They do. They crumpled. Now what? That truck is still moving into the passenger compartment at 75 miles per hour.
Incorrect. The crumple zones absorb the energy from the truck so that the passengers don't have to... the truck is not still going 75 mph. The chance of surviving a high speed head on collision is still pretty low... it's not magic. But there's no question today's crumpling designs are far safer than old cars with separate frames.
Extra stiffness from something like a roll cage only works well if you are securely fastened down with a 5 or 6 point harness and are wearing a helmet... that's the safest way to go and how it's done in race cars, but we don't really wish to sacrifice so much convinence for that level of safety on the street.
There is zero reason to have a non-turbo diesel in a car. The turbo significantly improves the engine output while having no adverse effects on mileage at cruising speed. Turbochargers in diesels are much less stressed than in gasoline engines, so they are just as durable as the engine itself.
Non-turbo diesels have disappeared from cars because turbocharged diesels are better in every way.
I believe the thing that makes the PS2 difficult to emulate is its unusual video memory... it's only 4MB in size, but has insane bandwidth.
-Graphics processing unit: "Graphics Synthesizer" clocked at 147 MHz -Pixel pipelines: 16 -Video output resolution: variable from 256x224 to 1280x1024 pixels -4 MB Embedded DRAM video memory bandwidth at 48 gigabytes per second (main system 32 MB can be dedicated into VRAM for off-screen materials) -Texture buffer bandwidth: 9.6 GB/s -Frame buffer bandwidth: 38.4 GB/s
The MPPC was preceded by the Edison licensing system, in effect in 1907–1908, on which the MPPC was modeled. Since the 1890s, Thomas Edison owned most of the major American patents relating to motion picture cameras. The Edison Manufacturing Company's patent lawsuits against each of its domestic competitors crippled the American film industry, reducing American production mainly to two companies: Edison and Biograph, which used a different camera design. This left Edison's other rivals with little recourse but to import foreign-made films, mainly French and British.
Since 1902, Edison had also been notifying distributors and exhibitors that if they did not use Edison machines and films exclusively, they would be subject to litigation for supporting filmmaking that infringed Edison's patents. Exhausted by the lawsuits, Edison's competitors — Essanay, Kalem, Pathé Frères, Selig, and Vitagraph — approached him in 1907 to negotiate a licensing agreement, which Lubin was also invited to join. The one notable filmmaker excluded from the licensing agreement was Biograph, which Edison hoped to squeeze out of the market. No further applicants could become licensees. The purpose of the licensing agreement, according to an Edison lawyer, was to "preserve the business of present manufacturers and not to throw the field open to all competitors."
Many independent filmmakers, who controlled from one-quarter to one-third of the domestic marketplace, responded to the creation of the MPPC by moving their operations to Hollywood, whose distance from Edison's home base of New Jersey made it more difficult for the MPPC to enforce its patents. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and covers the area, was averse to enforcing patent claims.[citation needed] Southern California was also chosen because of its beautiful year-round weather and varied countryside, which could stand in for deserts, jungles and great mountains.
Those two sites are the best for free downloaders, but all the cool kids who want to make $$$ are using Hotfile (or SharingMatrix, where HF is banned).
BeOS was working on this well before multicore CPUs were the norm on the desktop and the level of responsiveness they managed on hardware that is stone-age tech by today's standard was extremely impressive. Haiku will be picking up where BeOS left off, but it's got a lot of catching up to do on the details, big and small, to become an everyday user's system.
Yet another innovative player that Microsoft extinguished, and the whole tech world is worse off because of it.:(
Care to enlighten us as to the difference between real and virtual entertainment? It sounds like a distinction solely for the sake of looking down on entertainment forms you don't share in personally.
This article caused me to break out Opera 10.10 and browse Slashdot. It's very noticeable how differently it renders pages on this site than FF 3.6 does. All the boxes that normally have rounded corners now have squared ones. The checkbox for posting AC takes on a different, 3-D look. I have no idea which rendering is the desired one, but they are clearly quite different.
The main reason I don't use Opera much is that I find it painfully slow on/. Opening a story page like this one and rendering the page literally takes a full minute, compared to about 12 seconds for FF 3.6. I have no idea if this is just a problem with the Linux version or what.
I haven't had a very positive experience with Turbo. All your traffic is funneled through Opera's servers and they are often so unresponsive page loads end up taking more, rather than less, time.
The CPU could do hardware virtualization, but by default it was disabled in the BIOS. Why? I have no idea...
At least it could be turned on. Sony computers with processors that support virtualization have the feature disabled in the BIOS and there is no option to enable it.
Software should be copyrighted, NOT patented. Period.
I sympathize with your viewpoint, but the fact that patents expire and copyright is (effectively) eternal means I would prefer software patents to software copyrights in the current legal situation.
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The summary is inaccurate. Foxit has already patched this problem in the current version.
less likely to be wrong.
ROFL, having good karma is all about saying what other Slashdotters will agree with, and absolutely nothing to do with being right.
I have Excellent karma, so I should know... :P
God, I'm so sick of these moronic comments. Don't like the article? Don't FUCKING read it!
How will you know if you like the article until you read it?
Since he mentioned Safari, I'm guessing his laptop runs Mac OS X. Flash performance on Mac blows no matter how powerful your rig is.
They do. They crumpled. Now what? That truck is still moving into the passenger compartment at 75 miles per hour.
Incorrect. The crumple zones absorb the energy from the truck so that the passengers don't have to... the truck is not still going 75 mph. The chance of surviving a high speed head on collision is still pretty low... it's not magic. But there's no question today's crumpling designs are far safer than old cars with separate frames.
