I don't know if anime really qualifies, but still a great deal of imagination is still needed. I remember when Macross Plus volume 4 was released, all the anime fans at the time were raving about how fantastic final dog fight was. I didn't think much of it myself, however in my expereince, that was the most hyped action battle scene I have come across.
Yeah I hear you. I have a SCSI CD-RW drive and I love it. I don't have to worry about accessing my CDROM during a burn. The SCSI doesn't eat up CPU usage. Trying to find a SCSI opticxal device these days is like pushing shit uphill, wit your nose.
Physics class tells me cycles are measured in Hz, when you say HP(clock cycles) while a little honda will rev higher (ghz or mhz) you are equating horse power (HP - other around the world may use kW or bpp) with revolutions per minute (rpm). If you really want to equate the key words of a combustion engine with a cpu, here are my suggestions:
revolutions per minutes equates to clock cycles. If I am not wrong these equate perfectly, each is an indication of frequency, only rpm is a bit more descriptive in what is happening, in this case turning of the crankshaft.
displacement or engine size measured in cc, cid or l equates to instructions per clock (ipc). These don;t physically equate, but it is an indication of a capacity, and this capacity is performed at the frequency. This is also complicated by the fact that combustions engines rev at different rates, and have a maximum rev, also called a redline due to physical limitations of the common four stroke engine. Rotary engines are more forgiving with redlines, but that is a different story. A cpu is almost always redlining it's clock frequency. The displacement of the engine is also influenced by cylinder configuration and dimensions, the number of cylinders the engine has, the number of cam heads, and fuel/air mix during combustion. Just as an example, comparing two engines, everyhting is the same except the displacement. If a 4l engine revs at 5000rpm, it is pumping 8000l of fuel/air mix per minute. A 2l engine would have to rev at 10000rpm to achieve the same output, which is stressing the poor engine. For computers, and Intel Pentium 4 has 1 instruction per clock. The maths is esay for this, a 3Gz P4 performs 3 billion (presumably decimal billions) instructions per second. According to AMD their model numebring scheme for the Athlons is #=ipc x frequency, so if an Athlon 3000+ is really running at 2.5GHz, it actually runs at 1.2 intructions per clock. In automotive speak it has a higher capacity but is reving slower.
Finally, power equates perfectly, power generated by the engine and power disapated by the cpu. Only the power from a combustion engine is used to move a car, the power generated froma cpu is generally disapated as heat.
Now given these examples it is still a far cry to say that the Athlon is the big block muscle car and the Intel is the small non-supercharged 2.0l engine. Big blocks are magnitudes higher in capcaity than a 2.0l. However if you had to choosem then the AMD would be like the bigger sized engines and the Intels the samller engine.
When you start talking supercharging, you start getting efficiency gains which don't follow what happens above. Super charging is stuffing the engine cylinders with more air (in the case of regualr supercharging) or exhaustr gase (in the case of turbo charging) creating a fuel/air mixture in excess of what would be a normal density. I don't know who it would equate in a cpu but I guess it would be like having a 3GHz cpu with 0.8 ipc and magically have it run 3000 instructions per second when it should only do 2400.
For your information, I run a 2.6GHz P4 and drive a 5.7l V8.
For a long time I resisted the first person shooter genre onthe PC. In fact I much prefered playing on the Playstation because of the look and feel of the games. I may be talking out of my arse, but I felt edges on first person shooters to be too well defined. I didn't have any problem with any other 3D game or 2D games on the PC or console because objects were smaller and less well defined. I liked that slightly blurred/soft focus on the images. I guess I could also put it down to frame and refresh rates (again I could be talking out of my arse). When I play Counterstrike at 30fps, the definiton of edges on objects is blurrier than at 60fps.
