I have firefox on four seperate machines (atom, core2duo, AMD regor/sargas, and a pentium IV). In linux (specifically ubuntu 8.04, 9.04, 9.10, and 10.04), an up-to-date firefox boots in.5s on all of them. A few of the machines have windows and similar performance. Perhaps something is wrong with your install or something is recking your performance?
Let me guess: cosmic ray. Is it really that hard? What else causes a single bit-flip error in space?
When you have a probe billions of miles from Earth, with no hope of ever physically retrieving it, and something weird happens, I don't think the first thing you do is start making assumptions.
Conversely, when you have a probe billions of miles from Earth, with no hope of ever physically retrieving it, and something weird happens at a low level in an onboard system once in forty-three years, the only thing you can do is make assumptions. If it happens again, you can talk about it being symptomatic, but there is still probably nothing to do.
example of where gui is not so great: Excel 2007.
example of where a cli saves the day no matter how they butcher the UI: AutoCAD.
example of where a gui is great: volume control (except in cases where some bastard made it rotational instead of a slider bar)
Your signature contains a syntax error in most languages, but I imagine that DoWhatIWant() returns with a functioning closing parenthesis when you want one.
In such a high energy environment you will not find life. It was shocking when life was found in boiling water in Yellowstone. PS in the link some numbers appear to be in the hundreds of C, but these are actually with one decimal place. And in such a high energy environment none of the complex molecules characteristic of life would survive.
Actually the oily black part is teeming with oxygen depleting bacteria as we speak. Picture your fancy fish tank alone on a long weekend when the aerator pump breaks. Apply to the entire gulf.
I just want to reiterate what the parent said, as I'm becoming frustrated with all of the "why do we assume it can't exist if it is not like us" posts. No one is claiming life cannot exist without water, we are only stating that life as we know it cannot. Since we have no idea what the hell we would be looking for otherwise, and since we have limited (and in the search for ET life, extremely limited) we have to determine some heuristic for our search. Since water is A) easily detected with telescopes, and B) a requirement for life as we are aware, it is so far our best means of refining our search. There may be some amazing form of X based or X requiring life out there, but since we do not know X, it is not at all helpful to acknowledge its possible existence. If, on the other hand, we happen upon X based/requiring life, we can then include X in our parameters. Please stop assuming that this is some circa 1900AD Newtonian Physics style oversight.
Still, if I buy a DVD I am forced to view previews, piracy warnings, etc.. If I pirate the same movie I get to skip all of those and watch the movie without 10+ minutes of crap. Sounds like someone is selling an inferior product and punishing legitimate users. These days copied discs are superior to originals. Oh, and no rootkits or viruses come pre-packaged.
Expert systems hardly seem like a waste;) And what you are proposing sounds a lot like NLU (natural language understanding). NLU hearkens from the good old days of LISP:) They, of course, did not have nearly the computing power, but NLU is alive and well, with word-context analysis and adaptive algorithms in conversational settings. Do you somehow distinguish yourself from this?
-andy
PS please don't tell me safe and reasonable == wait until some arbitrary religious ceremony.
A) Many people don't get married for a myriad of reasons. Should they be celibate for life?
B) We are hormonally compelled to make babies much earlier than the typical age at which people get married.
Long term, committed, healthy sexual relationships with prior STD testing should not need the seal of some dude in a robe to be okay.
Yeah. Eating is an addiction too. Some people get over it, but that doesn't make them awesome.
Fact is we are wired for sex because otherwise we would not exist. Granted we can mind-fuck some people enough that they are damaged and overcome an eternity of environmental pressures, but we can't mind-fuck everyone. Some un-mind-fuckable people will continue being normal (healthy) humans and will therefore continue having sex. Making them feel guilty about it or not giving them the information they need to do it (no pun intended) in a safe and reasonable way is just stupid.
Were I to build an Atom box for the TV, I would personally go with a D510 board dual core model and a Broadcom PCIe 2d video decoder BCM70012found on Ebay for cheap. This will use very little power, be very quiet, and just as good and just as good at playing (non-3D) video as the super-hot (temperature-wise) nVidia ion systems. This is, of course, you are not using the mini PCIe slot for wireless networking. Ethernet or USB wireless ftw.
