Bahh... all games can be claimed to be 'not fun'. I've played Doom/Quake/Half-Life/UT/variants of, so much, that I would join a game and mindlessly slaughter my way to the top. I've had points in my life where I could pull out my AWP and head-shot people with 400ms lag and no client side prediction while he's jumping and strafing. Now that's sad.
I 'grinded' my FPS skill to the point where I would react to events before I realized them happening. Glider? screw that. Get your subconscious to do all the work and you tag along for the ride.
I enjoy WoW for it's social aspect and nostologic feeling I get from playing tons of Blizzard as a kid.
All-in-all, every game is a grind. to each their own.
I would like to state that 'Hypochondriacs' will NOT benefit from this, it's just making their life more scarier. but doctors whois patients are Hypochondriacs will benefit..:P
My Samsung claims it's output varies between.001 watt and 1 watt of output. I usually have full signal.
I also know there have been studies with earth worms where low amounts of microwaves seemed to be beneficial and gave positive affects for regeneratation and life span.
Also, microwaves are great at being absorbed by water. What's the chance that low doses of microwaves will get past your skin, even then, affect brain cells instead of the 70% water in there?
I'd rather be worried about solar storms, the stinky car in front of me, getting HIT in the head, than.001 watts from my call phone.
I'm pretty sure the magnetic field generated by a strait (non-coiled) wire is extremely weak. It's also possible that the rigid material to keep the vaccuum could be conductive, which would block most of the magnetic 'leak' from reaching us.
make sure the amount of capacity for superconducting is greater than the future estimated amount of load.
i thought as magnetic fields increase, the superconducting material starts to generate impedance, not resistance.
More than likely, the 'cables' will be surrounded by a vaccuum and have a ton of reflective jacketing to keep out that pesky IR radiation. They shouldn't absorb much heat at all, and generate 0 heat.
I'd have to agree with your 'geek' theory. I've read other 'quotes' from famous people where they said something along the lines of "What sepperates the good from the best is the good know how to do it, the best love to do it."
One thing you have to be careful about is that a 'geek' can get burnt out if pushed too hard. If an employeer just keeps dropping more work and the 'geek' is keeping up, doesn't mean that he can continue running at 130%. They're the kind of people who are more likely to bring work home with them.
"Well if you have xvids encoded at around 350mb/hr"
350mb/hr is low quality. I've got anime that's ~350mb/30min. Has 5.1 surround and full DVD resolution. Looks sweet, but still gets some pixelation with crazy explosions. Anime compresses EXTREMELY well due to cell shading, so a regular movie is gonna be about 1gb/hour for regular dvds.
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What about Promise' raid6 enchance with 3 drive parity + hotswap. Also, switch out a harddrive about once a year so you get dissimmular wear patterns.
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Power cycles kill HDs fast. I try my best to never cycle my HD.
Reminds me of working remotely on peoples computer at my Uni. I had full remote admin priv and I'd send someone an email saaying something like "I need to work on your computer. I have restored your files, but I need to meet up with you so I can put them back in your profile". So instead of getting " works best for me", I'd get "Here's my password, do it whenever you want, I'm out for the day".
At which point I'd let them know that I'll do the work, but recommend them change their password immediately and to not give out their password so freely.
Even with theory, you should've had some experience in programming. I took Computer Information System but my cousin took Computer Science.
The kind of stuff he did was lots of theory but also he got to design a simple pipelined microprocessor using their cpu emulators and he wrote asm for it. He also had to create a basic 3D engine using any OOP lanuage he wanted, which he used java. I think he had to create a basic compiler as some point. He also got to learn all that encrpytion theory, file systems, and what not.
I'm pretty sure with a CS degree, he would be easily qualified to program even with little, if you want to call creating an oop 3d engine 'little', experience that he had.
Repliying to statements like this
"Of course the data is not random. And of course it represents the original data. If either of these two nonsensical statements were true, then it would be impossible to reconstruct the original data. [...]"
