I was imagining the context of a truly dire emergency--i.e. shipboard and line-of-fire medical facilities. Typing blood is pretty quick and easy, not sure how readily such circumstances could definitively test for other antibodies unless there was some obvious reaction that could be done with a sample of patient blood before administering the donor blood.
The situation would have to be pretty dire for that to be seriously considered. There's no good way to tell that a patient has *never* received incompatible blood before--there might've been an unnoticed slip-up in the past that could make this idea fatal.
Because the same games would have run just fine on DX9 or OpenGL,
Sure. On a PC. However, DX10 gives developers a much easier path for porting games between the xbox360 and Vista PCs. It's also a bit of a litmus test--a pre-Vista PC is probably a pre-2007 PC, which probably isn't powerful enough to suitably run games presently in development (most PCs are *not* gaming rigs).
There are more than 10 million 360s out there. Even if a studio decides to target the PC only, they'd be foolish to use APIs that will make it more difficult to port to that potential audience should the game become popular. Despite what might happen with the Wii and PS3, next year's games are being developed *now.* The studios have to target the market they have, and right now, DX10 makes the most sense.
This translates to "Drop your lawsuit or you're guaranteed to lose. Besides, our market cap is much bigger than yours so we can simply buy you to make this go away. Na na na na na na!"
Nah, Google doesn't want Viacom to drop the suit. Google was gunning for this fight and they want Viacom to come at them swinging hard. It's a fight Google is likely to win, but it has to be a fight otherwise it won't resolve anything and the rampant DMCA abuse will continue.
For a physical sale in Washington state, sales tax makes sense--visitors and tourists use the roads, infrastructure and government services too. Sales tax for Internet purchases outside of Washington state does not make sense. Should the volume of online sales increase to the point that sales tax revenues start plummeting rapidly I'm pretty sure this would be offset by increases in property and business-related taxes when UPS, FedEx, etc. start putting in processing facilities like mad to handle the massive shipping volume such a huge change would require.
. . . is about the only thing holding this back. Once you get decent broadband (I don't count anything less than a megabit downstream) you open up a whole slew of new possibilities that just aren't practical on dialup. Some will never get home internet access or even a home computer, but I'd bet money that a big chunk of that 1/3 without home Internet access has a land-line phone and probably cable/satelite TV. I have no doubt whatsoever that the Internet will eventually completely replace POTS and analog cable*. It's just way more flexible.
*I purposely left out digital cable since it's so similar to and in many cases *IS* IP TV.
To be honest with you, I _would_ use that ISP versus one that doesn't dump the garbage traffic. I consider that a damn nice feature.
Yes, but are there nearly enough people amongst the teeming millions who feel that way too? Most don't understand that spam comes from ordinary people's compromised computers. As far as they know, AntiVirus software ought to catch and fix any problems (even if they don't update it, renew their subscription, or patch the OS.). If their computer slows to a crawl they assume it's "running out of memory and need to delete some files." To them, a virus causes pop-ups, BSODs and erases their hard drive.
The botnet problem is very difficult to address. Especially because virtually every possible solution involves educating a large chunk of the user base on topics they understand poorly and have little interest in.
Battlestar Galactica has used the "F" word on several occasions this season on several episodes.
Mary McDonnell actually addressed this during her Q&A at MegaCon in Orlando last month. They get a lot of latitude with ad-libs and tweaking delivery to keep things natural and "film documentary esque." If you hear "fuck", it was either "frack" in the script or the actor was ad-libbing and the director liked the take too much to re-shoot or dub.
linux, the kernel, won't be licensed under version 3, so it wouldn't matter.
Yes it will. As pieces outside of the kernel migrate to GPLv3 Novell will hit a roadblock having to rely on GPLv2 branches. Someone might still maintain those, but maybe not, making that much more work for Novell. Novell will still have to share its code with the community, but the community won't have to share their code with Novell. Which makes me happy a little.
Indeed. For super-critical, but not super-massive, data like this especially.
I wish TFA actually specified how much data this was. When I ran a big scanning project for my office, I was getting an average of 500 megs per 4-drawer filing cabinet. This of course varied widely since there was nowhere near a constant number of pages per drawer or cabinet. They did say "300 cardboard boxes." Assuming document boxes, and that they manage to stuff an entire filing cabinet into a single document box, let's be conservative and give them 1 gig per box. That's 300 gigs. I don't care how much I trust IT. If I have data that cost $200,000 to scan in the first place, a few hundred bucks on a couple of external drives is a great insurance policy against the unthinkable.
I thought the whole point of Firefox was to create a slimmed-down-yet-extensible browser that wouldn't suffer from the "kitchen sink" mentality that plagued the Netscape/Mozilla suite in the past. Sure, I guess it's possible to do a whole XUL based desktop environment . . . but why??
(and yeah, I know the same logic of Firefox --> d.e. bears similarities to the GIMP --> GNOME, it just seems odd to me to go through the massive effort required when there are so many simpler options to do mostly the same thing these days.)
