Wow, that's a lot of decibels! Reminds me of my old 2400 bps modem, now that bugger was loud! Does this mean I can wardrive around and find unsecure wlans by looking for a loud high-pitched beeping sound? One should probably avoid the loudest ones though, because they're downloading porn and would have lousy ping!
Maybe not a significant group of people. And learning the architecture isn't required either. I agree with your point though. But "we" won't "have to" learn any architecture unless we really want to.:)
You do realise that wouldn't be very different from the situation now? Minus the learning them all, that's what compilers are for. Unless you're an assembler junkie, in that case nevermind.:P
Bill Gates really blew it when he said "We are looking at whether future versions of Xbox 360 will incorporate an additional capability of an HD DVD player or something else." Now everybody and their sister's cousins maid has decided that they know Microsoft will release a HD-DVD version somewhere along the line. Frankly, I don't see the big deal. If they put a next-gen disc format (if HD-DVD never takes off, then there is no way they would put that in their console) in 360, it will be useless for games, and a poor substitue for a stand-alone HD player. And if people seriously think that more capacity for games will make them better, then they really are a lost cause. I for one believe that because developers will have "only" ~9 GB of space for their games, they'll make better games. Developers who think huge 10 GB cutscenes or stupendeously large textures makes a game better, deserve to go bankrupt.
After all that, I won't be buying it before the PS3 has forced the price down, and some good mods are out. Games these days are much too expensive and crappy to be bought randomly without trying before buying, and if I can piss of some corporate execs by using "their" hardware in a way they don't want me to, all the better.
As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master. - Commissioner Pravin Lal
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If they're too busy staying alive, printing articles about Star Strek and Michael Jackson probably is a waste of time. But how about articles on water purification or farming techniques. While they're at it, maybe even AIDS. Education is the key to economic prosperity, and giving some in the form of printed wikipedia to those who can only dream of internet access is a good thing in my book.
Well the registry setting doesn't have to remove symlink support from the kernel, it only needs to prevent/allow users from creating symlinks. Not sure why it would need to be a kernel feature, isn't this something that belongs in the filesystem? IANA kernel programmer though.
Why are power users left out? This is a potentially useful feature for everyone, and they only put it in Longhorn server? I know some users would do completely idiotic things, like somehow manage to move the swapfile on a floppy and symlink to it while trying to burn some mp3's, but why not include it disabled by default and leave an entry in the registry to enable it?
SETI is using information theory to attempt to detect signs of intelligence in the universe. If such a signal is detected, it still won't mean that we are going to determine if the cause as little green men or big purple amazon women.
True.
But I'm not sure what you mean by science. If you mean a scientific theory, then yes, SETI is not a scientific theory, it's a practical application of other theories. If you mean a practical application that utilises scientific methods to verify it's data set, then yes, SETI is science. No, ID isn't. Why? Because according to ID proponents, life is too complex to have evolved, and therefore there has to be a ID'er. See? Nothing to investigate, they already have the answer. ID has no proof to support it, evolution has. Even if the theory of evolution isn't perfect (yet), that doesn't prove that ID is correct.
I have now finally seen the light and joined the ID'ers! The typical response to our theory is that if we we're Intelligently Designed, then who made the designer? The answer is quite simple. The designer was created by another ID! Now, before you ask who made THOSE designers, let me share with you my understanding of the theory.
Mankind was designed by a benevolent ID race, which in turn was designed by a ID race, which in turn was designed by a ID race. This chain goes on for billions of years, with finally the first race at the beginning of time. Now obviously this race was created by the last race in the other end of the chain! And before you go saying time travel is impossible, I remind you of John Titor, who came from the future!
SETI is quite easily falsifiable, you either find ETI or you don't. ID however isn't, because even if someone designed humans, how did the designer come to? By another ID? Or evolution? If answer is ID, repeat the question ad nauseum.
Hello, I just thought I'd come clean with y'all, I designed and created earth and everything on it last tuesday. If you're wondering what the dinosaur bones are all about, well it's a funny thing, I was pretty high when I designed them, and forgot to add a brain. Ooops. Oh well, just wanted to say hi. Bye.
