I read somewhere that Napolean owed much of his success to his understanding of ballistics. Apparently he was an artillerist in his youth, and many of his victories wer largely based on his effective use of artillery.
Not all rear projection TVs are DLP, but it's getting hard to find ones that still use the old high-intensity tubes. I had one, though; 40" 1080p with DVI input, so they do exist, and I know they existed in up to 60" models. For the curious, the one I had was an RCA, and I bought it about 2.5 years ago, while working for another division of RCA's parent company (Thomson). Now that I think about it, it may have had a GE logo on it. Not sure though, and the ex got it when we split.
An install should consist of: 1. Create users. 2. Would like me to create the partitions for you? (offer an advanced feature as well) 3. Are you going to use DHCP, or a static address? 4. Would you like to review the software that is going to be installed? 5. Click next to complete.
That's pretty much how the Suse install has been since I first installed it in late 1999. I have a hard time believing those screenshots are an accurate representation of the process (and several of them a just loading screens, btw).
God, I hope so! My heart sank when I loaded the first image and saw the two little footprints in the lower left corner.
Sorry if this comes off as flamebait, but I've tried a variety of environments and Gnome is the one I've liked the least. KDE is my favorite, even among other OSs (I've never liked the Mac UI, and OSX just added a few more things I don't like).
Excellent points have been made by all the previous respondants, I'll just add that even the carbonation is bad for you: it strips calcium from your body.
I made the switch to water a few years back, and while it took a little bit to get used to, after a couple of weeks I felt much better, was more productive, and had a couple more dollars left in my pocket at the end of every day. I didn't notice a drop in my weight, but I never really paid much attention to that anyway (IMO it's a poor measure of "health", which is what really matters.)
Are there any fields that overlap with auto-router theory?
Seems to me it would fall under the general heading of Graph Theory, in which case yes, there are plenty of related fields, and anyone with even an AS in Comp Sci should understand the basic principles.
It's called a video camera, and many cop cars have them already hooked up. Typically the camera is recording whenever the emergency lights are on.
Not all departments use them, and within those that do not all cars have them. My ex is a cop, and her office recently started getting cars with cameras. She's pretty unhappy about it.
I think an excellent response to this guys idea would be to insist that all cop cars be equiped with cameras and that cameras be installed in all rooms in all the police stations (except bathrooms, I guess). Sort of an "After you..."
Well, the thing is, if you don't know what a GM is, then the article, and in fact the entire treasuretables site, is not only not targeted at you, but probably not of any use to you either.
That said, a GM is the Game Master of a Role Playing Game.
Yeah, this was going to be my recomendation too. Back in the days before servers all the video production places I knew of kept their tapes on bookshelves, usually organized by date. There's no reason you couln't store your HDDs the same way. A couple recommendations:
1) Keep those silver bags the drives come in and put the drives back in them before putting them on the shelf. They protect the drives electronics from damage caused by static electricity (which is a much bigger problem than you probably think), and on a more basic level it'll keep the drive relatively free of dust, which helps keep all your equipment a little bit cleaner and thus working better for longer.
2) SCSI drives are meant to be stored "on edge", and for long term storage they'll last better if you place them that way. Yeah, I know it makes it more likely that some vibration or shock to the structure (floor, shelf, whatever) will cause it to fall over and possibly break. I suggest maybe somesort of dividers, or maybe bookends to help keep them upright.
Those ads severely interfere with what game artists call "the suspension of disbelief"
Right, because similar ads in the real world are carefully crafted to blend in with the environment, so as not to intrude upon the "feel" of the envirnment in which they're placed...
If anything, I'd say it makes the maps look more real.
They have been pitted against each other in modern culture but for no reason.
They have been pitted against each other because religious wackjobs keeping sticking their noses into the scientific world and saying "You're wrong because the Bible says so." In science, saying "You're wrong" is perfectly acceptable, but you have to have evidence to support your claims, and, sorry, a book which is at least 2 translational generations from the original text, and which is known to have been edited for political reasons, does not count.