Read 4 to 8 pages a minute, that's me too. I learnt to speed read by starting off reading really slow and reading so slow frustrated me so much that I started to increase my reading speed. The other factor for my poor handwriting is exactly that as well, but it has had a negative effect. I start off writing slow, whether it be crusive or printing, trying my best to be neat, but then I get pissed off writing too slow so I speed up and legibility drops dramatically. Thank goodness all my peers are pharmacist and we all have good practice at reading a lot of handwriting.
see, that's part of the problem. Before my excuse for poor handwriting wasm because of school braks. Six weeks up to three months rarely writing anything for an extended period of time. Nowadays it's the use of key boards and I've lost touch with how to write neatly. Of course this is me and not representative of everyone. I print, it's okay for a bit then it melds into cursive and a messy cursive at that. I start with cursive and then it just goes down hill from there. However I find soemthings do help me write better. Thick nibbed ball points or fountain pens do better for me than thin points. Rollerball pens are nice and smooth to write with no matter thickness. A slightly "softer than a pad paper" surface helps as well.
From my experience, you are quite right. Up until a year ago, I didn't go to the gym (I might add that I was depressed as well). I was a geek, and wasn't particularly confident with the ladies and being in a social environment. One year in the gym, I am a lot more comfortable with myself physically, and the ladies just fall for me. It doesn't take long to get noticeable results either. Granted this student may not be the right age for weight training, but physical activity is something which should be considered. The parent and grandparent suggest martial arts, but I would suggest a team sport just to encourage this student to be a bit more co-operative with peers. Ifthat fails, I would rather suggest kendo:)
you know in Japanes, karaoke means something like empty (kara-) orchestra (-oke). Japanese for movie is eiga, so I guess if we were to follow the Japanese roots for naming this new form of entertainment, would be kara-eiga. I bags being Col. Jessop first!
I always thought rock papaer scissors is always fairer. With a coin toss, someone makes a decision and the other tosses (erm...yeah). I don't think the call and the toss have an equal representation of fairness. Rock paper scissors however each person makes an equally important decision. Not only that but more people can participate where as if there are more than two people in a coin toss, it needs to go to a systems of "rounds" or "heats", and there are many ways that rounds can be . Sure there are problems with synchronisation in the rock paper scissors system more often than not, but the system works, and is fairer.
Ghost in the Shell didn't impress me either, it didn't have the same feel as the manga. Oshii has a habit of doing that, look at Patlabor 2(which I was however impressed with). Patlabour is supposed to be a comedy and parody of the giant robot genre, but instead it became a thriller.
Suggestions...if you want to watch something that makes you think "WTF?" then I suggest Millenium Actress and Perfect Blue by Satoshi Kon. Anything from the Studio Ghibli collection is a must, I like the older stuff like Laputa, Totoro, Kiki's delivery Service and Nausicaa myself. Someone mentioned "Grave of Fireflies", I suggest you rent it and not buy it. It's an extremely good movie but it's so depressing you will ever only watch it once. If you can't be bothered with the entire Cowboy Bebop series, just go for the movie.
I liked the Appleseed anime as well, not for the anime quality but for the story. I my opinion, GitS is way overrated.
I didn't understand any of the commentary in the demo, but the demo for the new Appleseed looks like the story from book 4 and not a remake, which makes sense as book 4 involves a bit more thinking which Shirow is known for. If I recall correctly Shirow has said in the Appleseed data book, book 3 is just a cops and robbers type story (but still ny faavourite in the series). The original Appleseed anime already covered parts of 1 and 2.
As for the GitS trailer, it's a story about Batou and the human cop in Section 6(?) I didn't see or hear any mention of Kusanagi in there.
For me, I find the measure of a person, to be confronted with a responsibility they do not want, but fully commit to it anyway. If the results are bad, well that happens it was an uphill battle to begin with, but of course it would be better if the results are good.
Is it known that this unit is as bad as it sounds? It would pay to let the seniors know how you feel about the team and what the price of failure would be. Nothing would impress the higher ups better than to turn a dysfunctional and unproductive *unit* into a fucntioning team. If your company has a corporate working philosphy, you can use that to you advantage to get this unit rolling in the right direction.
If it were me, I would not pass this promotion up unless I already know I could do it.
