IANAP, but my understanding is that quantum entanglement only allows two remote observers to see the same thing and it works across space and time. No information passes between the observers. As far as either party is concerned, there's only a probability the other one even saw the entanglement event until they talk about it via light speed.
There is no such thing as synchronicity in this universe. Cause travels at the speed of light (or slower), gravity and relative velocity alter time and quantum states are ambiguous until observed. That star has a high probability of already having gone supernova, but this is meaningless in our frame of reference until the event is observable.
There aren't a lot of ways for a machine to "crash" that loses all its data. Even a lightning-fried hard drive can have its platters removed by a data recovery lab and many files can be pulled off. A mechanical failure doesn't grind the platters into sand. As a network server it really should have a RAID too. So how exactly can "the server crash" so spectacularly that the RAID, backups, and widely available data recovery services all fail? Did the building blow up?
I fail to see how there's any energy cost to cars at all--I don't think the highway actually recaptures any of the otherwise wasted "breeze" energy. To use a boating analogy, (because it's easier to see moving water than air) a boat creates a wake behind it from the water it's pushed out of its way. The waves created ultimately dissipate or hit shore. If I strung up a bunch of power generating buoys along major boating lanes, they'd capture some of the energy that would ultimately have just hit shore. This has no effect on the boat that generated the wake, nor does it have any significant effect on the next boat to pass by.
A friend I know that works for Dell found a time line for selling selling systems with Ubuntu a few weeks ago. I would have rather seen OpenSuse but such is life.
If you're familiar enough with Linux distros to have a preference, you're probably familiar enough to reinstall the OS of your choosing.
Ubuntu's suitable to be given to less tech savvy people so long as the hardware is properly tested and the drivers are all sorted out. This will be great for those who would wipe it and put on their own OS--you've still got a complete system with linux-tested hardware and drivers available on what's likely going to be an inexpensive box.
Ok let's say you are right fish intake. So what happened to the folks from Iceland and Scandinavia?
This is just conjecture, but it could also be a factor of time. Humans only migrated to the Americas 12 to 15 thousand years ago. Europe was populated 40 to 50 thousand years ago. The Inuit may simply have not been up long enough.
Everything Diebold does is borderline incompetence. I can't wait for these bozos to get out of this business and go back to making vending machines.
I never knew they made vending machines! This is great! I mean, it's a shame we lost our democracy to trivial-to-compromise voting machines, but at least we all get free Cheetos!
I'm comparing the best price for new goods made by Nintendo as of today to the best price for new goods made by Microsoft as of today. Wii is not available at retail today. Therefore, the scalper's price is the best price for new goods made by Nintendo.
With a little luck and periodic checking you should be able to find them, depending on where you live. I just happened to get lucky and see a local Target had about 10 or so in stock. In the 1 hour I was there shopping for some other things, they were down to 5 (counting the one I snagged.)
Can someone please explain what it means for licenses to be "compatible"? If I've got code under Apache license and code under the GPLv3, I assume those can not be merged anyway because each body of code says derivatives must be under the same license.
It would work by the very definition of "compatible." If you can license the whole codebase under both licenses simultaneously without conflicting, then you distribute under both licenses. You can take BSD code, modify and re-release under the GPL if you want, as long as you preserve the notices on the BSD portion of code.
I think what the summary meant is that Microsoft hasn't increased prices to cover patent case losses. i.e. MS started selling OEM Windows for $X. Since RTM, they've paid out ~$20 x # of copies sold. They did not then turn around and start selling OEM windows for $X + 20.
But that's no reason not to have already prepared everything so you need only to drop it in the mail. Late penalties are more than any interest you're likely to earn in a mere 3-4 months.
Would you make a 10k payment to the IRS in Feb if you could put that money in an interest bearing account and wait until April to pay it without penalty?
No. I'd do my taxes in February so I have some advance notice of a $10,000 tax bill so I have enough time to scrounge up the funds if necessary. *Then* I'd put the $10k in an interest bearing account and stuff my return in an envelope with a check but hang on to it until tax day.
BTW, the interest earned on $10k over 3 months at 6% = $150.75. Penalty for not filing on time when you owe $10,000 = $450.
This is great! Google has automated a way to look at videos and determine if they match a video that's already in existence and under copyright! That means they've solved a hard AI problem. I hope some day they open source their solution.
No. Google has an automated copyright checker, but there's no word on how good it is. They're doing this simply to shield themselves from lawsuits. It only has to be good enough for Google to to be able to argue they've gone above and beyond and expended every reasonable effort to ensure copyrighted materials get rejected.
