My first impressions of this browser aren't very good.. I've noticed something very strange.
I pushed 'Run' and got a nice looking black browser with their own search-engine.
But I usually use Google, so I typed in 'www.google.com'. And the first thing I notice in the top corner:
'myemail@google.com | Personal Homepage | etc'
Google sees that I'm surfing to their website..! And they can't be locating me by my IP because I'm behind a firewall inside my company's network. (right?) So it probably just uses IE in the background or something (?!)
Well, that could be a very good thing. Those specifications will also help driver-makers a lot. It might also help to get the linux drivers which are pretty poor for ATi at the moment.
The AMD-fans/nerds are more linux-minded then Intel (IMHO), and AMD probably knows this. They can really make a business-blow by releasing this, in the mind of open-source.
Am I reading the article wrong..? It seems to me AMD is doing a pretty fine job, most lines are black, and only a few processors have a better Intel equivelent.
Anyway, I was looking at a 4800 X2, and it seems its still the best option to buy atm, cheaper then the Intel (?).
Still I think AMD has a group of active followers and Intel-haters, they won't stop buying those chips soon. And only in the very high end systems Intel is much cheaper, but thats not what most people will buy.
I've heard about this research about a year ago or something, and I can still draw the same simple conclusion:
RFID is read-only, a read-only virus can't spread, so it isn't a virus!
Unless you write a really really bad RFID-chip reader which can buffer-overflow and write in memory a simple RFID chip can't do any harm. So its also pretty safe to use...
Don't go thinking about infecting your local supermarket with a new RFID-virus, it'll never happen.
But while we're on it, have you guys heard about HP's Memory Spots? Its a new kind of wireless chip. The connection is much faster then RFID and the memory size is bigger. The biggest gain is in the size, 2 mm to 4 mm square with a build in antenna!
Imagine having bacteria in you pc, buiding and moving wires for you as it grows. You buy a pc, give it food and water and you can see it grow;-)
Enough kidding around, its good news, this will probably make it easier to create the tubes, and the cost of producing them will probably go down. The age of nano-tubes has arrived! (maybe?)
Ok, this is NOT going to be the big YouTube killer that the article says it will.
First thing: Look at the ads!
The ads are normal Google Adsense ads. How on earth will Eefoof (what a name sigh) see which video/image made what profit...?
The way it works I think is this:
- People click on the adsense ads.
- Eefoof looks at the clicks per post
- Eefoof divides the revenue in two, 50% for Eefoof and 50% for you...
I'm not so sure this will work (at all). And the website already being offline and giving SQL errors isn't a good thing either.
Nothing will stop the big Youtube train, its now steaming ahead full speed. But I must admit, the "Make Money Now" will attract people to try it, and is a very good idea overall. But not if its implemented like this.
Nobody is allowed into my house, so of course if the door is open people can't come in.
You can't just compare it with something, its easy to make some other comparison thats bull too:
Somebody walks onto a market, where you can buy stuff, but you can also watch, its a open market. Is it illegal for me to go and sit on a bench in the market everyday to look at people passing buy? No...
The only way to look at this objectivly is just to look into the law on how usage of open connections is defined. Thats the only thing that counts.
The colder, the faster we can make computers run..right?
So why don't we have supercomputers located on the Artics yet? It won't be a huge problem to get data-transport there. And the natural cooling will be very cheap and energy efficient.
Well true, of course I didn't read the article:)
And of course I meant its a part of the future of gaming, you can't say what the future of gaming is.
There will always be people who love creating stuff, and others that don't, but the biggest advantage of Spore for example is that you can easily use stuff made by other people.
You can already see that in almost all parts of gaming, shooters have map-editors, some just play in those maps, some make them etc.
The biggest problem is that the user is expecting bigger worlds with more nice stuff to look at every new game. The problem is creating this huge content.
This is just what Will Wright is solving with Spore for example. What is the thing people like more then watching all this content? Making it! Thats why his games let people create it in a smart way instead of the developers/artists.
And the biggest advantage is that he is letting people share their content creating a huge repository for people to get all their ideas/content.
That is (IMHO) the future of gaming, and hopefully for them, the future of Microsoft gaming.
This is a good step to make Python run a bit faster, but I don't think it'll really make a huge difference.
The best way to get some speed and still keep the nice Python functions and layout is just to export the most heavily used functions to native code (C/C++).
I don't know if its possible to take the C++ output and optimize it seperatly, that way you will have a good start to make native code though.