Scientific people know perfectly well that the request for proof of the existence of a Creator is effectively nonsensicle. However, what the religious people don't seem to get is that in this context the request is still perfectly valid. If you want to challenge accepted scientific theory you have to have evidence.
In short, if you don't want people asking ugly questions about your religion, keep it out of science.
Yes you can. I know of at least one high-end tv production equipment manufacturer that used to do exactly that at the end of their manufacturing process, back when they made their own boards. You just have to make sure it's dry before you power it up, but most modern dishwashers actually have a drying cycle, so that shouldn't be much of a problem. I'd probably pull the CMOS battery for the wash, though.
Off road use requires a higher center of gravity to allow clearance over hazards, the ability to cross over ridge crests without scraping the undercarriage, etc.
Actually, this is a bunch of crap. I lived "offroad" for most of my life. Literally, when the pavement ended you were almost exactly halfway to my house, and when people in the area wanted to have some "offroad fun", they came out and tore up my road (which pissed me off, because that road was maintained by me and a shovel, and that's it).
You know what the absolute best vehicle I owned while living there was? An '83 Honda Civic. The fact is, in 99% of "offroad" situations clearance is totally irrelevant if you understand the basic concepts of wheel placement. What does matter is a tight turning radius, low weight, low profile (unless you're in an area with no trees), powered front wheels, and a low center of gravity. The vast majority of people who claim they need an SUV for "offroading" would do better with the smallest front wheel drive car they can get their hands on.
If a family camps, boats, or participates in other off road activities, an SUV is often a necessity.... It's only a very small minority of folks that just buy an SUV as a status symbol.
I know a lot of people who own SUVs, mostly the big truck based ones, and not one of them uses their SUV for towing. Not one. In fact, the few that ever do any towing at all have trucks for that. Come to think of it, the only time any of them took their SUVs "offroad" was to visit me.
Yeah, I read that article, but I've yet to meet a person who's done it. As far as I'm concerned it's urban folklore. Most people don't like to just throw something away like that, they'd rather get it fixed, even if it isn't necessarily the most fiscally efficient way to go.
If your intended audience is the average computer illiterate, you should probably expect plenty of people still operating at 800x600. I know a lot of people who are perfectly happy with their old K6-2 and crappy 15" monitor, and have no plans to upgrade while it still functions. It sounds like those people are your target demographic.
That said, here is my opinion on the metatopic of which this is a part: If you don't clutter up your site with a bunch of unnecessary formatting crap, flash nonsense, menus, table, frames, etc., it won't matter what resolution your users are running at. HTML reformats itself to fit the display quite nicely as long as you web developers allow it to function as it was meant to.
The vast majority of the time, "good design" means less stuff, not more.
Yeah, that seems a little strange to me. I thought Nvidia was trying to be an IP company? Maybe this is an indication of the future prospects of such an entity. I've always questioned the wisdom of a company letting all the expertise on how to actually produce their core product go out the door.
Anyway, would the person who moderated the parent "Redundant" care to explain how a First Post can possibly be redundant?
How many people are actually buying those bleeding-edge cards? The only people I know who are being "suckered" into paying these prices are the ones whose life revolves around gaming, and they will make use of the capabilities of the card, if not today then when the next big game comes out.
The cards that are actually being sold to the mainstream consumer seem quite reasonably priced to me, and are certainly supported by current software.
"...Or you could just go with Linux."... or you could just move to a new place that doesn't have power failures! Heck, if he moves far enough north, he won't need to run fans on his CPUs, either!!!!
Excellent! See, these are exactly the kind of out-of-the-box solutions people come to/. for!
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I read somewhere that Napolean owed much of his success to his understanding of ballistics. Apparently he was an artillerist in his youth, and many of his victories wer largely based on his effective use of artillery.
No, it's just that it's been so long since they've had to deal with actual numbers that they've forgotten how.
