From the demo download page: "You may have some luck running the Windows version in a VM like Wine." I would have thought that a game developer might be able to do a bit better than that.
No, this would only be suitable for desktops, if you give it a bit of a heavy knock like you might with a laptop then a huge mass of data comes shooting out all at once.
I think his point is that students who tend to have a small amount of money shouldn't be taxed since this is a regressive tax and discourages people from poorer backgrounds from going to university. In the UK we have a fairly similar situation where the government will give you loan and grant money. The difference is that the amount fo money which you get is dependent on your parents income so people with parents earning >£60 000 get £3000 loan but people with parents earning £25 000 get £3000 grant and £3500 loan. The figures are approximate and there is a sliding scale between the limits, also everybody gets a loan to cover tuition fees (£3225).
We have very good universities in the UK. topuniversities.com shows the UK as having number 2,4,5,5. VAT is at 15% (will go back to 17.5% in January) but you do not pay VAT on food or books so for a lot of students (well me at least) most fo my spending doesn't come under VAT.
How can you not rotate an image? There are two obvious options. One is clicking the little icon which shows a rectangle being rotated which is in the toolbox, you know the place where all the tools are shown? The second would be via the menus, you would be wanting tools->transform->rotate. You might want to complain about the second menu level being inconvenient to get at but this is negated by the fact that it is in the toolbox with just one click. Scale and crop are just as easy. You don't even have to make a selection.
Your post seems very confused. Firstly gcc is not on the CD either, you have to install build-essential. Secondly it can be installed very easily with the package manager.
I am personally not bothered either way. I have hardly used Photoshop so I find it annoying and difficult when I try to use it simply because I am completely unused to the UI. If your OS has multiple workspaces then multiple windows is no issue at all.
This seems to be a common misconception, probably due to it being taught badly in schools. Taking an aeroplane as a specific example since this is the most common example of lift. You will find that the Bernoulli effect (the lift generated by a pressure difference above and below the wing) is not the main reason why planes fly (although the effect does exist, it is just not a large enough force to keep a plane up).
What demonstrate this most clearly are symmetrical winged aeroplanes which are things like stunt planes which often fly upside down. It should be evident from the fact the wing is symmetrical that the common explanation of lower pressure above because air goes around a curve making it go faster has zero effect here.
If you have paid attention carefully when flying you may have noticed that a plane does not fly completely flat most of the time. There is a small angle between the planes wings and the direction of travel. Because air tends to follow the surface of the wing (sometimes called the Coanda effect) this means that the air gets deflected downwards by the wing. If the air accelerates down then by Newton's laws there is an equal and opposite force upwards on the plane generating lift so it can then fly.
I have not read anything about how houses are affected but I would imagine it would be a similar effect with the roof deflecting air causing a force.
Surely they have a pretty solid case for unfair dismissal, I would imagine the company would settle out of court rather than have the facts exposed and face a hefty fine for both things.
There is a difference between leaving in support and explicitly disabling "support". I put support in quotes because there was never anything extra done to support atom, it just acts like a normal processor. This si like websites which look at your browsers user agent and deny you access because you are running the wrong browser, when the page would run in the blocked browser anyway.
Maybe war simulations provide an interesting environment that is not encountered in other places. I for example enjoyed playing paintball due to the idea of sneaking around trying to target people. It is like playing tag or something except you have a ranged tagging mechanism. I have also enjoyed playing so called wide games which are similar but usually involve actually reaching the person. Having a paintball gun adds depth to the game since I can run fairly fast so in tag slow people are at a major disadvantage whereas with paintball they can close a trap over a much larger area because of the extra range. I don't personally enjoy the fact that I am hurting people slightly (although not much) but this is fairly unavoidable unless you go for laser tag which is not quite the same due to a laser going in a perfect line and only being able to hit certain targets.
Similarly RTS games are more of an analogue to chess in my view. You command pieces which wipe out other pieces from the map. You could fairly effectively play an RTS which was not set in a war situation but often it is nice to have some kind of storyline.
