I think you misunderstood. As "areYouAHypno.." poster says in your parent post,
...lets you run windows at any size you want (in windowed mode).
So, the fix, is to use virtualization to allow a game to run in windowed mode, thereby creating a 1:1 mapping of game pixels to LCD pixels.
You are right, in that, if you go full-screen, virtualization is no different. The key is that it allows games which will not work in windowed mode, to effectively become windowed mode capable.
Pumped storage has been performed on a large scale since at least 1970 at the Raccoon Mountain Pumped-Storage Plant just outside of Chattanooga, TN.
Water is pumped from the Tennessee River to the storage lake using the same turbines that then generate power. The turbine blades are of a non-trivially complex design.;)
Basically, what happens is that most of Chattanooga's power comes from conventional hydroelectric and nuclear. During the night, the water is still flowing through the conventional hydroelectric plants and nuclear, while demand drops. So, excess power from the conventional power plants are used to run the generator/motor turbines at the Raccoon facility in reverse and pump water up to the top of the mountain; nearly 1000ft (301 meters) higher. During the day, when electric demand is peaking, they allow the water to start flowing from the lake to the Tennessee river again and help offset the peak demand.
As I understand it, the problem with the electric grid is not the total power consumed, but the peak demand.
I feel sorry for the poor people having to transcribe messages from pushy sales people making cold calls to my gmail number. What a strange view of America they get.
The strange thing I noticed is that when the transcripts first became available, they were dead on accurate most of the time. Over the past 6-8 months or so, they seem to have gone down in quality.
I wonder if Google is making use of new algorithms for the speech processing that might be less CPU intensive, but provides much of the information.
Anyone out there that might know if a change was made internally?
and yet you didn't let it go likely because you are an idiot
lol!:) I feel like I am in 3rd grade again.
Anyway, sorry, I didn't originally intend to sound rude, mainly just wanted to point out that life isn't as precise or concrete as many people like to think it is. ie: water doesn't _always_ boil at exactly 100C. Even +/-1C
To restate differently: The idea is that one must make assumptions; in this case, one must assume standard conditions such as density altitude before we can say that water will boil at 100C or freeze at 0C. (As an aside, I have experienced supercooled water while on a camping trip; it was very weird to disturb the water and see the ice crystals form very rapidly where a moment before the water was liquid.)....but, none the less, thanks for pointing out my idiocy! Ya put a smile on my face.;)
in both those places a temperature of 0C was the freezing point of water, and 100C the boiling point
Wow...cool! I have always wanted to live at a location whose conditions matched the International Standard Atmosphere: ie: you lived at sea-level with the temperature at +15 deg C and the pressure at 101,325Pa?
Btw, if it had been said that those values are approximate, I would have let it go.;)
Agreed. I am responsible for approx 950 employees's IT equipment; this includes printers. For 98% of our users, we purchase refurbished HP LaserJet 5n. I am sure nearly everyone has seen them; here is a photo to remind you. These are the old B/W workhorse laser printers that go and go. We can get about 10,000 pages per toner cartridge, and replacement cartridges are approx $38. Works beautifully when connected via ethernet. There is great driver support (uses PCL5). We use stock drivers which are included for everything from Windows 98-Windows 7, Debian, FreeBSD, and Citrix (strickly speaking, this isn't a different OS, but most printer drivers are a PITA to get working correctly and fast within the citrix environment.)
And, if you are interested, we order our refurbished units for under $200 each shipped from Global Printer Services.
Note: I have no affiliation with global printer other than being a satisfied customer. Also, just FYI: They are a smaller business, and as such, treat their customers very well. I deal with enough junk from the likes of AT&T^H^H^H^H "telcos" that it is nice to not have to hassle to get a printer or parts on order when needed.
why is this modded flamebait!? Is it because Jurily spoke for you by saying "everyone"? Whatever.
The difficulty with "the web" or "modern web standards" is that the problems aren't primarily technical in nature. The problems are a political, emotional, or philosophical struggle...involving different technologies (not even taking into account corporate/patent greed).
As far as I can tell, the problems involved with developing standards for data exchange are not simply a mathematical problem waiting for the right insights or proofs to be solved.
As I have heard spoken of human relationships, "its complicated":)
I admin a number of servers and work from home most days. My wife and I would love to live further out in the countryside without all the noise and light pollution. Most people that I mention this too have an instant solution: satellite. The problem that most people don't understand, and the problem I find myself explaining, is the concept of high latency. As I use SSH for my livelihood, low latency is extremely important.
Most people don't understand the negative effect of latency on interactive real-time communication until I use the example of gaming. That's when people "get it"...even though I haven't playing anything online in a couple of years.
