not to mention the hordes of skilled tacticians the south has due to a decade of intensive starcraft training. They could just recruite the world's 1000 best player and have enough mindes to micro the entire northern army into submission with m&m rushes.
In this light, it wouldnt surprise me in the least if blizzard is secretely a subsidiary of the south korean department of defense
shooting immoral vermin would require a weapon (and ammunition), which according to you, are only manufactured by immoral vermin.... which means you require immoral vermin to not have any immoral vermin.
i think you mean discrimination, last time i checked architects arent a race.
also, this guy is a good architect, and that is the entire problem, he is so caught up in architectural purity and abstractions (and it all makes sense too) that his code has gotten so complex that it is near-impossible to understand without weeks of specific training
currently i have a couple of bugs to fix on a system which, functionality wise isnt all that incredibly exciting, however the system was written entirely in a one man sprint by a design-happy architect. The end result is so complex it took him over four hours to explain just the easy half of the project..
i have an interesting story on those water bottles, back in 2007 i went to India, flying from Schiphol (Amsterdam airport, the netherlands). On the first flight i was not allowed any liquids over a certain capacity, the whole "liquid bomb" spiel. On my flight back, after passing through all security checks, it occured to me i still had a 1 litre bottle of water in my backpack. To make sure i asked the (dutch, was flying with KLM) stewardess about it, as i expected not to be allowed to take it with me, and that those indian security guys must have made a mistake.
As it turns out, while it is not allowed to blow up a plane flying from amsterdam to new dehli with your fancy liquid bomb, they have no problem what so ever with you smuggling the same liquid explosive device on board the same aircraft (with presumably the same sort of people on board) traveling in the opposite direction
but if one SRB fires more than 100ms after the other SRB on the pad its all over for the orbiter and the crew.
i never considered this, but it is perfectly logical. It sounds like an insane failure mode though, if there is a single glitch in the ignition sequence/electronics, or even a faulty ignitor, they lose the shuttle in a big flaming ball of death. Obviously they have redundant systems to make the odds as slim as possible, but still, that is one big ass designflaw
same goes for ditching the SRBs in flight, that sounds like a sure-fire way to ignite the fuel tank
i dont know, FPGAs are wonderfull for DSP/codec functions. This could give intel a way to really speed up HD playback on their platform without having to finally build a decent graphics chip (like nvidia has done with ion, or amd with their IGPs), but those applications benefit from high data throughput.
Unless this FPGA is somewhat undersized or has a decent chunk of ram directly attached to its own pins, it will be severely choked by the pci-e 1x interface
man, i remember working on a nios II project back in 2005 for my internship, that was an awesome experience, configuring my own cpu, bus-clock, multipliers, memory interfaces and all that stuff
Compile times sucked though, especially since the best hardware us interns got was a 2.4 GHz pentium 4.. i would click compile and go for a walk around the building, get tea/coffee, returning to find my 45 minute compile couldnt achieve the clock speeds i wanted it to run at...
did millen use a TTS for that run? (at work, so no youtube for me)
a TTS is a pretty serious sportscar (by my standards anyway, it outperforms 99,9% of other traffic), but compared to the monstrous racers they use on pikes peak, i wouldnt be surprised if 17 minutes is a realistic goal for a pro-driver in a TTS
recently the germans produced AutoFahrer 2.0, they called it sebastian vettel, it is already outpacing the old version, but still has some compatibility problems with australian software components
AFAIK NASCAR cars actually cant steer right, the entire suspension setup is built to only either drive straight or turn left, maybe a very small bit of right turning to exit the pit, but those things are built asymmetrical
And yeah F1 can get boring, but the recent season was quite good, with a rather interesting finale.
No, hijacking don't work anymore since every passenger knows they will die if they leave the hijackers alone. Even if you take away the sealed cockpit door (which isnt even a real nuissance, so keep it), you would need incredibly overwhelming force to subdue hundreds of passenger who know their only chance of survival is killing you. now you would probably need to get about 100 guys onto a plane and get into a full-scale wrestling match and choke every single passenger to death before you have control of the plane.
The mentality change in the passenger caused by 9-11 is preventing hijackings, not the security checks
or any kind of real-time data processing. My current project deals with routing, processing aggregating and archiving traffic measurement data from nearly 100.000 sensors each minute, in XML form. Granted, the data processing itself isnt that much of an issue, but the amount of database acces we generate doing this takes about 5 xeon cores going full bore just to keep up with the live data-feed for aggregating, never mind the 9 months of data-backlog we have to work through.
