I was quite surprised when I first got my lappy and gave the battery a test drive. It actually lasted longer than advertised and that was plugging away in word, playing slime forest adventure http://lrnj.com/ and turning on the wireless occasionally to look things up. So whats the trick? One of the high contrast colour schemes that comes with windows. Most of the power draining white space in Word, and all menu bars are turned to black. Also the high contrast setting allows turning down the backlight power while still being able to see. Seems to work quite well.
You must play by the standard rules. At my house its more like this: Roll doubles, move to other player's property, roll dice again, "HEY! You owe me money" "Too late sucka! The next person has rolled", yelling, more cheating, repeat until all players are eliminated or the board is smashed up. Person leaves room? Oh you'd better beleive thats time for cheating. I can't remember a game that didn't end in yelling or crying. Oh the good times that were had.
Another way to spice up Monopoly, or any other game for that matter is to mix and match games such Monopoly with trivial pursuit or Sorry with Jacks. Sorry combines well with a lot of games.
"Carnobacterium pleistocenium, has a 99.8% similarity to Carnobacterium alterfunditum " Not quite. 99.8% refers to the similarity between a specific gene common to both (all) bacteria. The gene in question codes for ribosomal RNA of the 16s subunit. It is required for protein synthesis. Due to its importance not too many mutations normally occur in it. Most mutations are lethal.
Overal their DNA was only 39 % the same. Unfortunately I don't have full access either:( although this early on I doubt they'd know too much other than what's stated in the paper.
Any thoughts as to how adoption of city wide government funded wi-fi will play into this? I seem to recall hearing about a few major cities, Philly comes to mind, having done this or at least are in the process of implimentation. I'm wondering how long it'll be before the majority of cities adopt universal wi-fi at the cost to taxpayers making this new service obsolete.
From TFA : The Chino center will use natural gas as a feedstock, to use the extensive natural gas infrastructure that is already in place. "Natural gas is an established, very efficient way to make hydrogen," he said.
If you can get away without laying new pipe all the better. Since the source of the hydrogen right now is still predominantly fossil fuel based (directly or indirectly) burning hydrogen in your house doesn't really do much. Even if the energy stored in your hydrogen came from electricity you're still not any further ahead if you're just going to convert it back to electricity at your house.
Ok. Being able to tank up at your house would be pretty cool. Erm... but I'm just thinking about propane. I think there's some sort of certification one needs to go through before they can fill up a truck (please feel free to correct me) Something similar would probably apply to hydrogen as well.
Sure it'd be nice to generate your own hydrogen from solar/wind, but really its not all that different from generating electricty for yourself. I guess the one plus for hydrogen over electricity is storage. With a big enough tank I suppose you could stock up gas over the summer and burn it come winter. It'll be really interesting to see where the hydrogen economy heads in the next few years.
Well since they're going for a barcode it sounds more like the results of electrophoresis than the sequence of a particular gene. This would be closer to how DNA fingerprinting(that we've all heard so much about on tv) is done. There are actually several different ways of going about it. One method involves just creating two random primers. These primers will produce PCR products of varying lengths, depending where the endpoints lie within the genome by chance alone. Electrophoresis is run on the PCR amplification products. Appropriately lenghted primers are used so their complementary sequences appear within the genome several times. As such several random bands are produced and VOILA! Barcode.
you'll be chasing down fraudulent purchases FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE because you CAN'T change your finger print.
You'd have to be pretty unlikely to have your finger identity stolen more than 10 times in your lifetime. Sure your index finger may be the easiest to put on a scanner but I don't see why you couldn't just use another finger. Hell, for that matter you could combine two fingers, assuming the scanning device is large enough. You get comprimised, you swtich it up. Done.
Well just think what happens if one day the asteroid named after you decides to pay Earth an intimate visit. Everybody runs to the internet to find the source of the name for what will soon be their demise. "Oh. kaedemichi255. A guy that posted on/. that specifically said he didn't want an asteroid named after him. How ironic." Wouldn't you love to the talk of the whole world...even if for a little while?
