students that have business degrees and a background in computers really know more about programming than CS majors. Rightfully so. If you look for a programmer, you don't necessarily want a CS major. I remember a few of my fellow students who were really good with automatons and formal languages (shudder) or computability theory but not really with programming. Not every ME has to be good at fixing cars.
Why aren't the US companies following the lead of the Europeans and trying to become world leaders in the new technologies before someone else (such as Shell or BP) beats them to it? Because it's more profitable in the short term to rely on their lobbyists, like George W and Dick and hordes in the lower ranks. Long term, that may be different, but everybody knows that investors are only interested in the the next quarter. Just look at GM and Ford for some prime examples of this.
What possible reason could these companies have for holding back on recompiling versions for Linux ? OT, but I'll bite.
I guess you've never tried to port a piece of Windows-specific code to Linux or some other open platform. It is simply impossible if it is written to the Windows API and the message system. A complete rewrite is easier. Yes, you can pillage the original code, but the UI code is usually much bigger than the part that does the actual processing.
I see these heartburn ads on TV and think to myself: These people on the screen are actors, in good health and probably don't get heartburn. The target audience gets heartburn because they eat too much and are overweight. Probably for the same reason why you always see fit looking people in fast food ads.
If they were fat and unlhealthy looking like their target audience, the product wouldn't sell.
Hindbrain to cortex: "Look, I want that drug (food) so I can look as good as those actors!"
(30 seconds later) "The applet XYZ failed to load due to an unknown error. Please try again later. If it continues to fail, please call the IT helpdesk."
Let's hope they'll stick around for a while - there are many instruments that write floppies that have a much slower life cycle than PCs. But I have to agree with other posters: finding drives and media that actually *work* has become harder and harder. The drive in a 1999 Intellistation (Pentium Pro) is the best one around and all the ones in newer PCs have croaked or give me nothing but grief. I guess it's a case of "you get what you pay for" at prices between 5 and 10 bucks for the last few years.
The flight test met all objectives, including demonstrating the integration of the radar, launcher, fire control and communications and interceptor operations; demonstrating radar and interceptor discrimination; and target acquisition and tracking by the interceptor's seeker. Somehow I can't find "we hit the target" among all the blurb. All it says is "we flew a missile and it performed as expected." You just have to set the right expectations.
With the lack of parental control over minors and their cell phones, what precautions will be taken to stop the under-age abusing this system? A cell phone's owner is registered via the contract so it will be trivial compared to an ordinary network connection. That said, I'm pretty sure today's kiddies know more about circumventing their schools' and parent's blocks than I ever had a need to know. So, official pr0n channels won't make the slightest difference in this regard.
The most plausible work I've seen on the subject is based on Durda & Kring's recent work on giant impacts and heat of re-entry. Note that they mention the amount of GHG emitted by the impact and subsequent wildfires, which are "orders of magnitude larger than the C produced by fossil fuel burning and land use change today." That's about 3 orders of magnitude in their estimate, i.e. Chixculub would have cause a *massive* greenhouse effect. So the dinosaurs that weren't killed right away succumbed to the ecological changes caused by significant global warming in the years after the impact. Could the simple fact that mammals have better temperature regulation (sweating) than reptiles be the root cause?
This hasn't been "cracked" in any meaningful sense of the word. Actually it has. The cracking part is recovering the media keys from a DVD player's memory. How this was done hasn't been documented.
Why is it necessary to 'partner' with Microsoft to run an app on Windows? No, it's not. But why is it necessary to partner with Apple to run an app on the iPod/iPhone? Or with MS, on the Zune, for that mattter? Why aren't they open to begin with? My guess is, because the OS isn't up to the task.
Then why isn't a university running the necessary studies? Yeah, they cost a lot of money, but if the potential payoff is as big as it seems, funding shouldn't be a big issue.
Can anyone explain to me why SCSI drives always seem to be lagging IDE in terms of capacity? The main limitation for bit density on a high speed drive is the channel data rate (since you can't use anything but standard CMOS in a low power, high volume, low margin product.) If you spin faster, at a given maximum bit rate, you lose bit density. Also, for faster seeks, you have to put down more servo information (otherwise you may not see any servo bursts for some time while the head is crossing only data.) You can generally stuff more data on a platter by spinning it slower. That's why basic 2.5" drives usually spin at 5400 or even 4500 rpm. Of course the interface has nothing to do with it. SCSI=>high end=>faster=>lower capacity. This may actually change with the convergence between SATA and SAS.
