Honestly, this seems like a "watch dog" group trying to build up their reputation as watch dogs by pointing out something that is largely unimportant. Oh sure, the technology supports this. How many people are going to know how to do it, though? That is the question. And on top of that, how many people will know, with certainty, how to do this and have access to the voting machines? This could not go un-noticed on a large scale.
Maybe it's a nanotech experiment gone wrong. Grey goo that reacts with cellulose or cell walls has leaked into the water system after an animal came into contact with it at a subdermal level, and then died of its injuries, and is now spreading the material particle by particle into the water system of a nearby town.
Everyone knows that the UK is expensive. But it's the easiest conversion in the world, at least for Canadians. For Canadians, we take the price of something, and change the $ dollar sign to the Pound sign, and you have the UK price. Easy peasy.
And Sony is right - this is a cheap machine for a Blu-Ray drive. Don't you remember the Superdrive when Apple was first to market? The Superdrive alone was selling for something like $600-$900 and that was representing half the cost of an Apple Mac.
Beyond any doubt, the Blu-Ray drive costs a pretty penny, and to get it in a console for such a price is peanuts.
Yes, it's "to create an unparalleled e-commerce and communications engine".
But unfortunately, it is eclipsed by several orders of magnitude by the world's largest, and truly unparalleled ecommerce and communications engine: THE INTERNET. Hey eBay, the marketing morons didn't think that comment through very well, now did they?
I wish I wanted to waste that time, but I can't. I recently deleted them.
What we REALLY need is anti-advercookie features in our browsers, preferably Firefox, so we don't need to delete the advertising, we can have the software do it. Think of it like modern anti-virus, but it scans and removes ad cookies. Oh sure, accept it for a session, but when the session ends, the cookie is deleted automatically
Advertising / unwanted cookies only. Slashdot cookies must stay.;)
Excellent question, and to the people questioning why below - the real world doesn't have newbies and lowbies, so the moment people get power over others, they exploit it. WoW gives people the potential to have lots of power over others, with impunity, which is why we have ganking at all.
WoW had to offer some sort of experience-based advancement, and one of the simplest ways to do that is through the standard RPG model of skills, better armor, more hitpoints, etc. But at the same time, if you spend all that effort just to go ganking, you are doing something that is unrealistic in the real world. And it's also unrealistic in traditional book-based RPGs. Did your game/dungeon master ever create quests where you went to a lowbie area of the world, full of enemies, and slaughtered them? They didn't make for much entertainment, and it's also elementary entertainment in WoW, compared to the satisfaction of winning an equal-level PvP fight.
I never understood ganking. Ganking is griefing because the people you slaughter have no way of fighting back, much like when the Spanish showed up in the new world with guns, or soldiers in any war showed up in the town or village of an enemy and leveled it.
And so, when I found out about the honor system, I was finally glad to hear that Blizzard was going to get tough on people who were, for all intents and purposes, wasting time using a magnifying glass on plastic soldiers, which is pretty much what ganking is.
And then Blizzard made what I can only assume was a total bean counter decision because they realized they would be punishing the people who gave them money, so the "Honor" system is totally toothless in terms of protecting those unable to protect themselves. And let's not forget ganking from rooftops. Blizzard cracked down on that, what in the world stopped them from cracking down on what those rooftop enemies were doing, rather than the fact that they were doing it on the rooftop?
I got WoW on day 2 of release, and pretty much stopped playing it after a couple months because it got boring. Ganking had a huge role in how boring WoW was, and the nerfing of the honor system was just salt in the wound. The handling of the Blackrock server was another reason - I joined with about 20 friends from work, but queues of 600-1000 drove us all away, and character transfers came far too late, so none of us ended up on the same server after that, because some wanted to stick with their characters and didn't suffer the queues, while others were screwed.
Everyone I know that originally was excited about WoW has quit playing. I can only imagine that the dropoff in interest has been huge from initial players.
The fools who claim these cities are Atlantis clearly lack the objectivity to look at the larger picture - ancient cities both on land, and under the ocean, many of which have similarities.
