No, it's not controlled by an Xbox - there's an Xbox in the car that can "see" the control signals for the steering and the pedals, nothing more. All the other 'drive by wire' hardware in the car are as off-the-shelf as it gets.
When optimizing code, the compiler should worry about cache size and cache footprint, so that it doesn't unroll inner loops too far or cause the code size to increase enough as to cause thrashing. HT has just cut the maximum cache footprint where increasing size for possily minor performance boosts may make sense in half. GCC has an option called --param max-unrolled-insns=VALUE, which controls just that. There are possibly others with similar effects, possibly also for other compilers. Additionally, it may make sense to have the compiler optimize for size instead of speed in some cases.
I think you're missing a factor of two in there. 1 Hz of bandwidth for the analog signal is equivalent to a full sine swing of the signal, e.g. from 0 to 1 to -1 and back to 0, which can be represented in digital as a black and a white pixel. The horizontal resolution of analog video is usually measured in "lines", but they actually mean pairs of lines. S-Video for example has about 400 of thoes lines of resolution, however, this is measured 'per picture height', i.e. one could fit 400/3*4 = 532 of those line pairs in a complete horizontal line (for a 4:3 acpect ratio). Also, since this is analog, one usually accepts that the signal is 3db or so down from the full swing (don't know the exact number), so one can in fact get away with a little less than two times the pixels as analog line pairs.
Digital Video is something entirely different with 720 pixels horizontally for both NTSC and PAL derived standards. Note that those pixels are non-square, there's an alternative standard which is not commonly used in broadcast with square pixels, which is indeed 640x480 for NTSC (or to be more precise 480i).
Back in the days when the first widescreen computer monitors became available (that was about 10 years ago, and it was a Sony 24" screen), the additional space was advertised as beeing useful for menus, window titles and status bars ont top and below a full resolution HD frame.
Water is different from water steam, and both are only good at blocking certain radio frequencies as opposed to all wireless signals as you seem to infer. If they choose a suitable frequency, I wouldn't expect severe problems with clouds or rain.
That's what mains simulators are there for. You can control exactly how dirty you want the supply voltage to be. Drop the voltage a bit, increase it a little, add spikes of precisely defined voltage, skip half a cycle or more. Power supplies have to pass such tests to be allowed to carry the EC logo (and be legally sold to consumers in the EC), and sadly, a number of PC power supplies just die when subjected to them - even expensive brand name ones.
There's a parasite that does similar things to snails. It makes the snails move to exposed places where they are visible to birds, get eaten, and the parasite gets distributed by bird excrement. Aditionally, the worm pulsating inside the eye stalk looks really gross.
The Ozone Hole is an easier problem to fix than the greenhouse gasses, because there are replacements that don't damage the ozone layer for almost all uses of CFCs , and there were only relatively small quantities of CFCs in circulation in the first place, at least in comparison the the amount of CO2 that's exhausted every day. Additionally, a lot of the CFCs were contained in refrigerators and ACs, so they could be disposed of properly instead of beeing released into the atmosphere.
With some handwaving, your timeshifted rental may be OK under the "classic" copyright law, however, with most DVDs (and you are talking about DVDs, because you couldn't possibly "rip" VHS tapes in 20 minutes) you are quite likely to have used an illegal circumvention device as prohibited by the DMCA. Therefore, your whole argument is moot, and the copy illegal.
If the Supreme Court became involved, they'd probably have to decide about the constitutionality of the DMCA, and not about your right to timeshift.
No, sorry. No one in his right mind would buy SGIs for a renderfarm, not now and not ten years ago - the price/performance ratio in terms of raw CPU power has been quite bad for SGIs since ages. However, if you want a box for modelers, texture painters, animators etc, then SGIs may have been a good choice. SGI's stock is worthless because powerful 3d graphic cards are a dime a dozen for PCs today, and linux, macOS and windows are all taking over traditional irix applications.
I can't remember any studio using SGIs in a renderfarm. Pixar used headless SUNs in their earlier movies (Toy Story etc), the 3d stuff for Titanic was done on Alphas, and nowadays it's just PCs.
