Now all we need is for HD manufacturers to stop defining "Gigabyte" as "1 billion bytes"
But Giga does mean 1 billion. Why on earth do some people in IT believe they can define a unit prefix differently to the rest of the scientific world?
It was an acceptably lazy hack back when the difference between 1024 (2^10) & 1000 was negligible, but now units of 2^30 are common, we're starting to the consequences of such laziness.
Its not going to be long before units of 2^100 are common. I don't know about you, but I prefer to work with 10^30 than 1267650600228229401496703205376.
Past studies have shown how many neurons are involved in a single, simple memory.
The article even says:
Dr. Fried said in a phone interview that the single neurons recorded firing most furiously during the film clips were not acting on their own; they were, like all such cells, part of a circuit responding to the videos, including thousands, perhaps millions, of other cells.
The practical utility of this is highly questionable
Where in the article does it suggest this has practical utility? It seemed to me to be full of implications that this was just one step in a long process:
"It's a really central piece of the memory puzzle and an important step in helping us fill in the detail of what exactly is happening when the brain performs this mental time travel" of summoning past experiences.
I'm sorry I forgot to set the SARCASM bit on that reply, I was actually saying exactly the opposite to what you just pointed out.
Well, considering your post was modded informative and all other replies took it seriously and perusing your history makes it obvious you're another whiney mac fanboy, I feel that any deficiencies in understanding/posting are solely on your part.
The Xbox 1 version however, the graphics code was substantially better./
Well, hacking the xbox is fairly well understood now & code is very mature their. Wii hacking on the other hand is very new, poorly understood & still in alpha.
What is far, far more interesting though, is how terrible the Wiimote is as a mouse device
See my first point. Why are you comparing an alpha release to an ancient release?
I wouldn't be surprised if the USB ports were 1.0 or 1.01 (I don't know?)
someone's never heard about the massacres in the 60's.
Meh, someone needs to learn better reading comprehension - and if you're going to talk about the past, why stop at the 60s? Go back to the Civil war or world war 2.
I'm not sure what you're referring to when you say comparison.
I wasn't comparing Russia & the US, but noting that in the US, some are accepting loss of freedoms that were typical of the Authoritarian Soviet State in the 80s.
Let me back this up. I lived in the Netherlands for ~2 years. I think in that time, only two (Dutch, not tourists) people I met didn't speak at least passable English (and often better than many native speakers).
I went all of the countryside too - including riding through some fairly secluded areas. Road workers, junkie beggars, farmers, kids, police, transport personnel, goddamn everyone speaks English.
They seem as a race to make a point of looking surprised and offended if you ask if they speak English.
You are more than welcome in any of these countries, but if a secondary goal is to learn a second language then you might be better off in Germany, France or Spain.
I was trying my best to answer the question as asked. That said whoever.
You are damn right. I learnt more German in six weeks in Germany than I did Dutch in a year in Amsterdam. Germans generally speak less English, so you're forced to speak their language.
If you want to work in Europe, speaking English with an opportunity to learn another language, your options are the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden & Norway & Nokia (oops, I mean Finland)
All of these countries have high tech sectors that their own populations can't sustain & import foreign workers (from all over the place) who use English as a working lingua fraca.
All the countries I listed above allow working Holiday visas for 1-2 years for many western countries (not sure about the US, sorry) for workers under the age of 31.
If you can't get such a visa, consider the same countries, but apply for jobs online, making it clear that you need a visa / sponsorship / whatever.
It's not as cut and dried as you think; from the article you link to:
Update: We apologize for a procedural mistake in testing battery runtime for this article. As the benchmark looped, the total workload processed by the fast Flash SSDs was higher, causing other components, such as the chipset and the CPU, to be more active as well. We followed up with the article
Piracy is ethically no different from a mob looting a store whose locks were broken.
You're kidding right? You think Piracy and Mob looting are ethical equivalents?
You're fucking crazy - looting is generally a non-violent crime, but hundred of ships are attacked in pirate attacks off the Somali coast & Malacca straights every year. Resulting in the death & injury of hundreds, along with kidnappings, destruction & theft of property, etc.
Basically - go back to ethics school & try to learn something this time.
Okay, on my Mac it doesn't work in either Firefox or Safari. I have intentionally not installed the Silverlight plugin; but it doesn't tell me I need it! It just says it's not compatible with my browser - and then tells me to use... my current OS and browser.
Let me get this straight, you went to the site, got the "install silverlight" message, declined, and you were surprised at getting an (incorrect) error message?
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That's why they will never consider WebKit. Too much pride.
Not because the enormous investment in XUL - including the wealth of third party themes / extensions / etc?
Webkit & Gecko have different goals & strengths. It would be impractical for firefox to switch. This a pragmatic decision & nothing to do with pride.
with Moore's law it would take 60 times 18 months
I wasn't aware Moore's law applied to hard drives?
Now all we need is for HD manufacturers to stop defining "Gigabyte" as "1 billion bytes"
But Giga does mean 1 billion. Why on earth do some people in IT believe they can define a unit prefix differently to the rest of the scientific world?
It was an acceptably lazy hack back when the difference between 1024 (2^10) & 1000 was negligible, but now units of 2^30 are common, we're starting to the consequences of such laziness.
