There are NO free sources of hydrogen around to tap, to the best of my knowledge.
It's so big you've missed the obvious: The sun! A huge ball of hydrogen just sitting there just waiting to be tapped. All we need is a rather lenghty piece of heat resistent pipe and we could just pump all the hydrogen we'll ever need. Brilliant I tell you.
Actually, System Shock's environment is basically 2.5D
Ah true true, my memories must have been tainted:) I thought I recalled travelling underneath sections of the map, but that must just have been clever map design as you say. this page shows that it was more advanced than Doom though, allowing you to stand on objects etc. Made it very close to 3D without actually beeing 3D.
Both System Shock and Descent were released two years before Quake. Both featured a 3D enviroment (and not "2.5D" ala Doom). Descent even had 3D enemies like in Quake.
2256 meters after 200,000,000 years gives a sinking speed of *11 microns per year*.
From this page, it says that the Snorre field is located approx 140km west of the coast. The ocean depth is at around 300-300m, but the reservoir is some 2500m down. It also says that the reservoir differs from most of the other fields in the North Sea in that the rock consists of fossil riverbeds from a time (triassic period) when the North Sea was dry land containing big rivers.
I'm guessing it doesn't really matter how much it has moved, since things were probably very different then anyways.
Until this page [pineight.com] no longer looks blocky, it won't be workable. Go fix bugzilla.mozilla.org bug 98971 if you want something done about it.
I don't know C++ very well, I don't know how to compile Firefox/Mozilla under Windows, and thus I have no experience of the Mozilla code base. However, it's obviously a very low priority for anyone with those skills, as resampling code is readily available all over the internet. It's basically "plug and play", unless the Mozilla code needs major refactoring for this to work.
The better solution is to use vm for virtual memory and run all code in the same memory space, but only run code that cannot access memory illegally (ie no pointer arithmetic, only references). This code could be written in Java, or libmo, or D, or maybe other 'safe' languages and run at much faster speeds than they do now as traditional linux processes.
Sounds a bit like Singularity, although they state that the primary motivation behind Singularity is dependence, not performance. It has some interesting features that from what I can see eliminates a lot of copying. Taken from an overview document:
"The Exchange Heap, which underlies efficient communication in Singularity, holds data passed between processes.... A process accesses a [memory] region through a structure called an allocation.... More than one allocation may share read-only access to an underlying [memory] region. Moreover, the allocations can have different base and bounds, which provide distinct views into the underlying data. For example, protocol processing code in a network stack can strip the encapsulated protocol headers off a packet without copying it."
Where does your room mate find the 150 to 300 hours to watch the DVDs?
I know people who play computer games >10 hrs a day, so I hardly think 300hrs is all that much...
No, they don't do much else...
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In Unix, I can assign a file an owner, one or more groups, and the type of access I want groups, owner, and everyone else to have to that file.
You can do this in Windows too.
I can also be logged in as a user, and then also log in as root if I need to make some system changes, without logging off as a users. In Windows, I must go through an annoying process of switching accounts to log in as an administrator.
They've finally fixed this in Vista from what I've heard. They've named it User Account Control. Basically it will only run the programs that needs admin access in the context of an administrator account, after asking you first.
I know that modern applications are not supposed to write to the Program Files directory and are supposed to write to the Application Data directory under the users specific directory... unfortunatly, the majority of software programs are not created to do that!
So it's Microsofts fault that application writers ignore Microsofts advice for how to write "proper" installers for Windows? Yeah backwards compatebility is an issue, but it's been like 6 years since the "Documents and Settings" directory was born.
Why can't Microsoft just borrow the Unix permission system, it is not like it is patented or anything?
It already has a superset of the Unix permission system, so I don't see how this is neccessary? For a file (or registry key etc), you can set permissions for any number of groups and users, and in a much more fine grained manner than the standard Unix way (unless you're using POSIX ACLs).
Won't building a model based on an equation automatically prove a theory that is based on that equation?
