It may be that, but it's too early to tell since it seems like not many programmers can program parallel algorithms over their sequential counterparts. It could also be due to the lack of libraries and standards. It is lame this guy is making it sound like a pyramid scheme but he has an investment in it. *And I agree with that lame web 2.0 shit. Buzzwords don't mean jack.
Yeah, agree with you there. The article said they will be replaced within 4 years...yeah right. Maybe in 10 years something will come out that may be faster, but marginally more expensive. I don't see silicon exiting the technology world altogether within even the next 50 years. Some parts may be replaced but Si chips will still be kicking.
I've never had any problem installing ATI or NVIDIA drivers in fedora. In XP I like to stick to Omega drivers. But for the record the ATI card was an x800xl and the NVIDIA a geforce 7900gtoc, soon to be an 8800gts, today.
It is not clear why China's net population, the world's largest, is suddenly able to view the BBC News website after years of being blocked. Nor is it clear how long the access will continue.
I believe they may have just answered that question with this article.
I don't think Viacom was really strict about SP being online to begin with. I remember countless websites offering SP episodes for free, many of which were crappy websites, but were around for quite some time. I haven't frequented them in some time but I don't ever recall hearing any outburst from Viacom about SP being made freely available. It is commendable for Matt and Trey to come out and get Viacom to actually put it in writing that it is free online (via their website) but I still don't see any other sites getting hammered b/c of what they do. Another win for freely available content. Now if only they would host Cannibal! The Musical.
Mod parent up. It's exactly what Comcast will be doing, slowing all traffic for people who use more bandwidth than they deem acceptable. They're still as seedy as ever. I just hope this doesn't throw the FCC of of their track, if they even intend to do anything about it.
But how would they discern the difference between anything using the bt protocol and official BT traffic? Is that even possible? You couldn't target the source since the sharers would be the source.
Internet management should be "fair, agnostic and disclosed,"
Come again? (That's what she said) But seriously, what is agnostic about internet management, the fact that emotions and politics shouldn't play a part in it, or that people just can't sense it?
The difference was a societal issue. 150 years ago women didn't really have opportunities, not to mention many people were subsistence farmers and education was for the wealthy. You pretty much had to learn how to survive on your own by the age of 10. Technology and education has reduced the need for that. I do have to agree with you that many people have no clue how to clean up after themselves or cook and clean. I saw the same thing when I was in college, but I learned how to do all of that stuff while still in middle/high school. Some people's parents just didn't teach them responsibility. That may be the key to all of this, being responsible. But I think I made my point about the comparison of guns and cars. Why let kids handle real guns instead of letting them ease into it with toys, pellet guns, and bb guns before just letting them handle a pistol. It will let them gain confidence and awareness of its capabilities, and also has room for "safer" accidents that they can avoid if they do use a real gun. I'll also agree with you about 16 year olds who have never driven anything before, but I still manage to see grown people who somehow have no idea how to drive a car.
the Debtors nevertheless now seek an expense reimbursement for York of $150,000 (or $50,000, as an alternative) as a "business and moral matter."
So SCO is trying to pay off York because they want to entice them again at a later date? It also states that this is in violation of bankruptcy laws since it wasn't an approved as what they call a "breakup fee" meant to preserve the value of the estate to the other party or other potential buyers. No one actually signed any contract, and in this case they argue that the "contract" didn't even list any specifics as to what York would be purchasing.
What exactly the Debtors proposed to sell to York was not entirely clear - which was one of the fatal defects of the Sale Motion in the end - because the Sale Motion attached only a nonbinding term sheet rather than a definitive sale agreement.
I'm not sure what SCO is trying to do here, but it sure smells fishy. As a side not the motion really is pretty readable and worth it.
I recently noticed that google logged my searching habits, and while I thought it was kind of cool to see the stats, I was weary of the thought of my habits cataloged. They may have a desire to utilize searches to target ads they think consumers may like, but it still comes down to making money for them. It's notable that they are pushing for consent from users to use data that is collected, but that has always been abused even with telephone and credit card companies handing out your data. I'd prefer an opt-in rather than an opt-out version so I don't have to worry about who is tracking what, or I'll just stick to track-me-not.