I hear ya, but those Xaser III are a damn nice case. I have the aluminium chasis model myself (can't screw the secretary on it dammit). I would say it's well worth the money even if new tech is on the horizon.
I was once salaried in a job and there really didn't get overtime unless I was on call and for scheduled weekend work which my salary didn't cover. Any other overtime I did beyond the standard 37.5 hour working week wasn't paid and sometimes I worked 50-60 hours a week. Sure I didn't enjoy it, and even human resoucre told my peers and myself that we are not obligated to work overtime. Anyhow, I asked for two weeks leave on time and my boss said "look, you've done a lot of overtime, I'll let you take the leave and it won't be taken off you annual leave."
At a guess, if there are 50-80 people in your IT department, you must be working for a pretty large corporation maybe even a multinational. Large corporations usually have some sort of guidelines regarding speaking out about problems without fear of retribution. This is where perhaps Human Resources should be involved and be an observer in these discussions.
Eskimos in Eygpt Mix by Headless Chickens. The CD was so hard to find and the single was long gone, so I asked my sister how to download from Audio Galaxy. This was back early 2002. The following month, The Headless Chickens released what they call their "ChickensHits" with that particular track.
I was taught that in economics as well, but I haven't really seen it happen a lot. I *used* to be good for the economy way back when, but I think mass media instant media with graphic images definitely projects war as a negative and somehow negatively affects the economy.
i was looking for some heavy duty heatsinks and I found some and then looked at the installation of some of them on my motherboard. One of ths sites say that all the P4 motherboards have the option of a bolt down heatsink because of the way the standard heatsink/fan bracket is designed. Only a few of the Althon motherboards do however.
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I don't know if anime really qualifies, but still a great deal of imagination is still needed. I remember when Macross Plus volume 4 was released, all the anime fans at the time were raving about how fantastic final dog fight was. I didn't think much of it myself, however in my expereince, that was the most hyped action battle scene I have come across.
>or, best, RTF
which is an acronym for "rrrrrr the fuck?". The number of r is not fixed, however three to six gets the point across without over doing it.
Yeah I hear you. I have a SCSI CD-RW drive and I love it. I don't have to worry about accessing my CDROM during a burn. The SCSI doesn't eat up CPU usage. Trying to find a SCSI opticxal device these days is like pushing shit uphill, wit your nose.
Physics class tells me cycles are measured in Hz, when you say
HP(clock cycles) while a little honda will rev higher (ghz or mhz)
you are equating horse power (HP - other around the world may use kW or bpp) with revolutions per minute (rpm). If you really want to equate the key words of a combustion engine with a cpu, here are my suggestions:
revolutions per minutes equates to clock cycles. If I am not wrong these equate perfectly, each is an indication of frequency, only rpm is a bit more descriptive in what is happening, in this case turning of the crankshaft.
displacement or engine size measured in cc, cid or l equates to instructions per clock (ipc). These don;t physically equate, but it is an indication of a capacity, and this capacity is performed at the frequency. This is also complicated by the fact that combustions engines rev at different rates, and have a maximum rev, also called a redline due to physical limitations of the common four stroke engine. Rotary engines are more forgiving with redlines, but that is a different story. A cpu is almost always redlining it's clock frequency. The displacement of the engine is also influenced by cylinder configuration and dimensions, the number of cylinders the engine has, the number of cam heads, and fuel/air mix during combustion.
Just as an example, comparing two engines, everyhting is the same except the displacement. If a 4l engine revs at 5000rpm, it is pumping 8000l of fuel/air mix per minute. A 2l engine would have to rev at 10000rpm to achieve the same output, which is stressing the poor engine.
For computers, and Intel Pentium 4 has 1 instruction per clock. The maths is esay for this, a 3Gz P4 performs 3 billion (presumably decimal billions) instructions per second. According to AMD their model numebring scheme for the Athlons is #=ipc x frequency, so if an Athlon 3000+ is really running at 2.5GHz, it actually runs at 1.2 intructions per clock. In automotive speak it has a higher capacity but is reving slower.
