Wow... um good point on the clunkers but we can do without the racist, isolationsist retoric. Those same immigrants work very hard (on average) in jobs no one else wants.
My wife's family immigrated from a borderline second world country and worked harder than you can imagine. Now they are fabulously weathy while so many LAZY americans bitch and moan about the lack of opportunity.
As for the clunker agruement. I TOTALLY AGREE. Diesel semi trucks and old cars are the WORST pollutors on the street. In some high pollution areas the Honda (gas burning) LEVs actually CLEAN the air. What's better than that?
I think what the above poster is saying is that anti-aliasing on the geforce involves "downsampling" a much higher resolution render drawn from multiple render angles. Atleast that's the algorithm I recall for geforce cards.
While you are focusing on the downsampling process the above poster is focusing on the hi-res source for the downsampling generated from the multiple renders.
I agree with you in the sense that the downsampling does create a pleasant correlation both in time and space between neighboring pixels. That correlation is indicative of lower "information theory" style information. For instance I bet anti-aliased screen shots would compress better.
No wonder they needed massive fusion reactors. That doesn't sound like a very efficient way to do it.
Since thermodynamics tells us you can't get all the energy back from heating the CO2 that energy would be lost. The only way that it makes sense if if the planet was really cold and the excess heat was useful to the colony and/or directly heating the general area.
Container planes don't have any aisle space set aside for the hijackers to get to the cockpit- and that's assuming that there is even a door to cockpit from the cargo area.
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I'm an AC player too and I think that team has done a great job with the quests and a pretty good job with the advancement/class system.
I think they could have started out with better balance between the core skills.
Two things are missing. Firstly you can't change the world at all. The closest thing was the defense of the harold cystal (?) on TD. Secondly everyone has leveled well over target that turbine originally set. My mules are higher level than they ever thought mains would get.
For AC 2 Turbine needs to make the world player affected and give players, especially high level ones an alternative to the leveling treadmill.
There is a misconception that humans are terrible athletes when measured against the animal kingdom.
In fact humans are fanastic as one event: long distance running in hot weather. We are custom designed to avoid heat exhaustion during long exertions.
Our upright posture and lack of body hair maximizes the shedding of heat.
Our oversized brains have huge amounts of redundancy to avoid passing out when a large fraction of the cells begin failing. Notice how humans can tolerate alcohol so well? Same idea.
One school of thought for how early man hunted was that he chased deer until they passed out from heat stroke on the hot, dry plains.
Imperialist? Reality check- if you think the US behaves in an imperialistic manner, how do you think the Russians would behave these days if the US had backed down? Check your world history and note that it was SDI that broke the Russian spirit in the cold war. Not that SDI necessarily would have been effective, but the Russians spent FAR more on their military than the US did as a % of GDP. They simply could not afford to keep up the race as SDI was (is) going to cost a fortune. The US effectively outspent Russia.
The same people that were cowering under the protection of the US through the past three decades are the same ones that whine today about US imperialism. The US would just assume avoid another cold war (or a hot one for that matter).
Kitt was suppposed to have a turbo prop style turbine engine. They are about twice as efficient as a piston engine from a power/weight perspective and so I guess it was appropriate. Kitt's steering wheel was actually an airplane style yoke that I imagine was supposed to carry the aircraft theme into the interior. How embarassing that I know this?
Anyone thought of building a huge flywheel on the equator with the axis pointed toward the center of the earth? The rotation of the earth would rotate the axis of the flywheel and cause it to accelerate (ignoring inefficiencies) How efficient would a flywheel have to be for this to be break even (probably very)?
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Osama committed 3k murders on US soil. That makes it a US crime.
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An mp3 copied in Russia for Russians is not a crime. Just as counterfitting US dollars in Russia isn't... just don't try to use them in the States
LOL... a modem has nothing to do with it. You need a D/A like a sound card has that can drive a POTS connection.
Wow... um good point on the clunkers but we can do without the racist, isolationsist retoric. Those same immigrants work very hard (on average) in jobs no one else wants.
