I'm thinking the BIOSes only give the drives a couple of seconds to respond with the CD information and sometimes the drive doesn't make it in time. I usually get around situations like the ones you've mentioned by warm booting a couple of times. Relatively speaking, optical drives frequently take an eternity to respond.
I'm suprised no-one has mentioned this, but Spore Creation files are PNGs with a picture of the creation, with the data needed to create it in the game hidden in the alpha channel.
This scheme, obviously, just generates a blurry group of pixels, but I wonder if you could change it somehow so the png looks like its contents... Like text of what's in the.torrent.
As a purely coincidental side effect, I'm sure, this will make sure that everyone on the LAN has their own copy, as battle.net will only allow one CD key on at a time.
Quite a reversal of the "Ghost Copy" feature or whatever of StarCraft 1 that allows many people to use one copy over the LAN.
Then you clearly don't have any Mac Zealots where you work.
Yes, I personally know Mac Zealots. I took constant belittlement for nearly two years because I don't run MacOS. Every time you fired back with the slightest criticism of Apple's many many problems and flaws, he'd turn the color of a tomato and storm out of the room. He literally alienated himself from his friends after he bought an iMac. Sad.
And that was only one of them. Oh yes, they exist. On the Internet and in real life.
Apple, over the years, has really sought to promote this with their marketing campaigns and such. Ever notice they don't sell on their own features, but rather Windows' flaws?
That being said, being a Mac USER doesn't make you a Mac ZEALOT.
The limitation on a drag car's speed certainly isn't engine output - Its traction. Top Fuel dragsters ride the clutch (makes it slip) for the first few hundred feet to keep the wheels from breaking loose. The clutches are replaced every run. The 8,000 Hp isn't even needed till the car reaches 100Mph or so, when the wheel RPMs get up and wind downforce increases traction. And it is at this point when an electric motor starts to fall off - they make all their power early on, when it can't get to the ground on a top fuel engine.
In fact, dragsters have a knob on the top the engine to dial out a couple hundred horsepower if the crew thinks traction will be a problem.
These batteries may very well make electric racing cheaper and more viable, but I doubt they'll help speed much. Less weight = less traction, too.
Well, name one system that wasn't like that. Compare Launch titles for any console with the ones that came out late in its life.
On the SNES, compare Super Mario World to Yoshi's Island or, say, Chrono Trigger or even Tales of Phantasia. On the PS1, Compare FF7 to FF9. HUGE difference. On the N64, Goldeneye to Perfect Dark and such. (Granted, the Expansion pack helped, but I'm pointing out the real obvious ones). On the PS2, compare Red Faction to FF12.
Even though they use higher level languages now, there's still plenty of room for improvement over the life of any console or system.
If you RTFA, you'll see that the coupon will expire in 90 days. I don't know if you can turn it in before that or not.
You better believe the government would find a way to spend it anyway.
A Formula One car has a lower limit of 600Kg, over double what this thing weighs.
And really, I'd rather not get into a Nomex Suit, full face helmet, five point harness, neck brace and arm binders every time I drive somewhere.
Granted, they go faster, but most of their safety comes from what the driver wears.
I mean, really, Why would an oil company do that? Why would an oil company only produce oil by having someone suck it out of the ground? What possible benefit would sitting on it have, if this is cheaper? They would still sell their products.
Maybe you think they're just pissed off at the Earth?
The vast majority of oil companies aren't in the oil business and realize that. They're in the energy business and act accordingly. its just that, until recently, oil was pretty much the only way to get it.
Does Knowing this before everyone else make me cool?
Anywho, they don't look as bad as I was thinking, and the fact that it supports onboard video with a dual-core CPU raises interesting questions about the engine.
Actually, I just looked under my 1996 Oldsmobile Ciera recently and was suprised to see that there is indeed a stainless steel air injection line running into the catalytic converter - at least I'm pretty sure that's what it does, what else could it be?