In short: Better, fast and easy, but not the best (if you can write native code)
Well sure, to completely colonize a planet we'll need robots for the hard work and humans to make decisions. I'm not suggesting we don't send humans to do it..! But the article suggests we send humans as soon as possible, and that risk sounds a bit big to me.
On the bottom of oceans scientists have found organisms living of hydrogen sulfide, nothing to eat and no light there. This proves organisms might exist that are easy(easier) to send and colonize a planet.
Once we have bacteria that can live on the local chemical composition we can send bacteria that produce other chemicals, including CO2. Then we can send plants etc to get some vegitation.
After the vegitation of course we need robots and humans to build houses and then we can fully colonize it.
But I really don't think sending humans with robots and a big air supply is the best way to do it...
Hehe, I vividly remember that:)
Of course we already send animals and humans into space, but no permanent colonies yet. If we can send a robot to Mars it won't be so hard to send some bacteria there, or some other tiny life-form.
The last couple of years a lot of new ideas have been sparked, for example the Sims was a brand new concept (and a huge hit). So where the street race car building games (NFS Underground etc).
Of course you can say: "Sims made a lot of sequals, so did NFSU..!!"
That doesn't say the developers aren't creative anymore, its just marketing, cashing in on good concepts!
And last of all, the best-thing-ever game Spore might consist of a couple of old concepts, but you can't deny its a creative masterpiece!
Why do we have to start with humans in space, isn't it a much better idea to start making colonies with animals?
Those can provide us with a LOT of experience at a lesser risk. If animals die in space (or maybe even bacteria) people will probably make a small fuzz but forget it quickly. If humans die in space it could mean the end of the space project.
Once we establish a solid base, and knowledge about building a new colonie we can send humans...??
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Second Life, forget the first :)
My first impressions of this browser aren't very good.. I've noticed something very strange.
I pushed 'Run' and got a nice looking black browser with their own search-engine.
But I usually use Google, so I typed in 'www.google.com'. And the first thing I notice in the top corner:
'myemail@google.com | Personal Homepage | etc'
Google sees that I'm surfing to their website..! And they can't be locating me by my IP because I'm behind a firewall inside my company's network. (right?) So it probably just uses IE in the background or something (?!)
Or is there another explanation?
I sure hope this browser doesn't just disable cookies, but just doesn't store them. For a lot of websites you need to have session-cookies!
Nothing that a big mighty magnet can't fix!
Well, that could be a very good thing. Those specifications will also help driver-makers a lot. It might also help to get the linux drivers which are pretty poor for ATi at the moment.
The AMD-fans/nerds are more linux-minded then Intel (IMHO), and AMD probably knows this. They can really make a business-blow by releasing this, in the mind of open-source.
..if this is a good thing or not. It might be good for the development and cooperation. Better integration == better graphics/faster machines?
But on the other hand, this could split the market and get things like todays uncompatible browsers. (Which is VERY annoying somethimes)
And we have a psychic
Actually, I meant a 64 X2 4200... heh, not much money left :(
Am I reading the article wrong..? It seems to me AMD is doing a pretty fine job, most lines are black, and only a few processors have a better Intel equivelent.
Anyway, I was looking at a 4800 X2, and it seems its still the best option to buy atm, cheaper then the Intel (?).
Still I think AMD has a group of active followers and Intel-haters, they won't stop buying those chips soon. And only in the very high end systems Intel is much cheaper, but thats not what most people will buy.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=191401&cid=157 32429
I've heard about this research about a year ago or something, and I can still draw the same simple conclusion:
RFID is read-only, a read-only virus can't spread, so it isn't a virus!
Unless you write a really really bad RFID-chip reader which can buffer-overflow and write in memory a simple RFID chip can't do any harm. So its also pretty safe to use...
Don't go thinking about infecting your local supermarket with a new RFID-virus, it'll never happen.
But while we're on it, have you guys heard about HP's Memory Spots? Its a new kind of wireless chip. The connection is much faster then RFID and the memory size is bigger. The biggest gain is in the size, 2 mm to 4 mm square with a build in antenna!
Imagine having bacteria in you pc, buiding and moving wires for you as it grows. You buy a pc, give it food and water and you can see it grow ;-)
Enough kidding around, its good news, this will probably make it easier to create the tubes, and the cost of producing them will probably go down. The age of nano-tubes has arrived! (maybe?)
Ok, this is NOT going to be the big YouTube killer that the article says it will.
First thing: Look at the ads!
The ads are normal Google Adsense ads. How on earth will Eefoof (what a name sigh) see which video/image made what profit...?
The way it works I think is this:
- People click on the adsense ads.