(I'm a Math/CS double major, btw)
Not all rear projection TVs are DLP, but it's getting hard to find ones that still use the old high-intensity tubes. I had one, though; 40" 1080p with DVI input, so they do exist, and I know they existed in up to 60" models. For the curious, the one I had was an RCA, and I bought it about 2.5 years ago, while working for another division of RCA's parent company (Thomson). Now that I think about it, it may have had a GE logo on it. Not sure though, and the ex got it when we split.
Man, I hope those prices are in Canadian dollars.
It is still all compiled with GCC, the GNU compiler.
Says who? Why couldn't I use, for example, Intel's compiler?
An install should consist of:
1. Create users.
2. Would like me to create the partitions for you? (offer an advanced feature as well)
3. Are you going to use DHCP, or a static address?
4. Would you like to review the software that is going to be installed?
5. Click next to complete.
That's pretty much how the Suse install has been since I first installed it in late 1999. I have a hard time believing those screenshots are an accurate representation of the process (and several of them a just loading screens, btw).
Is SUSE still favouring their KDE heritage?
God, I hope so! My heart sank when I loaded the first image and saw the two little footprints in the lower left corner.
Sorry if this comes off as flamebait, but I've tried a variety of environments and Gnome is the one I've liked the least. KDE is my favorite, even among other OSs (I've never liked the Mac UI, and OSX just added a few more things I don't like).
Excellent points have been made by all the previous respondants, I'll just add that even the carbonation is bad for you: it strips calcium from your body.
I made the switch to water a few years back, and while it took a little bit to get used to, after a couple of weeks I felt much better, was more productive, and had a couple more dollars left in my pocket at the end of every day. I didn't notice a drop in my weight, but I never really paid much attention to that anyway (IMO it's a poor measure of "health", which is what really matters.)
Patent the GPU NOT the software, and recoup your R&D costs.
Since modern GPUs are are FPGAs, the hardware and software are not seperable. The software literally brings the hardware into existance.
Are there any fields that overlap with auto-router theory?
Seems to me it would fall under the general heading of Graph Theory, in which case yes, there are plenty of related fields, and anyone with even an AS in Comp Sci should understand the basic principles.
It's called a video camera, and many cop cars have them already hooked up. Typically the camera is recording whenever the emergency lights are on.
Not all departments use them, and within those that do not all cars have them. My ex is a cop, and her office recently started getting cars with cameras. She's pretty unhappy about it.
I think an excellent response to this guys idea would be to insist that all cop cars be equiped with cameras and that cameras be installed in all rooms in all the police stations (except bathrooms, I guess). Sort of an "After you..."
Well, the thing is, if you don't know what a GM is, then the article, and in fact the entire treasuretables site, is not only not targeted at you, but probably not of any use to you either.
That said, a GM is the Game Master of a Role Playing Game.
Indeed, it only took me a year or so in the corporate world to figure out that corporations survive dispite management, not because of it.
Then again, I already had opinions about people who study business from tutoring math in college...
Yeah, this was going to be my recomendation too. Back in the days before servers all the video production places I knew of kept their tapes on bookshelves, usually organized by date. There's no reason you couln't store your HDDs the same way. A couple recommendations:
1) Keep those silver bags the drives come in and put the drives back in them before putting them on the shelf. They protect the drives electronics from damage caused by static electricity (which is a much bigger problem than you probably think), and on a more basic level it'll keep the drive relatively free of dust, which helps keep all your equipment a little bit cleaner and thus working better for longer.
2) SCSI drives are meant to be stored "on edge", and for long term storage they'll last better if you place them that way. Yeah, I know it makes it more likely that some vibration or shock to the structure (floor, shelf, whatever) will cause it to fall over and possibly break. I suggest maybe somesort of dividers, or maybe bookends to help keep them upright.
How old is this patent? Yeah, it's all totally obvious now, but 15 or 20 years ago it might have perfectly reasonable to grant that patent.
Those ads severely interfere with what game artists call "the suspension of disbelief"
Right, because similar ads in the real world are carefully crafted to blend in with the environment, so as not to intrude upon the "feel" of the envirnment in which they're placed...
If anything, I'd say it makes the maps look more real.
They have been pitted against each other in modern culture but for no reason.
