Well, this would be the single most obvious thing in the world if you ask me. If i was designing an app to scan those codes i woudln't just act on whatever content that the user might encounter but instead present him with whatever it is the QR code is saying.
So instead of scan->immediately open goatse, how hard can it be to go: scan->Show user that the QR code contains a link to goatse and then they can decide whether to go there or not.
Likewise with all other kinds of content (usually it's just pointers though, like links to market, web sites, etc
so what... its an electric engine, thereby you can run it at much lower power outputs and in contrast to an ICE it still runs at near-perfect efficiency...
huh? ive been running chrome on ubuntu for ages now and never ever had even one issue with it. im actually running the unstable versions and theyre perfectly fine. i cant see your problem
AFAIK, most mobile network providers are NAT-ing to a) reduce the number of IP's they have to give out b) keep you from dropping all connections every time you switch from one tower to the next
Uh what?? I do always get sustainable 12 Mbit out of my DSL line here in Germany (which is advertised as 16MBit, but due to bad lines only goes to 12). I get 7Mbit out of my prepaid cheapo 10 €/Mo unlimited (but slows down to GPRS after 1 GB of usage) mobile plan (vodafone) and am soon switching to 32Mbit cable at home (which i've been told is sustainable as well).
What exactly is the big deal with getting customers rates exceeding 4 Mbit??? Gotta be kidding me...
I believe thats what the summary suggested, you can go ahead and learn to type as quickly as possible, but there's a limit as for how fast your mind can come up with code that actually solves the problem.
I can type quite fast, even though i only use thumb to ring finger on my right hand and the index finger on my left hand. This is not a limit for me though, because the bottleneck is the mind and not the fingers. Same with language in generel, english is not my native language and i while i don't have to actively think about what I'm expressing, i still not to kind of fill an internal buffer, not unlike a CD-R application writing.
So yeah, go for eliminating bottlenecks. There's this old saying about optimising:
1) Don't do it.
2) Don't do it, yet. -- Meaning, look for bottlenecks first!
HTC Desire MIUI 12.18
2.6.25.9 HAVS AXI BFS -> 1.13GHz
Score: 3973
Way to go, my desktop went to 13563, though, i must admit, the tests ran way slower on the phone than the numbers might suggest.
Im guessing the score doesn't scale linearly?
Noooo, I've written for XNA in the past and if you're paying attention you will notice that commercial Xbox games are NOT XNA based. Yes..it might be possible to run these on an Xbox, but then only the simplest of games will do so comfortably. I have seen DirectX vs XNA sheets saying there's almost an order of magnitude of performance difference between the platforms. XNA is nice if that is a non-issue for you, but if there is considerable overhead, good luck to you, if you know what you're doing, switch to DX now. XNA is NOT viable for big titles on mobile phones!
This is ridiculous, no one I know is sending 50 texts a day, just think of the time it takes to type all of those, let them be received and read and finally replied to so the person would send the next text. Even taking into account multiple texts per message (aka >160 characters per message) and the odd occasion where one would send to multiple recipients it just doesn't make any sense.
I have seen a rather different sunset last night in west-germany, it was beautiful, but then again.. it got be stranded here while university deadlines are due in EDI next week...
Could you elaborate exactly as to what exactly you mean with that giant middle finger? I did play MW2 and i was quite impressed with many of the details in that game. Granted, i did not play the first MW a whole lot, but seriously, MW2 was far from a bad game.
If this is about some weird multiplayer aspect like dedicated servers.. right... i never took any interest in that (aside from LAN parties where this obviosly doesn't really apply) so i can't really comment on that... still, how does it make MW2 a bad game?
Heya, thanks for clearing that up, I really missed that part in the article, thanks in most part to the way it was structured.
I guess this is the first time scientists were able to actually go from saying "There's dark matter 'somewhere'" to "Look at this data, we were able to indirectly locate some of it".
Cool thing, it might just get us a step closer to understanding the whole subject better.
...but I fail to see the 3D that was promised by TFA.
