I'll try and contact a magrathean to build me a designers planet. Something with one tux-shaped continent, one with a solaris-logo shaped continent, and well..... Slartibartfast will probably come up with a few ideas....
Moore just happened to make a prognosis that transistordensity would double every 2 years.
It just happened to work out that way. We're about to reach a point where current transistors won't cut in anymore. At such a point we'll either stagnate because we can't make a smaller process than 10 nanometer and we can't find a different functional tech, or we'll make an enormous jump in performance because we'll find something in a different field, be it optics or nano-tubing, that does make processors a lot faster.
Moore's law isn't a law, and should never have been called that way. It's merely a prognosis.
microprocessor technology is driven by the market. If the general consumer thinks their pc is fast enough, manufacturers will focus on energy-efficiency to sell more cpu's, and speed will start to be a secondary concern.
What's with this fucking spam all of the sudden.
Isn't is possible to add in a layer orso that blocks all those IP addresses that are used for this crap?
Anonymous Cowardness is good and all to be able to talk about a company acting (illegal|immoral), but isn't it possible to just add a spamfilter of some kind?
Talk to Google or something, see if you can make a deal and have a spamfilter inserted somewhere in your rackspace.
For the meanwhile, I've just set my browse level to +1, for the first time since I registered on slashdot.
sorry, didn't see your reply.
Guess I saw that line as a comment...
Modded you redundant for what I thought was just a repeat of previous poster. Aiming to undo my modding by posting this post;)
Don't confuse a technological advancement with innovation.
45nm process has nothing to do with innovation. It's just the same technology, the same process, on a different scale.
Innovation is seeing a ball rolling, and making a bearing out of it. the 45nm process opposed to the 60nm process is seeing a 30cm diameter ball, and making a 40cm diameter ball.
By jonwil (467024)
The #1 reason I want something like EFI is to eliminate the world of proprietary bootloaders/selection mechanisms for good. Essentially the BIOS would be the one that displays the list of boot options.
Unfortunatly no vendor that supports EFI (including all Linux distros I have seen) gets it totally right (where any boot time configuration options are handled through EFI and not through another bootloader)
Well, EFI may not be the best way to get away from proprietary stuff. It seems that EFI explicitly vacilitates such behaviour by hardware manufacturers:
I have spoken with the EFI authors at length. They make no secret of the fact that a "core value" of EFI is the preservation of intellectual property related to chipset programming and internal architecture. To put it another way, EFI is dedicated to the preservation of "Hard" hardware (as defined above), and the provision of binary interfaces and subsystems to BIOS vendors and others.
It is not really possible to build a full open-source BIOS if EFI is involved. The Tiano system, which Intel claims is an open source BIOS, can not be used to build a BIOS unless it is attached to proprietary, binary-only BIOS code provided by a vendor.
Another important thing to realize about EFI is that it also contemplates enabling chipset features that will trap certain OS operations to an EFI-based control system running in System Management Mode. In other words, under EFI, there is no guarantee that the OS owns the platform.
Accesses to IDE I/O addresses, or certain memory addresses, can be trapped to EFI code and potentially examined and modified or aborted. Many see this as an effort to build a "DRM BIOS".
I am not sure what the real intent of this design is, but is is a real concern in secure environments (such as those found in governments, banks, and large search engine companies). A number of vendors and users have told me that they are not sure they can ship an EFI system they are willing to trust in a secure environment.
sugar in a gastank does crap all... http://auto.howstuffworks.com/what-if-sugar-gas.ht m
A banana might block the exhaust, but most likely the starter is powerfull enough to create such an overpressure to send the banana flying.
QRand Command-line Utility [v0.2, 2007-07-17]
Note 1: Compiles under Visual Studio and g++.
Note 2: Windows executable included.
Note 3: GNU Linux executable included.
Well, fructose isn't the worst of problems. Regular granulated sugar, glucose and glucose syrup are much more fattening, because they have that sugar-dip effect.
When you eat granulated sugar or glucose, when the sugar-low kicks in, you'll get hungry again to replenish you bloodsugarlevels, hence you'll search for that candy bar again. Fructose's effect to your bloodsugar is much less, thus will make you eat less.
Also, high fructose corn syrup, is for about half of it glucose syrup, so there you have it.
Yeah, court will be the answer....
Grow up. You guys go to court for every fucking tiny mishap. Haven't you learned that court doesn't help jackshit?
This needs no new case. If it does come to a suit, the outcome would be that BP pays a few million, and still be pooring shit into LM.
What you need is not a new courtcase, what you need is a new government. Hell, a new government structure.
/snip/ but there are a lot of problems in the world bigger than microsoft's monopoly, like famine, disease, communism...
Communism isn't a problem. Dictatorship can be, if the dictator is a ruthless brute. Communism can theoretically very well go hand in hand with democracy *Gasp*
Communism is a social and corporate structure. Democracy and dictatorship is a political structure.