The back pressure is largely additive: its in addition to the muffler and resonator. EFI does not choke the engine like a carb; it always runs at optimum fuel mix. It just might be more fuel and less air when the engine is cold. It doesn't really "waste" it. Also, the emissions system cannot ADD to gas mileage, so it cannot pay for itself in terms of it. If you take it out, the computer will simply correct the fuel mileage.
My car, when it was new, got 38MPG(actual reading on a trip to Ohio) on the highway and generated 155Hp. You'd be VERY hard pressed to find such mileage results today.
Anyway, YES, EFI cars have far less emission control systems than older carbed cars. Less PCV and vacuum equipment, smaller or nonexistant air pumps - but the catalytic converter will always be there. The reason is that most of the the converter takes care of is not a part of the combustion of fuel- but is rather the result of what happens to the rest of the air (nitrogen and such) in the extreme heat and such. Efficiency cannot affect that - in fact, higher operating temperatures of modern cars have made it worse.
Nitrous oxides, for instance. There's no nitrogen in gasoline.
Well, it worked, alright. But it took forever for the information to get around the loop, leading to large seek times, and they couldn't push it over a mbit a chip. I'm thinking they used actual wire while IBM is probably lithographically defining it like a CPU transistor.
And yes, they used it. If you look closely at any CNC machine shop that's been around for a while, you'll probably find one or two machines from the era with bubble memory, still whirring away. CNC machines, for many many years, had to keep pushing the limits of computer technology to keep up with their motors and sensing systems.
Who is going to stare at the output end of the fiber?
The length of the fiber isn't going to light up, if that's what you're thinking. Just the ends.
I'm not sure more bandwidth requires more light, anyway.
Oh, sure, because traversing dozens of lines of "Mov EAX,$4B456E5" and whatever is comparable looking at original source code. Disassembling is a pretty poor for this sort of thing; you really need to start with it narrowed down, like this guy did by diffing it. Most of the time you'll be looking at whole executables if you want to do something like this..
Also, though its educational purposes are undeniable and it certainly is interesting to say the least, what good is it? It can only be used to make one or two minor changes or a single bugfix after hours of work. Even then its a license violation.
There's lots of good reasons to have close source software, but saying that something like this invalidates one of OSS's biggest advantages is incorrect, regardless of your closed/open leanings.
Now what? Seriously, as obvious as this is, what good will it ever do? People aren't going to change their traffic accidents now that's there scientific data to back up what everybody already knew.
I'm pretty sure we all know that automating driving would get everybody there faster, as long as it works.
They need to study why IDIOTS slow down when they get to tunnels and redesign the fronts of tunnels to avoid it.
Or why a guy on the side of the road changing a tire is so damn interesting.
200W at 100V is only 2 amps. Most household circuits are 15A, so that would place the wattage at 1800W... So $1800/circuit, not including inverter losses.
But then solar panels only make juice during the day, so you'd need at least double that to power the whole circuit all day.
Realistically, you could power a house off of an average 8 kilowatt without much conservation, and probably get down to around 5 or so with it, and lower still if you make some sacrifices.
But then you have to get that power on AVERAGE. You probably get enough sun to get that 1watt a third of the time. Less if you live an area like I do (Pittsburgh, which has VERY few sunny days).
Or is this $1/watt taking into account the downtime?
Read the List; there are MANY songs that are VERY Popular. Pittsburgh's WDVE is very much a ClearChannel Station, but they frequently play many stations in that list. (Stairway to Heaven? Dust in the Wind? Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da? Killer Queen? WTF?) Its only a guideline, and WDVE threw it out a long time ago.
Still, there are plenty of other stations around that aren't clearchannel (In fact, most of them, I'm finding out looking them up, are owned by other companies). I don't really consider them a monopoly.
Yeah, well, I think the whole "no moving parts" must only be for the reactor. It must be spinning an alternator somehow, and I'd venture a guess that the alternator, whatever drives it, and whatever gets rid of the heat isn't included in their "bathtub" size assessment.