Not using the most brain-dead scripting language ever invented would have helped though, but as luck has it, the built in database somewhat compensates. I just wish we could do a full rebuild in java+oracle or something
yeah, a bf1942 remake would be cool, although there is very little stopping me from playing the original, if i want too. graphics shmaphics i say
i would LOVE a battlefield Vietnam remake/sequel by the way, that game has to be my most favorite BF game ever, just because of the settings/atmosphere
i know i am not statisticly significant, but out of all the people i met/know/talken with about consoles, i can only remember two or three PS3s, compared to about 10 360s. Some of those (myself, my GF, my little brother) ended up with a 360 (or xbox in general) much due to peer use of the thing.
I bought an xbox after a few years of heavily defending my gamecube, mostly to play rainbow six online with a buddy, my then not-yet GF also liked that whole thing, and bought a 360 a few years later, while we were out of touch. Nintendo's move with the wii gave me little choice but to get a 360 for serious gaming (although that had already started in the gamecube days, looking back at my collection for both devices, i easily own more compelling xbox exclusives then gamecube exclusives)
to give an example of earlier shenanigans from DICE:
Battlefield 2 had several expansions, two of which were only available as DLC. My experience is with the first, non-dlc one (special forces). People who bought the SF expansion could use new weapons, unlocked in the expansion in the normal game on non-expansion maps. One effect of this was, that i, as a sniper, was continiously outclassed by people with the slightly better sniper-rifle they got in the expansion. In the end i bought the expansion, mainly just to level the playing field. (i did end up enjoying one of the maps in the expansion) Essentially, i gave in to the blackmailing.
DLC can break the balance very badly in multiplayer games, forcing people to choose: - abandon the game alltogether - pay up for the DLC to get back on equal footing with your peers - shut up and take the assraping in every single round because your gear is slightly inferior
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not to mention the hordes of skilled tacticians the south has due to a decade of intensive starcraft training. They could just recruite the world's 1000 best player and have enough mindes to micro the entire northern army into submission with m&m rushes.
In this light, it wouldnt surprise me in the least if blizzard is secretely a subsidiary of the south korean department of defense
shooting immoral vermin would require a weapon (and ammunition), which according to you, are only manufactured by immoral vermin.... which means you require immoral vermin to not have any immoral vermin.
and to top it off, they all get a budget of 1000 dollars, and are only allowed to buy hyundais!
I can see it now, Clarkson welding several tons of plate steel to a 1600 pound hyundai excel to make it bullet proof
i think you mean discrimination, last time i checked architects arent a race.
also, this guy is a good architect, and that is the entire problem, he is so caught up in architectural purity and abstractions (and it all makes sense too) that his code has gotten so complex that it is near-impossible to understand without weeks of specific training
and NEVER commit anything after 5 PM into version control
try maintaining code written by an architect
currently i have a couple of bugs to fix on a system which, functionality wise isnt all that incredibly exciting, however the system was written entirely in a one man sprint by a design-happy architect. The end result is so complex it took him over four hours to explain just the easy half of the project..
i dont know what is more disturbing, the GP "fanfic", or your exact knowledge of the Hoff's pants..
i have an interesting story on those water bottles, back in 2007 i went to India, flying from Schiphol (Amsterdam airport, the netherlands). On the first flight i was not allowed any liquids over a certain capacity, the whole "liquid bomb" spiel. On my flight back, after passing through all security checks, it occured to me i still had a 1 litre bottle of water in my backpack. To make sure i asked the (dutch, was flying with KLM) stewardess about it, as i expected not to be allowed to take it with me, and that those indian security guys must have made a mistake.
As it turns out, while it is not allowed to blow up a plane flying from amsterdam to new dehli with your fancy liquid bomb, they have no problem what so ever with you smuggling the same liquid explosive device on board the same aircraft (with presumably the same sort of people on board) traveling in the opposite direction
but if one SRB fires more than 100ms after the other SRB on the pad its all over for the orbiter and the crew.
i never considered this, but it is perfectly logical. It sounds like an insane failure mode though, if there is a single glitch in the ignition sequence/electronics, or even a faulty ignitor, they lose the shuttle in a big flaming ball of death. Obviously they have redundant systems to make the odds as slim as possible, but still, that is one big ass designflaw
same goes for ditching the SRBs in flight, that sounds like a sure-fire way to ignite the fuel tank
i dont know, FPGAs are wonderfull for DSP/codec functions. This could give intel a way to really speed up HD playback on their platform without having to finally build a decent graphics chip (like nvidia has done with ion, or amd with their IGPs), but those applications benefit from high data throughput.