Since the main goal of the chip is to pump through graphics, regardless of what device its in, a GPU is better grounds for comparison.
From TFA: "Existing GPUs can provide massive processing power when programmed properly, the difference is the Cell will be cheaper and several times faster."
Its supposed to do 250GFlops when? 2 years from now? Apparently the Geforce 6800 Ultra will do 40GFlops and thats today.... extrapolate with some doubling here and there it seems a lot more reasonable.
So the big thing is that it comes down to programming. It came up a few times in the article "Doing this will make it faster but will make for one hell of a time for the programmers" It may have a huge potential but may take a while to get everything efficiently as Sony would like. Reminds me of when the GF3 first came out and was beaten by the GF2U in some tests. IIRC it took a while for games to come out that took advantage of its programability. It'll be interesting to see how well the programmers can fair between now and Cell's release.
"Hot New Job! - Network Operations Manager Are you experienced in managing IT personnel and projects? Is keeping gamers happily playing games a top priority for you? If so, then please see the Network Operations Manager posting for more information on how you can join Blizzard and help us support our players."
Translation: "Old job that somebody didn't want! - Someone To Bitch At We'll throw in 'IT' to make it sound fancy. Do you want to get calls from irate gamers even when you're at home? If so see the Someone To Bitch At posting on how you can instantly become hated by thousands."
I'm not so sure we can hold onto it. There was an exclusive on the news the other night that told how submarines from an unknown country have been spotted in the same location by Inuit fisherman on an annual basis. When interviewed the minister of defence had some scary words to say: "Oh no. Nobody would do that. We're Canada.... plus we don't have the resources to defend it anyways" They flew some planes over the area, saw nothing then concluded "Nope. There were no subs there."
There's something about international law that states waters become international if ships pass through it without being contested. I don't recall if it was how many years that the waterway must remain open. 30 Maybe? Anyways, basically Canada's claim to the north may not be as sure-footed as one might expect.
Lets see. At the peak hight half of the total in-air time will have expired and Y velocity is 0. So d = 1/2(9.8)(0.05/2)^2)= 0.0030625m = ~3mm. So its not surprizing if you can't see that with the naked eye.
Just a thought. If I was a terrorist (I'm not honest!) and I heard Americans going on and on about how great this system is knowing full well its faulty I'd probably put it to the test. Seems like that would be the ultimate slap in the face. "Your billions and billions of dollars STILL can't stop us" An unfounded claim just begs to be tested.
Its like those "indestructible" CD holders they sell in those little booths at the mall.... Lets just say I'm not allowed back in that mall for a while.
Wow. That sounded bad. Ok. No more writting in the first person as a terrorist.
My speculation is that if your end goal is to provide a servant to humans than you want it to be able to do everything a human can. Being able to go up and down stairs is pretty important feature. Sure, you could throw some fancy wheeled system on it that can roll up stairs but something like that still wouldn't be able to climb a ladder to clean out the gutters. One could build a specific robot that would much more efficient at cleaning gutters, and another efficient robot to change light bulbs however your number of robots would quickly increase.
Who knows. Maybe in the future you could go online and just order a robot to show up at your house to clean the gutters (yes I REALLY hate doing it) and then be on its merry way.
So by simply having a design plan of "make it human" they are really creating a robot that can do everything that we don't want(or can't due to disability) to do ourselves.
Given all the rules in F1 won't computers eventually calculate the same optimal design for everyone? One set of paramters should have only one correct solution, no? Clearly we're not at that point yet as some designs are significantly different than others. When that happens it will be back to just the performance of the driver rather than the current combination of skill and car.
Quite a move by the video game maker(Sega). Perhaps this actually is their sublte way of pushing for Taiwan's independence. Kids see them separate so when they grow up they see a separation they'll say "Uh... weren't they already?" rather than take up arms. In the end the video game companies profit by Taiwan becoming independent. Thats probably something along the lines of what the government was thinking. Its a win-win situation for the game makers. China does nothing, free propaganda spread. China reacts and they're hated for censorship. Good work Sega.