I agree it's a nice picture but there seems to be no explanation as to what these colours actually mean,
let alone any kind of conclusion drawn from what I presume to be "pockets of dark matter".
So. That leads us to the questions: Is your overall system efficiency going to be better in some way by running hotter?
As someone who has taken a class in electronics I can assure you that the efficiency of electronic equipment drops with increases in temperature as leaking currents are increasing. This may even lead to a thermal run-away situation.
Running hot is also pretty bad as far as reliability goes.
...sounds like a great choice as resources to use. As Sand is basically silicon and readily available, magnesium is also the 7th most abundant in th earths crust.
It seems like this thing could go a long way towards very cheap mass production of all sorts of solid things very cheaply.
There is also the RepRap project but they use plastics which I'm afraid are quite expensive as resource, although
they kind of target a different area.
I'm excited by this, I've been following these ideas for a while and it seems to be going somewhere, I guess we're getting closer to general purpose building machines.
Now... if i do the maths, that turns out to be 322000 Gbit * 3 = 966000W. It strikes me as not very easy to handle from a heat dissipation point of view.
To be honest, same here. I'd like to think i can type pretty fast and not do a whole lot of mistakes, but i do need to correct things (which i mostly notice on the fly).
I've never tried to learn how to type properly. People told me they thought it looks really weird that i use three to four fingers on my right hand but only the index finger on my left, but it works for me.
I also like to think that looking at the keyboard (though I can type without looking at the keyboard just fine) kind of lets me think about what it is that I'm typing a bit more. Takes the eyes off the screen and focuses one on the individual words.
How about this - Prisons are not meant to be used for revenge?
How about.... the justice system is not meant to be used for revenge?
If I go ahead and kill someone, do you lock me up as part of revenge? In America, this seems to be true, there's just no way anyone would ever think for a moment beyond what first comes up in their minds and you'll hear the mob shout out "ELECTROCUTE HIM!"..
It's. just. wrong! What do you think happens to people who get jailed for minor crimes? Do you think jail time is going to make them any -less- criminal?
WHY do people think their engine stop when they shut it off ?
It only stops if you depress the clutch, otherwise it will be driven by the wheels and it *will* actually add to braking power because of friction.
The stated speed of 100MB/s will only work as long you don't actually use it that often. If you use Bittorrent and/or Youtube/iPlayer too much Virgin will trottle down your connection (they do it alreay with their current 40MB/s fibre offer.
Oh, and by the way, your connection will be silently censored.
And let's not forget that Virgin is also a media company: if you, your kids, the neighbour (that managed to hack into your Wireless connection because you used no or easy encryption) or anybody else actually downloads music-tracks/videos/games/apps from some fishy place or other through your connection, expect a call from the appropriate industry's lawyers.
Last but not least, most Virgin companies have incredibly bad costumer service: even when their products are good, you can't trust them not to overcharge you, auto-renew your contracts against your wishes and/or other fishy practices. Usually they include incredible clausules in their contract designed to make it impossible for you to leave (good luck remembering to cancel your contract at a very specific couple of days in the year before they auto-renew).
WRONG!
VM does not even offer 40Mbit/sec, it offers 50MBit/sec which is actually what youre going to get. I got a 50Mbit/sec connection myself and it's been great ever since they installed it.
They do *not* traffic shape the 50Mbit/sec package: http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html
On your lats bit about support: That's simply not true, i've had an outage once and was able to contact virgin media support (knowledgable people, not your usual unqualified support guys) on a newsgroup at 10 PM on a weekend (think it was staurday or sunday, they do work on sundays too!) and they rectified it within 1-2 days.
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Well, this would be the single most obvious thing in the world if you ask me. If i was designing an app to scan those codes i woudln't just act on whatever content that the user might encounter but instead present him with whatever it is the QR code is saying.
So instead of scan->immediately open goatse, how hard can it be to go:
scan->Show user that the QR code contains a link to goatse and then they can decide whether to go there or not.
