Yeah, there are differences. Republicans oppose abortion but support personal gun use, intelligent design, and a smaller government (well, they used to, but in the last 8 years Republican has meant big government...) that restricts the freedoms of its citizens as much as possible. Democrats support the opposite. However, overall they both oppose the use of harsh language in media (Isn't that weird? The root of it is a superstition about magical power in evil words, but I doubt many of them realize that anymore.) and support Christianity (we're basically a theocracy), and whatever their rich corporate masters tell them (true with almost all politicians everywhere).
Yeah, and it's pretty well documented. Google's ranking system basically invented the fake spam sites that represent the majority of Google hits now. For awhile Google stayed ahead of the curve and these sites ruined other search engines, which couldn't cope with the new storm of nonsense. Now, though, Yahoo etc. have their own rather effective ranking systems that don't get targeted like Google's exhausted dinosaur of a search engine.
I agree - virtually no knowledgeable users would have been surveyed by this quasi-spyware. Anything that focuses attention on the bad software and keeps it off of torrents is a good thing, though.
The same is true of people of any age. I am surprised, though, that Limewire is this popular with any group. It stopped being competitively acceptable in late 2000.
7% would be way lower than the average tuition increase at my stupid ivy league school. In the last 8 years prices have doubled. That's more than a 10% increase per year.
I had a laptop in the mid 90s that cost that much and was about the same size in terms of volume, though it weighed 5 pounds. It was actually a pretty similar user experience, too. The keyboard was annoyingly small, as was the screen, and it took a long time to run anything, just like the EEEPC.
Thinking about the likelihood of a satellite collision in the first place, and then the probability that it would adjust the orbit of Apophis so that it would impact Earth, I'm going to have to intuitively agree with NASA on this one. The odds of an impact with a satellite should be vastly below 1 in 450, which alone means that this should be wrong. Let's wait for a real account of this, not a pop-media summary with a lot of holes.
Sure, but the original list of Windows nags was nonsense for any skilled user. For the people who post on Slashdot, there usually is no such thing as a computer problem. If we're just talking about how well our grandparents run an OS, then I can promise from personal experience that most grandparents will probably have a lot more luck setting up and using Windows on their own than Ubuntu.
I think the flakiness almost always comes in drivers. Apple doesn't want 1000 companies writing drivers for the hardware they make for Apple clones, because they wouldn't be able to fully ensure that all 1000 worked reliably.
But I'm forgetting that the main point is, as others point out, to use the OS to sell hardware with a large markup.
I guess your matte coating is a lot grainier than mine. All matte monitors I've ever used diffuse incoming light in a perfectly smooth fashion. They encounter images that would reflect sharply and blur them such that even if the source of light were glowing grains of sand, the glare on the screen would be a smooth glow with no hint of grain.
More to the point, though, this is a benchmark. The monitors most people use today don't go over 75 fps. No one claimed that 300 fps was needed before you brought up the topic. If it can run this particular simulation at 300 fps and the CPUcan run it at 15 fps, then when the scene is more complex and the CPU is at 2, the GPU will still be at 30. Or, alternatively, that means that the CPU can focus on throwing geometry to the GPU, and the GPU can spend 90% of its time rendering and still have enough oomph left over to drive physics at 30fps with no help from the CPU.
Most game programmers I know who have worked on similar games ended up using real physics for that sort of thing. It's easier than making up a fake set of physical constants and laws of motion because you can just read it out of a text book.
Using Intel integrated graphics instead of running physics simultaneously with graphics on an nVidia part would free up something like 1-3% of the nVidia's time. I don't think it would be worth it. That little chip is great for simple 2-d graphics, but not much else.
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Yeah, there are differences. Republicans oppose abortion but support personal gun use, intelligent design, and a smaller government (well, they used to, but in the last 8 years Republican has meant big government...) that restricts the freedoms of its citizens as much as possible. Democrats support the opposite. However, overall they both oppose the use of harsh language in media (Isn't that weird? The root of it is a superstition about magical power in evil words, but I doubt many of them realize that anymore.) and support Christianity (we're basically a theocracy), and whatever their rich corporate masters tell them (true with almost all politicians everywhere).
