I think the article and summary refer to the engineering process. In the 60s you did not have CAD applications. Sure they had computers, on the ship, on the ground and all, but not in the engineering department. Engineers where able to make technical drawings and hand that of to workers building the actual thing. Oh yea and they assisted and oversaw the work done, to correct any misunderstandings. It worked, why add computers.
Bwawawawawawa!!!! That was funny. The only reason why there is so much DirectX out there is the same reason why there are so many MFC applications out there. It came with the installation of Visual Studio. Sadly there are very few developers out there that are able to think outside of the MS/Visual Studio box. If you said XNA was cleaner and easier way to work with, then granted I would have given you credit. But that is comparing apples and oranges. But API wise openGL and DirectX are very similar, both have their good bits and bad bits, the difference being that openGL is backwards compatible and MS breaks something each release.
Apart from the fact, that on the graphic card it runs serialized, I get the notion of multithreaded rendering. You apparently stopped caring about graphics ten years ago. While rendering a modern scene, to achieve some effects, such as reflection, refraction, environmental lighting, simple shadows or any other complicated effect that simply can't be rasterised in one pass you need to create frame buffers that hold the scene rendered from a different angle. These are then used in the final raster of the scene as textures to create what you see on screen. Depending on the scene complexity you can have multiple frame buffers. From a theoretical standpoint computing the frame buffers in parallel makes sense. In real life you don't gain much, except when you call rendering calls from threads that stall the CPU. But then you can implement a batching mechanic, that is more efficient than DX, since it can have knowledge about the application.
Yes openGL can only use one thread, but that is no big deal, since your properly implemented application will wait on the graphic card to finish processing a frame/frame buffer. Yes graphic cards are can process many things in parallel, but it is way more efficient cache wise if you process one frame / frame buffer per pixel in parallel then multiple frames in parallel. I never understood why multithreaded rendering, unless you have multiple cards is worth anything. You win only with multithreading if you wait on things, well don't stall the graphic card.
AFAIK the "original" zombies come from voodoo beliefs and in these cases it is undead. Not to be confused with the old beliefs about undead in Hunagary, where they stake their dead: Vampires.
Actually you get it backwards. A commodity is something you can actually use. Gold for example is used as currency and is a commodity, since it is used to make jewelry or electronics. Bitcoin is just a currency, you can't use it for anything. If Bitcoins are complacently devalued they are not worth the "bits they are printed on". Commodity that is also used as a currency, retains value if the actual currency is fully devalued. For example after WWII cigarettes where used as black market currency. But once the situation normalized and people started to get real money in their hands and could buy something for it, the cigarettes as currency where useless, but you could still sell them as cigarettes for real money.
About the fake part of Bitcoin, it's only fake as in there is not sovereign nation backing the currency, so what? Any currency is as good as the trust it is put into it by it's users. The currencies of nations tend to devalue too, as the users lose trust in that currency. For example during the perestroika in Russia many people used USD instead of the ruble, because they did not trust the ruble to be stable.
Although I agree that it is not a pyramid scheme in the classical sense, it shares some similarities. By designing the algorithm to have exponential complexity, the creators definitely designed it in their favor. The reason why it works and the price is rising, is because there are more and more users joining, if it was not the case the price of Bitcoins would slowly fall as the volume rises but the value is constant. This is the second similarity to a pyramid scheme, in that to sustain the current trend of raising price, it needs to have more value flowing into it. The current state of affairs is similar to a pyramid scheme.
On the other hand I would not know how to design a hashing scheme, that is not exponentially complex as the uncovered hashes exhaust. In addition the economic implication is interesting, once the Bitcoins are all uncovered, there is no room for any fiscal policy. Currently the most of the rise of Bitcoin is not about actual Bitcoin use, but rather economic speculation. And this will be a fun bubble to see burst.
Except that there is no practicable neutron bomb. All enhanced radiation weapons are basically nuclear bombs with a smaller blast radius. What that equates to is a large area of destruction, a little halo of death and a large area where the bomb did not do much. Most will die of cancer a decade down the row, but can still fight you for their land now and will probably very viciously.
But then GPs argument is moot on total other ground.
One of the other nice things about the moon is it's total lack of atmosphere. This leads to the fact that you can build launch vehicles that trump the rocket equation. The simplest is a magnetic mass driver that is powered by solar power. Also along these lines, that photovolatic tech that is barely economically feasible on earth, works like a charm on the moon. The moon totally makes sense for future space exploration.
