If the goal is opt in, that means censoring information is added to the metadata to the image, and a client-side javascript application dynamically masks the image based off settings stored in a local cookie. There is no need to store any client information server-side.
No one said anything about shattering, just nudging. The 'keyhole' they're talking about is a region of space around 600m. If it passes outside of that keyhole, it will miss Earth. We're still 18 years out from that event. An impact at 10-20km/s would result in a change of velocity on the order of a millimeter per second. That same change in velocity compounded over a decade would change its course in relation to that keyhole by several kilometers. The problem is that our current orbital predictions for Apophis that far out have a margin of error on the order of hundreds of kilometers. We simply don't have the radar accuracy to predict where the thing is going to go, so any plan to nudge the asteroid could just as likely doom us as save us or have completely zero effect.
Simple enough. You've got two key combinations, insides and outsides. Just keep alternating between W-O (insides), and Q-P (outsides). The inside keys spread your legs apart making you more stable. The outside keys pull them in, to allow for the next kick off. You end up with one knee back and on the ground, and the other foot forward and on the ground. Just keep alternating and with proper timing, you'll get up to ~2m/s. If you get into trouble, just mash the insides and you'll recover. It may take some time to get started again.
A hacker writes a virus. That virus creates a botnet. The hacker uses that botnet to compute bitcoins, producing value, effectively stealing from the power usage of the compromised users. Hence bitcoins are bad.
Let's turn that around a bit. A hacker writes a virus. That virus creates a botnet. The hacker uses that botnet to send out email spam, and gets paid by advertising companies to do so, effectively stealing from the power and internet usage of the compromised users. Hence the entire email system is bad and should be outlawed. See how ill conceived this argument is?
You're like the reactionary school teacher, banning things from everyone, just because one person can't handle it. Just because things like bitcoin and peer to peer programs can be used for illegal actions doesn't mean they are inherently bad. Jerry hit Suzie with a baseball bat? Ok, no bats allowed during recess. Jerry slapped Suzie with his hand? Ok, everyone is getting their hands tied behind their back before they're allowed outside. Jerry tripped Suzie, and with no free hands to catch herself, she fell on her face? Ok, everyone is going to sit at the table during recess, and no one touches anyone else. Jerry can't control himself, so we're punishing everyone for their own good.
Punish the criminal for perverting the act. Don't ban everyone from an otherwise benign act.
If the patents aren't of any use, then why are they filed? All that's doing is overloading the patent office with work, to prevent them from doing proper review on meaningful patents.
Yup. Long compile times certainly make me more productive. Posting on Slashdot while a big C++ project takes 10 minutes to recompile because I added a field to one class in a header and triggered a complete recompile definitely makes me more productive.
So compile using ccache, or more jobs in your make, or move those frequently changing headers to a private class so other code objects don't know when there is a change.
The whole point of classes is that you have create a relatively static interface, and the internals can change around as much as you want. If you change the internals, then all you have to do is recompile that single cpp file and re-link. If you change the interface, then you very likely will need to change many other files to use the new behavior. If you are changing private methods and private variables frequently, perhaps you should instead store them in a private class defined only within the cpp file, so you aren't constantly changing that header.
White Collar did that a bit with Ford. They were in a car in traffic talking, and suddenly the car beeps a warning and stops on its own, to prevent a collision. It was a bit awkward, but otherwise unobtrusive. A couple other times, they've shown off Sync by using voice dialing to call someone.
The worst I've ever seen by far was on Heroes. A significant chunk of two seasons revolved around characters driving around the country in a prominently displayed car. The car was completely irrelevant to the story, but they made it a major character, even going so far as to draw up an in-show comic book outlining their destiny to travel the country in that specific car. The first time was some junky econobox. Clearly the advertising didn't work as it didn't leave enough of an impression for me to remember its name. The second time they used the ass ugly Nissan Cube. The fact that I remembered the name of that abomination is a bad thing.
Chuck did something similar outside of the show. They used the actors in various ads at the very beginning and end of the commercial break. Not product placement, but still jarring when you hit the commercial skip button just as you see the actors come onto screen during what you and your DVR thought was a commercial.
