Featuring:
* no flash involved
* only the new HTML5 video tag
* + javascript/CSS3
* + some svg filters too
* + animated PNG
* easy to maintain
* easy to extend
* demos and skin from Mozilla and Dailymotion
Ben Goodger is obviously biased towards Windows. Even at the time when he worked as main architect for Firefox, he has always had a focused development towards Windows. You might remember how Firefox used to suck on OSX (with horrible UI inconsistencies) and problems affecting the Linux version. Firefox, when he was responsible for its design, was a totally Windows centric platform, so much that the UI had to mimic that of Windows also on other OS. When he left, and Firefox 3 came along, things got much better, with specific UI for individual OS.
Nothing wrong with being Windows centric. However, I would not count his opinion as objectively fair. The UI is only the tip of the iceberg in Chrome as Windows specific. If they really wanted to make it really a universal application, they could have done so since the beginning. It now feels like versions for OSX and Linux are an afterthought, and the complain about toolkit just an excuse for something they could have done since the beginning.
(as a side note: Google Earth is built with QT already and they work beautifully on Windows as well as Linux)
First off, I NEVER said all H-1b workers are criminals. I said it is impossible to do a background check on workers from India-or other similarly corrupt countries.
No. What you said is:
The management of UC Berkeley should be investigated for criminal negligence.
Now tell me this: why UC Berkeley should be held responsible for something EVENTUALLY the federal government should have done? Or better: should UC Berkeley completely give up in immigrants and rely on subpar American educated professional? Or again: Should UC Berkeley have better security to monitor everybody (Americans and not) within itself to prevent this to happen? Or is it just easier to blame the "undocumented foreigners" (here in the sense of people without background checks...)
What an idiotic comment: Assuming that all H1b visa holders are fraudulent criminals. Americans, instead are all angels. Yeah, right.
Come on, on the opposite of you, I actually work at UC Berkeley (and I am a US citizen). Most of the H1b are granted to researcher who are valued as an asset for the university. If the US education system would be better than what it is, you would see a much lower number of H1b visas at UC Berkeley.
You shouldn't be ashamed. Who should be ashamed are the so called professionals that sold their name and reputation.
You have the power to select the journal you submit to. They are not all the same. What a few bad apples do cannot be generalized to the majority of high quality, very respectable papers.
BTW, I would refrain to call these phony journals peer-reviewed, when they clearly are not.
Nuclear being green might be true (although serious issues still persist). However it's economically very expensive upfront, with delivery times in th order of several years.
Hydroelectric requires, well water. The US have already exploited as much as possible from their major rivers. Not much left.
Solar (either thermal or PV) has the promise of being viable on two scales: grid power generation, and "home or business" use. Give it a few years for some exciting technology to mature, and as I said previously, solar will be as viable as fossile fuel tech, without any subsidy.
Quote: "Solar PV is one of the least efficient ways to take money and make the world greener."
I would like to see some reference to that claim, because it's totally wrong.
PV solar is getting VERY close to the tipping point of being economically viable (2015 projected date), when compared with fossile based technologies. It's the ONLY green technology (besides, conservation) to be that close.
The University of California, Berkeley is one of the cheapest public universities you can attend. For that reason, claiming that only rich kids go to Berkeley, or simply comparing them to the peers that go to Harvard is not only a stretch, but a lie. Many students I know at Berkeley (yes, I am a research associate there) are paying their way through college, since it's actually quite affordable.
Graphene has some pretty interesting electronic properties. Its bandgap (the essential component of all semiconductors)
Graphene is a semimetal. The bandgap is zero in suspended graphene. Epitaxial graphene on SiC has a small gap (0.1meV) but below Fermi level, so not very useful.
can be manipulated by changing the length of the sheet; as the sheet becomes infinitely long, the bandgap approaches zero.
Not correct. The bandgap of a narrow ribbon depends on the width (not the length) of the ribbon. Above 10nm there is no gap, below there is, regardless how long it is.
As a result, it could hold potential in photovoltaics for light capture or LEDs for light emission where capture/emission is tunable based on the size of the particle (which is pretty easy to manipulate).
Well, this is totally unrelated as electron-hole pair recombination requires a junction.
