I'm often confused when I see articles about how great it is to improve the efficiency of solar cells.
To me, the big issue is not efficiency but cost per watt. Many regions of the world have plenty of the land, particularly energy guzzlers like the US. What we really need is a super-cheap way to use that land for solar generation.
I guess it's a sign of the times, but this is literally the first I've ever heard of this initiative. I ran across Google Books pretty quickly because it comes up in searches.
As a very infrequent live.com search user, I never had a chance to encounter whatever content they had digitized. Oh well.
Personally, i think the quality of sci fi works has declined rather steeply in the past 20 years. My guess is this has a lot to do with the rise of multiplayer video games and the like. Alternately, it could just be me getting old.
I'd recommend going to a good used book store and looking for some older titles. Should be cheaper, and you'll probably find better quality too.
It's actually more of a victory than that. The whole point of this is that many organizations (governments, corporations) have said they want to store their documents in an ISO-recognized file format.
Basically, this makes Office qualify for that, but still have what amounts to a closed spec. They don't really care about all the rest of it.
I'm just not so sure what's better about these NAS devices than either just running your own simple Linux server or a super-simple configuration. I'm not sure I want to trust my data to some proprietary RAIDed solution.
I got my first Ham license back in the 1980s. Back then you had to be able to do 20wpm morse code to get to the highest license.
Nowadays they've watered it down so that it's extremely easy to get the licenses. In addition, with the Internet you can basically walk to your computer and email the person you just talked to halfway around the world.
Anyway, in my experience the people left on the airwaves are all at least 60 years old.
I'm still waiting to hear Intel's response to AMD's latest SSE announcement, which to me sounds like a complete rewrite of the x86 instruction set.
Anyone know anything about this?
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Ok I just tested it. In fact you *can* use this to upload emails!!! hooray! Now I can use gmail as my primary/only email repository!!!!!
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One of the deficiencies of gmail has been that it's very painful to put all your old emails into it. I'm thinking maybe imap will fix this. I happen to be one of the lucky ones who got imap, so I'll keep you posted.
What I don't understand is why these schedulers can't just be swapped out by the users. I know there was some discussion of this, and it was vetoed by the kernel maintainers. It makes a lot of sense to me to just allow users to insert kernel modules with schedulers and just do something in the/proc filesystem to go between them. Then people could use whatever they like, and if they write their own, they wouldn't have to recompile the kernel.
After all, isn't that the idea of open source software -- may the best code win?
While I'm not certain this is part of an overarching strategy by Microsoft, it's articles like these that make it hard to take them seriously when they claim to want to standardize. First it was just "embrace & extend," now it's this mess with patents.
In my opinion, the right solution to these patent problems is eliminating software and/or business process patents.
Personally, I think that is uglier than goto. Also, I think it's more confusing, because you have this condition repeated twice, and you'd have to have a "break;" in the right spot in the inner loop, as well as some sort of a condition check right after you get out of the inner while loop to ensure the remainder of the outer while loop does not execute once the condition is met. Yes, you can do this a lot of different ways, but you have to torture the while/for syntax to avoid goto.
Seriously, bravo. Screw those RIAA guys. I hope she gets as much money as possible for attorney's fees.
More people need to do this. They can't possibly mount lawsuits against all the people they target. If a sufficient percentage resist, they'll have to stop their campaign of terror.
What I think is odd about this is that the NT architecture has never really even been fully utilized, at least on the consumer side of Windows. In a lot of respects, NT is a pretty clever system, including highly individualizable security for files, processes, etc. It also supports multiprocessing well, contrary to the implication of the article.
Point being, I'm not so sure the solution for Microsoft is to throw out NT and move on to something else (Singularity, or whatever it may be). I would suggest they instead look at the features already in place with NT and look at ways to actually enable and present them in a reasonable way in their consumer OSes. I guess this is the plan in Vista, but we'll see.
The other thing I'd like to see Microsoft do is separate out the kernel-level framework (NT system, drivers, etc) from the UI framework, so that it would then be possible to treat those two elements separately, in the same way that Linux has the kernel and X/Window Manager stuff totally separated out.
But, I guess that would make it harder for them to make money, so it's unlikely.
What's hilarious about that is where I live, in the SF Bay Area, a student can basically walk into class and beat the crap out of his teacher and still not get expelled.
Expel more people, I say. The pendulum needs to swing back the other way a little bit.
It's interesting to me that these things seem to always deal with Gaba. Is Gaba the only thing in our brains?
Most anti-anxiety medications work by fooling around with how Gaba is handled in the brain. I can't remember whether they inhibit it or make it more effective. Now here you have this thing saying that people in vegitative states have something wrong with their Gaba receptors.
Maybe someone who understands a little bit about brain chemistry (if such a person even exists) can shed some light on this. For instance, does this finding imply that you could induce a vegitative state in someone by stopping the action of Gaba in their brains, only to "restart" them once they're needed again?
B.S. If you cancel your POTS line there isn't a dialtone there, so you don't literally have any power to run the DTMF generator in your phone to dial 911 with.
Just to forestall the comments. Yes, I had a router with QOS. It didn't really work. I think that's because the amount of (especially upstream) bandwidth with your ISP isn't actually stable.
I had a few problems with Vonage that I think are probably endemic to VOIP systems:
Any time I wanted to download a big file on my computer while on the phone, I had to accept that I'd have dropped packets and delay on the call. The truth is that DSL/Cable Modem providers need to provide some kind of guaranteed-bandwidth service for VOIP to work. That or the modems need to somehow set aside a bit of bandwidth for that. Actually, that could be a good idea... something based on Linux shaper stuff, maybe?
