actually they have made black holes in the lab, only really really tiny ones that collapse on themselves. This happens in those huge particle accelerators. They were afraid that one of them might become stable or something and suck up the earth, but it hasn't happened yet. I think they said something like miniscule black holes are appearing and collapsing on themselves all the time in empty space.
I dont want to try and make a call to action, (because it won't do shit), but seriously why do we put up with the crap that cable companies feed us.
I just made a move and was trying to get cable internet installed as well as cable TV and it took me about 4 weeks to get them to actually show up. Not to mention the hours and hours I spent on the phone searching through menus. Also they give you a FOUR HOUR time period during work days in which to have your cable installed. Who do they think we are that we can just take off work and sit around waiting for them, why dont they just have hours outside normal business hours? Then they didn't even show up the first time I was scheduled to have installation and I had to miss more work. Then they get you with installation fees $150 for installation of cable internet. That is ridiculous. I could set it up myself if they would just activate the line. It really wasn't that hard and took about ~15min. seems justified to charge $150 right? They don't even offer self installation anymore, for those of us who know how to configure our TCP-ip settings. Oh and installing regular cable is soooo tough too.
okay thats my rant. But seriously someone needs to add more competition or something so that we don't have to put up with horrible and ridiculous service.
I don't want to sound like a flamer but I was a little suprised to see this up on/.
"most important PC game ever" I dont know if I agree with that. While I played my fair share of Quake, I still think that plenty of other games were equally or more important. Also, there is a lot of talk about how unique the game was. Considering that quake stole a lot from DOOM which stole a lot from Wolfenstein 3D, it wasn't all that original. I personally didn't like single player quake (although I spent many hours beating quake 2). It might have added a lot as far as online gaming goes, but it seemed like a small jump to me, from online games before it. I didn't play all that much online quake, but online Duke Nukem 3D and Warcraft 2 and Red Alert claimed months of my life.
As far as other important PC games go, I would like to mention a few, feel free to chime in with your own.
Warcraft(1 and 2)
Tetris
SimCity
Star Wars Tie Fighter
Red Alert / AOE
thats just to name a couple. I guess Im just not the quake fanatic that some people are.
What I want to know is when are companies going to start coming out with really refined and good code. Doesn't it seem like companies are just trying to come out with the most features the quickest in order to try and make more money, while concepts like security and reliability hit the back burners. Maybe its time we stop immediately upgrading to the latest OS or server software and start purchasing software that has been tested and thoroughly coded.
I posted this Yahoo! article describing the flaw, but it was first posted at news.com. Really does it suprise anyone? Now what about the poor network admin who isn't keeping updated with latest bug news, and still has the old version a month from now?
Maybe not the first course but the next one or the one after that, students start putting in serious time, and sometimes generate really good code. So then allowing the student to have rights over his code would be good.
On the other hand, I have had a lot of assignments where the instructor sets up the basic layout, and does a lot of work to aid you in creating your code, lots of time even creating other code/programs to help the students. In this case maybe the instructor should have rights to a program that he designed and orchestrated but didn't actually code.
Also, just because its an intro course doesn't mean that a more experienced programmer isn't creating advanced code.
You know I thought the whole point of a DVD was that it could hold "oh so much more information than a cd or tape" but ever notice how you never get multiple movies on a dvd. Freaking big businesses are still milking us for every penny. Why can't I buy a simple DVD of all Monty Python movies, or at least of Holy Grail, Life of Brian, and Meaning of LIfe. Its because those punks want to charge you $15 per dvd, per movie.
Its the fact that they were too cheap for expensive actors, or props, or special effects, and all they had was their wit and natural funniness. I mean the fact that they use coconut shells for horses isnt really all that funny unless you realize that they couldn't afford horses, and they realize that too, and they just make fun of it.
Some of the newer stuff where they had money, and didn't make fun of themselves as much, isn't nearly as funny.
I see your point about how learning a functional language initially and then trying to learn C++ is like two completely different things. However I do think that functional programming can be really powerfull and really easy to code, reuse, and understand (once you know it), and I think that many schools skip over that aspect of programming.
I guess my point is that C++ is not the end all be all of computer programming, sure its most widely accepted, but I highly doubt you could get many people to agree that it is the best.
