Indeed this is true - thus my reference to 'brevity and plot considerations.' Nevertheless, Tom is an interesting character and has a potential to add a bit to the character of a potential film.
Few are those who will understand the reference to Tom singing without having read the Hobbit and Tolkien's related works. As is often the sad truth about interpretations of books, sections get omitted for brevity and plot considerations. Unfortunately, this has a tendency to remove some of the depth present in the original work. Such is the case with Tom; this is why his name is unfamiliar whereas Bilbo et al are near universal in recognition.
And for the record, sqrt(1100m2) = 33.17 meters = 108.83 feet a side. 110 feet per side gets you an extra 24.13 square meters.. enough for 4 interns including desks.
You mean in the room WITH the supercomputer? Oooh! I call dibs on the sauna office!
While it might perhaps be best to withhold judgement until vista actually ships, I would tend to agree with your sentiments. I assume many others will too.
For the future:
Macs are the longtime favorites of publishers, artists, etc. If you are comfortable with apple and their offerings, give it a shot -- many of the tools with which you're already familiar run well in OSX.
Otherwise, you might be quite honestly surprised by modern offerings in the linux software universe. If you'd rather avoid gimp, vim, and other popular OSS tools, you still have a variety of options. For graphics, you might instead try inkscape and/or run photoshop in wine (it is quite useable, stable, and more importantly: stable). For development and editing: http://www.nvu.com/index.php or again go the wine route with dreamweaver and flash.
By all means do what works for you.
It still might take a while though, progress is slow, so slow.
There is of course truth in that statement, especially considering the effective infancy of CNT materials science. Many gains have been made in the past 15 years or so, but it takes time...and thus the quote from the summary. We are today seemingly obsessed with instancy; however, this is to our detriment. Patience, patience!
I did ask, several different reps. It's so widely publicized at Dell, that only one our of four even knew linux was an OS. The others believed windows was the only operating system.
From TFA: "The $1,433 suggested retail price for the reviewed model seems high."
That's for sure, considering the reviewed model was a 1.73GHz Centrino processor with a 533MHz front side bus, 512MB of DDR2 memory, and a 60GB 5400RPM hard drive.
I like what rcubed is doing and give them lots of credit, but until the likes of Dell and other large vendors offer mainstream factory linux installation (without hidden charges, etc), we're on our own. Modern distributions are savvy enough to handle almost everything you throw at them, but without the blessing of the big vendors, linux will be confined largely to enthusiasts.
Actually, it would be impossible to accurately determine whether such a situation would best be considered inbreeding or incest. To do so, one would be required to know both the geneology and religion of the DS and wii. In some cultures, both are considered entirely permissible, but to examine such cases would require an anthropological discussion regarding exogamy and endogamy. Given that we're talking about two electronic devices of uncertain lineage and beliefs, perhaps we would best consider it jest and move on with our day.
Though indeed helpful to restore normal bacterial populations for those with yeast infections, yoghurt is good all around to keep you healthy. The nutrients yoghurt contains -- while beneficial -- are actually not the most important part. Most beneficial are in fact the live cultures found in many yoghurts. I.E: Just finished off a prescription of antibiotics, did you? Well, the odds are very good that it negatively impacted the microorganisms in your GI tract - to speed your recovery by restoring a natural balance, enjoy your yoghurt.
And that is why even the funding of cheese research might have a tangentally impact upon you.
Unfortunately, on a large (large) academic network like mine, the logistics of applying patches to a vast fleet of student/staff/faculty machines are quite complex. Its summer now, and the spring semester has come to a close. While machines located physically on campus are quite safe, those thousands of machines which have departed are quite a different story. Nothing could be more distant from mind than connecting to the university network for an automatic update or checking an academic email inbox for a security advisory. With a network of such variable size, many, many cans of worms (unfortunately, quite literally) are opened upon at the onset of the full academic term. Therefore, multiple preventative strategies are as equally important, if not more so, as patching in protecting the network. Thus the desire for an IPS/IDS signature, as it is a great deal easier to kill an exploit at the packet level than at host level. Such signatures not intended as a single line of defense, but indeed, to shore up those more primary.