They have been pitted against each other because religious wackjobs keeping sticking their noses into the scientific world and saying "You're wrong because the Bible says so." In science, saying "You're wrong" is perfectly acceptable, but you have to have evidence to support your claims, and, sorry, a book which is at least 2 translational generations from the original text, and which is known to have been edited for political reasons, does not count.
Scientific people know perfectly well that the request for proof of the existence of a Creator is effectively nonsensicle. However, what the religious people don't seem to get is that in this context the request is still perfectly valid. If you want to challenge accepted scientific theory you have to have evidence.
In short, if you don't want people asking ugly questions about your religion, keep it out of science.
Can't exactly throw it in the dishwasher...
Yes you can. I know of at least one high-end tv production equipment manufacturer that used to do exactly that at the end of their manufacturing process, back when they made their own boards. You just have to make sure it's dry before you power it up, but most modern dishwashers actually have a drying cycle, so that shouldn't be much of a problem. I'd probably pull the CMOS battery for the wash, though.
If all the customers who care about their shittiness leave, and won't come back for any reason, where's the incentive to stop being shitty?
Off road use requires a higher center of gravity to allow clearance over hazards, the ability to cross over ridge crests without scraping the undercarriage, etc.
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Actually, this is a bunch of crap. I lived "offroad" for most of my life. Literally, when the pavement ended you were almost exactly halfway to my house, and when people in the area wanted to have some "offroad fun", they came out and tore up my road (which pissed me off, because that road was maintained by me and a shovel, and that's it).
You know what the absolute best vehicle I owned while living there was? An '83 Honda Civic. The fact is, in 99% of "offroad" situations clearance is totally irrelevant if you understand the basic concepts of wheel placement. What does matter is a tight turning radius, low weight, low profile (unless you're in an area with no trees), powered front wheels, and a low center of gravity. The vast majority of people who claim they need an SUV for "offroading" would do better with the smallest front wheel drive car they can get their hands on.
If a family camps, boats, or participates in other off road activities, an SUV is often a necessity.
It's only a very small minority of folks that just buy an SUV as a status symbol.
I know a lot of people who own SUVs, mostly the big truck based ones, and not one of them uses their SUV for towing. Not one. In fact, the few that ever do any towing at all have trucks for that. Come to think of it, the only time any of them took their SUVs "offroad" was to visit me.
Yeah, I read that article, but I've yet to meet a person who's done it. As far as I'm concerned it's urban folklore. Most people don't like to just throw something away like that, they'd rather get it fixed, even if it isn't necessarily the most fiscally efficient way to go.
If your intended audience is the average computer illiterate, you should probably expect plenty of people still operating at 800x600. I know a lot of people who are perfectly happy with their old K6-2 and crappy 15" monitor, and have no plans to upgrade while it still functions. It sounds like those people are your target demographic.
That said, here is my opinion on the metatopic of which this is a part: If you don't clutter up your site with a bunch of unnecessary formatting crap, flash nonsense, menus, table, frames, etc., it won't matter what resolution your users are running at. HTML reformats itself to fit the display quite nicely as long as you web developers allow it to function as it was meant to.
The vast majority of the time, "good design" means less stuff, not more.
Yeah, that seems a little strange to me. I thought Nvidia was trying to be an IP company? Maybe this is an indication of the future prospects of such an entity. I've always questioned the wisdom of a company letting all the expertise on how to actually produce their core product go out the door.
Anyway, would the person who moderated the parent "Redundant" care to explain how a First Post can possibly be redundant?
How many people are actually buying those bleeding-edge cards? The only people I know who are being "suckered" into paying these prices are the ones whose life revolves around gaming, and they will make use of the capabilities of the card, if not today then when the next big game comes out.
The cards that are actually being sold to the mainstream consumer seem quite reasonably priced to me, and are certainly supported by current software.
"...Or you could just go with Linux." ... or you could just move to a new place that doesn't have power failures! Heck, if he moves far enough north, he won't need to run fans on his CPUs, either!!!!
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Excellent! See, these are exactly the kind of out-of-the-box solutions people come to