The moon makes total sense as a mining platform for future mars missions (assembly in Moon-Earth L2). Sure probably fully or mostly automated with robots. But humans make some limited sense. The advantage of humans is that they can improvise, which robots can not. The other option is to have the capabilities to build new robots on the surface of the moon. But that only works because Earth-Moon real time communication is possible. That will fail for any other target. But the level of robots is probably going to significantly be higher than in the olden times of Apollo.
Thinking back to my high school music class, I have been "conducting" the techno I am currently hearing. The problem is quite complex to implement in technology. The reason is that as GP points out the beat is sort of at the fastest position.
When conducting, especially on the first/main strike, the motion resembles hitting a drum. The actual beat is sort of at the bottom, but since there is no resistance and overshoots the intended "strike" point. After that it curves upwards and left, to strike a point slightly off to the left. Then the first point again and back to the initial position. (For 4/4)
The thing is that the actual beat is neither the fastest point, since it is already decelerating, nor the point where the motion stops. But the motion detection could feed back into beat machine.
But it especially misses the other queues. For example the conductor will indicate tempo changes or the start of new voices with the other hand or even a full body motion.
The epidemic has become so widespread that population experts estimate one in every five hundred humans has been zombified.
Reading comprehension is not one of your strong points?
not even known fictional scenario
Although not technically zombies, in "I am Ledgend" (movie and book) the infection spreads by air.
Can't refute point 2. But I think the epidemiology here is somewhat more complicated in all other cases. Can enough cure be produced to counter the spread? Can enough tests be produced? You you have enough bullets? What about Madagascar?
It is either/or. If it is an issue with you, then don't get a camera. When I drive there are two cases where I break the law. Those that are fully planed and rationalized, such as driving slightly over the speed limit but with the flow of traffic. For these I stand up and say "dam right I did it" because actually following the law to the letter actually is more dangerous than slightly violating it; or did you ever break hard in heavy trafic when the speed limit severely drops in front of construction? No you ease of the accelerator like everybody else, once you are actually in the construction area you are at the required speed.
The other cases are the very few cases where I did a real mistake and in these cases I say "I am very sorry I did this, I will do all I can to never do it again". Luckily I was never in that situation that my errors had any consequences.
But in both cases I stand by what I did. A camera does not change anything. And if the police wants to nitpick, they can also do without a camera or their camera. So it changes nothing.
So killing 10 people is OK then? The only thing that 10 round mags means it more reloading. Oh and he wants to commit a crime; he will totally obey the law on the size of the magazine, right?
It depends on the attack and threat you are trying to anticipate. Encryption also provides some form of tamper resistance. I can patch your unencrypted OS and read all your data once you unencrypt your data. As always it depends on the use, if you have a laptop with potential sensible data, encrypting the entire thing makes sense, but remember to protect from the evil maid...
How about you encrypt the OS partition too? That does not change the advice for the data partitions. I for example keep true crypt volumes lying around. They are simple to manage, just copy the entire volume.
That is what I don't get for many backup solutions, unless you have a high available service to maintain, but normal users need only backup stuff that they can't restore form a different source and that is only data. The OS and programs can be "restored" in the conventional way of installing them.
So could be the smartphone you use for navigation. It does not negate the effect that you can sensibly use a smartphone during driving. It is up to the driver, which could also look at the pretty scenery instead of the road.
No but when I have 3 ways to choose from, it helps if you see which one it is and how far until the road branches. You can read the name of the exit/lane you need to be while still having the road in your sight. If you have the Navi screen and instructions on a different screen you need to look away from the road. In addition, with 3 options a "exit left" is not very helpful sound queue.
Also, in my special case that was in Germany, the average speed of the vehicles is 140 km/h (86 mph). Driving in the US is borderline boring in comparison.
Exactly BMW 330. And the speed limit detection was totally flawless, the first time I have seen it. Mot solution use a GPS + Map based system and thus don't know about local changes. This system must have some machine vision, because it flawlessly read the signs in the construction areas. The only errors it had when entering the Autobahn, that normally has no speed limit, but a temporary limit. But by the time you are up to speed, the next sign is visible and the system adapts.
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I think the article and summary refer to the engineering process. In the 60s you did not have CAD applications. Sure they had computers, on the ship, on the ground and all, but not in the engineering department. Engineers where able to make technical drawings and hand that of to workers building the actual thing. Oh yea and they assisted and oversaw the work done, to correct any misunderstandings. It worked, why add computers.