P.S: I made Duke Nukem Forever, cos I wanted to have a laugh when y'all are waiting forever. Sorry.
Now that "free" idle cpu cycles are getting more expensive to produce, and with newer processors going into power-save modes when idle, I wonder if we'll see a distributed computing project that buys cpu cycles from it's participants. It would probably only make sense for companies to do something like that, but it could still be cheaper than building or renting your own supercomputer.
It was an mix of Master of Magic and Civilization, where you built colonies on the new world, fought indians and other countries colonies, and eventually became independent. Simtex, which made MoM and Colonization, is also the company that made Master of Orion 1 and 2. Sadly the company doesn't exist anymore, I think it died at the same time as Microprose? The rights are probably owned by Atari, which already proved with MoO3 that it is only capable of mutilating the old classics into garbage.
And that my friend, is what will set us free. No governments nor militaries. True democracy, governance on an individual level. The faster communication between individuals gets, the more our opinions will mesh. True consensus will come when absolute and complete network pervasity reaches most of the population. Anarchy. Freedom.
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Wrong.
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The Mongols gained fame in the 13th century when under Chinggis KHAN they conquered a huge Eurasian empire.
And if you look closer at the file you linked to, you might notice the filename "mongol_dominions.jpg"
You didn't build the internet. You didn't innovate technology in the high-tech space. You don't control most of it.
"Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind." - Albert Einstein
So why is the US treated so differently?
Why do you assume it is being treated differently?
The only thing that separates us from our ancestors is our level of knowledge, and the values that come with it.
Hz = s^-1
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7.4 Mbit/s per MHz per Watt = ((7.4 Mbit/s) / MHz) / Watt = ((7.4 * 10^3 bitHz) * 10^-3 s) / Watt = 7.4 bit per Watt
Now that's pretty damned inefficient
Wow, that's a lot of decibels! Reminds me of my old 2400 bps modem, now that bugger was loud! Does this mean I can wardrive around and find unsecure wlans by looking for a loud high-pitched beeping sound? One should probably avoid the loudest ones though, because they're downloading porn and would have lousy ping!
Maybe not a significant group of people. And learning the architecture isn't required either. I agree with your point though. But "we" won't "have to" learn any architecture unless we really want to. :)
You do realise that wouldn't be very different from the situation now? Minus the learning them all, that's what compilers are for. Unless you're an assembler junkie, in that case nevermind. :P
The most popular browsers on the web are:
1. Microsoft IE 85.45 %
2. Mozilla Firefox 11.51 %
3. Apple Safari 1.75 %
4. Netscape 0.26 %
5. Opera 0.77 %
Is that the new l33t alphabet or something, because I don't see it.
Bill Gates really blew it when he said "We are looking at whether future versions of Xbox 360 will incorporate an additional capability of an HD DVD player or something else." Now everybody and their sister's cousins maid has decided that they know Microsoft will release a HD-DVD version somewhere along the line. Frankly, I don't see the big deal. If they put a next-gen disc format (if HD-DVD never takes off, then there is no way they would put that in their console) in 360, it will be useless for games, and a poor substitue for a stand-alone HD player. And if people seriously think that more capacity for games will make them better, then they really are a lost cause. I for one believe that because developers will have "only" ~9 GB of space for their games, they'll make better games. Developers who think huge 10 GB cutscenes or stupendeously large textures makes a game better, deserve to go bankrupt.
After all that, I won't be buying it before the PS3 has forced the price down, and some good mods are out. Games these days are much too expensive and crappy to be bought randomly without trying before buying, and if I can piss of some corporate execs by using "their" hardware in a way they don't want me to, all the better.
D-oh, evil slashdot thought my heart was a tag and eat it. :P
I wonder how this would effect Firefox, extensions are the best feature IMO. (3 Adblock)
And us anarchists don't want to be associated with reactionary liberals.