Patched or not, the information presented here and in the pages linked therein make it clear that -- until all machines are patched -- there is a distinct possibility of an exploit getting through. To that end, I have no doubt some groups have been hot on the issue looking for the hole.
The same page ^^^ implies that symantec released IPS signatures for their products. With that said, do any signatures exist for other IPS/IDS solutions (snort, etc) ? If so, I would very much like to utilize them until any possibility of a threat has passed.
You are quite right in saying so, and it was entirely my intention to make that point. As I said, the industry has quite some time before growing beyond its infancy. However, the main point to be made is that people are attempting to be forward thinking and, indeed, pragmatic enough to realize that the requisite infrastructure for the elevator must be established. Only then may genuine progress be made towards making what today remains science fiction into reality.
Indeed, you are quite right that nanotubes have countless possible applications. These might (will) include highly efficient power transmission lines, more resilient and greatly strengthened materials, molecule-thin conductive sheets, neural interfaces, breaking moore's law by many magnitudes in processor development, and so on, but these possibilities are hardly exclusive. Such applications will immensely valuable in the future, and the various industries represented by that list are very much attuned to new developments. For example, a power transmission publication featured CNTs as its cover story just recently...As soon as big industry takes notice and demand increases, so will the quantity and quality of nanotube manufacture, and price will drop like a stone.
The tech is barely past a decade since its inception, so as you might imagine it is still in its infancy. Yet, there are actually quite a few groups working on manufacturing and marketing CNTs right at this very moment. In fact, the organization behind most of the recent space elevator press is Liftport. While looking to the skies, they are no starry-eyed optomists, and they recognize the great deal of work required to get to the level of materials technology capable of supporting the elevator.
As such, they are doing the R&D and capitalizing on the results. See this page for the beginning of what will soon be a booming industry.
Search for "computer repair" at any major search engine, and Claria adds a popunder giving Yahoo Overture ads for that same term. Sponsored link popunders also target specific web sites. Visiting Dell often yields a Claria popunder of Yahoo Overture ads for "computer."
Claria's provision of Yahoo Overture sponsored links raises clear questions of business benefit for affected advertisers. In the second screenshot at right, the user was already at the Dell.com site. (Indeed, Dell might have just paid several dollars to reach that user, via a pay-per-click ad at Yahoo, Google, or elsewhere.) Claria's popunder risks drawing the user's attention away from Dell -- but if the user then clicks on the prominent Dell ad in Claria's Overture listing, Dell has to pay again for the same user who was already at the Dell site. Why pay Yahoo and Claria to get the user back, when it was they who took the user from Dell in the first place?
Similar practices are not difficult to imagine in the context of typosquatting, and while Claria might be effectively defunct now, but rest assured that plenty of others have risen to fill the gap.
Oh he didn't entirely lose the room. Far from it, considering the exceptionally dry speakers preceding the Bushes and Colbert. (All praise the invention of fast forward).
Colbert's greeting of Scalia, comments regarding Fox, boxing a glacier, DC the mallowmar city, Plame, and Helen-Thomas-the-stalker were all priceless.
The interviews of the press corps in their little caves and 'presidential humor - cspan style' segments were great too. By all means watch it if you haven't.
The patent system will not be changed until it wreaks havoc across the land. It will be a painful process, but isn't change always such?
The only problem is that - when the dust finally clears and we awaken to sanity - the rest of the world will have sped far ahead. We've already lost our technological edge; to see this one must merely glance at our international partners. Broadband speeds orders of magnitude faster than our typical domestic cable/dsl, for a fraction of our cost. A growing trade deficit. Europe reawakening under a common helm, uniting as one. Lines drawn in the sand, once indefinite, are now becoming quite clear. Innovation having been mired and made stagnant by artificial impediments -- by those institutions ostensibly intended to ensure it (!!) -- change will be too slow to come. The world's one-time darling is now reluctantly giving up her crown.
And so so many stand idly by, feigning helplessness, watching it happen.
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Indeed this is true - thus my reference to 'brevity and plot considerations.' Nevertheless, Tom is an interesting character and has a potential to add a bit to the character of a potential film.
