And the sad thing is that Feynman's lectures have mostly been locked out of the classrooms despite being excellent introductory physics material. There are few good textbooks out there and it really is a shame that we're not even using some of the best.
Having Feynman's lectures during my introductory courses would have been a boon. Instead we got crappy state-sponsored books that barely taught anything.
Actually, most PC games are built for the contemporary consoles of the time. The few AAA PC exclusives out there tend to have much higher hardware requirements and graphical capabilities (Crysis, The Witcher 2, to name a few) than their console-ported counterparts.
Consoles (PS2 last generation, 360 this generation) are the flagship targets now.
It's even more ridiculous than that. My motherboard automatically overclocked my 2500K to 4.3GHz. From what I can tell, that 1GHz increase over the stock value isn't even pushing it (temperatures are still ridiculously low, with a 7-Zip benchmark hitting 55C). Granted, aftermarket coolers probably help, but I believe a 0.5-0.75GHz bump on a stock cooler is entirely reasonable.
I have a feeling that Intel might actually be downplaying their default clocks; even under the most terrible conditions, I can't see a 2500K not hitting at least 3.5-3.6GHz. In many ways Intel needs AMD to exist, so perhaps they're limiting the stock clock (that the majority of people will end up using) to give them a running chance.
It's unfortunate, but considering the relative sizes of the two rivals, Intel could easily crush AMD if they so desired. They have the R&D advantage, the fab advantage and the pressure advantage.
Continental drift is going to render most of the planet uninhabitable well before the Sun does. Remember that Pangaea broke up 200 million years ago, and we're just about at the opposite end of the drift (which is to say a lot of separate continents). In 200 million years, chances are we'd be back to a single continent, with a colossal desert in the middle and inhospitable coastal areas.
Please dig further. The problem is that you're stopping at the superficial layer of pop-corn games. Back in the 90s, gaming wasn't mainstream, so there was no such layer, but now there is.
Ignore the Modern Warfares and Battlefield 3s of this world and you'll find that things haven't changed that much. To your Descent, I raise FS2Open or EVE, to your Command and Conquer I raise Company of Heroes, to your Warcraft I raise Starcraft II, to your Duke Nukem 3D I raise Serious Sam 3: BFE, to your X-Com I raise.. XCOM... Sure, some genres have come and gone, but others have risen. Super Meat Boy, Minecraft, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Skyrim, Terraria, SpaceChem, League of Legends, The Witcher, Dungeons of Dredmor, Dwarf Fortress, Braid, Bastion, Portal...
You only need to look further than the mass-marketed drivel that console kiddies eat up to find gems.
You're assuming traffic lights are designed with fluidity in mind. Unfortunately many cities seem to design them with inefficiency in mind, going as far as to make sure that lights are always negations of the previous one so that you continuously have to start and stop -- supposedly to "slow traffic down".
The problem's not that the loops aren't used, it's that the lights were designed with specific restrictions in addition to the induction loops.
One of the intersections I pass through twice every day is an excellent example: it's a T-junction with the top of the T being a big boulevard whereas the vertical line is just a side-street. The lights are programmed so that they will only switch for the vertical when there's somebody waiting there. However, in addition to this, the lights also have an integrated timer which stops the lights from switching too soon after they've already switched, and said timer is fairly long.
The end result is that unless you're the first person to pass there in a while, the induction loops might as well not be there. As a bonus, the timing is often so bad that it makes the horizontal go red just as traffic starts coming...
AMD pushes more cores per CPU, whereas Intel pushes more performance per core. I'd say in the vast majority of applications (especially end-users), performance per core is the important metric. Few consumer applications are multithreaded.
This is why Intel tends to blow AMD out of the water in gaming benchmarks.
Indie devs don't have the luxury of being able to afford thorough QA. More often than not the team consists of an art guy and a programmer who set some money aside to work on their project full-time for a few months. They'll do their best to find and fix bugs, but holding them to the same standards as AAA multi-million projects is entirely stupid.
There's a reason the indie scene is thriving on PC.
Since the human genome differs from individual to individual, you'd have to kill every human but one and make clones of that last one forever. Genetic mutations aren't necessary for variations with the size of our population pool.
However, you're entirely missing the fact that most if not all definitions of life include reproduction. How else would you define life, considering reproduction is one of the few things that are wholly unique to it? Can you name something you consider to be "alive" that cannot reproduce in any fashion?
This works well for finding signs of life, but I'm not sure we could actually extend it to being a definition of life. After all, wouldn't computers (especially modern ones) fit into the definition of self-dissimilarity across scales? A processor has layers upon layers of fairly different building blocks, from transistors to logic gates and so on. You could argue that the layers are not quite as different as organic life's layers, but then you get into the question of how different they need to be for it to be considered life.
I'm sorry but tasteless obnoxious adverts are definitely one of the reasons why I'll never use GoDaddy. They put out a poor image and quite honestly would make me feel dirty if I were to support them by registering there.
Technically, if you buy a PC at the exact same time as a new console comes out, you should roughly be able to keep it for as long as the console is "current gen", assuming you keep it relatively free of crap.
The thing is that most people want to get the step up that consoles can't have but newer PCs can, hence why a 7 year old PC is considered dated whereas the Xbox 360 is not.
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People are incompetent at having common sense.
And the sad thing is that Feynman's lectures have mostly been locked out of the classrooms despite being excellent introductory physics material. There are few good textbooks out there and it really is a shame that we're not even using some of the best.
Having Feynman's lectures during my introductory courses would have been a boon. Instead we got crappy state-sponsored books that barely taught anything.
Anything Linux-based would be stuck with OpenGL. DirectX has left that in the dust a long time ago.