"Please Mom!" "No Billy. That system is designed for paralyzed people not so you can play video games better"/Billy hurls himself down stairs Checkmate
Erm... more likely the sensors you speak of are based on electric fields not weight. Driving the vehicle over the coil embedded in the road causes a change the inductance. (your car is a big chunk of steel).
There are somes limitations with this type of sensor. Its only has two states, there is a car here, there isn't a car here. No indication as to how many cars are backed up at each light. Also, once you're already stopped at the light, the damage has been done. This system it seems intends to anticipate problems before they develope.
Anybody else remember seeing something like this on discovery channel a while back?
If that hook didn't stick out a foot above the walker guy's head it might be close to fitting in a regular sized room.... but I guess thats for protection when the machine inevitably topples.
You're assuming though that standard Japanese architecture is the same as in North America. Maybe somebody could give some insight into typical ceiling heights in Japan?
Maybe rather than having go back and forth continuously for fuel it'd be more economical in the long run to build a reactor on the moon and have energy transmitted back to Earth via microwaves. Something like this http://www.kurasc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/plasma-group/sps/y amasaki-e.html
"my girlfriend started screaming that [the power supply] was falling through the car." It turned out that the 400pound box was safe, but it crushed the jump seats in his mom's car. "
"Later, Koeth found a 12inch magnet at Argonne National Laboratory. It weighed two and half tons..."
One can only hope that he found better transportation for this one.
Its nice to see a few bucks thrown towards exploring our own planet. Sure its great to look for life on other planets, but there are still "creatures of the deep" right here waiting to be discovered. Granted this particular craft didn't have life exploration but this technology could be mass produced at that price and scour the oceans for all kinds of goodies.
Well since DVDs use visible light lasers (650nm) to both write and read, and you since you can see through the plastic to the recording surface, there's no reason it shouldn't work.
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I was quite surprised when I first got my lappy and gave the battery a test drive. It actually lasted longer than advertised and that was plugging away in word, playing slime forest adventure http://lrnj.com/ and turning on the wireless occasionally to look things up. So whats the trick? One of the high contrast colour schemes that comes with windows. Most of the power draining white space in Word, and all menu bars are turned to black. Also the high contrast setting allows turning down the backlight power while still being able to see. Seems to work quite well.
You must play by the standard rules. At my house its more like this:
Roll doubles, move to other player's property, roll dice again, "HEY! You owe me money" "Too late sucka! The next person has rolled", yelling, more cheating, repeat until all players are eliminated or the board is smashed up.
Person leaves room? Oh you'd better beleive thats time for cheating. I can't remember a game that didn't end in yelling or crying. Oh the good times that were had.
Another way to spice up Monopoly, or any other game for that matter is to mix and match games such Monopoly with trivial pursuit or Sorry with Jacks. Sorry combines well with a lot of games.
"Carnobacterium pleistocenium, has a 99.8% similarity to Carnobacterium alterfunditum
:( although this early on I doubt they'd know too much other than what's stated in the paper.
"
Not quite. 99.8% refers to the similarity between a specific gene common to both (all) bacteria. The gene in question codes for ribosomal RNA of the 16s subunit. It is required for protein synthesis. Due to its importance not too many mutations normally occur in it. Most mutations are lethal.
Overal their DNA was only 39 % the same. Unfortunately I don't have full access either
Any thoughts as to how adoption of city wide government funded wi-fi will play into this? I seem to recall hearing about a few major cities, Philly comes to mind, having done this or at least are in the process of implimentation. I'm wondering how long it'll be before the majority of cities adopt universal wi-fi at the cost to taxpayers making this new service obsolete.
From TFA : The Chino center will use natural gas as a feedstock, to use the extensive natural gas infrastructure that is already in place. "Natural gas is an established, very efficient way to make hydrogen," he said.
If you can get away without laying new pipe all the better. Since the source of the hydrogen right now is still predominantly fossil fuel based (directly or indirectly) burning hydrogen in your house doesn't really do much. Even if the energy stored in your hydrogen came from electricity you're still not any further ahead if you're just going to convert it back to electricity at your house.