Few are those who will understand the reference to Tom singing without having read the Hobbit and Tolkien's related works. As is often the sad truth about interpretations of books, sections get omitted for brevity and plot considerations. Unfortunately, this has a tendency to remove some of the depth present in the original work. Such is the case with Tom; this is why his name is unfamiliar whereas Bilbo et al are near universal in recognition.
Here are two rather good sources of information about Tom:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Bombadil
http://www.cas.unt.edu/~hargrove/bombadil.html
Let's just hope the chairs are bolted to the floor.
And for the record, sqrt(1100m2) = 33.17 meters = 108.83 feet a side. 110 feet per side gets you an extra 24.13 square meters .. enough for 4 interns including desks.
You mean in the room WITH the supercomputer? Oooh! I call dibs on the sauna office!
While it might perhaps be best to withhold judgement until vista actually ships, I would tend to agree with your sentiments. I assume many others will too. For the future: Macs are the longtime favorites of publishers, artists, etc. If you are comfortable with apple and their offerings, give it a shot -- many of the tools with which you're already familiar run well in OSX. Otherwise, you might be quite honestly surprised by modern offerings in the linux software universe. If you'd rather avoid gimp, vim, and other popular OSS tools, you still have a variety of options. For graphics, you might instead try inkscape and/or run photoshop in wine (it is quite useable, stable, and more importantly: stable). For development and editing: http://www.nvu.com/index.php or again go the wine route with dreamweaver and flash. By all means do what works for you.
It still might take a while though, progress is slow, so slow.
There is of course truth in that statement, especially considering the effective infancy of CNT materials science. Many gains have been made in the past 15 years or so, but it takes time...and thus the quote from the summary. We are today seemingly obsessed with instancy; however, this is to our detriment. Patience, patience!
Or for preventing a compromised box from DOSing the rest of the world.
Unfortunately, they also create a false sense of security. In my opinion, that is far, far worse.
I did ask, several different reps. It's so widely publicized at Dell, that only one our of four even knew linux was an OS. The others believed windows was the only operating system.
From TFA: "The $1,433 suggested retail price for the reviewed model seems high."
That's for sure, considering the reviewed model was a 1.73GHz Centrino processor with a 533MHz front side bus, 512MB of DDR2 memory, and a 60GB 5400RPM hard drive.
I like what rcubed is doing and give them lots of credit, but until the likes of Dell and other large vendors offer mainstream factory linux installation (without hidden charges, etc), we're on our own. Modern distributions are savvy enough to handle almost everything you throw at them, but without the blessing of the big vendors, linux will be confined largely to enthusiasts.
Sounds like Jack Thompson
Aww, give the guy a break - I know when I get an internet delivered to my inbox, it takes a long time to download too.
#include
#include "OStest.h";
main(){
if((is_OSX() || is_Unixey()) && !has_slashdot_flames()){
}else if(is_MS_OS())
}}
Actually, it would be impossible to accurately determine whether such a situation would best be considered inbreeding or incest. To do so, one would be required to know both the geneology and religion of the DS and wii. In some cultures, both are considered entirely permissible, but to examine such cases would require an anthropological discussion regarding exogamy and endogamy. Given that we're talking about two electronic devices of uncertain lineage and beliefs, perhaps we would best consider it jest and move on with our day.
Though indeed helpful to restore normal bacterial populations for those with yeast infections, yoghurt is good all around to keep you healthy. The nutrients yoghurt contains -- while beneficial -- are actually not the most important part. Most beneficial are in fact the live cultures found in many yoghurts. I.E: Just finished off a prescription of antibiotics, did you? Well, the odds are very good that it negatively impacted the microorganisms in your GI tract - to speed your recovery by restoring a natural balance, enjoy your yoghurt.
And that is why even the funding of cheese research might have a tangentally impact upon you.
....isn't that incest?