Yeah, and it's pretty well documented. Google's ranking system basically invented the fake spam sites that represent the majority of Google hits now. For awhile Google stayed ahead of the curve and these sites ruined other search engines, which couldn't cope with the new storm of nonsense. Now, though, Yahoo etc. have their own rather effective ranking systems that don't get targeted like Google's exhausted dinosaur of a search engine.
The world needs web hosts that block all Google IPs.
Yeah, I had forgotten that Slashdot has ads.
Getting them to keep it installed for more than a few weeks is a big hurdle, too.
I keep my HOSTS file updated to prevent any connections with known tracking sites. How much good does this do for me, and what are its shortcomings?
Try any non-Google search engine and you won't have nearly as much irrelevant crap like this in your results.
I agree - virtually no knowledgeable users would have been surveyed by this quasi-spyware. Anything that focuses attention on the bad software and keeps it off of torrents is a good thing, though.
The same is true of people of any age. I am surprised, though, that Limewire is this popular with any group. It stopped being competitively acceptable in late 2000.
7% would be way lower than the average tuition increase at my stupid ivy league school. In the last 8 years prices have doubled. That's more than a 10% increase per year.
I had a laptop in the mid 90s that cost that much and was about the same size in terms of volume, though it weighed 5 pounds. It was actually a pretty similar user experience, too. The keyboard was annoyingly small, as was the screen, and it took a long time to run anything, just like the EEEPC.
I've got to agree. It's hard to imagine an adult more physically pathetic than Hassanchop =)
Through Doubleclick, Google's the most evil online entity. Yahoo's taking a step in that direction though.
Thinking about the likelihood of a satellite collision in the first place, and then the probability that it would adjust the orbit of Apophis so that it would impact Earth, I'm going to have to intuitively agree with NASA on this one. The odds of an impact with a satellite should be vastly below 1 in 450, which alone means that this should be wrong. Let's wait for a real account of this, not a pop-media summary with a lot of holes.
The adjective is actually "Maya" not "Mayan." Mayan is a language spoken by the Maya people.
Sure, but the original list of Windows nags was nonsense for any skilled user. For the people who post on Slashdot, there usually is no such thing as a computer problem. If we're just talking about how well our grandparents run an OS, then I can promise from personal experience that most grandparents will probably have a lot more luck setting up and using Windows on their own than Ubuntu.
I couldn't find one online, but I've had a copy since...well...since my computer was a 486. I've made sure to save it every time I upgrade.
But...the parent didn't make the claim that anti-pollution devices increase efficiency, nor did he even begin to imply it.
I think the flakiness almost always comes in drivers. Apple doesn't want 1000 companies writing drivers for the hardware they make for Apple clones, because they wouldn't be able to fully ensure that all 1000 worked reliably.
But I'm forgetting that the main point is, as others point out, to use the OS to sell hardware with a large markup.
I guess your matte coating is a lot grainier than mine. All matte monitors I've ever used diffuse incoming light in a perfectly smooth fashion. They encounter images that would reflect sharply and blur them such that even if the source of light were glowing grains of sand, the glare on the screen would be a smooth glow with no hint of grain.
The human eye can see some things at rates of over 500 fps. Learn at http://www.100fps.com/how_many_frames_can_humans_see.htm
More to the point, though, this is a benchmark. The monitors most people use today don't go over 75 fps. No one claimed that 300 fps was needed before you brought up the topic. If it can run this particular simulation at 300 fps and the CPUcan run it at 15 fps, then when the scene is more complex and the CPU is at 2, the GPU will still be at 30. Or, alternatively, that means that the CPU can focus on throwing geometry to the GPU, and the GPU can spend 90% of its time rendering and still have enough oomph left over to drive physics at 30fps with no help from the CPU.
Most game programmers I know who have worked on similar games ended up using real physics for that sort of thing. It's easier than making up a fake set of physical constants and laws of motion because you can just read it out of a text book.
Using Intel integrated graphics instead of running physics simultaneously with graphics on an nVidia part would free up something like 1-3% of the nVidia's time. I don't think it would be worth it. That little chip is great for simple 2-d graphics, but not much else.
My gigantic fortune 500 company does this, too.