The most important service to my life right now, and the way I earn my livelihood, is via SSH.
Could it be that because he runs some webservers, he _might_ need SSH...that, and he might have kids and/or a spouse that likes to game?
Seems reasonable to me.
Just FYI, I do agree with a post from another thread that explains it this way:
1. user wishes to be out in the sticks 2. user wants connectivity 3. connectivity isn't always available in the sticks. 4. therefore user isn't always able to get connectivity when in the sticks. 5. profit?
Well, actually, a 'Gesture' can be a weapon in a robbery. Case in point, (sorry, I couldn't find a non-pay/subscribe news source for this one, but here is the page I got the following quote from): http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-5755384.html
The Utah Supreme Court has concluded that sticking up a store with one's finger in a pocket can constitute aggravated robbery if the victim truly believes the store is being held up with a dangerous weapon.
In two separate rulings issued Friday, the court ruled that using a "gesture" to indicate a concealed weapon that convinces a victim it is "likely to cause death or serious bodily injury" can be considered aggravated robbery.
In the rulings, the justices noted that ample case law supports that a "representation" of a dangerous weapon can constitute aggravated robbery, even if no real weapon was involved.
William Joseph Ireland had argued his actions did not deserve a five-to-life prison...
Isn't it nice how it is the impression of the "victim" that can make another person rot in jail for an entire lifetime because they did something stupid with their finger. Even though no actual harm was caused?
I misunderstood. Thought you were referring to TFA. Anyway, +1 Insightful on the history. I didn't know that older designs were made entirely of bronze.
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Virtualization wouldn't help here.
I think you misunderstood. As "areYouAHypno.." poster says in your parent post,
...lets you run windows at any size you want (in windowed mode).
So, the fix, is to use virtualization to allow a game to run in windowed mode, thereby creating a 1:1 mapping of game pixels to LCD pixels.
You are right, in that, if you go full-screen, virtualization is no different. The key is that it allows games which will not work in windowed mode, to effectively become windowed mode capable.
There, I responded without full rant mode on. ;)
Pumped storage has been performed on a large scale since at least 1970 at the Raccoon Mountain Pumped-Storage Plant just outside of Chattanooga, TN.
Water is pumped from the Tennessee River to the storage lake using the same turbines that then generate power. The turbine blades are of a non-trivially complex design. ;)
Basically, what happens is that most of Chattanooga's power comes from conventional hydroelectric and nuclear. During the night, the water is still flowing through the conventional hydroelectric plants and nuclear, while demand drops. So, excess power from the conventional power plants are used to run the generator/motor turbines at the Raccoon facility in reverse and pump water up to the top of the mountain; nearly 1000ft (301 meters) higher. During the day, when electric demand is peaking, they allow the water to start flowing from the lake to the Tennessee river again and help offset the peak demand.
As I understand it, the problem with the electric grid is not the total power consumed, but the peak demand.
Just thought you might be interested.
That's a fascinating theory you present...wish I could mod you +1 Insightful!
Ahhh... wow.
I feel sorry for the poor people having to transcribe messages from pushy sales people making cold calls to my gmail number. What a strange view of America they get.
The strange thing I noticed is that when the transcripts first became available, they were dead on accurate most of the time. Over the past 6-8 months or so, they seem to have gone down in quality.
I wonder if Google is making use of new algorithms for the speech processing that might be less CPU intensive, but provides much of the information.
Anyone out there that might know if a change was made internally?
Duh, its a series of tubes.
and yet you didn't let it go likely because you are an idiot
lol! :) I feel like I am in 3rd grade again.
Anyway, sorry, I didn't originally intend to sound rude, mainly just wanted to point out that life isn't as precise or concrete as many people like to think it is. ie: water doesn't _always_ boil at exactly 100C. Even +/-1C
To restate differently: The idea is that one must make assumptions; in this case, one must assume standard conditions such as density altitude before we can say that water will boil at 100C or freeze at 0C. (As an aside, I have experienced supercooled water while on a camping trip; it was very weird to disturb the water and see the ice crystals form very rapidly where a moment before the water was liquid.) ....but, none the less, thanks for pointing out my idiocy! Ya put a smile on my face. ;)
in both those places a temperature of 0C was the freezing point of water, and 100C the boiling point
Wow...cool! I have always wanted to live at a location whose conditions matched the International Standard Atmosphere: ie: you lived at sea-level with the temperature at +15 deg C and the pressure at 101,325Pa?
Btw, if it had been said that those values are approximate, I would have let it go. ;)
Hmm, sounds like a great idea for a movie...