From the paper they mention that active electrons have near-zero effective mass. Since electron mobility is inversely proportional to effective mass, resistivity approaches zero (in essence, we approach superconductivity).
No. mobility is finite, because you need to take into account of the so called saturation velocity. Besides, near-zero doesn't mean zero, so conceptually the two are completely different.
Whatever software you need to use, just make sure it will supported for a long time. Sometimes you use software that uses specific hardware, and thus specific drivers. Some other times, APIs change, so programs do not tend to behave in case of an upgrade. Although this problem is usually not that important for major applications (LabView, Matlab), it is a huge issue in case you go for an in house solution, or you used highly customized software. I can tell you this by experience since I had to rewrite a major hardware controlling program written originally in SCO-UNIX for i386 into something that works (drivers included) on a modern Linux distro.
You would be correct if any of those (Pidgin, etc) would support video and voice (which they don't). It's been years since we have been promised at least voice support, but it isn't there. So, Pidgin and Co. can do IM just fine, but that is about it.
Heavily crippled. One thing is to be the full OSX, another is to have a small subset of features. Furthermore, you cannot run any program written for OSX in the iPhone. To me that's enough to say that the iPhone-OSX is not the same as OSX.
Although I am totally supportive of the idea of the poster, I think he's also missing the big picture of what the real problems of the US education are. What is missing is not a "computer in every classroom", but a strong math and physical science education. The US are failing to train the next generation of scientists and engineers, by focusing on irrelevant form of education. Being able to do a content-less powerpoint, is pretty pointless. Kids need to know math and science, but more importantly, they need to learn the scientific process of learning. Once they learn that, for them to learn technology is a pretty straightforward task. For this reason I strongly support the financing and development of science labs in schools, and science curricula strictly devoted in teaching science through inquiry. Stimulating the kids with proper questioning and teach them how to think rationally in a problem solving matter, is the goal. Kids don't need distractions, they need focus, and a stimulating environment, where their mind can grow. Besides labs, the key element for this to happen is not on PCs, but on well trained, capable, engaged teachers. The problem is not "not enoutgh PCs". It's "not enough capable teachers".
You can always open another Gmail account with as little info of yourself as possible. I have many of them I use for spam, newsletters etc, with no personal info. I don't see why you make such a big deal out of this...
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Although predictable (they did the same with Picasa...), it's just really a hack. I mean, as good as Wine is, it will never compete with a browser which is designed to run natively on a platform. I am curious to see benchmarks on JavaScript performance and stability, for example. If Chrome wants to be a real competitor in the browser war for Macs and Linux, it can only be it with real, officially supported versions. Otherwise it's just a pointless showcase.
You can't see Russia from Wasilla or Anchorage or Juneau. It's like saying you can see Indiana or Ohio from New York City. The only place in Alaska where you can actually see a small (very small!) chunk of Russia is from the Bering strait (~50 km).
Claiming you can see the actual Russia from anywhere in Alaska is a plain lie and shows how little these folks know about geography. Besides, It's not that you see the real Russia from Alaska anyway. As many Russian commentators said, that part is a chunk of ice. The place in Russia where the power, the economy sits is in a different timezone. But I am sure Alaskans know that.
To be really successful, HP-Linux needs to have a strong Windows binary compatibility. You simply can't sell your full line of PCs without compatibility with Windows. As much as/. crowds would love to be MS free, users still demand windows, not even mentioning businesses and enterprises. Alternative to commercial products may be a good start, but sometimes people want to be able to install the real deal (Photoshop, Office, etc). The only way I see this possible in the short term is by pushing on Wine, until at least users make the transition to native programs or these program are ported to Linux.
Slashdot Mirror
So it's not surprising....
From here: http://www.dailymotion.com/openvideodemo
Featuring:
* no flash involved
* only the new HTML5 video tag
* + javascript/CSS3
* + some svg filters too
* + animated PNG
* easy to maintain
* easy to extend
* demos and skin from Mozilla and Dailymotion
Ben Goodger is obviously biased towards Windows. Even at the time when he worked as main architect for Firefox, he has always had a focused development towards Windows. You might remember how Firefox used to suck on OSX (with horrible UI inconsistencies) and problems affecting the Linux version. Firefox, when he was responsible for its design, was a totally Windows centric platform, so much that the UI had to mimic that of Windows also on other OS. When he left, and Firefox 3 came along, things got much better, with specific UI for individual OS.
