Bitcoin is mined on ASICs these days but there are other cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum that are designed to be "ASIC resistant" by involving a very large number in their mining algorithms that needs to be stored in RAM, and changes periodically. Currently for ETH I believe that number is ~3GB. The result is that it makes ASICs unlikely to be worthwhile since a GPU is already a massively parallel processor with access to high speed ram.
So yeah, GPU mining is back and reasonably profitable. Even after electricity costs many cards would pay for themselves in 3-5 months at current rates.
Hmm, like in Jedi Knight 2 and many other games, where you start with all your powers and lose them early in the game then have to earn them back... It might work. That or it would just be annoying than your run of the mill 30 minute gameplay demo.
Last year I was working on my teams MATE ROV competition entry, and the electronics box onboard the submersible robot flooded during our first of two trials. I spent the next two days sitting on a concrete pool deck in beautiful, sunny, June California at UCSD trying to rewrite the embedded system's code, squinting at the screen to route around FUBAR'd components such as the onboard computer system that was supposed to handle networking with the dry side control computer.
We did win the guts and glory award though:)
It was so bright that even 10 feet underwater the cameras went blank white until we covered them with five layers of windshield tinting film:D
I find Safari to be snappier on my mac, probably due to webkit and the rest of the UI being native components.
I have my mac and my pc sitting side by side and I find the Windows version of firefox to be noticably nicer to use (faster, better UI integration) than the mac version.
Recently though, I've become a fan of chrome on windows. I'm curious to see if the Mac version is any good.
Actually WoW had 6 capitol cities (3 per faction) and added 3 more (one per faction and a neutral one). Presuming capitol is defined as the leading city in a race/society as opposed to a faction. If you're going by auction houses, there are 12 or so if you count all of the goblin cities.
"...the party that has done more to destroy the USA..."
Which one?
On a scale of right to left, 0-1 american political parties are 0.2-0.3 and the media is zoomed into that 0.1 difference like it was all there was. I seriously have trouble telling them apart, as a Canadian. I find myself wondering "which one is the conservative?" all the time.
The difference is that you in effect are giving Blizzard a warrant to do whatever with your computer by playing the game(see their arguably overreaching EULA). The US government is not authorized to tap phone calls.
[shrodinger's sarcasm]and the US government is evil wheras Blizzard is not[/schrodinger sarcasm]
Actually grams and kg are units of mass, which do not depend on gravity. You're confusing this with force measurements like pounds, which do. Unfortunately the Americans insist as using pounds as mass, which is not what it is intended for. Mass is based on the number of atoms etc.
Actually, the argument is that if it is a growing human, then it is human. Your explanation is good, but basically the belief is that once the egg begins development, it is a growing human and subject to human rights.
It's always good when shows like this _end_ eventually, rather than being cut once the authors run out of random reasons not to get the the goal. Four seasons is an excellent length for this series, and I hope it ends strongly.
Or we could have season 5: The cylon invasion of earth.... followed by season six: the escape from earth to find _new heavenly homeworld_... and the cycle continues.
I must say, I did email Mr. Coulton after purchasing a number of his songs one day. I just fealt like explaining my quirky selection and justifying my buy. The next day (I sent the email late at night) I received a nice and well thought out email in response.
We really should support artists like Jonathan. He's talented, his songs are interesting (bills, bills, bills or creepy doll for instance) and funny (such as code monkey), and best of all when you buy them, he gets every cent. (well, most of it. Paypal takes 2.5%:P but that's a far cry from the premiums that record labels extort from their artists). Also, you can listen to all of his songs before you buy them. The whole thing. Not to mention quite a few of his songs are free downloads.
Actually, on a screen that small, wouldn't it be helpful not to block 1/2 the screen with your finger? It's hard enough with an older palm pilot that only has a 3" screen. Imagine what it would be like with a nano?
Great, Java the platform of interoperability and cross platform compatibility is fragmenting once more... They really need to try- to the best of their ability- to simply have a Java cell phone. Not Java XLG, or whatever they're coming up with this year. Java 1.3 anyone?
The problem with this is that Linux patches generally happen individually as soon as the problem is discovered. This way your favorite distro can check on the individual components and alert you to the fact that there are updates. Microsoft on the other hand likes to release a bunch of patches at once, leaving the user vulnerable for a period of hours, days and sometimes weeks.
So no, we don't see 100 preemptive individual patch stories for various linux builds on here every day.
Well, we all know how well that turned out for you guys last time...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812
"When the war had finished, 1,600 British and 2,260 American troops had died."
Oddly enough both sides claim to have won...
The British (now Canadian) said that they won because they successfully defended.
The Americans claimed a victory because they stopped the native Americans from harassing them...
Linux will be a musicians OS at some point in the future after they include MIDI support in the kernel. For some audio programs I had to recompile the kernel with a faster clock resolution. Not to mention the mess (mind you, a functional working mess) that is Jack.
Simply put: 3-5 hours of work to get a midi keyboard to play a note is unacceptable.
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Bitcoin is mined on ASICs these days but there are other cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum that are designed to be "ASIC resistant" by involving a very large number in their mining algorithms that needs to be stored in RAM, and changes periodically. Currently for ETH I believe that number is ~3GB. The result is that it makes ASICs unlikely to be worthwhile since a GPU is already a massively parallel processor with access to high speed ram. So yeah, GPU mining is back and reasonably profitable. Even after electricity costs many cards would pay for themselves in 3-5 months at current rates.