It seems scary to me that a bunch of know-nothing journalism undergrads (or undergrads of any sort, frankly) would be forced to write on a website used for informational purposes. Granted, some of them will do a great job, but many of them will be lazy, sloppy, and far less credible than the typical Wikipedia authors.
I'm honestly not sure. I've never heard of this phenomenon. Does it happen when either side is switched off, or just one? As someone else said, it might be an attempt at enforcing load balancing, but I can't imagine why your balancing should change much by disabling one side or the other. I was also considering some sort of fault (current flowing somewhere it shouldn't, or in an "off" device), but I can't think of a scenario where this would explain it.
One thought: Maybe your AC came on when you tested it? Or the fridge?:)
I will ask around and post back if anyone I work with has heard of this.
PS treatment is unnecessary if the person is happy. The only points of treatment are:
A) To make us feel better that we 'fixed' the problem (read: wrong on so many levels)
B) To help the 'sick' person live a happier, more fulfilling life.
The latter should obviously be judged from the 'sick' person's own perspective, and when they are already happy and fulfilled, this reasoning is invalid.
You, sir, are clearly not a psychologist.
Insanity is very different from exhibiting symptoms of mental disease. An autistic person (likely Perelman in some range) is not insane. A schizophrenic person (very difficult to diagnose in the presence of autism) is not necessarily insane (unless we live in television world, in which case they are apparently raving).
Insane means, literally, not sane, and sanity is the ability to make informed and reasonable judgments. Deciding you don't like to be around people, and therefore want to stay in your flat seems pretty informed and logical to me. People (like you) suck, and call people (like him) weird and insane for being different.
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I have firefox on four seperate machines (atom, core2duo, AMD regor/sargas, and a pentium IV). In linux (specifically ubuntu 8.04, 9.04, 9.10, and 10.04), an up-to-date firefox boots in .5s on all of them. A few of the machines have windows and similar performance. Perhaps something is wrong with your install or something is recking your performance?
Let me guess: cosmic ray. Is it really that hard? What else causes a single bit-flip error in space?
When you have a probe billions of miles from Earth, with no hope of ever physically retrieving it, and something weird happens, I don't think the first thing you do is start making assumptions.
Conversely, when you have a probe billions of miles from Earth, with no hope of ever physically retrieving it, and something weird happens at a low level in an onboard system once in forty-three years, the only thing you can do is make assumptions. If it happens again, you can talk about it being symptomatic, but there is still probably nothing to do.
example of where gui is not so great: Excel 2007. example of where a cli saves the day no matter how they butcher the UI: AutoCAD. example of where a gui is great: volume control (except in cases where some bastard made it rotational instead of a slider bar)
cp -R source destination cheers!
Your signature contains a syntax error in most languages, but I imagine that DoWhatIWant() returns with a functioning closing parenthesis when you want one.
PPS by "will not find life" I mean "will not find life using similar chemistry to our own, IE not evolved from common ancestors".
In such a high energy environment you will not find life. It was shocking when life was found in boiling water in Yellowstone. PS in the link some numbers appear to be in the hundreds of C, but these are actually with one decimal place. And in such a high energy environment none of the complex molecules characteristic of life would survive.
Actually the oily black part is teeming with oxygen depleting bacteria as we speak. Picture your fancy fish tank alone on a long weekend when the aerator pump breaks. Apply to the entire gulf.
I just want to reiterate what the parent said, as I'm becoming frustrated with all of the "why do we assume it can't exist if it is not like us" posts.
No one is claiming life cannot exist without water, we are only stating that life as we know it cannot. Since we have no idea what the hell we would be looking for otherwise, and since we have limited (and in the search for ET life, extremely limited) we have to determine some heuristic for our search. Since water is A) easily detected with telescopes, and B) a requirement for life as we are aware, it is so far our best means of refining our search. There may be some amazing form of X based or X requiring life out there, but since we do not know X, it is not at all helpful to acknowledge its possible existence. If, on the other hand, we happen upon X based/requiring life, we can then include X in our parameters.