Since launching materials in space costs money, why not mine these potential resources and milk them for all they are worth?
Oh, I have no doubts asteroid mining will one day be a huge driving force for the commercialization of space. Once it's practical and cost effective, we'll do it. But regardless of the value of an asteroid's material composition, it is decidedly *not* useful if it's headed right for us on a collision course. Nudging such an asteroid just enough to be captured into Earth orbit rather than smacking in to us might be possible/a good idea some day, but it's well beyond our present-day capabilities.
Or does it have the capability to test silicon-based life? Ideally, it should test for both.
While Silicon and Carbon can form similar chemical bonds and similar compounds, it just isn't going to be a 1-to-1 relationship. Carbon Dioxide is a gas in most Earth-like conditions (i.e. when water is a liquid). Silicon Dioxide = sand, rocks, glass, etc. It's possible there are other mixtures of molecules that could result in chemical life, but we can't build a detector for something we can't define in the first place. Our best bet is to simply look at what chemistries are available in a given area, energy inputs, etc. then test for evidence of complex and self-sustaining reactions then go from there.
We've seen carbon based life adapted to extreme cold, oxygen-free locations on earth. Mars might have a few isolated areas where similar microbes can survive but there's no evidence nor any reason to test for anything else. Yet.
Firing her seems a bit odd . . . I'd figure with cases like this, they'd just keep her suspended without pay pending the outcome of the trial. Granted, if everything that's been reported is true, she's nucking futs, but there's something to be said about the philosophy of "innocent until proven guilty [in front of a judge and jury]." Firing her sounds like NASA is taking a stand in what is probably an ongoing investigation . ..
Any organization as conservative as the FAA no doubt waited a year or two before rolling out XP
And any organization as conservative as the FAA will begin evaluating their options and planning their next steps at least a year or two before they implement anything.
Screw fining them. Revoke their broadcast licenses. The spectrum "belongs" to the public. They're granted exclusive use of little slices of the spectrum in exchange for playing by our rules (well, the FCC's rules, anyway). Break the rules, and your spectrum goes to somebody who will make better use of it.
There's probably nothing we can do about it right now. That doesn't mean we can't figure something out. The first step is in detecting an asteroid and determining when it will impact. Given enough advance notice, we can devise a way to deflect a killer asteroid.
I agree. Despite the fact that I feel most anti-piracy measures are ineffective and counter productive, developers can add them if they wish. It's their software.
It is not, however, their computer.
I hope this developer gets sued for these antics. If I walk in to a Best Buy or something and shoplift, the store can insist I pay or call the police on me. However, if they chase me to my car, break my windshield and beat me up . . . well . . . guess who's getting the big settlement check out of that one.
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Correct, but some of us get an extra daylight hour after work that otherwise would've been wasted while we're cooped up in a building.
I was imagining the context of a truly dire emergency--i.e. shipboard and line-of-fire medical facilities. Typing blood is pretty quick and easy, not sure how readily such circumstances could definitively test for other antibodies unless there was some obvious reaction that could be done with a sample of patient blood before administering the donor blood.
The situation would have to be pretty dire for that to be seriously considered. There's no good way to tell that a patient has *never* received incompatible blood before--there might've been an unnoticed slip-up in the past that could make this idea fatal.
Sure. On a PC. However, DX10 gives developers a much easier path for porting games between the xbox360 and Vista PCs. It's also a bit of a litmus test--a pre-Vista PC is probably a pre-2007 PC, which probably isn't powerful enough to suitably run games presently in development (most PCs are *not* gaming rigs).
There are more than 10 million 360s out there. Even if a studio decides to target the PC only, they'd be foolish to use APIs that will make it more difficult to port to that potential audience should the game become popular. Despite what might happen with the Wii and PS3, next year's games are being developed *now.* The studios have to target the market they have, and right now, DX10 makes the most sense.
Nah, Google doesn't want Viacom to drop the suit. Google was gunning for this fight and they want Viacom to come at them swinging hard. It's a fight Google is likely to win, but it has to be a fight otherwise it won't resolve anything and the rampant DMCA abuse will continue.
It may depend on how they package/port it. The KDE apps might not need X11, but I have no idea about the desktop.
Your choice of words amuses me.
For a physical sale in Washington state, sales tax makes sense--visitors and tourists use the roads, infrastructure and government services too. Sales tax for Internet purchases outside of Washington state does not make sense. Should the volume of online sales increase to the point that sales tax revenues start plummeting rapidly I'm pretty sure this would be offset by increases in property and business-related taxes when UPS, FedEx, etc. start putting in processing facilities like mad to handle the massive shipping volume such a huge change would require.
. . . is about the only thing holding this back. Once you get decent broadband (I don't count anything less than a megabit downstream) you open up a whole slew of new possibilities that just aren't practical on dialup. Some will never get home internet access or even a home computer, but I'd bet money that a big chunk of that 1/3 without home Internet access has a land-line phone and probably cable/satelite TV. I have no doubt whatsoever that the Internet will eventually completely replace POTS and analog cable*. It's just way more flexible.