Let me correct that for you:
Hmm, sounds like a great idea for a bad movie...
Vista was the first OS Microsoft created that wasn't designed to have Windows Explorer and Internet Explorer linked
I assume, you meant to exclude all versions of DOS, Windows 3.xx, and NT3.x/4?
And, to summarize, who pays for all of this?
The T-Mobile user.
Agreed. I am responsible for approx 950 employees's IT equipment; this includes printers. For 98% of our users, we purchase refurbished HP LaserJet 5n. I am sure nearly everyone has seen them; here is a photo to remind you. These are the old B/W workhorse laser printers that go and go. We can get about 10,000 pages per toner cartridge, and replacement cartridges are approx $38. Works beautifully when connected via ethernet. There is great driver support (uses PCL5). We use stock drivers which are included for everything from Windows 98-Windows 7, Debian, FreeBSD, and Citrix (strickly speaking, this isn't a different OS, but most printer drivers are a PITA to get working correctly and fast within the citrix environment.)
And, if you are interested, we order our refurbished units for under $200 each shipped from Global Printer Services.
Note: I have no affiliation with global printer other than being a satisfied customer. Also, just FYI: They are a smaller business, and as such, treat their customers very well. I deal with enough junk from the likes of AT&T^H^H^H^H "telcos" that it is nice to not have to hassle to get a printer or parts on order when needed.
Da Dom-ching ... you know, a pun is a terrible thing to waste.
why is this modded flamebait!? Is it because Jurily spoke for you by saying "everyone"? Whatever.
The difficulty with "the web" or "modern web standards" is that the problems aren't primarily technical in nature. The problems are a political, emotional, or philosophical struggle...involving different technologies (not even taking into account corporate/patent greed).
As far as I can tell, the problems involved with developing standards for data exchange are not simply a mathematical problem waiting for the right insights or proofs to be solved.
As I have heard spoken of human relationships, "its complicated" :)
Mod parent up because NoYob (great grand parent) has no clue of the world's basic geography.
North Korea, also known as the DPRK, was what Bushie called part of the axis of evil.
What? Can't hear ya...you gotta speak up!
+1 Insightful
Interesting...I will have to look into it! Thanks!!
:) +1 funny
I admin a number of servers and work from home most days. My wife and I would love to live further out in the countryside without all the noise and light pollution. Most people that I mention this too have an instant solution: satellite. The problem that most people don't understand, and the problem I find myself explaining, is the concept of high latency. As I use SSH for my livelihood, low latency is extremely important.
Most people don't understand the negative effect of latency on interactive real-time communication until I use the example of gaming. That's when people "get it"...even though I haven't playing anything online in a couple of years.
The most important service to my life right now, and the way I earn my livelihood, is via SSH.
Could it be that because he runs some webservers, he _might_ need SSH...that, and he might have kids and/or a spouse that likes to game?
Seems reasonable to me.
Just FYI, I do agree with a post from another thread that explains it this way:
1. user wishes to be out in the sticks
2. user wants connectivity
3. connectivity isn't always available in the sticks.
4. therefore user isn't always able to get connectivity when in the sticks.
5. profit?
You don't even have to take your shoes off to get on them.
...yet.
Well, actually, a 'Gesture' can be a weapon in a robbery. Case in point, (sorry, I couldn't find a non-pay/subscribe news source for this one, but here is the page I got the following quote from): http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-5755384.html
The Utah Supreme Court has concluded that sticking up a store with one's finger in a pocket can constitute aggravated robbery if the victim truly believes the store is being held up with a dangerous weapon.
In two separate rulings issued Friday, the court ruled that using a "gesture" to indicate a concealed weapon that convinces a victim it is "likely to cause death or serious bodily injury" can be considered aggravated robbery.
In the rulings, the justices noted that ample case law supports that a "representation" of a dangerous weapon can constitute aggravated robbery, even if no real weapon was involved.
William Joseph Ireland had argued his actions did not deserve a five-to-life prison ...
Isn't it nice how it is the impression of the "victim" that can make another person rot in jail for an entire lifetime because they did something stupid with their finger. Even though no actual harm was caused?
I misunderstood. Thought you were referring to TFA. Anyway, +1 Insightful on the history. I didn't know that older designs were made entirely of bronze.
What about the blink tag? ;) Seems like a firing offence to me.
Well, I see one person who has never priced bronze in quantity.
You are entirely correct that bronze is expensive. Keep in mind, however, that the cannon is made from cast iron and steel.
I thought about responding with, "Well, I see one person who has never priced helium in quantity."
Seemed about as relevant.