Its not going to be long before units of 2^100 are common. I don't know about you, but I prefer to work with 10^30 than 1267650600228229401496703205376.
Past studies have shown how many neurons are involved in a single, simple memory.
The article even says:
The practical utility of this is highly questionable
Where in the article does it suggest this has practical utility? It seemed to me to be full of implications that this was just one step in a long process:
I'm sorry I forgot to set the SARCASM bit on that reply, I was actually saying exactly the opposite to what you just pointed out.
Well, considering your post was modded informative and all other replies took it seriously and perusing your history makes it obvious you're another whiney mac fanboy, I feel that any deficiencies in understanding/posting are solely on your part.
Thanks for playing captain obtuse.
Handling of the controller is likely how it is because Nintendo neglected to include the "Wii motion plus"
Wii MotionPlus is related to 3d motion & not particularly relevant to your original complaint of wiimote:mouse mapping.
The Xbox 1 version however, the graphics code was substantially better./
Well, hacking the xbox is fairly well understood now & code is very mature their. Wii hacking on the other hand is very new, poorly understood & still in alpha.
What is far, far more interesting though, is how terrible the Wiimote is as a mouse device
See my first point. Why are you comparing an alpha release to an ancient release?
I wouldn't be surprised if the USB ports were 1.0 or 1.01 (I don't know?)
Nope 2.0
How about you quote that law in full or provide us with a link.
I think you will find that it doesn't back up your case at all.
What a disgusting case of a deceptive under quoting to try to back up your point.
Why is that? Because I don't see disrupting the day to day activities of people unrelated to the object of your protest
No, because you believe traffic disruption is not peaceful assembly.
someone's never heard about the massacres in the 60's.
Meh, someone needs to learn better reading comprehension - and if you're going to talk about the past, why stop at the 60s? Go back to the Civil war or world war 2.
Thank god we are slighlty less storm trooperish here than in Russia.....for now
I'm not sure what you're referring to when you say comparison.
I wasn't comparing Russia & the US, but noting that in the US, some are accepting loss of freedoms that were typical of the Authoritarian Soviet State in the 80s.
Instead of A PBS mind in a Fox News world, your sig should read A Fox mind in a Fox News world
You're an archetypal Fox viewer.
In Soviet Russia, you didn't have the right to peaceful assembly or to travel without showing your papers.
I wish there was a joke I could make here.
Let me back this up. I lived in the Netherlands for ~2 years. I think in that time, only two (Dutch, not tourists) people I met didn't speak at least passable English (and often better than many native speakers).
I went all of the countryside too - including riding through some fairly secluded areas. Road workers, junkie beggars, farmers, kids, police, transport personnel, goddamn everyone speaks English.
They seem as a race to make a point of looking surprised and offended if you ask if they speak English.
You are more than welcome in any of these countries, but if a secondary goal is to learn a second language then you might be better off in Germany, France or Spain.
I was trying my best to answer the question as asked. That said whoever.
You are damn right. I learnt more German in six weeks in Germany than I did Dutch in a year in Amsterdam. Germans generally speak less English, so you're forced to speak their language.
If you want to work in Europe, speaking English with an opportunity to learn another language, your options are the Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden & Norway & Nokia (oops, I mean Finland)
All of these countries have high tech sectors that their own populations can't sustain & import foreign workers (from all over the place) who use English as a working lingua fraca.
All the countries I listed above allow working Holiday visas for 1-2 years for many western countries (not sure about the US, sorry) for workers under the age of 31.
If you can't get such a visa, consider the same countries, but apply for jobs online, making it clear that you need a visa / sponsorship / whatever.
Good luck!
It's not as cut and dried as you think; from the article you link to:
Check out the graphs on the retest
Please point us to Ubuntu's internet advertising campaign.
You do realise what this story is about don't you?
It means this: I have, in the past, made a decision to not install Silverlight - even when I've run across a site that made use of it.
Gotcha - the wording was somewhat unclear.
At work I'm on a PPC Mac. Now that I'm at home, I'm using a Intel Mac.
Hmmmmn, sounds like a reasonable assumption to me.
So, their user agent whitelist is shit. Your original assessment of poor web developers is correct.
So - what did you mean by "intentionally not installed silverlight?"
Because when I got to the DNC site using FF3 on OS X 10.4, I get the download Silverlight / download Move Player messages.
Piracy is ethically no different from a mob looting a store whose locks were broken.
You're kidding right? You think Piracy and Mob looting are ethical equivalents?
You're fucking crazy - looting is generally a non-violent crime, but hundred of ships are attacked in pirate attacks off the Somali coast & Malacca straights every year. Resulting in the death & injury of hundreds, along with kidnappings, destruction & theft of property, etc.
Basically - go back to ethics school & try to learn something this time.
Okay, on my Mac it doesn't work in either Firefox or Safari. I have intentionally not installed the Silverlight plugin; but it doesn't tell me I need it! It just says it's not compatible with my browser - and then tells me to use... my current OS and browser.
Let me get this straight, you went to the site, got the "install silverlight" message, declined, and you were surprised at getting an (incorrect) error message?
The pen^h^h^hphone is mightier than the sword^wgun.
You can't tell the difference between Mac users and Apple,
You don't think the people at Apple are Mac users?