"ZDNet notes, 'The chief executive of Opera Software claimed on Monday that the market share figures for Mozilla Firefox are inflated, due to its support for link prefetching.' "
...small, heat-resistant black boxes that will transmit data back to Earth when future space probes break up during re-entry to the Earth's atmosphere.
If they're resistant enough to heat that they can survive the probe breaking up in the atmosphere, shouldn't we just line the probe with the same material that comprises the black boxes?
Personally I use my cellular device for reading CNN's Science/Space page and the occasional "waddup" text. I would like to think that I actually gain intelligence from using my cell phone.
However others (and I have been of this group as well) only use their cell phones to play games and send an unholy amount of text messages.
Personally I never liked Kazaa or Morpheus or other P2P clients. I was a bittorrent kind of guy. But hey, if they can make this new model work I might be switching over.
The French government outlined its plan last month to replace the identity cards and passports offered to French citizens with new ones that carry a microchip containing digitized photographs and fingerprints.
Plastic cards? Seems far more practical to just implant the chip in the neck or something, no chance of losing it that way (well, not without you knowing it). They do it with our beloved canine pets and it seems to work well enough.
*climbs on top of high horse* I don't have time to concern myself with downloading music, I'm far too busy setting up beowulf clusters and waiting for the next slashdot story.
I can see where they're coming from with this services, not goods thing.
Think about cars in their early days (along with computers, but i'm sticking with cars). Many, many more people knew how to fix their cars because they had to, there was no Ford service center down the street. As time went on, less and less people knew how to work on their own cars until the present, when a tiny percentage of car owners know what "that belt looking thing" is under the hood.
The same thing applies to computers. Many many people in the computer's early days knew how to program and build their own computers. Fast forward 10 years when people buy computers because it was the cool thing to do (you know, the cool factor and the computer games). Now Windows XP includes the 2-page "Quickstart Guide" instead of that 3 volume encyclopædia set they used to include. All these uninformed users don't know where to begin when something goes wrong, so IBM saves the day!
*Note: I'm aware the Microsoft knowledge base has moved online, however the omission of the materials from standard distribution indicates a small demand in the user base for it*
Why would Intel want a copy of this law? New ad campaign?
Moore stated that computing power would double every 18 months... his estimations were a tad slow -- introducing the new P6!!! released just 5 months after the P5 and over twice as fast *at over 4 times the cost*
These dual core chips are a tad pricey for their power -- I could beowulf some wal-mart machines and theoretically get 5-fold the power for much, much cheaper.
Having said that it is so much easier to buy one chip than to try and link up 6 or so computers.
any disk wiper that is US Department of Defense 5220.22 M compliant is generally good enough
a good free utility is SDelete, developed by Sysinternals Freeware. 5220.22 M compliant. What's good about this is you can choose the number of passes on a drive -- in case you didn't feel safe with one pass.
According to their study (recently featured in Cell), specific neurons can be stimulated by lasers to control basic functions in fruit flies such as jumping, walking, and flying.
...as well as a variety of showtunes!
soon flies will be entertaining us with all their hilarious antics -- controlled by humans of course:)
To Secure a Future for Humanity
(when we deplete the ozone/nuke ourselves out)
To Build a New Frontier (welcome the space cowboys and their space cattle drives)
To Find New Energy Sources (hydrogen wells)
To Build an Industrial settlement On the Moon (more likely than not it will be a military establishment; MoonWars 2034)
Better Quality Images of the Universe -- and More of Them (no air to look through means fewer distortians; I refer to hubble and all of its glory)
The SETI Effort (same problem of distortion of current signals, but on earth it is due to ambient radio wave interferance from all the devices we run here)
Mining (rare elements here on earth will abound on different planets/moons; some elements' abundance in asteroids could reduce prices here on earth exponentially)
Learning the History of Our Universe On the Moon (lunar geology, a hands-on test of our theories and observations about the varying ages of planets and moons)
Environmental Benefits (perhaps, more than likely we will discover more environmental problems such as breathing sharp lunar dust and introducing extra-terrestrial life into earh's ecosystem)
Meeting the Challenge (if we can, we will; I'm sure about that)
Personally I think people are minding it less because they are seeing it less. With mail clients such as Y! mail that allow you to mark addresses as spammers, the mail gets sent, just moved to the spambox, away from the sensitive eyes of the viewer.