I was just looking at the alternator on a 176Kw (400A, 440V) diesel generator yesterday. It was the size of a 55gallon drum cut in half. higher RPMs mean smaller devices, but not THAT much.
Did you actually read that article you just linked? The power cell used for Cassinni is as big a person and generates less than 2 kilowatt.
They also say that the generators are between 3 and 7% efficient. That means that, in order to get 27MW out of one of these babies, you'd need to make more than 300Mw of heat! Think "small to medium sized power plant" amounts of heat.
No way you're sinking away that much heat in a bathtub. No way.
First release of Zsnes was in 1997. It was designed to run on 486es, and was written in heavily optimized ASM. NESticle was also released in 1997. These pretty much sparked a craze, and lead to the creation of the Emulation Community and its Golden Age was pretty much in full swing by the middle of 1998.
It has pretty much died, but Zsnes is still under very active development and the new pSX Emulator has revitalized Playstation emulation since ePSXe hasn't been updated in years and leaves MUCH to be desired.
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I'm thinking the BIOSes only give the drives a couple of seconds to respond with the CD information and sometimes the drive doesn't make it in time. I usually get around situations like the ones you've mentioned by warm booting a couple of times. Relatively speaking, optical drives frequently take an eternity to respond.
I'm suprised no-one has mentioned this, but Spore Creation files are PNGs with a picture of the creation, with the data needed to create it in the game hidden in the alpha channel. This scheme, obviously, just generates a blurry group of pixels, but I wonder if you could change it somehow so the png looks like its contents... Like text of what's in the .torrent.
You induce an interesting point... Maybe they're thinking of starting to charge for Bnet and are worried that VPN will eat their lunch...
Nah....
Then again...
As a purely coincidental side effect, I'm sure, this will make sure that everyone on the LAN has their own copy, as battle.net will only allow one CD key on at a time.
Quite a reversal of the "Ghost Copy" feature or whatever of StarCraft 1 that allows many people to use one copy over the LAN.
Then you clearly don't have any Mac Zealots where you work.
Yes, I personally know Mac Zealots. I took constant belittlement for nearly two years because I don't run MacOS. Every time you fired back with the slightest criticism of Apple's many many problems and flaws, he'd turn the color of a tomato and storm out of the room. He literally alienated himself from his friends after he bought an iMac. Sad.
And that was only one of them. Oh yes, they exist. On the Internet and in real life.
Apple, over the years, has really sought to promote this with their marketing campaigns and such. Ever notice they don't sell on their own features, but rather Windows' flaws?
That being said, being a Mac USER doesn't make you a Mac ZEALOT.
The limitation on a drag car's speed certainly isn't engine output - Its traction. Top Fuel dragsters ride the clutch (makes it slip) for the first few hundred feet to keep the wheels from breaking loose. The clutches are replaced every run. The 8,000 Hp isn't even needed till the car reaches 100Mph or so, when the wheel RPMs get up and wind downforce increases traction. And it is at this point when an electric motor starts to fall off - they make all their power early on, when it can't get to the ground on a top fuel engine.
In fact, dragsters have a knob on the top the engine to dial out a couple hundred horsepower if the crew thinks traction will be a problem.
These batteries may very well make electric racing cheaper and more viable, but I doubt they'll help speed much. Less weight = less traction, too.
Well, name one system that wasn't like that. Compare Launch titles for any console with the ones that came out late in its life.
On the SNES, compare Super Mario World to Yoshi's Island or, say, Chrono Trigger or even Tales of Phantasia.
On the PS1, Compare FF7 to FF9. HUGE difference.
On the N64, Goldeneye to Perfect Dark and such. (Granted, the Expansion pack helped, but I'm pointing out the real obvious ones).
On the PS2, compare Red Faction to FF12.