Ok. Being able to tank up at your house would be pretty cool. Erm... but I'm just thinking about propane. I think there's some sort of certification one needs to go through before they can fill up a truck (please feel free to correct me) Something similar would probably apply to hydrogen as well.
Sure it'd be nice to generate your own hydrogen from solar/wind, but really its not all that different from generating electricty for yourself. I guess the one plus for hydrogen over electricity is storage. With a big enough tank I suppose you could stock up gas over the summer and burn it come winter. It'll be really interesting to see where the hydrogen economy heads in the next few years.
Well since they're going for a barcode it sounds more like the results of electrophoresis than the sequence of a particular gene. This would be closer to how DNA fingerprinting(that we've all heard so much about on tv) is done. There are actually several different ways of going about it. One method involves just creating two random primers. These primers will produce PCR products of varying lengths, depending where the endpoints lie within the genome by chance alone. Electrophoresis is run on the PCR amplification products. Appropriately lenghted primers are used so their complementary sequences appear within the genome several times. As such several random bands are produced and VOILA! Barcode.
you'll be chasing down fraudulent purchases FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE because you CAN'T change your finger print.
You'd have to be pretty unlikely to have your finger identity stolen more than 10 times in your lifetime. Sure your index finger may be the easiest to put on a scanner but I don't see why you couldn't just use another finger. Hell, for that matter you could combine two fingers, assuming the scanning device is large enough. You get comprimised, you swtich it up. Done.
Well just think what happens if one day the asteroid named after you decides to pay Earth an intimate visit. /. that specifically said he didn't want an asteroid named after him. How ironic."
Everybody runs to the internet to find the source of the name for what will soon be their demise. "Oh. kaedemichi255. A guy that posted on
Wouldn't you love to the talk of the whole world...even if for a little while?
Since the main goal of the chip is to pump through graphics, regardless of what device its in, a GPU is better grounds for comparison.
From TFA: "Existing GPUs can provide massive processing power when programmed properly, the difference is the Cell will be cheaper and several times faster."
Its supposed to do 250GFlops when? 2 years from now? Apparently the Geforce 6800 Ultra will do 40GFlops and thats today.... extrapolate with some doubling here and there it seems a lot more reasonable.
So the big thing is that it comes down to programming. It came up a few times in the article "Doing this will make it faster but will make for one hell of a time for the programmers" It may have a huge potential but may take a while to get everything efficiently as Sony would like. Reminds me of when the GF3 first came out and was beaten by the GF2U in some tests. IIRC it took a while for games to come out that took advantage of its programability. It'll be interesting to see how well the programmers can fair between now and Cell's release.
"Hot New Job! - Network Operations Manager
Are you experienced in managing IT personnel and projects? Is keeping gamers happily playing games a top priority for you? If so, then please see the Network Operations Manager posting for more information on how you can join Blizzard and help us support our players."
Translation:
"Old job that somebody didn't want! - Someone To Bitch At
We'll throw in 'IT' to make it sound fancy. Do you want to get calls from irate gamers even when you're at home? If so see the Someone To Bitch At posting on how you can instantly become hated by thousands."
I'm not so sure we can hold onto it. There was an exclusive on the news the other night that told how submarines from an unknown country have been spotted in the same location by Inuit fisherman on an annual basis. When interviewed the minister of defence had some scary words to say: "Oh no. Nobody would do that. We're Canada.... plus we don't have the resources to defend it anyways" They flew some planes over the area, saw nothing then concluded "Nope. There were no subs there."
There's something about international law that states waters become international if ships pass through it without being contested. I don't recall if it was how many years that the waterway must remain open. 30 Maybe? Anyways, basically Canada's claim to the north may not be as sure-footed as one might expect.
Lets see. At the peak hight half of the total in-air time will have expired and Y velocity is 0. So d = 1/2(9.8)(0.05/2)^2)= 0.0030625m = ~3mm. So its not surprizing if you can't see that with the naked eye.