You don't use the model to predict what the model will do, you use it to predict what (in this case) actual black holes will do. And so if your model predicts something else than what happens in nature (within the limitations of the model), you know your theory is bust.
For a regular image, that is mostly true. However in the case of stars and such, you have a bright object over a usually uniform dark background. This allows you to compute how much energy each pixel has, and this again allows you to calculate the fraction of star/planet in each pixel, so to speak.
Also, you can capture an image sequence. Between images the vantage point changes slightly. By combining these images and correcting for the change of position, you can get an image which has a much higher resolution than the sensor. Lately, amateur astronomers have been using this technique, allowing them to make very good images using cheap webcams.
What it brings to the table is an answer to the one thing evolution can't give a better answer to. What started it all. From there we can ponder, why did this being start everything. Human beings do not design something without a reason.
But these are philosophical and religious issues, and are thus totally irrelevant in the context of science. Unless it gives testable predictions about the start of the universe or whatnot, it's not adding anything to the scientific table. If proponents of ID would fall back and say "yeah, ok, so it's not a scientific theory, it's not a contender to the theory of evolution, it's a philosophical/religious idea", then I'm fairly sure it would take a lot less heat, if any at all, at least from the scientific community.
Why is that ID is the recipient of so many attacks. There is nothing "unscientific" about the notion that there is an intelligence greater than ourselves that created this universe we live in.
Perhaps, but from what I can see, a main problem is that it doesn't add anything usefull (from a scientific point of view) to our understanding of the world around us.
Imagine you're a lab rat stuck in a lab cage. Imagine that you get water (or similar) from this device at apparently random intervals. I'm in the cage next to you, and I say to you that I have a theory about the device: The device is controlled by a researcher. However, this researcher can't be seen, because he is hiding from us, watching us, but cannot be observed.
Now, armed with my "Theory Of The Device", are you any closer to knowing when you will get water next?
Perhaps there really is a "designer" which does things to the world around us. But unless ID can predict the designers actions, it is useless as a theory: it doesn't bring anything new to the table.
I'm surprised you have to ask this question. As most of the international community seems to know, there are a large amount of people in the United States who are pompous, arrogant assholes.
Good point;) I must admit that I didn't really get that impression the one time I visited the US, but I guess I might have just been "lucky" and/or filtered it out.
I'm really curious why this is such a problem "over there". I've yet to go to a movie here in Oslo, Norway where there's anything like that (not counting movies for kids). Perhaps it's because the fewer screenings and reserved seats (you can reserve seats over the internet or phone up to three days in advance) makes it a bit more "formal" or special? Here in Oslo it seems (from my very very limited experience) we have fewer but larger theaters, perhaps thats it? I know I wouldn't want to piss off 600+ ppl:)
As for viewing experience, I've yet to be to a theater that beats Colosseum. Colosseum 1 has a 22m by 9m (approx. 72ft by 29.5ft) screen, a 22KW Dolby Surround EX sound system (which they claim supports Dolby SRD, DTS & Sony SDDS), and is afaik still the worlds larges THX certified theater. The 978 seats are very comfortable, and there's plenty of room for your legs. The inclination between the seats is also steep enough that I've yet to be obscured by a person in front of me. Here's an image of the theater.
Only downside is it often takes up to 6 months before we get the films after they're released the US. Frustrating!
In the photos, the RAM chips still have cooling fins, and they're still aligned radially around the core; however, since there is no airflow there they're surely going to overheat...
All I can say is that my watercooled 7800GT has the same sort of cooling fins on the RAM, low air circulation inside the case, and so far no troubles. Remember that since the GPU is not heating up the air inside the case, the air is a lot cooler.
Main problem I can see with this card is that many case designs would have the PSU sucking the hot air this card blows out right back into the case.
The FEAR benchmark is actually the most peculiar, because FEAR is usually bottlenecked by GPU performance.