My wife's family immigrated from a borderline second world country and worked harder than you can imagine. Now they are fabulously weathy while so many LAZY americans bitch and moan about the lack of opportunity.
As for the clunker agruement. I TOTALLY AGREE. Diesel semi trucks and old cars are the WORST pollutors on the street. In some high pollution areas the Honda (gas burning) LEVs actually CLEAN the air. What's better than that?
I think what the above poster is saying is that anti-aliasing on the geforce involves "downsampling" a much higher resolution render drawn from multiple render angles. Atleast that's the algorithm I recall for geforce cards.
While you are focusing on the downsampling process the above poster is focusing on the hi-res source for the downsampling generated from the multiple renders.
I agree with you in the sense that the downsampling does create a pleasant correlation both in time and space between neighboring pixels. That correlation is indicative of lower "information theory" style information. For instance I bet anti-aliased screen shots would compress better.
I wonder how much water would evaporate off the pond per Kwh of energy produced? And how quickly the bacteria foul the water they sit in.
Fresh water is getting more and more scarce these days.
That said perhaps the bacteria could be designed to eat waste products while they are at it.
No wonder they needed massive fusion reactors. That doesn't sound like a very efficient way to do it.
Since thermodynamics tells us you can't get all the energy back from heating the CO2 that energy would be lost. The only way that it makes sense if if the planet was really cold and the excess heat was useful to the colony and/or directly heating the general area.
Container planes don't have any aisle space set aside for the hijackers to get to the cockpit- and that's assuming that there is even a door to cockpit from the cargo area.
I'm an AC player too and I think that team has done a great job with the quests and a pretty good job with the advancement/class system.
I think they could have started out with better balance between the core skills.
Two things are missing. Firstly you can't change the world at all. The closest thing was the defense of the harold cystal (?) on TD. Secondly everyone has leveled well over target that turbine originally set. My mules are higher level than they ever thought mains would get.
For AC 2 Turbine needs to make the world player affected and give players, especially high level ones an alternative to the leveling treadmill.
Sounds a lot like what victims of WTC suffered.
I say drop'em
There is a misconception that humans are terrible athletes when measured against the animal kingdom.
In fact humans are fanastic as one event: long distance running in hot weather. We are custom designed to avoid heat exhaustion during long exertions.
Our upright posture and lack of body hair maximizes the shedding of heat.
Our oversized brains have huge amounts of redundancy to avoid passing out when a large fraction of the cells begin failing. Notice how humans can tolerate alcohol so well? Same idea.
One school of thought for how early man hunted was that he chased deer until they passed out from heat stroke on the hot, dry plains.
Imperialist? Reality check- if you think the US behaves in an imperialistic manner, how do you think the Russians would behave these days if the US had backed down? Check your world history and note that it was SDI that broke the Russian spirit in the cold war. Not that SDI necessarily would have been effective, but the Russians spent FAR more on their military than the US did as a % of GDP. They simply could not afford to keep up the race as SDI was (is) going to cost a fortune. The US effectively outspent Russia. The same people that were cowering under the protection of the US through the past three decades are the same ones that whine today about US imperialism. The US would just assume avoid another cold war (or a hot one for that matter).
Um... do you mean arithmetic? (not mathematical) Anyway, anything that doubles every period is experiencing exponential growth.
I agree. The nintendo empire was build on the back of Metroid and Zelda. If they mess up Metroid.... GAME OVER
Didn't he have a tragic accident? Hell of a temper now huh?
Kitt was suppposed to have a turbo prop style turbine engine. They are about twice as efficient as a piston engine from a power/weight perspective and so I guess it was appropriate. Kitt's steering wheel was actually an airplane style yoke that I imagine was supposed to carry the aircraft theme into the interior. How embarassing that I know this?
A company is already doing exactly that. I forget the name though.
Its m=E/c^2 :P
Anyone thought of building a huge flywheel on the equator with the axis pointed toward the center of the earth? The rotation of the earth would rotate the axis of the flywheel and cause it to accelerate (ignoring inefficiencies) How efficient would a flywheel have to be for this to be break even (probably very)?