Here's an idea; Lets calulate PI(eg. 3.14.....) so that it consumes X amount of gig's of HD space, then you use a formula to convert parts of that data into any file that you want. According to the reasoning of statements like above, it would be illigal to store PI because you can make copyrighted files based off of it. Maybe that what they need to do, just precalculate PI to fill up 1TB of HD, then you don't need to transfer any data other than the forumlea to turn parts of PI into whatever you want.
I have no problem with an data cap on broadband. Lets just do what Japan is doing; 25Mbits/sec for $25USD/month with a 30GB upload cap per *day* and no cap on download.
I guess my eyes hurt if i don't take my recommend break from my LCD every 3-4 hours but atleast I don't have a slipped disk/broken bones/nail through the head/etc that you may get at any other jobs. I know someone who likes their simplistic job at the local paper mill, but their hand recently went splat when a multi-ton item pinned their hand against the wall.
I also prefer the behind-the-scenes IT position. I get all the fun of trouble shooting without all the 'fun' of working directly with the average person. I get to transfer/transform database data/scema from a Student Information System (SIS) into our local storage and custom tables for each customer. This results in me figuring out each SIS and fixing the problems that the customer may add into the mix.
My youngest brother is so bored in classes that he's failing some of them. He rarely studies and gets near perfect(A's) on every test, but never does his homework.
I was a C/D student through school until I was homeschooled, finished high school with an A.
I was told I needed to try harder from elem-middle school and parent-teacher talks were NEVER good about me. I was homeschool from 7-10th grade which consisted of never doing any of my homework and sitting around playing on the comp/wachting TV; went back to regular school for 11-12th and was an A student. Breezed through college with almost no studying and aced my major.
Everything past middle school was almost a waste of time as watching tv/playing computer games raised me to an A student. Probably a lack of stress from my teachers pushing me. College was fun, you learn 2xs as much in 2 fewer months with 1/2 the homework and it's easier and you typically remember what you learned after.
They need to couple a diesel with a CVT to get some pimp mpg. The soon to be VW diesel is 40mpg city, 50-60 hwy, 250 ft/lbs and something like 130hp. Now, unlike gas, which injects fuel for the sole perpose of 'cooling' the engine to keep it from running too lean, diesel tries to pack as much air in as possible. Diesel gets it's BEST mpg under high load. So, when you're coming from the stop sign/light, you gun it and make the engine work hard. This causes more air to come in, and increases exaust pressure which spools up the turbo and allows more air to get packed in which increase torque/mpg.
In a nut shell, have a heavy foot and plan your driving to use as little breaking as possible.
If they had a CVT(Continuously Variable Transmission), all they would need to do is gear it as high as possible and when you accelerate, instead of increasing fuel injection, you run the engine as max ALL the time and change the gear ratio for more at wheel torue when needed. So, modulate wheel torue, not engine torue, because the engine runs most effcient at max load.
I'm sure there are people who can easily distinguish the extra color depth. example
anecdotal stuff:
1. you can't notice more than 30fps
Reply: yeah, ma'b in a slow moving scene. When I play a fast pace FPS, I notice when I drop below 45-50fps.
2. From my Parent-in-Laws: Our DSL T.V. looks as good as dvd
Reply: Are you blind?! Every time there's fast motion, blocking occurs everywhere and those skipped frames as @#$%ing me off!
3. 128kbit mp3 sounds just like cds
Reply: yeah, if you flatten the high end and love audio distortion on cymbals/sharp sounds
Some people are blissfully unaware of how crappy stuff is. Not to say 30-bit might be over kill. I know 128bit fp calc for pixel sharers looks beautiful outputed to 24bit and I'm perfectly happy. May'b I'll start to hate 24bit for 30bit..:-/
"...Most of what those plants need is nitrogen, which actually comes from the air..."