Finally, power equates perfectly, power generated by the engine and power disapated by the cpu. Only the power from a combustion engine is used to move a car, the power generated froma cpu is generally disapated as heat.
Now given these examples it is still a far cry to say that the Athlon is the big block muscle car and the Intel is the small non-supercharged 2.0l engine. Big blocks are magnitudes higher in capcaity than a 2.0l. However if you had to choosem then the AMD would be like the bigger sized engines and the Intels the samller engine.
When you start talking supercharging, you start getting efficiency gains which don't follow what happens above. Super charging is stuffing the engine cylinders with more air (in the case of regualr supercharging) or exhaustr gase (in the case of turbo charging) creating a fuel/air mixture in excess of what would be a normal density. I don't know who it would equate in a cpu but I guess it would be like having a 3GHz cpu with 0.8 ipc and magically have it run 3000 instructions per second when it should only do 2400.
For your information, I run a 2.6GHz P4 and drive a 5.7l V8.
For a long time I resisted the first person shooter genre onthe PC. In fact I much prefered playing on the Playstation because of the look and feel of the games. I may be talking out of my arse, but I felt edges on first person shooters to be too well defined. I didn't have any problem with any other 3D game or 2D games on the PC or console because objects were smaller and less well defined. I liked that slightly blurred/soft focus on the images. I guess I could also put it down to frame and refresh rates (again I could be talking out of my arse). When I play Counterstrike at 30fps, the definiton of edges on objects is blurrier than at 60fps.
Actually I heard Audi had a solar power air conditioner as an option, but only when the car is not running, so I can see how it is feasible.
Read 4 to 8 pages a minute, that's me too. I learnt to speed read by starting off reading really slow and reading so slow frustrated me so much that I started to increase my reading speed. The other factor for my poor handwriting is exactly that as well, but it has had a negative effect. I start off writing slow, whether it be crusive or printing, trying my best to be neat, but then I get pissed off writing too slow so I speed up and legibility drops dramatically. Thank goodness all my peers are pharmacist and we all have good practice at reading a lot of handwriting.
see, that's part of the problem. Before my excuse for poor handwriting wasm because of school braks. Six weeks up to three months rarely writing anything for an extended period of time. Nowadays it's the use of key boards and I've lost touch with how to write neatly. Of course this is me and not representative of everyone. I print, it's okay for a bit then it melds into cursive and a messy cursive at that. I start with cursive and then it just goes down hill from there. However I find soemthings do help me write better. Thick nibbed ball points or fountain pens do better for me than thin points. Rollerball pens are nice and smooth to write with no matter thickness. A slightly "softer than a pad paper" surface helps as well.
opposable thumbs are pointless if there are no fingers.
From my experience, you are quite right. Up until a year ago, I didn't go to the gym (I might add that I was depressed as well). I was a geek, and wasn't particularly confident with the ladies and being in a social environment. One year in the gym, I am a lot more comfortable with myself physically, and the ladies just fall for me. It doesn't take long to get noticeable results either. Granted this student may not be the right age for weight training, but physical activity is something which should be considered. The parent and grandparent suggest martial arts, but I would suggest a team sport just to encourage this student to be a bit more co-operative with peers. Ifthat fails, I would rather suggest kendo :)
you know in Japanes, karaoke means something like empty (kara-) orchestra (-oke). Japanese for movie is eiga, so I guess if we were to follow the Japanese roots for naming this new form of entertainment, would be kara-eiga. I bags being Col. Jessop first!
I always thought rock papaer scissors is always fairer. With a coin toss, someone makes a decision and the other tosses (erm...yeah). I don't think the call and the toss have an equal representation of fairness. Rock paper scissors however each person makes an equally important decision. Not only that but more people can participate where as if there are more than two people in a coin toss, it needs to go to a systems of "rounds" or "heats", and there are many ways that rounds can be . Sure there are problems with synchronisation in the rock paper scissors system more often than not, but the system works, and is fairer.