I don't see this going well with the climate oscillations, particularly the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and the El Nino Southern Oscillation. This could cause massively destructive monsoons in the South East Pacific and flooding in South America in about a year. People still want to screw with mother nature regardless of the dangers that it poses.
That has got to be one of the most ludicrous arguments I've heard. Letting your 6 year old handle a gun? That's only going to teach him that it's ok to handle a gun whenever he wants to. If you do insist I'd say talk to your 6 year old, who just began to read not long ago, about guns and the caution needed to handle it. You don't just slap a glock in his hand and say "here's how you shoot stuff." And you don't kill something just to make an example, what does that teach your kid, that it's ok to point guns at living things even if you aren't hunting.
I was introduced to guns after 13 so don't give me that crap about kids will play with them just because they are new. I recognized the dangers of guns, and even had toy guns and a bb gun at one point. My dad taught me the dangers of guns, but not by example, and I've grown up perfectly fine knowing how to handle them. The point you are trying to make about 13 year olds 150 years ago is moot. Back then 13 year olds were parents, are you advocating that now too? You can't just compare one thing about culture back then and exclude everything else.
Cars are also dangerous, should you put your 6 year old in the driver's seat and let him have a shot at it?
Just extrapolate or approximate by using a smaller census and count the number of employed and schoolgoing kids and just add the number of unemployed, homeschooled, and births to get a number that would have about a 90% confidence interval? Is a 95% confidence interval really worth that many billion dollars?
Seems to be that patent trolls have to stick to jurisdictions they have a significant presence in, and can't go to courts that have been sympathetic to plaintiffs in patent cases. This isn't much of a reform to me. What about stopping these common sense patents and business model patents. Until that happens this is just a motion of appeasement, not a real solution to the problems.
Coming from a person who has worked a lot on cars, I would prefer to work on an older car any day. Why? Simply put, there are fewer points of failure. When your car doesn't run right, what do you check? In older models you have things to check which are mostly mechanical. In newer models you have some mechanical and some electronic, which leaves a lot of things to investigate and can end up being a humongous hassle. (*begin short rant* for example what idiot thought it was a good idea to electronic fuel pumps inside the gas tank whereas mechanical fuel pumps are connected to the engine *end short rant*) There may be small variations in advancements in the mechanical parts, but those are tried and true and have been implemented since probably the 50s. The tried and true old technology is relatively more simple than the newer technology and easier to fix as long as it can serve the same function. This may be slightly different for older electronic technology, but I would figure that the comparison to cars would work just fine.
I would say that some people already do hate Google and Apple, but in a different way from why people hate MS. People hate MS because of their past actions and monopolistic practices, and not to mention any shoddy operating systems they released recently. If people hate Google and Apple it's because of envy of the creativity and laxity inside the company, and that they sold out and joined the ranks of the higher-ups such as MS. I know the part about the online advertising, but I hardly notice that since I have my adblock with an ad.doubleclick/* filter. The difference with Google in my opinion is that Google listens more to what end users want to use online, rather than telling them what they will use (toss some comments my way if they don't). And to my knowledge Google doesn't actually sell a tangible product.
This sounds a little bit like kongregate with a little more multiplayer to it. Kongregate has some better sounding games though, and a steady flow of them. The redemption thing sounds good, except with the obvious point of how security will deal with the private information.
As a former engineering major I can say that is not why I changed to biology. The reason I changed was after I attended the engineering career fair to look into different possible careers, none of them appealed to me at all, so I went to something I was interested in doing. The other deciding factor was the fact that the averages for all freshmen, no matter the professor, was in the 40s!! That should say something. This was at Virginia Tech, which is pretty well known for engineering, and the engineering fundamentals class was basically meant to weed out about 75% of the people, but it has been getting eased since I was a freshman. I do agree that it sucked being an engineering student because of all the non-stop work I had to do. My sophomore roommate asked me why I was working all the time, for a damn 2 credit class no less, but he was a communications major so he didn't understand.