- Eefoof looks at the clicks per post
- Eefoof divides the revenue in two, 50% for Eefoof and 50% for you...
I'm not so sure this will work (at all). And the website already being offline and giving SQL errors isn't a good thing either.
Nothing will stop the big Youtube train, its now steaming ahead full speed. But I must admit, the "Make Money Now" will attract people to try it, and is a very good idea overall. But not if its implemented like this.
If the internet consists of tubes, why not just add some tubes for personal use, or tubes for p0rn..! Or something like that... err.. (??)
:(
Just call a expert and get informed a little bit sigh... This is how our precious internet is going down, canned, filtered, banned
Remember, when you sign up for Google Checkout you can fill in any country you like, but the Terms of Service says:
:( And most supporting companies don't even ship outside the US.
- 18 years old or older;
- capable of entering into a legally binding agreement; and
- a resident of the United States.
So only people from the United States are allowed to use it yet
Correction: "Is it illegal for me to go and sit on a bench in the market everyday to look at people passing by and not buy anything?"
Nobody is allowed into my house, so of course if the door is open people can't come in.
You can't just compare it with something, its easy to make some other comparison thats bull too:
Somebody walks onto a market, where you can buy stuff, but you can also watch, its a open market.
Is it illegal for me to go and sit on a bench in the market everyday to look at people passing buy? No...
The only way to look at this objectivly is just to look into the law on how usage of open connections is defined.
Thats the only thing that counts.
Well, if those are melted we can do some more research in water cooled pc's...
The colder, the faster we can make computers run..right?
So why don't we have supercomputers located on the Artics yet? It won't be a huge problem to get data-transport there. And the natural cooling will be very cheap and energy efficient.
Well true, of course I didn't read the article :)
And of course I meant its a part of the future of gaming, you can't say what the future of gaming is.
There will always be people who love creating stuff, and others that don't, but the biggest advantage of Spore for example is that you can easily use stuff made by other people.
You can already see that in almost all parts of gaming, shooters have map-editors, some just play in those maps, some make them etc.
The biggest problem is that the user is expecting bigger worlds with more nice stuff to look at every new game. The problem is creating this huge content.
This is just what Will Wright is solving with Spore for example. What is the thing people like more then watching all this content? Making it! Thats why his games let people create it in a smart way instead of the developers/artists.
And the biggest advantage is that he is letting people share their content creating a huge repository for people to get all their ideas/content.
That is (IMHO) the future of gaming, and hopefully for them, the future of Microsoft gaming.
This is a good step to make Python run a bit faster, but I don't think it'll really make a huge difference.
The best way to get some speed and still keep the nice Python functions and layout is just to export the most heavily used functions to native code (C/C++).
I don't know if its possible to take the C++ output and optimize it seperatly, that way you will have a good start to make native code though.
In short: Better, fast and easy, but not the best (if you can write native code)
Well sure, to completely colonize a planet we'll need robots for the hard work and humans to make decisions. I'm not suggesting we don't send humans to do it..! But the article suggests we send humans as soon as possible, and that risk sounds a bit big to me.
On the bottom of oceans scientists have found organisms living of hydrogen sulfide, nothing to eat and no light there. This proves organisms might exist that are easy(easier) to send and colonize a planet.
Once we have bacteria that can live on the local chemical composition we can send bacteria that produce other chemicals, including CO2. Then we can send plants etc to get some vegitation.
After the vegitation of course we need robots and humans to build houses and then we can fully colonize it.
But I really don't think sending humans with robots and a big air supply is the best way to do it...
Hehe, I vividly remember that :)
Of course we already send animals and humans into space, but no permanent colonies yet. If we can send a robot to Mars it won't be so hard to send some bacteria there, or some other tiny life-form.
The last couple of years a lot of new ideas have been sparked, for example the Sims was a brand new concept (and a huge hit). So where the street race car building games (NFS Underground etc).
Of course you can say: "Sims made a lot of sequals, so did NFSU..!!"
That doesn't say the developers aren't creative anymore, its just marketing, cashing in on good concepts!
And last of all, the best-thing-ever game Spore might consist of a couple of old concepts, but you can't deny its a creative masterpiece!
Why do we have to start with humans in space, isn't it a much better idea to start making colonies with animals?
Those can provide us with a LOT of experience at a lesser risk. If animals die in space (or maybe even bacteria) people will probably make a small fuzz but forget it quickly. If humans die in space it could mean the end of the space project.
Once we establish a solid base, and knowledge about building a new colonie we can send humans...??