Nothing wrong with being Windows centric. However, I would not count his opinion as objectively fair. The UI is only the tip of the iceberg in Chrome as Windows specific. If they really wanted to make it really a universal application, they could have done so since the beginning. It now feels like versions for OSX and Linux are an afterthought, and the complain about toolkit just an excuse for something they could have done since the beginning.
(as a side note: Google Earth is built with QT already and they work beautifully on Windows as well as Linux)
First off, I NEVER said all H-1b workers are criminals. I said it is impossible to do a background check on workers from India-or other similarly corrupt countries.
No. What you said is:
The management of UC Berkeley should be investigated for criminal negligence.
Now tell me this: why UC Berkeley should be held responsible for something EVENTUALLY the federal government should have done? Or better: should UC Berkeley completely give up in immigrants and rely on subpar American educated professional? Or again: Should UC Berkeley have better security to monitor everybody (Americans and not) within itself to prevent this to happen? Or is it just easier to blame the "undocumented foreigners" (here in the sense of people without background checks...)
What an idiotic comment: Assuming that all H1b visa holders are fraudulent criminals. Americans, instead are all angels. Yeah, right. Come on, on the opposite of you, I actually work at UC Berkeley (and I am a US citizen). Most of the H1b are granted to researcher who are valued as an asset for the university. If the US education system would be better than what it is, you would see a much lower number of H1b visas at UC Berkeley.
You shouldn't be ashamed. Who should be ashamed are the so called professionals that sold their name and reputation. You have the power to select the journal you submit to. They are not all the same. What a few bad apples do cannot be generalized to the majority of high quality, very respectable papers. BTW, I would refrain to call these phony journals peer-reviewed, when they clearly are not.
Nuclear being green might be true (although serious issues still persist). However it's economically very expensive upfront, with delivery times in th order of several years. Hydroelectric requires, well water. The US have already exploited as much as possible from their major rivers. Not much left. Solar (either thermal or PV) has the promise of being viable on two scales: grid power generation, and "home or business" use. Give it a few years for some exciting technology to mature, and as I said previously, solar will be as viable as fossile fuel tech, without any subsidy.
Quote: "Solar PV is one of the least efficient ways to take money and make the world greener." I would like to see some reference to that claim, because it's totally wrong. PV solar is getting VERY close to the tipping point of being economically viable (2015 projected date), when compared with fossile based technologies. It's the ONLY green technology (besides, conservation) to be that close.
The University of California, Berkeley is one of the cheapest public universities you can attend. For that reason, claiming that only rich kids go to Berkeley, or simply comparing them to the peers that go to Harvard is not only a stretch, but a lie. Many students I know at Berkeley (yes, I am a research associate there) are paying their way through college, since it's actually quite affordable.
Graphene has some pretty interesting electronic properties. Its bandgap (the essential component of all semiconductors)
Graphene is a semimetal. The bandgap is zero in suspended graphene. Epitaxial graphene on SiC has a small gap (0.1meV) but below Fermi level, so not very useful.
can be manipulated by changing the length of the sheet; as the sheet becomes infinitely long, the bandgap approaches zero.
Not correct. The bandgap of a narrow ribbon depends on the width (not the length) of the ribbon. Above 10nm there is no gap, below there is, regardless how long it is.
As a result, it could hold potential in photovoltaics for light capture or LEDs for light emission where capture/emission is tunable based on the size of the particle (which is pretty easy to manipulate).
Well, this is totally unrelated as electron-hole pair recombination requires a junction.
Another article popped up on Slashdot recently suggesting graphene could be used for super high-capacity memory storage: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08%2F12%2F18%2F2332251.
From the paper they mention that active electrons have near-zero effective mass. Since electron mobility is inversely proportional to effective mass, resistivity approaches zero (in essence, we approach superconductivity).