I wonder what the incomes of the soft majors that got all A's will look like compared to a good chemical/electrical/mechanical engineer.
Under a weighted TCP implementation, both users get the same amount of bandwidth regardless of how many TCP streams each user opens...Background P2P applications like BitTorrent will experience a more drastic but shorter-duration cut in throughput but the overall time it takes to complete the transfer is unchanged.
I am all for a change in the protocols as long as it helps everybody. The ISPs win, and so do the customers. As long as the ISPs don't continue to complain and forge packets to BT users I would see an upgrade to the TCP protocol as a solution to what is going on with neutrality issues, as well as an upgrade to fiber optic networks so the US is on par with everyone else.
What I'd like to know is what this device actually can do. Does it simply pick up REMs or ionization radiation or what? In practice it looks like the device can pick up any sort of medically used radioactive material, most likely whether exposed to or it is ingested. So now the federal govt has caught another group of John Q. Public in their dragnet, giving them cart blanche to search for anything else illegal in their car. Seems like a clear violation of the 4th amendment to me.
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But think outside the box man. This is going to revolutionize the web 2.0 experience with its metadata socialized infrastructure.
Sorry, I totally got sick of using even that many buzz words. I'll stop now.
It may be that, but it's too early to tell since it seems like not many programmers can program parallel algorithms over their sequential counterparts. It could also be due to the lack of libraries and standards. It is lame this guy is making it sound like a pyramid scheme but he has an investment in it. *And I agree with that lame web 2.0 shit. Buzzwords don't mean jack.
Yeah, agree with you there. The article said they will be replaced within 4 years...yeah right. Maybe in 10 years something will come out that may be faster, but marginally more expensive. I don't see silicon exiting the technology world altogether within even the next 50 years. Some parts may be replaced but Si chips will still be kicking.
I've never had any problem installing ATI or NVIDIA drivers in fedora. In XP I like to stick to Omega drivers. But for the record the ATI card was an x800xl and the NVIDIA a geforce 7900gtoc, soon to be an 8800gts, today.
I don't think Viacom was really strict about SP being online to begin with. I remember countless websites offering SP episodes for free, many of which were crappy websites, but were around for quite some time. I haven't frequented them in some time but I don't ever recall hearing any outburst from Viacom about SP being made freely available. It is commendable for Matt and Trey to come out and get Viacom to actually put it in writing that it is free online (via their website) but I still don't see any other sites getting hammered b/c of what they do. Another win for freely available content. Now if only they would host Cannibal! The Musical.
Mod parent up. It's exactly what Comcast will be doing, slowing all traffic for people who use more bandwidth than they deem acceptable. They're still as seedy as ever. I just hope this doesn't throw the FCC of of their track, if they even intend to do anything about it.
But how would they discern the difference between anything using the bt protocol and official BT traffic? Is that even possible? You couldn't target the source since the sharers would be the source.
The difference was a societal issue. 150 years ago women didn't really have opportunities, not to mention many people were subsistence farmers and education was for the wealthy. You pretty much had to learn how to survive on your own by the age of 10. Technology and education has reduced the need for that.
I do have to agree with you that many people have no clue how to clean up after themselves or cook and clean. I saw the same thing when I was in college, but I learned how to do all of that stuff while still in middle/high school. Some people's parents just didn't teach them responsibility. That may be the key to all of this, being responsible. But I think I made my point about the comparison of guns and cars. Why let kids handle real guns instead of letting them ease into it with toys, pellet guns, and bb guns before just letting them handle a pistol. It will let them gain confidence and awareness of its capabilities, and also has room for "safer" accidents that they can avoid if they do use a real gun.
I'll also agree with you about 16 year olds who have never driven anything before, but I still manage to see grown people who somehow have no idea how to drive a car.
As a side not the motion really is pretty readable and worth it.