Please stop assuming that this is some circa 1900AD Newtonian Physics style oversight.
Still, if I buy a DVD I am forced to view previews, piracy warnings, etc.. If I pirate the same movie I get to skip all of those and watch the movie without 10+ minutes of crap. Sounds like someone is selling an inferior product and punishing legitimate users. These days copied discs are superior to originals. Oh, and no rootkits or viruses come pre-packaged.
Celestial Teapot, your post was the green light to this Rose Bengal of replies. Radical job.
Non-proprietary like H.264?
Expert systems hardly seem like a waste ;) And what you are proposing sounds a lot like NLU (natural language understanding). NLU hearkens from the good old days of LISP :) They, of course, did not have nearly the computing power, but NLU is alive and well, with word-context analysis and adaptive algorithms in conversational settings. Do you somehow distinguish yourself from this?
-andy
Of course! All we need to do is discover math-less pattern recognition! Stupid MIT guys.
Yeah, but the cat was either dead or alive at that moment. I guess, though, it is now either dead or in superposition again. I'm rooting for dead.
PS please don't tell me safe and reasonable == wait until some arbitrary religious ceremony.
A) Many people don't get married for a myriad of reasons. Should they be celibate for life?
B) We are hormonally compelled to make babies much earlier than the typical age at which people get married.
Long term, committed, healthy sexual relationships with prior STD testing should not need the seal of some dude in a robe to be okay.
Yeah. Eating is an addiction too. Some people get over it, but that doesn't make them awesome.
Fact is we are wired for sex because otherwise we would not exist. Granted we can mind-fuck some people enough that they are damaged and overcome an eternity of environmental pressures, but we can't mind-fuck everyone. Some un-mind-fuckable people will continue being normal (healthy) humans and will therefore continue having sex. Making them feel guilty about it or not giving them the information they need to do it (no pun intended) in a safe and reasonable way is just stupid.
Phew. Solved that whole cat dilemma, then.
Sounds great for the kids.
Were I to build an Atom box for the TV, I would personally go with a D510 board dual core model and a Broadcom PCIe 2d video decoder BCM70012found on Ebay for cheap. This will use very little power, be very quiet, and just as good and just as good at playing (non-3D) video as the super-hot (temperature-wise) nVidia ion systems. This is, of course, you are not using the mini PCIe slot for wireless networking. Ethernet or USB wireless ftw.
It seems scary to me that a bunch of know-nothing journalism undergrads (or undergrads of any sort, frankly) would be forced to write on a website used for informational purposes. Granted, some of them will do a great job, but many of them will be lazy, sloppy, and far less credible than the typical Wikipedia authors.
I'm honestly not sure. I've never heard of this phenomenon. Does it happen when either side is switched off, or just one? As someone else said, it might be an attempt at enforcing load balancing, but I can't imagine why your balancing should change much by disabling one side or the other. I was also considering some sort of fault (current flowing somewhere it shouldn't, or in an "off" device), but I can't think of a scenario where this would explain it. One thought: Maybe your AC came on when you tested it? Or the fridge? :)
I will ask around and post back if anyone I work with has heard of this.
PS treatment is unnecessary if the person is happy. The only points of treatment are:
A) To make us feel better that we 'fixed' the problem (read: wrong on so many levels)
B) To help the 'sick' person live a happier, more fulfilling life.
The latter should obviously be judged from the 'sick' person's own perspective, and when they are already happy and fulfilled, this reasoning is invalid.
You, sir, are clearly not a psychologist. Insanity is very different from exhibiting symptoms of mental disease. An autistic person (likely Perelman in some range) is not insane. A schizophrenic person (very difficult to diagnose in the presence of autism) is not necessarily insane (unless we live in television world, in which case they are apparently raving).
Insane means, literally, not sane, and sanity is the ability to make informed and reasonable judgments. Deciding you don't like to be around people, and therefore want to stay in your flat seems pretty informed and logical to me. People (like you) suck, and call people (like him) weird and insane for being different.