I don't care much for communism myself, but I get sick and tired of brainwashed people stating that communism is the worst of the worst problems out there. It infact is a very social structure. So social that many people actually use it small scale themselves, within their family or community. For some reason though people are less social towards people they don't know, and this brings the problems within this structure when applied country-wide.
So, repeat after me: Communism ain't bad. Dictatorship can be bad. (doesn't necessarily need to be, if the dictator has a good sense of right and wrong and such.)
Brazil is one of the foremost authorities nowadays on recycling... They really have progressed in the last decade and some...
Yes, we are all producers, but we aren't all major producers. America's over the top consumersociety, where everyone just buys and buys, is a major contributer to pollution. Those devices need to be created, and that often is done in countries like China and Taiwan. So that pollution isn't even counted in your countries statistics.
Then the US's population with big unefficient engines... What do you need 'em for? Surely driving two kids to school doesn't validate the Dodge Ram or the Chevvy Suburban?
Try something like a Daihatsu Cuore for a change.
China is less polluting because the country is poorer, only few people own cars, and many areas lack electricity etc. Same goes for India, although they are a bit ahead of china with their infrastructure iirc.
Australia said not to sign kyoto unless the US did. So they'll sign the damn thing if you guys do aswell, so that's no excuse.
Anyway, I'm off for now... Gotta travel a bit... by public transportation.
It would fall back indeed. Thats not the problem. But it'll burn and vaporise in the process due to the friction with the atmosphere.
check this thread I just digged up via google: http://physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-14993 3.html
make a ribbon of 5cm wide, with one side lighter-than, and one side heavier-than water, and just skim it from one end to the other, take out the algae, and let it dry. move the ribbon to the other side, and repeat...
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Private Islands are sooooo passé..
I'll try and contact a magrathean to build me a designers planet. Something with one tux-shaped continent, one with a solaris-logo shaped continent, and well..... Slartibartfast will probably come up with a few ideas....
Moore just happened to make a prognosis that transistordensity would double every 2 years.
It just happened to work out that way. We're about to reach a point where current transistors won't cut in anymore. At such a point we'll either stagnate because we can't make a smaller process than 10 nanometer and we can't find a different functional tech, or we'll make an enormous jump in performance because we'll find something in a different field, be it optics or nano-tubing, that does make processors a lot faster.
Moore's law isn't a law, and should never have been called that way. It's merely a prognosis.
microprocessor technology is driven by the market. If the general consumer thinks their pc is fast enough, manufacturers will focus on energy-efficiency to sell more cpu's, and speed will start to be a secondary concern.
What's with this fucking spam all of the sudden.
Isn't is possible to add in a layer orso that blocks all those IP addresses that are used for this crap?
Anonymous Cowardness is good and all to be able to talk about a company acting (illegal|immoral), but isn't it possible to just add a spamfilter of some kind?
Talk to Google or something, see if you can make a deal and have a spamfilter inserted somewhere in your rackspace.
For the meanwhile, I've just set my browse level to +1, for the first time since I registered on slashdot.
They may ship their products months earlier, but it's still finished at the same time...
ahh crap.
:/
Well, it should've been a superman ascii art thingy.
That didn't come out correctly.... :P
/ /
I would've thought the tt tag would add returns by itself.. anyway. here goes again:
___
/ \
\ S
\
so.... is this now superhumancomputing? I would've imagined something different. ___ / \ \ S / \ /
You might want to watch this TED-talk about statistics before you say something like that:
Peter Donnelly: How juries are fooled by statistics
sorry, didn't see your reply. ;)
Guess I saw that line as a comment...
Modded you redundant for what I thought was just a repeat of previous poster. Aiming to undo my modding by posting this post
How 'bout a Guinea pig. they could call it the gPig and I mean, who could say no to a fellow like this.
:)
how 'bout Tungsten (W)...
melts at 3683K... should be enough.
Don't confuse a technological advancement with innovation.
45nm process has nothing to do with innovation. It's just the same technology, the same process, on a different scale.
Innovation is seeing a ball rolling, and making a bearing out of it. the 45nm process opposed to the 60nm process is seeing a 30cm diameter ball, and making a 40cm diameter ball.
Unfortunatly no vendor that supports EFI (including all Linux distros I have seen) gets it totally right (where any boot time configuration options are handled through EFI and not through another bootloader)
Well, EFI may not be the best way to get away from proprietary stuff. It seems that EFI explicitly vacilitates such behaviour by hardware manufacturers:
Interview with Ronald G. Minnich (Google cache) What are your thoughts on the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI)?
I have spoken with the EFI authors at length. They make no secret of the fact that a "core value" of EFI is the preservation of intellectual property related to chipset programming and internal architecture. To put it another way, EFI is dedicated to the preservation of "Hard" hardware (as defined above), and the provision of binary interfaces and subsystems to BIOS vendors and others.