Likewise with all other kinds of content (usually it's just pointers though, like links to market, web sites, etc
so what... its an electric engine, thereby you can run it at much lower power outputs and in contrast to an ICE it still runs at near-perfect efficiency...
huh?
ive been running chrome on ubuntu for ages now and never ever had even one issue with it. im actually running the unstable versions and theyre perfectly fine.
i cant see your problem
AFAIK, most mobile network providers are NAT-ing to
a) reduce the number of IP's they have to give out
b) keep you from dropping all connections every time you switch from one tower to the next
Uh what?? I do always get sustainable 12 Mbit out of my DSL line here in Germany (which is advertised as 16MBit, but due to bad lines only goes to 12). I get 7Mbit out of my prepaid cheapo 10 €/Mo unlimited (but slows down to GPRS after 1 GB of usage) mobile plan (vodafone) and am soon switching to 32Mbit cable at home (which i've been told is sustainable as well).
What exactly is the big deal with getting customers rates exceeding 4 Mbit??? Gotta be kidding me...
Oh, and while I'm at it, I should probably go and proof-read sentences I edited before posting :)
This, absolutely!
I believe thats what the summary suggested, you can go ahead and learn to type as quickly as possible, but there's a limit as for how fast your mind can come up with code that actually solves the problem.
I can type quite fast, even though i only use thumb to ring finger on my right hand and the index finger on my left hand. This is not a limit for me though, because the bottleneck is the mind and not the fingers. Same with language in generel, english is not my native language and i while i don't have to actively think about what I'm expressing, i still not to kind of fill an internal buffer, not unlike a CD-R application writing.
So yeah, go for eliminating bottlenecks. There's this old saying about optimising:
1) Don't do it. 2) Don't do it, yet. -- Meaning, look for bottlenecks first!
HTC Desire MIUI 12.18 2.6.25.9 HAVS AXI BFS -> 1.13GHz Score: 3973 Way to go, my desktop went to 13563, though, i must admit, the tests ran way slower on the phone than the numbers might suggest. Im guessing the score doesn't scale linearly?
obviosly it means data is being accelerated at 1g on planet bacteria :)
Noooo, I've written for XNA in the past and if you're paying attention you will notice that commercial Xbox games are NOT XNA based. Yes..it might be possible to run these on an Xbox, but then only the simplest of games will do so comfortably. I have seen DirectX vs XNA sheets saying there's almost an order of magnitude of performance difference between the platforms. XNA is nice if that is a non-issue for you, but if there is considerable overhead, good luck to you, if you know what you're doing, switch to DX now. XNA is NOT viable for big titles on mobile phones!
This is ridiculous, no one I know is sending 50 texts a day, just think of the time it takes to type all of those, let them be received and read and finally replied to so the person would send the next text. Even taking into account multiple texts per message (aka >160 characters per message) and the odd occasion where one would send to multiple recipients it just doesn't make any sense.
My guess is these numbers are per week at most.
wrong, I've travelled frequently from Germany to Scotland and was never asked for a passport. A German ID card was always sufficient.
I have seen a rather different sunset last night in west-germany, it was beautiful, but then again.. it got be stranded here while university deadlines are due in EDI next week...
Could you elaborate exactly as to what exactly you mean with that giant middle finger? I did play MW2 and i was quite impressed with many of the details in that game. Granted, i did not play the first MW a whole lot, but seriously, MW2 was far from a bad game.
If this is about some weird multiplayer aspect like dedicated servers.. right... i never took any interest in that (aside from LAN parties where this obviosly doesn't really apply) so i can't really comment on that... still, how does it make MW2 a bad game?
Heya, thanks for clearing that up, I really missed that part in the article, thanks in most part to the way it was structured. I guess this is the first time scientists were able to actually go from saying "There's dark matter 'somewhere'" to "Look at this data, we were able to indirectly locate some of it". Cool thing, it might just get us a step closer to understanding the whole subject better.
...but I fail to see the 3D that was promised by TFA.