Extra stiffness from something like a roll cage only works well if you are securely fastened down with a 5 or 6 point harness and are wearing a helmet... that's the safest way to go and how it's done in race cars, but we don't really wish to sacrifice so much convinence for that level of safety on the street.
non-turbo diesel
There is zero reason to have a non-turbo diesel in a car. The turbo significantly improves the engine output while having no adverse effects on mileage at cruising speed. Turbochargers in diesels are much less stressed than in gasoline engines, so they are just as durable as the engine itself.
Non-turbo diesels have disappeared from cars because turbocharged diesels are better in every way.
The video seems impressive until you realize it has been sped up 50 times actual speed... it took more than an hour and a half to fold 5 towels!
Cool, but very far from anything practical.
I believe the thing that makes the PS2 difficult to emulate is its unusual video memory... it's only 4MB in size, but has insane bandwidth.
-Graphics processing unit: "Graphics Synthesizer" clocked at 147 MHz
-Pixel pipelines: 16
-Video output resolution: variable from 256x224 to 1280x1024 pixels
-4 MB Embedded DRAM video memory bandwidth at 48 gigabytes per second (main system 32 MB can be dedicated into VRAM for off-screen materials)
-Texture buffer bandwidth: 9.6 GB/s
-Frame buffer bandwidth: 38.4 GB/s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playstation_2#Technical_specifications
This wasn't being emulated on the partially BC consoles because the GS chip was still present. I myself own a hardware BC 60GB. :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_Picture_Patents_Company
The MPPC was preceded by the Edison licensing system, in effect in 1907–1908, on which the MPPC was modeled. Since the 1890s, Thomas Edison owned most of the major American patents relating to motion picture cameras. The Edison Manufacturing Company's patent lawsuits against each of its domestic competitors crippled the American film industry, reducing American production mainly to two companies: Edison and Biograph, which used a different camera design. This left Edison's other rivals with little recourse but to import foreign-made films, mainly French and British.
Since 1902, Edison had also been notifying distributors and exhibitors that if they did not use Edison machines and films exclusively, they would be subject to litigation for supporting filmmaking that infringed Edison's patents. Exhausted by the lawsuits, Edison's competitors — Essanay, Kalem, Pathé Frères, Selig, and Vitagraph — approached him in 1907 to negotiate a licensing agreement, which Lubin was also invited to join. The one notable filmmaker excluded from the licensing agreement was Biograph, which Edison hoped to squeeze out of the market. No further applicants could become licensees. The purpose of the licensing agreement, according to an Edison lawyer, was to "preserve the business of present manufacturers and not to throw the field open to all competitors."
Many independent filmmakers, who controlled from one-quarter to one-third of the domestic marketplace, responded to the creation of the MPPC by moving their operations to Hollywood, whose distance from Edison's home base of New Jersey made it more difficult for the MPPC to enforce its patents. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and covers the area, was averse to enforcing patent claims.[citation needed] Southern California was also chosen because of its beautiful year-round weather and varied countryside, which could stand in for deserts, jungles and great mountains.
Those two sites are the best for free downloaders, but all the cool kids who want to make $$$ are using Hotfile (or SharingMatrix, where HF is banned).
Be a good uploader and use MU or MF, please.
(which I had to sign a waiver to purchase)
That's just for marketing purposes, not to satisfy any legal requirement.
Your downmod is undone without any notification if you post as AC. You'd need to post from a different IP.
BeOS was working on this well before multicore CPUs were the norm on the desktop and the level of responsiveness they managed on hardware that is stone-age tech by today's standard was extremely impressive. Haiku will be picking up where BeOS left off, but it's got a lot of catching up to do on the details, big and small, to become an everyday user's system.
Yet another innovative player that Microsoft extinguished, and the whole tech world is worse off because of it. :(
Cool trivia! Thanks. :)
ASCIISKY.
Fixed that for you. I believe -ski is more of a Polish thing.
It seems you would be using Seamonkey instead of FIrefox if this sort of all-in-one approach was appealing to you. I don't see the point.
Care to enlighten us as to the difference between real and virtual entertainment? It sounds like a distinction solely for the sake of looking down on entertainment forms you don't share in personally.
I had never heard of this keyboard before... damn, it's cool! :)
http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/
by batteries? Probably not.
Agreed. At uni the social outcasts have bags they drag about on rollers... :)
Hmm... not sure how true that is.
Here's the article discussing it.
This article caused me to break out Opera 10.10 and browse Slashdot. It's very noticeable how differently it renders pages on this site than FF 3.6 does. All the boxes that normally have rounded corners now have squared ones. The checkbox for posting AC takes on a different, 3-D look. I have no idea which rendering is the desired one, but they are clearly quite different.
The main reason I don't use Opera much is that I find it painfully slow on /. Opening a story page like this one and rendering the page literally takes a full minute, compared to about 12 seconds for FF 3.6. I have no idea if this is just a problem with the Linux version or what.
I haven't had a very positive experience with Turbo. All your traffic is funneled through Opera's servers and they are often so unresponsive page loads end up taking more, rather than less, time.
The CPU could do hardware virtualization, but by default it was disabled in the BIOS. Why? I have no idea...
At least it could be turned on. Sony computers with processors that support virtualization have the feature disabled in the BIOS and there is no option to enable it.
Software should be copyrighted, NOT patented. Period.
I sympathize with your viewpoint, but the fact that patents expire and copyright is (effectively) eternal means I would prefer software patents to software copyrights in the current legal situation.