I'm pretty sure that *most* plants don't get their nitrogen from the air. Only a few plants an convert N2(air) into N3 to be used by plants.... or something like that
What if Intel dropped the decoder down to like 1 unit and let program pass micro-ops directly in? Reduce some die space and give the option of chopping out the middle man(decoder)
I have 4 people on my family package, giving me 56.6 hours of talk time per day. It would take 2.361~ people talking 24/hours a day to use up all of my minutes, yet it costs me.20c to send a txt msg. Atleast they're free incoming. We also get free in-family calls. Ma'b I should get a 3-way conference going on my in-family and let the phones sit on all month and see if they let me choose to stop doing that for free txt...??
"One particularly important new change introduced with DDR3 is in the improved prefetch buffer: up from DDR2's four bits to an astounding eight bits per cycle. This translates to a full 100% increase in the prefetch payload"
*If I remember correctly*, the reason the "prefetch" is increased is because the internal clock speed is still slow..
eg. dram running at 1000mhz internal/external with 4bit prefetch would have the same bandiwdth as dram running with 500mhz/1000mhz internal/external and 8bit prefetch.
because it easier to make the internal clock run slower but have more "prefetch" and let the bus run at high speed. it's hard to get a chip to run at 1.6ghz but it's easy to have the chip run 400mhz with a 1.6ghz bus.
this would add latency because all internal calculations are going the same speed, but the data transfered is now higher. bus speed needs to increase in mhz or width to make it go faster. trying to add width sux because you now need more traces on the mobo, and no one needs a 500pin ddr3. more than likely, ram will keep increasing in "mhz" of the fsb to keep up with bandwidth needs, but latency will keep increasing as "prefetch" is constantly increased to keep internal bandwidth symetrical with the fsb.
this author doesn't talk about anything like this and i think he gives a very biased view on ddr3 vs ddr2. I do think power efficiency is a good point he makes though.
agree. Multi threading is easy in idea and hard in practice. You get logical errors and sometimes those errors don't occur all the time because of the way the OS/chip handles threads.
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Bahh... all games can be claimed to be 'not fun'. I've played Doom/Quake/Half-Life/UT/variants of, so much, that I would join a game and mindlessly slaughter my way to the top. I've had points in my life where I could pull out my AWP and head-shot people with 400ms lag and no client side prediction while he's jumping and strafing. Now that's sad.
I 'grinded' my FPS skill to the point where I would react to events before I realized them happening. Glider? screw that. Get your subconscious to do all the work and you tag along for the ride.
I enjoy WoW for it's social aspect and nostologic feeling I get from playing tons of Blizzard as a kid.
All-in-all, every game is a grind. to each their own.
I would like to state that 'Hypochondriacs' will NOT benefit from this, it's just making their life more scarier. but doctors whois patients are Hypochondriacs will benefit.. :P
My Samsung claims it's output varies between .001 watt and 1 watt of output. I usually have full signal.
I also know there have been studies with earth worms where low amounts of microwaves seemed to be beneficial and gave positive affects for regeneratation and life span.
Also, microwaves are great at being absorbed by water. What's the chance that low doses of microwaves will get past your skin, even then, affect brain cells instead of the 70% water in there?
I'd rather be worried about solar storms, the stinky car in front of me, getting HIT in the head, than .001 watts from my call phone.
I looked up "equivalence principle" and it talks about how everything, no matter it's mass/density, will accelerate at the same speed in a vaccuum
I'm pretty sure the magnetic field generated by a strait (non-coiled) wire is extremely weak. It's also possible that the rigid material to keep the vaccuum could be conductive, which would block most of the magnetic 'leak' from reaching us.
make sure the amount of capacity for superconducting is greater than the future estimated amount of load.
i thought as magnetic fields increase, the superconducting material starts to generate impedance, not resistance.
More than likely, the 'cables' will be surrounded by a vaccuum and have a ton of reflective jacketing to keep out that pesky IR radiation. They shouldn't absorb much heat at all, and generate 0 heat.
I'd have to agree with your 'geek' theory. I've read other 'quotes' from famous people where they said something along the lines of "What sepperates the good from the best is the good know how to do it, the best love to do it."
