Did you look at ALL the pictures. I dunno, personally in the finished pictures on the bottom row, I don't think it looks half bad. Better than the beat up AM/FM tape decks in most of the 10 year old used cars my friends have. This isn't something I'd do in a nice new car, but it looks like a decent enough job.
My guess is that they initially only intended it to be a PC game, but as MS is fond of pointing out, the port from PC to XBox is for more trivial than the port from PC to PS2. In effect its things like this that MS is banking on making the XBox a success. Why pay $700+ dollars for a PC to play the latest SW game, instead of $200 for an XBox.
In the original Justice League, you had all these super-human super heros and then Batman. He was like this sorta dark guy who was out for good, but also wasn't super righteous like the super-human guys. In the comic, he made sure he know everyone elses secret weekness, and was prepared to exploit it if need be. Now I haven't read all of these cause well, I haven't even seen most of them, but I've been informed by people who've read them, that in Super Man's case, Batman had a gun with kryptonite bullets or something along those lines. And also was able to figure out who Super Man's alter ego was. I also seem to recall that Batman knew were Super Man's ice cave was, but I'm a bit less certain about this bit.
Basically while Super Man is the definition of pure physical strength, Batman is the definition of pure cunning. Batman was a loner always, even when fighting for good, and as such mistrusted even his "super" friends, and was always ready to cover his own ass first if need be.
Maybe not to the home users, but my freshman year in college ICQ was the only messenger and everybody used it. It was at the point were we didn't even use the phone anymore. That all ended though once AOL came in. Different people starting using different messengers, and it just got tougher and tougher to keep track of who was who on which messenger.
I think AOL IM's rise con be directly connected with the rise of AOL in the home market. These people were pushed AOL IM, and by the time people got to an environment (work, college, etc.) where they could use another client, they didn't know any better.
Wow, I just realized how much this sounds like rambling. I need my coffee.
its called showeEQ, and it will only run on a linux box acting as a proxy server I believe. At least that the machine I ran it on. It filters the packets as they pass through the proxy and collects the info from them.
There are a few programs for some RTSs and EQ, that will show you information on a second screen. The EQ one will display maps and statistics on creatures you are fighting, in numerical terms, as opposed to the innacurate color bars in the game interface. The RTS ones that I've seen on the web sound similar. Usually posts things like resource statistics, and running totals of game info. I've also heard rumors of quake hacks that work similarly, like showing a map with blips where people are located, but haven't seen this one firsthand.
This would make sense also, as I'm pretty sure Intel already announced that they are working on a.09 (or.10, I can't remember) micron process, which will replace their current.13 micron process in a year or two.
Having had my RSX for several months now I have to agree with you. The custom Bose system (with a sub) is quite nice. The only issue would be if I did want to go to a satellite system, I don't how compatable the custom components of the system are.
Except that Luke and Leia are twins. My guess is that in Episode 3, Obi-Wan takes Luke and Amadala takes Leia and they hide them, raise them etc. Likely Leia remembers her real mother cause she lived with her for a short time before her mother dies.
I agree that alot of good science is underfunded, but I don't think that manned missions are benefitting from it. I mean look at the space station, Congress is trimming billions from the program, as well as forcing them to scale back the number of shuttle launches a year. Add to that the fact that had funding stayed at levels from the mid 80s, a Mars mission would likely be already well under way. It just always seems like the first manned mars mission is like 15 years away. In the 80s they said we'd do it around the turn of the century, then in the 90s it was somewhere between 2005 and 2010. Now it looks like 2020. Well thats enough of my ranting.
From what I've read the fewer screens isn't so much from the mega-plexes with like 20 screens, but rather the indipendent theaters. Lucas and 20th Century put some pretty big demands on theaters in regard to how long it had to stay on their biggest screen and revenue sharing, etc. All of which made it much more difficult for the smaller theaters with only like 4-5 screens to show the movie, and still operate normally.
This is at least what I gathered from an article that was on CNN a week ago. A quick scan didn't find the article, and I haven't had my coffee yet, so I'm too lazy to hunt. If I find it, I'll post it here.
IA64 and AMD's 386-64 don't even compete for the same market. One is a high-end chip to replace the big iron RISC chips, while the other is a chip for low end intel servers that currently run on IA32, but could benefit from an increased address space.
Hardly. HP and Intel are pushing full speed ahead with these. Supposedly there will be commercial systems by the end of the year. Also if IA64 was to be pushed back, Intel would likely switch to its own 386-64 architecture, currently codenamed Yamhill, if I recall.
