The issue with gloves isn't that they protect you from the absolute temperature. The issue is thermal conductivity... Ever notice how people can walk across 300C hot coals and not get burned.... that is because ash is a great insulator... ie low thermal conductivity but touching the side of a toaster (metal) will crisp your skin right away?
That is great. 1600x1200 internally huh? Who out there has a 1600x1200 resolution TV? No one? Oh ok so 640x480 (or less) would look just as good.
You just can't compare PC and console games anymore because the TV as a display just SUCKS compared to todays nice monitors and both the PC and Consoles have similiar #D hardware. Obviously a PC gaming rig costs a lot more but it is also a LOT better.
The only thing a console should focus on hardware wise is polygons and advanced rendering techniques. Resolution, color depth beyond 18bit and FPS are all limited by the TV.
Console game writers need to understand the limits of the platform graphically and code games with more fun factor to make up for it.
I just checked the site on my ISP, Road Runner. It gets redirected.
Doesn't this remove their common carrier status
WILL SOMEONE PLEASE SUE THESE FUCKERS FOR TRANSMITTING KIDDIE PORN PLEASE!!!!!...because they just lost their defense against linking to it. Apparently they are making decisions about what they should transmit and are allowing kiddie porn.
One of the concepts in Thermodynamics is that order of a closed system cannot be increased. It only decreases. This has been applied as a rebuttal of the theory of evolution. There are two reasons why that line of thinking is wrong:
1. Order can be created in a closed system as long as energy is used and a like amount of disorder is created at the same time. IE order CAN be concentrated. This is really the heat engine equation in reverse...
2. We are not living in a closed system. In fact no system that we can observe is really closed unless we consider the ENTIRE universe as the closed system.
The Japanese are using legacy technolgy to levitate their trains. Everyone considering actual deployment is using inductive technology to achieve levitation.
In the inductive scheme the active elements exist only on the train. The track contains aluminum rings which are loaded inductively with current from the "engine". This circle of current creates a magnetic field which is maintained and repelled by electromagnets on the bottom of the train.
Because trains are so long it is "cheap" to induce the magnetic field in the track below and waste the current in the rings behind the train.
At that point I am reaching the boundary of my understanding but the key point is that the track need not contain any active, costly elements.
When the B-2 circled Boston for the 4th of July three years ago I thought it looked awesome. First off it is huge. It flies EXTREMELY smoothely (mostly due to computer control not size). If you haven't seen this bird fly you can't understand its utterly terrifying presence.
Is is beautiful? Not really. Is is better looking than the B-52??? Definetly.
The problem with that is security. You simply can't trust the client or anything on the client's machine.
One way to get around this is periodic auditing and having clients with low-ping to one another hosting each other's game and AI. Still its risky and the overhead to the protocol can outway the advantages.
Someone else pointed out that there is an exclusion for webcasts of streams that also go over the airwaves.
Why don't the webcasters get together and buy a cheap transmition license in BFE Alaska. Then they digitally mix ALL their streams together and broadcast it over their ONE channel.
It would sound aweful but might solve the problem by triggering the exclusion.
Draw a line through the mandelbrot set and use the values at those intersections as "random data" for radioactive decay. Thats two lines...
PS QED, which you are alluding to, is completely compatible with an autmata type universe. Basically the computer doesn't calculate things that it can approximate stochastically. When we look hard a specific answer pops into existence.
1. Wolfram already has all the money he wants. At this point its about prestige.
2. Just because you know something about stock market prices does not necessarily mean you can profit from it.
3. Legions of PhDs attack the market using special cases of what SW is trying to describe as a general phenomenon. Fire-up Google and enter fractal and stock. Sometimes you don't need to understand the "deep structure" when you are willing to brute force the solution.
Personally I don't understand how anyone could be surprised by the line of thinking in this book.
That the universe is governed by simple rules is not earth shattering. Look at finite element analysis software packages.
That there exists a threshold at which complexity is maximized is also intuitive.... think about the order/chaos threshold from chaos theory or collapsing S/N ratios in information theory.
Most of the PDA/Cell combos out now encourage or require you to use a bud style ear piece. In Europe EVERYONE uses those ear pieces. Form factor is less important than you think when the pda is tucked away in a pocket.
Sometimes Slashdot scares me with the conspiracy theories...
Ok quick calculation...
how much did you spend on lightbulbs last year? call it x
how often (in years) do you replace your dishwasher, refrigerator, washer/dryer etc. call it y. If you live in an apartment and use a laundramat just estimate
compare x to $3000/y which is bigger?