Unless this FPGA is somewhat undersized or has a decent chunk of ram directly attached to its own pins, it will be severely choked by the pci-e 1x interface
man, i remember working on a nios II project back in 2005 for my internship, that was an awesome experience, configuring my own cpu, bus-clock, multipliers, memory interfaces and all that stuff
Compile times sucked though, especially since the best hardware us interns got was a 2.4 GHz pentium 4.. i would click compile and go for a walk around the building, get tea/coffee, returning to find my 45 minute compile couldnt achieve the clock speeds i wanted it to run at...
did millen use a TTS for that run? (at work, so no youtube for me)
a TTS is a pretty serious sportscar (by my standards anyway, it outperforms 99,9% of other traffic), but compared to the monstrous racers they use on pikes peak, i wouldnt be surprised if 17 minutes is a realistic goal for a pro-driver in a TTS
How will their automated system deal with the engine stalling out, causing a lose of both power steering and power braking ever couple of minutes?
with a turbocharger setup, the TTS has a 2 litre TFSI engine
recently the germans produced AutoFahrer 2.0, they called it sebastian vettel, it is already outpacing the old version, but still has some compatibility problems with australian software components
i'd love to see you drive up Mt. Everest in an audi TTS
AFAIK NASCAR cars actually cant steer right, the entire suspension setup is built to only either drive straight or turn left, maybe a very small bit of right turning to exit the pit, but those things are built asymmetrical
And yeah F1 can get boring, but the recent season was quite good, with a rather interesting finale.
No, hijacking don't work anymore since every passenger knows they will die if they leave the hijackers alone. Even if you take away the sealed cockpit door (which isnt even a real nuissance, so keep it), you would need incredibly overwhelming force to subdue hundreds of passenger who know their only chance of survival is killing you. now you would probably need to get about 100 guys onto a plane and get into a full-scale wrestling match and choke every single passenger to death before you have control of the plane.
The mentality change in the passenger caused by 9-11 is preventing hijackings, not the security checks
you don't need more cores for that, just a single programmer at microsoft who has half a clue of how to do proper i/o scheduling
You've obviously never worked in Aerospace.
or any kind of real-time data processing. My current project deals with routing, processing aggregating and archiving traffic measurement data from nearly 100.000 sensors each minute, in XML form. Granted, the data processing itself isnt that much of an issue, but the amount of database acces we generate doing this takes about 5 xeon cores going full bore just to keep up with the live data-feed for aggregating, never mind the 9 months of data-backlog we have to work through.
Not using the most brain-dead scripting language ever invented would have helped though, but as luck has it, the built in database somewhat compensates. I just wish we could do a full rebuild in java+oracle or something
yeah, a bf1942 remake would be cool, although there is very little stopping me from playing the original, if i want too. graphics shmaphics i say
i would LOVE a battlefield Vietnam remake/sequel by the way, that game has to be my most favorite BF game ever, just because of the settings/atmosphere
with slashdot reporting, the headline will probably be 'father and son build and launch orbital weaponsplatform for two weeks allowance'
i know i am not statisticly significant, but out of all the people i met/know/talken with about consoles, i can only remember two or three PS3s, compared to about 10 360s. Some of those (myself, my GF, my little brother) ended up with a 360 (or xbox in general) much due to peer use of the thing.
I bought an xbox after a few years of heavily defending my gamecube, mostly to play rainbow six online with a buddy, my then not-yet GF also liked that whole thing, and bought a 360 a few years later, while we were out of touch. Nintendo's move with the wii gave me little choice but to get a 360 for serious gaming (although that had already started in the gamecube days, looking back at my collection for both devices, i easily own more compelling xbox exclusives then gamecube exclusives)
This is in europe by the way
with the ETA you have a point, but the whole northern ireland conflict does have deep religious roots.
With one-way and two-way options. .
only if the two-way option uses the same heatshield-less capsules as the one-way trips.
to give an example of earlier shenanigans from DICE:
Battlefield 2 had several expansions, two of which were only available as DLC. My experience is with the first, non-dlc one (special forces). People who bought the SF expansion could use new weapons, unlocked in the expansion in the normal game on non-expansion maps. One effect of this was, that i, as a sniper, was continiously outclassed by people with the slightly better sniper-rifle they got in the expansion. In the end i bought the expansion, mainly just to level the playing field. (i did end up enjoying one of the maps in the expansion) Essentially, i gave in to the blackmailing.
DLC can break the balance very badly in multiplayer games, forcing people to choose:
- abandon the game alltogether
- pay up for the DLC to get back on equal footing with your peers
- shut up and take the assraping in every single round because your gear is slightly inferior