You are very right. But by Intel's own admission, support (both in Kernel and X) for Sandy bridge came fairly late in development. As a result, Sandy Bridge is only supported in the very latest kernel (2.6.37) and X. This means that if you buy a PC running Sandy Bridge now, no active and stable distro will support it out of the box (backporting won't be feasible because of the extensive and invasive changes that this support will require). Ubuntu Natty will support it though, but that will happen in April.
Things will be different for Ivy Bridge, and Intel is working hard, to make support available in mainstream kernel and X as soon as possible.
"single tin oxide (Sn02) nanowire 10 nanometers long and 100 nanometers in diameter."
This is not a wire (the diameter is one order of magnitude bigger than the length...). Maybe only a type, but the actual length should be in micrometers... Indeed from the original Science paper:
"It took about half an hour to charge a nanowire with initial length of 16 um and diameter of 188 nm."
It would be nice to check if reported claims made in TFA make sense before posting...
Then explain me this. Someone that most likely flanked hard math and science classes but managed to get a good law degree (or an MBA) makes millions. Science PhD (like me) barely survive? Are you saying that really is because we are either stupid or wrongly educated? Also: I know I can't cherry peak, but explain me people like Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg. Thanks for any insight.
One crucial factor the article doesn't mention is Android Market. Although a vast part of Android is open source, besides the traditional google applications, Android Market is closed source. Not only that but to be able to use it a phone manufacturer has to receive permission from Google. Without that Android is a platform with no apps. I am not sure what is the strategy for Badu (or Bing) to create a competing market...
Until a stable release of libreoffice is out, go-oo.org will do for you. No Oracle banners, and many useful patches never accepted in the official openoffice.org. Besides if you use Ubuntu, Novell, RedHat, they use go-oo.
FUD. You can easily install flash and reader (and keep them updated) through the official "partner" repositories.
sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer
No needs to go on Adobe website.
I installed wine, downloaded the windows application (Picasa for windows, for example) and click on the installer. Followed the instruction. I ended up with a menu entry and an icon on the Desktop, from which I can easily run the program.
Well, darkness or brightness are always represented as relative to something else. Different kind of "light" (uv, for example) are darker than others (visible). But that is beside the point....
Android's version is ready. There is a problem however with Android not officially allowing ad hoc connections (which are used to connect to the drone), hence a stock android phone cannot be used. A rooted version does, however. More here: https://projects.ardrone.org/boards/1/topics/show/452
The use (encoding and decoding) of a licensed technology is not the same as modifying a patented technology. Google licensed the use of h264 for Youtube and Chrome. Assuming that MPEG-LA is correct about patent infringement in WebM, than Google's licensing over the use of h264 would not apply, because their original license does not allow for modifications or derived work. The fact that Mozilla and Opera use WebM is irrelevant. The alleged problem here is that WebM is potentially an unlicensed modification of patented technology. MPEG-LA is so sure of it that they are already working on a specific licensing for WebM: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/05/21/133249/MPEG-LA-Considering-Patent-Pool-For-VP8WebM Obviously it remain to be proven that WebM really is derived work. If yes, it's a major blow for Google (with unpleasent effects for Opera and Mozilla as well). If not, obviously this is a major win for Google, WebM and open formats in general.
By the way, in essence this is the same issue Google is facing with Oracle's Java lawsuit (i.e. derived, unlicensed work of a non compatible version of java).
You are confusing the limitations of current technology (silicon) with new technologies. You will never be able to have a stable single layer of Si, for example, but you can (and it's fairly easy to do) with carbon. Carbon electronics is VERY different from Si electronics, it behaves in a completely different way. In other words, we are not reaching any limitations, but we are in fact opening new ventures into fundamentally different materials with new and very different behaviors. Practically speaking: Graphene transistors can already work at frequencies unimaginable for Si. Because of that I don't see the "1 layer thickness" as a limitation, but in fact one of the main reason for why graphene is so different and potentially groundbreaking.
If we go by your reasoning (to which I agree!), we would not have had the government sleeping while: 1) BP made the mess he did. 2) the large financial institution were running recklessly wild. Instead Congress took the money and looked the other way. I don't see any real difference here, as far as Microsoft is concerned.