No. mobility is finite, because you need to take into account of the so called saturation velocity. Besides, near-zero doesn't mean zero, so conceptually the two are completely different.
Seriously, in face of such global challenges (climate change, water shortage, declining oil supplies), this really at a higher level.
Initially the kernel was compiled without the High memory enabled. Now it is. https://bugs.launchpad.net/dell-mini/+bug/286258
You will be fine. An update of a month or so ago fixed the RAM limit. You will enjoy the full 2GB.
Again, updates are available, at a slower rate than generic ubuntu, but still. Please substantiate your claim of "no updates", otherwise stop the FUD.
It came with an update almost two months ago. Check your facts before you post.
3) XmGrace plots even more beautiful plots...
Whatever software you need to use, just make sure it will supported for a long time. Sometimes you use software that uses specific hardware, and thus specific drivers. Some other times, APIs change, so programs do not tend to behave in case of an upgrade. Although this problem is usually not that important for major applications (LabView, Matlab), it is a huge issue in case you go for an in house solution, or you used highly customized software. I can tell you this by experience since I had to rewrite a major hardware controlling program written originally in SCO-UNIX for i386 into something that works (drivers included) on a modern Linux distro.
You would be correct if any of those (Pidgin, etc) would support video and voice (which they don't). It's been years since we have been promised at least voice support, but it isn't there. So, Pidgin and Co. can do IM just fine, but that is about it.
Actually, the iPhone OS IS Mac OS X.
Heavily crippled. One thing is to be the full OSX, another is to have a small subset of features. Furthermore, you cannot run any program written for OSX in the iPhone. To me that's enough to say that the iPhone-OSX is not the same as OSX.
Although I am totally supportive of the idea of the poster, I think he's also missing the big picture of what the real problems of the US education are. What is missing is not a "computer in every classroom", but a strong math and physical science education. The US are failing to train the next generation of scientists and engineers, by focusing on irrelevant form of education. Being able to do a content-less powerpoint, is pretty pointless. Kids need to know math and science, but more importantly, they need to learn the scientific process of learning. Once they learn that, for them to learn technology is a pretty straightforward task. For this reason I strongly support the financing and development of science labs in schools, and science curricula strictly devoted in teaching science through inquiry. Stimulating the kids with proper questioning and teach them how to think rationally in a problem solving matter, is the goal. Kids don't need distractions, they need focus, and a stimulating environment, where their mind can grow. Besides labs, the key element for this to happen is not on PCs, but on well trained, capable, engaged teachers. The problem is not "not enoutgh PCs". It's "not enough capable teachers".
You can always open another Gmail account with as little info of yourself as possible. I have many of them I use for spam, newsletters etc, with no personal info. I don't see why you make such a big deal out of this...
... the "road to nowhere"!
Although predictable (they did the same with Picasa...), it's just really a hack. I mean, as good as Wine is, it will never compete with a browser which is designed to run natively on a platform. I am curious to see benchmarks on JavaScript performance and stability, for example. If Chrome wants to be a real competitor in the browser war for Macs and Linux, it can only be it with real, officially supported versions. Otherwise it's just a pointless showcase.
You can't see Russia from Wasilla or Anchorage or Juneau. It's like saying you can see Indiana or Ohio from New York City. The only place in Alaska where you can actually see a small (very small!) chunk of Russia is from the Bering strait (~50 km). Claiming you can see the actual Russia from anywhere in Alaska is a plain lie and shows how little these folks know about geography. Besides, It's not that you see the real Russia from Alaska anyway. As many Russian commentators said, that part is a chunk of ice. The place in Russia where the power, the economy sits is in a different timezone. But I am sure Alaskans know that.
To be really successful, HP-Linux needs to have a strong Windows binary compatibility. You simply can't sell your full line of PCs without compatibility with Windows. As much as /. crowds would love to be MS free, users still demand windows, not even mentioning businesses and enterprises. Alternative to commercial products may be a good start, but sometimes people want to be able to install the real deal (Photoshop, Office, etc). The only way I see this possible in the short term is by pushing on Wine, until at least users make the transition to native programs or these program are ported to Linux.
http://www.laptopmag.com/review/laptops/dell-inspiron-mini-9-linux.aspx