A fourth reason, at least for me and a large number of friends, is the fun and life experience you gain in college. College isn't JUST about getting a degree, its a chance to gain valuable life skills in a slightly more forgiving environment than the real world. Add to that the fact the college is generally some of the most fun you'll ever have. I'm not just talking parties, its a time to do what you want, more or less when you want, its independance and a chance to use it. Hell I wish I could go BACK to college sometimes;)
As our fine friends from South Park say, "There is a time and place for everything, and that place is college"
Virtually every console manufacturer sells systems at a loss for the first year or two. Its just the way the market works. They get the systems out, then make money on licensing and games. Eventually once costs come down the consoles begin to turn a profit themselves. This is similar to the cell phone market where companies eat the cost of the phone and give it away for free (or cheap) and make money on the service.
I really don't see this happening, though the new company does seem pretty committed to the future of Linux. From what I understand all (most) of the advanced features that make Tru64 so powerful, like clustering and AdvFS will be incorporated into the next generation HPUX. This might finally be an example of the good old DEC technology finally getting put in a position with good market share.
I'd have to assume the iPaq would stay over the Jornada, though thats just a guess. The iPaq has consistently been considered the better of the two PDAs, though as with everything in business, just because its better doesn't mean it will win out (note: alpha;).
FYI, the plan of action is already in place. That was one of the reasons that the Institutional Shareholder Services suggested people support the merger. When the new company launches it will simply execute the plan that is already in place.
In the article they state that it would be implimented in arid regions, like a large desert, were the impact on plantlife would be minimalized. The natural air currents would then distribute the decreased CO2 levels around the planet.
Personally I think this is a good idea. I can't recall how many times I've been in a bar, with an empty class, and had to wait for the waitress to even look over to notice my glass was empty. As for the wait-staff using them. Why not, the faster customers get refills, the faster they get drunk, and reach their limit, the faster they pay their check, and that table can be used for some new slobbering drunks. It maximizes table usage, and consequently tips associated with those tables.
Actually a one time pad is mathematically proven to be secure. The biggest problem is that a protocol using it is much tougher to find.
A one time pad is completely random therefor you could take any message, "Bob had a car" and it could decrypt to ANY message of the same length, given the right pad. The biggest problem with a true one-time pad is that as the name implies it can only be used once, and needs to be the same size as the message its encrypting.
The best practical example of one-time pads is probably the hotline between washington and moscow. The crypto course I took explained that a very very large random one time pad was created to encode the message, and new pads are periodically created and taken by curier to each site. I believe a similar method is also used for transmitting launch codes to Nuke site.
Then again its been over a year, and my memory of the course is a little fuzzy.
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Did you look at ALL the pictures. I dunno, personally in the finished pictures on the bottom row, I don't think it looks half bad. Better than the beat up AM/FM tape decks in most of the 10 year old used cars my friends have. This isn't something I'd do in a nice new car, but it looks like a decent enough job.
My guess is that they initially only intended it to be a PC game, but as MS is fond of pointing out, the port from PC to XBox is for more trivial than the port from PC to PS2. In effect its things like this that MS is banking on making the XBox a success. Why pay $700+ dollars for a PC to play the latest SW game, instead of $200 for an XBox.
In the original Justice League, you had all these super-human super heros and then Batman. He was like this sorta dark guy who was out for good, but also wasn't super righteous like the super-human guys. In the comic, he made sure he know everyone elses secret weekness, and was prepared to exploit it if need be. Now I haven't read all of these cause well, I haven't even seen most of them, but I've been informed by people who've read them, that in Super Man's case, Batman had a gun with kryptonite bullets or something along those lines. And also was able to figure out who Super Man's alter ego was. I also seem to recall that Batman knew were Super Man's ice cave was, but I'm a bit less certain about this bit.
Basically while Super Man is the definition of pure physical strength, Batman is the definition of pure cunning. Batman was a loner always, even when fighting for good, and as such mistrusted even his "super" friends, and was always ready to cover his own ass first if need be.
Nintendo's US HQ is in Redmond. Relatively close to MS actually.
Maybe not to the home users, but my freshman year in college ICQ was the only messenger and everybody used it. It was at the point were we didn't even use the phone anymore. That all ended though once AOL came in. Different people starting using different messengers, and it just got tougher and tougher to keep track of who was who on which messenger.
I think AOL IM's rise con be directly connected with the rise of AOL in the home market. These people were pushed AOL IM, and by the time people got to an environment (work, college, etc.) where they could use another client, they didn't know any better.
Wow, I just realized how much this sounds like rambling. I need my coffee.
its called showeEQ, and it will only run on a linux box acting as a proxy server I believe. At least that the machine I ran it on. It filters the packets as they pass through the proxy and collects the info from them.
There are a few programs for some RTSs and EQ, that will show you information on a second screen. The EQ one will display maps and statistics on creatures you are fighting, in numerical terms, as opposed to the innacurate color bars in the game interface. The RTS ones that I've seen on the web sound similar. Usually posts things like resource statistics, and running totals of game info. I've also heard rumors of quake hacks that work similarly, like showing a map with blips where people are located, but haven't seen this one firsthand.