Ghost in the Shell didn't impress me either, it didn't have the same feel as the manga. Oshii has a habit of doing that, look at Patlabor 2(which I was however impressed with). Patlabour is supposed to be a comedy and parody of the giant robot genre, but instead it became a thriller.
Suggestions...if you want to watch something that makes you think "WTF?" then I suggest Millenium Actress and Perfect Blue by Satoshi Kon. Anything from the Studio Ghibli collection is a must, I like the older stuff like Laputa, Totoro, Kiki's delivery Service and Nausicaa myself. Someone mentioned "Grave of Fireflies", I suggest you rent it and not buy it. It's an extremely good movie but it's so depressing you will ever only watch it once. If you can't be bothered with the entire Cowboy Bebop series, just go for the movie.
I liked the Appleseed anime as well, not for the anime quality but for the story. I my opinion, GitS is way overrated.
I didn't understand any of the commentary in the demo, but the demo for the new Appleseed looks like the story from book 4 and not a remake, which makes sense as book 4 involves a bit more thinking which Shirow is known for. If I recall correctly Shirow has said in the Appleseed data book, book 3 is just a cops and robbers type story (but still ny faavourite in the series). The original Appleseed anime already covered parts of 1 and 2.
As for the GitS trailer, it's a story about Batou and the human cop in Section 6(?) I didn't see or hear any mention of Kusanagi in there.
For me, I find the measure of a person, to be confronted with a responsibility they do not want, but fully commit to it anyway. If the results are bad, well that happens it was an uphill battle to begin with, but of course it would be better if the results are good.
Is it known that this unit is as bad as it sounds? It would pay to let the seniors know how you feel about the team and what the price of failure would be.
Nothing would impress the higher ups better than to turn a dysfunctional and unproductive *unit* into a fucntioning team. If your company has a corporate working philosphy, you can use that to you advantage to get this unit rolling in the right direction.
If it were me, I would not pass this promotion up unless I already know I could do it.
You mean like this? No they are not mannequins.
I hear ya, but those Xaser III are a damn nice case. I have the aluminium chasis model myself (can't screw the secretary on it dammit). I would say it's well worth the money even if new tech is on the horizon.
Wouldn't "graduations" be a better term to use. After the section is called "Techtalk"
I was once salaried in a job and there really didn't get overtime unless I was on call and for scheduled weekend work which my salary didn't cover. Any other overtime I did beyond the standard 37.5 hour working week wasn't paid and sometimes I worked 50-60 hours a week. Sure I didn't enjoy it, and even human resoucre told my peers and myself that we are not obligated to work overtime. Anyhow, I asked for two weeks leave on time and my boss said "look, you've done a lot of overtime, I'll let you take the leave and it won't be taken off you annual leave."
At a guess, if there are 50-80 people in your IT department, you must be working for a pretty large corporation maybe even a multinational. Large corporations usually have some sort of guidelines regarding speaking out about problems without fear of retribution. This is where perhaps Human Resources should be involved and be an observer in these discussions.
Eskimos in Eygpt Mix by Headless Chickens. The CD was so hard to find and the single was long gone, so I asked my sister how to download from Audio Galaxy. This was back early 2002. The following month, The Headless Chickens released what they call their "ChickensHits" with that particular track.
I was taught that in economics as well, but I haven't really seen it happen a lot. I *used* to be good for the economy way back when, but I think mass media instant media with graphic images definitely projects war as a negative and somehow negatively affects the economy.
uh, that's what happened in Germany before the rise of the Nazi's. Inflation was sky high, money had no value and was worth les sthan wallpaper.
Wouldn't this make the CPU the socket, if the pins are on the motherboard?
i was looking for some heavy duty heatsinks and I found some and then looked at the installation of some of them on my motherboard. One of ths sites say that all the P4 motherboards have the option of a bolt down heatsink because of the way the standard heatsink/fan bracket is designed. Only a few of the Althon motherboards do however.