Note that renderfarms are probably the place where it's easiest of all to switch platforms, since they are not interactive and the renderers are usually very portable.
No, they don't. At least the vast majority of them do not have GPS. There are very few exceptions to this, and you would probably know if your phone had GPS, because the manufacturer would be advertising this feature in large, bold letters all over the packaging, the phone, the manual, everywhere. One exception: the garmin navtalk gsm
Besides, for GPS you need a rather bulky antenna (in comparison with what you can get away with in G3 or GSM phones), something that won't go unnoticed with the small phones available today. On top of all that, GPS receivers are rather battery hungry, and even more so if they don't have good reception, which is highly likely since GPS requires an unobstructed view of the sky, so say goodbye to standby times exceeding one measily day.
A GPS-reciever in the phone won't help you indoors, under dense forest canopy or even while in your pocket.
How will this work? When will the personal questions be shown? Even if they will be shown only after login and password have been entered, the phishers will just relay those to the real bank's site, and grab the questions or images from there - and then the phishers will already have the login information. I've seen this with ebay login phishing attempts, where they would acutally use ebay's servers to verify the credentials you have entered on the phisher's server.
Well, sun didn't design the laptops they offer. They are just reselling existing products from naturetech and Tadpole, both of which have offered SPARC based notebooks for years (more than a decade in case of Tadpole). While their CPUs may not be fast compared to currtent x86 Laptops, the hardware is pretty solid and size an weight are comparable to common x86 notebooks.
Additionally, SUN has actually built a portable system back in the days of the microSPARC II CPUs, which probably wasn't too bad, and nowhere near the size and weight of a E450 - probably more like a SparcStation 5 with a LCD strapped on the top.
Not quite correct. PAL and NTSC are just standards for color coding, and have not much to do with the Black&White picture that goes along with this. They are erroneously associated with 480i and 576i video signals, respectively. However, Brazil uses 480i with PAL Color as their broadcast standard, which is called PAL-M (the M is essentially a standard for transmitting a 480i b&w picture), as opposed to the NTSC-M used throughout the rest of the americas. I think the most common broadcast standard in Europe is PAL-G (again, the G is a standard for 576i).
You do know that SOHO is already happily orbiting L1? Obviously, from L1 it has an unobstructed view of the sun all the time. Additionally, this gives us almost 180 degrees of coverage - not quite as good at the rim, but coverage none the less.
I actually wanted to buy one of those notebooks - but it would have to have a better than xga screen (e.g. 1400x1050), and a "proper" graphics card instead of an integrated shared memory chipset. Both the nc6000 and nc6230 seem to fit the bill - but neither is available here in Germany (the nc6000 is available in.gb and.fr, but not the nc6230, this one almost seems to be an.us exclusive).
For the nc6000 they claim that it is not available anymore because it's an old model - ok that seems plausible, but why is the nc6230 nowhere to be seen?
Since nitrogen accounts for 78% of our atmosphere, blue light gets scattered quite a bit, which is why the sky is blue. Since blue light scatters so much, it tends to blur vision.
While blue light does get scattered by the atmosphere, this is not the reason why humans don't get sharp vision in the blue tones. The eye is good at telling apart tones of blue - as opposed to green - but not only the spacial resolution for blue is pretty bad - only about 2% of the cones are for blue (the rest are for red and green) the lens doen't refract light uniformly for all wavelengths, so that blue is essentially out of focus by design of the eye. While the rods are more light sensitive, the cones have a higher resolution, and are used for focussing, but even that just doesn't work well with blue or violet due to the low number of blue cones.
Googling for "rods", "cones" etc. reveals some interesing articles like this one.
No law was stopping players to ignore User Operation Prohibitions, but the DVDCA's licensing. You can't build a licensed DVD player that allows the user to skip over 'unskippable' content, turn off 'mandatory' subtitles or other annoyances, much in the same way region coding or macrovision copy protection on the analog signals for css encoded discs are required.