You'd be wrong, esp. with decently threaded games such as ARMA2.
What does threading have anything to do with. Threading takes advantage of having multiple cores, and multiple simultaneous threads per core. It has nothing to do with overclocking.
Keep in mind that framerate isn't linear. A 50% improvement is comparable only within a defined framerate range. 15 to 30 FPS is 3x the difference of 30 to 45 FPS.
I don't understand what point you're trying to make here. I never said anything about a 15fps increase in performance. I said a 50% increase in performance, as the OP said 30 to 45FPS.
Assuming the application is completely CPU bottlenecked, a 50% increase in performance means an at minimum 50% increase in clock rate. If your application scales better than linearly, then you have some very serious problems on your hands.
Any graphical video game should be relying on the GPU for video. The CPU is used to handle collision detection, AI, physics, movement, networking, inputs, and audio. Framerate should be largely decoupled from the CPU, dependent only on the graphics. If your framerate scales significantly with CPU power, then you have incorrectly placed all that stuff in series with your rendering loop. A bad sign for an application supposedly with decent threading. Further, if your performance scales linearly with the CPU, then your graphics cards must be sitting idle most of the time, and as such is so ridiculously over-spec'd for your process, you should never be allowed to build your own PC again.
Now a 50% overclock on one of these chips, with commensurate voltage increase, is going to put it over 5GHz and 300W. Considering you need to run these things cool to be stable at that speed, air cooling is out of the question, and even most water cooling isn't going to be up to the task. This is generally the realm of phase change and nitrogen cooling. Surely you can forgive someone for calling themselves an enthusiast and not wanting to take things that far.
You see, the cooler is quite up to spec. Are you sure you are installing it properly? Have you left enough ventilation area in your design? Did you apply the cooling paste properly? Did you actually read the instructions that came with the cooler? How about the disclaimer that came with the cooler?
That's the thing, Intel doesn't make a cooler rated for that spec, and perhaps they don't want to make a cooler capable of that spec. Remember the old Prescott processors where the stock cooler was insufficient to handle the chip? The chip would downclock itself to compensate, and actually run like a dog. With a nice aftermarket cooler, the chip would run at full speed and, it was still garbage, but you get the point. Intel doesn't want a repeat of this.
The fuel tax is intended as a way to pay for road repair. I'm saying the standard ton and a half consumer electric vehicle is practically harmless to primary roads and highways. Sure there is friction, but an asphalt road versus a soft rubber tire, the road wins. Nearly all the wear and tear on roads is from weather effects, and heavy trucks.
Is this really a problem these days? Facebook and twitter users already broadcast to the world where their home is, and that they're not there. There have even been crime sprees based off this tracking information, and no one seems to care enough to change their behavior.
And just how do you do that? Rush hour is rush hour because that's when people need to get places. Just because you make it more expensive doesn't mean their schedule will magically change.
I think you misunderstand the scale of things. If you actual scale it proportionally to road damage, consumer vehicles would get off practically free. Nearly all the damage to roads capable of handling a semi truck is caused by semi trucks.
Who cares if there is no gas revenue for electric cars. It's not like they are actually harmful to anything. Wear on the road is computed based off the axle weight to the fourth power. Comparing them to a semi truck is like worrying about that fly that just landed on your arm, when there is a gorilla sitting on your back.
Yes. Yes. Yes. I understand this. Which is why I was pointing out the AC's blatantly incorrect use of units.
You only need 20-50 kW (per hour) to power a car/truck down the highway...
Time rate of change of power is useful if you're talking about how quickly a generator or steam boiler can spool up. However it is far more often used by journalists and random commenters on the web for a unit of power. It's a mistake no one who has any idea what they're talking about should make, so it bothers me to no end when people like AC up there who speak from a position of authority and misuse terms like kW/hr.
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If the goal is opt in, that means censoring information is added to the metadata to the image, and a client-side javascript application dynamically masks the image based off settings stored in a local cookie. There is no need to store any client information server-side.