This is false as long as you are running Vista or above or Mac/Linux or even an older version of Windows as non admin. You need admin permissions to modify installed software so you would need to give the bad guys root permissions.
Adapting to your difficulty is fine as long as it is not done during the race. Then you get well matched AI's but you don't get the stupid stuff with the first two laps being irrelevant.
Surely they have enabled it. Unless they packed it onto huge capacitor banks/batteries loaded into lorries and shipped it between the grids beforehand. Or there could have been existing wires in which case nothing has changed other than possible throughput.
You are generally correct however you imply that there will be a voltage across the superconductor. This is not possible which can be trivially shown using V=IR. R is 0 so therefore the voltage will be 0. There will be a voltage drop in the connections etc. at each end but not over the actual superconductor.
Superconductors break down in large enough magnetic fields. A larger current generates a stronger magnetic field. So too much current and it stops superconducting.
Of course, you just need to remember that your duct tape doesn't need to be able to withstand the full forces, it just needs to be stronger than the parts of you which are not orifices.
With launch speed on 6km/s that is an average speed of 3km/s over a 1.1 km tube giving a time of 1.1/3s. With the change in speed being 6km/s or 6000m/s this gives acceleration of 44200 m/s^2. g is about 10m/s^2 so that makes it about 4420g. Given that most people pass out at about 10g I think this answers your question.
For £450 I built a machine with a triple core amd, 4GB of 1066 ram, 1TB hard drive, firewire, surround sound, 2 video ports, HD4830 so basically a pretty good machine along with a 22" screen. A mac mini for £499 so only £50 more expensive has 1GB of ram a slightly worse processor, a 120GB hard drive which is almost laughable on a modern desktop, a mobile graphics card which performs poorly compared to mine. You cannot seriously argue that the cost is anything like comparable. Also have ignored any extra options which they try to push like the 24" monitor (the only option if you want to order a monitor with the PC) which costs £635 whereas I bought a 22" for £100.
I found that I quickly found how broken and how resistant to logical thought the learners are. I have never actually tried helping but my mother worked at one of these places teaching IT so sometimes I would be there. I will jsut highlight some of the worst things for people who have not tried this.
People forget the most basic things from one week to the next. One person basically started from scratch every single week and never got anywhere.
People cannot switch on computers, there is one large button (plus on small one) on the front of a PC, which incidentally has the standard universal power symbol on it. They need to be shown how to press it.
People do not read. For example in Outlook Express one user wanted to know how to find an email, there was a large toolbar icon (there was only one toolbar with maybe 8-10 buttons on it) with text saying something like find/search on it. When it was pointed out they say something like 'oh that was simple', they simply do not bother reading the text on the screen.
People cannot repeat the same process they learnt in one program in another. My mother is adapting material for a Dreamweaver web design course, for which a requirement is to do one of the beginners courses. There is a page explaining how to save the file. It is literally a list of instruction saying click file>save select the location from the dialog box, enter a name and click the save button. Naturally I have abbreviated the instructions because they actually take up a side of A4 what with all of the excess detail and screenshots. When I asked if this was really necessary my mother said that it definitely was for about half the people taking the course and this was a web design course which is categorised as advanced.
Some software is obtuse and difficult to use of course but it is not just the softwares fault.
You seem to be contradicting yourself here. First you say that you were not talking about image quality then you go and try and refute his argument that a PC card can cost just $50 by saying that then he will not be getting a good piture quality.
So with a PC you have a choice between spending a little like a console (the $50 card) and getting a low quality option and you have the choice of a $380 card and all the other costs for a really good machine which is much better than the console. So in summary with the PC oy get a choice between low and high quality with a console you are stuck with low quality.
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From the demo download page: "You may have some luck running the Windows version in a VM like Wine." I would have thought that a game developer might be able to do a bit better than that.
No, this would only be suitable for desktops, if you give it a bit of a heavy knock like you might with a laptop then a huge mass of data comes shooting out all at once.
