The Mythbusters, while highly entertaining, would not win any prizes for designing good experiments. They are entertainers, not scientists, and you could poke huge holes in quite a high percentage of their endeavours, so I wouldn't cite them as a meaningful reference.
It seems hardly a day goes by without seeing yet another example of Microsoft's utter disregard for the needs and desires of virtually every market -- consumer, enterprise, and OEM
Much as I love Microsoft bashing, this is bull. The SSD manufacturers are moving their products into a market dominated by an established technology, namely hard disks, and it's up to them to make their products perform well enough to displace that established technology. Running well on SSDs wasn't a design goal of Vista, and AFAICS there is a limit to what Microsoft can do about this in the short term. I'm sure this will be on the radar for the next version of Windows, but at the moment I would say the SSD manufacturers need to work on their products rather than casting blame.
I just paid for my ElonexONE, which cost me £100, which is around $200. However that price only seems to be available for those of us who pre-ordered units, they've upped the list price since then, to £180 (with a slightly improved spec). The spec is significantly lower than the EEE.
I think it's pretty obvious that making money off these netbook type units at the $200 price point has turned out to be unrealistic at this point in time, as no one has really managed it even at the lower specs around.
Is his identity for sale? Otherwise all he is selling is a bunch of stuff. Not "His Life". It would be more interesting if you could actually buy his identity and completely assume his life. Of course, you couldn't do that completely. His friends probably aren't going to buy into it. And also, what of the government?
If you RTFA you'll see that the sale includes introductions to his friends, and a trial in his job, which is supported by his employer. In addition to all the physical stuff. If a purchaser played it right, he could indeed have the guy's house, friends, job, and possesions. This is about as much as he could reasonably and legally do, and IMHO just barely about enough to justify his description that he's selling his "life".
Advertisers should slow their commercials down so that the play at the right speed when we're doing a 32x fast forward. Think about it - everybody wins. The TV companies sell more ad space, because a 5min break only gives 9 seconds of ad playback time. We the viewers get really concise, focussed ads. And the advertisers will actually get their ads watched the whole way through. I am a fricking genius, am I not!
Beer is a craft. It isn't the same as software because the same program (recipe) won't always produce the same result. The program I wrote yesterday will run the same any time of year. Beer, on the other hand, cares when I make it. Around here, we don't brew between May and October.
The conditions under which the brewing occurs are part of the "program", and the same program certainly should always produce the same results. If you don't have control of some of your initial variables, then you will get varying results, whether you're talking software or beer.
It's vaguely worth mentioning that I've been blocked from posting on/. in a similar manner a couple of times. My ISP forces traffic through it's transparent proxies, and/. seems quite happy to block an entire proxy. Fortunately it doesn't seem to have happened rec##KR2F@F@$F$ {NO CARRIER}
...could you plant for $1300? That's something many environmental types love to ignore. They spend large amounts of money on things that have pretty small environmental benefits, and then say "every little bit counts" and so forth. Whereas what they should be asking is "how could I spend this money so as to do the most good/least damage to the environment?"
I love how all Slashdot articles have massive amounts of spin on them now.
Well, it does seem to be a good way of eliciting informative responses to the article, such as yours;) I personally find the tabloid-style headlands rather entertaining, and any misconceptions they generate are usually cleared up in the top few comments.
Perhaps in the future, people who are not technical will not own computers at all, but only rent content delivery vehicles?
As someone who constantly spends quite a large chunk of free time sorting out IT issues for non-technical friends and family, I can't wait for the day when non-techies don't own their own machines, and don't even have administrative access at all. I'm sick of being Microsofts unpaid tech support, they're welcome to take over.
Every single OS is based on the fact that there is a slow, but persistent memory (hard drive) and a fast, volatile one (RAM). They'd need a complete overhaul to fully exploit the new paradigm.