Indeed. I have an AMD X2 3800+, and when overclocking my 6800GT, I saw a linear increase in framerate for each MHz I overclocked. 10% higher clock resulted in 10% more frames per second.
Honestly, the only thing Office has that I really miss in Open Office is Access. Access is a great program to interact with other databases with via ODBC drivers, and I've yet to see a good open source replacement.
You don't have to miss it much longer, The Ultimate Address Book will be done shortly and will cover all your Access needs.
For me, there's a few things that has to be in place for Linux to be considered as a desktop replacement:
Windows Explorer-clone. Must support drag'n'drop between applications like on windows (ie ability to drag file from explorer-clone into ftp client is a must). Must handle archive operations etc (either directly or through "plugins" ala context menu handlers in windows).
Clipboard. Ability to copy content in one application and paste it in another, with common shortcut keys. At least text must work across (almost) all applications. Typical example: copy bitmap in paint program, paste into a OpenOffice-style document.
Media player ala MediaPlayer Classic. Must handle wmv/mov/avi, preferably with ffdshow-like filters.
Image viewer ala ACDSee, with thumbnail browser.
Image manipulation program ala PaintShop Pro. Haven't checked out latest Gimp, might be good enough. Must support the clipboard.
That's what I need on my desktop before considering a switch. I didn't mention Office, since I belive OpenOffice will cut it. Firefox and Thunderbird handles internet superbly.
It's been a year since I tried to check out these items, so there might be some viable alternatives. Any pointers appreciated:)
Mass ~2xvolume tons: ~300,000,000,000,000,000,000 t
It appears that Earth's mass is about 5,976,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg. If we hauled 1000 kg per day into orbit, we'd be shipping about 0.00000000000000000596% of Earth's mass into orbit per year!
Have you gone back and actually played Doom I or II recently? Compare that to almost any modern game and tell me it looks just as good. Many parts of Doom were up to the player's imagination (remember the "Suburbs" and "Factory" maps in Doom II?).
A year ago, I dug up Rise Of The Triads, which I used to play with a few of my buddies in multiplayer mode. It used the same 320x200 mode that Doom I & II used. I had a hard time navigating, figuring out where the walls started and the floor ended. I was completely unable to spot an enemy until he was like 2 feet away. Which was funny, cause I remember beeing able to locate "the other guy" by seeing 3 pixels in with the "wrong" colors:)
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There are NO free sources of hydrogen around to tap, to the best of my knowledge.
It's so big you've missed the obvious: The sun! A huge ball of hydrogen just sitting there just waiting to be tapped. All we need is a rather lenghty piece of heat resistent pipe and we could just pump all the hydrogen we'll ever need. Brilliant I tell you.
Actually, System Shock's environment is basically 2.5D
:) I thought I recalled travelling underneath sections of the map, but that must just have been clever map design as you say. this page shows that it was more advanced than Doom though, allowing you to stand on objects etc. Made it very close to 3D without actually beeing 3D.
Ah true true, my memories must have been tainted
Quake was the first 3d game
Both System Shock and Descent were released two years before Quake. Both featured a 3D enviroment (and not "2.5D" ala Doom). Descent even had 3D enemies like in Quake.
But parallax mapping and the like? Their advantages are not as obvious, sometimes you actually have to look for it
Actually, when I first played F.E.A.R., that was the very first thing that struck me: Wow, craters in the walls!
Yeah it was slightly buggy, but imho it added a lot to the experience.
but were worried about possible legal issues.
Very good imho. I think I'd prefer straight edges on the boxes though. Some form of visual feedback on the polls are neccessary too I think.
2256 meters after 200,000,000 years gives a sinking speed of *11 microns per year*.
From this page, it says that the Snorre field is located approx 140km west of the coast. The ocean depth is at around 300-300m, but the reservoir is some 2500m down. It also says that the reservoir differs from most of the other fields in the North Sea in that the rock consists of fossil riverbeds from a time (triassic period) when the North Sea was dry land containing big rivers.
