There is a record for wheel driven as well. There's room for both of these in the record books. And it's not like it's quite as simple as strapping a big thrust engine on the back of a roller skate so it's worth it as an exercise in engineering.
Heat can't be that great an issue. At my university they had a three projector screen, and since each projector consisted of separate RGB elements, it must have been equivalent to 9 modern projectors.
You will need a big room, but 6 HD screens aren't exactly tiny, and you'll need to be some way back to appreciate the full splendour there as well.
It does depend. If I wanted a serious tech geek to work on a sophisticated project, this would be interesting. If I was writing something tedious then I'd be a bit concerned that the programmer would simply be a bad fit. It's possible to be overqualified for a job. I suspect it might even be possible to be paradoxically over and underqualified at the same time.
And 2nd result criticises XP OEM cost, the 3rd and 4th results are about Windows, the 5th is about Bing being a bit rubbish.
Whereas if I search on Google, the first result is them rubbishing the competition, and the one about Macs is second. So is Google biasing its search results to fit an agenda? I'm nit sure why that accusation can be levelled at Bing and not Google.
Well, infinite tape is the optimal design. In practice you only need a tape of adequate length for the calculation you're performing. If you want to print every number then yes, you will need an infinitely long tape. But it will take forever to actually complete that task. And of course, if you had an infinitely long tape the machine would be able to cope with it.
I don't think it has been done before though. At least not as a hardware implementation. The reason being that while it's an interesting hypohetical machine, it's extremely inefficient means of computing anything. But it is very nice to actually see a visualisation of such a machine
For every 1000 people, 50 will be misidentified. Unless there are a lot of paedophiles this will make it essentially useless. Although really this is the Daily Hate tacking the story onto one of their favourite scares.
It has a much more powerful software synthesizer that can do a good job of emulating the SID.
The SID is a quirky piece of hardware, and it's actually pretty hard to emulate it perfectly. Even some cycle accurate simulations have issues with some c64 tunes.
No, audio compression doesn't discard audio outside of human hearing ranges (well, it does but so do most forms of recording). It discards information that can't be heard because it's masked by neighbouring frequencies. Of course it will only do this if there's a compression benefit to doing so. It may well be that there isn't any such benefit in tape data, or alternatively it may be that the psychoaucoustical model assumes that the ear can distinguish between different loading sounds.
LOL! Actually it should be most of the time. At current rate of progress, we'll have another 40 or so years until 64 bits is inadequate for addressing the amount of RAM we have. 64 bit integers can handle values up to almost 10^19 which is the sort of value that doesn't come up often in the real world unless you're counting atoms or measuring planets. 64 bit floats are really quite high precision and almost allow mm accuracy modeling of the solar system.
The main beneficiary of more bits is cryptography, but you'll never have enough bits for that.
What? The crappy 99p headphones I bought at the 99p shop are expected to last 6 years?
SOGA doesn't specify a time. The 6 year period is an absolute maximum based on the Limitation Act.
Items are expected to last a reasonable amount of time. If you can demonstrate the product was faulty when purchased, then you can expect it to be put right after that time but you don't get an automatic 6 year guarantee.
If, for example, you participate in the Linux kernel development you will have a voice proportional to your contributions.
Which completely breaks the "democracy" argument.
Can you (binding) vote on the future Windows kernel features?
Each purchaser has the right to approve or disapprove of the complete package by buying it or not. The price is more or less the same for everyone. So, sorta. I certainly have no more control with Linux. My only option is to fork. Then you'll get a strict meritocracy as the most successful version will become the defacto standard.
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And if he changes his mind, he'll simply ignore the pledge. This is just words.
I'll bet the US has a targeting solution for every bit of the planet.
There is a record for wheel driven as well. There's room for both of these in the record books. And it's not like it's quite as simple as strapping a big thrust engine on the back of a roller skate so it's worth it as an exercise in engineering.
Heat can't be that great an issue. At my university they had a three projector screen, and since each projector consisted of separate RGB elements, it must have been equivalent to 9 modern projectors. You will need a big room, but 6 HD screens aren't exactly tiny, and you'll need to be some way back to appreciate the full splendour there as well.
Fox can now offer more as they are swimming in the massive financial returns reaped from James Cameron's Avatar.