I think his point is that students who tend to have a small amount of money shouldn't be taxed since this is a regressive tax and discourages people from poorer backgrounds from going to university. In the UK we have a fairly similar situation where the government will give you loan and grant money. The difference is that the amount fo money which you get is dependent on your parents income so people with parents earning >£60 000 get £3000 loan but people with parents earning £25 000 get £3000 grant and £3500 loan. The figures are approximate and there is a sliding scale between the limits, also everybody gets a loan to cover tuition fees (£3225).
We have very good universities in the UK. topuniversities.com shows the UK as having number 2,4,5,5. VAT is at 15% (will go back to 17.5% in January) but you do not pay VAT on food or books so for a lot of students (well me at least) most fo my spending doesn't come under VAT.
Some of us are still addicted you insensitive clod!
I was personally wondering what he did with other 719... Or, did he not mean 10 as in base 720 for 720.
How can you not rotate an image? There are two obvious options. One is clicking the little icon which shows a rectangle being rotated which is in the toolbox, you know the place where all the tools are shown? The second would be via the menus, you would be wanting tools->transform->rotate. You might want to complain about the second menu level being inconvenient to get at but this is negated by the fact that it is in the toolbox with just one click. Scale and crop are just as easy. You don't even have to make a selection.
Your post seems very confused. Firstly gcc is not on the CD either, you have to install build-essential. Secondly it can be installed very easily with the package manager.
I am personally not bothered either way. I have hardly used Photoshop so I find it annoying and difficult when I try to use it simply because I am completely unused to the UI. If your OS has multiple workspaces then multiple windows is no issue at all.
I would imagine a computer controlled laser with a visual lock on your aircraft could change the lasers direction pretty fast as well.
This seems to be a common misconception, probably due to it being taught badly in schools. Taking an aeroplane as a specific example since this is the most common example of lift. You will find that the Bernoulli effect (the lift generated by a pressure difference above and below the wing) is not the main reason why planes fly (although the effect does exist, it is just not a large enough force to keep a plane up).
What demonstrate this most clearly are symmetrical winged aeroplanes which are things like stunt planes which often fly upside down. It should be evident from the fact the wing is symmetrical that the common explanation of lower pressure above because air goes around a curve making it go faster has zero effect here.
If you have paid attention carefully when flying you may have noticed that a plane does not fly completely flat most of the time. There is a small angle between the planes wings and the direction of travel. Because air tends to follow the surface of the wing (sometimes called the Coanda effect) this means that the air gets deflected downwards by the wing. If the air accelerates down then by Newton's laws there is an equal and opposite force upwards on the plane generating lift so it can then fly.
I have not read anything about how houses are affected but I would imagine it would be a similar effect with the roof deflecting air causing a force.
SI has a very good reason. Try converting from mm to km. It is trivial. Now try your number *1024*1024, this clearly isn't as friendly.
Therefore the reason we use 1000 in SI is because we work in base 10 and it makes the numbers easy.
Surely they have a pretty solid case for unfair dismissal, I would imagine the company would settle out of court rather than have the facts exposed and face a hefty fine for both things.
Does that mean that is is a typo in TFA as well "The team installed HookSafe on a machine running Ubuntu 8.04"
There is a difference between leaving in support and explicitly disabling "support". I put support in quotes because there was never anything extra done to support atom, it just acts like a normal processor. This si like websites which look at your browsers user agent and deny you access because you are running the wrong browser, when the page would run in the blocked browser anyway.
Maybe war simulations provide an interesting environment that is not encountered in other places. I for example enjoyed playing paintball due to the idea of sneaking around trying to target people. It is like playing tag or something except you have a ranged tagging mechanism. I have also enjoyed playing so called wide games which are similar but usually involve actually reaching the person. Having a paintball gun adds depth to the game since I can run fairly fast so in tag slow people are at a major disadvantage whereas with paintball they can close a trap over a much larger area because of the extra range. I don't personally enjoy the fact that I am hurting people slightly (although not much) but this is fairly unavoidable unless you go for laser tag which is not quite the same due to a laser going in a perfect line and only being able to hit certain targets.