Not true. Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 and earlier were designed to be used with battery-backed DRAM as the primary/sole mass storage, probably true for lots of other embedded systems too. WM2003 therefore wouldn't need any changes at all to take advantage of these technologies, and it probably would take much to transfer any relevant features to desktop windows either.
In all fairness to the GPP, after several rereads, if that was a joke, it was probably the least funny one I have read so far this year. Don't give up your day job.
I don't know how they make money off of advertising their own service in the beginning of the song.
They won't, that's filler until they get more advertisers onboard.
And couldn't anyone just download a song, then import it in an audio editor like Audacity, delete the 10 second ad in the beginning and export it back?
Yes, or better yet use MP3DirectCut, which allows cutting and joining mp3's without de/recompression - (assuming they use mp3, I didn't look). However the hope is presumably that people are very lazy, and will just fill up their iPods with tracks, and not take the trouble to chop off the ads. there are bound to be some people who are that lazy, but I'm not sure if they will find enough such people to make their business model work.
Just to follow up, according to this article, Blue Brain*, utilizing a 22.8 teraflop supercomputer, manages to simulate around 10,000 human neurons. I have no idea whether human neurons are significantly more complex than mouse neurons, or whether we just have more of them, but if the latter then maybe the 8000 isn't a typo after all?
Half a real mouse brain is thought to have about eight million neurons
and
the researchers created half a virtual mouse brain that had 8,000 neurons
How can it be half a mouse brain if it has 1/1000 the number of a real half mouse brain? Their simulated neurons also had less synapses than the real thing. So is the 8000 a typo, or am I missing something?
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Just put a stone in your shoe before your suicide bombing mission - it may be a little uncomfortable, you won't have to put up with it for long!
I struggled with the Google translation of that article, here is an article on the same guy that covers the same ground for English speakers.
The Mythbusters, while highly entertaining, would not win any prizes for designing good experiments. They are entertainers, not scientists, and you could poke huge holes in quite a high percentage of their endeavours, so I wouldn't cite them as a meaningful reference.
It seems hardly a day goes by without seeing yet another example of Microsoft's utter disregard for the needs and desires of virtually every market -- consumer, enterprise, and OEM
Much as I love Microsoft bashing, this is bull. The SSD manufacturers are moving their products into a market dominated by an established technology, namely hard disks, and it's up to them to make their products perform well enough to displace that established technology. Running well on SSDs wasn't a design goal of Vista, and AFAICS there is a limit to what Microsoft can do about this in the short term. I'm sure this will be on the radar for the next version of Windows, but at the moment I would say the SSD manufacturers need to work on their products rather than casting blame.
I just paid for my ElonexONE, which cost me £100, which is around $200. However that price only seems to be available for those of us who pre-ordered units, they've upped the list price since then, to £180 (with a slightly improved spec). The spec is significantly lower than the EEE.
I think it's pretty obvious that making money off these netbook type units at the $200 price point has turned out to be unrealistic at this point in time, as no one has really managed it even at the lower specs around.
"Your continued subscription to the AOL service constitutes your proof that you are a fool and deserve to be parted from your money."
There, fixed it.
Is his identity for sale? Otherwise all he is selling is a bunch of stuff. Not "His Life". It would be more interesting if you could actually buy his identity and completely assume his life. Of course, you couldn't do that completely. His friends probably aren't going to buy into it. And also, what of the government?
If you RTFA you'll see that the sale includes introductions to his friends, and a trial in his job, which is supported by his employer. In addition to all the physical stuff. If a purchaser played it right, he could indeed have the guy's house, friends, job, and possesions. This is about as much as he could reasonably and legally do, and IMHO just barely about enough to justify his description that he's selling his "life".
At first, I read "British Pornographic Industry", and I was seriously worried! But its only the music, so I think I'm safe.
Advertisers should slow their commercials down so that the play at the right speed when we're doing a 32x fast forward. Think about it - everybody wins. The TV companies sell more ad space, because a 5min break only gives 9 seconds of ad playback time. We the viewers get really concise, focussed ads. And the advertisers will actually get their ads watched the whole way through. I am a fricking genius, am I not!