Actually, most PC games are built for the contemporary consoles of the time. The few AAA PC exclusives out there tend to have much higher hardware requirements and graphical capabilities (Crysis, The Witcher 2, to name a few) than their console-ported counterparts.
Consoles (PS2 last generation, 360 this generation) are the flagship targets now.
Those coins will be called punch cards, which let you store things called bits in physical form! Isn't the future amazing?
It's even more ridiculous than that. My motherboard automatically overclocked my 2500K to 4.3GHz. From what I can tell, that 1GHz increase over the stock value isn't even pushing it (temperatures are still ridiculously low, with a 7-Zip benchmark hitting 55C). Granted, aftermarket coolers probably help, but I believe a 0.5-0.75GHz bump on a stock cooler is entirely reasonable.
I have a feeling that Intel might actually be downplaying their default clocks; even under the most terrible conditions, I can't see a 2500K not hitting at least 3.5-3.6GHz. In many ways Intel needs AMD to exist, so perhaps they're limiting the stock clock (that the majority of people will end up using) to give them a running chance.
It's unfortunate, but considering the relative sizes of the two rivals, Intel could easily crush AMD if they so desired. They have the R&D advantage, the fab advantage and the pressure advantage.
Continental drift is going to render most of the planet uninhabitable well before the Sun does. Remember that Pangaea broke up 200 million years ago, and we're just about at the opposite end of the drift (which is to say a lot of separate continents). In 200 million years, chances are we'd be back to a single continent, with a colossal desert in the middle and inhospitable coastal areas.
I'd have agreed before, but not now. If you can't see the difference between Harper and any Liberal, you have to be blind.
Please dig further. The problem is that you're stopping at the superficial layer of pop-corn games. Back in the 90s, gaming wasn't mainstream, so there was no such layer, but now there is.
Ignore the Modern Warfares and Battlefield 3s of this world and you'll find that things haven't changed that much. To your Descent, I raise FS2Open or EVE, to your Command and Conquer I raise Company of Heroes, to your Warcraft I raise Starcraft II, to your Duke Nukem 3D I raise Serious Sam 3: BFE, to your X-Com I raise.. XCOM... Sure, some genres have come and gone, but others have risen. Super Meat Boy, Minecraft, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Skyrim, Terraria, SpaceChem, League of Legends, The Witcher, Dungeons of Dredmor, Dwarf Fortress, Braid, Bastion, Portal...
You only need to look further than the mass-marketed drivel that console kiddies eat up to find gems.
History is perhaps littered by even more companies which failed to push forward and got utterly left behind.
I'm sorry, frivolous patent lawsuits were jointly patented by Rambus, SCO and Apple.
The good term is "Apples and Androids", obviously.
You're assuming traffic lights are designed with fluidity in mind. Unfortunately many cities seem to design them with inefficiency in mind, going as far as to make sure that lights are always negations of the previous one so that you continuously have to start and stop -- supposedly to "slow traffic down".
The problem's not that the loops aren't used, it's that the lights were designed with specific restrictions in addition to the induction loops.
One of the intersections I pass through twice every day is an excellent example: it's a T-junction with the top of the T being a big boulevard whereas the vertical line is just a side-street. The lights are programmed so that they will only switch for the vertical when there's somebody waiting there. However, in addition to this, the lights also have an integrated timer which stops the lights from switching too soon after they've already switched, and said timer is fairly long.
The end result is that unless you're the first person to pass there in a while, the induction loops might as well not be there. As a bonus, the timing is often so bad that it makes the horizontal go red just as traffic starts coming...
That's what we get for having Harper in power. I didn't think people could be so foolish as to think he wouldn't make Bush look like a commie.
AMD pushes more cores per CPU, whereas Intel pushes more performance per core. I'd say in the vast majority of applications (especially end-users), performance per core is the important metric. Few consumer applications are multithreaded.
This is why Intel tends to blow AMD out of the water in gaming benchmarks.
then you are a flat out id10t.
Did you cat walk on your keyboard or am I supposed to construe that's how you think "cool kids" talk nowadays?
Indie devs don't have the luxury of being able to afford thorough QA. More often than not the team consists of an art guy and a programmer who set some money aside to work on their project full-time for a few months. They'll do their best to find and fix bugs, but holding them to the same standards as AAA multi-million projects is entirely stupid.
There's a reason the indie scene is thriving on PC.
Except most don't have cars.
Yeah, now you just need to put a lowercase letter in front of every variable and it doesn't matter if it doesn't mean anything!
Since the human genome differs from individual to individual, you'd have to kill every human but one and make clones of that last one forever. Genetic mutations aren't necessary for variations with the size of our population pool.
However, you're entirely missing the fact that most if not all definitions of life include reproduction. How else would you define life, considering reproduction is one of the few things that are wholly unique to it? Can you name something you consider to be "alive" that cannot reproduce in any fashion?
This works well for finding signs of life, but I'm not sure we could actually extend it to being a definition of life. After all, wouldn't computers (especially modern ones) fit into the definition of self-dissimilarity across scales? A processor has layers upon layers of fairly different building blocks, from transistors to logic gates and so on. You could argue that the layers are not quite as different as organic life's layers, but then you get into the question of how different they need to be for it to be considered life.
What, because MasterCard and VISA are really that much better? Paragons of security and privacy, surely?
If you want to be paranoid, live in a shack and pay only in cash.
I'm sorry but tasteless obnoxious adverts are definitely one of the reasons why I'll never use GoDaddy. They put out a poor image and quite honestly would make me feel dirty if I were to support them by registering there.
Technically, if you buy a PC at the exact same time as a new console comes out, you should roughly be able to keep it for as long as the console is "current gen", assuming you keep it relatively free of crap.
The thing is that most people want to get the step up that consoles can't have but newer PCs can, hence why a 7 year old PC is considered dated whereas the Xbox 360 is not.