Historians claim that the first civilizations began to crop up 5000 years ago in Egypt and Africa. Clearly they didn't crop up underwater, so it is possible that civilization is actually much older than previously thought.
That begs the question - these cities were obviously built when the water levels were lower... say, due to the fact that there was more ice in the world? Like an ice age, or during the trailing end when water levels rose all over the world.
Some claim the Mediterranean was once a massive basin. A number of cities have been found in the Med that people claim are Atlantis, but at the very least they are cities currently unresearched, and very old, since it would take thousands of years for water levels to rise up and consume them. Look to Venice for example - Venice is sinking, parts of buildings have been abandoned because the water level consistently floods them now. If a city existed and the water rose up to it's shores, storms and whatnot would cause flooding and make the city unliveable. It seems logical that those peoples would migrate up to higher ground, and clearly comparing ancient cities below the water versus ancient cities above water, the ones above water are on higher ground.
So here is a thought - what if civilization is much older than we all think? What if these cities are from the first civilizations that are much older than we know, or at least from civilizations older than any that ever cropped up above ground?
If there was a large shared influence in city layout, and five concentric circles was a popular design (Just one thought, if an army was defending a city with five rings, surrounded each with a wall, much like Minas Tirith, it would present a formidable challenge for invaders, so it may have been a popular design for that purpose.) then we would have a lot of cities that all look like "Atlantis".
Figuring out what specific city was Atlantis would be very difficult, it would require underwater excavation. Taking a sonar picture and seeing a hill surrounded by a wall is pure folly - there are a lot of cities built on hills and surrounded by walls in our world, nobody claims they are Atlantis. The design is effective for defense of a city, not only Atlantis had such a layout.
So I am skeptical of anyone who takes a picture and summarily declares it to be the greatest coincidence of all time, since that plainly ignores the more obvious conclusion that these are cities buried under water, and belong to civilizations much older than we know.
Until we begin doing archaeological digs, and start finding writing or pottery or anything to hint at who lived in these citites, I will believe no news report that mentions the word "Atlantis". It remains lost until cooler heads prevail, and proper scientific research is conducted.
Unfortunately, the game is supposed to draw from the books - but exactly how much? Take a look at the art - the Hobbits look like short humans, the elves look like Uber Fantasy crud, the Dwarf women are NOTHING like the Dwarf women in Tolkien.
Also, the worlds look nothing like the movies.
This company is said to be making an adaptation of the books, but what they have never considered is how much more they could appeal to the full range of fans by making the world look as close to the movie as possible. Worse, there are some rather severe violations:
- The Hobbot "holes" are not houses built within a hill, but rather houses built near hills, standalone.
- Moria looks more like a typical uber-fantasy castle in any MMORPG than the Moria we see in the movies.
- Nothing about the existing art screams Middle Earth, it screams generic uber-fantasy MMORPG. They could actually have distinguished themselves by copying the movies, which were realistic and spartan, instead this game is full of detail added for the sake of detail.
- Listen to a couple of the lamer enemies you face:
Corrupt Bears Spiders... how exciting does this sound?
A barrel and rope laying at the end of the dock. Can you get any more typical? Lamps and benches in the middle of nowhere... who lights the lamps? Who makes sure the benches aren't stolen. Yes, yes, I'm a crazy man and nitpicking... but it's true on a larger scale as well.
Welcome to the.... shire? There's one house half sitting on a hill, the rest are on flat land, with hills in the background.
Overall, I am not impressed with this game at all. Worse than the look of the world is the music - typical Celtic theme rubbish. No depth, no atmosphere, none of the absolute brilliance of Howard Shore's three scores for the movie.
This was the worst company to make a Middle Earth game - they don't have the license to the movie content, they refuse to license it, and they are not investing the time and effort into compensating for those two missing pieces. And for this, they are probably losing customers for it.
"'Occasionally, we have news or analysis of such importance that it warrants a special alert to you.'"