Bwawawawawawa!!!! That was funny. The only reason why there is so much DirectX out there is the same reason why there are so many MFC applications out there. It came with the installation of Visual Studio. Sadly there are very few developers out there that are able to think outside of the MS/Visual Studio box. If you said XNA was cleaner and easier way to work with, then granted I would have given you credit. But that is comparing apples and oranges. But API wise openGL and DirectX are very similar, both have their good bits and bad bits, the difference being that openGL is backwards compatible and MS breaks something each release.
Apart from the fact, that on the graphic card it runs serialized, I get the notion of multithreaded rendering. You apparently stopped caring about graphics ten years ago. While rendering a modern scene, to achieve some effects, such as reflection, refraction, environmental lighting, simple shadows or any other complicated effect that simply can't be rasterised in one pass you need to create frame buffers that hold the scene rendered from a different angle. These are then used in the final raster of the scene as textures to create what you see on screen. Depending on the scene complexity you can have multiple frame buffers. From a theoretical standpoint computing the frame buffers in parallel makes sense. In real life you don't gain much, except when you call rendering calls from threads that stall the CPU. But then you can implement a batching mechanic, that is more efficient than DX, since it can have knowledge about the application.
Yes openGL can only use one thread, but that is no big deal, since your properly implemented application will wait on the graphic card to finish processing a frame/frame buffer. Yes graphic cards are can process many things in parallel, but it is way more efficient cache wise if you process one frame / frame buffer per pixel in parallel then multiple frames in parallel. I never understood why multithreaded rendering, unless you have multiple cards is worth anything. You win only with multithreading if you wait on things, well don't stall the graphic card.
AFAIK the "original" zombies come from voodoo beliefs and in these cases it is undead. Not to be confused with the old beliefs about undead in Hunagary, where they stake their dead: Vampires.
Actually you get it backwards. A commodity is something you can actually use. Gold for example is used as currency and is a commodity, since it is used to make jewelry or electronics. Bitcoin is just a currency, you can't use it for anything. If Bitcoins are complacently devalued they are not worth the "bits they are printed on". Commodity that is also used as a currency, retains value if the actual currency is fully devalued. For example after WWII cigarettes where used as black market currency. But once the situation normalized and people started to get real money in their hands and could buy something for it, the cigarettes as currency where useless, but you could still sell them as cigarettes for real money.
About the fake part of Bitcoin, it's only fake as in there is not sovereign nation backing the currency, so what? Any currency is as good as the trust it is put into it by it's users. The currencies of nations tend to devalue too, as the users lose trust in that currency. For example during the perestroika in Russia many people used USD instead of the ruble, because they did not trust the ruble to be stable.
Although I agree that it is not a pyramid scheme in the classical sense, it shares some similarities. By designing the algorithm to have exponential complexity, the creators definitely designed it in their favor. The reason why it works and the price is rising, is because there are more and more users joining, if it was not the case the price of Bitcoins would slowly fall as the volume rises but the value is constant. This is the second similarity to a pyramid scheme, in that to sustain the current trend of raising price, it needs to have more value flowing into it. The current state of affairs is similar to a pyramid scheme.
On the other hand I would not know how to design a hashing scheme, that is not exponentially complex as the uncovered hashes exhaust. In addition the economic implication is interesting, once the Bitcoins are all uncovered, there is no room for any fiscal policy. Currently the most of the rise of Bitcoin is not about actual Bitcoin use, but rather economic speculation. And this will be a fun bubble to see burst.
Except that there is no practicable neutron bomb. All enhanced radiation weapons are basically nuclear bombs with a smaller blast radius. What that equates to is a large area of destruction, a little halo of death and a large area where the bomb did not do much. Most will die of cancer a decade down the row, but can still fight you for their land now and will probably very viciously.
But then GPs argument is moot on total other ground.
One of the other nice things about the moon is it's total lack of atmosphere. This leads to the fact that you can build launch vehicles that trump the rocket equation. The simplest is a magnetic mass driver that is powered by solar power. Also along these lines, that photovolatic tech that is barely economically feasible on earth, works like a charm on the moon. The moon totally makes sense for future space exploration.