You use their products because they are [...] cheap. And there's the crux of the matter. Environmental costs are external, i.e. they're paid for by the general public. Even more so, in this case it's the next generation and the ones after them who are going to pay.
Several countries (the US not among them) have slowly increased their taxes on fossil fuel (especially oil) products and had good success with it. Guess why European or Japanese cars are way more efficient than US cars? Guess why GM, Ford and Chrysler are slowly going down the drain? Guess why European companies are world leaders in eco technologies? These policies work, and if they are done revenue neutral there's nothing wrong with them. Unless you're a big oil company or a car manufacturer trying to sell cheap heavy truck technology as fancy SUVs.
Maybe you should submit a bug report or take this issue up with the dev team. We looked into it, but it's a big heap of flying spaghetti code. Whoever designed it wasn't very intelligent.
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Long term, that may be different, but everybody knows that investors are only interested in the the next quarter. Just look at GM and Ford for some prime examples of this.
>Obviously, the numbers wouldn't be anywhere near those, but the idea is the same. In this model, how does ANY side benefit?
You didn't account for trips, dinners and entertainment for Dell execs paid by Intel.
on recompiling versions for Linux ? OT, but I'll bite.
I guess you've never tried to port a piece of Windows-specific code to Linux or some other open platform.
It is simply impossible if it is written to the Windows API and the message system. A complete rewrite is easier. Yes, you can pillage the original code, but the UI code is usually much bigger than the part that does the actual processing.
If they were fat and unlhealthy looking like their target audience, the product wouldn't sell.
Hindbrain to cortex: "Look, I want that drug (food) so I can look as good as those actors!"
Sigh.
Or, rather:
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"The applet XYZ failed to load due to an unknown error. Please try again later. If it continues to fail, please call the IT helpdesk."
Let's hope they'll stick around for a while - there are many instruments that write floppies that have a much slower life cycle than PCs.
But I have to agree with other posters: finding drives and media that actually *work* has become harder and harder. The drive in a 1999 Intellistation (Pentium Pro) is the best one around and all the ones in newer PCs have croaked or give me nothing but grief. I guess it's a case of "you get what you pay for" at prices between 5 and 10 bucks for the last few years.
>the atoms must be cooled to a fraction of 0 degrees Kelvin
But exactly *what* fraction of 0 K?
You just have to set the right expectations.
That said, I'm pretty sure today's kiddies know more about circumventing their schools' and parent's blocks than I ever had a need to know. So, official pr0n channels won't make the slightest difference in this regard.
You'll need a lot of treadmills.
:)
A basic hamburger has 250 calories, which means you'll have to walk 2.5 miles. Or you could run 2 miles at an 8-minute pace.
A big happy meal can easily go over 1,000 calories.
Sounds like you'd get a huge gym with a very unhealthy snack bar
This amuses me greatly. I think he meant unproper.
If only there were some sort of "linked article" that explained that! You must be new here.
... can we call it genuine Linux? Linux Genuine Advantage?>XM's subscribers call it "non-repetitive variety without intrusive, annoying chatter"
Sounds like an iPod to me.
Isn't that the wireless technology that transmits only audio? No video, no data? How quaint is that?
Seriously. Wake me up when I can get streaming audio via WiMax in my car. What do you need a satellite for?
Or with MS, on the Zune, for that mattter?
Why aren't they open to begin with? My guess is, because the OS isn't up to the task.
if you're just a voice on concalls and a name on emails, what do you expect?
You got to have at least some face time.
Then why isn't a university running the necessary studies? Yeah, they cost a lot of money, but if the potential payoff is as big as it seems, funding shouldn't be a big issue.
You can generally stuff more data on a platter by spinning it slower. That's why basic 2.5" drives usually spin at 5400 or even 4500 rpm.
Of course the interface has nothing to do with it. SCSI=>high end=>faster=>lower capacity. This may actually change with the convergence between SATA and SAS.
Several countries (the US not among them) have slowly increased their taxes on fossil fuel (especially oil) products and had good success with it. Guess why European or Japanese cars are way more efficient than US cars? Guess why GM, Ford and Chrysler are slowly going down the drain? Guess why European companies are world leaders in eco technologies? These policies work, and if they are done revenue neutral there's nothing wrong with them. Unless you're a big oil company or a car manufacturer trying to sell cheap heavy truck technology as fancy SUVs.