IPhone owners gave away that right long ago. You never really own an iPhone, or a Mac. Apple knows what is best for you, because it thinks a user is unable to make adult decisions.
If I smoke, I am at risk, so my premium goes up. If I use MS products the same applies. Why should I be taxed if i am already conscious and proactive about being safe?
Why not using something similar to a carbon-trade approach. Say you use Linux or Macs, you are already contributing to a safer environment. You can sell your shares to more "polluting" users (of MS products). That would be more fair, and in honesty more appropriate.
I actually use my netbook to give presentations, which I prepare obviously with my regular desktop. Now, I can only imagine the problems and issues that I would have in using Google docs. The files are limited in size and my presentations usually don't fit within the actual limits imposed by Google. The same for text documents, as it is not uncommon for me to receive large (>10MB) word files. What should I do then?
The only consolation is that (hopefully) OpenOffice is only an "apt-get install" away.
What do you call an "Internet driver license" a certification or an identification? Your driving license is both a certification (that you know how to drive) and an identification (to show who you are). The same applies here.
More specifically, the article makes the same analogy of the driving license:
'If you want to drive a car you have to have a license to say that you are capable of driving a car, the car has to pass a test to say it is fit to drive and you have to have insurance.'
If I am not mistaken, Ubuntu 10.04 will drop Google as the default search engine for Firefox in favor of Yahoo! search. Now it's funny they will be using Google docs, as I am sure it will create a little bit of inconsistency...
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You are very right. But by Intel's own admission, support (both in Kernel and X) for Sandy bridge came fairly late in development. As a result, Sandy Bridge is only supported in the very latest kernel (2.6.37) and X. This means that if you buy a PC running Sandy Bridge now, no active and stable distro will support it out of the box (backporting won't be feasible because of the extensive and invasive changes that this support will require). Ubuntu Natty will support it though, but that will happen in April. Things will be different for Ivy Bridge, and Intel is working hard, to make support available in mainstream kernel and X as soon as possible.
Linux will receive support directly from Intel for Ivy Bridge, with better timing than for Sandy Bridge (whose support for Linux was notably very late): http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=ODk3Nw
"single tin oxide (Sn02) nanowire 10 nanometers long and 100 nanometers in diameter."
This is not a wire (the diameter is one order of magnitude bigger than the length...). Maybe only a type, but the actual length should be in micrometers... Indeed from the original Science paper:
"It took about half an hour to charge a nanowire with initial length of 16 um and diameter of 188 nm."
It would be nice to check if reported claims made in TFA make sense before posting...
Then explain me this. Someone that most likely flanked hard math and science classes but managed to get a good law degree (or an MBA) makes millions. Science PhD (like me) barely survive? Are you saying that really is because we are either stupid or wrongly educated? Also: I know I can't cherry peak, but explain me people like Bill Gates, Larry Ellison, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg. Thanks for any insight.
One crucial factor the article doesn't mention is Android Market. Although a vast part of Android is open source, besides the traditional google applications, Android Market is closed source. Not only that but to be able to use it a phone manufacturer has to receive permission from Google. Without that Android is a platform with no apps. I am not sure what is the strategy for Badu (or Bing) to create a competing market...
Until a stable release of libreoffice is out, go-oo.org will do for you. No Oracle banners, and many useful patches never accepted in the official openoffice.org. Besides if you use Ubuntu, Novell, RedHat, they use go-oo.
FUD. You can easily install flash and reader (and keep them updated) through the official "partner" repositories. sudo apt-get install flashplugin-installer No needs to go on Adobe website.
I installed wine, downloaded the windows application (Picasa for windows, for example) and click on the installer. Followed the instruction. I ended up with a menu entry and an icon on the Desktop, from which I can easily run the program.
Now, what's exactly difficult about that?
Well, darkness or brightness are always represented as relative to something else. Different kind of "light" (uv, for example) are darker than others (visible). But that is beside the point....