Oh, so that's what's happening when they get past "A" in their dictionary. We're getting spammed by the same Spammers for months, and they always start at "A", and after tens of thousands of addresses they tried, they change from loans back to viagra (again), and start back at "A". Today it's "(great|mega|giga|Cool)(Ppharmaacy|drugs|meds)", and they have just gotten to "a1": a1100428 a_1205 a12981ay a1388 a13peanut a1 6165 a164 a1n2n0e3 a2769339 a2793 a286to586...
And it's not like we wouldn't have RBLs and other fancy stuff, there are just too many zombies out there.
And even if they didn't put it in the links (hey, somebody could whore some karma), they could at least seed coral cache by loading the page through it once. It's dead now, and the copy in the coral cache reads:
Due to techical problems this page is currently unavailable.
Please try after a while - we will do our best to resolve this issue as soon as possible.
It's horizontal. 4k is 4k x 2k pixels. However, the 'smaller' digital cinema projectors use relsolutions as low as 1280x1024 with anamorpic lenses to stretch the whole image over the 1.85:1 or 2.35:1 screen.
Over here in europe, even that is much better than the average copy of conventional film, since the focus is adjusted just once and stays essentially perfect, and you can't scratch a digital movie, or neglect to service the projector so bad that the image is vibrating as if the projector was run by a two stroke engine.
LC displays of the sizes used in today's notebook rely on multiple CFLs for their backlight. My 15" 16:9 notebook has 3 vertical CFLs, which was pretty obvious when the middle one failed recently, and on e of my old 10" notebooks had 2. However you're correct insaying that one cannot control them on a pixel by pixel basis, the lighting just blends over from one tube to the next.
The resolution of the T2EE wmv hd disc is actually just 1440 x 816, which comes close to the vertical resolution of 1080p since it just cuts off the black bars on top and bottom, but the horizontal resolution isn't even 3/4 of 'proper' 180p.
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There are 1 million people coming to /. this week (or more?) $50 a year per user is $50 million. This is enough to get 20 shows going for a year.
I'd say that's just barely 30 episodes of some shows. Futurama averages at about US$1.5 Million per episode.
...controlled by an Xbox 360??
No, it's not controlled by an Xbox - there's an Xbox in the car that can "see" the control signals for the steering and the pedals, nothing more. All the other 'drive by wire' hardware in the car are as off-the-shelf as it gets.
When optimizing code, the compiler should worry about cache size and cache footprint, so that it doesn't unroll inner loops too far or cause the code size to increase enough as to cause thrashing. HT has just cut the maximum cache footprint where increasing size for possily minor performance boosts may make sense in half. GCC has an option called --param max-unrolled-insns=VALUE, which controls just that. There are possibly others with similar effects, possibly also for other compilers. Additionally, it may make sense to have the compiler optimize for size instead of speed in some cases.
I think you're missing a factor of two in there. 1 Hz of bandwidth for the analog signal is equivalent to a full sine swing of the signal, e.g. from 0 to 1 to -1 and back to 0, which can be represented in digital as a black and a white pixel. The horizontal resolution of analog video is usually measured in "lines", but they actually mean pairs of lines. S-Video for example has about 400 of thoes lines of resolution, however, this is measured 'per picture height', i.e. one could fit 400/3*4 = 532 of those line pairs in a complete horizontal line (for a 4:3 acpect ratio). Also, since this is analog, one usually accepts that the signal is 3db or so down from the full swing (don't know the exact number), so one can in fact get away with a little less than two times the pixels as analog line pairs.
Digital Video is something entirely different with 720 pixels horizontally for both NTSC and PAL derived standards. Note that those pixels are non-square, there's an alternative standard which is not commonly used in broadcast with square pixels, which is indeed 640x480 for NTSC (or to be more precise 480i).
Back in the days when the first widescreen computer monitors became available (that was about 10 years ago, and it was a Sony 24" screen), the additional space was advertised as beeing useful for menus, window titles and status bars ont top and below a full resolution HD frame.
Water is different from water steam, and both are only good at blocking certain radio frequencies as opposed to all wireless signals as you seem to infer. If they choose a suitable frequency, I wouldn't expect severe problems with clouds or rain.
