Isn't this just a quiz? What reason would there be to require users to install silverlight just to answer yes/no questions. I can't access it as my OS is not supported but is there any reason the quiz couldn't just use a check box and a next button?
Still referring to the use of sperm is sensationalist. There are countless animals that use flagella for locomotion. There does not seem to be any reason to favour the flagellum of sperm over bacterial flagella which are near identical in function. Other than the obvious reason that sex sells.
Well if you bother to check 14 out of those 25 are currently at a gold or plat rating which means the games are fully functional. Half of the things on that list that don't work are non games such as.net framework and itunes. I am not sure the effect of throwing out a list explaining why linux can't make it on the desktop when over half the games on that list work in wine. No doubt there are hurdles for linux on the desktop but that list of games does not seem to be one of them.
My parents have been devastated that all of their favorite radio stations have been closed down. They are not like/.ers and have respect for copyright law so their MP3 collection is limited to what they have on CD's and now starting to rip their old vinyl.
Internet radio has many advantages over a personal music collection. I can be used at home, in the office, or on travels as all that is needed is an internet connection rather than lugging around a hard drive everywhere you go. Any type of radio, especially Pandora as mentioned in TFA, is ideal for discovering new music that you are interested in. Having a huge library of MP3's is static and will always play the same songs. I feel it is very sad that this amazing opportunity is lost do to drastic changes to royalties
The only improvement to interoperability that I would like is file system compatibility. I want this both ways. Get MS to pitch ideas to help the linux NTFS drivers and have MS fully support ext3/reiser/other. This is the biggest pain the world when you have data unaccessible due to OS and FS conflict. If the CPU explodes in my server or in my friends desktop, there should be no reason I have to worry about what OS my machine is running to be able to throw in the HD and recover the data.
I was thinking about this question in my General Relativity class today and realized that chances are, we wont.
The issue to me seems that the light cone that extands backwards through time to the big bang only encompasses a finite portion of the universe. Meaning that only things within that distance could have contacted us assuming they tried to contact us AT the time of the big bang.
I feel that video games are becoming more and more like work. Most video games today have various features that require some odd number of hours in order to unlock some stupid hat or whatever. These tasks that they make us feel obligated to complete are rarly fun or interesting, just annother goal on our plates.
yes. the physical limits of satellite images are far worse than the images already on google earth. Diffraction causes images to have a hard limit on stellite resolutions proportional to the size of the lens. We would need to have HUGE satellites with giant cameras to be able to take pictures that equal the resolution that of aerial photography.
I am sure a lot of the moved air from moving cars is disipated as heat. If you harnessed just that energy you would not be craeting extra drag on the cars. While I am sure these will harness more energy than just the turbulance in the air becoming heat.
I think the exact opposite of ubuntu. I recently installed ubuntu for my mother. My mother certainly does not know how to use a terminal. After showing her Synaptic packet manager I was shocked that she went ahead and installed and used many more programs then the e-mail+broswer that I taught her. In winXP if she wanted to install say thunderbird, her only solution was to ASK someone. Downloading it from the website and clicking through the installer was not easy enough for her. But if she just has to select the program from a list, and it works, then everything is fine.
Make sence. Why would the universe bother spending those cycles rendering it if no one can see it. I always wondered how reality had such a consistant FPS.
This is comparing the TCO of a mixed linux enviroment and non mixed MS enviroment.
I work with a mixed windows enviroment and I can tell you the TCO is higher than a non mixed windows enviroment. It is a pain to deal with issues that come up with software only being suppored on 2000 or 2003 server but not the other. It is made worse since MS refuses to give out simple patches to things like DST for 2000 server for no reason other than to encourage migration to their new "distros."
The comparison is not completly fair since the articles reasoning for the higher costs is different distros of linux when the same problem can exist for windows, it was just not in this particular instance.
Toliets do not flush different directions in the hemispheres. The myth comes from the Coriolis effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect which causes storms to be oposite directions in the north and south hemispheres. However the scale of water going down a drain is so small that the coriolis effect is negligible compared to random motions of the fluid or geometric factors that would cause drains to favor one direction over the other.
My fluid dynamics proffesor laughed at me when I said drains would flow different directions yet my only reference was the simpsons.
Many of my current professors work on quantum computation and were wondering the same thing. Is this for real? One of my professors and his grad students went to this presentation to find out. In class today he is going to tell us the story of weather their approach is viable or not. They have not published anything in scientific journals so many people are questioning if they have any hard science or are just looking for investors. D-Wave is apparently also was not worrying about coherence which is the current largest hurdle for quantum computers. I wont know until tonight if they really found a away to "not care" about coherence, or if they just froze a bunch of qubits and called it a quantum computer.
There are strides being made in quantum computation and I would not be surprised if the we will have a viable quantum computer on the order of 16 qubits much sooner than 20-30 years. Perhaps not from D-wave though.
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Isn't this just a quiz? What reason would there be to require users to install silverlight just to answer yes/no questions. I can't access it as my OS is not supported but is there any reason the quiz couldn't just use a check box and a next button?
Still referring to the use of sperm is sensationalist. There are countless animals that use flagella for locomotion. There does not seem to be any reason to favour the flagellum of sperm over bacterial flagella which are near identical in function. Other than the obvious reason that sex sells.