For me the numbers come out $50 versus $500
So lightbulbs are small potatos on the consumer side... ok what about the other side of GE?
Remember that GE also builds turbines, power generators, jet engines, etc... They OWN NBC... they own GE capital, which is a huge financing company the generates a third of GEs profits and is growing twice as fast as the industrial/media side.
Why on earth would GE spend time squashing energy efficient lightbulbs?
Microsoft thinks of Linux and Piracy interchangeably because they both attack the Microsoft model of IP generation and control.
They think of themselves as having a marketplace mandated, quasi official license on developing software
It is really telling is that in Microsoft mindset Linux equated with Piracy. Their notion of monopoly and entitlement run so deep that pirated windows = linux because in terms of profit loss they are both substitutions for retail windows. They impact their franchise similiarly therefore they are the same.
Only company that has experienced a monopoly for this long could develop a culture that needs to be reminded that competition for retail windows from pirated versions is actually different from Linux, a legitimate alternative.
when we edit out all the animal instincts, all the viseral, emotional, illogical stuff to become "better", more "compatible" and almost certainly more homogenous as everyone converges on a broadly perceived template of perfection.
When we succeed at that level of change we will have killed humanity as surely as a hundred H-bombs would. IMHO.
PS who here doesn't camp various message boards? Do you think of a computer monitor as a piece of glass displaying pictures? or as a window into another world? most of us are the latter... kinda scary
How many wintel boxes do you think there are at MIT? ROFLMAO The BSA wouldn't even know what they were looking at.
I graduated from MIT in EECS without seeing ONE wintel box
Most software companies will give MIT software for free anyhow so that future engineers will demand it in the workplace. The servers are chucked full of engineering packages, MATLAB, and such.
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I second Offtopic huh? comment. Wasn't this first the experiment confirming relativity?
The issue with gloves isn't that they protect you from the absolute temperature. The issue is thermal conductivity... Ever notice how people can walk across 300C hot coals and not get burned.... that is because ash is a great insulator... ie low thermal conductivity but touching the side of a toaster (metal) will crisp your skin right away?
3 people per household I guess?
Notice it said HOMES not people
Regardless of the religious organizations fanasty beliefs the Christian Science Monitor has a long tradition of "agnostic" reporting.
Find a process that foils a quantum computer... receive Nobel prize for stumping the universe.
That is great. 1600x1200 internally huh? Who out there has a 1600x1200 resolution TV? No one? Oh ok so 640x480 (or less) would look just as good.
You just can't compare PC and console games anymore because the TV as a display just SUCKS compared to todays nice monitors and both the PC and Consoles have similiar #D hardware. Obviously a PC gaming rig costs a lot more but it is also a LOT better.
The only thing a console should focus on hardware wise is polygons and advanced rendering techniques. Resolution, color depth beyond 18bit and FPS are all limited by the TV.
Console game writers need to understand the limits of the platform graphically and code games with more fun factor to make up for it.
I just checked the site on my ISP, Road Runner. It gets redirected.
...because they just lost their defense against linking to it. Apparently they are making decisions about what they should transmit and are allowing kiddie porn.
Doesn't this remove their common carrier status
WILL SOMEONE PLEASE SUE THESE FUCKERS FOR TRANSMITTING KIDDIE PORN PLEASE!!!!!
One of the concepts in Thermodynamics is that order of a closed system cannot be increased. It only decreases. This has been applied as a rebuttal of the theory of evolution. There are two reasons why that line of thinking is wrong:
1. Order can be created in a closed system as long as energy is used and a like amount of disorder is created at the same time. IE order CAN be concentrated. This is really the heat engine equation in reverse...
2. We are not living in a closed system. In fact no system that we can observe is really closed unless we consider the ENTIRE universe as the closed system.
Did you bridge 220V with your index and middle finger?
I once put my index finger and thumb between the points of an arc cutter....
Fortunately the spark tunnelled across the skin rather than carbonizing my finger tips. Obviously I didn't know until later what it was...
Universal Display Corp has a movie clip of a transparent, flexible screen.
Too bad its monochrome green.
You can put your name on a do not call list. Its illegal to get solicitations if you put your name down.
The virus writer would modify the file AFTER it is compressed not before, obviously.
The Japanese are using legacy technolgy to levitate their trains. Everyone considering actual deployment is using inductive technology to achieve levitation.