Hmm, like in Jedi Knight 2 and many other games, where you start with all your powers and lose them early in the game then have to earn them back... It might work. That or it would just be annoying than your run of the mill 30 minute gameplay demo.
Last year I was working on my teams MATE ROV competition entry, and the electronics box onboard the submersible robot flooded during our first of two trials. I spent the next two days sitting on a concrete pool deck in beautiful, sunny, June California at UCSD trying to rewrite the embedded system's code, squinting at the screen to route around FUBAR'd components such as the onboard computer system that was supposed to handle networking with the dry side control computer.
:)
:D
We did win the guts and glory award though
It was so bright that even 10 feet underwater the cameras went blank white until we covered them with five layers of windshield tinting film
I find Safari to be snappier on my mac, probably due to webkit and the rest of the UI being native components.
I have my mac and my pc sitting side by side and I find the Windows version of firefox to be noticably nicer to use (faster, better UI integration) than the mac version.
Recently though, I've become a fan of chrome on windows. I'm curious to see if the Mac version is any good.
Actually WoW had 6 capitol cities (3 per faction) and added 3 more (one per faction and a neutral one). Presuming capitol is defined as the leading city in a race/society as opposed to a faction. If you're going by auction houses, there are 12 or so if you count all of the goblin cities.
The Lensman Series (one of the first Sci-fi series ever)
The Space Eagle (I enjoyed this one at age 10-12)
the old Tom Swift series
"...the party that has done more to destroy the USA..."
Which one?
On a scale of right to left, 0-1 american political parties are 0.2-0.3 and the media is zoomed into that 0.1 difference like it was all there was. I seriously have trouble telling them apart, as a Canadian. I find myself wondering "which one is the conservative?" all the time.
The difference is that you in effect are giving Blizzard a warrant to do whatever with your computer by playing the game(see their arguably overreaching EULA). The US government is not authorized to tap phone calls.
[shrodinger's sarcasm]and the US government is evil wheras Blizzard is not[/schrodinger sarcasm]
I trust Blizzard with my gaming computer. I would rather lose a bit of privacy and not have annoying crackers trying to game the game.
That said... all of my real data is on another computer.
Most of us have no life or identity to steal...
Actually grams and kg are units of mass, which do not depend on gravity. You're confusing this with force measurements like pounds, which do. Unfortunately the Americans insist as using pounds as mass, which is not what it is intended for. Mass is based on the number of atoms etc.
You can't use it for anything at all without activating it... ...without this hack.
Obviously...
The used carbon nanotubes... I looked. :P
You don't actually have to enter your email. You can just click download.
Also, "every piece of software Apple owns" == quicktime?
Actually, the argument is that if it is a growing human, then it is human. Your explanation is good, but basically the belief is that once the egg begins development, it is a growing human and subject to human rights.
It's always good when shows like this _end_ eventually, rather than being cut once the authors run out of random reasons not to get the the goal. Four seasons is an excellent length for this series, and I hope it ends strongly. Or we could have season 5: The cylon invasion of earth.... followed by season six: the escape from earth to find _new heavenly homeworld_ ... and the cycle continues.
I must say, I did email Mr. Coulton after purchasing a number of his songs one day. I just fealt like explaining my quirky selection and justifying my buy. The next day (I sent the email late at night) I received a nice and well thought out email in response.
:P but that's a far cry from the premiums that record labels extort from their artists). Also, you can listen to all of his songs before you buy them. The whole thing. Not to mention quite a few of his songs are free downloads.
:)
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We really should support artists like Jonathan. He's talented, his songs are interesting (bills, bills, bills or creepy doll for instance) and funny (such as code monkey), and best of all when you buy them, he gets every cent. (well, most of it. Paypal takes 2.5%
Check out http://www.jonathancoulton.com/ today!
What's this? Somebody nay saying apple? Promising a quick demise of one of their products? Eminent failure?
/sarcasm
They couldn't possibly be being sensationalist and trying to cash in on apple's success now could they?
Actually, on a screen that small, wouldn't it be helpful not to block 1/2 the screen with your finger? It's hard enough with an older palm pilot that only has a 3" screen. Imagine what it would be like with a nano?
Great, Java the platform of interoperability and cross platform compatibility is fragmenting once more... They really need to try- to the best of their ability- to simply have a Java cell phone. Not Java XLG, or whatever they're coming up with this year. Java 1.3 anyone?
The problem with this is that Linux patches generally happen individually as soon as the problem is discovered. This way your favorite distro can check on the individual components and alert you to the fact that there are updates. Microsoft on the other hand likes to release a bunch of patches at once, leaving the user vulnerable for a period of hours, days and sometimes weeks.
So no, we don't see 100 preemptive individual patch stories for various linux builds on here every day.
Well, I didn't lose, being Canadian and all :P I actually go to a university founded on privateer money pillaged from new england...
But the americans have never lost a war(tm). It's true. I read it in their history books.
Well, we all know how well that turned out for you guys last time... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_1812 "When the war had finished, 1,600 British and 2,260 American troops had died." Oddly enough both sides claim to have won... The British (now Canadian) said that they won because they successfully defended. The Americans claimed a victory because they stopped the native Americans from harassing them...
Linux will be a musicians OS at some point in the future after they include MIDI support in the kernel. For some audio programs I had to recompile the kernel with a faster clock resolution. Not to mention the mess (mind you, a functional working mess) that is Jack. Simply put: 3-5 hours of work to get a midi keyboard to play a note is unacceptable.