I recently noticed that google logged my searching habits, and while I thought it was kind of cool to see the stats, I was weary of the thought of my habits cataloged. They may have a desire to utilize searches to target ads they think consumers may like, but it still comes down to making money for them. It's notable that they are pushing for consent from users to use data that is collected, but that has always been abused even with telephone and credit card companies handing out your data. I'd prefer an opt-in rather than an opt-out version so I don't have to worry about who is tracking what, or I'll just stick to track-me-not.
I don't see this going well with the climate oscillations, particularly the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and the El Nino Southern Oscillation. This could cause massively destructive monsoons in the South East Pacific and flooding in South America in about a year. People still want to screw with mother nature regardless of the dangers that it poses.
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That has got to be one of the most ludicrous arguments I've heard. Letting your 6 year old handle a gun? That's only going to teach him that it's ok to handle a gun whenever he wants to. If you do insist I'd say talk to your 6 year old, who just began to read not long ago, about guns and the caution needed to handle it. You don't just slap a glock in his hand and say "here's how you shoot stuff." And you don't kill something just to make an example, what does that teach your kid, that it's ok to point guns at living things even if you aren't hunting.
I was introduced to guns after 13 so don't give me that crap about kids will play with them just because they are new. I recognized the dangers of guns, and even had toy guns and a bb gun at one point. My dad taught me the dangers of guns, but not by example, and I've grown up perfectly fine knowing how to handle them. The point you are trying to make about 13 year olds 150 years ago is moot. Back then 13 year olds were parents, are you advocating that now too? You can't just compare one thing about culture back then and exclude everything else.
Cars are also dangerous, should you put your 6 year old in the driver's seat and let him have a shot at it?
Just extrapolate or approximate by using a smaller census and count the number of employed and schoolgoing kids and just add the number of unemployed, homeschooled, and births to get a number that would have about a 90% confidence interval? Is a 95% confidence interval really worth that many billion dollars?
Seems to be that patent trolls have to stick to jurisdictions they have a significant presence in, and can't go to courts that have been sympathetic to plaintiffs in patent cases. This isn't much of a reform to me. What about stopping these common sense patents and business model patents. Until that happens this is just a motion of appeasement, not a real solution to the problems.
Coming from a person who has worked a lot on cars, I would prefer to work on an older car any day. Why? Simply put, there are fewer points of failure. When your car doesn't run right, what do you check? In older models you have things to check which are mostly mechanical. In newer models you have some mechanical and some electronic, which leaves a lot of things to investigate and can end up being a humongous hassle. (*begin short rant* for example what idiot thought it was a good idea to electronic fuel pumps inside the gas tank whereas mechanical fuel pumps are connected to the engine *end short rant*) There may be small variations in advancements in the mechanical parts, but those are tried and true and have been implemented since probably the 50s. The tried and true old technology is relatively more simple than the newer technology and easier to fix as long as it can serve the same function. This may be slightly different for older electronic technology, but I would figure that the comparison to cars would work just fine.
I would say that some people already do hate Google and Apple, but in a different way from why people hate MS. People hate MS because of their past actions and monopolistic practices, and not to mention any shoddy operating systems they released recently. If people hate Google and Apple it's because of envy of the creativity and laxity inside the company, and that they sold out and joined the ranks of the higher-ups such as MS. I know the part about the online advertising, but I hardly notice that since I have my adblock with an ad.doubleclick/* filter.
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The difference with Google in my opinion is that Google listens more to what end users want to use online, rather than telling them what they will use (toss some comments my way if they don't). And to my knowledge Google doesn't actually sell a tangible product.
This sounds a little bit like kongregate with a little more multiplayer to it. Kongregate has some better sounding games though, and a steady flow of them. The redemption thing sounds good, except with the obvious point of how security will deal with the private information.
You mean business students?
What I'd like to know is what this device actually can do. Does it simply pick up REMs or ionization radiation or what? In practice it looks like the device can pick up any sort of medically used radioactive material, most likely whether exposed to or it is ingested. So now the federal govt has caught another group of John Q. Public in their dragnet, giving them cart blanche to search for anything else illegal in their car. Seems like a clear violation of the 4th amendment to me.
I don't know...looks photoshopped to me.