Unfortunately, on a large (large) academic network like mine, the logistics of applying patches to a vast fleet of student/staff/faculty machines are quite complex. Its summer now, and the spring semester has come to a close. While machines located physically on campus are quite safe, those thousands of machines which have departed are quite a different story. Nothing could be more distant from mind than connecting to the university network for an automatic update or checking an academic email inbox for a security advisory. With a network of such variable size, many, many cans of worms (unfortunately, quite literally) are opened upon at the onset of the full academic term. Therefore, multiple preventative strategies are as equally important, if not more so, as patching in protecting the network. Thus the desire for an IPS/IDS signature, as it is a great deal easier to kill an exploit at the packet level than at host level. Such signatures not intended as a single line of defense, but indeed, to shore up those more primary.
Patched or not, the information presented here and in the pages linked therein make it clear that -- until all machines are patched -- there is a distinct possibility of an exploit getting through. To that end, I have no doubt some groups have been hot on the issue looking for the hole.
The same page ^^^ implies that symantec released IPS signatures for their products. With that said, do any signatures exist for other IPS/IDS solutions (snort, etc) ? If so, I would very much like to utilize them until any possibility of a threat has passed.
You are quite right in saying so, and it was entirely my intention to make that point. As I said, the industry has quite some time before growing beyond its infancy. However, the main point to be made is that people are attempting to be forward thinking and, indeed, pragmatic enough to realize that the requisite infrastructure for the elevator must be established. Only then may genuine progress be made towards making what today remains science fiction into reality.
As for current realities: many promising, potentially useful applications are developed every year.
Indeed, you are quite right that nanotubes have countless possible applications. These might (will) include highly efficient power transmission lines, more resilient and greatly strengthened materials, molecule-thin conductive sheets, neural interfaces, breaking moore's law by many magnitudes in processor development, and so on, but these possibilities are hardly exclusive. Such applications will immensely valuable in the future, and the various industries represented by that list are very much attuned to new developments. For example, a power transmission publication featured CNTs as its cover story just recently. ..As soon as big industry takes notice and demand increases, so will the quantity and quality of nanotube manufacture, and price will drop like a stone.
The tech is barely past a decade since its inception, so as you might imagine it is still in its infancy. Yet, there are actually quite a few groups working on manufacturing and marketing CNTs right at this very moment. In fact, the organization behind most of the recent space elevator press is Liftport. While looking to the skies, they are no starry-eyed optomists, and they recognize the great deal of work required to get to the level of materials technology capable of supporting the elevator.
As such, they are doing the R&D and capitalizing on the results. See this page for the beginning of what will soon be a booming industry.
Google only makes 7-8 billion in revenue..
Oh, what a sad world! Vast sums are considered mere trifles.
Only through such a perspective may the 'tiered internet' endeavor to exist.
Actually, I imagine the advertisers are more pissed off that they're paying twice for the same click.
A comment above contained a link to How Yahoo Funds Spyware. A relevant quote:
Similar practices are not difficult to imagine in the context of typosquatting, and while Claria might be effectively defunct now, but rest assured that plenty of others have risen to fill the gap.
Oh he didn't entirely lose the room. Far from it, considering the exceptionally dry speakers preceding the Bushes and Colbert. (All praise the invention of fast forward). Colbert's greeting of Scalia, comments regarding Fox, boxing a glacier, DC the mallowmar city, Plame, and Helen-Thomas-the-stalker were all priceless. The interviews of the press corps in their little caves and 'presidential humor - cspan style' segments were great too. By all means watch it if you haven't.
The patent system will not be changed until it wreaks havoc across the land. It will be a painful process, but isn't change always such?
The only problem is that - when the dust finally clears and we awaken to sanity - the rest of the world will have sped far ahead. We've already lost our technological edge; to see this one must merely glance at our international partners. Broadband speeds orders of magnitude faster than our typical domestic cable/dsl, for a fraction of our cost. A growing trade deficit. Europe reawakening under a common helm, uniting as one. Lines drawn in the sand, once indefinite, are now becoming quite clear. Innovation having been mired and made stagnant by artificial impediments -- by those institutions ostensibly intended to ensure it (!!) -- change will be too slow to come. The world's one-time darling is now reluctantly giving up her crown.
And so so many stand idly by, feigning helplessness, watching it happen.
I know; sort of sad, isn't it?