Yeah, because the multi-billion dollar News Corporation couldn't quite manage that before.
Seriously, the amount they'll pay for a movie is based on how much they expect it to make. Not how much they have in their coffers.
6 HD projectors should work for you. I wonder if the drivers have functionality to allow overlap.
This sort of setup is very much a niche market for gaming, but pretty useful for commercial flight simulators or display walls.
It does depend. If I wanted a serious tech geek to work on a sophisticated project, this would be interesting. If I was writing something tedious then I'd be a bit concerned that the programmer would simply be a bad fit. It's possible to be overqualified for a job. I suspect it might even be possible to be paradoxically over and underqualified at the same time.
And 2nd result criticises XP OEM cost, the 3rd and 4th results are about Windows, the 5th is about Bing being a bit rubbish.
Whereas if I search on Google, the first result is them rubbishing the competition, and the one about Macs is second. So is Google biasing its search results to fit an agenda? I'm nit sure why that accusation can be levelled at Bing and not Google.
Why would I need to know?
How long does it take to transfer a 400MiB file at 1Mb/second?
Well, infinite tape is the optimal design. In practice you only need a tape of adequate length for the calculation you're performing. If you want to print every number then yes, you will need an infinitely long tape. But it will take forever to actually complete that task. And of course, if you had an infinitely long tape the machine would be able to cope with it.
I don't think it has been done before though. At least not as a hardware implementation. The reason being that while it's an interesting hypohetical machine, it's extremely inefficient means of computing anything. But it is very nice to actually see a visualisation of such a machine
It's only a game. I'm pretty certain eve in San Francisco, you can't just go to the local gun shop and walk out with a rocket launcher and some bombs.
For every 1000 people, 50 will be misidentified. Unless there are a lot of paedophiles this will make it essentially useless. Although really this is the Daily Hate tacking the story onto one of their favourite scares.
Skorks says that if you want to do interesting work you need mathematics skills.
But isn't it only interesting to those who are interested in maths? In which case you'll have the skills already.
It has a much more powerful software synthesizer that can do a good job of emulating the SID.
The SID is a quirky piece of hardware, and it's actually pretty hard to emulate it perfectly. Even some cycle accurate simulations have issues with some c64 tunes.
No, audio compression doesn't discard audio outside of human hearing ranges (well, it does but so do most forms of recording). It discards information that can't be heard because it's masked by neighbouring frequencies. Of course it will only do this if there's a compression benefit to doing so. It may well be that there isn't any such benefit in tape data, or alternatively it may be that the psychoaucoustical model assumes that the ear can distinguish between different loading sounds.
No, but it's convenient to be able to do them in a single cycle.
LOL! Actually it should be most of the time. At current rate of progress, we'll have another 40 or so years until 64 bits is inadequate for addressing the amount of RAM we have. 64 bit integers can handle values up to almost 10^19 which is the sort of value that doesn't come up often in the real world unless you're counting atoms or measuring planets. 64 bit floats are really quite high precision and almost allow mm accuracy modeling of the solar system.
The main beneficiary of more bits is cryptography, but you'll never have enough bits for that.
It's 64 bit.
Yes, and it's a damn shame. £9 million was a bargain price for a space programme. That would have paid for a few months for NASA's first year.
Most of the time I see this argument, X has been done before in a completely different way, so doesn't have any bearing on the patent.
But seek times suck. Tapes just have their niche. I wonder if disks will.
Next he'll shave his head and then try to defeat Superman.
What? The crappy 99p headphones I bought at the 99p shop are expected to last 6 years?
SOGA doesn't specify a time. The 6 year period is an absolute maximum based on the Limitation Act.
Items are expected to last a reasonable amount of time. If you can demonstrate the product was faulty when purchased, then you can expect it to be put right after that time but you don't get an automatic 6 year guarantee.
If, for example, you participate in the Linux kernel development you will have a voice proportional to your contributions.
Which completely breaks the "democracy" argument.
Can you (binding) vote on the future Windows kernel features?
Each purchaser has the right to approve or disapprove of the complete package by buying it or not. The price is more or less the same for everyone. So, sorta. I certainly have no more control with Linux. My only option is to fork. Then you'll get a strict meritocracy as the most successful version will become the defacto standard.