need to deliver at least 200t-300t's of payload.
2. The atmosphere on Mars is too thin to use aero-braking, i.e. can't land like space shuttle on earth.
3. The Mars gravity is too great to have moon-like landing, i.e. reverse propulsion.
I don't mean to sound too pessimistic, but with today's technology, chance of successful human mission is very small. We need a technology breakthrough in order to land something that big on Mars. Two possibilities:
1. Parachute that can stand hyper-sonic speed wind. Or,
2. Learn how to fly rockets backwards with sidewinds potentially 5x-10x stronger than that of Hurricane Katrina.
The original post said that Linux was 25% of Dell's server business, but the TFA said it was 25% of Dell's Enterprise business. There's a big difference there. Enterprise business also include high-end workstations, and server business also include small-business servers and such.
The original post seems to based the claim of PS3 being a computer on the rumor that it is upgrdable and configurable. Well...my car is upgradable also, and so is my bicyle, I also vaguely remember having to choose between a V-4 and a V-6 model when I first purchased my car...
Just like any other average /. poster, the moment you see something on China and IP, China is always the pirater. Despite the facts (that you don't know about) that Chinese laws DOES protect patent filed in China, this story has nothing to do with patent violation.
China simply doesn't want foreign companies to hold the dominant IP on one of the network infrastructure protocols, as doing so would mean that billions of Chinese customers would have to pay a foreign orgazination (IEEE and Intel) a royalty fee on every single 802.11 product they purchase (and believe it or not, they DO pay through the manufacturers).
So why does China care to make their own standard an international standard? Because Intel doesn't give a damn to China's standard, unless it is made official IEEE. Intel will continue to sell Intel's standard to China as long as Intel's standard is the IEE standard protocol. And they sell a whole lot of 802.11 devices every year.
Grandparent's calculation also failed to point out that human respiration does not consume 100% of the oxygen in the air. Dry air contains about 20% oxygen, and exhaled (consumed) air contains about 16% oxygen. To make the air breathable again, you only need to replace the 4% consumption. Assuming that you can remove the CO2 in a reasonable speed, the 20L of breathable air (flow) can easily be turned to 100L of breathable air (flow).
In related news, citizen was arrested by un-identified government agents for not saying "God bless America" in his recorded phone survey with Washington Post.