I agree with all your above statements, but I wasn't trying to compare C++ with Java, but rather with the myriad of other langages out there. C++'s syntax is horrid. the dereference operator is used in a bizzare syntax upon decleration, and differently when your actually dereferencing a variable, and in general you get many syntax related errors with C++. I agree that it beats Java, and it has a myriad of support and features, but there are many other languages that I think beat out C++, and if they were to gain as wide of support they would be much better to the programming community than C++.
I go to a really big university and as their intro to programming course, they used to teach scheme but recently switched ot Java. The main reasons Im not exactly clear on, but I think are :
Java can be used on the web (ooh ahh).
It is object oriented, even if clunky and weird
More "user friendly", but many people would debate if thats a good thing, I mean Unix isn't exactly user friendly.
Anyway we then go on to take C++ on the next course, and use that in most classes down the line. So people who just take the intro can get a nice feel of applets and coding in a fairly simple, if weak, programming language. Now I dont really agree with the industry standard of using C++, and I wish that a functional programming language was a required course, but many people seem to like C++. (let me just say that its syntax can be quite frustrating at times, I mean how many different ways can you use the ampersand?) anyway thats just my two cents.
It is clearly not easy to rank these processors in any order, especially when you usually get limited information, be it clock speed or certain benchmarks or whatenot. But I would just like to clarify a few things.
First of all the P4 is a larger processor with more overhead so that it can easily reach faster speeds. The estimated maximum clock speed is 10Ghz for the P4, and it will be undergoing a size reduction, it will come out on DDR, and most likely w/ copper interconnects. It also has SSE2 and other special features that compilers are not yet optimized for. When that optimization comes out, you will see a big performance increase. The P4 is also designed to promote maximum bandwidth vs speed. Something everyone will probably start to appreciate when the clock speeds get up there.
The p3 is similar to the Athlon in that they are both have aging core designs and it is becoming increasingly difficult to speed them up. Thats why Intel redesigned the core of the microprocessor to allow for faster speeds. There is a lot more overhead but that is to be expected. There is a lot more overhead when you try and fly a plane instead of taking your bicycle somewhere.
I personally favor Intel over AMD, but I have biased reasons to do so. The p3 (imho) beats out the Athlon, and optimized software for the p4 beats out the Athlon (even if it doesn't the Athlon will soon be completely overwhelmed by increasing clock speed.)
You know I think people need to take it a little easier on Intel. Its hard when your king of the hill for so long and then here comes some podunk little company selling to the low end of desktop processors and all of the sudden they are putting out a great product.
Then we have this Rambus thing, if you think about it, Intel could have really killed Intel if Rambus' memory was as good as they said it was going to be. Intel made the mistake of having a vital part of the processor/motherboard system provided by an outside source. If Rambus would have come through, (aka smaller latency on their memory, and maybe CHEAPER) then Intel's P4 would be much, much faster since memory speed is the current speed bottleneck.
Most people didn't even bother to research this recall before taking shots at Intel, it WASN'T a HEAT ISSUE!
Lastly, Intel is much bigger than just it's desktop processor market. They have networking components, flash memory (doing really well), intel toys, server market share, low power market share (strong arm and soon p3 low power). Coming in second place to AMD in the desktop market won't kill Intel.
Transmetta is really having problems and their marketing department has made many promises that they cannot keep as a company.
Here are all the difficulties/errors that Transmetta has had to deal with
Low Power P3 will be much faster
IBM Cancelled Crusoe
COMPAQ is considering Cancelling the Crusoe
The Transmetta lasts half as long as was promised (3 hours vs a whole work day)
Could this company be under any more fire. Frankly I dont think that the code emulation is all that great and I am not sure on just how well the
low the low power Crusoe will be. Why haven't they released a bunch of specs and benchmarks if their product is so good.
You guys are all missing the whole point of our conversation.
We know a lot about how the frequencies we percieve set off certain neurons and receptors but my question had to do with is "my" yellow the same as your "yellow"
How do we know that a colorblind person doesnt see the entire color spectrum, but only at the frequencies that they have receptors for. Understand??? They see a smaller frequency set but maybe they see all the colors we do, within that frequency.
THe only vague and ambiguous wording is the prohibiting of sending "sexually explicit" content to minors
Im a proponent of free speech and all but whats wrong with not sending sexually explicit material to minors?