Even though they use higher level languages now, there's still plenty of room for improvement over the life of any console or system.
If you RTFA, you'll see that the coupon will expire in 90 days. I don't know if you can turn it in before that or not. You better believe the government would find a way to spend it anyway.
Hey, thanks. I have windstream, too. I think I'll switch my DNS server links.
You're unlucky. I ran out of mod points yesterday. Other than this, they've been a great ISP, though.
A Formula One car has a lower limit of 600Kg, over double what this thing weighs. And really, I'd rather not get into a Nomex Suit, full face helmet, five point harness, neck brace and arm binders every time I drive somewhere. Granted, they go faster, but most of their safety comes from what the driver wears.
Why?
I mean, really, Why would an oil company do that? Why would an oil company only produce oil by having someone suck it out of the ground? What possible benefit would sitting on it have, if this is cheaper? They would still sell their products.
Maybe you think they're just pissed off at the Earth?
The vast majority of oil companies aren't in the oil business and realize that. They're in the energy business and act accordingly. its just that, until recently, oil was pretty much the only way to get it.
I saw the system specs on EA's preorder site, http://eastore.ea.com/store/ea/DisplayProductDetailsPage/ProductID.91619200 , Monday. I thought I had merely missed them...
Does Knowing this before everyone else make me cool?
Anywho, they don't look as bad as I was thinking, and the fact that it supports onboard video with a dual-core CPU raises interesting questions about the engine.
Actually, I just looked under my 1996 Oldsmobile Ciera recently and was suprised to see that there is indeed a stainless steel air injection line running into the catalytic converter - at least I'm pretty sure that's what it does, what else could it be?
The back pressure is largely additive: its in addition to the muffler and resonator. EFI does not choke the engine like a carb; it always runs at optimum fuel mix. It just might be more fuel and less air when the engine is cold. It doesn't really "waste" it. Also, the emissions system cannot ADD to gas mileage, so it cannot pay for itself in terms of it. If you take it out, the computer will simply correct the fuel mileage.
My car, when it was new, got 38MPG(actual reading on a trip to Ohio) on the highway and generated 155Hp. You'd be VERY hard pressed to find such mileage results today.
Anyway, YES, EFI cars have far less emission control systems than older carbed cars. Less PCV and vacuum equipment, smaller or nonexistant air pumps - but the catalytic converter will always be there. The reason is that most of the the converter takes care of is not a part of the combustion of fuel- but is rather the result of what happens to the rest of the air (nitrogen and such) in the extreme heat and such. Efficiency cannot affect that - in fact, higher operating temperatures of modern cars have made it worse.
Nitrous oxides, for instance. There's no nitrogen in gasoline.
Well, it worked, alright. But it took forever for the information to get around the loop, leading to large seek times, and they couldn't push it over a mbit a chip. I'm thinking they used actual wire while IBM is probably lithographically defining it like a CPU transistor. And yes, they used it. If you look closely at any CNC machine shop that's been around for a while, you'll probably find one or two machines from the era with bubble memory, still whirring away. CNC machines, for many many years, had to keep pushing the limits of computer technology to keep up with their motors and sensing systems.
I haven't seen anybody answer konqueror yet!
I tried it in Konqi 3.5.8 with Gentoo. It asked me what I wanted to do with "empty.txt" then segfaulted. Anyone fairing better?
My high school chemistry teacher did the gummy bear combustion thing. Filled the entire room with smoke.
He also did the color-change chemical thing. Its freaky to see in real life.
Ever see the mythbusters about the coke and Mentos? At the end they make giant exploding bubble foam. We did that too.
Man, I loved my chemistry teacher. He probably only got away with all that shit is because he retired that year.
The same amount of juice to power a 100-watt light bulb!?
That's like... 100 Watts!
Unless you go compact florescent. Then its like 15watt.
Who is going to stare at the output end of the fiber? The length of the fiber isn't going to light up, if that's what you're thinking. Just the ends. I'm not sure more bandwidth requires more light, anyway.