A simple editing mistake, here are the corrections:
"Occasionally, we have news."
and
"We rarely have any news or analysis of such importance that it warrants a special alert to you, most of our stuff is delibarately offensive to certain strong-minded groups, such as Linux and / or Mac users."
A while ago, Microsoft said it had closed an exploit in Hotmail allowing spammers to bypass the spam checker of Hotmail. It looks like they've found another exploit, because spam is back in the inbox again.
And the funny thing is - it is so obvious that this spam could be easily deleted, either before reaching the inbox, or after. So much spam follows the same pattern, if there was a button to declare it spam, a sufficient number of claims of any specific email being spam could be cause enough for a script to then delete every instance of that message in the system.
Do these companies get money from spammers to turn a blind eye to the crap they send me?
I have questions, not being a CSC or ENG, about what it means to go from binary to tri or quat.
It seems a good fit that transistors correlate so well to binary computing. How does this work, for example take RAM transistors on a tri or quat system - with binary, the RAM transistor holds either current or no current to represent either the 1 or 0.
How does storage of the trinary or quaternary systems work in this case?
And am I right in thinking it takes more than one transistor for a RAM memory cell, as it does for a Static Ram cell?
I bought a bottle when I was young, in University, and thought it would help me in working out. I'm also into computers a lot, but not quite the Linux hacker, or have C.Sc. behind my name on business cards.
Anyhow, also in University a friend of mine introduced me to Cocaine, so I tried it once with the wariness to never use it again like it was the One Ring.
When on Creatine and Cocaine, I got almost the same feeling of having a lot of quick energy and awareness, I find them quite similar, only the Creatine gave me a bit of a gut cramp, and the Coca didn't, but a very similar feeling to it.
They would squash Windows performance on the Mac because if WinOnMac became that popular, people could do things like switch to Mac, but use VPC for individual programs like Simply Accounting, AutoCAD, and other PC-specific programs. That would significantly reduce the chances of those people using MS software, because there are a ton of PC users who stick with the PC over just a few apps. With Office, Internet Explorer and Entourage for Mac, plus an integrated, simple environment, and a platform that doesn't crash as much as PCs do anymore, the Mac is interesting to a lot of PC customers.
So there's the answer - it steals all the potential related software sales from Microsoft, and hands them to Apple.
Yes, this makes far more sense - the AMD exec may consider Opteron and HyperTransport to be integral technologies designed with each other in mind. He may have thought the reporter was asking specifically about the Opteron with regards to the Tier 1 comment, and the exec responded with an admission of work on the HT project, with nothing to do with Opteron.
As for the speculation - I doubt Apple is going to switch to Opteron. The PowerPC 970 will be the easiest transition to current performance hardware that could hope for, and is "good enough" to Opteron performance that the minimal gain would be received at a tremendous cost and hassle and potential risk ot the company. Highly unlikely. We already know that Apple has plans for the 970 by reading the Asian newspapers and tech websites
On the other hand, how about emulation? Microsoft bought Connectix for a reason, but what isn't widely discussed is talk of new emulation technology that may potentially find itself into Connectix products that would have revealed a dramatic rise in Windows emulation performance. Who knows what might have been, but certainly Connectix is the kind of company that would have investigated this, out of business interest.
Did Microsoft squash a technology that would have made Windows on the Mac "good enough"? That would be an interesting question to try and solve. We've all heard by now they're paying id waste money to prevent id from releasing Doom 3 into our hands, does it surprise us that they specifically act to squash new products? I've heard another company has access to the same technology.
Whatever the case, the remainder of 2003 should be very interesting to Apple.
Yes, if you want to include encoding, then of course the measurement can be made with base 10, but encoding is merely adding an essential component to enable the medium - since the medium is not the data, the technical viewpoint is valid, but how relevant is it? Who cares if you can transfer 100 Mbps if the useful information constitutes only a theoretical maximum 80 Mbps? The medium that encodes to 10 bits is for the purpose of transfering useful information, whereas the ratio of 8:1 is not only a definition, but is defined by that encoding scheme as the useful data prior to being encoded.