That's what mains simulators are there for. You can control exactly how dirty you want the supply voltage to be. Drop the voltage a bit, increase it a little, add spikes of precisely defined voltage, skip half a cycle or more. Power supplies have to pass such tests to be allowed to carry the EC logo (and be legally sold to consumers in the EC), and sadly, a number of PC power supplies just die when subjected to them - even expensive brand name ones.
There's a parasite that does similar things to snails. It makes the snails move to exposed places where they are visible to birds, get eaten, and the parasite gets distributed by bird excrement. Aditionally, the worm pulsating inside the eye stalk looks really gross.
The Ozone Hole is an easier problem to fix than the greenhouse gasses, because there are replacements that don't damage the ozone layer for almost all uses of CFCs , and there were only relatively small quantities of CFCs in circulation in the first place, at least in comparison the the amount of CO2 that's exhausted every day. Additionally, a lot of the CFCs were contained in refrigerators and ACs, so they could be disposed of properly instead of beeing released into the atmosphere.
With some handwaving, your timeshifted rental may be OK under the "classic" copyright law, however, with most DVDs (and you are talking about DVDs, because you couldn't possibly "rip" VHS tapes in 20 minutes) you are quite likely to have used an illegal circumvention device as prohibited by the DMCA. Therefore, your whole argument is moot, and the copy illegal.
If the Supreme Court became involved, they'd probably have to decide about the constitutionality of the DMCA, and not about your right to timeshift.
No, sorry. No one in his right mind would buy SGIs for a renderfarm, not now and not ten years ago - the price/performance ratio in terms of raw CPU power has been quite bad for SGIs since ages. However, if you want a box for modelers, texture painters, animators etc, then SGIs may have been a good choice. SGI's stock is worthless because powerful 3d graphic cards are a dime a dozen for PCs today, and linux, macOS and windows are all taking over traditional irix applications.
I can't remember any studio using SGIs in a renderfarm. Pixar used headless SUNs in their earlier movies (Toy Story etc), the 3d stuff for Titanic was done on Alphas, and nowadays it's just PCs.
Note that renderfarms are probably the place where it's easiest of all to switch platforms, since they are not interactive and the renderers are usually very portable.
No, they don't. At least the vast majority of them do not have GPS. There are very few exceptions to this, and you would probably know if your phone had GPS, because the manufacturer would be advertising this feature in large, bold letters all over the packaging, the phone, the manual, everywhere. One exception: the garmin navtalk gsm
Besides, for GPS you need a rather bulky antenna (in comparison with what you can get away with in G3 or GSM phones), something that won't go unnoticed with the small phones available today. On top of all that, GPS receivers are rather battery hungry, and even more so if they don't have good reception, which is highly likely since GPS requires an unobstructed view of the sky, so say goodbye to standby times exceeding one measily day.
A GPS-reciever in the phone won't help you indoors, under dense forest canopy or even while in your pocket.
How will this work? When will the personal questions be shown? Even if they will be shown only after login and password have been entered, the phishers will just relay those to the real bank's site, and grab the questions or images from there - and then the phishers will already have the login information. I've seen this with ebay login phishing attempts, where they would acutally use ebay's servers to verify the credentials you have entered on the phisher's server.
Well, sun didn't design the laptops they offer. They are just reselling existing products from naturetech and Tadpole, both of which have offered SPARC based notebooks for years (more than a decade in case of Tadpole). While their CPUs may not be fast compared to currtent x86 Laptops, the hardware is pretty solid and size an weight are comparable to common x86 notebooks.
Additionally, SUN has actually built a portable system back in the days of the microSPARC II CPUs, which probably wasn't too bad, and nowhere near the size and weight of a E450 - probably more like a SparcStation 5 with a LCD strapped on the top.
Not quite correct. PAL and NTSC are just standards for color coding, and have not much to do with the Black&White picture that goes along with this. They are erroneously associated with 480i and 576i video signals, respectively. However, Brazil uses 480i with PAL Color as their broadcast standard, which is called PAL-M (the M is essentially a standard for transmitting a 480i b&w picture), as opposed to the NTSC-M used throughout the rest of the americas. I think the most common broadcast standard in Europe is PAL-G (again, the G is a standard for 576i).