Oh, sure, because traversing dozens of lines of "Mov EAX,$4B456E5" and whatever is comparable looking at original source code. Disassembling is a pretty poor for this sort of thing; you really need to start with it narrowed down, like this guy did by diffing it. Most of the time you'll be looking at whole executables if you want to do something like this..
Also, though its educational purposes are undeniable and it certainly is interesting to say the least, what good is it? It can only be used to make one or two minor changes or a single bugfix after hours of work. Even then its a license violation.
There's lots of good reasons to have close source software, but saying that something like this invalidates one of OSS's biggest advantages is incorrect, regardless of your closed/open leanings.
Now what? Seriously, as obvious as this is, what good will it ever do? People aren't going to change their traffic accidents now that's there scientific data to back up what everybody already knew.
I'm pretty sure we all know that automating driving would get everybody there faster, as long as it works.
They need to study why IDIOTS slow down when they get to tunnels and redesign the fronts of tunnels to avoid it.
Or why a guy on the side of the road changing a tire is so damn interesting.
200W at 100V is only 2 amps. Most household circuits are 15A, so that would place the wattage at 1800W... So $1800/circuit, not including inverter losses.
But then solar panels only make juice during the day, so you'd need at least double that to power the whole circuit all day.
Realistically, you could power a house off of an average 8 kilowatt without much conservation, and probably get down to around 5 or so with it, and lower still if you make some sacrifices.
But then you have to get that power on AVERAGE. You probably get enough sun to get that 1watt a third of the time. Less if you live an area like I do (Pittsburgh, which has VERY few sunny days).
Or is this $1/watt taking into account the downtime?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_songs_deemed_inappropriate_by_Clear_Channel_following_the_September_11%2C_2001_attacks
Read the List; there are MANY songs that are VERY Popular. Pittsburgh's WDVE is very much a ClearChannel Station, but they frequently play many stations in that list. (Stairway to Heaven? Dust in the Wind? Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da? Killer Queen? WTF?) Its only a guideline, and WDVE threw it out a long time ago.
Still, there are plenty of other stations around that aren't clearchannel (In fact, most of them, I'm finding out looking them up, are owned by other companies). I don't really consider them a monopoly.
I can almost run a game of Gin on my 3Ghz Pentium IV now!
The cards still kinda move choppy, though. Maybe I should buy another gig of RAM.
Seriously, Java development (in WSAD) is slower than dirt.
God, I hate WSAD4.
Yeah, well, I think the whole "no moving parts" must only be for the reactor. It must be spinning an alternator somehow, and I'd venture a guess that the alternator, whatever drives it, and whatever gets rid of the heat isn't included in their "bathtub" size assessment.
I was just looking at the alternator on a 176Kw (400A, 440V) diesel generator yesterday. It was the size of a 55gallon drum cut in half. higher RPMs mean smaller devices, but not THAT much.
Did you actually read that article you just linked? The power cell used for Cassinni is as big a person and generates less than 2 kilowatt.
They also say that the generators are between 3 and 7% efficient. That means that, in order to get 27MW out of one of these babies, you'd need to make more than 300Mw of heat! Think "small to medium sized power plant" amounts of heat.
No way you're sinking away that much heat in a bathtub. No way.
This is bunk.
First release of Zsnes was in 1997. It was designed to run on 486es, and was written in heavily optimized ASM.
NESticle was also released in 1997. These pretty much sparked a craze, and lead to the creation of the Emulation Community and its Golden Age was pretty much in full swing by the middle of 1998.
It has pretty much died, but Zsnes is still under very active development and the new pSX Emulator has revitalized Playstation emulation since ePSXe hasn't been updated in years and leaves MUCH to be desired.
http://www.romhacking.net/ for info on ROM hacking.
http://psxemulator.gazaxian.com/ for pSX Emulator. Try it!