I liked the ending. Looking at that statue left me with the same twisted feeling in my stomach as the original. It had some kind of identity destruction effect on me.
But I thought a much better (and more contraversial) ending would be for him to have landed in a church and seen either a crucifix or a statue of Mary with baby Jesus^H^H^H^H^HCemos
"I may sound like a troll of sorts or anti Intel, but when it comes to high end scientific engineering does anyone actually use anything outside the realms of Sun, Irix, and Alpha? Although benchmarks claim to show factual information, I've always seen them as a bit biased."
Nobody in the scientific community purchases Sparcs of SGI's for computational work anymore. The Sparc and MIPS boxes that you see crunching today are all older boxes that still work. Today Sparcs and MIPS are slower and more expensive than a reasonable PC. You are just as likely to see simulations done with an Apple as you are with a brand new Sparc or Indy. I.E. not much.
Today everybody buys PC's and Alphas, although Alphas are getting used less and less as the i386 has caught up. I fear that in the next decade we will stop using Alphas, if things continue to develop as they are.
A 300 IQ with a mean of 100 and SD of 15, would imply that in every 1.29943E40 persons that exists, one could qualify to join MENSA.
I am very sorry to say this but I do not think that all of the God-like alien intelligences in the multiverse want to join some stupid human club and discuss the merits of conjugation in Esperanto.
Did anybody read the article... Chip Production doesn't start until 2004. How can this be marketing vapour? Who the hell will wait over 3 years for the best console.
The previous post wasn't great, but shit , it was on topic and wasn't false.
"People are going to realize that microsoft is really just along for the ride, and the xbox will go the way of the Jaguar (good tech, bad implementation)."
The Jaguar was not good technology. The statement of it being 64bit was a lie. It consisted of multiple processors that added up to 64bits total. That is why the games did not look impressive. That piece of shit was barely more powerful than the ill-fated 32X and was nowhere in the league of the Saturn, PSX, and N64.
Yes but the EV-1 is not a practicle vehicle. You can go like 100-200 miles, very slowly, between the many hour recharges.
Whereas with the Honda and Toyota hybrids, you don't have to recharge at all, get incredible gas millage, and can travel fast enough to use the interstate.
You don't have to do research to know that a cellular phone cannot possibly give you brain cancer in any known way.
First of all the total amount of energy given off is very small. It runs off of a single battery.
Secondly, the amount of energy per photon is also very small. Much less than that of visible light.
So even performing research on such a bogus claim is a waste of money. And anyone stupid enough to research such a thing without first knowing that it is pointless is probably a very bad scientist.
They aren't. Loki is an independent company that ports Windows source code for a cut of the profit.
The question is why Loki chose Linux and not MacOS, and that is because it is a growing platform, with no real gamming support, and is enjoyable to program for.
"(a) I can write Maxwell's equation in whatever form I like : quaternions, vectors, component
by component (go read Gell-Mann's book to see how cumbersome that is) covariant-indice
form, and (most beautifully) in differential forms. It expresses a bunch of coupled differential equations that's all."
You forgot my favorate form, TENSOR
F^{mu nu} = dA^nu/dx_mu - dA^mu/dx_nu
"Fist Full of Dollars" with Clint Eastwood was a shot-for-shot remake of Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo". That was the movie that really started the Spaghetti Western movement.
"Last Standing Man" with Bruce Willis was also a remake of "Yojimbo", but not shot-for-shot.
"The Magnificent Seven" was a remake of Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai".
And finally Kurosawa's "Ran" was a remake of Shakespear's "King Lear".
The irony in all of this is that Akira took Western ideas and used them to make samurai movies, which then got remade into Westerns.
And to add one more interesting thought. Lots of classic shots in anime fights are taken from Kurosawa's work. Like the striken enemy not falling over until a delayed few seconds after the blow a.k.a. "Seven Samurai", and the great gyser of blood a.k.a. "Sanjuro"
I dislike Mathematica and its retarted syntax, who the hell types Sin[x]. I hate its bloatedness, its bugs, and I really hate the $hitty UNIX version that looks like a 5th grader ported, when it has been on UNIX forever
I am not a big fan of Maple either. It crashes too much, and it can't factor worth a crap.
Use Maxima instead. It's free, GPL, fast, feature full, and has a clean interface, all LISP.
I wouldn't say that he is ignorant, but these decisions based on marketing and backwards compatibility, while important to Apple and Apple users, are completely against everything that Linus and crew do with Linux.
If you frequent the kernel mailing list, you will find it a frequent topic that the kernel API is always changing and backwards compatibility is of little concern. Perfection in its nearest state is more important to them.
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they still do, in Texas Instruments Graphing calculators
I liked the ending. Looking at that statue left me with the same twisted feeling in my stomach as the original. It had some kind of identity destruction effect on me.
But I thought a much better (and more contraversial) ending would be for him to have landed in a church and seen either a crucifix or a statue of Mary with baby Jesus^H^H^H^H^HCemos
This is kind of their plan for the PS3. With the PS2 they are only experimenting on this front.
The PS2 is an integrated video game, CD player, and DVD video player
While the PS3 will also incorporate the Internet, and other media services, perhaps even Tivo style recording, as it will have a large HD
As FF11 will be Internet based, Square has said that it will be developed on all major platforms, even the Xbox if it doesn't fall on its ass.