The service wasn't actually that cheap. I now have AT&T local and unlimited long distance services and I'm paying about $15 more per month than I was with Vonage.
I had lingering concerns about 911. I've actually had to call 911 once because I was being burglarized (the cops actually came in time and caught them!). So, I'm extremely sensitive to the question of 911 not getting routed properly.
Of the 3 problems, the first was by far the biggest. The quality just wasn't professional some of the time, and it repeatedly emabarrassed me with customers (I'm a software contractor). Also, when the audio was breaking up, I could never tell. The person I was talking to had to inform me. At a minimum, Vonage should make some sound happen on the your handset to let you know something's not right.
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To me, the big issue is not efficiency but cost per watt. Many regions of the world have plenty of the land, particularly energy guzzlers like the US. What we really need is a super-cheap way to use that land for solar generation.
I guess it's a sign of the times, but this is literally the first I've ever heard of this initiative. I ran across Google Books pretty quickly because it comes up in searches. As a very infrequent live.com search user, I never had a chance to encounter whatever content they had digitized. Oh well.
I'd recommend going to a good used book store and looking for some older titles. Should be cheaper, and you'll probably find better quality too.
It's actually more of a victory than that. The whole point of this is that many organizations (governments, corporations) have said they want to store their documents in an ISO-recognized file format.
Basically, this makes Office qualify for that, but still have what amounts to a closed spec. They don't really care about all the rest of it.
Be careful what you wish for. How soon after Microsoft gets taken down will Google take their place on the throne of darkness? Just a thought...
I'm just not so sure what's better about these NAS devices than either just running your own simple Linux server or a super-simple configuration. I'm not sure I want to trust my data to some proprietary RAIDed solution.
I got my first Ham license back in the 1980s. Back then you had to be able to do 20wpm morse code to get to the highest license.
Nowadays they've watered it down so that it's extremely easy to get the licenses. In addition, with the Internet you can basically walk to your computer and email the person you just talked to halfway around the world.
Anyway, in my experience the people left on the airwaves are all at least 60 years old.
Was I the only one who thought they meant that the laptop ran Macromedia/Adobe Flash as some sort of mini-OS? Does such a thing exist?
Best comment this year. Propx.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSE5 It's like 46 base instructions. I don't even know why they call it "SSE".
I'm still waiting to hear Intel's response to AMD's latest SSE announcement, which to me sounds like a complete rewrite of the x86 instruction set.
Anyone know anything about this?
Ok I just tested it. In fact you *can* use this to upload emails!!! hooray! Now I can use gmail as my primary/only email repository!!!!!
One of the deficiencies of gmail has been that it's very painful to put all your old emails into it. I'm thinking maybe imap will fix this. I happen to be one of the lucky ones who got imap, so I'll keep you posted.
You are exactly correct.
After all, isn't that the idea of open source software -- may the best code win?
In my opinion, the right solution to these patent problems is eliminating software and/or business process patents.
Personally, I think that is uglier than goto. Also, I think it's more confusing, because you have this condition repeated twice, and you'd have to have a "break;" in the right spot in the inner loop, as well as some sort of a condition check right after you get out of the inner while loop to ensure the remainder of the outer while loop does not execute once the condition is met. Yes, you can do this a lot of different ways, but you have to torture the while/for syntax to avoid goto.
But I find goto is often as beautiful as it gets:
for (loop 1) {
for (loop 2) {
if (something happens that makes me want to bail on both loops) {
goto loop_done;
}
do_inner_loop_work;
}
}
loop_done:
More people need to do this. They can't possibly mount lawsuits against all the people they target. If a sufficient percentage resist, they'll have to stop their campaign of terror.
What I think is odd about this is that the NT architecture has never really even been fully utilized, at least on the consumer side of Windows. In a lot of respects, NT is a pretty clever system, including highly individualizable security for files, processes, etc. It also supports multiprocessing well, contrary to the implication of the article. Point being, I'm not so sure the solution for Microsoft is to throw out NT and move on to something else (Singularity, or whatever it may be). I would suggest they instead look at the features already in place with NT and look at ways to actually enable and present them in a reasonable way in their consumer OSes. I guess this is the plan in Vista, but we'll see. The other thing I'd like to see Microsoft do is separate out the kernel-level framework (NT system, drivers, etc) from the UI framework, so that it would then be possible to treat those two elements separately, in the same way that Linux has the kernel and X/Window Manager stuff totally separated out. But, I guess that would make it harder for them to make money, so it's unlikely.
Expel more people, I say. The pendulum needs to swing back the other way a little bit.
Most anti-anxiety medications work by fooling around with how Gaba is handled in the brain. I can't remember whether they inhibit it or make it more effective. Now here you have this thing saying that people in vegitative states have something wrong with their Gaba receptors.
Maybe someone who understands a little bit about brain chemistry (if such a person even exists) can shed some light on this. For instance, does this finding imply that you could induce a vegitative state in someone by stopping the action of Gaba in their brains, only to "restart" them once they're needed again?
B.S. If you cancel your POTS line there isn't a dialtone there, so you don't literally have any power to run the DTMF generator in your phone to dial 911 with.
Just to forestall the comments. Yes, I had a router with QOS. It didn't really work. I think that's because the amount of (especially upstream) bandwidth with your ISP isn't actually stable.
Of the 3 problems, the first was by far the biggest. The quality just wasn't professional some of the time, and it repeatedly emabarrassed me with customers (I'm a software contractor). Also, when the audio was breaking up, I could never tell. The person I was talking to had to inform me. At a minimum, Vonage should make some sound happen on the your handset to let you know something's not right.