But just in case, I'm selling Robot insurance. "For when the metal ones come for you"
This would make sense also, as I'm pretty sure Intel already announced that they are working on a .09 (or .10, I can't remember) micron process, which will replace their current .13 micron process in a year or two.
Having had my RSX for several months now I have to agree with you. The custom Bose system (with a sub) is quite nice. The only issue would be if I did want to go to a satellite system, I don't how compatable the custom components of the system are.
A bottle opener (one of the good metal ones), a lighter and a case of Ramen, should be handy as well.
Except that Luke and Leia are twins. My guess is that in Episode 3, Obi-Wan takes Luke and Amadala takes Leia and they hide them, raise them etc. Likely Leia remembers her real mother cause she lived with her for a short time before her mother dies.
I agree that alot of good science is underfunded, but I don't think that manned missions are benefitting from it. I mean look at the space station, Congress is trimming billions from the program, as well as forcing them to scale back the number of shuttle launches a year. Add to that the fact that had funding stayed at levels from the mid 80s, a Mars mission would likely be already well under way. It just always seems like the first manned mars mission is like 15 years away. In the 80s they said we'd do it around the turn of the century, then in the 90s it was somewhere between 2005 and 2010. Now it looks like 2020. Well thats enough of my ranting.
From what I've read the fewer screens isn't so much from the mega-plexes with like 20 screens, but rather the indipendent theaters. Lucas and 20th Century put some pretty big demands on theaters in regard to how long it had to stay on their biggest screen and revenue sharing, etc. All of which made it much more difficult for the smaller theaters with only like 4-5 screens to show the movie, and still operate normally.
This is at least what I gathered from an article that was on CNN a week ago. A quick scan didn't find the article, and I haven't had my coffee yet, so I'm too lazy to hunt. If I find it, I'll post it here.
IA64 and AMD's 386-64 don't even compete for the same market. One is a high-end chip to replace the big iron RISC chips, while the other is a chip for low end intel servers that currently run on IA32, but could benefit from an increased address space.
Hardly. HP and Intel are pushing full speed ahead with these. Supposedly there will be commercial systems by the end of the year. Also if IA64 was to be pushed back, Intel would likely switch to its own 386-64 architecture, currently codenamed Yamhill, if I recall.
A fourth reason, at least for me and a large number of friends, is the fun and life experience you gain in college. College isn't JUST about getting a degree, its a chance to gain valuable life skills in a slightly more forgiving environment than the real world. Add to that the fact the college is generally some of the most fun you'll ever have. I'm not just talking parties, its a time to do what you want, more or less when you want, its independance and a chance to use it. Hell I wish I could go BACK to college sometimes ;)
As our fine friends from South Park say, "There is a time and place for everything, and that place is college"
Virtually every console manufacturer sells systems at a loss for the first year or two. Its just the way the market works. They get the systems out, then make money on licensing and games. Eventually once costs come down the consoles begin to turn a profit themselves. This is similar to the cell phone market where companies eat the cost of the phone and give it away for free (or cheap) and make money on the service.
iPaq isn't an IA32 machine. Its based on the StrongARM chip.
I really don't see this happening, though the new company does seem pretty committed to the future of Linux. From what I understand all (most) of the advanced features that make Tru64 so powerful, like clustering and AdvFS will be incorporated into the next generation HPUX. This might finally be an example of the good old DEC technology finally getting put in a position with good market share.
I'd have to assume the iPaq would stay over the Jornada, though thats just a guess. The iPaq has consistently been considered the better of the two PDAs, though as with everything in business, just because its better doesn't mean it will win out (note: alpha ;).
FYI, the plan of action is already in place. That was one of the reasons that the Institutional Shareholder Services suggested people support the merger. When the new company launches it will simply execute the plan that is already in place.
In the article they state that it would be implimented in arid regions, like a large desert, were the impact on plantlife would be minimalized. The natural air currents would then distribute the decreased CO2 levels around the planet.
Personally I think this is a good idea. I can't recall how many times I've been in a bar, with an empty class, and had to wait for the waitress to even look over to notice my glass was empty. As for the wait-staff using them. Why not, the faster customers get refills, the faster they get drunk, and reach their limit, the faster they pay their check, and that table can be used for some new slobbering drunks. It maximizes table usage, and consequently tips associated with those tables.
Actually a one time pad is mathematically proven to be secure. The biggest problem is that a protocol using it is much tougher to find.
A one time pad is completely random therefor you could take any message, "Bob had a car" and it could decrypt to ANY message of the same length, given the right pad. The biggest problem with a true one-time pad is that as the name implies it can only be used once, and needs to be the same size as the message its encrypting.
The best practical example of one-time pads is probably the hotline between washington and moscow. The crypto course I took explained that a very very large random one time pad was created to encode the message, and new pads are periodically created and taken by curier to each site. I believe a similar method is also used for transmitting launch codes to Nuke site.
Then again its been over a year, and my memory of the course is a little fuzzy.