The moon makes total sense as a mining platform for future mars missions (assembly in Moon-Earth L2). Sure probably fully or mostly automated with robots. But humans make some limited sense. The advantage of humans is that they can improvise, which robots can not. The other option is to have the capabilities to build new robots on the surface of the moon. But that only works because Earth-Moon real time communication is possible. That will fail for any other target. But the level of robots is probably going to significantly be higher than in the olden times of Apollo.
Thinking back to my high school music class, I have been "conducting" the techno I am currently hearing. The problem is quite complex to implement in technology. The reason is that as GP points out the beat is sort of at the fastest position.
When conducting, especially on the first/main strike, the motion resembles hitting a drum. The actual beat is sort of at the bottom, but since there is no resistance and overshoots the intended "strike" point. After that it curves upwards and left, to strike a point slightly off to the left. Then the first point again and back to the initial position. (For 4/4)
The thing is that the actual beat is neither the fastest point, since it is already decelerating, nor the point where the motion stops. But the motion detection could feed back into beat machine.
But it especially misses the other queues. For example the conductor will indicate tempo changes or the start of new voices with the other hand or even a full body motion.
The epidemic has become so widespread that population experts estimate one in every five hundred humans has been zombified.
Reading comprehension is not one of your strong points?
not even known fictional scenario
Although not technically zombies, in "I am Ledgend" (movie and book) the infection spreads by air.
Can't refute point 2. But I think the epidemiology here is somewhat more complicated in all other cases. Can enough cure be produced to counter the spread? Can enough tests be produced? You you have enough bullets? What about Madagascar?
For example rabies. Sure the the infected are not "undead" but the world in 28 days later was not a fun place to be.
It is either/or. If it is an issue with you, then don't get a camera. When I drive there are two cases where I break the law. Those that are fully planed and rationalized, such as driving slightly over the speed limit but with the flow of traffic. For these I stand up and say "dam right I did it" because actually following the law to the letter actually is more dangerous than slightly violating it; or did you ever break hard in heavy trafic when the speed limit severely drops in front of construction? No you ease of the accelerator like everybody else, once you are actually in the construction area you are at the required speed.
The other cases are the very few cases where I did a real mistake and in these cases I say "I am very sorry I did this, I will do all I can to never do it again". Luckily I was never in that situation that my errors had any consequences.
But in both cases I stand by what I did. A camera does not change anything. And if the police wants to nitpick, they can also do without a camera or their camera. So it changes nothing.
Case in point: Amazon
Have you ever seen one of their boxes? It reads Amazon from like any angle. Why should Amazon get the pass and a different company not?
+1 Funny
Where are my mod points when I need them.
Fire axe, as mandated by the IATA? Next stupid idea please?
As that the Syrian rebels.
So killing 10 people is OK then? The only thing that 10 round mags means it more reloading. Oh and he wants to commit a crime; he will totally obey the law on the size of the magazine, right?
It depends on the attack and threat you are trying to anticipate. Encryption also provides some form of tamper resistance. I can patch your unencrypted OS and read all your data once you unencrypt your data. As always it depends on the use, if you have a laptop with potential sensible data, encrypting the entire thing makes sense, but remember to protect from the evil maid...
How about you encrypt the OS partition too? That does not change the advice for the data partitions. I for example keep true crypt volumes lying around. They are simple to manage, just copy the entire volume.
That is what I don't get for many backup solutions, unless you have a high available service to maintain, but normal users need only backup stuff that they can't restore form a different source and that is only data. The OS and programs can be "restored" in the conventional way of installing them.
So could be the smartphone you use for navigation. It does not negate the effect that you can sensibly use a smartphone during driving. It is up to the driver, which could also look at the pretty scenery instead of the road.
No but when I have 3 ways to choose from, it helps if you see which one it is and how far until the road branches. You can read the name of the exit/lane you need to be while still having the road in your sight. If you have the Navi screen and instructions on a different screen you need to look away from the road. In addition, with 3 options a "exit left" is not very helpful sound queue.
Also, in my special case that was in Germany, the average speed of the vehicles is 140 km/h (86 mph). Driving in the US is borderline boring in comparison.
Exactly BMW 330. And the speed limit detection was totally flawless, the first time I have seen it. Mot solution use a GPS + Map based system and thus don't know about local changes. This system must have some machine vision, because it flawlessly read the signs in the construction areas. The only errors it had when entering the Autobahn, that normally has no speed limit, but a temporary limit. But by the time you are up to speed, the next sign is visible and the system adapts.
It was a BMW 330. As it was a rental car it had everything maxed out when it came to extras.