The only part of this law I would have problems wiht is identity, do you have to know that the person is underage because most of the time you dont know a person's identity so in forwarding a picture to someone you thought was a friend back in high school could really be a minor that just fooled you into breaking the law!
Enhanced night vision with ultraviolet perception would be very beneficial when it's dark and would greatly counteract a woman's inability to drive during the day...
This is exactly the reason why its unheard of, in birds or humans, because it would interfere with our daily vision and therefore be an unwanted quality and genetically eliminated via natural selection.
Pigeons have tetrachromat vision as well. My question though, is do they see a fourth and different color?, OR are the colors we see spread out a larger spectrum for them?? I know the frequencies are higher (or lower), Im talking about what shade it looks like in their brain, the whole how do you know when I look at grass I dont see red and call it green? According to a theory, this is similar as the difference between the vision of a dichromat (a color-blind) and a normal trichromat, like most of us. It means that a tetrachromat can have a novel pair of colors similar to our yellow-blue and red-green pairs. I would really really like to have the sensory output from her eyes fed into my brain, dont you think they could hook that up? Does that mean that there are an infinite amount of colors, because a pentachromat (some animals have five color receptors) would see even more colors.
Frankly, IMHO the PS2 is not all it is cracked up to be.
The PS2 is just a powerful 128-bit system and it isn't really the "revolutionizing" gaming system that Sony said it would be. Okay, Metal Gear Solid 2 is a great game, but there haven't been any other really good games to back up this "revolutionary" system.
Why do I think this three reasons
1) Graphics for DC are better most of the time
2) Dreamcast games can be burnt!
3) IMHO Games are better for DC right now
So I am thoroughly enjoying my DC games such as CrazyTaxi, that Maraba shaking game, Resident Evil 2, Shenmue, maybe Im just not patient enough to wait for the PS2.
Here is another case of a company who tried to do the "better" thing and provide the user with the best service for the price losing out to the malicious money grubbing company.
This link comparing the two companies illustrates many of the differences such as price, Duplicate episode recording, and schedule conflicts.
You can also see some ReplayTV Notes that show what exactly the company was into.
Overall I am dissapointed that such a good service was run out of business prematurely by a great marketing job by a competitor.
I think the current method of trying to segment the web is, to say the least, futile.
I own a website that is myname.com and another one that is mynickname.com And neither of them is a business webpage. If you are going to try and hold websites to their extensions then you need to start re-evalutating every new old page, and I wont be happy about trying to move over to a.org domain. AND you have to start evaluating every new website that comes up.
I think it is simply too hard to enforce, we need somthing else, along the lines of internet2 that could be business only or education only etc. Either that or a heck of a lot more work should be put into correctly organizing the web. That sounds funny doesn't it "organizing the web".
sorry I the kind of person who reads a lot of "Discover" articles, and so I know the basics but not many details. I did mean galaxies because I had just read an article on our discovery of galaxies that are older than previous thought, therefore challenging our current universe creation ideas.
I have a friend who works designing the CAD systems for intel and according to his opinion way too much of Intel's design is done by hand, and by hand I mean on computers but edited by hand, instead of the computer coming up with the design.
I see where I am unclear, when I say CAD I mean having the computer come up with the logic and the circuitry, I know they use computers to actually design but its humans doing the design, not a program.
The core from the Athlon was technology developed by a small company. I forget the name something like BroadBand (thats not it I forget) but basically they acquired that company and then used computer aided design to generate the rest. Unlike Intel, which still does the outdated method of designing by hand.
okay so they didnt really steal it, aquired it then.
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actually they have made black holes in the lab, only really really tiny ones that collapse on themselves. This happens in those huge particle accelerators. They were afraid that one of them might become stable or something and suck up the earth, but it hasn't happened yet. I think they said something like miniscule black holes are appearing and collapsing on themselves all the time in empty space.
I just made a move and was trying to get cable internet installed as well as cable TV and it took me about 4 weeks to get them to actually show up. Not to mention the hours and hours I spent on the phone searching through menus. Also they give you a FOUR HOUR time period during work days in which to have your cable installed. Who do they think we are that we can just take off work and sit around waiting for them, why dont they just have hours outside normal business hours? Then they didn't even show up the first time I was scheduled to have installation and I had to miss more work. Then they get you with installation fees $150 for installation of cable internet. That is ridiculous. I could set it up myself if they would just activate the line. It really wasn't that hard and took about ~15min. seems justified to charge $150 right? They don't even offer self installation anymore, for those of us who know how to configure our TCP-ip settings. Oh and installing regular cable is soooo tough too.
okay thats my rant. But seriously someone needs to add more competition or something so that we don't have to put up with horrible and ridiculous service.