As the Americans learned so painfully in Earth's final century, free flow of information is the only safeguard against tyranny. The once-chained people whose leaders at last lose their grip on information flow will soon burst with freedom and vitality, but the free nation gradually constricting its grip on public discourse has begun its rapid slide into despotism. Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart he dreams himself your master. - Commissioner Pravin Lal
If they're too busy staying alive, printing articles about Star Strek and Michael Jackson probably is a waste of time. But how about articles on water purification or farming techniques. While they're at it, maybe even AIDS. Education is the key to economic prosperity, and giving some in the form of printed wikipedia to those who can only dream of internet access is a good thing in my book.
Well the registry setting doesn't have to remove symlink support from the kernel, it only needs to prevent/allow users from creating symlinks. Not sure why it would need to be a kernel feature, isn't this something that belongs in the filesystem? IANA kernel programmer though.
Why are power users left out? This is a potentially useful feature for everyone, and they only put it in Longhorn server? I know some users would do completely idiotic things, like somehow manage to move the swapfile on a floppy and symlink to it while trying to burn some mp3's, but why not include it disabled by default and leave an entry in the registry to enable it?
SETI is using information theory to attempt to detect signs of intelligence in the universe. If such a signal is detected, it still won't mean that we are going to determine if the cause as little green men or big purple amazon women.
True.
But I'm not sure what you mean by science. If you mean a scientific theory, then yes, SETI is not a scientific theory, it's a practical application of other theories. If you mean a practical application that utilises scientific methods to verify it's data set, then yes, SETI is science. No, ID isn't. Why? Because according to ID proponents, life is too complex to have evolved, and therefore there has to be a ID'er. See? Nothing to investigate, they already have the answer. ID has no proof to support it, evolution has. Even if the theory of evolution isn't perfect (yet), that doesn't prove that ID is correct.
I have now finally seen the light and joined the ID'ers! The typical response to our theory is that if we we're Intelligently Designed, then who made the designer? The answer is quite simple. The designer was created by another ID! Now, before you ask who made THOSE designers, let me share with you my understanding of the theory.
Mankind was designed by a benevolent ID race, which in turn was designed by a ID race, which in turn was designed by a ID race. This chain goes on for billions of years, with finally the first race at the beginning of time. Now obviously this race was created by the last race in the other end of the chain! And before you go saying time travel is impossible, I remind you of John Titor, who came from the future!
SETI is quite easily falsifiable, you either find ETI or you don't. ID however isn't, because even if someone designed humans, how did the designer come to? By another ID? Or evolution? If answer is ID, repeat the question ad nauseum.
Hello, I just thought I'd come clean with y'all, I designed and created earth and everything on it last tuesday. If you're wondering what the dinosaur bones are all about, well it's a funny thing, I was pretty high when I designed them, and forgot to add a brain. Ooops. Oh well, just wanted to say hi. Bye.
P.S: I made Duke Nukem Forever, cos I wanted to have a laugh when y'all are waiting forever. Sorry.
Now that "free" idle cpu cycles are getting more expensive to produce, and with newer processors going into power-save modes when idle, I wonder if we'll see a distributed computing project that buys cpu cycles from it's participants. It would probably only make sense for companies to do something like that, but it could still be cheaper than building or renting your own supercomputer.
It was an mix of Master of Magic and Civilization, where you built colonies on the new world, fought indians and other countries colonies, and eventually became independent. Simtex, which made MoM and Colonization, is also the company that made Master of Orion 1 and 2. Sadly the company doesn't exist anymore, I think it died at the same time as Microprose? The rights are probably owned by Atari, which already proved with MoO3 that it is only capable of mutilating the old classics into garbage.
But RAID 5 isn't redundant. And if they'd use RAID 1, they'd need to double the amount of HDD's.
But it's Hyperbole day!
anarchy.
And that my friend, is what will set us free. No governments nor militaries. True democracy, governance on an individual level. The faster communication between individuals gets, the more our opinions will mesh. True consensus will come when absolute and complete network pervasity reaches most of the population. Anarchy. Freedom.