Ford doesn't make crashproof cars. They only include as many safety features as is economically viable and recall major flaws so they don't get sued EVERY time someone wrecks one.
I think one of the most valuable contributions from the Ubuntu community is the community itself. The forums are very active and the posters are mostly friendly and try to be helpful. It's a great place to turn for help and tips. In my experience there, responses have been quick and they don't chase away newbies. Gentoo's also got a great forum community too, but I usually turn to the Ubuntu Forums simply because I happen to be running that distro.
Typical espresso machines are on the order of 1-2 kilowatts. If your hands are shaking that badly there's probably more than just caffeine in your latte.
There's still not much available in the wild that does 1080p justice right now anyway. Horribly compressed 1080p looks every bit as awful as horribly compressed 1080i/720p.
Doesn't Vista periodically phone home to make sure it's still legit? Wouldn't that tell MS exactly how many active and net-connected Vista boxes are in the wild?
I wonder how far in advance they buy their ad spots . . . they might still run for some time yet. That's a lot of money getting flushed down the toilet.
I annoys me to see movies depicting *any* computer interfaces that are so obviously over-the-top 3D and "gee-whiz we're futuristic" without any regard for . . . well . . . usability. Thank God the real world doesn't have operating systems like that.
It's still a valid question: why would a cell phone on an airplane cause more interference to cell phones on the ground than another cell phone on the ground would cause?
I believe the main concern that a cellphone at high altitude will be able to "see" lots of towers that look almost equally good and be prone to jumping back and forth between them at a much much higher rate than the networks were designed for, interfering with peoples' ability to make calls on the ground.
I touched on it above, but I think ultimately it won't actually matter, because it's already happening all the time. Our brains have already been replaced--not sure on the stats, but probably several times over the course of our lives. Some neurons die, others take over, and the actual chemicals and materials we're made out of get replaced too (maybe those are the same DNA and phospholipid molecules from birth but just about everything else ought to have been replaced several times over). Throughout our entire lives we're constantly being slowly destroyed and replaced by an exact copy and we don't notice. How would gradually exchanging squishy bio matter for hardware be any different?
This makes me wonder how they'll address the chemical interactions in our brains. What'll happen when large portions of bio-brain have been replaced or augmented by hardware that doesn't respond to or produce neurotransmitters like seratonin or hormones? No sense bolting on silicon if it just turns us into bipolar schizophrenics.
I find the philosophical issues especially interesting. How much of the brain can be replaced before the original "self" no longer exists? I guess it doesn't really matter in the scheme of things so long as the pattern is replicated . . . I guess our brains are constantly gradually replaced throughout our lives--the molecules we were born with aren't necessarily the molecules we're currently made out of.
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IANAP, but my understanding is that quantum entanglement only allows two remote observers to see the same thing and it works across space and time. No information passes between the observers. As far as either party is concerned, there's only a probability the other one even saw the entanglement event until they talk about it via light speed.
There is no such thing as synchronicity in this universe. Cause travels at the speed of light (or slower), gravity and relative velocity alter time and quantum states are ambiguous until observed. That star has a high probability of already having gone supernova, but this is meaningless in our frame of reference until the event is observable.
There aren't a lot of ways for a machine to "crash" that loses all its data. Even a lightning-fried hard drive can have its platters removed by a data recovery lab and many files can be pulled off. A mechanical failure doesn't grind the platters into sand. As a network server it really should have a RAID too. So how exactly can "the server crash" so spectacularly that the RAID, backups, and widely available data recovery services all fail? Did the building blow up?
I fail to see how there's any energy cost to cars at all--I don't think the highway actually recaptures any of the otherwise wasted "breeze" energy. To use a boating analogy, (because it's easier to see moving water than air) a boat creates a wake behind it from the water it's pushed out of its way. The waves created ultimately dissipate or hit shore. If I strung up a bunch of power generating buoys along major boating lanes, they'd capture some of the energy that would ultimately have just hit shore. This has no effect on the boat that generated the wake, nor does it have any significant effect on the next boat to pass by.
If you're familiar enough with Linux distros to have a preference, you're probably familiar enough to reinstall the OS of your choosing.
Ubuntu's suitable to be given to less tech savvy people so long as the hardware is properly tested and the drivers are all sorted out. This will be great for those who would wipe it and put on their own OS--you've still got a complete system with linux-tested hardware and drivers available on what's likely going to be an inexpensive box.