It's where and momentum, or when and energy
Where and when can be known
It doesn't make any sense to have an implicit uncertainty within the space-time coordinates
And, yes, I am the asshole that spoils all fun
"I may sound like a troll of sorts or anti Intel, but when it comes to high end scientific engineering does anyone actually use anything outside the realms of Sun, Irix, and Alpha? Although benchmarks claim to show factual information, I've always seen them as a bit biased."
Nobody in the scientific community purchases Sparcs of SGI's for computational work anymore. The Sparc and MIPS boxes that you see crunching today are all older boxes that still work. Today Sparcs and MIPS are slower and more expensive than a reasonable PC. You are just as likely to see simulations done with an Apple as you are with a brand new Sparc or Indy. I.E. not much.
Today everybody buys PC's and Alphas, although Alphas are getting used less and less as the i386 has caught up. I fear that in the next decade we will stop using Alphas, if things continue to develop as they are.
A 300 IQ with a mean of 100 and SD of 15, would imply that in every 1.29943E40 persons that exists, one could qualify to join MENSA.
I am very sorry to say this but I do not think that all of the God-like alien intelligences in the multiverse want to join some stupid human club and discuss the merits of conjugation in Esperanto.
Did anybody read the article ... Chip Production doesn't start until 2004. How can this be marketing vapour? Who the hell will wait over 3 years for the best console.
The previous post wasn't great, but shit , it was on topic and wasn't false.
"People are going to realize that microsoft is really just along for the ride, and the xbox will go the way of the Jaguar (good tech, bad implementation)."
The Jaguar was not good technology. The statement of it being 64bit was a lie. It consisted of multiple processors that added up to 64bits total. That is why the games did not look impressive. That piece of shit was barely more powerful than the ill-fated 32X and was nowhere in the league of the Saturn, PSX, and N64.
Yes but the EV-1 is not a practicle vehicle. You can go like 100-200 miles, very slowly, between the many hour recharges.
Whereas with the Honda and Toyota hybrids, you don't have to recharge at all, get incredible gas millage, and can travel fast enough to use the interstate.
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You don't have to do research to know that a cellular phone cannot possibly give you brain cancer in any known way.
First of all the total amount of energy given off is very small. It runs off of a single battery.
Secondly, the amount of energy per photon is also very small. Much less than that of visible light.
So even performing research on such a bogus claim is a waste of money. And anyone stupid enough to research such a thing without first knowing that it is pointless is probably a very bad scientist.
They aren't. Loki is an independent company that ports Windows source code for a cut of the profit.
The question is why Loki chose Linux and not MacOS, and that is because it is a growing platform, with no real gamming support, and is enjoyable to program for.
Because we can't speak English or because we want everything free.
How does this argument apply to a company that creates both free and not free software.
Microsoft does the same thing. Pay for some things, others are free.
Open mouth, insert foot.
"Things that weigh less are less likely to be torn apart in the wind. They have less inertia, and so will simply move with it instead of breaking."
That's nice if there is a uniform force, but apply a torque and that bitch will snap in half.
It is turtles all the way down !
"(a) I can write Maxwell's equation in whatever form I like : quaternions, vectors, component
by component (go read Gell-Mann's book to see how cumbersome that is) covariant-indice
form, and (most beautifully) in differential forms. It expresses a bunch of coupled differential equations that's all."
You forgot my favorate form, TENSOR
F^{mu nu} = dA^nu/dx_mu - dA^mu/dx_nu
"Fist Full of Dollars" with Clint Eastwood was a shot-for-shot remake of Akira Kurosawa's "Yojimbo". That was the movie that really started the Spaghetti Western movement.
"Last Standing Man" with Bruce Willis was also a remake of "Yojimbo", but not shot-for-shot.
"The Magnificent Seven" was a remake of Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai".
And finally Kurosawa's "Ran" was a remake of Shakespear's "King Lear".
The irony in all of this is that Akira took Western ideas and used them to make samurai movies, which then got remade into Westerns.
And to add one more interesting thought. Lots of classic shots in anime fights are taken from Kurosawa's work. Like the striken enemy not falling over until a delayed few seconds after the blow a.k.a. "Seven Samurai", and the great gyser of blood a.k.a. "Sanjuro"
People who can see, shouldn't design this crap . . .
Can you spot the invention that the 20/20 retard made.
I dislike Mathematica and its retarted syntax, who the hell types Sin[x]. I hate its bloatedness, its bugs, and I really hate the $hitty UNIX version that looks like a 5th grader ported, when it has been on UNIX forever
I am not a big fan of Maple either. It crashes too much, and it can't factor worth a crap.
Use Maxima instead. It's free, GPL, fast, feature full, and has a clean interface, all LISP.
http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/wfs/maxima.html
If carbon dioxide is a pollutant, then you should hold your breath.
Then why did't they name it LISCB?
Apache on OSX is noticably slower, but that is no more of a good benchmark than Photoshop.
I wouldn't say that he is ignorant, but these decisions based on marketing and backwards compatibility, while important to Apple and Apple users, are completely against everything that Linus and crew do with Linux.
If you frequent the kernel mailing list, you will find it a frequent topic that the kernel API is always changing and backwards compatibility is of little concern. Perfection in its nearest state is more important to them.