One thing you have to be careful about is that a 'geek' can get burnt out if pushed too hard. If an employeer just keeps dropping more work and the 'geek' is keeping up, doesn't mean that he can continue running at 130%. They're the kind of people who are more likely to bring work home with them.
"Well if you have xvids encoded at around 350mb/hr"
350mb/hr is low quality. I've got anime that's ~350mb/30min. Has 5.1 surround and full DVD resolution. Looks sweet, but still gets some pixelation with crazy explosions. Anime compresses EXTREMELY well due to cell shading, so a regular movie is gonna be about 1gb/hour for regular dvds.
What about Promise' raid6 enchance with 3 drive parity + hotswap. Also, switch out a harddrive about once a year so you get dissimmular wear patterns.
Power cycles kill HDs fast. I try my best to never cycle my HD.
Reminds me of working remotely on peoples computer at my Uni. I had full remote admin priv and I'd send someone an email saaying something like "I need to work on your computer. I have restored your files, but I need to meet up with you so I can put them back in your profile". So instead of getting " works best for me", I'd get "Here's my password, do it whenever you want, I'm out for the day".
At which point I'd let them know that I'll do the work, but recommend them change their password immediately and to not give out their password so freely.
Even with theory, you should've had some experience in programming. I took Computer Information System but my cousin took Computer Science.
The kind of stuff he did was lots of theory but also he got to design a simple pipelined microprocessor using their cpu emulators and he wrote asm for it. He also had to create a basic 3D engine using any OOP lanuage he wanted, which he used java. I think he had to create a basic compiler as some point. He also got to learn all that encrpytion theory, file systems, and what not.
I'm pretty sure with a CS degree, he would be easily qualified to program even with little, if you want to call creating an oop 3d engine 'little', experience that he had.
time for SHA1024?
Repliying to statements like this "Of course the data is not random. And of course it represents the original data. If either of these two nonsensical statements were true, then it would be impossible to reconstruct the original data. [...]" Here's an idea; Lets calulate PI(eg. 3.14.....) so that it consumes X amount of gig's of HD space, then you use a formula to convert parts of that data into any file that you want. According to the reasoning of statements like above, it would be illigal to store PI because you can make copyrighted files based off of it. Maybe that what they need to do, just precalculate PI to fill up 1TB of HD, then you don't need to transfer any data other than the forumlea to turn parts of PI into whatever you want.
I have no problem with an data cap on broadband. Lets just do what Japan is doing; 25Mbits/sec for $25USD/month with a 30GB upload cap per *day* and no cap on download.
I guess my eyes hurt if i don't take my recommend break from my LCD every 3-4 hours but atleast I don't have a slipped disk/broken bones/nail through the head/etc that you may get at any other jobs. I know someone who likes their simplistic job at the local paper mill, but their hand recently went splat when a multi-ton item pinned their hand against the wall.
I also prefer the behind-the-scenes IT position. I get all the fun of trouble shooting without all the 'fun' of working directly with the average person. I get to transfer/transform database data/scema from a Student Information System (SIS) into our local storage and custom tables for each customer. This results in me figuring out each SIS and fixing the problems that the customer may add into the mix.
It is repetative, but somehow always new.
From what I understand, tape is still one of the best archival storage types
My youngest brother is so bored in classes that he's failing some of them. He rarely studies and gets near perfect(A's) on every test, but never does his homework. I was a C/D student through school until I was homeschooled, finished high school with an A. I was told I needed to try harder from elem-middle school and parent-teacher talks were NEVER good about me. I was homeschool from 7-10th grade which consisted of never doing any of my homework and sitting around playing on the comp/wachting TV; went back to regular school for 11-12th and was an A student. Breezed through college with almost no studying and aced my major. Everything past middle school was almost a waste of time as watching tv/playing computer games raised me to an A student. Probably a lack of stress from my teachers pushing me. College was fun, you learn 2xs as much in 2 fewer months with 1/2 the homework and it's easier and you typically remember what you learned after.