I agree it's a nice picture but there seems to be no explanation as to what these colours actually mean, let alone any kind of conclusion drawn from what I presume to be "pockets of dark matter".
Anyone care to enlighten me?
So. That leads us to the questions: Is your overall system efficiency going to be better in some way by running hotter?
As someone who has taken a class in electronics I can assure you that the efficiency of electronic equipment drops with increases in temperature as leaking currents are increasing. This may even lead to a thermal run-away situation.
Running hot is also pretty bad as far as reliability goes.
...sounds like a great choice as resources to use. As Sand is basically silicon and readily available, magnesium is also the 7th most abundant in th earths crust. It seems like this thing could go a long way towards very cheap mass production of all sorts of solid things very cheaply. There is also the RepRap project but they use plastics which I'm afraid are quite expensive as resource, although they kind of target a different area. I'm excited by this, I've been following these ideas for a while and it seems to be going somewhere, I guess we're getting closer to general purpose building machines.
No microsoft.com ?
Microsoft didnae believe in the internet... it was not until the mid 90ies when they realised that it had taken off without them aboard.
Just to recap.. the video on their website states it's just below 3W per Gbit.
They actually put up a photo here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cisco_pics/4406738473
Now... if i do the maths, that turns out to be 322000 Gbit * 3 = 966000W.
It strikes me as not very easy to handle from a heat dissipation point of view.
To be honest, same here. I'd like to think i can type pretty fast and not do a whole lot of mistakes, but i do need to correct things (which i mostly notice on the fly).
I've never tried to learn how to type properly. People told me they thought it looks really weird that i use three to four fingers on my right hand but only the index finger on my left, but it works for me.
I also like to think that looking at the keyboard (though I can type without looking at the keyboard just fine) kind of lets me think about what it is that I'm typing a bit more. Takes the eyes off the screen and focuses one on the individual words.
Been a developer for 10 years, never hurt me.
As a matter of fact, "minor crime" does not refer to murdering someone :)
How about this - Prisons are not meant to be used for revenge? How about.... the justice system is not meant to be used for revenge? If I go ahead and kill someone, do you lock me up as part of revenge? In America, this seems to be true, there's just no way anyone would ever think for a moment beyond what first comes up in their minds and you'll hear the mob shout out "ELECTROCUTE HIM!".. It's. just. wrong! What do you think happens to people who get jailed for minor crimes? Do you think jail time is going to make them any -less- criminal?
WHY do people think their engine stop when they shut it off ? It only stops if you depress the clutch, otherwise it will be driven by the wheels and it *will* actually add to braking power because of friction.
The stated speed of 100MB/s will only work as long you don't actually use it that often. If you use Bittorrent and/or Youtube/iPlayer too much Virgin will trottle down your connection (they do it alreay with their current 40MB/s fibre offer.
Oh, and by the way, your connection will be silently censored.
And let's not forget that Virgin is also a media company: if you, your kids, the neighbour (that managed to hack into your Wireless connection because you used no or easy encryption) or anybody else actually downloads music-tracks/videos/games/apps from some fishy place or other through your connection, expect a call from the appropriate industry's lawyers.
Last but not least, most Virgin companies have incredibly bad costumer service: even when their products are good, you can't trust them not to overcharge you, auto-renew your contracts against your wishes and/or other fishy practices. Usually they include incredible clausules in their contract designed to make it impossible for you to leave (good luck remembering to cancel your contract at a very specific couple of days in the year before they auto-renew).
WRONG! VM does not even offer 40Mbit/sec, it offers 50MBit/sec which is actually what youre going to get. I got a 50Mbit/sec connection myself and it's been great ever since they installed it. They do *not* traffic shape the 50Mbit/sec package: http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html On your lats bit about support: That's simply not true, i've had an outage once and was able to contact virgin media support (knowledgable people, not your usual unqualified support guys) on a newsgroup at 10 PM on a weekend (think it was staurday or sunday, they do work on sundays too!) and they rectified it within 1-2 days.