"most important PC game ever" I dont know if I agree with that. While I played my fair share of Quake, I still think that plenty of other games were equally or more important. Also, there is a lot of talk about how unique the game was. Considering that quake stole a lot from DOOM which stole a lot from Wolfenstein 3D, it wasn't all that original. I personally didn't like single player quake (although I spent many hours beating quake 2). It might have added a lot as far as online gaming goes, but it seemed like a small jump to me, from online games before it. I didn't play all that much online quake, but online Duke Nukem 3D and Warcraft 2 and Red Alert claimed months of my life.
As far as other important PC games go, I would like to mention a few, feel free to chime in with your own.
- Warcraft(1 and 2)
- Tetris
- SimCity
- Star Wars Tie Fighter
- Red Alert / AOE
thats just to name a couple. I guess Im just not the quake fanatic that some people are.one cent to him, one to isp
I posted this Yahoo! article describing the flaw, but it was first posted at news.com. Really does it suprise anyone? Now what about the poor network admin who isn't keeping updated with latest bug news, and still has the old version a month from now?
On the other hand, I have had a lot of assignments where the instructor sets up the basic layout, and does a lot of work to aid you in creating your code, lots of time even creating other code/programs to help the students. In this case maybe the instructor should have rights to a program that he designed and orchestrated but didn't actually code.
Also, just because its an intro course doesn't mean that a more experienced programmer isn't creating advanced code.
You know I thought the whole point of a DVD was that it could hold "oh so much more information than a cd or tape" but ever notice how you never get multiple movies on a dvd. Freaking big businesses are still milking us for every penny. Why can't I buy a simple DVD of all Monty Python movies, or at least of Holy Grail, Life of Brian, and Meaning of LIfe. Its because those punks want to charge you $15 per dvd, per movie.
Its the fact that they were too cheap for expensive actors, or props, or special effects, and all they had was their wit and natural funniness. I mean the fact that they use coconut shells for horses isnt really all that funny unless you realize that they couldn't afford horses, and they realize that too, and they just make fun of it.
Some of the newer stuff where they had money, and didn't make fun of themselves as much, isn't nearly as funny.
I guess my point is that C++ is not the end all be all of computer programming, sure its most widely accepted, but I highly doubt you could get many people to agree that it is the best.
- Java can be used on the web (ooh ahh).
- It is object oriented, even if clunky and weird
- More "user friendly", but many people would debate if thats a good thing, I mean Unix isn't exactly user friendly.
Anyway we then go on to take C++ on the next course, and use that in most classes down the line. So people who just take the intro can get a nice feel of applets and coding in a fairly simple, if weak, programming language. Now I dont really agree with the industry standard of using C++, and I wish that a functional programming language was a required course, but many people seem to like C++. (let me just say that its syntax can be quite frustrating at times, I mean how many different ways can you use the ampersand?) anyway thats just my two cents.It is clearly not easy to rank these processors in any order, especially when you usually get limited information, be it clock speed or certain benchmarks or whatenot. But I would just like to clarify a few things.
First of all the P4 is a larger processor with more overhead so that it can easily reach faster speeds. The estimated maximum clock speed is 10Ghz for the P4, and it will be undergoing a size reduction, it will come out on DDR, and most likely w/ copper interconnects. It also has SSE2 and other special features that compilers are not yet optimized for. When that optimization comes out, you will see a big performance increase. The P4 is also designed to promote maximum bandwidth vs speed. Something everyone will probably start to appreciate when the clock speeds get up there.
The p3 is similar to the Athlon in that they are both have aging core designs and it is becoming increasingly difficult to speed them up. Thats why Intel redesigned the core of the microprocessor to allow for faster speeds. There is a lot more overhead but that is to be expected. There is a lot more overhead when you try and fly a plane instead of taking your bicycle somewhere. I personally favor Intel over AMD, but I have biased reasons to do so. The p3 (imho) beats out the Athlon, and optimized software for the p4 beats out the Athlon (even if it doesn't the Athlon will soon be completely overwhelmed by increasing clock speed.)