*I purposely left out digital cable since it's so similar to and in many cases *IS* IP TV.
Yes, but are there nearly enough people amongst the teeming millions who feel that way too? Most don't understand that spam comes from ordinary people's compromised computers. As far as they know, AntiVirus software ought to catch and fix any problems (even if they don't update it, renew their subscription, or patch the OS.). If their computer slows to a crawl they assume it's "running out of memory and need to delete some files." To them, a virus causes pop-ups, BSODs and erases their hard drive.
The botnet problem is very difficult to address. Especially because virtually every possible solution involves educating a large chunk of the user base on topics they understand poorly and have little interest in.
Mary McDonnell actually addressed this during her Q&A at MegaCon in Orlando last month. They get a lot of latitude with ad-libs and tweaking delivery to keep things natural and "film documentary esque." If you hear "fuck", it was either "frack" in the script or the actor was ad-libbing and the director liked the take too much to re-shoot or dub.
Yes it will. As pieces outside of the kernel migrate to GPLv3 Novell will hit a roadblock having to rely on GPLv2 branches. Someone might still maintain those, but maybe not, making that much more work for Novell. Novell will still have to share its code with the community, but the community won't have to share their code with Novell. Which makes me happy a little.
I wish TFA actually specified how much data this was. When I ran a big scanning project for my office, I was getting an average of 500 megs per 4-drawer filing cabinet. This of course varied widely since there was nowhere near a constant number of pages per drawer or cabinet. They did say "300 cardboard boxes." Assuming document boxes, and that they manage to stuff an entire filing cabinet into a single document box, let's be conservative and give them 1 gig per box. That's 300 gigs. I don't care how much I trust IT. If I have data that cost $200,000 to scan in the first place, a few hundred bucks on a couple of external drives is a great insurance policy against the unthinkable.
I thought the whole point of Firefox was to create a slimmed-down-yet-extensible browser that wouldn't suffer from the "kitchen sink" mentality that plagued the Netscape/Mozilla suite in the past. Sure, I guess it's possible to do a whole XUL based desktop environment . . . but why??
(and yeah, I know the same logic of Firefox --> d.e. bears similarities to the GIMP --> GNOME, it just seems odd to me to go through the massive effort required when there are so many simpler options to do mostly the same thing these days.)
Edgy had a third "server install" disc that contains the LAMP option for one thing. Maybe they'll do something similar again.
Oh, I have no doubts asteroid mining will one day be a huge driving force for the commercialization of space. Once it's practical and cost effective, we'll do it. But regardless of the value of an asteroid's material composition, it is decidedly *not* useful if it's headed right for us on a collision course. Nudging such an asteroid just enough to be captured into Earth orbit rather than smacking in to us might be possible/a good idea some day, but it's well beyond our present-day capabilities.
While Silicon and Carbon can form similar chemical bonds and similar compounds, it just isn't going to be a 1-to-1 relationship. Carbon Dioxide is a gas in most Earth-like conditions (i.e. when water is a liquid). Silicon Dioxide = sand, rocks, glass, etc. It's possible there are other mixtures of molecules that could result in chemical life, but we can't build a detector for something we can't define in the first place. Our best bet is to simply look at what chemistries are available in a given area, energy inputs, etc. then test for evidence of complex and self-sustaining reactions then go from there.
We've seen carbon based life adapted to extreme cold, oxygen-free locations on earth. Mars might have a few isolated areas where similar microbes can survive but there's no evidence nor any reason to test for anything else. Yet.
You're giving up on Mr. Gates's presidential aspirations.
Cancel or Allow?
Firing her seems a bit odd . . . I'd figure with cases like this, they'd just keep her suspended without pay pending the outcome of the trial. Granted, if everything that's been reported is true, she's nucking futs, but there's something to be said about the philosophy of "innocent until proven guilty [in front of a judge and jury]." Firing her sounds like NASA is taking a stand in what is probably an ongoing investigation . . .
I love the skullcap glove. It's so bad!
And any organization as conservative as the FAA will begin evaluating their options and planning their next steps at least a year or two before they implement anything.
Screw fining them. Revoke their broadcast licenses. The spectrum "belongs" to the public. They're granted exclusive use of little slices of the spectrum in exchange for playing by our rules (well, the FCC's rules, anyway). Break the rules, and your spectrum goes to somebody who will make better use of it.
There's probably nothing we can do about it right now. That doesn't mean we can't figure something out. The first step is in detecting an asteroid and determining when it will impact. Given enough advance notice, we can devise a way to deflect a killer asteroid.
I agree. Despite the fact that I feel most anti-piracy measures are ineffective and counter productive, developers can add them if they wish. It's their software.
It is not, however, their computer.
I hope this developer gets sued for these antics. If I walk in to a Best Buy or something and shoplift, the store can insist I pay or call the police on me. However, if they chase me to my car, break my windshield and beat me up . . . well . . . guess who's getting the big settlement check out of that one.
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ESR = Believes in a little more "give" to allow non-free bits