It is not really possible to build a full open-source BIOS if EFI is involved. The Tiano system, which Intel claims is an open source BIOS, can not be used to build a BIOS unless it is attached to proprietary, binary-only BIOS code provided by a vendor.
Another important thing to realize about EFI is that it also contemplates enabling chipset features that will trap certain OS operations to an EFI-based control system running in System Management Mode. In other words, under EFI, there is no guarantee that the OS owns the platform.
Accesses to IDE I/O addresses, or certain memory addresses, can be trapped to EFI code and potentially examined and modified or aborted. Many see this as an effort to build a "DRM BIOS".
I am not sure what the real intent of this design is, but is is a real concern in secure environments (such as those found in governments, banks, and large search engine companies). A number of vendors and users have told me that they are not sure they can ship an EFI system they are willing to trust in a secure environment.
sugar in a gastank does crap all...t m
http://auto.howstuffworks.com/what-if-sugar-gas.h
A banana might block the exhaust, but most likely the starter is powerfull enough to create such an overpressure to send the banana flying.
Your mother a math teacher or a PhD?
My mother doesn't even know what a sine is, let alone solve that to 15*cos(3x)
No. Benford's law doesn't apply to truely random numbers.
Not really the hardest of encryptions to crack.
..OMG, did anyone see that to register you haveto solve a math problem like:
derivative of (5*sin 3x +6cos(-pi/2))
Nice!
Here is a direct link to the generator, you can
download the client from here as well:
http://random.irb.hr/
QRand Command-line Utility [v0.2, 2007-07-17]
Note 1: Compiles under Visual Studio and g++.
Note 2: Windows executable included.
Note 3: GNU Linux executable included.
Well, fructose isn't the worst of problems. Regular granulated sugar, glucose and glucose syrup are much more fattening, because they have that sugar-dip effect.
When you eat granulated sugar or glucose, when the sugar-low kicks in, you'll get hungry again to replenish you bloodsugarlevels, hence you'll search for that candy bar again. Fructose's effect to your bloodsugar is much less, thus will make you eat less.
Also, high fructose corn syrup, is for about half of it glucose syrup, so there you have it.
Yeah, court will be the answer....
Grow up. You guys go to court for every fucking tiny mishap. Haven't you learned that court doesn't help jackshit?
This needs no new case. If it does come to a suit, the outcome would be that BP pays a few million, and still be pooring shit into LM.
What you need is not a new courtcase, what you need is a new government. Hell, a new government structure.
/snip/ but there are a lot of problems in the world bigger than microsoft's monopoly, like famine, disease, communism...Communism isn't a problem. Dictatorship can be, if the dictator is a ruthless brute. Communism can theoretically very well go hand in hand with democracy *Gasp*
Communism is a social and corporate structure. Democracy and dictatorship is a political structure.
I don't care much for communism myself, but I get sick and tired of brainwashed people stating that communism is the worst of the worst problems out there. It infact is a very social structure. So social that many people actually use it small scale themselves, within their family or community. For some reason though people are less social towards people they don't know, and this brings the problems within this structure when applied country-wide.
So, repeat after me: Communism ain't bad. Dictatorship can be bad. (doesn't necessarily need to be, if the dictator has a good sense of right and wrong and such.)
Brazil is one of the foremost authorities nowadays on recycling... They really have progressed in the last decade and some...
Yes, we are all producers, but we aren't all major producers. America's over the top consumersociety, where everyone just buys and buys, is a major contributer to pollution. Those devices need to be created, and that often is done in countries like China and Taiwan. So that pollution isn't even counted in your countries statistics.
Then the US's population with big unefficient engines... What do you need 'em for? Surely driving two kids to school doesn't validate the Dodge Ram or the Chevvy Suburban?
Try something like a Daihatsu Cuore for a change.
China is less polluting because the country is poorer, only few people own cars, and many areas lack electricity etc. Same goes for India, although they are a bit ahead of china with their infrastructure iirc.
Australia said not to sign kyoto unless the US did. So they'll sign the damn thing if you guys do aswell, so that's no excuse.
Anyway, I'm off for now... Gotta travel a bit... by public transportation.
The euro sign got dropped in the posting it seems....
We've had this system in the Netherlands for ages already. Consumer pays 1 or 2.50 more...
It would fall back indeed. Thats not the problem. But it'll burn and vaporise in the process due to the friction with the atmosphere.3 3.html
check this thread I just digged up via google:
http://physicsforums.com/archive/index.php/t-1499
make a ribbon of 5cm wide, with one side lighter-than, and one side heavier-than water, and just skim it from one end to the other, take out the algae, and let it dry. move the ribbon to the other side, and repeat...