Similarly RTS games are more of an analogue to chess in my view. You command pieces which wipe out other pieces from the map. You could fairly effectively play an RTS which was not set in a war situation but often it is nice to have some kind of storyline.
This is false as long as you are running Vista or above or Mac/Linux or even an older version of Windows as non admin. You need admin permissions to modify installed software so you would need to give the bad guys root permissions.
Adapting to your difficulty is fine as long as it is not done during the race. Then you get well matched AI's but you don't get the stupid stuff with the first two laps being irrelevant.
Surely they have enabled it. Unless they packed it onto huge capacitor banks/batteries loaded into lorries and shipped it between the grids beforehand. Or there could have been existing wires in which case nothing has changed other than possible throughput.
You are generally correct however you imply that there will be a voltage across the superconductor. This is not possible which can be trivially shown using V=IR. R is 0 so therefore the voltage will be 0. There will be a voltage drop in the connections etc. at each end but not over the actual superconductor.
Superconductors break down in large enough magnetic fields. A larger current generates a stronger magnetic field. So too much current and it stops superconducting.
Of course, you just need to remember that your duct tape doesn't need to be able to withstand the full forces, it just needs to be stronger than the parts of you which are not orifices.
With launch speed on 6km/s that is an average speed of 3km/s over a 1.1 km tube giving a time of 1.1/3s. With the change in speed being 6km/s or 6000m/s this gives acceleration of 44200 m/s^2. g is about 10m/s^2 so that makes it about 4420g. Given that most people pass out at about 10g I think this answers your question.
For £450 I built a machine with a triple core amd, 4GB of 1066 ram, 1TB hard drive, firewire, surround sound, 2 video ports, HD4830 so basically a pretty good machine along with a 22" screen. A mac mini for £499 so only £50 more expensive has 1GB of ram a slightly worse processor, a 120GB hard drive which is almost laughable on a modern desktop, a mobile graphics card which performs poorly compared to mine. You cannot seriously argue that the cost is anything like comparable. Also have ignored any extra options which they try to push like the 24" monitor (the only option if you want to order a monitor with the PC) which costs £635 whereas I bought a 22" for £100.
I found that I quickly found how broken and how resistant to logical thought the learners are. I have never actually tried helping but my mother worked at one of these places teaching IT so sometimes I would be there. I will jsut highlight some of the worst things for people who have not tried this.
People forget the most basic things from one week to the next. One person basically started from scratch every single week and never got anywhere.
People cannot switch on computers, there is one large button (plus on small one) on the front of a PC, which incidentally has the standard universal power symbol on it. They need to be shown how to press it.
People do not read. For example in Outlook Express one user wanted to know how to find an email, there was a large toolbar icon (there was only one toolbar with maybe 8-10 buttons on it) with text saying something like find/search on it. When it was pointed out they say something like 'oh that was simple', they simply do not bother reading the text on the screen.
People cannot repeat the same process they learnt in one program in another. My mother is adapting material for a Dreamweaver web design course, for which a requirement is to do one of the beginners courses. There is a page explaining how to save the file. It is literally a list of instruction saying click file>save select the location from the dialog box, enter a name and click the save button. Naturally I have abbreviated the instructions because they actually take up a side of A4 what with all of the excess detail and screenshots. When I asked if this was really necessary my mother said that it definitely was for about half the people taking the course and this was a web design course which is categorised as advanced.
Some software is obtuse and difficult to use of course but it is not just the softwares fault.
You seem to be contradicting yourself here. First you say that you were not talking about image quality then you go and try and refute his argument that a PC card can cost just $50 by saying that then he will not be getting a good piture quality.
So with a PC you have a choice between spending a little like a console (the $50 card) and getting a low quality option and you have the choice of a $380 card and all the other costs for a really good machine which is much better than the console. So in summary with the PC oy get a choice between low and high quality with a console you are stuck with low quality.