My roomie is doing some painting. I blame the fumes :P
Just a thought. If I was a terrorist (I'm not honest!) and I heard Americans going on and on about how great this system is knowing full well its faulty I'd probably put it to the test. Seems like that would be the ultimate slap in the face. "Your billions and billions of dollars STILL can't stop us" An unfounded claim just begs to be tested.
Its like those "indestructible" CD holders they sell in those little booths at the mall.... Lets just say I'm not allowed back in that mall for a while.
Wow. That sounded bad. Ok. No more writting in the first person as a terrorist.
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To sig or not to sig
My speculation is that if your end goal is to provide a servant to humans than you want it to be able to do everything a human can. Being able to go up and down stairs is pretty important feature. Sure, you could throw some fancy wheeled system on it that can roll up stairs but something like that still wouldn't be able to climb a ladder to clean out the gutters. One could build a specific robot that would much more efficient at cleaning gutters, and another efficient robot to change light bulbs however your number of robots would quickly increase.
Who knows. Maybe in the future you could go online and just order a robot to show up at your house to clean the gutters (yes I REALLY hate doing it) and then be on its merry way.
So by simply having a design plan of "make it human" they are really creating a robot that can do everything that we don't want(or can't due to disability) to do ourselves.
I think its finally time for a new type of mod point: -1 for misquoting Moore's "Law"
Given all the rules in F1 won't computers eventually calculate the same optimal design for everyone? One set of paramters should have only one correct solution, no? Clearly we're not at that point yet as some designs are significantly different than others. When that happens it will be back to just the performance of the driver rather than the current combination of skill and car.
Quite a move by the video game maker(Sega). Perhaps this actually is their sublte way of pushing for Taiwan's independence. Kids see them separate so when they grow up they see a separation they'll say "Uh... weren't they already?" rather than take up arms. In the end the video game companies profit by Taiwan becoming independent. Thats probably something along the lines of what the government was thinking. Its a win-win situation for the game makers. China does nothing, free propaganda spread. China reacts and they're hated for censorship. Good work Sega.
Meh. Just a thought.
Brain surgery to play video games better?
/Billy hurls himself down stairs
"Please Mom!"
"No Billy. That system is designed for paralyzed people not so you can play video games better"
Checkmate
Erm... more likely the sensors you speak of are based on electric fields not weight. Driving the vehicle over the coil embedded in the road causes a change the inductance. (your car is a big chunk of steel).
There are somes limitations with this type of sensor. Its only has two states, there is a car here, there isn't a car here. No indication as to how many cars are backed up at each light. Also, once you're already stopped at the light, the damage has been done. This system it seems intends to anticipate problems before they develope.
Anybody else remember seeing something like this on discovery channel a while back?
If that hook didn't stick out a foot above the walker guy's head it might be close to fitting in a regular sized room.... but I guess thats for protection when the machine inevitably topples.
You're assuming though that standard Japanese architecture is the same as in North America. Maybe somebody could give some insight into typical ceiling heights in Japan?
Maybe rather than having go back and forth continuously for fuel it'd be more economical in the long run to build a reactor on the moon and have energy transmitted back to Earth via microwaves. Something like this http://www.kurasc.kyoto-u.ac.jp/plasma-group/sps/y amasaki-e.html
"my girlfriend started screaming that [the power supply] was falling through the car." It turned out that the 400pound box was safe, but it crushed the jump seats in his mom's car. "
"Later, Koeth found a 12inch magnet at Argonne National Laboratory. It weighed two and half tons..."
One can only hope that he found better transportation for this one.
Its nice to see a few bucks thrown towards exploring our own planet. Sure its great to look for life on other planets, but there are still "creatures of the deep" right here waiting to be discovered. Granted this particular craft didn't have life exploration but this technology could be mass produced at that price and scour the oceans for all kinds of goodies.
Well since DVDs use visible light lasers (650nm) to both write and read, and you since you can see through the plastic to the recording surface, there's no reason it shouldn't work.