Ever since I installed Kubuntu i threw a black stone to the dark days of Fedora Core Installations...
Since then i can completely install linux systems on any laptop and PC without writing a single script
and without having to compile my own kernel modules.
Browser cache is always committed to disk. You may have a problem with firefox memory consumption if u never shutdown ur browser.
Perhaps in this case it allocates more memory for cache that is not committed to disk unless ur disk space limit is large enough. I doubt it though.
But if u restart it it never brings more than X MB cache in memory, actually it brings much less, depending on which pages u actually visit.
So in this case, disk memory has pretty much the semantics of RAM and this is why the developers dont differentiate between the two.
the overfed confidence of americans is an artifact of their education system.
this article talks about the special case of math education and associates math failure with high confidence.
I guess it applies to many other fields, like politics, e.g. ppl feel confident about their great country and dont feel the need to sit down and think what their leaders may be doing wrong.
Also this whole attitude creates the PHB corporate culture. Since confidence is such a highly valued attribute, the more confident u are, the more likely it is that confident ppl end up in important positions. But confidence, especially in the US, is not positively correlated with actual skill. As a result, idiots become managers and CEOs.
I have a gut feeling that the Americans who created the first parliamentary democracy, won the WWII and sent ppl to the moon, drew confidence only from achievements not by having teachers or psychologists teaching them how to be confident. It may be time that America went back to the basics...
are u talking about the same place that one of the best rock stars that ever lived, good looking, with millions of album sales
with all the chicks in the world wanting to screw him, committed suicide?
I want the name and address of the guy that wrote the DARPA proposal for this project.
I have a couple of completely impossible and unrealistic CS projects in mind and I would need somebody
with the ability to spin it a little bit...
I dont know if they need to change the FS's name if he is found guilty,
but they would definitely need to change it if he has killed his wife with a RAZOR!
"Besides being funny, does this say anything about space travel in the 21st century? Is space is no longer the final frontier? I'm pretty sure Roddenberry didn't have frequent flier miles in mind when he came up with the Enterprise."
Perhaps not, but what he had in mind when he came up with Enterprise was space travel at speeds that take you to the stratosphere of a planet in a another quadrant of our galaxy within a few years, not flights to earth's stratosphere.
I think your statement may be more suitable 300-2000 years from now (perhaps...).
And they all seem to have done their Ba or Ms in Greece. In fact Argyris is doing his research at the university of Athens. Very impressive for a small nation of 11 million people.
"MacOS X has infamously bad threading, which makes it an absolute dog for many important server apps. Anandtech, what I regard as one of the most trustworthy hardware sites on the Internet, has an article outlining the problems: http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436&p =1 [anandtech.com]"
But that can change by the end of the decade, can't it?
Everything TFA mentions as adaptive OS features would be more appropriately called adaptive applications. You don't need to change the OS, and by that I mean the kernel, or a little higher level components (e.g. X server etc). You just need a suite of adaptive applications.
For the record, George Varghese is professor at University of California, San Diego at the dpt of Computer Science.
His research has been extremely influential in both academia and industry.
Among the numerous of his papers that introduced novel and complete solutions to difficult networking problems, is for example "Trading Packet Headers for Packet Processing", which introduced the concept of tag/label switching, what is mostly known to us today as MPLS.
"This is useless" would say-the Health Minister for South Africa, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
She has her own "very effective" approach against AIDS/HIV. She sais it is vital for people to build up their immune system so she strongly believes in giving people the choice between antiretroviral drugs and taking traditional remedies, such as lemons, garlic and beetroots. In fact she promotes mostly the second while her boss, never acknowledged that HIV is the cause of AIDS.
From dwave's site:
"There are many potential ways to build quantum computers (QCs). Of these, four types have emerged as being most likely to succeed. These are based on (A) assemblies of individual atoms trapped by lasers; (B) optical circuits, for example using photonic crystals; (C) semiconductor-based designs, usually including atomic-scale control of dopant atom distribution or quantum dots; and (D) superconducting electronics.