No one said anything about shattering, just nudging. The 'keyhole' they're talking about is a region of space around 600m. If it passes outside of that keyhole, it will miss Earth. We're still 18 years out from that event. An impact at 10-20km/s would result in a change of velocity on the order of a millimeter per second. That same change in velocity compounded over a decade would change its course in relation to that keyhole by several kilometers. The problem is that our current orbital predictions for Apophis that far out have a margin of error on the order of hundreds of kilometers. We simply don't have the radar accuracy to predict where the thing is going to go, so any plan to nudge the asteroid could just as likely doom us as save us or have completely zero effect.
Simple enough. You've got two key combinations, insides and outsides. Just keep alternating between W-O (insides), and Q-P (outsides). The inside keys spread your legs apart making you more stable. The outside keys pull them in, to allow for the next kick off. You end up with one knee back and on the ground, and the other foot forward and on the ground. Just keep alternating and with proper timing, you'll get up to ~2m/s. If you get into trouble, just mash the insides and you'll recover. It may take some time to get started again.
Mining bitcoins does not aid or detract from bitcoins in any manner. All it does is increase the amount of currency in circulation.
So is that called a "decimal comma" then?
Perfectly said.
A hacker writes a virus. That virus creates a botnet. The hacker uses that botnet to compute bitcoins, producing value, effectively stealing from the power usage of the compromised users. Hence bitcoins are bad.
Let's turn that around a bit. A hacker writes a virus. That virus creates a botnet. The hacker uses that botnet to send out email spam, and gets paid by advertising companies to do so, effectively stealing from the power and internet usage of the compromised users. Hence the entire email system is bad and should be outlawed. See how ill conceived this argument is?
You're like the reactionary school teacher, banning things from everyone, just because one person can't handle it. Just because things like bitcoin and peer to peer programs can be used for illegal actions doesn't mean they are inherently bad. Jerry hit Suzie with a baseball bat? Ok, no bats allowed during recess. Jerry slapped Suzie with his hand? Ok, everyone is getting their hands tied behind their back before they're allowed outside. Jerry tripped Suzie, and with no free hands to catch herself, she fell on her face? Ok, everyone is going to sit at the table during recess, and no one touches anyone else. Jerry can't control himself, so we're punishing everyone for their own good.
Punish the criminal for perverting the act. Don't ban everyone from an otherwise benign act.
If the patents aren't of any use, then why are they filed? All that's doing is overloading the patent office with work, to prevent them from doing proper review on meaningful patents.
Yup. Long compile times certainly make me more productive. Posting on Slashdot while a big C++ project takes 10 minutes to recompile because I added a field to one class in a header and triggered a complete recompile definitely makes me more productive.
So compile using ccache, or more jobs in your make, or move those frequently changing headers to a private class so other code objects don't know when there is a change.
Why do you Polish always have to be so reverse.
The whole point of classes is that you have create a relatively static interface, and the internals can change around as much as you want. If you change the internals, then all you have to do is recompile that single cpp file and re-link. If you change the interface, then you very likely will need to change many other files to use the new behavior. If you are changing private methods and private variables frequently, perhaps you should instead store them in a private class defined only within the cpp file, so you aren't constantly changing that header.
White Collar did that a bit with Ford. They were in a car in traffic talking, and suddenly the car beeps a warning and stops on its own, to prevent a collision. It was a bit awkward, but otherwise unobtrusive. A couple other times, they've shown off Sync by using voice dialing to call someone.
The worst I've ever seen by far was on Heroes. A significant chunk of two seasons revolved around characters driving around the country in a prominently displayed car. The car was completely irrelevant to the story, but they made it a major character, even going so far as to draw up an in-show comic book outlining their destiny to travel the country in that specific car. The first time was some junky econobox. Clearly the advertising didn't work as it didn't leave enough of an impression for me to remember its name. The second time they used the ass ugly Nissan Cube. The fact that I remembered the name of that abomination is a bad thing.
Chuck did something similar outside of the show. They used the actors in various ads at the very beginning and end of the commercial break. Not product placement, but still jarring when you hit the commercial skip button just as you see the actors come onto screen during what you and your DVR thought was a commercial.