And while that encoding is essential to make these base 10 technologies possible, the merits of factoring in those bits seem.. less important than the real issue - useful purposes.
It would be curious to know the encoding scheme the team used... also interesting to know that manufacturers prefer to sell the theoretical encoded data transfer rates, as opposed to the bandwidth of useful information, and not the bandwidth of the medium transfering that data.
Actually, it is precisely off by a factor of 8, as is always the difference between B versus b, or (as the other reader astutely points out) three orders of magnitude with a binary base.
Well.. off by a factor of 8 or 3 orders magnitude for binary computers at least, but not for my trinary! computer!
Yeah, I know... the Elves didn't save Helm's Deep.
But it was a nice touch. In all realism, I think Tolkien's oversight was to think that the Elves would not stay to defend Middle Earth. Old aliance... eh, if the Elves loved Middle Earth at all, and they did greatly, then they would have come to aid. I'll bet the Dwarves would have as well, if they were told what was going on.
But yes, of all things, why PJ messed with the Ents and Huorns saving Helm's Deep, I don't know. It's as great an injustice as Eomer failing to acknowledge Galadriel the fairest of all creatures, from Gimli's perspective.
But the addition of the Elves to Helm's Deep, though not true to the book, was nice. If we had only ever seen the beautiful armors and peoples of the Elves in the prologue... THAT would be the injustice.
And a tidbit for you - I think Arwen went with the host to Helm's Deep. Haldir is the gate-warden of Rivendel, Arwen is seen leaving Rivendel bearing the garb almost identical to the Elves that arrive at Helm's Deep, but without the Armor, which could have been easily carried by horses or a cart at the back of Arwen's host.
I think she went to Helm's Deep and RotK will see her reunite with Aragorn - at the very least, I hope she was not slain in the battle, only to be discovered wounded and dying by Aragorn.
Just some thoughts. KHAZAD!!
Helm's Deep recreation on Myth.
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I'll bet the Myth engine could do an awesome recreation of Helm's Deep. It features rain, lightning, ambient sounds, could create the same effects. Just needs sound, Aragorn, Lego and Gimli (with an axe, not satchels) and a host of Orcs, Archers, Elves, men.
I'd love to see a mod file that did this, and the video to watch it.
If one of these lasers was put on every commercial aircraft under load, you could cover all of North America, Japan and Europe in a network of air defense the likes of which Star Wars advocates only dream of.
These lasers on planes on the ground, or circling overhead while coming in to land near major metropolitan centers, could protect a great percentage of America's population. And at nuclear silos across the US, Israel and others, you need only a small battery of these lasers. In short order, you could protect the entire population and strategic defenses of countries all over the world. Add to that even basic missile or space-based laser satellites, and you probably end up with the US missile defense system at billion less than right now, I presume.
The drying of a cheese-based mixture that, when combined with boiled, complex carbohdrates makes something relied upon by Men and students all over the world.
I seem to recall that the base of these things would be on large platforms anchored in the middle of the ocean, so if they did collapse, they would just fall harmlessly over water.
It's a 4900+ KM carbon ribbon of incredible tensile stress with a strength greater than steel and an incredible mass. You basically need to have a circle of that radius in the middle of the ocean for this thing to snap back to earth and not run the risk of an incredible swath of danger.
Funny thing would be - imagine that the top-most edge of the ribbon falls down to earth, heats up in the upper atmostphere, and comes slicing down on an ice shelf in Antarctica. Hot knife through butter, anyone?
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Honestly, this seems like a "watch dog" group trying to build up their reputation as watch dogs by pointing out something that is largely unimportant. Oh sure, the technology supports this. How many people are going to know how to do it, though? That is the question. And on top of that, how many people will know, with certainty, how to do this and have access to the voting machines? This could not go un-noticed on a large scale.
Maybe it's a nanotech experiment gone wrong. Grey goo that reacts with cellulose or cell walls has leaked into the water system after an animal came into contact with it at a subdermal level, and then died of its injuries, and is now spreading the material particle by particle into the water system of a nearby town.