You do know that SOHO is already happily orbiting L1? Obviously, from L1 it has an unobstructed view of the sun all the time. Additionally, this gives us almost 180 degrees of coverage - not quite as good at the rim, but coverage none the less.
I actually wanted to buy one of those notebooks - but it would have to have a better than xga screen (e.g. 1400x1050), and a "proper" graphics card instead of an integrated shared memory chipset. Both the nc6000 and nc6230 seem to fit the bill - but neither is available here in Germany (the nc6000 is available in .gb and .fr, but not the nc6230, this one almost seems to be an .us exclusive).
For the nc6000 they claim that it is not available anymore because it's an old model - ok that seems plausible, but why is the nc6230 nowhere to be seen?
Since nitrogen accounts for 78% of our atmosphere, blue light gets scattered quite a bit, which is why the sky is blue. Since blue light scatters so much, it tends to blur vision.
While blue light does get scattered by the atmosphere, this is not the reason why humans don't get sharp vision in the blue tones. The eye is good at telling apart tones of blue - as opposed to green - but not only the spacial resolution for blue is pretty bad - only about 2% of the cones are for blue (the rest are for red and green) the lens doen't refract light uniformly for all wavelengths, so that blue is essentially out of focus by design of the eye. While the rods are more light sensitive, the cones have a higher resolution, and are used for focussing, but even that just doesn't work well with blue or violet due to the low number of blue cones.
Googling for "rods", "cones" etc. reveals some interesing articles like this one.
Nothing was prohibiting the players
No law was stopping players to ignore User Operation Prohibitions, but the DVDCA's licensing. You can't build a licensed DVD player that allows the user to skip over 'unskippable' content, turn off 'mandatory' subtitles or other annoyances, much in the same way region coding or macrovision copy protection on the analog signals for css encoded discs are required.
Oh, so that's what's happening when they get past "A" in their dictionary. We're getting spammed by the same Spammers for months, and they always start at "A", and after tens of thousands of addresses they tried, they change from loans back to viagra (again), and start back at "A". Today it's "(great|mega|giga|Cool)(Ppharmaacy|drugs|meds)", and they have just gotten to "a1":
1 6165 ...
a1100428
a_1205
a12981ay
a1388
a13peanut
a
a164
a1n2n0e3
a2769339
a2793
a286to586
And it's not like we wouldn't have RBLs and other fancy stuff, there are just too many zombies out there.
And even if they didn't put it in the links (hey, somebody could whore some karma), they could at least seed coral cache by loading the page through it once. It's dead now, and the copy in the coral cache reads:
Due to techical problems this page is currently unavailable.
Please try after a while - we will do our best to resolve this issue as soon as possible.
It's horizontal. 4k is 4k x 2k pixels. However, the 'smaller' digital cinema projectors use relsolutions as low as 1280x1024 with anamorpic lenses to stretch the whole image over the 1.85:1 or 2.35:1 screen.
Over here in europe, even that is much better than the average copy of conventional film, since the focus is adjusted just once and stays essentially perfect, and you can't scratch a digital movie, or neglect to service the projector so bad that the image is vibrating as if the projector was run by a two stroke engine.
LC displays of the sizes used in today's notebook rely on multiple CFLs for their backlight. My 15" 16:9 notebook has 3 vertical CFLs, which was pretty obvious when the middle one failed recently, and on e of my old 10" notebooks had 2. However you're correct insaying that one cannot control them on a pixel by pixel basis, the lighting just blends over from one tube to the next.
There's a (sadly apparently now out of print) textbook on building filesystems using BeFS as a guide.
I think the book you're talking about is available as a PDF, many links can be found on google.
The resolution of the T2EE wmv hd disc is actually just 1440 x 816, which comes close to the vertical resolution of 1080p since it just cuts off the black bars on top and bottom, but the horizontal resolution isn't even 3/4 of 'proper' 180p.