Beer is a craft. It isn't the same as software because the same program (recipe) won't always produce the same result. The program I wrote yesterday will run the same any time of year. Beer, on the other hand, cares when I make it. Around here, we don't brew between May and October.
The conditions under which the brewing occurs are part of the "program", and the same program certainly should always produce the same results. If you don't have control of some of your initial variables, then you will get varying results, whether you're talking software or beer.
In other news, pirates have created a crack to prevent news from 4th March 2007 appearing a year later on /.
Well we live in hope.
I, then, look forward to getting internet access from The Pirate Bay.
The already provide an anonymous VPN service, so it seems like a perfectly reasonable next step.
No one has ever [...] contracted a sexually-transmitted disease on the internet.
You've obviously never had the goatse guy burned into your brain.
It's vaguely worth mentioning that I've been blocked from posting on /. in a similar manner a couple of times. My ISP forces traffic through it's transparent proxies, and /. seems quite happy to block an entire proxy. Fortunately it doesn't seem to have happened rec##KR2F@F@$F$ {NO CARRIER}
...could you plant for $1300? That's something many environmental types love to ignore. They spend large amounts of money on things that have pretty small environmental benefits, and then say "every little bit counts" and so forth. Whereas what they should be asking is "how could I spend this money so as to do the most good/least damage to the environment?"
"Where the Wii Fits In"
;).
I'd love to tell you exactly where the Wii fits, but this is a family show
I love how all Slashdot articles have massive amounts of spin on them now.
;) I personally find the tabloid-style headlands rather entertaining, and any misconceptions they generate are usually cleared up in the top few comments.
Well, it does seem to be a good way of eliciting informative responses to the article, such as yours
"Tiny Vibrator Runs Off Generator" - too small to fit a battery in.
Perhaps in the future, people who are not technical will not own computers at all, but only rent content delivery vehicles?
As someone who constantly spends quite a large chunk of free time sorting out IT issues for non-technical friends and family, I can't wait for the day when non-techies don't own their own machines, and don't even have administrative access at all. I'm sick of being Microsofts unpaid tech support, they're welcome to take over.
Every single OS is based on the fact that there is a slow, but persistent memory (hard drive) and a fast, volatile one (RAM). They'd need a complete overhaul to fully exploit the new paradigm.
Not true. Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 and earlier were designed to be used with battery-backed DRAM as the primary/sole mass storage, probably true for lots of other embedded systems too. WM2003 therefore wouldn't need any changes at all to take advantage of these technologies, and it probably would take much to transfer any relevant features to desktop windows either.
In all fairness to the GPP, after several rereads, if that was a joke, it was probably the least funny one I have read so far this year. Don't give up your day job.
Considering the amount of surveillance they now carry out on US citizens, I suspect the already know your thoughts.
And if you're not being watched now, you will be if you sign that petition, you troublemaker.
They won't, that's filler until they get more advertisers onboard.
Yes, or better yet use MP3DirectCut, which allows cutting and joining mp3's without de/recompression - (assuming they use mp3, I didn't look). However the hope is presumably that people are very lazy, and will just fill up their iPods with tracks, and not take the trouble to chop off the ads. there are bound to be some people who are that lazy, but I'm not sure if they will find enough such people to make their business model work.
Just to follow up, according to this article, Blue Brain*, utilizing a 22.8 teraflop supercomputer, manages to simulate around 10,000 human neurons. I have no idea whether human neurons are significantly more complex than mouse neurons, or whether we just have more of them, but if the latter then maybe the 8000 isn't a typo after all?
* Previously mentioned on slashdot.
and
How can it be half a mouse brain if it has 1/1000 the number of a real half mouse brain? Their simulated neurons also had less synapses than the real thing. So is the 8000 a typo, or am I missing something?