Well they should try it on dead people who have had voice recordings of themselves to see how well these scientists can recreate a voice.
So THIS is now Tupac keeps coming out with albums posthumously...
Everyone knows that the UK is expensive. But it's the easiest conversion in the world, at least for Canadians. For Canadians, we take the price of something, and change the $ dollar sign to the Pound sign, and you have the UK price. Easy peasy.
And Sony is right - this is a cheap machine for a Blu-Ray drive. Don't you remember the Superdrive when Apple was first to market? The Superdrive alone was selling for something like $600-$900 and that was representing half the cost of an Apple Mac.
Beyond any doubt, the Blu-Ray drive costs a pretty penny, and to get it in a console for such a price is peanuts.
Man... I bought this hook, line and sinker. TOTALLY forgot about April Fools.
Yes, it's "to create an unparalleled e-commerce and communications engine".
But unfortunately, it is eclipsed by several orders of magnitude by the world's largest, and truly unparalleled ecommerce and communications engine: THE INTERNET. Hey eBay, the marketing morons didn't think that comment through very well, now did they?
[...]who is deleting cookies? Are you?
;)
I wish I wanted to waste that time, but I can't. I recently deleted them.
What we REALLY need is anti-advercookie features in our browsers, preferably Firefox, so we don't need to delete the advertising, we can have the software do it. Think of it like modern anti-virus, but it scans and removes ad cookies. Oh sure, accept it for a session, but when the session ends, the cookie is deleted automatically
Advertising / unwanted cookies only. Slashdot cookies must stay.
Excellent question, and to the people questioning why below - the real world doesn't have newbies and lowbies, so the moment people get power over others, they exploit it. WoW gives people the potential to have lots of power over others, with impunity, which is why we have ganking at all.
WoW had to offer some sort of experience-based advancement, and one of the simplest ways to do that is through the standard RPG model of skills, better armor, more hitpoints, etc. But at the same time, if you spend all that effort just to go ganking, you are doing something that is unrealistic in the real world. And it's also unrealistic in traditional book-based RPGs. Did your game/dungeon master ever create quests where you went to a lowbie area of the world, full of enemies, and slaughtered them? They didn't make for much entertainment, and it's also elementary entertainment in WoW, compared to the satisfaction of winning an equal-level PvP fight.
I never understood ganking. Ganking is griefing because the people you slaughter have no way of fighting back, much like when the Spanish showed up in the new world with guns, or soldiers in any war showed up in the town or village of an enemy and leveled it.
And so, when I found out about the honor system, I was finally glad to hear that Blizzard was going to get tough on people who were, for all intents and purposes, wasting time using a magnifying glass on plastic soldiers, which is pretty much what ganking is.
And then Blizzard made what I can only assume was a total bean counter decision because they realized they would be punishing the people who gave them money, so the "Honor" system is totally toothless in terms of protecting those unable to protect themselves. And let's not forget ganking from rooftops. Blizzard cracked down on that, what in the world stopped them from cracking down on what those rooftop enemies were doing, rather than the fact that they were doing it on the rooftop?
I got WoW on day 2 of release, and pretty much stopped playing it after a couple months because it got boring. Ganking had a huge role in how boring WoW was, and the nerfing of the honor system was just salt in the wound. The handling of the Blackrock server was another reason - I joined with about 20 friends from work, but queues of 600-1000 drove us all away, and character transfers came far too late, so none of us ended up on the same server after that, because some wanted to stick with their characters and didn't suffer the queues, while others were screwed.
Everyone I know that originally was excited about WoW has quit playing. I can only imagine that the dropoff in interest has been huge from initial players.
The fools who claim these cities are Atlantis clearly lack the objectivity to look at the larger picture - ancient cities both on land, and under the ocean, many of which have similarities.
Historians claim that the first civilizations began to crop up 5000 years ago in Egypt and Africa. Clearly they didn't crop up underwater, so it is possible that civilization is actually much older than previously thought.