In the inductive scheme the active elements exist only on the train. The track contains aluminum rings which are loaded inductively with current from the "engine". This circle of current creates a magnetic field which is maintained and repelled by electromagnets on the bottom of the train.
Because trains are so long it is "cheap" to induce the magnetic field in the track below and waste the current in the rings behind the train.
At that point I am reaching the boundary of my understanding but the key point is that the track need not contain any active, costly elements.
When the B-2 circled Boston for the 4th of July three years ago I thought it looked awesome. First off it is huge. It flies EXTREMELY smoothely (mostly due to computer control not size). If you haven't seen this bird fly you can't understand its utterly terrifying presence.
Is is beautiful? Not really. Is is better looking than the B-52??? Definetly.
The problem with that is security. You simply can't trust the client or anything on the client's machine.
One way to get around this is periodic auditing and having clients with low-ping to one another hosting each other's game and AI. Still its risky and the overhead to the protocol can outway the advantages.
Someone else pointed out that there is an exclusion for webcasts of streams that also go over the airwaves.
Why don't the webcasters get together and buy a cheap transmition license in BFE Alaska. Then they digitally mix ALL their streams together and broadcast it over their ONE channel.
It would sound aweful but might solve the problem by triggering the exclusion.
Draw a line through the mandelbrot set and use the values at those intersections as "random data" for radioactive decay. Thats two lines...
PS
QED, which you are alluding to, is completely compatible with an autmata type universe. Basically the computer doesn't calculate things that it can approximate stochastically. When we look hard a specific answer pops into existence.
1. Wolfram already has all the money he wants. At this point its about prestige.
2. Just because you know something about stock market prices does not necessarily mean you can profit from it.
3. Legions of PhDs attack the market using special cases of what SW is trying to describe as a general phenomenon. Fire-up Google and enter fractal and stock. Sometimes you don't need to understand the "deep structure" when you are willing to brute force the solution.
Personally I don't understand how anyone could be surprised by the line of thinking in this book.
That the universe is governed by simple rules is not earth shattering. Look at finite element analysis software packages.
That there exists a threshold at which complexity is maximized is also intuitive.... think about the order/chaos threshold from chaos theory or collapsing S/N ratios in information theory.
That the website's content constituted speach?
Most of the PDA/Cell combos out now encourage or require you to use a bud style ear piece. In Europe EVERYONE uses those ear pieces. Form factor is less important than you think when the pda is tucked away in a pocket.
Sometimes Slashdot scares me with the conspiracy theories...
Ok quick calculation...
how much did you spend on lightbulbs last year? call it x
how often (in years) do you replace your dishwasher, refrigerator, washer/dryer etc.
call it y. If you live in an apartment and use a laundramat just estimate
compare x to $3000/y which is bigger?
For me the numbers come out $50 versus $500
So lightbulbs are small potatos on the consumer side... ok what about the other side of GE?
Remember that GE also builds turbines, power generators, jet engines, etc... They OWN NBC... they own GE capital, which is a huge financing company the generates a third of GEs profits and is growing twice as fast as the industrial/media side.
Why on earth would GE spend time squashing energy efficient lightbulbs?
Asheron's Call is $12 for the client and you get your first month ($12) free.
Microsoft thinks of Linux and Piracy interchangeably because they both attack the Microsoft model of IP generation and control.
They think of themselves as having a marketplace mandated, quasi official license on developing software
It is really telling is that in Microsoft mindset Linux equated with Piracy. Their notion of monopoly and entitlement run so deep that pirated windows = linux because in terms of profit loss they are both substitutions for retail windows. They impact their franchise similiarly therefore they are the same.
Only company that has experienced a monopoly for this long could develop a culture that needs to be reminded that competition for retail windows from pirated versions is actually different from Linux, a legitimate alternative.
when we edit out all the animal instincts, all the viseral, emotional, illogical stuff to become "better", more "compatible" and almost certainly more homogenous as everyone converges on a broadly perceived template of perfection.
When we succeed at that level of change we will have killed humanity as surely as a hundred H-bombs would. IMHO.
PS who here doesn't camp various message boards? Do you think of a computer monitor as a piece of glass displaying pictures? or as a window into another world? most of us are the latter... kinda scary
How many wintel boxes do you think there are at MIT? ROFLMAO The BSA wouldn't even know what they were looking at.
I graduated from MIT in EECS without seeing ONE wintel box
Most software companies will give MIT software for free anyhow so that future engineers will demand it in the workplace. The servers are chucked full of engineering packages, MATLAB, and such.