I'm guessing it doesn't really matter how much it has moved, since things were probably very different then anyways.
Until this page [pineight.com] no longer looks blocky, it won't be workable. Go fix bugzilla.mozilla.org bug 98971 if you want something done about it.
I don't know C++ very well, I don't know how to compile Firefox/Mozilla under Windows, and thus I have no experience of the Mozilla code base. However, it's obviously a very low priority for anyone with those skills, as resampling code is readily available all over the internet. It's basically "plug and play", unless the Mozilla code needs major refactoring for this to work.
Sounds a bit like Singularity, although they state that the primary motivation behind Singularity is dependence, not performance. It has some interesting features that from what I can see eliminates a lot of copying. Taken from an overview document:
Where does your room mate find the 150 to 300 hours to watch the DVDs?
I know people who play computer games >10 hrs a day, so I hardly think 300hrs is all that much...
No, they don't do much else...
In Unix, I can assign a file an owner, one or more groups, and the type of access I want groups, owner, and everyone else to have to that file.
You can do this in Windows too.
I can also be logged in as a user, and then also log in as root if I need to make some system changes, without logging off as a users. In Windows, I must go through an annoying process of switching accounts to log in as an administrator.
They've finally fixed this in Vista from what I've heard. They've named it User Account Control. Basically it will only run the programs that needs admin access in the context of an administrator account, after asking you first.
I know that modern applications are not supposed to write to the Program Files directory and are supposed to write to the Application Data directory under the users specific directory... unfortunatly, the majority of software programs are not created to do that!
So it's Microsofts fault that application writers ignore Microsofts advice for how to write "proper" installers for Windows? Yeah backwards compatebility is an issue, but it's been like 6 years since the "Documents and Settings" directory was born.
Why can't Microsoft just borrow the Unix permission system, it is not like it is patented or anything?
It already has a superset of the Unix permission system, so I don't see how this is neccessary? For a file (or registry key etc), you can set permissions for any number of groups and users, and in a much more fine grained manner than the standard Unix way (unless you're using POSIX ACLs).
Won't building a model based on an equation automatically prove a theory that is based on that equation?
You don't use the model to predict what the model will do, you use it to predict what (in this case) actual black holes will do. And so if your model predicts something else than what happens in nature (within the limitations of the model), you know your theory is bust.
You either have a pixel or you don't
For a regular image, that is mostly true. However in the case of stars and such, you have a bright object over a usually uniform dark background. This allows you to compute how much energy each pixel has, and this again allows you to calculate the fraction of star/planet in each pixel, so to speak.
Also, you can capture an image sequence. Between images the vantage point changes slightly. By combining these images and correcting for the change of position, you can get an image which has a much higher resolution than the sensor. Lately, amateur astronomers have been using this technique, allowing them to make very good images using cheap webcams.
That's basically taking a million out of one pocket and putting it in another. What's the point?
Well I suppose the IRS has a budget to follow, so it could still hurt the IRS.
What it brings to the table is an answer to the one thing evolution can't give a better answer to. What started it all. From there we can ponder, why did this being start everything. Human beings do not design something without a reason.
But these are philosophical and religious issues, and are thus totally irrelevant in the context of science. Unless it gives testable predictions about the start of the universe or whatnot, it's not adding anything to the scientific table. If proponents of ID would fall back and say "yeah, ok, so it's not a scientific theory, it's not a contender to the theory of evolution, it's a philosophical/religious idea", then I'm fairly sure it would take a lot less heat, if any at all, at least from the scientific community.
Why is that ID is the recipient of so many attacks. There is nothing "unscientific" about the notion that there is an intelligence greater than ourselves that created this universe we live in.
Perhaps, but from what I can see, a main problem is that it doesn't add anything usefull (from a scientific point of view) to our understanding of the world around us.