That begs the question - these cities were obviously built when the water levels were lower... say, due to the fact that there was more ice in the world? Like an ice age, or during the trailing end when water levels rose all over the world.
Some claim the Mediterranean was once a massive basin. A number of cities have been found in the Med that people claim are Atlantis, but at the very least they are cities currently unresearched, and very old, since it would take thousands of years for water levels to rise up and consume them. Look to Venice for example - Venice is sinking, parts of buildings have been abandoned because the water level consistently floods them now. If a city existed and the water rose up to it's shores, storms and whatnot would cause flooding and make the city unliveable. It seems logical that those peoples would migrate up to higher ground, and clearly comparing ancient cities below the water versus ancient cities above water, the ones above water are on higher ground.
So here is a thought - what if civilization is much older than we all think? What if these cities are from the first civilizations that are much older than we know, or at least from civilizations older than any that ever cropped up above ground?
If there was a large shared influence in city layout, and five concentric circles was a popular design (Just one thought, if an army was defending a city with five rings, surrounded each with a wall, much like Minas Tirith, it would present a formidable challenge for invaders, so it may have been a popular design for that purpose.) then we would have a lot of cities that all look like "Atlantis".
Figuring out what specific city was Atlantis would be very difficult, it would require underwater excavation. Taking a sonar picture and seeing a hill surrounded by a wall is pure folly - there are a lot of cities built on hills and surrounded by walls in our world, nobody claims they are Atlantis. The design is effective for defense of a city, not only Atlantis had such a layout.
So I am skeptical of anyone who takes a picture and summarily declares it to be the greatest coincidence of all time, since that plainly ignores the more obvious conclusion that these are cities buried under water, and belong to civilizations much older than we know.
Until we begin doing archaeological digs, and start finding writing or pottery or anything to hint at who lived in these citites, I will believe no news report that mentions the word "Atlantis". It remains lost until cooler heads prevail, and proper scientific research is conducted.
Unfortunately, the game is supposed to draw from the books - but exactly how much? Take a look at the art - the Hobbits look like short humans, the elves look like Uber Fantasy crud, the Dwarf women are NOTHING like the Dwarf women in Tolkien.
... how exciting does this sound?
g es /4-1-04/POI_Bucklebury_Ferry.jpg
... who lights the lamps? Who makes sure the benches aren't stolen. Yes, yes, I'm a crazy man and nitpicking... but it's true on a larger scale as well.
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Also, the worlds look nothing like the movies.
This company is said to be making an adaptation of the books, but what they have never considered is how much more they could appeal to the full range of fans by making the world look as close to the movie as possible. Worse, there are some rather severe violations:
- The Hobbot "holes" are not houses built within a hill, but rather houses built near hills, standalone.
- Moria looks more like a typical uber-fantasy castle in any MMORPG than the Moria we see in the movies.
- Nothing about the existing art screams Middle Earth, it screams generic uber-fantasy MMORPG. They could actually have distinguished themselves by copying the movies, which were realistic and spartan, instead this game is full of detail added for the sake of detail.
- Listen to a couple of the lamer enemies you face:
Corrupt Bears
Spiders
- Examples of lame detail for the sake of detail:
http://forums.middle-earthonline.com/vortex_ima
A barrel and rope laying at the end of the dock. Can you get any more typical? Lamps and benches in the middle of nowhere
- http://www.middle-earthonline.com/files/31/17/49/
Welcome to the.... shire? There's one house half sitting on a hill, the rest are on flat land, with hills in the background.
Overall, I am not impressed with this game at all. Worse than the look of the world is the music - typical Celtic theme rubbish. No depth, no atmosphere, none of the absolute brilliance of Howard Shore's three scores for the movie.
This was the worst company to make a Middle Earth game - they don't have the license to the movie content, they refuse to license it, and they are not investing the time and effort into compensating for those two missing pieces. And for this, they are probably losing customers for it.
"'Occasionally, we have news or analysis of such importance that it warrants a special alert to you.'"