This is just conjecture, but it could also be a factor of time. Humans only migrated to the Americas 12 to 15 thousand years ago. Europe was populated 40 to 50 thousand years ago. The Inuit may simply have not been up long enough.
I never knew they made vending machines! This is great! I mean, it's a shame we lost our democracy to trivial-to-compromise voting machines, but at least we all get free Cheetos!
With a little luck and periodic checking you should be able to find them, depending on where you live. I just happened to get lucky and see a local Target had about 10 or so in stock. In the 1 hour I was there shopping for some other things, they were down to 5 (counting the one I snagged.)
It would work by the very definition of "compatible." If you can license the whole codebase under both licenses simultaneously without conflicting, then you distribute under both licenses. You can take BSD code, modify and re-release under the GPL if you want, as long as you preserve the notices on the BSD portion of code.
I think what the summary meant is that Microsoft hasn't increased prices to cover patent case losses. i.e. MS started selling OEM Windows for $X. Since RTM, they've paid out ~$20 x # of copies sold. They did not then turn around and start selling OEM windows for $X + 20.
Correct, but I'm talking about filing late--for which there *is* a penalty.
But that's no reason not to have already prepared everything so you need only to drop it in the mail. Late penalties are more than any interest you're likely to earn in a mere 3-4 months.
No. I'd do my taxes in February so I have some advance notice of a $10,000 tax bill so I have enough time to scrounge up the funds if necessary. *Then* I'd put the $10k in an interest bearing account and stuff my return in an envelope with a check but hang on to it until tax day.
BTW, the interest earned on $10k over 3 months at 6% = $150.75. Penalty for not filing on time when you owe $10,000 = $450.
No. Google has an automated copyright checker, but there's no word on how good it is. They're doing this simply to shield themselves from lawsuits. It only has to be good enough for Google to to be able to argue they've gone above and beyond and expended every reasonable effort to ensure copyrighted materials get rejected.
Ford doesn't make crashproof cars. They only include as many safety features as is economically viable and recall major flaws so they don't get sued EVERY time someone wrecks one.
Click the print view. Puts it all in one page.
I think one of the most valuable contributions from the Ubuntu community is the community itself. The forums are very active and the posters are mostly friendly and try to be helpful. It's a great place to turn for help and tips. In my experience there, responses have been quick and they don't chase away newbies. Gentoo's also got a great forum community too, but I usually turn to the Ubuntu Forums simply because I happen to be running that distro.
Typical espresso machines are on the order of 1-2 kilowatts. If your hands are shaking that badly there's probably more than just caffeine in your latte.
There's still not much available in the wild that does 1080p justice right now anyway. Horribly compressed 1080p looks every bit as awful as horribly compressed 1080i/720p.
Doesn't Vista periodically phone home to make sure it's still legit? Wouldn't that tell MS exactly how many active and net-connected Vista boxes are in the wild?
I wonder how far in advance they buy their ad spots . . . they might still run for some time yet. That's a lot of money getting flushed down the toilet.
I annoys me to see movies depicting *any* computer interfaces that are so obviously over-the-top 3D and "gee-whiz we're futuristic" without any regard for . . . well . . . usability. Thank God the real world doesn't have operating systems like that.
I believe the main concern that a cellphone at high altitude will be able to "see" lots of towers that look almost equally good and be prone to jumping back and forth between them at a much much higher rate than the networks were designed for, interfering with peoples' ability to make calls on the ground.
I touched on it above, but I think ultimately it won't actually matter, because it's already happening all the time. Our brains have already been replaced--not sure on the stats, but probably several times over the course of our lives. Some neurons die, others take over, and the actual chemicals and materials we're made out of get replaced too (maybe those are the same DNA and phospholipid molecules from birth but just about everything else ought to have been replaced several times over). Throughout our entire lives we're constantly being slowly destroyed and replaced by an exact copy and we don't notice. How would gradually exchanging squishy bio matter for hardware be any different?
This makes me wonder how they'll address the chemical interactions in our brains. What'll happen when large portions of bio-brain have been replaced or augmented by hardware that doesn't respond to or produce neurotransmitters like seratonin or hormones? No sense bolting on silicon if it just turns us into bipolar schizophrenics.
I find the philosophical issues especially interesting. How much of the brain can be replaced before the original "self" no longer exists? I guess it doesn't really matter in the scheme of things so long as the pattern is replicated . . . I guess our brains are constantly gradually replaced throughout our lives--the molecules we were born with aren't necessarily the molecules we're currently made out of.