They need to couple a diesel with a CVT to get some pimp mpg. The soon to be VW diesel is 40mpg city, 50-60 hwy, 250 ft/lbs and something like 130hp. Now, unlike gas, which injects fuel for the sole perpose of 'cooling' the engine to keep it from running too lean, diesel tries to pack as much air in as possible. Diesel gets it's BEST mpg under high load. So, when you're coming from the stop sign/light, you gun it and make the engine work hard. This causes more air to come in, and increases exaust pressure which spools up the turbo and allows more air to get packed in which increase torque/mpg. In a nut shell, have a heavy foot and plan your driving to use as little breaking as possible. If they had a CVT(Continuously Variable Transmission), all they would need to do is gear it as high as possible and when you accelerate, instead of increasing fuel injection, you run the engine as max ALL the time and change the gear ratio for more at wheel torue when needed. So, modulate wheel torue, not engine torue, because the engine runs most effcient at max load.
I'm sure there are people who can easily distinguish the extra color depth. example anecdotal stuff: 1. you can't notice more than 30fps Reply: yeah, ma'b in a slow moving scene. When I play a fast pace FPS, I notice when I drop below 45-50fps. 2. From my Parent-in-Laws: Our DSL T.V. looks as good as dvd Reply: Are you blind?! Every time there's fast motion, blocking occurs everywhere and those skipped frames as @#$%ing me off! 3. 128kbit mp3 sounds just like cds Reply: yeah, if you flatten the high end and love audio distortion on cymbals/sharp sounds Some people are blissfully unaware of how crappy stuff is. Not to say 30-bit might be over kill. I know 128bit fp calc for pixel sharers looks beautiful outputed to 24bit and I'm perfectly happy. May'b I'll start to hate 24bit for 30bit.. :-/
"...Most of what those plants need is nitrogen, which actually comes from the air..." I'm pretty sure that *most* plants don't get their nitrogen from the air. Only a few plants an convert N2(air) into N3 to be used by plants.... or something like that
What if Intel dropped the decoder down to like 1 unit and let program pass micro-ops directly in? Reduce some die space and give the option of chopping out the middle man(decoder)
I have 4 people on my family package, giving me 56.6 hours of talk time per day. It would take 2.361~ people talking 24/hours a day to use up all of my minutes, yet it costs me .20c to send a txt msg. Atleast they're free incoming. We also get free in-family calls. Ma'b I should get a 3-way conference going on my in-family and let the phones sit on all month and see if they let me choose to stop doing that for free txt...??
"One particularly important new change introduced with DDR3 is in the improved prefetch buffer: up from DDR2's four bits to an astounding eight bits per cycle. This translates to a full 100% increase in the prefetch payload" *If I remember correctly*, the reason the "prefetch" is increased is because the internal clock speed is still slow.. eg. dram running at 1000mhz internal/external with 4bit prefetch would have the same bandiwdth as dram running with 500mhz/1000mhz internal/external and 8bit prefetch. because it easier to make the internal clock run slower but have more "prefetch" and let the bus run at high speed. it's hard to get a chip to run at 1.6ghz but it's easy to have the chip run 400mhz with a 1.6ghz bus. this would add latency because all internal calculations are going the same speed, but the data transfered is now higher. bus speed needs to increase in mhz or width to make it go faster. trying to add width sux because you now need more traces on the mobo, and no one needs a 500pin ddr3. more than likely, ram will keep increasing in "mhz" of the fsb to keep up with bandwidth needs, but latency will keep increasing as "prefetch" is constantly increased to keep internal bandwidth symetrical with the fsb. this author doesn't talk about anything like this and i think he gives a very biased view on ddr3 vs ddr2. I do think power efficiency is a good point he makes though.
agree. Multi threading is easy in idea and hard in practice. You get logical errors and sometimes those errors don't occur all the time because of the way the OS/chip handles threads.