D-Wave focuses exclusively on superconducting electronics. This is because superconductors have the unique property that very large structures can be built out of them that behave according to the rules of quantum mechanics. Because of this, design of superconducting QCs does not require new technology development. This is in contrast to the other three types of QCs, in which information is stored using atoms or individual photons (particles of light), and controlling and manipulating this information requires technologies that do not yet exist.
The two superconductors used to build QCs are aluminum and niobium. At room temperature these materials are metals. When they are cooled down close to absolute zero, the electrons in the metals pair to form particles called Cooper pairs. These particles carry charge in the superconductor.
Cooper pairs are very different from electrons. One key difference is that Cooper pairs are what physicists call bosons, while electrons are fermions. Bosons are allowed to occupy the same quantum state, while fermions are not.
In a superconductor, all the Cooper pairs can (and do) exist in exactly the same state. This means that all of the charge carriers in the superconductor are fundamentally linked. They directly inherit their behavior from the scale of a single Cooper pair.
One way to think of this is that a chunk of superconductor amplifies the quantum effects that exist at the level of extremely tiny individual particles up to the scale of the whole chunk, even if the chunk is very large.
This amplification of quantum effects is responsible for the well-known properties of superconductors, such as zero resistance to current flow and exclusion of magnetic field.
It is also extremely useful for building components of QCs. Superconductors naturally shield themselves from external noise, creating a safe haven for quantum effects. This ability to build large things that behave like small things overcomes many practical problems in building real QCs."
Let me be the first to say:
You my friend are an IDIOT!!!
No need to be polite when people repeatedly offend our intelligence by making obviously false statements.
On related news, YouTube is taking legal steps against the US Senate for using its brand name to describe the internet...
Senator Stevens was not available for comment...
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Every time Dvorak farts, /. sniffs
Ever since I installed Kubuntu i threw a black stone to the dark days of Fedora Core Installations ...
Since then i can completely install linux systems on any laptop and PC without writing a single script
and without having to compile my own kernel modules.
Browser cache is always committed to disk. You may have a problem with firefox memory consumption if u never shutdown ur browser. Perhaps in this case it allocates more memory for cache that is not committed to disk unless ur disk space limit is large enough. I doubt it though. But if u restart it it never brings more than X MB cache in memory, actually it brings much less, depending on which pages u actually visit. So in this case, disk memory has pretty much the semantics of RAM and this is why the developers dont differentiate between the two.
edit->preferences->privacy->cache->"use up to X MB of disk space for the cache"
As we all suspected,
...
the overfed confidence of americans is an artifact of their education system.
this article talks about the special case of math education and associates math failure
with high confidence.
I guess it applies to many other fields, like politics, e.g. ppl feel confident about their great country and dont feel the need to sit down and think what their leaders may be doing wrong.
Also this whole attitude creates the PHB corporate culture. Since confidence is such a highly valued attribute, the more confident u are, the more likely it is that confident ppl end up in important positions. But confidence, especially in the US, is not positively correlated with actual skill. As a result, idiots become managers and CEOs.
I have a gut feeling that the Americans who created the first parliamentary democracy, won the WWII and sent ppl to the moon, drew confidence only from achievements not by having teachers or psychologists teaching them how to be confident. It may be time that America went back to the basics
Who modded that idiotic commend insightful? what does Israel have to do with NK? WTF think ppl think!
Obviously he was joking. Nobody can be that stupid and still be able to register in /.
are u talking about the same place that one of the best rock stars that ever lived, good looking, with millions of album sales with all the chicks in the world wanting to screw him, committed suicide?
Now i know why they named their site YouTube instead of uTube. The second would be more appropriate given the audience, but was already taken.
I want the name and address of the guy that wrote the DARPA proposal for this project. I have a couple of completely impossible and unrealistic CS projects in mind and I would need somebody with the ability to spin it a little bit ...
I dont know if they need to change the FS's name if he is found guilty, but they would definitely need to change it if he has killed his wife with a RAZOR!
"Besides being funny, does this say anything about space travel in the 21st century? Is space is no longer the final frontier? I'm pretty sure Roddenberry didn't have frequent flier miles in mind when he came up with the Enterprise."
...).
Perhaps not, but what he had in mind when he came up with Enterprise was space travel at speeds that take you to the stratosphere of a planet
in a another quadrant of our galaxy within a few years, not flights to earth's stratosphere.