Then we have this Rambus thing, if you think about it, Intel could have really killed Intel if Rambus' memory was as good as they said it was going to be. Intel made the mistake of having a vital part of the processor/motherboard system provided by an outside source. If Rambus would have come through, (aka smaller latency on their memory, and maybe CHEAPER) then Intel's P4 would be much, much faster since memory speed is the current speed bottleneck.
Most people didn't even bother to research this recall before taking shots at Intel, it WASN'T a HEAT ISSUE!
Lastly, Intel is much bigger than just it's desktop processor market. They have networking components, flash memory (doing really well), intel toys, server market share, low power market share (strong arm and soon p3 low power). Coming in second place to AMD in the desktop market won't kill Intel.
My harangue is over.
Could this company be under any more fire. Frankly I dont think that the code emulation is all that great and I am not sure on just how well the low the low power Crusoe will be. Why haven't they released a bunch of specs and benchmarks if their product is so good.
Everyone say bye bye to Transmetta
We know a lot about how the frequencies we percieve set off certain neurons and receptors but my question had to do with is "my" yellow the same as your "yellow"
How do we know that a colorblind person doesnt see the entire color spectrum, but only at the frequencies that they have receptors for. Understand??? They see a smaller frequency set but maybe they see all the colors we do, within that frequency.
Im a proponent of free speech and all but whats wrong with not sending sexually explicit material to minors?
The only part of this law I would have problems wiht is identity, do you have to know that the person is underage because most of the time you dont know a person's identity so in forwarding a picture to someone you thought was a friend back in high school could really be a minor that just fooled you into breaking the law!
Enhanced night vision with ultraviolet perception would be very beneficial when it's dark and would greatly counteract a woman's inability to drive during the day...
This is exactly the reason why its unheard of, in birds or humans, because it would interfere with our daily vision and therefore be an unwanted quality and genetically eliminated via natural selection.
Pigeons have tetrachromat vision as well. My question though, is do they see a fourth and different color?, OR are the colors we see spread out a larger spectrum for them?? I know the frequencies are higher (or lower), Im talking about what shade it looks like in their brain, the whole how do you know when I look at grass I dont see red and call it green? According to a theory, this is similar as the difference between the vision of a dichromat (a color-blind) and a normal trichromat, like most of us. It means that a tetrachromat can have a novel pair of colors similar to our yellow-blue and red-green pairs. I would really really like to have the sensory output from her eyes fed into my brain, dont you think they could hook that up? Does that mean that there are an infinite amount of colors, because a pentachromat (some animals have five color receptors) would see even more colors.
The PS2 is just a powerful 128-bit system and it isn't really the "revolutionizing" gaming system that Sony said it would be. Okay, Metal Gear Solid 2 is a great game, but there haven't been any other really good games to back up this "revolutionary" system.
Why do I think this three reasons
This link comparing the two companies illustrates many of the differences such as price, Duplicate episode recording, and schedule conflicts.
You can also see some ReplayTV Notes that show what exactly the company was into.
Overall I am dissapointed that such a good service was run out of business prematurely by a great marketing job by a competitor.
I own a website that is myname.com and another one that is mynickname.com And neither of them is a business webpage. If you are going to try and hold websites to their extensions then you need to start re-evalutating every new old page, and I wont be happy about trying to move over to a .org domain. AND you have to start evaluating every new website that comes up.
I think it is simply too hard to enforce, we need somthing else, along the lines of internet2 that could be business only or education only etc. Either that or a heck of a lot more work should be put into correctly organizing the web. That sounds funny doesn't it "organizing the web".
sorry I the kind of person who reads a lot of "Discover" articles, and so I know the basics but not many details. I did mean galaxies because I had just read an article on our discovery of galaxies that are older than previous thought, therefore challenging our current universe creation ideas.
I see where I am unclear, when I say CAD I mean having the computer come up with the logic and the circuitry, I know they use computers to actually design but its humans doing the design, not a program.
how about sticking to the x86 for too long, and only allowing 66Mhz frontside bus on the Celeron so that it doesnt compete with the Pentium 3????????
okay so they didnt really steal it, aquired it then.