Android's version is ready. There is a problem however with Android not officially allowing ad hoc connections (which are used to connect to the drone), hence a stock android phone cannot be used. A rooted version does, however. More here: https://projects.ardrone.org/boards/1/topics/show/452
The use (encoding and decoding) of a licensed technology is not the same as modifying a patented technology. Google licensed the use of h264 for Youtube and Chrome. Assuming that MPEG-LA is correct about patent infringement in WebM, than Google's licensing over the use of h264 would not apply, because their original license does not allow for modifications or derived work. The fact that Mozilla and Opera use WebM is irrelevant. The alleged problem here is that WebM is potentially an unlicensed modification of patented technology. MPEG-LA is so sure of it that they are already working on a specific licensing for WebM: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/05/21/133249/MPEG-LA-Considering-Patent-Pool-For-VP8WebM
Obviously it remain to be proven that WebM really is derived work. If yes, it's a major blow for Google (with unpleasent effects for Opera and Mozilla as well). If not, obviously this is a major win for Google, WebM and open formats in general.
By the way, in essence this is the same issue Google is facing with Oracle's Java lawsuit (i.e. derived, unlicensed work of a non compatible version of java).
I can't wait to see what happens.
Which is one of the main reasons Google developed WebM in first place: Not to have to license h236 encoding and decoding from MPEG-LA.
The lawsuit against Google would concern the alleged violation of MPEG-LA's patents in Google's WebM, not in the unlicensed use of h264...
You are confusing the limitations of current technology (silicon) with new technologies. You will never be able to have a stable single layer of Si, for example, but you can (and it's fairly easy to do) with carbon. Carbon electronics is VERY different from Si electronics, it behaves in a completely different way. In other words, we are not reaching any limitations, but we are in fact opening new ventures into fundamentally different materials with new and very different behaviors. Practically speaking: Graphene transistors can already work at frequencies unimaginable for Si. Because of that I don't see the "1 layer thickness" as a limitation, but in fact one of the main reason for why graphene is so different and potentially groundbreaking.
If we go by your reasoning (to which I agree!), we would not have had the government sleeping while: 1) BP made the mess he did. 2) the large financial institution were running recklessly wild. Instead Congress took the money and looked the other way. I don't see any real difference here, as far as Microsoft is concerned.
Intel.
More to the point, Apple possible discontinuation of the software download page:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/04/developers-concerned-that-mac-os-x-downloads-page-may-vanish.ars
(It might paranoid, nevertheless...)
Very possible. Even Microsoft (of all software houses), may be thinking along the same lines in a recent job posting...
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/10/04/20/2134213/Job-Ad-Hints-At-Microsoft-Move-To-ARM-Servers
I think it will change. Look at some of the decisions made in the design of the last Macbook pros, in determining which GPU to use (discrete vs integrated):
http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/21/macbook-pros-with-nvidia-geforce-gt-330m-silicon-making-question/
IPhone owners gave away that right long ago. You never really own an iPhone, or a Mac. Apple knows what is best for you, because it thinks a user is unable to make adult decisions.
And people still thinks that Linux requires complicated command line input to work... Finally some "hard" evidence to prove them wrong.
If I smoke, I am at risk, so my premium goes up. If I use MS products the same applies. Why should I be taxed if i am already conscious and proactive about being safe?
Why not using something similar to a carbon-trade approach. Say you use Linux or Macs, you are already contributing to a safer environment. You can sell your shares to more "polluting" users (of MS products). That would be more fair, and in honesty more appropriate.
I actually use my netbook to give presentations, which I prepare obviously with my regular desktop. Now, I can only imagine the problems and issues that I would have in using Google docs. The files are limited in size and my presentations usually don't fit within the actual limits imposed by Google. The same for text documents, as it is not uncommon for me to receive large (>10MB) word files. What should I do then?
The only consolation is that (hopefully) OpenOffice is only an "apt-get install" away.
What do you call an "Internet driver license" a certification or an identification? Your driving license is both a certification (that you know how to drive) and an identification (to show who you are). The same applies here.
More specifically, the article makes the same analogy of the driving license:
'If you want to drive a car you have to have a license to say that you are capable of driving a car, the car has to pass a test to say it is fit to drive and you have to have insurance.'
Read the article, before typing.
If I am not mistaken, Ubuntu 10.04 will drop Google as the default search engine for Firefox in favor of Yahoo! search. Now it's funny they will be using Google docs, as I am sure it will create a little bit of inconsistency...
What's next, Bing maps?