Observations: Faster-than-light electric currents could explain pulsars
The researchers, John Singleton and Andrea Schmidt of Los Alamos and their colleagues, have built a sort of wire in which an electric pulse can outpace light. They get away with it because the pulse is not a causal process.
The 7th round of Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement negotiations begins tomorrow in Guadalajara, Mexico. The negotiation round will be the longest to-date, with three and a half days planned to address civil enforcement, border measures, the Internet provisions, and (one hour for) transparency. Over the next five days, I plan to post a five-part ACTA Guide that will include sourcing for much of the discussion on ACTA, links to all the leaked documents, information on the transparency issue, and a look at who has been speaking out…..
The HDMI Licensing Group LLC has issued a new revision, of HDMI, called HDMI 1.4, which has, among other things, support for dual video feed+3D spatial information, to enable 3D displays to operate by more than one protocol. The display and advertising standards have also been changed, since the cable standard dictates more than just the physical specification.
The biggest surprise was that HDMI version numbers will not allowed in the labeling, packaging, or promotion of any HDMI v1.4 cable. — DH
I personally think this is a good move. Monster Cable isnt going to like it much, as well as pear cables, and all their ilk, (Meaning companies that use “bit direction indicators, etc. to add false value.) as the new guidelines seem to be quite specific in saying that cables must advertise all the features supported by a particular class of cable, if a specific class of cable is needed. i.e. The mfgr cannot imply “their” cable has features proprietary to it without mentioning all the features of the cable. I think monoprice cable as well as other bulk retailers will actually find this a relief, as it will simplify advertising, and the number of different cable types currently available (measured in gb/sec, or GB/sec, or A,B,C, 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3a, etc.).
Digital Home has an article, as well as further links.
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- Quad core, 64-bit machines (8+ ghz)
- RAID-10 disk storage
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and provide virtual machines that are running on Xen that they have customized for their infrastructure. Xen alone is pretty nifty, being around 150,000 lines of code, in toto.
Also, as far as I understand it, leftover overhead is shared out according to your slice size, and I get the impression they arrange it so no machine gets, as they put it, oversold.
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From funnyjunk.com
Why don’t Macs have viruses?#13 anonymous (3 hours ago)that’s because no one bothers to make viruses for you noobsActualy it is because all windows viruses are writing in the standard binary 1010 scripting as well as it’s programs. a MAC however is writin in XoXo scripting yet it’s programs are still writin in 1010 codec. so all firus’es writen to run on a 1010 windows app will not work on a mac due to impropper scipt. the only virus that is available to the mac’s are ones that give un desirable results to a program that is already installed on the mac prior to obtaining the virus since it latches onto the program in order to make it malfunction… i think
#18 anonymous (2 hours ago)Revamb, that is the best thing I’ve heard anyone say about anything! You are epic!#20 anonymous (1 hour ago)lol, even the viruses wont work on a mac,.. and i thought it was just the software that mac failed with#21 anonymous (1 hour ago)Only cause nobody bothers to make viruses for macs. How the fuck can you make them any worse???The funniest part is I believe people believed him.
Im running Ubuntu 9.04 with xfce/xfwm4
I was curious what other people are running. Post a pic online, or email one to comments at this site, and I’ll post it.
Weetabix's Desktop (Click for fullsize)
My movie experience: (With chats):
Watchin' Star Trek (Click for fullsize)
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