A simple editing mistake, here are the corrections:
"Occasionally, we have news."
and
"We rarely have any news or analysis of such importance that it warrants a special alert to you, most of our stuff is delibarately offensive to certain strong-minded groups, such as Linux and / or Mac users."
A while ago, Microsoft said it had closed an exploit in Hotmail allowing spammers to bypass the spam checker of Hotmail. It looks like they've found another exploit, because spam is back in the inbox again.
And the funny thing is - it is so obvious that this spam could be easily deleted, either before reaching the inbox, or after. So much spam follows the same pattern, if there was a button to declare it spam, a sufficient number of claims of any specific email being spam could be cause enough for a script to then delete every instance of that message in the system.
Do these companies get money from spammers to turn a blind eye to the crap they send me?
I don't know about anyone else, but when I clicked on the link to:
g Po ints
http://www.prevayler.org/wiki.jsp?topic=Startin
I got the disgusting goatse.cx website. Is this a case of hijacking a website, or is Prevayler a hoax?
I know websites can be stolen from others, thus we have the term "cyber squatters", is this a case of that?
I have questions, not being a CSC or ENG, about what it means to go from binary to tri or quat.
It seems a good fit that transistors correlate so well to binary computing. How does this work, for example take RAM transistors on a tri or quat system - with binary, the RAM transistor holds either current or no current to represent either the 1 or 0.
How does storage of the trinary or quaternary systems work in this case?
And am I right in thinking it takes more than one transistor for a RAM memory cell, as it does for a Static Ram cell?
I bought a bottle when I was young, in University, and thought it would help me in working out. I'm also into computers a lot, but not quite the Linux hacker, or have C.Sc. behind my name on business cards.
Anyhow, also in University a friend of mine introduced me to Cocaine, so I tried it once with the wariness to never use it again like it was the One Ring.
When on Creatine and Cocaine, I got almost the same feeling of having a lot of quick energy and awareness, I find them quite similar, only the Creatine gave me a bit of a gut cramp, and the Coca didn't, but a very similar feeling to it.
They would squash Windows performance on the Mac because if WinOnMac became that popular, people could do things like switch to Mac, but use VPC for individual programs like Simply Accounting, AutoCAD, and other PC-specific programs. That would significantly reduce the chances of those people using MS software, because there are a ton of PC users who stick with the PC over just a few apps. With Office, Internet Explorer and Entourage for Mac, plus an integrated, simple environment, and a platform that doesn't crash as much as PCs do anymore, the Mac is interesting to a lot of PC customers.
So there's the answer - it steals all the potential related software sales from Microsoft, and hands them to Apple.
Yes, this makes far more sense - the AMD exec may consider Opteron and HyperTransport to be integral technologies designed with each other in mind. He may have thought the reporter was asking specifically about the Opteron with regards to the Tier 1 comment, and the exec responded with an admission of work on the HT project, with nothing to do with Opteron.
As for the speculation - I doubt Apple is going to switch to Opteron. The PowerPC 970 will be the easiest transition to current performance hardware that could hope for, and is "good enough" to Opteron performance that the minimal gain would be received at a tremendous cost and hassle and potential risk ot the company. Highly unlikely. We already know that Apple has plans for the 970 by reading the Asian newspapers and tech websites
On the other hand, how about emulation? Microsoft bought Connectix for a reason, but what isn't widely discussed is talk of new emulation technology that may potentially find itself into Connectix products that would have revealed a dramatic rise in Windows emulation performance. Who knows what might have been, but certainly Connectix is the kind of company that would have investigated this, out of business interest.
Did Microsoft squash a technology that would have made Windows on the Mac "good enough"? That would be an interesting question to try and solve. We've all heard by now they're paying id waste money to prevent id from releasing Doom 3 into our hands, does it surprise us that they specifically act to squash new products? I've heard another company has access to the same technology.
Whatever the case, the remainder of 2003 should be very interesting to Apple.