That and Gmail, people want to get any kind of mail to try and fill up their 2.1Gb capacity
If it's on, anywhere in your general vicinity, you are "watching" it
Whether or not you're doing it consciously is debatable, but I know that when it's on in the background I zone back in to it and all of a sudden have a craving for Whataburger... mmm, Whataburger...
Slashdot Mirror
Honestly, I would shell out bucks to not have to see "FREE WEBCAMS!!!! 24/7!!!!" all up and down web pages.
"ZDNet notes, 'The chief executive of Opera Software claimed on Monday that the market share figures for Mozilla Firefox are inflated, due to its support for link prefetching.' "
Who's stupid now?
In fact I check it probably twice a month.
Map of the Internet
If they're resistant enough to heat that they can survive the probe breaking up in the atmosphere, shouldn't we just line the probe with the same material that comprises the black boxes?
However others (and I have been of this group as well) only use their cell phones to play games and send an unholy amount of text messages.
Kind of like school -- you learn if you want to.
Personally I never liked Kazaa or Morpheus or other P2P clients. I was a bittorrent kind of guy. But hey, if they can make this new model work I might be switching over.
Thanks, Bill.
Plastic cards? Seems far more practical to just implant the chip in the neck or something, no chance of losing it that way (well, not without you knowing it). They do it with our beloved canine pets and it seems to work well enough.
That, and I use online radio stations.
Think about cars in their early days (along with computers, but i'm sticking with cars). Many, many more people knew how to fix their cars because they had to, there was no Ford service center down the street. As time went on, less and less people knew how to work on their own cars until the present, when a tiny percentage of car owners know what "that belt looking thing" is under the hood.
The same thing applies to computers. Many many people in the computer's early days knew how to program and build their own computers. Fast forward 10 years when people buy computers because it was the cool thing to do (you know, the cool factor and the computer games). Now Windows XP includes the 2-page "Quickstart Guide" instead of that 3 volume encyclopædia set they used to include. All these uninformed users don't know where to begin when something goes wrong, so IBM saves the day!
*Note: I'm aware the Microsoft knowledge base has moved online, however the omission of the materials from standard distribution indicates a small demand in the user base for it*
Not to say it was horrible, it just didn't interest me
Moore stated that computing power would double every 18 months... his estimations were a tad slow -- introducing the new P6!!! released just 5 months after the P5 and over twice as fast *at over 4 times the cost*
Buy it now at Dell.com!
Having said that it is so much easier to buy one chip than to try and link up 6 or so computers.
Hmmm... decisions, decisions...
Could MS perhaps direct some of their low-cost efforts towards the USA as well? $2,500 for an enterprise 2003 is ridiculous
a good free utility is SDelete, developed by Sysinternals Freeware. 5220.22 M compliant. What's good about this is you can choose the number of passes on a drive -- in case you didn't feel safe with one pass.
That and it's free
soon flies will be entertaining us with all their hilarious antics -- controlled by humans of course :)
Mech paintball anyone? Mech laser tag? Mechwarrior wargames even?
That and Gmail, people want to get any kind of mail to try and fill up their 2.1Gb capacity
http://www.nata2.info/humor/flash/switchlinux3.swf
Linux is so versatile, it's amazing we didn't switch to it before to run our armies of robots :)
Whether or not you're doing it consciously is debatable, but I know that when it's on in the background I zone back in to it and all of a sudden have a craving for Whataburger... mmm, Whataburger...
Yay for hacker school!
If this AMD/Intel schism lowers prices further, kudos to it, I could use another 5 computers for my cluster :)