I think your statement may be more suitable 300-2000 years from now (perhaps
"All the knowledge in the world is meaningless if you're incompetent at communication"
... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman
Really? say that to this guy
You my friend, obviously do not understand irony ...
1) Apostolos Argyris
2) Manolis Kellis
3) Nikos Paragios
4) Paris Smaragdis
And they all seem to have done their Ba or Ms in Greece. In fact Argyris is doing his research at the university of Athens.
Very impressive for a small nation of 11 million people.
"MacOS X has infamously bad threading, which makes it an absolute dog for many important server apps. Anandtech, what I regard as one of the most trustworthy hardware sites on the Internet, has an article outlining the problems:
http://www.anandtech.com/mac/showdoc.aspx?i=2436&
But that can change by the end of the decade, can't it?
Everything TFA mentions as adaptive OS features would be more appropriately called adaptive applications. You don't need to change the OS, and by that I mean the kernel, or a little higher level components (e.g. X server etc). You just need a suite of adaptive applications.
This reminds of one of crappy sci-fi B movie i saw last year ... http://www.scifi.com/larva/
You mean you have not seen Dr Strangelove yet?
For the record, George Varghese is professor at University of California, San Diego at the dpt of Computer Science.
His research has been extremely influential in both academia and industry.
Among the numerous of his papers that introduced novel and complete solutions to difficult networking problems,
is for example "Trading Packet Headers for Packet Processing", which introduced the concept of tag/label switching,
what is mostly known to us today as MPLS.
"This is useless" would say-the Health Minister for South Africa, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang.
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She has her own "very effective" approach against AIDS/HIV. She sais it is vital for people to build up their immune system so she strongly
believes in giving people the choice between antiretroviral drugs and taking traditional remedies, such as lemons,
garlic and beetroots. In fact she promotes mostly the second while her boss, never acknowledged that HIV is the cause of AIDS.
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/healthnews.php?ne
From dwave's site: "There are many potential ways to build quantum computers (QCs). Of these, four types have emerged as being most likely to succeed. These are based on (A) assemblies of individual atoms trapped by lasers; (B) optical circuits, for example using photonic crystals; (C) semiconductor-based designs, usually including atomic-scale control of dopant atom distribution or quantum dots; and (D) superconducting electronics. D-Wave focuses exclusively on superconducting electronics. This is because superconductors have the unique property that very large structures can be built out of them that behave according to the rules of quantum mechanics. Because of this, design of superconducting QCs does not require new technology development. This is in contrast to the other three types of QCs, in which information is stored using atoms or individual photons (particles of light), and controlling and manipulating this information requires technologies that do not yet exist. The two superconductors used to build QCs are aluminum and niobium. At room temperature these materials are metals. When they are cooled down close to absolute zero, the electrons in the metals pair to form particles called Cooper pairs. These particles carry charge in the superconductor. Cooper pairs are very different from electrons. One key difference is that Cooper pairs are what physicists call bosons, while electrons are fermions. Bosons are allowed to occupy the same quantum state, while fermions are not. In a superconductor, all the Cooper pairs can (and do) exist in exactly the same state. This means that all of the charge carriers in the superconductor are fundamentally linked. They directly inherit their behavior from the scale of a single Cooper pair. One way to think of this is that a chunk of superconductor amplifies the quantum effects that exist at the level of extremely tiny individual particles up to the scale of the whole chunk, even if the chunk is very large. This amplification of quantum effects is responsible for the well-known properties of superconductors, such as zero resistance to current flow and exclusion of magnetic field. It is also extremely useful for building components of QCs. Superconductors naturally shield themselves from external noise, creating a safe haven for quantum effects. This ability to build large things that behave like small things overcomes many practical problems in building real QCs."
Let me be the first to say: You my friend are an IDIOT!!! No need to be polite when people repeatedly offend our intelligence by making obviously false statements.
On related news, YouTube is taking legal steps against the US Senate for using its brand name to describe the internet ...
Senator Stevens was not available for comment ...
Not to mention frikkin Southpark is in Colorado. Can you imagine what Cartman is capable of doing if somebody changes the name of his state?