Yes, if you want to include encoding, then of course the measurement can be made with base 10, but encoding is merely adding an essential component to enable the medium - since the medium is not the data, the technical viewpoint is valid, but how relevant is it? Who cares if you can transfer 100 Mbps if the useful information constitutes only a theoretical maximum 80 Mbps? The medium that encodes to 10 bits is for the purpose of transfering useful information, whereas the ratio of 8:1 is not only a definition, but is defined by that encoding scheme as the useful data prior to being encoded.
.. less important than the real issue - useful purposes.
And while that encoding is essential to make these base 10 technologies possible, the merits of factoring in those bits seem
It would be curious to know the encoding scheme the team used... also interesting to know that manufacturers prefer to sell the theoretical encoded data transfer rates, as opposed to the bandwidth of useful information, and not the bandwidth of the medium transfering that data.
"Saying 8.6GB is off by an order of magnitude."
Actually, it is precisely off by a factor of 8, as is always the difference between B versus b, or (as the other reader astutely points out) three orders of magnitude with a binary base.
Well.. off by a factor of 8 or 3 orders magnitude for binary computers at least, but not for my trinary! computer!
Yeah, I know... the Elves didn't save Helm's Deep.
But it was a nice touch. In all realism, I think Tolkien's oversight was to think that the Elves would not stay to defend Middle Earth. Old aliance... eh, if the Elves loved Middle Earth at all, and they did greatly, then they would have come to aid. I'll bet the Dwarves would have as well, if they were told what was going on.
But yes, of all things, why PJ messed with the Ents and Huorns saving Helm's Deep, I don't know. It's as great an injustice as Eomer failing to acknowledge Galadriel the fairest of all creatures, from Gimli's perspective.
But the addition of the Elves to Helm's Deep, though not true to the book, was nice. If we had only ever seen the beautiful armors and peoples of the Elves in the prologue... THAT would be the injustice.
And a tidbit for you - I think Arwen went with the host to Helm's Deep. Haldir is the gate-warden of Rivendel, Arwen is seen leaving Rivendel bearing the garb almost identical to the Elves that arrive at Helm's Deep, but without the Armor, which could have been easily carried by horses or a cart at the back of Arwen's host.
I think she went to Helm's Deep and RotK will see her reunite with Aragorn - at the very least, I hope she was not slain in the battle, only to be discovered wounded and dying by Aragorn.
Just some thoughts. KHAZAD!!
I'll bet the Myth engine could do an awesome recreation of Helm's Deep. It features rain, lightning, ambient sounds, could create the same effects. Just needs sound, Aragorn, Lego and Gimli (with an axe, not satchels) and a host of Orcs, Archers, Elves, men.
I'd love to see a mod file that did this, and the video to watch it.
If one of these lasers was put on every commercial aircraft under load, you could cover all of North America, Japan and Europe in a network of air defense the likes of which Star Wars advocates only dream of.
These lasers on planes on the ground, or circling overhead while coming in to land near major metropolitan centers, could protect a great percentage of America's population. And at nuclear silos across the US, Israel and others, you need only a small battery of these lasers. In short order, you could protect the entire population and strategic defenses of countries all over the world. Add to that even basic missile or space-based laser satellites, and you probably end up with the US missile defense system at billion less than right now, I presume.
The drying of a cheese-based mixture that, when combined with boiled, complex carbohdrates makes something relied upon by Men and students all over the world.
Ah, Kraft Mac & Cheese....
I seem to recall that the base of these things would be on large platforms anchored in the middle of the ocean, so if they did collapse, they would just fall harmlessly over water.
It's a 4900+ KM carbon ribbon of incredible tensile stress with a strength greater than steel and an incredible mass. You basically need to have a circle of that radius in the middle of the ocean for this thing to snap back to earth and not run the risk of an incredible swath of danger.
Funny thing would be - imagine that the top-most edge of the ribbon falls down to earth, heats up in the upper atmostphere, and comes slicing down on an ice shelf in Antarctica. Hot knife through butter, anyone?
When/where is the OSX client? Borshki bork bork!