Imagine you're a lab rat stuck in a lab cage. Imagine that you get water (or similar) from this device at apparently random intervals. I'm in the cage next to you, and I say to you that I have a theory about the device: The device is controlled by a researcher. However, this researcher can't be seen, because he is hiding from us, watching us, but cannot be observed.
Now, armed with my "Theory Of The Device", are you any closer to knowing when you will get water next?
Perhaps there really is a "designer" which does things to the world around us. But unless ID can predict the designers actions, it is useless as a theory: it doesn't bring anything new to the table.
I'm surprised you have to ask this question. As most of the international community seems to know, there are a large amount of people in the United States who are pompous, arrogant assholes.
;) I must admit that I didn't really get that impression the one time I visited the US, but I guess I might have just been "lucky" and/or filtered it out.
Good point
No screaming brats. No cell phones.
:)
I'm really curious why this is such a problem "over there". I've yet to go to a movie here in Oslo, Norway where there's anything like that (not counting movies for kids). Perhaps it's because the fewer screenings and reserved seats (you can reserve seats over the internet or phone up to three days in advance) makes it a bit more "formal" or special? Here in Oslo it seems (from my very very limited experience) we have fewer but larger theaters, perhaps thats it? I know I wouldn't want to piss off 600+ ppl
As for viewing experience, I've yet to be to a theater that beats Colosseum. Colosseum 1 has a 22m by 9m (approx. 72ft by 29.5ft) screen, a 22KW Dolby Surround EX sound system (which they claim supports Dolby SRD, DTS & Sony SDDS), and is afaik still the worlds larges THX certified theater. The 978 seats are very comfortable, and there's plenty of room for your legs. The inclination between the seats is also steep enough that I've yet to be obscured by a person in front of me. Here's an image of the theater.
Only downside is it often takes up to 6 months before we get the films after they're released the US. Frustrating!
In the photos, the RAM chips still have cooling fins, and they're still aligned radially around the core; however, since there is no airflow there they're surely going to overheat...
All I can say is that my watercooled 7800GT has the same sort of cooling fins on the RAM, low air circulation inside the case, and so far no troubles. Remember that since the GPU is not heating up the air inside the case, the air is a lot cooler.
Main problem I can see with this card is that many case designs would have the PSU sucking the hot air this card blows out right back into the case.
The FEAR benchmark is actually the most peculiar, because FEAR is usually bottlenecked by GPU performance.
Indeed. I have an AMD X2 3800+, and when overclocking my 6800GT, I saw a linear increase in framerate for each MHz I overclocked. 10% higher clock resulted in 10% more frames per second.
Honestly, the only thing Office has that I really miss in Open Office is Access. Access is a great program to interact with other databases with via ODBC drivers, and I've yet to see a good open source replacement.
You don't have to miss it much longer, The Ultimate Address Book will be done shortly and will cover all your Access needs.
Thanks, sounds very promising! Sounds like Linux is finally getting there :)
That's what I need on my desktop before considering a switch. I didn't mention Office, since I belive OpenOffice will cut it. Firefox and Thunderbird handles internet superbly.
It's been a year since I tried to check out these items, so there might be some viable alternatives. Any pointers appreciated
Mass ~2xvolume tons: ~300,000,000,000,000,000,000 t
It appears that Earth's mass is about 5,976,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg. If we hauled 1000 kg per day into orbit, we'd be shipping about 0.00000000000000000596% of Earth's mass into orbit per year!
Have you gone back and actually played Doom I or II recently? Compare that to almost any modern game and tell me it looks just as good. Many parts of Doom were up to the player's imagination (remember the "Suburbs" and "Factory" maps in Doom II?).
:)
A year ago, I dug up Rise Of The Triads, which I used to play with a few of my buddies in multiplayer mode. It used the same 320x200 mode that Doom I & II used. I had a hard time navigating, figuring out where the walls started and the floor ended. I was completely unable to spot an enemy until he was like 2 feet away. Which was funny, cause I remember beeing able to locate "the other guy" by seeing 3 pixels in with the "wrong" colors