You'd be wrong, esp. with decently threaded games such as ARMA2.
What does threading have anything to do with. Threading takes advantage of having multiple cores, and multiple simultaneous threads per core. It has nothing to do with overclocking.
Keep in mind that framerate isn't linear. A 50% improvement is comparable only within a defined framerate range. 15 to 30 FPS is 3x the difference of 30 to 45 FPS.
I don't understand what point you're trying to make here. I never said anything about a 15fps increase in performance. I said a 50% increase in performance, as the OP said 30 to 45FPS.
Assuming the application is completely CPU bottlenecked, a 50% increase in performance means an at minimum 50% increase in clock rate. If your application scales better than linearly, then you have some very serious problems on your hands.
Any graphical video game should be relying on the GPU for video. The CPU is used to handle collision detection, AI, physics, movement, networking, inputs, and audio. Framerate should be largely decoupled from the CPU, dependent only on the graphics. If your framerate scales significantly with CPU power, then you have incorrectly placed all that stuff in series with your rendering loop. A bad sign for an application supposedly with decent threading. Further, if your performance scales linearly with the CPU, then your graphics cards must be sitting idle most of the time, and as such is so ridiculously over-spec'd for your process, you should never be allowed to build your own PC again.
Now a 50% overclock on one of these chips, with commensurate voltage increase, is going to put it over 5GHz and 300W. Considering you need to run these things cool to be stable at that speed, air cooling is out of the question, and even most water cooling isn't going to be up to the task. This is generally the realm of phase change and nitrogen cooling. Surely you can forgive someone for calling themselves an enthusiast and not wanting to take things that far.
Unless you're doing software rendering, overclocking your CPU is NOT going to get you 50% improvement in framerate.
No. You can readily fine bare chips on the market that come without a heatsink, and the server chips haven't come with a heatsink for years.
You see, the cooler is quite up to spec. Are you sure you are installing it properly? Have you left enough ventilation area in your design? Did you apply the cooling paste properly? Did you actually read the instructions that came with the cooler? How about the disclaimer that came with the cooler?
That's the thing, Intel doesn't make a cooler rated for that spec, and perhaps they don't want to make a cooler capable of that spec. Remember the old Prescott processors where the stock cooler was insufficient to handle the chip? The chip would downclock itself to compensate, and actually run like a dog. With a nice aftermarket cooler, the chip would run at full speed and, it was still garbage, but you get the point. Intel doesn't want a repeat of this.
The fuel tax is intended as a way to pay for road repair. I'm saying the standard ton and a half consumer electric vehicle is practically harmless to primary roads and highways. Sure there is friction, but an asphalt road versus a soft rubber tire, the road wins. Nearly all the wear and tear on roads is from weather effects, and heavy trucks.
Is this really a problem these days? Facebook and twitter users already broadcast to the world where their home is, and that they're not there. There have even been crime sprees based off this tracking information, and no one seems to care enough to change their behavior.
And just how do you do that? Rush hour is rush hour because that's when people need to get places. Just because you make it more expensive doesn't mean their schedule will magically change.
I think you misunderstand the scale of things. If you actual scale it proportionally to road damage, consumer vehicles would get off practically free. Nearly all the damage to roads capable of handling a semi truck is caused by semi trucks.
Who cares if there is no gas revenue for electric cars. It's not like they are actually harmful to anything. Wear on the road is computed based off the axle weight to the fourth power. Comparing them to a semi truck is like worrying about that fly that just landed on your arm, when there is a gorilla sitting on your back.
Yeah. Thorium generally isn't considered a rare earth metal, so I'm not sure why the article called it that in the first place.
500lbs was for the 250MW version. Presumably they're not planning on installing a mid-range industrial power plant in every car on the road.
You only need 20-50 kW (per hour) to power a car/truck down the highway...
Time rate of change of power is useful if you're talking about how quickly a generator or steam boiler can spool up. However it is far more often used by journalists and random commenters on the web for a unit of power. It's a mistake no one who has any idea what they're talking about should make, so it bothers me to no end when people like AC up there who speak from a position of authority and misuse terms like kW/hr.