Well if you bother to check 14 out of those 25 are currently at a gold or plat rating which means the games are fully functional. Half of the things on that list that don't work are non games such as .net framework and itunes. I am not sure the effect of throwing out a list explaining why linux can't make it on the desktop when over half the games on that list work in wine. No doubt there are hurdles for linux on the desktop but that list of games does not seem to be one of them.
My university is on the list. What slash /.ers want to give advice for what I can do about it?
My parents have been devastated that all of their favorite radio stations have been closed down. They are not like /.ers and have respect for copyright law so their MP3 collection is limited to what they have on CD's and now starting to rip their old vinyl.
Internet radio has many advantages over a personal music collection. I can be used at home, in the office, or on travels as all that is needed is an internet connection rather than lugging around a hard drive everywhere you go.
Any type of radio, especially Pandora as mentioned in TFA, is ideal for discovering new music that you are interested in. Having a huge library of MP3's is static and will always play the same songs.
I feel it is very sad that this amazing opportunity is lost do to drastic changes to royalties
I have final in my Classical Mechanics course tomorrow using HIS text book. This kinda freaks me out.
The only improvement to interoperability that I would like is file system compatibility. I want this both ways. Get MS to pitch ideas to help the linux NTFS drivers and have MS fully support ext3/reiser/other. This is the biggest pain the world when you have data unaccessible due to OS and FS conflict. If the CPU explodes in my server or in my friends desktop, there should be no reason I have to worry about what OS my machine is running to be able to throw in the HD and recover the data.
I was thinking about this question in my General Relativity class today and realized that chances are, we wont. The issue to me seems that the light cone that extands backwards through time to the big bang only encompasses a finite portion of the universe. Meaning that only things within that distance could have contacted us assuming they tried to contact us AT the time of the big bang.
I feel that video games are becoming more and more like work. Most video games today have various features that require some odd number of hours in order to unlock some stupid hat or whatever. These tasks that they make us feel obligated to complete are rarly fun or interesting, just annother goal on our plates.
ya the thing to yell in this one is Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaann
I would go back to what I wanted to be since I was a kid, a bear.
Having Vista run inside of Linux could cause problems for Microsoft Windows. Accept or Deny
If smart vehicles use less fossil fuels wouldn't smart hybrids use even less? It seems that this should be no reason to stop hybrid development.
yes. the physical limits of satellite images are far worse than the images already on google earth. Diffraction causes images to have a hard limit on stellite resolutions proportional to the size of the lens. We would need to have HUGE satellites with giant cameras to be able to take pictures that equal the resolution that of aerial photography.
IPv6 people are hoping we wont. ever. Defintaly more 128 bit numbers than people.
So have many others.
So will it be IE 11 or IE 12 that passes acid 2? Focus on UI customization, does not sound like a push for web standards compliance.
I am sure a lot of the moved air from moving cars is disipated as heat. If you harnessed just that energy you would not be craeting extra drag on the cars. While I am sure these will harness more energy than just the turbulance in the air becoming heat.
I think the exact opposite of ubuntu. I recently installed ubuntu for my mother. My mother certainly does not know how to use a terminal. After showing her Synaptic packet manager I was shocked that she went ahead and installed and used many more programs then the e-mail+broswer that I taught her. In winXP if she wanted to install say thunderbird, her only solution was to ASK someone. Downloading it from the website and clicking through the installer was not easy enough for her. But if she just has to select the program from a list, and it works, then everything is fine.
Make sence. Why would the universe bother spending those cycles rendering it if no one can see it. I always wondered how reality had such a consistant FPS.
We just installed a +4 vorporal blade server.
This is comparing the TCO of a mixed linux enviroment and non mixed MS enviroment. I work with a mixed windows enviroment and I can tell you the TCO is higher than a non mixed windows enviroment. It is a pain to deal with issues that come up with software only being suppored on 2000 or 2003 server but not the other. It is made worse since MS refuses to give out simple patches to things like DST for 2000 server for no reason other than to encourage migration to their new "distros." The comparison is not completly fair since the articles reasoning for the higher costs is different distros of linux when the same problem can exist for windows, it was just not in this particular instance.
Toliets do not flush different directions in the hemispheres. The myth comes from the Coriolis effect http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect which causes storms to be oposite directions in the north and south hemispheres. However the scale of water going down a drain is so small that the coriolis effect is negligible compared to random motions of the fluid or geometric factors that would cause drains to favor one direction over the other. My fluid dynamics proffesor laughed at me when I said drains would flow different directions yet my only reference was the simpsons.
Many of my current professors work on quantum computation and were wondering the same thing. Is this for real? One of my professors and his grad students went to this presentation to find out. In class today he is going to tell us the story of weather their approach is viable or not. They have not published anything in scientific journals so many people are questioning if they have any hard science or are just looking for investors. D-Wave is apparently also was not worrying about coherence which is the current largest hurdle for quantum computers. I wont know until tonight if they really found a away to "not care" about coherence, or if they just froze a bunch of qubits and called it a quantum computer. There are strides being made in quantum computation and I would not be surprised if the we will have a viable quantum computer on the order of 16 qubits much sooner than 20-30 years. Perhaps not from D-wave though.
Global warming. Our green house gases have increased the size of storms even on other planets.